Original Transplants

In this special holiday gift guide edition of Original Podcasts Episode 32, Satoyama Homestead stewards Sarah and Will share updates from winterizing the bee yard, attempts to reintegrate the chickens, and celebrate the winter bounty of the edible landscape. Will explains insulating the beehives with tar paper to regulate temperature and humidity during the winter. Sarah describes the flock dynamic since Mayapple has achieved empty nester status (correction: her literary reference should be to the Pyramus and Thisbe myth, not Tristan and Isolde!). We then share recipes for stewing hens and venison, highlight scientifically-proven home remedies for the flu recommended by Consumer Reports, and recommend cross-over gifts for the homesteader or aspiring homesteader on your holiday gift-giving list. We end the show with a fun new feature - dramatic, stylized readings of heirloom plant descriptions from 2018 seed catalogs.Links:'Poultriculture' used in an 1889 Pacific Rural News letter to the editor: