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

Chicken Thistle Farm CoopCast

English - September 09, 2012 11:49 - 51 minutes - 46.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 900 ratings
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Previous Episode: 036 Farming with regulations, food safety and honey, BPA in plastics and avoiding it while preserving food from the garden

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

We try out a new intro on this weeks show based on a listener iTunes review...

Farming Updates this week include:

Pigs on new pasture was an easy move,
Making a swale for their wallow,
New hog feeder feeder in use,
Update on O2's limp,
Selecting a gilt to keep - what is good conformation?
Pork cut sheet designed,
Turkey processing dates picked,
Turkey ordering form sent out,
CSA is ending in 2 weeks.

In the Veggie Patch:

We talk tomatoes and blight. What is it, how do you identify it and what can you do about it?

In Farm U:

We discuss what we are doing to manage pasture spaces after moving pigs off of them.