Breakdowns, Dirt Grading, & High Tunnel Set-Up | Is Gardening in Alaska Worth It?
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- Опубликовано: 18 июн 2024
- After clearing the area for our high tunnels, we immediately got to work on getting the ground level and smooth. We started off with a hydraulic cylinder leak, and then we were back out there working with the skid steer. Once the area was graded, we set up the high tunnels. Luckily, we have had several days of gorgeous weather to get our plants sometime to adapt to being in the ground outside...in the high tunnel, of course!
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Wow I am impressed with you both. The fact that you do a cost analysis is impressive, I watch many channels like yours and have never seen anyone do that. I have always wondered if all that work that is put into gardens was really worth it. Thank you for a great channel. I really enjoy watching you both. All the best to you.
I like watching videos where people interact with their dogs. That’s probably the funnest thing he’ll ever get to do. I’ve never tried to take my dog a ride in my skid loader, but she does ride on the zero turn lawnmower. 😅
Oh my gosh. The dog riding in the skid loader was so darn cute.
He's definitely putting in the hours for them treats 😂
I watch a variety of channels where people are homesteading. The element that I often see missing is the planning and analysis process that the two of you follow. You are very intentional about it and very reflective after you do a project. While running around with no clue provides a lot of drama and therefore content, you get the feeling that success is not going to be the end product! Having the right tools and the skills to utilize them and the understanding of basic agriculture is a huge plus.
Being from Pittsburgh originally, hearing the local accent is a bit of nostalgia for me. Much success to you both and I hope Vanilli enjoys skid steer rides for many years to come!
You need to watch SIMPLE LIVING ALASKA, which is an amazing couple living in Alaska who did the same thing but they also harvest salmon, moose, caribou, berries and canning everything and have an amazing huge garden. I highly recommend them for you to watch. sSIMPLE LIVING ALASKA. You won’t regret it.
I posted a request for a project management type video in their last video. I meant to offer ideas on what to include, but it was fairly comprehensive from a project management perspective. I hope I didn't scare them off the idea, particularly if they're just winging it... which I would also like to hear about.
I’ve watched these two right from the start and I knew they would be very successful in their endeavors with their forward thinking and their abilities to fix and build properly.
Good thing Chris is so knowledgeable about maintenance of the equipment!
indeed! it seems Chris can fix anything!!
You two sure have gotten lots done & of course with the help of your doggie 😊 I hope your veggies do great this year
One happy dog in the Case with dad🐕😍.👍🏴
Chris, I am very envious of you for a multitude of reasons, among which are your very diverse skill set enabling you to tackle almost any task and successfully accomplish it. Great job on the Skid Steer seal and erecting those high tunnels. I hope the vegetable Gods smile on you with an over abundance of Veggies! Always enjoy you amazing videos and always look forward to the next one!
Well done, you two are quite the team. My wife and I of 50 years have always gardened, and done projects around the house together. Keep up the good work.
Wow that turned out really nice. I’m curious to see how the garden turns out. Thank you guys for taking the time and making the videos to share with us. I know it’s so time consuming and it is very appreciated. You guys are such an inspiration. God bless you guys. Best wishes as well.
Took me back to the 70's when I used to rebuild hydraulic cylinders. Good job young man.
Old classic machines means easy to fix and maintain. A+ guys!!! 👍🏻👍🏻😎😎😎
I hope this sun continues. Our greenhouse in the Mat Su is a month ahead of last year already. We are already getting Zucchini, Bush beans and of course lettuce. We have small green cherry tomatoes and some small cucumbers coming along also. Last year was one of the coolest summers I’ve seen in over forty years here.
That top soil looks amazing!
It so exciting to see your place come together and your garden plans come to life.
that little Case is really something in the hands of someone who knows how to use it😏 one thing to keep in mind is cost vs quality of the produce you grow. I live in the desert and grow in containers and have to buy the soil, amendments. manure and a host of organic fertilizers and I know I don't break even, but I know what I am eating. Don't let cost slow your garden down.
Good job, I keep track of channels subscribers, On 5/24 you had 38.6K, today is 41.8, GOOD JOB
The high tunnels are a great asset to have but keeping the temp where it needs to be, seems to be the issue everyone has. Another awesome video, you kids are a blast & appreciate your upfront attitude in sharing expenses & life in Alaska. Thanks Chris for not popping up the skid steer, you were very safe in today's episode. hehehe Speaking of the little skid, that was cool showing Katie securing the bucket then back to you inside the skid.... Thanks for sharing
Your dog looked like he liked the ride, almost like a young kid!
Aloha from Hawaii 🌺 Just found out your guys channel and love watching it. I like it because Chris fix most of anything happens to machines. Now I like this channel and Andrew Caramata’s channel the same. Keep up the good work guys. Aloha 🤙🏽
Great job planting your tomatoes 🍅
You have to allow for the learning curve in your gardening. You have already learned things that can improve your production and have implemented those. As you talk to more locals and do more research you will get more ideas to try. Think about how much you have learned already compared to what you knew when you started!! I can't get enough of the views there, so pretty!
Having that versatile skid steer sure was a critical piece of equipment and such a benefit that you know how to maintain it.
Green houses look awesome now comes transplanting...
Great job fixing the cylinder on skidsteer
Great job planting your peppers
Looks great. Might need a few support posts in the middle when it snows. Lots of good veggies coming soon.
Dogs always love going for rides,you’re making excellent progress my friends!
Wow. You guys are rock in’ it! Everything looks great. Many prayers that your veggies produce awesome results for the next year!
Nice work you 2! As you know gardens are never what they can be the first few years. Time and effort to get system down where you at will run its course and you will be growing what grows there in abundance im sure!
Great building your greenhouses
What are your plans with the Cabin?
Chris
You make things looks so easy
Fixing case ,land leveling,bed preparation and building tunnels in less than 40 mins is awesome.
Enjoy the fruit of hard labour.
Very nice high tunnels, you place is looking good
i love your channel. the content is very interesting. the two of you interact in a way that warms my heart.
Nice to see that you read the comments of your subscribers, good job on your green houses.
I have noticed the improvement on the videography you have developed over the past months. Starting a vid with nature reminds me where you live and the beauty you have found which is a simple justification of WHY you went on this life changing adventure in the first place. In spite of all of the work, you have found a place of your own to live on your own terms. Seeing two people working together so well, sharing in the burdens and joys, and each knowing your strengths is a delight. Your example is encouraging to everyone to find a compatible life mate and work together to build a future together. Also regarding video layout, the ending walkthrough of the high tunnels would be a really great sampling shot if you did the same walk through every two weeks or so to show the progress and growth within blending them together to make a temporal montage. For example starting at one end today then ending at the end of the last tunnel after the first season in one long shot.
Wish I could help you make your dream easier. But I am stuck in CA. You are both my heroes!
I'm sure you googled it, but it is fine for dogs. A garden is always a good idea and a learning curve every year. Fresh anything is better than the tasteless, over sprayed stuff in stores. I hope your gardens do excellent and you find lots of yummy berries on your land. Just close up the greenhouses while they are warm and maybe put frost clothes over tomatoes and peppers until temps are constantly above 50. I found 100 x 10 ft frost cloth on Amazon for cheap and it works great. We are just getting over the nights being in 40's (peninsula of WI) Haven't hit much above 70 yet, this week calls for upper 70's and humid. Hopefully it will jump start everything in my garden that I just couldn't plant to June. Wishing you the best! Love the way the goats provided you with barkless twigs :)
what a team..
You guys are doing a wonderful job on your homestead .
I personally think you guys could survive on a rock . You all bring a lot to the table
Oh my goodness, could you imagine life around there without that skid steer? 😮 Tiny Houston MS ( Len Price )
Es geht weiter und ihr habt einen Plan. Viel Erfolg und Grüße aus Deutschland.😊
I know you are a person who loves nature very much from your crops. You are a person who knows how to protect the environment. I really love and appreciate what you are doing. Maybe somehow, we will be able to Working together, I wish you good health and keep the qualities you have, beautiful girl
Really enjoy your channel!so glad I found you ! Thank you for sharing!
Wow, you two have done lots of work on your homestead. I’m waiting for you to work on your cabin.
Hoping for bountiful harvest for you!
You seem to be masking good progress. That is very nice for us to observe> I wish you much success in establishing your property for your needs and interests!
A suggestion, if I may. I strung a rope over the middle of each section of my high tunnel and staked it down so the wind couldn't ' bellow ' it out . Keep it from ripping and damaging it.
Great to see you so soon
Good morning guys . The hubby did a great job on rebuilding the chase piston. And great job he did on level off and scrape in the area for the green houses. And that was a great idea of saving all the topsoil and when it break down. You going to have such a rich soil to use for planting all your vegetables and fruits now. The growth should be phenomenal. And we live in Jersey so we're on the pine barren so I know what you're talking about with the difference in the soils but I also do aquaponics
Just love your channel and work ethic,it’s probably because of the less talk more action but also far less scripted content the willingness to have a go so proud of a young couple having a red hot go cheers champs don’t change anything from a family in Perth Western Australia
Love your dog :). Wow this drill bit its game changer!!
I sure hope you break even in your garden for your sake plus it’s good content for your channel Keep up the great work Cheers
😂Great looking greenhouses. Hope you have bountiful crop.
I do so admire your work ethic and details with all your projects. I wish you well with this season’s crops.
Build a solid work bench.
Add a tarp between your greenhouses and you have a great place for storage!
Chris, nice job on replacing the seals on that piston. When I was landscaping after high school we had a Case 1845C just like yours except it was brand new then! I wonder if the older machines are easier to work on than the newer ones? The older ones probably have less things in the way. I've been meaning to ask what you did to your left hand? Those are some serious rows in your high tunnels. They should do you well. What is your background work wise? I'm kind of the jack of all trades, master of none myself and you appear the same. Really nice setup on the greenhouses. Good video 👏🏻
Hog Wire backing with 2x4 cattle wire on top, mounted over a steel frame at a 60degree angle above a 3 sided timber box
Nice work you’all
Awesome footage gest video yall make it look easy RESPECT 🙏🏾 🫡
beautiful work cowboy/cowgirl, happy gardening.🙏💎🌹🍾🌴🇹🇹
Great video
Nice job guys!!
Kevin from MI
Love your dog always wanting to play.
Great job Chris just goes to task to task…..both have great knowledge how satisfying to hard work which going to give so much…thoughts from Scotland
Could you let me know where you got your green houses and the anchors. Great job love watching you guys.
Looking better each time. Keep up the great work. I don't live in Alaska, but I do live in the country. In order for me to go shopping it is a 28.8 mile round trip to the Super WallysMart closest to me. My truck gets 14mpg, so it takes right at 2 gallons of fuel each time, plus wear n tear, etc. If we went by the IRS mileage rate - which is a cost of 67cent per mile in 2024 28.8x52 (once per week) 1,497.6 miles x.67= $1,003.39 cost for me to go to the store each year. My point is, it's not just the costs of the product, it's all things, such as that mileage, but also time. I can go to the garden, or drive and spend 40 minutes on the road, plus the hour inside that store, etc. I think your break-even point is closer then you are calculating.
I'm in Arkansas and we will have an excess of heat next week. I'd share some of it with you. Sharing even the degrees OVER 100 would help us BOTH!
Success is measured in small steps.
Another great video! GOOD LUCK with your gardens this year! I think with all the hard work, and thoughtful planning, you will have success. I liked your cost analysis, I have wondered over the years of watching other homesteading channels if the work & expense was worth it. Of course I understand the satisfaction it gives when you have a bountiful harvest at the end of the season. I hope you will have trail cameras around the gardens, I am curious the different animals that will come around 💚
Man I bought one of those green houses and it made it a week before it was blown apart by winds. And I live in Texas.
Hi 🇨🇦 Great team work.Thanks for the video
Add black plastic over your compost piles to break down the organic matter faster, also why not add a piece between the two greenhouses for more space between the doors
Love your greenhouses! You have a great garden. Thanks for sharing.
You guys need to use a large screen to sift that soil and get the rocks and roots out of it! … great progress….!
Great video and cross my fingers for a huge crop!
Kicking ass!
Video very good.
Wow great job you guys. Hope all your plants work out. I live in a budget also. Love watching. I'm new to your channel and I'm enjoying it.❤
@ 4:03 I am not a hydraulics major but this video does show me some basics KUDOS
Best of luck on your gardening!
Unlike me the dog doesn't seem overly impressed with your mechanical abilities
It’s looking great!
I. I highly recommend you brace the center pipe using 3 " round poles the whole length and support it with 3" dia. Poles
I worked in a nursery for years. Their high tunnels are all supported this way. Keep them from collapsing on heavy snow fall. Your high tunnels are small dia. not very strong. Check out Simply Living Alaska. They can help you a lot on gardening in high tunnels. Good luck
Looking good guys 👍🏻
Well done.
Love the lab
Where did you get the high tunnels from? Remember it takes several years to break even and to adapt to growing in a new location. You two are doing great and can't wait to see the work you have done on the house.
Take down the fabric off the high tunnel during the late fall so that the snow load won’t rip it.
You might not need a swimming pool in Alaska.But a wood fired hot tub would be nice.
Great video. Love the cost breakdown. If your planting in your environment use short season plants. Peppers take alot of time to get the volume you need. Fast growing stuff maybe radishes spinach with shorter grow days. Those high tunnels will definitely help stretch out the grow season.
As you are You Tubbers and could get a income from doing your content creation gardening give you plenty of content. Good growth or poor growth people will tune in to see the results. More views pays off.
I really like your channel. You 2 work so good together and all projects done right. No short cuts or drama shots on this channel. You got my sub a long time ago. Keepnit up. Really looking forward for whatever next.
Good job 👏
BUT- physical labor always pays off in the end. Your garden will nourish y’all for years. Awesome work.
I understand what you mean about the process and all of that I think the first two years I think you lose but I think eventually you'll catch up but it really depends on you all this weather and tell your husband I'm glad he wrote that little dog he was waiting
I got a good chuckle watching the skid steer turn your compost as I looked out at my 4’x4’ urban compost pile that I turn with a shovel. 😀 Whatever the size pile, composting is a beautiful thing! And just a thought to your cost analysis- when comparing organically (home) grown food vs. buying commercial: the mineral and vitamin density in organic food can be up to 6 times that of commercial, depending on the food, not to mention the taste. I have bought and grown organic from the 1990’s to present day. Although it has always been more costly, the kids got the equivalent of eating 4 commercial springs of broccoli, by eating only one. They learned vegetables have flavor and you don’t need cheese slathered over them to make them palatable. I think there are analysis charts available to compare organic vs. inorganically grown food so when you do your cost analysis maybe that can be included for looking at the veggies you are growing? Enjoy your channel thank you for the content and I look forward to your next video!
have you two thought about a root cellar at some point...natures refrigerator..
Nice
Wow that's nice Greenhouse houses you're going to grow some great stuff in it by the way if you were doing cucumbers I see you have a way of the Cucumbers of to climb up they love doing that I recommend Boston's because they make the best pickles and if you grow them to about 6 in to 8 in depending on how big your jars are can you usually get between 4 :00 to 5 pickles a jar but the big thing is cucumbers need as much light as possible strong light they don't like gloomy days they like lots of direct sunlight and that's really important for them. By the way I have a really good pickle recipe if you have a hydrometer if that's to read how much salt in your solution for your pickling you want to get 22% salt and what I normally do is I cut a slit into my pickles not fully through but enough so about 80 so they get fully cured quicker and I put them in my refrigerator I have a special refrigerator for pickling and I put it on the almost the highest temp about 42° and it takes about 4 weeks to get a half sour pickle what I recommend is pickling spice about a quarter of an inch in the bottom of your to clean jar and then five to six clothes of garlic and fresh dill about four to five things Snippets of DILL and that's it
Bud where’d the chaga come from that’s for me to know and you to find out!🐶
Look up root grubbing , root raking u can get most roots and sticks like that
Where did you get those high tunnels? The frame assembly looks pretty fast and easy (when they include all the parts, that is). Those replacement anchors you used look great as well. Do the doors stay shut with velcro?