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Introduction to Homesteading!
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- Опубликовано: 16 авг 2024
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What is homesteading, and is it feasible to gain greater resilience and make some money? And if you decide to do it, who should you be listening to, and perhaps most importantly, where do you meet other people who can help?
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00:24 - Intro
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11:39 - Garden
16:19 - Chickens
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thank god, thought it was just my crapy internet. Ty for the great content
Pigs with a bad attitude😂🤣😂
Mr. Freitas, what do you think of all these major US city mayors signing treaties with the double u eeee ef? To eliminate access to zero milk, meat, eggs etc?
Jess Sowers on Roots and Refuge said there are 5 skills that you must learn. Cook from scratch, bake bread, start plants from seed, seed saving, and chickens.
Ignore me while I take notes
Do bees count?
It’s not gonna matter if you can get items to use those skills and that’s coming really quick
Baking bread is optional. even if you plan to live on carbs, there are still alternative options.
Like low alcohol beer 🍻
R&R's 5 ACTUAL "homesteading" skills: create popular content on YT, convince lots of random people to be your "patrons," take great photos to slap together glossy "how-to" books, make tomato sandwiches, and MLM.
I got out of the Marines and bought 10 acres with a shop and barn 5 months ago.
It started with Chickens... Then rabbits.. now we just bought three goats yesterday and have two more coming next week.
Our Rabbits are selling as fast as we can breed them! I built 23 rabbit cages of all breeds. Greenhouse is coming soon...
Highly addictive.
Do you have any dogs to wrangle your goats? Kids can be kinda tough after about 4 or 5 months.
Guinea pigs work well, too. I raise them in mini pastures i rotate. I have a row of 10ft x 12ft little pens, and a larger area alongside. Their little shelters and food and water bowls move with them. They eat grass and weeds from the rest of the garden, and i grow cucumbers, sweet peppers and carrots for them. Theyre awesome little lawnmowers, and great at clearing the garden patch of vegetation before the next season’s planting.
I should say, guinea pigs work well if your climate isnt too terribly cold or hot. Mine are surviving the heat down here in Louisiana (104 yesterday!), but they need full shade and something to hide under. In our winters, i loosen a hay bale under a tarp, and they tunnel in the dry hay all winter, just coming out to eat and drink.
My fav thing no one talks about….. keeping your junk piles organized…. That random stack of 8x8 logs? Stack them off the dirt and so you can easily get to them! The steel? Organize organize organize!!!!! The key to homesteading is working with what you have and not running to the depot for everything!
So true. When youre building a ‘stead, you always end up with scrap of lumber, fancing, sheet goods, etc. very useful for future projects or a quick fix. Store stuff in a shed, or lay down a good weed barrier before you stack stuff. It becomes an ugly, useless mess if its disorganized and overgrown with weeds.
Also need a hazardous materials area where you store propane, fuels, machine oils, solvents. That area needs to be a bit further away from your home, especially in dry fire weather.
So happy you did this PODCAST! I have done both military and civilian medicine but no medicine is greater than GOOD, FRESH, HEALTHY FOOD. I turned my gardening hobby into a business and I love helping people be healthier and fostering a sense of community around GROWING 🌱💚 26:45
A guy on my crew bailed to TN without any kind of real plan or experience or ever visiting the state. Found work real quick, bought some land, started farming with his kids. Hes about 2 years into now and couldnt be happier. If youre over 30 and youve never taken any significant risk, youre wasting your life.
Sometimes this works, I'll bet he did a lot of research before he jumped into it. If you don't do that you will be making a YT video on why homesteading can't be done.
When he referred to chicken manure as 'hot' he means 'chemically hot'. You mix it with compost and within a year it will be a great addition to your gardening soil. But if you put it directly onto plants with delicate root systems, it can damage or kill those roots. Also, keep an eye on it, because it's organically breaking down, this can generate actual heat, and you can get fires. We just went out and kept mixing it with whatever else we had as compost, including the straw we used as bedding for the chickens. I really like the idea of moving them around, because in a static coop, you have to spray for mites and other pests, attracted to fowl. Rabbit manure is milder, but still good for gardens, it can be spread out there as is, but we mixed it in with everything else, just so it would break down and make the nutrients a bit more accessable to the veggies.
I raise meat rabbits, and grow our container garden in just rabbit manure and old straw. No dirt required. Couldn't recommend it enough.
Rabbit manure is also PERFECT for dormant fruiting trees and bushes. By spring, you will have GREAT YIELDS.
Great to know about the chicken manure, thank you! I didn't hear this on other homesteading vids!
Nick, you say you're not a homesteader, but you make this list of all the things you are doing at your home to be less reliant on the grocery store. Jess says even she still feels like an imposter. I consider myself as a starting homesteader and I only have laying hens and a garden right now.
You’re doing great. Its wise not to jump into too much at once. You can get overwhelmed. And the more you have that needs your attention, the harder it is to get away for a weekend or a vacation week. Learn well the things you already have before adding more layers of responsibility and complication.
Both my parents as well as my wife and I are starting on the agricultural side, mostly greens and beans for now, theough we have done limited roots and my parents are heavily into tomato growing. Probably won't ever do chickens as we prefer ducks, though that's going to require alot of prep and practice to bring to a scale that makes a significant difference.
Both my parents as well as my wife and I are starting on the agricultural side, mostly greens and beans for now, theough we have done limited roots and my parents are heavily into tomato growing. Probably won't ever do chickens as we prefer ducks, though that's going to require alot of prep and practice to bring to a scale that makes a significant difference. 20:18
Both my parents as well as my wife and I are starting on the agricultural side, mostly greens and beans for now, theough we have done limited roots and my parents are heavily into tomato growing. Probably won't ever do chickens as we prefer ducks, though that's going to require alot of prep and practice to bring to a scale that makes a significant difference.
Both my parents as well as my wife and I are starting on the agricultural side, mostly greens and beans for now, theough we have done limited roots and my parents are heavily into tomato growing. Probably won't ever do chickens as we prefer ducks, though that's going to require alot of prep and practice to bring to a scale that makes a significant difference.
I have been living off-grid for about 6 years and plan to make some videos about it soon. Would love to share my experience if anyone is interested as well.
lots of people are interested
I will follow you!
@myurbangarden7695 thanks! I just upgraded my battery system, going to do a video on that very shortly. It's been an interesting journey but certainly worth it.
@@geoffreybritain8878 content coming soon!
You love all the people who got me into homesteading! 😀
The most important thing about homesteading is to get your mind right and recognize what you can and can't do and then attack the things you think you can't do and LEARN. It hard work and must be done everyday. It's ultimate adulting.
Backyard gardens, chickens, and home food preservation were common before WWII. In the 1960s, my father and many other WWII vets got into organic gardening. My father was a master carpenter and he gave preference to hiring fellow vets. As his eldest son, I was free labor so I spent my summers(except Boy Scout Camp) working with a bunch of vets. Everyday we shutdown at 1155 hrs so that we were all ready to listen to Paul Harvey at noon. After he finished at 1215 hrs there were 4 topics: how the Mets snatched defeat from the jaws of victory the night before, how everyone's gardens were doing, how fishing on Long Island Sound was going, and occasionally war stories.
40 years ago, my wife and I grew and canned a lot. It stopped being worth it when canned goods were 4 for $1. Now, its getting worth it to can again. Many of us were experiencing low germination rates of veggies seeds this year and last. Good Luck, Rick
I noticed really low germination rates too, thought I was doing something wrong as I’ve only being growing food a couple of seasons. Kind of glad to hear that’s not the case, but also it’s scary if they are interfering with seeds which wouldn’t surprise me at all!
@@heidilucas5222 I'm now trying to save my own seeds. We shall see. Good Luck, Rick
My father has a completely green and full cucumber plants. about 4, but not fruits. He has gotten about 5 total this year for some reason.
16:30 don’t forget about ducks and their ability to eat the bugs in the garden and not destroy the garden.
Or Guineas
Amen. Ducks are the ULTIMATE slug/ snail 🐌 control.
@@dillodefense thank you. I wasn’t aware they could be beneficial that way.
I hate ducks. Theyre noisy and rude, and i dont like their eggs. They turn any water feature into a messy mudpit.
Maybe ducks work for you, but some may prefer geese, turkeys, or chickens. Geese are still waterfowl, but i find them quieter and less messy.
I live in a NON-HOA subdivision now. I have raised chickens for years. I have a good idea of raising them cleanly. All my direct neighbors loved that I had them. I had 3 people that bought c-seed from me that had health issues that said they could tell the difference between mine and Grocery store eggs even the "organic" ones. My chickens were almost 2 yrs old and I wanted to supplement my flock and ended up with 2 roo's (Mis sexed from TSC), so I figured let them get to maturity and upgrade my flock that way. Well even with collars, the roos got obnoxious! Tame but obnoxious, Our city use to have a ordinance for 6 (I personally think that BS. ) I had a 12x25 run for 13 and 12x15 covered & coop area. Westland doesn't like that. I would like to do a Rackin house here, but the city will have fits! There was no smell with the chickens, we just had nosey "karens' that were worried about bird flu. So I had to get rid of the Roos but with everything else going on we ended up getting rid of all of them until further notice. If someone isn't creating a smelly situation and the animals are healthy what it the big deal?
We out in the boonies don't have that problem. Sell and buy dirt away from Karen. 😮
Youve got to get out of town. If youre rural and theres a Karen, shes too far away to bother you.
We did Joel Salatin’s 2 day Intensive Discovery and it was AWESOME! We took the plunge and got 2 dairy cows. Do it, Nick! You can’t beat the Jersey milk, yogurt, cheese-all of it! They’re not difficult at all especially if you calf share.
In time soon, youll lose them due to treaties being signed by mayors and Governors with the klaus orgs
Love Jersey Cows, they’re so sweet ❤
"Seeds want to grow."
-- Jess
Roots & Refuge Farm
It doesn't take acrage to produce 'most' of what you use. I'm on a quarter-acre lot, with laying hens, meat rabbits and a decent garden. Even with a four adult household, we produce about half of our meat, all of our eggs and then some, and our more expensive fruits and vegetables. We'll probably always buy things like rice and wheat, even if we have more space, but that stuff stacks well and is cheap to buy.
AGREE 💯. I have 3/4 of an acre and I have enough to sell and feed our family of 4. 5 if you count the dog.
It's only cheap to buy for a little while longer. I'm stacking rice and wheat
@@myurbangarden7695 What's the dog eating? We give our LGDs mostly dry food, with a half-can of wet, plus either a cooked egg and rabbit organs, or raw egg and cottage cheese. I've only got about a six-month supply of dog food on hand and I'm not really sure what to do other than let them have all the rabbit if the supply chain gets f'd again.
@@WyzrdCat Smart. 1gal mylar and O2 absorbers are the best way to store those in my experience. Square 5gal buckets hold 4-5 of those bags in tidy little sheets, depending on the grain, and those can stack floor to ceiling without crushing, and make rotating easier. A flat iron (for hair) is the best way to seal them also, I've found.
@@mtnbkr5478 @mtnbkr5478 Mylar bags was how I started doing it. The mylar bags are sooo fragile, and the hassle of having one accidentally rip or not be properly sealed without even realizing it is worth the extra to just use 5 gallon buckets IMO.
I like jack spirko's definition of homesteading. Paraphrasing: it's processes and procedures that convert your personal property from it's typical state as a liability (consumer) to an asset.(producer) at least that's the way I understood it.
That makes sense.
Also, convertng a standard home to a homestead can change its property value and tax rate.
If you’re well off and do everything with beauty and design and high end materials, it may add value to your home.
For us, we never saw our house as an ‘investment.’ We see our home as shelter and providence. When we add grow areas or animal enclosures, we do so with efficiency and productivity in mind. Beauty is nice, but functionality and production is much more important.
We had to consolidate all our animal pens and garden area right up against the front of our house because deer and coons were destroying everything. We put up a 10 ft deer fence, which crashed curb appeal and property value.
We dont care, because food production is priority. The ugly bits made our property assessed value go down and now we pay less in taxes, which i consider a win-win.
We can do that because we live in the woods and nobody sees our house but us.
I’m in Spokane/north Idaho area show chicken breeder, we used to homestead but we bought an auction house, now have no time to homestead. We have 9.5 acres. Grain takes the most space. Zucchini is the most prolific. If you back your peas with white cloth they last and grow threw summer. I built all my coops with “come tear my shed down” wood. Our fire wood is the same. I make vinegar, candles, soaps. My grandpa was Navaho so I know a lot about hides and stuff. I wish I had more time to do stuff. Lol we were off grid for 1 year.. threw the winter. Do lots of research. Otherwise you’ll be miserable
Joel Salatin is amazing!❤
I also watch Acre Homestead a lot. We have 3 Greenstalks and planted lettuce, carrots, peas, string beans, cucumbers, radishes, and herbs. We also have 3 five gallon pots of tomatoes. All this on our patio. It's been so great.
"Pigs turn poison ivy into bacon." I really want that. Trying to kill decades old, small tree size developed poison ivy vines is way worse then a squash bug infestation.
Marty Raney is a great guy. I see him around town, he is exactly the same in person.
How about the aspect or affect of genetically modified with the farmers being forced to buy feed or seed from one way or the other. AND penalized for it......... We love you Nick
That situation used to be really bad, with the court system supporting monsanto et al in lawsuits against small farmers and gardeners.
I think the courts have somewhat had a change of mind in recent years, and its not so bad anymore.
Big agra needs to leave small, private growers alone.
We have less than an acre and have been having fun these last several years with chickens and geese. We had a really bountiful harvest this year, not as big as wanted, but biggest yet so far.
Also, I prefer dual purpose birds.
Off grid with Curtis Stone has really good videos from a few years ago on gardening in small yards.
Quite a while ago Joel has said that except for toilet paper, and paper towels, he would not go to the store anymore for the staples of life. Books,TV's and other things are luxuries.
Please do more research on the long term effects of GMO's. Nuff said!
But how are we supposed to get smarter people😄
Everything kills you slowly over time. Without GMOs the world wouldn’t be fed
Oh goodness we had the same "seed starting" experience this year....✊🏼
Failure and mistakes are really more valuable than immediate beginners luck success.
You learn so much more from things going wrong.
Ive been doing this for 15 years, and ive made a lot of mistakes and lost a lot of plants and a few critters. But im much more confident now that i know from experience what works here and what doesnt.
12:32 Where do you start? Get a small flock of CHICKENS 🐔... They are the GATEWAY "DRUG" into Homesteading!😅😂
We always bought cows meaning my parents and they're frd split the cost for one cow and the cow farm has our meats deli wrapped style. A place in Victorville
My prob with homesteading has been once I reach my goal I check it off my list and don’t put the effort in again. I had something like a 64x64 in-ground garden that looked great and super produced after several seasons with smaller gardens, so I felt like I was done. We processed our own chix several times including winter, and we even processed 2 pigs (yorkshires) on our own the 1st yr. I mastered canning so now I know in case I need it but I don’t love doing the work. At our pinnacle we had kunes, nigerian dwarfs, chix, ducks, turkeys, 3 milk cows and their babies, and a clydesdale…and then we started downsizing after the time and expense of one summer of all that. It could nvr be our full time job, and that’s kinda what farming requires. Homesteading tho, what we do now, with A milk cow, a few beefers on 10 whole acres, and a dozen layer hens? THAT is doable part time. The cows subsist on mostly pasture yearround (no haying! But we are also in shenandoah valley va) so we water them and the chickens every other day, feed chix every 2 wks, and corn the cows only when it’s particularly cold out. The cow raises the beef, the chix leave us eggs, done. One long weekend brings us 6 cords of home heating. No weeding, no milking, no processing. We could, but we’re not gonna.
I homestead on an acre. Where do you start? With your soil. Depending on what type of soil you have it could take years of working the soil, adding ammendments like compost, manure, etc... to get good soil for a garden. I had a lot of rocks to remove.
The only seeds I start indoors is tomatos. Everything else I drrect sow. Except I use seed potatos and onion sets.
My garden this year didn't groe so well. I think it's because of the several weeks of Canada wildfire smoke over the N.E.
Get your fruit trees and berry bushes in right away. It will take a few years for them to start producing.
Chickens are a daily chore. Expect to have to let them out of the coop in the morning and put them back in the coop in the evening. There's watering, feeding and daily egg collection. Chickens need 3 sq ft each. Don't cram your chickens in. That's when they get aggressive and start picking the feathers off each other.
Structures next. You need a coop, fenced in pens, some type of barn or large shed to put all your tools (shovels, rakes, hoes, tillers, tractor, mower, post hole auger, etc....) and work out of.
Well. You need your own well. A shallow one, if you can, with a pitcher pump so you can always get water when you need it.
Start a compost pile. Just a pile and turn it with a pitch fork occassionally. You don't need any gadets. Just a pile works.
Nix the raised beds. Look, water is subject to gravity too. Raised beds only means watering more, a lot more. Gardening in the ground has worked for thousands and thousands of years. Raise beds are not necessary. Unless, you're diabled, then it make sense.
Nix permaculture. It's just organic gardening anyways and you can do that without adding all the junk that junks up your property with permaculture. IMO, permaculture became a weird trendy thing dreamed up by inexperienced people ignorant to gardening. Nothing in nature wants go grow in your old junk - old tires, bathtubs, cardboard boxes, or home depot buckets.
Oh my goodness? Is that what permaculture is? Growing in boxes and buckets?! Sounds so weird!
Reese chickens for many years this last year we ended up having our first calf. I melted butter cup. I also accidentally became a sheep farmer because my lawnmower is rated for 1.5 acres and we currently old just under 8 acres. Started with III sheeps and I’m growing my flock up to 25 at the most and what’s great is after their first year of lamming they typically give you twins, I raise Katahdin hair sheep, so I don’t have to shear the sheep because I’m really bad at shearing. And I make a automatic chicken water bucket to offset feed cost.
Please educate me how making an auto chicken waterer saves on feed costs. Thats some info i could really use!
Oh! You mean you make and sell the chicken water buckets. I at first thought the way you watered your chickens caused them to eat less feed. My bad
Hope you do an interview with Mark Baker from Bakers Green Acres Very interesting family farm&Patriot👍
Joel is amazing.
I would love to be able to have a small regenerative homestead. We only have an acre and it all downhill. I have a small garden and working towards chickens. Would love to have a dairy cow. However my husband is not convinced of all this lol.
Truth is I know many "Homesteaders " and they are simply just filling the holes with gardens , small ag and livestock .Actually they for the most part are dollar for dollar spending as much as the next person to live /eat as the person who is not .There are very very few self sustainable and non additional needs Homesteaders and homesteads ! Cost is cost and its not cheap or easy nor does it stop a person from needing to head to the grocery store or durable goods stores . I have what many will consider a small homestead also was raised on a true Ag farm until early 20s and its more hobby than real life .Too many lies on the homestead channels these days .Could it save your life one day ? Sure but not the way people do it today ! there are 365 days a year people must eat 2 to 3 times ideally a day that's way way more more Ball or mason jars than most own when you count up a family of say 4s needs !
Nick did what me and my wife did 😂😂😂 homestead rescue
I am a Beekeeper, I look forward to meeting Tina via RUclips.
the sacks also get very moldy if they are outside...
My first cassette tape was Synchronicity. I think I was 9 or 10 and I got it in my stocking for Christmas because my dad was extremely cool.❤ Throughout my teenage years, this album and especially King of Pain, gave voice to my "angst" (everything was sooooooo dramatic then!). I particularly remember using the lyrics as an example of a modern poem for an English class because of Sting's use of stark imagery to illustrate his point!
15:32 might like to try winter sowing
Grow Tunnels and cold frames are key. Also try the Asian greens like Pak choi, bok choi mache and tatsoi. Frost Hardy veggies like parisian carrots and Amish snap peas.
Don’t forget about canning!
And fermentation
@@myurbangarden7695 by fermentation you mean beer, right??🤣
Canning is intimidating to me.
I grow things that keep well for a while in its natural state at room temperature, like pumpkins, dent corn, dry beans, and potatoes. We do some wheat, but not much yet. I plan to salt meats and hang them. I like dehydrated fruits and veggies.
My grandmother did a whole lot of canning in the 1930s-1970s.
Im afraid manufacturing is going to fail and we will eventually run out of canning lids.
If everyone grew 20% of their own food...I wonder just how much things would change for the better as a whole.
When Nick says “fecal particulates” I can hear Joel talking 😂
You need to have him on your show (or maybe you have, I’m newer here).
I’m in CA (I know, I hate it), and I wanna move to the south and find a man and have babies and sheep and pigs and yes lots of ducks.
I'll recommend Tennessee and Missouri, but a lot of people moving to Idaho to do this, too. Some going to Kentucky and NC also, but in lesser numbers.
I'm really dropping need-to-know type data here, but if you want a good man, find a vet with 10+ years, branch doesn't matter, who served honorably. If he shares your views, you guys can cultivate a good relationship, and he MIGHT be willing to do this with you - his VA home loan will help. Me and my fiancé will be doing the same here soon.
EDIT: JUST BE UP FRONT AND HONEST ABOUT YOUR GOAL!
@@ronwatford7331 I’m very upfront and honest.
I’m also not trying to move to TN, TX, FL, or the Carolinas, because everyone else in CA just moved there. I’m looking at KY or WV currently, because they aren’t as popular, and they are beautiful and green.
@@ronwatford7331 but. Honestly, where do I find a good man? Who not only wants land and some homesteading, but also homeschooling, and thinks about government like Nick does? Not just Nick, also Thomas Massie, Ron Paul… actually they like government more than I do lol I need a man who hates the state.
Lol, how old are you? Im in the south and i have sons looking for good wives. Only half joking.
My sons are 21, 23, and 26.
As a mom, i’m appalled how most young women are so materialistic and career focused. Nobody wants to have a good loving family and grow food anymore. Times are changing and society needs to move back toward that more rural, self sufficient model. Whatever happens, i wish you well!
@@oneperson5760 your boys are too young for me but that was sweet of you! I agree with what you’re saying about society. I’ve never understood why people enjoy going to the mall, and I never wanted a career. I’d rather support a good man so he can be great!
12:07 it’s like a start up business with a percentage of failure.
I tried to do the experimental potato project I had some success with it but I still can't beat the price of a bag of potatoes Or the price of chickens as they are stand now most certainly if things go right that chicken's gonna be the most viable thing you'll ever own and that'll be an important thing to bring up if there's no food at the grocery store whatever you've got left over that Keith reproducing could be really important Also a potato is incredibly valuable because many cultures ate exclusively that and survived quite well All hail the potato Glory be upon it
10:09 what about solar electric and solar hot water
I’ve liked you since I saw you speak on the VA floor. We tried to go to the conference in Oct but it sold out. I’m a former TF Brown guy and would love to meet you and pick your brain.
There are so many different channels that can help you learn to farm within your means regarding land. Cassandra from Becoming a Farm Girl grows with 5 or so gardening towers on her deck and a few others I like to watch also forgers or rent land plots/ community gardens. No point in gardening if you don’t know how to use ingredients
Question; please provide a link to the burlap(?) bags you mentioned for growing potatoes onions... together?
The FDA went after the Amish.They said they can not process their meat like they have forever. Look into that story .
The overlords need to mind their business and stay out of peoples food production.
If not, the whole system needs to crash and burn. Citizens are not captive slaves meant to only enrich them while we eat their factory food or starve. Being able to produce food from your own land with your own labor is so basic to humanity that nobody should be messing with that ability.
So, too, for rainwater collection.
That’s because they want everybody, including the Amish to start eating Bugs & Plants.😊
Squash bugs and vine borers are a nightmare. I tried 2 yrs in a row to handle it by going out everyday spending 30 minutes to an hour squishing the squah bugs, finding the eggs squishing them. For the vine borer, if you can find the spot they enter the stem/vine (on pumpkin) often on the underside, then you can stick a small tool or stick in the hole and kill it, if you don't it will just eat it's way up the vine. If the borer starts at a stem close to the main plant they can go straight down it and kill the entire plant. It is so upsetting when you have a large vibrant plant w developing pumpkins on the vine. I did cut some vines completely off, burned the vines to kill any eggs. To find the squash bugs easily water, spaying the plants, leaves, stems, the groud near the stems, do it for a long time. When the plants is disturbed the bugs run and hide, they are hidden anyway, but they go deeper, under leaves, under stems which are obviously laying on the ground so less visibility, but if you have a few places you let water pool they run from there, you have to really watch, wear your gloves, and get them, you can get so many of them. Anyway it is a nightmare, huge time suck. I haven't tried to grow them intentionally since then, not bc of the trouble I experienced, when I do try again, I will attempt to use the least environmentally damaging insecticide, perhaps try using a net for a while, don't know how thet will work since the plant gets so large. Probably may still need to hunt the bugs some. BTW, if you don't deal w them, they will get on every other plant in the garden, even if your plants are in another area of your property. I would say I had an infestation, probably bc I didn't know the challenges at the start, they get out of control very fast. Also, I have no desire to be a homesteader, at all. Just a gardener, I have to grow plants of all kinds, kind of an addiction, provide fresh clean food for myself and my family n friends. I would like to have chickens. PS plant a lot of flowers, way more than u think u should. Vegetables love flower, it's a fact.
what has worked on vine borers for me is vetwrap. as the squash grows i keep adding vetwrap around the stem so borers cant get to the main stem. squash bugs get sucked up into a shop vac with 2 inches of water and dawn in the bottom. works great on stink bugs too. i go out at night with a bright headlamp and suck up basically any creepy crawler i find. tomato horn worms, snails etc.
We have to grow C. Moschata variety squash here, or we will get none. Thats butternut types, cushaw, seminole pumpkin, etc.
the stems of moschata varieties are more tough and if the borers get in, it doesnt do as much damage. The plants can produce anyway.
I dont do any squash bug picking and its fine.
I can grow tender summer squash varieties, but theyre short lived. Good thing they produce so fast!
Have you tried going out there at night with a UV flashlight @@sharlonbarnes8977?
I've heard hornworms glow under the blacklight.
Been waiting to hear you talk about Oliver Anthony
Question: Is quail manure considered 'hot'? Ty
Yes. Same deal, compost it. However, I did see a video about mixing it with water and using it, but didn't take the time to research it further, not having quail.
I’ve been burned too many times trying my own seed starts. Start in side then put it outside then it withers and dies then I go to the store and by the plant start.
Gotta move them out onto the porch and shelter them for a few days and gradually reduce the shelter.
Gates way to homesteading is chickens 🐓
13:12 what about foraging?
It requires a huge knowledge base to provide any sufficient amount of calories. Certainly not impossible, but I was homeless and living off the land for four years, and I can tell you, it's really best as a supplement to having a reliable source of meat.
Foraging, as mentioned below takes expertise to do so safely. It's a great way to supplement nutrition, but you have to be aware of your surroundings, given terrain hazards, snakes and other hazards. Also, private property owners don't take kindly to people wandering around taking items from their property. On our ranch in Utah, asparagus grew on irrigated ditch banks, and foolish people thought they could just come and take it, when we used it ourselves. God bless the 2nd Amendment; they were permitted to learn from their mistakes. Once.
@@durgan5668 I agree with you about respecting private property right but also knowing what land is owned by whom and asking permission. I’m many places there are public lands and where it’s mostly private property it is more about developing a working relationship with the land owner. Unfortunately, many people who aren’t from out west assume most of the land is public. My uncle had 160 acres of land near Omak and had an issues with trespassers. That was 20 years ago. Now with land ownership maps one can get on one’s phone really no excuse. Plenty of BLM land for ones to look for wild foods.
Even people who already own land may be forced to forage. If my place gets raided, my garden produce and meat animals taken, i want to know how to find plants, seeds, nuts, roots, and bugs and small critters i could still make into a sort of meal.
I want to make a buried seed cache of my best garden plant seeds so if i get cleaned out, i could start again.
I’ve had imaginings of raiders coming, and me hiding viable chicken eggs so i can hatch them and start over.
I try to think ahead for different scenarios. Hope for the best, plan for the worst.
@@oneperson5760 Unless you knew that raiders were coming, you'd pretty much need that hiding spot to be a fully functioning auto-brooder. What I do (as a city folk), is talk other gardeners into keeping my extra rabbits and chickens as pets and fertilizer production. If an event happens where I lose an animal, it's easily replaced from my dispersed backups.
Whats happening? Stream cut short?
Yeah, due to internet problems :/
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No comment, weird
Intensive gardening method, 700 sq ft can feed 1 person.
Its really hot and dry here this year. Intensive gardening means planting stuff close together, right? Im having trouble keeping all my close together stuff watered. I water heavily 2x a day, and still stuff wilts. Its in very organic soil. To keep it from wilting, id need to have a constant sprinkler on it.
Its blazing and 104 all day and it hasnt rained on a few months. The only stuff i have thats doing alright is corn and squash thats planted with plenty of spacing.
How does intensive gardening handle super hot dry conditions?
@oneperson5760 I am in sw VA 3k ft ridge. Cold spring dry may June ect. Lucky to have 2 wells. But use dbl ground hardwood mulch. If you set up a bed with buried log to retain water helps. Not to the intensive goal yet myself. Heck. We give away more than we use now. Except the honey don't give much of that away. Oh and huge compost piles. Nice to have a cow pasture next door. All about time, temp, nutrition, moisture, pest/disease management.
Your sound is off on here. Just sayin'.
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24:49 totally muted
Problem is the fact that if the level of tyranny that so many believe is coming actually does. That would mean its all for nothig because you will be raided and robbed and left back at ground zero with nothing, and probably forced to become a farmer for "them"
Idk what kind of weird doomsday fantasies you have but there are 300 million of us.
@@WyzrdCat and they all won't do nothing lol
@@paolasmith6179 I'm just saying that even if shit gets real bad, if you know how to lay low and you can survive with what you have, there's a good chance you aren't going to be a direct victim of the evil regime. Of course, there's also a chance that you do turn out a victim and there's nothing you could've done about it. That's life for ya.
Thats why i grow nonconventional stuff that doesnt look like food.
Like chuffa, yam vine, jerusalem artichoke, taro, etc.
And if it gets that bad, it would be wise to have a good relationship with your neighbors and stand watch rotations against invaders. Find pinch points where you can control travel toward your homes.
Even if you couldnt stop them, some early warning that theyre coming would be good.
I'm getting so many out of sync 26:00
i knew he was going to say zucchini and squash! so gross. won't eat them. well, except the bread.
I don't like either unless they are prepared very particularly. Zucchini makes well into a lot of fake versions of things like pasta and pizza crust. Squash is good with lots of butter and brown sugar lol
Even my dog and chickens dont like zuccini. I dont see it as worth growing because nobody around here likes to eat it.
So many better things to have taking up garden space.
You lost me. It took too long to really explain what homesteading is. Lost interest after the first five minutes.
I'm glad you are growing your own food, but you shouldn't be giving advice on GMOs because what you were describing was hybrids. Plants do that on their own. GMO is something that has been added in a lab that is not part of the plant from another organism like Monsanto Roundup which is an herbicide. Maybe you should talk to Joel Salatin and get his thoughts on GMOs. They need to be outlawed (period). People including you do not understand and have the facts wrong about GMOs.
Give him a break. Please understand that he’s an elected person for his state, and he needs to represent all interests when he speaks in a public forum.
Im sure he knows GMOs are no good for home growers who are trying to feed their family. I seriously doubt he would ever grow GMO stuff to feed to his kids. He just cant say that.
@@oneperson5760 Seriously. Why should he represent a corporation unless he is getting money from them. Your comment is ridiculous. He represents the people of his state not corporations.
Many people so against GMOs never took an ag class in high school. There are downsides but the upside is less chance we go through a food shortage. Even with the corn grown much of it doesn’t even get fed directly to people. But did you know that at all?
Yes, I did. I'm from SD where they grow a lot of the corn you are talking about and I was a wheat farmer in CO. It doesn't matter. @@jakeevans7617
@@jakeevans7617 , I think everyone knows that. GMOs are not saving us from a food shortage. It doesn't matter whether it's heirloom varieties or GMO Franken-food, if the food production facilities burn down, fuel is restricted, and fertilizers are restricted, there's going to be a food shortage. The only way people can get around all that is to grow their own food locally so that it's not subject to processing or transportation issues. And a small, home-scale producer isn't wealthy enough to buy patented seeds, nor would they want them, because who wants to spray poison all over the land your kids play on?
Time blindness is a term coined by Dr. Russell Barkley, a psychologist and ADHD-focused researcher. It’s not meant to be a negative or demeaning term. Time blindness refers to an experience, common among people with ADHD, of not having a clear sense of time.
Seems like the only thing that "Don't exist " is your empathy for someone's who is attempting to get help with something that they struggle with.
My old man use to say the same thing to me, my ADHD "didn't exist" I was just "lazy" or "stupid" .
So left home at 16 and joined the Royal Air Force and I still struggle with time blindness to this day. if I am engrossed in an activity I have no concept of time. I'll do it for 12 hours straight with no break and if you ask me how long I've been doing it I say 20 mins.
My father will spend his "golden years" alone and when he dies I wont even piss on his grave because that is more than he deserves.
I find your lack of empathy and WILLFUL ignorance to be very similar to my father, I pray that your son gets to see his father the "virtuous" and "good" man dog piling on some poor girl for clout. I'm sure that will open his eyes to the man that you want him to become.
This comment is going on every video you make until I see you be the "good" man you pretend to be.
Comment all you like.
By your attitude, we can all see that you are the bad guy, not Nick.
Your comments make you seem like an obnoxious person and make Nick look great in comparison.
Do better.