Tag Archives: Frugal

Dried Dates-Don’t overlook this very cheap fruit!

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Just another day on the farm

With the ever increasing price of fresh fruits and every other kinds as well, don’t forget to look at Dates and consider adding in a good supply of dried dates, they keep very well if keep cool/dry, I like to … Continue reading →

Red Currents-Making more plants

Posted on April 24, 2011 by Just another day on the farm

Happy Easter Weekend, I do hope that everyone is enjoying their long weekend and their family time. It is a blessed time of year! Finished prepping a new 16 by 16 four row bed and got it all planted out, … Continue reading →

Posted in frugal, gardens | Tagged Frugal, Soft Fruits | Leave a comment

Drying Eggs for future use

Posted on April 12, 2011 by Just another day on the farm

So DH brought in 53 eggs the other day, and lets face it no matter how much I love my fresh eggs, when you start getting close to 60 eggs in a single day, you had better start working on … Continue reading →

Posted in Food Storage | Tagged Chickens, drying food, Farm Fresh Eggs, Food Production and Recipes, Frugal | 5 Comments

Mushrooms and more Mushrooms planned.

Posted on April 10, 2011 by Just another day on the farm

I love mushrooms and I like to hunt for the local ones that are good eating in our area, but I was so excited to get these. Both the Poplar Mushoom and the Oyster will be need a fresh cut … Continue reading →

Posted in food, Food Production and Recipes, frugal | Tagged compost, Frugal, Garden, mushrooms | 2 Comments

Soil-Texture test.

Posted on April 8, 2011 by Just another day on the farm

Do you want to grow your own food? There are four major factors when you garden outside, Soil, Water, Sunlight and Plants, everything else is gravy, and if you have ever looked in one of our local garden magazines or … Continue reading →

Posted in gardening, gardens | Tagged compost, Frugal, Garden, soil | 1 Comment

Hugelbeet-Round 2

Posted on April 3, 2011 by Just another day on the farm

So we are now working on our second big full sun Hugelbeet, we measured them today as DH and I were not in agreement on the size of them, so the first smaller one is 14 feet by 8 feet … Continue reading →

Posted in farm, frugal, gardens | Tagged compost, Farm Life, Frugal, Garden, Hugelbeet, Lily, manure | 3 Comments

Edible and Medicinal Mushrooms

Posted on March 28, 2011 by Just another day on the farm

of New England and Eastern Canada by David L Spahr This is a wonderful photgraphic guidebook to finding and using key species, I am a mushroom fan, and I buy a fair number of mushrooms for fresh use, as well … Continue reading →

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Making Paper out of Cow Manure

Posted on March 27, 2011 by Just another day on the farm

Cow Manure, you can use it to help your soil, your garden, you can dry it and use it for fuel for your fire and you can even make paper from it.. thanks to your cow (sheep, horse etc) ability … Continue reading →

Posted in Carfts an Hobbies, frugal | Tagged compost, Family Milk Cow, Frugal, Hobbies, Homemade Paper, manure | 45 Comments

Natural Cleaning in the Kitchen

Posted on March 25, 2011 by Just another day on the farm

Yesterday as I was doing my prep work to get the next rounds of Corn Beef, an then planning on the next step making Pastrami, As well as corning Tongue, and today I will do the prep work required to … Continue reading →

Posted in farm, frugal, Real Life | Tagged Canning, Farm Life, Food Production and Recipes, Frugal | Leave a comment

March 21st-Rhubarb

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Just another day on the farm

Its fills my childhood memory banks, That sour, pucker your mouth feel, as my mom would pull a fresh rhubarb stalk and give it to us to chew on, the burst of flavor combo on the times you would be … Continue reading →