Episode #16, Springtime Farmer Stories at White Duck Farm

Today is the spring episode with Carol and Don of White Duck Farm. Carol is hilarious and has a lot of fun gardening farming and experimenting and learning about sustainability and biodynamic farming. We cover a lot of subjects over coffee in their garden and humorously chat about their wonderful farm and how things are moving along this spring.

Each year is different, and Carol shares about her farmers market strategy this year to set herself apart from other market gardeners.

We spend about half our time taking about her birds: the chickens, the ducks, the geese, the peacocks, the guineas.

Then we talk about various subjects from the ‘birds and bees’ on the farm, for instance incubating her birds’ eggs and fostering good chicks, goat kidding season, how they will setup their new bee hives, growing flowers to sell at market, toxin-free insect management, creating effecting products out of herbs and locally gathered ingredients, expanding into growing mushrooms, and we even revisit canna lilies as a landscaping plant.

As a passionate and curious biodynamic farmer and gardener, Carol is constantly adapting to changes and “listening to the farm” to maintain balance

We end the interview with a discussion about hoop houses and how this simple technology changed everything for four season farming.

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