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 (below the jump)
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
