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Growing, Preserving and Cooking Carrots

Because our climate here in San Diego allows it, we try growing carrots all year long. It’s a versatile vegetable that can be eaten raw or cooked, and our bunny…

Water Saving Tips for the Garden

With summer comes hot weather and dry days, so naturally you have to water your garden.

Because water is precious and conservation is essential, we have to be more water wise. So let’s talk about…

Fredrika Syren
Gardening, Recent Articles, Urban Homestead
Aug, 27, 2020
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Growing and Eating Dark Leafy Greens

Of all the vegetables we grow in our garden, leafy greens are our favorites. We find them the most useful and most versatile, as well as the vegetables we never seem to grow enough of.

There…

Fredrika Syren
Gardening, Recent Articles, Urban Homestead
Aug, 26, 2020
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Growing zucchini and Zucchini patties recipe

Zucchini is a great vegetable to grow because usually it gives big harvest if successful. Zucchini. Zucchini grows pretty fast, about 35-55 days from planting to harvest.

If you ever have grown zucchini, you…

Fredrika Syren
Gardening, Recent Articles
Aug, 15, 2020
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Frugal Food Challenge Recipes

I got many requests for the recipes from our Frugal Food Challenge, where our family of five plant-based eating members tried eating healthy and mostly organic for $100. Here are some of the recipes.

Bean…

Fredrika Syren
Plant-Based, Vegan, Recent Articles
Jun, 28, 2020
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Painting Rocks

Remember the Pokémon Go craze in the summer of 2016? Kids and young adults were going outside in the fresh air and sunshine, getting exercise, and meeting new friends and neighbors as they searched…

Fredrika Syren
Recent Articles, Zero Waste Kids
Jun, 12, 2020
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Sourdough is a hype in Sweden and everywhere you find many version of sourdough bread and it’s not like the San Francisco sourdough. While in Sweden for Christmas, the most popular sourdough bread we…