WE HAVE TO GET THIS DONE BEFORE ITS TOO LATE
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- The Texas drought is coming, this is the LAST rain we will get for the next 3 months and we have to make the most of it and repair our cattle pastures.
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We are a better together family of 6 living in an 800sqft Shed to House Conversion and currently converting a 336sqft shed into a tiny house for our new studio! Oh yea, we are doing our best to build a sustainable homestead in central Texas raising pigs, chickens, and rabbits…. and hopefully more!!!!!
#familycow #buildingahomestead #chickens
The joy of homesteading, where the only PTO is a part of a tractor rather than paid time off from work. I’d take the tractor any day lol.
I love Kelly's quirkiness!!! You guys are such a breath of fresh air! ❤❤❤
I knew we’d find out people 😂🫶
LOVE LOVE LOVE this video!!! Real, raw, inside projects, outside projects, working together. Good job Brotherton family! You’re always a joy to watch.
I appreciate that! Thank you!
Watching this video reminded me of my grandfather, who used to come into the house from the fields covered in a layer of dirt. He would hold out his dirt and grease covered hand and say, “Wanna shake hands?” He would laugh when my sisters and I refused! When we got older, we would get just as dirty. Baling hay in square bales was the worst. You really do have to make hay while the sun shines! Sweating in the hot sun makes the dust and chaff stick to your skin, and any sunscreen you apply melts off within minutes, and gets into your eyes. I have been a dirty, sweaty, red-eyed lobster more times than I can count! Farming is not a glamorous occupation!
Denise you are SOOOOO RIGHT and we are learning that everyday! I think that for our first 3 years living here we really just settled into the country life.
But now we understand the seasons a bit more, and we are ready to WORK WORK WORK!!! 😁
Thank you Denise!!!! Love that story of your grandfather!!! I hope to be that cool someday! 😁😁
I love how real and genuine yall are! It’s like hanging out with friends who just get you and are likeminded haha love it 🙌🏽
Ah THANK YOU!!! YES!!! We do just want to hang out with you! 🤣🤣
For real, we are just 2 goofballs trying to raise some two and four legged animals! Haha!! And sharing the adventure along the way! 😁😁
I'm so glad the rain came through for you. I'm guessing it's kinda how I feel when I finally get some blue sky and sun instead of all the rain. We had hens of our own, but I totally relate to your sister wanting blue eggs. My Son did some work on our friend's car, and she sent blue and green eggs from her hens. It was the first time I'd seen the colours in person, and they're just a thing of beauty. Female Birds: creatures with their own personal spray booth 😂
We use masking tape and put the date collected on the egg carton. Otherwise, we were never able to know what was newest and what was oldest. It was a MESS!
That’s a much better idea! Yes, it is such a mess for sure! 😂😂
I wish I could afford just a cheap wire fence on my property. It must be nice to have that wall fence on your property. You must be wealthy.
Oh Wade!!! I am so so sorry. To be 100% honest Kelly recorded a full section about the giant wall and why it is there, but it made the video way too long and not really on topic. We will include that in a different video here soon.
BUT! Long story short, no we are not wealthy. And we did NOT pay for that wall. Our old neighbor built it after a possible emergency of them flipping an off road vehicle over and the risk of injuring one of our kids.
And that property was owned by a business….so I guess they thought it was cheaper to build something BIG and not be sued to the moon!! Haha. Which we 💯 agree!
We will tell you the full story in a new video. Maybe even an extra mid week video!!!
Glorious rain! If only we had more of it here in Kerr County!
My entire garden is full of Bermuda grass---Can i ship it to you????? I'm not kidding---I'll do any thing to get rid of it!!!!! God bless y'all and keep growing.
I have been fighting Bermuda grass for over 40 years! Obviously my backyard was a Bermuda grass lawn back in the 1950’s and 60’s. I moved to this property in 1979, the entire backyard was gravel. Over the years I have planted Citrus Trees and have some designated garden areas. Those Bermuda grass are over 4ft down in the ground! When they get the least amount of moisture, I have tons of grass runners! I pull them out and feed them to the chickens. But, I can’t seem to ever get rid of the Bermuda Grass!
I know we look crazy. But it really does so well in our area. Our cow was raised in Bermuda pastures. So we hope we can establish some.
@@BetterTogetherLife No doubt Bermuda Grass will be a very long living grass for a pasture! It appears indestructible!
Great video. You all accomplished a lot. Thank God for rain.🎉
Yesssss
We just bought a 3 acre property hoping to start a small family homestead and the joy I get watching my boys running around and enjoy their time outside is priceless. Homesteading is definitely a lot of work but it’s priceless 😊
Yes! I share that joy!!& was just thinking today about how working hard together produces are truly sweet connection and character.
Ants. Diatomaceous earth, cinnamon. Depends on the circumstance. Same with mosquitoes, depends on circumstance. On porch plant various mints and others that are mosquito repellants.
So nice!!
This is indeed very heartwarming and very wonderful and this brings back such great memories of when I use to be a 90s kid and an early 2000s kid and I am a new subscriber as well:).
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for being here.
So happy I found your channel!
Me too!! Welcome!
Kelly, thanks for mentioning your sourdough starter. It was time to feed mine. :)
You are so welcome! Anything I can do to help 😂
To save time on our farm, we’re constantly embarking on new projects to improve efficiency ….. Which leads to not only chores, but a constant flow of new projects …… which means I now have …. Less … time? Wait a minute! Oh the irony.
If this were a book title, it would be the story of my life.
Looks like a lot of work ❤
3 points🎉.
Wow, tomatoes already, YaY !
Bless your hearts ,your doing such a great job👍.
PS I didn't get we have to get raked either🤭!
JO JO IN VT 💞
Thank you!
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Are there fruit bushes or trees you can plant to capture some of the water on the slope? We are in UNY so very different weather but just wondering if the same principle would apply.
Well, in this location is where the cows are grazing. So it’s more pasture land vs “food forest”. But YES!!!! Trying to figure out the food forest sections absolutely!!!
Does anyone have advice for how to manage mosquitos, ants and fleas? I moved out of the city to have more room to garden but am being chased back indoors by biting bugs!!! 😐
I just posted about this. Been in 34 acres for 4 years now. Covered head to toe. Gets way too hot. Yesterday the mosquitos bit through my gardening gloves! They are even in my house. I am not even close to water either. Use dunks, a fogger, and spray. But as soon as I plant, I can't use the fog or spray. It's horrible and ready to give up.
I used to plant citronella plants for mosquitoes. There are also several other plants that deter them.
Do y’all’s have rain barrels to catch the rain? I’m sure you do but can’t remember, and if you do what’s your capacity?
We do!! I believe we shared it in our latest tour video a couple of weeks ago. 😁👍🏻
30 seconds in with the “did you video any of that” 😂😂😂 that’s why I gave up pretending like I wanted to start a channel. I never have content because I’m gardening, not filming. Silly me.
😂 I feel that.
Is there a way to add reeds to the boundary of the pond to prevent erosion?
There is! But we have to then worry about snakes. YIKES! 🫣 So I think we’ll plant more grass and wild flowers and just try to string trim them to deter snakes.
Did you get your clothes in?
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Nope!
But to be fair, those clothes were already still wet from the prior nights rain. So they just got a couple more good “rinses”! 🤣🤣🤣
Question, would love to know how you control mosquitos? On 34 acres and have to cover ourselves head to toe and basically pray for no heat stroke 😢. Can only work max 1 to 2 hours.
We don’t do much to control them. We just endure 😂. I wear a repellent during those cooler hours in the evening. And we tump over any buckets holding water. 🤷♀️
Thats texas for u that u don't know when it will rain
But so glad when it does!
Nesting box on the counter??
We just wash it. The amount of frogs and snakes that have been on this counter!
Did you get your washing in tho? Lol
Total fail! It rained for two days. And they were absolutely crunchy!
@@BetterTogetherLife 😂😂😂
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