Category Archives: Garden harvest

Homesteader Pea’s

Posted on July 7, 2018 by Just another day on the farm

So these are homesteader pea’s or so I was sold heritage homesteader pea’s and in some ways they are bang on.. 68 to 70 days from planted to harvesting, able to grow in cooler soil and withstand heat and still … Continue reading →

GooseBerry Jam Recipe

Posted on July 15, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

The gooseberry patch is hopping this year, a full batch of jam on off just two of the bushes with eight more to go for picking and processing. I love Gooseberry Jam on old aged cheese. The combo is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Food Production and Recipes, Garden, Garden harvest | Tagged Gooseberry, Gooseberry harvest 2017, gooseberry jam, Gooseberry Jam Recipe, Gooseberry Juice, Gooseberry juice steam juicer | 2 Comments

Broad Bean or Fava Bean Harvest 2017

Posted on July 11, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

These guys were planted at the same time as the peas when the soil can just be started to be worked early spring and unlike the peas which have struggled this year, they all came up. They were in a … Continue reading →

Posted in 100 mile diet, Garden, Garden harvest | Tagged broad beans, Fava Bean Hummas, Fava beans, Growing Fava Beans | Leave a comment

Indulgent Red Current Chocolate Cake Recipe

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

Indulgent, o yes! This Cake is Indulgent.. Make a nice chocolate Cake.. My mom’s one bowl Chocolate cake will do quite well, just make it into two round pans or you can make it in a smaller cake pan and … Continue reading →

Posted in Baking, Food Storage, Garden, Garden harvest | Tagged Dried Whole Red Currents, Red Current Chocolate Cake Recipe, Red Current Cream Cheese Icing, Red Jelly in the middle of chocolate Cake | 3 Comments

Drying Whole Currents

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

Its seems so simple right.. pick your currents, clean them up, removing any bits of leaves or stems and put them on the drying trays and go.. And they will take forever.. I mean forever to get them dry.. Let … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden, Garden harvest, local food | Tagged Crack the skin of the current before drying them, Drying Red Currents, Drying whole Currents, Tips on how to process your whole currents for drying them | 4 Comments

Dried Red Current Pulp for Tea’s and Baking

Posted on July 9, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

The color and flavour on this years Red currents are outstanding.. I do love the Steam Juicer but I can not waste the pulp left over.. Thankfully my big nine tray dryer is on the job.. its a bit of … Continue reading →

Posted in 100 mile diet, Food Storage, frugal, Garden, Garden harvest | Tagged Dried red current pulp for use in baking, Dried red currents for tea, Drying Red Current pulp | Leave a comment

Red Current Honey Garlic Sauce

Posted on July 9, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

The Current Crop is coming in this weekend and what a crop it is.. I am on my third full steam juicer load (which makes five to six cups of the most amazing Current juice, which once made into jelly, … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden harvest, gardens, grass fed beef | Tagged Beef Veggie Stir-fry with Red Current Honey Garlic Sauce, Red Current, Red Current Garlic Honey Sauce Recipe, Red current Garlic Sauce, Red Current Juice, Red Current sticky Garlic Sauce, Red Currents | Leave a comment

Red Current Season has arrived!

Posted on July 8, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

In 2010, I pinned down five branches off my two biggest red current bushes on the farm. they were planted as two year old potted red current from a local greenhouse our first year on the farm and I let … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden harvest, gardens | Tagged Creating more red current bushes, Creating new current bush's using pinning, harvesting home grown red currents, red current jelly, red current syrup, Red Currents, Ways to use red currents | 7 Comments

June Garden Overview -2017 Tracking Year Data

Posted on June 29, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

Hello Folks, I am going to do my best heading into 2017 to have a big old tracking year, I need to do this and I have the book, the paperwork and the plan.. I will make it happen.. So this is the first month of scales, daily writing of what is coming in.. O […]

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Posted in Garden, Garden harvest | Tagged Garden, garden overview 2017, Garden tracking stats 2017, homestead garden, Seed starting | 2 Comments

Strawberry Season has arrived – Strawberry Jam Recipe

Posted on June 25, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

You know how you can make soup and you use up what you had.. Well, today the strawberry jam ended up the same way but my o my did it turn out to be yummy. Dear Hubby has the last … Continue reading →