Steve McBride

Eight years into our do-it-yourself adventures in maple syrup, things are getting serious.

Honey bees need our help, and Newfoundland is one of the last places on Earth where they can still be raised organically.

The recent provincial budget reaches deep into the pockets of every citizen of our province. One way to combat ‘the age of austerity’ is to…

When cops come for your backyard chickens, it’s time to rise up and speak out about the importance of sustainable, respectful food-producing practices.

We spent a year going without the dishwasher, microwave, electric heating, and laundry machines to find out what our power consumption habits were costing us.…

Self-sufficiency can seem daunting at first. Here are some tips on foraging, community gardening and guerilla gardening to get you started on the path to…

Are you caught up in the rat race? The principles of homestead economics might just be your way out.

Fall is a forager’s delight, with apples ripe for the picking throughout the province — scattered near trails, alongside rivers, in schoolyards and parking lots.…

‘Eat local’ has become a bit of a buzzword over the past few years here in Newfoundland, yet we still import over 90 per cent…

Living with bats was not something I ever expected in life, but after finding a colony in my cabin attic and learning about them, I…

Lovage, sometimes known as sea parsley, is so obscure nowadays that it can’t be bought at your typical grocery store --- but it once enjoyed…

There’s a little known secret about expensive gourmet mushrooms like shiitake, blue oyster, white oyster, lion’s mane and others --- they grow on sawdust! With…