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035 Farm equipment finds on craigslist, fall vegetable garden succession planting, the business of farming full time

035 Farm equipment finds on craigslist, fall vegetable garden succession planting, the business of farming full time

FromChicken Thistle Farm CoopCast


035 Farm equipment finds on craigslist, fall vegetable garden succession planting, the business of farming full time

FromChicken Thistle Farm CoopCast

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Length:
52 minutes
Released:
Aug 26, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Updates around the farm this week:

Our Daycation here in NY,
A new to us hog feeder,
O2 and his bum leg,
Turkey ordering,
prepping greenhouse for fall.

In the Veggie Patch:

Fall Succession planting update in the garden and in the greenhouse,
CSA spotlight - Edamame.

In the CoopCast Community:We get mentioned on some blogs (thebeginningfarmer.blogspot.com and empressofdirt.net) where they say we are a good farming podcast - COOL!
And we bundle a bunch of reviews and questions together from the community to have a conversation...

We ruminate about going full time as a farmer and answer the following questions (from James and "farmer on hiatus", amongst others):

Is our aim to do this full time?
How much land do we have?
DO we want farming as primary occupation?
Are we "Big enough to sustain" our farm?
Released:
Aug 26, 2012
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.