Ep 53 Homesteading for Food Security

The Original Transplants Podcast Episode 53: Homesteading for Food Security The Original Transplants Podcast Episode 53 explores food security and supply chain logistics during the COVID-19 pandemic. Will explains swarm-trapping for apiary expansion, and Will and Sarah discuss preventive and supportive therapies for low-intervention chicken flock health. Sarah shares favorite recipes for preparing dandelions and fiddlehead ferns foraged from the edible landscape, and updates listeners on the progress of vegetable seedlings and orchard pollination. Sarah and Will discuss invasives management and lessons learned while morel hunting, including proper identification, dangerous look-alikes, and the importance of ethical harvest. Episode 53 closes with articles from Lancaster Farming featuring farmer perspectives on food security and supply chain logistics during the COVID-19 pandemic. Notes Exton Bee Company http://extonbeecompany.com/ Tom Seeley et al. - Bait Hives for Honey Bees https://ecommons.cornell.edu/handle/1813/2653 In the Name of the Kind: A Dungeon Siege Tale (film reference) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0460780/ Gail Damerow - The Chicken Health Handbook https://archive.org/details/The_Chicken_Health_Handbook_Complete/page/n2/mode/2up Samuel Thayer - Nature's Garden https://www.foragersharvest.com/store/p3/NaturesGarden.html#/ Mushroom Appreciation - Morels - Identification and Hunting Tips https://www.mushroom-appreciation.com/morel-mushrooms.html Robin Wall Kimerer - Honorable Harvest https://www.upaya.org/2014/06/guidelines-honorable-harvest/ Lancaster Farming Farmers Market Gets Creative to Deal With Covid-19 https://www.lancasterfarming.com/news/southern_edition/farmers-market-gets-creative-to-deal-with-covid-19/article_69f987df-ca5c-5540-a23b-ba690726821e.html Foodservice Decline Leads to Flock Culling https://www.lancasterfarming.com/farming/poultry/foodservice-decline-leads-to-flock-culling/article_7b952f8a-d50c-5329-a1f5-ff1673f7d0c3.html Dairy Industry Seeks Ways to Donate Excess Milk https://www.lancasterfarming.com/farming/dairy/dairy-industry-seeks-ways-to-donate-excess-milk/article_ec34d93b-21a7-53ef-81b9-614729eae62e.html Redding Outlines Steps Taken to Secure Food Supply, Address Food Insecurity in Pennsylvania https://www.lancasterfarming.com/news/main_edition/redding-outlines-steps-taken-to-secure-food-supply-address-food-insecurity-in-pennsylvania/article_2fe6cfb0-856b-11ea-a141-5b3accc6a0b0.html TAGS #food security #food supply #covid-19 #coronavirus #pandemic #food #farming #agriculture #gardening #homesteading #gardens #podcast #satoyamahomestead #bees #beekeeping #permaculture #honey bees #apiculture #backyardchickens #chickens #coop #rooster #ediblelandscape #spring #weather #rain #homestead #plants #seedlings #invasives management #foraging #edible wild plants #morel hunting