I’m Sarah, a Naturopathic Doctor, wellness enthusiast and health-foodie. I’m a well-being advocate and green kitchen guru who is living my true purpose while guiding patients through their personal health journeys. I’m also a complete and utter health food fanatic who wants to see everyone benefit from eating healing foods!
September 3, 2019 By Sarah White No Comments
Quick and super easy to make, these healthy delicious fish fritters are a great way to start using up some of those bright summer herbs growing in your garden. In addition to heaps of juicy tomatoes and crisp zucchini our backyard garden is overflowing with fresh summer herbs. Lucky for us, everything tastes better finished with a handful of chopped herbs; we're throwing them on salads, whisking them into omelettes (with backyard-fresh eggs of course) and incorporating them into all of our al fresco dinners. I created this recipe last week while contemplating the fate of our abundant dill plants.…
August 8, 2019 By Sarah White No Comments
It's zucchini season! This doctor's garden is currently full of fresh summer staples like zucchini, basil, juicy tomatoes and kale. Every summer there is one particular crop that tends to grow more abundantly than the rest. Last year it was tomatoes; we had so many juicy bright tomatoes that we almost ran of out ideas of how to use them up. We canned salsa, made tomato sauces, and even gave them away as gifts to neighbours. While our tomatoes are still doing just fine, this year the humble zucchini has taken over as the queen of the crops in our little…
March 11, 2019 By Sarah White No Comments
Homegrown DIY Herbal Salt recipe from This Doctor's urban homestead We're renovating! My husband and I finally bit the bullet and decided to add that extra guest room to our finished basement. After much negotiating / back and forth (I wanted a bedroom, hubs wanted a bar) we've decided that it's time to give our out-of-town visitors a proper place to stay. Sayonara air mattress on the floor, see you never foosball table! In an effort to get the basement ready for our contractor I've been digging through old storage and Marie Kondo-ing the heck out of our bottom floor.…
February 25, 2019 By Sarah White No Comments
This year my husband and I have decided to commit to a monthly ‘Homesteading in the City’ post to document our adventures in farming / harvesting / chicken-raising / foraging from our tiny plot of land in Toronto. So far, you've learned all about our chickens, and our favourite ways to preserve & ferment our backyard bounty. Thanks for tuning in, and we hope you enjoy our new adventures in Kombucha making from This Doctor's Homestead. A healthy gut is the foundation for optimal wellness and I love prescribing a cup of kombucha daily as part of my patient's customized…
November 6, 2018 By Sarah White No Comments
Fermenting 101: Easy Fermenting Recipes for Gut Health This summer you learned all about our chickens, and the pros and cons of raising backyard hens in the city. That blog post was such a hit (I'm so thrilled and surprised by how many of you are interesting in keeping chickens of your own) that my husband and I have decided to commit to a monthly 'Homesteading in the City' series to document our adventures in farming/harvesting/chicken-raising/foraging from our tiny plot of land in Toronto: Fermenting is my favourite way to preserve our backyard bounty through the fall and winter since…
