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Published: Feb. 29, 2020, 11:42 a.m.
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CoopCast 0163 - A reflection on the year & Auld Lang Syne

Published: Dec. 31, 2016, 10:10 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 14 seconds

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0162 Bees in Maryland, Bacon Genetic Engineering and Batman v Superman

Published: March 31, 2016, 11:04 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 12 seconds

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0161 Spring updates, beehives and a conversation about raw milk

Published: March 17, 2016, 11:14 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 12 seconds

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0160 Hoophouse construction, winter bees and garden planning

Published: Feb. 18, 2016, 10:35 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 22 seconds

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0159 Farm meeting recap (plans for the 2016 farming season)

Published: Jan. 21, 2016, 11:40 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 5 seconds

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0158 Vegetable seed order, country of origin of meat and Star Wars

Published: Jan. 7, 2016, 10:55 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 12 seconds

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0157 Farm updates, listener questions and a few of our favorite things

Published: Dec. 18, 2015, 12:53 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 4 seconds

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0156 Pork cuts, a deer season story and a Farm U on E. coli O157:H7

Published: Dec. 4, 2015, 12:23 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 11 seconds

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0155 Pigs to the processor, deer season updates and vegetable garden tomato roundup

Published: Nov. 20, 2015, 2:24 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 13 seconds

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0154 Processing a pig and people's feelings, bow season, bees and honey

Published: Nov. 5, 2015, 11:50 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 42 seconds

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0153 Farm updates, sugar addiction and bowhunting tips

Published: Sept. 23, 2015, 10:45 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 22 seconds

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0152 Farming updates from pasture and vegetable garden

Published: Sept. 2, 2015, 10:53 p.m.
Duration: 33 minutes 48 seconds

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0151 A Return to the Farm and a discussion about the future

Published: Aug. 19, 2015, 11 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 46 seconds

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0150 The passing of Watson and the future of the farm

Published: July 28, 2015, 3:07 p.m.
Duration: 26 minutes 41 seconds

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0149 Pig castration and boar taint, pastured chickens and vegetable garden farm !updates

Published: June 24, 2015, 11:06 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 11 seconds

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0148 SPROUTCAST (short) On the road talking about pig farrowing

Published: June 18, 2015, 1:02 a.m.
Duration: 21 minutes 20 seconds

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0147 Capturing a honeybee swarm, annoying broiler chickens and a pre-farrowing pig

Published: June 10, 2015, 11:04 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 22 seconds

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0146 Gardening, pig, chicken and beekeeping updates from the farm

Published: June 3, 2015, 11:15 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 27 seconds

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0145 Early chickens, planting the garden and other updates

Published: May 28, 2015, 12:42 a.m.
Duration: 28 minutes 23 seconds

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0144 Beekeeping update, planting trees and vegetables for the garden

Published: May 7, 2015, 12:16 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 15 seconds

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0143 SPROUTCAST (short) On the road to pickup bees, gardening update, farms using out cutsheet

Published: April 29, 2015, 11:43 p.m.
Duration: 15 minutes 26 seconds

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0142 Fire on the farm, tractor talk and pregnant pig updates

Published: April 22, 2015, 10:21 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes

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0141 Fallout from the April Fools Episode, vegetable seed starting and the real farm meeting

Published: April 8, 2015, 11:03 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 40 seconds

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0140 Organic Certification, Row Crops and Kickstarter

Published: April 1, 2015, 10:07 p.m.
Duration: 32 minutes 48 seconds

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0139 Farmers on vacation, spring time work list and a small farm in the news

Published: March 25, 2015, 11:26 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 7 seconds

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0138 Firing a farm customer, beekeeping, treated seeds in the vegetable garden

Published: March 11, 2015, 10:23 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 12 seconds

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0137 Favorite garden seeds, tractor implements and swine AI

Published: March 4, 2015, 10:37 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 46 seconds

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0136 Gilt AI, vegetable garden seed selection and a rifle part

Published: Feb. 18, 2015, 11:30 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 16 seconds

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0135 Cold weather on the farm, boxed wine and vaccines

Published: Feb. 12, 2015, 1:47 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 18 seconds

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0134 Hog AI issues, cold weather farming, selecting vegetable garden seeds

Published: Feb. 4, 2015, 11:53 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 11 seconds

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0133 The loss of a beloved sow and honest farming on the web

Published: Jan. 28, 2015, 11:16 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 39 seconds

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0132 New Year Updates, Missed Pig AI, A Hunting Story

Published: Jan. 15, 2015, 12:36 a.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 46 seconds

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0131 The Christmas Coopcast Community Cluster Episode

Published: Dec. 18, 2014, 1:04 a.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 59 seconds

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0130 Farming and health care, sick pig and Christmas lists

Published: Dec. 11, 2014, 1:34 a.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 45 seconds

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0129 Easy farm recipes, bad jokes and favorite vegetable garden greens

Published: Nov. 20, 2014, 12:20 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 35 seconds

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0128 Pork pickup episode, hunting season updates and a CSA review

Published: Nov. 13, 2014, 1:55 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 39 seconds

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0127 Pork from the butcher, hunting update and a trip down memory lane

Published: Nov. 5, 2014, 11:55 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 49 seconds

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0126 A discussion about moving pastured pigs to the processor

Published: Oct. 22, 2014, 10:59 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 50 seconds

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0125 Prepping pastured pigs for processing and vegetable garden tomato favorites

Published: Oct. 16, 2014, 12:57 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 47 seconds

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0124 Vegetable garden put to bed, starting a CSA and passionate listeners

Published: Oct. 8, 2014, 11:27 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 13 seconds

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0123 A tour of the farms greenhouse and its vegetables

Published: Sept. 25, 2014, 12:24 a.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 21 seconds

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0122 Fall plantings in the greenhouse, cheese making, business ideas

Published: Sept. 17, 2014, 11:23 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 15 seconds

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0121 Farm updates, tractor project, listener reviews

Published: Sept. 10, 2014, 11:55 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 44 seconds

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0120 Happy pigs on pasture, canning and freezing garden fresh food, Farm U : Containment

Published: Aug. 20, 2014, 11:24 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 38 seconds

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0119 Weaning pig meningitis, bountiful vegetable garden, the perfect BLT

Published: Aug. 13, 2014, 10:15 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 14 seconds

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0118 The future of farming pigs, garden fresh vegetable recipes and sleepy farmers

Published: July 30, 2014, 10:14 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 45 seconds

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0117 Piglets moved, the vegetable garden goodies, listener questions

Published: July 23, 2014, 11:18 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 57 seconds

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0116 Chicken Processing Preps, Processing Review, Cornish Cross Chickens (again)

Published: July 16, 2014, 11:02 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 50 seconds

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0115 On Farm Staycation, Vegetable Garden Success, SiriusXM + O&A + raw milk

Published: July 9, 2014, 10:07 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 41 seconds

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0114 Piglets get names, pastured chickens and part time farming

Published: June 25, 2014, 10:11 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 18 seconds

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0113 Farming weather, chickens to pasture, supportive farmers

Published: June 18, 2014, 11 p.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 24 seconds

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0112 The farms potato patch, vegetable garden fencing and super soil in the greenhouse

Published: June 4, 2014, 11:06 p.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 3 seconds

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0111 Chicks on the farm, happy piglets, vegetable gardening fun!

Published: May 29, 2014, 12:08 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 3 seconds

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0110 Loss of a pig and piglets while farrowing on our farm

Published: May 21, 2014, 11:09 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 17 minutes 44 seconds

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0109 Gardening, farrowing and why the Non GMO Project might just be a joke

Published: May 7, 2014, 10:55 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 1 second

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0108 Cleaning a chicken coop, cooking Easter ham, declining farmers

Published: April 16, 2014, 10:49 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 44 seconds

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0107 Spring arrives on the farm, vegetable garden seed choices, a Mark Cuban quote

Published: April 9, 2014, 10:59 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 16 seconds

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0106 Spring comes to the farm, starting seeds, thinking about the vegetable garden

Published: April 2, 2014, 10:31 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 40 seconds

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0105 Pregnant pigs, wormings pigs, buying a half pig

Published: March 26, 2014, 10:38 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 36 seconds

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0104 Vulcan Blizzard and the Farm, prepping for weather, frozen water pipe

Published: March 12, 2014, 10:23 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 55 seconds

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0103 A new tractor store, a day in the life of a farmer, eating out of season

Published: March 6, 2014, 12:44 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 21 seconds

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0102 Farm animals in the cold, winter greenhouse garden, farm meeting

Published: Feb. 26, 2014, 11:29 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 24 seconds

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0101 Selecting garden seeds, winter farming updates, lard pie crusts

Published: Feb. 13, 2014, 1:28 a.m.
Duration: 36 minutes 55 seconds

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0100 Farming discussions: Monsanto, work-farm-life balance, thanking the listeners

Published: Feb. 5, 2014, 11:20 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 21 seconds

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099 Swine artificial insemination, agricultural assessment, Annual farm meeting

Published: Jan. 22, 2014, 10:48 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 23 seconds

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098 Farming in a polar vortex, seed starting lights, delicious farm recipes

Published: Jan. 15, 2014, 11:37 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 15 seconds

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097 Farming in the bitter cold, moose fencing and a special thanks

Published: Dec. 18, 2013, 6:12 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 50 seconds

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096 An agricultural assessment, farm based accounting software, recipes

Published: Dec. 12, 2013, 3:16 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 25 seconds

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095 Thanksgiving turkeys, farming with social media, raw milk

Published: Dec. 5, 2013, 12:43 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 19 seconds

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094 Some winter farm prep, a bit of hunting and being thankful for our listeners

Published: Nov. 27, 2013, 1:30 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 59 seconds

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093 Modern trends in swine production review, deposit based farming, common sense laws

Published: Nov. 14, 2013, 1:43 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 57 seconds

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092 Boar taint is for real, farming listeners around the world and are you a prepper?

Published: Nov. 6, 2013, 11:42 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 58 seconds

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091 Customer on farm pickups, moving new layer chickens and pig livers

Published: Oct. 23, 2013, 11:23 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 59 seconds

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090 Farmer anniversary dinner, when butcher cuts are wrong and the Walking Dead farm

Published: Oct. 17, 2013, 10:36 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 12 seconds

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089 Turkey processing on the farm, pigs to the processor and the vegetable garden is still producing

Published: Oct. 10, 2013, 12:48 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 38 seconds

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088 Turkey processing on the farm, a listener eats his chicken, filling out a pork cut sheet

Published: Oct. 2, 2013, 11:32 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 46 seconds

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087 Butcher cuts and cash flow on the farm, fresh vs frozen meat and the vegetable garden Rowboat Roundup

Published: Sept. 19, 2013, 12:02 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 26 seconds

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086 A deposit based farming business model, dual purpose chicken breeds, Chicken processing in China

Published: Sept. 12, 2013, 12:06 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 6 seconds

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085 Sponsoring a coopcast, bunnies for pork and farming apps on your phone

Published: Sept. 5, 2013, 12:07 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 19 seconds

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084 Healing injured pigs, late season vegetable gardens and a farm fresh tomato taste test

Published: Aug. 28, 2013, 11:03 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 21 seconds

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083 Moving pigs together after weaning, fencing color matters and other farming tales

Published: Aug. 22, 2013, 1:15 a.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 5 seconds

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082 Turkey MURDER!, Beloved farm hog to market and hunting on the homestead

Published: Aug. 14, 2013, 10:18 p.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 53 seconds

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081 Prepping for the pig move, farm show, more farm fresh recipies

Published: Aug. 7, 2013, 10:55 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 53 seconds

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080 Growing pigs, planning for the Fall garden, recipes from the farm

Published: July 31, 2013, 10:57 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 21 seconds

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079 Fall vegetable gardening, building a new farm, food safety and farming

Published: July 24, 2013, 9:57 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 41 seconds

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078 A slow return to normal on the farm, chicken processing setup and a farming nugget

Published: July 18, 2013, 1:22 a.m.
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 36 seconds

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077 Frustrated Farmers, Weaning of Piglets and the Challenge of Chores

Published: July 11, 2013, 12:06 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes

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076 Hot Pigs, the recovery of sick tomatoes in the garden / greenhouse, remember when on the farm

Published: June 26, 2013, 10:32 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 5 seconds

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075 Soggy farm pastures, waterlogged tomato plants in the garden, judging a farm as a consumer

Published: June 19, 2013, 10:58 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 47 seconds

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074 Egg eating chicken, waterlogged vegetable garden, building a greenhouse for your farm

Published: June 12, 2013, 9:35 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 55 seconds

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073 Hog heritage on the farm, starting the CSA, managing the garden and succession planting

Published: June 5, 2013, 10:19 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 42 seconds

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072 Piglet mania! (and turkeys and chickens too), Memorial Day pistol range time, row covers in the garden

Published: May 29, 2013, 10:49 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 16 seconds

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071 A sow in distress while farrowing on the farm, piglet castration and temperature extremes in the vegetable garden

Published: May 22, 2013, 2:48 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 45 seconds

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070 A discussion about pastured pig farrowing and an agressive sow

Published: May 16, 2013, 2:02 a.m.
Duration: 44 minutes 13 seconds

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069 Preparing for hog farrowing, farm interns, GMO's that are good for you

Published: May 9, 2013, 12:11 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 16 seconds

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068 Vegetable Gardening begins, a top secret farming project, how to find GMO's in your food

Published: May 2, 2013, 12:17 a.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 40 seconds

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067 Worm Worshiping Hippies, vegetable gardening and soil blocks, farm transparency vs the farmers privacy

Published: April 24, 2013, 9:29 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 21 seconds

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066 Pasture chicken orders, Diagnosing a sick pig, Disease resistance and breeding

Published: April 18, 2013, 12:50 a.m.
Duration: 56 minutes 32 seconds

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065 Benefits of a mobile chicken coop, seedlings in the greenhouse, a case study on sick pigs

Published: April 10, 2013, 11:46 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 46 seconds

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064 Puppy on the farm, April Fools Farming, Pastured Chicken Pricing and the Monsanto Protection Act

Published: April 3, 2013, 11:29 p.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 11 seconds

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063 Running a farm while on vacation, taking care of new chicks, Ractopamine in pork

Published: March 27, 2013, 10:20 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 47 seconds

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062 Washing farmstead eggs, managing pigs in the mud and new farm questions

Published: March 21, 2013, 7:51 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 36 seconds

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061 Mud season on the farm, Farming and being sick and some listener based rants

Published: March 12, 2013, 10:17 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 2 seconds

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060 Farm finances (income and expenses), a listener helps pigs farrow, chickens have been ordered

Published: Feb. 28, 2013, 1:06 a.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 54 seconds

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059 Farming updates for the week, Starting your own CSA, Small Farm Finances

Published: Feb. 20, 2013, 1:16 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 47 seconds

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058 Farming in a big snow storm, farm finances, small farm tractors

Published: Feb. 14, 2013, 12:01 a.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 22 seconds

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057 Farm updates, vegetable garden seed planning, evaluating our role in the sustainable food movement

Published: Feb. 5, 2013, 7:45 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 15 seconds

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056 Swine Artificial Insemination, Garden seed orders, farm fence questions

Published: Jan. 29, 2013, 3:17 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 35 seconds

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055 Artificial Insemination of Pastured Pigs and Farming Infrastructure in 2013

Published: Jan. 21, 2013, 1:10 p.m.
Duration: 58 minutes 12 seconds

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054 - Egg prices, the farm plan for turkeys and building a mobile chicken coop

Published: Jan. 17, 2013, 1:02 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 51 seconds

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053 Pig on the lamb, snow and portable farming, annual farm meeting (part 1)

Published: Jan. 9, 2013, 1:03 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 46 seconds

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052 Christmas on the farm, farming in the northern winters, choosing a CSA

Published: Dec. 29, 2012, 8:37 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 20 seconds

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051 Farming with #elfonafarm, The 2nd Amendment on a farm, feed storage

Published: Dec. 19, 2012, 3:02 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 52 seconds

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050 Winter and farm fresh eggs, listeners favorite farming things, hybrid or heritage laying chicken

Published: Dec. 12, 2012, 1:25 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 5 seconds

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049 Farming favorite things (A Christmas list for farmers)

Published: Dec. 5, 2012, 2:46 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 23 seconds

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048 Heritage turkey from pasture to plate, vegetable gardens best tomatoes, worming pigs

Published: Nov. 28, 2012, 12:39 p.m.
Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 35 seconds

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047 Ordering pastured turkeys, Thanksgiving on the farm, eating healthy tastes bad

Published: Nov. 20, 2012, 1:01 a.m.
Duration: 34 minutes 15 seconds

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046 Prepping the farm for winter, poultry netting recommendations, the difference in processing turkeys

Published: Nov. 13, 2012, 8:35 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 27 seconds

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045 Farm prepping for a hurricane, a GMO documentary, eating nutrient dense foods

Published: Nov. 6, 2012, 1:06 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 45 seconds

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044 Planting Fall garlic and Proposition 37 and GMO's

Published: Oct. 29, 2012, noon
Duration: 36 minutes 56 seconds

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043 Putting the vegetable garden to bed, late season farming, how to cook a heritage turkey

Published: Oct. 23, 2012, 11:52 a.m.
Duration: 43 minutes 29 seconds

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042 Fall farming updates from livestock to vegetable gardens and a discussion about farmer and consumer commitment

Published: Oct. 16, 2012, 11:27 a.m.
Duration: 57 minutes 44 seconds

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041 Turkey vs Fox, rendering lard on the homestead, farming in the news

Published: Oct. 9, 2012, 11:47 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 29 seconds

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040 Taking respected animals from the farm to the processor, early Autumn vegetable gardens, winter and farming

Published: Oct. 2, 2012, 12:37 p.m.
Duration: 54 minutes 35 seconds

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039 Farm updates as we head into fall, taking some pastured pigs to the USDA processor, poultry processing workshop

Published: Sept. 24, 2012, 11:48 p.m.
Duration: 59 minutes 6 seconds

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038 Farming updates, garden raised potatoes (above ground), chicken and poultry processing

Published: Sept. 17, 2012, 12:11 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 53 seconds

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037 Happy pastured pigs on the farm, vegetable garden tomato blights, pay farming forward (pasture care and seeding for feeding)

Published: Sept. 9, 2012, 11:49 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 6 seconds

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036 Farming with regulations, food safety and honey, BPA in plastics and avoiding it while preserving food from the garden

Published: Sept. 5, 2012, 1:51 a.m.
Duration: 31 minutes 29 seconds

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035 Farm equipment finds on craigslist, fall vegetable garden succession planting, the business of farming full time

Published: Aug. 26, 2012, 11:49 p.m.
Duration: 52 minutes 18 seconds

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034 Greenhouse gardening and soil fertility, growing livestock feed on your farm, preventing Botulism when canning vegetables

Published: Aug. 20, 2012, 12:31 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 2 seconds

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033 A great farm animal becomes sausage, growing potatoes in the vegetable garden, getting attached to livestock when farming

Published: Aug. 13, 2012, 11:57 a.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 57 seconds

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032 Successfully moving our sow to pasture, storm damage on the farm, antibiotics in livestock and their meat

Published: Aug. 5, 2012, 11:26 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 8 seconds

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031 Moving pigs to pasture, inspiring a homestead, farming choices and antibiotics

Published: July 31, 2012, 4:12 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 14 seconds

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030 Dual duty pastured turkeys, marketing your farm, building a root cellar

Published: July 24, 2012, 1:30 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 28 seconds

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029 Pastured poultry processing day and the challenges of vegetable gardening in endless heat and no rain

Published: July 17, 2012, 12:20 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 40 seconds

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028 Sow in heat, predator attack on pastured chickens, Agribon hoops / low tunnels in hot weather

Published: July 9, 2012, 12:38 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 42 seconds

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027 Weaning pastured pigs (mistakes and success), a dry farm is looking for rain, questions about chickens, hens and a rooster

Published: July 1, 2012, 1:33 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 48 seconds

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026 Growing cold weather crops in summer heat on the farm, predators in chicken pasture, common sense and research in farming

Published: June 24, 2012, 10:50 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 34 seconds

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025 Moving broiler chickens to the pasture, bolting vegetables in the gardens (gardening in the heat), stress of farming

Published: June 19, 2012, 12:22 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 9 seconds

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024 Picking local farm grown strawberries and preserving, ice for chicken processing, vegetable CSA has begun!

Published: June 10, 2012, 6:33 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 59 seconds

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023 Planting the vegetable gardens, injured chicks, humane treatment of animals / livestock, building a chicken brooder

Published: June 3, 2012, 11:15 a.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 59 seconds

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022 Unexpected loss of a piglet, planting the gardens, broilers have arrived

Published: May 27, 2012, 11:21 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 32 seconds

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021 Heritage turkeys on the farm, sustainable farm energy, planting gardens and vegetables under row covers

Published: May 19, 2012, 4:02 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 7 seconds

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020 Piglet castration (is it natural), morning sickness and a HOT greenhouse / hoophouse

Published: May 14, 2012, 11:44 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 17 seconds

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019 Vegetable garden and CSA planting begins and we share sow farrowing on pasture

Published: May 5, 2012, 3:30 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 30 seconds

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018 Spring snows and gardening, pastured chicken (broiler) pen wheels, seed starting and planting for a vegetable CSA

Published: April 28, 2012, 4:12 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 48 seconds

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017 Harrier Hawk vs Hen, homegrown pineapples (and other vegetable garden updates) and a farming lesson in livestock chutes

Published: April 22, 2012, 6:35 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 28 seconds

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016 Pastured pork meat candy, heritage pig breeds and the FDA on farming and antibiotics

Published: April 15, 2012, 5:18 p.m.
Duration: 55 minutes 49 seconds

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015 Farming updates, planting peas in the garden, high tensile fencing project

Published: April 8, 2012, 11:27 a.m.
Duration: 50 minutes 9 seconds

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014 Farmstead hatched chicks, a visit to a heritage pig farm in NY, fenced in thinking

Published: March 31, 2012, 4:26 p.m.
Duration: 53 minutes 59 seconds

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013 Effects of "summer" in March on gardening and farming, Are you a farm / farmstead /homestead or homesteading, portable poultry netting

Published: March 25, 2012, 2:33 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 15 seconds

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012 Farming while on vacation, grocery store produce (organic or local), ordering pastured chickens

Published: March 17, 2012, 7:33 p.m.
Duration: 51 minutes 49 seconds

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011 Round hay / straw bales, homestead hatched chicken, tractor talk and reviews (for small / hobby farms)

Published: March 10, 2012, 10:04 p.m.
Duration: 49 minutes 20 seconds

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010 Stir frys and soil blocks, A farmstead hatched baby chick, pastured Cornish X

Published: March 3, 2012, 3:53 p.m.
Duration: 48 minutes 33 seconds

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009 General livestock updates, local feed and grains for animals, Cornish Cross chickens on pasture (part 2)

Published: Feb. 25, 2012, 4:35 p.m.
Duration: 46 minutes 55 seconds

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008 Raising Cornish X Chickens, water for livestock (chickens), eating a Bourbon Red turkey

Published: Feb. 18, 2012, 1:33 p.m.
Duration: 45 minutes 38 seconds

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007 Managing chicken coops, CSA update (vegetables and tools), pasturing birds for better eggs

Published: Feb. 11, 2012, 3:27 p.m.
Duration: 47 minutes 43 seconds

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006 Memorable heritage breed turkey stories, Big Game recipes from the farm, and seed starting supplies

Published: Feb. 4, 2012, 12:52 p.m.
Duration: 42 minutes 22 seconds

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005 Farming pastured heritage turkeys, geothermal heating / cooling, rural alternative heating options

Published: Jan. 28, 2012, 2:09 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 19 seconds

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004 Winter hoophouse, Ordering seeds (heirloom and hybrids) and About Eggs

Published: Jan. 21, 2012, 2:34 p.m.
Duration: 40 minutes 27 seconds

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003 Lessons learned on the farm and being prepared on the farm

Published: Jan. 13, 2012, 7:59 p.m.
Duration: 41 minutes 22 seconds

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002 Annual "Farm Meeting", injured chicken, and antibiotic resistance

Published: Jan. 6, 2012, 8:03 p.m.
Duration: 39 minutes 35 seconds

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001 Meet our farmstead and hear why we are talking about gardening, farming and homesteading

Published: Dec. 29, 2011, 6:56 p.m.
Duration: 35 minutes 32 seconds

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000 What is a Chicken Thistle Farm CoopCast / farmcast / farming podcast?

Published: Dec. 26, 2011, 12:51 a.m.
Duration: 8 minutes 20 seconds

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