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Canadian Northern Spruce Tip Salt
I adore my spruce tips, I use them in many ways.. I always make spruce tip salt and spruce tip sugar, I make a full pint of each every year for cooking though out the year to come. While the … Continue reading
Food in Jar’s Challange -February -Salt Preserving
It’s the first of February and that means it’s time to take on the second project in the Food in Jars Mastery Challenge. This month is all about salt preserving. For the purposes of this challenge, we’re going to focus … Continue reading
Posted in Canning
Tagged Curing with salt, Food in jars challange 2017, kumquat marmalade, Salt Preserving
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In Memory of Maeve
As crazy as it seems to me, my daughter would be turning 17 today.. 17 years old, and my son Nat would have been 11, the years are flying by. Maeve would be driving? She would be starting to be more interested … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Life moves on daily
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Canada 150 Food Blog Challange -Feb 2017- Doing Without
Canada 150 Food Blog Challenge for February 2017: Doing Without Because the winter larder has traditionally been lean for so many Canadians, the February topic is about doing without food (or specific foods). Some possible angles: -Meatless, eggless, gluten-, sugar- … Continue reading
Traveling Seed Box
In my local big City and the outer area’s, there is the most amazing community of gardeners and lovers of all things green.. We have so many amazing grass roots groups that have grown up into amazing programs over the … Continue reading
Canning Round up 2017-Jan
The goal of course is to have a nice full pantry with as much as possible done off the farm itself 🙂 2017 Please note for ease of tracking, I will be rounding everything up or down into pints.. example, … Continue reading
Posted in Canning
Tagged Canning, Canning on the homestead, Farmgal, Farmgal Canning Log, Pantry Challange 2017, Winter canning
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Grow something in Feb -Seeds
Hi Folks, in my area its to soon to be starting anything, I mean even the onion package says closer to me last frost spring date.. so while I will be starting other things towards the end of the month. … Continue reading
Posted in gardens
Tagged Farmgal, Growing herbs for winter use, Micro-greens, Seed starting, Seed Starting in Feb, Sprouting seeds
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Jan Farm overview
Ok, I am wanting to track this down for this coming year.. we are in the heart of winter right now, cold an snow.. but I can see the sunshine that is coming! I have faith that at the end … Continue reading
No Buy Feb 2017 – My Sixth Year..
Its amazing to me that we have been doing No Buy Feb for Six years now.. What is No Buy Feb? It all started years ago as a way for folks to reach two main goals a) do a home and … Continue reading
Posted in frugal
Tagged Farm budget check, Frugal, Frugal February, No Buy Feb, No Buy Feb 2017, Saving money on the homestead
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Just another Day on the Farm 