An Avenue Homesteader

Starting in January, when I’ve tired of winter and begun to dream about sun lotion, bugs and weeds, I start trolling the web for new garden ...

Don’t think you have the yard space to grow veggies? Or perhaps you don’t feel like you have the energy. Here are a few creative garden pla...

For many years, bread making has been a form of therapy for me. When frustrated, depressed, lonely I'd knead some bread. It always prove...

Fifteen people gathered at the Alberta Avenue Community League kitchen to make bread. We made white loaves, brown loaves, seed loaves- as w...

The following workshops are designed to share information and techniques that for many have been long forgotten.   Workshops are offered fr...

My last couch was saved from a back alley in Spruce Avenue. It was extra long, super pink and only half of it fit in the hatchback of our sm...

This fall a number of homesteaders from Alberta Avenue area have convened cheerfully in the Community League kitchen. In October, six of u...

Gift giving is a complicated social experience and there’s no other time like Christmas to pile on the complexity. How many of the following...

Cooking is good grief therapy, I have discovered. For most of the week my grandmother has laid at the University Hospital. The first day I...

The herbs were ready to be picked but I was putting the inevitable off. Picking them would mean acknowledging winter is a-coming. I also w...