Topics this week include:
*What's to know about goats!
*Beef cows: breeds and how to feed in a woods
*Dairy calves
* how to wash eggs
*How to get hens to lay eggs in the right place
*Financial considerations in buying a homestead: smart places to save and spend
Anyone Can Farm!
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Recommended reading for the homesteader:
** Joel Salatin's Pastured Poultry Profits: https://amzn.to/2HOnR4g
** Joel's Salad Bar Beef: https://amzn.to/2WvV6fO
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppib2YcotvA
You asked, and here it is: check out what's going on in the sorghum field (it's not what you might think). When the grass fed cows (and pastured pigs and chickens) are your harvesters, your yields can be more flexible. And homesteading is about living as much as farming, and here's how that works out on Baker's Green Acres homestead farm.
Anyone Can Farm!
Follow Us on all our social media platforms.
** https://www.facebook.com/bakersgreenacres/
** https://www.instagram.com/baker_green_acres_/
** www.bakersgreenacres.com
Recommended reading for the homesteader:
** Joel Salatin's Pastured Poultry Profits: https://amzn.to/2HOnR4g
** Joel's Salad Bar Beef: https://amzn.to/2WvV6fO
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BT8kvamOG40
Thanks everyone who joined us with their questions! We chatted about
*Turkeys
*Mushrooms
*Worms
*Pigs: feeding, housing with Goats, treating a cold
*The animal with the best ROI (return on investment). You'll never guess!
*Chickens: building a coop, raising heritage roosters for meat
*Garden: mulch, planting in rows vs. beds
Check out your chances to learn what we know: www.BakersGreenAcres.com
In answer to one hog feeding question, here is one of Mark's many videos about growing forage for pigs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEb4g0uVgsw&list=PLc2DQeRINLpLaKDMJRcqadHetM_hlZhxW&index=41
Follow Us on all our social media platforms.
** https://www.facebook.com/bakersgreenacres/
** https://www.instagram.com/baker_green_acres_/
** www.bakersgreenacres.com
Recommended reading for the homesteader:
** Joel Salatin's Pastured Poultry Profits: https://amzn.to/2HOnR4g
** Joel's Salad Bar Beef: https://amzn.to/2WvV6fO
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQKD71vraaI
Tonight's conversation: thoughts on a reset, course correction. Simplify, simplify, simplify. Sustainable: what is sustainable farming?
Plus your Q&A
(0:23) how to provide a cover for plants against pests
(0:34) Lard type Mangalitsa pigs and 4-H
(0:45) thoughts on Michigan's governor Gretchen Whitmer and the COVID quarantine 2020
(0:52) how to build soil, especially sandy clay soil. Using wood mulch
(1:09) how to talk to a butcher about your Mangalitsa pig
(1:11) Gelatin and joint health mobility
(1:15) Using a lawn rake or vacuum on the homestead: free food!
Anyone Can Farm
Follow Us on all our social media platforms.
** https://www.facebook.com/bakersgreenacres/
** https://www.instagram.com/baker_green_acres_/
** www.bakersgreenacres.com
Recommended reading for the homesteader:
** Joel Salatin's Pastured Poultry Profits: https://amzn.to/2HOnR4g
** Joel's Salad Bar Beef: https://amzn.to/2WvV6fO
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3TUcgGERMg
Listen in on Mark's thoughts on how to homestead and farm, as well as many other topics. Tonight he'll answer your questions LIVE! Join the live chat at www.BakersGreenAcres.com/Show.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zA0T14b9nw