Category Archives: Food Storage

Beef Stock Cube Homemade

Posted on November 21, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

In prepping to clear my freezers of last years beef before this years order comes in mid dec, i need to use up the very last of the beef stock bones. I had been luck enough to get extra soup … Continue reading →

Posted in 30 day challanges, Food Storage | Tagged Beef bone stock, Beef bones, bone broth, bone stock, food, Grass fed bone stock cubes, Homemade bone broth, Making your own bone stock, recipe, recipes, slow food, soup, soup bone broth cubes | Leave a comment

The Trench of Shame

Posted on November 4, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

O what a waste! If you have been following my blog for a good while you know that i can a lot! and that i love to try new recipes. You know that one good garden years i can and … Continue reading →

Posted in 30 day challanges, Food Storage | Tagged Canning, Clearing the old canning, Compost pits, Compost trench, cooking, food, Keep the jars, Purging the pantry, recipe, recipes, Waste, When things do not go according to plan | 4 Comments

Pumpkin Time!

Posted on October 31, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

Right now at stores all over the city, country lanes and locally at a one or more of our green houses, sales are happening, the value of the pumpkins and squash’s grown for Halloween just dropped like a stone. Last … Continue reading →

Posted in 30 day challanges, Food Storage, frugal, Garden harvest | Tagged After sales, compost, Compost your pumpkins, Finding way to use things up, food, Frugal, halloween, Halloween pumpkins, Pie pumpkins, pumpkin, Pumpkin sales, pumpkin seeds, pumpkins, Pumpkins for fodder, recipes, squash | Leave a comment

Food Crisis is very real!

Posted on November 14, 2023 by Just another day on the farm

This past week I have been reading and listening to so many reports and interviews in regards to the cost and or availability of food and its effects on the day to day life of our fellow Canadian’s and Globally. … Continue reading →

Posted in dry pantry, Food Storage | Tagged Budget plannings, Canning, Fall planning, Farm Fresh Eggs, farm fresh veggies, Food Bank use, Food costs, Food price increases, Freezers, Garden, Inflation, Pantry, Winter Pantry, Winter Prep, Working within your budget | 1 Comment

Steak with Spaghetti Squash Recipe

Posted on January 31, 2023 by Just another day on the farm

I have given a lot of thought to how I wanted to share in a casual way on No Buy Feb and March Pantry Challenge. I want to give myself loads of flexibility and yet at the same time have … Continue reading →

Posted in Food in jars, Food Storage, local food | Tagged Canning, Eating for health, Farmgal, Frugal eating, Homesteading, Local garlic, Local Grass Fed Beef, Pasta sauce, Spaghetti Squash, Steak with side of Spaghetti Squash pasta, using up leftover | Leave a comment

Fall and Garden Burn out..

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

It happens to all of us.. at some point there is a garden burnout.. Where you look at the last of the things coming in and sigh, groan and go NO MORE! Of course there is more.. so much more.. … Continue reading →

Posted in Food in jars, Food Storage, Forage, Garden harvest, photography | Tagged Fall garden harvest, Fall harvest, fall hikes, farm cats, Hunter orange for your dogs, photography, Pumpkin kitten photo | 4 Comments

Baked Beef Shank Steaks

Posted on October 9, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

This garlic loving somewhat made in the pot BBQ sauce works so perfectly with these baked till pull apart tender Shank Steaks. There is enough sauce made for four steaks with the fixings for sure if you wanted to pull … Continue reading →

Posted in Food Storage, frugal, grass fed beef | Tagged Baked Beef Shank Steaks, Cheap and Frugal Meals, Garlic, Shank Steaks Recipe, use different cuts of meat to help cut costs, Ways to stretch your meat | 3 Comments

Making Salt Cured Green Olives

Posted on September 26, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

You can imagine my excitement when a girifriend of mine found boxes of fresh raw green olives, yes they came from the states.. Needless to say two boxes were gotten.. one for her, one for me.. a bit of time … Continue reading →

Posted in Fermenting, food, Food Production and Recipes, Food Storage | Tagged Fermented food, Fermenting raw olives, Green Olives, Homemade Green Olives, Making Salt Cured Green olives, Olives | 8 Comments

Planting Fall Hard Neck Garlic 2021

Posted on September 11, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

I did hold back my best Music Garlic that we grew this year and I look forward to growing it again next year. Having said that, we have decided to expand our garlic selection. We choose to buy from a … Continue reading →

Posted in 100 mile diet, Food Production and Recipes, Food Storage, Garden | Tagged 100 mile diet, Buy Local, Fish lake 3 garlic, Garlic, Garlic growing in zone 5, Growing Garlic, Homestead garlic, Ivan Garlic, Northumberland Garlic, Support local growers | 2 Comments

Amish Nuttle Bean Review

Posted on September 7, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

Amish Nuttle Bean Pbaseolus vulgaris is considered a Heritage Bean as well as being Slow Food’s Art of taste. Its said that it was grown and promoted by the Amish as early as 1802. However there is a bigger backstory on … Continue reading →