The next Peak Moment program, for March 5 and 6, is on innovation bearing fruit for a family farm. Peak Moment host Janaia Donaldson tours the century-old organic Chaffin Family Orchards, where even …
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The next Peak Moment program, for March 5 and 6, is on innovation bearing fruit for a family farm.
Peak Moment host Janaia Donaldson tours the century-old organic Chaffin Family Orchards, where even the animals are “farm hands.” Visit chickens in their egg-mobile, scratching for bugs and pooping fertilizer in the heirloom stone-fruit orchards.
Goats chomp off low branches from the olive trees, so no fuel or human labor is needed. This certified predator-friendly enterprise includes 200 acres of olive trees plus various fruit and nut trees; sheep, goats, broiler and egg-laying chickens.
The Chaffin family distributes only locally through fruit and meat CSAs (community-supported agriculture), growers markets and a farmstand, providing fresh foods that burst with flavor and nuance. (chaffinfamilyorchards.com <http://chaffinfamilyorchards.com>
The program is presented on WCKN, Time-Warner cable channel 30 at 7 p.m. both evenings.
In the weeks and months to come, WCKN will show Peak Moment TV programs on local food production, renewable energy, transportation alternatives, sustainable building, preparedness and psychological, business, and governmental responses.
All the programs can be viewed at www.wordpress.peakmoment.tv/conversations/ in video and audio formats.
In addition, more than 80 Peak Moment TV shows are now available on DVDs which can be borrowed from the Potsdam Public Library from the collection of shows purchased for broadcast locally.
WCKN is local provider of Democracy Now!, a daily hour-long news broadcast that is progressive, nonprofit, and independently syndicated. Award winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez host the program with guests from around the world. The show will air on WCKN’s Time Warner cable channel 30 for Potsdam and Canton Monday through Friday at 10 pm.