Tag Archives: Garden

Plot #14 – Barley Seeded..

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Just another day on the farm

My main garden is huge, and so for the sake of planting its devided into plots, each plot is 64 square feet, currently, which makes the pig working pen, because it just makes things easier to do it this way … Continue reading →

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Thank you -Dear Reader!! What a great seedy surprise in my mail box!

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Just another day on the farm

I got the mail yesterday and wow! did I get mail! a lovely smaller package awaited me but what was inside.. promise.. promise of new life.. yup.. Seeds! O but not any seeds, these are old fashion heritage seeds, most … Continue reading →

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First Big Load of our Winter Straw has arrived!

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Just another day on the farm

I am thrilled that our straw area has been filled up with nice big seven foot large square bales of good quality straw, while I do like the filled bags of wood shavings for certain things and I perfer them … Continue reading →

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Corn Harvest has started..

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

Well, its certainly not as good as normal but we are going to get about 220 cobs of corn that is around eight or so inches long and mostly filled, three different kinds, which will give me around four bushels … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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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 →

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