Tag Archives: sunchokes

How do you use Sunchokes?

Posted on November 14, 2019 by Just another day on the farm

I have two main styles of sunchokes, these little fingerlings and they have great flavour and they produce a crazy amount of them but they are tiny and scrubbing them is hard enough, there is no peeling them, so I … Continue reading →

Posted in Food Storage, frugal, Garden harvest | Tagged Crispy oven baked Sunchokes, garden harvest sunchokes, Jerusalem artichokes, Late fall garden harvest, Pickled Sunchokes, sunchokes | 27 Comments

Planning a new livestock Fodder Garden

Posted on May 4, 2018 by Just another day on the farm

The biggest move over will the comfrey, I have at least 15 plants to dig, split into two or four and replant them. I will be replanting 30 to 40 Comfrey plants into the this new fodder garden. This … Continue reading →

Posted in 31 Day Self Reliance Challange | Tagged 31 Day Self Reliance Challange, Black Oil Sunflower Seeds, Comfrey as Fodder, Drying Nettles for fodder, Growing Sunchokes for livestock feed, Growing your own BOSS, Nettles for livestock health, sunchokes, Using dried nettles to increase milk in sheep | 2 Comments

Sunchokes

Posted on April 4, 2016 by Just another day on the farm

Yesterday in the bitter cold, we dug up a few plants worth of Sunchokes. Qouted from this site Sunchokes, the vegetable formerly known as “Jerusalem artichokes,” are the tuberous roots of a native North American plant in the sunflower family … Continue reading →

Posted in Life moves on daily | Tagged Feeding Rabbits Sunchoke greens, Feeding Rabbits Sunchokes roots, Feeding Sunchoke plants as green fodder, Fried Sunchokes, sunchokes | 5 Comments

Jerusalem artichokes.. a Early season delight

Posted on April 25, 2015 by Just another day on the farm

Spring food is hard to come by, sunchokes aka Jerusalem artichokes can help fill that early spring gap.. Clearly I need to add in new kinds that produce more, this kind that I got in a free plant swap, produce … Continue reading →