A update light week on the farm with:

No poultry pens to move,

Normal weather for a change on the farm,

Turkeys and layers doing well,

Pigs have their first weigh in.

In the Veggie Patch we talk:

Greenhouse soil fertility and design,

Low tunnel greenhouses you can build,

End of garden season discounts.

In the Coopcast Community:

On a listeners suggestion Andy is trying Oral Ivy.

Sheree asked about growing grain for chickens and supplementing them with veggies/greens from the garden.

Brice suggested we invest in some livestock guardian dogs.

In this weeks Farm U we learn about the science behind preventing Botulism when canning vegetables.The bacteria lives in all soils and we talk about terms relating to it and defeating it when canning:

Spores

Anaerobe

Soil

Pressure and temp

pH