Author Archives: Just another day on the farm
Girl is a lady now..
Girl has become a proper young lady, and while to young in my mind, could be bred now, but we will wait another five or six months to make it so.. Still she is getting taller all the time, looks … Continue reading
Fall update on Hugelbeets and how well they produced in year one.
This spring we made three hugelbeets, two on our own place, and one at a friends of ours, I figure its time to show the results, the issue with the results is that they just look like overrun mounds covered … Continue reading
Posted in gardening, gardens, Goals
Tagged compost, Food Production and Recipes, Frugal, Garden, manure, Veggies
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Watermelon Molasses for baking-BIG OLD FAIL!
So in my kichen Gardeners companion, under watermelon, it says, to make an excellent natural sweetener from extra watermelons, cut offe the rinds and white part, make juice from the red flshedby crushing and pressing it, or by cooking and … Continue reading
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Farmgal Canning Tips
Just a few of my shelves with canning in my cellar, I have currently have eight sets of four shelves, each shelf can hold 200 pds evenly, each shelve fits four canning box’s for a total of 48 jars per … Continue reading
Lighting took out modem
Borrowing a friends to drop a note, will get fixed soon.. so if not around for a few days, its taking longer then I think it will.. Big bad storm, tons of rain, the ponds is full and overflowing..
Posted in Life moves on daily
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Hit the brakes Honey.. is that road kill!
My poor man, the things he puts up with for his darling wife, as we rounded a curve I spotted the dark shape on the side of the road, then did a double take when I realized it was a … Continue reading
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Farm Book- Aka Keeping records from year to year..
Ah, our farm book, its a black book, with ratty pages and many many notes, and bad drawings, but its were we keep notes like when the sheep were breed, when they had their little ones, how many lambs born, … Continue reading
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Gift Box from mom
A wonderful box arrived from out west from my momma, in it was a very cute huge warm go to town cream/grey an black fall jacket, and then came the books/magazines.. the copy of the cool Canning magazine she told … Continue reading
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Lost my one T.V. channel.. Now I have none..
Well, our newest TV is about two years old, and I had hoped, maybe just maybe that it would have the new tuner built in,, guess not.. when they flipped over, I lost my one and only good channel.. now … Continue reading
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Making Homemade Grape Juice
Do you grow your own grapes? Do you hunt for wild grapes? What do you do with your grapes, fresh eating for some? Use the Grape Leaves in cooking? Do you make your own juice, jelly or do you make homemade … Continue reading
Posted in Canning
Tagged 100 mile food challange, Canning, Food Production and Recipes, Garden, Soft Fruits
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Just another Day on the Farm 