034 Greenhouse gardening and soil fertility, growing livestock feed on your farm, preventing Botulism when canning vegetables on the homestead

A update light week on the farm with:

• No poultry pens to move,
• Normal weather for a change on the farm,
• Turkeys and layers doing well,
• Pigs have their first weigh in.

In the Veggie Patch we talk:

• Greenhouse soil fertility and design,
• Low tunnel greenhouses you can build,
• End of garden season discounts.

In the Coopcast Community:

• On a listeners suggestion Andy is trying Oral Ivy.
• Sheree asked about growing grain for chickens and supplementing them with veggies/greens from the garden.
• Brice suggested we invest in some livestock guardian dogs.

In this weeks Farm U we learn about Botulism and canning vegetables.
The bacteria lives in all soils and we talk about terms relating to it and defeating it when canning:

• Spores
• Anaerobe
• Soil
• Pressure and temp
• pH