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034 Greenhouse gardening and soil fertility, growing livestock feed on your farm, preventing Botulism when canning vegetables
034 Greenhouse gardening and soil fertility, growing livestock feed on your farm, preventing Botulism when canning vegetables
ratings:
Length:
50 minutes
Released:
Aug 20, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
A update light week on the farm with:
No poultry pens to move,
Normal weather for a change on the farm,
Turkeys and layers doing well,
Pigs have their first weigh in.
In the Veggie Patch we talk:
Greenhouse soil fertility and design,
Low tunnel greenhouses you can build,
End of garden season discounts.
In the Coopcast Community:
On a listeners suggestion Andy is trying Oral Ivy.
Sheree asked about growing grain for chickens and supplementing them with veggies/greens from the garden.
Brice suggested we invest in some livestock guardian dogs.
In this weeks Farm U we learn about the science behind preventing Botulism when canning vegetables.The bacteria lives in all soils and we talk about terms relating to it and defeating it when canning:
Spores
Anaerobe
Soil
Pressure and temp
pH
No poultry pens to move,
Normal weather for a change on the farm,
Turkeys and layers doing well,
Pigs have their first weigh in.
In the Veggie Patch we talk:
Greenhouse soil fertility and design,
Low tunnel greenhouses you can build,
End of garden season discounts.
In the Coopcast Community:
On a listeners suggestion Andy is trying Oral Ivy.
Sheree asked about growing grain for chickens and supplementing them with veggies/greens from the garden.
Brice suggested we invest in some livestock guardian dogs.
In this weeks Farm U we learn about the science behind preventing Botulism when canning vegetables.The bacteria lives in all soils and we talk about terms relating to it and defeating it when canning:
Spores
Anaerobe
Soil
Pressure and temp
pH
Released:
Aug 20, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode
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