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DIY Homesteader Festival postponed to 2021

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DIY Homesteader Festival Postponed to 2021

June 25, 2020Mike BergBlog

We are sorry to announce that, after finally deciding to make the move to annual event, we are postponing the 2020 festival. This is due to the uncertainty around COVID-19 along with an illness in the family. Stay tuned throughout the summer, as we may be releasing more online content and a series of small-group...

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Mar

2020 Ticket Prices

March 4, 2020Kris AntoniusBlog

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Feb

2020 Fest Sliding Scale Info

February 18, 2020Kris AntoniusBlog

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Jan

Seed Germination Test

January 15, 2020Kris AntoniusBlog

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Jan

Fest Community Spotlight // Attendees

January 5, 2020Kris AntoniusBlog

04

Jan

Repurpose Your Christmas Tree

January 4, 2020Kris AntoniusBlog

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Jan

Fest Community Spotlight // Teachers

January 3, 2020Kris AntoniusBlog

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Dec

Fest Community Spotlight // Sponsors

December 20, 2019Kris AntoniusBlog

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Dec

Fest Community Spotlight // Volunteers

December 19, 2019Kris AntoniusBlog

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Dec

Fest Community Spotlight // Coordinators

December 18, 2019Kris AntoniusBlog

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We believe in homesteading, not alone-steading.

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A pretty enchanting consolation prize after a seas

A pretty enchanting consolation prize after a season of hardly any veg gardening. The hand of our herb farm firmly turned our gaze to the seed starting, planting, tending, harvest, drying and processing of medicinal herbs over at @awakenherbs. Some squash, tomatoes, cukes and onions were started and tossed in the soil rather late in the game, and we had a few visits cut short by the herb to-do lists - yet, for the most part the veg garden was the neglected older sibling of a newborn. Though, it’s actually these lovely squash who will get the special spot in the parents’ room - it so happens that our room is the coldest spot in the house, so the squash get their own little “crib” not to far from our bed!
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Other than seeing a pop of bright orange Red Kuri peeking through the lush squash foliage, these hearty and beautiful fruits were a surprise fall gift. So thankful for the nourishment and beauty that will follow us into fall. And for friends who helped us plant them!
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.
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#squashharvest #wintersquash #redkuri #delicata #friendstoplantwith #coldstorage

On this National Day of Truth and Reconciliation..

On this National Day of Truth and Reconciliation... a little commitment from our fam... it’s not much, but it’s an honest check in. Meant as a sort of social contract, rather than a spotlight. Please read through to some notes at the end.

As a herb farm, festival, and land-based project we will revisit conversations about reparations and reciprocity, and work to find paths to more meaningful relationship and connection, in addition to paying reparations.

As a family, we will read more books by Indigenous authors, and continue to weave into our days conversations, questions, reflections - about past and current atrocities - as well as in celebration of Indigenous culture and joy.

As home learners, we will take the Indigenous Canada course and talk with our learning community about projects for this year to deepen awareness and understanding that can propel future action from the hands and hearts of our children.

And as a community member, mother, and all the other things, I will dig into learning and action in these ways, continue to check myself for appropriation, challenge myself to learn more, do more, get out of my comfort zone more, risk more, in love...

Edit: As much as I appreciate the love, I request that if you feel the urge to share this, please instead find an Indigenous voice to amplify.

AND: Please feel welcome to add your social contract below - it doesn’t have to be huge, just share an action you are committing to for this day, week, month, year or beyond... 🧡

ID: A wicker basket of orange California Poppy and Calendula flowers sits on a white mat, in a green garden space.

We’re dreaming of a winter of delicious and heal

We’re dreaming of a winter of delicious and healing herbal kombucha & kefir! Workshop link in bio @awakenherbs
.

Join Ashley Pharazyn of @myquainttraditions on Saturday, September 18th, to learn the delicious and nutritious art of fermenting your own cultured kombucha and kefir. Also learn how to flavour your cultured beverages and infuse them with herbal goodness from right here on the herb farm. Link in bio.
.
🥂Learn the art of brewing your own herbal kombucha & kefir at home
.
🧺Bring a picnic snack or early dinner to enjoy at the farm
.
🍹Sip herbal water and herbal iced tea (or hot tea, depending on weather!)

📦Purchase a kombucha and/or kefir starter kit so you can get brewing at home
.
🌸Tour the herb gardens and harvest your own herbs to stock your apothecary or to use for your own herbal beverage project
.
🌳Enjoy the farm and the forest prayer & meditation labyrinth
.
🌿 Limited spaces. Book yourself or group soon! We are so looking forward to learning with you here on the farm! LINK IN BIO.
.
.
.
.
#kombucha #kefir #getcultured #manitobaworkshop #herbalworkshop #manitobaherbs #guthealth #guthealthworkshop #cultivatecommunity #brewingkombucha #brewingkefir #kefirwater #kombuchakit #kefirkit #manitobaevents #supportlocalmb #eastmantourism #exploremb @travelmanitoba @eastman_tourism

❤️Workshop on the farm! ❤️ . Wow, this wil

❤️Workshop on the farm! ❤️
.
Wow, this will be our first workshop since the 2019 fest. We are thrilled to be back at it.
.
Join Benil & Greg of @abodemanitoba, here at the farm, for an immersive sensory experience in the herb gardens! Saturday, August 14h, 10-3.
.
💧 Learn the art of crafting aromatic waters and essential oils through steam distillation in copper stills
.
🧺 Bring a picnic lunch to enjoy at one of the herb farm picnic spots
.
🍹Sip herbal iced tea
.
🌸Tour the herb gardens and harvest your own herbs to stock your apothecary or to use for your own distillation project
.
🌀Enjoy the farm and the forest prayer & meditation labyrinth
.
8 spots left. Book yourself or your group soon! Link in bio. ⬆️ We are so looking forward to learning with you here on the farm!
.
.
.
.
ID: Beautiful cooper still with a person standing beside it wearing a blue shirt and dark pants. Awaken and Abode logos, and workshop info: Awaken + Abode workshop in the garden. Hydrosol & Essential Oil Distillation & Herb Harvest.
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.

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.
#manitobaworkshops #manitobaevents #manitobamade #manitobamakers #travelmanitoba #exploremb #copperstill #steamdistillation #herbaldistillation #essentialoildistillation #aromaticwaters #hydrosols #hydrosoldistillation #supportlocalmb #herbalworkshops #diymanitoba #cultivatecommunity

🧡 We stand in solidarity with the Indigenous P

🧡
We stand in solidarity with the Indigenous Peoples of the land now called Canada. Our hearts are wrenched with grief and pound with rage. Our hands are ready to take action.
🧡
While I (Kris) have been connecting with individuals to provide herbal support where needed, it’s time for more. I recently had a vision of a community of respectful volunteer foragers harvesting supportive herbs for our Indigenous neighbours who are experiencing so much pain. To take on that labour while they carry the labour of grief, loss, and hopefully rest.
🧡
I’m not sure where to start with this. Other than the land we’re on - there are healing plants here. I will make space to help guide some harvest here. Are you interested to give your time to harvest? Is anyone here or any organization willing to bring the herbs to where they can be distributed? Herbalists who can make teas or other medicines to gift? Let’s talk.
🧡
Indigenous community - if you would be supported by some herbs, please reach out. We can send a list of herbs. Some include Anise Hyssop, Kinnikinnick, Horsetail, Pine, Spruce, Goldenrod, Wild Strawberry leaves, Wormwood, Pearly Everlasting, Wild Raspberry, and more.
🧡
The Indian Residential School Survivors & Family 24-hour crisis line: 1-866-925-4419

Sun’s out, hens out. Ok, so it’s actually a cl

Sun’s out, hens out. Ok, so it’s actually a cloudy day. And it’s more like: grasshoppers out, hens out! These ladies feasted today in the areas outside the garden. Hoping this will help make a dent in the g-hop population so that our medicinal herbs for @awakenapotheca CSA & u-pick aren’t munched away... Also, the coop is getting a new look - this is the first coat of paint. Maybe some barn board trim...?

We believe in homesteading, not alone-steading.

Cultivate Community. Learn it, do it. Together. Get connected + get event info, tips, resources + more.

Join the community on Instagram:

A pretty enchanting consolation prize after a seas

A pretty enchanting consolation prize after a season of hardly any veg gardening. The hand of our herb farm firmly turned our gaze to the seed starting, planting, tending, harvest, drying and processing of medicinal herbs over at @awakenherbs. Some squash, tomatoes, cukes and onions were started and tossed in the soil rather late in the game, and we had a few visits cut short by the herb to-do lists - yet, for the most part the veg garden was the neglected older sibling of a newborn. Though, it’s actually these lovely squash who will get the special spot in the parents’ room - it so happens that our room is the coldest spot in the house, so the squash get their own little “crib” not to far from our bed!
.
Other than seeing a pop of bright orange Red Kuri peeking through the lush squash foliage, these hearty and beautiful fruits were a surprise fall gift. So thankful for the nourishment and beauty that will follow us into fall. And for friends who helped us plant them!
.
.
.
.
#squashharvest #wintersquash #redkuri #delicata #friendstoplantwith #coldstorage

On this National Day of Truth and Reconciliation..

On this National Day of Truth and Reconciliation... a little commitment from our fam... it’s not much, but it’s an honest check in. Meant as a sort of social contract, rather than a spotlight. Please read through to some notes at the end.

As a herb farm, festival, and land-based project we will revisit conversations about reparations and reciprocity, and work to find paths to more meaningful relationship and connection, in addition to paying reparations.

As a family, we will read more books by Indigenous authors, and continue to weave into our days conversations, questions, reflections - about past and current atrocities - as well as in celebration of Indigenous culture and joy.

As home learners, we will take the Indigenous Canada course and talk with our learning community about projects for this year to deepen awareness and understanding that can propel future action from the hands and hearts of our children.

And as a community member, mother, and all the other things, I will dig into learning and action in these ways, continue to check myself for appropriation, challenge myself to learn more, do more, get out of my comfort zone more, risk more, in love...

Edit: As much as I appreciate the love, I request that if you feel the urge to share this, please instead find an Indigenous voice to amplify.

AND: Please feel welcome to add your social contract below - it doesn’t have to be huge, just share an action you are committing to for this day, week, month, year or beyond... 🧡

ID: A wicker basket of orange California Poppy and Calendula flowers sits on a white mat, in a green garden space.

We’re dreaming of a winter of delicious and heal

We’re dreaming of a winter of delicious and healing herbal kombucha & kefir! Workshop link in bio @awakenherbs
.

Join Ashley Pharazyn of @myquainttraditions on Saturday, September 18th, to learn the delicious and nutritious art of fermenting your own cultured kombucha and kefir. Also learn how to flavour your cultured beverages and infuse them with herbal goodness from right here on the herb farm. Link in bio.
.
🥂Learn the art of brewing your own herbal kombucha & kefir at home
.
🧺Bring a picnic snack or early dinner to enjoy at the farm
.
🍹Sip herbal water and herbal iced tea (or hot tea, depending on weather!)

📦Purchase a kombucha and/or kefir starter kit so you can get brewing at home
.
🌸Tour the herb gardens and harvest your own herbs to stock your apothecary or to use for your own herbal beverage project
.
🌳Enjoy the farm and the forest prayer & meditation labyrinth
.
🌿 Limited spaces. Book yourself or group soon! We are so looking forward to learning with you here on the farm! LINK IN BIO.
.
.
.
.
#kombucha #kefir #getcultured #manitobaworkshop #herbalworkshop #manitobaherbs #guthealth #guthealthworkshop #cultivatecommunity #brewingkombucha #brewingkefir #kefirwater #kombuchakit #kefirkit #manitobaevents #supportlocalmb #eastmantourism #exploremb @travelmanitoba @eastman_tourism

❤️Workshop on the farm! ❤️ . Wow, this wil

❤️Workshop on the farm! ❤️
.
Wow, this will be our first workshop since the 2019 fest. We are thrilled to be back at it.
.
Join Benil & Greg of @abodemanitoba, here at the farm, for an immersive sensory experience in the herb gardens! Saturday, August 14h, 10-3.
.
💧 Learn the art of crafting aromatic waters and essential oils through steam distillation in copper stills
.
🧺 Bring a picnic lunch to enjoy at one of the herb farm picnic spots
.
🍹Sip herbal iced tea
.
🌸Tour the herb gardens and harvest your own herbs to stock your apothecary or to use for your own distillation project
.
🌀Enjoy the farm and the forest prayer & meditation labyrinth
.
8 spots left. Book yourself or your group soon! Link in bio. ⬆️ We are so looking forward to learning with you here on the farm!
.
.
.
.
ID: Beautiful cooper still with a person standing beside it wearing a blue shirt and dark pants. Awaken and Abode logos, and workshop info: Awaken + Abode workshop in the garden. Hydrosol & Essential Oil Distillation & Herb Harvest.
.
.

.
.
#manitobaworkshops #manitobaevents #manitobamade #manitobamakers #travelmanitoba #exploremb #copperstill #steamdistillation #herbaldistillation #essentialoildistillation #aromaticwaters #hydrosols #hydrosoldistillation #supportlocalmb #herbalworkshops #diymanitoba #cultivatecommunity

🧡 We stand in solidarity with the Indigenous P

🧡
We stand in solidarity with the Indigenous Peoples of the land now called Canada. Our hearts are wrenched with grief and pound with rage. Our hands are ready to take action.
🧡
While I (Kris) have been connecting with individuals to provide herbal support where needed, it’s time for more. I recently had a vision of a community of respectful volunteer foragers harvesting supportive herbs for our Indigenous neighbours who are experiencing so much pain. To take on that labour while they carry the labour of grief, loss, and hopefully rest.
🧡
I’m not sure where to start with this. Other than the land we’re on - there are healing plants here. I will make space to help guide some harvest here. Are you interested to give your time to harvest? Is anyone here or any organization willing to bring the herbs to where they can be distributed? Herbalists who can make teas or other medicines to gift? Let’s talk.
🧡
Indigenous community - if you would be supported by some herbs, please reach out. We can send a list of herbs. Some include Anise Hyssop, Kinnikinnick, Horsetail, Pine, Spruce, Goldenrod, Wild Strawberry leaves, Wormwood, Pearly Everlasting, Wild Raspberry, and more.
🧡
The Indian Residential School Survivors & Family 24-hour crisis line: 1-866-925-4419

Sun’s out, hens out. Ok, so it’s actually a cl

Sun’s out, hens out. Ok, so it’s actually a cloudy day. And it’s more like: grasshoppers out, hens out! These ladies feasted today in the areas outside the garden. Hoping this will help make a dent in the g-hop population so that our medicinal herbs for @awakenapotheca CSA & u-pick aren’t munched away... Also, the coop is getting a new look - this is the first coat of paint. Maybe some barn board trim...?

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