Farming updates this week:

• Our Facebook page hit 1000+ fans - thanks so much!
• Chicken orders done for the 2013 farming season
• Turkey decision still pending

In the CoopCast Community:

• Mark sent us some seeds!
• Josh helps a neighbor pig rescue in his farming adventures
• Suggestions posted on FB - for pasture pen plans
• Kelli's visit to CSA fair

Ruminations continue about farm finances:

• Farm finances continued as we discuss some of the specifics of expenses and income on the small farm
• Using QuickBooks and a farm credit card

Farming updates for the week include:

• Updates AI - no more updates needed, Due dates on calendar
• Chick Wagon
• Hay/straw delivery
• CSA full

A new segment called "From the ground up" where we discuss the basics for any given project or enterprise on the farm and what we would do to do it again.  THis week we talk about how we would go about starting a CSA

• Pictures posted of the shares
• Surveys 
• Reviews 
• How to get people to invest that much
• Make it a community with recipes, posts each week
• Host events at the farm- potluck, etc. 
• What to expect and communicate a lot

Questions, Conversations and Ruminations this week (and for a few weeks) are a in depth review and discussion around the farm finances.

• Income
• Expenses

Updates from around the farm:

• AI update - no heat for Katniss
• Checking Herm this week
• Snow storm - closed off extended pasture; ran extra line
• Round bales - more $ and hard to get
• Farm census
• Taxes and a financial look back at past year- upcoming discussions
• A simple soil block question

This week we have a Farm U discussion around TRACTORS!

• How much horsepower for diffrnt jobs
• What is the right type of transmission
• Confusion Solution for hydraulics

Farm updates this week include:

• More AI talk- gator sound needed
• Katniss heat check this week
• Day 12
• Cold weather continues
• Super Bowl = good food from the farm
• Chicken sitting-new chick wagon & lil eggs

Veggie patch, our vegetable gardening segment we talk:

• New varieties we're trying this year
• Seed organization
• CSA email out to old members- did raise price

Farmers choice segment talks abous our value (or lack there of) in the natural food movement:

• Our role/value in the food movement
• Not big, not trying to grow big, not trying to make a living solely from farming- so what value can we bring?
• Advice on farming abounds and can be annoying.