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Barncast 51 — Getting Ready to Garden

Filed under: Podcast, Garden, Astronomy — misty at 6:31 pm on Sunday, January 28, 2007

Welcome to Barncast 51!? It seems like we just finished with the garden, and here we are again planning the garden, and a whole lot more!? Here are some of the things we cover.

  • Jon Peder serenades us with the sweet sounds of the tuba
  • Melanie asks about growing squash in a limited space
  • Andrew got his new telescope
  • We ordered the seeds and other supplies for the garden
  • Once again, we didn’t have a life.? See a pattern??

Happy listening!? Here’s the picture of the week.

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Barncast 50 — The Art of Spinning

Filed under: Podcast, Spinning, Weather, Astronomy — andrew at 6:27 pm on Sunday, January 21, 2007

Welcome to barncast 50! Wow, it doesn’t seem that long ago we were talking about the single digits, and now we’re up to 50. That’s a lot of shows! In this weeks show:

  • We go through 50 shows in 5 minutes
  • Farm Phone, Ellen gives us a ring, 206-202-GOAT
  • Geek Section: Telescope on order, Astronomy A Go Go
  • Round up: Winter arrived!
  • Farm Section: Spinning! Why? What? etc
  • No life this week, we vegged out

Please give the farm phone section a call, 206-202-GOAT, or leave us a comment, we really do love them.

Picture of the Week:

Lendrum Wheel

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Barncast 49 — Layed an Egg

Filed under: Podcast, Eggs, Sheep, Turkeys — andrew at 4:27 pm on Sunday, January 14, 2007

Welcome to another installment of our own personal Green Acres. Well ok, we don’t own a tractor that falls apart. This weeks show has a great farm phone section, and hopefully we were coherent in the Farm section. The topics:

  • One away from show 50.
  • Farm Phone: 206-202-GOAT
    • Tractors
    • Digg, and instruments
  • Round up: Mud, Sheep, Turkeys are laying
  • Farm Section: All about laying eggs
  • Life Section: Craigs list in the midwest, and freecycle

Please send us your favorite clips from the past 50 shows. Just show and time would be great and I’ll make something for show #50. Email is gfl@geekfarmlife.com.

Picture of the Week:
Turkey eggs

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Barncast 48 — Rehydration

Filed under: Podcast, Computers, Weather, Food Preservation, Dehydration, Astronomy — andrew at 5:39 pm on Sunday, January 7, 2007

Well it was supposed to be a short show, but it turned into a long one. Oh well! Back in episode 31 we talked about dehydrating food for winter. We’re now well into using that food so in the farm section we review what worked, what didn’t, and how to make it tasty. Other topics include:

  • Wet weather
  • Farm Phone, 4 calls! 206-202-GOAT
  • Geek Section: Archos PMA intro, and telescope question
  • Round up, and more wet weather
  • Farm Section, rehydration
  • Life Section

I hope you like this weeks show. Make sure to give the Farm Phone a ring or leave a comment!

Picture of the Week:

Bonafide

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