Tag Archives: Homesteading

Current Propagation -Pinning

Posted on April 17, 2026 by Just another day on the farm

Red, White, Black, Gooseberry, Jostaberry are all part of the current family, and they all can be very successfully cloned by pinning. What are some good reason you would want to pin your favorites? or ask your friend to do … Continue reading →

Posted in Cookies, Eat what you grow, Food Forest, frugal, Garden | Tagged Black Current, Black Current cake recipe, Black Current Cookie Recipe, Current, Current cake, Current jelly, Current juice, Current sauce, Currents, Dried currents, Eat what you grow, farmgate sales, Frugal, fruit bushes, Garden, Gardening, Homesteading, nature, Pink currents, Pinning Currents, Pinning plants, plants, Propagation, Red Current, save money where you can, steam juicer, Support your pollinators, wasp, wasp photography, Wasp pollinating a current flower, White currents | Leave a comment

Bird Sale Results

Posted on April 14, 2026 by Just another day on the farm

My favorite Bird and small animal sale was a huge event indeed, it was triple deep standing room only, i came home with Quail Hatching Eggs We will see how they do, as they go into lockdown this coming weekend, … Continue reading →

Posted in Chickens | Tagged backyard-chickens, bird sale, Chicken, Chickens, chicks, Duck Hens, Ducks, Easter Eggers, Eggs, guinea fowl, hatching eggs, homestead, Homesteading, incubator, quail, small Farm, small stock, Support Local, support your local farmer, Time well spent | Leave a comment

Lettuce Plugs -Transplant day

Posted on April 11, 2026 by Just another day on the farm

Have you seen the price of lettuce these days, it can cost as much as 6 dollars for full size head of lettuce in the store, 5.99 or you can get three smaller sized head of romaine for 9.00 but … Continue reading →

Posted in Garden | Tagged Cold Climate Gardening, cold frame, eat well, Eat what you grow, Food costs, Garden, Gardening, gardening zone 5 canada, Homesteading, lettuce, ottawa gardening, recyle, salad, save money where you can, Seeds, vegetables, Veggies | Leave a comment

Raised Hot Box -Manure/Compost Heated

Posted on April 10, 2026 by Just another day on the farm

If there is one thing that a farm produces if they have livestock is manure! Here is a more detailed post on it but in a nut shell for our current livestock My Critters average daily output right now That’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Gal in the Garden Series, Garden | Tagged coffee grounds, coffee grounds in the garden, compost, Garden, Gardening, Gardening in a raised bed, Homesteading, horse manure, Hot manure Garden box, manure, nature, raised bed, Seeds | Leave a comment

Potting Up Tomato Plants, Next Pot Please

Posted on March 22, 2026 by Just another day on the farm

I got in a specially breed type of tomato that is for growing in pots for small spaces, i started six seeds, and i have six plants, five big ones and one wee one that is still growing but no … Continue reading →

Posted in Gal in the Garden Series, Garden, Kitchen garden | Tagged canada eh, cherry tomatos, Farm Life, Frugal, Garden, Gardening, gardening for the kitchen, Gardening in Canada, Gardening in the north, Gardening in zone 5a, grow lights, Grow your own, growing in pots, Homesteading, Kitchen garden, pinching tomato stems, plant starting indoors, potting up, Seed starting, Seeds, tips for repotting tomatos, tomato, vegetables | 1 Comment

Friday Rambles, a little bit broken March 13/26

Posted on March 13, 2026 by Just another day on the farm

How can it be Friday already, and Friday the 13th to boot, speaking of boots, i am currently wearing a air cast boot along with a wrist brace as i took a good old fashioned fall a week ago. When … Continue reading →

Posted in Friday Rambles | Tagged blog, Broken foot, community, Family, Farm Life, Farmgal's Friday Rambles around the table, forced to slow down, Friday Rambles, gardens, Health Care, Homesteading, life, Plan ahead, Spill the tea, ways to earn money, ways to save money, Writing | 2 Comments

Waste Not Farmgal’s Way

Posted on March 12, 2026 by Just another day on the farm

Welcome to Waste Not, we will find a way series. This will be a very broad coverage, it could be a way to prepare and freeze something, it could be away to take a leftover and turn it into a … Continue reading →

Posted in Waste not | Tagged Chitting spuds, compost, Early spring potato planting, food, Frugal, Garden, Gardening, growing potato's, growing potato's in feed bags, Homesteading, potato's in strwa, Sprouting Potato, vegetables, Waste not | 2 Comments

Gal in the Garden Series : Radish

Posted on March 10, 2026 by Just another day on the farm

German Giant Radish has been added to my radish growing this year for a couple of reasons. Ah Radishes, one of the fastest growing crops you can get in the garden. Lets talk about this amazing plant, you have summer … Continue reading →

Posted in 100 mile diet, Eat what you grow, Gal in the Garden Series, Garden | Tagged Cherry Bell Radish, Cold Climate Gardening, Cooked Radish, Easter Egg Radish, Easy Seed saving, Farmgal, Fast food in the garden, Food to plate, French Breakfast Radish, Garden, garden zone 5a, Gardening, Gardening in Canada, German Giant Radish, Growing Radish, Homesteading, just another day on the farm, living my dream life on the farm, Pickled Radish, radish, Radish greens, Radish pods, Radish Seed Saving, Radish Sprouts, radish-flowers, Raw Radish, Roasted Radish, Seed Saving, vegetables | Leave a comment

Gal in the Garden Series No Time to Waste

Posted on March 9, 2026 by Just another day on the farm

The events globally over the past week will be felt in ever widening ripples and one of them will be food costs, last year i was able to pick up a good load of smaller straw bales, the mini kind … Continue reading →

Posted in Climate Change, Eat what you grow, Gal in the Garden Series, Garden, Hard times | Tagged False spring, Fast food in the garden, Garden, garden zone 5a, Gardening, Homesteading, micro zones in your garden, Plant when the soil can be worked, radish, Seeds, Spring garden, spring peas, Straw, temporary garden spaces, think outside the box, use what you have, vegetables | Leave a comment

Gal in the Garden : Gardening in Hard Times Series

Posted on March 3, 2026 by Just another day on the farm

Good Afternoon to my fine fellows, what a time we find ourselves in right now. I do understand that here in Canada, and i expect in many other counties that we are very much seeing the K economy happening in … Continue reading →