Sharing our small farm stories and skills along our farming, gardening and homesteading journey. Visit the farm for an informative and sometimes irreverent tour through our garden, livestock pastures, chicken coop, beehive and greenhouse as we live - pasture to plate. Farming topics free range around pastured heritage pigs, broiler chickens and pastured eggs, heritage breed turkeys, an heirloom vegetable CSA and garden, high tunnel / hoop house / green houses, organic and traditional gardening, farm infrastructure, tractors, sustainable energy, being self sufficient, permaculture, food preservation, bees, beekeeping and even fence mending.
Don't you love it when people say something exciting, positive, motivational and then... add in the BUT! We just announced last week that new episode...
All great stories need to come to their rightful conclusion... join us for the Alpha of the Omega with the hosts of the Chicken Thistle Farm Coopcast...
As the year draws to a close, we share some thoughts about life that has transpired since our last episode on March 31st... Farming has been a lot of ...
The fine legslative geniuses in MD keep the bees safe - Soon your bacon will be genetically engineered - And we review the piece of movie garbage kn...
Want to get people fired up and yelling for no reason - mention raw milk... which we did and this episode dissects the fun that follows. But before w...
This episode is mostly listener questions that we answer about our hoop house, construction methods, and gardening inside the hoop house. We also tou...
This entire episode is dedicated to the 2016 Farm Meeting where we discuss the vegetable gardens, seeds, chickens, pigs, ducks and all things farm rel...
From the farm this week we share a few updates (but it's a slow season for a slower year). We also discuss our seed order, country of origin labeling...
This episode is the last broadcast for 2015. So Merry Christmas everyone! We talk a bit about update around the farm and how it's a bit strange to no...
After the Thanksgiving turkey wore off we decided to get back to the farming podcast... and we talk about the most recent pork cuts we picked up. We...