Ep. 49 Worst Job on the Homestead
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- Опубликовано: 30 май 2024
- This episode the guys share about their week. Ben says he has food growing everywhere. He’s even growing food for his food. Ben can hear his pigs farting. He talks about the worst thunderstorm to hit his Homestead. He bought a wood chipper that he’s excited about. Ben and his sons go to an airsoft field. He and his family smoked a suckling pig all day on memorial day.
Al talks about his Hydroseeder, he worked out some of the kinks, and he is excited about it. It has already paid for itself. He wants to mix up more things with it and try biochar and compost. Al’s wood boiler makes charcoal. Al and his wife spent a lot of time this week trying to figure out how to artificial inseminate their cow. Al wants to learn how to AI.
Jason shares about how he accidentally deleted some footage to make a video. He tried some of the lamb meat that he harvested. They are busy making all things with the huge cabbage harvest. Jason been working on a special video but not for RUclips. Jason looks for drip tape at stores, but couldn’t find any.
The guys each share about their worst job on the Homestead and why they do it all.
See below for links! Thanks for watching!
Sow the Land: / @sowtheland
Lumnah Acres: / @lumnahacres
Hollar Homestead: / @thehollarhomestead
Homestead Shop Talk is a weekly audio podcast hosted by Jason Contreras (@sowtheland), Ben Hollar (@thehollarhomestead) and Al Lumnah (@lumnahacres). Three dudes with different homesteads talking about homestead life, content creation, growing a homestead and building a life worth living for. Thanks for listening! #homesteadshoptalkpodcast
50TH EPISODE SHOULD BE ALL YOUR LADIES ON WITH YOU AND THEIR WORST JOBS ON THE HOMESTEAD!!! 🥰❤️🇨🇦🙏🏻🍁
Agreed!!
Now, THAT hits the Friday spot!!
Thanks, guys, for making the time to prepare this episode! I know it takes valuable time away from your families and the chores around the homestead, but huge thanks, anyway.
And, a special high-five to Jason for editing and publishing this each week. Just a mere "thanks" is phenomenally insufficient, but THANKS!!
I love ALL Homestead Shop Talk Podcast videos!
Happy Friday. We get to visit with Al, Jason and Ben all at once. 🤗❣️ Great podcast. You three have a wealth of experience and knowledge to share. Thank you for your time. It is much appreciated. 👏👏
This week everyone had great things to contribute to the show. Its was also a lot of laughs. Great show guys!
Jason, your lamb may have tasted bad because it wasn't bled. Ideally you would bleed your animals at the time of slaughter, but because your lambs died unexpectedly, you didn't have that luxury.
I also wonder about the areas that had the most current running through them and what hormones were released in the stress of electrocution.
Surely there has to be a way to soak that meat to make it salvageable? Ask Mr. Google Pants....
It should be called home-steady. Everyday it requires consistent endurance to do the work required to provide a healthy and prosperous life for your family. Reward yourselves. Take a day or a half day and sit by a lake and just chill. Find your recovery where your heart is.
That's a RUclips channel. Homesteady!
You guys had a heck of a week, haha. And all so different to boot. Great video!
Your AI conversation had me in stitches!!! Keep it up guys! LOL 😆
Jason, if you could, could you give some tips on breeding your Kunes? I have 2 gilts and a year old boar. No luck so far. Do you keep your boar separated from Elvira most of the time, or just after she has been bred? Your advice would be so appreciated. Hope your AI works Al! i LOVE Gina's secret garden area! What a view! Ben, your gardens are looking great, and Elizabeth is so beautiful! Our family cooks half a hog about twice a year, and we make it a potluck. SO GOOD!
Tks guys , love hearing how your week has been. Worse jobs made me laugh....lol...see ya next week, much love.
AL LUMNAH, BULL SEMEN SPECIALISTS & NOTARY! 🎉😅❤❤❤
Thanks so much guys, love your podcast! Never farmed myself, so no complaints because always learning new info! Happy Days! ☀️😁🙏🏻👏🤗🥰
Hey Gang, GREAT POSTING,
Gentleman, I was living your lifestyle 20 years ago,
Being Croatian 🇭🇷 I've done many a pigroast in my time, a 50/60 lbs. suckling pig is sufficient along with side dishes for 25/30 people, rub the outside skin with pork lard for a delicious crispy pork skin, salt and pepper to taste inside the belly, rotisserie for 5-6-7 hrs. pending on your taste, constantly marinate from drip tray,
God's Good Blessings to you and your beautiful family's keep up the great work love U guys XOXOXO
Fun chinwag . . . the more I watch homestead videos, the more I remember my childhood and realize there never was a day off. Cheers.
Ben, i assure you, we want to see you growing/harvesting sunchokes and feeding them to the pigs and even the farts of pigs. So instead of an update of the same old same old of the kale and tomatoes you can show that.
Or Jason, how about an update of what it costs to raise a chicken or a pig compared to what it cost for you to raise those first ones. Is it cheaper as your farms have developed and you have been growing some of their food or has inflation costs of their food caused the costs continued to rise?
Or how about all 3 of you do a video on what it costs to raise a meat chicken on your homestead. Im sure all of you will have a different cost based on how much you are paying for feed and minerals, whether you are buying new chicks each time or hatching your own, how much of their feed is coming from your garden, etc. we would be able to see if there are major differences between completely different locations and the differences between neighbors.
Then when you post you can post a link to each others video as well as do a follow up podcast a week or so later and each of you bring questions you have received to answer there bringing everything full circle in a kumbaya sort of way.
This could be done on multiple chores to show people how differently things are done on different farms in different conditions. Or how about comparing different crops? How about each of you setting aside a set number of plants like 10 tomato plants, or zucchini, or everyones favorite potatoes. You could have same seed or different seed, different ground (Ben - improved clay, Jason - filled beds and Al - rocks and shorter season) you could cover whether started indoors or not, how long until put out, whether greenhouse or open, how many days to first harvest, total ppounds and how long befor freeze or removal abd any thing else you can think of.
Just my opinion, and we all know the value of the monday morning quarterback's opinion, i think it would be a great way to support each other by encouraging your fans to check out each other periodically while still maintaing individuality, as well as directing everyone to your awesome podcast for answering more questions on that topic.
Love you all.
Love this idea! Different farms, different situations, I'd like to know the financial investments and returns. May help me to decide if it might be worth my while or not.
The clean up is just as important as the butchering. You need to teach them how to clean up after it's all done!
Great as usual. It's fun because I watch your individual videos and get some behind the scenes here too.
Blessings on all y'all!
Thanks so much
I'm in Texas and I'm amazed how many people in my area (and last town I lived in) have no clue about chicken tractors and homesteading. We're trying to educate!
Great Podcast.
I learn so much from the 3 of you.
Mostly, though, you take me back to my childhood. My dad has been gone since 1998, and of course, no one is ever ready to lose their father's. And I'm no exception. It feels like you 3 bring my father back to me. The experiences that the 3 of you go through week to week I lived that with my dad. He was a great man, like all of you. The gardening experiences my dad gave that to me. The carrying for the animals he taught that too. I even remember having to clean out the chicken coop. (I, too, didn't like that job) Butchering chickens, we did that. Dad had a saw mill that he made with 2 other farmers on our road. We had it in our backyard.
If a vehicle needs repair, I especially remember those jobs. I learned from him how to change the oil and how to replace brakes, and so many other repairs. I loved working on vehicles with my dad. I miss him a great deal.
You 3 are raising the next generation and teaching these skills to you families. The 3 of you are passing down those skills to your families and through this podcast weekly you are teaching those things to all the subscribers too.
I'm grateful, so very grateful.
Thank you all for all you do.
And I will be here every week to listen to your podcast. I also watch all of your RUclips videos and follow your lives.
Again Thank you. ❤❤❤
Thanks for having me.
Hello to the 3 amigos, here for it!
Jason, you should have that requirement on chicken butchering classes, && clean up. They might change their minds and buy from the grocery store. I can hear it now. "Jason didn't teach us about this part, lol
Normies get so awkward, lol. Good video. thanks guys.
Always enjoy the three of you chuckling with each other!
Thanks for sharing your experiences and your projects. One of the best podcasts . Blessings to you and yours!
I think the way all of you do stuff is awesome!! Every single person is different and everyone learns differently. I learn something everytime I watch any of ya'll. Thank you so much for all you share with us. 😊
Just a tip on the hydro seeding, we used to sell it/manufacture. We were primarily a cellulose insulation manufacturer and seller. The only difference in our insulation and hydroseed mixture. was we added seed of customer choice instead of boric acid. So if you find a way to shred newspaper, no ad paper/slick. Not sure how a chipper may work. Add your seed you will be able to grow seed on rocks. We added a green dye when we sold to Hwy dept for road side maintenance after recent construction. Just some thoughts
Definitely with you, Al. I have a 10x12 stationary chicken coop with a very narrow door, too. I do deep bedding. I end up attaching a tarp to the back of my riding mower and shoveling onto that, then dragging it to the compost pile. Side note, I'm a woman in my 60s. That job totally SUCKS! 😅
I'm going on 70 years young. In the process of building my 1st chicken coop. All my neighbors had chickens when I grew up. We had rabbits. What if I were to put the tarp under the deep bedding before building it? I'm in the hilly suburbs, so a ridding mower is out, but I'm thinking a well placed wench and pully system should help me out in the muscle area to get it out to the compost pile down the hill.
I'd say that might work if your doors are wide enough. My coop is too big and the door too narrow, so I just have to shovel it out of the door onto the tarp that's laid out right in front of the door.
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Jason, down here in Australia our Permaculture teacher Geoff Lawton, suggested that our paths between our beds can be sheet mulched (with cardboard or newspaper) then a good thick layer of sawdust and then the best thing was to plant on the edges a ground cover like the herb Penny-royal (mint) so that it would run all over the sawdust and as you walked through your garden barefoot, each step would release the lovely aroma of the Penny royal. We did this in Queensland, which is a sub-tropical climate, just like the extreme heat, rain and humidity you endure in North Carolina. You would have to investigate the possibility of growing this. 💜
Just for info. Here in the UK my parents used to use bands to castrate pigs.
Al I can see you out there spraying grass like Beckmann did with his machine on Ghost Busters. 😂
In one of the chapters in my life I did an AI course. Interesting chat as usual. 💕💕💕🌻🌻
Good one guys. Dirty jobs done dirt cheap
Cleaning up the plucker that someone else didn't clean after their chickens.
Jason you and Ben are the real deal Homesteaders.
Cleaning the plucker.
"AI tech" is a pretty weird side hustle, but it could be lucrative.
I’m from Texas but I don’t have land anymore but I do know what a chicken tractor is and what a chicken lift is. I had rent property but lived on 5 acres. I sure miss those days.
💕💗💕🙏🙏🙏 Have a blessed weekend!!!💕💗💕
Ben is right about online construction. People just do not understand that every area has their own quirks in the building codes. When I was a general contractor it was different in each town in a county and I was working three counties. Especially the way they interpreted the national electric code. Also barns and outbuildings were very different than houses. Plumbing was another area that had quirks depending on where you were and the inspectors. Mostly I just shook my head and did what they asked for unless it was dangerous. You cannot imagine how many electrical inspectors demanded dangerous ways to do things. I had a few fights over that because I did not want the liability.
Appreciate your pod casts, always learn something ❤️❤️
He’s still packin’. 😂 every man’s dream. 😂
You guys are great and funny 😂😂
Jason, most of the chicken people I know here in Texas know about chicken tractors. I have one myself.
Al, you keep on jason and he will have a milk cow soon.
Awesome! I'll go in the morning to our Ace Hardware here in Victoria.
Over the years I've met both our UPS and FedEx drivers to pick up packages. I'm a printer... and when you've got a special color on the press and could do another job, a ten minute drive and waiting for a truck is a no brainer. The local Depots work with businesses.
Don't have a farm, nor any acreage, but love all the cool stuff you use. What a dilemma.... how do you justify a mini truck, aqua seeder, and chicken lift? Hmm looking hard at that chicken lift, lol. He's right Jason, Lorraine was the star of the chicken lift video, lol.
Not long enough Jason..woukd be nice to go 2 hours
Another fun and informative video. Love these! Just knew once there was a huge sell off of beef cattle during the multi-year drought, prices would skyrocket and like everything else, not come back down to a reasonable level. Al, you had me laughing so hard talking about AI. All I could think of was glad it was not Gina make the phone calls - "Where's my semen!" Keep up the great podcasts.
Good morning from Dallas!
Morning!
Yes, Al needs to pay a visit to Ben and Jason's in NC. They are neighbors and they can all get together.
For the record, my very favorite Hollar homestead videos are of Ben building g the house. I'm looking forward to watching the home expansion. Thanks guys. Keep it coming. 😊😮
Did you get the split working. A/C heater
Oklahoma is torn up this year. 100 tornadoes statewide, so far. My gardens are drowning, and have had extensive hail damage. So many have lost everything they've worked for. Rough year.
OMG LOL for the 52nd episode ALL of you shave your face to the skin! That would be wild! Lol
Godspeed!
Worst job is weeding, but it's that way because we don't always use the best tool to combat weeds - TIME. I've always complained to myself how weeds get the upper hand, but not until I tracked how much actual time I was spending on weeding did I realize how little time I was spending on weeding.
So now I track my weeding time and I know how long a bed takes. Listening to your podcast while I weed helps a great deal too.
if one beefy boy was not enough but two seems too much, grow three and split it with Jason (and the feed bill too, of course)
Thanks guy's, awesome episode 👌
You guys are the best!! I haven't missed an episode yet!
Me either ... fan from oz
@sueborden4815 I also never miss a post. I love these guys and have learned to much from them. Not only the skills and know how needed but also about homesteading expectations and determination to succeed. 👍
Me either. I turn on the podcast while driving to work on Friday mornings . Better than listening to a radio show❤😂
Me either …fan from Canada since the beginning!❤
I wonder if any adrenaline rush from the fence could have impacted the muscle / meat to make the taste be off ? I don't even know if that's even possible?
Add wives for either 50th episode or 52nd, 1 yr anniversary episode!?😍
Good visit with you guys!
90% of Lumnah videos are building, if Al did the same as Ben he wouldn't have a channel anymore. 🤣
Enjoyed gentlemen keep up the great job.
Hey Gang, YES 3 PONYTAILS 👍👍👍
Awesome podcast!!!
Thanks for not only interesting content, but we can tell you have respect for each other, and not talking over each other which makes it enjoyable to listen to! God bless and party on!
love listening to you guys chat ! i listen just about every morning and night on my drive home keep it up guys !
Over a cog hill they've been using one of the Hoss Tools Wheel Hoes between rows for years. So long as he does it every few days he basically just walks the length of the row and the weeds are hoed. I wish I'd had something like that when I gardened, but even more I wish I lived where I could have a garden.
Love the content guys, keep it up.
You can band calves too!
I so enjoy you guys!…still hoping the ladies will jump in a start a podcast too. Blessings guys❤🙏🏻
My favorite videos are the gardening and building ones.
Ben, maybe you should video what you do or want to video, then don't read the comments!
Good food that you grew and butcher. Congratulations. Yes have😅 the ladies all come in and then 51 let all the children run the podcast with you three being with them Think it would be fun.
Good evening y'all, We have Ace Hardware here in Frostproof & Tampa, Florida I will talk to them to see if they have or can get it.
I’m in East Texas. I know what a chicken tractor is from watching your videos. I have never seen one out here. My husband is going to build me one for my egg layers.
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Mornin' y'all
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Shop talk with the wives.
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Al.. check out the sawmill and overhead roof on Simple living Alaska. That channel apparently is Ben Hollars favorite show or so he says. They also have an awesome shop area. Good luck.
Sorry, but finishing a job is not Bens strong suit!
Ben can talk….and talk…..😂
Ben sorry about your bull not being able to breed with your cow--he must have been gay.
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I wonder if the taste difference was from the different sheep, I hope you marked them so you know the first from the second, hate to see all that effort being tossed out.
Your video comes up when you google chick lift, nice to see "sow the land" bucket in the intro shot- good promotion all around. good for you. I have a little property and just me to feed but you are inspiring me for a retirement garden.
Hey, Al ( & others). Far as I know, a large animal vet ( veterinarian who works on cows, horses etc. ) usually will do A.I. for ya. Of course, you're paying a pretty penny for a vet call for just that, but if you can't find any other option.. could be one. Also, they'd maybe know who near you has cattle & does it themselves, so u can ask them if u can hire them to help u out. Esp. if the usual companies don't go out by you, I'd bet there's some small farm who does their own & makes other arrangements to buy the... product. Or maybe used to dairy farm and now are retired from dairy - or any cattle - & just do crops or etc. ... but would still have the skill if you can order the product and have the cow locked up when she's ready.
PSS: Ok, wow. My Dad - albeit a busy dairy farmer- totally woulda helped some local guy w just one cow or whatever. My brother & I took a private class to learn how once, I couldn't handle it. The pressure on my arm while trying to find things I couldn't see... I'm super not great at doing things - esp. totally new things - while I can't see what I doing, esp. while the pressure on my left arm in increasing more & more & the poor cow.. and I'm getting grossed out, even a farm kid otherwise super used to all this... . Yeah, never really gained the "skill" . Good luck to ya ( God bless), if ya get chance to learn it !
Sheep graze the grass, goats forage the weeds, brush and trees! Get 2 goats and raise with the sheep and your pastures will be beautiful.
😁 Post those videos with the comments turned off, Ben!?
You have to try roasted Jerusalem artichokes at least once. They are so good. Oilve oil, garlic, rosemary, salt. They are sweet, starchy, nutty. Cook them low and slow,. You won't regret it.
I dont comment that much but, tqhat is what Al need a large chipper.
Another great podcast 🐂🐄🚜🐐👍
Have you looked into a rock crusher to take your Bio-Char to preak it down small enough. I was watching this on "A Boulder Life Off Grid". the Guy used all of his natural rocks and made gravel and aggregate for his roads and drainage.
Ben, you are looking to build a smokehouse. Someone close to you I think has what you are looking for Two Turtle Farm on RUclips may have the design you are are looking for.
Jason, your video is on the Chick Lift web site but Loraine's the real star. You didn't say that. :)
Ben you are not out of ground beef, you just have not ground it yet. Hate to do it but you could even grind the steaks. Would be a shame but at least the lesser cuts could go into the grinder with some roasts to restock.
Thats better, Jason back on the right where he belongs lol
I’m missing pork a lot right now….After reading everything about grocery store pork, I’m too leery to eat it….however, I’ve checked into local pasture raised pork and it’s very costly….
Hey!