Life, Death, Success, Failure. 2023 Was QUITE a Year!
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- Опубликовано: 3 окт 2024
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What a Hugh praise for Samantha! That's the greatest joy that can ever be experienced for her and for you all as her momma and daddy. Thank you for sharing your life with us. I am 69, and you have taught an old dog new treats in gardening. I grow mostly in my 36x16ft greenhouse, but I have 6 8ft raised beds, a 60-foot hugelkultur, outside. I also raise my peas and potatoes in pots and bags. I live in Alaska but lived in mid Missouri until 2015, when as a missionary, my late husband and I were called up here. I still do Bible study and discipline in the ladies' correctional center here.
May the Lord bless you all this year, in all you stand in need of.
So glad you had a good year! I turned 70 this year, made a very difficult move from my home state of Kansas back to Missouri to the area where my son lives so I could see him and my grandson more. I love gardening, gardened 50+ years, and after watching homesteading videos like yours, I grew hundreds of plants from seed. I even grafted about 15 tomato plants, basically just having fun with trying many fun varieties. I lived with my son and grandson from 2015 to 2022, turned the back yard into garden, built a cattle panel hoop house greenhouse, grew 100 tomato plants in 2021 and 200 tomato plants in 2022. I had pepper plants, squash, melons, potatoes, sweet potatoes, flowers and delicious strawberries. I experimented with gardening methods like hay bale gardening, woodchip mulch, which I do not like, too hard to dig 200+ planting holes in and very splintery to walk over, also, small hugel culture spot, grafted tomato plants, etc. Garden heaven. Bless my son for letting me garden in his yard. Your videos are the gold standard for gardening and homesteading and my source of entertainment! Thank you! Now, how about a pantry tour and more cooking and preserving, foraging, shopping videos! Have a very Happy New Year!
Parabéns 🎉😊
Good for you. We are in our 70s and love to garden but it's getting harder every year but we are not giving up on it 😊
Wishing you and your family a fantastic 2024. Today is our 59th anniversary. Yay!
Happy Anniversary!!
Happy Anniversary!
I don't know what could be better then having your child accept Jesus and be baptized.....25 years of marriage is awesome and a child marrying the love of their life is incredible. God's face is shining and your faithfulness is being rewarded.
Best event anyone could ask for.
Amen 🙏🏾
You've had a very busy 2023. Looking forward to following and learning through 2024. Happy New Year guys and may God bless your 2024.
Amen!
God is so Good
On a sad note, I lost my son who was 36 years old in September in the 5th. He is a father to two daughters ages 13 and 4. He died from pulmonary embolisms and deep vein thrombosis. On a higher note, I have started a walk fit program to improve myself, along with diet changes. This has helped quite a bit. I have to say Kevin and Sarah, that you both look soamazing! You seem more relaxed, happy and the way you both look at each other, that is true love!! I love that about you!! ❤ Much love ❤️
I'm so sorry for your loss. I expect that your son had complications from the shot. My family lost 3 suddenly in 2022. My uncle just died in Sept 2022. My cousin (his son) had a stroke and passed a week later. Another cousin died 4 days later. My healthy 36 year old niece lost her vision for a few weeks, most of it has returned. 2 of my sisters had emergency gallbladder surgeries within 2 weeks. These events all happened within 6 months. I don't want to make you feel worse, but I think it is time that people start talking about what really happened. No more experimental interventions. Be healthy in 2024.
I'm so very sorry
I am so sorry for your loss. 😢 My heart goes out to you Losing My son one of the most excruciating things I have ever experienced. I have prayed for יהוה to comfort you.
Psalms 147:3: “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.”
He’s the one who comforts us in all our trouble so that we can comfort other people who are in every kind of trouble. We offer the same comfort that we ourselves received from God.
2 Corinthians 1:4
I am so sorry for your loss.
You are in my prayers.
All those shots of the animals are so cute! Especially the piggies. :) ❤
Praise the Lord!! Happy for you two! So many blessings!!
I really appreciate you taking the time to make these videos. I am always impressed with your sharing
So nice of you
The Ark Encounter is outstanding. Incredible. I went two years ago. Happy Anniversary❤
What a year it has been! 😊 Tears of joy when you talked about Samantha! Congratulations all! Lk 15:10
I think the raised garden is a blessing in disguise. None of us are getting younger, and gardening is hard work. And what a productive year for harvesting meat for the family! PTL! And to be able to share with other families, even better🥰 God bless and take care everyone🤩
Sarah, & Kevin, try Coq au vin quail. Sooo delicious. You'll love it. God bless you both. Many prayers 🙏🏻 Nurse Judi in Scottsdale AZ and Eucharistic Minister
Congratulations on 25 years. I wish you many more Happy Years together.
Hallelujah! Congratulations to you all.
Thank you for being you and bringing so much joy to so many. AND you both look so great.
What a beautiful view behind your fields
Beautiful views! What a nice place!
Lady, your makeup is FANTASTIC!
Thank you for sharing your year with us. I love your Christ centered lifestyle. That's a powerful wittness to God's love and grace. I am looking forward to seeing what you grow in the raised beds.
God continue to bless you both in 2024.
Praising God for your daughter’s baptism!!
I was so excited to hear that Grace was getting married, but now seeing this…I am over the moon excited to hear that your youngest was baptized! What a huge blessing as a parent! I am so happy for you guys! Thank you for all your videos & education & just good down home real life stuff! God Bless!
Wow you guys are so extremely blessed. God is so good!🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
I enjoyed the run down of 2023. Congratulations. May y’all have a prosperous 2024
Kevin, your better health shows! ❤
🌺Hallelujah on the baptism especially, and the celebration of your 25 wedding anniversary, plus all the wonderful other news! May God continue to Bless you all in this New Yr!
Great news! God bless you all!! ❤
God Bless you and your families. Happy heathy New Year !!!!!!
My husband and I lived in Sun City Arizona for 12 years. Moved to Alabama to live with daughter in 2018. I am 80. Raised 3 children on the farm close to Warrensburg Missouri. Became a widow in my mid 40s. I was born in Kansas City Missouri. I am a true Missourian.
Your daughter being baptized brought tears to my eyes. Praise God
Mine too! - Kevin
We are so happy for you two and your family!
You are a blessing to us as well! Sending prayers
Great 2023. Blessings
You both look incredible! Lots of things to celebrate this past year and I'm looking forward to the next! :)
A cookbook would be nice. Have a wonderful, prosperous New Year. Blessing to you and yours.
I inherited my parents ranch in 2021….since then my husband and one son in law have been managing it. They are doing an awesome job. Got a letter from our local auction earlier in 2023 that I had the highest selling bull for that week. Got another letter this week that I had the highest selling heifer. So proud of my guys, they work hard everyday to make sure our carle are the best they can be. Love your channel and have learned so much. Thinking about a high tunnel because I am in deep Texas where heat is the major problem. I have been gardening since 2010 in inground beds but they are not on the most efficient side of my property…just the most available at the time…..trying to decide if I need to reconfigure or not…as gardeners I think we are always trying to optimize our space. Thanks for all you do to encourage us to grow.
You two are a blessing in my life and I always look forward to seeing each of your videos. Thank you for being who you are! God Bless!
One thing I noticed, your wearing makeup! You look lovely. I to grow in raised beds as I'm to old to be digging in the earth. I enjoy gardening so much now I'm retired. I've sure learned a bunch from you. That little seed trick (lick the end of a toothpick) is my favorite seed pickup. I've shared it with so many. God bless.
BLESSINGS!
Love the ARC experience - saw it last year and loved it, glad you got a chance to experience it.
Hello from the north of Sweden! Today is our 43th weddinganiversary. We are a christian couple ,farmers. I have worked as a doctor in the hospital near our farm and my husband and sons have managed the farm. I am growing a lot in my garden and have used rased beds for over 30 years and it have worked very well. Our climate is much colder today we have minus 29 celsius ! I love that you always end you videos with a blessing ! God bless you two and your family.
Happy Anniversary from Florida! Now days, 43 years is quite an accomplishment. I just want to encourage you on your walk with Christ. I've heard there are few Christians in Sweden and Norway. Keep the faith!❤
You guys are awesome!
Congratulations to your daughter. That is the best life decision that can be made. Glad to hear you had a great year.
Thank you for your videos. I just the content and you both. You’re so down to earth. 💕
A wonderful year for you- minus the tick fever and loss of calves, that is. It was lovely being able to follow along, looking forward to each of your videos. It was a weird year for my husband and me, with both blessings and challenges. We too took up a low-carb lifestyle. We eat a ton of veggies, so I don't consider it to be Keto, but there are no starches or sugar. We've both lost about 80 lbs each, so we're far healthier and our blood work shows it. However, he got appendicitis and I got an umbilical hernia, so we both ended up with abdominal surgeries. That's no fun and I'm 12 days post surgery, so Christmas celebrations were kept light and brief. We also had the solemn task of having to evict a tenant from a second home, who'd stopped paying rent. After giving her nearly a year of grace, that court proceeding took several more months, and we just regained possession on 12/31. We were grateful that she left on the ordered date so that the sheriff didn't need to physically remove her, but now have the task of cleaning up a serious hoarders situation that will require gutting the kitchen and bathroom, and those renovations before we can list it for sale. Still, we're grateful to have that concluded after more than a year and a half of that challenging stress and have already made impactful progress with the clean-up. I don't know why I had an obsession with watching hoarding shows in the past, but I guess I was getting trained and prepared with how to safely approach and clean up that situation. Please pray for our former tenant for recovery from her multi-faceted mental and emotional illnesses.
Thanks for sharing your success with growing plants in the greenhouse and getting those raised beds ready. Also a lot of meat production.
Exciting on Waddlesville and the new geese too.
Happy Anniversary to you both. Congratulations on the weight loss through Keto.
I will be visiting the website and signing up for the newsletter.
Happy Homesteading to you. Rich blessings to you in 2024
The Ark Encounter is wonderful!
It sounds like, other than tick fever, it was a very good year for you. That is wonderful. Hopefully this year is equally as good, without tick fever.
Good job! Great accomplishments, especially on the raising Godly daughters ! ❤
It's great to know that you're doing better and to hear about your successes! My partner and I were finally able to move back to Missouri, and even planted a winter garden for the new owners that includes flowers, garlic, and berries to feed their family next year. We spent a long time considering your old farm, but we just couldn't swing it since they work from home and the internet situation is extremely important to have be fast and reliable. Now we're in Lebanon, building up an urban homestead. We're already got blackberries and rosemary in the ground and have a plan mapped out for the property. I grabbed graph paper and approximated the dimensions of everything when I mapped it out. I was spot on, and I can't wait to build this tiny plot into a more self-sufficient place. We're even hoping to work with someone here to become a part of a community garden so that we can start participating in Homegrown and Handgathered's challenge to eat only homegrown and foraged foods for as long as possible over the winter.
I really enjoy the newsletter. 🙏❤🙏🏿
I love your gardening in pots and raised beds and showing how we can age in place to make gardening easier for us moving forward. Hugs Sarah and Kevin❤
You guys are looking so good, keto is treating you both well. You also have completed so much in the last year, looking forward to the next year for you as well.
Both my grandson’s accepted Christ and were baptized. Unfortunately I was diagnosed with Multiple Myeloma cancer on April 1st. It’s been a rough road. My husband had a stroke last January and had to take early retirement. It’s been a wild year but we made it and pray that 2024 bring answers to my cancer treatment.
Y'all had a great year! I have heard that guinea fowl are great for tick control. Not like you need more critters, but might be a practical addition.
We went to the Ark Encounter a few years ago!! Very, very cool!!!
Congratulations on all your success in 2023. How is growing greens in your greenhouse this winter going?
I started freeze drying this year. And I so keto as well. I am really learning a lot from your videos. I even tried your pizza recipe. It was delicious. God bless you.
I lost 100 in one year on Keto. My Dr said I had the best blood work ever. No more foot fungus, pre diabetes, no high BP and no arthritis issues. Praise God I found this. So happy for you're family.
Awesome recap! We had our first grandchild, a week after our son and daughter in law’s first anniversary!!! And boy what you hear is the truth, grandchildren are the Beat Blessing for God!!! We had him for his first Christmas and what a joy!!! (Oh and his parents too😂). Prayers for a healthy and blessed 2024 to y’all, and all who enjoy your channel, Kristy aka your “neighbor” in West Plains 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
🙏🙏🙏♥️👍🕊🙂. You look back and see how God has blessed you. Looking forward to the new year blessing.
2023 brought us grand baby number five, I turned 65 so officially a senior citizen (although I don't feel like one, lol) and, inspired by you guys, I gave up 90% of the sugar I used to eat, walked between 1-3 miles per day, I'm up to 16 hours a day fasting and I've lost 18 pounds! Love your channel!
Such a great video as always ❤ Thank you and Bless y'all 🙏
I super enjoy watching you do animal chores, so if you’re stuck for content, just some come along for chores is always a great blessing! Love how healthy y’all look. Thanks for all you do. ❤
Thank you for all the helpful information you guys share and thank you for sharing your faith! You're a blessing to many. My wife and I enjoy watching your videos and look forward to the new ones this upcoming year. God Bless, your neighbors to the South ( Van Buren, AR.). BTW- We do pray for you guys!
I am growing lots of green beans and carrots this spring. I have 3 big dogs and they LOVE to eat them
Happy New Year! Keeping you all in my Prayers.
Really enjoyed this video as I have all of those I’ve seen already but mostly thankful to sharing about your daughter excepting Christ. Thanks so much for everything you do. God bless you and family
I would like to thank u Sarah for all your canning tutorials ever since I have been watching u I have challenged myself to do some canning every year now I make my tomato sauce I’ve tried the salsa that was a big hit with my daughter I do not have a farm or a homestead like u guys but I do get my tomatoes from a farm we used to have a garden but live in apartments so can’t do that anymore thank you and god bless u and your family
Went to the Ark 2 years ago. Best trip ever!
This is simply an awesome recap from an awesome couple. Kevin, because of you, I began over 2 years ago, hatched and raised approximately 40 Quail. Got NPIP certified here in north eastern Tennessee. Sold multitudes of quail eggs to 2 different super markets and loved every minute of that experience. Learned from both of you and Sarah so much on gardening and this past summer, everything changed for my wife and I. Inspired by your lives, we sold out small subdivision home of 4 years, sold our quail business, sold everything to acquire several acres here in the Appalachian mountains. We were not able to maintain the Quail due to the major expenses of the new to be Homestead out here. I’m in my late 60s but working hard to keep good health and excited for all of our futures in 2024. God bless you both. Love all you do. Wayne and Aida Sparks
❤😊…so good to hear!
Pigs and cattle are nice. Baptism and a wedding - now that is BIG news!
We have been with you through 2023 via your videos and have enjoyed this fellowship of "living". The highlight today was also getting to witness your daughter's baptism, so thanks for sharing this.
What a great year huh!! I pray this one is just a good for ur family. Happy new year
Thank you for the recap of 2023. You have accomplished so much on this property, and in your lives.
May God continue to pour His favor upon you, your family and your extended family.
Congrats on everything
I saw your RUclips about the raised beds and I got 4 of them for this coming year . I’m very excited to try them
God bless yall
Thanks for sharing! My garden was Great! 75 pounds of onions and 65 pounds of potatoes not to mention the carrots, broccoli and cauliflower. Lost my wife late in the year which sort of put a damper on things but planning a garden again this year. Keep up the great videos! God Bless!
So sorry for your loss.
May the Lord give you peace, grace and strength to work through your grief. May you feel His presence each day. Isn't it amazing how gardening helps us see the regenerative power of life? I got into gardening after loss not long ago and find there is so much about it that is restorative. Planting the little seeds and waiting for them to sprout. Working outside early in the cool of the day, seeing the dew on the leaves. Finding a bright green tree frog peeking at you sitting atop a the broad leaf of a corn stalk. Seeing the first rays of sunlight shine through the vines of tomatoes highlighting the glistening red globes. Swarms of little sweat bees, honey bees and other insects pollinating the flowering dill. Seeing those little seeds produce pounds of tomatoes and green beans, big pumpkins, and more. It is the perfect metaphor for life. May your garden prosper and be healing and bountiful this year!😊🐝🥕🐞🥦🍅🌄
Sarah looks ao pretty today! (Kevin looks cute too)
I also went keto and I’m feeling so much better
Fantastic beginning to 2024. Thanks for sharing with us Sarah and Kevin, you had a good 2023 and we really enjoyed it right along with you and your girls. Stay safe and keep up the great work around there. Be Blessed throughout the new year 2024. Fred.
Your videos have helped me through 2023 as an escape. My father had a stroke in November 2022 and 2023 has been about caring for him and working with him through rehab. I enjoy my coffee on the homestead with you both as an uplifting start to my day. Bless you both
That was such a lovely video. After so long watching you, I guess we care for you as you were friends, knowing and remembering how much you have been blessed is a real pleasure. Keep up whatever it takes to keep you guys healthy and happy. May 2024 bring you again many blessings. 💚
Love your Chanel. Thanks for sharing with us. I’m hoping to get American Bresse chickens this year!
Good afternoon! Love hearing all about the homestead! Lots of things have happened here biggest thing is we had a little one and that keeps me pretty busy right now. I am planning on coming and meeting you guys this spring at the farmers market.
Praying God’s Blessings on each of you and your families in 2024. 🙏🏻
Happy New Years Guy's and my God Bless Us all in 2024.
Such good news of the baptizim
What an amazing year you've had. Thank you for sharing had forgotten some of the things but good to see what you have accomplished. May 2024 be better. God's blessings to you both and happy new year.
So glad y'all had a great year overall! Here's hoping this year is better yet! Love and many prayers for more success from the good LORD! ❤ 😊
Congratulations happy anniversary.
We had some success with our farms but the tragic thing that happened to the family is we lost my father who had the neighboring farm. He taught me what I know about farming/homesteading and was one of the toughest guys I knew. He worked as a brick mason all his life and would come home from a day of that to farm not 1 but 2 little area homesteads/farm that he owned. He was 89 years old when he passed in Oct. just shy of his 90th birthday. I am continuing to farm/homestead on the 3 small farms(including mine). He had incredible calving success last year. he had 6 cows and 8 calves. That's right. 2 sets of twins. I had 5 cows and only 4 calves. Don't believe we lost one. she just never calved or showed like she was ready to calve. We changed bulls this year but the calves this year aren't his. So, I will have 1 last chance this year to keep a heifer or two from the prior bull.
What a wonderful recap! When you mention everything at once, it reallly was a busy and exciting year for you. I remember when you were sick, Kevin, and I felt so bad for you. Looking forward to all you do in 2024. I've learned so much from you both and love your videos. Happy New Year!
I Always enjoy your Channel 😅
Love this channel!
I don’t have a greenhouse, and our soil is very sandy and poor also here in Nebraska. I grow veggies in used buckets I got free from the truck stop I worked at
I can’t believe people ask about your money making situation 😂 I would never ask those kind of questions
One of the best channels guys!! Thank you! I got tears when I saw your daughter baptized...wonderful!!
Amazing 🎉
Happy 25 Anniversary ❤❤❤❤
Great year for ya! Great video! Wishing you both a very happy, healthy, prosperous and blessed 2024!!
What an excellent report on all fronts! Your channel is so refreshing as you both and your content inspires all to see a model of a successful rural lifestyle to provide for their families. Great job! Char
Such a great video! Congratulations on 25 yrs of marriage! ❤
One of the great things about homesteading is that you can choose the things you like to do and support other homesteades/farmers with the things you don't enjoy as much. Its been a joy watching y'all grow! Almost 800,000 subscribers?!?! That is amazing and we know it takes a lot of work! Y'all deserve it! ❤🥰