Category Archives: 30 day challanges
Hultafors Splitting Axe
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
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Fall Soups : Neeps aka Swedes Potato Bacon Recipe
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
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10 Tons of Well Rotted Wood Chip Based Compost
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
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October Unprocessed Week 1.5 Update
As the first week of Oct was a very short week being only 4 days, I am combining week one and week 2 together for this update. The weather has been very warm with lots of mixed in rain.. This … Continue reading
Roasted Sea Salt Grey Ghost Squash Seeds
Its fall and that means squash and pumpkins are coming in by the wheel barrel and bins full.. such bounty.. we had a low threatened of 4 and we did get just nipped but only in our most frost prone … Continue reading
Posted in 100 mile diet, 30 day challanges
Tagged Eat the seeds, Eat what you grow, Fall harvest, Frugal, Garden, Grey Ghost Squash, Squash Seeds, Waste not
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October Unprocessed Challenge 2021
The “Kitchen Test” Definition The first question I’m always asked is, “How do you define unprocessed?”Obviously there’s a wide range of implications in that word, and we will probably each define it slightly differently for ourselves. My definition is this: … Continue reading
May Declutter Goal -Clothes
May is a very busy time of year when it comes to the yard and gardens, and I want to work a lot on the tear down in terms of hours put into sorting, scrap(for money) recycle storage for future … Continue reading
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Tagged Declutter, going though your closets, going though your cloths, recyle, reuse, sorting your stuff
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No Buy Feb 10 years strong..
Now I have always adored No Buy Feb because it leads into my Pantry March Challenge.. these two combined have let me find so many weakness and build in strengths into my homestead. What is No Buy Feb? Its pretty … Continue reading
Dollar Store Challenge Day 3
I woke up today knowing that it was the last day of the challenge, that my basket had lots of food in it still and that if I was to ever do this again, that I would shop for it … Continue reading
Dollar store Challenge Day 2
Breakfast : 2 fruit cups and one tin of kippers black Coffee with sugar. I had slept well but woke woggy and fog headed, my body is not happy with something I eat yesterday as my fingers are swollen, I … Continue reading
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Tagged Dollar Store Challenge, dollar store challenge day two
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Just another Day on the Farm 