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

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

FromChicken Thistle Farm CoopCast


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

FromChicken Thistle Farm CoopCast

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Length:
52 minutes
Released:
Apr 16, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

With a bit of warm spring weather we have been able to get to some overdue chores.  The joy of the springtime Coop clean out is completed and the compost is on the garden.  We have more hydrant troubles and talk a bit about the YNN TV crew that was here to learn about how we produce eggs.
In this weeks "We eat good" segment, we talk about the joys of cooking an Easter Ham...  kinda.  Rather how to simply prepare a ham and the unloved ham steak.
Out of the kitchen and back on the front porch we discuss an NBC news article about the declining number of farmers and the long term risk to the country.  So - read the article - be concerned and buy lots of food from your local farmer!
http://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/shortage-farmers-creates-dangerous-situation-u-s-n78251
Released:
Apr 16, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Sharing our small farm stories and skills along our farming, gardening and homesteading journey. Visit the farm for an informative and sometimes irreverent tour through our garden, livestock pastures, chicken coop and greenhouse as we live - pasture to plate. Farming topics free range around pastured heritage pigs, broiler chickens and pastured eggs, heritage breed turkeys, an heirloom vegetable CSA and garden, high tunnel / hoop house / green houses, organic and traditional gardening, farm infrastructure, tractors, sustainable energy, permaculture, food preservation and even fence mending.