Tag Archives: Garden

Potato Harvest Overview 2024

Posted on November 4, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

It was both a odd year and a outstanding year when it came to growing potato’s on the farm in 2024. Due to the crazy amount of rain we were getting the garden was to wet to work and or … Continue reading →

Posted in 30 day challanges, Garden harvest | Tagged calorie dense foods, Eat what you grow, Fall Harvests, food, Garden, Gardening, Gardening in a wet year, Gardening in Zone 5, growing in straw bedding, growing potatos, harvesting potato, Potato, potatoes, Purple potato, Red Potato, Russet potato, vegetables | Leave a comment

10 Tons of Well Rotted Wood Chip Based Compost

Posted on October 27, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

What a gift this pile is! I am so thankful to our friends that gifted these piles to us for the park garden. This is a mix of wood based bedding in a free stalled cow dairy by a friend … Continue reading →

Posted in 30 day challanges, compost | Tagged aged compost, compost, compost from deep pack bedding, compost in the food forest, compost in the gardens, composting, deep bed pack compost, Deep Pack Bedding, Feed the soil, Garden, Gardening, gardens, how the type of carbon in deep pack bedding effects end compost, Improving garden yeilds, soil, Soil improvement, Soil structure | 2 Comments

Lets make some goals! Getter Done

Posted on October 25, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

Written Goals are such a good starting point to at least try and direct the coming time. Miss R and I have the same tracking and thought journals and we are enjoying finding a time (perhaps not daily) to work … Continue reading →

Posted in At the kitchen table, Goals, homestead | Tagged Blogging, Blogging in your 50's, Enjoy your coffee, family meals, Garden, Gardening, Goals, homestead, Homesteading, Hygge, Its the little things, Keep it simple, Native Plants, nature, pets, photography, Small comforts, trees, Writing out your goals | 3 Comments

What a garden season its been 2024

Posted on October 19, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

How did your garden grow? How was your final harvests? Have you had your first hard frost? Still growing, still harvesting? My overview of the gardens for the farm for 2024 Hard Fruit, including Apples, Pears, Cherries, Plums, Peaches Apples- … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden, Garden harvest, gardening, Kitchen garden, Rain Garden | Tagged Farm Life, Garden, garden overview, Gardening, Gardening for the pantry, Gardening in Eastern Ontario, Gardening in rain year, Gardening in Zone 5, Gardening to fill your freezer, Greens, grow your own food, Growing for the table, Growing your own food, Homesteading, rain effecting garden yeilds, Rain Gardens, Raised beds, small Farm, tomatoes, vegetables, Veggies | 4 Comments

Ultra Frugal but Foolish Way to Get Garden Bean Seeds

Posted on January 23, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

Sometimes i adore when both ultra frugal and yet foolish things cross over my facebook feed LOL This fits the bill perfectly! On the frugal side of things, in the usa this appear to cost around $2.50 cents and i … Continue reading →

Posted in 100 mile diet, frugal, Gal in the Garden Series, Garden | Tagged beans, community projects, cost savings, dried beans, Eating green beans, Frugal, Garden, Gardening, Green bean, Growing beans, Growing food cheaply, Growing Soup beans, Homesteading, Stringless green beans, vegetables | 1 Comment

Poor Man’s Fertilizer “SNOW”

Posted on January 22, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

In fact, snow does contain nitrogen and other particulates like sulfur, which it collects as it falls through the atmosphere, however so do rain, sleet and hail, and believe it or not, lightning. Rain and lightning contain more nitrogen than snow. Statistics from agricultural … Continue reading →

Posted in frugal, Gal in the Garden Series, Garden | Tagged canada, Farmgal, Frugal, Garden, Gardening, Gardening in a northern climate, just another day on the farm, nature, Northern climate, Snow, Snow cover in the garden, Snow fertilizer, Snow protection, Using natures gifts, Winter | 4 Comments

Rising Food Costs Loss of Sales at 50%

Posted on January 18, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

I hear it break on the talk radio first, it was the topic of the day and it was slamming the phone lines, to say that folks were unhappy was a understatement but soon enough came the truth, well i … Continue reading →

Posted in At the kitchen table | Tagged community, farmers-markets, food, Food Production and Recipes, food sheds, Frugal, Garden, groceries, loblaws, local food, rising food costs | 10 Comments

The final Garden Harvest in 2023

Posted on January 13, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

The weather this year as been very odd indeed, but I am beyond grateful that we did the huge second fall plantings. It was a strange garden year for us, the second year of gardening in the new big enclosed … Continue reading →

Posted in 100 mile diet, Climate Change, Food Forest, Food in jars, Fruit Trees, Gal in the Garden Series, Garden, Garden harvest, gardening, homestead | Tagged beans, beets, breaking new garden soil, building a new garden, Canning, dried beans, Farm Life, Food Forest, Garden, Gardening, gardening-tips, Greens, growing your own seed for the next year, Homesteading, late garden harevests, native bees, sandy soil, vegetables, Veggies | 4 Comments

Food Crisis is very real!

Posted on November 14, 2023 by Just another day on the farm

This past week I have been reading and listening to so many reports and interviews in regards to the cost and or availability of food and its effects on the day to day life of our fellow Canadian’s and Globally. … Continue reading →

Posted in dry pantry, Food Storage | Tagged Budget plannings, Canning, Fall planning, Farm Fresh Eggs, farm fresh veggies, Food Bank use, Food costs, Food price increases, Freezers, Garden, Inflation, Pantry, Winter Pantry, Winter Prep, Working within your budget | 1 Comment

Taking a Risk.. Unknown Apple to Farmgal Apple #1

Posted on August 28, 2023 by Just another day on the farm

Eight years ago we found an apple tree whip in an odd spot in the yard, across the driveway on the side yard. We were never sure if it was a bird gifted apple tree it could be given it … Continue reading →