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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008 Raising Cornish X Chickens, water for livestock (chickens), eating a Bourbon Red turkey
On this coopcast: A Bourbon Red Turkey in the oven, Soil block germination rates, Managing mice in the greenhouse, Broody hen update. In our Listener Feedback discussion: A plea for feedback and ratings on iTunes, Bucket waterer tips for chickens, Egg prices around the states, Breeds of chickens in our laying flock. And in this episodes Farm U segment: First part of our Cornish Cross (Cornish X) chicken discussion including; How do they breed a Cornish Cross broiler, A little history, Consumer demand for the Cornish Cross carcass.