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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007 Managing chicken coops, CSA update (vegetables and tools), pasturing birds for better eggs
On this coopcast: Soil block update, CSA status, Upcoming farm stand, Our plans for a broody hen. In our Chicken Talk discussion: How we set up our chicken coop for our climate, How we pasture (range) our birds. And in this episodes Farm U segment: Chicken manure management, Carbon to Nitrogen in manure management (deep litter), Coop cleaning.