The Gus Homestead

The Gus Homestead The Gus grows veggies and plants on a small scale. Food security. Nature. Health.

We’re at Kakabeka Farmers' Market tomorrow, Saturday September 6. It may be chilly but we’ve got hot peppers! We also ha...
09/05/2025

We’re at Kakabeka Farmers' Market tomorrow, Saturday September 6. It may be chilly but we’ve got hot peppers! We also have mixed baskets of Heritage tomatoes, tomatillos, onions, the last of our dill, and packets of dried herbs - mint and ground cayenne. We also have basil salt!  come on out and see what your community has been growing for you! It may have cooled off in school has started, but the market is still going! 

So this is what 200 tomato plants looks like at harvest time. Kind of. That’s not even all of it in the pics. A little ...
09/03/2025

So this is what 200 tomato plants looks like at harvest time. Kind of. That’s not even all of it in the pics. A little earlier than we hoped for but with the temp drop coming tonight (and already today, brrrr!) we didn’t want to risk losing all these tasty veggies. Most of the peppers are still in the greenhouses and there are still a variety of plants on the covered deck, so that’s not ALL of it, but most.
Did you pull your veg? Or are you covering and hoping for the best? How did your gardens go this year? What worked? What didn’t?

Our Tomatillos are coming up for harvest… should we bring some to market next weekend?Ya know, just in case someone real...
09/01/2025

Our Tomatillos are coming up for harvest… should we bring some to market next weekend?
Ya know, just in case someone really wants to make Salsa Verde. (We’ll be bringing the hot peppers to go in that, too!)

Tonight’s local dinner feature! Our bean mix (green, yellow, purple & dragon tongue) in a cheesy bacon cream sauce (bac...
08/31/2025

Tonight’s local dinner feature! Our bean mix (green, yellow, purple & dragon tongue) in a cheesy bacon cream sauce (bacon via Barefoot Farm), with corn we picked up today at Kakabeka Farmers' Market (can’t remember the vendor name, sorry!). Bbq steak (not local 🥴). Paired with Three Dog Winery’s Dog House White. Also dehydrating our dill and making some tomato sauce from some of the very few of our ripened tomatoes. So many green tomatoes! Music feature tonight was Beck- Mutations and Brothers Osborne- Skeletons. Stay safe. Love well. Eat good.

All set up at the Kakabeka Farmers' Market here 9:30-12:30!
08/30/2025

All set up at the Kakabeka Farmers' Market here 9:30-12:30!

Food weekend (and Monday)! Mushroom quiche made in part with pink oyster mushrooms from Kam River Mushroom Farm, our gre...
08/26/2025

Food weekend (and Monday)! Mushroom quiche made in part with pink oyster mushrooms from Kam River Mushroom Farm, our green onions, our neighbour’s eggs and Mel’s killer pastry recipe. With it was our sliced English Cucumber, prairie fire tomatoes and king of the North peppers. ALSO made this weekend was blueberry lemon basil jam (algoma highland blueberries and our basil), amaretto chokecherry jam (chokecherries along our road), cheddar zucchini loaf (our zucchinis & lactose free cheddar so Merk doesn’t die). Yum. Local tastes delish!

All set up for the Kakabeka Farmers' Market 9:30-12:30 ! Or mascot Fate has joined us today. 😻
08/23/2025

All set up for the Kakabeka Farmers' Market 9:30-12:30 ! Or mascot Fate has joined us today. 😻

Saturday, August 23. 930 to 1230. Kakabeka Farmers' Market we will be there with all these goodies. Cucumbers. Squash. Z...
08/22/2025

Saturday, August 23. 930 to 1230. Kakabeka Farmers' Market we will be there with all these goodies. Cucumbers. Squash. Zucchini. Dill. Beans. Green onions. Hot peppers. Basil plants.  and any other yummy things we can muster up.
All that, and arts and crafts too!
And a whole bunch of other delightful vendors! Come on out and support local. Get the yummy stuff from the people you know. 

Saturday at the Kakabeka Farmers' Market 9:30-13:30 we’ll have zucchini (zephyr, raven & golden), radishes, paddy pan sq...
08/15/2025

Saturday at the Kakabeka Farmers' Market 9:30-13:30 we’ll have zucchini (zephyr, raven & golden), radishes, paddy pan squash, cucumbers (English, endeavour, green finger, gherkin, gimlet, salt & pepper), black currents (our last round!), beans! (Purple, yellow, green & dragon tongue) and (not pictured)- jalapeño & hot wax peppers! Plus dill!!!
We’re stocked! Come on out & visit, see all the great vendors!
(Heads up, there’s a marathon running in the area that morning)

Debating bringing some Hungarian hot wax peppers to market this Saturday… any interest out there?
08/14/2025

Debating bringing some Hungarian hot wax peppers to market this Saturday… any interest out there?

GARDEN DINNER! That awesome feeling of making a dinner where a bulk of the ingredients…. You grew! Flatbread with aspara...
08/12/2025

GARDEN DINNER! That awesome feeling of making a dinner where a bulk of the ingredients…. You grew! Flatbread with asparagus, zucchini, scallions, herbed cream cheese (herbs from the garden & cream cheese from the cream cheese tree) on a puff pastry base. Yellow & purple beans (purple turns green when you cook em). Salad - cucumbers, red peppers, red onion, tomatoes, mint, Kalamata olives (we adventured to Kalamata land for those) and a Greek dressing. Delish!!

We drove through the nasty front of the storm but we’re here! At Kakabeka Farmers' Market 9:30-12:30. Storm has died dow...
08/09/2025

We drove through the nasty front of the storm but we’re here! At Kakabeka Farmers' Market 9:30-12:30. Storm has died down for now. Green onions, radish, several different kinds of zucchini, including patty pan, jalapeño. Six different kinds of cucumber.  And black currants! Plus basil and some cat grass. Mel’s got her crafts and Merk has his wood dragon.  so weather permitting, we will be here till the end! There are several other produce and yummy food vendors here. More on the way. 

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