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079 Fall vegetable gardening, building a new farm, food safety and farming

079 Fall vegetable gardening, building a new farm, food safety and farming

FromChicken Thistle Farm CoopCast


079 Fall vegetable gardening, building a new farm, food safety and farming

FromChicken Thistle Farm CoopCast

ratings:
Length:
54 minutes
Released:
Jul 24, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

This weeks farm updates are short and sweet so we can get to a bunch of our listeners questions.  We did more pig castrations - not on ours, but super small mini-pigs.  It's a great example of how going slow on a farm make a lot of sense.  We also got the turkeys out on pasture - finally - with a redesigned mobile turkey shelter that ROCKS!
In our CoopCast Community section we talk a bunch of listener questions like:
Are we planning for fall planting?
Erin wanted to know about her NC property as a blank slate for a new farm.  How would we set things up to start in terms of the barn, the green house, and the animals.
Adam asked about our feed mixture for Cornish x and turkeys on pasture
Brent (who brought us the phrase "worm worshipping hippies") Asked about chicken processing and how soon after processing do customers pick up?
In our Ruminations we share our thoughts on food safety article regarding farm market chickens and their bacteria. http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2013/07/study-finds-raw-chicken-from-farmers-markets-more-likely-to-carry-pathogens-than-those-from-groceries/
Released:
Jul 24, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

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 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, permaculture, food preservation and even fence mending.