Audio Podcasts!!
A lot of people have told us we should document our travails and triumphs as we figure out how to start up a farm from scratch. We settled on audio podcasts because, well, sitting around and gabbing seemed a lot easier than anything else. And, it has the side benefit of giving us the opportunity to speak directly with you as we would if you were visiting with us at our market stand. Which is what we love.
Right now, these aren't technically podcasts because we haven't registered them in the iTunes library for download to nifty pod-thingies, but we hope to make that happen soon. In the meantime, you can listen to them right here using your computer, or if you are savvy you can save the mp3 files to whatever playback device you prefer.
Podcast #14 |
In this week's podcast: Piglets change zipcodes, farmers make covered dishes, and a database of apples. Shout outs in this week's podcast: Okfuskee Farm, South Estes Farmers, Debbie Roos, Chatham County extension agent, and Lee Calhoun. Outro Music: Mangueira playing their samba version of Brazil's national anthem Hino Brasileiro. |
Podcast #13 |
In this week's podcast: Piggies go to market. Bushogging and cover cropping, oh my! Lessons learned while mobbing Beausol Gardens. Growing hanging melons in a greenhouse? Our honey bees try to run away - twice! As always, last week's trivia question answer. Shout outs in this week's podcast: Acre Station Meat Farm. Bill Croughwell. Harry LeBlanc and Deb Vail of Beausol Gardens & Sanctuary. John and Elizabeth Bonitz. Jeffrey Hassler of Green Dreams Farm. Lewis Cauble of Cedar Grove Bee Works Outro Music: Smokey Mountain Memories by Dolly Parton |
Podcast #12 |
In this week's podcast: Doing the (urban) farm tour by bicycle! Gettin' a little wisdom from an elder. As always, last week's trivia question answer. Shout outs in this week's podcast: Urban Farm Tour, |
Podcast #11 |
In this week's podcast: Rain, glorious rain!! A truck, a trailer, 4 goats, bad timing = adventurous Labor Day. And, of course, the answer to our last trivia questions! Shout outs in this week's podcast: Jeffry Goodrum of Seeing Stars Farm. Bedford Lee of Hawk Hill Berry Farm. Rob Bowers of Whitted Bowers Farm. Sam's cousin, Will Hicks. Outro Music: Health Care Reform (Song) by Linda Courtney Weathers and Glinda Courtney Foots |
Podcast #10 |
In this week's podcast: Stories about our favorite hen. In Memoriam. Welcoming new staff. And, as always, the answer to last week's trivia question. Shout outs in this week's podcast: Steve and Sara Moize of Shady Grove Farm. Chef Appearance: Emily Buelher, a professional artisanal baker and author of Bread Science: the Chemistry and Craft of Making Bread (read a review), shares her favorite peach cobbler recipe with us. Unlike last week's ratatouille, it's simple!! Outro Music: "Taps" bu(n)gled by Sam Hummel |
Podcast #9 |
In this week's podcast: This is our shortest podcast yet!! Think you know what crops are profitable and which aren't? Or at least, which ones are less profitable? We'll share a few of our hard learned insights. Then, we'll tell you the answer to this week's podcast and head to bed. ;) Shout outs in this week's podcast: McDonald's. (really) Chef Appearance: Julia Child shares with us her delectable ratatouille recipe that uses lots of summer vegetables. |
Podcast #8 |
In this week's podcast: Aaron's going away party. Farm espionage. Farmers, winos and farmer winos meet up at 3Cups. Sam checks back in on the local food scene at Duke. And, as always, the answers to last week's trivia question. Shout outs in this week's podcast: PLANT@Breeze Farm Incubator, Tim and Helga McAller of Four Leaf Farm. 3Cups | Wine - Coffee - Tea. Pat Eder, Laura Hall and Geri Seibert of Bon Vivant Catering and The Refectory Cafe. ECO Organics. Students for Sustainable Living. Chef Appearance: Vincent Zannini, resident chef at Ever Laughter Farm, shares his original recipe for a Yugi Omelette ("yugi" as in Yugoslavian). Outro Music: "Andean folk" group Chayag with "Enchanted" |
Podcast #7 |
In this week's podcast: Field report. Will get's out his calculator and does a little farm finance figurin. Revenue maximization? What?! Do we work in a factory or something? Compost tea (don't drink it). Sick goat or feigning goat? News flash: GOATS CAUSE POISON IVY! Local start-up tempts us with organic herbicide. And, as always, the answers to last week's trivia questions. Shout outs in this week's podcast: Eva Green of Rabbit Patch Baskets. Will and Eli Hicks - Sam's Dr. Doolittle cousins. The Goat Patrol. EcoBlend natural weed killer - Pittsboro. Chef Appearance: Fleming Pfann of Celebrity Dairy shares her original Butternut Squash Soup recipe that appeared in Southern Living Magazine! Outro Music: Take Me Out to the Ball Game, sung by Eward Meeker in 1908 |
Podcast #6
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In this week's podcast: Special guest Aaron Stancombe brings us our first bleep! Tomato Festival round-up: And the audience choice for best tomato goes to... The secret to crispy green beans. Sprouting with gas! Wind, rain and greenhouse plastic. Planning for our greenhouse. "Free" chickens come with some serious baggage. Report-back from the Piedmont BioFarm show-and-tell. And, as always, the answer to last week's trivia question. Shout outs in this week's podcast: Bill and Joanne Lelekacs of Dancing Pines Farm. Bobby and Vicky Roberson of Roberson Creek Farm. Jim and Vera of Secondwind Farm & Vera Pottery. Denise of Soap Kettle Etc. Bobby and Amber at Okfuskee Farm. Jeffrey Hassler of Green Dreams Farm. Ricky Evans, our small engine repair wizard. Doug Jones of Piedmont Biofarm. Chef Appearance: Chris Holloway, Executive Chef at A Southern Season, shares his recipe for Namasu, a delicsious cucumber-based salad. Also known as Japanese pickles. Outro Music: Korean woman singing "tomato song." |
Podcast #5 |
In this week's podcast: Tigger melons are grrrreat! Sorta. Tomato Festival is this Saturday. Pigs grow fast! Will reviews Food, Inc. And, as always, the answer to last week's trivia question. Shout outs in this week's podcast: Bobby and Amber at Ofuskee Farm, Tahz, Jesse, and Justin raising pigs at Stone House, Aaron Harris, Harvey Harman, Trace Ramsey, and Lisa Bivona from A Southern Season. Chef Appearance: Joanne Custer offers up a cherished and time-tested Spicy Fried Okra recipe. Outro Music: "Anethole not Glycyrrhizin" by Will Cramer |
Podcast #4 |
In this week's podcast: We got mobbed. Economists make supply and demand sound easy. Mystery solved - our chickens were eating their eggs because... Our mystery weed is no longer a mystery. The Lodge is closed for renovation. And, as always, the answer to last week's trivia question. Shout outs in this week's podcast: Crop Mob (and the farms that represented at the mob: Beausol Gardens, Bountiful Backyards, Blue Heron, Carrboro Community Garden, Okfuskee Farm, Piedmont BioFarm, Circle Acres, Plant@Breeze, The Bog and Edible Earthscapes - sorry if we left anyone out!), Debbie Roos, Unnamed Feedstore, Rob Jones, Sam's Dad, Urban Farm Tour (Sep 12th, Carrboro). Chef Appearance: Okay, we failed to get a chef on the line this week. It was very busy with the Crop Mob and all. But, we do have a delicious Fresh No-Cook Tomato Sauce recipe that the chefs from A Southern Season made with ingredients from all us farmers at market on Saturday. |
Podcast #3 |
In this week's podcast: How much for a tomato? Free laying hens... and roosters. Fresh eggs are yummy - to a chicken? Cell phones in the corn field. And, as always, this week's trivia question. Shout outs in this week's podcast: Crop Mob, Vernetta Cockerham, Doug Jones of Piedmont BioFarm, Gordon Baker, Puccini Chef Appearance: Carol Barrow - chef and author of Caroleena's Tuscan Kitchen presents listeners with a recipe for Tuscan Pomarola Sauce. |
Podcast #2 |
In this week's podcast: Goats break-in! Goats break-out! Summer crops coming in. Rain at last. The bee hive arrives. Mystery shrub weeds. Fun Fourth farmer-style. And, as always, this week's trivia question. Shout outs in this week's podcast: Lewis Cauble of Cedar Grove Bee Works, Bill & Narda Croughwell, Cathy and Mike Jones of Perry-winkle Farm, and Zulayka Santiago of Liberación Juice Station. Outro Music: Honduran national anthem sung in Garifuna by Garifuna Indians. |
Podcast #1!! |
In this week's podcast: Solstice Party Round-up (photos), Mushroom Hunting, Things Happening on the Farm - crops, goats, poison ivy, weeds, and mulch troubles. And, as always, this week's trivia question! Shout outs in this week's podcast: Rob Jones who organizes the Crop Mob, Chef Vimala Rajendran, Lil' Farm, Rob Bowers of Whitted Bowers, Bobby and Amber of Okfuskee Farm, Will Hicks, Chef Chris Hollowy and A Southern Season, Chef Amy Tornquist and Watts Grocery, Johnny's Coffee Shop, Eliza MacLean of Cane Creek Farm. Outro Music: Sample of Michael Jackson's "vegetable song" |