Tag Archives: canada

Rhubarb -Frugal Starts

Posted on December 17, 2025 by Just another day on the farm

I love rhubarb! In northern zones, this plant can be found tucked away on every old homestead, into a community gardens, tucked behind most churches back doors. There is a solid reason for the love, its one of the first … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden, Life moves on daily | Tagged 100 mile diet, building a new garden, canada, climate victory gardens, food, Frugal, Garden, Garden Zone 5, Gardening, Growing from seed, rhubarb, Seed Saving, Seed starting | Leave a comment

Do you have Sheep on your farm? Ontario Sheep Support

Posted on March 5, 2025 by Just another day on the farm

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 | 2 Comments

March coming in like a lion 2025

Posted on March 1, 2025 by Just another day on the farm

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 →

Posted in At the kitchen table | Tagged canada, Garden, Garden Zone 5, Gardening, Growing from seed, make time for the little things, March, Peach Tree Seedlings, shoveling snow, Snow, Snow load, weather, Winter | 2 Comments

Blueberry Bush Pruning Setting the Stage for years to come

Posted on February 27, 2025 by Just another day on the farm

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 | Leave a comment

Hedgerow Snow Capture

Posted on February 21, 2025 by Just another day on the farm

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 | 4 Comments

Canadian Eh!

Posted on February 9, 2025 by Just another day on the farm

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 | 4 Comments

Trade War or Economic warfare

Posted on February 2, 2025 by Just another day on the farm

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 →

Posted in Life moves on daily | Tagged canada, economy, politics, Tariffs | 8 Comments

Least we forget

Posted on November 11, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

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 | Leave a comment

Poor Man’s Fertilizer “SNOW”

Posted on January 22, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

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 →

Posted in frugal, Gal in the Garden Series, Garden | Tagged canada, Farmgal, Frugal, Garden, Gardening, Gardening in a northern climate, just another day on the farm, nature, Northern climate, Snow, Snow cover in the garden, Snow fertilizer, Snow protection, Using natures gifts, Winter | 4 Comments

Moose team- Canadian History Bits and Bites

Posted on February 16, 2018 by Just another day on the farm

This moose team belonged to W.R. (Billy/Buffalo Bill) Day. They were found by a Metis near Baptiste Lake in 1910 and were reared by bottle and broken to drive by Mr. Day at Athabasca Landing during the winter of 1910. … Continue reading →