@Hollar Homestead I was able to tell our Amish nursery about your video on biochar today. He was so fascinated by it and will be using it this year in his gardens. Just wanted to share that with y’all.
I have been watching homesteading channels for many years but i am so glad you have stayed true to what homesteading is. others have gotten as big as their channels and they no longer have the same spirit they had when they started. Keep being you, please, we need it
I love the hams hanging from the ceiling. Very Euro. When I was in Croatia, a lot of houses had an extra story on top with both sides open to hang hams, laundry, herbs to protect them from rain and storms while letting breezes from each end cure or dry them. I always thought that was awesome.
Totally agree with slowly about your double digging and amending heavy clay soil. The only thing missing in the kitchen is dried herbs, onions and garlic hanging next to the hams. Love your videos.
Please cover your hams with cheese cloth or muslin. It will allow air but keep the flies out. Need to build a small smoke house for storing/hanging meats.(in the winter when you have a little down time🤗). Thick walls keep it cool during the hottest summers. Make sure the hams in the cottage are not hanging so mice, rats,raccoons etc can get to them! I grew up on a small farm in NC. Love watching you guys!
I double dug all my flower beds when we moved into our first house, in our twenties. Added sand and peat and compost to our native clay. That soil stayed fluffy for twenty years. I added mulch every year, and that was it. It was still fluffy twenty years later, when we sold that house!
I love seeing a family enjoying time together and making stuff happen at the same time. What a great way to live. The only wrong way to garden is to not do it at all.
I just love the way you two work together.Youre great partners and have a whole team with the kids.Great example of working together for the benefit of the family and earth.Thank you two for Sharing the hard working wonderful experiences of your lives together with us.God bless you all!
Hey I totally agree w/your double dig method. Heavy clay soil properly amended & loosened is great stuff cause it still has good mineral content. And now your root crops have a chance to put down roots & grow unrestricted. Well done!
I agree 100% and if that system works for you why knock ✊ it. Obviously your family back and supports this system. I do think Justin’s new book 📖 covers everything including how he trains and grows the ROOTS of growing a good stable marriage and family. Seeing Justin with a second baby going on feeding, milking and all the farm chores -- that does my heart ♥️ good. God Bless and All my love, Ellen.
J'ai été guérie de multiples fibromes par le Dr Eseigbe sur you tube dont j'ai souffert pendant tant d'années et après tant d'opérations. vous pouvez également obtenir de l'aide de sa part, quel que soit le problème, je sais qu'il a une solution *
My husband helped me put up a 12-w x 20-L x 8-foot-tall metal garage to be used as a feeding station for my goats and where I can store their hay for the winter. With the ice we have had this winter the feeding shed was a blessing! We didn't install the front panels because I wanted it open on the inside of the goat's yard. With the metal panels we didn't use on the front of the feeding shed I cut them in half, length wise and screwed them to 4x4 posts the height of the panels and made raised beds with them. Last month I started collecting dead and decaying wood material from our woods to help fill up the beds. I have been gathering up composted leaves and soil from various areas of our property to finish filling the beds so I can plant in them. We also purchased a lawn Vac from DR Power so that when we mow, we collect the grass and leaves to be used as mulch and to turn into compost. Here in Cove, Arkansas our soil is clay and rock with lots of fire ants...! Topsoil is maybe 2-3 inches deep if that.
In Spain, certainly when I was there a few years ago, it was common to see bars festooned with hams hanging from the ceiling, each one with a plastic cone shaped drip collector screwed under the pointy bit of the base of the ham. I googled "whole jamon serrano hanging in a bar" images and there were loads of pictures.
So much activity everywhere to get gardens started. Love that you all work together the way it should be to make a strong family which is what your plan was to begin with!
That hanging in your kitchen will make a great conversation starter during the holidays. As for the "Old Man stash", when cleaning out my dad's workshop after he passed. We found a box of various as sundry screws, nuts, bolts, etc; with a label on top which read "Barely too good to through away".
This is what I do and I am 60 years old. I do it for 2-3 years until bed is full and fluffy. It is labor intensive. I just do one a day. The only difference in my method is that I put lots of leaves in the hole before all my compost and then the old beautiful black dirt back on top. They grow like crazy. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
It matters not "how others do it", looking at your fluffy, healthy soil is what matters! So many folks have very viable ways of doing things, none more right or less, it is simply about the best end result for the person "kissing the cow" 😂 (an old saying that I hope is not lost on you) I so enjoy you Hollars! Watching you do all the things that make you healthy, happy, and successful in your own way! 😊🙏💕
It would be so cool if you built a barn with a living area above where the boys can graduate to as they get older and want their own space. 2 birds 🐦 1 stone. Housing for animals and chiddlers!
J'ai été guérie de multiples fibromes par le Dr Eseigbe sur you tube dont j'ai souffert pendant tant d'années et après tant d'opérations. vous pouvez également obtenir de l'aide de sa part, quel que soit le problème, je sais qu'il a une solution *
I too have subscribed a long time ago to the Rhodes's channel. They are so very friendly and yes people are attracted to them. When possible they teach as an edutainer and people listen. And I am at 80 yrs. old in love with the daughter Lilly. Even when she was only 7 yrs. old she was milking the biggest animal on the farm and pulling a stool up to the stove to cook. I know that you folks are part of his inner circle and who knows you may be mentioned in his book.
J'ai été guérie de multiples fibromes par le Dr Eseigbe sur you tube dont j'ai souffert pendant tant d'années et après tant d'opérations. vous pouvez également obtenir de l'aide de sa part, quel que soit le problème, je sais qu'il a une solution *
You are cracking me up with the dead meat decor. Love it My 2 cents is walk on top of the dirt to squish it down a little. Thank you for explaining the rooted life. I know his channel well but for some reason I didn't get it. Or understand the content. Justin should for sure thank you. I will look into buying it now. I so wish I had an acre of land. It's my dream to have a homestead.
😢 All my gardens are under a foot of snow still 😢 BUT- I don’t have an empty window sill 😁😁😄. Just came in from walking Sorcha and my feet are FROZEN too. I’m enjoying your day though 😊👍
Yes, it was a lot of work, but you will not regret having double-dug the beds. I did it to mine, but also used hardware cloth to screen out stones and rocks. (Our area of Olympia is nothing but clay and glacial till!). Kudos! Best wishes, Kate
We use to have hams and sausages hanging in the kitchen farm curing . This was my grandma and grandpa farm in France , slicing at demand for lunches and supers. Enjoy your ham next year!!
These are the videos that needs to be shown! Life lessons are being made for all ages. Team work, family time, learning to prepare for food growing and so many more lessons I seen y’all teaching your kids and the viewers. Keep up what your doing, it’s truly Gods work!
I'm surprised that with all ur metal skills, u've never built one of those big squarish, metal frames for hanging pots and pans from the ceiling, over ur island. U could hang ur ham from it too. Great job how u guys do everything. Truly a thumbs up.
I got the itch today to dig around in dirt so I tore apart a corner of my front area and planted bulbs. This is just the start of a new look in my head I need more bulbs to honor some dearly missed cats I put out there. One cat decades ago gave me a surprise rose bush where I had placed him. All my other plants have to be in pots. I have that California clay crap. So in my head it’s a memorial to my furry pals.
God I just love you two! You set such a great example. You appreciate what you have and aren't suffering from the MORE syndrome. Always wanting MORE. Bigger or better. You have the ability to live a simple comfortable life and improve and build on the beautiful property that you have. Buggy is really showing some personality! She is a doll!!!
Just luv how u & ur wife has an awesome chemistry between each other. She’s always smiling and I see the glow u 2 have on ur face towards each other. I’m so glad y’all decided to work on ur marriage. Y’all are the only ones who know what works for ur family. Don’t listen to anyone unless u ask what they do that works for their families and u figure out what sounds good for u. Even though someone may live in the same area, that doesn’t mean it will work for u. Oh by the way, Thk u for ur bread recipe. Luv it.
I found y'all a few months ago (thank God). Lol I'm disabled so my gardening & preserving days are behind me. I would've made a great homesteader in my 20's. *sigh* Meg, you are such a pleasure to watch in your lil kitchen. Your family is blessed. My question for you is what are your kid's & your husband's names? I found Jack's & yours so far. Little beautiful Bug has another name, I'm sure. Lol Your double dug beds are amazing! Sending you light & love. Bless you all. 💕
I'm tired just watching you, but it's your choice 😃. I've never hung ham before, bummer it takes a year ugh. To bad about the house. Workshop/ maybe a small apartment up top ( just a thought) for when the twins want a little more privacy as the get older. Buggy is so adorable. Blessings to all. 😊🇱🇷
Hey Guys the best way to get rid of termites is a 1 gallon sprayer with 2 cups of 20 mule borax and filled with hot water spray under the house and all around the foundation and on each side 10-20 out bury a a piece of unprotected wood with just the top barely sticking up but before bury it soak it in the same mixture as above. I live In SC and this has work for me going on 20 + years now. this was giving to me by an old Farmer that knew his stuff.
Double digging, makes the soil light, airy, and perfect. There's no right, or wrong way of mixing the soil. If you're getting it done, and you like it....then it's perfect. This afternoon, I picked up compost from a local farmer friend, and will need to add it to my raised beds, along with some more peat, and till each garden box to make sure all is mixed well.. I'm just waiting for the ground to dry a bit. There's a little evidence left of snow...and plenty of sloppy red clay. Once it dries, I'll be able to get up to the garden boxes and get them ready for veggie seeds, challots, asparagus, and strawberries. I've also started seeds(tomatoes, peppers, and some medicinal flowers inside my house, and put the grow lights, and heating pads up on them. Have you started seeds early? How about sweet potatoes slips this year?
We added on to our house when we were little and a large pile of dirt was left in our backyard! We played for hours on that,and little roads and villages! Have you thought of adding on a big front porch across the whole front side of your mobile home by the trees? I would surely do that,give you a big porch and screen in an area as a sleeping porch in the summer for all of you! I've always dreamed of a sleeping screened in porch!
Let people comment away. It was great to watch, the soil looks very rich. I’m in Australia and currently every where on the east coast is flooding. I’m up high on a hill but my garden is on steroids, my beetroot is bigger than baseballs and the radishes as almost as big. But sadly my carrots are warped and funky shaped. Absolutely loved seeing your son playing with Buggy. Love buggy.
I'm not even sure how I came across your channel, but I am homesteading vicariously through your family! My area has restrictions on having chickens and my neighborhood restricts fencing, which limits even planting opportunities. I've been doing what little I can and being thwarted by squirrels so for the time being I've decided my next best course of action is to support local farmers at the farmers market. Love your channel and I've really been enjoying your journey.
Ben, awesome work on the garden,..........And Meg.......due to your fabulous recommendation for Justin's book, I just ordered it....I am a (fun ) 72 yr old OLD Goat !!!! I am living a portion of my viewing pleasures through The Hollar Homestead, Rhodes, Sow the Land, Stoney Ridge Farmer, Wild Wonderful Off Grid, Lumnah Acres, Life Uncontaoned, Outdoors with the Morgans, Martin Johnson, and Coghill Farm...Y'all are my youtube family and I so appreciate each and everyone of y'all.....Many, many blessings...
I'd like to know the outcome of the worm and microbe content with the double dig versus no-dig. Another vlog on the subject at harvest time perhaps? Good stuff. Love the hams..
Ben! Primitive Tech is back, put up a vid today! know you like them too thought I'd pass along in case you missed it! Happy Proscuitto! its okay to tear down when the building isn't worth repairing. seriously!
I do love your videos - for such a long time now they have been my first video to watch as soon as I spot them. My thumb accidentally hit the dislike button and I was almost sick - sooo not my intention just arthritic thumb mistake. Love love love them and love seeing the family growing and the farm growing - thanks so much for sharing - even to Australia!
I'm so glad you answered the farmhouse question because I've always wondered why you didn't use it as a soap shop or guest space. I hadn't realized it had termites 😓 Would you ever consider tearing it down and putting a pre-built shed in its place for Bumblewood and extra canning storage?
Don't forget to cover the cut end of your prosciutto with lard mixed with red and black pepper to keep the bugs out. Traditionally you wash it with vinegar and then cover the cut end. Good curing.
Interesting!!I grew up on a sheep farm in the 80s. We cured sheep “ham” ( I don’t know what you call cured sheep leg/butt 😂) we let them hang on hooks from the ceiling in a unused bedroom on the second floor. Covered the windows with thin curtains and nets. My grandfather said that the meat should stay out off strong sunlight. The legs hung in loose linen or cotton bags to protect them from bugs. We never covered with anything else that I can remember. I’m not sure that hanging meat to cure in a kitchen is the best thing ,as there is a lot of steam and food smells that can taint the curing meat.
Wonderful that you got to hang your hams! Thanks for explaining the double dig for the raised beds. Buggy is a handful right now. I was surprised she was embarrased about her dancing being caught on the camera. The boys are so helpful. I'm excited for you guys getting the garden started. Yay Spring! Too bad the farmhouse is pretty much a loss. It's good that you can use it for somethings right now. That raised bed looks wonderful. Thanks for this Hollars!
I will be 72 in a few months and I started double digging just about 5 or 6 years ago. I turn over the soil in early spring. Spread fertilizer all over it and turn it all over again. Since then I have not seen any tomato worms. It is hard work, but worth it. Good job!
For me? You two & the brood are smashing the Rhodes. His chanel has become just advertising his book & App. You people DO stuff. Interesting stuff. I still do Jack's crock pot chicken every few weeks & the bread recipe is super. I double dig my plot every 5 seasons. Thank you Guys. You are the 'Beautiful People '
Looks like fun fam time! Baby sister dancing with Mom, so cute! Then big bro riding her in that truck lol. For some reason she reminds me of John Wayne in that movie calling Katherine Hepburn(?) sister lol. He had to get her safely across the country and she was spunky the whole way lol. The raised beds look fantastic! Seems like back in the day they built smoke houses for the meat to cure in. I think it would be a good idea to use some lumber from the old house to add onto the trailer. Trailer is all new wood. ✌🏻
Timely video! We are adding some in ground garden beds this year and we have very heavy clay soil and have been contemplating doing the double dig method. We will definitely give it a try! Thank you! ♥️👍🙏🇺🇸🤓
Use your body scale! I remember double-dug when we had a house in the desert. It was the best soil in the neighborhood after we got through. Love seeing your videos. Miss you guys when you don't post for a while. I know life comes first, but your videos are truly inspiring for me.
We put them in a dry cellar, hung in a screened (3 sidesat least) cupboard or at least a muslin or cloth bag over it. If the look of it is not your preference. And keeps out any insects.
The kitchen above the island is the perfect place to hang your Prosciutto. You will see them all the time so any problems will be spotted quickly. The Italians & Spanish use a metal cup with a spike above it that is pushed into the bottom of the leg.
As you were talking about your courting days, I remembered a recent conversation with my husband. We were cleaning out my 3 metre x 1.5 metre aviary, I breed budgies and cockatiels, it hadn't been cleaned for months. It has been raining non-stop here in Sydney Australia and my aviary stank. Sunday afternoon I was digging up the crap (!) into a bucket, passing it out through the door to Dave, who emptied it into the garden recycling bin. It was pouring rain, he stood under a sun umbrella to stay dry, I was ankle deep in muck and he said that this was a good first date activity! Any girl who'd last through the stench and muck was worth knowing, 30 years of marriage and we have the best dates! 😆
Great job enriching your garden soil. Your soil was packed red clay when you moved to the property and you have done an amazing job transforming your garden soil. 👍👍👍
The soil keeps looking better and better, don't argue with success, like you said you aren't going to do this every year forever. The prosciutto hanging isn't weird, what's weird is there isn't any hard salami or provolone hanging there also. I grew up in Brooklyn in an Italian neighborhood, there were salumerias all over with all kinds of things hanging. Oh and the smells, and the fresh mozzarella in water on the counter, and the smoked mozzarella too, and....
I have surely enjoyed your videos. I have also enjoyed your children, they are a breath of fresh air. It is very refreshing seeing them helping on the homestead, young folks this day and time seems so disinterested in helping, but your children are very impressive. thanks for sharing with all of us.
J'ai été guérie de multiples fibromes par le Dr Eseigbe sur you tube dont j'ai souffert pendant tant d'années et après tant d'opérations. vous pouvez également obtenir de l'aide de sa part, quel que soit le problème, je sais qu'il a une solution *
Did that method for 20 years then I rented a rototiller for then next 20 years n then for the next 20 years all I needed was ahand trowel or take .. n loved the loamy soil I made out of grey clay ground that I started with ...used sorgum ALSO. !!! Thank for walk down memory lane.....Bless Ya'll
My joy would be able to meet you both,I enjoy learning from you both and remembering the things I did with my Grandma and Grandpa when I was young. Thank you both for the wonderful remembers. 😊
I usually double dig new beds too. My grandpa taught me to water it like I had planted it and get any weeds from the seed bank to germinate - then terminate them and cycle that way once or twice more. Then last frost rolls by and you're good to go. Thanks for the videos.
Wow! I so envy youse To see such a beautiful day an no snow. Here in Ontario for all of February it snowed every day. We got snow up to my hip in most places an cold. Cant wait to see grass again an start my garden. Your hams are going to be the bomb. Wish i was there to try it. Wish i was your neighbor so u could teach me the things youse do. Love watching for vlog s. Well keep on watching.
I did wonder what you were going to do with the old farm house but pulling it down and giving Meg a soap shack sounds good. And while I was watching you double dig your beds I was looking at the back of your Mobile home are you ever going to put a deck on the back of it
The lumber prices are out of this world right now. Ben has milled his own wood but it has to dry out for a bit before he could build a deck with it. They have other priorities too. I'm sure it'll happen.
I just got my book today. First thing I did was open it to see if he signed it. ☹️ Nope. That's okay. I've waited a long time for this book💞 and so very happy to have it!
I did the same thing with a bed in my garden. I hired a guy with a rototiller for an afternoon after trying to do it myself. Such good results and so many worms. Almost time to go at it again. First, I have to rearrange the chicken coop and rabbit pens. Small apartment backyard farm.
Double digging is awesome and the only thing that matters is that it works for you. It is a great way to get your soil improved really fast and it is just going to get better every year. You need a greenhouse.
It is labor intensive, but it does have good results. I have double dug many a garden bed...especially great when you are just starting out, or when your beds have been worked pretty hard for a few years. I wouldn't want to do it every year, but then, I'm old, cranky, and everything hurts. When you are still young and energetic enough, there's something theraputic about it.
Just add another level of boards around those fluffy beds. Having taller beds is amazing! You won't be disappointed to not bend over as far! Weeding if any is SO easy!
If you don't get good crops after that tried and tested double dig then you never will. I am retired and that was the method my Dad taught me and his Dad taught him. Who needs a gym when you have a veg plot to tend to. Thanks for posting
Here in Portugal it's still very normal to hang a pigs leg. (Presunto) as we call it, if you are in country, and also sausages (Chouriços), it makes me happy to see you guys and Sow the land adopting those ways, and when its ready to eat it's amazing, just to think about it I have to go have some of mine😍
Looks great - up here in New England it is still mostly below freezing, and we still have a goodly layer of snow on the ground. Can't wait to start prepping my raised beds!!!
🙋🏼♀️🕊. Love watching you both work together.♥️. What you might do , is a shop for you… and a summer kitchen for Megan. Lots of luck 🍀 with your summer garden ……. Do It your way . Don’t mind what everyone else thinks ..we all have our own comfort zone.♥️🪴🪴🍀🦋 those boys are wonderful.. and that little ladybug 🐞. My daughter had two Big brothers. She will grow up being a girl that also thinks like a guy as well, and she is a grown woman now…💕🕊🦋💕🕊🦋
long winter HAHA we still have two feet of snow/ ice! Boy did we learn stuff this first winter!!!! KEEP UP WITH SNOW FALL.... KEEP PATHS OPEN. we are just starting to build raised beds. snow is hard to walk in! we sink every few steps!!! but do we love it here or WHAT???? finding places to buy dirt to fill beds is a chore being new. but i bought rabbits last Saturday that will actually live in tops of beds as we build them to prefertize! then at end of season chicks will eat and dig up whats left! chicks ARRIVED THIS MORNING!!!! and so the New Patch of Paradise Homestead has begun! i have seeds coming up in dining room next to chicks. a lilac on table doing great as it wakes up. never have grown one before. AND potato bags were planted yesterday! Saturday I put sweet potatoes in water and one has roots in FOUR DAYS!!! SO COOL. HAPPY ALMOST SPRING EVERYONE
So many things ...... 1. It's so cool that you even know HOW to hang prosciutto 😳 2. Ummm, where'd you get compost delivered from? 3. I spied The Foxfire Books behind you, those are my fave (probably bc I completely understand the vernacular) 🤔🤣 4. Ordering Justin's book bc I need all the help I can get 😵💫🥴 Thanks!
European transplant. Love the cured ham leg hanging in the kitchen. We always snuck a slice, when mother wasn't looking...Better snack than today's junk food
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@Hollar Homestead I was able to tell our Amish nursery about your video on biochar today. He was so fascinated by it and will be using it this year in his gardens. Just wanted to share that with y’all.
I have been watching homesteading channels for many years but i am so glad you have stayed true to what homesteading is. others have gotten as big as their channels and they no longer have the same spirit they had when they started. Keep being you, please, we need it
Ben...your little "shadow" must adore and idolize you; he is always hanging out with you. What a great bond.
I love the hams hanging from the ceiling. Very Euro. When I was in Croatia, a lot of houses had an extra story on top with both sides open to hang hams, laundry, herbs to protect them from rain and storms while letting breezes from each end cure or dry them. I always thought that was awesome.
My parents made their own sausages. We had 8 kids and hanging sausage everywhere. Upstairs, downstairs, basement. Life. Just life.
Need this today. Prayers for peace in the world.
Totally agree with slowly about your double digging and amending heavy clay soil. The only thing missing in the kitchen is dried herbs, onions and garlic hanging next to the hams. Love your videos.
And red peppers
Please cover your hams with cheese cloth or muslin. It will allow air but keep the flies out. Need to build a small smoke house for storing/hanging meats.(in the winter when you have a little down time🤗). Thick walls keep it cool during the hottest summers. Make sure the hams in the cottage are not hanging so mice, rats,raccoons etc can get to them! I grew up on a small farm in NC. Love watching you guys!
Consider wrapping in cheese cloth or cheap linen light and airy. Keeps flies from laying eggs on your beautiful pork!
I double dug all my flower beds when we moved into our first house, in our twenties. Added sand and peat and compost to our native clay. That soil stayed fluffy for twenty years. I added mulch every year, and that was it. It was still fluffy twenty years later, when we sold that house!
I love seeing a family enjoying time together and making stuff happen at the same time. What a great way to live. The only wrong way to garden is to not do it at all.
I just love the way you two work together.Youre great partners and have a whole team with the kids.Great example of working together for the benefit of the family and earth.Thank you two for Sharing the hard working wonderful experiences of your lives together with us.God bless you all!
Hey I totally agree w/your double dig method. Heavy clay soil properly amended & loosened is great stuff cause it still has good mineral content. And now your root crops have a chance to put down roots & grow unrestricted. Well done!
I agree 100% and if that system works for you why knock ✊ it. Obviously your family back and supports this system. I do think Justin’s new book 📖 covers everything including how he trains and grows the ROOTS of growing a good stable marriage and family. Seeing Justin with a second baby going on feeding, milking and all the farm chores -- that does my heart ♥️ good. God Bless and All my love, Ellen.
Clay requires extra
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My husband helped me put up a 12-w x 20-L x 8-foot-tall metal garage to be used as a feeding station for my goats and where I can store their hay for the winter. With the ice we have had this winter the feeding shed was a blessing! We didn't install the front panels because I wanted it open on the inside of the goat's yard. With the metal panels we didn't use on the front of the feeding shed I cut them in half, length wise and screwed them to 4x4 posts the height of the panels and made raised beds with them. Last month I started collecting dead and decaying wood material from our woods to help fill up the beds. I have been gathering up composted leaves and soil from various areas of our property to finish filling the beds so I can plant in them. We also purchased a lawn Vac from DR Power so that when we mow, we collect the grass and leaves to be used as mulch and to turn into compost. Here in Cove, Arkansas our soil is clay and rock with lots of fire ants...! Topsoil is maybe 2-3 inches deep if that.
🙋🏼♀️🕊good luck 🍀
In Spain, certainly when I was there a few years ago, it was common to see bars festooned with hams hanging from the ceiling, each one with a plastic cone shaped drip collector screwed under the pointy bit of the base of the ham. I googled "whole jamon serrano hanging in a bar" images and there were loads of pictures.
So much activity everywhere to get gardens started. Love that you all work together the way it should be to make a strong family which is what your plan was to begin with!
That hanging in your kitchen will make a great conversation starter during the holidays. As for the "Old Man stash", when cleaning out my dad's workshop after he passed. We found a box of various as sundry screws, nuts, bolts, etc; with a label on top which read "Barely too good to through away".
Love it!
This is what I do and I am 60 years old. I do it for 2-3 years until bed is full and fluffy. It is labor intensive. I just do one a day. The only difference in my method is that I put lots of leaves in the hole before all my compost and then the old beautiful black dirt back on top. They grow like crazy. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
If you want to remove the farmhouse, I recommend picking it apart to salvage whatever good materials are in it.
I can’t imagine Ben throwing away anything that might have even a minute chance of being useful.
That is the height of fashion & extremely good taste !!!!!!
It matters not "how others do it", looking at your fluffy, healthy soil is what matters! So many folks have very viable ways of doing things, none more right or less, it is simply about the best end result for the person "kissing the cow" 😂 (an old saying that I hope is not lost on you)
I so enjoy you Hollars! Watching you do all the things that make you healthy, happy, and successful in your own way! 😊🙏💕
Every Italian deli up north has these hanging everywhere. They hang cheese too.
When I was in Italy I found them hanging everywhere. Even in the Bologna Airport!
It would be so cool if you built a barn with a living area above where the boys can graduate to as they get older and want their own space. 2 birds 🐦 1 stone. Housing for animals and chiddlers!
There's lots of building material in that old house. If you build a shop you may have plenty to use. Great video!
Did you hear the bit about the termites?
J'ai été guérie de multiples fibromes par le Dr Eseigbe sur you tube dont j'ai souffert pendant tant d'années et après tant d'opérations. vous pouvez également obtenir de l'aide de sa part, quel que soit le problème, je sais qu'il a une solution *
I too have subscribed a long time ago to the Rhodes's channel. They are so very friendly and yes people are attracted to them. When possible they teach as an edutainer and people listen. And I am at 80 yrs. old in love with the daughter Lilly. Even when she was only 7 yrs. old she was milking the biggest animal on the farm and pulling a stool up to the stove to cook. I know that you folks are part of his inner circle and who knows you may be mentioned in his book.
I remember these hanging in kitchens in my younger years. In fact the ceilings all had permanent hooks for the job.💕💕🌻🌻
It is so fun to watch everyone in warmer climates getting ready for spring. Here in MI it is still to cold.
Where is M . ? I am from Milwaukee Wisconsin, but live in Arizona
@@bonniebarnekow1415 MI is Michigan
You've got that right Sister. Here in central MI, it will be in the sixties this weekend!
J'ai été guérie de multiples fibromes par le Dr Eseigbe sur you tube dont j'ai souffert pendant tant d'années et après tant d'opérations. vous pouvez également obtenir de l'aide de sa part, quel que soit le problème, je sais qu'il a une solution *
Same here way too cold in northern Canada as well. -20°C the other day. Brrrrr
hard work will pay out in the end! The beds will be easier to work from now on and yield a lot more. Good job stay safe all
You are cracking me up with the dead meat decor. Love it
My 2 cents is walk on top of the dirt to squish it down a little. Thank you for explaining the rooted life. I know his channel well but for some reason I didn't get it. Or understand the content. Justin should for sure thank you. I will look into buying it now. I so wish I had an acre of land. It's my dream to have a homestead.
Hey! If you can hang herbs, you can hang prosciutto!
😢 All my gardens are under a foot of snow still 😢
BUT- I don’t have an empty window sill 😁😁😄. Just came in from walking Sorcha and my feet are FROZEN too. I’m enjoying your day though 😊👍
Yes, it was a lot of work, but you will not regret having double-dug the beds. I did it to mine, but also used hardware cloth to screen out stones and rocks. (Our area of Olympia is nothing but clay and glacial till!). Kudos! Best wishes, Kate
We use to have hams and sausages hanging in the kitchen farm curing .
This was my grandma and grandpa farm in France , slicing at demand for lunches and supers.
Enjoy your ham next year!!
These are the videos that needs to be shown! Life lessons are being made for all ages. Team work, family time, learning to prepare for food growing and so many more lessons I seen y’all teaching your kids and the viewers. Keep up what your doing, it’s truly Gods work!
I'm surprised that with all ur metal skills, u've never built one of those big squarish, metal frames for hanging pots and pans from the ceiling, over ur island. U could hang ur ham from it too. Great job how u guys do everything. Truly a thumbs up.
I got the itch today to dig around in dirt so I tore apart a corner of my front area and planted bulbs. This is just the start of a new look in my head I need more bulbs to honor some dearly missed cats I put out there. One cat decades ago gave me a surprise rose bush where I had placed him. All my other plants have to be in pots. I have that California clay crap. So in my head it’s a memorial to my furry pals.
God I just love you two! You set such a great example. You appreciate what you have and aren't suffering from the MORE syndrome. Always wanting MORE. Bigger or better. You have the ability to live a simple comfortable life and improve and build on the beautiful property that you have. Buggy is really showing some personality! She is a doll!!!
Just luv how u & ur wife has an awesome chemistry between each other. She’s always smiling and I see the glow u 2 have on ur face towards each other. I’m so glad y’all decided to work on ur marriage. Y’all are the only ones who know what works for ur family. Don’t listen to anyone unless u ask what they do that works for their families and u figure out what sounds good for u. Even though someone may live in the same area, that doesn’t mean it will work for u. Oh by the way, Thk u for ur bread recipe. Luv it.
I found y'all a few months ago (thank God). Lol
I'm disabled so my gardening & preserving days are behind me. I would've made a great homesteader in my 20's. *sigh* Meg, you are such a pleasure to watch in your lil kitchen. Your family is blessed. My question for you is what are your kid's & your husband's names? I found Jack's & yours so far. Little beautiful Bug has another name, I'm sure. Lol
Your double dug beds are amazing! Sending you light & love. Bless you all. 💕
I'm tired just watching you, but it's your choice 😃. I've never hung ham before, bummer it takes a year ugh. To bad about the house. Workshop/ maybe a small apartment up top ( just a thought) for when the twins want a little more privacy as the get older. Buggy is so adorable. Blessings to all. 😊🇱🇷
Hey Guys the best way to get rid of termites is a 1 gallon sprayer with 2 cups of 20 mule borax and filled with hot water spray under the house and all around the foundation and on each side 10-20 out bury a a piece of unprotected wood with just the top barely sticking up but before bury it soak it in the same mixture as above. I live In SC and this has work for me going on 20 + years now. this was giving to me by an old Farmer that knew his stuff.
That's great to know. thanks for sharing.
Double digging, makes the soil light, airy, and perfect. There's no right, or wrong way of mixing the soil. If you're getting it done, and you like it....then it's perfect. This afternoon, I picked up compost from a local farmer friend, and will need to add it to my raised beds, along with some more peat, and till each garden box to make sure all is mixed well.. I'm just waiting for the ground to dry a bit. There's a little evidence left of snow...and plenty of sloppy red clay. Once it dries, I'll be able to get up to the garden boxes and get them ready for veggie seeds, challots, asparagus, and strawberries. I've also started seeds(tomatoes, peppers, and some medicinal flowers inside my house, and put the grow lights, and heating pads up on them. Have you started seeds early? How about sweet potatoes slips this year?
Pray you one day can build a beautiful pole building!!
YOU AND YOUR FAMILY DO AN AWESOME JOB ON YOUR HOMESTED DOING ANIMALS AND GARDENING AND ALL
We added on to our house when we were little and a large pile of dirt was left in our backyard! We played for hours on that,and little roads and villages! Have you thought of adding on a big front porch across the whole front side of your mobile home by the trees? I would surely do that,give you a big porch and screen in an area as a sleeping porch in the summer for all of you! I've always dreamed of a sleeping screened in porch!
Let people comment away. It was great to watch, the soil looks very rich. I’m in Australia and currently every where on the east coast is flooding. I’m up high on a hill but my garden is on steroids, my beetroot is bigger than baseballs and the radishes as almost as big. But sadly my carrots are warped and funky shaped. Absolutely loved seeing your son playing with Buggy. Love buggy.
Can't add enough good stuff to that Carolina clay. Can't wait for the fancy ham.
I'm not even sure how I came across your channel, but I am homesteading vicariously through your family! My area has restrictions on having chickens and my neighborhood restricts fencing, which limits even planting opportunities. I've been doing what little I can and being thwarted by squirrels so for the time being I've decided my next best course of action is to support local farmers at the farmers market. Love your channel and I've really been enjoying your journey.
Great job. Well done
Ben, awesome work on the garden,..........And Meg.......due to your fabulous recommendation for Justin's book, I just ordered it....I am a (fun ) 72 yr old OLD Goat !!!! I am living a portion of my viewing pleasures through The Hollar Homestead, Rhodes, Sow the Land, Stoney Ridge Farmer, Wild Wonderful Off Grid, Lumnah Acres, Life Uncontaoned, Outdoors with the Morgans, Martin Johnson, and Coghill Farm...Y'all are my youtube family and I so appreciate each and everyone of y'all.....Many, many blessings...
I'd like to know the outcome of the worm and microbe content with the double dig versus no-dig. Another vlog on the subject at harvest time perhaps? Good stuff. Love the hams..
Ben! Primitive Tech is back, put up a vid today! know you like them too thought I'd pass along in case you missed it! Happy Proscuitto! its okay to tear down when the building isn't worth repairing. seriously!
Oh sweet! The kids were looking at the channel last week and wondering what happened to him. ~ Meg
@@TheHollarHomestead I know, that channel is addictive, I even bought his book which is illustrated, etc. Hope he does more soon! Much Love! ZenHugs!
I do love your videos - for such a long time now they have been my first video to watch as soon as I spot them.
My thumb accidentally hit the dislike button and I was almost sick - sooo not my intention just arthritic thumb mistake. Love love love them and love seeing the family growing and the farm growing - thanks so much for sharing - even to Australia!
Hit the button again quick....I think it clears it!
I'm so glad you answered the farmhouse question because I've always wondered why you didn't use it as a soap shop or guest space. I hadn't realized it had termites 😓 Would you ever consider tearing it down and putting a pre-built shed in its place for Bumblewood and extra canning storage?
Don't forget to cover the cut end of your prosciutto with lard mixed with red and black pepper to keep the bugs out. Traditionally you wash it with vinegar and then cover the cut end. Good curing.
Interesting!!I grew up on a sheep farm in the 80s. We cured sheep “ham” ( I don’t know what you call cured sheep leg/butt 😂) we let them hang on hooks from the ceiling in a unused bedroom on the second floor.
Covered the windows with thin curtains and nets. My grandfather said that the meat should stay out off strong sunlight.
The legs hung in loose linen or cotton bags to protect them from bugs.
We never covered with anything else that I can remember.
I’m not sure that hanging meat to cure in a kitchen is the best thing ,as there is a lot of steam and food smells that can taint the curing meat.
@@malina1239 I thought the same thing about the kitchen.
Wonderful that you got to hang your hams! Thanks for explaining the double dig for the raised beds. Buggy is a handful right now. I was surprised she was embarrased about her dancing being caught on the camera. The boys are so helpful. I'm excited for you guys getting the garden started. Yay Spring! Too bad the farmhouse is pretty much a loss. It's good that you can use it for somethings right now. That raised bed looks wonderful. Thanks for this Hollars!
I will be 72 in a few months and I started double digging just about 5 or 6 years ago. I turn over the soil in early spring. Spread fertilizer all over it and turn it all over again. Since then I have not seen any tomato worms. It is hard work, but worth it. Good job!
A restaurant we go to hang their hams in something like a hutch. That way it has screens on the doors to help keep bugs off the meat while it's curing
For me?
You two & the brood are smashing the Rhodes. His chanel has become just advertising his book & App.
You people DO stuff. Interesting stuff.
I still do Jack's crock pot chicken every few weeks & the bread recipe is super.
I double dig my plot every 5 seasons.
Thank you Guys. You are the 'Beautiful People '
In Little Italy ,NY They hung them in the shop after having them hang in the back, after drying stored and we got to see it cure for the entire year
Looks like fun fam time! Baby sister dancing with Mom, so cute! Then big bro riding her in that truck lol. For some reason she reminds me of John Wayne in that movie calling Katherine Hepburn(?) sister lol. He had to get her safely across the country and she was spunky the whole way lol. The raised beds look fantastic! Seems like back in the day they built smoke houses for the meat to cure in. I think it would be a good idea to use some lumber from the old house to add onto the trailer. Trailer is all new wood. ✌🏻
Timely video! We are adding some in ground garden beds this year and we have very heavy clay soil and have been contemplating doing the double dig method. We will definitely give it a try!
Thank you!
♥️👍🙏🇺🇸🤓
It is very hard work but only needs doing once.
Use your body scale!
I remember double-dug when we had a house in the desert. It was the best soil in the neighborhood after we got through.
Love seeing your videos. Miss you guys when you don't post for a while. I know life comes first, but your videos are truly inspiring for me.
Looking forward to seeing the new gardens grow and blossom great things ! 😊👍💕💕💕
We put them in a dry cellar, hung in a screened (3 sidesat least) cupboard or at least a muslin or cloth bag over it. If the look of it is not your preference. And keeps out any insects.
The kitchen above the island is the perfect place to hang your Prosciutto. You will see them all the time so any problems will be spotted quickly. The Italians & Spanish use a metal cup with a spike above it that is pushed into the bottom of the leg.
That was a interesting process with the beds. I understand lots of labor involved but if you only have to do it once it's not that big of a deal.
As you were talking about your courting days, I remembered a recent conversation with my husband. We were cleaning out my 3 metre x 1.5 metre aviary, I breed budgies and cockatiels, it hadn't been cleaned for months. It has been raining non-stop here in Sydney Australia and my aviary stank. Sunday afternoon I was digging up the crap (!) into a bucket, passing it out through the door to Dave, who emptied it into the garden recycling bin. It was pouring rain, he stood under a sun umbrella to stay dry, I was ankle deep in muck and he said that this was a good first date activity! Any girl who'd last through the stench and muck was worth knowing, 30 years of marriage and we have the best dates! 😆
Great job enriching your garden soil. Your soil was packed red clay when you moved to the property and you have done an amazing job transforming your garden soil. 👍👍👍
The soil keeps looking better and better, don't argue with success, like you said you aren't going to do this every year forever. The prosciutto hanging isn't weird, what's weird is there isn't any hard salami or provolone hanging there also. I grew up in Brooklyn in an Italian neighborhood, there were salumerias all over with all kinds of things hanging. Oh and the smells, and the fresh mozzarella in water on the counter, and the smoked mozzarella too, and....
I have surely enjoyed your videos. I have also enjoyed your children, they are a breath of fresh air. It is very refreshing seeing them helping on the homestead, young folks this day and time seems so disinterested in helping, but your children are very impressive. thanks for sharing with all of us.
You do what's best for you. It works for you period!
Growing that soil! 👍👍
Meg, the decorating trend setter...next we'll all have food hanging from the ceiling!!!!-
I hope so!!
I have food hanging from the ceiling, however it happens to be a banana hanger and some onions in a basket.
If you hang them over the sink they can drip? Might be too much moisture though.
J'ai été guérie de multiples fibromes par le Dr Eseigbe sur you tube dont j'ai souffert pendant tant d'années et après tant d'opérations. vous pouvez également obtenir de l'aide de sa part, quel que soit le problème, je sais qu'il a une solution *
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I think what you're doing there is fabulous. Count your blessings that neither you or your spouse have to work outside the home.
Did that method for 20 years then I rented a rototiller for then next 20 years n then for the next 20 years all I needed was ahand trowel or take .. n loved the loamy soil I made out of grey clay ground that I started with ...used sorgum ALSO. !!! Thank for walk down memory lane.....Bless Ya'll
You guys are the real thing. Love your homestead heart.
My joy would be able to meet you both,I enjoy learning from you both and remembering the things I did with my Grandma and Grandpa when I was young. Thank you both for the wonderful remembers. 😊
I usually double dig new beds too. My grandpa taught me to water it like I had planted it and get any weeds from the seed bank to germinate - then terminate them and cycle that way once or twice more. Then last frost rolls by and you're good to go. Thanks for the videos.
Wow! I so envy youse
To see such a beautiful day an no snow.
Here in Ontario for all of February it snowed every day. We got snow up to my hip in most places an cold.
Cant wait to see grass again an start my garden.
Your hams are going to be the bomb. Wish i was there to try it.
Wish i was your neighbor so u could teach me the things youse do.
Love watching for vlog s.
Well keep on watching.
I did wonder what you were going to do with the old farm house but pulling it down and giving Meg a soap shack sounds good. And while I was watching you double dig your beds I was looking at the back of your Mobile home are you ever going to put a deck on the back of it
The lumber prices are out of this world right now. Ben has milled his own wood but it has to dry out for a bit before he could build a deck with it. They have other priorities too. I'm sure it'll happen.
I just got my book today. First thing I did was open it to see if he signed it. ☹️ Nope. That's okay. I've waited a long time for this book💞 and so very happy to have it!
I'm pretty sure Justin said that if you let him know, he would send you a signed sticker to put in your book, to make it a signed copy.
I did the same thing with a bed in my garden. I hired a guy with a rototiller for an afternoon after trying to do it myself. Such good results and so many worms. Almost time to go at it again.
First, I have to rearrange the chicken coop and rabbit pens. Small apartment backyard farm.
That was some cool garden bed turning. I swear I could smell that wonderful dirt! 🥰
Amazing JOB
Double digging is awesome and the only thing that matters is that it works for you. It is a great way to get your soil improved really fast and it is just going to get better every year. You need a greenhouse.
It is labor intensive, but it does have good results. I have double dug many a garden bed...especially great when you are just starting out, or when your beds have been worked pretty hard for a few years. I wouldn't want to do it every year, but then, I'm old, cranky, and everything hurts. When you are still young and energetic enough, there's something theraputic about it.
Just add another level of boards around those fluffy beds. Having taller beds is amazing! You won't be disappointed to not bend over as far! Weeding if any is SO easy!
If you don't get good crops after that tried and tested double dig then you never will. I am retired and that was the method my Dad taught me and his Dad taught him. Who needs a gym when you have a veg plot to tend to. Thanks for posting
Here in Portugal it's still very normal to hang a pigs leg. (Presunto) as we call it, if you are in country, and also sausages (Chouriços), it makes me happy to see you guys and Sow the land adopting those ways, and when its ready to eat it's amazing, just to think about it I have to go have some of mine😍
Looks great - up here in New England it is still mostly below freezing, and we still have a goodly layer of snow on the ground. Can't wait to start prepping my raised beds!!!
🙋🏼♀️🕊. Love watching you both work together.♥️. What you might do , is a shop for you… and a summer kitchen for Megan. Lots of luck 🍀 with your summer garden ……. Do It your way . Don’t mind what everyone else thinks ..we all have our own comfort zone.♥️🪴🪴🍀🦋 those boys are wonderful.. and that little ladybug 🐞. My daughter had two Big brothers. She will grow up being a girl that also thinks like a guy as well, and she is a grown woman now…💕🕊🦋💕🕊🦋
long winter HAHA we still have two feet of snow/ ice! Boy did we learn stuff this first winter!!!! KEEP UP WITH SNOW FALL.... KEEP PATHS OPEN. we are just starting to build raised beds. snow is hard to walk in! we sink every few steps!!! but do we love it here or WHAT???? finding places to buy dirt to fill beds is a chore being new. but i bought rabbits last Saturday that will actually live in tops of beds as we build them to prefertize! then at end of season chicks will eat and dig up whats left! chicks ARRIVED THIS MORNING!!!! and so the New Patch of Paradise Homestead has begun! i have seeds coming up in dining room next to chicks. a lilac on table doing great as it wakes up. never have grown one before. AND potato bags were planted yesterday! Saturday I put sweet potatoes in water and one has roots in FOUR DAYS!!! SO COOL. HAPPY ALMOST SPRING EVERYONE
So many things ......
1. It's so cool that you even know HOW to hang prosciutto 😳
2. Ummm, where'd you get compost delivered from?
3. I spied The Foxfire Books behind you, those are my fave (probably bc I completely understand the vernacular) 🤔🤣
4. Ordering Justin's book bc I need all the help I can get 😵💫🥴
Thanks!
European transplant. Love the cured ham leg hanging in the kitchen. We always snuck a slice, when mother wasn't looking...Better snack than today's junk food
Enjoy watching you guys do your thing,don’t fret do what work for you . God bless 💙❤️🙏🏾🙏🏾
It's a bad farmhouse but, it's an awesome shed.
Thank you for the update, I was wondering what your plans were for the farm house renovation.
Great to see a video from you. Spring is coming, and garden work calls. Buggy is growing up fast. 💞