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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- We realized we didn't actually TALK about the pigs much, so here we go! Also, updates on the garden, orchard, soap stuff, and the dreaded mobile home.
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Caught Up In A Dream by Loving Caliber
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Like Stone by Daniel Gunnarsson
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With the bugs on your plants, I use wood ash, a light sprinkle once a week keeps most bugs away.
Seasonal creek sounds like a pond that needs digging :) Why make the windows so hard to find just make frame different? you are down to the studs after all, just a couple 2x4's to cut at that point.....
I love to see those big old trees that stand in your fields and have had all the room they've needed to stretch their limbs and bush out.
I was admiring those also.
gravel filled french drain around the barn if it keeps happening
I do wonder if it's rising water tables, which would also correspond with the reappearance of the creek. It could just be that water has less place to go to except up. French drains, yes, if so! As if you didn't have enough to do... Hey ho.
Now's the time to compost like crazy.. I'm going to try making huge leaf bins against the greenhouse to keep temps up, see if it works :)
Ever since I heard you talk about your personal journey (Mr. Hollar :-), each video I watch I see the deep connect the two of you have. The support you are growing between one another is one of the most valuable gifts you are receiving from this entire homestead experience. I'm sure you know this. I'm just letting you know that your viewers see it and appreciate it too! What you have as a couple and as a family is beyond precious.
You two are a wonderful couple. It's going good. Life takes time enjoy it.
Glad to see you get some meat starting on the homestead!! Filling that soap rack up fast is lots of work but also a blessing.
Thanks for answering my question, and a whole lot more, i hope you sell out even faster than last time with the soap, you have made so much progress on the homestead, soap studio done, machine shop done, first year garden done, pod gone, animals, chickens and home school 4 boys, and everything else that has to happen, never think a progect waiting is stopped, it's just other priorities for now, and you are amazing what you have accumplished in a few short months.
Ben you have an extra spark in your eyes and a calm demeanor! Nice to see! I hope the water didn't get into your equipment. I live in the Houston area and I'm so thankful for the cooler weather because this summer that lasted till Oct was a killer with the heat! Thanks for sharing. Blessings ~Sidney
I lost it at 'bacon seeds' Up until now, Cyndi Lopers was my favorite.
The pigs would love those broccoli plants! and the others too!
Watching this on January 20th, 2023! How satisfying it must be to know that your plans for the pigs worked out!
Just started watching you guys! And I love your videos, I live on a 400 acre vegetable farm/grain/beef farm and I love seeing people enjoy farming! I just started making videos about farming and you guys give me tons of motivation to keep going! I love your channel!
Just gave you a like and subscribed..
Quentin Nagel Thank you so much!
I did too! Look forward to watching your videos 😉
Just subscribed
Ramona Stringfellow thanks so much!
Love watching your progress! It's great that you are flexible enough to shift gears when an opportunity like the hogs comes along or an entire Stark Brothers orchard shows up. May I suggest that you at least put a 2 foot high cylinder of hardware cloth around the base of the trees so the rabbits can't chew the bark off and girdle those babies. Deer on the other hand, love to nip off the tender young growth on fruit trees, roses and berry canes, and they do it at night. Speaking from sad experience, deer and rabbits are death on young fruit trees and can do extensive damage to even very mature trees, especially if the winter is harsh and they get hungry.
After raising 4 sons, I can tell you, you may not find out the answer until they are grown. lol
True, that! Eventually, we learned how the mysterious peanut butter stain got on the popcorn ceiling!
Yes, so true. I have a son 31 and one 11 and oh my the things I have learned.
So true LOL LOL
Yep, I have a daughter who is now 19yo and living on her own going to college in a different province. She finally fessed up to me over FaceTime about something that has bugged me for years. I am now disabled - mostly bed-ridden. I tell you this because when I asked her why it has taken this long for her to tell me, she said "because now with me living a province away and with your spinal injury, I finally feel like you can't catch me". I have never laughed so hard, little brat!
Yup. I have 4 sons also. When they start telling me stuff I just tell them I don't want to know! Lol
Man I seriously love watching your homestead grow. We bough our first home about the same time you guys got this property so it's nice having someone to watch that is just getting started again like us. 💛
Piglets in winter! Woo boy, prepare my friends! Like yesterday🤣. Our AGHs have cleared our woods perfectly, still gotta saw the trees down but all small stuff is adios. If they are 1st time mamas be ready for them to farrow during a snow storm directly in front of their shelter. Ask me how I know 😖🙄
Please note: You really do need to protect those pregnant pigs, as well as your young fruit trees over the winter‼️. Remember that it is waaay easier to prevent than to cure‼️. ❤️ 👵🏻
The secret to successful broccoli and cauliflower is keep the plants shaded and well watered !
O M Gosh you guys!!!! I am so excited right now!! Thanks to the courage you have given me, as of Dec. 1 I will officially start the journey of my own homestead! I finally found my perfect land!! Thank you for putting yourselves out there and letting us see that even though it's scary we CAN realize our dreams!!!
I am thoroughly enjoying watching this family grow their homestead! This is the type of vlog that is meaningful, inspirational, and important.
Congrats on the expansion of your homestead! So excited for you. Great addition! love and blessings.
Love the update guys. Property is looking lovely and green. Slow and steady wins the race. Your videos reveal activities that you have achieved within days. Hardworking couple reaping the benefits gradually. Take care and keep smiling. Xxxx
I am so impressed by your ability to roll with things and being hopeful about stuff. Love your channel and wishing you the best.
Congratulations on the new pigs! The fall garden is looking great!
Thanks for the update! Best of everything with your pigs, soap business and what ever else you set your hearts on.
I'm born and raised in North Carolina. My mother grew up on a N.C. farm and gardened all her life. She always said collards taste better after the first frost 😊
That's true, they are so delicious after a frost!
Awesome job Meg, on the soap photographs on your store front page. All soaps look great.
Thanks for the update. I’m with you, hoping for an accidental spill, not seeping in from outside or below. Lots of soap in a fabulous drying rack.
You guys have really worked hard this summer,and wow the fruits of your labor are showing
Nice to see all that's been going on.. not enough time or energy to get done what you would really like..
Have a wonderful evening🌻🌻🌻
Life is what's happening while the plans you've made are on hold. Focusing on future tasks can deplete the joy of the present.
Mice will eat the bark around the base of your trees as they get hungry through the winter. If they eat a complete ring through the cambrium the tree will die. Easy prevention is putting a piece of flex pipe around the base. 12 inches should do it.
We had the storm also in Virginia flooded our chicken coops! I suggest installing some french drains around the barn. It could do wonders moving the water away from the barn also it keeps the water out of your Machine Shop. Congrats on the pigs keep up the grind.
Tiny little bacon seeds, omg funny
We built up and graveled around our trailer.
The rain should not be pouring under our trailer, but it is.
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Gonna be watching y’all to see if you find out why your Shop is being flooded!
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Been watching your videos since almost the beginning. Really glad it's going to well and I can't wait for the next update!
Don't give up guys You had so much on your plates this year,Next year will be better.Hoping next year will work
There will be bacon on their plates next year! LOL😂
Thanks for the walk-n-talk! 😊
Looking forward to see the bacon seeds! 🐷
Wow, that’s a beautiful soap rack! 👍🏼
You are doing a great job! With a farm the best laid plans can change every 30 min. It’s a fix or repair daily + whatever goal you had or had to give up for that day. Great job!
Love you guys! Stay warm!
Great to have breeder pigs. You are busy folks and progress is ongoing. Way to go ... 😺💓🎃
Great update😘 Y’all stay warm. It was 37 degrees here in Northwest Florida this morning and that is cold for us.
You do realize that you probably need to put fencing around your fruit trees or the rabbits and deer will eat all the bark.
Yes I see deer every night feeding in the yard. Fence and put milk on stick in yard on a string might help .
@@sarib229 I was just wondering what you meant by milk on a stick helping? Deer eat my tomatoes and I'm always looking for ways to keep that from happening.
Put a white milk jug on a string tie it on a stick. Put around garden or fruit trees and it will help with deer in the yard. Wind blows on jug and scare deer.
Crusin along, chilling, living, doing what you can! It's all good! It won't be long now. You will have more time this fall to get things done. So good to see you happy and settled there at your beautiful homestead. It's so funny this time last year I surely thought you would end up north of Asheville for sure. It never crossed my mind that you would end up so close. Blessings, and enjoy this gradual cool down!😊🙏❤
😂 as a vegetarian 🌱 is a bit weird hearing you guys talk about eating the pigs 🐖 . I do love your videos and all the gardening part. Hugs from the concrete jungle NY.
We frosted last night and had snow yesterday...not happy about it at all, but the garden is finally toast. Hope you find your windows and get all your outside work done before it gets cold and stays there. Plenty of winter days to work in the house. Bacon is bacon and we all eat it...bacon seeds...funny.
You may have already tried this Restore Store May have the windows you are looking for. It’s a second hand construction materials store. Habitat for humanity is affiliated with this store. I’ve found some good treasures here. Sometimes it’s a hit and miss.
It's exciting to see how things are developing. Keep up the great work, I love your Vlogs! I live in Minnesota....the cold season has begun 🥶
I enjoy the walk and talks. Updates are always nice to hear. Hope your young people are the source of you water issue in the barn. Piggies are cute but pork is tasty so cute goes to the back burner!
LOL...cute goes to the back burner...literally! I'm guessing that pun was not on purpose, but it works!😂
Thanks for the update! Have a great weekend!💕
Who's doing all that excellent mowing? Beautiful tree overlooking it all. Great progress has been made by you folks, so ever so well done to all of you.
Thanks for the update. I love that your just going with the flow and taking it one day at a time. You have one very beautiful homestead. Like you said no hurry getting in the home. Why rush a good thing..right?😉😊 Love you guys! Greetings from Wisconsin.
I can’t really grow broccoli either. I think it’s a timing thing. But I did learn that the greens are awesome on their own. It’s never a failure, it’s a learning adventure. Great job in all you’re doing.
In the future you could connect all your raised beds into a long raised bed. If you plant all your broccoli, cabbage, kale, collards, brussel sprouts, and cauliflower, etc together on one side, you can cover with a white row cover and grow them under there all season. Keeps the bugs off plants and helps have a great harvest. Plus you can grow tomatoes, peppers, beans, etc out in the open on the other side of the raised bed.
I wondered if you had the chance to visit Maine,my home state,then I found your video Maine or bust.I was a little disappointed you didn't settle here,because I think you'd love it here.But I'm glad you were able to find a property you love.I wish you well!
Seems like winter came early for us as well, here in Chicago. We got our first snowfall on Wednesday Oct. 30th and it covered the ground and also yesterday on Halloween. The poor children had to slop around door to door in the snow with their Halloween costumes all covered up with coats and snowsuits. Today it warmed up in the 40's f, and most of the snow melted. The thing is that most of the leaves are still on the trees.
Thank you for the update on what you are doing, I just love seeing the progress that is happening!! May God continue to bless you like He is doing, Hugs to all :)
Good for you guys! Self sufficient is the goal!! I'm excited for you!
If the commies get control you will need the food.
Mulch around the bottom of your trees for winter y’all are doing such a good job
Yes!! Very interested to see you build the transportable pig shelter!! I planted broccoli for the first time this year and it did great, mind you I have been working on my soil and this year it was beautiful.
I'm so glad I'm not the only one having problems with broccoli. Here in Oklahoma we already had our first freeze. I did manage to transplant my habeneros before the freeze.
Awesome update... thanks! Also, I was nearly 10 when _The Beatles_ (aka 'The White Album') came out... so now you can guess what music was playing in my head the whole time I watched. «grin»
Great job, I hope things go well with the pigs.
I compliment you on your positivity....always smiling and not whining like some other bloggers......you make good of what you have and God will bless you.....you live in a camper and it’s not a ole poor me syndrome.....too bad there isn’t a go fund for positive people.......
I hope you protect your trees from deer......
Glad that your soap business is blooming......bless you....🤩
Whoohooo.... comments are on... love the channel guys!
You guys are doing great. May I make a suggestion? Don't be so hard on yourselves. What you are accomplishing is huge. The tasks at hand will take a few years to get rightly established. And the home maybe another year. Enjoy the process and be kind to yourselves. Sending you love from Italy.
It was cold in Southern New England, Connecticut yesterday. Kale will be fine to eat and Swiss Chard until it’s real cold. If you like smoothies throw them in to make with fruit. You can give the pigs some of the other vegetables and chickens too. Put fences around your trees to protect from hungry wild life.
Hey you guys we got down to 22 this morning 1 Nov 19 and we have had deep frost.. We even had a few snows (Wisconsin) Central . The soap lady has been busy!! Good job you guys! well done and you have all the time you need, no rush. Take time and smell the roses! *wink*
Our first time planting fruit trees, 12 in total, the deer ate every single tree down to the ground except for one apple tree. The first to go were the cherry trees. Put up fencing to protect!
Everything will fall into place, when it does. You both have got going on. Hang in there. I'm on the eastern side of n.c. it's cold tonight 36 yesterday 77 muggy . Storms were awesome last night. Stay warm n safe, till next time
I received your VIB..not fast enough sold out by the time I got to it😱.. I WANT SOAP..lol🤣 So glad things are working out for y’all.Love watching your progress.Blessings🦋
Great progress! Love the new piggies!
Could you special order windows from Home Depot? That's what we did for the odd sized windows in our mobile home.
I love the pigs 💙 they are so cute and can’t wait for the piglets. Your homestead is growing lovely, I love watching it grow !!
Meg & Ben Hollar, I love seeing your faces. Hopefully, in the future, it might be more frequently.
Try the row fabric to cover your broccoli to keep the bugs off and keep it from getting too much sun. I have had good success with that on my broccoli, cauliflower, and all the brassicas. Everything is looking good and can't wait to see the little piggies.
You probably can find the windows in Greenville SC or Spartanburg SC only 1hr away at the most from Ashville
we have to a lot of rain here in tennessee to but it was down above frezzing last night like 28 i think i don't like winter time at all but it is what iit is but love watching your video
If you have it happen again when it rains, try trenching uphill from the barn to redirect the rain water. It doesn't have to be a deep trench.
It works!
Keep up all your forward progress. Great job!
As bacon lovers, this makes sense for your family🐖 I planted my peach and two apple trees from Stark Bro’s. today. Very excited.
My wife had a pig, friends asked her, " So what are you going to name your pig? Her reply was "Dinner".
Might be a good idea to mulch around the trees for winter.
You might want to give sprouting broccoli a try. It makes lots of little heads rather than a big one. When you pick them it encourages the plant to make many more.
I LOVE yalls sense of humor!!!! "Pre-seeded" lol😂😂😂
Love that you got pregnant pigs. Connie and Tim and us just got 4 more BIg Black/Bershire cross here on the homestead. It was an adventure getting them in the trailer because they were over 100 pounds already. Love you guys.
For your broccoli...plant in early spring, using a low plastic 'hood' if possible, when it comes up, keep it sprinkled, or powdered, with white lime...which will kill and discourage any bugs. I use a burlap bag, small one sewn esp. for this, and it needs to be applied after every rain as as needed. Just rinse well before eating...this really works! Broccoli does not do well in a hot summer...so early spring, a Fall crop is good, too. Good luck.
We had single digit cold and my kale looks great. I am hoping I can harvest for a couple of weeks more.
I am always inspired by you all!!! 🎉💜😊
Ben , Justin is posting cut list for guinea hog shelter . Today's vlog , Jason from sow the land . Did measurements and photos and posted cut list
We had 17 degrees this morning! We are headed to 12 tommorow night... bbbrrrrrr lol love'n the piggies!!!
I am happy you have Baconmakers. I thought you were getting Goats. But Bacon is excellent. Love your channel. You are living the Dream. Bless
Stalling on projects is a normal thing for Homesteaders, it comes with the territory. However, you are plugging away and still making progress!
Great day !
You got pigs, just be careful with the babies , they will die if it's too cold.
My buddies always had a junk woodstove to keep them warm if need be.
Granted I live in the mountains of VT. But it sounds like your chilly there. Maybe a ton of hay and Mum is fine down there. I love piglets lol!
You guys are doing an Awesome job!
Jo Jo in VT 💕 😊
When you remove floor.
Get a angle grinder put a sanding disk on and use 18 grit sand paper to remove staples and glue goes VERY FAST but lots of dust.
You could turn the seasonal creek into a wet growing area....plenty of plants love wet boggy ground...just another thought for producing something.....flowers such as cannas....or reed marsh for water purification 🤷♀️ love your positive energy guys🥰
Feel your pain with the heavy rain! We have a swamp too...I’m in Catawba County- which county you guys in? Your Broccoli May be getting too hot if it’s getting all day sun mine only get morning sun until around 2 and does really well. Congrats on the pigs 💐
The gift that keeps on giving... knocked up oinkers! I love "bacon seeds". Crackling, lard...it gives flavor. If you don't use it every day, it's OK. If you can get some help, you can get tons done inside the mobile home.
Dry your greens before they freeze. I have dried lettuce, kale, chard, spinach. Then made it into powder. Use in stews, soups, sauces. Works great. I have half gals. Of each. Set for winter. Also have been picking chantrel mushrooms and dried all those and grinded them into powder too.
Hope you have some wire up on the cinder windows...neighbor lost some baby pigs to coyotes...they jumped thru openings and feasted...Bok Choy is the best greens for HM Chick Soup & HM Meatball Soup...we did both soups in summer and now are bagged and waiting for that first
snowed-in event here in Kennebunk ...getting ready to start dehydrating beef for HM Jerky...waiting for the London broil to go on sale🤗...
also have our HM Pickles and HM Zucchini Relish ready for the SNOWED-IN BQ EVENT in December....neighbors get together and there are
all kinds of food, at least 3 grills and a smoker...this year all are in our yard and it should be so much fun...everyone have take home goodies due to the amount...
If they can get them back in from the forest before they give birth....
I’m getting my first 2 pigs in the next 2 weeks. I’m so excited
Row covers are real help for keeping bugs off