Tag Archives: Farm Life

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 →

Posted in Life moves on daily | Tagged Cats, Chickens, Fall Veggie, Farm Life, farmgal photography, Ottawa Photographer, photography, Red Rose Tea with milk, Winter wood stores | 5 Comments

One Freezer Down

Posted on January 13, 2023 by Just another day on the farm

The big once a year beef order came in this week, which meant a rework of all the freezers, pulling older meat out, sorting, checking for freezer burn. Putting the new in sorted in types in fully newly emptied freezer, … Continue reading →

Posted in Life moves on daily | Tagged Farm Life, Filling your freezers, freezers used to be frugal, Frugal, rotating food in your freezers, sorting your freezers, Support Local, using up from the freezer | 10 Comments

Friday Ramble-Prepping for Another Lock Down

Posted on September 10, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

While it seems like everyone around me is thrilled at all the things opening up, their children heading back to school, sports are a go, concerts and professional sport events where 10, 000 of thousands gather.. As summer came into … Continue reading →

Posted in At the kitchen table | Tagged 100 mile food challange, Chickens, Farm Life, Garden, Prepping for winter, sheep, Veggies | 8 Comments

March coming in like a lion

Posted on March 3, 2021 by Just another day on the farm

The last day of Feb was mild, so mild that we had our first “misty” fogged in monring on the farm.. it felt like spring and things were melting.. but with over 3 feet as a base plus higher snow … Continue reading →

Posted in Life moves on daily | Tagged Catahoula, Common Red Poll, Deep Snow pack, Farm Life, fog, Hoarfrost, Hoarfrost on tree rings, horse back riding, Maple trees, Misty mornings, Sheep in fog, Snow pack, Sugar Snow, Tapping Maple trees | 8 Comments

Farmgal’s Photography March 21st

Posted on March 21, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

Trying to teach the wild turkeys to move on. they have found the ground under the bird feeders and are coming in daily right now.. This pretty was hanging out for a few minutes on the snowbank by the road … Continue reading →

Posted in photography | Tagged Farm Life, Farmgal's Photography, photography | Leave a comment

Chick Care 101

Posted on January 2, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

Ideally, if you already have chickens you are going to let your broody hen do all this work for you. You can help pick the eggs she is sitting on but its just so much easier to let the … Continue reading →