As a daughter of a custom home builder and master carpenter, it made my heart so happy when your cabinet maker pointed out the continuous grain on your walnut cabinets. The attention to reminds me of my dad and what he would have done. Congrats!
Your cabinet guy did an excellent job! I used to build cabinets with my dad and I can really appreciate his attention to the details. They will be a family treasure for generations. The kitchen is going to be amazing! Beautiful job by “The beautiful one”. ❤
I started my homestead journey in 2017 with 32 acres of mostly pasture and some woodland. I'm still here even though we had 8 months of almost non stop rain. It's been the toughest winter yet, but we survived it. Thanks for your great content Justin and family. Your positivity has been an inspiration to me..
My 94 year old father died in January of 2020, thankfully before Covid restrictions, because he would have been miserable to be isolated. He left me $46,000 and I knew exactly what I should spend it on…. A backyard garden. We started the construction in February of 2020 and then came Covid!! I have continued my 8 raised beds and consider it divine that I had my garden to tend during the spring and summer of 2020. I don’t think I will ever be without a garden. You and Jess at Roots and Refuge taught me everything I know about growing vegetables. Thank you.
We started gardening and learning the homestead in 2020. We volunteered at a local farm until last spring when we bought our 64 Acre farm in Northern Canada. We cannot imagine going back to suburban life. We’re doing our second year of meat birds, pigs we’re starting in a couple of weeks, my milk cow should be coming home in the next few weeks and we just had our first goat kids born. Not to mention out horses and laying hens too. I remember the first egg now we get 18 per day lol 😆 but I’ve refocused our homestead to make our chores and processes more efficient and natural for us and the animals! Cheers to another beautiful day on the homestead
You're doing incredible but I started with your most recent video and worked my way backwards to understand your journey and I absolutely love you and your family as well as your journey 💕 thank you for sharing your journey with the world through this channel 😊😊❤❤❤❤😊😊many blessings to all of you 🙏❤️❤️🙏😊😊❤❤
My parents were homesteaders in the 70's - way ahead of their time. My dad chopped wood until he was 82! I'm not a homesteader (retired in my 60's) and simply dont have the energy for it as y9ou mentioned... But I admire you all, love learning about permaculture which proves how we are all connected. Your life is an absolute gift for your kids.
Thanks for sharing! I’m an urban homesteader that buys from local producers. Growing permaculture gardens since 1995 at my home in a small town. I love watching your family, farm & business grow! Blessings to all 🤗🇨🇦
Grew up on a dairy farm with a five acre vegetable garden and fruit orchard. While i dont have any animals any more (we have family that raise beef cows and a neighbor with a dairy farm) I have always had a large garden and an ever expanding fruit orchard. Food independence has always been important for generations of my family and neighbors.
My parents built our homestead in 1976 after Monsanto accidentally poisoned Michigan's Dairy and the state may have tried to help them cover it up. My mom, a registered nurse, was already following Feingold and Weston Price so this just confirmed it all for her. I was raised on organic food and raw dairy long before that was even a common term. We also heated our home with our own forestry. Their goal was to be on the grid but able to keep going with or without it at a moment's notice.
We have gardened, had chickens, ducks and 4H pigs, Which is so different from how we raise our pasture pigs now, for most of our married life. We have turned it up (preserving mostly) since we witnessed what took place in 2020, and it has helped that I retired. Hubby is working fewer days so we are able to do even more. We were watching your channel before 2020 but not as consistent. Thanks for sharing
I homestead vicariously through your family, the Hollars, and Sow the Land here on YT. The only energy I need is staying up later when I get behind watching your videos!
When I first got married we lived in an Apartment. A year and a half later we were able to buy a fenced in three bedroom home with a huge backyard. I was 24 and honesteaded the property. All around the perimeter of the fence I dug gardens where I grew chili peppers, tomatoes, and bell peppers. I also planted a lot of rose bushes. In 1984 we moved into a huge historic Victorian and started the never ending renovations. I finally started gardening again in 2020, pandemic era. Been doing it ever since and I’m still watching you and the Roots and Refuge channel.
I'm barley hanging on - diagnosed with Lupus and it has limited my time, energy and strength. I still have chickens and turkeys and a small garden, berries and orchard, and run the community garden at our church. I have big hopes of finishing my greenhouse this year. I would like to get back into pigs and milking goats. I only have 2 acres so cows are hard to feed.
I'm on my 18 growing season, with Chickens and back when Covid came, I upped my game, ( Raised Garden beds wise) and gardening & preserving kept me busy and normal during a crazy time in our lives! I love watching your channel, I don't know how you don't run out of things to talk about , but I look forward to seeing vlogs!
This is my sixth year of gardening in the city on a half acre lot. My grandparents showed me when I was young how valuable a good garden is, and how much you can feed a family with just a little land. I'm dedicated, I have plans that will grow with me. I finally have a home that is mine and have set down the roots to make this happen. Only wish I could have done it 20-30 years ago.
Austin, the music is good! It's at a good volume and it's at the right spots for just a super short moments so I vote to keep doing what ur doing! I love it! Justin, I have been gardening since my early 20's but had to stop for a few yrs and started agn 10yrs ago plus been doing it all alone for most of those. Thanx for all your help, wisdom, humor and community! And I cannot leave out.... thank you for sharing your family with us. I love you guys bunches!
I m 83 been gardening since I was 12. still do plus raise geese and hens, Had other farm animal over the years but down sized to a acre now, Been watching and learning from you since you started Y T
My fondest memories are at my family’s ranch harvesting okra we exported to the USA (live across the border from Brownsville,Texas) we had corn, yellow squash, watermelon, Chile, tomatoes, melons, wild berries, pomegranates, nopales on our back yard we were kind of homesteaders, that was more than 60 years ago. Like Justin our life improved, got better machinery, life change, kudos to him and his family
Justin, I challenge you to like my comment. I’ve been here before the pandemic and continue to stay after. Support us the commenters to stay and hang in there with all of us. The ordinary people watching and supporting!
I have been “homesteading” on a smaller suburban scale since I worked at a horse barn twenty years ago and they sent me home with three barn chickens tied up in an old feed bag. My mama and grandpa had always liked gardening and growing tomatoes and veggies so it just felt right that I should garden too. Some of of my earliest memories are sitting with my mama in her garden watching a monarch butterfly drink the condensation off my little cup of mama-made sun tea, or eating big juicy tomatoes over the sink with my grandpa, or helping him harvest pecans from his two big trees. My grandparents were from western NC, though they settled in Texas, and you can take someone out of the mountains but you can’t take the mountains out of them. I remember helping my grandma in the kitchen to shuck corn and snap beans. I still have chickens and a garden. I love watching your family and homestead evolve, as you homestead on the scale I wish I could but realistically will likely never.
Started homesteading very small scale when I found your channel in 2017,gardening,making salve, bread.Still going strong.My reason;always wanted a farm,spent time on my grandparents farm when I was little fell in love with the life.The chemicals in store bought food is half the reason,love of gardening the other half.
I lived on a 5 acre small holding in South Africa, now I live in Henrico county in the burbs since 1999, got 12 raised beds that keeps me growing veggies, love that you share all you know with us. Happy building time, you will be moving in soon! Happy days!
I have hope. I love this life. It is hard work but I never had this much peace. My husband is retiring in a few months and we're going to expand. We started very small before covid. Your bus tour taught me a lot and gave me hope and a vision. God has been faithful to us and has blessed us with more, so, we keep going.
I don't Homestead, but I watch every steam of yours. I came from a farming family and my fondest memories were the summers spent at my Uncles farm in Nebraska. My favorite pate of your steam is sitting down for dinner.
While our family doesn't REALLY homestead yet (we have a garden, but it would be hard to keep any animals in an apartment complex lol) I've been talking and dreaming about it since probably 2018. Unfortunately we lost out on the sweet spot to buy land just before 2020 and then we lost a lot of money trying to keep afloat. Lots of tears in the meantime because we're not where we want to be, but we're getting there again. My husband grew up on his grandparents subsistence farm so he really knows what he's doing. I worked at a horse ranch for almost 5 years, so I'm aware of the hard work that's involved with keeping animals. We definitely want the lifestyle for our kids to grow up in!
More than 10 years ago. And i wash the crazy guy in the neighborhood. In 2020 there was a line of people at my stall. Now I am part of the community. And source of inspiration. both for the garden. As the mental well-being. Nine Place my happy place. Ps in 2020 i found your chanel ;)
Over 19 years but I changed my whole approach in 2020. I don't have land so I switched to Hydroponics, permaculture food forest and indoor growing year-round. i''m grow SO much more food now than I ever did before the change. I'm plant based though so it's a different beast.
I got my first Mother Earth News in 2012. I was already homeschooling, homemaking, cooking by then. Getting that magazine set me on the crazy chicken lady (homesteader) path, happily on it since 2013.
I live in an apartment, so I can’t homestead. But I do grow peppers and cucumbers and tomatoes and union on my big balcony. I watch your videos for a long time.
We’ve been enjoying your Chanel for some time now ! Fellow North Carolinians here ( union grove ), hoping to have our chicken coupe build finished by June, I’ve been building it from all timber I mill from our land ourselfs, of course I chose to do it the hard way 🤦♂️🤪
I grew up on a farm doing everything “homesteaders” do now. Back then it was just “farming.” I completely understand the diminished allure of eggs! At one time we had over 200 chickens, and our eggs had their own separate refrigerator, which was always full during the spring and early summer. We sold some, froze some, and tried to eat the rest, but there were usually more eggs than we or our animals could eat! That’s what happens if you let “chicken math” get out of control! Now, I am retired, and still try to garden, but it’s getting more difficult for me as I age. I dread the thought of having to buy produce from the grocery store. Like Jessica Sowards says, “store bought tomatoes taste like disappointment!”
I absolutely love cabinets and color. I wanted you to have big farm table seating at least 12. Walnut makes a beautiful one then bench end chairs for king queen
We've been homesteading, growing a bit each year since 1981. We had 13 children, grew into a farm, now downsized with only 2 home to a 5 acre homestead. After downsizing life seems easy! Hogs, chickens, rabbits, a milk cow and steer just went into the freezer.
I'm a gardener of over 30 years as an adult, add 20 years for my lifetime. I grew up barefoot in the garden and have always grown. I am still dreaming of my one-day homestead. I wish all the luck to all whatever stage you're in.
🖐️ we moved to our property in SE WY in May of 2019 with horses, a steer, and laying chickens! We are still growing and work in progress, but yes your right, its important to find new ways to be excited! We love your channel and have learned so much! I have more seeedlings and garden infrastructure for gardening than i ever have this year. So I am looking forward to this learning curve and fresh food coming! 😊 Way to keep on keepin on yall! Z&F
I'm 34 years old and we live inside city limits on half an acre. I have been interested in homesteading since about 2018. I started my first garden in 2020 we are getting layer chicks this week and have doubled our garden size.
I was born into a homesteading lifestyle. We were raised off grid, hauled water, used a wood burning stove for heat, the whole deal. My grandparents had us working in the garden from the time we could walk. When I married in 1990 I started my own garden in my backyard. Kept going and now we have a nice little homestead of our own. I love it!
I don't know if I would call it homesteading but my family has been raising our own food in a mini farm setting, in the same town since before my great-grandparents. My grandfather moved over one street from his mother and I now raise my chickens, ducks, geese and turkey on the same land as well as garden. The birds are the the newest out of all those things as it is under a decade we have been raising them but I have gardened for my kitchen my whole life, 40+ years. My ex thought I was crazy when we were married by now he does it too. We are think, dreaming, of selling our place as the area we lived in has gotten so much more city than even when I was a kid and moving to a bigger place with cows, pigs and all the other big animal stuff but that is still just the dream right now. Every year that dream becomes more real as one of my boys got his degree in agg and wants to join me if I move. My circle of friends wants to join if we can find a plot big enough for everyone one to move wherever together as they want to homestead but have no experience with anything other than horses. I don't know, maybe, some day, till then, I'm just gonna keep doing what I've been doing since I was old enough to help my grandpa plant his garden. Still gives me so much delight watching my garden and animals grow, even after all these decades and loved ones calling me crazy.
Been homsteading since 2016. Got a lot more serious during covid. This is my garden sabboth year so focusing on animals and canning/preserving. Always somwthing new to learn and hone skills. This life never gets boring. Hoping to get our first dairy cow this year. Better learn to make cheese!! Keep up the good work!
Correct. I always wonder why homesteaders do not realize that biochar is one of the greatest soil amendments ever, especially since it's been around for thousands of years.
I’ve always grown tomatoes while growing up with a grapevine til my teens, blessed with my first full yard/house in adulthood gave me the space to grow since 2014.. 10 years and now I’m growing so many varieties of veggies I’m running out of space in my city yard, giving away seedlings, hoping to move next year after 10 years we have outgrown this house and looking for acres for this Akers ;)
I was born into homesteading, got married and moved to the city… then started gardening in raised beds about 10 years later, then got divorced and went right back to the country (on less than 1 acre) and got my first flock of chickens in 2017 and front yard gardening. My dad passed away and we moved my mom in 2019, and then I found your channel. Kicking myself since I found your channel cause I could have had a 😅milk cow, chickens, lambs and pigs where my parents used to live on 10 acres.😢
I am born in Paraguay and grew up off grid on a farm. After I got married we lived on a farm for few years always had a garden and animals and milking. Moved to Canada in 2007 and since 2012 we live on a farm. Garden, cow's, chicken goat's and pigs.
Post Covid. However, not because of Covid. Everything hit us at once. We sold our house, had a huge health diagnosis that changed our entire lifestyle, and husband retired. Still learning about this lifestyle but so much more knowledge about what's in grocery store food! This is when I found you and your family! Thank you for sharing!
Why are the sheep limping? They seem to be a high upkeep animal? I'm a vegetable farmer since 1987. Animals have not been a part except for chickens and hogs. Interested in learning animal maintenance tips for sheep, goats, milk cows. Thanks for your videos, I love your close family participation.❤️❤️❤️
Love you all love the content been here for a long time i love seeing the videos to the point i wake up first thing i do is see if theres a new video yet
Started homesteading (mini version in town on 2 acreas with fruit trees, garden and chickens) since about 2008. Moved and now on only a 3/4 acre lot in town with same stuff but way more garden and way less chickens.
I started during the pandemic. And have continued! I don’t have any animals but I do have a garden. Each year I find ways to improve it and buy something I need for the long haul. I don’t have much space. I rent and I started with a greenstalk and some small containers. The next year I purchased two metal raised beds, ask my neighbor if it was okay to put them on her area, she said yes and I share my harvest with her. I started buying seeds and starter plants. Finding gardening stuff at dollar tree and Walmart. Last year bought better trellises. This year just bought a better hose and holder. And adding a third bed. My oldest sons loves to help me with the garden now and gets excited when we start to harvest. He just bought me a little plastic greenhouse for my starters, we have it next to our sunniest window. With a grow lamp. We live in Connecticut. I tell you all of this to second your advice that you don’t need lots of space to homestead with at least a garden. I also now do most of my cooking & baking from scratch. Thank you and the other homestead channels for teaching me so much! 👍🏼♥️👍🏼
Started growing my own food start of pandemic, living in a high rise flat in the city, now I'm living in the country, I have 4 chickens and a garden full of veg an I make my own bread and butter, I'm here to stay 👍👍
Grew up in a homesteading family and when my husband and I got married in 1999, we started a garden and soon after, started raising chickens. My husband jokingly (but he's not wrong) refers to chickens as my "love language". Smart man! He just bought me 6 baby chicks the other day!
Mine was getting rabbits. I cannot have chickens but I was determined to have my own fertilizer. I finally learned how to get comfrey to grow for tea and rabbit poo for my garden.
In 2010 we lost my mother inlaw and inherited the family home. Which the land has been in my husband's family since before the Revolution. She pasted before one of our states largest fairs and wished he grandson could catch a piglet in the pig scramble. Well he did and were still here .
Did we start homesteading before 2020? Yes. Did we start homesteading after 2020? Yes. We kept chickens and had a first attempt at gardening before 2019, when we bought an RV trailer and got into camping. We had a family with teens help us with the chickens, but eventually we decided we wanted to travel more, so we gave our chickens away to a homeschooling family. It was a small chicken outfit anyway (see what I did there?), so it wasn't a big transition. After a couple of years of camping trips nearly every month, we scaled back the travel to a couple of trips a year. So we got back into homesteading in a much bigger way than before. In 2022, we converted our front yard into a permaculture food forest. In our back yard we got chickens again, and also started keeping quail and rabbits. Oh, and we live within the city limits of Corpus Christi, Texas, so everything we do is on a city lot that's maybe a quarter of an acre.
I grew up on a farm. We did all the ‘homesteading’ stuff before it was a thing. I had a garden since I was 8 so 60 years. There were a few middle years where I didn’t have one so maybe 50 of gardening.
Had chickens and goats (sorry Justin. Lol). When we were growing up. A dairy cow for a while also. Middle times just a garden. But now I have chickens and ducks again. Best garden/chicken/compost system there is. 😉
Becky, you can mix water and arrowroot add it to your used coming oil START on low bring up heat stir the roux will collect all the impurities. Strain is it's not as clean as you like do steps again. ALWAYS START ON LOW TO AVOID SPLATTER. ONCE THE FIX HAS BROWN STAIN OIL SHOULD BE CLEAR D read to reuse
Your placement of the pigs and chickens next to the gardens is a brilliant idea.. Mix it up to prevent burnout...Change up your everyday routine.. & find something to give you joy each & every day.. ❤️🙏🙋🏼♀️🐈🐕
I love gardening generally being outside...I would like to know what you could sustain on a homestead if you have to use a Wheelchair.. I would like to see what a disabled homestead looks like..I think?
🙋🏼♀️🕊. We need a love what we do. 🥀. ( Otherwise we get eaten up with negative thinking…. )A. thankful heart , for what we have been blessed us with .
I’d be so chocked if you guys weren’t a little burnt out. It’s honestly refreshing to hear that you guys are human lol because idk how you do what you do everyday with the house rebuild and grandmas illness etc all together with the normal day to day stuff.
We bought our acreage in the fall of 2018 and discovered your channel over that winter. So of course we hadn't quite had homesteading in mind and therefore weren't looking for just "the" right kind of property. But we are slowly getting it to work for us. I come from a conventional grain farming family (my youngest brother now owns the farm our grandfather bought in the 1960's) but there were many years of living in the city in between the farm and the small towns/villages after I was married where I gardened in some form (going to cover those in later videos on my channel).
Started homesteading in 2000. After all the work my mobility was bad and now continue n a village on 1 acre. Sheep, chickens and a growing food forest are my joy now!
Had a farm since 2012 Homesteading and harvesting since 2018. WE raise, harvest, package all on property. And started our greenhouse three years ago.. Five years ago with a small greenhouse.
Grew up in the city. Started growing in a garden provided by the housing complex I live in since 2013. It keeps me moving after extensive foot/ankle surgery.
GARDENED A LOT IN MY LIFE BUT WHEN I MOVED TO FLORIDA, I FOUND IT REAL HARD TO GROW A GARDEN. IN 2019, I FELT THE HOLY SPIT LEADING ME TO GARDEN AND I STARTED MY BACKYARD GARDEN AND PRESERVING WHAT I GROW.
If it makes any difference I’ve been watching you for years, I don’t homestead I’d love too but financially I can’t at the moment. My family fell the hardest I ever have last year and still no end in sight. I was laid off and still struggling to land a job.
Just a thought regarding "homestead Viewing". I'm sure many have moved on, but I feel there could be a large group that are currently homesteading and now don't have the time or don't need to learn about what they do daily. I'watched hundreds of chicken videos, but now I have 43 chickens, I scroll right through them. Just a thought :)
In regards to the heifer calves from Stud... if both are A2A2, keep both. You can always choose to not keep one after the fact, heifers sell well. Its good that you noticed the benefit of keeping Honey's bloodline (high producer), but that is something to write down in the breeding book, to take into account with many other factors when that choice needs to be made. Two other things both heifer calves have going in their favor is they are unrelated to your new bull. If both are A2A2 it'd be worth trying to keep both. And as previously said, if you do need to make the choice to get rid of one, you'll have a lot more data to help you make the right decision.
\O raised hand, we have been doing gardening since 2007, Back to Eden method and chickens since 2012, while following Justin you "a.k.a chicken man"...now the garden is 70 x 40, use Green Stalks and raised bed! Austin, keep the wisdom, comedy coming great addition!
As a daughter of a custom home builder and master carpenter, it made my heart so happy when your cabinet maker pointed out the continuous grain on your walnut cabinets. The attention to reminds me of my dad and what he would have done. Congrats!
Your cabinet guy did an excellent job! I used to build cabinets with my dad and I can really appreciate his attention to the details. They will be a family treasure for generations. The kitchen is going to be amazing! Beautiful job by “The beautiful one”. ❤
I started my homestead journey in 2017 with 32 acres of mostly pasture and some woodland. I'm still here even though we had 8 months of almost non stop rain. It's been the toughest winter yet, but we survived it. Thanks for your great content Justin and family. Your positivity has been an inspiration to me..
My 94 year old father died in January of 2020, thankfully before Covid restrictions, because he would have been miserable to be isolated. He left me $46,000 and I knew exactly what I should spend it on…. A backyard garden. We started the construction in February of 2020 and then came Covid!! I have continued my 8 raised beds and consider it divine that I had my garden to tend during the spring and summer of 2020. I don’t think I will ever be without a garden. You and Jess at Roots and Refuge taught me everything I know about growing vegetables. Thank you.
We started gardening and learning the homestead in 2020. We volunteered at a local farm until last spring when we bought our 64 Acre farm in Northern Canada. We cannot imagine going back to suburban life. We’re doing our second year of meat birds, pigs we’re starting in a couple of weeks, my milk cow should be coming home in the next few weeks and we just had our first goat kids born. Not to mention out horses and laying hens too. I remember the first egg now we get 18 per day lol 😆 but I’ve refocused our homestead to make our chores and processes more efficient and natural for us and the animals! Cheers to another beautiful day on the homestead
We have been homesteading since 1997, back when most people thought we were nuts. Thank you for normalizing what we do.
You're doing incredible but I started with your most recent video and worked my way backwards to understand your journey and I absolutely love you and your family as well as your journey 💕 thank you for sharing your journey with the world through this channel 😊😊❤❤❤❤😊😊many blessings to all of you 🙏❤️❤️🙏😊😊❤❤
My parents were homesteaders in the 70's - way ahead of their time. My dad chopped wood until he was 82! I'm not a homesteader (retired in my 60's) and simply dont have the energy for it as y9ou mentioned... But I admire you all, love learning about permaculture which proves how we are all connected. Your life is an absolute gift for your kids.
Thanks for sharing! I’m an urban homesteader that buys from local producers. Growing permaculture gardens since 1995 at my home in a small town. I love watching your family, farm & business grow! Blessings to all 🤗🇨🇦
Grew up on a dairy farm with a five acre vegetable garden and fruit orchard. While i dont have any animals any more (we have family that raise beef cows and a neighbor with a dairy farm) I have always had a large garden and an ever expanding fruit orchard. Food independence has always been important for generations of my family and neighbors.
I have homesteading for 50+ years and watching your channel since 2015.
My parents built our homestead in 1976 after Monsanto accidentally poisoned Michigan's Dairy and the state may have tried to help them cover it up. My mom, a registered nurse, was already following Feingold and Weston Price so this just confirmed it all for her. I was raised on organic food and raw dairy long before that was even a common term. We also heated our home with our own forestry. Their goal was to be on the grid but able to keep going with or without it at a moment's notice.
We have gardened, had chickens, ducks and 4H pigs, Which is so different from how we raise our pasture pigs now, for most of our married life.
We have turned it up (preserving mostly) since we witnessed what took place in 2020, and it has helped that I retired. Hubby is working fewer days so we are able to do even more.
We were watching your channel before 2020 but not as consistent.
Thanks for sharing
I love this video. The talking to your viewers, teaching moments and explaining “the why” of what you do with various tasks. Good job Rhodes Family!
I homestead vicariously through your family, the Hollars, and Sow the Land here on YT. The only energy I need is staying up later when I get behind watching your videos!
When I first got married we lived in an Apartment. A year and a half later we were able to buy a fenced in three bedroom home with a huge backyard. I was 24 and honesteaded the property. All around the perimeter of the fence I dug gardens where I grew chili peppers, tomatoes, and bell peppers. I also planted a lot of rose bushes. In 1984 we moved into a huge historic Victorian and started the never ending renovations. I finally started gardening again in 2020, pandemic era. Been doing it ever since and I’m still watching you and the Roots and Refuge channel.
You’d like Hollar homestead.
I'm barley hanging on - diagnosed with Lupus and it has limited my time, energy and strength. I still have chickens and turkeys and a small garden, berries and orchard, and run the community garden at our church. I have big hopes of finishing my greenhouse this year. I would like to get back into pigs and milking goats. I only have 2 acres so cows are hard to feed.
I'm on my 18 growing season, with Chickens and back when Covid came, I upped my game, ( Raised Garden beds wise) and gardening & preserving kept me busy and normal during a crazy time in our lives! I love watching your channel, I don't know how you don't run out of things to talk about , but I look forward to seeing vlogs!
This is my sixth year of gardening in the city on a half acre lot. My grandparents showed me when I was young how valuable a good garden is, and how much you can feed a family with just a little land. I'm dedicated, I have plans that will grow with me. I finally have a home that is mine and have set down the roots to make this happen. Only wish I could have done it 20-30 years ago.
Beautiful cabinets, I can appreciate all the care that went into making them!!!
Been watching and homesteading for a long time. This will be our 14 th garden. The whole family enjoys watching and none of it gets repetitive.
Austin, the music is good! It's at a good volume and it's at the right spots for just a super short moments so I vote to keep doing what ur doing! I love it! Justin, I have been gardening since my early 20's but had to stop for a few yrs and started agn 10yrs ago plus been doing it all alone for most of those. Thanx for all your help, wisdom, humor and community! And I cannot leave out.... thank you for sharing your family with us. I love you guys bunches!
You are repeating yourself to much
@@davidgraber3286 Interesting, I didn't repeat myself even once.
@@hollytaylor6799 Interesting, I didn't repeat myself even once. (Sorry, I couldn't resist, lol!)
My 14year old Son just told me that the music is Phonk. It’s what he has been into for a few months now.
This! I can actually watch the vods wearing headphones again withouth crazy adjusting vol every few secs.
I m 83 been gardening since I was 12. still do plus raise geese and hens, Had other farm animal over the years but down sized to a acre now, Been watching and learning from you since you started Y T
My fondest memories are at my family’s ranch harvesting okra we exported to the USA (live across the border from Brownsville,Texas) we had corn, yellow squash, watermelon, Chile, tomatoes, melons, wild berries, pomegranates, nopales on our back yard we were kind of homesteaders, that was more than 60 years ago. Like Justin our life improved, got better machinery, life change, kudos to him and his family
We have been homesteading 2022 when we bought 12 acres. Loving it! Thanks for all you do! 👍🏻
Justin, I challenge you to like my comment. I’ve been here before the pandemic and continue to stay after. Support us the commenters to stay and hang in there with all of us. The ordinary people watching and supporting!
I agree! Just a guy with a dream here still 🙋🏼♂️
Do it for Boots!!
I have been “homesteading” on a smaller suburban scale since I worked at a horse barn twenty years ago and they sent me home with three barn chickens tied up in an old feed bag. My mama and grandpa had always liked gardening and growing tomatoes and veggies so it just felt right that I should garden too. Some of of my earliest memories are sitting with my mama in her garden watching a monarch butterfly drink the condensation off my little cup of mama-made sun tea, or eating big juicy tomatoes over the sink with my grandpa, or helping him harvest pecans from his two big trees. My grandparents were from western NC, though they settled in Texas, and you can take someone out of the mountains but you can’t take the mountains out of them. I remember helping my grandma in the kitchen to shuck corn and snap beans. I still have chickens and a garden. I love watching your family and homestead evolve, as you homestead on the scale I wish I could but realistically will likely never.
Love watching the kids grow up, mine are grown so now I get to see my grandchildren grow. Can't wait for the full house tour when it's done ❤
Started homesteading very small scale when I found your channel in 2017,gardening,making salve, bread.Still going strong.My reason;always wanted a farm,spent time on my grandparents farm when I was little fell in love with the life.The chemicals in store bought food is half the reason,love of gardening the other half.
I lived on a 5 acre small holding in South Africa, now I live in Henrico county in the burbs since 1999, got 12 raised beds that keeps me growing veggies, love that you share all you know with us. Happy building time, you will be moving in soon! Happy days!
I have hope. I love this life. It is hard work but I never had this much peace. My husband is retiring in a few months and we're going to expand. We started very small before covid. Your bus tour taught me a lot and gave me hope and a vision. God has been faithful to us and has blessed us with more, so, we keep going.
I don't Homestead, but I watch every steam of yours. I came from a farming family and my fondest memories were the summers spent at my Uncles farm in Nebraska. My favorite pate of your steam is sitting down for dinner.
I was born into the homesteading lifestyle in 1952, and I found your channel pre-2020. 🤗
While our family doesn't REALLY homestead yet (we have a garden, but it would be hard to keep any animals in an apartment complex lol) I've been talking and dreaming about it since probably 2018. Unfortunately we lost out on the sweet spot to buy land just before 2020 and then we lost a lot of money trying to keep afloat. Lots of tears in the meantime because we're not where we want to be, but we're getting there again. My husband grew up on his grandparents subsistence farm so he really knows what he's doing. I worked at a horse ranch for almost 5 years, so I'm aware of the hard work that's involved with keeping animals.
We definitely want the lifestyle for our kids to grow up in!
We need a tour of the garden and what you’re growing. That will inspire people to grow groceries!
More than 10 years ago.
And i wash the crazy guy in the neighborhood.
In 2020 there was a line of people at my stall.
Now I am part of the community.
And source of inspiration.
both for the garden.
As the mental well-being.
Nine Place my happy place.
Ps in 2020 i found your chanel ;)
I’ve been here from the beginning and you & uncle Pete talked me into planting a front yard garden. Thank you.
Over 19 years but I changed my whole approach in 2020. I don't have land so I switched to Hydroponics, permaculture food forest and indoor growing year-round. i''m grow SO much more food now than I ever did before the change. I'm plant based though so it's a different beast.
You have my support brother! Ive been watching your videos for years! Even my wifes family that doesn't speak great English knows who your are! 🙏
I got my first Mother Earth News in 2012. I was already homeschooling, homemaking, cooking by then. Getting that magazine set me on the crazy chicken lady (homesteader) path, happily on it since 2013.
I live in an apartment, so I can’t homestead. But I do grow peppers and cucumbers and tomatoes and union on my big balcony. I watch your videos for a long time.
We’ve been enjoying your Chanel for some time now ! Fellow North Carolinians here ( union grove ), hoping to have our chicken coupe build finished by June, I’ve been building it from all timber I mill from our land ourselfs, of course I chose to do it the hard way 🤦♂️🤪
I grew up on a farm doing everything “homesteaders” do now. Back then it was just “farming.” I completely understand the diminished allure of eggs! At one time we had over 200 chickens, and our eggs had their own separate refrigerator, which was always full during the spring and early summer. We sold some, froze some, and tried to eat the rest, but there were usually more eggs than we or our animals could eat! That’s what happens if you let “chicken math” get out of control! Now, I am retired, and still try to garden, but it’s getting more difficult for me as I age. I dread the thought of having to buy produce from the grocery store. Like Jessica Sowards says, “store bought tomatoes taste like disappointment!”
I absolutely love cabinets and color. I wanted you to have big farm table seating at least 12. Walnut makes a beautiful one then bench end chairs for king queen
We've been homesteading, growing a bit each year since 1981. We had 13 children, grew into a farm, now downsized with only 2 home to a 5 acre homestead. After downsizing life seems easy! Hogs, chickens, rabbits, a milk cow and steer just went into the freezer.
I'm a gardener of over 30 years as an adult, add 20 years for my lifetime. I grew up barefoot in the garden and have always grown. I am still dreaming of my one-day homestead. I wish all the luck to all whatever stage you're in.
🖐️ we moved to our property in SE WY in May of 2019 with horses, a steer, and laying chickens!
We are still growing and work in progress, but yes your right, its important to find new ways to be excited!
We love your channel and have learned so much!
I have more seeedlings and garden infrastructure for gardening than i ever have this year. So I am looking forward to this learning curve and fresh food coming! 😊
Way to keep on keepin on yall!
Z&F
surprised you are still there, what a hole, se wyoming
I'm 34 years old and we live inside city limits on half an acre. I have been interested in homesteading since about 2018. I started my first garden in 2020 we are getting layer chicks this week and have doubled our garden size.
Cabinets are awesome....how exciting for Rebecca!
19:04 Use a cloth coffee filter. It works amazingly. When you're done you invert it, you spray it With hot water and just rub some soap on it.
I was born into a homesteading lifestyle. We were raised off grid, hauled water, used a wood burning stove for heat, the whole deal. My grandparents had us working in the garden from the time we could walk. When I married in 1990 I started my own garden in my backyard. Kept going and now we have a nice little homestead of our own. I love it!
I don't know if I would call it homesteading but my family has been raising our own food in a mini farm setting, in the same town since before my great-grandparents. My grandfather moved over one street from his mother and I now raise my chickens, ducks, geese and turkey on the same land as well as garden. The birds are the the newest out of all those things as it is under a decade we have been raising them but I have gardened for my kitchen my whole life, 40+ years. My ex thought I was crazy when we were married by now he does it too. We are think, dreaming, of selling our place as the area we lived in has gotten so much more city than even when I was a kid and moving to a bigger place with cows, pigs and all the other big animal stuff but that is still just the dream right now. Every year that dream becomes more real as one of my boys got his degree in agg and wants to join me if I move. My circle of friends wants to join if we can find a plot big enough for everyone one to move wherever together as they want to homestead but have no experience with anything other than horses. I don't know, maybe, some day, till then, I'm just gonna keep doing what I've been doing since I was old enough to help my grandpa plant his garden. Still gives me so much delight watching my garden and animals grow, even after all these decades and loved ones calling me crazy.
Been homsteading since 2016. Got a lot more serious during covid. This is my garden sabboth year so focusing on animals and canning/preserving. Always somwthing new to learn and hone skills. This life never gets boring. Hoping to get our first dairy cow this year. Better learn to make cheese!! Keep up the good work!
Love watching your beautiful family all the way from New Zealand 😊❤
Instead of burning the wood pile, you could turn the brush into wood chips and use them on the property. You could also make charcoal.
Correct. I always wonder why homesteaders do not realize that biochar is one of the greatest soil amendments ever, especially since it's been around for thousands of years.
@@georgiarasmussen8343 Ben Hollar makes biochar. :)
I’ve always grown tomatoes while growing up with a grapevine til my teens, blessed with my first full yard/house in adulthood gave me the space to grow since 2014.. 10 years and now I’m growing so many varieties of veggies I’m running out of space in my city yard, giving away seedlings, hoping to move next year after 10 years we have outgrown this house and looking for acres for this Akers ;)
I was born into homesteading, got married and moved to the city… then started gardening in raised beds about 10 years later, then got divorced and went right back to the country (on less than 1 acre) and got my first flock of chickens in 2017 and front yard gardening. My dad passed away and we moved my mom in 2019, and then I found your channel. Kicking myself since I found your channel cause I could have had a 😅milk cow, chickens, lambs and pigs where my parents used to live on 10 acres.😢
I am born in Paraguay and grew up off grid on a farm. After I got married we lived on a farm for few years always had a garden and animals and milking. Moved to Canada in 2007 and since 2012 we live on a farm. Garden, cow's, chicken goat's and pigs.
I am curious as to your religious background. It may be similar to mine.
Homesteading pre 2020, Widowed sold the farm..now balcony ministeading! 10 years strong🙏🏽
Post Covid. However, not because of Covid. Everything hit us at once. We sold our house, had a huge health diagnosis that changed our entire lifestyle, and husband retired. Still learning about this lifestyle but so much more knowledge about what's in grocery store food! This is when I found you and your family! Thank you for sharing!
Been "homesteading" the permaculture way since 2013!
Following you since the farm tour...
Why are the sheep limping? They seem to be a high upkeep animal? I'm a vegetable farmer since 1987. Animals have not been a part except for chickens and hogs. Interested in learning animal maintenance tips for sheep, goats, milk cows. Thanks for your videos, I love your close family participation.❤️❤️❤️
We have been homesteading since 1974. A couple of places rented out in the country then bought our own small acreage in 1981.
Growing up, I guess we homesteaded a lot. But I haven’t homesteaded for 30 years. And I must say I love to watch you do it even though I’m not in it.
Hello framily. Happy day much love 👍👊💪🤞💜🇺🇲🙏
Love you all love the content been here for a long time i love seeing the videos to the point i wake up first thing i do is see if theres a new video yet
Started homesteading (mini version in town on 2 acreas with fruit trees, garden and chickens) since about 2008. Moved and now on only a 3/4 acre lot in town with same stuff but way more garden and way less chickens.
I started during the pandemic. And have continued! I don’t have any animals but I do have a garden. Each year I find ways to improve it and buy something I need for the long haul. I don’t have much space. I rent and I started with a greenstalk and some small containers. The next year I purchased two metal raised beds, ask my neighbor if it was okay to put them on her area, she said yes and I share my harvest with her. I started buying seeds and starter plants. Finding gardening stuff at dollar tree and Walmart. Last year bought better trellises. This year just bought a better hose and holder. And adding a third bed. My oldest sons loves to help me with the garden now and gets excited when we start to harvest. He just bought me a little plastic greenhouse for my starters, we have it next to our sunniest window. With a grow lamp. We live in Connecticut. I tell you all of this to second your advice that you don’t need lots of space to homestead with at least a garden. I also now do most of my cooking & baking from scratch. Thank you and the other homestead channels for teaching me so much! 👍🏼♥️👍🏼
The cabinets look amazing. It is not going to be long now and you guys will be moving in. How exciting.
We moved from CA to TN in 2004, Bought a farm and been growing our own food on and off for 20 years now.
Started growing my own food start of pandemic, living in a high rise flat in the city, now I'm living in the country, I have 4 chickens and a garden full of veg an I make my own bread and butter, I'm here to stay 👍👍
Grew up in a homesteading family and when my husband and I got married in 1999, we started a garden and soon after, started raising chickens. My husband jokingly (but he's not wrong) refers to chickens as my "love language". Smart man! He just bought me 6 baby chicks the other day!
Please don't give up I enjoy your feed
Austin your editing is so good, I’m 16 and I find the clips so funny got me laughing so hard!
Mine was getting rabbits. I cannot have chickens but I was determined to have my own fertilizer. I finally learned how to get comfrey to grow for tea and rabbit poo for my garden.
In 2010 we lost my mother inlaw and inherited the family home. Which the land has been in my husband's family since before the Revolution.
She pasted before one of our states largest fairs and wished he grandson could catch a piglet in the pig scramble.
Well he did and were still here .
Did we start homesteading before 2020? Yes.
Did we start homesteading after 2020? Yes.
We kept chickens and had a first attempt at gardening before 2019, when we bought an RV trailer and got into camping. We had a family with teens help us with the chickens, but eventually we decided we wanted to travel more, so we gave our chickens away to a homeschooling family. It was a small chicken outfit anyway (see what I did there?), so it wasn't a big transition.
After a couple of years of camping trips nearly every month, we scaled back the travel to a couple of trips a year. So we got back into homesteading in a much bigger way than before. In 2022, we converted our front yard into a permaculture food forest. In our back yard we got chickens again, and also started keeping quail and rabbits.
Oh, and we live within the city limits of Corpus Christi, Texas, so everything we do is on a city lot that's maybe a quarter of an acre.
I grew up on a farm. We did all the ‘homesteading’ stuff before it was a thing. I had a garden since I was 8 so 60 years. There were a few middle years where I didn’t have one so maybe 50 of gardening.
Had chickens and goats (sorry Justin. Lol). When we were growing up. A dairy cow for a while also. Middle times just a garden. But now I have chickens and ducks again. Best garden/chicken/compost system there is. 😉
yeah me too, this "homestead" crap is stupid, they act like they invented something, just life on the farm
Becky, you can mix water and arrowroot add it to your used coming oil START on low bring up heat stir the roux will collect all the impurities. Strain is it's not as clean as you like do steps again. ALWAYS START ON LOW TO AVOID SPLATTER. ONCE THE FIX HAS BROWN STAIN OIL SHOULD BE CLEAR D read to reuse
Your placement of the pigs and chickens next to the gardens is a brilliant idea..
Mix it up to prevent burnout...Change up your everyday routine.. & find something to give you joy each & every day..
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I love gardening generally being outside...I would like to know what you could sustain on a homestead if you have to use a Wheelchair.. I would like to see what a disabled homestead looks like..I think?
WOW I love the Wood look So much better them the painted wood. I will never have painted wood. If I can get just wood look,
I'm a disabled veteran who aspires to do what you do, but will likely never afford to buy land. I wish the homestead act would revive.
🙋🏼♀️🕊. We need a love what we do. 🥀. ( Otherwise we get eaten up with negative thinking…. )A. thankful heart , for what we have been blessed us with .
28 years of growing what we eat...Here in western Berkshire mountain's of massachusetts ..
I’d be so chocked if you guys weren’t a little burnt out. It’s honestly refreshing to hear that you guys are human lol because idk how you do what you do everyday with the house rebuild and grandmas illness etc all together with the normal day to day stuff.
We bought our acreage in the fall of 2018 and discovered your channel over that winter. So of course we hadn't quite had homesteading in mind and therefore weren't looking for just "the" right kind of property. But we are slowly getting it to work for us. I come from a conventional grain farming family (my youngest brother now owns the farm our grandfather bought in the 1960's) but there were many years of living in the city in between the farm and the small towns/villages after I was married where I gardened in some form (going to cover those in later videos on my channel).
Pre 2020. Over 20 years. 60 yo and been farm/homesteading sense I could walk.
Started homesteading in 2000. After all the work my mobility was bad and now continue n a village on 1 acre. Sheep, chickens and a growing food forest are my joy now!
Oh Rebecca I LOVE your kitchen cabinets!! Love the blue and the walnut!! Gorgeous !
Justin the garden is looking awesome!!
I was impressed with the color of the cabinets. I am sure they will look very nice once they are setup.
Had a farm since 2012 Homesteading and harvesting since 2018. WE raise, harvest, package all on property. And started our greenhouse three years ago.. Five years ago with a small greenhouse.
Grew up in the city. Started growing in a garden provided by the housing complex I live in since 2013. It keeps me moving after extensive foot/ankle surgery.
GARDENED A LOT IN MY LIFE BUT WHEN I MOVED TO FLORIDA, I FOUND IT REAL HARD TO GROW A GARDEN. IN 2019, I FELT THE HOLY SPIT LEADING ME TO GARDEN AND I STARTED MY BACKYARD GARDEN AND PRESERVING WHAT I GROW.
I don't homestead... But I admire what you do. Would so love to have a way to come and see you. I do have 100+ hours of vacation time.❤
If it makes any difference I’ve been watching you for years, I don’t homestead I’d love too but financially I can’t at the moment. My family fell the hardest I ever have last year and still no end in sight. I was laid off and still struggling to land a job.
Just a thought regarding "homestead Viewing". I'm sure many have moved on, but I feel there could be a large group that are currently homesteading and now don't have the time or don't need to learn about what they do daily. I'watched hundreds of chicken videos, but now I have 43 chickens, I scroll right through them. Just a thought :)
We have been homesteading since 2017. 😊
In regards to the heifer calves from Stud... if both are A2A2, keep both. You can always choose to not keep one after the fact, heifers sell well. Its good that you noticed the benefit of keeping Honey's bloodline (high producer), but that is something to write down in the breeding book, to take into account with many other factors when that choice needs to be made. Two other things both heifer calves have going in their favor is they are unrelated to your new bull. If both are A2A2 it'd be worth trying to keep both. And as previously said, if you do need to make the choice to get rid of one, you'll have a lot more data to help you make the right decision.
\O raised hand, we have been doing gardening since 2007, Back to Eden method and chickens since 2012, while following Justin you "a.k.a chicken man"...now the garden is 70 x 40, use Green Stalks and raised bed! Austin, keep the wisdom, comedy coming great addition!
Nice excavator and skid steer hard work pays off