By Brian on August 27th, 2009
Our Former Rooster, Drumstick
Uno, Dos, Tres, Catorce! For nearly an hour, show 14 finds me taking our inaugural voice mail, almost making it through the feedback without botching someone’s name, bidding farewell to our rooster, looking forward to Inman Farm Heritage Days, skirting the law.. maybe, and pontificating on the idea of setting up an outyard. Thanks for listening!
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Inman Farm
Music: James Larson
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By Brian on August 20th, 2009
Our Three Goats
A short one this time. Still trying to get this car recording stuff ironed out – so the audio is kinda crappy. A short one. I prattle on about how I almost crushed myself with the tractor this week. Twice. Then we pontificate on the fad popularity of hobby farming.
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By Brian on August 5th, 2009
A snake that was squatting in our hen house
I go mobile for this podcast and drag you along for my morning commute. We play catch up on some farm updates to do with bees and snakes, stumble through a few verbal blunders, rant about my experience trying to become a certified egg candler, decry the outrage otherwise known as HR 875, and even manage to spit on Monsanto somewhere in the mix.
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Hobby Farms
The Survival Podcast
The Chicken Whisperer
Music: James Larson
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By Brian on July 31st, 2009
Our Rainwater Catchment System
The semi-long awaited 10th episode!
On this BubbaCast I answer some feedback, apologize for completely messing up the feed while doing some housekeeping, go over some other webby stuff and talk about designing a rainwater catchment system. Yes, I did edit in a disclaimer around the 39 minute mark. I don’t normally edit much, but I thought it was important. Thanks for listening!
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More Rainwater Harvesting Info
Self Sufficient Homestead Podcast – with Johnny Mac & the Queen
Shurflo Pumps
Uniseal
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By Brian on July 23rd, 2009
Making Peach Butter
In this pre-tenth BubbaCast I go mobile and cover some peachy product updates. I get a HUGE shout out from Sean Kennedy (how awesome is that?!), accidentally drop the ‘F-Bomb’, try to adopt an immigrant worker, toss kittens around, and tell you just enough about electric fences to do some real damage. Thanks for listening!
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Rant Media
Freedom Gardens
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By Brian on July 20th, 2009
Our new roof is finally being put down.
Woohoo! The new roof is going down (or is that up?) today, and it looks great! This crew is amazing. I’ve never seen people work so hard.
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By Brian on July 20th, 2009
Peaches and Cream Soap
Hey folks,
Boy howdy have we been busy around here. On the way back up from Jekyll we stopped at Dickies Farm and picked up a few bushels of peaches. Needless to say that on top of everything else we’ve spent our spare moments canning and soaping. And what do we have to show for our efforts? Well there’s the peaches n’ cream soap pictured above. There’s also peach jam, peach butter, peach salsa, and ginger peach jam (amazing!!). My dining room table is covered in mason jars.
Canning stuff is hot work. I can only imagine what it would be like in the dead of a south Georgia summer without air conditioning as it was back the day. I also managed to bang out some more lard soap which turned out really nice thanks to a tweak I made to the recipe.
The bees are doing ok. I’ve lost 3 hives this year, but the remaining colonies seem to be thriving. Go figure. I’ve got several hive updates to post as well, but will get around to those as I am able.
More later…
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By Brian on July 14th, 2009
The makings of peach jam
I was up way too late last night making ginger peach jam. We don’t grow peaches, but we picked up a few bushels of them from Dickies Farm about an hour south of us.
It was a really neat experience and well worth the stop if you happen to be in the area. The fresh peach ice cream is unbelievable.
The ginger peach jam was looking good this morning and we’ll get it up on the site in a few days. We’ve got some other products that need pictures taken so expect those to be fixed around the same time.
I’ll just go ahead and tell you guys.. this stuff is delicious and I expect it to go fast. If you want some, get your order in quick.
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By Brian on July 8th, 2009
Me next to a seaturtle nest on Jekyll
As far as squinty-eyed constipated photos go, this is a personal best. However, I’m really just hanging out chilling with around a hundred of my closest baby sea turtle friends.
With their nesting habitat quickly dwindling, Jekyll Island is very important to sea turtles and home to the Georgia Sea Turtle Center.
The gloves are because I rode the bike there. They are not a tribute to the late King of Pop.
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By Brian on July 8th, 2009
Dolphins
In spite of the small craft advisory that the Coast Guard issued this morning, we took the boat out to the south side of Jekyll Island near St Andrews Sound. To our luck, the local dolphins were still having breakfast and posed for some pictures.
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