by Spiraea Herbs | Feb 15, 2017 | DIY Herbal, Garden, Herbalism
I grew up in an annual family. Each year we would pile into the car and drive to the local garden center so my mother could pick out flowers for the gardens around our house. This wasn’t always an enjoyable experience as I suspect my father wasn’t keen on...
by Spiraea Herbs | Feb 1, 2017 | Basics, Garden, Homesteading
I’ve never been any good at starting seeds. I’ve successfully grown mold a few times (woo hoo for growing stuff), but most of the time they dry out or end up spindly and never survive transplanting. Many of the reasons I haven’t had success had to do...
by Spiraea Herbs | Jan 25, 2017 | Garden, Homesteading, Managing Your Homestead
This year I vowed to sort and organize my seed packets. Being the frugal sort, I actually don’t have a very large collection, but there is enough of those little packets floating around that I definitely needed to explore a sorting system of some kind. I asked...
by Spiraea Herbs | Nov 1, 2016 | Basics, Garden, Homesteading, Managing Your Homestead
We have four ash trees, two birch and five maple trees on our half acre property so we have A LOT of leaves dropping right now. Most of them will stay right where they are and I’ll explain why in a little bit, but being frugal homesteaders we often make use of...
by Spiraea Herbs | Sep 16, 2016 | Basics, Chickens, Garden, Homesteading, Managing Your Homestead
The cold crisp snap of fall is in the air. I was in complete denial until this morning when Monkey Man and I both said “brrrr” at the same time as we got in the car to go to school. The leaves are starting to fall and the days are noticeably shorter. The...
by Spiraea Herbs | Aug 9, 2016 | Basics, Garden, Homesteading, Managing Your Homestead
Ontario is in the middle of a pretty severe drought, the likes of which we haven’t seen in over a decade. As I pen this entry I’m hoping beyond hope that the rain forecasted for this afternoon actually comes to pass. I’m not holding my breath though...
