Category Archives: wild foods
An Appple A Day
Here are just a few of the apples we grow on our little farm, we currently have four kinds of apples, plus crabapples. We also wild pick Apples and Crabapples locally, but we get most of our apples still from … Continue reading
Spruce and Rosemary Shortbread Cookies Recipe
A basic Shortbread Cookie Recipe is a time honored traditon at this time of the year, it is made up normally of butter, Sugar, Flour and Vanilla. Some folks like to use half Flour and half Corn Starch for a … Continue reading
Muskox
As you know, I am doing a local Dark Days Challange, and it got me thinking about how local food changes based on where you live, I enjoyed supporting the local Inuit when I lived up in the high artic, … Continue reading
Elderberry Syrup Recipe
We are blessed to have wild Elderberries growing on the farm when we moved here, we have since given a helping hand to create another 15 plus bushes to grow at different spots on the farm. I made a number … Continue reading
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Winter Eating Challenge
DH and I have taken on the challange of eating one meal per week of made totally of local food, the basic rule is all parts of the meal must be grown/produced from within a 150 miles of where you are … Continue reading
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Foot and Nails do not go together!
It was a crazy busy weekend working to get things done, and late afternoon, I missed the board that was in the barn gutter and stepped down and straight onto a nail, which went though my boot, sock and part … Continue reading
Had a Craving for a Salmon Sandwhich..
As some of you might know, we had a bang up year for salmon in B.C. this year with one of the biggest returns they have seen in years, I was able to pick up very nice canadian wild Salmon … Continue reading
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Nunavut Wildlife
I was so pleased to read about this little local food market that is going to happen, I miss having the access to the local hunters in the north.. Interesting little story for you.. I had just moved to Iqaluit … Continue reading
Just another Day on the Farm 