Debbie Pribele

As soon as I saw that they now make electric/digital pressure canners, I went shopping online!! The first couple of canners that I saw were for about  $700 Canadian and so it went on my wish list for “some day”. I told Rick about them and he said “

Last night I was up, several times, babysitting the freeze-dryer. Something was amiss with the machine and I kept getting the error message and alarm. My options were to just shut it off and try again tomorrow or get up and try and get the error r

Happy New Year! We finally got to have our Christmas dinner with the family and for veggies, I decided to harvest some of the carrots that are in my greenhouse. This is a first .. not just the first of the year but the first time that I have ever h

“Grow what you eat.” That’s the best gardening tip there is! Grow what you eat or what you are going to eat. [What-to-grow-in-a-garden.PNG] Make a List What do you and your family like to eat? List your top 5-10 favourite meals. Make a Second Li

You are living your dream right now - or you could be. [Living-the-dream.PNG] Your dream might be for the things you want to have but if you look at that dream more closely, you can see the lifestyle that you want to have, with the individual goals

[Homesteadian_kitchen-hub.PNG] 2023, for me, will be a year for even more conscious living than I created last year. Homesteading, steadying the home, is about being more engaged in the process of the foods we feed our family and being less of a co

[Preserving-foods.PNG] I love my vintage cookware. … and I love my modern gadgets. I was watching a video the other day and the cook was using an electric pressure canner. I was excited and intrigued. Back in the day when I was learning about pr

[Homesteadian_eating-out.jpg] I heard this somewhere, recently, about eating out: we should consider eating out as entertainment vs nourishment.  This isn’t to say that some restaurants don’t serve highly nutritional meals but there is a mindset shi

Today is Christmas and we were supposed to be hosting the family get-together but … the big storm hit.  Let’s backtrack a bit .. Friday, I had started the bread-making process. I took the sourdough starter from the fridge, let it warm up to room temp

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[7BFCA21D-7F22-4CA0-84AD-15696F34E2A5.png] It’s early Christmas morning and due to the weather and some “under the weather-ness” our family get-together has been postponed. That leaves me with a lot of free time on my hands. So what do I do? Some m

We had a fresh garden salad today, this Christmas Eve day. [Hydroponic-lettuce .PNG] Fresh? How fresh? Well, I picked it, put some dressing on it, and ate it. That fresh! 30 days ago I set up my indoor, hydroponics gardening system and started som