Category Archives: Garden

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 →

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 | 2 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

Last of the strawberries..

Posted on July 6, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

Our strawberry crop is pretty much done for this year, we have put up strawberry rhubarb fruit blend.. it was a good crop, lots of berries but sadly the slugs got way to many, it is always sad to see … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden | Tagged Fresh local Strawberries | 7 Comments

Outstanding Elderflower Harvest for 2017

Posted on July 4, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

We picked into a laundry basket and in the end we picked just over 5 pounds worth of them and we were so lucky that we have the rains stop, the sun come out and the flowers were dry and … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden, wild foods | Tagged elderflower, Elderflower ice cream, Elderflower pie, Elderflower sugar, Elderflower syrup, Elderflowers, Harvesting Elderflowers, Pruning elderflowers off your elderbush for larger berry harvest | 3 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

Lovage Harvest for 2017

Posted on June 26, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

Lovage is commonly known as a pot herb, it is a huge plant and those with limited space often remove this outstanding plant from their garden because of this.. I will be doing three collecting and harvests of this plant … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden | Tagged Growing Lovage in the garden, Lovage, Lovage as a pot herb, Lovage celery flavour leaves, Lovage for herbal use, Lovage for tea, Reason's to grow lovage | 16 Comments

Canning Rhubarb Juice (Mock Pink Lemonade #2)

Posted on June 12, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

My dear hubby and my testers all agree, that the cooked, strained rhubarb tastes like rhubarb juice but everyone says that the stream processed takes like a wonderful Pink Lemonade version of it. I have to admit that its delightful … Continue reading →