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Can you believe it, still getting fresh Rasberries out of the garden..

As you know its eat out of your pantry but you got to love still getting fresh fruit from the garden in oct.. they are so sweet but they are winding down now so it makes this even more special. … Continue reading

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Food Storage Friday Roundup

Joining in the ranks of Canadian Doomer and others like Chile Chews,  and Backyard Farm along with unprocessed real food month with its daily updates on idea’s and thoughts on how to use whole food in your diet, we are eating out … Continue reading

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Kohlrabi Recipes

Kohlrabi is a relative of the cabbage, its name is a german term for cabbage(Kohl)-Turnip(Rabi). Any of the white varieties are excellent for canning, the one above is Gigante, which produces large bulbs that stay tender and are excellent for … Continue reading

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Garden Overview 2011- Lots to give thanks for..

Well, I have been working on this all week, I also have been figuring out critter imputes in terms of meat, milk, eggs, last night we had a surprise in the little barn with a new clutch of peeping ducklings … Continue reading

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Curing my winter Sqaush for storage

I wanted to show you just a few of my sqaush, I had to put the littlest butternut alongside the biggest one, of course it looks small next to the pumpkin but trust me that is one big! butternut. Almost … Continue reading

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Sqaush/Pumpkin in the local news today.

I love mondays, getting back into the routine, being able to sleep in a little, the wonderful fresh baking bread, today I made a double batch of cranberry orange pancakes for Dh’s breakfasts, and the house smells heavenly as there … Continue reading

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Oct is a eat out of your pantry month for me..

I had already decided that this coming month of Oct was going to be a eat out of the garden, pantry, farm month for me, I’m looking forward to it, I have been very busy in Sept and have no … Continue reading

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Dear Hubby’s Prospecting then and now..

Back in the day, I (Dear Husband) did some prospecting out on the tundra.  I’d be looking for mineralization in the old Canadian Shield rocks of the north, and if I’d done my homework correctly, I sometimes found little bits … Continue reading

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High Bush Cranberries and their relatives

The high-bush Cranberry grows to a height of about 4 meters and bears large red acid fruits in drooping terminal clusters. There are at least eight speices of related bushes across canada, some of the common names include squashberry, hobblebush, … Continue reading

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Garden Count so far for 2011

Garden Counts for 2011 to date, most of the harvest is done, will do one more big update in oct on what the final main harvest will be.. Hard Fruits Apples-77 pds-Still a bit more coming yet Crabapples-44 pds Wild … Continue reading

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