Your son making sure the hay they were eating was clean ...was such a SWEET SWEET thing oh my goodness looking after the new goats already on day one GREAT JOB little man !!
When I was in high school in Washington State back in the late 1960s we heard stories of the "Goat Lady" that lived up in the mountains. A few years later a friend and I decided we'd go up there and see if she was real. She was. She lived alone and kept a lot of goats that she let range on a 100 acres or so. She said she and her husband, before he died, once had a big cheese making operation and shipped cheese all over the world, including to Greece. It was winter with snow on the ground, and we visited with her in her trailer that was, like 90 degrees F. at the ceiling and 40 degrees on the floor. Wood heat. My feet were cold from getting wet on the hike in. She gave us what she called "fretoast", a kind of goat cheese. You could see Mt. St. Helens from her place-that was before it blew up. I went horseback riding up in that area once. -Art's Dad
Dear Art's Dad,I just loved this story keep them coming...I see where Art gets his zest for life and the outdoors...you have lots of knowledge to share with us keep it going/coming...From a green but cold Yarmouth,Nova Scotia
Thanks. Once I was taking the ferry to Nantucket Island and sitting in a booth. Some boy of about 11 years old came up and shyly said he loved my show. I said in a friendly way, "I know what you're talking about, but I'm not who you think I am." Everywhere I went on the ferry he and his buddies kept staring at me and whispering. They were sure I was someone from the Duck Dynasty family. I was wearing camo pants and let my beard be longish. (No, I'm just from the ART and BRI family.)
This is fun being at the beginning stages of the animal aspects of your homestead. You thank us for our time.....we thank you for the enjoyable minutes you provide for us. I'd take even more if I could :).
She was exactly right about the ligament! The most sure fire way to tell. Smart girl. The bag will develop first, then some mucus, then the ligaments will disappear. Good luck!
Fantastic, very happy for you all. It's lovely to see how taken the children are with the goats!! The goats seem to love them back already! Good luck with those babies!! 😃
Ha ha ... the goat van! pretty cool ya used what you have to get a job done. Now your flock will grow! happy children, happy goats, happy Mom and Dad. A great story☺
So excited for you! I'm also glad to know you can fit all of that in a mini van incase our truck breaks down :D Yay your BUILDING YOUR HOMESTEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations! This is such a wonderful video and Grace is spot on about how to tell when they are going to have their babies. You are going to take wonderful care of them.
This was such a cool video. Cant wait for the kids to be born. I loved it that you all took the time to make the goats feel welcome and not so fearful. Goats are very smart and they do feel fear.
there is something spiritual in mountain territory. I once lived on a mountain just north of Asheville I camped there hard core style. it was raw and awesome, love your sincerely!
Congrats! I bet it's really starting to feel like a homestead now! I know you are worried about the cold but I think you will love visiting them every day!
Luv you guys and we gladly spend my time watching. You inspire us. We live in California and we do as much as we can on our 1/4 acre suburban lot but we've been working towards moving out of CA and doing what you are doing. It's been a dream for way too long and this coming year we plan on making it a reality. So thank you for sharing and inspiring us to really do it. Lastly, your description of Guatemala and the market bus took me back to my time spent in El Salvador. That was great!
my neice who lives in Alaska has miniature horses that she has transported in an economy car and buckets of spent grain too. lol That's grain left over from the brewing process the local brewery gives it away. The goats, pigs and sheep love it!
Congratulations on the goats! So excited for yall, they're adorable! It's great that your children are being exposed to learning to take care of farm animals at such a young age. I wish my family had that lifestyle when I was a kid. I would love to have that knowledge now. It will be a learning experience for us if we ever venture into raising farm animals.
Don't goats make the funniest faces? Too cute how they have bonded with your daughter. I work in a high stress environment in the big city. Your videos are a breath of fresh air and sanity to me. Thank YOU!
First of all, I love the caps that Grandma made everyone. What a thoughtful labor of love. Secondly, I am soooo happy for your family. Your plans are coming together one by one. Your oldest daughter ( ~ is it Grace ? ) is such a gentle soul. She had a real way with animals. I'll bet she was good with her brothers and sisters when they were babies. Congratulations to all of you.
I have to tell you that I enjoy watching your videos every morning. I just wish I was younger to do the things that you guys are doing now. I'm enjoying my chickens I've had for one year now and I also raise bees for the last five years. Thanks for sharing your videos with us I look forward to seeing them
Congratulations! It' amazing what you can do with a minivan! I once hauled a garden full of mulch in the trunk of my Oldsmobile Achieve, one load at a time. Third world do the best they can with what they've got. The do not let not having the "right" tool prevent them from doing what they have to do to take care of their families. They are not pretentious. Pretension = Prevention.
Enjoyed the video. Nigerian Dwarf Goats are easy going. They seem to be settling in very well. Great job and you all will love them. Looking at their udders, not ready to kid yet...
I seriously can't tell you how excited I was to watch this video! Gracie is a natural! They are such sweet, calm little goats! I can't wait to see how many they have! The all brown one, cocoa?, looks like she will have 2-3! But you never can tell with goats! Keep in touch!
I am a brand new viewer as of today and I've watched several of your videos already. I really love your family, your farm and the goats and look forward to the day the kids are born! I have friends who own an alpaca farm on Vancouver Island in Canada here and was there to see a baby born last summer. It was a fascinating process watching the mother beforehand, in labor and then giving birth to this little sweet animal who stood up within minutes with these legs that were a mile long. Congratulations on your vision becoming reality. I wish you a wonderful 2017. Heather, St. Albert, Alberta, 🇨🇦
Can't wait to see you guys at the Appalachian Homestead Conference! We look forward to your video every day and it will be great to meet you in person.
Just 'WOW' man you have a beautiful family and a good life there on you little farm nice to see more animals on there. please keep up the great videos great channel
We used to have a goat that would climb the fence, I had never seen anything like that before. She was a escape artist. We made our own goat cheese as well very simple thing, it was fresh cheese not aged. I love goats, but where we live it is impossible to have them now.
SO exciting!!!! SO happy for you guys!!! :) The goats are just adorable!!! I know the chickens are very happy there. How nice to see Grandpa too!! I just LOVE your sweet family SO much! XOXOX Love watching your videos. Thank you for taking the time to make them for us. :)
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Your son making sure the hay they were eating was clean ...was such a SWEET SWEET thing oh my goodness looking after the new goats already on day one GREAT JOB little man !!
When I was in high school in Washington State back in the late 1960s we heard stories of the "Goat Lady" that lived up in the mountains. A few years later a friend and I decided we'd go up there and see if she was real. She was. She lived alone and kept a lot of goats that she let range on a 100 acres or so. She said she and her husband, before he died, once had a big cheese making operation and shipped cheese all over the world, including to Greece. It was winter with snow on the ground, and we visited with her in her trailer that was, like 90 degrees F. at the ceiling and 40 degrees on the floor. Wood heat. My feet were cold from getting wet on the hike in. She gave us what she called "fretoast", a kind of goat cheese. You could see Mt. St. Helens from her place-that was before it blew up. I went horseback riding up in that area once. -Art's Dad
Dear Art's Dad,I just loved this story keep them coming...I see where Art gets his zest for life and the outdoors...you have lots of knowledge to share with us keep it going/coming...From a green but cold Yarmouth,Nova Scotia
Stories of all sort, including family stories have always been part of our life. I've written a few, too.
It's fun for me to give a little background. I'd love to visit NS sometime. I enjoyed Alaska when I took Edie and the two youngest boys.
+UniversalDirt Love hearing about your life experiences, too! ☺👍
Thanks. Once I was taking the ferry to Nantucket Island and sitting in a booth. Some boy of about 11 years old came up and shyly said he loved my show. I said in a friendly way, "I know what you're talking about, but I'm not who you think I am." Everywhere I went on the ferry he and his buddies kept staring at me and whispering. They were sure I was someone from the Duck Dynasty family. I was wearing camo pants and let my beard be longish. (No, I'm just from the ART and BRI family.)
Thank you for sharing your video homestead ART and BRI🐔🐓🐥🐕🐖🐈🐐🌱🐄🎥👍👍👍
This is fun being at the beginning stages of the animal aspects of your homestead. You thank us for our time.....we thank you for the enjoyable minutes you provide for us. I'd take even more if I could :).
Gotta love the minivan truck! ~ Rebekah
Justin Rhodes what
the chickens are looking great, their feathers are so shiny.
She was exactly right about the ligament! The most sure fire way to tell. Smart girl. The bag will develop first, then some mucus, then the ligaments will disappear. Good luck!
She has read whole books on goats.
They are lovely! And Gracie is already a goat whispered! Blessings!
The barn cats are adorable as well as those goats!
So exciting to join the homestead! Thank you for sharing your big day! Many joys are to come.
So cute watching the goats walking with the girls. They look so tame. Glad your feeling better.
Nice to see you are getting eggs!
Goats in minivans. Love it! It's nice to see your farm growing. Good luck with both the goats and birds
Thank you!
ART and BRI 🌹👍
My wife and I long for the day we can move on to our own land and start homesteading. I love watching your videos!
Thank you for watching! We really appreciate it!
excitement doubled...thank you...
How delightful! Two goats, plus 4 eggs from the chickens! Many blessings of this new year for your homestead, now a farmstead!
You guys are awesome! Way to use the resources you have on hand to get the job done. your video work just keeps getting better. What an inspiration.
Thank you!
Fantastic, very happy for you all. It's lovely to see how taken the children are with the goats!! The goats seem to love them back already! Good luck with those babies!! 😃
they are lovely, so pleased for you.
your oldest is smart and got it together, love your family
How exciting, keep living your dream.
Ha ha ... the goat van! pretty cool ya used what you have to get a job done. Now your flock will grow! happy children, happy goats, happy Mom and Dad. A great story☺
Happy to see your new goats. Your farm is growing ! That's wonderful ! Can't wait to see the kids in the spring... Thanks for sharing...
Loved this episode!!! Good to see Art feeling better already. Justice is right....you have a farm!!!! Gracie, so cute with the goats!!!!
I so hope Bri gets those goats back. So sweet
Glad for you guys
So glad your better , Art
Congratulations! How exciting in less than 2 weeks you have added a whole lot to your homestead!
Y'all are going to have so much fun with the baby goats! I had a set of twins, and it's so sweet to spend time with them and see them warm up to you!
Awe what sweet goats!
My gosh your daughter knows so much! She is so smart! She must of wanted them badly because she knows all about them!
THANK YALL for sharing your lives
Thank you for watching!
I love your videos. A real family sharing life and sharing love.
Thanks for watching!
Goats AND the first eggs of the season! Great day, for sure!
We felt very pleased with the day!
awh yeeh! you got the goats! :)
Also Brighten's smiles...melt my heart!
So excited for you! I'm also glad to know you can fit all of that in a mini van incase our truck breaks down :D Yay your BUILDING YOUR HOMESTEAD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Oh your funny! Love watching your family grow your homestead! Toodles🌞
Love watching you "grow" your farm! Thanks for sharing the great goat "Odyssey."
Thank you for watching.
Hey! Owner of my 2nd Odyssey here! No shame in that game! Hope you all are warm & well! xo
Quite cozy and ready for the cold weather.
And hope you are feeling much better!
Thank you for that great clip...It was great to see....Goats sure seem to to happy...Kids will be easy to find. LOL
Congratulations! This is such a wonderful video and Grace is spot on about how to tell when they are going to have their babies. You are going to take wonderful care of them.
Now, theyjust need a couple things to climb and play on. Pretty animals. Congrats!
I should have showed you guys the "toy" Grace made for them .
This was such a cool video. Cant wait for the kids to be born. I loved it that you all took the time to make the goats feel welcome and not so fearful. Goats are very smart and they do feel fear.
We could tell they were nervous. I spent quite a bit of time in the barn this a.m. trying to reassure them that they were safe and loved.
So exciting!! Congrats on the new editions! It's all starting to come together! 😀
Wonderful! Can't wait to see your baby goats. I am so happy for you guys
there is something spiritual in mountain territory. I once lived on a mountain just north of Asheville I camped there hard core style. it was raw and awesome, love your sincerely!
You're kids are so darling and intelligent.
Congrats! I bet it's really starting to feel like a homestead now! I know you are worried about the cold but I think you will love visiting them every day!
Luv you guys and we gladly spend my time watching. You inspire us. We live in California and we do as much as we can on our 1/4 acre suburban lot but we've been working towards moving out of CA and doing what you are doing. It's been a dream for way too long and this coming year we plan on making it a reality. So thank you for sharing and inspiring us to really do it.
Lastly, your description of Guatemala and the market bus took me back to my time spent in El Salvador. That was great!
I love hearing how we inspire folks! - Bri
Your goats are gorgeaous! And I love the blue eyes.
They are just beautiful! Congratulations!! Gracie the goat whisperer, LOL! :-) Enjoy!
Gracie is spot on with that knowledge 👍🏻. We have hauled all of our goats in a van or SUV much fun. You goat home is awesome!
my neice who lives in Alaska has miniature horses that she has transported in an economy car and buckets of spent grain too. lol That's grain left over from the brewing process the local brewery gives it away. The goats, pigs and sheep love it!
Greetings from Russia! Thank you for interesting video! 👍🤠
Hey guys.. Brighton is adorable .. petting the lil goats.. pretty boy, aameen.
Such a nice family and the mother smiles making the videos more beautiful. I subscribed.
Congratulations on the goats! So excited for yall, they're adorable! It's great that your children are being exposed to learning to take care of farm animals at such a young age. I wish my family had that lifestyle when I was a kid. I would love to have that knowledge now. It will be a learning experience for us if we ever venture into raising farm animals.
CONGRATS on bringing your new goats home! How exciting for you!!! Enjoy :)
Thank you!
Brighton seems to always be happy! Love your family.
So sweet how fast you all became a 'real' farm. What a blessing you all are.
LOVE LOVE LOVE everything about thus episode...... What a valuable resource and learning experience for your lil ones :)
Looks like Gracie is going to be the family's Vet Tech. She is really smart! 🤗
For real! She is already planning on being a farmer when she grows up and Joyful is planning on being a veterinarian.
I'm so happy for you.
Don't goats make the funniest faces? Too cute how they have bonded with your daughter. I work in a high stress environment in the big city. Your videos are a breath of fresh air and sanity to me. Thank YOU!
Thank you for watching!
I love babykins pulling his hat off at 6:01....so cute
I LOVE the videography on this video! I like when you were driving that you filmed the landscape. SO great!
and amazing hand knit hats!!
and..and.....the mamas calling for your girls!!!! What in the world!
LOVE!
You are such a sweet family! I hope you are well and the goats are doing well. I hope to get my Nigerians soon. I love goats!
Hey we did the same thing with a pony!! That was adventure
First of all, I love the caps that Grandma made everyone. What a thoughtful labor of love. Secondly, I am soooo happy for your family. Your plans are coming together one by one.
Your oldest daughter ( ~ is it Grace ? ) is such a gentle soul. She had a real way with animals. I'll bet she was good with her brothers and sisters when they were babies. Congratulations to all of you.
I am so happy
Oh that's awesome. I'm glad I'm not the only one who picks up straw in a minivan. Lol
I have to tell you that I enjoy watching your videos every morning. I just wish I was younger to do the things that you guys are doing now. I'm enjoying my chickens I've had for one year now and I also raise bees for the last five years. Thanks for sharing your videos with us I look forward to seeing them
Love love your videos!! Gracie is so smart, looks like these are her goats!😉
Congratulations! It' amazing what you can do with a minivan! I once hauled a garden full of mulch in the trunk of my Oldsmobile Achieve, one load at a time. Third world do the best they can with what they've got. The do not let not having the "right" tool prevent them from doing what they have to do to take care of their families. They are not pretentious.
Pretension = Prevention.
The goats set up is amazing! Good job :)
I just find this videos what a beautiful family
awesome update thank you for sharing and have a blessed day
So happy for you guys...for some reason Bri couldn't stop smiling.....😉
I am just SO EXCITED!!! - Bri
Enjoyed the video. Nigerian Dwarf Goats are easy going. They seem to be settling in very well. Great job and you all will love them. Looking at their udders, not ready to kid yet...
A well oiled machine. Loved the video.
Awww little Grace is so cute ☺️well all of them are
Yay the goats are home! Can't wait to get my own 💜
Me too! It is so FUN watching this family grow and learn! I wanna play too!
We really appreciate all of our viewers! Thank you for watching!
SThanks for all ur sharing what u do God Bless
Congrats on the eggs and goats!
I seriously can't tell you how excited I was to watch this video! Gracie is a natural! They are such sweet, calm little goats! I can't wait to see how many they have! The all brown one, cocoa?, looks like she will have 2-3! But you never can tell with goats! Keep in touch!
I am out of town for the night and I am SO worried about the goats!!!! - Bri
lol, they will be fine! they have Arthur and Gracie! You enjoy yourself! xoxoxo
I am a brand new viewer as of today and I've watched several of your videos already. I really love your family, your farm and the goats and look forward to the day the kids are born! I have friends who own an alpaca farm on Vancouver Island in Canada here and was there to see a baby born last summer. It was a fascinating process watching the mother beforehand, in labor and then giving birth to this little sweet animal who stood up within minutes with these legs that were a mile long. Congratulations on your vision becoming reality. I wish you a wonderful 2017. Heather, St. Albert, Alberta, 🇨🇦
Thanks for watching! Welcome to our channel!
Can't wait to see you guys at the Appalachian Homestead Conference! We look forward to your video every day and it will be great to meet you in person.
i am happy for your new adventure.
Just 'WOW' man you have a beautiful family and a good life there on you little farm nice to see more animals on there.
please keep up the great videos
great channel
Thank you!
Exciting! Very cool :)
We used to have a goat that would climb the fence, I had never seen anything like that before. She was a escape artist. We made our own goat cheese as well very simple thing, it was fresh cheese not aged. I love goats, but where we live it is impossible to have them now.
So awesome and I love the music !
Awesome. Love the goats.
SO exciting!!!! SO happy for you guys!!! :) The goats are just adorable!!! I know the chickens are very happy there. How nice to see Grandpa too!! I just LOVE your sweet family SO much! XOXOX Love watching your videos. Thank you for taking the time to make them for us. :)
Thank you for watching!
awesome!
So much fun, hope to get some soon!!!!😃😃😃😃😃
Beautiful scenery. Love y'all,from SC.
So reminds me of when we moved our 8 chickens and 4 bales of straw in and on our little subaru! hahaha The struggle is real.
hi im from sri lanka ..beautiful kids and fram nice to see justin chickens ...thank you for shears lovely videos ....
Can't wait to see the babies
It’s time for more, Bre!