Author Archives: Just another day on the farm

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 →

Posted in 100 mile diet, Garden harvest, Goals, Kitchen garden | Tagged 0 mile food, 100 mile diet, Beet Greens, beets, Beets as a staple food, beets heart health, food, Garden Zone 5, Grow what you eat, growing beets, Harvesting beets in oct, Kitchen garden, micro zones in your garden, Northern garden staple, recipe, recipes, Roasted beets, vegetables | 6 Comments

10 Tons of Well Rotted Wood Chip Based Compost

Posted on October 27, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

What a gift this pile is! I am so thankful to our friends that gifted these piles to us for the park garden. This is a mix of wood based bedding in a free stalled cow dairy by a friend … Continue reading →

Posted in 30 day challanges, compost | Tagged aged compost, compost, compost from deep pack bedding, compost in the food forest, compost in the gardens, composting, deep bed pack compost, Deep Pack Bedding, Feed the soil, Garden, Gardening, gardens, how the type of carbon in deep pack bedding effects end compost, Improving garden yeilds, soil, Soil improvement, Soil structure | 2 Comments

Ticks

Posted on October 26, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

How has it been in your area this year in regards to ticks? With the crazy wet garden season it has meant that we have not been able to mow things as low as we have been over the past … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Critters, Food Forest, Health, homestead, Personal Care, Real Life | Tagged Checking for ticks, Dogs, Health, Hunters and ticks, Increase in tick born illness, lyme-disease, mowing low for ticks, pets and ticks, poetry, preventing ticks, Tick habitat, Tick removal, tick removal kits, Tick testing in canada, Tick tracking, Ticks, ticks on the homestead, wood paths in your gardens | Leave a comment

Lets make some goals! Getter Done

Posted on October 25, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

Written Goals are such a good starting point to at least try and direct the coming time. Miss R and I have the same tracking and thought journals and we are enjoying finding a time (perhaps not daily) to work … Continue reading →