Tag Archives: canada
Salad Greens and Seeds are starting to come in
As we have a large indoor seed starting setup area in the cellar (it was in the basement of the new part of the house) but has now moved to the Cellar which is the the basement of the old … Continue reading
Posted in Garden, Seeds
Tagged 100 mile food challange, canada, catalog seed, Farm Life, food is life, Garden, Garden Zone 5, Gardening, Greens, Growing your own food, Homesteading, lettuce, Ontario, price increases, seed, Seeds, starting from seed, supporting your community, top dressing your garden beds, Top soil, vegetables, Victory garden, winter sowing
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Do you have Sheep on your farm? Ontario Sheep Support
If you live in Ontario and have sheep on your farm, then i do hope you have joined your local sub zone group of the province wide system. I didn’t for the first 10 years i had sheep and boy … Continue reading
Posted in farm journel, sheep
Tagged canada, Farm support, informtion sharing, lambs, Learn from your elders, Mental Health, Ontario, sheep, sheep news, Sheep seminars, small stock, support each other
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March coming in like a lion 2025
The boxes of peach tree seedlings continue to do well, the average is now 6 inches plus with a few top growers reaching 10 inches already, they will be good size when sale day and pickups happen in may Today … Continue reading
Blueberry Bush Pruning Setting the Stage for years to come
What amazing set of pruning with writing that i came across, its just wonderfully clear and so easy to understand. This could be a self-grown crane cutting, or a bought plug or even a potted plant you got from the … Continue reading
Posted in Food Forest
Tagged 0 mile food, Blueberry, blueberry bush, Blueberry bush pruning, canada, Food Forest, food shed, fruit production, Garden, garden in canada, Garden Zone 5, Grow your own, local food, pruning for fruit, pruning for health, small space garden, winter pruning
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Hedgerow Snow Capture
Just as my own double hedge rows work in the summer for both food production and shelter, they act as a living snow fence in winter, there is a swale on the far side of them that drops down a … Continue reading
Posted in Friday Rambles
Tagged alberta, canada, caragana, Creating habitat, Garden, Gardening, Hedgerows, living snow fences, nature, Ontario, Planting for the birds, plants, roads, Snow, snow capture, snow fences, snow hedge, Wildlife, Wind, Wind blocks, Wind hedgerows, Winter
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Canadian Eh!
On a cold day in Feb 2025 a ladder was climbed and hardware installed. The Canadian Flag was placed in such a way that anyone driving by or driving into our farm would be able to spot it. When everyone … Continue reading
Posted in CanadianEh
Tagged canada, Canadian, Canadian flag, Maple Leaf, Proud to be Canadian, Stand up and be counted, Stand up for Canada
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Trade War or Economic warfare
If you had asked me, if the odds were that i would see a war in my life time, i would have always said it was possible. I mean i am a Cold War Child in her early 50’s Having … Continue reading
Least we forget
A Son Arrives Home to Mother By Jason Sharp A day like any otherA son arrives home to motherA folded flag on his lead-lined urnCome from the Gulf, where the oil fields burn A patriot lost to Red machinationsA hero … Continue reading
Posted in At the kitchen table
Tagged canada, Remembering the fallen, Remembrance day, Sadness, War, World Wars
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Poor Man’s Fertilizer “SNOW”
In fact, snow does contain nitrogen and other particulates like sulfur, which it collects as it falls through the atmosphere, however so do rain, sleet and hail, and believe it or not, lightning. Rain and lightning contain more nitrogen than snow. Statistics from agricultural … Continue reading
Just another Day on the Farm 