In this episode, my Grandpa and I relive the first time I went deer hunting along with other deer hunting stories. He was the lucky one that got to tag along for the eventful day. Being Homegrown in my mind includes being able to produce and gather or hunt for your own food. 

The Turdy Point Buck Song

*If you realized that I never mentioned the distance of the shot, it was paced off to be about 200 yards...if you were curious.

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“Do you know what a podcast is?”, I ask my grandparents as I ask them to share about their upbringing. Hauling coal. Rolling hides. Army paratroopers. Working horses. Farming. Family. Nurse Training. Piano. Join my Grandpa Tom and my Grandma Margaret as they share stories about their younger years, how they met each other and how they ended up in Minnesota. Farming isn’t what it used to be. Life was simpler back then. Keep busy with productive things.

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Rocking this episode solo and talking about this year’s gardening failures and successes thus far. I tend to use every inch of my garden and plant in “layers” as I describe it. It doesn’t always work out, but that’s gardening for ya! With this year being so dry all over the country, plants are stressed out, and blossom end rot can be more prevalent. So, what can you do about it? 

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Resources:

Blossom End Rot

Nasturtium

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Listen as my mother and I talk about raising chickens, but primarily processing “broiler” chickens for meat. In this episode we talk about the supplies needed and go through all the steps from beginning to end.

Supplies needed:

-          Sharp knives

-          Butcher block/stump/cones

-          Clean processing area

-          2-gallon freezer bags

-          Torch

-          Kettle/bucket/tubs for boiling water and cooling chickens

-          Hose with nozzle

-          Rubber, nitrile gloves (optional)

Resources:

 Hoover Hatchery Catalog

What to do with chicken feet

Cleaning gizzards

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Join my wife, Nora, and I as we share our "sappy" love story about how we met. Just keeping it weird....and the moment she knew she met her future husband. Chivalry is not dead folks.  Learn more about Nora's background and how she also grew up in a Catholic household and was raised on a small family farm. Nora also shares some stories about her days farming days.

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Enjoy flowers? Check out Third Day Family Farm on Instrgram @thirddayfamily or their website mandanflowerfarm.com These are friends of ours that have an awesome thing going!

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**BONUS** A nice short episode to just follow up on a couple of the topics from episode 5. How do herbicide residues get into compost and how can that affect your garden. Listen here to find out. Enjoy!

The variety of tomato used in the siblings’ tomato contest was called a “Mortgage Lifter” 

Gardening Resources:

Mary's Heirloom Seeds

Herbicide Residues in Compost

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Potato bugs, electricity and 811! Join my brother David and I as we talk about childhood memories squishing “potato bugs”, more properly referred to as the Colorado Potato Beetle, along with having our own gardens as kids. All this leads to a discussion on things to consider when selecting a location for your garden. Things to consider: 

1)      Utilities

2)      Surroundings

3)      Sun exposure

4)      Water source

5)      Ease of access

6)      Air flow

7)      Soil type

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Gardening Resources:

Colorado Potato Beetle

North Dakota 811

Minnesota 811

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My brother Lawrence and I talk about how we got into mushroom hunting. Throughout the years, we have found morel, pheasant back, “puff balls” and white oyster mushrooms on the homestead. Learn a little bit about each of these mushrooms in this episode. Good luck to all those searching for the feast but be careful and make sure you properly identify all the mushrooms you find. 

Mushroom Resources:

The Great Morel Tracker – UPDATE! There have now been a few sightings around the Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, area. 

The Complete Mushroom Hunter – The mushroom book Lawrence got for Christmas.

Is this Pheasant Back good? 

Gardening Resources:

Holland's Home and Garden located in Fargo, ND. Check them out and give them a like on the Holland's Facebook page.

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Get acquainted with my brother David as we discuss his background, plant starts, seed selection, purchasing seed, browsing seed catalogs and much more.  What is an heirloom seed? Find out right here in this episode. We also talk about hybridized seeds and open pollinated plants. 

David’s favorite butternut squash is called “Waltham”

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Gardening Resources:

MiniFarming Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre

USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map

Splonskowski Plant Farm – Go buy your plant starts!

Mary's Heirloom Seeds 

NDSU Plants Science – Interested in furthering your education? Check out NDSU Plant Sciences!

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Meet the woman that brought me into this world as she shares some of her childhood duties and memories of growing up on a farm with 10,000 chickens! We also discussed dairy cows, bottle feeding calves and gardening! 

Gardening update as of April 22nd 2023….we still have snow! I did plant peas in my raised beds earlier this week. I will be seeding some lettuce here in the first few days of May.

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Gardening Resources:

Vegetable Gardener's Handbook

Producing Vegetable Crops 

MiniFarming Self-Sufficiency on 1/4 Acre

USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map

Splonskowski Plant Farm – Check them out on Facebook 

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