Lisa McBride

Goats are a wonderful addition to the household that can provide a family with milk, cheese, ice cream and other delicious treats.

The first day of spring brought the arrival of three baby goats to the McBride homestead. This is Maple’s story of her journey through pregnancy…

Homesteading life isn’t always as easy as collecting eggs and milking the goat. Sometimes the unexpected can occur, and tragedy can strike in an instant.

While they certainly aren't trying to train me, my ducks have inspired me to be more cognizant of teamwork, flexibility and leadership.

Love is not just a human characteristic; all animals are capable of it. Here are a few examples from our homestead of the relationships and…

Gradual steps you can follow on your way to reducing your dependency on others while developing a sustainable and healthy life.

Whether it be by taste, smell, touch or memory, the blueberry holds a special place in local Island cultures past and present and is at…

It grows well in Newfoundland, has a variety of uses, and experimenting with it can make you feel like Alice tumbling down a rabbit hole…

Used for making medicine, wines and liqueurs, insecticide and art, there’s much more to this vegetable that many of us ever knew.

"All the fertile areas of this planet have at least once passed through the bodies of earthworms." -- Charles Darwin

Dandelion is not the kind of plant that needs an introduction --- it grows all around and is considered by many to be a nuisance…

Come and let me take you on a journey into nature’s grocery store. You don’t have to be in the woods to forage for artisanal…