Author Archives: Just another day on the farm

Happy Easter!

I hope that your long weekend is filled with whatever brings you peace, be it a quiet one at home, or a weekend filled with family and lots of little ones. March came in like a lion and is going … Continue reading

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Lets talk feathers – Feather Compost Tea

Now, we can select the best feathers for crafts and for our favorite fly fisherman and we can keep down for stuffing..   but what do we do with the rest of those feathers.. Well, the big huge tail feathers … Continue reading

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Raspberry Overview 2016

The Goal : A whole lot fruit, on farm produced fruit.. I want to get to the point of being able to only eat farm produced fruits, both soft and hard kinds. This has been a long slow road to … Continue reading

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Fried Cornbread Recipe

This is a nice and easy recipe to make a cornbread that you are going to slice and fry up golden to be served with butter and syrup.. 1 1/2 cups  buttermilk ( you can use powdered buttermilk, really buttermilk … Continue reading

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Butternut Squash Grow-out 2016

Here is the overview of the program.. I have sent you a mix of seeds for short season butternuts to be grown out and selected for best fruit. Within this are some of my own seeds that have already gone … Continue reading

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Sunday’s course- Disaster Planning

The course I took on sunday was put together by Equi-Health Canada http://www.equihealthcanada.com/ It was the Disaster planning and Emergency Preparedness Course “A MUST for any livestock owner, this course will train you in fire prevention, planning for and executing … Continue reading

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Melting weekend-garden

Much to my pleasure, got to find time to put in a few hours on sunday in spring cleanup and combo it out in regards to the front yard garden. I was on a course from 9 till 3 on … Continue reading

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Spring, gardens, muck and lambs..

What can I say, I am so busy outside on the these first days of warmer melting weather, and busy with lambing, that I am behind on my blogging.. So once again, this is a photo heavy post 🙂 but … Continue reading

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Breeding Lines -Sheep

While this is on sheep, the truth is knowing, understanding and running female breeding lines applies to all your breed programs, everyone is always so worried about the males.. I hear it all the time.. the stud gives 50% of … Continue reading

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After Lambing Care -Sheep Day

As I currently have a smaller, and slightly weaker twin lamb out of the twins born yesterday, it is with it, it is up and nursing but it’s no where near as strong as its sibling, and I am working … Continue reading

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