April 2008

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Barncast 116 — Portable Fencing #3

2008/04/27 in Electricity, Fencing, Podcast by andrew | 1 comment

Welcome to another great show!

This week we revisit an old topic, our portable fencing we use. Instead of mowing all summer long we have the sheep and goats trim our grass. This is at least the 3rd time we’ve talked about it, but we go into more detail this time. Don’t worry though if you haven’t listened to past shows, we do enough review you won’t be left behind.

Make sure you call the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT!

Moving hives in the back of the jeep:

Tomorrow I’ll add a movie of me setting up the fencing.

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Barncast 115 — Alfalfa pellet report

2008/04/20 in Animal Feed, Podcast by andrew | 6 comments

Well spring is upon us, so let’s take keep looking back for this show and see how the Alfalfa pellet experiment worked out over the winter. We also talk about corn, oil, food and pig manure! We have 3 different calls to the farm phone, so take a listen!

To see pictures taken in Indy or how spring is coming, click on the flower:

Flower

Call the farm phone! 206-202-GOAT

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Barncast 114 — Rehydration

2008/04/13 in Dehydration, Food Preservation, Podcast by andrew | 10 comments

Welcome back! This show has 2 great farm phone calls, and we look at how we managed to do with our dehydration last year. Or, more to the point how well different things rehydrated. Since my computer is back I also put together a video extra. The audio is terrible, but I think it’s just amazing to watch the dogs work the sheep. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

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Barncast 113 — Farm Phone Special

2008/04/07 in Animals, Cheese, Garden, Meat, Podcast, Sheep, Weather, Wool by andrew | 8 comments

We haven’t had a listener call in show since barncast 95, and we had 5 great calls into the farm phone, 206-202-GOAT. This week we discuss:

  • Weather, it’s spring?
  • Sustainable living and horses
  • Cheese waxing
  • Lehman’s store
  • Nose to tail eating
  • Fiber and wool
  • Florida, and the spring planting

Misty’s flikr can be found here. And she has some great pictures:

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Podcast delayed

2008/04/06 in Podcast by andrew | 3 comments

We had a dinner party with some friends tonight so we’ll do the podcast Monday.

Sorry about not getting the video’s online from .au and .nz. With my computer down this backup laptop just doesn’t have the software or ompf to do the editing and transcoding.