What is an Urban Homesteader?
On our modest urban lot, in a home nearly 100 years old, we raise vegetables and fruit, we compost, we preserve what we grow, we repurpose castoff materials, we build, Continue Reading →
A Weekend on our Homestead
We’ve been pondering pulling up roots and moving again but the more we look around the more I love our neighbourhood and the potential that our lot and home still Continue Reading →
Stupidity TM
Today has been an interesting day to be watching fellow urban homestead-types get wound up into a tight ball of rage spiked with solidarity and mixed with a dash of Continue Reading →
Why I Love the New Facebook Pages
I cannot believe it but I actually feel the need to praise Zuckerberg’s Army for the complete redesign to their Pages interface. Being able to switch to “use Facebook as Continue Reading →
Bob.
Cruising through Vimeo this morning I came across this fun little video by Willi Landl & Band for their song,”Bob.” The video makes good use of an apartment and subtle Continue Reading →
When equal isn’t
Ah, Valentine’s Day. Many were the years I got one or two or maybe just a small handful of cards, from my closest friends. Rare were the secret admirer cards Continue Reading →
January video blog
I recorded this video blog on my first day back to work in January after the winter break. It was a dark morning and I was compelled to share it Continue Reading →
CRTC, UBB, Shaw & Me
First of all, I want to make it clear: I do not have an issue with users of almost any service paying a fair market value for what they use Continue Reading →
Emotional Sucker-punch
I keep thinking I need to take the song Slow Car Crash by Headphones off my iPod because whenever it rolls into rotation it hits me like a tonne of Continue Reading →
New Seeds!
The garden planning and preparation has begun in earnest now — much earlier than last year in the hopes that we can get some early crops in and get some Continue Reading →