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043 Putting the vegetable garden to bed, late season farming, how to cook a heritage turkey

043 Putting the vegetable garden to bed, late season farming, how to cook a heritage turkey

FromChicken Thistle Farm CoopCast


043 Putting the vegetable garden to bed, late season farming, how to cook a heritage turkey

FromChicken Thistle Farm CoopCast

ratings:
Length:
43 minutes
Released:
Oct 23, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Updates from around the farmstead:

#farmerandy shares his Big Buck story of dispair,
We put the veggie patch to bed with compost and the rototiller,
Pigs moved to a new section of pasture,
Pig pasture maintenance and seeding on the old pasture,
From the pasture to the plate we talk about canning chicken in the pressure cooker,
Final sales of year and the risk to cash flow

In the CoopCast community:

We talk about cooking a heritage turkey (http://www.localharvest.org/features/heritage-turkey-recipes.jsp),
A listener who didn't know he could raise his chickens on pasture,
Some general listener feedback items from Facebook, iTunes and Stitcher.

In the news:

We talk about a non-functioning pair of oxen in Vermont and what should happen with them:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/10/21/163257176/despite-protest-college-plans-to-slaughter-serve-farms-beloved-oxen
Released:
Oct 23, 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.