Episode 109: Getting a Dairy Cow With the Dougherty's, Part 2

In this episode, we chat with Shawn and Beth Dougherty about offering liberty and experiences to homeschooled teenagers, why the Doughertys stayed in Appalachia, the Dougherty's house fire and rebuild, proximity to community as the next obstacle, starting with trash land and building up the soil, rotational grazing, turf grasses, and hay, our milking routine and dairy cow domestication, and the Dougherty's Farmstead Butcher Trailers business.

 

Timestamps/Topics for Episode 109:

0:00 How to offer liberty and experiences to homeschooled teenagers

9:50 Why the Doughertys stayed in Appalachia - to homeschool, homestead, homebirth, and go to daily mass

19:20 The Dougherty's housefire and rebuild

21:18 Proximity to community is the next obstacle

30:15 Starting with trash land and building up the soil

34:55 Our first dairy cow, Georgie

42:30 Rotational grazing, turf grasses, and hay

1:02:46 Brandon's milking routine

1:05:00 The dairy animal is a different order of domestication

1:08:00 Brandon's break from Evolution Biology & God created cattle on the 5th day

1:11:37 Dougherty's Farmstead Butcher Trailers

1:15:30 Planting on a moon cycle

 

Links for Episode 109:

• Homestead Heritage https://www.homesteadheritage.com/
• The Ploughshare http://sustainlife.org/
• The Liturgy of the Land: Cultivating a Catholic Homestead by Jason Craig & Thomas D. Van Horn https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/203018472-the-liturgy-of-the-land
• Wendell Berry https://berrycenter.org/
• Kaleb Handshaw https://coalfield-development.org/bio-kaleb-hanshaw/ https://www.thewildc.com/
• Allen Savory https://savory.global/history/
• Keeping One Cow https://a.co/d/i8Astv6
• The Dougherty's website