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Birds.. Ontario March Canada

Posted on March 14, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

Hello Folks.. In the next days and weeks the spring migration will be starting in terms of the birds.. but this post is of the birds that stayed the winter plus one guest family.. We have so many different kinds … Continue reading →

Posted in Life moves on daily, photography | Tagged Bird Photography, birds, Ontario Birds, Wild Bird photos, Winter Feeding the wild birds BOSS | 5 Comments

March Pantry Challenge 2021 Week 2

Posted on March 13, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

We leaped into spring like weather this week!.. so much melting.. we had our first “false” spring and it was lovely! We broke our weather record on weds.. the old high was 10c and we got to 14c I spent … Continue reading →

Posted in Food Production and Recipes, March Challange | Tagged beef stew, Eat out of your pantry, eat out of your plantry march 2021, Eat what you have, Farm Fresh Eggs, food waste, March pantry challenge, Plan your meals around your freezer, spring | 3 Comments

March Pantry Challange 2021

Posted on March 7, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

Well, its a week into march and I had hoped to get a few more posts up but as long as I make my weekly overviews on sunday, I will be happy about it. For new readers, March Pantry Challanges … Continue reading →

Posted in March Challange | Tagged community supported food boxes, eating off the farm, Eating out of your Pantry, Farm Fresh Eggs, good food box, Green box, Growing salad greens, March Challenge 2021, Pantry Challenge, Sheep Milk, sprouts, Stews | Leave a comment

Ready, Set, Go Plant those Pepper Seeds (zone 5)

Posted on March 5, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

This year I am growing West Coast Seeds King of the North Sweet Pepper. 68 days green, 90 days red. Large beautiful fruits that are bell shaped. Great producers in our short growing season. I ordered the seeds in 2020 … Continue reading →

Posted in Gal in the Garden Series, Garden | Tagged Calwonder heritage pepper, Growing peppers in garden zone 5, King of the north pepper, Starting peppers, Use a heat mat for starting peppers | 3 Comments

March coming in like a lion

Posted on March 3, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

The last day of Feb was mild, so mild that we had our first “misty” fogged in monring on the farm.. it felt like spring and things were melting.. but with over 3 feet as a base plus higher snow … Continue reading →

Posted in Life moves on daily | Tagged Catahoula, Common Red Poll, Deep Snow pack, Farm Life, fog, Hoarfrost, Hoarfrost on tree rings, horse back riding, Maple trees, Misty mornings, Sheep in fog, Snow pack, Sugar Snow, Tapping Maple trees | 8 Comments

Raven Picking out wool and dry felting it for travel

Posted on February 25, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

What a amazing thing to happen today.. I was in the kitchen and a flash of black caught my eye by the sheep flock out eating hay that I can see from out the living room window.. Sorry for some … Continue reading →

Posted in At the kitchen table | Tagged Canadian northern Ravens, Raven, Raven collects wool directly from the sheep, Raven creating sheeps wool balls to fly with, Raven dry felting sheeps wool, Raven takes the sheeps wool and dry felts it into a travel ball | 14 Comments

Feb (Baby Greenhouse Update)

Posted on February 23, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

The new indoor greenhouse has been preforming its job in a outstanding way, baby salad greens by the tray have been produced. The pea shoot have been lovely as well, cooking up with that lovely green with hits of bitterness … Continue reading →

Posted in Gal in the Garden Series, Garden, gardens | Tagged Early seedlings, indoor greenhouse, indoor seed starting in feb, Salad greens, Seed starting, Snow pack, Tomato plants, Transplanting Tomato plants | 4 Comments

Freezing Sheep Colostrum

Posted on February 19, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

Originally posted on Just another Day on the Farm:
Below is a really great post on Freezing Colostrum but first a update.. I missed the post yesterday, what a day.. I was up before the sun, showered and ready to…

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Changing Ocean Patterns..

Posted on February 19, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

https://www.severe-weather.eu/global-weather/gulf-stream-amoc-ocean-anomaly-united-states-europe-fa/?fbclid=IwAR1Me04U8QadrJHuIrEsFRGtlKFZDmOU3IzhVjwFKY0FySe89IrIctFV78o Hello Folks, I truly hope that you have had some good things happen this week, we have had the local lockdown move to orange and we have a very low case count at the moment locally so we are … Continue reading →

Posted in At the kitchen table, Gal in the Garden Series, Garden | Tagged AMOC, Amoc Weakening, canadian Homestead, Farmgal, Garden, Gardening for reduced heat units, homestead, Ocean patterns effecting food prodution, Planning ahead, Planning for a cool season garden | 4 Comments

Gardening Giving Thanks for the Deep Cold..

Posted on February 15, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

From Coast to Coast the winter cold and snow has truly arrived, breaking records in the west dropping down into the -50C, tipping into the -40 easily in alberta, sask, manatoba and so on.. even the moderate B.C. has been … Continue reading →