Episode 7: Interview with Marian L. Thorpe (Bonus Material)
Welcome to your new bonus material this week, podcast supporters! Here’s the extra interview I had with Marian L. Thorpe. In it, we talked about the books she’s reading, and I’ve shared them here. They look awesome! And we chatted about what we...
Episode 7: Interview with Marian L. Thorpe
In this episode I interview historical fantasy author Marian L. Thorpe. We chat about agricultural history, the animals (including horses) in her books, and her writing. We also talk chickens a bit. I hope you enjoy our conversation. In the bonus conversation...
Incubating Eggs: Technology Happens (Egg PostMortem + New Series for Supporters)
This week the 30 eggs I had in the incubator were due to hatch. Those who follow me on Twitter know that I ended up with five chicks. Well, a sixth one hatched yesterday. Out of 30 eggs that’s not a really good hatch rate. The eggs broke down as follows: 20 eggs...
Research Books For World Building
I’m finishing up my AS in Agriculture degree with this semester and the fall semester to go. This semester I’m taking the last of my agriculture classes: AGR215 (Soils) and AGR297 (Global Agriculture). It’s the second class, the capstone class of the...
Episode 6: Rethinking Livestock
In this episode I encourage you to think outside the box, or rather outside the field, when it comes to livestock. What about people in small spaces? How about urban livestock keeping? I discuss raising livestock like Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches and B. Dubia...Homestead Update: Entering Lock Down (incubator)
It’s that time again. On March 9, after the eggs I bought off of eBay arrived, I put those 10 plus about 24-30 of my own into the incubator. They’re due to hatch on the 30th, which means they’ll go into “lock down” on Sunday, the 28th....Recycling In World Building
On Monday I posted about how I recycle shredded paper in the chicken coop and promised that I’d follow up with how you can use this for your world building. So here we are! Now you can take this as a direct relationship where your print makers or your scribes...
Episode 5: Growing Seasons
Welcome to episode 5. Sorry for the break last week. College started up again, and the two agriculture classes I’m taking to finish the AS in Ag are pretty “busywork intensive” so I had to make sure my schedule was in order and missed out on doing an...Recycling on the Homestead
We recycle and compost as much as possible. Living out in the country there isn’t curbside recycling, but I can take our recycling into the nearest town and drop it off when I need to go there, usually once a month. You might wonder what this has to do with your...Become a supporter. Get stuff!
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Since moving to the Ozarks in 2013, Mary's embraced her inner farm girl and worked her love of animals (especially horses) into her writing fantasy and women's literature. The Fantasy Farmer Podcast combines her love of farming with speculative fiction and author education to help authors with the care and feeding of their rural protagonists. 
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