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Barncast 62 — Winter Food Round Up

2007/04/15 in Ducks, Food, Food Preservation, Pasture, Podcast by andrew | 9 comments

Another show from the barn on a blustery day! If you hear some new peeing in the background, which might be hard over the racket the goats are making you’ll be hearing the new ducklings we got this week. In the show this week:

  • Long intro about weather, travels, and Misty’s new hair cut
  • Two great calls to the farm phone, from John M and Carry. Thank you both! 206-202-GOAT
  • Geek Section: Podcamp Chicago
  • Round Up: Ducklings, Pasture, Milk report, etc.
  • Farm Section: Look over what food we put aside, what worked, what didn’t
  • Life Section: Chicago and dead batteries

We hope you enjoy the new show! We love your feedback, you can contact us by email at gfl@geekfarmlife.com the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT or please leave a comment!

Picture of the week:

Hide behind mom

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Barncast 48 — Rehydration

2007/01/07 in Astronomy, Computers, Dehydration, Food Preservation, Podcast, Weather by andrew | 6 comments

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!

Picture of the Week:

Bonafide

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Barncast 36 — Farm Phone, pigs, and bees.

2006/10/15 in Bees, Food, Food Preservation, Lifestyles, Mobile Phones, Pigs, Podcast by andrew | 7 comments

This weeks podcast is from the straw loft in the barn. We cover a lot of different topics this week and they include:

  • Thanks to Matt & AJ
  • Farm Phone: 206-202-GOAT (4628)
    • Why did we decide to move?
    • Another method of tracking what’s in a deep freeze
    • Call phone towers, and the buzz
  • How not to move pigs
  • Bee, and bee association banquet
  • Curried Squash soup

No picture of the week this week! Our camera batteries are dead dead. Hopefully next week, I have to order some new ones.

Please drop us a line at gfl@geekfarmlife.com or call the Farm Phone (206-202-GOAT) or leave a comment!

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Barncast 31 — Dehydration!

2006/09/09 in Audio Equipment, Dehydration, Fiber, Food Preservation, Podcast, Promotion by andrew | 8 comments

We’re back in the barn this week, and it’s rather quiet out. It’s a good show and we cover a good set of topics. The Farm Phone was really lit up this week, and we have great feedback, and Tom answer a bee question. The topics this week:

  • John G’s Bee question
  • NCN Leaves feedback. Check out his podcast: http://www.ncnpodcast.com/
  • Running feedback
  • Geek Stuff, microphone pre amp. Blog entries: Andrew’s Blog
  • Dehydration, and food storage
  • Fiber, dyeing, and taking a week off

We want your feedback! The Farm Phone is: 206-202-GOAT, give us a call, ask a question! It’s that simple. Email us at gfl@geekfarmlife.com, or leave a comment.

This week’s picture of the week:

DCP_0262

More pictures in the full post.

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Barncast 26 — Bzzcast!

2006/08/05 in Bees, Food Preservation, Knitting, Podcast, Skype, Weather by andrew | 8 comments

This weeks show has a guest, Tom who’s a Wisconsin bee keeper. I’m sorry about some of the phone call quality, we were having some internet troubles. But the content we really enjoyed. This weeks show:

For the bee section we didn’t talk about varroa mites, and other problems. We want to bring Tom back, if you want him back let us know. We really want feedback this week! Email us at gfl@three-elms.com, or leave comments!

Enjoy!

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