Geek.Farm.Life

Comment by Tom

February 24, 2007 @ 12:47 pm

Best podcast yet! You had a content overflow, which left a lot of room open for future use. You sounded, I don’t know… Ready. Polished. Confident. It was country miles ahead of #1. Nice job!

Compost: Get some red worms from the bait shop and pitch them in with your existing heap. My worm boxes are indoors and never smell nasty. They produce the finest compost plus free bait! The worms stay in their boxes. Composting is faster because the worms “turn” it. If outdoors, the adults will die in a cold winter, but the eggs will be just fine and hatch in the spring. Google “vermiculture”.

The output from your herbivores is great input for your worms.

Thanks again for this weeks peek into the farm.

Best,
Tom

Comment by John G

February 24, 2007 @ 1:24 pm

Hi, kids!

One suggestion:
Put in a category of past poll results. I wme back to see the results of the last poll, but a new one had already been posted.

Comment by John G

February 24, 2007 @ 2:25 pm

Misty mentioned on the show that male kids can be left with their mom when they are born, but didn’t say why there was a difference between them and females, or what needed to be done to female kids at birth. Could you explain that, please?

The analysis of farm life was valuable, especially regarding the costs and hazards (like always having to be there).

Thanks!

Comment by misty

February 24, 2007 @ 5:59 pm

John G,

1. We can easily make a poll archive page. I will work on it tomorrow.

2. The reason you would bottle-feed a sheep or goat is to make it more tame and handle-able. Also, with dairy animals that you are going to milk, you bottle-feed the babies because you want mom to be milked out twice a day, not constantly throughout the day.

Hope that makes sense. :)

Comment by Nina

February 24, 2007 @ 6:44 pm

Just sat in your podcamp session today at Ryerson in Toronto, and was intriqued by your site. Sat down and listened to it with my 11 year old son. We liked the sound of the bells on the animals softly in the background. Great live feel. Thanks for your tips on how to take the podcast out of the studio. Although, I think your studio looks great. A big difference from the one I hope to set up in an inner city high school classroom in Toronto.

Comment by John G

February 24, 2007 @ 8:11 pm

Thanks, Misty. That explains it! Hope you aren’t feeling too lonely while Andrew is at the meetup.

Comment by andrew

February 24, 2007 @ 11:07 pm

Hey Nina!

I’m glad you enjoyed the talk! Sure is different from the inner city, but that just seems like a perfect environment for bringing in ambient noise as well. Each city has it’s own sounds and audio feel. Toronto with it’s Canadian sirens, the rumble of street cars, etc.

The last show was a bit rushed, so please check out some other ones, including shows done in the late 20’s and 30’s that were done outside.

If you have any questions please let me know!

Comment by Kathy

February 27, 2007 @ 2:56 am

I had a feeling you might have been geocachers back when you had time to wander around looking for stuff!

Tom, I tried growing worms in their own bin and liked using the castings - then I forgot my bin outside in the sun one day and cooked the little critters. I would definitely do it again though.

Cute babies, keep the pictures coming!

Comment by andrew

February 27, 2007 @ 3:57 pm

Hey Kathy, Tom, etc!

I tried redworms once in the rabbit manure pile. I probably shouldn’t have dumped in there in February. ;) I’ll give them a try again, hehe. Glad you enjoyed the show.

Kathy, yeah geocaching was fun, especially when caches were closer. Last I checked we had 1 within a 30 mile radius. Based on its title I already know pretty much where it is too. =)