Category Archives: 100 mile diet
Eating Cattail Root.
Hi Guys, Peter is one of our great local Forage leaders in the Local Ottawa Area. He is such a down to earth great guy. When this video came across my facebook feed, I asked nicely if it could be … Continue reading
Preparing Dandelion Flowers for future use
Dandelion flower are lovely to use in a number of ways. You can add them to honey to make Dandelion honey. You can add them to butter. You can add them to dough and make cakes with them or mini … Continue reading
Forage “Daylily Spring Leaves”
I have talked about those old fashioned orange flowered Daylily’s before. I love to harvest their flowers for both fresh eating and to dry them for year round use. I have talked about harvesting the tiny but bursting flavour of … 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
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Tagged Drinking Maple Sap, Maple syrup, ontario fresh maple syrup, Ontario Maple Syrup
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Rendering Lard- Pasture Raised Heritage Pork Fat
My computer binged and it was a friend of mine.. would you like a couple bags of Freshly done but now frozen of Pasture raised heritage organic pork fat. I was like ok, two bags, maybe three? Well her one … Continue reading
Broad Bean or Fava Bean Harvest 2017
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
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Tagged broad beans, Fava Bean Hummas, Fava beans, Growing Fava Beans
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CHC Canada 150 Food Blog Challange -Spring Green’s Burger Recipe
When the Challenge this month for the CHC Canada 150 Food Blog Challenge 2017 was the fresh foods of spring. I knew that other folks minds would go to asparagus or rhubarb as those are the first foods of spring … Continue reading
Interesting Read on a “different way” to look at northern food Security
http://nftinwt.com/the-obsession-with-hydroponics-and-indoor-growing-damages-northern-food-security/ “Our purpose at the Northern Farm Training Institute (NFTI) is to restore food independence and food security to people and communities in Canada’s North. So we are disappointed when we see resources spent in the name of food security … Continue reading
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Support Local- Fresh Maple Syrup
While the local maple syrup season was a challenge and without a doubt one of the poorest I have had on the farm. Just up the road from me is a different zone and while he had a very short … Continue reading
Just another Day on the Farm 