Tag Archives: Health
Ticks
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
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Coltsfoot-Flowers and Flower Stems
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
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Colds.. and some of my homestead helpers..
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
Posted in Health, Herbs
Tagged colds, eating Stinging Nettles, Elderberry for health, Health, High bush Cranberry Tea, Nettles, resting when sick
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How much Sugar did we use in a year on the farm!
This post is mainly from How much sugar did we use in 2011 with a five year update.. As I dipped into a small dish of yugurt and strawberries as a afternoon snack, I made a note in the farm … Continue reading
Posted in Canning, Food Production and Recipes, Food Storage
Tagged Canning, eating less sugar, Food Production and Recipes, Health, How much sugar do you use in a year on the farm, Sugar, sugar and its effects on blood, Tracking your sugar useage, Using sugar in canning, ways to preserve food that does not use sugar, ways to preserve that uses little sugar, Weight Loss
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Health Report– an homework
So I had back to back appointments at the doctors office, next round of things that needed to be done to be sent to the fertility clinic, confirmed that all other tests are back and normal or negative.. I am … Continue reading
Raddish Greens, Rain, and Riding..
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
Grilled Salmon and Leek tortilla Recipe..
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
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Mom Update for her surgery..
Well, mom got her staples out and the wound itself looks great.. We found at that she has very extense nerve’s acting up, so we have added in a topic nerve dimmer to the program and that seems to be … Continue reading
Food Forest-Hiding in plain view..
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
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Mom update on knee.. well its been a week today since surgery and here is the overview on how its looking!
Well, I don’t get to see the below photo but once a day when I change the dressings but the leg swelling and bruising I get to see all the time, in a way its amazing how well she can … Continue reading
Just another Day on the Farm 