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On the podcast this week we continue our conversation with Craig Ruggless who, along with his husband Gary Jackemuk, runs Winnetka Farms in Los Angeles’ San Fernando valley. In last week’s podcast, <a href="https://rootsimple.wpengine.com/2015/08/056-winnetka-farms-part-1/">episode 56</a>, we talked about Italian vegetables. This week Craig tells us about his double-laced Barnevelder chickens, Muscovy ducks and we complain about our mutual problems with rats and racoons.
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<li><a href="http://www.backyardchickens.com/products/barnevelder">Barnevelder chickens</a></li>
<li><a href="http://www.backyardchickens.com/a/tls-ranch-barnevelders">TLS Ranch Barnevelders</a></li>
<li>Biosecurity</li>
<li>Muscovy Ducks</li>
<li>The raccoon menace</li>
<li><a href="http://articles.latimes.com/1997/jul/19/local/me-14184">Weeks colony in Winnetka</a></li>
<li>Craig&#8217;s grape arbor</li>
<li>Aquaponics</li>
<li><a href="http://bugguide.net/node/view/5720">Harrisina metallica &#8211; Western Grapeleaf Skeletonizer</a></li>
<li>Rats!</li>
<li>The <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheKitchenAtWinnetkaFarms?fref=ts">Kitchen at Winnetka Farms on Facebook</a></li>
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If you&#8217;d like to stay in touch with Craig you can find him at <a href="https://www.facebook.com/TheKitchenAtWinnetkaFarms">The Kitchen at Winnetka Farms</a>.
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058 All About Aquaponics

A podcast about vegetable gardening, food preservation, home economics and DIY living. Hosted by Erik Knutzen and Kelly Coyne, authors of The Urban Homestead and Making It: Radical Home Ec for a Post Consumer World.