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Our Small Four Season Winter Greenhouse It’s the beginning of March! Spring is now less than 20 days away. Lets have a look inside the...

Taking some time to answer your winter greenhouse questions. We’ve been experimenting with growing food over the winter in a greenhouse...

It’s January. It’s -20 outside. We’re not in the far north, but we’re definitely north enough that winter growing takes a little effort....

As we slowly make our transition to an off grid property, we continue to experiment with various alternative sources for power. These are...

We have a short growing season here. June through September – in a good year. After building our first greenhouse for spring seedlings...

We had an amazingly warm weekend here on the Wilderstead! We took the time to get the north wall of our off grid solar powered greenhouse...

Sometimes you make mistakes. They can be big mistakes, small mistakes, or just mistakes that leave you scratching your head saying why? I...

This is a huge step for step us towards our self sufficient goals. A four season, year round greenhouse heated with wood and using solar...

This is a huge step for step us towards our self sufficient goals. A four season, year round greenhouse heated with wood. It’s a tough...

It’s warmed up quite a bit here in southern Manitoba.  Warm enough that it tempted Dave to get out and start cleaning up and thawing out...