Geek.Farm.Life

• Intro
• Farm Phone 206-202-GOAT
• Call 1  - squirrel & raccoon problems in garden
• Matt in Ohio – sparrows in barn, turkeys & chickens together –
  protozoan disease (blackhead)
• How do we get along?
• Ellen – coated fleece rant!
• Round-Up
• Numbers
• Baby, Molly
• Rabbits
• Tilling & planting
• Morel Mushrooms
• Farm – Seed Planter
• Earthway planter purchased from Lehman’s
• 11 different plates (comes with 5, 6 optional)
• Benefits:
• Adjustable seed depth, row width.  Plate controls how far apart
  each seed is dropped.
• Cut the time to plant the garden by something like 90%, and no
  sore back after!
• Negatives
• Need to till the soil
• Must be relatively flat
• Twigs, sticks may be caught in it as you are going through the soil
• Need a good amount of seed, may not work on small sampler packs
• Loss at the end of row, very short rows don’t work well
• Conclusion – We love it so far, waiting to see how germination is!

Please call the farm phone, 206-202-GOAT or email us at gfl@geekfarmlife.com!

Pictures of the seeder:

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Welcome to a new episode. In the show this week:

• Farm Phone
• Kirsten on milking goats on pasture
• Small Farmers Journal and horse farming
• Libby – herding
• Rick – Houston – email address & wife http://demonmasters.wordpress.com
• Kirsten – interested in philosophical part of show
• Round-Up
• Farm – Milk Processing
• Immediate processing
• Pasteurizing
• More processing
• Cream
• Cheese
• Yogurt / Kefir

Make sure to call the farm phone 206-202-GOAT!

 

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Welcome to another great show!

This week we revisit an old topic, our portable fencing we use. Instead of mowing all summer long we have the sheep and goats trim our grass. This is at least the 3rd time we’ve talked about it, but we go into more detail this time. Don’t worry though if you haven’t listened to past shows, we do enough review you won’t be left behind.

Make sure you call the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT!

Moving hives in the back of the jeep:

Tomorrow I’ll add a movie of me setting up the fencing.

 

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Well spring is upon us, so let’s take keep looking back for this show and see how the Alfalfa pellet experiment worked out over the winter. We also talk about corn, oil, food and pig manure! We have 3 different calls to the farm phone, so take a listen!

To see pictures taken in Indy or how spring is coming, click on the flower:

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Welcome back! This show has 2 great farm phone calls, and we look at how we managed to do with our dehydration last year. Or, more to the point how well different things rehydrated. Since my computer is back I also put together a video extra. The audio is terrible, but I think it’s just amazing to watch the dogs work the sheep. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

 

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