Tag Archives: Frugal

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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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Hugelbeet -Part one

Posted on March 20, 2011 by Just another day on the farm

A Hugelbeet is how you go about using up scraps on a farm and turn it into something that is productive.. Last year, in the very bad winter storm, we have the power company cut down a number of bigger limbs, … Continue reading →

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Curry Chicken Liver and Potato Soup Recipe

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

Sometimes the day after a butcher, you want to really show off those wonderful fresh organ meats, and some days you don’t.. you still need to use them and they are so good for you.. but sometimes its nice to … Continue reading →

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Farm Sale Report

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

I was a very bad girl today and went to a local farm sale, I really needed a bit of time off the farm and had planned to go to a talk on how to root cellar veggies but I got … Continue reading →

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Homemade Baked Beans

Posted on February 5, 2011 by Just another day on the farm

The Bacon is ready, at least if you want to eat it fresh, which we did a few peices, the rest is now hanging to cure and be used in a number of wonderful ways. Given that I had homemade … Continue reading →

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That is the third time this morning on the radio..

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

That they are talking about the rising costs of food across the globe and the effects its having in regards to some of the riots we are seeing, they are qouting the fact that for the past seven months that … Continue reading →

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Farms, Gardening and Composting..

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Just another day on the farm

This past weekend, we hauled about 30 pds of straw and sheep/cow manure out of the barn and up into a spot in the garden and it got added to the coming year’s compost pile (which just happens to be … Continue reading →

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