Tag Archives: compost

Friday Rambles, grab a cuppa and join me

Posted on March 27, 2026 by Just another day on the farm

The hot gossip locally is all about the Moose! There are two adults and yearling and they have been keeping everyone hands on 2 and 10 and eyes peeled as they are loving the new growth that has taken place … Continue reading →

Posted in At the kitchen table | Tagged At the kitchen table, be the change, canada eh, coffee, come for a visit, community garden, compost, composting, Elderberry, Farmgal, friday ramble, Garden, Gardening, helping hand, horse manure, just another day on the farm, nature, pruning, quail, Quail eggs, Rabbit, Rabbit maure, spring, Tea, WHY not | 2 Comments

Spring Equinox is here!

Posted on March 20, 2026 by Just another day on the farm

Today is the day here in the north hemisphere that we will have equal amounts of sunlight vs darkness and tomorrow there will be even more light! We have already been getting more light since the darkest day in Jan, … Continue reading →

Posted in At the kitchen table, Life moves on daily | Tagged bird sale, Blessings, canadian eh, cherry tomatos, compost, Equinox, flowers, Garden, garden zone 5a, Gardening, Gardening in changing times, growing rhubarb, hatching eggs, homestead, keets, mixed farming, nature, Northern garden, planning the garden, plants, quail, Rabbits, rhubarb, seedlings, Seeds, small Farm, small stock, spring, Spring Equinox, to plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow | 2 Comments

Waste Not Farmgal’s Way

Posted on March 12, 2026 by Just another day on the farm

Welcome to Waste Not, we will find a way series. This will be a very broad coverage, it could be a way to prepare and freeze something, it could be away to take a leftover and turn it into a … Continue reading →

Posted in Waste not | Tagged Chitting spuds, compost, Early spring potato planting, food, Frugal, Garden, Gardening, growing potato's, growing potato's in feed bags, Homesteading, potato's in strwa, Sprouting Potato, vegetables, Waste not | 2 Comments

What do you do with all that Deep Bedding Pack!

Posted on November 25, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

Why Compost it in place and grow food of course! First the line was mowed down(with a mulching blade, with tall pasture grasses left on both sides for winter, they will be mowed down low and tight and then mulched … Continue reading →

Posted in 30 day challanges, Garden | Tagged 30 day challenge, barn stalls, compost, crop traps, Deep Pack Bedding, Feed the soil, flowers, Garden, Garden beds, Gardening, Grow what you eat, heavy feeders in the garden, Homesteading, human power, Planning your garden, snow traps, vegetables | 1 Comment

Pumpkin Time!

Posted on October 31, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

Right now at stores all over the city, country lanes and locally at a one or more of our green houses, sales are happening, the value of the pumpkins and squash’s grown for Halloween just dropped like a stone. Last … Continue reading →

Posted in 30 day challanges, Food Storage, frugal, Garden harvest | Tagged After sales, compost, Compost your pumpkins, Finding way to use things up, food, Frugal, halloween, Halloween pumpkins, Pie pumpkins, pumpkin, Pumpkin sales, pumpkin seeds, pumpkins, Pumpkins for fodder, recipes, squash | Leave a comment

10 Tons of Well Rotted Wood Chip Based Compost

Posted on October 27, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

What a gift this pile is! I am so thankful to our friends that gifted these piles to us for the park garden. This is a mix of wood based bedding in a free stalled cow dairy by a friend … Continue reading →

Posted in 30 day challanges, compost | Tagged aged compost, compost, compost from deep pack bedding, compost in the food forest, compost in the gardens, composting, deep bed pack compost, Deep Pack Bedding, Feed the soil, Garden, Gardening, gardens, how the type of carbon in deep pack bedding effects end compost, Improving garden yeilds, soil, Soil improvement, Soil structure | 2 Comments

Pricing! (Garden)

Posted on March 15, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

While prices across the whole system are up and you can expect to pay more, a reasonable more.. However it has become clear to me that there are peaple locally and across the country that have decided that they can … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden, Kitchen garden | Tagged compost, Food forest gardens, Inground beds in the kitchen garden, Kitchen garden, Watch your prices | 4 Comments

Reworking Kitchen Garden Plot 1 and 3..

Posted on October 27, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

Yesterday was one of those perfect fall day’s, sunshine, light cool but not cold breeze, falling leaves and a willing husband who wanted a full day of physical work. I on the other hand, wrapped myself in way to many … Continue reading →

Posted in Gal in the Garden Series, Garden | Tagged compost, garden plots, Herbs, Homestead Medical Plants, Kitchen garden, preparing a garden area for root veggies, putting your garden plot to bed in fall, rabbit compost | 4 Comments

Gal in the Garden Series – Working with “dead” top soil..

Posted on June 26, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

It looks so pretty.. that big huge mound of top soil.. so black and rich! Two loads of 10 tons each have arrived on the farm this year so far.. and its easy to work with, its good quality top … Continue reading →

Posted in Gal in the Garden Series, Garden | Tagged compost, cover crops, feeding your soil, Gal in the Garden Series, improving soil | 5 Comments

Winter Manure and Composting

Posted on February 19, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

A poo.. If you have farm critters you have poo.. if you have bigger critters, you have lots of Manure Piles! My two horse’s alone produce around a hundred pounds of poo a day. Lets break it down a … Continue reading →