Tag Archives: Farm Life

Fire Grilled Quail Recipe with instuctions on how to spatchcock it first..

I think I will start with the finished dish and the recipe first then show how to do the spatchcock afterwards.. I know that this picture does not do this justice but I promise you this got a five out … Continue reading

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Garden “monday” and Monthly “How does your Garden Grow”

Ok, I need an extra 6 hours in each of my days at the moment LOL, Spring came early and I have hit the ground running but I feel like we are going!, going! but never quite getting there if … Continue reading

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March Challange and Permaculture

March Challange: Breakfast-Yogurt, canned mixed fruit, walnuts Lunch-Baked Beans on Bread Supper-Pasta with roasted Chicken leg in a pasta sauce mixed with yogurt and dried squash. Dessert- Hot Spiced Roasted Peanuts. Ok, so lets talk about Permaculture today, the idea … Continue reading

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March Challange-Frost Seeding

We are coming into our 5th year of frost seeding to improve our pastures, and we can’t speak highly enough of this process.  A little background on our pastures, the call names are, Big Pasture, Little Pasture, Corner Pasture, and … Continue reading

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March Challange 5th- Seeds

Breakfast- Scrambled eggs with onion and cheese Lunch- Roast lamb, with pickles- noodles with butter/greens Supper-Yogurt, with strawberries and walnuts Other-Coffee, Water, Mint Tea, Popcorn, dried apple, dried dates, pickles http://notdabblinginnormal.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/conspicuous-sustainability/ I always enjoy reading Xan posts, I so often … Continue reading

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March Challange 3rd- Garden-Mini -Zones

The winds are amazing today, and I have a few farm things to touch on before getting to my daily menu, and then on to my garden stuff.. So yesterday we had high winds, thankfully, very few things came down … Continue reading

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Buying in Bulk for the farm/garden/critters

Wow, was this a output in terms of cost, and I will need to buy a few more steel garbage cans to make sure I can have proper storage for some of these, last thing I want is to lose … Continue reading

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Garden Monday-Indepence Day’s

I decided to combine the wonderful Independence Day Challange with the once a month garden update for my monday’s main posts. Going to also add links to blog I read that are doing this challange, if anyone else who read’s … Continue reading

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Raising Critters for Freezer Camp..

I read a few blogs but not many, and I love my “girls” who comment, who I should point out are also a few guys in there, and I have rarely had to not approve comments, typically they are not … Continue reading

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Fresh Air, Sunshine and Play makes for a growing boy-Marty with Girl

Marty is still looking quite reddish in the sunlight but they were both in the shade of barn when these photos were taken..

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