Rather than spending $$ on a 100 stock tank, WHY NOT: raise the cow's water tank up with pallets (or other) so that the top of the tank sits above the height of the cow's knees and is closer to mouth elevation. Less cost, more effective. Though the sons may not like the added work of moving pallets, but that beats cleaning up cow crap in a water tank.
My mom grew up in Kingsport Tennessee. Her dad went fishing a lot. They smoked it and Mamaw canned a lot of it. Papaw built a smoke house and they hung a hog & lots of fish. If they didn't grow it or catch it, they hardly ate. Mom said they bought flour, salt & spices, pasta, sugar , some lard . They did nook and cranny gardening, planted beans on the steep hillsides around the holler. They bartered for fresh milk. And they never had more than a half acre.
This coming growing season try to wait until your potato stems and leaves have died off before harvesting. You will have larger potatoes and fewer baby ones. I am really enjoying this 10 day challenge.
Need a bench , shoe holder or a holder over door style nail to wall for dirty and dry out. A holder for clean shoes to walk in house, A boot brush or scraper at edge of cement to clean boots and shoes,
Don't forget that they often bartered what they needed with their neighbors, and eating seasonally was always used, as they didn't have lots of refrigeration. If you truly want to eat like your ancestors you will need to smoke and salt your meats. They learned how to make do or do without, I know something of it as I was raised by my grandparents and great-grandmothers who lived through the depression, dust bowl, and WW's. Things were very hard.
When my 2-year-old sees one of your thumbnails on the TV or my phone, she'll point to it and say, "Happy day?" to ask to watch it. It's possibly the cutest thing ever 😂
Thank you for many years of great content. I now have a great start on a backyard Food forest/ veg garden with rotational, Quail and Guinea pigs. I grow food for them and us. Quail like chickens scratch and make a mess of their water. I found putting it up on some pavers did the trick. With the cow water, could you build a framed platform to raise it maybe a foot. He could still reach it to drink but not get in? Awesome 2025 to you!
Morning Justin, To fix the Heman water tub situation, let me add a solution . Put the tub on top of a bale or 2 of hay. I'm just saying cheap solution . HAPPY DAY!
sadly even if you filled the hay bin, and used straw to lift the trough, they would still find something interesting in the straw bales and knock it down =) Silly cows. might manage the pallet stack idea suggested elsewhere in comments...
If you have some of the tape that the tunnel plastic sheets are joined with, it would mend your black garden tarp very well. I solemnly believe your tunnel needs a cacao tree, in a pot if need be to move it indoors during midwinter if it is still too cold there
Here's a tip, grow herbs along with your veggies, when say basil is ready you can eat the peaches, and such at the same time. The Lord made sure we could season our meals with herbs during each season, plan that way and you will succeed with more variety.
As far as wanting more eggs in the winter get either chickens that lay more than 300 eggs a year, like golden comets or Isa Brown, or you can get chickens that lay more eggs in the winter than in the summer!
Justin, many farmers would go fishing in the creek and eat it. I know my great grandmother would salt ir smoke some when they had extras so they could eat it on Fridays.
I know its too late now but turning ewes over when they are in lamb is asking for still births from mechanical causes ..wait til after theyve had their lambs then theres no problem ❤
The thing about today’s eating compared to what our ancestors were eating, is that they were limited to what they ate, and they grew up on that limited food source. We have been so pampered today with processed foods, some that are easier to fix, foods that are tastier due to additives. So going back to what our ancestors ate, is not an easy task. I would never try to cut myself off from foods that you have to buy, although right now I am being more selective due to health reasons. Rather find the balance. Buy what you need, and grow the rest if possible. It sure would be better than just relying on the grocery store. (Also, I don’t grow much, but I do use the farmer’s market, where it is all locally grown) For those who can do this seasonal lifestyle, it will give you a variety in your diet. So there isn’t anything wrong with that. We all need variety!
If you want to eat seasonally, grow Jerusalem Artichokes to dig and eat in the winter. We're in 6b/a and I dig some up every couple weeks all winter. They can be roasted, boiled, mashed, pickled etc just like potatoes. Yummy with a hint of heart of Artichokes flavor.
I heard you mention the quick connects that is a step in the right direction, the next big move is to get your yard hydrants as close to your water dishes as possible! Another Great video. The burn it up cooking shows are awesome too! Even when nothing is burned up lol!
Justin do you and the family ever go fishing? If memory serves you have a dam with a lake right near your home. Pan fish from a clean local water source is good eating.
True homesteading is repetitive not a blockbuster movie. I enjoy listening to procedures of the farm and watching the fam navigate through the daily grind! Power on⚡️Cathy
I know you don't deworm your animals but you should take samples into the vet to have them checked. Worms can be in your soil in their feed etc if you get a heavy parasite load especially in your sheep they can start dropping like flies don't always think that you know just by going by what someone else says Also have you thought about making lists and following them instead of bouncing around like you do it would be much more efficient and make better content.
I really love the content you put out for the public. I am touched in many ways as I watch how you live teaching your children the GOOD MORAL, FAMILY VALUES AS WE LIVED YEARS AGO. The unity, the loving nuture you and your wife create for the family. God bless you and I will be watching you more now that I found your post. America needs 10 million more families like yours.
Next time but a livestock marking crayon, then you don't have to turn them out after trimming or dr. Then you'll know who is done. Get a taller stock tank. Or make a pen for your bull, while your girls are under the shed. He Doesn't need to be in there.
Isn't Bubbies Fermented? That may be why canned pickles don't taste the same. Fermenting your Cucumbers is actually easier than canning then. You just need more cool storage.
You ran out of potatoes in January. That's ok. Now is the time you switch to your homegrown sweet potatoes that you harvested, cured and stored for winter use. And the winter squash that you did the same way....grow, harvest, cure and store. I'm loving this video!!!! Makes me want to try this way of eating for 10 days.
I'm here to watch your family and friends enjoy everyday life together. You set homesteading examples in good times and bad. Thanks for sharing your family with us.😊❤
I haven’t seen y’all the first egg I know there has to be a few?! You can can figs there is so much yall can preserve that you don’t. Only thing is tomatoes and Annie done a lot of that
Keep in mind, Justin and his family dont grow or waste their time with foods they dont like. Makes sense. Just because every recipe you hear, every chef you see, are eating kale doesnt mean you have to. Justin tried that - his family HATES kale. They grow what they like. As we all should.
I have an idea about how to keep track of which sheep have had their hooves done. Color chalk line on them if they have been clipped. It will wash off and not harmful to them.
It's fine. Fifi the appartement dog might not be used to eating bird bones en chug em up without chewing. Farm dogs that are fed like this, just like mine know how to eat bird bones without issues.
I don’t know I been here for years and don’t always comment, but I feel like I’m getting bored now. Something has changed or shifted. Not sure if it’s me or the video contents anybody else feel like this just asking I’m not being horrible 😢😢 .
@@chicntexas Did you read till the end? I wasn’t being horrible I also stated it could just be the way I’m feeling at the moment with all the crap going on in the world as well as the UK. I am being polite and I’m not being horrible and I appreciate not comments like yours, thank you very much take care be safe
My very first episode was the day Helene hit the farm! I was absolutely blown away! Not as edge-of-the-seat now, but don t forget- it is Winter! I am still impressed by and enjoy the “winter” content. The children are phenomenal!!! Independence and self-sufficiency is the goal! Make yourself as parent and caregiver into a supporting role. Onward!
You could easily grow peanuts, and peanut hay is great for animals. So in theory you could grow a patch. Keep the animals off it until harvest time. Graze off the hay, and then dig up the peanuts. It's one of the only crops beside radishes I can think of you can graze the ground before harvest with minimal lost to the actual crop. You will 100% get more deer on the property though. They go mental for peanuts. Whether that's good or bad depends on your personal goals for the land.
Partner with a neighbor or two....they grow chocolate for you & them and you grow a certain crop you already grow... enough for you and them. They cut out a heavy yeild crop they need for growing shared chocolate yeild and you expand the crop you're already growing to make up for their lost yeild. No extra learning if you perfect your knowledge on "your crop share".
Justin try brown rice, its much better for you than white rice. Or wild rice. And it fills you up better than the other rice. Just a thought. 👍❤️👍❤️👍❤️👍❤️👍❤️👍
I thought trimming hooves on the sheep was Jonah's job last week? Since you say that you are teaching people about homesteading, I really wish you would get (and show) some better organization regarding management. Everything seems so out of control and that can't be the best way to run a farm (or any business). Where are the lists and assignment of duties for everyone that works for you? Have a central place everyone has to sign off that they did what they were supposed to do(white board in the shop?), have some consequences for those that don't do what they were supposed to do....especially if they are being paid to work. Have meetings to make lists and goals of projects that need to be done and allow some choices there, but require that animal care is the first priority since that is your food source and should be the most important. Justin, show us how you lead...it will be new content that we would all like to see the results of.
I was just wondering because you know I watched the hollar Homestead with Ben and Megan and they're you know boys and stuff and I wondered if they were related to them somehow I was confused thank you for straightening me out
And since nothing grows in the winter I guess that means we don’t eat in the winter. That would be absurd. Our forefathers knew to prepare for the down season, and not because there was less light. Any study can have an outcome the way those preparing the study want it to be, so I give little regards to studies, especially if the studies promote doing without healthy foods needed to maintain a healthy body. Less light means there are less minerals and vitamins naturally being produced that we need for healthy bodies, so we prepare for that time by canning foods, etc, and if need be we supplement our food by going to the store like our forefathers did. In time they were able to have greenhouses so they could grow more healthy and needed foods for the winter months or until the crops began to flourish again in the warmer months. His ideology is not proving to be healthy, but actually the opposite. Our forefathers already knew this due to the diseases that faced them due to the lack of certain foods that provided them with the vitamins and minerals they needed. So, they prepared for the down time in the growing season by canning, and having money set back for if they needed to go to the store to supplement their pantry. Justin needs to rethink his approach to health.
I have to have A2 starter yogurt and can't buy it here, but you can freeze the yougurt starter cubes, they last a long time, then you only have to use the last frozen cube to make a new set of starter cubes.... i just keep bought starter tabs for emergency starter.
I have watched you for a lot of years. It seems that the last year or so you have become very disorganized. If you will roll up the hoses, it will keep the hoses unfrozen and remind you to turn off the faucets. Not knowing where the charges are, not knowing where the jars are. Hunting for things waste time.
I bet that anytime post Civil War but before they had cars, your family would have biked to the store if horse and buggy were impracticable or unavailable. Having lived in areas populated by Mennonites, that is how they travel now.
Repetive is progress, not always seen is because ppl are focused on one rhings and ignores has no intrest to them. Put your self in their shoes and think what you may haft to do. Feed eat sleep repeat. Im between repairs, preps, and all the responsibilities. Take a break walk away and get off the internet for a while. Me... each time it gets cold snow on the ground i go walking i test my abilities, strenght and plan for this years season's.
I am here purely for the joy of watching the progress of an honest family working together. The Rhodes are great role models in doing family. Remember nothing in life is perfect. 💯🇦🇺
So I've watched and know Rebecca has much knowledge on minerals and vitamins. I've heard you tell about not using dewormers with your animals. Being around those animals as your family is living a homesteading lifestyle. Do you address any cross over contamination from the animals passing parasites? Or is it not an issue? Seriously curious, so please talk about it in a video.
Poor homesteaders ate off the land because they depended on it. Rich homesteaders like the Vanderbilt built greenhouses and they grew exotic fruits for their table.
So true about the growing and prooritize. I am focussdd on pumpkin(seasonal), cucumbers(summer n fall), just planted apples(fall) kale, bok choy, snap peas, cauliflower(winter crops growing well, but cover and afraid of checking due to deep freeze we are having in single digits and teens
Praise Jesus! good morning 🌞 Justin. I heard it said that we should only eat during daylight, with our circadian rhythm. A lot of ppl are still eating when it's dark outside. Something I definitely need to work on myself for better health. Thank you & Happy day😊
You need good carbs brain loves good fat , coconut oil ,olive oil , bone broth , avocados,nuts, butter grass feed ,olives,eggs ,fish,flax seed ,animal fats ,fish, raw cheese
Ok, I have been watching your vlogs for a long while. I see you and your pre-teen and teenage children working like adults and busting their butts working on the farm. It is all back-breaking physical work. I see you trying to live a clean wholesome lifestyle. What I find is odd is this.....where is your wife when all the hard work needs to be done? She takes every supplement known to man and yet she is always sick. My grandmother and grandfather owned a small farm and my grandma was right there by my grandpa's side working the garden and fields and with the animals along with taking care of the kids, laundry and all of the cooking. I get it is none of my business but just making an observation.
Not that I know anything about the family… however, when we only follow him around his wife is doing other things. Im sure she is doing plenty of the background work. I don’t think we have seen them do any cleaning jobs, he does one load of laundry and you “know” he does everything??? Who puts the clothes away? Who manages the meals? Just because we don’t see it doesn’t mean that it isn’t happening.
Lucky you to have hardy healthy grandparents! Youre new so Ill school you. Justins wife coordinates the homestead doing the online ordering, scheduling, problem solving, teaching Lily to cook, all while trying to manage an auto immune disease.❤
I love how you are working things out. Yes, you can make your own pickles from cucumbers, sauerkraut from cabage. You can make your own ketchup from tomatoes and season it the way you want it seasoned. You can make your own mayonnaise, make your own cream cheese and other cheeses. You can make your own beer, wine, liquors. Blackberry, cherry and blueberry liquors are so delicious! Great during the winter months when you are sick. You can make your own mustard, baking powder, pancake mixes, hot chocolate mixes, buttermilk, and on. You can make your own apple cider. You can make your own maple syrup. You can have bee hives and grow your own honey while the bees pollinate your crops. You can grow all of your own herbs. You can grow food year around in a greenhouse. Also, the earth changed because of Noah’s flood, and so eating foods grown in their season is not as viable anymore since not as much grows through all seasons, which is why we now have to supplement our food supplies by canning, freezing, etc. If food ran out our forefathers had money saved back to go to a neighbor to buy some of theirs or trade for it. Or they went to the store. This is why there were always general grocery stores and general hardware stores. Do you make your own tools and nails? Do you make your own lumber? That’s what our forefathers did when they lived off the land. There is a lot more to it than just the food. It’s all community based as well, people working together. Do you do your own blacksmithing? There is an older man and his wife up in Canada who are doing all of this. They built a fort, cabin, blacksmith shop, and more. Do some research. Our forefathers wove their own clothing from what they grew on the farm. Are you ready to do that? They made their children the toys they played with. And they didn’t use smartphones or computers, but I sure don’t advocate tossing them aside. Just like I do advocate supplementing food to get the minerals and vitamins our bodies need to be healthy all year around. If you live off of only local food or food grown in that season you will find you will lack vitamins and minerals you need. Our forefathers eventually had greenhouses, canned foods, and when necessary they bought food from the store and were thrilled when the trains came through. Now, rice is a very healthy food if you are careful what kind of rice you eat. Do a little research and find out which rice is healthiest for you. The 4 healthiest rices are brown rice, black rice (also known as forbidden rice), red rice, and wild rice. *Brown rice contains more nutrients such as fiber and minerals such as magnesium, iron, and zinc. *Black rice is richer in protein and iron. *Red yeast rice has anti-inflammatory, cholesterol-lowering, cardioprotective, anticancer, and antidiabetic properties. *Wild rice has more protein and less fat and sugar than white rice. It is also rich in nutrients such as B vitamins, vitamin E, calcium, iron, phosphorus, potassium, and zinc. Wild rice contains flavonoids, which have antioxidative and anti-inflammatory properties that can help combat oxidative stress and prevent disease. The high fiber content of wild rice can also help lower cholesterol levels and reduce the incidence of type II diabetes. Information by MedicineNet, “What Is the Healthiest Type of Rice? 4 Healthy Types of Rice,” Medical Author: Dr. Sruthi M., MBBS, and Medical Reviewer: Pallavi Suyog Uttekar, MD. Do some more research. Personally I’d go with wild rice since it is grown here in the USA, which is considered local in the big picture. Also, you don’t have to walk to the store every time you eat something not grown on your land. Our forefathers went to the store in an average of 2 to 4 times a year, and bought in bulk when it was available, or they bought the amount needed until their next trip to the store. If a store was closer, like your store, they would go more often, but even then they bought what they needed in that given trip, and often enough to last until their next anticipated trip to the store. On those trips often they would buy a treat for the family like a baked item like cakes, or candies, ice cream (and all of this can be made at home also). So, they did splurge a little and didn’t stay with what they grew only. They also traded with others in their area. There were also mills back then, and they would take their wheat or whatever they wanted ground up it the mill to be processed and bagged there for them to use. If they ran out before the next year’s crop they would supplement by purchasing flour at the store. So, you don’t have to do without. Just be wise in what you eat and choose to eat the healthiest and best for your health needs. Have you thought of building a mill along the creek where you live? It can also provide you with electricity. Be as independent as you can be, but don’t become so ridged you do without if it’s an item purchased from the store. It’s good to walk, and honestly, I suggest you walk every day. Work around the farm is one thing, but an exercise regiment is always recommended and a benefit for you. So, I’m so glad to see you taking this interest in healthy foods and exercise. Wish you all the best! Be wise, work hard, and still enjoy your life. God bless!
Justin thinks bee keeping is a luxury item to the homestead. What he is showing is bare bones necessity. Meat, eggs, animal feed, garden for the family. He spoke about bee keeping at the end of yesterdays video. Hes not going to do it.
@@queenbee3647 Bees really are a necessity. Farmers either kept bee hives or they made sure bee hives were on their property. He’s wrong. He is actually wrong about a lot of things.
Rather than spending $$ on a 100 stock tank, WHY NOT: raise the cow's water tank up with pallets (or other) so that the top of the tank sits above the height of the cow's knees and is closer to mouth elevation.
Less cost, more effective.
Though the sons may not like the added work of moving pallets, but that beats cleaning up cow crap in a water tank.
Great idea!!
There are sticks of lifestock marker paint, just mark each sheep you have hoof trimmed and you can see who is done at a glance.
My mom grew up in Kingsport Tennessee. Her dad went fishing a lot. They smoked it and Mamaw canned a lot of it. Papaw built a smoke house and they hung a hog & lots of fish. If they didn't grow it or catch it, they hardly ate. Mom said they bought flour, salt & spices, pasta, sugar , some lard . They did nook and cranny gardening, planted beans on the steep hillsides around the holler. They bartered for fresh milk. And they never had more than a half acre.
This coming growing season try to wait until your potato stems and leaves have died off before harvesting. You will have larger potatoes and fewer baby ones. I am really enjoying this 10 day challenge.
Need a bench , shoe holder or a holder over door style nail to wall for dirty and dry out. A holder for clean shoes to walk in house, A boot brush or scraper at edge of cement to clean boots and shoes,
Don't forget that they often bartered what they needed with their neighbors, and eating seasonally was always used, as they didn't have lots of refrigeration. If you truly want to eat like your ancestors you will need to smoke and salt your meats. They learned how to make do or do without, I know something of it as I was raised by my grandparents and great-grandmothers who lived through the depression, dust bowl, and WW's. Things were very hard.
When my 2-year-old sees one of your thumbnails on the TV or my phone, she'll point to it and say, "Happy day?" to ask to watch it. It's possibly the cutest thing ever 😂
d'awwww
Thank you for many years of great content. I now have a great start on a backyard Food forest/ veg garden with rotational, Quail and Guinea pigs. I grow food for them and us. Quail like chickens scratch and make a mess of their water. I found putting it up on some pavers did the trick. With the cow water, could you build a framed platform to raise it maybe a foot. He could still reach it to drink but not get in? Awesome 2025 to you!
Morning Justin,
To fix the Heman water tub situation, let me add a solution .
Put the tub on top of a bale or 2 of hay.
I'm just saying cheap solution .
HAPPY DAY!
sadly even if you filled the hay bin, and used straw to lift the trough, they would still find something interesting in the straw bales and knock it down =) Silly cows. might manage the pallet stack idea suggested elsewhere in comments...
Don’t forget, if they didn’t grow it, they probably bartered for it with other farmers/neighbors.
If you have some of the tape that the tunnel plastic sheets are joined with, it would mend your black garden tarp very well.
I solemnly believe your tunnel needs a cacao tree, in a pot if need be to move it indoors during midwinter if it is still too cold there
Here's a tip, grow herbs along with your veggies, when say basil is ready you can eat the peaches, and such at the same time. The Lord made sure we could season our meals with herbs during each season, plan that way and you will succeed with more variety.
Didnt Jonah do the sheep hooves the other day?
You didn't really think that would happen
As far as wanting more eggs in the winter get either chickens that lay more than 300 eggs a year, like golden comets or Isa Brown, or you can get chickens that lay more eggs in the winter than in the summer!
You are correct, Justin, but most people will not accept they do not need all those carbs. A person can subsist on meat and low oxalate vegetables.
Interesting enough, rice hast historically been a big cash crop for the Carolinas. Your ancestors probably had ready access to it.
Justin, many farmers would go fishing in the creek and eat it. I know my great grandmother would salt ir smoke some when they had extras so they could eat it on Fridays.
I know its too late now but turning ewes over when they are in lamb is asking for still births from mechanical causes ..wait til after theyve had their lambs then theres no problem ❤
Don’t forget you found those potatoes in the pantry or closet a few days ago.
The thing about today’s eating compared to what our ancestors were eating, is that they were limited to what they ate, and they grew up on that limited food source. We have been so pampered today with processed foods, some that are easier to fix, foods that are tastier due to additives. So going back to what our ancestors ate, is not an easy task. I would never try to cut myself off from foods that you have to buy, although right now I am being more selective due to health reasons. Rather find the balance. Buy what you need, and grow the rest if possible. It sure would be better than just relying on the grocery store. (Also, I don’t grow much, but I do use the farmer’s market, where it is all locally grown)
For those who can do this seasonal lifestyle, it will give you a variety in your diet. So there isn’t anything wrong with that. We all need variety!
If you want to eat seasonally, grow Jerusalem Artichokes to dig and eat in the winter. We're in 6b/a and I dig some up every couple weeks all winter. They can be roasted, boiled, mashed, pickled etc just like potatoes. Yummy with a hint of heart of Artichokes flavor.
I appreciate you vlogging 10 days in a row! And long videos! Thank you thank you thank you Austin and Justin and families! Much love!!! ❤❤❤
I heard you mention the quick connects that is a step in the right direction, the next big move is to get your yard hydrants as close to your water dishes as possible! Another Great video. The burn it up cooking shows are awesome too! Even when nothing is burned up lol!
Justin do you and the family ever go fishing? If memory serves you have a dam with a lake right near your home. Pan fish from a clean local water source is good eating.
True homesteading is repetitive not a blockbuster movie. I enjoy listening to procedures of the farm and watching the fam navigate through the daily grind! Power on⚡️Cathy
I know you don't deworm your animals but you should take samples into the vet to have them checked. Worms can be in your soil in their feed etc if you get a heavy parasite load especially in your sheep they can start dropping like flies don't always think that you know just by going by what someone else says Also have you thought about making lists and following them instead of bouncing around like you do it would be much more efficient and make better content.
The type of sheep he raises are a breed don't need to be wormed.
I really love the content you put out for the public. I am touched in many ways as I watch how you live teaching your children the GOOD MORAL, FAMILY VALUES AS WE LIVED YEARS AGO. The unity, the loving nuture you and your wife create for the family. God bless you and I will be watching you more now that I found your post. America needs 10 million more families like yours.
Next time but a livestock marking crayon, then you don't have to turn them out after trimming or dr. Then you'll know who is done. Get a taller stock tank. Or make a pen for your bull, while your girls are under the shed. He Doesn't need to be in there.
Isn't Bubbies Fermented? That may be why canned pickles don't taste the same. Fermenting your Cucumbers is actually easier than canning then. You just need more cool storage.
You ran out of potatoes in January. That's ok. Now is the time you switch to your homegrown sweet potatoes that you harvested, cured and stored for winter use. And the winter squash that you did the same way....grow, harvest, cure and store. I'm loving this video!!!! Makes me want to try this way of eating for 10 days.
I'm here to watch your family and friends enjoy everyday life together. You set homesteading examples in good times and bad. Thanks for sharing your family with us.😊❤
I haven’t seen y’all the first egg I know there has to be a few?! You can can figs there is so much yall can preserve that you don’t. Only thing is tomatoes and Annie done a lot of that
Keep in mind, Justin and his family dont grow or waste their time with foods they dont like. Makes sense. Just because every recipe you hear, every chef you see, are eating kale doesnt mean you have to. Justin tried that - his family HATES kale. They grow what they like. As we all should.
I have an idea about how to keep track of which sheep have had their hooves done. Color chalk line on them if they have been clipped. It will wash off and not harmful to them.
Justin, just throwing this out there did you call the fuel folks to fill the diesel/fuel tanks? Love the videos~
Don't give your dog chicken bones!!
It's fine. Fifi the appartement dog might not be used to eating bird bones en chug em up without chewing. Farm dogs that are fed like this, just like mine know how to eat bird bones without issues.
As long as they are raw its fine. You don't give dogs cooked bones of any kind.
Have you tried almond butter it’s better than peanut butter. Got from eating program I was on. Blessed Day❤
I really love this 10-day series, Justin ❤
Im sure your relatives grew herbs in the garden. They probably purchased salt & pepper at the general store.
North Carolina grew a lot of rice back in the day so rice would have been available to your ancestors
I don’t know I been here for years and don’t always comment, but I feel like I’m getting bored now. Something has changed or shifted. Not sure if it’s me or the video contents anybody else feel like this just asking I’m not being horrible 😢😢 .
Well you don't have to stay.
It is very repetitive.
@@chicntexas Did you read till the end? I wasn’t being horrible I also stated it could just be the way I’m feeling at the moment with all the crap going on in the world as well as the UK. I am being polite and I’m not being horrible and I appreciate not comments like yours, thank you very much take care be safe
Do you grow your own food?? If not then that’s the problem.
My very first episode was the day Helene hit the farm! I was absolutely blown away! Not as edge-of-the-seat now, but don t forget- it is Winter!
I am still impressed by and enjoy the “winter” content. The children are phenomenal!!! Independence and self-sufficiency is the goal! Make yourself as parent and caregiver into a supporting role. Onward!
Would raising the water trough up on a pallet, or one of those tote frames help keep the manure and tipping problem from recurring?
You could easily grow peanuts, and peanut hay is great for animals. So in theory you could grow a patch. Keep the animals off it until harvest time. Graze off the hay, and then dig up the peanuts. It's one of the only crops beside radishes I can think of you can graze the ground before harvest with minimal lost to the actual crop. You will 100% get more deer on the property though. They go mental for peanuts. Whether that's good or bad depends on your personal goals for the land.
Happy Day💚
Partner with a neighbor or two....they grow chocolate for you & them and you grow a certain crop you already grow... enough for you and them. They cut out a heavy yeild crop they need for growing shared chocolate yeild and you expand the crop you're already growing to make up for their lost yeild. No extra learning if you perfect your knowledge on "your crop share".
I love this series!
eat what you could have grown is great advice for people to get started
Justin try brown rice, its much better for you than white rice. Or wild rice. And it fills you up better than the other rice. Just a thought. 👍❤️👍❤️👍❤️👍❤️👍❤️👍
Brown and wild rice taste bad. No TY. I’d rather give up all rice.
@@ninabooker2904 That's why you add herbs and spices to food.
Problem is in my mind I could have definitley grown chocolate since I would be living in the tropics:)
I thought trimming hooves on the sheep was Jonah's job last week? Since you say that you are teaching people about homesteading, I really wish you would get (and show) some better organization regarding management. Everything seems so out of control and that can't be the best way to run a farm (or any business). Where are the lists and assignment of duties for everyone that works for you? Have a central place everyone has to sign off that they did what they were supposed to do(white board in the shop?), have some consequences for those that don't do what they were supposed to do....especially if they are being paid to work. Have meetings to make lists and goals of projects that need to be done and allow some choices there, but require that animal care is the first priority since that is your food source and should be the most important. Justin, show us how you lead...it will be new content that we would all like to see the results of.
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Happy day to u2! A week from now I wanna see how much snow u get today ⛄️
QUESTION why do you have a sign on your homestead that says the Holler Farm on it? I'm confused
If I remember right they are located in Burrell hollar and when they sold at markets they called it hollar farm and used that sign
It's a family homestead. In family for generations.
I was just wondering because you know I watched the hollar Homestead with Ben and Megan and they're you know boys and stuff and I wondered if they were related to them somehow I was confused thank you for straightening me out
Don't you can your potatoes?
And since nothing grows in the winter I guess that means we don’t eat in the winter. That would be absurd. Our forefathers knew to prepare for the down season, and not because there was less light. Any study can have an outcome the way those preparing the study want it to be, so I give little regards to studies, especially if the studies promote doing without healthy foods needed to maintain a healthy body. Less light means there are less minerals and vitamins naturally being produced that we need for healthy bodies, so we prepare for that time by canning foods, etc, and if need be we supplement our food by going to the store like our forefathers did. In time they were able to have greenhouses so they could grow more healthy and needed foods for the winter months or until the crops began to flourish again in the warmer months. His ideology is not proving to be healthy, but actually the opposite. Our forefathers already knew this due to the diseases that faced them due to the lack of certain foods that provided them with the vitamins and minerals they needed. So, they prepared for the down time in the growing season by canning, and having money set back for if they needed to go to the store to supplement their pantry. Justin needs to rethink his approach to health.
I have to have A2 starter yogurt and can't buy it here, but you can freeze the yougurt starter cubes, they last a long time, then you only have to use the last frozen cube to make a new set of starter cubes.... i just keep bought starter tabs for emergency starter.
I have watched you for a lot of years. It seems that the last year or so you have become very disorganized. If you will roll up the hoses, it will keep the hoses unfrozen and remind you to turn off the faucets. Not knowing where the charges are, not knowing where the jars are. Hunting for things waste time.
Not sure if you've watched them for the past few months but they lost a lot in the hurricane and have spent months trying to get everything re-built.
I bet that anytime post Civil War but before they had cars, your family would have biked to the store if horse and buggy were impracticable or unavailable. Having lived in areas populated by Mennonites, that is how they travel now.
Fun. Great challenge
Repetive is progress, not always seen is because ppl are focused on one rhings and ignores has no intrest to them. Put your self in their shoes and think what you may haft to do. Feed eat sleep repeat. Im between repairs, preps, and all the responsibilities. Take a break walk away and get off the internet for a while. Me... each time it gets cold snow on the ground i go walking i test my abilities, strenght and plan for this years season's.
The garden kitchen is WAY dark when you film in there.
I am here purely for the joy of watching the progress of an honest family working together. The Rhodes are great role models in doing family. Remember nothing in life is perfect. 💯🇦🇺
Snow 6inches roads closed in north Alabama.
The ancestors probably hitched the pony up to the cart to go to the store.
Still following.. Justin you are damed if you do and damed if you don't.. Respect always.. Happy Day ❤
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Be happy getting your.biking in. Get ready for this snow we have in Lake of the Ozarks Linn Creek Missouri. We.got 4ish inches of snow! 😮
Try ba-tampte half sour pickles if you can find them.
Hey Justin, wouldn't your forefathers have bartered or traded for sauerkraut, pickles, other things that they didn't grow themselves?❤
You can preserve eggs
He Man just wants a petacure! Ornery thing!
I've been enjoying this content but the unfocused videos are getting to me a bit. Please fix this if you can. Thanks
Amazing how many repetitive problems,seems like a real waste of time and productivity.
So I've watched and know Rebecca has much knowledge on minerals and vitamins. I've heard you tell about not using dewormers with your animals. Being around those animals as your family is living a homesteading lifestyle. Do you address any cross over contamination from the animals passing parasites? Or is it not an issue? Seriously curious, so please talk about it in a video.
Bush wack’en with a bike doesn’t look like fun! lol
More power to you.
Poor homesteaders ate off the land because they depended on it. Rich homesteaders like the Vanderbilt built greenhouses and they grew exotic fruits for their table.
You had an American President who was a “Peanut” farmer could you grow your own To make “Peanut Butter “?
So true about the growing and prooritize. I am focussdd on pumpkin(seasonal), cucumbers(summer n fall), just planted apples(fall) kale, bok choy, snap peas, cauliflower(winter crops growing well, but cover and afraid of checking due to deep freeze we are having in single digits and teens
Praise Jesus! good morning 🌞 Justin. I heard it said that we should only eat during daylight, with our circadian rhythm. A lot of ppl are still eating when it's dark outside. Something I definitely need to work on myself for better health. Thank you & Happy day😊
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Yes sun gazing at sun rise is supposed to be beneficial. Tell Bec to read up on it. 👍❤️👍
Focus on camera bad last few episodes.
You need good carbs brain loves good fat , coconut oil ,olive oil , bone broth , avocados,nuts, butter grass feed ,olives,eggs ,fish,flax seed ,animal fats ,fish, raw cheese
Ok, I have been watching your vlogs for a long while. I see you and your pre-teen and teenage children working like adults and busting their butts working on the farm. It is all back-breaking physical work. I see you trying to live a clean wholesome lifestyle. What I find is odd is this.....where is your wife when all the hard work needs to be done? She takes every supplement known to man and yet she is always sick. My grandmother and grandfather owned a small farm and my grandma was right there by my grandpa's side working the garden and fields and with the animals along with taking care of the kids, laundry and all of the cooking. I get it is none of my business but just making an observation.
Not that I know anything about the family… however, when we only follow him around his wife is doing other things.
Im sure she is doing plenty of the background work. I don’t think we have seen them do any cleaning jobs, he does one load of laundry and you “know” he does everything??? Who puts the clothes away? Who manages the meals? Just because we don’t see it doesn’t mean that it isn’t happening.
She has her own channel
Lucky you to have hardy healthy grandparents! Youre new so Ill school you. Justins wife coordinates the homestead doing the online ordering, scheduling, problem solving, teaching Lily to cook, all while trying to manage an auto immune disease.❤
@queenbee3647 you forgot the minding the littlest boys too ! Yes there's often extra adults around ,that's because they're NEEDED!
Dark chocolate is good for you .
Not if you are prone to kidney stones. Dark chocolate is high in oxalates.
Looks like y'all coulda used a small chainsaw on the trees strewn across those bike trails.
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You are promoting X?
@leenagoosen363 isn't that Elon Musk's ?
I have a cousin nicknamed “Bubby” and his brothers nickname was “Tater”. I don’t know why. But it’s funny.
I get a kick at you haphazardly ways😅😅😅😅
Happy day lovely people! 💐❤
Your forefathers probably hunted as well.
NOT SO SMART
I love how you are working things out. Yes, you can make your own pickles from cucumbers, sauerkraut from cabage. You can make your own ketchup from tomatoes and season it the way you want it seasoned. You can make your own mayonnaise, make your own cream cheese and other cheeses. You can make your own beer, wine, liquors. Blackberry, cherry and blueberry liquors are so delicious! Great during the winter months when you are sick. You can make your own mustard, baking powder, pancake mixes, hot chocolate mixes, buttermilk, and on. You can make your own apple cider. You can make your own maple syrup. You can have bee hives and grow your own honey while the bees pollinate your crops. You can grow all of your own herbs.
You can grow food year around in a greenhouse. Also, the earth changed because of Noah’s flood, and so eating foods grown in their season is not as viable anymore since not as much grows through all seasons, which is why we now have to supplement our food supplies by canning, freezing, etc. If food ran out our forefathers had money saved back to go to a neighbor to buy some of theirs or trade for it. Or they went to the store. This is why there were always general grocery stores and general hardware stores. Do you make your own tools and nails? Do you make your own lumber? That’s what our forefathers did when they lived off the land. There is a lot more to it than just the food. It’s all community based as well, people working together. Do you do your own blacksmithing? There is an older man and his wife up in Canada who are doing all of this. They built a fort, cabin, blacksmith shop, and more. Do some research. Our forefathers wove their own clothing from what they grew on the farm. Are you ready to do that? They made their children the toys they played with. And they didn’t use smartphones or computers, but I sure don’t advocate tossing them aside. Just like I do advocate supplementing food to get the minerals and vitamins our bodies need to be healthy all year around. If you live off of only local food or food grown in that season you will find you will lack vitamins and minerals you need. Our forefathers eventually had greenhouses, canned foods, and when necessary they bought food from the store and were thrilled when the trains came through.
Now, rice is a very healthy food if you are careful what kind of rice you eat. Do a little research and find out which rice is healthiest for you. The 4 healthiest rices are brown rice, black rice (also known as forbidden rice), red rice, and wild rice.
*Brown rice contains more nutrients such as fiber and minerals such as magnesium, iron, and zinc.
*Black rice is richer in protein and iron.
*Red yeast rice has anti-inflammatory, cholesterol-lowering, cardioprotective, anticancer, and antidiabetic properties.
*Wild rice has more protein and less fat and sugar than white rice. It is also rich in nutrients such as B vitamins, vitamin E, calcium, iron, phosphorus, potassium, and zinc. Wild rice contains flavonoids, which have antioxidative and anti-inflammatory properties that can help combat oxidative stress and prevent disease. The high fiber content of wild rice can also help lower cholesterol levels and reduce the incidence of type II diabetes.
Information by MedicineNet, “What Is the Healthiest Type of Rice? 4 Healthy Types of Rice,” Medical Author: Dr. Sruthi M., MBBS, and Medical Reviewer: Pallavi Suyog Uttekar, MD. Do some more research.
Personally I’d go with wild rice since it is grown here in the USA, which is considered local in the big picture. Also, you don’t have to walk to the store every time you eat something not grown on your land. Our forefathers went to the store in an average of 2 to 4 times a year, and bought in bulk when it was available, or they bought the amount needed until their next trip to the store. If a store was closer, like your store, they would go more often, but even then they bought what they needed in that given trip, and often enough to last until their next anticipated trip to the store. On those trips often they would buy a treat for the family like a baked item like cakes, or candies, ice cream (and all of this can be made at home also). So, they did splurge a little and didn’t stay with what they grew only. They also traded with others in their area.
There were also mills back then, and they would take their wheat or whatever they wanted ground up it the mill to be processed and bagged there for them to use. If they ran out before the next year’s crop they would supplement by purchasing flour at the store. So, you don’t have to do without. Just be wise in what you eat and choose to eat the healthiest and best for your health needs. Have you thought of building a mill along the creek where you live? It can also provide you with electricity. Be as independent as you can be, but don’t become so ridged you do without if it’s an item purchased from the store. It’s good to walk, and honestly, I suggest you walk every day. Work around the farm is one thing, but an exercise regiment is always recommended and a benefit for you. So, I’m so glad to see you taking this interest in healthy foods and exercise. Wish you all the best!
Be wise, work hard, and still enjoy your life. God bless!
Justin thinks bee keeping is a luxury item to the homestead. What he is showing is bare bones necessity. Meat, eggs, animal feed, garden for the family. He spoke about bee keeping at the end of yesterdays video. Hes not going to do it.
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Bees really are a necessity. Farmers either kept bee hives or they made sure bee hives were on their property. He’s wrong. He is actually wrong about a lot of things.
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Happy Day!