The Original Transplants Podcast Episode 60: Brood XThe Original Transplants Podcast Episode 60 finds Satoyama Homestead stewards Will and Sarah sharing some personal brood news of their own, and reflecting on successes and failures in the apiary, chicken coop, and edible landscape. Despite a strong spring bloom season, the bees are off to a slow start and do not have strong honey reserves. Broody hen Mayapple rejects the introduced chicks, which are instead being hand-raised in a plastic tote in the garage, confirming experiences shared by listener Wyoming Jo (https://www.instagram.com/jodhopper_g/). The stewards are enjoying decent harvests of strawberries, shell and snap peas, lettuce, and leafy greens, but Sarah is disappointed in a poor showing from her rhubarb, broccoli, and weak tomato seedlings. For homestead fun, the stewards have enjoyed citing songbird fledglings, groundhog pups, and even a pregnant whitetail doe on the property. While Brood X cicadas were a bust on the homestead, Sarah reveals she is busting her waistline at 6 months pregnant with the couple's first child. We look forward to putting Baby Caverly to work on the homestead in the coming years! For homestead chores, the stewards talk turf and path maintenance, invasives management, garden bed prep, and vegetable transplants. The show closes with four agricultural news articles on the topic of "The Law of Unintended Consequences" or, as they say on the DarkHose Podcast, "Welcome to Complex Systems" about ineffective whitetail deer controls, how a pallet shortage will impact produce distribution, new technology to detoxify beehives of insecticides, and the upside of respecting complex systems on a cattle ranch.NotesPeriodical cicada by Greg Hoover and Michael Skvarla for Penn State Extension: https://extension.psu.edu/periodical-cicada'Incredible Waste of Money': America's Most Ineffective Deer Management Program by Patrick Durkin for Meateater: https://www.themeateater.com/conservation/wildlife-management/incredible-waste-of-money-americas-most-ineffective-deer-management-programPallet Shortage Could Hinder Produce Transport from Lancaster Farming Briefs, May 29, 2021, page A10 (not found online)Pollen-sized Technology Protects Bees from Deadly Insecticides by Krishna Ramanujan of Cornell University from Lancaster Farming:https://www.lancasterfarming.com/farm_life/conservation/pollen-sized-technology-protects-bees-from-deadly-insecticides/article_71b59793-9cd9-5624-a6a7-0a04f3e4f57a.htmlPatience Pays for Grass-fed Beef Farmer by Tom Venesky for Lancaster Farming:https://www.lancasterfarming.com/farming/beef/patience-pays-for-grass-fed-beef-farmer/article_f0e154ed-9fd1-5a92-8729-c824cb737eb3.html