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Welcome to another weeks show! There’s been some changes around the farm this week, so the round up section seems to drag, but what’s new?? We’re back in the barn and the kids are screaming their heads off, like normal so you’ll we have some nice ambient audio. In this weeks show:

• Carrie’s Farm vs ours
• Farm Phone — 206-202-GOAT
• • John M asks about fairs
  • Patty asks about space needed for animals
• Round up: numbers, ducks, goats, bees, the garden, etc etc
• Farm: Misty knits a sweater from our own wool

I hope you enjoy the show, please give us a call on the farm phone 206-202-GOAT or email us at gfl@geekfarmlife.com.

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We were one, now we are two, Misty’s back! This is our official one year show! Woohoo! Ok, on with the show:

• Misty’s Adventures
• More on podcamp toronto
• Roundup: We still have no kids
• Farm section: all about wool and how it leaves the sheep to make a sweater
• Life in the country with snow

Thanks for joining us this week! Please take a moment to call the farm with question or comment, 206-202-GOAT. There’s also a new poll to vote on!

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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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This is a really special episode, Caroline takes us for a tour of her barn while she’s milking. What could be better than the sounds from a strange barn??? In this weeks show:

• Dave from Chub creek sends us the opener
• John G and his peppers and wine. Thank you John G!
• Farm Phone: How did we meet, are we telling??
• Roundup!
• Caroline: Milking, and barn tour
• Foot problems
• Knitting and spinning. Roving vs combed tops

We had a great time doing the show this week and I think it showed. The great start with Dave and the tour really made it a good time. I hope you enjoy the show as much we did putting it together. We want your questions! Farm phone: +1-206-202-GOAT, or you can email us at gfl@geekfarmlife.com, or leave a comment!

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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:

• Introductions
• Thunderstorms. Lighting pictures
• Skype USB phones in linux
• Introduction to Bees!!!
• Bee cam
• Bee keepers in the US
• Beeking manual from tennessee
• Sweater
• Food saver

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!

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