Foraging & Wood Processing | a REAL day in the life of an off-grid homestead
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- This week on our homestead, we take on a project to expand our solar system and brew up some home-brewed beer! (But we make a HUGE mistake) We build out a 400 watt solar wagon that we will be able to move throughout our property. We then have some fun a brew up a pumpkin coffee ale in the spirit of fall....but it doesn't all go as planned.
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I believe Matt is a genius. I love the way the two of them approach life. The two of them really have something special. SPHEREMOTOR, the future of electricity.
Don't attract critters to your compost pile. Build a worm tower for your kitchen scraps from a five gallon bucket in your herb garden. Drill holes around the bottom for the worms to move in and out then bury it about half way down. Add scraps and a lid then wait for the worms to make your compost and loosen the soil at the same time. Good Job.
I love her enthusiasm and the joy she projects . Great personality
My wife and I are on this very journey. We are grunting it out here in Oklahoma and get much encouragement, hope, ideas as well as entertainment from your videos. Keep plugging and making it happen. You two have absolutely beautiful energy.
Nancy and I enjoy watching your videos, we are hoping to find a suitable tract to homestead in TN, we are currently in Va and its become to built up here, we suspect kids have been shooting our livestock in past years at point blank range, powder burns between eyes, We still raised chickens and veggies for awhile. But its time to find country again. It was country here when I was a kid, but looks like only city folks live here now. We don't dislike respectful city folks, but many have no respect for anyone. I like your raised garden beds, have 0 experience with them, we always field grew stuff. I farmed 100's of acres. We had 100 plus cattle and 50 goats, over thousand chickens. We have been selling out trying to get ready to move. So keep doing what you are doing guys, We believe in You! You got this!
You two are great,keep on making your dream come true,God bless!!❤
wow thank you so much! Keep fighting for our dream :) Appreciate the love
Forrest pigs be loving them acorns!
Matt, your wife is a sweetheart. You are a blessed man to have her. You two are very awesome. Been watching you from the beginning. Will be here on RUclips with you 2 with your journey in life. Peace!!!
Your dog cracks me up. Such a , how did describe him., … a potato. 😁🥔 With the chainsaw going, my dogs would be freaking, but they’re freaks anyway. 🤣😂😅😁
Good afternoon you guys hope you guys had a wonderful day I know it's Sunday but hope everything gets straightened out over there next year has been able to stay there all right God bless you guys❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Sassafras smells like fruit loops. It’s very medicinal too
We will have to look into that.... Thanks for the idea :)
I was looking for this comment to see if anybody else had already told them what the Froot Loops smell was. When I was a teen, I went to conservation school which taught us about all kinds of wilderness survival and wild food harvesting and we made sassafras tea. It was delicious. There are many different things you can use the sassafras tree for.
We used to stack our firewood in a circle on pallets
Tennessee here also. Your place looks amazing. I was gonna say you should lookup Goldenrod and the benifits of it. Now is prime time to harvest and you can use the leaves for tea and make tinctures from other parts. My wife is learning about it and picked a lot this weekend. I saw some in your video and it made me think of it.
Look for the goldenrod spiders. They are beautiful. They turn yellow and white. Yellow while on the golden rod and white when on any near by white flowers. They have a bubble butt, but they aren't big nor tiny. It is hard to find them because they blend in and hide and run off. Golden rod is good for the urinary system acting as a diuretic. It is a food too.
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Get a small wood burning stove and install it properly, it will provide a lot of heat this winter. From everything I has seen it is going to be a sever winter! Plan for it.
It looks to me, like the two of you are great stewards of your property !! I love love love your lifestyle and your RUclips channel !! 🙂✌🏼😎🫡🇺🇸🇺🇸
Sassafras is probably what smells like cereal. My husband says it smells like fruity pebbles to him 😂
Just keep doing what your doing great and naturally done, great place 😊❤
That food looks so good! I am so hungry for something other than trail food. 1 more day, baby!🎉
You might be smelling sassafras. In the old days folks made tea, know as sassafras tea. It was also used to make root beer drink.
After I posted is see some have already mentioned it.
Just started watching your videos and now subscribed. Love it! Keep it going .
Good luck with all the wood everywhere. I have s tree problem. Had some cut down but have huge piles of branches all around the house. Looks like if someone were to be burned at the stake only my house is in the middle. Haha thanks guys. Great video
That tree could be a sugar cane I think
Fruit or nut woods have a very food like aroma. Apple and cherry are the most noticable.
I don't know about white oak but oak in general is great firewood. Blessings from Oregon.
Yes we are really lucky to have so much oak on our property :) We are looking forward to the days where we have a fire place haha :) Thanks for watching.
What about planting new stuff like blackberries or blueberries? Stuff that grows on its own that makes food but doesn't need attention. Just grow food everywhere.
That is the idea!! It just grows without too much maintenance :)
Do it! I planted 100 blue berry bushes and 80 raspberry bushes years ago and get a months worth of berries in bloom end of May to beginning of July in TN. About 2 gallons a day for a full month!
I’m in Tennessee but no homestead, I wish!! Have a great adventure
Happy to have you around for our adventure! Thanks for watching :)
Gotta watch out for the snakes! My husband and I are looking at moving to TN in the next year too do something similar! Excited to watch your guys progess! Congrats!
I don't eat cereal, so IDK what it smells like, but I know some trees smell when you cut them, and some smell good or bad when you burn them, especially when they are still wet
Kitchen view is nice!
Sassafras smells like cereal. You can make tea from the tree roots. The mushroom compost is very rich and great to mix in with your soil for vegetables. That mushroom compost is actually pastureized horse manure and straw that they put in grow beds to grow mushrooms. I used to buy from Monterey Mushrooms in Loudon,TN all the time. Good luck I enjoy yall's videos
Thats wild, I live in Loudon.
Love y'all
You keep each other with an upbeat attitude 😊👍✨ that's beautiful 💜✨😊
We love you too! Life is ups & downs but finding someone who can support and share those with you is so important. Thanks for being here
The wood is spalting is what the smell is, I have a sawmill and smell it a lot when milling logs on the brink of being rotten
God provides!
New to your channel and really enjoy you guys. Cass you are very lively!! You guys need a bit more wood. winter is coming and it can get cold. hope you guys start thinking about the kind of heating source you're going to use. Kerosene is readily available, but it stinks. Think about propane or wood burning or pellet stove. good luck. your Roane County neighbor
Love your enthusiasm on everything ❤️
Keeping it light & fun and learning as we go is the name of the game :) Thanks for being here
Love how mellow your cat is! He looks just like my cat Garfield.....so cool how you include your pets in your adventures.....
SAME sister!!!! ✌️
#IWannaBeAnOldAppalachianWitchLADYYYYY 🫶
Pro tip: keep your saw tip out of the dirt...your chain will stay sharp 2 - 3 times longer and prolong the life of your chain.
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Great Sunday guys, hope your weekend is going great, getting cool here in Alaska
Weekend was great! Still warm here but I do like that weather lol! Have a great week bud see ya on the next one
Whats your bear plan little food cookers? Those blue site safes at Lowes could be right...maybe some string with bells for an alarm(trail cam with motion lights is better). They are looking to fill up for the winter and would go right threw the camper and shed. Just a thought. Best wishes from Boone
You can watch the acorns and then repurpose the deer, squirrels and such producing more food for effort...
It may be sassafras? The tree that smells like cereal milk. It has 3 different types of leaves. A mitten, a spear, and a 3 lobed one that looks like a dinosaur foot lol.
Sassafras’s is what root beer used to be made of
Sooo cool :) Thanks so much for the knowlege
Gum wood tc HoppyBob 🤠
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Thanks :) Hope to see you next week
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That job was just nutty :)
We would say so too 😂😂😂
Awesome video God Bless you and your family
Have you thought about a wood chipper for mulch?
Sassafras tree...
My nephew used to work for a company in Michigan that ground up wood that they sent to Kelloggs to add to cereal
Interesting.... Trying to figure out exactly what it is haha :) Thanks for watching
Beautiful
Fun vidz thanks. Good luck with it all. From Nelson, BC, Canada
Glad you liked it! Another day here at the ranch
This episode reminds me of My Side of the Mountain by Jean George Craighead. If you haven't read that book it's about a boy who leaves New York and finds himself alone in the mountains. I have read it a couple times because I have sons.
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Loved your video my friends... Be safe ❤✌
Thanks so much :) It means alot! See ya next week!!
First off you get your piece of wood. You make a round, dip it in it, or the top point of the acorn will sit down in that debut and then tap it on top. That way, it'll crack easier.
I may be wrong that wood looks like locust wood don't know if when cut it smells like cereal milk. But I never smell any kind of wood that smells like cereal milk.
Are you cutting black locus. Locus will put off that smell, allso great for fence post. And burns very hot and fast in a wood stove. So mix up harvest with oak and locust. For burning in wood stove. Love the videos
A nice stone outdoor fireplace/BBQ would be fun.
A sweet smell means you have copperheads near by.
Trapper's backpack for harvest (hard frame)😁
I’d love to come and show you the edible and medical stuff on your property. I’ve became quite the Appalachian witch lol I bought my land near Knoxville a couple years ago. I’m actually driving up now from Florida. Next year when my daughter graduates high school I’ll be a full time off grid Tennessean
WOW that would be amazing. We would love that. Once we have a better system for others on the property we would love to pick your brain. Thanks so much for your help and knowledge as you know I wanna become an old appalachian witch lady hahah :)
Might be sassafras
put the acorns in a mesh bag and throw them in a river or fast flowin creek for a few days. yer gonna be soakin and rinsin for 2 weeks..
That is great advice. Thanks so much. We will try that.
Ya'll need some black raspberries? I will trade you plants now if I can get some chitlins a few years down the line when I move out your way. Let me know if you are down in the Charlotte area. Have some fruit trees as well if yall want. They are going to waste and all the charities I have offered to have declined.
Take 2 longer limbs and like I exhaled over. That's album at height that you needed that. So you're not bending over so much. Then? Take another long one and cut it the same link that you want from tip of your board, your eggs to tip of your eggs. And you put them at tidal at the top and at the bottom of your legs, that way, it stabilizes in the end, and then you take one entire from corner to corner, 1 side and that will stabilize enough, you can lay a log in the top top V of that and touch your wood up without bending over. And hurt me or back.
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What you are smelling is the decaying of the wood, fungus.
Interesting. Thanks for your knowledge :)
How many acres do you have ? Any updates on the inspector ?
if the acorns are dry enough,you simply use yer fingers.. cracked pounds and pounds of them back in the day.
It is so fun to use what we have here on the land and just try to create different things :)
I read tree dust can be toxic.
Sorry I haven't been on my computer for a few days but was wondering what hapened with you being able to live in the tiny house?
how did your bread turn out?
Make a couple of X braces our of small trees. Make saw horses out of them. Then you won't have to keep bending over to cut wood. Your back will thank you.
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:))) Thanks for watching
how do youj deal with the mosquitoes with a tanktop and shorts? I'd be dead in 5 minutes.
Build a sawbuck and your back will thank-you.
That is next on the very long list of things to do haha :)
It was on my long list too. Now I can cut small wood 3 times faster. @@RunawayMattCass
What co are y'all in
How much land yall have
You talk about a lot about the ticks I haven't heard you say anything about the snakes. I live down there for about 4 years and all I seen was rattlesnakes and copperheads.
Matt, Just caught your vid about what you call a tiny home. I am a lifetime student of law and I think the problem is building inspectors can't read law nor do most attorneys have the knowledge of construction enough to evaluate the facts. I don't think your structure qualifies as a removable after reading the laws. Don't get caught up on the cited building codes as you said the county doesn't care. If your "Shed" didn't come with finished interior wall along with pluming or electric installed within those walls none of the definitions of a removable apply to your structure. It is literally saying it is not considered a ready removable! You are allowed to bring in a prebuilt structure dried in. In other words it can have the exterior walls, floor and roof on it along with the windows and doors.
(A structure is not considered a ready-removable, ) and will be considered a one- or two-family dwelling
by the SFMO, if all the following criteria is met:
1. Only the structure’s exterior walls, floor, and roof systems are constructed off-site and are
constructed in accordance with the 2018 International Residential Code (“IRC”); (These
systems may include exterior components such as doors, windows, exterior wall coverings,
and roofing materials necessary to weatherproof the structure. Bracing may be used for safe
transport.)
2. The structure has no electrical or plumbing systems installed at the time of transport;
3. All structural components are visible at the time of transport; (Interior framing may be
completed prior to transport, so long as all structural components remain visible.)
4. The structure complies with all inspection, permit, and codes requirements applicable to one and two- family dwellings; and
5. The structure is placed on a foundation with a sill plate and follows the 2018 IRC R403.1.6
(refer to figure R403.1.3), or the structure is placed on concrete piers, with proper footings in
place, and is anchored in accordance with a registered engineer’s design.
What county
The cereal smell is rotting wet wood
Dude, just hitting the ground a few times kills your chain.
Hi... If your land has been logged, did you make sure they can not come back on the land to log again? ...and YOU OWN the logging rights, along with mineral rights, just in case? Do you have knowledge of Allodial Land Title Rights? RUclips put up one of your videos in front of me and I started watching one and this is my second. Not sure how government is dictating to you. We the People should be dictating to them. IF another corporation is involved is this considered ??? THIS IS ALL MY OPINION.... Please don't get frustrated or mad at me, just asking questions. Have you read The Constitution of the United States, The Bill of Right and The Declaration of Independence. I brushed up on Roberts Rules or Order in case I was forced to go "Courting" in the so called judicial courts "Kangaroo Courts". Research Jordan Maxwell. The Man is no longer with us but LEFT a TON of education, especially regarding government. Please remember, The Constitution of the United States is the "SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND". Not really sure why this video was put in front of me. Perhaps it was this information I was to leave to help you along your journey. Not sure where you are in your journey but I truly hope this all works to your favor as many men have died for America whereby we can LIVE FREE with the Land. Mark with Baker's Green Acres took on the state and helped another farmer NOT related to what you are going through BUT he has knowledge of The Constitution of the United State that just may help you!!!! I will end with this... if this was my land I would be putting up a NO TRESSPASSING SIGN in accordance with TN legislation which by the way ask yourself are these Mandatory, Required, Ordered, Requested, Ordiance, Decee, Recommended, and Compulsory really law... ask yourself are these really law? Remember, The Constitution of the United States is SUPREME LAW of the LAND! My answer, NO but do your own research starting with those 3 documents which I truly feel will EMPOWER YOU against the beast system!!! Start with The Amendments 4th/10th! I truly feel this will really help you in ways maybe you didn't see or read? The government, your state doesn't seems to be educated on their own information and the BAR attorney who works for THE CROWN doesn't represent you but the State, "A Corporation?" ...and from what you have shared is doing it very poorly. I wonder if HIDING information is illegal. If you would have done this where would you be? Seems like the state is trying to profit off their ignorance. PLEASE consider looking up a PRIVATE TRUST and get all you own under it. Get it out of your name!!! NOT LEGAL ADVISE... JUST SAYING ...expressing my opinion! What does BAR really mean?... British yada yada yada???? ...and WHO is their allegiance to? Research "Jordan Maxwell". There are others but start with him. ...and look up Mark with Bakers Green Acres. I am going subscribe to your channel. GOOD LUCK! Sending you high energy vibes.
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I believe Matt is a genius. I love the way the two of them approach life. The two of them really have something special. SPHEREMOTOR, the future of electricity.