Bob Siegfried of MidAtlantic Farm Sensors on wiring up your farm for better management, plus John McCauley of Chicken People returns to recommend the best bird to start with if you're new to pasturing livestock.

This week: over-wintered crops like green garlic, some easy-peasy cut flowers to try out, and a tip for keeping pastured poultry dry and warm when it's wet and cold.

Meg Grzeskiewicz on her no-nonsense approach to livestock breeding and
management. Does mob grazing really lead to healthier livestock management?

This episode: Australian farmer Colin Seis talks about the system of no-till pasture cropping he helped develop that allowed him to resurrect a 3000 acre farm on the edge of destruction and turn it into a thriving example of truly regenerative agriculture.

This episode, Wisconsin farmer and fencing wizard Randy Cutler joins me to dish on the finer points of fencing your livestock for less stress and happier animals. 

This post: Emi Do of Yummy Yards shares a few ideas for reducing labour in the chicken coop.

This post: Paul Slomp of Grazing Days Grass Fed Beef shares his knowledge about intensive rotational grazing.

This post: Yummy Yards Farmer Emi Do conserves space by brooding chicks under her greenhouse bench

This post: Jackie Lamb's hay feeder. Check it out!

This post: yet another approach to mobile chicken coops.

This post: integrate chickens into your garden's fertility maintenance with the salad bar approach!

This post: Abundant Acres' very mobile, very Russian chicken coop

This post: Corey Brown of Blackbird Organics shares his Gimli-approved mobile chicken coop design

An unplanned camping theme permeates this post, which features a couple of farmers' approaches to housing their animals.

This post: a couple of readers share photos of their home-built livestock feeders and techniques

Herrick Kimball's inexpensive build-it-yourself chicken plucker will change your life if your life involves slaughtering chickens on the farm. 

Susan Nelson took an old trailer and turned it into an easy way to move her hay feeder around the pasture

This post:  an easy-to-make tool that Joe Klein built for cutting hay strings in a jiffy

Susan Nelson and Vivi Curuchet have developed a milking system for their small-scale dairy that is clean, efficient, and affordable to build.  The best part? The tracking they use to avoid lugging 60 pounds of milk around.