Category Archives: Canning
An Apple a day..
Even if you missed looking for those stunning white to white-pink flowers in your spring walks and travels, when if you wanted to wild harvest fruit, you should in fact have a local map marked with lots and lots of … Continue reading
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Tagged 100 mile food challange, Canning, Food Production and Recipes, Frugal, Fruit Trees, Garden, Wild Foods
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Current Canning Update for 2011
I just loved Andrea`s current count on her canning for the year, she is putting up for her family and it all sounds so yummy, I figured that some folks might not know that I have a Canning Log on … Continue reading
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Tagged 100 mile food challange, Canning, Food Production and Recipes, Garden
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Tag teaming the pressure canner and the water bath canner..
Thankfully, being the weekend, I have my DH also tag-teaming the work, I know that it may seem silly but I do wish that I had a few little ones to be sharing this knowledge with, I wish that my … Continue reading
Rain, garden produce, Chokeberry Season has started.
We are into our third day in the rain, good steady warmish rain, by my count on our rain gauge we have had just over 4 inchs, excellent for the pastures, for the garden and for our shallow well! Thankfully … Continue reading
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Tagged 100 mile food challange, Canning, Fruit Trees, Garden, Soft Fruits, Veggies, Wild Foods
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Canning Meat..
Well I have been listening to CBC news about what is happening to the markets, to the riots in london, to the debt crisis that just keeps growing in Europe and the United States, and listening to Harper who is … Continue reading
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Tagged 100 mile food challange, Canning, Charcuterie, Farm Life, Food Production and Recipes, freezer camp, Frugal, Garden, lambs, sheep
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Plum Recipes including Farmgal’s Plum BBQ
Well got notice friday that my flat of fresh picked yellow plums that were just driven up last night from down in the fruit belt of our province were ready for pick up.. Someone asked me (at Stone House Road blog) … Continue reading
Balance between Book Learning vs Traditional Knowledge..
The storm that rolled though here last night was just nasty taking out power for close to 18 hours, leaving us in amazing hot and humid with no real ways to cool yourself other then being in the basement and … Continue reading
Canning Log Update
It was time to do a inventory of the canning, so I can have a better idea of what needs to be put up this season, Figured we would share with the folks were we start and then do … Continue reading
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Tagged 100 mile food challange, Canning, Farm Life, Garden, Goals, Soft Fruits, Veggies
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Elderflower syrup
The Elder’s are in bloom, and I went out and carefully pruned the bush of select flowers, so that when the berries come, they will not overwhlem the branchs (my bushes can produce so hard, that they will break their … Continue reading
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Tagged Canning, Food Production and Recipes, Frugal, Garden, Soft Fruits, Wild Foods
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Pectin-Commercal or Homemade
Canning season has certainly started here on the farm, I tend to can all year long but the push is always late spring to late fall, I typically pick up supplies in the fall when they go on sale and … Continue reading
Just another Day on the Farm 