Great video! When we first started raising animals for food i was told “if you have livestock you will also have dead stock”. Like others have said most people are just showing their successes and not all the blood, sweat and tears that go into it or their failures along the way. I still find it sad when you take the life of an animal, but when you get to reap the rewards of your hard work and are feeding your family it makes you feel good inside. Keep up the good work! Now I have to get back to watching the rest of your videos….
I think at the end of the day, it's about the fact that one is taking responsibilty for their very existence on a basic level. Yes, it's dirty, exhausting, downright disappointing at times. But turn your head around, and you find one little thing that brings you joy just because the effort you put in has brought a reward that is far more fulfilling than checking groceries out at the store with money someone else deems worth paying you for a job you probably don't love, might not even like.
So very true! I cannot stress enough how rewarding it is.. To feel the successes and to see the progress you're making is unlike any other feeling ever
Great video. I love that people can be real. People are so afraid to be real today. "Oh it will discourage people" ...ummmm NO it's discouraging thinking your the only ones who fail or hurt or struggle. More people need to be real. Stop being afraid to be real.
So true! Reality shouldn't be scary. It should be there to help people. I'd rather be honest about our struggles so others who've met the same can help us or people who come after us can say "hey, someone else ran into this road block too.. I'm not as dumb as I thought!"
Love this. So glad people are finally starting to talk about this. When I started my homestead 5 years ago I watched so many videos and read so many books and this part was not talked about! We had a REALLY ROUGH first year with a lot of death. That first year I felt so depressed because I wasn’t emotionally prepared for that. 5 years later it’s still hard but I recover a lot faster. Even my kids recover pretty quick when one of their favorites dies or has to be rehomed because we can’t feed every animal we want to keep 😅
I definitely show the hard and yucky stuff on my channel. I’m struggling with a pig right now. I see huge support coming from showing all the stuff not just the pretty. I like to be real! Y’all rock!
Yes, all are true, but not usually at the same time. There is a rhythm to homesteading and lots of time for rest and regrouping. Necessity is the mother of invention where failures create alterations in methods that lend to successes. For those of us that started this with no family experience, there is a huge learning curve, but there is learning. In time our methods evolve to work for our homestead. We take setbacks as opportunities to improve. We need to be easy on ourselves as we learn and grow. Happy homesteading (and eating.)
Subscribed as per "Our Better Life" Thank you for the truth!! I'm already for the life and death. We also hunt and when we harvest an animal, there is a prayer that thanks God for that food that will feed our family!
I come from a small farm in Nova Scotia so far back in the woods we had to come out to hunt. I have lived in Calgary for most of my life, I hate it, can't wait to retire and go back to a simple life again. All I've wanted all my life was to farm again, dirt an all. It's well worth the effort and I hope my health holds out long enough to retire, buy a piece of land build a cabin, and grow/raise my own food again. It will get easier and it is worth it, one thing I think is you suffer from lack of land. Getting started is always a struggle with anything worth doing. TIP: Although expensive new: An outdoor wood furnace even used $1500 - $2000 can heat up to 6 large greenhouses for year-round veggies.
We hope your health holds out too! Gotta live that dream while you're still kicking. We've been looking into rocket mass heaters and have a few designs courteousy of permies.com were looking at. I'm notorious for the DIY; especially if there's welding involved!
I really, really, really want for a homestead VILLAGE channel to pop up. One thing that I keep seeing crop up is everybody plants their own garden, and then they have to plant and harvest everything. This is a problem for a couple reasons. One, you have to learn about all of the things you're planting. Then, they all have different labor requirements, planting/harvesting windows, and preservation methods. You put it all together, and it turns into a crazy amount of work. And what if you decide to raise animals? Plants are work, but you can walk away for a week or two for a vacation, come back, and do some extra weeding and such. With animals, you have to be out there every day, replenishing feed and water, maybe rotating them to new paddocks, and so on. If you're getting dairy from them, you've got to milk them several times a day, no breaks. There's also the need to learn about animal husbandry, which is an entire career unto itself. This becomes a lot simpler via a collective approach. Maybe a formal village is a bit much, but if you can find a bunch of people, split up the produce/staples such that everybody only has to focus on one or two plants, I think that would simplify this a lot. I would expect that getting some people to move onto the same street with adjoining lots would make a big difference for raising animals.
Which is so weird because everyone I know talks dreamily about doing this very thing, but nobody actually does it. There's like a mental block there or something.
lol I kind off see a theme, complaining mostly. When you grow up doing this every day you don't even notice how much work it is. You tend to look at how much time you have to do things before that time is up, because its now snowing. PS: store bought meat and eggs are discussing.
Aren't accents crazy?! It's almost like there are cuntries outside of the US who also speak English! Wild I know. (Ps. That's not a typo; it's just for you ❤️)
Great video! When we first started raising animals for food i was told “if you have livestock you will also have dead stock”. Like others have said most people are just showing their successes and not all the blood, sweat and tears that go into it or their failures along the way. I still find it sad when you take the life of an animal, but when you get to reap the rewards of your hard work and are feeding your family it makes you feel good inside. Keep up the good work! Now I have to get back to watching the rest of your videos….
"The endless laundry because everybody's filthy" i felt that in the depths of my soul 😂
Sent over by more than farmers, great video... really enjoyed your perspective and honesty...new sub😁
Thanks, Jean! Welcome to the chaos 😉🌱
I think at the end of the day, it's about the fact that one is taking responsibilty for their very existence on a basic level. Yes, it's dirty, exhausting, downright disappointing at times. But turn your head around, and you find one little thing that brings you joy just because the effort you put in has brought a reward that is far more fulfilling than checking groceries out at the store with money someone else deems worth paying you for a job you probably don't love, might not even like.
So very true! I cannot stress enough how rewarding it is.. To feel the successes and to see the progress you're making is unlike any other feeling ever
Great video. I love that people can be real. People are so afraid to be real today. "Oh it will discourage people" ...ummmm NO it's discouraging thinking your the only ones who fail or hurt or struggle. More people need to be real. Stop being afraid to be real.
So true! Reality shouldn't be scary. It should be there to help people. I'd rather be honest about our struggles so others who've met the same can help us or people who come after us can say "hey, someone else ran into this road block too.. I'm not as dumb as I thought!"
Talking about the raccoon getting in the coup while wearing the raccoon cap 🤣
This is a great reality check video.
Great job.
New sub!
"the plants are dead and they're still producing...zucchini..." 😂🤣😂🤣 Yes this is so accurate
Love this. So glad people are finally starting to talk about this. When I started my homestead 5 years ago I watched so many videos and read so many books and this part was not talked about! We had a REALLY ROUGH first year with a lot of death. That first year I felt so depressed because I wasn’t emotionally prepared for that. 5 years later it’s still hard but I recover a lot faster. Even my kids recover pretty quick when one of their favorites dies or has to be rehomed because we can’t feed every animal we want to keep 😅
This is a big problem right now with anything online, a lot of it is fake and no one talks about the unattractive side of things.
I definitely show the hard and yucky stuff on my channel. I’m struggling with a pig right now. I see huge support coming from showing all the stuff not just the pretty. I like to be real! Y’all rock!
Having a homestead not easy but at the end of the day we are blessed ❤❤
7:03 SO. WELL. SAID. Homesteading out of fear is a miserable way to live. Keep up the good work guys.
Nice work, Ben and Nicole! You guys are doing great!
Yes, all are true, but not usually at the same time. There is a rhythm to homesteading and lots of time for rest and regrouping. Necessity is the mother of invention where failures create alterations in methods that lend to successes. For those of us that started this with no family experience, there is a huge learning curve, but there is learning. In time our methods evolve to work for our homestead. We take setbacks as opportunities to improve. We need to be easy on ourselves as we learn and grow. Happy homesteading (and eating.)
Subscribed as per "Our Better Life" Thank you for the truth!! I'm already for the life and death. We also hunt and when we harvest an animal, there is a prayer that thanks God for that food that will feed our family!
I come from a small farm in Nova Scotia so far back in the woods we had to come out to hunt. I have lived in Calgary for most of my life, I hate it, can't wait to retire and go back to a simple life again. All I've wanted all my life was to farm again, dirt an all. It's well worth the effort and I hope my health holds out long enough to retire, buy a piece of land build a cabin, and grow/raise my own food again. It will get easier and it is worth it, one thing I think is you suffer from lack of land. Getting started is always a struggle with anything worth doing. TIP: Although expensive new: An outdoor wood furnace even used $1500 - $2000 can heat up to 6 large greenhouses for year-round veggies.
We hope your health holds out too! Gotta live that dream while you're still kicking.
We've been looking into rocket mass heaters and have a few designs courteousy of permies.com were looking at. I'm notorious for the DIY; especially if there's welding involved!
@@homegrownshow Keep plugging away and especially if I win the lotto and start sooner I'll keep you guy's in mind. Mean time I will keep watching
Put love into it ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤💯
Hope you guys saved some of your seeds for next year. Saves me lots of money
Saved tons this year! Super excited for next year's garden already
I really, really, really want for a homestead VILLAGE channel to pop up. One thing that I keep seeing crop up is everybody plants their own garden, and then they have to plant and harvest everything. This is a problem for a couple reasons. One, you have to learn about all of the things you're planting. Then, they all have different labor requirements, planting/harvesting windows, and preservation methods. You put it all together, and it turns into a crazy amount of work.
And what if you decide to raise animals? Plants are work, but you can walk away for a week or two for a vacation, come back, and do some extra weeding and such. With animals, you have to be out there every day, replenishing feed and water, maybe rotating them to new paddocks, and so on. If you're getting dairy from them, you've got to milk them several times a day, no breaks. There's also the need to learn about animal husbandry, which is an entire career unto itself.
This becomes a lot simpler via a collective approach. Maybe a formal village is a bit much, but if you can find a bunch of people, split up the produce/staples such that everybody only has to focus on one or two plants, I think that would simplify this a lot. I would expect that getting some people to move onto the same street with adjoining lots would make a big difference for raising animals.
Agreed. We've been wanting to do something like this as well but it's hard creating that village. 😕
Which is so weird because everyone I know talks dreamily about doing this very thing, but nobody actually does it. There's like a mental block there or something.
@@wannabelikegzus yep! Very few people have any follow through! It's super frustrating
I love this so much. Being real is important and you guys are funny too. God Bless
Thank you ❤️🙌
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lol I kind off see a theme, complaining mostly. When you grow up doing this every day you don't even notice how much work it is. You tend to look at how much time you have to do things before that time is up, because its now snowing. PS: store bought meat and eggs are discussing.
When did the word process turn into prOcess? It sounds ridiculous.
Aren't accents crazy?! It's almost like there are cuntries outside of the US who also speak English! Wild I know.
(Ps. That's not a typo; it's just for you ❤️)
Proud of you guys, keep up the hard work
I'm so glad I got this far into the comments to witness this reply 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 prOceed ! 💪🏻