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

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

FromChicken Thistle Farm CoopCast


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

FromChicken Thistle Farm CoopCast

ratings:
Length:
52 minutes
Released:
Aug 13, 2012
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Updates this week on the farm:

We learned that Ollie is no more on the farm we took him to,
Hay and livestock trailer,
The seasons final chicken processing,
5 gallon bucket waterer gauge,
And a question - what makes you happy when farming?

In the Veggie Patch:

Tomatoes and canning,
Succession planting,
We discuss the results of the above ground potato growing method (from coopcast 014)

Questions, Conversations and Ruminations:

We get asked all the time "Don't you get attached to your animals?"
Can you care about the animals you eat for meat? 
Is it better to not like them? 
Is that why we've gone to a system of mistreatment?
Released:
Aug 13, 2012
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.