Author Archives: Just another day on the farm

Happy 14th Birthday to the Blog!

Posted on November 4, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

Wow, its hard to believe that i started this blog 14 years ago, time has flown by in many ways and yet in some time feels like it has stood still. I started the blog living here on the farm … Continue reading →

Posted in Blogging | Tagged Blogging, blogging for 14 years, each day is new, homestead blog is 14 years old, just another day on the farm blog, keep on taking the photos, keep on writing, keep true to you, keeping on learning, never stop learning, to plant a seed is to have faith in tomorrow, write what you know | 1 Comment

Potato Harvest Overview 2024

Posted on November 4, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

It was both a odd year and a outstanding year when it came to growing potato’s on the farm in 2024. Due to the crazy amount of rain we were getting the garden was to wet to work and or … Continue reading →

Posted in 30 day challanges, Garden harvest | Tagged calorie dense foods, Eat what you grow, Fall Harvests, food, Garden, Gardening, Gardening in a wet year, Gardening in Zone 5, growing in straw bedding, growing potatos, harvesting potato, Potato, potatoes, Purple potato, Red Potato, Russet potato, vegetables | Leave a comment

The Trench of Shame

Posted on November 4, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

O what a waste! If you have been following my blog for a good while you know that i can a lot! and that i love to try new recipes. You know that one good garden years i can and … Continue reading →

Posted in 30 day challanges, Food Storage | Tagged Canning, Clearing the old canning, Compost pits, Compost trench, cooking, food, Keep the jars, Purging the pantry, recipe, recipes, Waste, When things do not go according to plan | 4 Comments

Deep Pantry -Shop the flyers and Loss Leaders

Posted on November 2, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

While they stopped delivering flyers in our mail years ago, the odd flyer on a few things still comes, mostly Canadian Tire an the local feeder stores or hardware stores. However a friend of mine has a small but awesome … Continue reading →

Posted in 30 day challanges, frugal | Tagged Cost of living, Feeding the teenager, Fill the freezers, food, fresh-food, grocery prices in canada, Health, Inflation, Making a special stock up trip, nutrition, Planning your shopping trip, Shop your flyers, Shopping loss leaders, Shopping with a list, Stocking your pantry | 1 Comment

No Buy November 2024

Posted on November 1, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

I had to do some thinking on if i wanted to do a No Buy November as it can add a level of stress when i am already a little augh on a few things however the fact is its … Continue reading →

Posted in No Buy November | Tagged Cost of living, Farmgal's No Buy November, No Buy November, Personal Challenge, Save for christmas, Save some money, Track your spending, Watch what you spend, WHY not | 2 Comments

Hello November, The First Day of a New Month

Posted on November 1, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

Its the first day of a new month and it is the turning of the wheel, its that switch from late summer to true fall, its the changing of the daylight savings so we will turn the clocks back by … Continue reading →

Posted in 30 day challanges, At the kitchen table, farm journel, Friday Rambles, Garden, Real Life | Tagged Bird Feeders, Bird Photography, birds, Friday Rambles, Gardening, geese flying south, getting the garden ready for winter, nature, Wild Birds, Wildlife, Winter, Winter bird watching, Winter Prep | Leave a comment

Pumpkin Time!

Posted on October 31, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

Right now at stores all over the city, country lanes and locally at a one or more of our green houses, sales are happening, the value of the pumpkins and squash’s grown for Halloween just dropped like a stone. Last … Continue reading →

Posted in 30 day challanges, Food Storage, frugal, Garden harvest | Tagged After sales, compost, Compost your pumpkins, Finding way to use things up, food, Frugal, halloween, Halloween pumpkins, Pie pumpkins, pumpkin, Pumpkin sales, pumpkin seeds, pumpkins, Pumpkins for fodder, recipes, squash | Leave a comment

Hultafors Splitting Axe

Posted on October 30, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

In a world where so many things are made fast and cheap, when you can try and support business’s that create items to last. I was thrilled to see that Hultafors who have been making and selling Axes from Sweden … Continue reading →

Posted in 30 day challanges, Climate Change, homestead | Tagged Firewood, Hultafors Splitting Axe, nature, Splitting wood, Storm Clean up, Storm Wood, storms, Tree Storm Damage, trees, winds | 5 Comments

Fall Soups : Neeps aka Swedes Potato Bacon Recipe

Posted on October 29, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

Neeps or Swedes or Rutabaga all mean the same thing, that amazing winter root veggie that was created as a cross between a cabbage and a turnip in the 1700 in Sweden. In the garden because its such a long … Continue reading →

Posted in 30 day challanges, Garden harvest, gardens, recipes, Soups and Stews, Winter Eating Challange | Tagged A little bacon is always a good thing, dinner, Eat what you can grow, Fall soups, food, Garden harvest, Garden Zone 5, Neeps, Neeps and Tatties, recipe, recipes, Roasting veggies, soup, Swede turnips, Use up your leftovers | Leave a comment

Roasted Beet are a late fall garden treat!

Posted on October 28, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

A fellow blogger from many years gone by who i am connected with still said something interesting a few weeks back (Yes Jess, that would be you) in regards to if we needed to eat more of what we can … Continue reading →