Category Archives: gardens

Cheap Labour aka Fire

Posted on April 22, 2018 by Just another day on the farm

While this only works to a point and must be done safely, the truth is when it come to spring clean up and labour, fire can be a very useful tool. Update (got a note from one of my awesome … Continue reading →

Posted in gardens | Tagged ash in garden soil, fire, fire use in the gardens | 1 Comment

The wind she be blowing today

Posted on April 4, 2018 by Just another day on the farm

Wow, the winds are here today, woke up to a white slushy sort of freezing raining world.. Thankfully not a frozen world as we could finish filling the big 50 gallon water drum that I had hauled to the big … Continue reading →

Posted in gardens | Tagged Garden | 4 Comments

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

5 Ways to use Garlic Scapes!

Posted on July 1, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

Ah, Garlic Scapes, those yummy green tops on the garlic that you are growing in your garden, or available from your favorite local garlic grower. When they reach over and start to curl into themselves.. its time for harvesting. I … Continue reading →

Posted in Canning, gardens | Tagged 5 ways to use garlic scape, Canning Minted Garlic Scapes, Creamy Garlic Scape Pesto recipe, Crunchy Oven Roasted Garlic Scapes chips, Dill Picked Garlic Scapes, Garlic Scape pesto recipe, Garlic Scapes, Oven Roasted Garlic Scapes, Sweet Minted Garlic Scapes, Using Garlic scapes in stirfry | 2 Comments

Haskap -Slow going.. yeild for 2017

Posted on June 27, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

The answer on if these bushes are worth it is still out.. they are one of the first flowering and fruiting bushes in our zone 5. The first spring berry to be harvested on the farm. I had bought two … Continue reading →

Posted in gardens | Tagged Growing Haskap, Haskap berries, Haskap Bushes, Haskap growing in Zone 5, Haskap jam, Haskap used in desserts | 2 Comments

Breaking new soil in a new area of the farm

Posted on May 21, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

We had a area that we cleared and last year we planted it out into potato’s and added a lot of compost to it and when we dug the potato’s we double dug the whole bed, and I planned to … Continue reading →

Posted in gardens | Tagged Breaking new soil, Comfrey in the garden, Fixing soil in a sandy soil, Fixing soil in a sandy with clay soil, gardens, Using comfrey in the garden, Using permaculture to fix the soil in a garden | 8 Comments

Can you eat Rhubarb Flowers? Stirfry Style Recipe

Posted on May 16, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

Can you eat your Rhubarb Flowers? Yes you can, you just need to do your proper prep work like most veggies. You are going to eat only the flower buds, not the stem, leaves or the paper type husk on the … Continue reading →

Posted in gardens | Tagged Can you eat Rhubarb Flowers, Eating Rhubarb Flower, eating rhubarb flowers, How to properly cook Rhubarb Flowers, rhubarb flowers, Using Rhubarb Flowers in a stir fry, Yes you can eat rhubarb flowers | 9 Comments

Wild Parsnip -We are finally gaining ground

Posted on April 17, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

Finally in our province, this nasty plant the Wild Parsnip was added to our invasive plant lists, both a very good thing (because in some area’s it had gotten so bad that you could not take walks in local nature area’s, … Continue reading →

Posted in gardens | Tagged Controlling Wild Parsnip, Controlling wild Parsnip naturally, Removing Wild Parsnip from your land, wild parsnip | 5 Comments

Bean Teepee Spring Planting is done.

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

For those that are newer readers, the Bean Teepee is coming into its 3rd year on the farm.. its outstanding and I will have at least a few more of them on the farm in the future. Today we cleaned … Continue reading →