Author Archives: Just another day on the farm

Eat out of your Pantry-Week 9-Spiced Blueberry Duck Breast Recipe

  Well, I have to own that I went for a fancy dinner out in the past week, and its been awhile since I went to “foodie” cutting edge type place for supper. It was a blind couple out dinner … Continue reading

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Christmas Tree’s…

I was raised in bush country more often then not in Alberta, and I swear my folks either breed in or created a love of the bush from a young age.. It most likely helped that for a good number … Continue reading

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Weigh in 1/12/11

 How has a week come and gone, its seems like time this week flew by and suddenly its my weigh in day, I am down 1.2 pds this week for a total of 9.3 pds of my 50 pd goal. … Continue reading

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Farmgal’s Frugal but Doomer practices radical frugality..

Canadian Doomer is at the #4 spot on Google for “Radical Frugality”. Let me clarify something – frugality is the opposite of “cheap”. Doomer put up this post! its awesome, as her new website and matching built in blog, if … Continue reading

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Marty-Question on costs from a reader

A couple of my regular readers commented both on the site and privately asking me about currently beef prices local and have made comments or asked if I feel that I am getting my money’s worth raising a beef calf..  … Continue reading

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What’s on Farmgal’s reading List at the moment?

I love to read, have for years, reading for me is both about learning but also about down time, and awhile back I saw someone post a photo of their current reading book pile and I knew that I wanted … Continue reading

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Winter Kits for your Vehicles

Its that time of year that we should all be switching out the summer gear in the safetly box or kit in our cars for the winter ones. I have a bought pre-made kit that has all the basics in … Continue reading

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Saturday This and That Post

Switch, Switch.. tiny little tink, tink of nails.. Hmmm What is that? Flip on the bed light.. nothing..hmm off to sleep, I’m tired, we had a late night for a farmgal who’s bed time is normally quite early.. A sound … Continue reading

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Muhammara Recipe-Farmgal Style..

So this idea for this sauce came from both the Nosetotail and then I read the recipe created by The Boreal Chef in the fall issue of the Yukon and I had to give this a try and a farmgal … Continue reading

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Swag or as I like to thing about it.. free stocking stuffers!

While I am not that fond of running the farm on my own, I am happy to have Dh get some time off the farm and getting back to his roots on regards to work terms and the different conferences, … Continue reading

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