Farm updates this week include:

• Hermione AI
• Seed order in
• CSA - email to current customers
• Chicken trailer update
• Bogs boots update

In the "Extended" CoopCast Community"

• Song used last episode
• The Facebook discussion of the picture of Hermione w/ Andy and Katniss in back
• Questions about fencing
• Feeding pigs "bad" milk
• Patti and others - how to know if AI worked
• Heather and Danielle - couples listening

This week's coopcast has a weather update about a big windstom that caused some damage but spends most of it's time talking about the artifical insemination process we followed with our gilt Katiniss and what worked / dindn't as well as what we learned about doing AI on the farm.

Part 3 of the Farm Meeting discusses the general palns around infrastructure this year and why we made some decisions we did about growtih or processes in 2013.

The updates in farming this week include:

• A Big thaw
• Planning for artificial insemination with the pigs
• Finally raised egg prices to $4 / dozen
• Kelli shares a listener requested update on her Bogs Boots
• Freezer inventory fun

This is part 2 of the Annual Farm Meeting:

• A pending plan for turkeys
• The chicken succession plan
• Purchase and project in support of the Chicken Plan
• Breeds that we will be replacing the flock with and why

Updates around the snowy and cold farm:

• Snow and drifting on the farm and the implications to portable fencing
• Pigs on the loose
• Electric netting - upright again
• Chickens in the wind
• Greenhouse - salad for new years eve, peas, Swiss chard and a warm refuge

The Annual Farm Meeting Farm Meeting for 2013 - Part 1

• We discussed if we will be doing a CSA this year and the size,
• The Pig plan and AI,
• Laying chickens (more on this one next week)
• The plan for broiler chickens this summer
• General "farming burnout" that we are trying to avoid