April 2007

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Barncast 64 — Our Bee Story, try #2

2007/04/30 in Bees, Flying, Podcast by andrew | 6 comments

Ok, I broke the mp3 file a 2nd time today and everyone was downloading the extremely compress low quality audio version. Then the website got trashed by accident. I think it’s fixed it for the last and final time now.

This weeks show is pretty special, we cut out everything except the round up and the farm section to bring you the story about how Tom our resident beekeeper in Milwaukee. He heard our complaints on the last show about not being able to get any bees to start our hive so he called around and arranged two nucs for us. What a guy eh?

So this weeks show:

  • Special thanks to Tom, Gayle, and Bill
  • Weekend weather
  • No Farm Phone! Call in your questions for the user question show, 206-202-GOAT
  • Round Up: It’s spring, there is a lot going on
  • Farm Section: Our Bee Story, aka how to transport bees in a small plane

Next week’s show ends in 5, so that means it’s time for our user question show! It received a lot of good feed back last time so we’re going to try it again. That means we need your questions for the show. There are 3 ways to send them to us, farm phone at 206-202-GOAT, email gfl@geekfarmlife.com or leave a comment.

Picture of the week, bees loaded for the flight home:

Bees in the back seat

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Barncast 63 — The Green House

2007/04/22 in Bees, Garden, Podcast by andrew | 8 comments

A little late, but here’s the show notes, now that our hosting provider is online again! This weeks show has a huge round up, it’s amazing how busy things start getting in the spring! Other things in the show:

  • The weather is warmer, and we’re both tired
  • Farm Phone — 206-202-GOAT
    • Hosting trouble, tax day, and beans!
  • Round Up: Milking going up, eggs mixed, seeds started, etc
  • Farm: Greenhouse
  • Life: Busy weekend and bee meeting

I hope you enjoy the show this weekend. Make sure to call us and leave your question for show 65, question show. You can call the farm phone, leave a comment, or send us an email at gfl@geekfarmlife.com.

Picture of the week, Caroline’s doeling:

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Barncast 62 — Winter Food Round Up

2007/04/15 in Ducks, Food, Food Preservation, Pasture, Podcast by andrew | 9 comments

Another show from the barn on a blustery day! If you hear some new peeing in the background, which might be hard over the racket the goats are making you’ll be hearing the new ducklings we got this week. In the show this week:

  • Long intro about weather, travels, and Misty’s new hair cut
  • Two great calls to the farm phone, from John M and Carry. Thank you both! 206-202-GOAT
  • Geek Section: Podcamp Chicago
  • Round Up: Ducklings, Pasture, Milk report, etc.
  • Farm Section: Look over what food we put aside, what worked, what didn’t
  • Life Section: Chicago and dead batteries

We hope you enjoy the new show! We love your feedback, you can contact us by email at gfl@geekfarmlife.com the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT or please leave a comment!

Picture of the week:

Hide behind mom

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Barncast 61 — Shearing adventures

2007/04/08 in Podcast, Shearing, Sheep, Wool by andrew | 5 comments

Well due to popular demand (just look at the archived polls) we have another photo how to episode. While out shearing today Misty grabbed the camera and we walk through the pictures discussing them. If you don’t remember the first time we did this it was last fall about how to butcher poultry.

The link you to the gallery with the pictures is: http://photos.geekfarmlife.com/v/farm/sheep/shearing2007/

In this weeks show:

That’s it this week! I hope you enjoy the show, let us know! Please leave us comments or call the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT. We also hope you enjoy the new background green colour. It matches out beehives and milking stand. Show 60 discusses why we have this colour.

Time lapse movie of shearing: MP4 or XVID/AVI

Picture of the week:

Daffodil from a different perspective

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Barncast 60 — As the Wheel Turns

2007/04/01 in Astronomy, Bees, Podcast, Spinning by andrew | 6 comments

Welcome to number 60! GFL will need it’s AARP membership card soon. ;) You’ll hear the barn door blowing in the breeze, and wow is it windy today. Is the show this week:

  • Big thanks to John M for the care package
  • Farm Phone: 206-202-GOAT
  • Moving from Hawaii to Missouri
  • How Beehive Splits work
  • Round up: From cleaning to turkeys to sprouts it’s been busy
  • Farm Section: All about types of spinning wheels
  • Life Section: Roller skating and astronomy

    • We hope you enjoy the show. Please leave a comment, drop us a line on the farm phone or email us at gfl@geekfarmlife.com.

    The Sheep Shearing video I talked about is available from The University of Vermont UVM Livestock.

    Picture of the week:

    Turkey Legs!

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