Preparing the Farm for Winter // Homesteading
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- There are lots of little jobs we can do to get ready for cooler weather! Thanks to STA-BIL for sponsoring this video. If you want to check out the products I used to prepare my homestead for winter, here's the link - bit.ly/34h3eox
Preparing the farm for winter is a big task, we spend the spring and summer growing and preserving a harvest that will get us through the winter, chopping and putting up firewood, and getting all the animals set up to thrive in colder winter. We also use our farm equipment a lot less during the winter, so it's important to winterize our small engines like chainsaws, string trimmers and lawn mowers. Proper winter chainsaw and mower maintenance is crucial to a long life for the engine.
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I'm Anne of All Trades. In Seattle, I have a woodworking, blacksmithing and fabrication shop, a selection of furry friends, and an organic farm. This channel is aimed at sharing my passion for working with my hands, being a good steward of the earth, and preserving antiquated skills and traditions.
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I am always amazed at your knowledge of life. I'm 61 and I learn something every video. I don't garden but grew up rural. I started watching you and April for woodworking and look what I have learned now..lol. Thank you.😁
Thank you! I'm so glad to be passing on whatever little snippets I gather along the way :)
A wealth of knowledge and kindness. You are so inspiring! So excited for the move!
Thanks so much Bob!
Anne, I love your approach to incorporate gardening and farming together to keep good soil while feeding the chickens and all other animals.
It makes for lovely soil and cheaper to feed the birds! Win win win :)
I’ve told you before “I greatly admire your helpful spirit” thank you ❤️
Thanks so much for the kind words!
I love the changing seasons and the winter prep, thanks for sharing the rest of the story!
Thanks for watching Stu!
I loved your far... it is so beautiful! I’m a farm girl too... growing up in Brazil... planting everything to eat... that is the health way to live picking our food from the Mother Nature ..... congrats to you! Thanks for the good advised I do grow my on vegetables too on my back yard... I was preparing for the winter too living in Massachusetts ... I do miss my farm in Brazil
This was really interesting! Also, bouncing baby goats!
Those lil babies are the bestest
Anne, city folks have no idea on what goes on. Thank you for the information.
I live in a different climate than you, but buckwheat works well as a green manure. Germinates and grows quickly, great coverage for weed suppression, and works down well in the spring. Less risk of disease spreading (aka moulds and mildews) and as a bonus buckwheat honey is delish!
I'm gonna have to try that when I move south!
Love to hear more about your life in Asia and working on the ship for 4 years.
Hi Anna
Nearly all our cows were milked by machine but occasionally we would have to strip a cow of milk by hand. It seemed as girls my sister and I got this job, very hard on the hands. I really liked the calves poor little innocent things. We also had plenty of horses which i loved and rode almost every day.
Thanks so much for your reply.
Ashleigh 💖
Just make sure to add the right amount of stabilizer everyone. I rebuild and clean carbs of those who add to much and it gums the gas bad and clogs the carb FYI.
Very good point. There are clear mixing directions on the side of the bottle ;)
Hi Anne I grew up on a farm my father was a dairy farmer. Where I live in south east Victoria it is cold through our winter (no snow though) as a girl I loved the farm and all the animals. We milked about 500 dairy cows. Although I have lived all my married life in a town your video reminds me so much of my farm life as a girl growing up on the farm. Well done.
Ashleigh 💖
Thanks for all your kind words Ashleigh! I can't wait to get a milk cow :)
thank you Anne
You are absolutely amazing!!!!!!!!!!! Your knowledge and your passion is incredible. Your videos are one of the best on RUclips. Keep up the amazing work!!!!!!!!!!!! I admire you.
Wow thanks so much! I'm so glad you find them helpful!
Hi Anne, It is great to see all the effort you put into your property and livestock, obviously you will take your livestock with you to the new location, but it must be hard to leave all those fruit trees behind just as they start to show signs of giving you a harvest. You have put so much work into making your land and fields work properly and drain well that I hope you find the right buyer who is going to look after all your hard work. I hope you get the location you want and continue to produce videos of the same high standard as we have become accustomed to.
It’s definitely hard, but there is hope of doing things even bigger and better at the new place, so I think it will all work out just fine.
Once the fuel systems are treated, its most helpful to run the engines or drain the fuel out of carbs.
I run the last month of Stabil'd non-ethenol gas, and I also use battery tenders.
Either will work, but make sure you do one of them. This ethanol fuel can destroy a carb in as little as 2 weeks.
Love the old chevy truck 54? Use your old oil mix 50-50 with bar oil
Thank You Anne.
Great video as always Anne! Thanks for sharing them with us.👍👌😎JP
I absolutely love this young lady. videos are always so informative .
Thanks so much for that!
Fantastic advice Anne! As always a great video!
Thank you!
Your animals love you back
Thank you.
I have been using Stabil for years and it is fantastic. Great video, Anne. I used to have goats and miss the milking. Gotta love the NW year round gardening opportunities. Greenhouse helps for greens when it gets too wet out there.
The year round gardening is definitely a huge plus!!
Anne of all trades: the result of that is a small smattering of a lot of different squashes and pumpkins
*gestures towards a wheelbarrow full of vegitables*
Hahaha in truth there were over 500.
Anne, the best thing to do on small engines like chain saw and the like is to start the engine and let it run for a few minutes to warm up then simply drain the tank and restart the engine and let it run until it stops by itself using all the gas in the carb and lines. Add Sabil to the gas can like you say. I have been doing this for years. Add your gas in the Spring, prime a little and she starts right up
Michael Ford any worry of seals being dried out from running it dry and letting it sit?
Well I don’t think so. I’ve never had any issues of seals drying out. I did a little research and you seem to be right. It’s not a good idea to run it dry. A senior engineer says it could damage the engine so I’ll agree with Anne to add stabilizer so I’ll do that this year, thanks 😊
Michael Ford stabilizer is ok, but problem I see common is people add to much and it turns to gel in the carburetor, then I have to tear the carb apart. Just an fyi for anyone that cares. Nice talking with you Mike.
TheInvisibleOne yeah I’ll bet. It’s like 1 oz to 16 gal of gas right? Ppl need to follow directions although you know that when you buy something and gotta assemble it, the first thing real men do is toss the instructions 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤙🏻🤙🏻
I'm usually the first one to throw instructions in the trash, but these ones are important ;)
I’m exhausted just thinking about winterizing.
I would like to see more recipes, thanks for your content!
What a super helpful video (as always)! I can hear my to do list growing haha. Thanks Anne!
Hahaha good work is never done :)
I'll have to try that long term rust inhibiter. Seems like most of the rust on my stuff has occurred during the winter months when it's out of sight and out of mind. Easier to prevent than to remove.
Never ending job, but you most certainly get out what you put in, and then some. 👍🏽
Looks super healthy and nutritious, far cry from when you started this adventure. 👌🏽
There’s been a biiiiiig change here and you can literally taste it in the stuff we’ve been growing.
@@AnneofAllTrades
Yes! It's amazing how much it changes and becomes more flavoursome, once you get the soil at its optimal state. People who don't garden, look at you as though you're telling fibs, until they taste your home grown foods... 👍🏽😉
Thanks for the info Anne! 😃👍🏻👊🏻
Fred, you're the bestest!
Thank you so much! Just got into gardening the last couple years 😃 ....but I struggle with learning tool and engine maintenance. Do you have any videos on those for basic farm/ lawn equipment? If not then I think it would be a fun niche to fill 😁
I do, the videos on chainsaws apply to all small equipment ;) also my atv video has some good insight for small vehicles
@@AnneofAllTrades sweet! Will definitely check 'em out. Thank you for all your videos and sharing what you've learned 💫
Work work work, enjoy all the fruits of your labor.. Sounds like you have more work when you move to a much larger farm.. It will keep you young and strong, lets hope.. Good Luck with everything.
Good thing I've never been scared of work ;)
Anne of All Trades You’re definitely NOT LAZY. Definitely Keeps you in shape..
It's good to see you sharing what you have learned. Are you going to see if some of the more exotic vegetables you have will grow in Tennessee. This would be a great learning experience. Also homesteading is alot more adventurous than farming. More trial and error. And yes, grew up on 600+ac farm. Would rather do homesteading any day. Thanks Anne Of All Trades.
Oh there is gonna be a lot of really fun new adventures gardening in TN, hotter peppers, better okra, finally some melons! I'm very excited.
i live in north west ohio and it gets very cold in the winter. my neighbors friends and i used sta-bil in our roto tillers motor cycles lawn mowers etc.etc. and we learned the hard way that it doesnt work well with the new gas formulas. in the spring we were doing lots of carb. clean outs and even rebuilds. i no longer use it and instead i run the tank dry and loosen the drain on the bottom of the carbs fuel bowl. i wont recommend it.
Are you sure you used fresh product and the proper ratios? I’ve never had an issue. I’ve heard about carb problems, but only as a result of using improper mixing ratios.
Hola
HEY! False advertising!!! You promised a link in the comments below for all the goat cuteness we can handle... Where is it? 🤣
GAH! I'm so sorry. Here you go: ruclips.net/video/rGGs_iczJ3U/видео.html
@@AnneofAllTrades You're right! Way too much cuteness. Do all baby goats leap like that?
Anna, you are a wealth of knowledge and experience, thank you for sharing. How was your Halloween??♥️
Thanks so much! It was just like every other Halloween, spent hibernating in the house with the lights off and a roaring fire in the fireplace, and to bed before 9pm.
Are you still moving? Kinda hope you stay because you have done so much work. But new things can be good also.
We definitely are still moving, but will be here for a little bit wrapping things up. The new place will have lots of projects too, don't you worry!
Good info👍👍👍👍
Thanks Gib!!
My 5 year old daughter Emilia loves to sing your theme song.
Awww I love that! It’s an awesome anthem for a young girl to sing! If you want to hear the rest, check out Delta Rae on Spotify ;)
I live in Florida and have no farm animals or gas-powered tools. Absolutely zero of this applies to me, but I loved watching the video anyway. :P
hahaha! well I'm so glad you liked it!
Will you transplant some of your raspberries to TN?
I hope to! I'm not sure how well they will do there, but it's worth a shot.
Do you ever harvest your goats for meat? Just a wondering. Personally I love grilled goat! Sausage from goat meat is good too.
I never have, we raise dairy goats which are probably a little small for that. I ate a lot of goat and mutton when I lived in Asia though.
Nice video Anna 2 cycle don't have to winter rise
I've found that not winterizing smaller engines leads to a much much shorter lifespan.
Not for 2 cycle 4 cycle yes
golden raspberries are nummy.
They really are. Such a unique flavor!
Umm, I just make sure the grass is tidy and ...... err ....... err ...... oh yeah, leave it to itself 😳 I feel really lazy now LOL
ha! No need to feel lazy, in all honesty, part of why I got animals was so I had to mow less!
@@AnneofAllTrades Brilliant!!! LOL
on the upside you wont have to do some of this in nashvill ;)
Maybe, but Nashville winters are actually a little colder than our winters here, they are just shorter ;)
What in the world do you do with al that produce Anne? DO you sell it? It seems more than two people could ever use in a year. I figure you can and freeze but that looks like a huge garden area.
I give a whole lot of it away :)
is that you singing about getting your hands dirty at the beginning of the video, mam?
Hi Anne. Your farm seems to produce so much. Fruit, vegetables, fur, wool eggs milk. Do you find use for it all or do you turn around and sell some of it at farmers markets and have a money producing farm?
It does produce quite a lot! I give away what we can't use.
What a great video! I need to do some of these things myself. It has already been below freezing here in south Missouri.
I also wanted to let you know that the link to your hoodie is not working. I love your hoodies!
Unfortunately Naketano, the maker, went out of business. Supposedly a new company is making them now, but I've yet to see them in person.
If you are selling the farm, why prepare the farm for the next growing season?
Because I want to give the next owners a head start on the season.
Who's on the menu for Christmas, the goat or the big chicken?
The goats are dairy goats, and we’ve actually rehomed all our birds except my breeding stock with the pending move.
Where do you get your work pants?
From Dovetail Workwear!
Is winter the best time to move raspberry offshotos? We have a bunch that popped up in a more shaded area that looked like they were reaching for sun. Can we move those while dormant in the winter?
spring is a little better, because they don't like their roots exposed to cold, but raspberries are pretty dang resilient.
@@AnneofAllTrades Thanks for the advice! We'll shoot for spring then.
My wife and I live in north Alabama wanted to ask when you will be moving to Tennessee would love to come and see your place if you allow that thanks for the videos
We aren't sure when we will move quite yet, it's dependent on the sale of our property here! Thanks for the warm welcomes to the area! We can't wait to get there.
Do you dehorn your goats
We do disbud them if they are born here, as we once had a goat get a horn caught in the fence and subsequently ripped off creating a life threatening infection. So for their own safety, and ours, it's become standard practice.
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I'm gonna be living just south of you in middle TN. Are you going to grow fruit trees? I haven't had much luck here in TN due to a blight that destroys a lot of the fruit. Maybe I'm not spraying at the right time. Idk
I will be planting a pretty large orchard, yes! I'm sure it will be an adjustment between here and there growing wise, but I've never sprayed my trees here, if they struggle, I look for the root cause (no pun intended) and it's usually the soil. Fixing the soil makes much more pest and disease resistant trees.
Who worries about winteriing in when you are moving? Seriously. Not hating. Love your content!
It’s extra important this year because we won’t have opportunity to use any of the tools until spring in Nashville, and ironically, Nashville winters are actually colder than our winters here. Furthermore, Isaac and I actually did a lot of this prep (like chopping the firewood) before we knew we would be moving. Plus side is, we get to leave an even better prepared winter homestead to the new owners.
probably recorded this before they announced the move
@@AnneofAllTrades awesome!
Stan Ervin when I sold my first house (with greenhouse) people thought I was crazy because I was still planting and tending things in the greenhouse as the sale was proceeding. It was bittersweet, knowing that I wouldn’t benefit from the work, but it served two purposes for me. A.) it was like therapy during the craziest up-rooting time in my life, to get away from the chaos of packing up our lives inside and be in tune with the rhythms of nature & getting my hands dirty. And b.) it was a kindness to the people who were buying my home because once they moved it it was going to be past the planting season and if I hadn’t planted a few things for them they would have had to wait another year to utilize that space the way we built it to be used.
Sorry for the lengthy answer (in addition to Anne’s) but I hope it adds to the understanding of why.
You talk alot hahaha