Our Post-Christmas, pre New Year 52nd, one year celebration episode.

This week's updates include:

• Christmas on the farm - yum
• Let it snow, we say, with over 2 feet and counting...
• Preparing for the snow - round bales to the rescue
• Dealing with the fence lines in snow
• Placement of winter paddock fencing - room for improvement
• Chickens and snow

In the Coopcast Community:

• Listener Bill shares his bad experience with CSA's and trying again
• One of our first listener Jeph talks about getting to eat an egg from Nugget!
• Frank want's to know about any automation on the farm

Updates this week include:

• #elfonafarm - visit our Facebook Page to follow the adventures of one of Santa's Helpers on a farm.
• Weather - is this December?
• Haven't moved pigs to want area yet - fencing ready to go
• Rats in barn
• And a listener update from Adam about those VT college oxen

This week in the news we share some thoughts about the horrific tragedy in CT and try to provide some facts about the gun control debate

• Guns - banning guns and they types of firearms
• Gun control in New York State
• Guns on a farm

This episodes Farm U talks about feed storage

• Why rodents are bad
• Best practices for small farm feed storage
• What to do if a rodent gets into your feed

Updates from around the farm:

• Chickens - they love the round bales in their area for winter
• Lower egg production - no heat lamp
• Pigs- not in winter paddock yet- no real snowfall
• Cat in a hoop house
• Snow fence is up- why do we hate doing that so much?

In the CoopCast Community

• Gaertagang Farm- Bogs boots
• Maple View Farm- Overalls
• Nicole- favorite podcasts and online tools
• Homemade gift idea- seeds or help starting a garden

This week's Farmers Choice is a discussion on different egg layer breeds

• What we like and don't about: Barred Rock, Speckled Sussex, Buff Rock, California, Golden Comet, Rhode Island Red, and Tetra Tint

In this episode we share several of our favorite things from our farm.  From pasture to plate we talk about big and small farming items that we like and that make farming easier for us to manage things.

This episode is a departure from the typical farm updates and other discussions and we hope you enjoy it!