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Season 4 - Episode 76 - Fences and weeds · Good Morning From The Chicken Coop!

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  Hey everybody, welcome to the good morning from the Chicken
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  Coop podcast. My name is Kim Johnson and I am
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  a mastermindset coach, creative strategist, and also happened to
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  be a farmer. This is my chicken coop and I
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  come out here every day to record a podcast to teach
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  distinctions, possibilities, new ways of thinking, and just bring
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  some joy into the world. So welcome to the coop and let's
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  start your day off in a fantastic way.
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  Hey everybody, good early morning from the garage and I'm
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  standing in here and I'm looking at all my little vegetables that
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  are getting ready to, you know, be outside very soon.
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  And one of the requirements of them moving outside very soon is
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  that we have all of the fencing properly situated.
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  We live where there is everything that wants to eat
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  everything. Everything wants to eat the
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  chickens, everything wants to eat the veggies and I understand
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  that. So it's not a question of doing
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  anything except acting into what we know we need to do, which is
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  fence off because we refuse to use poisons and all of that.
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  The the entire farm is organic and I just will not do anything
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  that's going to harm anything like that because of the organic
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  nature of it. Now, fencing wise, what's
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  interesting about that is that we have, you know, a big desire
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  to keep out lots of things, chickens being one of them from
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  it. And we had to spend the weekend
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  really working on getting fencing done.
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  Because if we don't have the fencing done, we have a really
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  big issue. The the chickens go in
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  everywhere and they dig everything up.
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  So this weekend was about making sure that the flower garden had
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  a brand new welded wire fence around it, as well as we had to
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  take the fence that was around the bigger garden, which is,
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  believe it or not, it's a wired fence, solar powered shock fence
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  that goes up 87 feet, 8 feet tall.
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  The wires go up that tall so that the deer can't jump over
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  them because the deer, I've seen them leap right over the fence
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  when it was lower. So we have now raised it.
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  We have make sure it's solar powered shock fence and then to
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  top it all off on the outside of that fence so that my chickens
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  don't get shocked, I have to put another lower fence of welded
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  wire around it so that it's safe and no one gets shocked.
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  So it's quite the endeavor. And then you have to go and take
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  all of these weeds these, I call them the devil weeds.
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  I don't know what their technical name is, but I think
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  it's a, it's some sort of a Japanese vine that's invasive.
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  And I don't know how it was ever brought here, but it was and it
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  thrives here and it just spreads like crazy.
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  So I spend a ton of time on my hands and knees pulling these
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  out because if you don't get the root out, guess what?
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  It spreads. Now point of all of this
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  information is think about I was, as I'm working on all of
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  this, I'm going, Oh my gosh, I've spent so much time this
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  weekend working on things that I'm getting rid of things.
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  Put the weeds, I'm setting the area up.
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  Yes, I'm by pulling all the weeds out, but I then have to
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  put the fence up. I then have to do all this and
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  it's all to protect and keep things away from stuff.
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  I want the vines away from the plants.
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  I want the deer away from the plants.
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  I want the chickens away from the plants.
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  There's so much time spent in setting everything up so it can
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  properly win. Now this is the fourth year, the
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  4th garden I've had at this farm.
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  And I will tell you I have I've never put this much effort into
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  keeping things orderly. Now I am extremely orderly.
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  And if you ever saw pictures of my gardens before, you'd say, Oh
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  well, wait, these are these are in order.
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  But every year I learn more about how to do this better here
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  and how to be more productive with it.
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  And that is a huge part of the process.
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  But I made a distinction over the winter looking through my
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  notes from the previous years. And one of the things that I
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  recognized in, in my excitement of trying to get things growing
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  and trying all these different vegetables, I wasn't spending
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  enough time cleaning up the things that caused problems.
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  And it really struck me how much that was true.
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  I just was so excited to get things in the ground.
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  I wasn't dealing with the weeds. I wasn't dealing with the
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  animals, the issues. I wasn't dealing with the proper
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  setup to get myself to win. And it got me very focused on
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  the fact that we do this everywhere in our lives, too.
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  We don't take the time to set stuff up the right way because
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  we're excited and we rush in and having that experience and
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  recognizing it in the plants. I was talking to my son about it
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  while he was working on his motorcycle project.
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  He rebuilt, he's rebuilding a motorcycle to which he has
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  successfully ripped it apart and rebuilt it.
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  But then he was noticing that, oh, his back Fender fell off
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  while he was riding. He heard a rattle and it fell
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  off. And then I was telling him the
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  story last night about this and said, you know, I spent, so I
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  had to spend so much more time setting myself up to make it
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  better that I, I can stress to you, it might be a good idea to
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  go through and tighten up all the bolts.
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  And when he and he was so funny because he said, you know what,
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  you're right. I was just so excited.
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  I was letting that go. So think about in your life,
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  where are the parts of it that you know, you should go back and
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  check because you want the outcome, but you just haven't
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  taken the time to make sure that you're getting that outcome.
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  And it's super important to recognize that because if you
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  can clean up all those little tiny details and make sure
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  you're on point with them, guess what?
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  Everything else has a chance to take that giant leap from, you
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  know, good to great to outstanding and how quickly you
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  can make that little leap from good to great and which is what
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  I was always doing. But hitting great to outstanding
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  is a bigger leap. It's a bigger step across the
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  pond. So give yourself an opportunity.
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  And I'm going to go get myself some more protective gear to
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  stay away from these deadly little weeds.
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  All right, my friends, I hope you have a blessed day and I
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  will see you tomorrow. Bye.