Author Archives: Just another day on the farm
Sunflower Report 1- May
Well, for those of you who are new to the blog, please check out my first post on the grand 2013 Sunflower plan 🙂 So its grown a bit, I have confirmed with Farmer R that he has no issues … Continue reading
Posted in Food Forest, gardens
Tagged sunflowers, sunflowers for animal fodder, sunflowers for bedding for animlas
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Pin Cherry(nope) Wild Plum (YES!)
Ok, on the past weekend, we passed a large bush that was in full flower, the flowers out, but the leaves still in bud and we snagged three nice branches and then snagged some fresh willow branches and into wet … Continue reading
Posted in Life moves on daily
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Asparagus are starting to come up now..
while we are planting last night dh pointed out something that IÂ had in fact missed… there in their bed where asparagus standing proud and tall, with more spearing shooting up from the rich dark soil… I think for the first … Continue reading
A lovely Visit with Callie K and pretty flowers
I braved the downtown of the big city to get to have a picnic shared lunch with Callie and a short but lovely walk, my foot is still quite sore from the double nail step down last week. When I … Continue reading
Boom, Boom, Out Go the Lights: Writing during Emergencies
Love this writeup from DH, check it out, way to funny, my man has a great sense of humor.. 🙂 Boom, Boom, Out Go the Lights: Writing during Emergencies.
Posted in Life moves on daily
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The Fruit Trees and Flowering Bushes are starting! But Where are the Bee’s!
Just a few of my flowering fruit tree’s are fully out, there is pears, and the plums in a full swing, the haskups are putting out a few (not bad considering they only got planted last year) and many many … Continue reading
Posted in gardens
Tagged First Fruiting trees of spring, Fruit Trees, Where are the bees, Wild violets
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Fly control.. homemade bug spray mix..
Well, there a number of things that are in play to help control the flies, there are the ducks and chickens having access to the compost piles and the dung dropping from the larger critters. There is a natural mix … Continue reading
Nettles.. o how I do adore my nettles..
Its spring and the nettles patches are growing and I showed them in a post on the walk about and got asked a couple questions on them in the comments area.. So yes, these are indeed those owww. stinging nettles.. … Continue reading
Posted in gardens
Tagged eating Stinging Nettles, Stinging nettle tea, Stringing nettles soup
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Nut Seminar.. Boy, O boy did I learn about black walnut.
Its been a week of little things just rubbing the wrong way.. you know those kind of weeks so when Friday came around, I have a bit of awesome down time with a girlfriend of mine and it was so … Continue reading
Just another Day on the Farm 