Withywindle Urban Homestead

11/30/2024

We're all set up for our first Christmas market!

07/08/2023

The garden is a magical place in the evening with the wind whipping up, the fairy lights on, and the scent of green growth everywhere ✨✨

05/01/2023

That's a wrap on raised bed building for this year. Here's the before and afters of our main veggie garden! April 2022 and April 2023 🌱🌱🌱

03/03/2023

The seedlings are growing well and the greenhouse is heating up! ... Heating up TOO much now that we've sealed up the gaps that kept it too cold 🤦🏻‍♀️

Time for some temp controlled fans and vents!

02/24/2023

Yikes.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-64729317

12/31/2022

Some sound advice to take us into the new year 😇

09/14/2022

Our figs are ripe a full five weeks later than last year. Our tomatoes are still green so time to start prepping for boatloads of green, unripe salsa.

But even with the spring that lasted until July, there is bounty and beauty in the first year garden! Beets and carrots are coming out, zucchini and cukes are still going! We're excited for the fall crops going in and the winter of making and crafting and writing coming up!

09/14/2022

Well, how cool is this?!?! Battling food insecurity is where it is at!

Halifax considers changing bylaws to allow market gardens across the municipality to battle food insecurity

07/06/2022

Welcome! Follow along our journey of turning this junkyard of .34 acres into a sustainable and productive piece of land. Our goal is to grow our own food and a surplus for markets, minimize our carbon footprint, and open up the world of urban farming to others!

07/06/2022