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Easy to follow process for preserving lemons to use throughout the year. This simple recipe requires Kosher salt, lemon juice, lemons and sterile jars. Add lemon to your next roast chicken, or fish dinner, salad dressing or let your creativity flow.

So many interesting varieties to choose from, how to decide? Grow delicious peppers that you can't find in the grocery store or farmers market. Grow specific types to meet your needs for salads, pasta sauces, canning, pickling, fermenting, making seasonings. In this video I will introduce varieties of peppers and why I chose them to take space in my greenhouse this year. Pepper Varieties Leysa ...

When the temperature drops it is time to prepare the quail for winter comfort. Quail are hardy birds that do well in cold climates with a few minor adjustments to their habitat. In this video I will discuss deep litter bedding, protection from the rain, wind and snow as well as food, water and need for external heat.

This simple tutorial will show you how to make chipotle at home by smoking and dehydrating jalapeño peppers. Looking for something to do with those extra jalapeño peppers ,try making your own chipotle seasoning. Preserving your peppers in this way will allow you to enjoy the flavour all year long, they also make great gifts.

Pick and save green tomatoes in the fall so they can ripen indoors. Pick them before the rain starts. Place the tomatoes in a box and cover with newspaper or a towel in a cool dry room , check daily and remove ripe ones. Green tomatoes can also be used for cooking or made into salsa.

Inexpensive heavy duty trellis options for growing massive squash or gourds are explored in this video. Vertical gardening saves space and allows for squash to be supported while growing. Tromboncino Squash and Birdhouse Gourds need sturdy support to flourish in the fall garden.

Chickens and Quail have different benefits on an urban homestead. In this video I will discuss the roles that each type of bird have when it comes to income earning potential, self sufficiency, manure, labour and bird personality. If you have restrictions due to HOA or city bylaws then quail are an option to explore. Quail also have income earning potential if you consider selling eating eggs, ...

Once the honey has been harvested it is now time to render the beeswax. Clean up the wax and remove the impurities so it can be used for personal care products or candles. In this video I will show you step by step how to remove the sludge and impurities from the wax making it a pure golden colour. Use an old pot and filter fabric like cheesecloth, no need for a crockpot.

The first time harvesting honey as a new beekeeper has been a moment I have been anxiously waiting for. This is my third season and it was well worth the wait with a harvest of 120 lbs of honey (10 gallons). The majority of the honey can from one hive that was installed as a package back in March 2022 onto drawn comb. Adding beekeeping to our urban homestead has been a pleasure but not to be ta...

The single flower isolation method of saving pepper seeds ensures that the seeds you save are going to be true to the variety of plant you are growing. Avoid cross pollination of your peppers by isolating them during the budding and flowering stage of growth. Grow your favorite pepper year after year and save money buying new seeds. In this video I will explain cross pollination, and how to iso...

It is spring and a great time to do a garden tour on our urban homestead. We raise chickens, quail, honeybees, vegetables and fruit on a 1/3 acre on Vancouver Island in British Columbia Canada. We are Zone 9b. We are new to urban homesteading and have been gradually increasing our plant and animal varieties toward increase food security. I have been applying permaculture design principles to th...

Grow perfect peppers by following these 5 tips. In this video you will learn about preventing sun scald, blossom end rot, stunted pepper plants, how to maximize planting space and get the maximum harvest through harvesting methods and plant spacing.

In this video I will demonstrate vent sexing, show feather pattern variation and you can hear what a male rooster sounds like when it crows. You will learn about the limitations of feather sexing for some color variations of quail and how to to vent sex your birds safely. I will also demonstrate how I mark the males with a leg band for further quick identification.

Fabric bags make growing carrots easy. No more kneeling in the soil or betting a sore back from thinning carrot seedlings. In this episode you will learn what size bag to use, the benefits of pellet seed vs non-pellet seed, soil type, fertilizer needs and germination tips. Growing carrots in bags makes succession planting easy by planting multiple bags at different times allowing for a longer h...

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Bottom pruning and early flower removal on pepper plants

Urban Homestead and Maximizing Indoor Space

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Caring for Pepper Seedlings

Get Great Pepper Seed Germination Rates

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