Sharing our small farm stories and skills along our farming, gardening and homesteading journey. Visit the farm for an informative and sometimes irreverent tour through our garden, livestock pastures, chicken coop, beehive and greenhouse as we live - pasture to plate. Farming topics free range around pastured heritage pigs, broiler chickens and pastured eggs, heritage breed turkeys, an heirloom vegetable CSA and garden, high tunnel / hoop house / green houses, organic and traditional gardening, farm infrastructure, tractors, sustainable energy, being self sufficient, permaculture, food preservation, bees, beekeeping and even fence mending.
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013 Effects of "summer" in March on gardening and farming, Are you a farm / farmstead /homestead or homesteading, portable poultry netting
On this coopcast: An update of Nugget and other incubating eggs, Managing pigs in unexpected heat, Warm spring and it's effects on the gardens, Soil block frustrations (again)! A new segment called Questions, Conversations and Rumination: What is a farm? And in this episodes Farm U segment: Portable pasture netting for poultry, Management of netting, Energizing the netting, Where to find the netting.