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Welcome back! This week have 3 great phone calls that range from rechargeable batteries to mulch. We have a short discussion of propane, talk about selling goats and then look at the smoker one year later. I hope you enjoy the show, and make sure to call the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT!

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Hey everyone, now we’re looking at something anyone can do. Making grape jelly. Grape juice is everywhere, sugar is cheap, and pectin is easy to find.

Veg Variety @ Cornell — Thank you Dotty

Make sure to call the farm phone this week at 206-202-GOAT!

We haven’t done a walk through in almost 50 shows, that’s over a year. So let’s do one this week. You can find the pictures at:

First Picture

Just click the “Next” link along with us and you can follow along as we talk about how to use a steam juicer. It’s really easy, so enjoy! Of course we also have all the other sections, so join us for some great farm phone calls and the round up! Make sure to give us a call at 206-202-GOAT!

This week it’s just the two of us and some new hardware. I think the show sounds pretty nice with the new recorder but let us know! Either leave a comment of call the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT! In the show this week:

  • Farm Phone: 206-202-GOAT
  • CSA’s
  • Using chest freezers as storage, and limed floors
  • Geek Section: Tascam DR-1
  • Round up: Goats and garden
  • Farm Section: stories about catching swarms of honey bees

Pictures of the swarm:

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.

We finally had a show this week!!

It’s warm enough to be back out in the the barn this week!! We have 3 great farm phone calls. I have a special request though. We’re going to be out of town for 3 weekends, and I want to put together some shows while we’re on the road. It will basically be farm phone sections, so that means I need your calls to the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT. Give us tips, give us stories, ask questions. Be as long as you like, call back if you’re cut off after 5 minutes.

In this weeks show:

  • Farm Phone request
  • Farm Phone: 206-202-GOAT. Sheep, to udder wash, to dexters
  • Round Up: not much
  • Farm Section: An intro to curing meat, bacon and hocks

For recipes on how to make this bacon, click on the more… link:

Bacon

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This week we take a look at what and why we dehydrated this summer. This continues a long series of looking an at putting food up for winter by dehydration. Lot’s of people freeze their food, some can, but we like to dehydrate a lot of stuff. It uses less room, doesn’t need power, and it’s easy.

In this weeks show:

  • Ellen calls the farm phone line with an on the spot report
  • Fall is here
  • Farm Phone: 206-202-GOAT. Farm Phone Rocks!
  • Round Up: Goes for ever, like it’s still summer
  • Farm Section: Dehydration, what we’re trying this year

Picture of the Week:

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It must be the humidity out because this was one of our shortest podcasts. The calls to the farm phone are good, but making sauerkraut is so easy we don’t have to talk about it that much. If you’ve never made it before it really is something you should try. Remember to call the farm phone, 206-202-GOAT with your sauerkraut recipes! In this weeks show:

  • A little bit a rough start
  • Farm Phone: Two great calls! 206-202-GOAT
  • Round Up: back with the numbers, and there’s a lot going on
  • Farm Section: Homemade Sauerkraut

Picture of the Week, Our first honey:

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Welcome to a show that ends in 5, that means it’s time again for the
listener question show. I’m always a little worried that no one will
call in, but I know I shouldn’t be. Even though it’s the middle of
summer and vacation time, we had 9 phone calls! It’s a great show
and we cover a ton of different topics. A big thank you to everyone
who called in, you really did make this show. In the show: (sorry if I spell your name wrong)

  • Intro, and location
  • Mira: Exotics vs Sheep, Dehydrator Book, Wild Harvesting, and GAMA seal lids
  • Melony: Summer Squash in small spaces update
  • Bill: Book Information, anyone using a root cellar? Call the farm phone: 206-202-GOAT
  • Tom: Answers the question about migratory beeks
  • Round Up section
  • John M: Goat milk honey, and hay prices
  • NCN: What do we miss about city life?
  • Angel: Pests, and do we like mushrooms? (yes)
  • Sheri: How hard is soap making?
  • Trip, next show, etc

Show 76 next week will be a toup of the farm durring chores, which pictures
and all that good stuff. In two weeks we’ll be back to normal with show 77.

Picture of the week:

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