Tag Archives: Greens

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

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

Beefed up Corn Pudding Recipe with Mashed!

Posted on February 23, 2015 by Just another day on the farm

Beefed up Corn Pudding recipe Inspired by Kodi’s Aunts Recipe but also by a recipe found in Fat-Back and Molasses, a collection of favourite old recipes from Newfoundland and Labrador. 1 onion-Peeled and finely diced 1 cup cooked and diced Leftover Beef 2 … Continue reading →

Posted in Food Production and Recipes | Tagged beef, corn pudding recipe, Farm Fresh Eggs, Food Production and Recipes, Frugal, Garden, Greens | 1 Comment

Raddish Greens, Rain, and Riding..

Posted on June 12, 2014 by Just another day on the farm

Well, the rain came softly first, four or more hours of lovely soft spring rain, I was off the farm for a good part of the day as I headed in to get to have lunch with 3 gens of … Continue reading →

Posted in gardening, gardens | Tagged Garden, Greens, Health | 3 Comments

Steak with Mango, Greens in a sauce..

Posted on March 27, 2013 by Just another day on the farm

2 nice steaks ( I made these with beef but it would work with lamb chops or pork chops), your choice on what kind, in this case it was round steaks, thaw them out in the fridge, 1 large ripe … Continue reading →

Posted in Food Production and Recipes, Life moves on daily | Tagged Greens, Steak with Mango | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in Food Production and Recipes, Life moves on daily | Tagged Food Production and Recipes, Frugal, Garden, Greens, Health, leeks, salmon | 2 Comments

What’s working in the garden in this heat and drought..

Posted on July 12, 2012 by Just another day on the farm

Well, most of you know that I love to try a number of different things in the garden, and I have had alot of success with my no-till, dry land planting spacing and with my mulching.. Having said that, this … Continue reading →

Posted in gardens | Tagged compost, dry land planting, Food Forest, Garden, Greens, Hugelbeet, hugelculture, underground compost pits | 2 Comments

Food Forest-Hiding in plain view..

Posted on June 20, 2012 by Just another day on the farm

If you drove by this, would you see anything other than a green jungle? Currently in that front green jungle there is Apple Trees Pear Trees Plum Trees Sweet Cherry Trees Sour Cherry Trees Mulberry High Bush Cranberry Honey Berry … Continue reading →

Posted in farm, food | Tagged 100 mile food challange, Farm Life, Food Forest, Food Production and Recipes, Frugal, Garden, Greens, Health, Herbs, nature, plants, Soft Fruits, Veggies, Wildlife | 5 Comments

Green composting in place

Posted on June 9, 2012 by Just another day on the farm

I was able to watch some of Back To Eden yesterday and I will certainly plan to watch the rest, I was about 40 min into it and I very much liked the idea of how he creates soil but once … Continue reading →

Posted in farm, gardening, gardens | Tagged Burdock, compost, Compost Tea, Garden, Greens, Health, Stinging Nettles | 2 Comments

Garden Monday

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Just another day on the farm

Well, I didn’t get much done in the garden on the weekend, but hubby worked on it for a bit on the saturday when he was puttering around.. he got a new row of strawberries done, plus cleared the area … Continue reading →