The Original Transplants Podcast Episode 55: Sweat Equity The Original Transplants Podcast Episode 55 finds stewards Sarah and Will enjoying long summer days staying busy with homestead chores, beekeeping, backyard chickens, and edible gardening. Will traps a late season swarm and begins Varroa mite treatment in the bee-yard. Sarah describes raccoon predator deterrence in the chicken coop and reports on the progress of edible landscape, including the orchard, original kitchen garden, and new tomato and pepper bed in its first season. Sarah reviews four products essential to integrated pest management (IPM) and the stewards discuss winter preparations: firewood and food processing. Sarah reads from three Lancaster Farming articles on the theme of 'farmers doing good deeds'. Find us online at https://spreadcasts.tumblr.com/ and https://www.instagram.com/spreadcasts/

Notes: Ultra Breeze ventilated beekeeping suits: https://www.ultrabreezesuits.com/ Methods to control Varroa mites: An integrated pest management approach - Penn State Extension: https://extension.psu.edu/methods-to-control-varroa-mites-an-integrated-pest-management-approach American carrion beetle - InsectIdentification.org: https://www.insectidentification.org/insect-description.asp?identification=American-Carrion-Beetle Common raccoon call - Cornell Macaulay Library: https://macaulaylibrary.org/asset/88172 Diatomaceous earth fact sheet - Oklahoma State University: https://extension.okstate.edu/fact-sheets/earth-kind-gardening-series-mechanical-pest-controls.html#diatomaceous-earth Copper sulfate fact sheet - Cornell University: http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/extoxnet/carbaryl-dicrotophos/copper-sulfate-ext.html Neem oil fact sheet - University of New Hampshire: https://extension.unh.edu/blog/what-should-neem-be-used-plants Thuricide Bt fact sheet - Cornell University: http://pmep.cce.cornell.edu/profiles/extoxnet/24d-captan/bt-ext.html Lancaster Farming agricultural news 'farmers doing good deeds': Food Box Program: Success or Mess? https://www.lancasterfarming.com/news/main_edition/food-box-program-success-or-mess/article_b6782b17-f18f-5cc6-82f8-0e7169f4111b.html With Fairs Canceled, 4-H'er Chips in Virtually: https://www.lancasterfarming.com/news/main_edition/with-fairs-canceled-4-h-er-chips-in-virtually/article_3da2cc7d-8330-53cf-87c1-9105068c1aec.html Farmer returns prosthetic leg to skydiver: https://wbng.com/2020/07/28/farmer-returns-prosthetic-leg-that-skydiver-lost-during-jump/