Category Archives: Food Forest

Heliopsis – Bleeding Hearts

Posted on September 13, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

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 →

Posted in Food Forest, Garden, Garden harvest, Life moves on daily | Tagged Cutting flowers, Feeding the bees, Feeding the finches, Garden, Growing Fall feeder plants for your native bees, Heliopsis Bleeding hearts, native bees, Winter Feed for the finches | 2 Comments

Switch grass panicum virgatum

Posted on January 20, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

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 →

Posted in Food Forest | Tagged Growing Switch Grass as a mulch, Native Switch Grass to help feed the wild winter birds, Starting a Switch Grass patch?, Switch Grass, Using Switch Grass in your garden | 5 Comments

Pawpaw Seeds

Posted on January 14, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

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 →

Posted in Food Forest | Tagged ontario pawpaw seeds, paw paw tree, pawpaw fruit, pawpaw red flowers, pawpaw seedlings, Pawpaws in food forest understudy, spring flowers on trees | 2 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

Bacon Nettle Frittata

Posted on May 8, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

Bacon Nettle Frittata Recipe Looking for a fast and easy supper, Got lots of spring eggs this meal is for you! 4 thick cut sliced of bacon, diced and precooked 2 cups spring nettles, washed and diced 6 large mushrooms- … Continue reading →

Posted in Food Forest, gardens | Tagged Bacon nettle frittata, eating nettle, Eggs, recipe, Ways to use fresh spring nettles | 2 Comments

Great Pruning Workshop

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

Thank you Laura from Fine lines landscape and Design for a very interesting and informative pruning workshop. I have a little sample video from the workshop, Laura is talking about what happens when you get two main leaders that form … Continue reading →

Posted in Food Forest, gardens | Tagged Fruit Pruning Workshop | 5 Comments

Hazelbert Nut Bush

Posted on March 7, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

Hazelbert Nut Bush A cross between Hazel – Corylus americana – and Filbert – Corylus avellana – Zone 3 The Hazelbert is a bush hardy to zone 3 producing big hazelnuts double the size of our native Beaked Haze. As … Continue reading →

Posted in 100 mile diet, Food Forest, Garden | Tagged Adding Nut producing bushes to the homestead, Hazelbert Bushes | 6 Comments

FarmGal’s For Hire Shingle is Out for 2019

Posted on January 15, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

Hello Folks, I finally got my Farmgal For Hire Page Updated for 2019 Thank you to everyone that has hired me over to talk about Permaculture, Gardening, Raising Rabbits, Backyard Chickens, Raising Chicks 101, Growing Fodder for small Live Stock, … Continue reading →

Posted in farm sales, Food Forest | 8 Comments

Hedges.. o hedges.. make it so..

Posted on January 13, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

I am ordering in 100 new cedar babies from the county tree program this year and will do hundred more next years is the plan, and I have swack of native black willow whips to move over and start them … Continue reading →

Posted in Food Forest, Garden, Garden harvest | Tagged billhook tool, cane cutter, Food Forest, hedge rows, permaculture, pollard tree, rose hedges, Tree Hay | 6 Comments

Tree Hay an Tree Fodder

Posted on May 8, 2018 by Just another day on the farm

Sometimes you read or see something odd and it just clicks.. Tree hay for me clicked.. I mean I had been pruning out tree branches I didn’t want, I had been cutting an feeding little tree’s for years to the … Continue reading →