Tag Archives: Frugal
Garden “monday” and Monthly “How does your Garden Grow”
Ok, I need an extra 6 hours in each of my days at the moment LOL, Spring came early and I have hit the ground running but I feel like we are going!, going! but never quite getting there if … Continue reading
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Tagged 100 mile food challange, Farm Life, Food Production and Recipes, Frugal, Garden, Greens, Health, Herbs, Soft Fruits, Veggies, Wild Foods
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Food Storage Friday-03-16-2012
Food Storage Friday Report To be honest it was a slow week, and a bit of a whiny friday to boot.. the weather has hit a unnatural high, typically we are 2 or 3 above and we are well over … Continue reading
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Tagged 100 mile food challange, Canning, Chores, Food Production and Recipes, Frugal, Fruit Trees, Garden, Soft Fruits
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March Challange and Permaculture
March Challange: Breakfast-Yogurt, canned mixed fruit, walnuts Lunch-Baked Beans on Bread Supper-Pasta with roasted Chicken leg in a pasta sauce mixed with yogurt and dried squash. Dessert- Hot Spiced Roasted Peanuts. Ok, so lets talk about Permaculture today, the idea … Continue reading
March Challange-Frost Seeding
We are coming into our 5th year of frost seeding to improve our pastures, and we can’t speak highly enough of this process. A little background on our pastures, the call names are, Big Pasture, Little Pasture, Corner Pasture, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Chores, compost, Farm Life, Frugal, Goals, Health, lambs, Sheep Milk
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March Challange 5th- Seeds
Breakfast- Scrambled eggs with onion and cheese Lunch- Roast lamb, with pickles- noodles with butter/greens Supper-Yogurt, with strawberries and walnuts Other-Coffee, Water, Mint Tea, Popcorn, dried apple, dried dates, pickles http://notdabblinginnormal.wordpress.com/2012/03/06/conspicuous-sustainability/ I always enjoy reading Xan posts, I so often … Continue reading
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Tagged compost, Farm Life, Frugal, Garden, Greens, Herbs, Soft Fruits, Veggies
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March Challange 4th- I love my draft cow!
The weather is better today but I needed to do more hauling and the drifts are wicked to say the least, I had let Girl out to feed at the big hay feeder and then looked at her, and thought.. … Continue reading
March Challange Report -2nd
So the answer to am I going to go fix my mistake of not getting my last food buying is no, In the past if farm work, or weather meant that the you didn’t get to town, then they would … Continue reading
Composting for the Feb Challange
This month on the sustainable eats Urban farm Handbook year long gardening challange, it was soil buiding.. Ok, so the photo does not look like much but when we got that amazing spring snap of weather at the first part … Continue reading
The Dehydrator Bible -The Personal Touch! Seminar with Don Mercer
The Dehyrdator Bible by Jennifer Machenzie, Jay Nutt and Don Mercer I have already done a book review, on this solidly useful book, I still find myself reaching for it at least once or twice a week to check my temps … Continue reading
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Tagged Charcuterie, Food Production and Recipes, Frugal, Garden, Herbs, Homesteader Books
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Garden Monday-Indepence Days-Monthly “How does your Garden Grow”
I decided to combine the wonderful Independence Day Challange with the once a month garden update for my monday’s main posts. Going to also add links to blog I read that are doing this challange, if anyone else who read’s … Continue reading
Just another Day on the Farm 