Tag Archives: Homesteading
31 Day Self Reliance Challange Week Two Overview
Week Two Overview Well, its been a very busy week on the farm, its spring.. is there any other kind 🙂 The weather has been outstanding in the sense of warm, sunny with a light breeze.. however we need … Continue reading
31 Day Self Reliance Challange Week One Overview
Week One Overview Well, its been a busy week here on the farm, we have been working on the house, the yard, the gardens. We had company come and visit the farm and we had the STORM. The weather … Continue reading
31 Day Self Reliance Challange
Follow along as we share posts to help you: Save money and energy Raise animals for meat, eggs, and dairy Grow fresh food in your own garden and orchard Cook healthy meals from scratch Hunt and fish to provide for … Continue reading
No Buy Feb Update-Week 1
What a challenging start to No Buy Feb, It seems like every time I turn around, I am having to say no.. it got to the point that even my dear hubby had a bit of a bad day over … Continue reading
Posted in No Buy Feb
Tagged Frugal, Homesteading, No Buy Feb, No Buy Feb 2017, No Buy Feb Challange
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Food in Jars Challange 2017- Salt perserving- Salmon with Nettle
In week two of my months long Food in Jars Challenge 2017 – Salt preserving Two lovely cuts of salmon were bought, thawed out and a bowl of salt-sugar at 50-50 in percent and a full cup of dried nettle greens … Continue reading
Posted in Charcuterie, Food in jars
Tagged Cured Salmon Spring rolls, Cured Salmon with hot mustard and sprouts on sour dough bread, Food in Jars Challange -Salt Curing, Food in jars challange 2017, Gravlox, Homemade dipping sauce for rice rolls, Homemade spring rolls with cured salmon in them, Homesteading, Horseradish, Nettles, Salt cured salmon
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Help on the farm
I got a interesting comment on one of my recent posts about the fact that I don’t appear to have much outside help on the farm.. She is not wrong.. In 12 years, we have hired and or bartered our own helping … Continue reading
Posted in farm, Goals, homestead, Real Life
Tagged canadian Homestead, farm helpers, Help on the homestead, Homesteading
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Canning Costs- Ways to make it just a bit cheaper..
Last year as I was processing food, and canning this and that.. my mother looked at me and said with a laugh in her voice (after not having been on the farm for eight plus years), Girl you have every … Continue reading
Spruce Tip Vinager
O yes, it’s that time of year again.. Spruce Tip season.. so many things to do, such a small window of time to make it happen with the lovely fresh soft tips.. This is to my eye pretty much a … Continue reading
Spring brings Babies..
and that means that their mothers are hunting more and more.. Bet you thought I was going to talk about cute spring babies, and here you go.. my wee buns are growing like weeds while they are eating what folks … Continue reading
Posted in Life moves on daily
Tagged canadian homsteading, Homesteading, Homesteading in canada
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Just another Day on the Farm 