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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.

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We haven’t been blown away, yet. That strange noise in the background is the wind. Yes, I mic’ed the window. It’s cold so we stayed inside and did the podcast from the sofa. We wander a bit, but overall for a mid winter cast it came out ok!

In this weeks show:

• Thank you to Tom
• The Weather
• Farm Phone, Misty’s in trouble with Gabe again. 206-202-GOAT
• Astronomy
• Astronomy 161 — Ohio State Podcast
• Astronomy a Go go
• Round up! It’s cold!
• Farm Section: It’s all about cheese. This week it’s just a very light overview, more depth latter
• Life Section: spinning and sweaters

Please leave us a comment or call the Farm Phone: 206-202-GOAT!

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Welcome to Barncast 51!? It seems like we just finished with the garden, and here we are again planning the garden, and a whole lot more!? Here are some of the things we cover.

• Jon Peder serenades us with the sweet sounds of the tuba
• Melanie asks about growing squash in a limited space
• Andrew got his new telescope
• We ordered the seeds and other supplies for the garden
• Once again, we didn’t have a life.? See a pattern??

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Welcome to barncast 50! Wow, it doesn’t seem that long ago we were talking about the single digits, and now we’re up to 50. That’s a lot of shows! In this weeks show:

• We go through 50 shows in 5 minutes
• Farm Phone, Ellen gives us a ring, 206-202-GOAT
• Geek Section: Telescope on order, Astronomy A Go Go
• Round up: Winter arrived!
• Farm Section: Spinning! Why? What? etc
• No life this week, we vegged out

Please give the farm phone section a call, 206-202-GOAT, or leave us a comment, we really do love them.

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Well it was supposed to be a short show, but it turned into a long one. Oh well! Back in episode 31 we talked about dehydrating food for winter. We’re now well into using that food so in the farm section we review what worked, what didn’t, and how to make it tasty. Other topics include:

• Wet weather
• Farm Phone, 4 calls! 206-202-GOAT
• Geek Section: Archos PMA intro, and telescope question
• Round up, and more wet weather
• Farm Section, rehydration
• Life Section

I hope you like this weeks show. Make sure to give the Farm Phone a ring or leave a comment!

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