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Blind Hog and Acorn

Come visit the farm with Blind Hog and Acorn and hear stories about life on the farm, livestock, cooking, gardening and living in the Ozarks. In the middle of freakin" nowhere...

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34:37

Season 3, Episode #40~ Pre-Thanksgiving P(r)ep Talk

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2022/11/20

Prepping of many kinds at SteelMeadow Farm... Cooking, baking, cleaning. Getting all the little fiddly bits done. Fruitcakes... Cinnamon rolls... Turkey...Blind Hog's firewood is no longer growing oyster mushrooms, those logs went into the woodstove. Those logs were also very light, weight-wise, for their size. Guess the fungi have been taking care of that.Goats are happy enough, cows too. If the cows were not getting enough to eat or drink they would holler and so far all is quiet in the

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Season 3, Episode #39~ Blind Hog has his Cake!

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2022/11/13

Busy enough week for Blind Hog and Acorn- cutting down dead trees for firewood, cleaning up the sewing room and culling through boxes and boxes of "stuffs..." A carload of recycling and thrift store drop offs...Blind Hog had a great 81st birthday, even got some work in while the weather was in the upper 70's. Now, it barely got above freezing for the high. PLUS SNOW FLURRIES!Oyster mushrooms have begun to fruit on firewood cut from a dead oak- it did have mushrooms before, but the

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32:43

Season 3, Episode #38~ Lull in Activities, Sorta...

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2022/11/06

Not a very exciting week... Garden chores, woodpile chores... Blah blah blah... Goats DID get vaccinated, with the help of the Badger. That was a might task that needed doing. Tail hairs sent off on four doelings to get them registered as 50%'ers...Acorn got all excited about a new coffee grinder but after recording the podcast it was found the new unit won't even power on! No!!!!!!!!! Tried taking it apart, putting it back together. Nope nope nope...Cell phone booster still working

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34:41

Season 3, Episode#37~Preparing for Winter...

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2022/10/30

Apologies for any repeated material from week to week, but when everyday is the same, it is easy to get days mixed up!Blind Hog and Acorn have been busy with farm chores, food preparation, canning, woodsplitting. Today's pasture walk revealed the winter forecast via persimmon seeds (spoiler, it was a spoon = snow).Sam's paw is healed, no more protective boot. Yay!

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38:05

Season 3, Episode #36~ Hurrah for Cell Phone Signal...

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2022/10/23

Has been a week of home electronic installation as Blind Hog and Acorn received and installed the new cell phone booster kit and yes, the big test of improved signal reception is apparent- the podcast episode loaded up before this first paragraph was completed! BOOM! Just like that!Besides putting up a new 6' mast for the omnidirectional antenna, mounted on the old Hughes Net dish frame, the farmers have been picking up walnuts and should be finished by today. Hullers are payiing $20/100 lbs

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Season 3, Episode #35~ Oh, Nuts!

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2022/10/16

Busy week on the farm- both goats barns cleaned out and dusted with lime and diatomaceous earth, dead trees cut and brought down from the upper 40 for firewood, walnuts a-plenty in the yard for picking up, goji berries in the dehydrator. PHEW!Blind Hog and Acorn will take Sunday afternoon off at least, football game at 3:30pm. Good excuse to have a sit-down!Everything else is going along well enough. Tomatoes, okra and peppers all cooked and combined into pint jars. Gumbo at the ready! Just add

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37:23

Season 3, Episode #34~ Honey, I'm Hoooooome!

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2022/10/09

Acorn left for a fun weekend trip to Houston, only to be diverted on her way home to Fort Myers. Talk about a mess down there! Thankfully, the house in the Trust was pretty much unscathed and the closing of the sale, scheduled on the 29th, was NOT cancelled but only postponed a week. Buyers so happy that they could not wait.Blind Hog met Acorn at 10pm and back to the farm they skedaddled. Routine chores seem like bliss after the drama, stress, and mayhem from Hurricane Ian.FarmFest weekend in

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Season 3, Episode #33~ Road to Recovery, and a Letter...

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2022/09/25

Blind Hog and Acorn are slogging along, one better than the other. Farm chores wait for no one and things just chug along.Happily, there is light at the end of the Covid Tunnel and both have been taking walks again in the morning, not like they are totally laid out flat...Canning up the last of the tomatoes and okra, green beans about done. Weather remains dry, garden has about had it.Before the farmers went on their trip, Acorn sent a letter to the UK to a certain naturalist she fancies. Today a

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Season 3, Episode #32~ Went on vacation and all I...

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2022/09/18

No- seriously, the week in the rockies as FABULOUS! Blind Hog and Acorn both lost like 5-6 lbs, crazy good hiking days and wonderful lodgings. Airports were "interesting" to say the least. Missed one connecting flight by minutes, but truly that only set the holiday back by 4 hours- big whoop. At least the luggage did not get lost~Three nights on the Icefields Parkway, three nights at Glacier. Packed it in and could easily have made it a week in each place. Things to look forward to

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Season 3 Episode #31~ Prepping for Holiday

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2022/09/04

10,000+ steps on Acorn's Fitbit and she has not really left the house- all that spinning around in circles! Blind Hog did the pasture walks, refilled mineral feeders, moved the goats, tended the laying hens.Chores winding down for the day- beans to snap and then jar up for the canner, okra to blanch and can as well. Farmsitters will arrive in the morning, plenty of time for relaxed coffee chat before the farmers depart.Blind Hog felled, cut, and split a dead persimmon tree, will burn well

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33:56

Season 3, Episode #30~ Back to Chores!

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2022/08/28

What a wonderful time with The Goat Man and Brian! Always fun to goof off and have fun with company.Frank got to look over the goats, see how the Savanna Goat Breed-up Plan was coming along, visited with some other goaty friends, and had a lovely time. Well, Blind Hog and Acorn had a great time...The farmers will have a week to get things ready for their week-long absence in September... Just around the corner!

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41:49

Season 3 Episode #29~ Goats In, Goats Out

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2022/08/21

This week the farm brought in 4 adult Spanish nannies, one who was born on the farm 5 years ago. These were the last four goats of folks who started with SteelMeadow goats and got their herd up to 40, but they have decided to focus on cattle and making hay. The goats are calm, healthy, and will make great additions.To end the week, Acorn sold the two Flappy sisters who were not suited as commercial, range goats- these two need to be pets. Happily, a couple from 2 hrs away needed companions for

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Season 3, Episode #28~ Back on the Roof

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2022/08/14

The good news is that the farm received rain, bad news is that there are still a couple leaky spots on the roof but hopefully Blind Hog and Acorn are getting them figured out. A few more forays onto the sheet metal might be needed, but they will see how the next rain is handled.Call received from folks who got goats from SteelMeadow YEARS ago, have a few they would like to sell back to the farm. Blind Hog and Acorn will go over there later this afternoon to check them out. These people take

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Season 3, Episode #27~ Attic Work, Kid Sales, and...

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2022/08/07

Yay! Blind Hog got several things done this week- attic fan installed in one day, cows moved from west to east fields, seventeen doelings sold to a single buyer, laying hen peeps purchased. AND Acorn is most excited about the livestock ultrasound device she can use to check goats for pregnancy. No more guessing, waiting around.Drought continues. Fields had a bit of reprieve but 1/2 of rain does not make up for all the excessive temperatures and dry conditions.Next on the agenda is the

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Season 3, Episode #26~ Acorn Returns, Back Into the...

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2022/07/31

Acorn spent a few days at the Florida house repainting a couple rooms, fixing a few things, and being a general-all-around-handyman. Back at the farm, she and Blind Hog are back in the attic preparing to install a louvered gable vent and attic fan. So exciting!Was unusually cool today (upper 60's) at the farm but the farmers did not complain. Being up in the attic was quite bearable! Fingers crossed they can complete the project tomorrow.

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Season 3, Episode #25~ Up on the Roooooooooof

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2022/07/24

Our favorite farmers turned into roof repair techs this past week- hard to turn down an opportunity to save cash. $1,400 repair estimate from one company, but when Blind Hog and Acorn could score the materials for $300? Of course! They did it themselves! Good news is that the roof ridge has been replaced and should be (knock wood) waterproofed and leak proofed.The bull Fintan, cow Sorcha and her bull calf went to Tennessee on Monday morning, happy that they will be well taken care of at their

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33:18

Season 3, Episode #24~ Heat Wave

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2022/07/17

Can it get any hotter? Why yes- yes it can! Drier too as well!Livestock plans are being altered to accommodate the best interest of the livestock during the drought, not necessarily that of the farmers. Two separate breeding groups of goats are now combined into one big herd. Get get'm, boys.Next weekend is the local monthly sheep and goat sale, no doubt volume will be high and prices low. Cannot help that. Blind Hog and Acorn will load up all the bucklings and drop them off. A couple

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Season 3, Episode #23~ Mobile Kid Feeder

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2022/07/03

Another project completed! Blind Hog and Acorn dismantled the former "chicken tractor" and turned it into a sweet looking AND functional pellet feeder for the goat kids! No jumping in the troughs, fouling the feeding area with goat pebbles or mud. Is a bit crowded at feeding time, however half of the kids will be going to market at the end of the month- the doelings will remain until they are sold when they have grown a bit more.Acorn will once again be leaving Blind Hog to man the

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33:17

Season 3, Episode #22~ Fun with Friends

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2022/06/26

Company from Baton Rouge have come and gone but in between Blind Hog and Acorn had a grand time. Much fun was had by all, including a day trip to Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, as well as their sister facility, The Momentary.Goat kids have been weaned, with the exception of Little Helper's 6 week old doeling. Little Helper is in with the mob of kids, will act as a "trainer" for us, teaching the rest to come when we call. The farmer s are working on dismantling the chicken

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32:07

Season 3, Episode #21

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2022/06/19

Blind Hog and Acorn have a most excellent reason for cleaning up the house and grounds- COMPANY IS COMING! Good friends from Baton Rouge on a road trip with a stop at SteelMeadow.Otherwise, the garden is all planted, irrigation lines reset and all is good out there.Yummy things have been baked (rhubarb pie and a quiche) and a pot of chicken soup is simmering.Acorn made an awning for a couple windows, turned out pretty good. Back top last minute chores before the guests arrive!

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