Tag Archives: Farm Life
The pay off to pasture improvement!
So when we bought our little farm, 3 acres had just been seeded the year before into hay for cows, it was cut and baled for three years, and then without extra’s being added it began a reduced amount of reward … Continue reading
August Lamb Recipe Challange
Hello Folks, I wish I was asleep right now but instead, I am up having tea and blogging, so be it, sometimes its better to just get up then to fight laying in bed awake. Very loud thunderstorm came though … Continue reading
Posted in Food Production and Recipes
Tagged Canning, Farm Life, Food Production and Recipes, freezer camp, Lamb Recipes, sheep
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Good golly that alot of meat..
Just picked up just over 500 pds of lamb meat and my meat freezer is full at the moment, good thing I am planning on canning at least a hundred plus pds of that meat, I have about 100 pds of … Continue reading
Posted in Food Storage
Tagged 100 mile food challange, Canning, Ducks, Farm Life, freezer camp, sheep
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Freezer Camp
Part of life on the farm is the fact that we are raising a percent of our animals each year for food production. Now the reason I say a percent is that I keep back breeding animals on my little … Continue reading
Posted in Real Life
Tagged 100 mile food challange, Farm Life, Food Production and Recipes, freezer camp, Frugal
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Happy B-day Girl..
My how now brown cow is offically one year old, I can’t believe it really, she is a teenager.. How fast the time has gone, from this as a baby.. I remember when we brought you home, you blinked your … Continue reading
O the Joy’s of a 100 year old farmstead!
There are perks, like the cisterns that came with, the extra wells, one drilled for the barn, plus the underground pipes from the back well to the house, over to the little barn, there are perks in the above average soil … Continue reading
Well the heat is good for drying the pea’s on the vine
Do you seed save from your garden? If you are thinking about it, I would recommend adding to your book collection Seed to Seed, Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for vegetable Gardeners by Suzanne Ashworth, its a very! good book … Continue reading
The Complete Compost Gardening Guide
by Barbara Pleasant and Deborah Martin. I picked up this book at our local feed store, it is carried by Thomas-Allan in Canada but is a Storey Book, I flipped though it and then ended up standing reading it, while … Continue reading
Posted in Book Reviews
Tagged Chores, compost, Farm Life, Frugal, Garden, Homesteader Books
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Time to crack out the pickles..
The summer heat as arrived and that means a few different things around the farm, first I should explain that we regularly during July and Aug get high temps and totally stupid humidity, examples would be regular 28 to 35 … Continue reading
The urge to purge…
What is it about longer daylight and warmer temps that makes us want to clean? I mean we are crazy busy with gardens, New baby critters, extra hours in the barns, and now canning is making almost a daily showing … Continue reading
Just another Day on the Farm 