Tag Archives: Garden

Mock Pinapple Canning Recipe

So as anyone that has been reading the blog knows, I have been canning pinapple, which is a real treat, because when has Pinapple ever been so cheap that you can just can a whole years worth at a time. … Continue reading

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Winter Challange DD Meal # 7

Dark Day’s Meal #7 was a delight, This weeks offical food is Carrots Carrot/Tomato Soup Grilled Cheese Barley Sandwhich Dessert – Hot Rasberries (frozen this fall) with a touch of honey and ginger. Soup Recipe (if you call this a recipe LOL) … Continue reading

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Storage of Root Veggies-Carrots

Well, Its one of those days, morning chores, basic housework and laundry all on the go, the hounds breakfast made and served.. dish’s and more dish’s, made 3 loaves of bread, and wanted to get some things up from the … Continue reading

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Seed Catlogs have arrived!

So far to date, five of my regular seed catalogs have arrived and like most gardening folks, at certain points I am already day dreaming about orders, starting seeds and what the new garden will bring. I don’t know about … Continue reading

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The Very last thing that is still going in the garden..

Brussel Sprouts!  I am slowly harvesting them, and finding new recipes that use them. Still got a bit of color on the blackberry Canes.. The Bee Balm has sent up a few new little leaves.. We also have our first … Continue reading

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Elderberry Syrup Recipe

We are blessed to have wild Elderberries growing on the farm when we moved here, we have since given a helping hand to create another 15 plus bushes to grow at different spots on the farm. I made a number … Continue reading

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Borscht Recipe

Hmmm Beet Soup.. Does any other soup have that amazing rich color? This is so not my momma’s Borscht, this is old russion Recipe base, with a few little tweeks of my own.. Give it a try, you might find a … Continue reading

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Seed Catalogs- Stokes was the first one to arrive

Its Garbage Day today, and so I hauled my bags down to the end of the lane, I am late, normally this done much earlier in the day but its been a busy morning.. and I noticed that the little … Continue reading

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Horseradish Round Two

https://livingmydreamlifeonthefarm.wordpress.com/2010/11/12/horseradish/ Here is the link to the first Horseradish post, I am not going to repeat the basic’s here as they are all there.. One of my mini-Goals was to dig out and process my larger second patch of horseradish, and … Continue reading

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Takinogawa or commonly called Burdock in N.A.

Takingawa is a Asian Vegetable that you can order seeds for in the seed catalogs but before you do, have a good look around your farm, as the odds are good you have it naturally turns out its been eaten … Continue reading

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