Category Archives: Food Forest
Blueberry Bush Pruning Setting the Stage for years to come
What amazing set of pruning with writing that i came across, its just wonderfully clear and so easy to understand. This could be a self-grown crane cutting, or a bought plug or even a potted plant you got from the … Continue reading
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Park Garden 2025 -More Grapes!
We planted four healthy grapevines the first year we moved to the farm, so they are now 20 plus years old, we have been blessed with many harvests here on the farm and gifted away extras into the community. They … Continue reading
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Tagged 0 mile food, building your local food shed, Eat what you grow, eating local, food, Food Forest, Garden, garden zone 5a, Gardening, Gardening in Canada, gardening in the true north, grapes, Grow what you eat, Growing Grapes, Growing grapes in canada, homestead, support canadian company, Victory garden
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Ticks
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
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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
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Fruit Pruning Workshop Bourget Area
I am excited to have partnered up with Laura Moses to host some coming events here on the farm. I have worked with her in the past on different gatherings and lectures over the years. It is the first time i … Continue reading
Posted in 100 mile diet, At the kitchen table, Food Forest, Fruit Trees, Gal in the Garden Series, homestead
Tagged Farmgal, Farmgal events, farmgal photography, Fine Lines, food forests, fruit, Fruit Trees, Gardening, Hands on fruit tree pruning seminar, just another day on the farm, pruning, Pruning course, Pruning Fruit trees, trees
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Number One Trick for Loads of Elderberries!
These a wild (Bird Gifted years ago) local native Black Elderberries. I am lucky enough to have them growing wild in ditches and field edges all over my local area. However those bushes will produce clusters about a 1/3rd of … Continue reading
Taking a Risk.. Unknown Apple to Farmgal Apple #1
Eight years ago we found an apple tree whip in an odd spot in the yard, across the driveway on the side yard. We were never sure if it was a bird gifted apple tree it could be given it … Continue reading
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Tagged Apple tree, apples, Frugal, Garden, local food
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Heliopsis – Bleeding Hearts
What a plant, the flowers start out almost a deep red, shifting to golden hues that magically end up bronze. This is a big plant.. It needs space and sun! It can be done in a mixed bed as the … Continue reading
Switch grass panicum virgatum
http://ontariograsses.com/main/species.php?id=3080 I have ordered in enough Switch Grass Seed to do a Quarter Acre worth of plants, I have a Multi level Multi Year plan for them. This year, I will be starting a number of them and then transfering … Continue reading
Pawpaw Seeds
I ordered in Pawpaw seeds from a seller one zone harder then my own and I hope to get two 3 year old trees this spring about 40 minutes away as they like to be planted in clumps. I ordered … Continue reading
Just another Day on the Farm 