Category Archives: Climate Change

Chick Order Time 2025

Posted on January 20, 2025 by Just another day on the farm

The last couple years i have been ordering in six ready to lay hens and keeping my bird flock very small indeed. It was strange because for the other 17 years on the farm, i always have a mixed flock … Continue reading →

Posted in Chickens, Climate Change | Tagged backyard-chickens, Bird Flu, Chickens, chicks, Duel Purpose chickens, Eggs, Farm eggs, homestead, Homesteading, Ivory Chickens, Raising your own, Turkeys Mini Classic, White Rock Chicks | Leave a comment

Hultafors Splitting Axe

Posted on October 30, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

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 | 5 Comments

Ticks

Posted on October 26, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

How has it been in your area this year in regards to ticks? With the crazy wet garden season it has meant that we have not been able to mow things as low as we have been over the past … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Critters, Food Forest, Health, homestead, Personal Care, Real Life | Tagged Checking for ticks, Dogs, Health, Hunters and ticks, Increase in tick born illness, lyme-disease, mowing low for ticks, pets and ticks, poetry, preventing ticks, Tick habitat, Tick removal, tick removal kits, Tick testing in canada, Tick tracking, Ticks, ticks on the homestead, wood paths in your gardens | Leave a comment

The final Garden Harvest in 2023

Posted on January 13, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

The weather this year as been very odd indeed, but I am beyond grateful that we did the huge second fall plantings. It was a strange garden year for us, the second year of gardening in the new big enclosed … Continue reading →

Posted in 100 mile diet, Climate Change, Food Forest, Food in jars, Fruit Trees, Gal in the Garden Series, Garden, Garden harvest, gardening, homestead | Tagged beans, beets, breaking new garden soil, building a new garden, Canning, dried beans, Farm Life, Food Forest, Garden, Gardening, gardening-tips, Greens, growing your own seed for the next year, Homesteading, late garden harevests, native bees, sandy soil, vegetables, Veggies | 4 Comments

Gardening Giving Thanks for the Deep Cold..

Posted on February 15, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

From Coast to Coast the winter cold and snow has truly arrived, breaking records in the west dropping down into the -50C, tipping into the -40 easily in alberta, sask, manatoba and so on.. even the moderate B.C. has been … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Garden | Tagged cold winter weather, Deep cold helps kill off larva, Gardeners understand why the deep cold in winter can be a good thing | 8 Comments

Krazulya Pear Tree

Posted on November 9, 2020 by Just another day on the farm

Photo credit to Bernie Nikolai who is growing this out on the very cold canadian Praires Arriving well wrapped and ready for late fall dormant planting where a few more very HARDY fruit trees. One of these 3 year old … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Food Forest, Food in jars | Tagged Early Aug pear type, Juicing Pear | Leave a comment

Are you planning on doing some landrace seed growing?

Posted on November 9, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

What is a landrace you ask? A landrace is a domesticated, locally adapted, traditional variety of a species of animal or plant that has developed over time, through adaptation to its natural and cultural environment of agriculture hmmm.. I think … Continue reading →