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Barncast 205 — Trains and Maple Syrup

andrew — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:25:48 +0000

This week we go from maple syrup production, to steam trains to podcasting equipment. We need your thoughts and experience with worm bins, call us at 206-202-GOAT.

Barncast 204 — Toowoomba

andrew — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 12:11:24 +0000

Welcome back for another week! I think the audio is better this week. We start off mentioning a few other shows that have been around for a long time:

Podquiz: http://podquiz.com/

Ellen’s Podcast: http://clickspin.wordpress.com/

Barncast 203 — A Car!

andrew — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 10:54:22 +0000

Another step in the progress of moving to Australia has arrived. We need your help this week on two items:

1. We need the name for an Australia section. Call the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT.

2. We need some new bumpers, anyone want to help? Email us, gfl@geekfarmlife.com

Barncast 202 — Container Garden Woes

andrew — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 12:53:10 +0000

Show notes to come.

Barncast 201 — Geeks in Australia

andrew — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:02:19 +0000

Please make sure to go check out Todd’s Astronomy site at: www.calastro.webs.com. This week should finishes up the farm phone calls, and what a great run we had. We still need your calls though at 206-202-GOAT. We then go through what our initial impressions at being geeks in Australia is like.

Barncast 200 — Show 200!

andrew — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:18:50 +0000

Took me a little time to get this show together this week but it’s done! Amazing show, amazing calls!

Barncast 199 — Two Months of a Container Garden

andrew — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:17:54 +0000

We would love you call to the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT. This week we talk about my first two months with a container garden, and then we look back at getting seed catalogs in winter and how our tomatoes worked out last year in Indiana, and most importantly, what didn’t work out.

Barncast 198 — All Australia Cast

andrew — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:56:37 +0000

We focus on this weeks show before we get back to more normal programing. We need your call to farm phone 206-202-GOAT, ask questions about the farm, about Australia, tell us how your winter is going!

Misty’s been here two weeks now, and has started job hunting. So I ask her impressions and initial reactions to being in a new country.

Barncast 197 — Welcome to Oz!

andrew — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 10:46:38 +0000

Oy, we had some audio problems! But here’s our first podcast from down under! Next week will be better, I promise. Call the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT

Barncast 196 - Farmer’s Markets and More Container Gardening

misty — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 01:51:25 +0000

Great phone calls this week, plus audio from the Australian bush! Enjoy!

Barncast 195 - Thanksgiving and Container Gardening

misty — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 23:02:36 +0000

Happy Thanksgiving!

Barncast 194 - Worms & Wasps

misty — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:10:51 +0000

We talk about worms in goats, public transport in Australia, wasps in the house, and various other things. Enjoy!

Barncast 193 - Aussie Internet Situations

misty — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 02:52:47 +0000

We talk about the differences in internet service between the US and Australia. Enjoy!

Barncast 192 - Settling In

misty — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:50:01 +0000

We talk about our week. Andrew is settling in and Misty is getting into a routine.

Misty totally forgot to talk about her wonderful visit with Linda in Chicago. It was a blast, we saw two plays and just had a great time. Thanks, Linda!

New Show Coming Soon

misty — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 13:19:14 +0000

We’ve had a difficult time getting together to record because of the time difference. The show might be a bit different this week, but it is coming. Thanks for the farm phone calls we have had so far, and keep them coming! Any feedback on the sound quality of last week’s show? I don’t produce the show very often, so I was pretty nervous about it!

–Misty

Barncast 191 - By the Seat Of Our Pants

misty — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 04:00:30 +0000

It’s late, but I got the show done! We answer your questions and talk about what we’ve both been up to this week, while experiencing our first few days across the globe from one another.

Linda in Chicago, our own Chicken Lady, in the News

misty — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 14:21:01 +0000

The Wombat Has Landed!

misty — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 20:14:48 +0000

Andrew just sent me a TXT that he landed in Brisbane safe and sound!

Andrew’s 100% Whole Wheat Bread Machine Bread Recipe

misty — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 12:04:34 +0000

This is the recipe for whole wheat bread in the Zojirushi bread machine:

So the bread recipe:

3 cups of whole wheat flour. I’m really like a good hard white spring
wheat from Montana. Golden something or other.
2 eggs+milk/water to make 1 2/3 cups. Then add oil to the 1 3/4 cup level.
1 tbsn or so of honey.
1 tsp salt
1 tsp yeast
1/4 cup gluten.

I put the liquids and honey in the bottom of the bread bowl, then
float the flour, salt, gluten, and yeast on top.

Times are set to:
5 preheat (should be longer, I reduced it to save time one day)
30 knead
45 1st rise
35 2nd rise
22 proof
1:00 bake

Here’s some observations, take em with a grain of salt. Kneading for
30 mins seems ok, it maybe too long. The rises seem about right. You
can tell if the second rise it too long because the bread will look
fermented, holes popping out the top, etc. If it rises too long the
yeast looses vigor. The proof you can tell if it’s been too long
since the loaf will fall back and tend to collapse. Since it takes
time to heat the chamber to cooking temps you get a lot longer second
rise than you would popping the loaves into the hot oven. So the
cooking time may really be closer to 45mins, with 15 of heating slowly
and the bread rising like crazy.

You may have to play with the liquids some. If you look at the loaf
you can normally tell if there was too much or too little moisture. A
dense load that appears to have struggled against the flour/gluten to
rise was too dry. A loaf that let all the gas out and is sunken may
have been to wet. The flour and it’s moisture content has a lot to do
with that. This is why I use the gluten, it covers a magnitude of
sins and makes the moisture content less critical. When you make
whole wheat bread by hand every time you adjust the bread so it’s just
right.

Barncast 190 — A little trip

andrew — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:05:43 +0000

This week we talk about wells and pressure tanks, and then about ou trip down to visit Kirsten and her restaurant La Scala in Lafayette. We had a great time, and we have a fun show. We have 4 farm phone calls and have a fun show. The last one with me at Three Elms Farm!

Barncast 189 — BBQ a Goat

andrew — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:26:56 +0000

We’re a little behind this week since we had a going away get together last night, but here it is! Get it while it’s hot, and call the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT.

Barncast 188 — Garage Sale

andrew — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 02:42:05 +0000

Well, thanks to an emergency tweet we had calls to the farm phone. Thanks guys! Now make sure to call the phone at 206-202-GOAT for next weeks show. Plus we need your help with this weeks questions, how to get rid of grasshoppers, and what to do with to many pumpkins!

Barncast 187 — House Renovations

andrew — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 02:41:30 +0000

We have 4 great calls to the farm phone this week, from sheep farming to flying. Make sure to call the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT or we’ll just talk about moving, and selling off the farm. We finish up the show talking about the house and renovations and fun and problems we ran into.

House Renovations

Barncast 186 — Flooring

andrew — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 02:49:08 +0000

we’re late this week, and we’ll be late for next week too since Misty is traveling over the weekend. We have 3 great phone calls this week with some fun questions, and then we look at home renovations.

Barncast 185 — How to Paint A Barn

andrew — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 02:07:01 +0000

What a show this week, we cover moving to Australia to painting a barn! We have 4 great calls to the farm phone, at 206-202-GOAT with great comments and questions.

We had a great call from http://acrossthecreekfarm.blogspot.com/, so make sure to go check them out.

Barncast 184 — Selling off the Animals

andrew — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 03:21:57 +0000

What a great set of calls we has this week, 8 total all telling us to keep on doing the show. Wat a fun show this week. Call the farm phone, 206-202-GOAT,

Here’s the bar painted.

Barncast 183 — Big Changes

andrew — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 01:46:42 +0000

Well, there’s some changes going on her on around the farm. It’ll even change the direction of the podcast. We want your feedback, call us at 206-202-GOAT!

Barncast 182 — From Tomatoes to Worms to Yogurt

andrew — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 03:24:46 +0000

We have a great show this week! Great calls, and great questions!

Barncast 181 — Got your Goat?

andrew — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 03:08:07 +0000

Well, of course it’s Goad, but this week we finally cover goats! We have some fantastic phone calls to the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT!

Barncast 180 — Ducks, Eggs, Gardens, and more!

andrew — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 02:05:39 +0000

I’m sorry we were late this week. The show has turned out great! We have some wonderful calls and we go through them in detail. Sadly we don’t get to talk about goats this week though. Enjoy the show!

Another Delay

misty — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 01:04:02 +0000

Sorry folks. Due to last-minute schedule upheaval, the show is going to be delayed yet another day. Keep your fingers crossed that we’ll have a fresh podcast for you tomorrow, and keep your calls coming!

Barncast 179 — Garden’s Gone Wild

andrew — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:45:07 +0000

We had a few set backs this week. We let the garden get a little to far and it’s been impossible trying to get caught up. So we go over gardens when they go wrong.

Also make sure to call the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT!

Barncast 178 — Tomatoes!

andrew — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:54:24 +0000

Welcome to this weeks show! Hopefully in time for some of us, what to do with the 200lbs of tomatoes you get this week. We have 5 great calls and with loads of information and questions. We need your input so call the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT!

Barncast 177 — Call in show

andrew — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:04:55 +0000

We were tired today and we had 5 great calls so we thought that would form the show. Thank you so much guys! Yet again we have some slight, erm audio differences. The pre-amp for the mics was dead so we just used the recorder instead, though I think it’s much better than it was in New York.

We have a great topic for next weeks show. What do you do with all the extra tomatoes from your garden?

Barncast 176 — Rabbits!

andrew — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 04:55:21 +0000

More notes tomorrow!

Delayed — Not our fault, blame Verizon

andrew — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 02:57:56 +0000

Our internet is barely working so I can’t upload the podcast. I’ll do it from work wose come to worse tomorrow.

Barncast 175 — Live from New York City!

andrew — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:24:39 +0000

This week we have something totally different. We’re in New York and we do the show the old fashioned way from 4 stories up on the upper west side. Audio is a little off so I hope it works.

Topics are a bit different too, we do a review of a Nokia E75 phone then talk about to country bumpkins wandering around New York.

Barncast 174 — Farm life

andrew — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 02:37:48 +0000

We were going to talk about rabbits tonight, but we had a wonderful farm phone call so we talk about farm life instead. It’s a fun show, so I hope you hear enjoying hearing about Alaska and how it differs from the lower 48.

Delayed

andrew — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:00:52 +0000

Hi guys, there’s going to be a delay in tonight’s podcast. Misty has a concert and we just finished dinner. We would be up way too late if we started now, and we’re pretty tired. It’s been a busy weekend. We’ll do the podcast Monday night instead.

Barncast 173 — Ducks

andrew — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:41:39 +0000

This weeks podcast was relaxed and fun. We have 2 farm phone calls, and then we cover ducks in the farm section. Make sure to call the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT.

If you are curious what an E75 look like click here.

Barncast 172 — Questions questions!

andrew — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 01:57:15 +0000

What a show we have this week. We have an some great phone calls so we have a question show. It’s been a long time since we dedicated a show to answering questions. We talk about everything from stray dogs to mp3 players. Make sure to call the farm phone for new weeks show at 206-202-GOAT.

Barncast 171 — Geese, 4 years on

andrew — Mon, 25 May 2009 02:29:09 +0000

Welcome back for show 171! This week we take a look back and Geese and what we’ve learned over the last few years. A long time ago when the show was still in the single digits we went over what animals we’ve had and why. It’s been over 3 years since then and we have many new listeners and things have changed so maybe it’s time to look at them again.

Barncast 170 — Potpourri

andrew — Mon, 18 May 2009 02:17:18 +0000

Welcome to a show with a little this and that. We value your calls to the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT, so give us a shout. This weeks show covers a little this and that, from a little tech, to some good milking numbers, to some chores info. I hope you enjoy.

Tom’s link

Amanda has a problem with her radishes, know what it is? Let us know:

Covered tomatoes:

Twitter

andrew — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:50:56 +0000

If you would like to follow more day to day activities on the farm please follow us on Twitter. We’ve been asked a few times, so let’s give it a shot. I’ll try and post a picture when there’s something interesting, or more mundane news that might not make the podcast.

http://twitter.com/geekfarmlife

-Andrew

Barncast 169 — Baby’s troubles

andrew — Tue, 12 May 2009 01:57:55 +0000

This week we even have a geek section. How long has it been since one of them? We had some excitement this week on the farm so we look though what had to be done and the results. No rest for the weary right?

We also had 2 great calls to the farm phone. We need your help with the first one so call 206-202-GOAT. We then look at the work needed to milk a goat.

Delayed

andrew — Mon, 11 May 2009 02:34:28 +0000

We had Michelle (our farm sitter and friend) over for some home made Indian food and it got rather late so we’re going to do the podcast Monday night. So if you didn’t call the farm phone last week you have 24 hours left to get it in for podcast 169. 206-202-GOAT.

-Andrew

Barncast 168 — Garden starting and changes for 2009

andrew — Mon, 04 May 2009 01:51:34 +0000

This year it’s our 5th year doing a garden, and this year we’re having some good luck getting things started. So we look at what we’re up to this year, where things are a and what we think worked. It’s also the first year we’ve had the wheel hoe from the start so we look at how it’s doing.

Barncast 167 — New Zealand trip

andrew — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:10:06 +0000

We look at two major topics this week, what happened to the farm while we gone and what did we do on vacation. It’s a long show, I hope you enjoy it.

Barncast 166 — Travel show #2

andrew — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 02:21:54 +0000

Welcome to the travel show #2. We have another wonderful call in show. Enjoy!

Barncast 165 — Travel show #1

andrew — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 02:15:45 +0000

Welcome to the first of two travel shows. This is a listener call in, and I hope you enjoy!

Barncast 164 — Mead and Garden update

andrew — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 02:34:45 +0000

Welcome to our last “live” show for 2 weeks. We’ll be traveling next week and the one after. We have 2 prerecorded shows that are abulous so I hope you enjoy them.

This week we look at how we how we’re doing seedlings this year, and the last 2 years of doing mead.

Barncast 163 — Talk

andrew — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 03:10:39 +0000

Round Up

* Numbers
* Goats: feeding goat kids all the milk at night (7.5 lbs) and still 4 lbs in the AM. Compromise.
* Breeding rabbits — should be due in 4 weeks.
* Ducks kind of ramping up on eggs
* Bees - trees budding, so more pollen
* Garden
o 102 tomatoes, eggplants, peppers started and under lights
o Peas and cauliflower in garden
o Green onion out of garden
o Oregano up and going in garden
o Garden fully tilled and ready to go

Life - IUSB talk

* Animal - How does milk get to the fridge
o Breed doe, wait 5 months
o Milk the doe
o Clean clean clean! Chill chill chill!
o Pasteurize or not, homogenize or not
o Commercially gets to stores within 2 days of milking
* Vegetable - How do you eat locally-grown veggies all year round in Indiana? Is it sustainable?
o Canning
o Root Cellaring
o Fermenting
o Dehydrating
o Freezing
* Miracle - A miracle (gift from nature) for every season
o Spring: Morel Mushrooms
o Summer: Berries
o Fall: jerusalem artichoke
o Winter: Maple Syrup

Delayed, again

andrew — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:48:14 +0000

Hey guys, we’ve had a very busy weekend getting ready to travel, getting the garden started, etc. It’s a bit to late to start the podcast, so we’re going to do it tomorrow night. Thanks for all the wonderful calls this week! We will have two successful shows while we are gone. If you haven’t called yet do so now at 206-202-GOAT.

-Andrew

Barncast 162 — Planning and more planning

andrew — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:01:19 +0000

We need you to call the farm phone, 206-202-GOAT. With your help we can make two great shows while we’re out of town, we’re looking for calls on anything you want, and if you need ideas, why not tell us about the garden you are planning this year? What do you do that no one else does? What works for you?

This weeks show we have a good round up section. There’s a lot starting up around the farm there days! We have updates on the goat kids, seeds, planting, etc.

Podcast Delay

misty — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 23:51:35 +0000

Sorry folks! Misty was out all day today and it’s now 8pm with no dinner yet, so we are going to do the podcast tomorrow. We have some big news, and we’re going to need lots and lots of Farm Phone calls over the next couple weeks, so if you have been saving up great questions, now is the time!

Barncast 161 — Call in, Syrup and Goats

andrew — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 02:36:19 +0000

Show notes to follow.

Barncast 160 — Guns and more

andrew — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:12:23 +0000

We’re back outside for the first time in a few months. I hope you enjoy all the barn sounds, though it’s pretty quiet at night except for Bonafide trying to squeeze his way through a steel fence. We also want your topic suggestions, so call the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT and tell us what you want to hear about!

I’ll post the promised video extra tomorrow night.

Slight delay

andrew — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 12:11:51 +0000

We went out to dinner for Misty’s birthday Sunday night so we’ll do the show Monday night instead. Plus well, we didn’t have power either due to a wind storm, and I’m not sure if the drone of a generator would be the perfect accompaniment to the show. We’ll get the show done Monday night. While you wait, why not check out the new webcam images? I upgraded the webcam over the weekend so it gets much better pictures. If you click on high res, you can get a high res image, but it’s only updated once every fives minutes. I also put a popout link on the page so it can open it’s down window. You can resize the window too and have the image follow.

Barncast 159 — Goat kids and more syrup

andrew — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 03:35:06 +0000

Well what a week. We’re up 3 goats, and one is inside to boot. We have 3 great calls and an email, then we look over our maple syrup adventures and then we look at caring for sick goats. Make sure to call the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT! I’ll get the video extra up tomorrow.

Barncast 158 — Call In show/maple syrup

andrew — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 02:49:38 +0000

What a wonderful show, we have 8 great calls! We cover a great series of topics from raised beds in town, to zebra mussels as chicken food. After all the wonderful calls we then talk about maple syrup since we’re just starting into the season.

Any comments or questions call the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT!

Barncast 157 — Garden pt2

andrew — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:39:58 +0000

Welcome back out wrap up of our garden experiences this week. Thoughts? What works best in your garden, or what flopped? Call the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT.

We have setup a Goat Cam. Make sure to check it out! We’re expecting kids in the next couple of week, so stay tuned to see what pops out!

Barncast 156 — Garden Planning

andrew — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 02:57:22 +0000

This week we start looking at what our plans are for the garden this year. We look back at the last few years, what worked, and what didn’t work in our garden. Tell us your thoughts at 206-202-GOAT.

We have some bad news this week, Cream the goat and Boots the cat passed away. She was 12 which is doing well for a girl that’s had ~25 kids, 12 for us alone. These are pictures of Cream and boots.

A very wet Cream:

Cream and her daughter Baby:

Boots on his cat tree:

New Contact Form

misty — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 14:45:55 +0000

A lot of you asked for it, so the contact form is back. Look along the left side of the blog page for the contact link, and let us know how it works for you!

Barncast 155 — Bees

andrew — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 03:07:43 +0000

We have a fun show this week that went together despite our best efforts. Our pre-amp battery was dead, the ipod we use for the bumpers was dead, etc. But it all works out in the end and the show came together. We have 3 great phone calls, and then we take a talk about bees. Yes in the middle of winter! Plus if you are planning on getting started in beekeeping this year it’s time to start thinking about it.

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

Barncast 154 — Smoking

andrew — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 03:00:37 +0000

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!

Hometown Tales Podcast: http://hometowntales.com/

Barncast 153 — Portable Heat

andrew — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:25:15 +0000

We have a little fun inside this week. It’s cold up here again, so we’re not doing it in the barn. This leads perfectly into our farm section though, when we look at how to get heat where you need it. Of course, we have a great Farm Phone section. We go over batteries, green houses, and more! Make sure to call the Farm Phone with your money saving tips, or podcast recommendations at 206-202-GOAT.

Barncast 152 — Animals in the winter

andrew — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 02:57:44 +0000

This week we have a great farm phone section, with 5 wonderful calls. Make sure to call the farm phone for next week at 206-202-GOAT, or you can email us an mp3 at gfl@geekfarmlife.com.

This week was take a look at how we keep the animals fed and watered in the winter and some new things we’re trying this winter. It’s not very long, and continues on a topic we’ve had for the last 3 years, but if you’re a new listener, don’t worry you’ll know what’s going on too.

Barncast 151 — What we learned in 2008

andrew — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 02:07:58 +0000

We have a great call in section for the farm phone this week. We still need you calls about money saving tips on the farm phone, batteries, and mantis tillers at 206-202-GOAT.

This week we look back at 2008 at which me learned and what worked and what didn’t. We cover a lot of ground so it’s a slightly longer podcast, but I think it’s packed full of god information about the garden, animals, preserving and rural life. So please join us for a fun look back.

Barncast 150 — Saving a little money

andrew — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 03:00:46 +0000

So in the spirit of the times this week we talk about chain saws and how to save a few bucks. It’s a nice short show for the end of the year. If you have any ther quick money saving tips call the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT.

Barncast 149 — A listener call in show

andrew — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:07:59 +0000

This week we have a fun show with 6 calls to the farm phone! Topics range from farm vehicles, to recipes for beets, to data plans on cell phones. Next week it’s going to be pretty quiet so please call the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT. The farm section covers power issues in the winter.

Here’s a picture of Libbye’s farm vehicle and her dogs:

Google Earth Picture

Barncast 148 — We Geek Out

andrew — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 03:44:54 +0000

We’re inside the house again this week. It was 15f/-10c outside with the wind howling so we’re inside. But don’t worry I stuck a mic outside so you can listen to the wind blowing by. This week we have 3 great farm phone calls to 206-202-GOAT. We’re looking for input on growing mushrooms so give the farm phone a call. We also talk about mead and going to Chicago for a special trip.

Barncast 147 — A look at Thanksgiving

andrew — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 03:00:52 +0000

This week we’re inside, it’s cold outside, so our ambient noise is just the house. This week we have 3 great calls to the farm phone, and then we take a look at the 3 thanksgivings we had. Pretty much everything cooked was pretty much from our garden, and it worked out pretty well. Listen for more details!

Barncast 146 — Farm vehicles?

andrew — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:48:08 +0000

Sorry about the delay, our hosting provided moved data centers to Seattle over the US Thanksgiving weekend and then promptly broke everything and disabled the website. Anyways, after a phone call and learning more about wordpress, php and magic quotes we’re back.

I’ll post a summary latter today.

Barncast 145 — A little of everything

andrew — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 03:37:00 +0000

Welcome back for this weeks podcast, a little about everything. We go from farm type stuff, to the theater. Go figure. Please join us for a fun romp through the country.

As promised, URL to the Smith’s Occasional podcast:

http://smithsoccasional.wordpress.com

Itunes link

Honey Pecan Pie Recipe

9″ unbaked pastry shell
3 eggs
1 cup honey
1 tsp vanilla
1 tbspn butter melted and cooled
1/4tsp salt
1 cup broken toasted pecans

Chill pastry shell. Preheat over to 400. Beat the eggs till they are light and frothy, then add the rest of ingredients except the pecans. Beat till smooth. Mix in the pecans and immediately pour into the pie crust. Bake for 10 minutes, then turn the oven down to 300f and bake for 25 minutes. Test to make sure the pie is done and set.

Barncast 144 — Fall Garden

andrew — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 03:55:43 +0000

We have 3 great calls to the farm phone calls this week. We go from cooking squash, to japanese beetles, to barn layouts. For the farm section we have a look at what worked and what didn’t in our fall garden.

Barncast 143 — Better late than never

andrew — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 03:05:55 +0000

Ok, we’re a couple of days late, but we have a nice short podcast. Last year we tried using a different winter feed for the animals, so we look at what we have planned for this year.

Call the farm phone, 206-202-GOAT. Farm phone rocks!

We’re going to be late this week

andrew — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:28:39 +0000

Looks like this weeks podcast is going to be a couple of days late. We had Linda from Chicago visit this afternoon, and I have an appointment tomorrow night. So it might not go online till Tuesday. Sorry folks!

Barncast 142 — Beets

andrew — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 05:22:50 +0000

Well, colour me red! This week we’re going to have a good chat about beets. We finally managed to grow a good crop this year so we look at what we found out, then look at how to cook beets and make some good eats.

Barncast 141 — Homemade Pate

andrew — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 01:55:16 +0000

This weeks show has a great set of farm phone calls. We even go down under with a call from New Zealand, how great is that? We then cover some more mundane topics, like how to use all those extra livers from your fall butchering to make a fantastic pate. Some come join us, and don’t forget to call the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT.

Here’s a few pictures I took on our trip to Indianapolis last weekend:

Barncast 140 — How me cook our turkeys

andrew — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 02:21:44 +0000

Welcome to another show. A call to the farm phone (206-202-GOAT) gave us our topic for the week. It’s a great one, and I know we’ve talked about it in the past, but it’s normally after Thankgiving. So here you can get some ideas for this years thanksgiving. We have a great set of calls to the farm phone, so keep em coming!

Here’s a flickr set with pictures about picking lima beans:

And here’s a video extra this week:

Podcast links

andrew — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 22:38:29 +0000

Hey folks, here’s a series of links to some of the RSS feeds for podcasts that have been recommended on the farm phone section over the last month or two:

http://www.mines.edu/academic/geology/courses/sygn101/podcast/earth.xml
http://feeds.kcrw.com/kcrw/gf
http://feeds.green-house.tv/green-house
http://feeds.feedburner.com/MrGreen
http://deconstructingdinner.libsyn.com/rss
http://www.theskepticsguide.org/rss.xml
http://vickyandjen.com/vanj-shows/shows/vanj001/podcast.xml
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Shellyspodcast
http://feeds.feedburner.com/CraftlitPodcast

Barncast 139 — Canadian Thanksgiving

andrew — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 01:32:43 +0000

Welcome to a late show, but with family visiting it’s been a bit busy. I hope you enjoy the video extra this week as I talk to my Dad. Sorry about the crappy audio.

We need your calls to the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT. Call us about your new podcast suggestions and your questions!

Barncast 138 — Preparing the Animals for Winter

andrew — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 02:35:08 +0000

Our first mild frost has hit, now it’s time to think forward to how to prepare the animals for winter. It isn’t that hard, but a little bit of planning how will have you from popsicles later. But that’s not the only thing we talk about this week, we have some great calls too, ranging from grape jelly tips to the end of the horse slaughter in the US.

Call your comments into the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT

Podcast Delay

misty — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:44:02 +0000

We had a really busy day today and we are both pooped! So we will be doing the podcast tomorrow evening. See ya then!

Barncast 137 — Making Grape Jelly

andrew — Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:32:00 +0000

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.

First Picture — Grape Jelly

Veg Variety @ Cornell — Thank you Dotty

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

Barncast 136 — Steam Juicing Walk Through

andrew — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 02:23:20 +0000

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!

Barncast 135 — Listener Call In Show/Fall Bounty

andrew — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 01:05:35 +0000

Welcome to another weeks show! Since this show ends in 5 we’re having a listener call in show. After the calls we take a long tour through the last week in the farm, and our grape vine and pear tree. Don’t forget to call the Farm Phone either! 206-202-GOAT.

Barncast 134 — Rutabagas

andrew — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 01:23:08 +0000

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.

Barncast canceled this week

andrew — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:22:17 +0000

Hey Guys,

Due to our trip to New York, which went very well, we’re going to skip a week. It’s Wednesday and we have a lot of catching up to do around the house. We’ll see you all next weekend!

-Andrew

Barncast 133 — Second year of Beekeeping

andrew — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:32:47 +0000

Well we’re a little late this week, but it’s all done. This week we cover:

4 great farm phone calls to 206-202-GOAT
Round up: Milk is way up, garden, and fresh plantings
Farm Section: The second year of beekeeping was much different from the first, so we look at the differences and how this year played out.

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

andrew — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 02:45:45 +0000

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!

Barncast 131 — Fall Planting and Organic continued

andrew — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:58:28 +0000

Welcome to another weeks great podcast! We have a fantastic number of calls to the farm phone, 206-202-GOAT, from Rabbits, to Ducks to Organics. We then take a look at how our summer garden is producing, and then it’s over to more planting. Yes, it’s time if not a bit late, to get that fall garden in. We go through what can be planted in the fall and some tips to keep it growing well.

Barncast 131 — To be done Monday

andrew — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:12:47 +0000

Misty had a concert Sunday night, so we’re going to do the podcast Monday night. Thank you for your patience!

Call the farm phone 206-202-GOAT!

-Andrew

Barncast 130 — Organic?

andrew — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:32:37 +0000

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!

Barncast 129 — Kids Invade

andrew — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 02:26:15 +0000

Welcome to a special podcast. We have a 3rd guest, but being 14 she doesn’t want to say anything. Kids. We have a great show this week. The farm phone was hopping, and Linda from Chicago calls in with a great 14 minute section on keeping chickens in the city. She covers issues from smell (doesn’t), noise (isn’t), and working with the local government. We then look at what it’s been like having a 4 year old help out with chores all last week. Tune in, downloand and call us back on the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT, or email us at gfl@geekfarmlife.com!

Barncast 128 — The Award Winning Independant Podcast

andrew — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:45:27 +0000

You’ll have to listen to find out what the tittle is all about (Grand Champion with a ribbon to boot). We have a great show this week, the farm phone, 206-202-GOAT, was ringing like crazy with great calls. We talk about the wheel hoe in the farm section, it’s a great tool that we’ve used for a few weeks so you can hear our review and thoughts.

Enjoy!

Barncast 127 — Audio/Video tours

andrew — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:05:15 +0000

This weeks show has a wonderful set calls! We go over questions ranging from kidding, to cheese, to gardens. Matt from Iowa, Linda from chicago, Warren from West Virginia, and Kirsten all check in with wonderful tales, stories and questions! Call the farm phone with your stories about wild pickings, what berries and mushrooms are ready in your area? 206-202-GOAT.

Also enjoy the video from Linda’s urban garden! What a treat this week.

Barncast 126 — A trip to Linda’s Garden

andrew — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 02:19:27 +0000

This weeks show has a farm section from in the city! What could be more cool than that? We also don’t have any farm phone calls. Coincidence?? Maybe not? This weeks show is packed full of great topics, from the massacre of 2008, garden replanting, bush beans, raised bed, chickens in the city, and raised beds.

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

(I’ll post the video extra tomorrow)

Barncast 125 — A 12 call extravaganza!

andrew — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 03:08:07 +0000

Barncast delayed

andrew — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 02:18:53 +0000

Hey everyone. We were out having fun most of the weekend, so we’re going to do the podcast tomorrow night. We have 12 great phone calls for show 125, so it should be a great show. Stay tunned tomorrow.

Barncast 124 — Tool tips!

andrew — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 01:51:38 +0000

Farm notes to follow tomorow! Remember the farm phone needs your calls for next weeks listener call in show 125. 206-202-GOAT

Barncast 123 — Farm phone gets insured!

andrew — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 02:20:21 +0000

Farm Phone: 206-202-GOAT
Incubating eggs from eBay, home made incubators, raw milk cheese, yohgurt, rabbits, rennet, etc
Round-Up
Farm – Insurance

Call farm phone! 206-202-GOAT

Barncast 121 — Going cazy with swarms

andrew — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 01:15:24 +0000

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:

Barncast 120 — Mark and Linda Visit #2

andrew — Mon, 26 May 2008 02:36:57 +0000

We have some special guests on this weeks show! TFahey drove all the way down from Chicago to join us! It’s Linda and Mark from Chicago. We have a much improved recording setup for a 4 person interview and it works great! I hope everyone enjoys the chit chat!

On the show:

Intro: Linda and Mark
Farm Phone: 206-202-GOAT. 2 Great calls!
Round Up: numbers, bees and garden
Farm: Sustainability and what it means to rural vs city people

Barncast 119 — Question Show

andrew — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:02:32 +0000

This weeks show took a few tries to get recorded, but we finally did. Thankfully it turned out great! We have 7 fantastic calls this week and we cover everything from goat minerals, to yoghurt, to podcasting. I hope you enjoy the show!

A Premier One pest fencing link.

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Barncast 118 — Seed planter

andrew — Mon, 12 May 2008 02:44:01 +0000

Intro
Farm Phone 206-202-GOAT

Call 1 - squirrel & raccoon problems in garden
Matt in Ohio – sparrows in barn, turkeys & chickens together – protozoan disease (blackhead)
How do we get along?
Ellen – coated fleece rant!

Round-Up

Numbers
Baby, Molly
Rabbits
Tilling & planting
Morel Mushrooms

Farm – Seed Planter

Earthway planter purchased from Lehman’s
11 different plates (comes with 5, 6 optional)
Benefits:
Adjustable seed depth, row width. Plate controls how far apart each seed is dropped.
Cut the time to plant the garden by something like 90%, and no sore back after!
Negatives
Need to till the soil
Must be relatively flat
Twigs, sticks may be caught in it as you are going through the soil
Need a good amount of seed, may not work on small sampler packs
Loss at the end of row, very short rows don’t work well
Conclusion – We love it so far, waiting to see how germination is!

Barncast 117 — Working with Milk

andrew — Mon, 05 May 2008 02:48:32 +0000

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!

Barncast 116 — Portable Fencing #3

andrew — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 01:00:21 +0000

Welcome to another great show!

This week we revisit an old topic, our portable fencing we use. Instead of mowing all summer long we have the sheep and goats trim our grass. This is at least the 3rd time we’ve talked about it, but we go into more detail this time. Don’t worry though if you haven’t listened to past shows, we do enough review you won’t be left behind.

Make sure you call the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT!

Moving hives in the back of the jeep:

Tomorrow I’ll add a movie of me setting up the fencing.

Barncast 115 — Alfalfa pellet report

andrew — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 01:39:27 +0000

Well spring is upon us, so let’s take keep looking back for this show and see how the Alfalfa pellet experiment worked out over the winter. We also talk about corn, oil, food and pig manure! We have 3 different calls to the farm phone, so take a listen!

To see pictures taken in Indy or how spring is coming, click on the flower:

Call the farm phone! 206-202-GOAT

Barncast 114 — Rehydration

andrew — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 02:39:12 +0000

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.

Barncast 113 — Farm Phone Special

andrew — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:59:22 +0000

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:

Podcast delayed

andrew — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 02:24:40 +0000

We had a dinner party with some friends tonight so we’ll do the podcast Monday.

Sorry about not getting the video’s online from .au and .nz. With my computer down this backup laptop just doesn’t have the software or ompf to do the editing and transcoding.

Barncast 112 — Visitors

andrew — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 00:24:48 +0000

Show 112 is up! I’m half amazed we have enough hardware left to get it online, but it’s here! We’re little scatter brained this week, so I hope you can follow the rocky road.

Anyone can call the farm phone!! (206-202-GOAT)
Two great calls, from equipment to food and knitting needles in australia
Round up, mixed number
Farm: Visitors
Life: Visiting

I hope you enjoy the show this week, email is gfl@geekfarmlife.com.

Barncast 110 — We’re back!

andrew — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 03:59:53 +0000

Well it’s been a heck of a trip, but after almost 4 weeks we have a fresh new podcast. This one is a little long, we have to make up for the last couple that were short. We have a pack of fresh new sounds from the barn thanks to Molly and Baby. I hope you enjoy this weeks show!

Barncast 109 — Trip cast #3

andrew — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 02:27:10 +0000

It’s the last in our series of tripcasts. I hope you enjoy the last one.

Barncast 108 — Trip cast #2

andrew — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 02:23:39 +0000

Welcome to the 2nd of our vacation podcasts.

Barncast 107 — Trip cast #1

andrew — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 02:18:03 +0000

We’re out of town this week, I hope you enjoy the special user call in show!

Barncast 106 — Garden planning

andrew — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:45:42 +0000

This weeks show is a little rough but it gets out there. In the show this week:

Crazy weather
Farm phone: 2 great calls
Round up: Not much going on
Farm Section: Time to order seeds

Barncast 105 — Beer making, the easy way

andrew — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 01:30:26 +0000

This week show we take a look at making beer at home using beer kits. It’s really easy, and someone anyone can do. I have a video extra showing the actual process, I’ll get that up Monday night. In the show this week:

Travels and need for calls to the farm phone
Farm Phone: two great calls
Round Up: Bees. In February? Yup
Farm: Making beer

Make sure you call the farm phone, we need your questions and comments for when we’re away: 206-202-GOAT.

Barncast 104 — Smoking meat at home

andrew — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 03:22:12 +0000

We finally had a show this week!!

Delayed/canceled show this week

andrew — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:51:48 +0000

We were going to do the show this evening, but due to some car trouble it’s just not going to happen. Maybe we’ll do it tomorrow night, not sure. Either way we’ll be back next week.

Keep the calls coming to the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT!!

-Andrew

Barncast 103 — Curing

andrew — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:13:56 +0000

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:

I promised recipes, I’ll post em tonight!

Where we bought pink salt: Pink Salt. As promised $2. Might want to combine it with something to help shipping costs.

Basic Cure:

1 pound kosher salt
8 ounces sugar
2 ounces pink salt

Combine, store in airtight container. Lasts indefinably.

Fresh Bacon:

3-5 pound pork belly
about 0.25 cup basic cure, or enough to dredge the meat

Optional:

For a sweeter bacon add 1/2 cup maple syprup, or 1/2 cup maple suger, or 1/2 cup brown sugar
For a more savory bacon add ~5 cloves of garlic, 3 crushed bay leaves, 1 tablespoon very coarse peppercorn.

Trim the belly square. Spread the cure out in a dish large enough to accommodate the belly. Press all sides of the belly into the cure. Place the belly in a zip lock back. I found 3lbs fit into a 1 gallon bag. Flip the belly once a day for 7 days. After 7 days remove the belly from the cure, rinse well. Rest in fridge covered for up to 3 days.

For the oven: Heat over to 200f. Place the belly in a roasting pan and roast until it reached 150f.

For the smoker: Smoke till it reaches an internal temperate of 150f. Should take about 3 hours. Our bacon was pretty thin so the smoker around 180f was nice. Adjust as needed.

If the skin is still attached, remove while hot by slicing between the fat and skin with a knife. Our bellies already had the skin removed. Chill.

Once chilled it can be kept for up to 2 weeks in the fridge, slice as required. You can cut thick slices to use as lardon, or thin as bacon. If you don’t plan on using it right away slice and freeze.

Ham Hocks

1 gallon water
1.5 cup kosher salt
1 cup sugar
1.5 ounces pink salt
8 fresh ham hocks, about 8 lbs

I did only 1 hock, and cut the cure by 1/3rd and it worked well.

Combine all the brine ingredients in a large pot and bringe to a simmer and stir until dissolved. Refrigerate till well chilled. Add the hocks to the brine, and weight them down with a plate to keep them submerged. Brine for 3 days. Remove the hocks, rinse, dry, and then refrigerate for 8 hours. Roast or hot smoke till they reach an internal temperature of 150f. Chill.

Here’s some pictures of our bacon:

Barncast 102 — Linda and Mark visit

andrew — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 03:55:46 +0000

Everyone knows and loves Linda who calls the farm phone, and she drops in for a visit and a show with her husband this week. So, not only do we have great calls to the farm phone but have a great section and raising chickens in the city! The show is a little longer this week, and the audio quality is a little poor, but I hope everyone enjoys the show.

Barncast 101 — Making a good home for your livestock

andrew — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:08:13 +0000

I think you can tell the vacations are over, we had a lot of great calls to the Farm Phone, 206-202-GOAT. Ben even calls us from the Pennsylvania farm show and shares tales of maple syrup cotton candy and everything he sees there. In this weeks show:

Welcome to show 101
3 great calls about Bonafide, spinning, soap and generators.
Round up: Really short
Farm: How to keep your animals in, and stuff you build in one piece

I hope everyone enjoys this weeks show!

Barncast 100 — A Slippery Slope with Soap

andrew — Mon, 07 Jan 2008 02:15:30 +0000

Welcome to Barncast 100! Can you imagine, 100 shows about two geeks on a farm. I hope you enjoy this weeks show!

Show 100 special
Farm Phone: 206-202-GOAT. Tom calls in.
Round up: It’s winter, maybe?
Farm Section: Making Soap

Please give the farm phone a call this week, I didn’t even say the number in the show until the end, 206-202-GOAT.

Barncast 99 — 2007 in review

andrew — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 01:27:54 +0000

We get back to basics this week as we do a review of 2007. We go through all 3 sections for the first time in a long time, Geek, Farm and Life all in one show.

Next weeks show is show 100, give us a call on the Farm Phone, 206-202-GOAT, and pass on your best wishes.

Barncast 98 — Christmas ‘07

andrew — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 00:49:48 +0000

Well it’s a day late, but we’re on vacation, so what do you mean it’s Monday already?? The cleanup from the storm Sunday took up much of spare time, so we just did it today. In today’s show:

Weather
3 great calls to the farm phone: 206-202-GOAT.
Headsokz is a brand: http://www.headsokz.com/
Round up: Baby is coming down slowly, eggs, and cleanup
Farm Section: Meal for next year, and what’s new

Please call the farm phone this week, it’s normally quiet with all the vacation travel, so call!! 206-202-GOAT.

Barncast 97 — Through the grinder and back try #2

andrew — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 20:44:16 +0000

Due to our hosting company falling off of the internet at a particularly bad time last nigh the post went up with a very incomplete file, so here is try number 2. In this weeks show we have FOUR great farm phone calls. They take us to task, provide great info, and over all wonderful calls. In the show:

Weather, it’s winter what else?
Farm phone: 206-202-GOAT. 4 great calls
Round Up: Drying up Baby
Farm Section: Ground meat

Please make sure to leave a comment or drop us a line at 206-202-GOAT. I’ll try and get the Video Extra up early in the week.

Barncast 97 — Through the grinder and back

andrew — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 06:08:41 +0000

Show notes to come tomorrow. This turned into a mess, be prepared for a new post, all the files here were messed up.

Barncast 96 — Don’t Have A Cow Man

andrew — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 01:48:43 +0000

Welcome back to another week. We’re back to the normal show, and this week it’s pretty relaxed. We look at winter apparel thanks to a great call to the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT, then we go through the round up and farm section. Winter is here so the round up is pretty short this time! This week I promise to get a video extra up too.

Weather, again
Farm Phone: 206-202-GOAT. Dressing upf
Round Up: getting more quiet
Farm Section: Don’t have a cow!

Barncast 95 — Listener call in show!

andrew — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 03:10:05 +0000

Hey guys, it’s another great call in show. Like always we got 6 great questions. I’ll do more show notes tomorrow when I put the video extra online.

Barncast 94 — Retrospective #2

andrew — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 01:17:10 +0000

We’re taking the thanksgiving weekend off thanks to the Allisons who put together a great retrospective of the early episodes. It’s a ton of work putting these together so I hope you find it enjoyable. Thank you very much guys.

Monday night I’ll try to get a video extra online for those of you that need something new this week. :)

Barncast 93 — Garden Roundup

andrew — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 02:42:28 +0000

It’s been a long day so we just decide to do the podcast inside tonight, though we have some background audio from outside our window. We have a set of great calls that really liven up the show. We really do need your calls to the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT or the listener questions show. On tap this week:

Farm Phone: 206-202-GOAT All about dress out, and poultry in the city, and putting food up
Round Up: really short, no numbers
Farm Section: What worked and what didn’t, and what we did with it

We really need your questions for the Listener call in show so please make the call to 206-202-GOAT with your question.

CAUTION: The video extra is about butchering rabbits, if you don’t want to see this, don’t watch it. I hope all those who have asked find it useful.

Barncast 92 — Containers and septic troubles

andrew — Mon, 12 Nov 2007 02:36:03 +0000

This week it’s a fun show. We spend a little bit talking about the adventures we had this week, and then we go through what containers we use and why. I hope you like the show!

Farm Phone: 206-202-GOAT
- Bee school, and online magazine
- Sausage Making, check out Episode #10, we’ll do a new one too
- Bees, gardens, and umm fame
Round Up: Baby is slowing up, eggs are down, and nasty water
Farm Section: Storage containers

I hope you enjoy this weeks show. Please more sure to give us a shout on the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT, or leave a comment!

As always, the video extra will go online Monday night. Ok it was a little late, this should help compliment the show I think were we talked about the sewer issues.

Barncast 91 — Country Cooking

andrew — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:25:12 +0000

We have a good time this week, there’s some great calls and we have some good topics. The time change means it’s getting dark out really early now, and the pigs have moved and the ducks are out so it’s really quiet. On tap this week:

Intro, first frost
Farm Phone (206) 202-GOAT: 3 great calls
Round Up
- First frost
- Potatoes
- Jerusalem Artichkes
- Pig moving
- Dehydration
Farm Topic: Cooking asian food on the farm

Please make to give us a call on the farm phone with 206-202-GOAT, or drop us an email gfl@geekfarmlife.com.

The weeks video extra will go online tomorrow (Monday) night, so make sure to come back! Have a took at the pictures from the week if you need an update now.

Barncast 90 — Wiggly Wigglers

andrew — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 00:08:04 +0000

I hope you enjoy this weeks show. It’s a bit different, Heather from the Wiggly Wigglers podcast dropped by and interviewed us. The audio, and all it’s warts was used for the farm section. The farm phone was really lively this week with some great questions! Please make sure to give us a call for next weeks show at: 206-202-GOAT.

Barncast 89 — Barn Clothing

andrew — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:47:46 +0000

Welcome to this weeks show! While we talk about what to wear in the barn might not seem like the most exciting topic I think it’s pretty important. If you don’t enjoy working out in the barn you won’t be keeping animals for long. In this weeks show:

No Frost!?!
Farm Phone: 2 calls!! 206-202-GOAT
Round Up: Still lots going on
Farm Section: What to wear in the barn

Barncast 88 — Butter

andrew — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 00:46:00 +0000

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?

Barncast 87 — Finding a Butcher

andrew — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 00:22:07 +0000

Well the show got posted a day late this week since I fell asleep on the sofa last night. Oh well! In the show this week:

Warm weather, way to hot!
Farm Phone: 206-202-GOAT. 4 great calls!
Round Up: Getting ready for frost
Farm Section: What needs to be done to find a butcher, and how to get the animals there
Life Section: Anniversary

Come watch the video extra as I go on an easter egg hunt!

Barncast 86 — What to do with Honey

andrew — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 01:58:45 +0000

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!

Barncast 85 — Listener Call In Show #4

andrew — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:18:45 +0000

Welcome to another listener call in show! This is the 4th time we’ve asked for your calls and you’ve responded! We have a great time with the show, and we change up the format a bit. Let us know what you think, do you like the less formated show with bigger audio breaks?

I hope you enjoy the show, make sure to call the farm phone; 206-202-GOAT or leave a comment!

Picture of the Week:

I think that’s it this week. If you want videos or more pictures check out the picture of the week link, there’s a ton of short video clips and pics.

Barncast 84 — Feta

andrew — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 12:07:40 +0000

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)

Feta Ingredients:

1.5 gallons, 6 liters of milk (cow, goat, sheep, or store bought milk is file)
1/4 tsp Mesophilic Cheese Culture or 1/2 cup butter milk
1/2 tsp liquid rennet, or renner tablet as per instructions
1/8 tsp Lipase, optional, and to taste
Non-iodized salt, like kosher salt

Steps:

Warm Milk to 86f/30c
Add culture, let sit on top for 2-3 minutes then stir in
Let milk ripen for 45 minutes for raw milk, 1 hour for pasteurized milk
Optional: Dissolve lipase into 1/4cup of water, then mix into milk
Dissolve liquid rennet into 1/2 cup of water
Stir the rennet into the milk with 20 good top to bottom stirs
Let the milk sit until a firm curd forms, 30-45 minutes
Cut the curds into 1/2 cups, then let sit for 5 minutes
Stir for 20 minutes. If you want a firmer cheese raise the temperature to 90f as you stir
Drain the whey, then either hang in cheese cloth or in molds as described in the podcast
After draining/hanging for 24 hours cut the cheese into 1-2″ cubes.
Salt the cubes, then let sit for 24 hours. Roll the cubes over and salt again, let sit 24 hours
Repeat for 3 days until the cheese is firm. Drain any whey that builds up.
Put cubes in jars (quart mason jars work well) and fill with light or medium salt solutions

Light Salt Solution: 14oz of salt/gallon
Medium Salt Solution: 20oz of salt/gallon

If you don’t want to make a gallon of solution scale as required.

Barncast 84 — Going to be Late

andrew — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 02:59:29 +0000

Barncast 84 has been recorded, and it’s on my harddrive, but I haven’t got all the pictures online and everything together and online. It’s 11pm and I have to be up at 5am so I’m going to be. I’ll try and get online tomorrow (monday) morning.

Barncast 83 — Summer Dehydration

andrew — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 01:01:43 +0000

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:

Equipment being cleaned, honey harvest, 22 gallons of mead:

Barncast 82 — Retrospective #1

andrew — Mon, 03 Sep 2007 15:21:53 +0000

The Allisons put a lot of work in creating a series of retrospective podcasts so that we could take a week off. Since it’s the long weekend we thought that would be a great idea! I hope you enjoy the show, they cover the most entertaining/interesting highlights from the first 25 shows.

If you want some original content, come check out the video extra. It’s some video that was recorded around the camp fire last weekend when we were playing around with the video camera. Seems perfect for this last summer weekend.

Picture of the week:

Barncast 81 — Extracting Honey

andrew — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 04:13:57 +0000

It’s almost midnight, it’s been very busy here today. So let’s keep this short and sweet:

Pictures for the Farm Section

In the show this week:

Podcasting late
Three great calls to the farm phone: 206-202-GOAT
Geek Section: Video Extra (flash app down lower), and meeting Mark and Kathy
Round Up: Numbers, and animal sales, garden up date
Farm Section: Extracting honey Pictures

Picture of the Week:

No other pictures this week, but make sure to check out the flash video! (or if you prefer youtube http://youtube.com/watch?v=3GByw88J1C4)

Barncast 80 — Inside a beehive

andrew — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:48:57 +0000

This weeks show is a little different. We’ve had a very long busy weekend and Misty needed a rest so I’m doing the show solo. I really wanted to do a tour of a beehive to show you what was inside but the weather this weekend was not cooperating. You normally want to work on beehives on sunny warm days. It was 75 out, but it had been raining all day so the bees would all be home and probably grumpy. So I suited up all the way and went out anyways and did a sound seeing tour as I walked though a hive. It’s not the most organized, but I think you’ll enjoy the sounds and the tour!

PICTURES

Picture of the Week:

This was the year for cucumbers:

Barncast 80 — Inside a beehive

andrew — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 02:05:49 +0000

PICTURES

Picture of the Week:

This was the year for cucumbers:

Barncast 79 — Mead

andrew — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 02:02:15 +0000

We’re back inside this week, it’s just too hot outside and after working outside most of the day in the hot kitchen it was nice to sit down in the cool living room and do a show. This week we look at what to do with all the extra honey we’re getting. Making Mead is something anyone can do at home, it’s not very expensive to get setup, a lot of fun, and the end product isn’t bad at all.

In the show this week:

Farm Phone: 206-202-GOAT. 3 calls, pickles, sheep, barbeque, and goat milk
Round Up: Selling Patra, Rabbit Won 1st place, Bees, Garden
Farm Section: Mead, just getting started

Links:

Picture of the Week:

That’s all this week. More pictures can be found at HERE.

Barncast 78 — Sauerkraut

andrew — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 01:03:36 +0000

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:

Our first honey, green beans, bonafide:

Barncast 77 — Downsizing

andrew — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 01:57:03 +0000

Don’t worry the show isn’t going anywhere, but we’re looking at what animals we have and why, and how to reduce some we don’t need. This is a great show, even though it inside and my voice is shot from a cold. In the show this week:

Updates
Great Farm Phone section! 6 calls from the last 2 weeks. 206-202-GOAT
Round Up
Farm Section
Life Section: Travels to AU, Meeting Friends

Picture of the Week:

Barncast 76 — Farm walk around

andrew — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 00:23:18 +0000

This weeks show is a little different. I’m down under, and Misty is busy taking care of chores at home all by herself. We recorded this show while we did the chores on or around the 15th. I put the binaural microphones to my ears, took the camera and walked around the farm taking pictures and talking about what’s going on. This podcast would really benefit from being listened to with headphones due to the way it was recorded, it will make you feel like you are there with me.

I took pictures as I went, and you can hear the camera going off every time. Just use that to know when to change picture. It also means I couldn’t remove bad pictures, so you get the good with the bad. I hope you can follow along.

Pictures

Barncast 75 — Question Show #3

andrew — Mon, 16 Jul 2007 03:11:19 +0000

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:

Barncast 74 — Midsummer garden roundup

andrew — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 00:20:51 +0000

Remember the next show is number 75 and that means it’s the listener question show. Just like show 55 and 65 we want you to call 206-202-GOAT with your questions and comments and then we’ll make the entire show based on calls we got. So please call!!

This week we start out with a special guest who dropped into to the studio with us. Then we gripe about the weather and then look at what’s going on with the garden, what’s doing well, what isn’t, and second crops of certain things. This week:

Special guest and intro
Farm Phone: 206-202-GOAT, 2 great calls
Round up: Milk good, dry bad
Farm Section: Garden

Picture of the Week:

Barncast 73 — Chard!

andrew — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 00:52:36 +0000

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:

Frame of capped honey, doeling,

Barncast 72 — Using your Lawn as Pasture

andrew — Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:36:05 +0000

This week we revisit an old topic, our portable electric fence. It’s been a little over a year since we started using it and I think we’ve learn a lot so we look at what mistakes we made and what worked well. We do a lot of review but if you’re new to show and want more about the fence check out some back episodes from last year when we talked about buying it and setting it up for the first time.

In this weeks show:

Rain update
Farm Phone 206-202-GOAT

Linda from chicago, all about strawberries and garlic

Geek Section: New Laptop
Round up: Quick round up
Farm Section: Electronet fencing after one year

Picture of the Week:

Comb being drawn, first tomato, home made Dulce De Leche:

Barncast 71 — Reality Check

andrew — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 01:52:14 +0000

It’s summer so we’ve basically stopped podcasting from the barn for a bit, it just get’s way to hot up in the hayloft (attic) of the barn when it’s >90f/30c outside and the sun is beating down on the roof all day. Instead we’re out back on our patio, with the birds and the wind that picked up due to thunderstorms close by.

We have a less serious show this week. We blaze through the round up in record time, let us know what you think. The main topic is a reality check. Inspired by the end of the downshiftme podcast we cover what our expectations of work and interests were and then look at the reality of it. While we’ve covered a similar topic about 30 shows ago, we look at our situation more and what we are up to.

In the show:

Intro and Welcome
Farm Phone: 206-202-GOAT

Tom and sheep milk
Peg from Vancouver Island
Omly from Boston

Round Up
Reality check, our goals and reality

Picture of the week: (this is why we do it)

Barncast 70 — Strawberries

andrew — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 02:31:27 +0000

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.

Picture of the Week:

Rural life, Patra standing up, noodles drying:

Barncast 69 — In Stitches

andrew — Sun, 03 Jun 2007 23:42:13 +0000

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.

Picture of the week:

Goat chops and steaks, both hives with honey supers,

Barncast 68 — Cheese #2

andrew — Tue, 29 May 2007 01:28:30 +0000

Finally as promised here is a cheese walk through! The show really ended up in two parts, the Farm Phone/Round Up and the Cheese walk through. For the second bit make sure you have access to a computer to walk through with us. Now some food snobs out there will note that I do a fairly fast recipe and it won’t have a ton of flavour. That’s the best part though, anyone at home can make this recipe! It only takes milk, citric acid (canning aisle) and rennet (pudding/cooking aisle). From start to finish it only takes 30 minutes, what could be better than that for your first introduction to making cheese?? So listen and follow along at:
Picture Walk through

Picture a day, frame of brood:

Barncast 67 — A big round up

andrew — Mon, 21 May 2007 01:46:10 +0000

This has been a long week, and Misty twisted her ankle so we’re doing the podcast from the ground floor this week. This means the barn will sound a little different than normal, but hopefully it works out. We also changed the format a bit, there’s so much going on we thought we just expand the round up to give you a taste of life on a small farm in the spring.

So in this weeks show:

Misty’s ankle
Farm Phone: 206-202-GOAT
Butchering, and egg laying
Round Up: Too much to list

We love you feedback, so please call the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT or please send us an email at gfl@geekfarmlife.com or leave a comment!

Picture of the week:

First butter of the year, tomato seedlings, and duckling with some feathers:

Barncast 66 — A little fluff

andrew — Mon, 14 May 2007 01:06:51 +0000

This weeks podcast is on the light side, after last weeks show we thought we would just take it easy this week. I think it worked out rather well actually. In this weeks show:

Intro: Quick over view
Farm Phone: Two great calls! — 206-202-GOAT
- Cost of meat production
- Tornados
Round up!
- The numbers
- Bees
- Garden
Farm Section: Country life
Life Section: ugh

We really appreciate all the feedback which can be through comments, emails to gfl@geekfarmlife.com or by calls to the farm phone at 206-202-GOAT.

Picture of the week:

Dad at the telescope, wild strawberries, Misty in the Garden:

Barncast 65 — Question show #2

andrew — Mon, 07 May 2007 01:16:35 +0000

It’s show 65 and as promised it means it’s a listener question show! We had a great time answering all the questions and we even had a special guest on to help! The show is a little longer than our usual so I hope you enjoy all the questions and answers!

Picture of the week:

Hives, Harvey, and the Ducklings

Barncast 64 — Our Bee Story, try #2

andrew — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:52:34 +0000

Ok, I broke the mp3 file a 2nd time today and everyone was downloading the extremely compress low quality audio version. Then the website got trashed by accident. I think it’s fixed it for the last and final time now.

This weeks show is pretty special, we cut out everything except the round up and the farm section to bring you the story about how Tom our resident beekeeper in Milwaukee. He heard our complaints on the last show about not being able to get any bees to start our hive so he called around and arranged two nucs for us. What a guy eh?

So this weeks show:

Special thanks to Tom, Gayle, and Bill
Weekend weather
No Farm Phone! Call in your questions for the user question show, 206-202-GOAT
Round Up: It’s spring, there is a lot going on
Farm Section: Our Bee Story, aka how to transport bees in a small plane

Next week’s show ends in 5, so that means it’s time for our user question show! It received a lot of good feed back last time so we’re going to try it again. That means we need your questions for the show. There are 3 ways to send them to us, farm phone at 206-202-GOAT, email gfl@geekfarmlife.com or leave a comment.

Picture of the week, bees loaded for the flight home:

Tom and Andrew, Ram and his Mother, Udder before/after milking

Barncast 63 — The Green House

andrew — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 02:03:50 +0000

A little late, but here’s the show notes, now that our hosting provider is online again! This weeks show has a huge round up, it’s amazing how busy things start getting in the spring! Other things in the show:

The weather is warmer, and we’re both tired
Farm Phone — 206-202-GOAT
- Hosting trouble, tax day, and beans!
Round Up: Milking going up, eggs mixed, seeds started, etc
Farm: Greenhouse
Life: Busy weekend and bee meeting

I hope you enjoy the show this weekend. Make sure to call us and leave your question for show 65, question show. You can call the farm phone, leave a comment, or send us an email at gfl@geekfarmlife.com.

Picture of the week, Caroline’s doeling:

Plants in the greenhouse, and time to move the pasture:

Barncast 62 — Winter Food Round Up

andrew — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 21:37:31 +0000

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:

Barncast 61 — Shearing adventures

andrew — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 23:30:27 +0000

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:

Cold weather!
Farm Phone: 206-202-GOAT. Carry and Charles.
Round up: Bad news, good news.
Farm Section: Shearing photo walk through

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:

After, and goose nest:

Barncast 60 — As the Wheel Turns

andrew — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 21:49:10 +0000

Welcome to number 60! GFL will need it’s AARP membership card soon. ;) You’ll hear the barn door blowing in the breeze, and wow is it windy today. Is the show this week:

Big thanks to John M for the care package
Farm Phone: 206-202-GOAT

Moving from Hawaii to Missouri
How Beehive Splits work

Round up: From cleaning to turkeys to sprouts it’s been busy
Farm Section: All about types of spinning wheels
Life Section: Roller skating and astronomy

We hope you enjoy the show. Please leave a comment, drop us a line on the farm phone or email us at gfl@geekfarmlife.com.

The Sheep Shearing video I talked about is available from The University of Vermont UVM Livestock.

Picture of the week:

This week I made a time lapsed movie of our garden through the winter at: http://media.geekfarmlife.com/gtty.avi

It needs a lot of clean up, but even as it is I find it interesting.

Barncast 59 — A Little Broody

andrew — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:09:18 +0000

Welcome to another show! It’s spring time, so if you were worried there wouldn’t be enough to talk about, stop worrying! The round up section this week takes a while to go through, but I think you’ll find we talk a bit more in depth about some things. Maybe it’ll give you to start your seedlings if you haven’t already! In the show:

Thank you to Tom and flies!
Two great farm phone questions! 206-202-GOAT is the number to call
Round up! From Kids to the garden to bees we cover a lot of things
Farm Section: Brood boxes and starting day old birds
No life section this week!

We love your calls to the Farm Phone at 206-202-GOAT, or you can email us at gfl@geekfarmlife.com!

Picture of the week:

Bee Hives before and after paint, and the first plants in the green house:

Goat nursing off a ewe, just proving us wrong:

Barncast 58 — The Bzzzz With Tom

andrew — Sun, 18 Mar 2007 23:32:37 +0000

Well it’s been a long time since we had a guest on the show, so I’m sure you’ll welcome having Tom the Beekeeper back on with us. If you don’t remember him check out show’s 26 and 29 (or there abouts) to hear past episodes when Tom has joined us. We have a couple of connection problems, but over all it’s a great show!

This week:

Farm Phone: 206-202-GOAT

Crops and land prices in Indiana
5 acres and Indepedance and related books

Round Up: Eggs, Poults, Greenhouse and heating
Bees!

Hive update
CCD, aka what we don’t know
Tips for starting out, now is the time

Life: Busses, kids, st patricks day, and rollorskating

Green house heating with compost. URL thanks to Tom!

The picture of the week:

2007 Maple Syrup, Kids:

Barncast 57 — Adding a Little Culture to Milk

andrew — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 17:21:15 +0000

Welcome to this weeks show!

The weather great out, and Misty and I are out in the barn without a coat, just some drinks. We’re have a great farm phone section, and we toss in an email with some 3 great questions about farm life. In the show:

Current weather, it’s great!
Farm Phone! 206-202-GOAT

India gives us some lessons on pronounciation
Carry asks about fostering kids

Round up! We talk forever!
Farm section, yoghurt
Life at the roller rink

Please give us a shout and tell us what you think, 206-202-GOAT, or drop us an email at gfl@geekfarmlife.com. Hope you enjoy the show!

Picture of the week, 18lbs lamb:

Red velvet birthday cake, friend learning to milk:

Slight Delay

andrew — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 00:04:43 +0000

Barncast 57 is all ready to go, but libsyn thinks we’re over quota. I can’t get the numbers to add up, but as soon as they fix it we’ll be up and ready to do.

Barncast 56 — All about babies

andrew — Sun, 04 Mar 2007 02:01:51 +0000

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:

Welcome and, talk about what’s new and show 55b
Farm Phone! 206-202-GOAT. Sorry India, you’ll be on next week
Round up: Goose trouble, rabbits, etc
Farm Section: Prep and delivery of kids and lambs
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: