Tag Archives: Farm Life

Fall Meat Bird Grow out Stats

Posted on December 12, 2025 by Just another day on the farm

In Sept 25 White Rock Meat Chicks ordered from Frey’s Hatchery here in Ontario though our local coop arrived on the farm and were cuddled by Miss R an coo’d over indeed. Dec 10th 24 healthy White Rock Meat Chicks … Continue reading →

Posted in Chickens, Real Life | Tagged 100 mile food challange, Chickens, Costs of raising your own meat chickens, Farm Life, food, homestead, Homesteading, Meat birds, Meat chickens, raising meat chickens, Save where you can, Saving money | Leave a comment

Feeding Times effects lambing or Kidding timing

Posted on January 31, 2025 by Just another day on the farm

I have noticed that this post is getting a good amount of views and for good reason, when you do your feeding times has been well studied on how it effects when your momma’s will lamb, kid or calf out. … Continue reading →

Posted in Life moves on daily | Tagged birthing, farm, Farm Life, farming, Feed for lambing, feeding timing, goats, jugs, kidding, lamb, lambing, sheep, winter lambing | Leave a comment

Frugal Feb 2025

Posted on January 29, 2025 by Just another day on the farm

For so many years, I have done a no buy feb, but we faithfully did a no buy Nov and i am honestly not in the mood for it this Feb. We have a few things planned for the month … Continue reading →

Posted in At the kitchen table | Tagged beef, Beef bones, Beef Ribs, bone broth, Canned Fruit, Canning, dinner, dried nettle, Eat what you grow, Farm Life, food, Frugal Feb, Frugal living, Fruit muffins, Garden like you mean it, Muffins, nettle, recipe, recipes, Roasting Bones, Tariffs | 2 Comments

Rats.. so many rats

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

With all the clean up, shifting of wood piles and major reno’s around and in the croft barn and lacking our normal fall skunk, we have a rat problem that the barn cats are not keeping up on. They are … Continue reading →

Posted in 30 day challanges, At the kitchen table | Tagged animals, barn cats, Cats, Dogs, Farm Life, keeping it real, lowering rat population, Norway rat, pests, rat traps, rats, rats in the barn, removing rats, skunks | Leave a comment

Another turning of the wheel onward to my 52nd year

Posted on October 24, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

Its hard to believe that the year has come and gone and that a new one is starting today. My 51st year was filled with ups, downs and lots of steady as she goes. You know when they say to … Continue reading →

Posted in Family, farm, farm journel, photography | Tagged Aging, agriculture, birthdays, Do what you love, Family, Farm Life, farming, health challenges, Living in the moment, living in the now, photography, planning for the future, Setting goals, small homestead in your 50's, travel, turning 52 | 6 Comments

What a garden season its been 2024

Posted on October 19, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

How did your garden grow? How was your final harvests? Have you had your first hard frost? Still growing, still harvesting? My overview of the gardens for the farm for 2024 Hard Fruit, including Apples, Pears, Cherries, Plums, Peaches Apples- … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden, Garden harvest, gardening, Kitchen garden, Rain Garden | Tagged Farm Life, Garden, garden overview, Gardening, Gardening for the pantry, Gardening in Eastern Ontario, Gardening in rain year, Gardening in Zone 5, Gardening to fill your freezer, Greens, grow your own food, Growing for the table, Growing your own food, Homesteading, rain effecting garden yeilds, Rain Gardens, Raised beds, small Farm, tomatoes, vegetables, Veggies | 4 Comments

Motto for 2024 Just be better

Posted on January 14, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

A group I belong to asked for a vision board for 2024 and I have certainly done a few of these for different projects over the years but it was just not calling to me in the right way, I … Continue reading →

Posted in At the kitchen table | Tagged be a better friend, be better, do better, Farm Life, Feel good about the choices you make, indepth learning on subject matter, live in the moment, Work the small stuff | 3 Comments

The final Garden Harvest in 2023

Posted on January 13, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

The weather this year as been very odd indeed, but I am beyond grateful that we did the huge second fall plantings. It was a strange garden year for us, the second year of gardening in the new big enclosed … Continue reading →

Posted in 100 mile diet, Climate Change, Food Forest, Food in jars, Fruit Trees, Gal in the Garden Series, Garden, Garden harvest, gardening, homestead | Tagged beans, beets, breaking new garden soil, building a new garden, Canning, dried beans, Farm Life, Food Forest, Garden, Gardening, gardening-tips, Greens, growing your own seed for the next year, Homesteading, late garden harevests, native bees, sandy soil, vegetables, Veggies | 4 Comments

Heading West for the Holidays

Posted on December 1, 2023 by Just another day on the farm

Happy December, where did November go? 25 days till christmas! How! I am heading to visit family in Alberta for the holidays this year, I can no longer really say I am heading home, the farm and my community here … Continue reading →

Posted in At the kitchen table, Blogging, farmgal photography | Tagged Cats, christmas horse, cross country christmas trip, december, Farm Life, Farmgal, farmgal photography, friendship, holiday plan, travel plans | 7 Comments

Wow, the blog is 13 years old this week!

Posted on November 14, 2023 by Just another day on the farm

This past year I wrote 25 posts, and with just shy of 3500 hundred posts in total on the blog, on so many subjects the views hourly still keep coming in. There is a wealth of information on the blog … Continue reading →