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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010 Stir frys and soil blocks, A farmstead hatched baby chick, pastured Cornish X
On this coopcast: Thanks for all the reviews and feedback - keep it coming - a great community of listeners, Andy is losing the guinea discussions, A soil block love affair, Good eats with pork steak and preserved vegetable stir-fry, A new firearm comes to live with us, Hatched in the coop chickens. And in this episodes Farm U segment: Final part of our Cornish Cross (Cornish X) chicken discussion, Putting the birds on pasture (tricks and tips), Pasture pens, Water, feed and other considerations for the pastured Cornish X birds, A consumer's perspective on pastured chicken.