Geek.Farm.Life

This week we revisit an old topic, our portable electric fence. It’s been a little over a year since we started using it and I think we’ve learn a lot so we look at what mistakes we made and what worked well. We do a lot of review but if you’re new to show and want more about the fence check out some back episodes from last year when we talked about buying it and setting it up for the first time.

In this weeks show:

• Rain update
• Farm Phone 206-202-GOAT
• Linda from chicago, all about strawberries and garlic
• Geek Section: New Laptop
• Round up: Quick round up
• Farm Section: Electronet fencing after one year

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It’s summer so we’ve basically stopped podcasting from the barn for a bit, it just get’s way to hot up in the hayloft (attic) of the barn when it’s >90f/30c outside and the sun is beating down on the roof all day. Instead we’re out back on our patio, with the birds and the wind that picked up due to thunderstorms close by.

We have a less serious show this week. We blaze through the round up in record time, let us know what you think. The main topic is a reality check. Inspired by the end of the downshiftme podcast we cover what our expectations of work and interests were and then look at the reality of it. While we’ve covered a similar topic about 30 shows ago, we look at our situation more and what we are up to.

In the show:

• Intro and Welcome
• Farm Phone: 206-202-GOAT
• Tom and sheep milk
• Peg from Vancouver Island
• Omly from Boston
• Round Up
• Reality check, our goals and reality

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Show 70! Wow this we’re getting long in the tooth. Will this is a very busy week and weekend. It wasn’t till 9:30pm that we had dinner. Yikes. Well this week show is dedicated to all the hard working strawberries out there that make such tasty treats this time of the year. In this weeks show:

• Intro and the last weeks feedback
• Farm Phone: 206-202-GOAT
• Work habbits
• Animal Feed in town, Rabbit Illnesses, and Cicadas
• Round Up
• Farm Section: Strawberries and what to do with them
• Life Section: Marriage and HSA’s

Thank you for listening to this weeks show and I hope you enjoy it. We always like feed back please email comments to gfl@geekfarmlife.com, leave a comment or call the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT.

We’ve also added a new feed if you’re new to the show and want to catch up on past episodes. It’s the archive feed listed on the right of the webpage.

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Welcome to another weeks show! There’s been some changes around the farm this week, so the round up section seems to drag, but what’s new?? We’re back in the barn and the kids are screaming their heads off, like normal so you’ll we have some nice ambient audio. In this weeks show:

• Carrie’s Farm vs ours
• Farm Phone — 206-202-GOAT
• • John M asks about fairs
  • Patty asks about space needed for animals
• Round up: numbers, ducks, goats, bees, the garden, etc etc
• Farm: Misty knits a sweater from our own wool

I hope you enjoy the show, please give us a call on the farm phone 206-202-GOAT or email us at gfl@geekfarmlife.com.

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