We Are Just Absolutely Tickled
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Life on our new homestead just keeps getting better and better.
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Ganja by Oozy
Get To Know You by Cody Francis
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Hey Ben. Try building Bat boxes and scattering them everywhere. They love the mosquitoes. If you build it, they will come.
If I was going to pick a team I would pick Ben everyday of the week and twice on Sunday, he is so great!!! Not afraid of hard work and has a vision for his family!!! Just a great husband and father, the world needs more like him!!! TY BTW those are BIG chickens!!!
The 12 seasons of NC.
Winter
Fool's spring (we are here)
second winter
spring of deception
third winter,
the pollinating,
mud season,
actual spring,
summer,
hell's front porch,
false fall,
second summer,
actual fall
Lol. Yep. I live in eastern NC and we always say if its cold wait 5 minutes and itll be hot. In a day you can experience all 4 seasons😌
I LOVE the sound of rain on an umbrella or roof. Very calming
Great video as usual! Please continue to be proactive with awareness of ticks and Lyme Disease 💚💚💚
plus about 6 other diseases
You have the happiest animals! It makes my heart happy to see how much joy you both get in making their lives good and productive.
I love your spirit! Your family is wonderful and the fact that you all work together is inspiring! I live in north central Washington State in a small town. We live in the county but only a few minutes from town, very rural. We've raised chicken and had a garden.
My daughter moved to a big city and bought a house in town. I promised to move to wherever she moved. (I thought she was going to get a place outside of town.) I'm sad because i don't want to live in the city but i love my grandchildren and children too much and will not break my promise. I love your vlogs and will continue to live vicariously through you! I am going to get them all gardening and, who knows, they could have chickens in their future! Love you and always wish you the best! God bless!❤
Oh yeah, when we moved to NC and got property with woods and a little stream we were so excited. Hubby would say, let's go walk in our woods!
Like you have your own little state park :)
Julie Riddell yes!! That’s how our property is except without the stream. I bet that would make it extra magical
@@WMHhomestead Yes! I am so excited for Meg and Ben and they are so entertaining to watch :) They are going to make that property just beautiful.
Are you considering guinea hens for the tick problem?
Also look into swallow houses to attract the birds, they eat millions of flying bugs!
Katjo Daniels I LOVE our swallows! Those are my favorite birds! They’re like jets doing aeronautical stunts! Love em!
Tip about red clay soil and jeans... buy jeans/pants the same color as the clay so you do not see the stains.
Lol, good idea
Or just have work pants and non-work pants and don't worry about the stains ... As long as they start out clean right? ;-)
Lol
Or, you can start doing clay dyed clothing for some of your marketing ;) I recall a Dirty Jobs episode with Mike Rowe where he went to a place that markets t-shirts dyed with red clay dirt, in Hawaii, I think.
@@peterellis5626 Interesting idea.
Ben I to is a recovering alcoholic, sober several years,.. isn't this life so much better, wish I had learned it as early as you.. your doing a good job so in the morning while your drinking your coffee you just think I own a farm... God is good.. beautiful family
When I was stationed in Hawaii we used Coke to get the red clay out our uniforms. Just pour a can or two in with you wash and wash as normal.
The chickens are really enjoying the green grass and moved so easy. And the piglets are growing like weeds. You all are doing great. God Bless Y'all.
My chickens seem to prefer the feed to the grass.
In the future sometime, you should consider digging out your swamp and put in a fish pond, that way you can supplement your diet with fish as well as have water perhaps year round for irrigation if needed.
Great idea!
Exactly what I was thinking. Make good use of those artesian springs and clay soil.
William Moore what a clever idea!
I agree!!!!
I was thinking of some kind of pond. Even just a wading pool for the boys. You'll love it in the summer.
Crazy how well the pigs have cleared! Almost makes me want to get some for clearing.
You're finding out how smart pigs are. The chickens are beautiful. So happy about your huge garden to be.
OMGosh the pigs (and bacon bits) did a beautiful job!! And your joy? Such a ray of sunshine!
Can't help but wonder if the junk was the guys way of dealing with mud and swampiness...just smh at the guy.
So cool to see you using and prepping your land
I live in SC. Use hydrogen peroxide to remove the red clay stains. I have to do this all the time. It also removes blood too. 😁
I love watching you 2 herd pigs and chickens!!! There is just something really neat about seeing how the pigs and chickens both clear the land!!!
Love to see the progress... pigs and chickens are such hard workers! Your posts are such motivation for me to keep moving forward... ! Thanks!
I love to hear the cold comments concerning mosquitoes. I spent several years in Alaska, my coldest winter was -55°f. The following spring I learned why they call the mosquito the Alaska state bird. I hope you get some dry weather even though you have an awesome crop of mud.
You have such a hard working husband Meg !
Hi..... Ben and Meg (The Hollar Homestead) nice to see you both are doing a hard work and a good job, thank you for sharing your video homestead chicken farmer garden 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 🐔🐓🐥👕🐖🌱🎥👍👍👍
Your farm looks great. I love your forest, especially because you can walk through it now!
That type of fencing that you use makes life so easy for you to care for the animals.
Get a few guineas, good watchdogs, a little loud, but they LOVE ticks! Great job on the herding, y'all! 👍🏻❤️📹
If you dont get that freeze you might want to consider a few guineas for spring hatching.
Have you met the neighbors in the house on the hill? I think of that every time I see it in the distance.🙂
Some locations soak T-shirts in that clay and sell them as specialty items. So claim it as a Hollar thing🤓👍.Embrace the water? Yes! Embrace the red mud too!
“Iron Out” is what we used to remove red mud stains from baseball uniforms. Works like a charm
I used "Iron Out" on my whites about once a month when I had really hard water. Not sure you can use it on colors though. It's pretty bad smelling, got my whites a lot cleaner though.
The humor of two people telling one story. There's always a dominant one.
When we first got our land we was playing near the ga red mud small pond,my boot got stuck. I sunk to the top of my boot was my husband had to come pull me out. When it dried up we got my boots out left two big wholes. What we need is more grass every where we r more mud. But by the grace of God we will be able to get sees for grass soon and have more time to spend on farm. I am working now from 7:30am to past 6pm,6 days a week. God will provide
Those grins! Your checks must be sore! This spring garden will be huge!
I so look forward to your videos. I check every day. They are encouraging me as we (my daughter and spouse and two little boys and me) clean up our property as well. I closed on 18 acres the same day you closed on your property. Yours was recorded before mine. The clean up has been similar. Can't believe people live like this! We had 5 sleeping cabins to clean out , a kitchen building, and a fifth wheel. 14 buildings in all. Carpets have been ripped out of all the cabins and fifth wheel, and absolutely filthy furniture, and gross mattresses and bedding. The previous owners were substance growers and had two mastiffs that had been kept in all the buildings and one nice shed we will use as a chicken house. All the couches were actually black and greasy from the dogs. The smell was unbelievable. There was resin and wires to dry their product strung in many of the buildings and a thriving (and probably high) mouse population in all buildings. I am still living on my ranch (minimum of 6 hours away-usually longer pulling the trailer). I have brought all the mattresses, furniture and garbage back and burned it. Then I haul the springs and leftover metal to the metal recycle. We have bleached all the buildings and painted them. Then we had the ceilings insulated and tongue and groove pine put on the ceilings. My daughter laid vinyl plank flooring in all the cabins. It looks so good! Did the ceilings in the kitchen building and bathhouse also. My daughter and family are living there this winter with no heat (we are solar so far). Thank goodness for the fire ring. They have a fire every day unless it is pouring rain. They are basically living outside and the 4 and 7 year old love it. I come and go. We've added a couple of solar panels to the existing array and a generator to run the lights, washer and fridge. Sun is only on the panels a few hours each day on these shortest days. This was built as a summer camp. This last trip I got two dogs relocated and a pen built. We have it set up for them to sleep in an old cabover camper (that was filled with garbage that had to be disposed of). We moved over Christmas break about 25 large olive trees (dug from my ranch by my daughter who really good with a backhoe). The clay on the root balls had to be hacked and washed off. An awful job. They are now all planted ten feet back from the fence on the new property. Looks wonderful. Also planted English Laurel along the actual fence and amaryllis belladonna between the road and the fence. Slowly but surely. Again your videos are so encouraging. I plan on spending more time there this summer if I can get more of the animals moved. It is so hot here where I live in California and so much cooler at the new place.
I'm vicariously enjoying your happy critters. Also your rain and mud - I'm up to my hips in snow right now, and I hear there's more to come. I miss my chickens, but I sure don't miss shovelling out to their house every day (sometimes twice) all winter! Their house seems a lot further away once the snow starts to add up! I'll see if I can design a better system involving the garage, which is only 3 covered steps from my door. Then I can get chicks this spring - yay!
Bat boxes are an amazing idea. Be creative in outer design. They create beauty as well as beneficial for nature and you🌻
I'm really impressed with the electric fence for the pigs....and crickets & mosquitoes ~chuckles~ welcome to a NC winter!
Watching the beginning of this video I had to go back and look for a video from last year. Compared to past year you guys now have a sparkle in your eyes and even with a lot of work you guys do you seem to have just blossomed.
You have a farm wardrobe and a town wardrobe. The farm wardrobe is your go to everyday clothing. Make peace with mud stains.
Glad to see Ben actually collects the electric fence the way it’s supposed to. Makes life easier.
I’m always happy to see pigs. That’s why I watch RUclips. Don’t forget to give them belly rubs. It tenderizes the meat “on the hoof”
Got to love them happy chickens
Drought-stricken California has been getting a TON of rain this winter. I'm loving the pigs and how they are working and cleaning things up for you.
Happy for you guys ! Lovin the pigs ! A tip for others out there, I thought of when you gave us your reassurances on your fence/water stuff. When fencing across a stream, for permanent fence but maybe a way to rig up between 2 stakes, to go with the electric systems, is to use plastic barrels suspended on their sides, to float up & down with the water level, blocking livestock from going under the bottom wire of a fence spanning the stream ( crick ;) . I ADORED this idea, when I saw it in the ( innovation & DIY applauding, ) publication "Farm show" .
The fence makes moving animals easy . Good work
We just pulled a tick off of a cat - in January in Wisconsin!!! It is going to be a bad year for ticks! You should get a flock of guinnea hens! They just free range around your property and roost up in the trees at night. They do an amazing job keeping the ticks under control AND they will alert you when a predator is nearby!! (We have no ticks on our property - the cat who came home with a tick likes to go hunt in the woods across the road where the guinnea hens dont visit!) Love to watch you guys work your land!!
Anytime we have ever bought property, we always visit it after an extensive rain . If it happens to be raining when we are walking the property even better. That way you get an idea of water flow and potential flooding issues. But, welcome to the rain of NC. Every year, like clockwork. Muddy boots are the norm for working outside in the winter.
Video worked fine for me. Amazing how them pigs stick their noses in stuff and it vanishes, that's gonna be green grass in the spring. Cool, just cool huh ? Yup ! Cool !!
Dawn and cascade dish powder mix in to loose paste will get anything out of Jean's. I took axel grease out of the butt of my Jean's. I was dumb and sat on fuel tank to polish chrome stacks.
Awesomeness !!! The chickens and piggies are happy happy happy !!! Y’all are good chicken and piggie peoples ! Love how content they are ! ❤️ And I cant wait to see that garden ! Wooohooo!
Love your comment to the chickens. Almost like to think they are listening to you. Nope just got lucky. Great work with pigs and piglets. Love watching the little one bounce around.
Yay! Good piggies! So glad they are working hard for you :)
Beautiful people always love the woods! Seeing what nature gives us is amazing. I love my woods and what secrets I find through the seasons.
So warm for January! I think.... don't get used to it? Sure beats a drought for sure. Happy pigs, chicks, and farmers.
Thanks for sharing.
I'm also tickled to few the woods being exposed! I would love to see some drone shots of how it is evolving.
I’m getting the “something went wrong’ message.
It seems to be working for some, but not for others. YT might not be done processing it on their end. Maybe try back in a bit!
Worked straight through for me, New Mexico, USA. CenturyLink IP.
Something went wrong message for me too (uk)
Same... South Carolina, USA
I got the message too.. Texas
We have a friend that make little green houses to grow vegetables for a longer period of time. He makes them out if plastic and wire. Wire is bent into a half circle. Then he adds the plastic over the top. Am amazed at how long it extends the growing season.
Hi from Scotland I can't believe how far you have come since settling on you new home stead the weather here in Scotland us crazy as well lots of heavy rain and high winds where I live we don't have any snow yet and even on the high ground there's not much the weather is strange all over the world I can't wait till you get your garden started and grow all your own veg I grow all my own and it is so different to shop bought veg I wish you and your lovely family all the very best I watch all your vidios but don't always comment stay safe take care Anne Scott from Scotland
Your 🐖's n 🐔 are doing a amazing job on the ground. Critters do your thing. May your gardens be bountiful.
For the red clay when new: Rub a wet bar of fels naptha on the spot to create a lather on the area and throw in the wash!!
I don't have pigs, but I just have chickens for eggs and to not spend money on plant fertilizer for my hydroponics, i dug a small pond in my back yard and have bluegills in it that I stocked from the local lake to poop and make natural fertilizer for me in the pond, the chickens use it for their water and don't touch the fish and minnows I stocked it. I just dug a hole in the ground the size of a hot tub, then ran a plastic liner across the hole to hold water and then installed an irrigation line to it that comes on when the irrigation comes on with the well pump, that pumps water into the pond based on a set amount of time that offsets the amount of water loss that occurs during the week. to combine it with my yard, i have a solar powered fountain pump that pumps it to the hide side of the pond i made and trickles down some rocks i setup.
Ben here is an Idea: Buy a set of rear tires for the mower place some bolts through the tread of the tires making them into snow tires this will help you get around the yard
I know what you mean about the joy of having woods of your own. We’re on a little island in the Pacific Northwest, and although there are trees and woods all around us, the patch of firs, maples, cedars and ferns and old stumps on our lot are my treasure! Only God can make a tree 🌳
Ben For the chicken coup mount a hand bar on the lower part on one end and a set of wheels on the other end that can be retractable when it is sitting on the ground making the chicken coup easier to transport by one person .
The day you clear the last section to move the pigs is going to be a happy dance kind of day. Looking forward to it. YAY FOR ALL THE CHICKENS AND ALL THE PIGS!!! \🤩/
Don’t worry it’s going to get cold. And you are going to get so tired of it. You are going to plant and then it is going to freeze and mess up your planting. This is very typical for North and South Carolina! Enjoy every good day that you get. Love you guys❤️
Soak the spot with cool water. Take a bar of white Dove bar soap and rub it into the stain. Let it dry completely. Wash as usual, then check the stain. Do Not dry in dryer if not completely removed. Repeat as needed. This works on a number of stains. Can't hurt to try.
Thank you for taking good care of your livestock.🙏🏻❤️
Talking about being in the observation stage...we have been homesteading for 3 years and I am still observing and changing systems. I hope eventually I find the things that work best for me, but if not, here’s to continuous growth 💜 you guys are some of my faves
Sweet! Thanks for clearing up about the premier one fence in water. It sure seems to be a blessing for anyone who wants to move livestock!
the "crickets" you heard were actually peeper frogs. First frog out every spring. You can hear them any place there is water.
Those pigs are sooo cute,lol. Get a bar of Fels-napha laundry soap, it gets out almost everything. Or pour 1 can of coke in with the laundry, it even gets out pine sap.
One more tip pour peroxide on the spot let soak a minute then put in washer with the rest of the load, I've even got rust out of a shirt with peroxide.
Happy Farming
How about planting some thirsty trees in the swells? Willows and Cottonwoods are great for soaking up excess water and are beautiful. Thanks for your videos.
Thank y’all for sharing your beautiful homesteading!
For your red clay dirt stains> Fels-Naptha is an American brand of laundry soap used for pre-treating clothing stains and as a home remedy for poison ivy and other skin irritants. The soap was originally created around 1893 by Fels and Company and was the first soap to include naphtha.
I love the little snippets of flowers and moss 💕
Use those trees and branches for a no water hugelkultur mound to plant in! Good way to get rid of brush and trees and grow stuff without much care needed
Due to warmer weather, we now have more ticks in VT. If you keep the areas you frequent mowed, that'll keep them back. I found when I was clearing and burning brush, the low-lying smoke from my fires also deterred them, as well as mosquitos so I'll often keep a smudge fire going all day.
You Both are great Love your humor. The new Farm is going to become amazing. Oh WoW..I see the vision. Can’t wait until late summer. To see how it all will look. Awesome! Great job guys. Bless you All! 💛
Supposed to get to zero tonight here in Maine, count your blessings. The critters are doing a great job of tilling.
So, I live in Brazil, here we don't have electric fences like Premier1's.
I tried to find and nothing, tried to import and zero response from Premier1. now trying to import from Germany. I see the possibility of a new business there. All My love from Brazil
What firm are you using in Germany?
Sandra Johnson still searching and negotiating. Do you know any?
I can't remember which video I watched but Premier one gets there wire from Germany
"don't just stare at me, actually go"! 🤣🤣🤣 I just love you guys! Watching your giddy joy, brings me joy!
Yeah!! I got to see the whole video! Love it! Thanks for sharing.
Love the little fat piglets and the chickens. They need a video with just them oinking and squaoking are moving around. Love happy fat animals. The chickens look like pillows with legs.❤❤❤ You guys will have a great year this year, you two seem to be thriving and the kids as well( we dont seem them that much but its understandable since they oryou might not feel like putting them too much in front). I am sure by the end of 2020 you will be in the house and enjoying it, Meg will have her workshop in the old house and in the future many more cute animals. Cannot wait to see you garden this year
To get that out of your jeans and most stains it is a 2 part solution. First por peroxide on the stain and let it sit about 15 minutes than rinse it out using cold water. Next rub in baking soda ( make a thick paste ) and pour on distilled white vinegar and let it bubble. Rinse with cold water. You may have to repeat one more time.
Good to see you guys! I prayed for you guys because you are not accustomed to our crazy rainy weather. It was good of you to go help Justin and Rebecca. You are the best!
Those pigs are awesome! You're land is looking great. Get you some Skin So Soft from Avon, use in your baths or after a shower and ypu won't have problems with mosquitos. Honestly!! Love to you all from me, Brenda.
Looking good I cant wait to see your garden.
And we are tickled for you and your woods! :)
Some on at least one I'net backbone are at reduced bandwidth again; a reason for buffering & whatnot. Second time this week for me. I took a page out of your book Meg; couch craft. I could not get even a nano-second of enthusiasm for either my knitting needles or crochet hooks. Kumihimo. The simplest 4 strand braid, same soothing repetitive motion as either knit or crochet. *However*; now that I've taught myself, I keep looking around the stash piles for variations... Thanks Meg!
I really enjoyed your video. You two are so beautiful together. My husband and I just relocated to the south and we are looking for land so wish us luck.
Finally saw your video without tech issues. Thank you for the updates. Awesome seeing your excitement over the woods and pigs. Have a great weekend!
Eeeeweeee! Those piggies are big! Im glad to catch up with you guys, you are doing such an awesome job!! You would never know you were 1st timers when you started! I love watching the progression of your food forest and farmstead. Pat yourselves on the back!
You get just as much precipitation as we do!! But for four months, ours falls as snow. You are going to be able to grow a lot of food there.
Last time I was on the west coast, I had to endure three months of sunny days. Almost drove me nuts!
try Iron out for well water to get those stubborn clay stains out!
I so look forward to your videos....I feel like a moma hen waiting to see how her chicks are doing....
Man it looks nice by you folks. It's zero degrees Fahrenheit here In Wisconsin at the moment, and we are expecting a minimum of six inches of snow tomorrow! You have made good progress on clearing out that jungle you started with! It may take a few years, but you are definitely on your way!
To get red clay out - orange Ajax for every kind of spot. Scrub the area when you take your pants off with it. It works. I have lived in Georgia with the red clay and have used it all my life.
Meg, add vinegar, baking soda and dawn to your washer... run the load for a minute.. stop washer, let sit for a few.. and then continue your wash.. That should take care of the staining...
I have found that beneficial nematodes help with flea and tick problems. Get some guinea hens and let them have a run of the property , they will eat the ticks too . Bat houses around the homestead would help with mosquitos too.
The gang of potato-piglets are crazy adorable 😍
I live in Virginia, and I have red clay everything as well. I have no issues getting it out of my clothes using a smaller load of laundry, on the longest wash cycle, and liquid Gain detergent. Sometimes I add Oyxclean, and if its really caked in there, and stained, I have used peroxide to pre-treat (treat it kind of like a dried blood stain) I do not use fabric softener in the wash cycle either. It works really well on everything except white t-shirts for some reason.