The comings and goings
Everything is always changing here on the farm, find out what we are building, repairing or just generally working on
Everything is always changing here on the farm, find out what we are building, repairing or just generally working on
We love good food, we also love making good food. Here are the recipes that I thought to write down. There is no rambling story about my grand mother or how this recipe changed my life, they are just an ingredient list and instructions.
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Ingredients 1 pound of ground Simerville Farm raised pork 20g of Breakfast sausage spice mix Directions Mix ground Simerville farm raised pork with 20g (about 1 tablespoon) of breakfast sausage spice mix. Form ground pork and spice mix into paddies or fill sausage casings. Fully cook paddies or sausages using a medium heat to avoid
Spring has FINALLY come and with it’s arrival several things are happening here on the farm. For starters the hens are back on the lay and we are flush with eggs. Today is also baby chick day 🙂 . I will be heading into town shortly to pickup our first batch of meat birds for
Ingredients Simerville Farm pork belly (I tend to use jowls because they are even better than belly), about 1kg or so 1/2 cup salt 1/2 cup brown sugar 1 tbps allspice 1tbps cumin (or curry powder if you prefer) 1 tbps corse ground black pepper 2 tsp chipotle powder 1 tsp cinnamon A smoker and
Ingredients 3 tbsp butter 1 Onion 1 large carrot 2 cups of shredded Simerville Farm Chicken or Turkey 3 Potatoes 1 can (398ml) creamed corn 2 cups frozen corn (thawed) 2 cups Chicken or Turkey broth 3 cups milk (I used buttermilk but 2% would also work fine) Instructions Saute diced onion in butter
I, well WE didn’t get into farming to make money, we started farming because it just tastes better. We started with the idea that we would raise chickens for meat and eggs, just for us and we would sell any excess. That didn’t last very long because quite honestly we have awesome people in our
As I sit here on the couch drinking a coffee and listening to the blizzard roaring outside I am very thankful for yesterday. What happened yesterday you ask? Well we bought yet another piece of equipment that I said I would never want/buy/have ?. We bought a New Holland 479 haybine. Last hay season I
Just like the rest of southern Ontario we got crushed with freezing cold weather the past week, although today is 6C and raining, go figure. We had the joy of losing power for almost 5 hours, pipes freeze to the only bathroom in the house, getting an avalanche of compacted snow/ice blocking the only man
The Orange pi that I built and installed in the chicken coop to control the light is having some problems. Now why do you need to have the light in the hen house computer controlled Mike, isn’t that overkill? First off, let me have my fun. Second off, chickens need three things to generate an
Ingredients 5 1/2 cups all purpose flour 1 pound lard (or shortening I guess) 1 Simerville Farm egg 1 tbsp white vinegar Vodka (optional) Instructions Put flour and lard in bowl. Using a pastry cuter cut the lard into the flour until you have little clumps of flour/lard the size of small peas. Gently mix