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053 Pig on the lamb, snow and portable farming, annual farm meeting (part 1)

053 Pig on the lamb, snow and portable farming, annual farm meeting (part 1)

FromChicken Thistle Farm CoopCast


053 Pig on the lamb, snow and portable farming, annual farm meeting (part 1)

FromChicken Thistle Farm CoopCast

ratings:
Length:
50 minutes
Released:
Jan 9, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Updates around the snowy and cold farm:

Snow and drifting on the farm and the implications to portable fencing
Pigs on the loose
Electric netting - upright again
Chickens in the wind
Greenhouse - salad for new years eve, peas, Swiss chard and a warm refuge

The Annual Farm Meeting Farm Meeting for 2013 - Part 1

We discussed if we will be doing a CSA this year and the size,
The Pig plan and AI,
Laying chickens (more on this one next week)
The plan for broiler chickens this summer
General "farming burnout" that we are trying to avoid
Released:
Jan 9, 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.