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Pantry Challange 2018- Day 3 1/3rd Rule

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

Day 3 has arrived with light snow, below 0 temps an so far its s pretty grey day, so after taking the dogs for a yard walk. I am sitting with a nice big old pot of red rose tea that I threw a few dried red clover buds into. Loving my flowering plant on the table it beings such cheer to my writing spot.

Day 1 was all about taking stock of what I had in regards to fresh food in the fridge or fruit bowl and what was coming in from the farm. Day 2 was all about starting more food if possible. Day 3 is all about STRETCHING that fresh food or preserving it.

in my mom’s little space on the door that she puts her goodies , I found two smaller rolls of garlic sausage, one got frozen and one got used for supper last night, and tucked behind them was a wrapped up half used the greens main cut off fresh green onions, the outside of each had some slime-rotting leaves. That was easy enough to remove, far more important is the fact that these greens had strong active perfect looking roots.. So they got potted up and placed in a warm sunny window to start growing me more green tops.

One of the best things I can say in regards to using up the fresh food is to look at it carefully, its it going bad, does it have staying power or will it go bad quickly.. if its turning or will go fast its important to preserve it..

Don’t keep it fresh, I know that seems odd to some because they are going to be thinking, keep the fresh as long as possible but in the long run, looking and being honest.. what can you preserve for future use

Herbs that will go fast, chop and preserve in salt or put it in the ice tube tray cover with your favorite oil, freeze, pop out and bag them up.

Tomato’s dice them up, and freeze them or make a fast salsa so they will hold longer in the fridge.

Cucumbers, peppers and such.. get them in the pickle, or ferment them… In our case I found a cucumber in mom’s area and while one end was gone soft, I did the rest into a quick salad.

If it will stay well in storage then for sure keep it raw and fresh..

So back to the 1/3rd idea, this was our supper last night, a little carb heavy I know but hubby loves his corn 🙂 It meet what I am looking for in the beginning of this challenge, 1/3rd fresh being used and 1/3rd coming from my dry pantry or freezers and 1/3rd coming from my canning pantry.

If there is one thing I learned living in Iqaluit Nunavut Canada in a fly in and fly out, you only get one sealift food order per year when we lived there in the early 2000 back when it just first became the capital and we were still on the old food mail system. I could order fresh once a month from a store in Quebec to be flown up at goodly cost otherwise, everything came in one sea can sealift shipment that you were not even sure when it would arrive depending on sea ice..

Its that you always need to look at your pantry in balance.. If you eat all the peaches in the first month, there will be no more canned peaches for the next 11 months.. this has really stuck with me (after a number of failings when I would run out of things in second half of the year due to not planning carefully enough in the first six months)

Plan most of your main meals to be balanced when possible on the 1/3rd plan, once we truly lose all fresh, I am hoping that the farm will provide the 1/3rd.. we will see, otherwise I will move to 1/3rd dry pantry, 1/3rd freezer and 1/3rd canning pantry.

Day 2 Farm impute – 6 eggs

Egg total 14 eggs

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Pantry Challange 2018-Day Two -Starting seeds and bulbs

Posted on March 6, 2018 by Just another day on the farm

Well Day 2 is dawning cold in the house, and I am already missing my mom’s fancy coffee machine that I have unplugged. I am going back to making a big old pot of tea that can be drank hot or cold and I will be making up a batch of tea concentrate for DH and the house use. It will be a good thing for me to get off the coffee for a awhile.

I started regular sprouts four trays yesterday on Day one and today I Will start a two trays of mung beans that I started soaking yesterday and one tray of pea’s that once I see them swell and get tails, will be transferred to a tray for Green Pea greens for a future supper.

If you need to eat out of your pantry, that should also include your seed pantry.. the seeds comes on super cheap in some of the most basic things, three packages for a 1 or even at times you can get them for 25 cents per package. If you can not buy things at the store and you can not harvest outside.. Sprouts and Microgreens are wonderful.. Now if you don’t have a set up that you can have trays and soil (and you should not be out buying soil) so then just go with sprouts.. While I will admit that I do find growth effected to the better by using the trays, I started out sprouting with a old empty clean jar that I put sprouts in and I didn’t even have cheese cloth, I used a clean piece of cotton with a old rubber band to hold it in place.. Soak, then drain and refresh them at min 2x a day, better if you can do three and once they start sprouting, I would lean the jar on its side to let them have even more growing room.

I also started a few pot of Green onions bulbs on Day 1 and will get a few more pots planted up over the next few days so that we will have fresh green tops at the very least if not small onions towards the end of the month. I am not sure what else I will start over the next week. I will cut the bottom of the celery off and pot it up as well for fresh Celery Greens to add as a burst of flavor and greens.

I cut up and cooked the wilting celery and frozen it flat in a package so I can break out smaller portions and use it up over the month, I also took the three banana’s and froze them, I will use them up in a baking item that will much further then just eating them would.

Today has been a simple meal day for me, I have had eggs with toast and some nuts and dried fruit for a snack as well as a couple cuppa of regular tea or Chia tea. Hubby took eggs for breakfast and leftover pasta dish for his main lunch with a blueberry cake for his snack.

So today’s Question for you.. if you needed to? Do you have mung bean in your pantry that can be sprouted? Do you have extra greens, radish seeds or mustard seeds or so many others that can be sprouted in jars or trays? in your seed box?

What about extra’s in the house, could you repot up the green onion ends, or the celery ends, they will not regrow whole new plants but they will put new growth out in amounts that you can use it again in a cut and come method to give a bit of freshness to a dish?

Odds and Ends of the day: Started saving egg shells for the garden, instead of putting them in the pigs bucket.

From the farm: Day 1- Eggs (all chicken) 8

Its been a truly spring day, with cold winds, the odd skiff of snow coming down while I was working outside, its cold enough that the ground is frozen. No new babies in the barns yet but the horse’s are frisky and enjoying their spirited play time.

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So what do we have to start this challange with?

Posted on March 5, 2018 by Just another day on the farm

You are going to get a sneak peak into my kitchen today and in the weeks to come.. I will take a picture of the fridge, and or fruit bowl if anything is in it each Monday.. I expect that its going to look much different by the end of this challenge.

I normally do not have this much different things in my fridge (a number of things are my mom’s but we are certainly going to eat them up) and I am in fact as I looked lacking some of the things I normally do have(like where is my cabbage?). Besides the fridge, I have four squash left, about 25 pounds of storage potato’s and about 7 pounds of smaller sweet potato’s

I knew this challenge was coming and I chose to not start any sprouts till today, letting the ones in the fridge get used up before starting new ones for the challenge.

Reason’s to consider doing your own pantry challenge be it for a weekend, a week or better yet a min of a month.. What if you lost your job? and you needed to live out of your pantry for a month, could you do it? What if you had a baby and you are heading back to work and you have a month between EI and your first paycheck? What if life decides that you need a kick and a thousand dollar repair bill on your car.. (yes, ideally you have savings and can just pay the bill but lets be real here for a min, sometimes things come along that make us tighten the belt) being able to learn how to make and then live out of your pantry for a week or two or for a full month is a very good thing.

Second reason to consider doing your own pantry Challenge.. find out how to make meals out of those items that have been just sitting there. that water chestnut can that you should use up.. but as long as you are bringing in fresh, you are never going to use it.. This type of challenge will make you think out of the box on those “hey this was on sale” but you never eat it items.

Or Flip the coin

Third Reason to consider doing your own pantry Challenge.. learn to create super frugal meals.. When you get lower on things, but you are still having a hard working day, you need to make sure you are still eating well.. The Pantry Challenge makes you do a bit more work in creating meals with the basic’s (because that is the first and formost thing) your pantry should have is basic’s.

I truly believe that at some point in everyone’s life they are going to have some thing or some reason to need to eat from their pantry. Creating a working Pantry is good thing.. creating a working Homestead Pantry is another thing indeed.. Its got a lot more tied to the season’s and the farm life.. sometimes there is gluts and other times famine.. something that we just do not think about in our “just stop by the store” and pick up?

Anyone going to consider joining me in a few simple things as we go along..

So here is Day 1 Question for you? How much Rice or Grains that are cooked like Rice do you have in your pantry? If you needed to eat out of your Rice or Cooking Grains Store how long would it last you? Would you be able to feed your current size family for the next six weeks? or would it be longer?

I have enough rice and multi cooking grains but strangely at least upstairs, I appear to be much lower in barley then I should be?? I am not happy about this, as Barley is my go to! I am hoping that I am going to find that I have a good amount put away, otherwise, I have just found my first weak spot in my pantry!

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Pantry Challange 2018- Day 1 Eggs

Posted on March 5, 2018 by Just another day on the farm

Good Morning Folks

Today lets talk about what I do have lots of in the fridge and due to the farm, something that I do have more coming in.. Eggs!

Currently I have both hen and duck eggs coming into the house and there are more to start laying, I have older hens that are start back up after a winters rest, I have young pullets just starting their first lay.

On the Water fowl front, I have older duck hens and four young hens that were raised though the winter, that will start their first laying season this year and I have three year old mated geese that will be laying, plus a lovely and lonely turkey hen as she lost her tom and I have not gotten her another one.

I am planning on letting her lay, sit and then buy day old turkey pullets to let her raise them up and picking a new tom out of the babies to keep back.

Farm Fresh Eggs flavour are outstanding, I throw a bit of hay into each birds pen daily, not only does it give them something to do but eating that bit of green each day helps keep my birds healthy and gives me wonderful yolk color even now in winter.

One large (53g) egg contains 6g of protein and only 70 calories. Canada’s Food Guide considers 2 eggs one serving from the Meat and Alternatives food group.

Eggs have long been recognized as a source of high-quality protein. The World Health Organization (WHO) and other public health authorities actually use eggs as their reference standard for evaluating the protein quality in all other foods.

Eggs provide a complete range of amino acids, including branched chain amino acids (leucine, isoleucine, valine), sulfur-containing amino acids (methionine, cysteine), lysine, tryptophan, and all other essential amino acids.

All B vitamins are found in eggs, including vitamins B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, B12, choline, biotin, and folic acid. The mineral content of eggs also deserves special mention here–not because eggs are a rich source of most minerals but because they are a rich source of certain minerals that can sometimes be difficult to obtain from other foods.

Eggs are a very good source of both selenium and iodine. While many fish, shellfish, and mushrooms can be rich sources of selenium at this time of the year, its harder to come by local fish or mushrooms

I remember times in my 20’s where having a dozen eggs in the fridge meant I had protein to get me to payday when combined with cabbage, onions and of course rice. I still feel the same way when I have eggs in the house, that I have a amazing protein source.

As I do not have anyone in milk yet and I have limited fresh milk in the fridge, I will certainly not be making cheese anytime soon.. I have some cheese in the fridge but not a lot.

Time to start a nice big batch of Salt Cured Egg Yolks to make a mock cheese for pasta use during this pantry challenge.

Given how important eggs can be and their endless uses, I think I will do at least one egg based recipe per week of the Pantry Challenge in some form or way.

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Machine’s on the farm

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

Hubby and I have always shoveled everything by hand on the farm, and only very rarely have we hired machines to do the work that is very hard to do.. example when we had the loads of gravel delivered, we hand moved the walk way loads but hired Farmer R to come and spread the drive way.. what he could do in under a hour would have taken us way, way to long.

As you know we have had a lot of snow this winter, including having it drift badly enough that five times we have had help come to plow us out and dozen and dozen of hours spent shoveling the lane way.

We certainly will continue to shovel a lot of things by hand but Dear Hubby Got this very much on sale (as the season is ending) new Snow Blower as a gift from my mom, he also got a little party, and he might have asked his wife for a set of Throwing Ax’s that did indeed appear on his birthday.

I am looking forward to learning how to do proper maintenance of it and ideally being able to do a lot more of the snow removal with it, and I will tell the truth, I am greatly looking forward to being able to do a single up and down path from the house yard to the barn with this. However I know that from shoveling the pathway that many a time in winter we go from a open path to knee or even mid hip drifts that cover the path totally in certain spots. The drift patterns will not change so we will see how the machine handles them.

So while we still use the scythe for a lot of our cutting, we now have a lawn mower, while we still have lots of shovels, we know have a snow blower, while I do have my fire pit and cooking tray, we now have a BBQ.. Crazy I know! LOL

We will see if this proves to be a good thing or not.

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Pantry Challange March 2018

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

Boy the pantry Challenges go all the way back to 2011.. so we are coming into our 7th year and it starts tomorrow. In a nut shell, its eat out of the pantry, storage or the farm. Its a great time of the year for it, its lean.. the hens are just starting to lay again, this year we are coming in with no active freshened milking animals and while we had a week of early spring weather with some good maple run weather, we are not growing anything outside yet, the ground is frozen, and most of my gardens are covered in one to three plus feet of snow yet.

It was the starving time of year that bad part when most of the winters crops were done or turning done and at the same time, nothing fresh was really coming in.. the river is breaking up.. so no ice fishing and no regular fishing either.. no hunting.. but I can still take from the farm.. when it comes to “fresh” meat.. rabbit or a young rooster

Now I am going to admit that the house is loaded! If I thought I kept a full fridge, meet my darling mom.. she does even more then myself.. so we are starting the challenge with a number of extra’s that I would not normally have if we were coming off No-Buy Feb..

As always, my critters needs are not included in this challenge.. so my little pigs Puddin and Pie will continue to get their fresh stuff for their health an well-being.

However Hubby and I are going hard core.. if we get invited to someone’s house, we are allowed to eat whatever is being provided and I will note if it happens. Otherwise, no eating out, no bringing in food of any kind and I will be running the challenge for a min of four weeks with a possible six week window.

Each week I am going to try and do mini challenges within the pantry challenge itself, we will see how they go, it could be bad as I stumble along.. we will see I am still thinking on this idea of how to add something a little bit more interesting each week as we work though it..

The odds are good that I will be doing double posts most of the next month once the challenge starts, one post for the challenge, one post on other things.. I have found that on years where I combined them into one single daily post, that recipes and more are lost in the search feature on the blog.. this way works better for digging out data at a later point.

Its snowing today and below freezing but its a pretty soft snow that is falling this morning.. we have two sheep that are starting to bag up and one goat that is showing signs of bagging up, so we are on watch and the jugs are ready to be made active in the big barn.

I am hoping to have a milking animal for the farm sooner then later 🙂

Ps, as per other years, if there is a sale on that only happens every three or six months, we are allowed to bulk buy and put it away(not to be used at all during the pantry challenge) so that we do not miss stocking up. It used to be that many things came on regular sales but in the last three months and even the past six there have been a number of things that are not hitting the sales like normal and even worse.. more and more of the sale rows are filled with non-food sale items only.. you can buy dish soap, toilet paper and so much more on sale.. but food.. that is becoming harder and harder to find good stock up sales on.

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Happy Birthday Dear Hubby!

Posted on March 1, 2018 by Just another day on the farm

Dear Husband.. you know you mean the world to me.. I am grateful and blessed to have you in my world.. Happy Birthday!

Adore this photo taken at friends, hubby is always making friends with the purr pots 🙂

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Digging in the garden

Posted on February 28, 2018 by Just another day on the farm

Well, the sun was shining to day, it was beautiful out, and I got to spend a good portion of the day outside off and on again. One of the things I noticed was the flower beds are all melting out, not only do I need to do the spring poo clean up in some area’s but I think this weekend, its possible that I might be able to do the side flower bed clean up, which tell’s you just how much I am looking forward to the garden season that I am excited as in happy dance excited that I get to clean a garden bed.

Which got me looking a few of my other gardens, gardens that really got overrun last fall, that were just left wild.. o so wild.. crazy wild.. I mean we are wild garden folks anyway but normally there its controlled wild.. and every late fall, we spend that six to eight week window between harvest and deep winter gaining back control of the let it go fall harvest gardens and so we start the spring needing work on a some things.

Some things I leave for the overwintering of bugs and so forth, some things I leave because I truly believe that they feed the soil and or offer protective coverage, and some things I will cover with bedding four to six inches deep or compost four to eight inches deep and let it go all late fall, winter and early spring and then mix it all in.

However I am going to have to own it.. we have three garden area’s that are truly overrun.. each one is over run in a different way.

Garden number 1 is a section of the main garden and its over grown but in truth in a great way.. I have hundred to several hundred babies plants of things I like in gardens.. I have extra comfrey babes, and raspberry babies and mint babies and horse radish babies and self-sown greens, mustards, raddish and so SO Much more.

So while the garden is very much overgrown and needs a good amount of work to get itself back to its ability to be a full production garden, its also going to serve as my nursery garden and my early spring eat it as you clean it garden.

Then there is my one long and narrow garden.. it got took over by pigweed and grass.. its crazy thick mats, now the pigweed.. great.. yummy so tasty and good eating.. the grass not so much and what pain in the rear to work with.. but it will have to be cleared, leveled and it honestly needs to be double dug.. it’s been a no-till for a number of years now but its hit that point that I need to either rebuild the no till (which that grass is a issue) or I need to flip over to it being a clean it out.. and do a hand done double dug on it and then add a huge amount of extra manure on it and plant three sisters into it this year.

The third garden is in a very different state.. its only a third year garden, it was double dug two years ago, it has been well composted two years in a row and its still lacking depth to it. its so sandy and dry in many ways, it needs a lot more compost, it needs peat moss, it needs life, it nettle and comfrey and all the rabbit poo I can spare 🙂

On one side I have raspberry canes that need removal, on the other side edge, I need to move out strawberries and coming up the back end I have a mix of golden rod and wild parsnip to deal with..

So the big garden, eat as it grows, transplant many babies, gift babies and trim back as needed to get it back to full production, while interplanting the annual spaces

The long narrow garden.. heavy duty work load.. needs a total clean out and dig and then heavy feeder crops.. The side garden, a gentle tidy up but it needs a lot of work on the soil itself..

That is the joy of having so many gardens.. each are different, each are at different stages and how they need to be treated changes based on some things in my control and many more not 🙂

What garden do you have your eye on? What is your biggest need for the year? Cleaning it, changing something about it? What is the bigger needs, planting more into it, or is it your soil that you need to feed even more then normal this year for that spot?

I am dreaming of the first rhubarb starting again in about six weeks.. ah.. spring rhubarb..

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Living in the moment

Posted on February 27, 2018 by Just another day on the farm

As my regular readers are aware, I pretty much keep most political things off the blog. Clearly I have a strong leaning towards the way a 1st world “rural Canadian” leans, I believe that we should be able to own our own homes, land. I show that rural in regards to believing in owning livestock and having the right to home kills and butcher on my own land for my and my families use. I do believe in the right to own rifles, be it for hunting, be it for Humane Livestock life ending or Livestock protection from Wildlife.

I also am personally a pretty firm women’s rights, right to Grow our own food, right to keep our own seeds, right to make your own personal choices as long as they are not hurting others. I have lived and travelled enough to understand that my culture is just that.. mine, not that the only or the best..

it’s just how I was raised combined with my life experiences that make me who I am at this moment, and its changed in so many small and sometimes bigger ways over the years!

Never stop learning and always try to understand and respect where other people are coming from if you can.. better even if you can learn new ways of thinking or seeing something..

So this is a touchy subject, I am really hoping to not lose any of my regular readers over this.. I mean if I can lose 5 over a head cheese post.. as a blogger we just need to not take it personal.. but for those who write comments and feel like friends and those that have been long-term readers.. Know that I know its a touchy subject.

So It shook me a bit.. when hubby came home to inform me that he would be taking a “course” in regards to what to do in the work place if there was a shooting event. Now I am not going to go into details on what he learned or how it was taught or anything like that. I am glad that he took the course because he felt that it was done well and he was given information that made him think about things in a different way.

That’s all well and good but It still bothered me.. I think it’s because in some ways we DO live in a very safe country, but I have still been watching the news where there has been over 20 people who have been shot in the closest city to me since the New Year came in..

I know that the area my hubby works in and the building he works in could be a target and so I am glad they are at least talking about it, and offering information etc.

It got me talking to a friend who is a female that is home alone a lot like myself (or now that mom is here.. two women home alone) and we both looked at each other and had a short moment where we owned up that.. we lock our house when we work in our barns, and that we never go anywhere on the farms without our farm dogs, where we went you got a broom, hockey stick, or ??? by the door, something just placed so in each room..

I have a very pretty walking stick that comes out with me a lot on the farm when I am alone.. but its thick and its hard and hubby and I practise with it.. I hope and pray I will never need it.. but I am still smart enough to greet the stranger in my lane with it in my hand..

It’s a strange world we live in.. In some ways so advanced, in some ways so much safer than it’s ever been and yet in others, not so much.. I hope my hubby never has to use what he learned, I hope I never need to defend myself on the farm. I wish the same for all of you.. may your day, home and life be filled with peace, love and more..

but…. just in case.. be willing to keep an open mind in regards to learning about what you can do to help keep yourself and your loved ones safe.

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Sun Shining.. Bitter Winds.. Change in the air!

Posted on February 26, 2018 by Just another day on the farm

The heater in the living room has been turned off now, the sunlight pouring in the big windows heats it nicely during the day and while it does cool off during the evening, we are not the room at that time.. I love the time of year when I am turning the heaters off..

The sun is drawing us outside onto the deck, mom sits with coffee, while I putter more often then not, slowly edges of tree’s are having melt out, edges of the flower beds are starting and in the front bed, I have some tiny spots of bare soil.. this area is very exciting for me as I have a few really early-early! spring plants in there that love that first heat push of spring.. that is the only bed that has house on the back with full sun, plus the cement step on the side that catches and holds heat.. plus I have heat sink rocks in that bed as well.. Their job is simple.. they are to warm in the sun and then realize the heat back into the bed later in the evening.

I do have a cover for this part of this bed but we are not there yet.. I am thinking that I will be prepping the horse trough early spring garden bed this weekend. I still have snow up about half way on this at the moment (photo from a different year but so you see what I am talking about) and I will cover it to help heat it up, I pulled out about half the soil last fall and have it in close by under a tarp, because I need to fill up the bottom 2/3rds of this with fresh horse manure and get it started in composting, then I will water it and check the temps to see when I can add soil back on top. I have found it changes year to year on how long that first “hot” compost takes.. I have had it as short as a few days to as long as two weeks at times in the day under the glass. The outside weather makes a huge difference.

I will keep you posted on it, I can see how and why there were able to grow amazing amounts of food in the cities of the past with using the horse poo’s that were collected and used to create hot compost under beds.

From mom’s last six week holiday at the farm 3 years ago

My mom is heading to Alberta next week to have a holiday, she is going to be visiting my brothers, her sisters and of course her dear friends.. I am going to miss having someone coming down the stairs and saying good morning to me.. I know that when she visited me for four to six weeks that it would take me a week or two to get used to not having her here..

I imagine that I will be even more so this time but on the other hand, we are going to be doing some Reno work that we have been holding off on as mom finds it a bit hard when things are ripped apart mode. It should be to long in getting it done but on the other hand, it will be great to get it done before she comes back.

I am sad that she is going to be missing so much of the early spring on the farm, but I understand that she will be leaving to go to Alberta at least once or twice a year and as I well know, there is not point in going for a short time.. you need at least a month to get to see everyone etc. Its so odd that its to it being going the other way.. instead of her coming to the farm, its her going back out West!

The good part of that is that she will be gone pretty much the whole month of march and I am going to have a bit more time to blog and I am greatly looking forward to doing a Eat from the Pantry Challenge for the month of March.. Its always a lean month and its a eat and figure out holes in my pantry to improve on.

I am going to put my thinking cap on in regards to what else I want to add in during march, I know that I will have time for a fun little project or two for the blog and I am greatly looking forward to it. I might not start until mom leaves..