Category Archives: Food Storage

Canning Round up for May – 2017

Posted on May 30, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

2017 Please note for ease of tracking, I will be rounding everything up or down into pints.. example, if I do 7 quarts of something, it will be written as 14 pints, if I do 8 80z jars it will … Continue reading →

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Canning Round up for April – 2017

Posted on April 30, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

Lets talk about the farm’s Sugar use in 2016

Posted on February 10, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

So in 2016, we used a grand total of 126 pounds of sugar for coffee, tea, baking, canning and so forth.. My records show that approx. 76 pounds went into canning or curing items. Now it gets really trick at … Continue reading →

Posted in Food Storage, frugal | Tagged Canning, Frugal, homestead, storage sugar, Sugar, Using sugar for curing, Using sugar in canning | 3 Comments

Keeping it real on the farm 2016

Posted on January 2, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

This was our lovely New Years Day Dinner, the works.. turkey, stuffing, mashed, green beans and gravy.. it was so good.. it was also a reminder that I only got 1 turkey baby on the farm.. one.. that’s it.. It … Continue reading →

Posted in food, Food Storage, Garden harvest, gardening, homestead | Tagged garden harvests, Heritage sqaush, homestead, keeping it real on the farm, permaculture, soft fruit | 2 Comments

How much Sugar did we use in a year on the farm!

Posted on August 5, 2016 by Just another day on the farm

This post is mainly from How much sugar did we use in 2011 with a five year update.. As I dipped into a small dish of yugurt and strawberries as a afternoon snack, I made a note in the farm … Continue reading →

Posted in Canning, Food Production and Recipes, Food Storage | Tagged Canning, eating less sugar, Food Production and Recipes, Health, How much sugar do you use in a year on the farm, Sugar, sugar and its effects on blood, Tracking your sugar useage, Using sugar in canning, ways to preserve food that does not use sugar, ways to preserve that uses little sugar, Weight Loss | 1 Comment

Purple Sweet Potato

Posted on October 31, 2015 by Just another day on the farm

As you know I grew three kinds of sweet potatoes this year, The standard orange, the white fleshed and the purple.. I have to buy special short season pre-started slips, I have started my own slips as well from short … Continue reading →

Posted in Food Storage, gardens | Tagged Gardening, Growing food for winter storage, Growing purple potatoes, Growing short season sweet potatoes, Growing Sweet potatoes in zone 5, Growing Sweet potatoes on the homestead, Winter Storage | Leave a comment

30 pounds of garlic scapes

Posted on July 1, 2015 by Just another day on the farm

Yup, it seemed like a great idea, last year I processed and used about ten to 12 pounds of these lovelies, so when I got the chance to get 30 pounds at a great price, I jumped at it.. 5 … Continue reading →

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Rhurab Goals for 2015 – 300 pounds

Posted on May 22, 2015 by Just another day on the farm

I have set goals for a number of the bigger crops in terms of poundage, it would not make sense to do so without having a idea of what things produce. otherwise I will have little to no way to meet … Continue reading →

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Mustard Seeds..

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Just another day on the farm

Ah, my crop of Mustard plants did great this year, fresh itty bitty spicy mustard greens for salads, then strong hot ones for cooked greens, or add in to soups, stews or stirfries.. Then came the flowers, we had problems … Continue reading →

Posted in Food Storage, frugal, Garden harvest, gardening | Tagged Growing Mustard for seed, Harvesting Mustard Seeds, Harvesting Mustard Seeds for future use for green cover crops, Harvesting Mustard seeds for micro greens | 4 Comments

Apple Season has arrived.. the first bushel was picked this weekend..

Posted on September 1, 2014 by Just another day on the farm

A bushel of apples was u-picked at my very close apple orchard, its mear minutes from the farm, there are two within ten min but this one is the closest and has many more kinds, 21 in total, plus plums, … Continue reading →