Host Janaia Donaldson takes a tour of Mark Cooper’s self-sufficient small farm, accompanied by curious sheep and geese, in the next Peak Moment program on WCKN cabel channel 30 at 7 p.m. March 12 and 13.

Over several years, Cooper transformed a rundown house and hillsides of berry brambles into pasture and gardens where he produces and preserves most of his family’s food. Visit the Goose Grotto in a constructed pond, a heritage fruit tree orchard, logs producing shiitake mushrooms, and a cheap-and-easy container kitchen garden.

He gives a close-up view of the solar dehydrator he built from salvaged materials, and his tips on food drying. He has husbanded up to 50 animals at a time, including two Tibetan yaks.

Other Peak Moment TV shows in March will be March 19 & 20, Year-Round Gardening at 6000 Feet and March 26 & 27, A School Garden Brings Learning to Life. Look for news shows in April and special programming for Earth Week.

All the programs are available on the internet at www.wordpress.peakmoment.tv/conversations/ in both video and audio format.

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 also the 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 appears on WCKN’s Time Warner cable channel 30 for Potsdam and Canton Monday through Friday at 10 p.m.