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Hacking the Homestead...Part Time
by Joseph Riley
Here we share the story of why we decided to move onto a farm and how we then went from 0 to 500 animals in the first year...all while maintaining our full-time jobs. If you want to learn about homesteading or just want some entertaining stories from people tackling the challenges of starting a farm, we invite you to join us on this journey. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Forest School comes to the farm!
In this episode, we discuss the very first week of school on the farm! For those of you who have tuned in to previous episodes, you know that we have forged a partnership with the Wauhatchie Forrest School, which is a local outdoor school that embraces a variety of teaching approaches, including...
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Weekly Update: Mid March- Mid April..
Spring has Sprung at Quail Run Farm! We're back to update you all on a busy few weeks here on the farm. In this episode, we take a slightly new approach to our updates and give you some of the highlights from the past few weeks on the farm. All things bees to piglets to momma cows on their hind...
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First Year on the Farm (Nov - Dec): All I want for Christmas is.....Another Farm! Land-to-Table Farm moves to Quail Run
It's the end of 2024 at Quail Run Farm! In an already busy festive season, Quail Run partners with Land To Table.. some new friends on the farm in form of turkeys, chicken and more pigs! One of our WWOOFers, Becca, joined us to cover this period. She is now buying her first piece of land from all...
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Weekly Update: 02/26-03/10
A combined episode covering the weeks 26th Feb to 10th March. A busy two weeks for us on the farm covering some big projects.. working the cattle, getting the pigs ready for piglets and always the unexpected events of farm life! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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First Year on the Farm (Sept - Oct): The Art of Sharing
As we enter the Fall season, we begin to explore more ways to share our farm with the community. Juliette, who was one of our longest-serving WWOOFers, and a nanny for our boys, joins this episode to talk about her adventures on the farm. Juliette painted several murals on the barns, revamped our...
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First Year July - Aug: Who Runs the Farm?
In "Who Run the Farm? Girls Do!" we have special guest, AJ, who joins us to talk about her adventures on the farm during this time. With Melissa, AJ, and Morgan, it truly was the Charley's Angels period of the farm! We are in the heat of summer, and I had convinced Rachel to let me break the...
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Weekly Update Feb 18-25
In this episode, Melissa boots Joe from the podcast and has our South African WWOOFer, Liam, join to share his experience on the farm. Liam discusses all the fun he had rescuing a sick pig and cleaning the farrowing pens from last season...and many other fun adventures! Liam also regales us with...
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First Year May - June: Big Man Comes to Town
In this episode, Tim Woodlee joins to talk about the period after Roy left the farm. This was the era of the three Tims: Tim Copass, Tim Whitaker, and Tim Woodlee. We tell some of our favorite "Big Tim" stories, and talk about construction on the house, building out farrowing pens, our first...
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Weekly Update Feb 12-18
Based on audience feedback, we are moving from bi-weekly to weekly updates. These are shorter in length (about 15 minutes on average). For this week, we discuss our trip to the Pick TN Conference, which brought together small scale farmers from across the state, particularly those working in the...
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Weekly Updates 1/29/24 - 2/11/24
Lots of calving. Some uneventful. We lost one, after trying to nurse back to health...in the kitchen. Another one was born with a nervous problem and couldn't stand, but we bottle fed her for several days and brought her back to health. Castrated and weaned piglets. Cut a lot of trees. Fought off...
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First Year Episode 4: Redcoats on the Farm
If you like drama, this is the episode for you! We cover the period of March and April of 2023, which proved to be the most dramatic 60 days on the farm. Melissa showed up, a mini tornado hit, and our farm manager, Roy, got back on drugs and totaled a truck and trailer hauling a load of pigs. The...
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Weekly Update #2 (Jan 15-28)
Coldest nights of the year and everyone wants to have their babies! Hear how we battled the cold by putting new mommas and babies in the hay barn and used molasses to try to keep water from freezing. On the heels of the cold, we got rain...tons of rain. From frozen hands to trucks stuck in mud, a...
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Weekly Homestead Update #1: Jan 1 - 14, 2024
Torrential downpours, massive winds that bring down trees, and the coldest nights of the year...perfect time to have babies! Tune in to hear our rough start to 2024! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Episode 3 (Jan & Feb 2023): The Man from Mississippi Paves the Way for Melissa
In this episode, Chad fills in for Melissa and takes the opportunity to remind listeners that he got here first! The time period is Jan and February of 2023. Amidst one of the coldest and rainiest winters on record, we added cows, put Jacob on his first bull calf, delivered our first baby…
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Episode #2 - Country Roads, Take Me Home...Our Path to the Homestead
My wife, Rachel, joins to talk about how we met, how I convinced her to marry me, and ultimately move to our homestead. We also describe what it was like in those first few days on the farm...before all the craziness started. So tune in to hear from my favorite person in the world, and the source...
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Welcome to Hacking the Homestead... Part Time! Episode #1
Meet Your Hosts, Joe Riley & Melissa Shepherd! In this first episode, we share the story of why we decided to move onto a farm and how we then went from 0 to 500 animals in the first year...all while maintaining our full-time jobs. If you want to learn about homesteading or just want some...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Here we share the story of why we decided to move onto a farm and how we then went from 0 to 500 animals in the first year...all while maintaining our full-time jobs. If you want to learn about homesteading or just want some entertaining stories from people tackling the challenges of starting a farm, we invite you to join us on this journey.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
HOSTED BY
Joseph Riley
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