Planting Trees in Winter - For FREE
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Even if 50% of the trees survive, that's 25 free trees. Yahoo! Can't wait to see the results.
So good to see young people homesteading
Great lesson, Zach. I'm 54 and there are a lot of things I didn't do for fear of failure. However, those days are behind me because my husband and I are closing next week on a 12 acre farm in Central KY (which we are natives of) to start raising our food - mainly beef. We've never farmed and we both have full-time jobs. Should be exciting! Love your channel and I'm happy to have you and Ashlyn in KY. Keep up the good work!
WOW, sounds like you are stepping closer to your dreams. May God bless y'all as you move forward. I know you will have hard work in front of you but I also feel you will be much happier to spread your wings on your own 12 acres.
That is so exciting!! Congratulations 🥰
As a 70 year old lady. I really enjoy your videos and believe there is a lot to learn from your wisdom of just go DO it....try try and keep trying!
Good luck on your journey 👍👊
Good luck!
AH, the frugal live. Many, many benefits! I'm enjoying watching...
Zach I couldn’t agree more!! The best way to learn is to try. Even if things don’t work out as one thinks, it doesn’t mean you did it wrong. I personally believe the only wrong way is to not do anything and judge those who try.
I love it!
Older Timers used to say you can Plant Trees in any Month with an " R " in it and that makes sence because trees are Dormant or just before waking up in the Spring
That is a great saying!
I am favoring early dormantcy. Or early spring. But back before Utube that's how we learned ...trial and error. Just rool up the sleeves and get it done.
Go for it. Only thing you may have lost is an afternoon.
Thanks for showing everyone that you can do anything if you put your mind to it
Boy, it does my heart good to watch you and all the inspiring thoughts you are willing to share. You definitely have your head screwed on right! I was raised in the country where we raised our own meat and vegetables. And all that hard work has really paid off my entire life. And to beat all It's been FUN! I'm now 67. Have scaled down to 1.5 acre. But me and my parents still raise 90% of our food. However, I want to Thank You for the Inspiration! At 67, I find your help me get going and I Pray that many younger people will as well! I'll be keeping an Eye on you!😉😊 You are Destined to Greet Things!
That’s cool that you can raise most of your own food on 1.5 acres. Gives me hope that I may be able to do the same one day. Land is so expensive.
Glad to see your channel growing Zach! Keep the content coming. Your homestead is really taking shape.
Love the new trees hope they all live
Thank you!! Heading to 70 acres by myself. I will start where I can and do what I am able. Your encouragement is beautiful! ❤
I agree so much with your encouragement to get out and take risks. Life is a constant learning experience. Thanks for a nice video.
I enjoy watching you and Ashlyn build your homestead. Wonderful job.
Love your adventurous planting experience . I've done similar things. Intuitive plant care is my style and it's worked . 🙏🏼
Really enjoy your videos! Thank you for making good clean content!
Ty for sharing this video and idea about how to get free trees. I don't know why I didn't think of that earlier lol - I hear you have words of Wisdom - May the Good Lord continue to Bless you more with His Wisdom for family and farm and your newly planted trees to grow 🙏
The state forest service has small bare root tree saplings 12 - 16 inches for sale usually have to buy a large quantity 50-100. It seems the smaller they are the easier the transition. I have transplanted small saplings to a pot the first year and let them stay in a protected semi shaded area then set them out the next fall/winter. Keeping them watered if there in no adequate rain is the biggest challenge.
Lesson learnt fear not if you want something go for it thanks for the video .
Farming has its ups and downs.
you are my people, free trees! Love your inspirational talk, just get out there and do it! I'll follow along to see how they make it!
Thank you so much, you are very good. Im learning from you. With kind regards Torben Gram, a homestead owner from Denmark
THIS YEAR THE COLD WEATHER MIGHT BE A PROBLEM GOOD LUCK
Thank you! You are very inspirational and motivational to get on track with life. Like how are you up in the morning outside getting your fresh air and exercising. So many people go to the gym with no windows to exercise and work out when we can just go outside in nature and you’ll get the best exercise and health ever!
Good job Mr. Great update. All your out is a few hours of work. If they grow your golden. Great idea.
Thanks
Plant hickory trees...then you can harvest the wood decades later and build cabinets that will last a lifetime and beyond.
Good luck with the replanting of the trees 🌳
When you plant trees, you have a vision for the future. The last trees I planted was when we got a new dog. They will be there long after the dog, but a good reminder of him. One tip for transplanting is to cut the top back to match the amount of roots you are planting. All you need is a live terminal bud and the tree will grow a new limb/top. Your attitude towards life is awesome. Laugh at your mistakes and celebrate your successes. The more you do, will=more successes. Keep them coming young man!
Timely video. I'm doing this very thing on our farm. I even looked into moving some big trees on our property but it is way too expensive. $500 a tree to move it! -Mike
They will do good just wayer them in the spring. ❤
Not all of us can be farmers/homesteaders sometimes due to financial, health, age, or location holdups. BUT…we can all support local farmers in their endeavours and source locally whenever possible. I am a firm believer in Zach’s message that if you dream it, make it happen. Sigh, farm life is a way too demanding life for my comfort but I sure do appreciate someone else’s efforts when it comes to growing and raising good food. This channel is proving what a life plan, determination and a lot of hard work will get you. A great message for anyone but especially for younger people seeing someone near their age doing what they love.
Fantastic job and all but one tree will be ok. Enjoy your show and keep up your good work. Never stop doing things ,I am 70 years old and out side a lot building things.
Awesome video! Can't wait to see how many survive.
I planted several red maple trees around our property, one year all of them had the bark split on the west side, I originally thought i might have nicked them with the mower and caused it. A arborist told me that, in spring, the sap just under the bark in the afternoon sun, would thaw, and then
refreeze, causing the bark to split. They are naturally bunched together in nature, shading each other. I still have a few, but most have died from the damage. On round 2 we put some corrugated pipe, painted white, around the trunks per the arborists advice. So far so good.
"The best time to plant a fruit tree....20 years ago - the next best time...now" can be applied to almost anything...
I love a nice tree lined driveway! 😊
I've recently discovered your channel and love it. My wife and I have started to make the move towards a simpler way of life. We're doing what we can with where we are until we find our permanent future homestead. Love watching your videos and seeing other people getting back to a healthier way of life.
Any time I move trees I dig up from the woods, I do it just like you did. January/February when they are completely dormant. Have always had a high success rate. Great job.
I think you nailed it! Thank you for your inspiring words and video
I think you're doing great Zach! As long as they get sun, water and nutrients they'll do just fine. As you said they're dormant and as long as you could dig up the dirt no problem like you did then they'll be able to grow and establish their roots further. Use some of the chicken manure around the trees to naturally fertilize with phosphorus which will help the roots to grow down strong. A good compost will help all around as well.
I do this too! A helpful tip. Put shelled corn in the hole before you backfill the hole. It makes a huge difference. An 80 yr old farmer told me that yrs ago and it really helps. Keep up the great work! You’re not too far from me, maybe an hr or so. You couldn’t have picked a better place to settle down.
Great tip!
It will be interesting to find out how much your soil varies across your property. Turns out I've got a spot that I now refer to as 'cursed ground'. Nothing I've planted will grow there, except, of course, the weeds!
well when we got our soil test done for our septic system our health inspector said that we had the best soil Shes seen in the county!
You got a green thumb...I say all will survive!!
I'll be waiting and watching their growth
80%. I think you’re doing great.
You should just do all maple and get maple syrup every year Once they mature
I'm a new follower and im so excited to watch all ur vids❤
Welcome to the channel!
That was awesome I hope that some of them take and if they do you can take more cuz you obviously have plenty so good luck thanks for sharing enjoy the snow we're having I know you're getting it too all right thanks for sharing again❤❤❤
Hi from Niagara falls Ontario canada. My dream was having my own homestead but last year I lost my leg and I wiĺl NEVER walk again. You 100 percent right. Do it now don't wait until tomorrow. I think 90 percent of the trees will live
I hope 40/50 will flourish! God bless you, your family, farm, and animals. Thank YOU for reminding us to try new things and take risks...
I think they'll do great, nature is amazing in it's ability to survive. I wish more people had your attitude, wouldn't be so many people with anxiety and mental health issues. As a society we've gotten too far away from the basics.
Amen to the last comment from Martin Cunningham.
What a great way of replanting a needed resource! If you ordered bare root trees all they would do is up root saplings just as you have. Where yours have a head start is in the fact that they have spent mere minutes or hours depending when they got replanted. Bare root trees from a retailer have been days out of the earth, likewise if you mail ordered trees again days out of the ground. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised and I’d be most surprised if you didn’t get at least a 75% success rate! ❤
Would love to see an update come summer, and then again next summer!!
Love this video and sentiment. We are planting a pile of trees in our farm this spring (we have a foot of snow and it’s -22 so we can’t plant right now!) but I felt inspired by this video! 💕
EPIC I LOVE TREES ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
So inspiring ❤
I’m gonna say 90% will make it. Not sure I would of planted all along the driveway though. My brothers drive had trees on both sides, over 1,000 foot driveway. With the sun not hitting it , it was hard on it and caused pot holes due to the frost and the snow wouldn’t melt as quick. He ended up taking a lot of trees out on the side where there was the most sun and his drives been in better shape. Plus easier in the winter cuz the sun melted the snow.
The beat time too plant / It will be very successful. I’ve done that before.💯% That’s want I planted Oaks 👍🏻⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ That will be Beautiful .
That's so wonderful, the motivation is much needed going into the new year. I have so much admiration for you both!
Hope they all make it 👍🏻
I think they'll make it
Great video and very informative,those trees will grow and be beautiful, love your positive attitude about life.
Side note - your little synopses about what homesteading means to you guys on the videos are works of art too! If you are doing a book, I’d def buy a copy!
If the amount of trees that live is solely based on your enthusiasm for them, then 100% of them will live!! What a great project this morning. I think you did a fabulous job with the trees, just give them some fertilizer when they wake up in the spring and they will thrive. 💜💜💜
Coming from the woods like that gonna say 90-100 % their Hardie than stores
Good for you both!!! We have done the very same thing. Many of the trees planted survived. Yahoo!
Great advice Zach. There are no failures in life only learning opportunities. I believe you will at 75 to 80 of them to grow.
I've done this with trees on my farm a lot of times during late winter. Mostly maple and birch. My driveway have ten huuge 25 years old maples, really enjoy the thought that i've put them there myself. I'm guessing all will survive, only issue i've had is that some wont grow that fast during first 2-3 years, but only have a few die during the transplant period.
You are correct. There usually are several ways to do things. Even if you fail you won because you stepped forward and did it your way. God bless y'all and keep growing.
Great video. Gives me ideas for some cool projects.
Great video with great enthusiasm for your farm.
Another example of what a wonderful motivational speaker you are. I wouldn’t be one bit surprised if they all do well, as long as they get plenty of water. Much love to you both. Such great examples of stewardship! ❤❤
Do you ever miss the evergreens of the Pacific Northwest? Good luck with your tree planting. Most should survive. Its great that you have free seedlings on your property.
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Yes I do miss those big evergreens at times, but I also love the dense color of the eastern forests
Great message! Thanks for sharing.
"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now!" I wouldn't worry about the mouse clicking experts, you do you! I hope they all make it, just for your hard work and determination.
HAHA Thats great!
Thats funny that the exact same thing I was going to do we don't have very many Oaks or Maples I was going to try and plant those out in the field above my Orchard but down in the pasture I want to plant some Pine seedlings kinda block the neighbors house its only 22° today tomorrows above freezing think all next week here in Virginia supposed to be above freezing
Native trees...I think most will survive. If it weren't for the inch of ice on the ground, I'd be transplanting my fruit trees. They're too close to eachother because when I first got the property they're wasn't room to put them in properly and they needed to be in the ground.
Every fall after hunting season we transplant our pine saplings. Unfortunately in Michigan the oaks have been diseased so they are coming down. Plan on putting more maple up there next year. It’s so exciting to watch them grow. I have planted a tree at every home I’ve lived in. I think 98% of them will survive.
I only have a balcony in the city for my garden. I´ve started to garden in 2023 and am now looking forward to spring.
What I really want is to try raspberries but people tell me it will not work. I wonder if I should try. Your words inspire me to just go for it. Thanks.
Give it a try! You know, we get A LOT of people commenting and giving advice to us when we make these videos. That can be a wonderful thing but it can also be crippling. There's tons of information out there with differing opinions on just about every topic. You can only read so much before you say " screw it, im just gonna go try".
I had a friend that potted up raspberries from her house to a rental for transplant. Unfortunately, life got busy and they never got a chance to get them in the ground; so there they sat amongst the other parts of her garden getting watered, but in 1 gallon black pots. They ate plenty of fruit off of those potted raspberries all summer! Raspberries are rather shallow rooted and don’t like to be too deep, I’m sure you’ll have great success!
I also met a gal that had the tallest & most robust raspberries I’d ever seen & I asked her what she did…she dumped her duck’s pool water on them regularly. Naturally aerated manure tea! Compost tea, worm castings tea, manure tea, weed tea - all readily soluble FREE fertilizer (using what you have) that has for many decades proven its effectiveness! Enjoy those berries!!
I'm a Washington native but the Army had us stationed in Tennessee/Kentucky for 5 years. Such a different kind of forest! Thank you for sharing this superb content with us!!! I've been trying to homestead every time we move and 9 years of losing chickies, permaculture plantings, garden failures, lack of community, etc has been really discouraging. We close next week on 15 acres just West of Olympia and I am pinching myself about our dreams coming true while trying to muster the heart to start ANOTHER garden that will have failures. We don't have family or friends to get seedlings from a forest, but I have ideas about planting a fruit guild orchard with mixed rows of apple, cherry, peach, blueberry, rhubarb, asparagus, strawberries, borage, etc. Thank you for the encouragement to try again. Texas gave me 3 months of drought with a week over 107° instead of a garden this year. Here's to a better garden this year 🤞
There will always be failures, they keep us humble. A Life without failure is a life without lessons.
Thanks for sharing! Keep rollin them videos out!
This guy amazing!!!
very interesting and usfull topic i am in procec of buying land i will keep that in mind when i look at the forest land thanks for sharing .
Great content! I am excited for your tree transplanting. You are inspiring, would make a good coach👌💯
when you plant new trees they need water soon as possible for come out air from ground and roots start feeding in soil, it is necessary brother without it there is no chance to survive
We had a good hard rain right after these were planted 👍
Super Based🤜⚡️🤛
We need a tree update!
I like what you did. That's the way we would do it, try it, see if it works+
Brilliant ❤❤❤
I'd put this into education. Recycling, work ethics. Actually caring.
#BeingSaneInInsanePlaces
***You need to watch the video by Kirsten Dirksen called "Homestead Paradise: got barren land,.." and the thumbnail reads 'Barren land restored at a profit - Mark Shepard'
You're nailing it with your trees and you'll see why when you watch that video. Would love to know your thoughts
wonderful episode! I like her channel
Hello there! Fellow Washingtonian here 😊. I’ve been catching up on your videos this weekend and was curious why you guys didn’t look into moving to TN or NC?
We are looking to move there soon but maybe you came across something you’d like to share?
90%
very nice to see your work,you have also cows,do you start with milking this cows?
I think 80% ❤
I hope they all survive. Do they have to be staked to protect them from wind? I’ve never planted trees but am excited to watch what happens. Thanks for sharing!
Zack i have been a subscriber since you began the youtube farming i was wondering if i could work for you
Did you bring any of the original soil with you to mix in with the new spot?
How are the trees doing so far?
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