Not Everything Goes as Planned (even building a simple cold frame)
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Love how well you two compliment each other on the homestead tasks. Your content is a great example of how to work together to make this lifestyle happen. (BTW your stretch and folds were great, well done! 😊) Have a lovely day!
My thoughts Exactly 💯❤
Exactly! This life is not for everyone. It is a lot of work and things do not always go as planned.
Thanks so much!
Love your videos. You were dead broke but you were resourceful and used what you had. That is a great point and example to those who think they can’t afford to grow some of their own food because it’s not picture perfect. Use what you have, the plants will grow! ❤
Thanks April 😁
There are enough "sanitized" homesteading videos out there.....thank you for keeping it "real"! Love you guys.
Our pleasure!
Yall are so pure and genuine
. I will just play your videos on my TV continuously. You both have calming personalities and it's relaxing to watch your videos, it's therapeutic.
Thanks Jenifer!
And life happens! Now this is true reality and so refreshing after all of the "fake"reality they show on "reality TV"! I started and stopped cleaning the chicken coop and putting in more wood chips about three times because of rain. Even then my husband had to finally finish the job of removing the old wood chip to the compost pile. God bless y'all and keep growing.
Thanks Nancy! Glad to hear from you.
I love your channel more than any other homesteading channel! Y’all are so cute and down to earth! We plan to start homesteading this year and I’ve learned so much from y’all!
Thank you 😊
Wow, thank you Staci, and best of luck with your homestead!
Okay! A hubby who will stretch and fold that dough??!!! Really??!!! You got me all in!!! I am a new sub! :)
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You guys ROCK, seriously. Consulting with your own videos to perform a task you have seen the other do multiple times 🤣 I'm crying from laughing so much. Quite sure that wasn't your intent however your humilty is glorious! Thx for being real out here, praying for Michelle's quick recovery!
Glad you got a good laugh! Michelle is doing better 👍
I watch all the time and haven't had much to comment - but I feel like you need to be told you are doing a good job. I appreciate the effort you take to share your lives and journey and you deserve some simple, genuine feedback to know what you do makes a difference. Sometimes its not enough to just see the views and know we are watching, but helpful to know it is making an impact. You should know we are supportive and grateful for what you do.
I really appreciate that. Have a great day!
I love the two of you. Cody, you have the brains to make things without instructions to benefit your family. Michelle, you are so easy going...when the world is crashing. Your mind is strictly on your family and making sure they have what they need to grow. I watch several similar utube channels. You two make me laugh throughout your videos 🤭.
Cody❤Michelle ➡ "Live long and prosper" ~ Spock, Star Trek
Thanks! 😊
I love the if it does bother you then don't do it. I just love when you said that. It's perfect. It's a good reminder to people that they don't have to do what they don't want to do. Epic.
I LOVE IT!!! I saw that Martha Stewart had a few deep ones in the middle of her flower garden with the glass top. Yours makes a lot more sense to have it near your house. This is such a great idea to keep it close and easily accessible. GREAT TEAM WORK!!
Thanks! 😁
One thing is quite obvious - you are real people in a real world. Love your videos.
Thanks Bill 😁
I have a mashie for stuff like that. Hand tools never gun out of gas :-) Love your videos :-)
Bootstrap farmer trays are calling your name. They are more expensive but will last a long time and make bottom watering so easy.
Thanks for the recommendation!
Codi, you homemaker. Oh you just made my day with that comment. Had a good laugh. Thank you for the amazing content.
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My favorite part is you watching your video to do the stretch and fold. Yes, sprouts are so much more nutritious than their fully grown version. It’s so cool that you can get more nutrition with lower volume.
A newbie here. I saw the instragram photo. I have old windows lying around. I would love to put them to use. Years ago, I had a friend who made a cold frame with concrete blocks and old windows.
Years ago, I lived at a place where we had 3 rows of raspberries. I trimmed mine with pruners. I took one row out because it was time-consuming, and I could not keep up with 3 rows. I had 2 young boys and was pregnant with the third child at the time.
Having a variety of berries is nice. That is a plan of mine. I have wild Raspberries - Red and Black here. I planted Blackberries because the wild ones are so tiny and so few.
Mmmm! Enjoy the berries for us, and best of luck with your garden this year ❤️
Love ❤️ your videos. Thanks for the encouragement to grow sprouts. Have done for years. Going to order broccoli seeds today.❤
Sweet! Tell us how it goes.
You guys have done an excellent job. Love your work.
Thanks Mary. 😁
You guys are so dang incredible i think im gonna subscribe. Its so nice how you describe the process with simple instructions enough so that almost anyone can do it.
Awww, thank you Pam!
You all are OUTSTANDING People. This video is great as an example of two different woods and building this bed for food at the end of the house. And....I hope Michelle haves some GET WELL WISHES from Everyone. Get Well Michelle......and thanks to your bread recipe --- I have fresh bread today. Muchas Gracias.
My Better Half: Susan.....is making me vegetable soup (veggie stew) and Delicious Fresh Bread from the Dutch Oven.....Thank you.
You're welcome Miles. Great to hear from you!
Any man needs its tools just as much as a woman needs hers. Good on you both to have what you need to make life work out! Happy farming life 👩🏽🌾
Thanks Jenny!
You need battery powered hedge trimmer for the raspberries.
This is honestly a cool idea! Now i want one haha
We love ours
Missed you guys there for a while. Hope all is better.
The new raised bed is beautiful. I just have a question about the concrete blocks. I read somewhere a couple years ago not to use them where one is planting food to eat because there are chemicals in the concrete that will leach into the food. I take it you haven’t heard that? I love your videos.
Eh, not worried about it.
I would recommend sealing the cedar with linseed oil not stain. The chemicals from the stain can leach into the soil. Just something to keep in mind with any health issues.
Thanks Tim!
I use a large 1 qt ketchup/mustard dispenser (I got from a local restaurant) to water my seedlings in their six paks.
Nice!
You two are the best! Thanks for making real life videos. Makes me feel better about the projects that always take longer than expected. 10 trips to the store later... 😂
Yeah, that's how it is. So glad you're enjoying the videos!
Cody, my husband does our compost with his tractor but he just does piles….they are not enclosed at all. Works great! He turns it about once every one or two weeks.
Great cold frame! Thinking about doing one and I like this method.
Go for it!
Being resourceful is what our forefathers were. Never think less of what you're doing because you are being resourceful. You are very creative, be proud of what you've accomplished.
Thank you Linda. 😁
Love watching your videos! Thanks for being real. I also love your "honey bees and flowers please" sweatshirt!! 🐝 🐝 🐝
Glad you like!
A nice informative video, sorry to hear you were poorly Michelle, hope things good now. It was lovely to see how Corey wanted to get things sorted for you, before you’d gotten home. Avery very pleasant video, do you like olives, if you do, get some of the nice ones without stones whatever your favourite is and chop in half or quarters whatever you like and add to your bread dough this makes a great soup bread or pretzel them even pizza them it’s a great way to give some bread alittle different flavour.
Huh, what a cool idea! Thanks! 😊
Great tips! Glad my lettuce can go out tomorrow :) I could do with a grow lamp, but since I’ve only got two mouths to feed and a small plot, I’ll manage without a little longer. I’d never heard of a naturopath, but we’ve been eating broccolisprouts for years. Lots of vegetables make good sprouts. Radish, leek. But you’re method is so much better than mine! I’ll look for jars with a handy top like yours. Thank you!
You're welcome!
this video is so good!!!! thanks guys!
Love your videos.
Great job! Blessings!
Vigorous! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Y'all crack me up with your humor! Thank you for answering the question about which direction your cold frame is facing...Try Fall Gold raspberries, they are so delicious!
Thanks for the recommendation!
hello guys, I missed your video, what a shame. :-) It's great as always and I'm learning and learning from you. I don't buy garden books and garden magazines anymore, you helped me get off to a successful start. Michelle, as M.D. I have been recommending broccoli sprouts for almost 20 years. So good for your health, stick with it. I send you a hug and lots of love, you are the best.
Thanks Claudia 😁❤️
That should be the ultimate lifegoal watching your own video for tutorial purposes 😄
Right?! 😂
I thoroughly enjoyed this video . I am going to try the broccoli sprouts- thank you for sharing that tip! 👌💯New cold frame is beautiful. Look forward to the next episode!💜🦋
Thank you 😁
I’m going to try the sprouts also!
Such a great video! I’m glad you’re feeling better Michelle.
I want to try the sprouts. My mom used to do alfalfa sprouts and we loved those.
Yay!!!! I’ve been hoping for this one!!! Thanks So Much!!💚💚
You're so welcome Tamara!
In order to take advantage of an early spring in Southern Ontario, I've temporarily converted my garden boxes into cold frames using greenhouse plastic and some clamps. Transplanting a few test subjects tomorrow.
Also, sprouting jars are amazing! I like broccoli, but also sprout radish and a clover/alfalfa mix. So good for you, and a great way to get greens before the growing season. All the best! 😊
Great idea! Good luck with your transplants.
Do you cut your raspberries down like this every year. How low do you cut them? And lol do you do this to blackberries as well? Enjoy watching you kids. Teach a 66 year old woman that is just starting berries last year💗 Thank you
Yes we do. We cut em down to an inch or two above the ground. We don't have blackberries so I'm not sure. It also may not work for all raspberries.. We have the Heritage variety. Good luck!
71 and Useless Eater here. Just when I get the credit card paid down, Michelle shows these lids. I just ordered 4! I have microgreen trays which work well but I like the jar deal better. I'm planning on putting in a raised bed like yours. As you know, we have basically the same climate here. Years ago I bought a box (10) of plexiglass sheets (2x4') to replace old double hung windows in the greenhouse. Just cut them in half with a circular saw. My problem is that if there is glass within 50 feet of me, I bust it. I've used it to replace windows. It comes with a protective sheet on both sides that you just peel off. I just leave it on to break up direct rays. So when you buy a stainless steel hose roller upper some day and Michelle finds out and hucks an acorn squash at you from the garden and breaks the raised bed glass - well, there ya go! (Been awhile since I polluted your comment section) Another good video. 🙂
😂 Good to hear from you Ben. Don't break any glass this week!
Thanks for the broccoli sprouts info, great job on the dough prepping 😊
Thanks!
You are kind and hardworking, and your farm is very beautiful and inspiring to us. We feel good when we watch your channel on a rainy day in a war zone. Greetings to you from the Syrian coast on the Mediterranean.
God bless and protect you all.
So glad to hear you're enjoying. Best wishes from our corner of the world!
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Thank you so much God bless you & your lovedones
Hey guys, have you ever thought about building a Walipini in your property?? You would be able to have crops all year long!! They started building them in the high lands of Peru and Bolivia, where the temperatures are very extreme. It's like a greenhouse that is half-buried in the ground (about 70% of it). Check it out, because you could build one very, very affordably and they are a game-changer!!! Much love to the whole fam.!!
Whoa! And we thought we were already up to our ears in raspberries 😏 Thanks for sharing!
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I noticed your raspberry bounty in previous videos and wanted to share that raspberry jalapeño (or any mildly spicy pepper) jam is a delightful. It is fantastic on Brie and equally good on simple cream cheese. It’s an instant crowd pleaser for both adults and more adventurous children. It also makes a very nice twist on pb&j!
Wow! What a cool idea 🤯
We plant onions, garlic, kale, carrots, potatoes, and lettuce to over winter outdoors. We let some of our lettuce go to seed. Purple pole beans will hang out all winter too on corn stalks. In raised beds in full winter/spring sun. The lettuce is shaded in summer.
Thanks for sharing 😀
I can’t wait to try broccoli sprouts! I have endometriosis and high estrogen so these are supposed to be very good for that! Thanks for showing us how easy it is to do it!
You're welcome! Best of luck 😀
Frame looks good! Well done. Nothing wrong with that brand of saw. Thanks for mentioning the variety of raspberry - that explains why you can get away with lopping them completely off.
Thanks!
The cold frame is fantastic!
We love it 😁
Your compost looks great! Why dont you get your chickens working and get them to turn it? Only downside is you'll have to restack the pile every now and then 😊.
Red russian kale guys you dont even need to cover. Im up in MI and I was picking kale with ice on it last year it was wonderful lol. Im gunna try and do a bunch of them this year.
I love this video! The best part is how plans don't ever work, it's about adaptation.
I have the flu currently and am going nuts being unable to work outside more than a half hour without being completely smoked. Terrible time to catch the flu with how big of an expansion I am 100% dedicated to this year.
It makes me feel better watching videos like this and at least putting some mental work in. I have an area to put a cold frame and this just helped me a lot with my plans.
You guys rock!
I wrote my initial comment halfway through the video and wow I am doing a lot of what you guys are! All the way to seeing the philodendron/pothos in the windows of the house, I'm just a couple years behind! 😂
Thanks Frederick! Get well soon!
Thanks
Thank you so much 😊
Talk about space, I live in a mobile home park, I have very little space, & my work missenses up my gardening, But, I would rather have a job than live on SSI. At 62, that is still rather small.
thank you for showing a very small simple seed starting station. Most pages I follow show large seed starting stations. I feel like your set up gives me hope I too can do this.
We really do like to keep it as simple as we can. You got this!
You also could have put some liquid nails between those blocks! But i’m sure what you did will work just fine
Maybe next time 😎
I do the little jar roll for my sprouts too. Very important or youll have a tangled mass.
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I also built our homestead with a cordless drill and hand held circular saw. I've been promising myself a chop saw for building my office, but I always spend the cash on wood for new projects be rather than investing in new tools.
The projects really are neverending 😂
I love your videos… so many tips & suggestions for us as we garden here in the U.K. If you ever come to the U.K., you’d be welcome to visit ❤
Thanks!
People make plans, God Laughs; hope all works out well, & wife is better soon :-) I hate being sick. Thank you for your videos...
So true. Thanks for the well wishes Nicholas!
😆 lol you sprout just the way I do my 2 favorites to sprout is alfalfa and Broccoli and I even sometimes sprout mung beans (bean sprouts) I tryed arugula but it got slimy on me
No! Not the slime! 😭
U can eat the green part u cut off once a week off the ion u see how strong they will get !
Lol when I built my chicken coop last year im pretty sure I went to home depot like 5 times in one day😂 could not for the life of me figure out what all I needed up front. It was my first time building pretty much anything though so the fact that I ended up with a functioning albeit janky coop was good enough for me.
Haha! Well, seems like you figured it out. The learning is a lot of fun.
As long as I’ve watched your videos you’ve done great keeping them tight! In fact, you’ve challenged me to do better in my own content. I always appreciate that in your content!
I have been learning about the difference between people that are goal driven vs process driven. I am beginning to believe that I am more process driven. Nothing right or wrong, just the way the brain functions. You really seem goal driven in your videos but when you run, do you still feel that or do you enjoy the process of the run, more? Sorry to be clear as mud. LoL
Thank you! Good observation.. Interestingly, in running I feel like I enjoy both 😊
Really wish I had seen this vid a month ago...I went to put the blade on my weedeater FOR CUTTING RASPBERRIES TOO! and mine also came with no nut...so bad that they don't.
Awww!
I am so jealous of your red raspberries. Loved all the content but I really have to question if it is worth watching when I have to get up to skip through commericals every 5 minutes.
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you have an amazing wife, a true dream...
If you can't put your window winter planter on the South side of the house, the next best thing is the West side.
Why is that?
@@morethanfarmersBecause the North and the East side of the house gets the least amount of sun. It is always best South or West as second option. Now for lettuce and herbs that might be a different story because of the heat. But for winter greens....South or West.
Sit doesn’t really matter about what saw you have just get a great blade
Good to know.
Question: Do you rinse the broccoli sprouts every day even after putting them in your kitchen window?
Yes, every day.
Metal brush cutting blades cut anything
Can I still prone back my heritage raspberries now on March 14 when there is some growth? I live in Ohio 6a
Yes! We just did a couple days ago 😊
Heads to trim onion seedlings…😅
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Broccoli sprouts will also raise your Natural Killer Cells which can get extremely low with things like Chronic Lyme Disease.
Great to know!
I’ve always been curious who films your videos
It's top secret 😎
How does the flavor of broccoli sprouts compare to alfalfa sprouts? Used to love those as a kid. 9:46
It's been too long since I've had alfalfa sprouts 😏 I'm thinkin fairly similar, but broccoli maybe a little more spicy.
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I've got something fun for you to try with your raspberries this year ( if you don't already do this). Pick them with only your thumb. Flick your thumb downward and rub the raspberries off into your hand. Time saver for me. P.S. you can feed extra raspberries to thise pigs you're getting... right?
Never would have thought of that!
Might sprout organic hard red Winter wheat berries and grow into grass, juice the grass or blend with water and strain. Heals everything, gives energy.
Another thing that seems to cure everything is carnivore diet.
Did not know that about wheat 🤔
you might not need to wait for hinges. Just sticks alone might do the trick.
True 👍
Got a book suggestion. Igneous rose by samael aun weor.
What do you like about it?
@morethanfarmers I do gardening..and homesteading ..this author fills the void on the spirituality side of gardenin
I HAVE BEEN WEED EATING FOR 30 YEARS AND STILL CALL IT WEEDEATING.
Yep 😂
I thought you had a hedge trimmer? that would work on your raspberries, wouldn't it?
It barely worked on the asparagus, raspberries are even harder.
@@morethanfarmersok, too bad... be safe!!
I would never put anything up against the house like that.....water against the foundation isn't a good idea....
She is so cute, It looks nice, But... we need to hold up the windows, & Paint The House... you will do that,,, not just one part. I really love my wife too. God Speed.
What? You had to go to Lowe's more than once? No way! I think my husband goes 3-4 times per garden or house project and fortunately it is only a mile away.
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Lol 😂
Please do not try to fit that blade on your trimmer!! Your trimmer is not made for a blade. You need to go into a small engine repair shop that sells trimmers and chainsaws so you can get something that is made for a Blade.
red russian kale is delicious & grows very well in the cold, i love it in a salad & also in a smoothie
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