Author Archives: Just another day on the farm

Broad Bean or Fava Bean Harvest 2017

Posted on July 11, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

These guys were planted at the same time as the peas when the soil can just be started to be worked early spring and unlike the peas which have struggled this year, they all came up. They were in a … Continue reading →

Indulgent Red Current Chocolate Cake Recipe

Posted on July 10, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

Indulgent, o yes! This Cake is Indulgent.. Make a nice chocolate Cake.. My mom’s one bowl Chocolate cake will do quite well, just make it into two round pans or you can make it in a smaller cake pan and … Continue reading →

Posted in Baking, Food Storage, Garden, Garden harvest | Tagged Dried Whole Red Currents, Red Current Chocolate Cake Recipe, Red Current Cream Cheese Icing, Red Jelly in the middle of chocolate Cake | 3 Comments

Drying Whole Currents

Posted on July 10, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

Its seems so simple right.. pick your currents, clean them up, removing any bits of leaves or stems and put them on the drying trays and go.. And they will take forever.. I mean forever to get them dry.. Let … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden, Garden harvest, local food | Tagged Crack the skin of the current before drying them, Drying Red Currents, Drying whole Currents, Tips on how to process your whole currents for drying them | 9 Comments

Dried Red Current Pulp for Tea’s and Baking

Posted on July 9, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

The color and flavour on this years Red currents are outstanding.. I do love the Steam Juicer but I can not waste the pulp left over.. Thankfully my big nine tray dryer is on the job.. its a bit of … Continue reading →

Posted in 100 mile diet, Food Storage, frugal, Garden, Garden harvest | Tagged Dried red current pulp for use in baking, Dried red currents for tea, Drying Red Current pulp | Leave a comment

Red Current Honey Garlic Sauce

Posted on July 9, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

The Current Crop is coming in this weekend and what a crop it is.. I am on my third full steam juicer load (which makes five to six cups of the most amazing Current juice, which once made into jelly, … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden harvest, gardens, grass fed beef | Tagged Beef Veggie Stir-fry with Red Current Honey Garlic Sauce, Red Current, Red Current Garlic Honey Sauce Recipe, Red current Garlic Sauce, Red Current Juice, Red Current sticky Garlic Sauce, Red Currents | Leave a comment

Red Current Season has arrived!

Posted on July 8, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

In 2010, I pinned down five branches off my two biggest red current bushes on the farm. they were planted as two year old potted red current from a local greenhouse our first year on the farm and I let … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden harvest, gardens | Tagged Creating more red current bushes, Creating new current bush's using pinning, harvesting home grown red currents, red current jelly, red current syrup, Red Currents, Ways to use red currents | 7 Comments

Last of the strawberries..

Posted on July 6, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

Our strawberry crop is pretty much done for this year, we have put up strawberry rhubarb fruit blend.. it was a good crop, lots of berries but sadly the slugs got way to many, it is always sad to see … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden | Tagged Fresh local Strawberries | 7 Comments

Elderflower Scrub Recipe

Posted on July 5, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

I made a small Elderflower Scrub just to see if I liked it.. o yes! its lovely.. 4 to 6 heads of Elderflowers 1/2 cup of White Sugar 1/4 cup white wine Vinegar 1 cup of boiling water Now with Scrub’s you … Continue reading →

Posted in Herbs, wild foods | Tagged Elderflower Shrub, Elderflower Shrub Recipe, Floral Elderflower Shrub | 5 Comments

C5 Presents- The Ultimate Cargo Bike- Redux – The Shareable Version

Posted on July 4, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

I do enjoy the ramblings of C5 but I also will admit that I was grateful that he offered a cleaned up version of this post, so I could share it with my readers. I know that it might not … Continue reading →

Posted in Life moves on daily | 4 Comments

Outstanding Elderflower Harvest for 2017

Posted on July 4, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

We picked into a laundry basket and in the end we picked just over 5 pounds worth of them and we were so lucky that we have the rains stop, the sun come out and the flowers were dry and … Continue reading →