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Barncast 134 — Rutabagas

2008/09/07 in Food, Garden, Podcast by andrew | No comments

We’re back! After taking a week off we’re back with a great show. The farm phone has been ringing like crazy and we have a great set of calls! We catch up with old friends and new. After the calls, the and the round up we talk about rutabaga. This is our first year growing them and we just picked our first plant and have had some good luck cooking it.

Next weeks show is 135, since it ends in 5 we would like to do a listener call in show. So call the farm phone 206-202-GOAT. Tell us how your garden worked out this summer.

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Barncast 132 — A tour of a farmers market and rural health care

2008/08/17 in Ducks, Food, Podcast by andrew | 6 comments

Welcome to another great show! A big thank you to everyone who called the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT, you guys really do make the show. Ellen calls in 4 times as she tours a farmers market, which is a fun trip since you can hear all the happenings and music playing coming through her phone. We also continue the discussion of organic with some questions and some more observations. Tom the beekeeper also calls in to show us how to call ducks!

Download, listen, call the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT!

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Barncast 130 — Organic?

2008/08/03 in Food, Garden, Podcast by andrew | 4 comments

What a great romp through all sorts of subjects this week. We have a great set of phone calls to the farm phone, then we look into some bigger topics. We take a look at how our thoughts towards organic have changed over the time we’ve moved here. Give us a call at 206-202-GOAT and let us know your thoughts!

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Barncast 88 — Butter

2007/10/14 in Alpaca, Butter, Dairy, Fiber, Food, Milk, Podcast by andrew | 10 comments

This week we look at something really simple, making butter at home. It’s so simple anyone can do it, the only thing you need is some cream and a food processor. Let us know how you make out, call the farm phone, 206-202-GOAT. In the show this week:

New cat says hi
Calenders anyone?
Farm Phone: NO CALLS!!! 206-202-GOAT
Geek Section: Alpaca fiber
Round Up: Eggs!
Farm Section: Butter

Picture Walk Through

I looked on cafepress and the price for mugs seem to be $11 and calendars $15, plus shipping. That seems pretty expensive, anyone know a better place?

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Barncast 86 — What to do with Honey

2007/09/30 in Fairs, Food, Honey, Podcast, Rural Living by andrew | 4 comments

We have another late night show from the barn! In the show this week:

Farm Phone: 206-202-GOAT. Great call about rabbits and eggplant
Round Up: fall is here
Farm: Honey, how to store it, cook with it, etc
Life Section: Tractor pull

Give us a shoot on the farm phone 206-202-GOAT or leave us an email gfl@geekfarmlife.com or a comment! I hope you enjoy this weeks show.

The video extra will be up Monday night!

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Barncast 84 — Feta

2007/09/17 in Cheese, Food, Podcast by andrew | 5 comments

Important!! Barncast 85 is a user call in show, call the farm phone with questions, comments at 206-202-GOAT or else it’ll be a boring show!

This weeks show is done late in the barn, most of the animals are asleep so it’s not the roar cacophony you’re used to. It’s rather long since we spend a long time going over the farm phone calls, so hopefully that will answer your questions that have come up about recent shows. In the show this week:

Call the farm phone for show 85!
Farm Phone:

Coops and point of lay chickens
Poults?
Dehydrator styles and advantages

Round Up: All things normal for FALL!

Farm Section: Feta Walk through

Feta pictures for the work though.

There is a video extra, and it will be posted latter today. (monday)

Recipe is given in the full post. (click on the more link)

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Barncast 83 — Summer Dehydration

2007/09/09 in Dehydration, Food, Food Preservation, Podcast by andrew | 4 comments

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

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Barncast 78 — Sauerkraut

2007/08/05 in Fermenting, Food, Food Preservation, Podcast, Recipes by andrew | 4 comments

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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Barncast 73 — Chard!

2007/07/01 in Bees, Chard, Cheese, Food, Podcast, Podcasting, Sheep, Vegetables by andrew | 7 comments

Show 73 is a little windy, oh well it’s summer time podcasting. This weeks show gets to the point pretty quick because we have SIX yes 6 calls to the Farm Phone (206-202-GOAT) and they are all wonderful calls. We liked one call so much it becomes the topic of the farm section, what to do with Swiss Chard. It’s a great plant, easy to grow, easy to cook, and really pretty. Why don’t we see it more?? In the show this week:

Farm Phone: 206-202-GOAT

Tech details, on how we do the show
Turning Sheep out
Unfriendly bottle lambs?? Hair sheep?
Peg makes cheese! http://peg-woolinmysoup.blogspot.com/
Omly is overrun by Swiss Chard
Dealing with Bee Stings

Round Up, a little slower this week

Farm Section: Chard

Future Topics page

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Barncast 70 — Strawberries

2007/06/10 in Animal Feed, Food, Podcast, Rabbits, Strawberries by andrew | 8 comments

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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