Organic Urban Farm

Today I'm talking with Jesse at Organic Urban Farm.

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00:56 You can find them at homegrowncollective.org. If you're enjoying this podcast, please like, subscribe, share it with a friend, or leave a comment. Thank you. Today I'm talking with Jesse at Organic Urban Farm. Good morning, Jesse. How are you? Good morning, Mary. How's everything?  It's good. If I lose you, it's because we have some really high winds happening here in Minnesota today. Not a problem.  Just a call away. Okay, cool. All right. So.

01:25 I had to go look up Long Island, New York because  I never even wondered about where it is. I grew up in Maine, but never even wondered how  Long Island fit into the state of New York. And it is literally a Long Island.  Yes, it is. So is it very populated because that helps me raise my questions here?  Yeah. So I've lived on Long Island my whole life. I've lived in the town of Oceanside since  basically I was

01:54 Around three years old, we moved over here.  The Oceanside is about 40 minutes from like New York City. So Manhattan and you you're very close to the boroughs. You're only a car ride away really from anywhere.  But for me, I grew up upstate a lot in upstate New York with my grandparents,  raising chickens and horses and other animals. With my papa was a big thing for me growing up.  And I spent most of my summers over there.

02:23 I always loved it. So once my papa passed, I  decided to  do a little nice chicken coop in my backyard and start something small  just in  his memory and something that made me happy to do. But around us, we really don't have many chicken coops. I'm probably one of the few people in our neighborhood who has a chicken coop. So it is rare  to have this over here, but it was something I love and it was something that  I really wanted to do. But yeah, this is really more of like...

02:53 Urban city. This is more of you know a fast-paced area. It's You know more of a city suburban life,  and it's a little bit different than  Then  what you would see on most forms I would say yeah, that was part of the reason that your Instagram page grabbed me because I was like organic and urban don't necessarily shake hands well unless you  work some magic Yep, absolutely so

03:21 You know, we don't have our certifications and stuff like that, but we raise our chickens all organic when it comes to free-ranging them and then as well as feed. Right now, we use Scratch and Peck, which honestly is one of my favorite brands. It's a little pricey, but the chickens really do love it. And honestly, I haven't had any problems with it, even when they were babies with the coxodosis. you know, I was raising chickens, you guys know.

03:51 that the babies tend to sometimes eat their poop and stuff like that, which will make them sick. But a lot of people use the medicated feed, but I don't see a need for it, honestly. I've noticed that the organic feed, as long as it's a quality feed, seem to be, you know, you don't seem to