Author Archives: Just another day on the farm
Machine’s on the farm
Hubby and I have always shoveled everything by hand on the farm, and only very rarely have we hired machines to do the work that is very hard to do.. example when we had the loads of gravel delivered, we … Continue reading
Posted in At the kitchen table
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Pantry Challange March 2018
Boy the pantry Challenges go all the way back to 2011.. so we are coming into our 7th year and it starts tomorrow. In a nut shell, its eat out of the pantry, storage or the farm. Its a great … Continue reading
Happy Birthday Dear Hubby!
Dear Husband.. you know you mean the world to me.. I am grateful and blessed to have you in my world.. Happy Birthday!
Posted in Life moves on daily
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Digging in the garden
Well, the sun was shining to day, it was beautiful out, and I got to spend a good portion of the day outside off and on again. One of the things I noticed was the flower beds are all melting … Continue reading
Living in the moment
As my regular readers are aware, I pretty much keep most political things off the blog. Clearly I have a strong leaning towards the way a 1st world “rural Canadian” leans, I believe that we should be able to own … Continue reading
Posted in Life moves on daily
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Sun Shining.. Bitter Winds.. Change in the air!
The heater in the living room has been turned off now, the sunlight pouring in the big windows heats it nicely during the day and while it does cool off during the evening, we are not the room at that … Continue reading
Posted in Garden, gardening
Tagged earlly spring garden, Garden, Hot Compost, Hot manure Garden box, Using Horse Manure
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Soil. Gardening and Food Production
I hope the above link does work, I am not going to copy and paste parts of it here, its copyrighted but ideally go read it before reading mine.. however if you choose not to, here is the part I … Continue reading
Posted in Life moves on daily
Tagged calorie dense food, food systems, Gardening, growing food, soil
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Mini Icestorm, power out and flames?
They had closed the schools and warned us all that we were going to have a messy and icy afternoon yesterday so that at least was expected.. hubby came home from work to tell me that the roads were indeed … Continue reading
Maple Syrup and Tapping..
All week-long I have been watching my local friends on Facebook talking about.. Tapping Should I tap now. I got a small run but the flavour is off or I tapped and nothing is running. Locally, to the farm the … Continue reading
Posted in 100 mile diet
Tagged Drinking Maple Sap, Maple syrup, ontario fresh maple syrup, Ontario Maple Syrup
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Spring in 30 days.. hmmm
What a odd thought that spring is to be here in 30 days.. I am taking my Elderberry and a few other things to help with how I am feeling but I have been hit with the “bug” and I … Continue reading
Posted in At the kitchen table
Tagged Garden, Manure on the farm, Rabbit Poo, rabbit poo compost, Spring is coming, Winter Manure Pile
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Just another Day on the Farm 