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Welcome to a new episode. In the show this week:

  • Farm Phone
    • Kirsten on milking goats on pasture
    • Small Farmers Journal and horse farming
    • Libby – herding
    • Rick – Houston – email address & wife http://demonmasters.wordpress.com
    • Kirsten – interested in philosophical part of show
  • Round-Up
  • Farm – Milk Processing
    • Immediate processing
    • Pasteurizing
    • More processing
    • Cream
    • Cheese
    • Yogurt / Kefir

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

We haven’t had a listener call in show since barncast 95, and we had 5 great calls into the farm phone, 206-202-GOAT. This week we discuss:

  • Weather, it’s spring?
  • Sustainable living and horses
  • Cheese waxing
  • Lehman’s store
  • Nose to tail eating
  • Fiber and wool
  • Florida, and the spring planting

Misty’s flikr can be found here. And she has some great pictures:

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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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

    Picture of the Week:

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    Well due to popular demand (just look at the archived polls) we have another photo how to episode. While out shearing today Misty grabbed the camera and we walk through the pictures discussing them. If you don’t remember the first time we did this it was last fall about how to butcher poultry.

    The link you to the gallery with the pictures is: http://photos.geekfarmlife.com/v/farm/sheep/shearing2007/

    In this weeks show:

    That’s it this week! I hope you enjoy the show, let us know! Please leave us comments or call the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT. We also hope you enjoy the new background green colour. It matches out beehives and milking stand. Show 60 discusses why we have this colour.

    Time lapse movie of shearing: MP4 or XVID/AVI

    Picture of the week:

    Daffodil from a different perspective

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    Well there’s been some changes since last week. There’s new voices to add to the show, 6 actually! You can hear at least 4 during the show. The ending this week is a little abrupt. After the mixer’s batteries die the batteries on the mp3 recorded died. That brings the show to a rather abrupt end. We were going long anyways, so you must have been saved by the equipment. In the show:

    1. Welcome and, talk about what’s new and show 55b
    2. Farm Phone! 206-202-GOAT. Sorry India, you’ll be on next week
    3. Round up: Goose trouble, rabbits, etc
    4. Farm Section: Prep and delivery of kids and lambs
    5. Show ends due to power failure

    We love your comments and questions, please email them to gfl@geekfarmlife.com or call the Farm Phone at 206-202-GOAT.

    Picture of the week:

    One of Baby

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    Lambs!

    Babs’s Babies:

    * Ewe (girl) – 11.5 lbs
    * Ram (boy) – 15 lbs

    Babs

    More images if you click on the picture

    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!

    Picture of the week:

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    Welcome to another installment of our own personal Green Acres. Well ok, we don’t own a tractor that falls apart. This weeks show has a great farm phone section, and hopefully we were coherent in the Farm section. The topics:

    • One away from show 50.
    • Farm Phone: 206-202-GOAT
    • Tractors
    • Digg, and instruments
  • Round up: Mud, Sheep, Turkeys are laying
  • Farm Section: All about laying eggs
  • Life Section: Craigs list in the midwest, and freecycle
  • Please send us your favorite clips from the past 50 shows. Just show and time would be great and I’ll make something for show #50. Email is gfl@geekfarmlife.com.

    Picture of the Week:
    Turkey eggs

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    Welcome to episode 32! We’re up in the barn this week since the wind out since is picking up. It’s normally pretty windy here in the fall so I guess it must be fall time. :( This weeks topics:

    • Dedication to Rob Levin aka Lilo.
    • Farm Phone! Call in your question to 206-202-GOAT
      • Fall planting
      • Buying Honey Comb
    • The story of why we now have a bee hive
    • Breeding season. Sam the Ram, and Bonafide the Buck work for the year
    • Foot update
    • Life update
    • Apple Ice Wine

    A special thank you to Dave from Chub Creek for the ID. We’ll be hearing more from him on future shows. :) Make sure to drop us an email, gfl@geekfarmlife.com or call the Farm Phone at 206-202-GOAT.

    Picture of the week:

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