Missouri Homestead : One Year on Our Farm : March
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- Опубликовано: 30 мар 2023
- “March is a tomboy with tousled hair, a mischievous smile, mud on her shoes, and a laugh in her voice.” ― Hal Borland
March on our homestead is when we swing into high gear after the relative slow pace of winter. Things are being planted, chickens are laying again, we have to get ready for farmers market, and all the animals still need cared for...
In this twelve month series you'll get a front row seat to our raw and real homestead life. You'll see just what it takes to keep our farm running while working our full time jobs.
Welcome to One Year on Our Farm!
After 20 years of successful careers in the Los Angeles area we moved to rural Missouri and are taking steps to become more self-sustaining on our homestead. I break down all the farmy things into small manageable steps so you can start homesteading wherever you are.
We homestead on 2.5 acres in the Missouri Ozarks, and our garden hardiness zone is 6B.
Our weekly videos break down farming and gardening into small manageable steps so you can make the transition towards self sufficiency and food sustainability without being overwhelmed!
I garden in the Missouri Ozarks and am in hardiness zone 6B.
-How to contact us and other info:
Email: lorella.crews@mac.com
Mailing address:
Lorella Crews
HC 71 Box 300
Ava, MO 65608
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I love seeing everything going on! I hope you get peas and peaches!!!!
Thank you!
Our cherry, apple, and pear trees are blossoming, YAY! We don't have a peach tree but that would be great. I love peaches.
Yay!! I want to get some more fruit trees.
Interesting seeing your day today. I’ve not seen blue birds for many years. So pretty
They are!
Good luck with your adventures. Nice looking plants. Hopefully you won't get a lot of sick chickens
We haven got any others sick, yay!
Cheers fellow earthling
Heyyyyyyy!! It’s been a while! How are you???
All those peas! ❤
We should be in SW MO looking for a place soon!
Right!! Peas!!!
Hopefully y’all are safe from the storms here in Missouri, I’m out of it but for the wind here other than that doing great
We are good! We got flooded in for a day but no damage.
@@LorellaPlanBeeOrchardandFarm glad your safe
Hey, haven't seen you in a while! Hope everything is okay! Enjoy your content!😉😊
Thank you Cathy. Life is really busy right now and got overwhelming I had to make the tough decision to not make videos for a while. 😢
Looks like maybe you should plant your pea seeds a bit deeper. Hoping for a bountiful harvest.
I really think critters were getting them because I was planting them at the recommended depth. They’re doing great under the netting, btw!
Why do you plant your peas in buckets, instead of in the ground? I know it's really muddy right now, so maybe that's why. I've just started gardening the last two years but haven't done a Spring garden due to the ground being so muddy and hard to get it tilled in the Spring.
Yeah, I didn't understand how you did your seedlings for SI? I watched the video and you wrote the leaf lettuce down for or 3 or 4 weeks to SI, then to transplant for 3 weeks, but then when you wrote the bell peppers down and went to April, there was no leaf lettuce written. That threw me?
I just look at the Farmers Almanac online and write on my calendar when to SI, transplant and direct sow, but actually like I was saying, I haven't even done a Spring garden, only a summer one. I've bought plants but only peppers, tomatoes, and sweet tater starts. They're so hard to grow and require higher temps and sunlight. Don't have a greenhouse built yet but my summer garden does great, lol.
I wish we could do a canning class. I'd love to get with some ladies and re learn how to can. We canned 600 jars plus, when I was growing up, lived in an old log cabin, and had a homestead at Plato, in the 70's, for 10 years. Yeah, it was a long time ago, when homesteading wasn't cool, like it is now, haha. We had a 150x300 garden at the bottom of the hill, and a 50x50 at the top of the hill. The bottom garden was watered by a spring tank, my dad built, that was spring fed. We also raised our own meat, chickens, meat rabbits, pig and beef. We made our own home made butter and had 2 dairy cows, my brother and I milked my hand. I hated it, lol, but my dad made never made anything fun, it was work, all day long and weekends. Except Friday nights, we got to go roller skating, while he went to the auction at Houston.
I've had a garden over the years but didn't really get into homesteading until 2016, when I learned about what all was coming. It does take time for sure and I only have an acre, with a 60x60 garden. I just tore down an old coop and plan to build a new one, plus rabbit cages and a green house. I cringe that all the chicks will be gone before I get my coop built but hopefully there will still be some people hatching chicks for awhile longer. Anyway, sorry this was so long. Love your videos! : )
I planted my peas in containers because critters kept stealing them when I planted directly into the ground. One year I planted 180 and only 4 came up. FOUR!! LOL so with the buckets and netting I was able to keep the critters away and now they’re doing great!
About the lettuce, I probably hadn’t written down the transplant dates yet. I just looked at my calendar and I have transplant lettuce the first two weeks of April and bell peppers the second and third week of May. :)
Hello Lorella, Who's beautiful artwork I saw in the background, painting? Are you the artist? Lovely vlog. Hope it's not respitory illness because if it is, they'll always carry the disease & everytime there is any stress they will end up being sick with the respitory virus and by the time you notice it more chickens will develop it. It spreads through all your flock of chickens really quickly & you will not get rid of it as long as you have any chickens from that flock. So if it is, putting that hen back in the flock will have been a mistake. I hope for your sake it isn't respitory illness.
Oh I hope so too, as they’ve already been integrated. Everyone seems fine so far, I guess only time will tell.
I’m not sure which art work, (without rewatching the video), but two paintings on our walls are done by my daughter Carter. One is the blue cow, and the other is our friendship tree, where guests make thumbprint “leaves” and sign their name.