Author Archives: Just another day on the farm
Making homemade wool tags for the garden
Got Sheep? Yes, lovely hair sheep that I adore.. they are my favorites, so easy to work with. Got Wool Sheep? Why yes I do have two wool sheep in my wee flock.. but I don’t use their wool for … Continue reading
Tree Hay and cleaning up pastures
I am still faithfully cutting and feeding out tree hay to the flock, they seem to really like it.. they come running when called an they will clean it all up, by tomorrow all the leaves and all the thin … Continue reading
Posted in Tree Hay
Tagged farm cats, Feeding tree trimming to sheep, improving pastures, Tree Hay
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Easy Fresh Tomato Garlic Pasta Topping
O yes, we have tomato’s starting to come in.. we have been getting fresh yummy cherry tomato’s for fresh eating or in salads, I had my first toasted Tomato Sandwich this week. However yesterday we brought in enough Roma Tomato’s … Continue reading
Posted in 100 mile diet
Tagged Easy fresh tomato pasta topping, Fresh Tomato's, Garden, tomato
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Pie Pastry Recipes
This is a old post from 2011 and I am bringing the whole post back as it such a good one. I should of course break each recipe down into its own post with its own photos. At the time … Continue reading
Posted in Baking, Food Production and Recipes
Tagged Peach Pie, Pie dough, Pie Dough Recipes
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Raspberries
The summer raspberries are early, they should not be starting till late july but this heat has everything moving faster. Last night we had salad made up of our freshly picked tomato’s and Peppers. Sunday was spent cleaning up our … Continue reading
Red Currents 2018
We have a truly lovely haul from our red current bushes with pounds of them coming off each mature bush, some of the bushes are smaller-younger that are not as many but the older ones are having a outstanding year! … Continue reading
Posted in gardens
Tagged Current Bushes on the homestead, Food Forest, Gardening, Growing Currents, Red Currents
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Homesteader Pea’s
So these are homesteader pea’s or so I was sold heritage homesteader pea’s and in some ways they are bang on.. 68 to 70 days from planted to harvesting, able to grow in cooler soil and withstand heat and still … Continue reading
Tadpoles..
We love our toads, they out number the frogs by 20 to 1 at least and we have toads all over the whole farm. when we mow, they hop out of the way, when we garden, we find them all … Continue reading
More heat!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2018/07/03/hot-planet-all-time-heat-records-have-been-set-all-over-the-world-in-last-week/?noredirect=on&__twitter_impression=true Listening to the radio and in montreal as of this morning, 11 deaths that have the heat has played a role.. they are folks that have underlining health issues that are effected by the high heat.. The city (which … Continue reading
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Short but sweet storm passed over the farm today..
The heat is very high.. it was 45c with the humdix, we worked in starts an bits in the gardens, picking gooseberries, some ground cherries, black current, cherry tomato’s and fresh baby peas. late afternoon saw the thunder roll in … Continue reading
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Just another Day on the Farm 