Tag Archives: Garden

Compost Pits- Worth their weight in your low till garden.

Posted on August 13, 2012 by Just another day on the farm

While I know that the die hard organic person will not be happy that I use PCV pipe in my pits, take heart in the fact that’s because a huge pile of all different sizes came with the farm and … Continue reading →

Posted in gardens | Tagged Garden, honey pots, The complete Compost Gardening Guide, tomatos, underground compost pits | 3 Comments

Summer Stirfry with Free Range Chicken Breast Recipe

Posted on August 12, 2012 by Just another day on the farm

Here is our lunch today, I thawed and sliced into stirfry stripes a nice free range rooster breast, and then sliced up from the garden, four roma tomatos, two handfuls of green beans, a med size zucchini and from the store, a fourth of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Food Production and Recipes | Tagged Chicken, free range chicken, Garden, Stirfry, Veggies | 4 Comments

Loukanika Sauage Recipe- Lamb/Pork Mix

Posted on August 6, 2012 by Just another day on the farm

Wow, this recipe seemed tailor made for me for the fall after butcher day, but I made a small version of it just to try it out.. heavenly and I will be making a big batch of this later.. Now … Continue reading →

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Grilled Salmon and Leek tortilla Recipe..

Posted on July 30, 2012 by Just another day on the farm

The orginal version that inspired this recipe is out of “the ontario cookbook” and it was for a smoke trout and chive tortilla.. but I had leftover grilled salmon, cold baby potato’s and fresh leek to use up which lead to this … Continue reading →

Posted in Food Production and Recipes, Life moves on daily | Tagged Food Production and Recipes, Frugal, Garden, Greens, Health, leeks, salmon | 2 Comments

Plan and Prepare-Garden

Posted on July 23, 2012 by Just another day on the farm

Well, this very dry year has been eye openning to say that least, I have never had so little rain ever, we have our own tracking system and even when the area’s around us get rain, we are getting nothing, … Continue reading →

Posted in gardens | Tagged 100 mile food challange, Chores, compost, dry land planting spacing, Frugal, Garden, Goals, growing your own wheat, Hugelbeet, hugelculture, mulch, Veggies | 4 Comments

Pickled Radish in Soy Sauce

Posted on July 13, 2012 by Just another day on the farm

As my regular readers know I have a crazy amount of books in my house, and one of the books my mom sent me last year was the joy of Pickling by linda ziedrich, if you like pickles of all … Continue reading →

Posted in Food Production and Recipes | Tagged Food Production and Recipes, Garden, pickles, radish, soy sauce, Veggies | 3 Comments

What’s working in the garden in this heat and drought..

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Just another day on the farm

Well, most of you know that I love to try a number of different things in the garden, and I have had alot of success with my no-till, dry land planting spacing and with my mulching.. Having said that, this … Continue reading →

Posted in gardens | Tagged compost, dry land planting, Food Forest, Garden, Greens, Hugelbeet, hugelculture, underground compost pits | 2 Comments

First of the garden count is in.. Currents, and Blueberries..

Posted on July 8, 2012 by Just another day on the farm

Well, the first of the fruit count is in this year and it surely does reflect a different spring and what late frosts can do.. Red Currents- a mear 8 cups worth- $6 dollars worth locally.. No on farm black … Continue reading →

Posted in farm | Tagged 100 mile food challange, Canning, Food Production and Recipes, Garden, Soft Fruits, Wild Foods | 8 Comments

Food Forest-Hiding in plain view..

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Just another day on the farm

If you drove by this, would you see anything other than a green jungle? Currently in that front green jungle there is Apple Trees Pear Trees Plum Trees Sweet Cherry Trees Sour Cherry Trees Mulberry High Bush Cranberry Honey Berry … Continue reading →

Posted in farm, food | Tagged 100 mile food challange, Farm Life, Food Forest, Food Production and Recipes, Frugal, Garden, Greens, Health, Herbs, nature, plants, Soft Fruits, Veggies, Wildlife | 5 Comments

Green composting in place

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Just another day on the farm

I was able to watch some of Back To Eden yesterday and I will certainly plan to watch the rest, I was about 40 min into it and I very much liked the idea of how he creates soil but once … Continue reading →