Tag Archives: nature
Community Supported Gardens Peach Program
Here in Ottawa valley in Ontario, garden zone 5a it is the month where ideally we will be pruning hard fruit trees of all kinds. Long time readers know that i have been and continue to be active with other … Continue reading
Posted in 100 mile diet, Eat what you grow, farm sales, Fruit Trees, Garden
Tagged 100 mile diet, canada, community supported gardens, Farmgal, flowers, food, food forests, Fruit Trees, Garden, Gardening, gardening in cold climate, Grow what you eat, growing peaches, nature, Ontario, peach, peach harvest, Peach pits, peach tree, Peaches, pruning, Pruning Fruit trees, Seed Saving, Sib C peaches, spring-flowering-trees, zone 5a
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Hedgerow Snow Capture
Just as my own double hedge rows work in the summer for both food production and shelter, they act as a living snow fence in winter, there is a swale on the far side of them that drops down a … Continue reading
Posted in Friday Rambles
Tagged alberta, canada, caragana, Creating habitat, Garden, Gardening, Hedgerows, living snow fences, nature, Ontario, Planting for the birds, plants, roads, Snow, snow capture, snow fences, snow hedge, Wildlife, Wind, Wind blocks, Wind hedgerows, Winter
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Snow and more Snow!
The work required to keep the driveway and pathways open has been massive on behalf of Dear Hubby in Combo with Miss R a touch.. While we do have a snow blower, Dear Hubby loves to do it by hand … Continue reading
Posted in At the kitchen table
Tagged board night, D&D game, Drifting snow, Family, Game Night, nature, shoveling snow, Snow, Snow drifts, Snow Safety, Snowed in, Time well spent, weather, Winter, wood stove
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Snow Day!
It’s a snow day here locally, while we have gotten four inches overnight and its still coming down heavy, with drifts we are seeing 10 plus inches, they got it far worse in other parts of the province for sure. … Continue reading
Wind Storm Prep
We have a massive winter wind storm coming in, they are saying it could be like the winter wind storms of Christmas 2022, that storm took down a huge number of trees, power outages and drifting snow upwards of 10 … Continue reading
Posted in homestead
Tagged Combination Hedgerows, Combination Wind Breaks, cooking on your woodstove, hedge rows, homestead, nature, Shelterbelts, Shuttle Chef, Snow, Tall hedgerows, Thicket hedgerows, weather, Wind blocks, Wind shelters, Wind storms, Winter, Winter Wind, Winter Winds, woodstove
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Hultafors Splitting Axe
In a world where so many things are made fast and cheap, when you can try and support business’s that create items to last. I was thrilled to see that Hultafors who have been making and selling Axes from Sweden … Continue reading
Posted in 30 day challanges, Climate Change, homestead
Tagged Firewood, Hultafors Splitting Axe, nature, Splitting wood, Storm Clean up, Storm Wood, storms, Tree Storm Damage, trees, winds
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Lets make some goals! Getter Done
Written Goals are such a good starting point to at least try and direct the coming time. Miss R and I have the same tracking and thought journals and we are enjoying finding a time (perhaps not daily) to work … Continue reading
Posted in At the kitchen table, Goals, homestead
Tagged Blogging, Blogging in your 50's, Enjoy your coffee, family meals, Garden, Gardening, Goals, homestead, Homesteading, Hygge, Its the little things, Keep it simple, Native Plants, nature, pets, photography, Small comforts, trees, Writing out your goals
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Poor Man’s Fertilizer “SNOW”
In fact, snow does contain nitrogen and other particulates like sulfur, which it collects as it falls through the atmosphere, however so do rain, sleet and hail, and believe it or not, lightning. Rain and lightning contain more nitrogen than snow. Statistics from agricultural … Continue reading
Just another Day on the Farm 