Category Archives: Real Life

Fall Meat Bird Grow out Stats

Posted on December 12, 2025 by Just another day on the farm

In Sept 25 White Rock Meat Chicks ordered from Frey’s Hatchery here in Ontario though our local coop arrived on the farm and were cuddled by Miss R an coo’d over indeed. Dec 10th 24 healthy White Rock Meat Chicks … Continue reading →

Posted in Chickens, Real Life | Tagged 100 mile food challange, Chickens, Costs of raising your own meat chickens, Farm Life, food, homestead, Homesteading, Meat birds, Meat chickens, raising meat chickens, Save where you can, Saving money | Leave a comment

Recycle

Posted on November 16, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

While we have the bin for a good amount of things, other things need to go to the dump itself for a more special Recycle program. In this case we had older or broken electronics for recycling. Different locations within … Continue reading →

Posted in 30 day challanges, Real Life | Tagged dump, electronics recycling, environment, local dump, Recycle, recycling, sustainability, sustainable | 2 Comments

Hello November, The First Day of a New Month

Posted on November 1, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

Its the first day of a new month and it is the turning of the wheel, its that switch from late summer to true fall, its the changing of the daylight savings so we will turn the clocks back by … Continue reading →

Posted in 30 day challanges, At the kitchen table, farm journel, Friday Rambles, Garden, Real Life | Tagged Bird Feeders, Bird Photography, birds, Friday Rambles, Gardening, geese flying south, getting the garden ready for winter, nature, Wild Birds, Wildlife, Winter, Winter bird watching, Winter Prep | Leave a comment

Ticks

Posted on October 26, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

How has it been in your area this year in regards to ticks? With the crazy wet garden season it has meant that we have not been able to mow things as low as we have been over the past … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Critters, Food Forest, Health, homestead, Personal Care, Real Life | Tagged Checking for ticks, Dogs, Health, Hunters and ticks, Increase in tick born illness, lyme-disease, mowing low for ticks, pets and ticks, poetry, preventing ticks, Tick habitat, Tick removal, tick removal kits, Tick testing in canada, Tick tracking, Ticks, ticks on the homestead, wood paths in your gardens | Leave a comment

Eating for Health

Posted on January 28, 2023 by Just another day on the farm

While I am beyond grateful for getting some answers in regards to my health, one of the things that came out of it was that I needed to work harder to clean up my eating habits and slowly but surely … Continue reading →

Posted in Real Life | Tagged grass fed beef, Salads | 2 Comments

Do you want your Lambs or Kids to be birthed in daytime hours?

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

Would you like to know how a simple change can help increase your flock or herd’s day time lambing rates? Do you dislike cold winter all night baby watch, checks and 1 to 4 am birthing times. How you ask? … Continue reading →

Posted in Critters, Real Life | Tagged how to help your goat kids be born in daylight hours, how to help your lambs be born in daylight hours, kidding, lambing, simple feeding chance helps lambs be born in daytime hours | 30 Comments

ice car races or is that mud races :)

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

Long day from start to finish.. ice car racing was on my bucket list for this year! Registered, early morning and with the awesome 43.. so kind of a great young man to allow me to race in the ladies … Continue reading →

Posted in Real Life | Tagged bucket list, ice car racing | 1 Comment

Hay Costs Winter 2016-2017

Posted on January 20, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

For those that where reading my blog though-out 2016, you know that we had a major local drought.. not a little drought.. but a zone 3 bright red drought in my area with level 2 drought around us.. up and … Continue reading →

Posted in frugal, Real Life | Tagged hay, Hay costs, haying in a drought, increasing hay costs in ottawa valley, poor hay crops | 6 Comments

Help on the farm

Posted on January 3, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

I got a interesting comment on one of my recent posts about the fact that I don’t appear to have much outside help on the farm.. She is not wrong.. In 12 years, we have hired and or bartered our own helping … Continue reading →

Posted in farm, Goals, homestead, Real Life | Tagged canadian Homestead, farm helpers, Help on the homestead, Homesteading | 6 Comments

Sausage Making at Big Brothers.. Bear Sausage recipe

Posted on October 24, 2013 by Just another day on the farm

My big Brother lives in the northern part of alberta and he is a hunter, so if you are non-hunting, please stop reading now LOL, no really its not that bad but just giving a heads up, he is black … Continue reading →