Tag Archives: Garden

Food Storage Friday Roundup

Joining in the ranks of Canadian Doomer and others like Chile Chews,  and Backyard Farm along with unprocessed real food month with its daily updates on idea’s and thoughts on how to use whole food in your diet, we are eating out … Continue reading

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Chicken Power in the garden

Chicken Cruiser, Mobile Chicken Coop, Chicken Tractor, or Chicken Ark in our neck of the woods, the names all mean the samething in general, a moveable pen where your chickens get to be both confined(aka Safe) and yet have a fresh … Continue reading

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Kohlrabi Recipes

Kohlrabi is a relative of the cabbage, its name is a german term for cabbage(Kohl)-Turnip(Rabi). Any of the white varieties are excellent for canning, the one above is Gigante, which produces large bulbs that stay tender and are excellent for … Continue reading

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Garden Overview 2011- Lots to give thanks for..

Well, I have been working on this all week, I also have been figuring out critter imputes in terms of meat, milk, eggs, last night we had a surprise in the little barn with a new clutch of peeping ducklings … Continue reading

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One Pumpkin-Four Recipes…

Well Good Morning, Its a perfect Fall day and I am starting in on my pumpkins, thought I would share what I am working from my first pumpkin, it weight in as 22.2 pds whole. So first I washed it, then … Continue reading

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Curing my winter Sqaush for storage

I wanted to show you just a few of my sqaush, I had to put the littlest butternut alongside the biggest one, of course it looks small next to the pumpkin but trust me that is one big! butternut. Almost … Continue reading

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Sqaush/Pumpkin in the local news today.

I love mondays, getting back into the routine, being able to sleep in a little, the wonderful fresh baking bread, today I made a double batch of cranberry orange pancakes for Dh’s breakfasts, and the house smells heavenly as there … Continue reading

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Oct is a eat out of your pantry month for me..

I had already decided that this coming month of Oct was going to be a eat out of the garden, pantry, farm month for me, I’m looking forward to it, I have been very busy in Sept and have no … Continue reading

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Black Bean and Smoked Corn Sausage Patties

I am always trying to find ways to sneak beans into my hubby’s diet, when I meet him, he would not eat this or that or any seafood or beans, thankfully over the years , he has learned to like … Continue reading

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Garden Count so far for 2011

Garden Counts for 2011 to date, most of the harvest is done, will do one more big update in oct on what the final main harvest will be.. Hard Fruits Apples-77 pds-Still a bit more coming yet Crabapples-44 pds Wild … Continue reading

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