Tag Archives: Gardening
10 Tons of Well Rotted Wood Chip Based Compost
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
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Lets make some goals! Getter Done
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
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What a garden season its been 2024
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
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Ultra Frugal but Foolish Way to Get Garden Bean Seeds
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
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Poor Man’s Fertilizer “SNOW”
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
Fruit Pruning Workshop Bourget Area
I am excited to have partnered up with Laura Moses to host some coming events here on the farm. I have worked with her in the past on different gatherings and lectures over the years. It is the first time i … Continue reading
Posted in 100 mile diet, At the kitchen table, Food Forest, Fruit Trees, Gal in the Garden Series, homestead
Tagged Farmgal, Farmgal events, farmgal photography, Fine Lines, food forests, fruit, Fruit Trees, Gardening, Hands on fruit tree pruning seminar, just another day on the farm, pruning, Pruning course, Pruning Fruit trees, trees
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Native Plants are the must have “hot garden item ” of 2021
When it comes to landscaping, garden centers and the local garden groups locally, provincally and across N.A. The HOT trend for 2021 is without a doubt.. Native Plants with tag lines including plant natives, support the bees, support the butterflies … Continue reading
Gal in the Garden -Corn Garden “roughing it”
So what is a gal going to do when she really NEEDS to plant out a extra corn garden of 240’s seeds but she is out of already prepared and planned garden space?? Follow the high hoe tracks from last … Continue reading
Just another Day on the Farm 