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4 Season Gardening, Alberta, Alberta Gardening, canada, Chicken Care, chicken coop, chickens, chickens in winter, Edmonton, Edmonton Alberta, Garden Harvest, Greenhouse, Herb Garden, Herbs, Homestead -

Herbs whether fresh or dried can have many benefits for your flock. You can purchase herbs from your local Supermarket they will have several dried varieties but in smaller packages. They will also carry fresh herbs but depending on where you live it can be hard to get a good selection most of the  year. Also lets not even discuss the price of fresh herbs here in Canada during the winter months. During the spring and summer months you can visit a local greenhouse for select herbs growing in pots if you want to grow your own herbs. Some herbs...

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4 Season Gardening, Alberta, Alberta Gardening, canada, Geodesic Dome, geodome, Greenhouse, Homestead, Indoor Gardening -

Hello Everyone, this is not a boring how to build a Geodesic Dome story but our adventures of building our 26' Geodesic Dome, pros and cons of the 26' Arctic Acres Geodesic Dome and also some things we would do differently next time; and yes we would totally build another! We purchased our Geodesic Dome through Arctic Acres located in Ontario Canada very similar to the design by Growing Spaces in the United States of America. If you are interested in the Geodesic Dome build or materials used during our build you can check out our YouTube Channel @AlbertaAdventurerFamily. We...

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Alberta, Alberta Parks, Barrhead County, camping, canada, Clear Lake Park, Clipper Canoes, Clipper Cascade Canoe, Paddling, Travel Alberta -

Clear Lake Park is located in Barrhead County, Alberta about an hour and half drive North West from Edmonton. This beautiful Lake, Campground and Day Use Area is a Gem that we almost don't want to tell anyone. The lake is Clear and covered with water lilies around the shores is has a beautiful beach with a swim area and a playground for kids. Baseball, Basketball, Volleyball, Soccer areas.  The Campground is situated within the trees and has 74 sites all have picnic tables and fire pits. Clean Outhouses located throughout the campground and potable water as well. You will...

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Alberta, Baby Chicks, canada, chicken brooder, chicken coop, chicken heater, chickens, chickens in winter, Edmonton Alberta, Family Blog, Homestead -

Hello Everyone and Welcome to our Blog where we share all our Adventures on our Small Homestead in Alberta Canada. We recently decided to start raising chickens as we figured it would be a great family adventure and we would be able to now provide our family with something other than fruits and vegetables from our garden. Before we were able to get our baby chicks we had to find a coop for them. Now you can get just a tiny coop but we knew in the long run that we wanted anywhere from 10-20 Hens so we needed something sufficient in...

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Alberta, canada, chicken coop, chicken heater, chickens, chickens in winter, Edmonton, Edmonton Alberta, keeping chickens warm, sweeter heater, winter -

Hello Everyone and Welcome to the Blog; If your new here we are a family of 4 who love to Adventure, Garden on our Zone 3B Homestead and of course our newest adventure of raising and keeping chickens in our harsh cold winters. Where we live we can reach temperatures of -50 Celsius and Below with wind chills for several weeks in the winter months. Our Cold temperatures and snow some years start before Halloween in October and can last until End of April. I think I can say that I have officially seen snow in every month of the...

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