2022 was a Busy Year, but we have Even Bigger Plans for 2023.
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We live in southeastern Illinois on a 41 acre homestead. We just finished building our log cabin in 2018. Now we are focused on trying to grow our own food and raise livestock. Follow us on our journey we continue to develop our homestead and farm, while becoming more self sufficient.
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You say you failed on some of your goals, but you also accomplished a lot that weren't on your goal list. You could do a video on all the projects that you worked on in 2022, then it would feel like you got more done then you expected. Some of your side projects will make your goals/chores/projects easier to complete.
Evan, you have done a great job, no worries my friend
I would work on the wet area behind the barn. I would consider pouring a large concrete slab and get rid of the mud. Easy to clean up with the tractor with concrete laid down.
If I got 20% of my goals done I would be in heaven!!! I am rooting for you guys!
When you redo the firewood shed, build yourself some wood racks from pallets, put sides on them head high and the just pick them up with the tractor forks and move them. Cuts your stack time by 3/4, you can also carry them to the porch and stack it in your rack.
Brilliant!
JudithB Our local folk do this at the splitter, then the full pallet is moved and for sale. When someone buys firewood, they either load the pallet on the truck for delivery, or empty it into folks truck or trailer. Saves a lot of extra handling!
Unsolicited suggestion. Depending on the location relative to your house, your firewood shed could be a perfect place to put your solar panels. You need an improved roof there and the panels can serve the dual purpose of providing power and serve as roofing material for a shed. Building a dual purpose equipment shed/solar ground array is one of MY goals for the year!
“Transition to livestock with a purpose”-yep I’ve had that conversation too! I’m sure you guys will do great this year and I know you’ll reach those goals!
I saw you were looking at making shirts. You should look at Heat Press transfers. That is what we do, it's really simple and easy. We could answer any questions you might have if you want to know more.
Hope the well water is good so you can use your own water and get that all up and running.
Evan, you and Rebecca are the best. Just plain old good folks. I appreciate all of the hard work that you both do to create your wonderful farmstead. Keep up the great work and may God bless you both. We really look forward to going on the next adventures with you for 2023 Good Luck.
That’s the best way to describe these guys. If everyone could have Evan and Rebecca as neighbors, the world would be a much better place.
I'm ready to watch...Go for it! 👍 😉
Hey Evan, that seems like a tall list of stuff but all very much needed. Check out Lumnah Acres on the solar. He is a Vermont homesteader totally off grid with a Lion Energy system. It might be helpful info.
👍👍👍👍👍👌Very honest review of the past year which contained huge improvements to your property, you both set stretch goals last year, and advanced your property in so many ways, plus the curves that were encountered along the way, great videos, and thanks for sharing.!!!
I have really enjoyed watching y’all this year and look forward to watching in the years to come
Thank you for sharing your plans for this new year. I wish both of you a most productive year and that your health remains excellent. God’s love and blessings 🙏🏻😎🙏🏻😎🙏🏻
I love how you set goals. My wife and I have started implementing something very similar because of you and your wife. Keep these videos coming my friend. You inspire people. God bless you. 😊😊😊
Best of luck
That sounds like 4 years of projects lol
Happy New Years
Good luck in 2023 I hope you get at least half your wish list done
Evan Love all your videos and good luck with year 2023 . .
It's not all that important what is being done or not from a bucketlist, enjoy what you do. If and when you go work on new waterlines from the well: remember it will be freezing again 🙂
Plus, a great holiday too, squeezed in there somewhere I hope!
I wonder why you're not going for a full solar system? It'd be interesting to me to know your reasoning - otoh, you always explain your reasoning very well, so I should be more patient!
Im so glad i found yall what great content and such a sweet couple i cant wait for new videos yall are awesome
Your the hardest working person in my field of vision. I have no doubt you will accomplish everything you set out to do. And I get to sit back and comfortably watch you - lol. Good luck!
Good luck Evan hope you do as good as you think you’ll
I had a dream you were going to paint your barn.
Sounds like great goals and I really never understand fainting goats, I'm surprised they are still around due to they faint and the predators would catch them
I think you did an AWESOME job in 2022 so I would NOT say you failed on anything
Great Video. Really interested in what is planned for the new year.
For cutting thru that foam insulation so you can get to the outside of the dog kennel here is a good way to do it. Get yourself a filleting or boning knife and heat it up and then do a plunge thru the insulation and start cutting your outline of the door. You will need to heat it several times while doing this but you will avoid most of the crumbly mess as if you sawed it with a saw.
I like your list of goals and they seem achievable. Good luck in this new year and your new ventures in farm life.
As you work through the Solar power adventure, take time to learn and understand your water needs. Submersible motors used in wells and solar solutions are more complex than dealing with traditional motor loads and required power for those motors.
I'd install a grunfos SQ 10 soft start submersible pump. It's about 7 amps running at 240v with no huge startup load. Well worth the extra cost.
Will be great to watch progress. Thanks for sharing your lives, it is appreciated.
That's an exciting list! Can't wait to see the progress through the year. 💪🏻
Good luck to you and Rebecca in 2023 God bless
Hi Evan and Rebekah! I just found your channel a couple weeks ago due to your pond tribulations. But it is amazing how aligned your goals are with mine, not just due to your pond, but what you are trying to accomplish with your land as well. And I am really enjoying watching you guys go through the things I will be or have gone through myself! And I am learning a lot! This is the latest video I have watched as I want to watch them all till I get caught up to real time with you. You guys are doing God's work! Keep it up! Congratulations on all your success! You give me a model to aspire to! One question... I have gathered through what i have seen that Rebekah is in the medical field (it's funny how many people that also have personal land they are running are in that field!) but I have not been able to figure out what you do for your "real" job Evan (we both know what your REAL real job is!)... If you have said in a video I have not watched yet, apologies. I ask because I find a lot of people that do what you are doing tend to have vocations that will help them with that like mechanics or welders or things like that. I do not have that. If you wanted to think of a job that is the opposite if this, mine would probably be high on the list. So just curious where you came in from. Thanks! Charley
I enjoyed hearing your plans for 2023.Can't wait to follow along with you the entire way. Good luck you two!!!
Wishing you a Happy New Year filled with good fortune and success. 🎉
I was surprised you hadn’t used solar on your pond pumps.
Keep grinding, your work ethic Is inspiring
Good luck with all the goals you've set I think you'll do well with these I appreciate you letting us into your life thank you very much God bless you
Redtoolhouse just done a video like yours, Troy was kind of upset about not getting everything done. I would say anytime you can get some help take it. I would say 50% would be a great success.
Happy New Year 💥🎉💥 wondering if you couldn’t eliminate the window out to the dog run & put the door there (with glass panes on top half so you still get the light)
Busy year coming up. Happy New Year from Australia, hope you guys are thawing out a little.
Happy new year from Ireland
Best wishes for 2023!
We’re rooting for y’all! It’s a lot of work, but you got this.
Thx
Ok as far as heat in the shop, I understand wanting high ceilings for a lift but that's where all your heat is going. Place a thermometer up by the ceiling and you'll see how hot it is up there. Fans blowing down will help a lot to blow the heat back down. As for the solar panels, the shorter the distance between the panels and batteries the lower the loss. Plus bigger cables will lower the loss also. Pointing south with no shade from trees or any obstructions will get the most out of panels. I'll be watching to see how you make out.
Happy New Year
Sounds like some obtainable goals. We had solar panels installed on our home in 2022. It is a 24 panel 9.25 KW system. It is tied to the grid where most months we feed excess power back into the grid. Our electric bill which used to average about $250.00 per month has dropped to a little over $10.00 per month, Additionally we are supposed to receive a check in February for the excess power we produced, and we will receive some tax credits too. Since we live in town we had to purchase an installed system, since you're out in the country you may be able to install some or all of your system. Thanks for sharing, we are looking forward to watching your progress.
Wd don't have net metering. Our power is from an electric cooperative. They only buy back at 2 cents a kilowatt hours. So grid tied doesn't really make sense. So, I will have a small off grid system for my critical loads.
@@CountryViewAcres We are in Colorado and we have a pretty good solar program here. Our electric company won't allow us to have a battery storage system because of feedback into the grid during an outage. Mostly the only time we use grid power is at night. During the summer we were "banking" about 1 Mwh each month.
@@HaroldReece good hybrid inverters use CTs on the two hot grid lines to measure current in and out to ensure no grid back feeding. However cheaper offgrid type inverters will probably not do that and likely not have all the necessary certifications by the county either. Seems odd a utility bans all battery storage when plenty of good inverters can safely handle it and are certified to do so.
I don’t consider any of things you call a fail a fail. Because you did work on those items it’s considered a continued project in my mind. I think y’all did good. Always good to have goals because it keeps us going. I’m hoping 2023 you feel you have accomplished your goals.
I am tired already. Than goodness you not my boss. But the plans sound great. You can do it if Rebecca pushes you.
I wouldn't call any of your goals from last year as fails. Just not yet completed. I wouldn't think you would want to put your solar panels on the roof of the shop/pole barn as I don't believe the slope is steep enough for the panels to reach maximum potential. Understand you have some plans for the back yard area but a ground mount system between the shop and the house would be easier to clean the snow off and would also allow shorter wire runs between those buildings. The longer the run the bigger the wires need to be and the more loss of energy. I know you will figure it out. Good luck with all your goals. I'll be watching. Thank you
When you go to have the well tested you're going to have to pump the well down to remove any stagnant water that is in the well before having it tested. I found this out the hard way when I moved into my house. The water test came back with bad results and I was convinced I needed a very very expensive water filtration system... Turns out that the well sat for so many years it just needed to be pumped of the junk in it... Shocked (bleach and sit for 24hrs before use) and then ran for a few days (a week for me) before retesting. It came back basically perfect with only mild sediment in the water ($50 whole house filter fixed that, with filter being changed every 3-4 months). I have had it retested multiple times since and ever had shocking test results. Mostly just hard water and sediment, and some iron, which is common. The water testing company kept asking me why I got my water tested when it kept coming back better than tests for the local municipalities😅.
I would look into building code in your state and area to make sure testing companies don't automatically report flagged results to your health department. While I know you want to use the well for farm use, it won't stop your health department from showing up and complaining until you prove it's farm use. Also, ask any company you use for the test if they report and mention it is a well for farm use, not household use.
Hey guys love ❤️ your channels in all your videos I don't think you failed at anything I love how you always say when you mess up like all humans do but you do it for the world to see thank you both for taking your life and sharing it with us May you have a happy healthy and blessed 2023 🙏🏾👍🏾
Check out Wild Wonderful Off Grid and Lumnah Acres channels to see their solar off grid set ups. WW Off Grid is also an electrician. WW Off Grid is in West Virginia and Lumnah Acres is in Vermont. They are both total off grid.
Watch wild wonderful off grid from West Virginia and Lumnah acres from New Hampshire they both run on solar strictly
Love your videos
I'm trying to catch up on all your videos, great resource for everyone starting out! Thank you.
Have you thought/heard about ram pumps and setting up a "free" water pressure system for garden and livestock?
(free = after you pay to construct and install the system, lol)
Happy new year 🎉 to you and your family and friends and God bless 🙏 you all
Great to have large goals .Best of luck with them .Looking forward to watching your progress.
Don't forget the concrete pad being undermined on your driveshed. Noticed that the gravel is eroding out. Hate to see You have that patio pad settle out on an angle. Sorry to add to your to do list
Can’t wait to see the Alice Chalmers back on the channel
Happy New Year!! Love the channel!!! Looking forward to spending 2023 with you!!
Happy New Year from Aussie Land , you've come along way since your Small Town channel, the maps and plans you drew back then are all coming to fruition. All the best for this year, hope it works out
Evan.......please please please re-think your solar panel location. if you get any amount of snow, removing snow off of your panels while they are located on a roof is very hard to do and dangerous, especially a metal roof. even a thin layer of snow on solar panels will cut down production to near zero output. ground mount is the way to go. and have the bottom of the panel about 2 times the distance off of the ground of the normal snowfall. meaning if you can typically see 2 ft of snow, then the bottom of the panels should be about 4 ft off of the ground. that way there is a place for the snow to slide off of the panels by itself if the angle of the panels will allow that, otherwise you will have to clear the snow by hand everytime it snows. i live in central florida and have 11.4kw worth of panels on my pole barn at about 30 degree angle. i also believe your pole barn roof is too flat to mount panels without raising the top of each panel about 2 ft above the roof surface for better angle to the winter sun. if you have to add extra mounting then you might as well go ground mount for better servicing of the system in the future and so as to avoid any roof leaks in your new pole barn. i long to live the lifestyle that the 2 of you have chosen but my years are running shorter with the arrival of each new year. Wishing you the best in the years to come....... Jim in central florida
All very good points
You have some good goals in the planning stage, thought you might paint barn roof this year, but barn paint is still as scarce as hen's teeth in my area. Have you considered retaining 12 acres as crop land ? Rental income should make a nice dent in Real Estate Taxes, which tend to rise every three years. At any rate, take your vitamins everyday, you will need them to accomplish your great plans.
And a Happy New Year to you and Rebekah also. Any attempt at a goal is a success, failure is not even trying. You both work so hard it wears me out just watching. looking forward to 2023 videos....
Wishing you the best for sure. You might get your well checked out sooner rather than later so if it turns out you can't use it, you can go ahead look into what it will take to have another one drilled. It would be costly but a silver lining may be that you could put it in a more central location so you won't have to make such long runs to your end points. But I'm just another subscriber who probably doesn't know what the heck he's talking about... lol.
Really interested in the species and breeds you are thinking about. I realize you don't want to commit to anything but what is going into your thought process.
Happy New Year to you and yours also !!!!!!!
Good luck with the 2023 projects guys... well done for doing so well in 2022. Have a great New Year. Greetings from UK 8o)
All the best for the coming year. Love your content despite the language differences!! 😂 from the UK 🇬🇧
Hi..... Evan and Rebecca nice to see you love watching your videos homestead. Happy New Year 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 👕🐔🐓🐣🐥🦃🐩🐕🐈🐐🐄🐖🐝🐠🐟🎣 🌱🌺🌹🌻🌼🌸🌷🏡🎥👍👍👍
Happy New Year's Evan and Rebecca 💐 as far as Solar Energy please check out Lumnah Acre's on RUclips, they have a awesome setup for Solar, backup generator for cloudy days, Al is very smart like you and does everything himself. Good luck with your goals ☺️
Ambitious goals are great, If you can do them all, You're going to be lucky. Good luck , and I'll be watching. Happy new year.
Nice. I completed about 75% of our homestead. Thanks for sharing and being vulnerable enough to share your mistakes
I do love how every year you tell us how you did the year before and what your goals are for the coming year and plans for the future. I wish you the very best. Will be praying for you to reach a 100% this year and following along. I too have made major goals for myself this year that involve my health and improvements for that, I am 69, will turn 70 in March. I hope to quit all sugar and flour by my birthday as well as my vaping. I did quit smoking in 2015 now to quit the vaping a big one as well as the sugar and flour and loosing and loosing 23 pounds. I also have 25 quilts to make as welll as keeping up with my gardening and yard work. My husband (he will turn 76 this month) are both disabled and I do all the cooking house work, our side work, gardening, canning, mowing, and etc. I don't have a RUclips channel so can I keep you updated to have someone to be responsible to? Will that work for you?Well anyway those are my goals for this year. You see the reason I am quilting so much is in case I'm not around so long. I want to leave quilts for my 3 granddaughters, wedding presents to them and baby quilts for them and some quilts for my daughter for Christmas and her birthday. She is now 42 and her husband of 20 years died 2 years ago from Covid after being in the Navy for 20 years. They had all these plans for their life after he got out of the Navy. He left 3 daughters, now 22, 19, 12.
Happy New Year, Good luck, you will do well on your goals as you Evan, and Rebecca work daily and consistently so will just enjoy living vicariously through you.
Wishing you all the best for 2023 and success in achieving all or most of your goals. Looking forward to continuing great videos. Good Luck
Evan, regarding your solar and electrical requirements, you might want to visit another U-Tube channel, Farmcraft101. He has a farm and shop like you and has several very informative videos on solar requirements, costs and installation advice. Additionally, he has a video on how to separate the electrical loads from the grid for his generators and solar needs. I thought it was very informative and think you will find it useful.
No fails really just continued operations. It was an amazing year that kept us all well entertained with all you accomplished. A great year with a bunch of well cared for livestock except a few fish. I call that interesting and live and learn. Thanks for sharing and I wish you an even more amazing year to come. I’ll be watching.
with the barn i think some clear poly carbonate or fiberglass panels to keep light in the cattle bay, for the wall in the big shop how about just running tin sheets , easy clean, fireproof, and quick. we are looking to put a well in too a major project!! GOOD LUCK and have fun while your doing all your projects
Put 1x2s perpendicular to the studs on that wall. Gives you something to screw the plywood to. All it needs to do is hold up the wall covering.
You should check with Al Lumnah of. "Lumnah Acres". He got a solar setup on his off grid farm that is working.
Evan your a big dreamer, watching your current video the goals you set for yourself are very big. I don't want to rain on your parade but you've given yourselves a very high goal. You talk alot about what has to be done. First you say that you've got an electrical background, but if thats the case add up the wattage of the appliances that you want to run, two size your solar system to I figure one and a half times order then you need and buy alot of batteries 🔋 to last for two to three days run time. Next finishing the wall in the work shop before you work on the tractor 🚜 the tractor will not get repaired before the summer too much work. As for the field your setting yourself up for disappointment both you and your wife work full time, trying to do all of those tasks will put you in ICU GOOD LUCK .
You guys did a great job accomplishing goals for 2022! I think you made some great strides! Thanks for the previous video on how you film and the equipment you use. I don't see that much and it was good information. I watched a youtube channel called Tony's Tractor Attachments Homestead. He has two TYM tractors and lots of attachments. It right up your TYM alley! lol
Happy New Year!
Can't wait to see how it goes!
Keep Smilin!!!!
Evan, good luck on your goals for 2023. Your long term goal is also mine. I too have good feelings about 2023.
Solar on roof of new barn. Strongly consider mounting it a few feet above the ground. I have had experience with this. Cons for barn roof: Holes in new roof, access for snow removal, access for installation and repair. Also lower wind crossection on ground. It will be worth finding a place. We do like your channel and you genuineness.
Those are some big goals! It will certainly keep you busy and make an interesting viewing!
Leghorn Chickens are best for eggs ( about 400+ eggs a year) and the meat is not bad, but their are better meat chickens🍗🍗🍗🍗
If you don’t know of this farm you should watch just a few more acres he rebuilds old Tractors rises pigs cows chickens he know help you maybe find parts for your old tractors
Good luck with all your goals. Sounds like there's going to be a lot of videos to watch. All the best 🇬🇧.
Happy new year to you Evan and your family . You are talking solar power , I suggest you check out ambition strikes you tube channel. I think you will find some great ideas from them . Hope It helps you and good luck .love the channel
That is a tall list for the coming year. I wish you get the best weather during the time you have to work on your outdoor projects. Good luck with all your plans. Have a Blessed day.
Congratulations on making plans that will improve your farm. While viewing other RUclips videos I find many pond owners suggest that all trees in or near the dam be removed, because when the trees die then as the root systems decays the hollow root holes create tunnels for water to drain the pond, Keep up the good work. I enjoy your RUclips videos. I grew up on a farm, and being in my 80's, we moved away from Illinois to be nearer our children.
Happy New Year and good luck with all the projects.
What u done u started on projects even though you didn't get everything done u didn't fail
Evan, great plan! Best wishes for 2023.
When you bought your old green trailer did it already have a dump be on it
Evan , I make a new list each day , what ever I didn’t do , it just goes on the new day , no pressure, relax Dude , you got it .
If y’all still want to put a fishing pier in think about building one using plastic blue barrels with a wooden deck on top that way you can move it around the entire pond just a thought. Here in the lower part of Louisiana we build like that so as we can move them for hurricanes
God bless you with your plans for the New Year. I will as far as I can be there to support you with prayers and well wishes. 💕🙏