Tag Archives: Frugal
Current Propagation -Pinning
Red, White, Black, Gooseberry, Jostaberry are all part of the current family, and they all can be very successfully cloned by pinning. What are some good reason you would want to pin your favorites? or ask your friend to do … Continue reading
Posted in Cookies, Eat what you grow, Food Forest, frugal, Garden
Tagged Black Current, Black Current cake recipe, Black Current Cookie Recipe, Current, Current cake, Current jelly, Current juice, Current sauce, Currents, Dried currents, Eat what you grow, farmgate sales, Frugal, fruit bushes, Garden, Gardening, Homesteading, nature, Pink currents, Pinning Currents, Pinning plants, plants, Propagation, Red Current, save money where you can, steam juicer, Support your pollinators, wasp, wasp photography, Wasp pollinating a current flower, White currents
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Willow Crafted Bird Nest Materials
This is one of the few years we will not have hair sheep shedding out on the farm and for the past 20 years i have watched the birds carefully pick and use the bits of wool in their nests. … Continue reading
Posted in crafts
Tagged Bird Photography, birds, birds use sheeps wool, birds using horse hair, birdwatching, birdwathcing, canada eh, Frugal, Gardening in zone 5a, Gardens need birds, homestead, horse hair, if you build it they will come, nature, nest building, Nesting, nesting materials, nests, photography, Sheep Wool, small Farm, spring, use what you have, Wild Birds, willow, willow crafts
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Potting Up Tomato Plants, Next Pot Please
I got in a specially breed type of tomato that is for growing in pots for small spaces, i started six seeds, and i have six plants, five big ones and one wee one that is still growing but no … Continue reading
Posted in Gal in the Garden Series, Garden, Kitchen garden
Tagged canada eh, cherry tomatos, Farm Life, Frugal, Garden, Gardening, gardening for the kitchen, Gardening in Canada, Gardening in the north, Gardening in zone 5a, grow lights, Grow your own, growing in pots, Homesteading, Kitchen garden, pinching tomato stems, plant starting indoors, potting up, Seed starting, Seeds, tips for repotting tomatos, tomato, vegetables
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Frugal Meal Helpers -Roasting Leftover Bones
When we can’t be as picky on certain cuts in the store due to prices or if we are buying bulk quarters or half’s of whole animals, we are going to end up with a lot more bone in cuts. … Continue reading
Posted in Life moves on daily
Tagged bone broth, bone in meat, broth, canada, Cost saving, Farmgal, Flavour depth, Frugal, groceries, just another day on the farm, Leftovers, Making do, meal planning, Meal prep, Noodle Soup, Roast your bones, Shop the sales, soup, Soup base, trimming meat, Use ever last bit, using leftover, Waste not, Waste not want not
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Green Lacewings
“Most green lacewings have golden or copper eyes and are found on foliage. They are poor, erratic flyers and strongly attracted to light. Some 25 species occur in Canada, the most common of which are the common green (Chrysoperla carnea) … Continue reading
Posted in Gal in the Garden Series, In the Garden
Tagged canada, eco friendly, farm, Farm Life, Farmgal, flowers, food forests, Frugal, Gal in the Garden Series, Garden, Garden planning, Gardening, Green Lacewings, Growing your own food, homestead, In the Garden, Lacewings, Low cost ways, Native Plants, nature, Seed starting, Support Lacewings, Working with Nature, Zone 5a gardening
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Waste Not Farmgal’s Way
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
Gal in the Garden : Gardening in Hard Times Series
Good Afternoon to my fine fellows, what a time we find ourselves in right now. I do understand that here in Canada, and i expect in many other counties that we are very much seeing the K economy happening in … Continue reading
Posted in CanadianEh, frugal, Gal in the Garden Series, Garden, Hard times
Tagged food, Food on the table, Frugal, Gal in the Garden, Garden, Gardening, Gardening in hard time, Hard times, homestead, Homesteading, Inflation
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Beef on the Waddle, The Muscovy
I have had these amazing ducks on the farm since the first spring we arrived coming on 22 years now. The amount of ducks has come up and down but they are one of the main livestock we always have, … Continue reading
Posted in Eat what you grow, Grow for your plate
Tagged 100 mile food challange, Backyard flocks, duck-eggs, Ducks, Eat what you grow, Eggs, Eggs for protein, eggs-for-pasta, Fly control, Frugal, Garden, Garden Zone 5, homestead, Homesteading, Muscovy, Ontario, Pest control, Rising Costs, small stock, Spring eggs, why-ducks
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Just another Day on the Farm 