Geek.Farm.Life

Comment by Kay

September 9, 2006 @ 10:45 pm

Just found your podcast — love it!!! I’m a midwest native transplated to the Pacific NW whose living on 5 acres. Attempting to do the same thing you all are. Keep up the good work! I’ll be a faithful listener.

Comment by misty

September 10, 2006 @ 11:00 am

I’m glad you enjoyed it, Kay! I’ll be sure to check out your website too. :)

Comment by John G

September 11, 2006 @ 8:47 am

Hi kids!

Organinzing the freezer and pantry: Your comments about getting the freezer rotated and taking inventory is a good idea. It sounds like you are going to keep records on what goes in and out of the freezer and pantry. I wonder how long THAT will continue.

Misty: even guys appreciate hearing about your crafting. That should be a rotating segment of the show, and you can go into greater depth about what you are doing, how, and why. For instance, some people would be interested in learning a little more about the dyeing process, the necessity to clean the wool, the use of a mordant to give the fibers the ability to have the dyes chemically bond with them, and so on.

Similarly, Andrew’s flying experiences could be a rotating segment: what was the training experience like, how he got into it, more detailed description of his aircraft, perhaps a sound-seeing tour during a flyover of the farm. Just some ideas.

Next weekend there is an Irish festival in Indy where there are loads of craftspeople displaying and talking about their work. Ifn y’all get yer chores done, you should head down to the big city. They have a sheep herding demonstration where the border collies get the sheep to follow a certain course. You guys could use a little getaway, I’ll bet. http://www.indyirishfest.com/

Comment by andrew

September 11, 2006 @ 10:33 am

Hey Kay! Welcome to GFL. Man I like the Pacific NW, well maybe too much rain depending where you are at.

Hey John G. That’s a great idea for the Life section. Anyone else have any thoughts?

That Irish festival looks good. I’m not sure I like the idea of driving 2 hours into Indy. I’m not a big on driving 4-5hour in a day. We’ll see, it might b fun though.

-Andrew

Comment by Jen

September 11, 2006 @ 8:19 pm

I really appreciate the craft talk because I just started knitting and I like to hear about other people’s knitting projects. I’d love to hear more about that in the life segments.

Comment by misty

September 11, 2006 @ 8:30 pm

Thanks for the feedback, Jen! I think we may make it a regular segment. Think I can push Andrew out of the lime-light? :)

Comment by Brenda

September 11, 2006 @ 9:15 pm

Great pick for your dehydrator! Here is a book that I found very helpful. You might be able to borrow from the library.

that’s Mary Bell’s Complete Dehydrator Cookbook incase my link is goofed up.
I make fruit roll-ups with my preschool kids each year, with some of the applesauce we also make. (wonder if you could use pear-sauce?) My favorite is strawberry rhubarb, made with mostly applesauce and a bit of strawberry jello and cooked rhubarb. Tangy and sweet.
We usually put our over sweet pears in with our tart nearly wild apples when we press cider, if they are ready at the same time. Our pear trees are overloaded also.
I like knitting content. I’m making little socks and wool soakers for my new baby grandson right now.
Haven’t commented lately but have been listening. Thanks for your regular updates and news.

Comment by Lurker

September 14, 2006 @ 12:25 pm

Very enjoyable show.

The food talk makes me envious, as I sit here choking down a tasteless store-bought baby carrot.

How about a show /segment on cheese? Mmmmmm, goat’s milk cheese.

Sound on the last show was great.

Thanks for doing the podcast.

Comment by Ana

September 14, 2006 @ 6:54 pm

Hey, this is totally unrelated to today’s show, but I wanted to send you a link I just found about clay pot irrigation. Apparently, 10 times more water efficient than drip. I’ve never heard of it before, so I thought you might like it.

http://www.ecocomposite.org/restoration/claypot.htm

http://pathtofreedom.com/journal/

Comment by andrew

September 18, 2006 @ 12:52 pm

Thanks Brenda, the dehydrator is really working great. I did a strawberry rhuhbarb (using our own strawberries) and it was really great.

Hi Lurker, I’m glad you enjoy the show! I’m saving cheese stuff for the winter when farm things are slower.

Hi ana! Thanks for the link on clay pot irrigation, that sounds really cool.

Comment by Ana

September 18, 2006 @ 11:38 pm

Hey again,

Just wanted to say that I love the crafty talk, especially the stuff on natural dyeing. Brenda Dayne has a great Podcast called Cast On where she interviewed some people who do natural dyeing. They talked about using indigo for dyeing also.

Brenda tried to do some using avocado pits and peels, which didn’t work. I had just started saving up some of my own; glad I didn’t do any experiments of my own.

Good luck and keep us posted!