Code,518026
Speaker,Laura Deyoung
Date,"April 11, 2011"
Interviewer,Terence Check
Abstract,Spicy Lamb Farm
"Tags,","National Park, sustainable farming, agritourism, sheep, orchards"
Special Notes,
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0,introduction
1,"talking about where Ms. Deyoung lived, education"
2,"how the farm got the name, and primary and secondary objectives"
3,brief overview of year round operations
4,overview operations contd
5,overview: living in harmony with coyotes
6,"agtourism as secondary activity, focusing on agricultural tourism"
7,"250 people doing agtourism in one day, the day before."
8,"agtourism continued, get folks out to see the lambs but also to provide the education opportunities"
9,"Demographics of agritourism, specific groups of people: pre-selling blankets, affluent, most others across the board"
10,"Agtourism, disconnect between meat buyers and blanket buyers, mostly families"
11,"School groups: predominantly preschools, some school age children, make semicircle in hay, hands on learning sometimes (chicks, ducklings, bunnies"
12,"working on physical location for agtourism: pavilion, education programming"
13,how consulting firm/work experience has colored farm experience:
14,farming provides a soapbox: talk about critical food and environment issues
15,"wasting the land: pet peeve as large lot zoning, public broadcasting education being used to educate"
16,"use media to educate the visitors, two fold plan to get people out for animals and then to be educated"
17,how do you want the spicy lamb to be:
18,"blue sky dream: all the capital improvements done, be an example of functional and aesthetic gardens, land usage, getting venue for education"
19,"maybe outspokenness comes from adolescence in england: approaching girl scout camp--spinning wheels, cannot seem to connect, covet girl scout field"
20,"how much land; land usage: acre for house/barn, acre for orchard, nine-ten acres for pasture"
21,"other capital improvements: fencing, garden, split rail, etc"
22,capital improvements continued: property condition: barn and house
23,"setbacks; partner backed out, doing it alone, bought sheep from bad source; new flock, fewer lambs"
24,calculations on flock size. Teenage boys: how do they feel?
25,"talking about amenities for the boys, cell phone goes off"
26,typical day during the spring season: what does it look like?
27,"need to check lambing mothers all the time: assisting lambs in giving birth, nothing bothers you after a while, (laughs)"
28,"experiences with family farms: grandparents, horses with immediate family, fell in love with the mystique of sheep in England"
29,"did not know much about sheeping, orchard management, or spice gardens, varieties of fruits. Nothing prepares you for the life"
30,"will never buy sheep from certain people again, closed flock, very careful with outside helps, learning lots of things, used to be one of these girly females"
31,"volunteers: jake campbell ( a godsend), aaron smith international sheep, getting secrets out of him, but he's jealous of publicity from national park system"
32,"learning all the time. national park interview: how do we know that you will be successful? challenging, but fun."
33,"being in the national park means lots of networking. needed to increase bandwith, got an extra five pages on webpage because it crashed"
34,"buses visiting, fox 8, and general media outreach. border collies and lambs intrigue people"
35,media continued. national park question (Check)
36,"how national park impacts you: makes decision based on four criteria (lists criteria, paraphrased) will they regret having you on the farm (laughs)"
37,"enlargement: girl scout camp wont give up land, world of litigation and liability, her friend in licking co. using large lot zoning for pasturing"
38,"do have other fields to use, must use logistics"
39,"interesting rules: with land and barn, needs permission for everything"
40,permissions and planning ahead. planning proposal in november challenges of national park
41,"coyotes and hawks, need to watch, neighbors are deer coyote and hawk (uninvited guests for dinner)"
42,"how does national park embrace sustainable farming: spicy lamb mirrors their mission, with the exception of a few things"
43,"national park input on plans, resource for learning and help"
44,national park experiences
45,members of previous families came to visit the farm: Ross and Jones family
46,"historical experiences, with visiting families"
47,"the jones family experiences continued, tv lockbox"
48,jones farming continued
49,"trying to collect the history of the farm, and work on a proto-historical exhibit, informational signs on the farm for walking tours"
50,"lambs imprinting, following while walking on trail, imprinting on the bottle feeder"
51,changes to the farm since the jones family occupied it
52,"changes to the farm, even after Deyoung arrived at the farm"
53,"more jones family stories (english experience makes itself evident when Ms. Deyoung mentions a ""petrol"" tank)"
54,more jones family stories
55,"ross family visits as well, and the horses are no longer in the barn"
56,landscape as history (the interviewer)
57,historic shape to the land
58,"preservation and restoration, with natural landscape, where things are delineated"
59,managing the built and the natural environment. farm has no shade
60,"more physical changes, to the land and the surrounding woodlands,"
61,"cant stand that peninsula has a maitainence dump, next to boston run,"
62,"carolyn asks about sheep and their personalities, letting people name the sheep"
63,sheep stories continued
64,"sheep are definitely stupid, but fun most of the time"