Category: Gardening

You Are Awesome! Keep On Voting! Currently 5th Place!

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Currently 5th Place on FavChef 2024

You are awesome! You’re making it happen! Now, let’s do this for Nova Scotia! Let’s do this for Digby! For Bear River! Can You imagine a Homesteading Farmer from Nova Scotia being on the cover of Taste of Home Magazine! Let’s Make This Happen!

Not just for Me! For the positive attention it’ll bring with it for our area! For Homesteading and Farming, especially Small Farms! Traditional Country Cooking, Baking, and Home Made Goodness!

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Using Animals to turn Fields of Invasive Plants into Gardens

Pig Worked Hill 2024

It’s been. a long process, when we went to The Barn Property on the 31 August 2022 it was at the request of the Family there, and the main goal was to keep the fields from becoming overgrown. 

The property consisted mostly old burnt out hay fields, Lupine, Hawthorns, Goldenrod, and Japanese Knotweed. Here are some photos from Fall 2022 …

Barn Property Fall 2022

Time Passes…. 18 months later… Spring 2024 

As You can see, the fields, even the area under the now thinned out Hawthorns has green grass growing. Actually, we had green grass by Mid-March. A true testament to the incredible work of our animals.

The following video shows a particular area that has not yet been worked as much as the other areas. An area where Hawthorn Saplings and Lupine has begun to take over. An area where our goats have grazed only briefly twice, and that our pigs turned up this Spring. Showing how persistent the Lupine are, and how much they’ve grown in the few weeks to a month since our pigs worked that ground. Here’s the Video…

The results are incredible, especially over time. As this year unfolds I’ll try to bring you updates as to the progress. I’m really not sure how the Corn, Sunflowers, and Peas will grow here, but we’ll find out and hopefully document our success here! We welcome Your Comments. 

You’re Invited to Attend a Briden Farm Tasting Event!

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Ring Necked Pheasant Dinner

A time of Fun with Friends while enjoying the Tastes of Briden Farm Woodland Pasture Raised Meats and other Goodies. No pressure, just a fun time together where you’ll get to try our products for free!

Were hoping to hold a Tasting Event in Your Area soon. We hold our Events in homes and we’re looking for people to Host an Event. As Host, or Hostess, You’ll reap rewards, like Free Meat! We have things setup, or will set them up, so that we do most of the work and all you have to do is invite guests who you think would enjoy a fun time sampling our Woodland Pastured Meats and other products. No pressure though, we just want to keep it Fun!

If You, or someone you know, would like to Host and Event, please contact Brian at Briden Farm at 902-907-0770. Even if You don’t want to Host an Event, We’d still like You to attend. For Free!

Click Here to Request You Free Tickets

Ring Neck Pheasant for Christmas

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Ring Necked Pheasant Dinner

Making Merry this Christmas, 2023, means making a meal that has been grown by Briden Farm..

A beautiful meal, based on a great recipe I found at Project Upland, for Perfectly Roasted Pheasant
If You’ve been reading our Posts for a while You’ll recognize that this is the same Recipe we had at Thanksgiving.

When it comes to Pheasant, I’ve tried a lot of different Recipes,
and this one is definitely how I’ll be doing my Pheasants from now on!

You’ll see the Pheasant sits in the oven on a Cast Iron Frying Pan on Carrots.
Or in our case German Fingerling Potatoes. I love them! Especially good for Home Fries.

I also love Kennebec Potatoes, and thankfully we had both growing in our Briden Farm Gardens.

We’ll be adding Green Beans and Corn on the Cob, also grown by Briden Farm and put in the freezer a few months ago to help preserve freshness. We love being able to prepare a meal, especially on a special Occasion, and especially when it’s the food we’ve raised ourselves.

Of course, I did tweak it a bit, with Watkins Pepper, Sea Salt, a dash of Lemon Pepper, and Cajun Spice.
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