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059 Farming updates for the week, Starting your own CSA, Small Farm Finances

059 Farming updates for the week, Starting your own CSA, Small Farm Finances

FromChicken Thistle Farm CoopCast


059 Farming updates for the week, Starting your own CSA, Small Farm Finances

FromChicken Thistle Farm CoopCast

ratings:
Length:
64 minutes
Released:
Feb 20, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Farming updates for the week include:

Updates AI - no more updates needed, Due dates on calendar
Chick Wagon
Hay/straw delivery
CSA full

A new segment called "From the ground up" where we discuss the basics for any given project or enterprise on the farm and what we would do to do it again.  THis week we talk about how we would go about starting a CSA

Pictures posted of the shares
Surveys 
Reviews 
How to get people to invest that much
Make it a community with recipes, posts each week
Host events at the farm- potluck, etc. 
What to expect and communicate a lot

Questions, Conversations and Ruminations this week (and for a few weeks) are a in depth review and discussion around the farm finances.

Income
Expenses
Released:
Feb 20, 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.