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Canadian Permaculture Homestead

The Productive Hippie wants to help you live a lifestyle of health & sustainability (LOHAS) by inspiring you and showing you how to live a more mindful, healthy and happy life!

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03/06/2026

Progress in the raspberry patch and the trellises are officially up!

One bed is Prelude, our early red raspberry, and the other is Royalty, a late‑bearing black raspberry to stretch the season.

Companions are settling in—borage, anise hyssop, giant hyssop, and walking onions—building a little berry ecosystem.

Also: we definitely planted them way too close to the kid‑traffic path. The nieces and nephews are about to become professional foragers. 😂🍓

11/05/2026

Just returned from an incredible first week at the Sacred Gardener School in Golden Lake, Ontario.

Session 1 of 4: Back to the Land — Wild Food 🌿

Five full days living outside in the cold, cooking, learning, harvesting, and reconnecting.

My little tent + chair became home, and that basket of burdock root, stinging nettle, and dandelion felt like treasure.

Feeling grounded, grateful, and wildly alive.

01/05/2026

Unboxed a fresh batch of fruit bushes for the homestead today, and it feels like adding new life to the land. Shrub cherries, currants, Saskatoons, and two kinds of raspberries — hardy little plants that thrive on simple care and a good patch of soil. The home orchard keeps stretching its roots a little farther every season, and there’s something honest about that slow, steady growth. Growing your own fruit is easier than folks think; plant it once, tend it a bit, and it’ll feed you for decades. Nothing fancy, just real food from your own ground 🌿🍒

27/04/2026

Spring brings back familiar friends — and this year, the ramps were especially generous. 🌱

We came across a huge, thriving patch, and with gratitude (and a lot of restraint), we harvested just a small number of bulbs along with some leaves. Ethical foraging means reading the landscape: when a patch is massive and healthy, taking a tiny portion can be sustainable, especially when most plants are left untouched to keep the colony strong.

A modest basket became a jar of bright green ramp pesto, and the forest kept its abundance. Wild foods like ramps remind us that stewardship isn’t about never harvesting — it’s about harvesting with intention, humility, and a long term view of the seasons still to come. 🌿

19/04/2026

Our Russian Swirl community grow‑out is off to a beautifully strong start. We’ve got 27 thriving seedlings, each one freshly potted into rich organic veggie & herb soil — slow, steady, regenerative growth in action.

🌿 Grower Tip
When you pot up tomatoes (or plant them out later), plant them deep — right up to the first set of true leaves. Tomatoes can grow roots along any buried part of their stem, which means deeper planting gives them:
- a stronger, more extensive root system
- better access to moisture and nutrients
- greater stability in wind and weather

Deep planting = resilient tomatoes from the ground up.

🌞 Stay tuned through the season for more updates, photos, and regenerative growing tips!

28/03/2026

This year, we’re thrilled to be participating in the Seeds of Diversity Community Grow-Out Program—a Canada-wide initiative dedicated to preserving rare and heirloom plant varieties. By growing them out, saving seeds, and sharing them back, gardeners across the country help protect biodiversity and keep unique varieties thriving for future generations.

🍅 Our chosen variety: Dwarf Russian Swirl tomatoes
Compact, colourful, and full of flavour, this open-pollinated tomato is known for its beautiful marbled skin and rich, balanced taste. Perfect for small spaces and big tomato lovers.

We’ll be sharing regular updates all season long—from sprouting to harvest to seed-saving—so follow along and see how this little tomato adventure unfolds. 🌱✨

SeedSaving

20/03/2026

🌿✨ Welcome to Spring! ✨🌿

Sure, the snow is still falling and the air feels more like January than March… but don’t let the winter disguise fool you. Nature is already busy beneath the surface.

Roots are waking.
Seeds are swelling.
The soil is humming with quiet possibility.

This is the secret season—when the magic happens out of sight. And just like our gardens, we’re gathering energy, dreaming up new designs, and getting ready for the burst of life ahead.

So here’s to early spring in all her snowy weirdness.
Here’s to trusting the process.
Here’s to the green that’s coming.

Stay cozy, stay hopeful, and keep tending your inner garden.

The earth is stirring, and so are we 🌱💚

10/03/2026

🌱 Spring on the farm has its own way of announcing itself.

After a long, old‑fashioned Canadian winter, the hens are finally laying again… and the basement is flooding right on schedule.

Two classic signs that spring has officially arrived on the homestead.

21/02/2026

🌱✨ The very first signs of life are here. Tiny sprouts pushing through soil, zip‑lock greenhouses lined up outside, and that familiar feeling that the garden season has officially begun on the homestead.

There’s something magical about winter sowing — trusting the cold, the sun, and time to do their work. Today it all feels real again. Here’s to the first seedlings of the year and everything they promise 🌿💚

27/01/2026

Hello friends. Join us Feb 7! Did we mention it's FREE? You can leave your wallets at home unless you want something from the canteen (support the Legion) or if you would like to make a donation!

🌱 T/E Grassroots Growers – Seedy Saturday
📅 Saturday, February 7, 2026
🕚 11:00 AM – 2:00 PM
📍 714 Addington St, Tamworth, ON

Join us for a day of connection, community, and garden‑inspired fun at our very first Seedy Saturday!

This swap‑style event is the perfect chance to exchange:
🌾 Seeds
🛠️ Garden tools
📚 Books
🌿 Equipment
💡 Ideas & gardening knowledge

Please bring items you’d like to swap — seeds, tools, books, pots or other garden‑related items. We ask that all swap items be clean and in good condition. And if you don’t have anything to swap, no problem — you’re still welcome to join us, browse, and take home seeds or garden items from the swap tables!

We’ll also have a donation jar available for anyone who’d like to help cover the cost of hosting the event — contributions are completely optional and always appreciated.

Enjoy refreshments from the canteen while Seeds of Diversity videos play throughout the day.

With a focus on heritage seeds, organic gardening, native plants, and food sovereignty, this is a wonderful opportunity to learn, share, and grow together.

Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or just getting started, everyone is welcome. Come be part of our growing community!

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