Tag Archives: Frugal
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
Lamb Liver Pate Recipe
Well, I have intended to start the month of recipes out with a wonderful dish of stuff heart but it will have to wait till tomorrow, as today we are making Lamb Liver Pate. 1 pds of fresh lamb liver … Continue reading
Posted in Lamb Recipes
Tagged Food Production and Recipes, Frugal, Herbs, Lamb Recipes, sheep
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Stinging Nettle Sheep Cheese Recipe
Lets just play what if, What if you can’t get Rennet? What if you can’t get Lemon Juice(after all this is Canada, lemons don’t grow here) What does grow in most parts of Canada that can be used in place.. … Continue reading
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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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
Farm Sale Report
Got out to a farm sale today and I had my list, and a end goal in mind, but as it turned out, today was a off the list day, I only got one thing on my list.. I went looking … Continue reading
Do you sprout? If so, what did you plant to produce seeds for winter use?
If you sprout in winter and you garden in summer, my question is did you plant a area of your garden to produce seeds for sprouting? and if so, what did you choose to grow? I have been well aware … Continue reading
Just another Day on the Farm 