Original Transplants

Original Transplants Episode 64: Supply Chain ResilienceOriginal Transplants Podcast Episode 64: Supply Chain Resilience finds Satoyama Homestead stewards Will and Sarah planning for the year ahead in 2022 in the bee yard, chicken coop, and edible landscape. Will is researching spring bee package suppliers following the demise of his beehives, with one colony absconding and the other dead-out. In better news, the four pullets he raised from chicks during the summer are fully integrated into the flock and have begun egg-laying. Sarah is slowly prepping the vegetable garden beds for the off-season and plans to identify some of the weeds to see if any are useful and should be saved during clean-up. The homesteaders are enjoying the previous season's harvest, including glazing a roast ham with kiwiberry preserves and using dehydrated vegetables on veggie pizza. Will explains harvesting vermicompost and leachate from the worm farm, and the homesteaders plan new storage methods to prevent clumping in key homem