Author Archives: Just another day on the farm
Hultafors Splitting Axe
In a world where so many things are made fast and cheap, when you can try and support business’s that create items to last. I was thrilled to see that Hultafors who have been making and selling Axes from Sweden … Continue reading
Posted in 30 day challanges, Climate Change, homestead
Tagged Firewood, Hultafors Splitting Axe, nature, Splitting wood, Storm Clean up, Storm Wood, storms, Tree Storm Damage, trees, winds
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Fall Soups : Neeps aka Swedes Potato Bacon Recipe
Neeps or Swedes or Rutabaga all mean the same thing, that amazing winter root veggie that was created as a cross between a cabbage and a turnip in the 1700 in Sweden. In the garden because its such a long … Continue reading
Posted in 30 day challanges, Garden harvest, gardens, recipes, Soups and Stews, Winter Eating Challange
Tagged A little bacon is always a good thing, dinner, Eat what you can grow, Fall soups, food, Garden harvest, Garden Zone 5, Neeps, Neeps and Tatties, recipe, recipes, Roasting veggies, soup, Swede turnips, Use up your leftovers
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Roasted Beet are a late fall garden treat!
A fellow blogger from many years gone by who i am connected with still said something interesting a few weeks back (Yes Jess, that would be you) in regards to if we needed to eat more of what we can … Continue reading
Posted in 100 mile diet, Garden harvest, Goals, Kitchen garden
Tagged 0 mile food, 100 mile diet, Beet Greens, beets, Beets as a staple food, beets heart health, food, Garden Zone 5, Grow what you eat, growing beets, Harvesting beets in oct, Kitchen garden, micro zones in your garden, Northern garden staple, recipe, recipes, Roasted beets, vegetables
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10 Tons of Well Rotted Wood Chip Based Compost
What a gift this pile is! I am so thankful to our friends that gifted these piles to us for the park garden. This is a mix of wood based bedding in a free stalled cow dairy by a friend … Continue reading
Posted in 30 day challanges, compost
Tagged aged compost, compost, compost from deep pack bedding, compost in the food forest, compost in the gardens, composting, deep bed pack compost, Deep Pack Bedding, Feed the soil, Garden, Gardening, gardens, how the type of carbon in deep pack bedding effects end compost, Improving garden yeilds, soil, Soil improvement, Soil structure
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Ticks
How has it been in your area this year in regards to ticks? With the crazy wet garden season it has meant that we have not been able to mow things as low as we have been over the past … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Critters, Food Forest, Health, homestead, Personal Care, Real Life
Tagged Checking for ticks, Dogs, Health, Hunters and ticks, Increase in tick born illness, lyme-disease, mowing low for ticks, pets and ticks, poetry, preventing ticks, Tick habitat, Tick removal, tick removal kits, Tick testing in canada, Tick tracking, Ticks, ticks on the homestead, wood paths in your gardens
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Lets make some goals! Getter Done
Written Goals are such a good starting point to at least try and direct the coming time. Miss R and I have the same tracking and thought journals and we are enjoying finding a time (perhaps not daily) to work … Continue reading
Posted in At the kitchen table, Goals, homestead
Tagged Blogging, Blogging in your 50's, Enjoy your coffee, family meals, Garden, Gardening, Goals, homestead, Homesteading, Hygge, Its the little things, Keep it simple, Native Plants, nature, pets, photography, Small comforts, trees, Writing out your goals
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Another turning of the wheel onward to my 52nd year
Its hard to believe that the year has come and gone and that a new one is starting today. My 51st year was filled with ups, downs and lots of steady as she goes. You know when they say to … Continue reading
Posted in Family, farm, farm journel, photography
Tagged Aging, agriculture, birthdays, Do what you love, Family, Farm Life, farming, health challenges, Living in the moment, living in the now, photography, planning for the future, Setting goals, small homestead in your 50's, travel, turning 52
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What a garden season its been 2024
How did your garden grow? How was your final harvests? Have you had your first hard frost? Still growing, still harvesting? My overview of the gardens for the farm for 2024 Hard Fruit, including Apples, Pears, Cherries, Plums, Peaches Apples- … Continue reading
Posted in Garden, Garden harvest, gardening, Kitchen garden, Rain Garden
Tagged Farm Life, Garden, garden overview, Gardening, Gardening for the pantry, Gardening in Eastern Ontario, Gardening in rain year, Gardening in Zone 5, Gardening to fill your freezer, Greens, grow your own food, Growing for the table, Growing your own food, Homesteading, rain effecting garden yeilds, Rain Gardens, Raised beds, small Farm, tomatoes, vegetables, Veggies
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Tracking Year-May 2024 Report
Chicken Eggs- 223 Duck Eggs- 43 Nettle dried -2 quart jars 64 oz of dried nettles Rhubarb- 43 cups harvested Spruce tips -4 cups Canning 6 pint jars of homemade HP sauce rhubarb based 4 pint jars of haskap/rhubarb bbq … Continue reading
Posted in Life moves on daily
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Ultra Frugal but Foolish Way to Get Garden Bean Seeds
Sometimes i adore when both ultra frugal and yet foolish things cross over my facebook feed LOL This fits the bill perfectly! On the frugal side of things, in the usa this appear to cost around $2.50 cents and i … Continue reading
Posted in 100 mile diet, frugal, Gal in the Garden Series, Garden
Tagged beans, community projects, cost savings, dried beans, Eating green beans, Frugal, Garden, Gardening, Green bean, Growing beans, Growing food cheaply, Growing Soup beans, Homesteading, Stringless green beans, vegetables
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Just another Day on the Farm 