Thank you for this content. I appreciate watching how you do things, recycle, build from pallets, etc. Basically you use what you have instead of being 100% store bought. Your frugality is very much appreciated. It's discouraging, as someone just starting out from nothing, to see you-tubers constantly buying & having contractors build them bigger than we will ever be. Anyway, than you for sharing your simple, down to earth ways
I make them by hand so I am not sure how to streamline something like that! I used to make them and sell them but they are above most people's price comfort level.
I would offer one piece of advice. Research in Uganda shows that goats prefer to eat food at eye level. I would be willing to bet if you had a manger attached to the fence at eye level the goats would eat more of the food. There would still be waste that they would drop in the floor but it would be much less. Anyway, I'm glad I'm not the only one reusing the wasted hay :) your goats are absolutely beautiful!
Yes. It is from Hattitude by Cathy Carron. In that book it is a red 'little red riding hood' hat. I made it with Romney sheep super bulky home spun yarn and then felted it down to the size I wanted. No wind gets through this hat!
Always love your video, clearly your hat stole the show, we all love it please share details 😃 great job with the goats. Can you do an up to date video on milking your goats and how you process your milk for your uses and storage? Blessings to the journey and good health for all
The hats are always so cute! This one looks so warm! Love how it covers your neck! Way better than a scarf that can get in the way if your not careful! 💙
Another awesome video. I admire your resourcefulness throughout you and your family's endeavors. Very useful methods and very much appreciated. Thanks for sharing. God Bless.
What a wonderful place you have there! You certainly have given me so many ideas and possibilities. I'm going to start small and work my way up.. thank you so much! love ur videos! peace
Julie, I am hoping to start a RUclips channel. Content will be gardening, upcycling and cooking. You have been inspiring me for quite a few years. Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge. I appreciate you.🌻🍓🌻🏡
I do make special order it is just really expensive because I shear, wash, spin, knit, and then felt the hat. If you want a special order I can give you one for sure. I have about 100 hours into one hat so usually people feel like it is too expensive. I make this hat for $150. They last for years...mine is eight now.
Julie, have you watched documentaries like "Bizarre food" with Andrew Zimmern? He has a video about Mongolia and how much variety of milk product food the Mongols made. I recommend you try!
Julie - do you find the need to run the fan in the greenhouse during the winter? I'm struggling with too much humidity and condensation in my smallish greenhouse. Thank you, as always, for awesome, genuinely helpful videos!!
I never run the fan. It drives me crazy to use electricity when there is a breeze outside. I vent by opening doors on each end of the greenhouse winter or summer.
@@dirtpatcheaven Nice! We are on 1 acre but hopefully buying a few adjacent to us as well. Great to see others utilizing smaller properties for livestock. People think we are crazy but most people now don't own 20 plus acres anymore.
I went thru the comments and found her response, as I was wondering the same! "The pattern is from 'Hattitude' by Cathy Carron. Love the book. I used super bulky homespun yarn and then felted it down to the right size".
LOL. I make them. The book I got the recipe from the book Hattitude by Cathy Carron. Isn't it fun? If you want one made you can ask for a special order on my etsy store. Just know they take me a hundred hours to make so they are pricey.
Once they eat out what they want to it is just sticks that don't have much nutritional value for dairy goats. If I force them to eat it their milk production goes way down.
Thank you for this content. I appreciate watching how you do things, recycle, build from pallets, etc. Basically you use what you have instead of being 100% store bought. Your frugality is very much appreciated. It's discouraging, as someone just starting out from nothing, to see you-tubers constantly buying & having contractors build them bigger than we will ever be. Anyway, than you for sharing your simple, down to earth ways
Thanks for noticing. If we use our 'garbage' it keeps money in our pockets for the things we HAVE to buy.
Best hat ever!
Thank! Hattitude by Cathy Carron. Knitted it with super bulky and then felted it down.
I find it so interesting that you have developed your own way of farming. Thanks Julie !!
I think that is how we all do it right? No one way works for everyone but it is so fun to steal ideas and tweak them for our own situations.
"You don't have a slug problem, you have a duck deficiency." My favorite Bill Mollison quote.
Chickens are good at attacking those fly maggots.
I love your hat! Did you make it? Or where did you buy it? Looks so warm. Crunchy snow when you walk, must be very cold!!
That's what I noticed 💞i knit & crochet so added that on my list to do
Me too, I love it.
Right?! Beautiful.
I hope she responds. That hat is adorable and practical.
The pattern is from 'Hattitude' by Cathy Carron. Love the book. I used super bulky homespun yarn and then felted it down to the right size.
You’re so smart and thank you for sharing!! What a blessing!!
Thank you so much!
That hat should be your merch
I make them by hand so I am not sure how to streamline something like that! I used to make them and sell them but they are above most people's price comfort level.
I would offer one piece of advice. Research in Uganda shows that goats prefer to eat food at eye level. I would be willing to bet if you had a manger attached to the fence at eye level the goats would eat more of the food. There would still be waste that they would drop in the floor but it would be much less. Anyway, I'm glad I'm not the only one reusing the wasted hay :) your goats are absolutely beautiful!
Did you knit your hat? Very practical & cute.
I love her hat, too!
Yes. It is from Hattitude by Cathy Carron. In that book it is a red 'little red riding hood' hat. I made it with Romney sheep super bulky home spun yarn and then felted it down to the size I wanted. No wind gets through this hat!
Love watching your channel! Listen to that wind !
thank you so much for all sharing your things its really helpfull to understand farm life.staysafe .
It's my pleasure
Awesome compost aisle in your tunnel. I've been searching for this part of my system and I think you've just provided it. Thank you!
Glad it was helpful!
Always love your video, clearly your hat stole the show, we all love it please share details 😃 great job with the goats. Can you do an up to date video on milking your goats and how you process your milk for your uses and storage? Blessings to the journey and good health for all
Hi Ana. Yes, as soon as we have milk after Frost freshens I will make new milking routine videos. Thanks for the request.
The hats are always so cute! This one looks so warm! Love how it covers your neck! Way better than a scarf that can get in the way if your not careful! 💙
It is a great pattern. I have made so many of these!
You're so adorable in that hat 🤣 love it!
😊 thank you
Another awesome video. I admire your resourcefulness throughout you and your family's endeavors. Very useful methods and very much appreciated. Thanks for sharing. God Bless.
Hi Julianne, lovely to see you again, looking forward to seeing what you are up to this year, stay safe and well.
Thank you! Mostly we are trying to stay warm!
Love this video, can't wait to see Heidi, Palomino and Frost's babies!
Very informational video, hope you guys are staying warm
You delivered Palamino's babies last year didn't you! Sure hoping for a girls this time, bred her back to the same buck so they should be gorgeous.
What a wonderful place you have there! You certainly have given me so many ideas and possibilities. I'm going to start small and work my way up.. thank you so much! love ur videos! peace
I love how you reuse commonsensely! I'm in Central Wa, we warmed up enough to get some mud action going on the south facing parts of my place!
Oh mud! It feels like we won't have any of that any time soon! So cold and snowy here right now!
and you use what ever you have to manage animalls and heat to you garden and animal in winter i realy apriciat your affort.from antario
Thank you! Yes, it all cycles in on itself with almond no waste. Appreciate you noticing that.
TY! ❤
Very informative video thanks
My pleasure
Love the Teletubby hat!
Thank you!
Julie, I am hoping to start a RUclips channel. Content will be gardening, upcycling and cooking. You have been inspiring me for quite a few years. Thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge. I appreciate you.🌻🍓🌻🏡
Oh how fun! Thank you for the kind words!
That hat is adorable on you
Thank you! Made from our sheep!
Hot water freezes faster than regular tap temperature water
It doesn't matter. We don't want the animals drinking cold water. We bring them hot water every couple of hours.
Love your warm-looking hat. Will you share the pattern?
It is from the book Hattitude by Cathy Carron.
I want your hat!
I love your hat!!!
I absolutely love your hat did you make it
I did. Our sheep, spun on my wheel, and then knit.
Go! I realy like your hood/hat. I realy like To have the pattern. Where can i find that? Do you know?
Kind regards from Sweden
Check later comments, she answers your question.
I use the knitting pattern from a book "Hattitude' by Cathy Carron. Love the whole book!
Went to your etsy store looking for that hood
I do make special order it is just really expensive because I shear, wash, spin, knit, and then felt the hat. If you want a special order I can give you one for sure. I have about 100 hours into one hat so usually people feel like it is too expensive. I make this hat for $150. They last for years...mine is eight now.
@@dirtpatcheaven it sounds awesome. Sadly, it's a bit pricey for me, but I'm sure it's worth the value.
Julie, have you watched documentaries like "Bizarre food" with Andrew Zimmern? He has a video about Mongolia and how much variety of milk product food the Mongols made. I recommend you try!
I haven't seen it but I do know about the Mongol use of horse milk. Pretty cool right?
Julie - do you find the need to run the fan in the greenhouse during the winter? I'm struggling with too much humidity and condensation in my smallish greenhouse. Thank you, as always, for awesome, genuinely helpful videos!!
I never run the fan. It drives me crazy to use electricity when there is a breeze outside. I vent by opening doors on each end of the greenhouse winter or summer.
We use our waste hay the same way. New to the channel, are you still on 1.5 acres?
Yes, still on 1.5 acres in Idaho.
@@dirtpatcheaven Nice! We are on 1 acre but hopefully buying a few adjacent to us as well. Great to see others utilizing smaller properties for livestock. People think we are crazy but most people now don't own 20 plus acres anymore.
i need to get my wife that style hat
I love your hood cap, do you make or purchase that? Where could I find one?
I went thru the comments and found her response, as I was wondering the same!
"The pattern is from 'Hattitude' by Cathy Carron. Love the book. I used super bulky homespun yarn and then felted it down to the right size".
If they're labor is longer do they pay more attention to The offspring?
Hmmm, the goats? It depends because if they labor too long the mother is so exhausted she can't stand up to nurse them.
Do you have a pattern for the hood you are wearing? Love your vids!🥰
I do. It is I believe in the book 'Hattitude' by Cathy Carron. Little Red Riding Hood hat.
Thank you for the help with the pattern! God bless and Rock on , girl! Love the channel!😊
We collect waste and surplus and use it - we are thrifty.
New sub! Great video! Can you please share source for your hat! I need it!😊
LOL. I make them. The book I got the recipe from the book Hattitude by Cathy Carron. Isn't it fun? If you want one made you can ask for a special order on my etsy store. Just know they take me a hundred hours to make so they are pricey.
@@dirtpatcheaven Oh wow! You are so talented! Can you give me an idea of how much? I would love to order one if I can!
A lot of good hay wasted there
Once they eat out what they want to it is just sticks that don't have much nutritional value for dairy goats. If I force them to eat it their milk production goes way down.
Hmmm, I take it with all the white stuff behind the pen yaw aint livin in Texas
Do rocks need fertilizer?
Mine sure seem to
You in Oklahoma? No rocks grow in your garden like mine?
Why don't you offset the breeding six months so you're never without milk?
Goats only come into heat in the fall similar to deer. So after a few cycles they just stop cycling and won't cycle again until fall.
I breed them at the beginning and end of the breeding season. I could have bred Palomino one month later but I don't like having babies in June.
Is the alfalfa GMO?
Vernal is a good old variety for alfalfa.