Tag Archives: Health

Dormant Oil Spray Get to it!

Posted on March 30, 2026 by Just another day on the farm

Lets Talk about why we want to spray our fruit trees, fruit bushes and rose bushes with Dormant Oil, we are protecting then from certain overwintering pests and fungal diseases. Its giving the trees a head start in the spring … Continue reading →

Posted in Food Forest, Fruit Trees | Tagged dormant oil, Dormant Oil Spray, Fruit Trees, Garden, Gardening, Health, Increasing fruit yeilds, plants, prevent frugal infections, protecting your fruit trees, roses, Spring Fruit tree care, Spring Pruning, Work smarter | Leave a comment

Canning Up : Hibiscus Tea Concentrate

Posted on March 16, 2026 by Just another day on the farm

I love a good canned Tea Concentrate Hibiscus has so many traditional health benefits that it was the clear winner for me to make up a batch for the fridge first and then for the canning pantry! Hibiscus Tea Concentrate … Continue reading →

Posted in CanadianEh, Canning | Tagged Canadian Tea cups, Canning, Canning Tea, Canning tea concentrate, Farmgal, food, Garden, Health, Herbs, Hibiscus, Hibiscus Tea, Hibiscus Tea Concentrate, Hibiscus tea syrup, Preserve it, Provencal flower teacup, recipe, recipes, Tea cups | Leave a comment

Taking Stock and Counting it twice!

Posted on February 17, 2025 by Just another day on the farm

While the 50+ peach babies have been moved up into their gallon pots and and even more lines of grow lights have been hung and fan is set up and ready for extra air movement, along with winter sowed seeds, … Continue reading →

Posted in dry pantry | Tagged buy ahead, cooking, Deep Pantry, dry pantry, Eating out of your Pantry, Frugal, Garden planning, Health, Meals, Spring Cleaning, Taking stock, Winter, Winter Prep, Working pantry | 2 Comments

Yellow Split Pea Soup Recipe

Posted on November 17, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

Today is a perfect fall day to cook off a pot of Canadian Style Yellow Split Pea Soup I plan on enjoying it fresh made and canning up of the leftover soup into pint jars. In the oven slow roasting … Continue reading →

Posted in 30 day challanges, Soups and Stews | Tagged Canning, dinner, Eat what you grow, Fall harvest, food, ham, Health, pork hocks, recipe, recipes, slow cooking, soup, split pea soup, yellow split pea | 4 Comments

Beef Barley Fall Root Based Stew Recipe

Posted on November 15, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

Fall Root Veggie Beef Barley Stew This Stew uses a lot of fall root veggies, i did a mixed blend of Potato, Sweet Potato, Carrot, Winter Turnip and Parsnip. You are welcome to create your own fall root blend as … Continue reading →

Posted in 30 day challanges, Soups and Stews | Tagged beef stew, broth, dinner, Eat what you grow, food, Food Production and Recipes, Garden, Health, recipe, recipes, Root Veggies, soup, soups, stew, Veggies, whole food | Leave a comment

Burning Daylight

Posted on November 7, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

In the past days and weeks, months now boy, have i been burning daylight! I have been forced to slow down, way way down and there is really no way to see the end. My body has decided i am … Continue reading →

Posted in 30 day challanges, At the kitchen table | Tagged baby steps, Burning daylght, eating well, Get it done, Health, inner thoughts, life, mental-health, never give up, Reset, Rest, sleep, Small steps, wellness | 2 Comments

Deep Pantry -Shop the flyers and Loss Leaders

Posted on November 2, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

While they stopped delivering flyers in our mail years ago, the odd flyer on a few things still comes, mostly Canadian Tire an the local feeder stores or hardware stores. However a friend of mine has a small but awesome … Continue reading →

Posted in 30 day challanges, frugal | Tagged Cost of living, Feeding the teenager, Fill the freezers, food, fresh-food, grocery prices in canada, Health, Inflation, Making a special stock up trip, nutrition, Planning your shopping trip, Shop your flyers, Shopping loss leaders, Shopping with a list, Stocking your pantry | 1 Comment

Ticks

Posted on October 26, 2024 by Just another day on the farm

How has it been in your area this year in regards to ticks? With the crazy wet garden season it has meant that we have not been able to mow things as low as we have been over the past … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Critters, Food Forest, Health, homestead, Personal Care, Real Life | Tagged Checking for ticks, Dogs, Health, Hunters and ticks, Increase in tick born illness, lyme-disease, mowing low for ticks, pets and ticks, poetry, preventing ticks, Tick habitat, Tick removal, tick removal kits, Tick testing in canada, Tick tracking, Ticks, ticks on the homestead, wood paths in your gardens | Leave a comment

Coltsfoot-Flowers and Flower Stems

Posted on May 5, 2018 by Just another day on the farm

The first flowers of spring locally have arrived, our Coltsfoot is up and in full flower, the flowers rise out of the ground on them stems coming many weeks before the leaves will show themselves. I picked a full cup … Continue reading →

Posted in 31 Day Self Reliance Challange, Herbs, Personal Care, wild foods | Tagged Health, Herbs, Wild Foods | 2 Comments

Colds.. and some of my homestead helpers..

Posted on January 19, 2017 by Just another day on the farm

Well, I was going to post a recipe today, then I started a post about how awesome my hubby is in the fact that he got up early and did all my morning chores so I could sleep in, and … Continue reading →