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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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 habits
• 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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Sorry about the late post, but our internet connection was basically dead all weekend so I couldn’t get the show uploaded. The wind was causing the dish to wobble around too much. Oh well, we’ll talk about it as part of our geek section next week.

In this weeks show! Feed and more feed. We look at how to feed concentrates (grain) to your animals and humans. What forms to buy it, and how to mix your own. I’ll get the mixes online later tonight. All this thanks to a call from Caroline.

She also asked about milling your own wheat and corn meal at home. So we have a hearty discussion about grain mills, where to buy grain, and different types of wheat. If you thought all flour was equal then listen up, there’s something to learn in this section. The mill we have is still made! It’s just changed names, here’s a link to amazon. (no weird referal stuff)

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Barncast number 9 is up! “Podcasting from the barn at three-elms farm, with two tons of hay strapped to our asses…” Heh, nah.

This week is a fun show, it’s done in daylight! We talk about daylight savings time even more, man when are we going to ever get off this topic? Maybe that’s why this show weighs in at 42 minutes!!! Holly cow, err goat. We also talk about:

• Misty’s work on he soap blog
• Hay status
• Lamb and kid update
• Focus on an animals: Sheep
• Goat’s due dates
• BMW accident update
• “Hoosier Daddy”
• Podcast of the week: Hoosier Geeks
• Crazy Cuisine: Lamb Burgers

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