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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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 5 days 16 hours
0145 Early chickens, planting the garden and other updates
Life has been keeping us busy and this episode updates the happenings on the farm and in the vegetable gardens.
0144 Beekeeping update, planting trees and vegetables for the garden
This week we talk a bit about the status of the new beehive, the seedling trees we planted and the vegetables for the garden in the greenhouse
0143 SPROUTCAST (short) On the road to pickup bees, gardening update, farms using out cutsheet
This is a SPROUTCAST - a shortversion of the COOPCAST - we are getting our bees and talk in the car about the vegetable gardens and farm animals
0142 Fire on the farm, tractor talk and pregnant pig updates
Following last weeks farm fire we tell the story of the flaming hedge row and straw bales then we take a sampling of listener questions from the pig, to tractors, to beekeeping.
0141 Fallout from the April Fools Episode, vegetable seed starting and the real farm meeting
After last weeks April Fools episode we set the record straight. We then talk about the vegetable garden, seeds and the real farm meeting
0140 Organic Certification, Row Crops and Kickstarter
We discuss all the important things around farming - organic certification, row crops, planting a vineyard, buying more farm land and a Kickstarter project!
0139 Farmers on vacation, spring time work list and a small farm in the news
Back from vacation we talk about the list of spring tasks on the farm, the frozen vegetable garden, starting seeds, beekeeping and a small farm making headlines.
0138 Firing a farm customer, beekeeping, treated seeds in the vegetable garden
As the snow is melting we had to fire a customer on the farm this week, check in on pregnant pig, head into beekeeping and talk vegetable seeds.
0137 Favorite garden seeds, tractor implements and swine AI
This week we talk about the vegetable garden seeds in the Rowboat of Goodness on the farm, some important tractor implements for farming and a pig AI update
0136 Gilt AI, vegetable garden seed selection and a rifle part
As winter rolls on with brutal temps and endless snow on the farm we discuss pig AI, garden seed selection and a way to save money with a cool rifle scope part