A Great Growing Season After a productive summer filled with deck building, a shade structure, landscaping, and a building a cellar, fall arrived! I really can't recall a summer that went by so quickly. To reiterate, in the previous post I talked a little about food security. I tried to focus some of the landscape in our yard on producing food...and it was a huge success! We had a steady supply of baby root vegetables and greens up until the end of September (Picture 1). It was quite a bit of work but it was amazingly enjoyable watching the garden flourish and picking throughout the summer. I battled with nature and learned a lot from my planting mistakes. I will put those lessons to work next year as I work to add new crops and add resiliency to the garden. Getting ready for the fall harvest was no easy task. I had never owned a cellar before now, nor had I harvested or stored vegetables. A lot of effort went into researching the old methods of root cellaring vegetabl
This is a blog about building a more sustainable lifestyle in Newfoundland. We built the Flatrock Passive House in Flatrock, Newfoundland. As it stands, this is first performance house built to the PHIUS standard in Newfoundland. Construction is complete but the project is still moving forward. We are currently exploring and devising options that deal with food security. We recently completed a vegetable garden and root cellar and are currently working on a winter greenhouse!