Wild Oak Family Farm Podcast
Culture
Wild Oak Family Farm is a small family farm located in Coloma, California. The guiding philosophy for our farm, what we’re calling beyond organic, is based on permaculture principles and techniques. We’re going to design sustainable plant and animal systems that mimic the wild as much as possible. We started our farm in February 2018 and are podcasting to share our transition from a metropolitan life in Silicon Valley to a country life running a small farm. For the first few years we’ll be focused on establishing a permaculture food forest, vegetable garden, and livestock systems to produce all of our own food. Our plans for livestock include chickens, pigs, cattle, and hopefully a llama or donkey. You can listen to our bi-weekly podcasts and check us out on social media; the details are on our website http://www.wildoakfamilyfarm.com. Thank you to Jason Shaw for our background music, tracks can be found at audionautix.com.
Location:
United States
Description:
Wild Oak Family Farm is a small family farm located in Coloma, California. The guiding philosophy for our farm, what we’re calling beyond organic, is based on permaculture principles and techniques. We’re going to design sustainable plant and animal systems that mimic the wild as much as possible. We started our farm in February 2018 and are podcasting to share our transition from a metropolitan life in Silicon Valley to a country life running a small farm. For the first few years we’ll be focused on establishing a permaculture food forest, vegetable garden, and livestock systems to produce all of our own food. Our plans for livestock include chickens, pigs, cattle, and hopefully a llama or donkey. You can listen to our bi-weekly podcasts and check us out on social media; the details are on our website http://www.wildoakfamilyfarm.com. Thank you to Jason Shaw for our background music, tracks can be found at audionautix.com.
Twitter:
@WildOakFamFarm
Language:
English
Contact:
8054582155
Website:
http://wildoakfamilyfarm.com/
Episodes
S2E14: The Finale
4/16/2020
We finally got around to editing our last podcast of 2019! Tune in to hear some of our highlights from Fall through Winter. It was recorded between Christmas and New Years so hopefully you’re in the holiday spirit. We share our unusual egg hunt story, talk about the wonders of azolla, and go on record […]
Duration:00:49:45
S2E13: Fall Broiler Roundup
2/5/2020
In our second to last episode of 2019 we discuss our recent cooking escapades with bone broth and lard. We then dive into an analysis of how raising the Fall batch of broilers went and what changes we’ll be making for 2020.
Duration:00:46:24
S2E12: Winter Harvest
12/30/2019
This is our second episode in two weeks! Dan finished up the floor and Miriam is ecstatic. The family also really enjoyed a long visit with our new nephew Alton at home in Folsom. We harvested some of our winter veggies and were able to share them with all our animals, and have also been […]
Duration:00:30:53
S2E11: Gobble Gobble
12/18/2019
We’ve gotten back to podcasting after a few months lapse so we’re doing a big update. We share how our Thanksgiving went with a new nephew, a wild turkey, and lots of food. We also give a quick overview of our fall round of broiler chickens, mention what’s been going on with our goats, and […]
Duration:00:42:58
S2E10: Good Eatin’
10/20/2019
We’re a little behind on podcasts at the moment, this was recorded back in mid-August. We should be back soon with another episode to discuss our transition into Fall on the farm. In the meantime we hope you enjoy hearing about rotational goat grazing, our plans for raising broilers in Fall, and the great food […]
Duration:00:38:00
S2E9: Hey Rattlesnake, Don’t Bite My Face!
8/25/2019
We finally started using our goats to clear the brush beyond our deck and let you know how it’s going, discuss poor Alice getting bit in the face by a rattlesnake, and go over our project to restore a broken down generator.
Duration:00:35:47
S2E8: Daisy and Alice
8/13/2019
We just got two new Kiko does from Unfinished Acres farm and let you all know how they’re settling in. Following that we discuss Miriam’s patio furniture project and the quarter cow we purchased from Lewis Cattle Company.
Duration:00:41:07
S2E7: Broody Hens and a Rattlesnake
7/27/2019
This time we tell everyone how we’ve been dealing with broody hens and share how our pullets are growing up. We also have a big announcement: a lot of our family is moving to El Dorado County. We close out the show with a story about Dan and a rattlesnake.
Duration:00:33:57
S2E6: Spring Chicken Processing
7/3/2019
We kick off this podcast with a couple quick updates about our goats and new ducks. We then discuss our satisfying weekend of chicken processing and the results: a chest freezer full of 87lbs of chicken. We also share what worked better for us this year and how the kids joined in.
Duration:00:39:30
S2E5: Say Goodbye to the Pasture Pen
6/14/2019
In this episode we go over farm updates and the projects that have been taking up most of our time. We finally put our Cornish Cross chicks on pasture and have decided the chickshaw is superior to the pasture pen. Our food forest survived the weird hail storm in May and we continued to add […]
Duration:00:46:32
S02E04: Happy Mother’s Day
5/25/2019
This week we give a quick update on our Cornish Cross chicks, the food forest, and how the rain has been affecting everything. We then have our first homesteading segment all about Mother’s Day and everything Miriam does for us. We finish it off with an in-depth review of the chicken butchering class Dan went […]
Duration:00:39:30
S02E03: Zane
5/10/2019
Tune into this episode to find out about selling our Boer goats, getting our Livestock Guardian Dog named Zane, and what we’ve been planting in the food forest. In our farm school segment we go in-depth on how to raise baby chicks, and then wrap up with a discussion of hunting and eating wild game.
Duration:00:50:26
S02E02: Marilyn Monroe
4/26/2019
In this episode we focus on farm updates and discuss everything going on in early spring. We bought Boer goats, Nigerian goats, and Dan’s favorite goat a mini-Nubian named Marilyn Monroe. Miriam has been starting most of our annual veggies outdoors and a few inside as well. We also added some rare edible perennials to […]
Duration:00:41:22
S02E01: On To Year Two
4/15/2019
We made it to our second year and haven’t “podfaded” yet. In this episode we discuss the birth our son Charles, give a brief overview of what’s been going on around the farm over the past seven months, and discuss our disappointment with hydroponics being allowed by the USDA Organic standard.
Duration:00:35:11
S01E05: Guns, Farms, and Birth – Part 2
12/4/2018
This is part 2 of our “Guns, Farms, and Birth” episode. Part 2 is mostly a summary of our plans for the birth of our son with a quick farm update at the beginning. We will return to podcasting soon with a jam-packed holiday episode.
Duration:00:28:03
S01E04: Guns, Farms, and Birth – Part 1
10/30/2018
Taking care of our newborn son delayed this a bit, but we finally got another episode of our podcast posted. This recording ended up going long so we split it up into two parts. In Part 1 our discussion is mainly focused on guns, Part 2 will be a farm update and birth discussion.
Duration:00:28:48
S01E03: The Dating Scene
9/2/2018
In this episode we discuss processing our remaining broilers, how we prepped our garden soil, and our first date in the country.
Duration:00:28:31
S01E02: Tastes Like Chicken
7/30/2018
In this episode we get more organized with two show segments: country life and farm updates. We talk about the difficulties we had trying to catch and process our first rooster, our long but successful day processing broilers, and the satisfaction of eating our first broiler.
Duration:00:33:21
S01E01: Welcome to the Farm
7/14/2018
This is the very first episode of the Wild Oak Family Farm Podcast! In this episode we introduce ourselves, discuss why we’re starting a farm, and give farm updates. We discuss where we grew up, went to school, and started our careers. We then go into why we left the Bay Area for the country […]
Duration:00:33:27