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Essential Ordinary + Calf With Two Broken Legs + Old Ways To Start Grazing, Field Work + Garden Progress
May 4, 2026
25m 05s
Maintaining Field Edges + The Bull's Time To Shine + AI Plans For The Yearling Heifer + Ponding Water Has Impacted My No-till Soybeans
Apr 26, 2026
22m 22s
Asking AI For Hobby Ideas + Hugging Trees And Sitting By The Ocean In BC + Not Living By My Core Values
Apr 24, 2026
40m 32s
Hen vs Barn Cat + Retained Placenta + Equipment Repairs + More Rugby + Off-Farm Work + All Is Well Knock On Wood
Apr 8, 2026
28m 20s
The Bull Gets Nosy + A Spring Drive Through Mennonite Country + Wendell Berry's 1992 iv
Mar 30, 2026
21m 50s
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| 5/4/26 |  Essential Ordinary + Calf With Two Broken Legs + Old Ways To Start Grazing, Field Work + Garden Progress | Coffee with friends in the driveshed.Forgetting Friday night, and splinting a calf with two broken legs.Fencing across the river.The "essential ordinary" makes things go smoothly.The disc needs repairs.It's probably safer to scratch your calves on the tail head rather than the head.Bo the barncat follows me to do more fence repairs.Vegetable garden progress, digging paths between beds, hardening off some seedlings.Find your place in the world. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. - Gary SnyderPlease contact me with your own stories.greatbigfarmer@gmail.com | 25m 05s | ||||||
| 4/26/26 | Maintaining Field Edges + The Bull's Time To Shine + AI Plans For The Yearling Heifer + Ponding Water Has Impacted My No-till Soybeans | Recording in the barn (you can hear the fence charger clicking away).I've spent about five days maintaining field edges and I'm not done this exhausting job.Rule of thumb....May 10th is the Bruce County day to put cattle on pasture.My fencing system is archaic.The field tractor needs my attention ASAP.The cover crop in the field named "Bobolink" needs to get turned in so that the biomass can broken down in time for planting.Rule of thumb...Mother's Day is the first day you can consider doing field work in Bruce County.Introducing the bull to the cows is my highest priority right now.Susan has helped me with a plan to artificially inseminate the yearling heifer (she is the bull's daughter).Abby and I have pulled the dash apart on the Honda Civic and we need a win with this job.The swather is a wild animal.The sweep auger for the grain bin is almost ready, which is good because I'd like to sell the wheat.My "no-till organic soybeans" experiment has been set back by ponding water.Find your place in the world. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. - Gary SnyderPlease contact me with your own stories.greatbigfarmer@gmail.com | 22m 22s | ||||||
| 4/24/26 | Asking AI For Hobby Ideas + Hugging Trees And Sitting By The Ocean In BC + Not Living By My Core Values | This episode is all about the fun I had, and how I was struck by the beauty of nature while on holiday in British Columbia.And then I get started talking about my decision not to fly and it seems like I couldn't stop talking about it LOL.Find your place in the world. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. - Gary SnyderPlease contact me with your own stories.greatbigfarmer@gmail.com | 40m 32s | ||||||
| 4/8/26 | Hen vs Barn Cat + Retained Placenta + Equipment Repairs + More Rugby + Off-Farm Work + All Is Well Knock On Wood | I've never seen a chicken break up a cat fight, until now. While Peter and I are busy welding and repairing equipment, a cow decides to have her calf. How I dealt with her retained placenta. I am starting to think about all kinds of spring activities including chainsaw work in the field edges, fence repairs, planting equipment, helping to coach boys and girls rugby at the high school, and off-farm contracting work. Busy days ahead!Find your place in the world. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. - Gary SnyderPlease contact me with your own stories.greatbigfarmer@gmail.com | 28m 20s | ||||||
| 3/30/26 | The Bull Gets Nosy + A Spring Drive Through Mennonite Country + Wendell Berry's 1992 iv | The bull and a nest of beesThe importance of manure as fertilizerThe skidsteer's time to shineRugby is my volunteer workI am an idiot and wrecked my chainsawA chill drive through Mennonite countryMy fence chargers can be repairedMennonite and Amish farms look very different from English farmsOur farm doesn't have any bare soilToday I can feel spring coming on!!Wendell Berry's 1992 iv @ 18 min 49 secFind your place in the world. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. - Gary SnyderPlease contact me with your own stories.greatbigfarmer@gmail.com | 21m 50s | ||||||
| 3/21/26 | Larry Kraemer And The Path To Organic Agriculture | Are you thinking about making a move to organic agriculture? Larry Kraemer shares the details of his path from a life in Toronto to his organic farm near Kincardine. This is a great episode if you are thinking about transitioning from conventional farming to certified organic.Contents:Raised in TorontoGreat memories of summers in Bruce County The joy of hard workOperating a conventional dairy farmThe challenges of high interest rates in the 1980'sRunning a business and raising a family while also farmingRaising beef cattleThe circumstances that lead to growing organic row cropsRecord keeping for organic certification can be easy!Grain storageCrop rotationsGrowing organic soybeans to illustrate what it takes to raise a crop organicallyEquipment and strategies to keep weeds at bayMarketing organic cropsFarming as part of a rewarding life!Find your place in the world. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. - Gary SnyderPlease contact me with your own stories.greatbigfarmer@gmail.com | 1h 06m 18s | ||||||
| 3/6/26 | Celebrating Life | This afternoon I travelled to Southampton to celebrate the life of a teaching colleague, Pat Joynt. This episode was recorded in the bank barn while sitting with the calves.The Present...until the 6:45 min mark. Noticing the small stuff in life. Calves, a barn cat, and hockey on the radio.The Past...from 6:45 to 16:47 min. Thinking about the joyous life of Pat Joynt and the unique community that existed in the high school where I taught.The Future...from the 16:47 min mark. It's time to start thinking about tomorrow. I call what I do each day the essential-ordinary. There is a lot to be said for finding joy in thoughts of tomorrow. As we all know tomorrow will be the new present, before living again as the next memory in the new past.Find your place in the world. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. - Gary SnyderPlease contact me with your own stories.greatbigfarmer@gmail.com | 19m 02s | ||||||
| 3/4/26 | Mouse Attack + Marketing Wheat + Getting The Bull Outside | We get the sugar maple seeds planted, and a mouse helps to make things interesting in the seeding room. I worked on marketing my hard red winter wheat using an "everybody needs to win" approach. Teddy the bull sees the great outdoors for the first time since he got here.Find your place in the world. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. - Gary SnyderPlease contact me with your own stories.greatbigfarmer@gmail.com | 13m 14s | ||||||
| 2/27/26 | Flint The Cow Suddenly Goes Psycho + The Organic History Of One Field Including Cover Crops | I learned some lessons when Flint the cow suddenly became maximally aggressive when a strange person entered the bank barn.Also, it is a requirement of organic certification to maintain field histories. The added bonus is you can look back on a field and really get a sense what worked and what didn't. I discuss the challenges presented when cropping this field and some of the steps I have taken so far with crop rotations and cover crops.Find your place in the world. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. - Gary SnyderPlease contact me with your own stories.greatbigfarmer@gmail.com | 37m 56s | ||||||
| 2/25/26 | Dead Calf? Plus, Checking On The Tree Seeds In The Fridge | As they say, if you have livestock you're going to have deadstock. That's always in the back of my mind when I check on the cattle and the calf I noticed today didn't look right. Also, I have a few minutes to check on the tree seeds that I put in the fridge.Jan 11 - tree seeds placed in damp paper towel then stored in ziploc bags in the fridgeFeb 25 - checking the seeds 46 days laterWalnut, birch, silver maple, sugar maple, oak.Conclusions? Some of the sugar maple seeds have germinated, so I should transplant them to soil right away. The silver maple seeds just don't look good, and it was probably a mistake to vernalize them in the fridge. I should have just planted them last spring when they fell. Too early to tell with the walnut, birch and oak.Send me questions, comments, or advice about growing trees from seed.Find your place in the world. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. - Gary SnyderPlease contact me with your own stories.greatbigfarmer@gmail.com | 17m 37s | ||||||
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| 2/24/26 | Would anyone benefit from an open house "field day" on this farm? | If I hosted a field day, would anyone even come? Do I have any useful knowledge or experience to share? These are some of the questions that come to mind as I entertain the idea of hosting an open house "field day". As this episode was recorded I arrived at a few tentative conclusions. I think I have some experience to share when it comes to rotationally grazing cattle because I've been doing it for a long time. Likewise for anyone interested in organic row cropping, I might have interesting things to offer because I am relatively new to it. If someone likes to experiment, they might be interested in my attempt at organic no-till soybeans using rye and roller crimping. There is also the equipment! I farm in 2026 using equipment from 1970 and could set all of it out for people to see. The agroecological practices that I've been doing over the years, and the new things like starting trees from seed all might appeal to someone who attends. Who knows? I'm tempted to host the field day and see what happens...there is only one way to find out if it would help someone.Find your place in the world. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. - Gary SnyderPlease contact me with your own stories.greatbigfarmer@gmail.com | 38m 30s | ||||||
| 2/17/26 | I Have Decided - Mary Oliver | Sure I'm a farmer. But I'm also what you'd call a contemplative. Here is the poem, I Have Decided by Mary Oliver. Let me know what you think!Find your place in the world. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. - Gary SnyderPlease contact me with your own stories.greatbigfarmer@gmail.com | 9m 23s | ||||||
| 2/17/26 | A Good Episode If You Are New To Cows And Calving | I'm hoping that you might find something in this episode that will help you during calving season, especially if you are just starting out! I think there might be a couple of takeaways for experienced farmers too.I talk about my calving bins, keeping safe when near a new mom, home made electrolyte solution, colostrum, milk replacer, selenium-vitamin E, castrating, and many other things.Here is something I forgot to mention LOL and I thought of it as soon as I was done recording. If a calf isn't breathing, reach for a piece of straw and insert the straw a couple of inches into the calf's notril. I've had success a couple of times doing this.Electrolyte: store these ingredients in a ziploc bag and administer the solution with a tube doser or bottle1.9 litres warm water1/2 teaspoon salt1/4 teaspoon "salt free" salt1/4 teaspoon baking soda2 tablespoons corn syrupFind your place in the world. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. - Gary SnyderPlease contact me with your own stories.greatbigfarmer@gmail.com | 27m 50s | ||||||
| 2/15/26 | The Calving Circus Has Begun | greatbigfarmer@gmail.comFour calves in 48 hours. Frozen water lines. A calf that doesn't know how to suck, and another that is the sort I call a runner. A heifer in heat and a frustrated bull. Anxious momma cows, and every barn cat wandering around to check out the excitement. A circus. I'm tired.Find your place in the world. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. - Gary SnyderFind your place in the world. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. - Gary SnyderPlease contact me with your own stories.greatbigfarmer@gmail.com | 23m 10s | ||||||
| 2/9/26 | The Sounds Of June On The Farm | greatbigfarmer@gmail.comJune 22 is right in the middle of haying season. I decided to set my phone in the field and capture the sound of the wind, grassland birds, insects, and passing cars. The sound of the farm in summer is something I never want to forget.Skip ahead to 2:17 if you want to use this episode in your contemplative practice. Or just play it for your cat while you are at work. Up to you LOL.Find your place in the world. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. - Gary SnyderFind your place in the world. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. - Gary SnyderPlease contact me with your own stories.greatbigfarmer@gmail.com | 20m 17s | ||||||
| 2/6/26 | Frozen Water Bowl, Experimenting With Kernza, Off-Farm Work | greatbigfarmer@gmail.comThe plan is to put together an "audio journal" for the coming year. For as long as I can remember I have wanted to farm, and have been doing so for quite a number of years now. When my farming life is over, I want to remember some of the details that I'm sure would otherwise be forgotten. And so here it is, the first episode.I've decided not to edit very much, if at all, and that way I will be more likely to stick with it throughout the year. When I think about past years and how busy farming can get, I really hope that I can keep this up! The idea is to include just the main issues that are occupying my brain.This episode includes some typical challenges on the farm:-Frozen water lines in the barn-Problems with my on farm research sponsored by the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario (EFAO)-Balancing farm work with my contracting businessFind your place in the world, dig in, and take responsibility from there. - Gary SnyderFind your place in the world. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. - Gary SnyderPlease contact me with your own stories.greatbigfarmer@gmail.com | 16m 59s | ||||||
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