Category Archives: Garden harvest
Black Current an Honey Syrup
Currents grow well here on the farm in all the colors and types, however in the spring of 2024 there was a early spring with not a single frost which meant that its been a amazing fruit year! In all … Continue reading
Potato Harvest Overview 2024
It was both a odd year and a outstanding year when it came to growing potato’s on the farm in 2024. Due to the crazy amount of rain we were getting the garden was to wet to work and or … Continue reading
Posted in 30 day challanges, Garden harvest
Tagged calorie dense foods, Eat what you grow, Fall Harvests, food, Garden, Gardening, Gardening in a wet year, Gardening in Zone 5, growing in straw bedding, growing potatos, harvesting potato, Potato, potatoes, Purple potato, Red Potato, Russet potato, vegetables
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Pumpkin Time!
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
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Fall Soups : Neeps aka Swedes Potato Bacon Recipe
Neeps or Swedes or Rutabaga all mean the same thing, that amazing winter root veggie that was created as a cross between a cabbage and a turnip in the 1700 in Sweden. In the garden because its such a long … Continue reading
Posted in 30 day challanges, Garden harvest, gardens, recipes, Soups and Stews, Winter Eating Challange
Tagged A little bacon is always a good thing, dinner, Eat what you can grow, Fall soups, food, Garden harvest, Garden Zone 5, Neeps, Neeps and Tatties, recipe, recipes, Roasting veggies, soup, Swede turnips, Use up your leftovers
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Roasted Beet are a late fall garden treat!
A fellow blogger from many years gone by who i am connected with still said something interesting a few weeks back (Yes Jess, that would be you) in regards to if we needed to eat more of what we can … Continue reading
Posted in 100 mile diet, Garden harvest, Goals, Kitchen garden
Tagged 0 mile food, 100 mile diet, Beet Greens, beets, Beets as a staple food, beets heart health, food, Garden Zone 5, Grow what you eat, growing beets, Harvesting beets in oct, Kitchen garden, micro zones in your garden, Northern garden staple, recipe, recipes, Roasted beets, vegetables
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What a garden season its been 2024
How did your garden grow? How was your final harvests? Have you had your first hard frost? Still growing, still harvesting? My overview of the gardens for the farm for 2024 Hard Fruit, including Apples, Pears, Cherries, Plums, Peaches Apples- … Continue reading
Posted in Garden, Garden harvest, gardening, Kitchen garden, Rain Garden
Tagged Farm Life, Garden, garden overview, Gardening, Gardening for the pantry, Gardening in Eastern Ontario, Gardening in rain year, Gardening in Zone 5, Gardening to fill your freezer, Greens, grow your own food, Growing for the table, Growing your own food, Homesteading, rain effecting garden yeilds, Rain Gardens, Raised beds, small Farm, tomatoes, vegetables, Veggies
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Plant and Grow Horseradish
Say Horseradish and most peaple in canada that I know will think of horseradish sauce or the added spicy in Mustard or Seafood Sauce. The history of Horseradish is long, as in thousand plus year long and yet here in … Continue reading
Posted in Gal in the Garden Series, Garden, Garden harvest, Kitchen garden, Life moves on daily
Tagged Dry Horseradish greens, Dry horseradish greens as a basil replacement, eating horseradish as a young spring salad green, Eating horseradish greens, Grow Horseradish in your kitchen garden, harvesting horseradish root, Horseradish, Make your own green powder, Make your own horseradish sauce
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High Bush Cranberry BBQ Sauce Recipe
High Bush Cranberry BBQ Sauce 8 cups of late fall harvested after at least one or two good frosts softened High Bush Cranberry * (see note) 2 cups sugar or 1 1/2Â cups honey 1 cup of vinegar (If you … Continue reading
Just another Day on the Farm 