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
0135 Cold weather on the farm, boxed wine and vaccines
With the coldest winter air here we are preparing the farm and animals. We use the slow season to have a pragmatic discussion about vaccines.
0134 Hog AI issues, cold weather farming, selecting vegetable garden seeds
We are struggling with AI on the farm this winter and share the challenges. We also talk about the garden and the selection process for vegetable seeds.
0133 The loss of a beloved sow and honest farming on the web
This episode is dedicated to Hermione, our first sow, and how the farm has coped with her loss. We also talk about farming - honestly.
0132 New Year Updates, Missed Pig AI, A Hunting Story
Our first farming episode in 2015 we talk about the weather, the chickens, the pigs and garden seeds. There's also a deer hunting story as well!
0131 The Christmas Coopcast Community Cluster Episode
Another year gone by - this episode is a thank you to all our listeners and one giant community discussion
0130 Farming and health care, sick pig and Christmas lists
With a lot of injuries on the farm we explain why we have been gone and what we did for our sick pig. We also talk about some great holiday giving ideas.
0129 Easy farm recipes, bad jokes and favorite vegetable garden greens
We share some simple, fast and easy farm recipes as well as our favorite vegetable garden greens.
0128 Pork pickup episode, hunting season updates and a CSA review
We try to talk while customers are picking up their pork about hunting season, the status of the farm and review the fruit CSA we were in this year.
0127 Pork from the butcher, hunting update and a trip down memory lane
Heading into November the pork is back from the butcher, hunting season has had it's ups and downs and we review old photos on Facebook
0126 A discussion about moving pastured pigs to the processor
This week we took our pastured pork to the processor and this is a discussion about the process of moving swine!