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024 Picking local farm grown strawberries and preserving, ice for chicken processing, vegetable CSA has begun!
024 Picking local farm grown strawberries and preserving, ice for chicken processing, vegetable CSA has begun!
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Length:
50 minutes
Released:
Jun 10, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
This week’s updates around the farm and gardens:
CSA started and the veggies look great,
More unexpected hot weather,
Chicken-scaping the front pasture,
Preparing to move the Cornish Cross (Cornish X) out to pasture this year,
Weaning piglets,
Enjoying strawberries pasture to plate.
In the Coopcast Community:
A listener with guinea keets,
Zach processed his first birds and Chad offers a tip on ice for processing,
Someone listened to us and bought a geothermal system!
Eddie is looking for tips on getting started.
This week on Farm U:
The magic in preserving strawberries,
General food preservation discussions (Kelli's favorite website for preserving food : http://pickyourown.org/allaboutcanning.htm)
CSA started and the veggies look great,
More unexpected hot weather,
Chicken-scaping the front pasture,
Preparing to move the Cornish Cross (Cornish X) out to pasture this year,
Weaning piglets,
Enjoying strawberries pasture to plate.
In the Coopcast Community:
A listener with guinea keets,
Zach processed his first birds and Chad offers a tip on ice for processing,
Someone listened to us and bought a geothermal system!
Eddie is looking for tips on getting started.
This week on Farm U:
The magic in preserving strawberries,
General food preservation discussions (Kelli's favorite website for preserving food : http://pickyourown.org/allaboutcanning.htm)
Released:
Jun 10, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode
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