Updates from around the farmstead:

#farmerandy shares his Big Buck story of dispair,

We put the veggie patch to bed with compost and the rototiller,

Pigs moved to a new section of pasture,

Pig pasture maintenance and seeding on the old pasture,

From the pasture to the plate we talk about canning chicken in the pressure cooker,

Final sales of year and the risk to cash flow

In the CoopCast community:

We talk about cooking a heritage turkey (http://www.localharvest.org/features/heritage-turkey-recipes.jsp),

A listener who didn't know he could raise his chickens on pasture,

Some general listener feedback items from Facebook, iTunes and Stitcher.

In the news:

We talk about a non-functioning pair of oxen in Vermont and what should happen with them:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/10/21/163257176/despite-protest-college-plans-to-slaughter-serve-farms-beloved-oxen