Ep. 25: Designing a Homestead to be Drought and Flood Resistant
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- Опубликовано: 13 июл 2024
- This week Al, Ben and Jason talk about how to design a homestead to be drought and flood resistant. Plus exciting happenings of the week!
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Homestead Shop Talk is a weekly audio podcast hosted by Jason Contreras (@sowtheland), Ben Hollar (@thehollarhomestead) and Al Lumnah (@lumnahacres). Three dudes with different homesteads talking about homestead life, content creation, growing a homestead and building a life worth living for. Thanks for listening!
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You guys make me feel so much better . There are so many things I've had on my list that I just can't get done. Good to know I'm not alone in that. You are all so young and have family to help. I'm alone at 70 . You make me feel less defeated and old . Love you guys
These podcasts are like those "choose your own story" books. You never know where it is going to go. I have never been sad about a video ending before these pocasts. Look forward to it every week.
Lol love the conversation about animal personalities. I always tell people chickens are like 2 year olds, they go all over the place and make messes, sheep are like 5 year olds, they can be super sweet or very naughty, and cows are teenagers, they know they are strong, bull headed, and clumsy, pigs are grumpy old men.
Thanks, Al, Ben, and Jason. You guys are always informative and entertaining.
At 78 my farm days are long pass but still enjoy listening to your conversations. It hejp keep my mind working.
Tamale = Mexican hot pocket to dip in you favorite sauce.
For drought/flood resistence you do exactly what Jason is doing except go for 5-10k gallons.
weather is so unpredictable one year you may have one or the other. The more you control the water the more you reduce the odds of either.
Plus, as more people move to rural areas the lower the ground water level will go deeper and the more chance of ground water contamination.
If you had tanks of up to 10k of water you could not only use it to water your animals and gardens but if the weather is forcasting rain in the next week you can choose to release water to grassed or drier areas to soak in days before the rain so it can strengthen the roots in that area. It will have disappated before the new rain comes. But if you have a drought you still have plenty of water for garden, animals and possibly yourselves if the well runs dry.
Jason, I’m from NM!!! Ben, dry tamales get turned into tamale casserole. I’ve experienced the same issue a couple of times, so smothering with a red chili sauce and cheese saves the day! Al, you just don’t know what you’re missing out on with tamales! We eat tamales year round. Everyone get well and have a very Merry Christmas!
i'm enjoying these chats. Very relaxing and informative. 👍
Enjoyed an hour of Homestead Shoptalk on Spotify while driving to Houston this morning. Wish it was longer. Always enjoy listening to you guys. Love tamales, have never made them myself though. Must be a border region treat.
All you guys. Watch These Christmas Decorations. Mrs. Cog Hill you won't believe it. I've never seen anything like it before in my life. You'll love this one.
Didn't know where this subject was going, but it was fantastic. Since I watch all of your channels and have a good idea of your properties and the efforts you all make to improve the properties, wish you could visit each other and discuss what you see. Look forward each week to your discussions each week. Thank you all for your participation in the topics chosen.
Still think it would be interesting to have your wives on for a couple of topics.
I worked outdoors on a Habit for Humanity home and the future home brought tamales for a midmorning snack. It was 27 degrees F and the tamales were hot. What an amazing gift!
You guys pack so much into these podcasts and it is informative and entertaining all in each program. I look forward to it every week. Hope you ALL are done with 'the crud' in time for Christmas.
Would you be willing to talk about health insurance and internet for the homesteads. I love this podcast and I enjoy everyone's channel. Thank you for sharing your experiences and how you do things. Its so informative and has helped our family immensely with equipment, buildings, animals, and planting. Have a great day and a great holiday!!!
I so enjoy your videos even tho I am an 80 year young southern farm girl. I watch your individual videos also. I guess we lived like homesteaders while I was young and these bring so many topics that I am familiar with. Keep it up please.
Put your pond on the edge of your property where the water's draining off that other property. :) Yet another enjoyable hour of interesting discussion and humor. Thanks.
Gooooooood morning, Gents. Thanks for the talk!
Wow, lots of lard from the Guinea hogs. Good to know Ben. Good idea to mulch the garden. I agree Al that with all that rock it's going to take a while to build up your pasture with compost. I think Jason is being really smart to build his water catchment for his homestead. I'm glad Jason is using most of the roofs on your property to catch rain off of. I'm glad Ben's property has the swales to catch the rain on the hill. The chicken tractors have sure helped get the grass going for all of you guys! Thanks for all the tips guys. Animals on your land does seem to improve it! Thanks for another great episode of Homestead Shop Talk!
Great show as usual, hope Ben’s family and to all who are sick get well. Happy Holidays to you all.
Thanks for sharing your week with us. I know it must be difficult doing another video, but I am sure all your viewer are like me, we enjoy each and every one. Have a Blessed evening and the rest of the week.
Al looks good in his Sow The Land beanie.
Good morning. 👍👍👍
Thank you all for another great conversation. God bless ❤
Hey Gang 👋, always nice to see the Three Musketeers , God's Good Blessings to you and your beautiful family's keep up the great work love U guys XOXOXO stay safe and healthy
I'm from Oklahoma...been making tamales since I was 9 or so. My best friends grandmother decided we needed to learn. She was born & raised in Mexico. I make around Christmas every yr... about 47 yrs now.
Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year Al..Ben..Jason and family....everyone give them a thumbs up for Christmas 👍👍🤶🎅
Always enjoy these , great topics relating to everything in general!! Wish you all a wonderful Christmas!! Stay well!! ❤️
Get well soon everyone 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Maybe a plastic pulling workshop with lots of helpers ??
For Al, Areas where water causes erosion can be protected by stacking rocks into walls in such a way that these walls slow down the water. The small basins that are created in that way slow down the runoff in such a way that most sediment that was carried by the runoff settles in these basins. These rock walls don't have to be very high, 1 ft can already be enough, their main function is to slow down the water.
For Jason, creating some ponds in that creek would slow down the water enough that you could catch a lot of the soil runoff that is carried in the creek. Then you could dig out these ponds each season to "harvest" that soil.
For all of you: A big part of the cause for the weather patterns you have observed this year was caused by a very early and fairly strong "el nino" in the pacific early in the year. Forecasts by most oceanologists and other experts is that this "el nino" will last through 2024, so it is likely that in '24 we will see a lot of the same weather patterns. Something to take into account making plans for next year.
Interesting! I am glad you shared this information.
I remember those rocks and boulders,Al! Your rocky soil is no joke!
We have tried several strategies for adding organic matter to the soil. One that has worked well for us has been building what started out to be gabions but wound up being a short (45 cm) rock wall on contour. We then filled in behind it with chop and drop (branches, sticks, cut grass, manure). This created a terrace that stopped erosion, but it also held water a lot like a hugelkultur mound. We then planted in trees to stabilize the terrace. I had no idea if this would work when I started. I just played it by ear, using various permaculture principles. It has worked really well. I am in the process of building another terrace below the original.
Interesting as usual. Lots of different avenues, just like conversations go. 🌻🌻💕💕
for Al's sugestion to reverse the socket then any moisture would go inside the pipes as it runs down and probably rot sooner.
Al, maybe
capped pvc pipes with holes drilled in them for hot wire that have a cement base would be a way to create portable/temporary fencing for frozen ground.
Ben, you look exhausted 😢 Hope you’re on the mend 🥱🥱😴
Their whole family has been pretty sick
I think this was recorded before he got sick. He does look tired here…preplague I guess…
I pray you all will heal. So many states have this flu bug. Many u-tubers are ILL
BEN, I sure will miss your cow. I love their eyes especially when you have eye contact. See you soon.
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All depends on how much they got sprayed by the chemtrails in the sky. Look up. Those streaks are called geoengineering. Look up Kristen Meghan. She is an ex-air force engineer who is and has been exposing this for almost 20 years.
for soil erosion if seabuckthorn is a option it is great shrub/bush known to hold the ground together and great feed for animals, the berries it makes are vitamin c super fruits. there are thornless varieties available if you search for them.
Careful if you get bison, even a cross. They can jump like a deer and they're unpredictable. Thanks for the video. Great topics, as usual.
Al, with all that wooded area definitely needs a wood chipper that runs off the back of his tracker. The PTO??? I’m not a farmer!
Collecting the downed limbs and trees would make it worthwhile. He has a permanent source for the barn deep bedding.
Morning all, coffee and bagel to listen to the Guys!!
Ben and Jason, you might want to check with your local ag schools for soil science info and testing. They often do testing for free or cheap. In your area watch out for those "cedar" trees that are really juniper. They can make the soil very acid and not grow good grass. In our area they often suggest complete removal for any area you want pasture and the treating the soil for excess acidity usually with gypsum. And yes, you want the soil chemistry good, but nothing will grow without microbes and manure is great for that. Animals on the land is good but you also need the soil science.
Dexters are delicious. Finishing a half bought from our neighbor. Hope to have a couple in a year or two.
Really enjoying your shop talk. Better than most daily vlogs.
Tamales around Christmas soooo good. Few years ago started making for THE season. Tamales Rojo and pineapple dessert tamales 🫔. Sooo good.
Merry Christmas to all
I could listen to you guys all night love ❤️ you guys
great chat tonight hugsssss
I would urge everyone to check out the regenerative farm “White Oak Pastures” where you can see the effects of 20 years of regenerative grazing in a formerly commercial farm.
Also, “Roots So Deep You Can See the Devil Down There” to see the beginnings of a nationwide movement.
That is our goal in a smaller scale.
Love this podcast/channel! Keep up the great conversations ❤
My friends from Puebla taught me how they make tamales, and with the chicken stock Meg makes, they should be perfect! Karina would cook a chicken in advance to get the stock. They made sweet tamales, too, with food coloring and raisins and/or black-eyed peas. I gained SO much weight in our classes! They taught me Spanish and I taught them English.
Good morning I got my cup of coffee ☕
Perfect!
Omg Al, I can't believe you've never had a tamale!!! Jason, you have to send him some. Here in AZ, we've got tons. There the best.
collection and storin rainfall and minimising how excessive dumps of rain can cause damage use it correctly.
Dexter are what Just A Few Acres has Pete
he loves and so does his customers
a bit smaller but excellent
Interesting stuff today
Jason, letting the grass above your erosion grow tall maybe up to a foot high as a filter will reall slow down your erosion in many cases. Unless the flow is so strong it knocks it down. I remember grandfather had areas that he did not cut hay off of for that reason. When he did his hay mowing he just detoured around those spots. You might want an area like that where the water is coming onto your land to filter out the dirt and catch it for yourself and another where it leaves your land for the same reason. Better to add soil than to lose it. Also seen folks use molded had bales that way Just set the bales in the low area in a zig zag to slow the water and make it snake along the low area to catch and add soil over time and let the bales just melt into the ground over time. Don't want that where animals graze but you fence them anyway so you work around those spots with your fencing. Also might look at construction site silt fencing guidelines and learn something too. Using the hay that is no good for feed saves money. Molded square bales if you can find them.
Yup we have it (the cold/flu/whatever it’s called)in Southern Ontario, Canada now! Would have thought the cold would kill it but no such luck yet. Hope everyone gets over it fast! God bless!🥰❤️🙏🏻🇨🇦🍁
THANKS AL for asking the question the rest of us wanted to know the answer to….whats a tamale.
Great pod cast guys. Thank you and hope everyone gets on the mend and has a Blessed and Merry CHRISTmas. I built two more raised beds in the back yard this week and started another bed along the side of the Pineapple bed. Yes I have Pineapples in that bed here in South Louisiana. #PressOnRegardless.
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Great podcast
The tapered end of the pipe in the ground for you to slip the arch pipe is to prevent water from getting into the pipe in the ground causing heaving in your walls ... so your slip over cut-off piece is a good idea to drive the base pipe into the ground ... surprised the company hasn't used that idea in the assembly kit for the high tunnel ...
Just a suggestion, maybe invite special guests, like Pete ,from Just a few acres, or Evan from Country View Acres
Merry Christmas 🎄 to you all 😊
We used diamond tooth harrows. Sounds like what Ben described
Al, in most areas I have seen it is best to push the top soil off of an area with bulldozer, then contour the subsoil, and finally pushing the top soil back onto the new contours. I noticed when you did the shop and barn area they just seemed to push it all over putting the topsoil down deep when they were done leveling. That is cheaper since it skips a couple of steps but it is losing a lot of top soil for the future. In that area since you were covering it with buildings and gravel, it might have been good just to push the topsoil out of the area for future use elsewhere, then contour. Just a thought.
Have a great week and holiday Merry Christmas Please invite your wives to join.
I love the creek fed Al gravity water system put in on their homestead.
Will you add another pump down at the new barn y’all are building?
Like a dumpling except it’s a cornmeal present yummy
Enjoyed the video
I have one of those energy efficient furnace and I get a lot of condensation water so I recover it for watering the plants. Pretty much the same as rain water.
Those aerators are used mostly for established lawns.
Check out the beanie Al has on!?? 😁
Ben, sheep sh-- is the BEST fertilizer for your garden EVER. Try it. You'll never go back.
TAMALE = HOT POCKET. YUMMO!
Hey guys, very much enjoying the pod cast while I do chores. If I could make a suggestion, I would love it to be a bit longer. I like hearing the weekly updates but the topic of conversation seems to be cut short sometimes. Doing a great job.
Al, get yourself a wood chipper for the TYM and use wood chips to create swales and get those organic’s into the ground. ✌️
Jason,I am soo glad you actually read my comment on the temperature for putting plastic on the greenhouse and I am not silly enough to think that I am the onl y one who mentioned this to you. I love these pod casts. Tamalles are delish. I did not grow up around them either. If I might make another suggestion... .All 3 of you need to really study permaculture swail design and construction. It is not simple but well worth it.Jason it seems to me that you have the most perfect property for it. And Al permaculture swails do not result in loss of topsoil but rather preserve it from runoff . Also properly done, will increase topsoil as time goes by. Ben, your property has a good start already probably thanks to some very smart tobacco grower way back when, who knew he had to prevent runoff to preserve fertility which is so important to tocacco.
Dexter cattle, great eating, ideal in orchards
We bought a subsoiler that we are going to run on contour to start "planting water". If we don't the water just runs down hill taking topsoil with it.
years ago I had 4 ICB totes out it got -20 f for 1 month all totes froze solid but none of them burst it took to august to thaw out but no damage so Im a beliver totes are indestriable
Love Dexters and dexter mixes for cows thier bulls are super sweet and don't eat a ton. Ben go for sheep you shouldn't need to hay them a lot and its nice to harvest your meat 100-150lbs at a time. Hair sheep are the best I have Dorpers and they are great and easy for kids to help with. 5-6 ewes and one ram eat about the same as one cow, but I find they forage better in winter with what's left laying around and you will get about a cows worth of meat (smaller cow not those beast angus'), they also don't tear wetter areas up like a cow would so you can run them more places than you would a cow.
Al in particular has mentioned the presence of alot of rocks on his property. Has he considered whether they can be used almost as a retaining wall to control soil erosion and divert water naturally or to protect wind and snow protection to certain areas of his property?
I love tamales. I haven’t had one sent 1980 something. They are delicious, especially if someone that knows how it makes them.
Why don’t you sell some of the lard Ben. I’m sure some of us would buy it. Hush hush. But to have organic lard ,that’s really something. Happy Holidays everyone
In S/w Mich and gutters work in the summer , yet winter will rip them off due to the ice !!!!! Do you have that problem where you live Al ?
Making homemade egg noodles for soup. Son's family has the crud😮Grammy feels bad as I had it two months ago. Nasty stuff!
Keep well, guys.
Enjoying this video 😊
great plans guys
Al, you don’t know what a tamale is! 😉
In my opinion as a Californian He did a great job of explaining this
You can put insulation around your water catchment tank, like we do hot water heaters. 😊
Lol, you mean water heaters? I used to make that mistake all the time. We don't heat hot water. I also used to say I am going to un-thaw some meat. My daughter corrected me. Saying "mom, you mean you are going to freeze the meat?"
@@5GreenAcres now that you say that, makes sense! Lol
Google tamales Al. They’re a Mexican meal. Made them for fifty years and am now hoping to get a few gifted to me. 🎄
Maybe Jole Salatin could help with some of the erosion problems. It may not be quick but I think his farm was on depleted soil at first?
Check out Sweet Briar Farm here in Michigan. They are raising dexters for beef and milking them also. I believe they even have A2 A2 cows.
Good day,. Are they by me in S.E. Michigan Sweet Briar Farm? Thank you Dianne GOD BLESS YOU.❤️
@@evalinawarne1337 ogemaw county is where they are
Just A Few Acres channel they raise dexters for sail as beef in farmers market. They run a farm not a homestead but on 25 acres of land. Great channel but if you are looking for information on Dexters Pete would be a good person to contact. Dexters are a heritage breed and Pete raise his exclusively on grass and hay.
🎉 great info again today! Although im in nor Cal where its DRY, i hadn't thought about diverting rain into containers for summer use.
Merry Christmas everyone, be well❤
We have tamales for Christmas in Texas.
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Here in southern Iowa we are in a severe drought. I only had 2.1 in. of rain, and all of November 0.2 in. As of today no rain or snow in December. I have lived here for over 40 yrs. and this has been driest. I live by the Des Moines river and it has been running at 2 feet for months.
A great video😊
And salt .. because the steaming takes away a lot of the salt
The problem will be the valve freezing. The side of the valve housing will split.
I used to get grass-fed jersey beef a lot, but they were always retired milk cows. Flavor was always fine, but they were older animals and that meant tougher texture a lot of the time, so I ended up making stew with a lot of it.
If part of your field is wet, you have to install drainage pipes to lower ground. Over to run off streams or along the rock walls that are away from your animals. You could also direct the water to some areas you can store it, hopefully for use later.
My former stepdad raised buffalo for meat. He brings us some every couple of years, very lean meat..but very good.
Our Dexters have A2/A2 milk. They are also tasty. Our bull is naturally polled and very docile as are the 4 we have growing out.
We have thoroughly enjoyed these smaller cattle.
Not the volume of milk of a Jersey but we don’t need gallons a day so it has worked out great. We like the small animals too, Jason. We also have Kune Kune and Juliana pigs. 😊😢
Juliana pigs....now have not heard of these! I too would love to get an A2/A2 Dexter and a bull! He can pull a plow! (among other needed things) hahahahahah
@@bonniehatcher8198 Julianas are small spotted pigs. My adults weigh about 30 lbs at two and three years. They are a lot of fun.
I started with three registered show cattle that I got in East Tennessee.
They have bred true for the three years we have had calves. At present I have 6 bulls. They are easy to handle and will follow me with a bucket with no aggression. We are truly happy with the breed.
I've never heard someone struggle with explaining a tamale as much as you two lol. A burrito??? Really?!? 😂
Have you seen the tanks made from steel culvert?
Put those big stones where the water flows, Al, like a rapid, not a dam. It will slow the water so more will sink in.