by Shionagh | Dec 29, 2017 | Erosion, Growing Food, News From The Edge, Off Grid Living, Organic Gardening, Shionagh's News, Sustainable Living
We grow our own food as much as possible, but with the restricted water here lately as well as the fact that we are still getting established, we’ve found that we need to source food grown locally. Buying from local food stands, we find there is less packaging, we know the food is fresh, we pick it up on our way in or out of town with no special trips necessary.
We’ve gotten so good at keeping food in stock at home now, we only go into town once or maybe twice a week.
by Shionagh | Nov 9, 2017 | Growing Food, News From The Edge, Organic Gardening, Shionagh's News, Sustainable Living, Vermiculture
We literally have worms everywhere!
We have four worm bins in our container shed where we turn our food scraps into worm castings and worm juice.
by Shionagh | Aug 10, 2017 | Growing Food, Native Birds, Native Plants, News From The Edge, Off Grid Living, Organic Gardening, Shionagh's News, Sustainable Living, Weather
By our estimations, the house here at Arborlon was built about 20 years ago.We don’t know who built it, but as we’ve lived here now for two years, we’ve noticed how well they designed the aspects of the house to achieve natural heating and cooling. We have no need for heating or air-conditioning!
by Shionagh | May 23, 2017 | Growing Food, News From The Edge, Organic Gardening, Shionagh's News, Sustainable Living
Being off-grid, we try to make use of everything. The rule of Reduce, Re-use and Recycle is always on our mind here at Arborlon. So when we had accumulated enough flour containers, we decided to make them into something useful instead of tossing them in the recycling bin. In their second life they have become cloches in our veggie garden to help protect our young seedlings from being eaten by critters.
by Shionagh | May 5, 2017 | Growing Food, News From The Edge, Off Grid Living, Organic Gardening, Recipes, Shionagh's News, Sustainable Living
What do you do when nature throws you too much spinach, you make Spanikopita!
Growing your own food is one thing, but eating the food you grow is a whole other thing. You have to be prepared with recipes and ideas of how to use the abundance of food that nature gives you, which prompted me to start posting some recipes to help us all use our home grown veg. So,
by Shionagh | Oct 30, 2016 | Growing Food, News From The Edge, Off Grid Living, Organic Gardening, Recipes, Shionagh's News, Solar Power, Sustainable Living, Weather
Living off-grid require some changes to how you do things. I’ve found it’s been a few small changes that have made the biggest difference in our power consumption. Here are a few of my favorite things that I’ve found useful for off-grid living.
by Shionagh | Sep 29, 2016 | Erosion, Growing Food, News From The Edge, Off Grid Living, Organic Gardening, Shionagh's News, Sustainable Living
We’ve been here one year! As we look back at the first months of our first year, we realise that we only noticed the big stuff, the stuff that needed doing. One year later we are amazed at how much we missed of the spring that was blooming around us. In comparison,...
by Shionagh | Sep 8, 2016 | Growing Food, News From The Edge, Off Grid Living, Organic Gardening, Shionagh's News
Save your egg shells to make great calcium for the garden. Food scraps are great for worms, but worms don’t digest egg shells, so instead of throwing them out, you can store them in a separate container to be ground into calcium powder for the garden.
by Shionagh | Jun 14, 2016 | News From The Edge, Off Grid Living, Shionagh's News, Solar Power, Sustainable Living, Weather
Living off-grid means you are completely dependent on the weather. A cloudy day effects how things are done around the house but three days without sun on the solar panels results in very low power.
by Shionagh | Apr 29, 2016 | Native Birds, News From The Edge, Shionagh's News
We noticed the small birds in our backyard were searching for water, so we created a birdbath for them simply by turning an old plastic garbage bin lid upside down and placing it on a galvanized bin for support.
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