🌻🌻🌻 After almost 10 years of infertility (we started trying when I was 20 now I'm 29) I just found out today that we are expecting. 🥰 It just happened naturally without any medical help and we were told that we have less then 1% chance to get pregnant naturally. I wish the same for you guys! ❤
Loving the summer vibes, green, growth, life affirming 💚 Watched your channel since Kinsley & Callie were small..I loved that you are an optimistic, adventurous, encouraging, family first, honest couple. I'm a recently retired nurse in UK, mother of 2 and grandma to 4 treasures. We are a Christian family, have an allotment ( small rented plot of land) and are on second year of growing our own vegetables.
My husband and I have 3 sons after IVF with ICSI. My twins just turned 18 and graduated high school and my youngest is 14. I love watching your fertility journey and homestead journey and I feel very connected to you and Phillip. I love the inspiring messages you give to the world with your videos. Thank you for sharing your life. 🌹🌺🌻🌼🌷
Hi Alex, i love everything you share and always is inspired by you and Phil. I found you when you were pregnant with Cassidy . i love and adore you and your family. I am living in Idaho and in my young 20s enjoying life. i am starting to learn how to drive, finishing school, getting a part time job and seeking god and building a strong relationship with our savior Jesus Christ. thank you for sharing your life. y'all are amazing!
🌼🌼🌼🌼 thanks for sharing everything with us!! I found you because of your ivf med tutorials! After 3 full rounds of ivf we overachieved and an embryo split and we have triplets!!
🌺 My daughter just bought her first home, here in Utah that came with the most beautiful garden you can imagine!! Wildflowers of so many varieties. 6 different varieties of apple trees, pear trees, and nectarines that are pruned in a European style, so there’s more room. So much love was put into this yard. So, now, I’ve been going over and helping my daughter maintain it. And, OH MY!!! How therapeutic it is!! Lol…this has probably been one of the best summers of my life, since my children were little!! I’m excited to hear all about your fertility plans. My daughter has severe endometriosis and she and my SIL are fixing to start trying. She’s 32 and has a 12yr old daughter from a previous relationship, who was my first grand baby. Anyways….it’s all getting very exciting. God is faithful & you & your precious family are in my prayers!! 🌻
My story shortened, ttc for 4.5 years, in that time we got into church, sold our house, had to live with family for awhile and actually got our dream house. The end of 2019 I decided to quit my job, just felt right even though we had no kids. February 2020 I got my first ever positive test which led to our healthy little girl in September 2020 conceived naturally. Started trying for #2 about a month ago and praying we get our little boy. I love your family and they way you guys parent. We were pregnant together last time and we both had girls, hoping for us both to have boys next! Also, we live in Northwest Louisiana.
I don't think you listened through have you🤭🤭🤭🤭they were actually referring to the pigs on gender not their kids but that's a nice prayer you have for baby number 2❤❤hope you do get the boy on your second pregnancy and I hope you do get pregnant. Will pray for you too 🙏❤
🌻 Started watching y’all 4 years ago! From Colorado and love watching your homestead journey now in addition to your fertility journey! My husband and I tried for kiddos for 6 years with one loss and one successful pregnancy that brought us our precious little boy in 2021. I love the positivity and faith you both have it is so encouraging!
The shot going towards your middle child… Was absolutely beautiful! She was just standing there in contemplation and waiting to see what you would say!
My parents have a free range farm and my biggest tip for protection from predators is getting a dog that is a protective breed like a great pyranese who lives full time outdoors with the other animals as they will want to protect their herd and are gentle with the animals that belong but protect them from unwanted visitors
🌺love your family🌺 I am a Mom of 10, 2 I delivered and 8 I took in. All boys! All in their 20’s now. I am also a RN. Love watching your journey and watching the girls grow🥰
🌻🌻🌻Alex the piggies are just so cute. Fun fact when I met my biological dad he a was a farmer of sheep and wheat. As they weren’t making enough money they went into pigs. They built a huge home for them and put loads of money into them. But just as it was all going so well the movie Babe came out and the cost of pigs dropped dramatically. So much so they ended up having to disband the whole pig thing and just go back to the sheep and wheat. That was many years ago and that’s when pigs in Australia became so popular to have as pets. Loving all you guys are doing on the property so inspiring. Sending loads of love Leisa Western Australia xxxxxx
🌻🌻🌻😁 Hi Phil and Alex! I'm so pleased to have become acquainted with your beautiful family! I've been hooked ever since darling Cassidy's surgery and her miraculous recovery! You have also truly inspired me with your sustainable lifestyle and gardening! However, I must say, it's by far the authenticity of your faith and your unspeakable joy, not only in the good times, but in your times of deepest loss and disappointment, that encourages me the most! 😀
🌻 I’ve been watching since Kinsley was itty bitty, and you both and your marriage has been such an inspiration to watch! We don’t have much land right now (hope to have a small farm for our horses and homesteading in the future), but we’ve been tackling our yard and adding a garden this year and have definitely been encouraged by your creative and frugal approaches to things. We’ll also be trying for a baby soon so I’ll be able to apply some of the inspiration from your parenting story as well whenever that journey begins. Thank you for all you do!
🌻 I love watching you guys's homesteading journey! The older generation of my family all grew up on or owned farms and it's been a big desire of mine to one day raise my own kids on a plot of land with some animals. God willing! May the Lord bless your family, make your land fruitful and protect your animals. ❤
🌻🐖 You are so lucky to have the land and youth to work it. I live on .43 acres and I have chickens, a spoiled Aussiedoodle and one bee hive. I have a few tomatoes, oregano, chives, sage , squash(that I am still trying it like) and strawberries. I am a retired nurse. I love watching your family learning to farm.
Hey, me too! We've got a big garden and I have a large canner. We grow what we like and then can them up. It's nice to have when food prices are high. I also love the farmers markets. My very small community is a farming one, and it's all hooked up and connected to all the other farmers in our area. So we can eat healthy meals with the help from our wonderful community.
You asked a little about me so I'll tell you the best valentine's day gift I ever got was a large garden plot in a community garden! I live in a city and there was a huge community garden across the street from me and I had filled up my porch with plants and my partner got a plot for me ❤️ that was the first time I got to plant a garden in the ground (city life/apartment living) and it totally changed me. I understand exactly the joy you have now with your garden and it's still my favorite pastime
yes - absolutely. Right now, our fencing is an issue with bringing them along. also, the cost of fencing is very discouraging to start a project like that. We have been talking to some locals about some goats they could loan / trade with us. I also got an email about the Nashville Chew Crew!! ( A goat rental company)
@@PhilandAlex I have a friend who needs to get rid of 50 goats ASAP! Interested? They'll be free to you bc of your care and love for animals.....Vet records included....they're 18 months old. BOYS and girls....lol
@@darlenesmith7680 , oh Darlene! That could be fantastic news for Alex and Phil, if they think they could manage 1 or 2 now! Who can turn down free animals, when you’re living on a homestead and it is an animal you were planning to get anyway! When I was a kid, I remember my aunt having an adorable little goat! They had the goat tied to a wooden stake with a long piece of rope for when the goat was free to graze a large area, because they were all outside and they knew that they could keep an eye on it. Then they would shorten the rope when they weren’t at home or outside. There are ways!! 🥰
@@leannepaxton5012 Yes! My Mama use to say..."Where there's a will,there's a way". 🤗 Your Aunt sounds like a gem also! 🤗 Pray you have a blessed evening! 🙏
🌻🌻🌻Hi, I'm your neighbor Lisa's sister, Vickie. I live in Michigan. I love watching your videos. Maybe next time I come to visit I'll be able to meet y'all!!!
🌻🌻🌻 I’m so sorry to hear about “Ricky”, although I must admit I did laugh at first. There’s always something, right? My two sentences would be that after health problems all my life, I’ve finally made some progress on healthier eating! The difference is amazing, and I want to take some of your recipes and put them to use. I have a doctor appointment in a couple of weeks to get some things cleared (like a current lactose intolerance and clearance to start walking), but I’m hoping some of your recipes will help. Thanks for including us on your journey 🙏🏻
You should build a enclosure for the chickens for at night but free range during the day....its alot safer for them to have a safe place to sleep at night when predators are out. That's what I do with good success.
🌻🌻🌻🐖🐖🐖🐖I love sunflowers and pigs!! I think pigs are so cute, stinky but cute. Every Easter we would go to my grandparents house in South Carolina. Every year the cousins would have an egg hunt. Each one of us took turns hiding eggs. When I was about 5, I decided to hide the eggs in the pigs slop bucket. I knew no one would ever find them there. I was right, but the hunt ended early that year, the pigs had a feast, and there were new rules in place the next year.
Woahhh, how did I NOT know that you named them Lucy and Ethel?!?! Those were the names I suggested! I'm sure I wasn't the only one but how fun! Love it, and love your family! ❤
yes!!!! I think we mentioned it a few weeks ago! You are the WINNER of the best names for them but now that Rikey (Callie's spelling) we call her Rikey Lake cause this pig is DRAMA! lolololol
I love watching and living the dream vicariously through your family. I have a garden growing in my small city backyard. I have been baking with sourdough since Feb. We often cook from scratch. And I will soon be starting a second annual quilt-a-long which is 100 days to make 100 blocks.
Love your family continued prayers to all of you. Can't find emojis but wow 11 ft that is awesome. Something about me I randomly met my S.O. playing backgammon on line we lived in CO and CA. We communicated through email and then met in person 6 wks later. We did long distance for 6 years and then I decided to move out to CA to be closer to him and his son. Next month we will have been together for 13 years. I was unable to have children but love to travel with you and your inspirational stories. I have been following you now for several years. Thank you for inspiring me and sharing your adventures. Your family is incredible and relatable and honest. I appreciate your openness and love your faith. Blessings to your family.
A different option for you could be sell the kune kune pigs, get couple of dairy goats to deal with the brush, buy couple of weaner pigs that will do the job of digging over your ground, 6 months later they will be in your freezer and let the chickens range over where the pigs have been, no need to worry about pigs in the winter and then get more weaners next spring and start again on a new patch. Course getting rid of animals you have become close to is a tough one but as a homestead sometimes we have to as its not working for our family. Good luck in whatever you decide x
🌻🌸🌻Hi there! I have been following along your journey here on RUclips since you were in the final preparations for RV living/adventures. My family and I were living in MA then. We have since moved to TN (southeast of Nashville). Ours is a longer story including my hubby surviving stage 4 cancer, being blessed with a remote job and beginning homeschool with our kiddos. We have dear friends who live in this area who were in our wedding 16 years ago! We are in a neighborhood with an HOA, but thanks to being inspired by you, I am starting to research how to best care for the plants on our property and what I could maybe start growing for vegetables here. I also have been through secondary infertility struggles and I am so grateful for all you so vulnerably share and I am sure that if blesses so many! Our kiddos are 15, 9 and 7.
I've started my second round of seeds a few days ago. More Roma tomatoes, pickling cucumbers, pole beans, zucchini and yellow squash. My gardens here and at my mom's are finally starting to give me lots of goodies. So far, I've canned strawberry, blueberry, and peach jam, as well as bread and butter pickles. We are empty nesters with one grandbaby and we're trying to figure out where to put all of my goodies once canned....we now have a hall pantry 😃 ( unused closet at the end of the hall) I'm so glad the doctors are figuring out my RA and fixing what was broke in my body....so I can now work in the garden as God intended ❤️
🌷I LOVE your beautiful garden. My husband and I have been talking for several months about leaving our home in California and moving to Kentucky to start a homestead !! I am learning a lot from you and Phillip !!! Thank you both for being such a wonderful encouragement to us all.
American guinea hogs are good for ground clearing. Check out The Hollars. They also are a homesteading family on RUclips and have successes and failures like you.
I love kunekunes! We started with 4; 2 sows Shirley and Laverne, and 2 piglets Aggie and Boris. Over about 10 years we had hundreds, about a hundred at one time (we have a 900 acre farm where they roamed free). Boris became huge and we weren't sure if he was friendly or not when fully grown so he was a bit scary. Our favorite was an orphan we raised called Purdie. Her sister Perdita wasn't so friendly and became a nuisance around the garden. The story of the rediscovery of the kunekunes (they were thought to be extinct) is a really interesting read. 🌻
🌻🌻 we’ve started growing a lot more of our own fruit and vegetables this year and I’ve picked up baking again, I have chicken carcasses frozen ready to try making your bone broth and am going to make my first ever sour dough starter this weekend! It’s lovely seeing all your animals, I wish I could do something similar! Sending love from a very sunny UK 🇬🇧
It must be the year for sunflowers!🌻 I have some volunteers in my sons memorial garden and they are not only about 10’ tall…but they have over 10 blooms on each plant!
🌻🌻🌻 Love your channel and your journey to becoming a sustainable homestead. What you are doing is so inspiring. My hubby and I have put in a small garden this year and plan to double the size for next year. We also hope to be able to get a few chickens but in the meantime we get our eggs, produce, and some pastured raised meat from local homesteaders and small farms. We love to support others who are doing what you are doing and we'd love to get to that point ourselves someday. Thank you for the encouragement!
🌻 I started a small garden this year growing bell peppers, green beans, garlic, onions, potatoes water melons those all for those for the first time , I also grew tomatoes , cucumbers also this year but not for the first time.
I feel so lost in the world right now, but I have decided to binge watch your vlogs today because they bring me so much joy. I absolutely love the names of your pigs. Also don't forget, pigs are smarter than dogs. I am sure Ricky is not planning to abscond as he has a beautiful life with you guys.
If you get just two goats, your woods will be cleared in no time, plus you will get milk that builds immunity and fertility more than cow milk (naturally lactose-free too!) We have three of them and they have totally lived up to all our expectations. My mum's sinus problems and my dad's inflammation issues are gone too, thanks to the goat milk!
🌺 I just enjoy watching your loving family. I am the mother of three adult children and one amazing grandson. I have had Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension for 9½.
🌻🌻🌻🌻 My husband and I are still on our infertility journey, trying for baby number two! I’ve had three miscarriages, and we have our miracle son that is four, named Branson. 🙌🏻♥️🥰Prayers for you and Phillip during your journey! We are also starting homeschooling soon! Looking forward to it, but also nervous! 🙏🏻🥰
🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻Hi Phil, Alex & Girls!! Have followed your beautiful family, almost since day one, and soon will have/be starting OUR own homestead! Love you guys AND your content!!
🌻 you guys really have been an inspiration and I love watching your homestead grow. Thanks to you guys making it look relatively easy we finally got chickens (8 red sexlinks) and so far it's been manageable. I also have my little garden growing and it's so amazing to get in the dirt and watch something flourish and grow. It makes me feel good. I also make sourdough every week and my family refuses to eat store bought anymore 🤪 so fun and awesome for my 3 homeschooled kiddos. Thank you for allowing us to be on this journey with you guys. And I cannot believe how big Cassidy is now. Watching her from the beginning of her life to now is truly incredible. Your girls are just beautiful and such smart, kind, compassionate little ladies. I hope you guys know how appreciated you are by your flowers. :)
Oh you have inspired me so much. It is encouraging whenever you speak about your time back in CA when you were dreaming, planning and researching. That's my stage right now and I'm deeply encouraged by your journey. 🥰
I adore watching your family your so uplifting and as I don't garden anymore it's a true blessing to watch your family growing stronger everyday! Love all your amazing Animals! 🌻🌻🌻
You are so fun to watch. I love listening to all of you talk about your homestead experience. And to just watch you go about life is so rewarding. Thanks for sharing your life with us 🫶🏻👌🏻👍🏻💕
🌻🐷🌻🐷🌻🐷🌻🐷🌻 I love watching all of your farm progress. Fun to watch your children learn along with you as you all work together. What a wonderful life! As parents we live through our childrens eyes. For me I am living through all of your eyes and sooo loving my view. I can only wish that one day I get to move to the cottage and have some farm animals. I feel that I am learning from all of you to be ready for that possible dream one day. It was so cute to hear Cassidy say uh hun just like her momma. Sending love❤ to all of you from Quebec 🇨🇦.
I love watching your videos. When I returned to my summer condo i decided to try growing two planters with tomatoes. You’ve been so inspiring and I can now say that it was such a thrill picking my first batch of cherry tomatoes. My other container has the larger tomatoes and they are growing beautifully so far! 😊
Always here until the end. Would love to see a little man added to your family. Have been hear since Kinsley. I have 300 orchids and a few clematis vines & sunflowers. No get down on the knees gardening as the old bones can’t handle it. Much love to all
🌻 We live in the city so options are much more limited. I built two big garden boxes on my hill and for the last two years we have grown tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, eggplant, peppers and pumpkins. This year our tomato plants are out of control, growing up over 5ft! I’ve have to move to big shepherd hooks as stakes. ♥️🇨🇦
🌸🌸🌸 I absolsutely adore Cherry Blossoms! This is a relatively new appreciation, and I think it might be partially because I have found a love of gardening that only begun in sM the last year or so, I am in my early 40’s! I have never had any interest in the garden, but last year I developed an addiction to strawberries! I would put a handful of supermarket ostrawberries into a plastic container with water, just to wash them quickly. Then I would take that container with water and some strawberry seeds that had fallen off, and I would throw the whole lot into an empty window box with compost and soil, not really expecting much to happen to it. Then quite a few months later, I started seeing lots of little strawberry seedlings! Fast forward to now! And I finally have some strawberries growing! Plus so many cute little flowers, which I am hoping will be visited by bees or ants or whoever it takes to get the job done!! Lol My strawberries are all still white and bitter, but I did notice yesterday that one or two were getting those first signs of red creeping in!!! I’m so excited! I have so many different varieties of strawberries growing as well!!! Some of the plants look really quite different! Well, the leaves are Swiss
🌻 My husband Colin and I live with his parents in the city of Brisbane, Australia. We dream of some land and space. We both grew up in Rockhampton, a smaller town with cows and chickens and dogs. We care for my little half sister Gabby with Turner Syndrome (12yr old). We have had her since she was 5. She is doing well. We also have our two little boys. Teddy who is 3 and a half and Hugo who is 5 months. I have been watching since Callie was a toddler 😊 I love your content. I have been blessed with our boys but cannot carry any more babies. I am learning to be content with that and your videos have helped a lot 😊 thank you.
🌻🐖 Love watching y’all grow the property. I live in Bowling Green, Virginia and rent. I do love all the animals and gardens. I used to do container gardens but past two years have been hard for me with arthritis and knees needing replacement. I now visit farmers market for vegetables. Love your family and content. Thank you
🌸 First full year in Florida, originally from Michigan, gardening is wayyyyyy more tricky in this all year around heat! So far potted flowers and cucumbers are my best growers! Living and learning along the way!🌸
🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🐷🐽🐥🐓🐣Alex, you looked so beautiful in this video. You were positively glowing and I hope that’s a sign that you might be pregnant. That would be so awesome and even more awesome if you had a precious baby boy! I will keep my fingers crossed 🤞and I will keep you and your beautiful family in my prayers 🙏🙏🙏
You can buy a sensor that hangs on your fence so that it will have a red light when it is off. Tractor supply has them. If any grass or branches touch your electric tape or wires your fence will not work correctly or not at all.
🌼🌼🌼🌼⚘️♥️♥️🙏 I have been with you guys since when the girls were younger. I sure need some prayers from you guys. My Dad has stage 4 Prostrate Cancer, Bone Cancer and Lymphoma Cancer. He has had Lymphoma in his neck about 20 + years ago..Chemo ..then got the all clear for that. Then got Bowel Cancer..then got the all clear. Then he had Prostrate. So really needing prayers 🙏 Thank you!
Have you thought about getting a livestock guardian dog? They are brilliant at deterring predators and that way you'll be able to have your animals free range. I've also heard that donkeys are brilliant at keeping them away too.
I don't know if you ever heard of Keeping It Dutch, but they are homesteaders too and they also have the same kind of pigs you have. One of theirs did escape and they made a whole new pen for them. Thought that might help you get an idea of how to do one up and how they deal with chickens, pigs and peacocks.
🌻🌻🌻🌻good luck on finding your boar, fertility journey, homestead, I’m currently going through Ivf after many ectopics, will be transferring my only embryo that is a low level mosaic next month. I am so jealous of you guys and hope to one day have a homestead of my own
🌺🌷🌼🌻 I started watching your channel a few years ago. When I knew that Kinsley and Callie were adopted I wanted to watch even more. I'm adopted as well.
I want to homestead so bad but I live in town. So far I planted tomatoes and pumpkins this year. I had 2 ducks and raised them but a predator got them after they were outside. I'm working on a better coop so hopefully next year I can get a couple more and some chickens 💕
I don't know how to do a flower on the computer version of youtube. Phillip mentioned predators getting the chickens. One thing I have learned is that donkeys help with keeping predators away. My neighbor has one and it helped when they were keeping chickens. I dont know much about them but maybe research them to see what you think.
Always love catching up on your videos. Even if it takes a couple days to get around to watching it. 11’ sunflower! That’s huge! I personally love sunflowers! Hope you and your family are doing well. 🌻🤍✨
Thanks Phil and Alex for another wonderful episode. ✿ The Hollar's Guinea Hogs seem to do a great job of digging up their forest (The Hollar Homestead).
I love watching your vlogs. I’ve just been in a really dry season in my walk with God and my anxiety has been pretty bad lately. Praying for my relationship to be one that honors the Lord.
🌻🌻🌻🌼🌼🌼🌻🌻🌻🌻 I'm just in a little unit with a stip of space but I fit a lot in there. Love what you guys are doing, one day I hope to have space to call my own too. For now I'm learning, I have chickens, raised beds, I grow everything verticle, surround my unit with hanging baskets full of herbs and flowers, line the drive way with fruit dwarf fruit trees and grape vines interplanetary with flowers, berries and herbs and grow heaps of berries in pots under the washing line. Lol its a miniature secret garden and I love it!
You should look into dairy goats. I grew up with them and they will clear the underbrush quickly. The milk is also great, especially for those who can’t tolerate cows milk. If you get a couple of hand-reared kids, they make great pets! As for the pig issue, could you not buy some straws and artificially insemenate them for the first time until you decide to commit to a boar?
Hi Friends! We are so sorry! A clip got muted. Thank you for letting us know! Go follow me on IG @alexcongelliere and I will be sharing it over there!
did you share it on IG? i must have missed it
I’m currently not on IG. My account got hacked. So, I don’t have one now.
@@KristineT8 me too I just checked and can't find it.
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I so enjoy watching your vlogs!!
🌻🌻🌻 After almost 10 years of infertility (we started trying when I was 20 now I'm 29) I just found out today that we are expecting. 🥰 It just happened naturally without any medical help and we were told that we have less then 1% chance to get pregnant naturally. I wish the same for you guys! ❤
wow! What an absolute blessing!!!
That is SO wonderful!! Praising God for that miracle baby!! 🤗
CONGRATULATIONS!
Congrats!!!! God is good always sneaking in a miracle.
Congratulations What a Surprise Baby, Doctors don't know everything right
I am over the moon HAPPY for you!
Hi Alex and Phil, you are missing the most important clip! Its from like 5mins until 6 mins. It goes black!
Lol I was so confused!!
Lol I thought my phone died for a sec
Bump! Haha
Bump
@@katherinelopez914 so did I
Loving the summer vibes, green, growth, life affirming 💚
Watched your channel since Kinsley & Callie were small..I loved that you are an optimistic, adventurous, encouraging, family first, honest couple.
I'm a recently retired nurse in UK, mother of 2 and grandma to 4 treasures. We are a Christian family, have an allotment ( small rented plot of land) and are on second year of growing our own vegetables.
My husband and I have 3 sons after IVF with ICSI. My twins just turned 18 and graduated high school and my youngest is 14. I love watching your fertility journey and homestead journey and I feel very connected to you and Phillip. I love the inspiring messages you give to the world with your videos. Thank you for sharing your life. 🌹🌺🌻🌼🌷
Hi Alex, i love everything you share and always is inspired by you and Phil. I found you when you were pregnant with Cassidy . i love and adore you and your family. I am living in Idaho and in my young 20s enjoying life. i am starting to learn how to drive, finishing school, getting a part time job and seeking god and building a strong relationship with our savior Jesus Christ. thank you for sharing your life. y'all are amazing!
🌼🌼🌼🌼 thanks for sharing everything with us!! I found you because of your ivf med tutorials! After 3 full rounds of ivf we overachieved and an embryo split and we have triplets!!
WOOHOO!!!! I'm so grateful to hear this news! Congrats!!!!
🌺 My daughter just bought her first home, here in Utah that came with the most beautiful garden you can imagine!! Wildflowers of so many varieties. 6 different varieties of apple trees, pear trees, and nectarines that are pruned in a European style, so there’s more room. So much love was put into this yard. So, now, I’ve been going over and helping my daughter maintain it. And, OH MY!!! How therapeutic it is!! Lol…this has probably been one of the best summers of my life, since my children were little!! I’m excited to hear all about your fertility plans. My daughter has severe endometriosis and she and my SIL are fixing to start trying. She’s 32 and has a 12yr old daughter from a previous relationship, who was my first grand baby. Anyways….it’s all getting very exciting. God is faithful & you & your precious family are in my prayers!! 🌻
My story shortened, ttc for 4.5 years, in that time we got into church, sold our house, had to live with family for awhile and actually got our dream house. The end of 2019 I decided to quit my job, just felt right even though we had no kids. February 2020 I got my first ever positive test which led to our healthy little girl in September 2020 conceived naturally. Started trying for #2 about a month ago and praying we get our little boy. I love your family and they way you guys parent. We were pregnant together last time and we both had girls, hoping for us both to have boys next! Also, we live in Northwest Louisiana.
I don't think you listened through have you🤭🤭🤭🤭they were actually referring to the pigs on gender not their kids but that's a nice prayer you have for baby number 2❤❤hope you do get the boy on your second pregnancy and I hope you do get pregnant. Will pray for you too 🙏❤
🌻 Started watching y’all 4 years ago! From Colorado and love watching your homestead journey now in addition to your fertility journey! My husband and I tried for kiddos for 6 years with one loss and one successful pregnancy that brought us our precious little boy in 2021. I love the positivity and faith you both have it is so encouraging!
The shot going towards your middle child… Was absolutely beautiful! She was just standing there in contemplation and waiting to see what you would say!
My parents have a free range farm and my biggest tip for protection from predators is getting a dog that is a protective breed like a great pyranese who lives full time outdoors with the other animals as they will want to protect their herd and are gentle with the animals that belong but protect them from unwanted visitors
🌺love your family🌺
I am a Mom of 10, 2 I delivered and 8 I took in. All boys! All in their 20’s now. I am also a RN. Love watching your journey and watching the girls grow🥰
You are incredible ❤
🌻🌻🌻Alex the piggies are just so cute. Fun fact when I met my biological dad he a was a farmer of sheep and wheat. As they weren’t making enough money they went into pigs. They built a huge home for them and put loads of money into them. But just as it was all going so well the movie Babe came out and the cost of pigs dropped dramatically. So much so they ended up having to disband the whole pig thing and just go back to the sheep and wheat. That was many years ago and that’s when pigs in Australia became so popular to have as pets.
Loving all you guys are doing on the property so inspiring. Sending loads of love Leisa Western Australia xxxxxx
🌻🌻🌻😁 Hi Phil and Alex! I'm so pleased to have become acquainted with your beautiful family! I've been hooked ever since darling Cassidy's surgery and her miraculous recovery! You have also truly inspired me with your sustainable lifestyle and gardening! However, I must say, it's by far the authenticity of your faith and your unspeakable joy, not only in the good times, but in your times of deepest loss and disappointment, that encourages me the most! 😀
amen to that ! 🌻
🌻 I’ve been watching since Kinsley was itty bitty, and you both and your marriage has been such an inspiration to watch! We don’t have much land right now (hope to have a small farm for our horses and homesteading in the future), but we’ve been tackling our yard and adding a garden this year and have definitely been encouraged by your creative and frugal approaches to things. We’ll also be trying for a baby soon so I’ll be able to apply some of the inspiration from your parenting story as well whenever that journey begins. Thank you for all you do!
5:08 to 5:58 missing 🌻 I am a city girl just like seeing your little community grow :)
My laptop has been having issues and I thought it was glitching again! Haha! I was like "oh no, not more problems!" Whew!
🌻 I love watching you guys's homesteading journey! The older generation of my family all grew up on or owned farms and it's been a big desire of mine to one day raise my own kids on a plot of land with some animals. God willing! May the Lord bless your family, make your land fruitful and protect your animals. ❤
🌻🐖 You are so lucky to have the land and youth to work it. I live on .43 acres and I have chickens, a spoiled Aussiedoodle and one bee hive. I have a few tomatoes, oregano, chives, sage , squash(that I am still trying it like) and strawberries. I am a retired nurse. I love watching your family learning to farm.
Hey, me too! We've got a big garden and I have a large canner. We grow what we like and then can them up. It's nice to have when food prices are high. I also love the farmers markets. My very small community is a farming one, and it's all hooked up and connected to all the other farmers in our area. So we can eat healthy meals with the help from our wonderful community.
You asked a little about me so I'll tell you the best valentine's day gift I ever got was a large garden plot in a community garden! I live in a city and there was a huge community garden across the street from me and I had filled up my porch with plants and my partner got a plot for me ❤️ that was the first time I got to plant a garden in the ground (city life/apartment living) and it totally changed me. I understand exactly the joy you have now with your garden and it's still my favorite pastime
Are you guys interested at all in adding a mini breed of goats to your homestead? They can be great brush clearers/milkers etc.
I was just thinking about that. Goats are great at clearing brush and stuff.
yes - absolutely. Right now, our fencing is an issue with bringing them along. also, the cost of fencing is very discouraging to start a project like that. We have been talking to some locals about some goats they could loan / trade with us. I also got an email about the Nashville Chew Crew!! ( A goat rental company)
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I have a friend who needs to get rid of 50 goats ASAP! Interested? They'll be free to you bc of your care and love for animals.....Vet records included....they're 18 months old. BOYS and girls....lol
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That could be fantastic news for Alex and Phil, if they think they could manage 1 or 2 now! Who can turn down free animals, when you’re living on a homestead and it is an animal you were planning to get anyway!
When I was a kid, I remember my aunt having an adorable little goat!
They had the goat tied to a wooden stake with a long piece of rope for when the goat was free to graze a large area, because they were all outside and they knew that they could keep an eye on it. Then they would shorten the rope when they weren’t at home or outside.
There are ways!! 🥰
@@leannepaxton5012 Yes! My Mama use to say..."Where there's a will,there's a way". 🤗 Your Aunt sounds like a gem also! 🤗 Pray you have a blessed evening! 🙏
🌻🌻🌻Hi, I'm your neighbor Lisa's sister, Vickie. I live in Michigan. I love watching your videos. Maybe next time I come to visit I'll be able to meet y'all!!!
🌻🌻🌻 I’m so sorry to hear about “Ricky”, although I must admit I did laugh at first. There’s always something, right? My two sentences would be that after health problems all my life, I’ve finally made some progress on healthier eating! The difference is amazing, and I want to take some of your recipes and put them to use. I have a doctor appointment in a couple of weeks to get some things cleared (like a current lactose intolerance and clearance to start walking), but I’m hoping some of your recipes will help. Thanks for including us on your journey 🙏🏻
Hi guys! I'm a 66 year old great grandmother. I'm the night caretaker of 4 year old Noah when his mother works, he is the light of my life! 🌻
You should build a enclosure for the chickens for at night but free range during the day....its alot safer for them to have a safe place to sleep at night when predators are out. That's what I do with good success.
they have a big chicken coop too. i believe it is in the background of one of the video at aome point. x
🌻🌻🌻🐖🐖🐖🐖I love sunflowers and pigs!! I think pigs are so cute, stinky but cute. Every Easter we would go to my grandparents house in South Carolina. Every year the cousins would have an egg hunt. Each one of us took turns hiding eggs. When I was about 5, I decided to hide the eggs in the pigs slop bucket. I knew no one would ever find them there. I was right, but the hunt ended early that year, the pigs had a feast, and there were new rules in place the next year.
Woahhh, how did I NOT know that you named them Lucy and Ethel?!?! Those were the names I suggested! I'm sure I wasn't the only one but how fun! Love it, and love your family! ❤
yes!!!! I think we mentioned it a few weeks ago! You are the WINNER of the best names for them but now that Rikey (Callie's spelling) we call her Rikey Lake cause this pig is DRAMA! lolololol
I love watching and living the dream vicariously through your family. I have a garden growing in my small city backyard. I have been baking with sourdough since Feb. We often cook from scratch. And I will soon be starting a second annual quilt-a-long which is 100 days to make 100 blocks.
Wonderful family! The love and patience is admirable. I have followed for a long time. Before Cassidy was born. And looked forward to each post
Love your family continued prayers to all of you. Can't find emojis but wow 11 ft that is awesome. Something about me I randomly met my S.O. playing backgammon on line we lived in CO and CA. We communicated through email and then met in person 6 wks later. We did long distance for 6 years and then I decided to move out to CA to be closer to him and his son. Next month we will have been together for 13 years. I was unable to have children but love to travel with you and your inspirational stories. I have been following you now for several years. Thank you for inspiring me and sharing your adventures. Your family is incredible and relatable and honest. I appreciate your openness and love your faith. Blessings to your family.
5:08-5:58 is blacked out and no sound. We missed that part
A different option for you could be sell the kune kune pigs, get couple of dairy goats to deal with the brush, buy couple of weaner pigs that will do the job of digging over your ground, 6 months later they will be in your freezer and let the chickens range over where the pigs have been, no need to worry about pigs in the winter and then get more weaners next spring and start again on a new patch. Course getting rid of animals you have become close to is a tough one but as a homestead sometimes we have to as its not working for our family. Good luck in whatever you decide x
Can’t wait to see where your fertility journey takes you next.🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼😊
Me too. 🥰
👩🌾 This is as close to a flower that I can get! It's a plant and it's colorful! I hope this counts!
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🌻🌸🌻Hi there! I have been following along your journey here on RUclips since you were in the final preparations for RV living/adventures. My family and I were living in MA then. We have since moved to TN (southeast of Nashville). Ours is a longer story including my hubby surviving stage 4 cancer, being blessed with a remote job and beginning homeschool with our kiddos. We have dear friends who live in this area who were in our wedding 16 years ago! We are in a neighborhood with an HOA, but thanks to being inspired by you, I am starting to research how to best care for the plants on our property and what I could maybe start growing for vegetables here. I also have been through secondary infertility struggles and I am so grateful for all you so vulnerably share and I am sure that if blesses so many! Our kiddos are 15, 9 and 7.
Why is it all black and no sound from 5 minute mark to 6 minute mark? It cut off the most important part of the story about Ricky!
I've started my second round of seeds a few days ago. More Roma tomatoes, pickling cucumbers, pole beans, zucchini and yellow squash. My gardens here and at my mom's are finally starting to give me lots of goodies. So far, I've canned strawberry, blueberry, and peach jam, as well as bread and butter pickles. We are empty nesters with one grandbaby and we're trying to figure out where to put all of my goodies once canned....we now have a hall pantry 😃 ( unused closet at the end of the hall) I'm so glad the doctors are figuring out my RA and fixing what was broke in my body....so I can now work in the garden as God intended ❤️
Can't wait to see how your journey continues! I'm a mom of 8 (4 adopted and 4 bios). I love watching your videos! 🌻
🌷I LOVE your beautiful garden. My husband and I have been talking for several months about leaving our home in California and moving to Kentucky to start a homestead !! I am learning a lot from you and Phillip !!! Thank you both for being such a wonderful encouragement to us all.
My grandparents were farmers over 300 acres. Her name was Ethel and his name was Fred 🤣
American guinea hogs are good for ground clearing. Check out The Hollars. They also are a homesteading family on RUclips and have successes and failures like you.
I love kunekunes! We started with 4; 2 sows Shirley and Laverne, and 2 piglets Aggie and Boris. Over about 10 years we had hundreds, about a hundred at one time (we have a 900 acre farm where they roamed free). Boris became huge and we weren't sure if he was friendly or not when fully grown so he was a bit scary. Our favorite was an orphan we raised called Purdie. Her sister Perdita wasn't so friendly and became a nuisance around the garden. The story of the rediscovery of the kunekunes (they were thought to be extinct) is a really interesting read. 🌻
There’s a clip that’s missing from 5:20-6ish
The camera died. Ricky is a girl.
🌻🌻 we’ve started growing a lot more of our own fruit and vegetables this year and I’ve picked up baking again, I have chicken carcasses frozen ready to try making your bone broth and am going to make my first ever sour dough starter this weekend! It’s lovely seeing all your animals, I wish I could do something similar! Sending love from a very sunny UK 🇬🇧
Now you need goats to mow the lawn! 😆
It must be the year for sunflowers!🌻
I have some volunteers in my sons memorial garden and they are not only about 10’ tall…but they have over 10 blooms on each plant!
I just about died a little my dads name is Fred and he’s a pig farmer lol 😂 to me that’s hilarious :p
🌻🌻🌻 Love your channel and your journey to becoming a sustainable homestead. What you are doing is so inspiring. My hubby and I have put in a small garden this year and plan to double the size for next year. We also hope to be able to get a few chickens but in the meantime we get our eggs, produce, and some pastured raised meat from local homesteaders and small farms. We love to support others who are doing what you are doing and we'd love to get to that point ourselves someday. Thank you for the encouragement!
Uplifted. I feel uplifted by your warmth. I love ❤️ your Vision for the farm. ❤️ ❤️
🌻 I started a small garden this year growing bell peppers, green beans, garlic, onions, potatoes water melons those all for those for the first time , I also grew tomatoes , cucumbers also this year but not for the first time.
Adore you all!!! 💐🌸🌹🌺🌻🌼🌷⚘thank you for sharing your homestead
🌻🌻🌻 Congratulations, you've come a long way. 🌻🌻🌻 Love your family. 🌻🌻🌻
Alex I LOVE watching you with the animals!!
I feel so lost in the world right now, but I have decided to binge watch your vlogs today because they bring me so much joy. I absolutely love the names of your pigs. Also don't forget, pigs are smarter than dogs. I am sure Ricky is not planning to abscond as he has a beautiful life with you guys.
If you get just two goats, your woods will be cleared in no time, plus you will get milk that builds immunity and fertility more than cow milk (naturally lactose-free too!) We have three of them and they have totally lived up to all our expectations. My mum's sinus problems and my dad's inflammation issues are gone too, thanks to the goat milk!
🌺 I just enjoy watching your loving family. I am the mother of three adult children and one amazing grandson. I have had Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension for 9½.
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My husband and I are still on our infertility journey, trying for baby number two! I’ve had three miscarriages, and we have our miracle son that is four, named Branson. 🙌🏻♥️🥰Prayers for you and Phillip during your journey! We are also starting homeschooling soon! Looking forward to it, but also nervous! 🙏🏻🥰
🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻Hi Phil, Alex & Girls!! Have followed your beautiful family, almost since day one, and soon will have/be starting OUR own homestead! Love you guys AND your content!!
I started my first garden this year! I’m pretty proud of it
🌻 you guys really have been an inspiration and I love watching your homestead grow. Thanks to you guys making it look relatively easy we finally got chickens (8 red sexlinks) and so far it's been manageable. I also have my little garden growing and it's so amazing to get in the dirt and watch something flourish and grow. It makes me feel good. I also make sourdough every week and my family refuses to eat store bought anymore 🤪 so fun and awesome for my 3 homeschooled kiddos. Thank you for allowing us to be on this journey with you guys. And I cannot believe how big Cassidy is now. Watching her from the beginning of her life to now is truly incredible. Your girls are just beautiful and such smart, kind, compassionate little ladies. I hope you guys know how appreciated you are by your flowers. :)
Oh you have inspired me so much. It is encouraging whenever you speak about your time back in CA when you were dreaming, planning and researching. That's my stage right now and I'm deeply encouraged by your journey. 🥰
I adore watching your family your so uplifting and as I don't garden anymore it's a true blessing to watch your family growing stronger everyday! Love all your amazing Animals! 🌻🌻🌻
You are so fun to watch. I love listening to all of you talk about your homestead experience. And to just watch you go about life is so rewarding. Thanks for sharing your life with us 🫶🏻👌🏻👍🏻💕
Love the videos! And those birds are amazing!!! 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻
🌻🐷🌻🐷🌻🐷🌻🐷🌻 I love watching all of your farm progress. Fun to watch your children learn along with you as you all work together. What a wonderful life! As parents we live through our childrens eyes. For me I am living through all of your eyes and sooo loving my view. I can only wish that one day I get to move to the cottage and have some farm animals. I feel that I am learning from all of you to be ready for that possible dream one day. It was so cute to hear Cassidy say uh hun just like her momma. Sending love❤ to all of you from Quebec 🇨🇦.
You know such You guys are a beautiful family And we always love you
I love watching your videos. When I returned to my summer condo i decided to try growing two planters with tomatoes. You’ve been so inspiring and I can now say that it was such a thrill picking my first batch of cherry tomatoes. My other container has the larger tomatoes and they are growing beautifully so far! 😊
Im so excites to say we planted tomato in buckets and I know have several little tomatoes on the way. Love you guys
Always here until the end. Would love to see a little man added to your family. Have been hear since Kinsley. I have 300 orchids and a few clematis vines & sunflowers. No get down on the knees gardening as the old bones can’t handle it. Much love to all
🌻 poor Philip! No boys! I'm still praying for you!
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We live in the city so options are much more limited. I built two big garden boxes on my hill and for the last two years we have grown tomatoes, cucumbers, zucchini, eggplant, peppers and pumpkins. This year our tomato plants are out of control, growing up over 5ft! I’ve have to move to big shepherd hooks as stakes. ♥️🇨🇦
🌻 We got our KuneKune girls yesterday…So loved finding your videos & watching your families journey!!
🌸🌸🌸 I absolsutely adore Cherry Blossoms! This is a relatively new appreciation, and I think it might be partially because I have found a love of gardening that only begun in sM the last year or so, I am in my early 40’s!
I have never had any interest in the garden, but last year I developed an addiction to strawberries! I would put a handful of supermarket ostrawberries into a plastic container with water, just to wash them quickly. Then I would take that container with water and some strawberry seeds that had fallen off, and I would throw the whole lot into an empty window box with compost and soil, not really expecting much to happen to it.
Then quite a few months later, I started seeing lots of little strawberry seedlings!
Fast forward to now! And I finally have some strawberries growing! Plus so many cute little flowers, which I am hoping will be visited by bees or ants or whoever it takes to get the job done!! Lol
My strawberries are all still white and bitter, but I did notice yesterday that one or two were getting those first signs of red creeping in!!!
I’m so excited! I have so many different varieties of strawberries growing as well!!! Some of the plants look really quite different! Well, the leaves are Swiss
🌻 My husband Colin and I live with his parents in the city of Brisbane, Australia. We dream of some land and space. We both grew up in Rockhampton, a smaller town with cows and chickens and dogs. We care for my little half sister Gabby with Turner Syndrome (12yr old). We have had her since she was 5. She is doing well. We also have our two little boys. Teddy who is 3 and a half and Hugo who is 5 months. I have been watching since Callie was a toddler 😊 I love your content. I have been blessed with our boys but cannot carry any more babies. I am learning to be content with that and your videos have helped a lot 😊 thank you.
🌻 I'm excited for you and Phil, sending tons of baby dust to the both of you. 💙
🌻🐖 Love watching y’all grow the property. I live in Bowling Green, Virginia and rent. I do love all the animals and gardens. I used to do container gardens but past two years have been hard for me with arthritis and knees needing replacement. I now visit farmers market for vegetables. Love your family and content. Thank you
🌸 First full year in Florida, originally from Michigan, gardening is wayyyyyy more tricky in this all year around heat! So far potted flowers and cucumbers are my best growers! Living and learning along the way!🌸
🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🐷🐽🐥🐓🐣Alex, you looked so beautiful in this video. You were positively glowing and I hope that’s a sign that you might be pregnant. That would be so awesome and even more awesome if you had a precious baby boy! I will keep my fingers crossed 🤞and I will keep you and your beautiful family in my prayers 🙏🙏🙏
You can buy a sensor that hangs on your fence so that it will have a red light when it is off. Tractor supply has them. If any grass or branches touch your electric tape or wires your fence will not work correctly or not at all.
What a FUN UPDATE!!!
Hi, I love your videos. Thank for your videos. They make me smile. 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻
Hi Alex and Phillip I just love your beautiful family.!! Thank you for sharing your journey. Much love and By The Way 💐🌹🌸🌻I made it all the way!💖
🌻Love your piggies! My neighbours have goats. They cleared the whole side of our hill. They are the best weed wackers!! 💗
🌼🌼🌼🌼⚘️♥️♥️🙏 I have been with you guys since when the girls were younger. I sure need some prayers from you guys. My Dad has stage 4 Prostrate Cancer, Bone Cancer and Lymphoma Cancer. He has had Lymphoma in his neck about 20 + years ago..Chemo ..then got the all clear for that. Then got Bowel Cancer..then got the all clear. Then he had Prostrate. So really needing prayers 🙏 Thank you!
Have you thought about getting a livestock guardian dog? They are brilliant at deterring predators and that way you'll be able to have your animals free range. I've also heard that donkeys are brilliant at keeping them away too.
I don't know if you ever heard of Keeping It Dutch, but they are homesteaders too and they also have the same kind of pigs you have. One of theirs did escape and they made a whole new pen for them. Thought that might help you get an idea of how to do one up and how they deal with chickens, pigs and peacocks.
🌻🌻🌻🌻good luck on finding your boar, fertility journey, homestead, I’m currently going through Ivf after many ectopics, will be transferring my only embryo that is a low level mosaic next month. I am so jealous of you guys and hope to one day have a homestead of my own
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I started watching your channel a few years ago. When I knew that Kinsley and Callie were adopted I wanted to watch even more. I'm adopted as well.
I could not do Guineas. I love the peacefulness of my home.
Love yr beautiful family, been watching and enjoying yr vlogs for a long time now. Thanks for sharing and encouraging us to plant our own food.💕🌻🌻🌻
I want to homestead so bad but I live in town. So far I planted tomatoes and pumpkins this year. I had 2 ducks and raised them but a predator got them after they were outside. I'm working on a better coop so hopefully next year I can get a couple more and some chickens 💕
🌺🌷 I love watching your Farm grow. Your Family is growing,. And I am happy about that. I am going to do a box garden in my backyard soon.
I don't know how to do a flower on the computer version of youtube. Phillip mentioned predators getting the chickens. One thing I have learned is that donkeys help with keeping predators away. My neighbor has one and it helped when they were keeping chickens. I dont know much about them but maybe research them to see what you think.
Always love catching up on your videos. Even if it takes a couple days to get around to watching it.
11’ sunflower! That’s huge! I personally love sunflowers! Hope you and your family are doing well. 🌻🤍✨
I am mom I have 2 boys Aragon and Jason, and I'm still planning to have 3 more , I pray one day Alex and phil u will have another blessing on the way
Thanks Phil and Alex for another wonderful episode. ✿ The Hollar's Guinea Hogs seem to do a great job of digging up their forest (The Hollar Homestead).
🌻🌻🌻Absolutely love you guys! You are always such an encouragement! We have our own small little homestead this year inspired by you!
🌻 I’ve been a subscriber for many years. I love seeing how far you all have come and where you are in your journey now
I love watching your vlogs. I’ve just been in a really dry season in my walk with God and my anxiety has been pretty bad lately. Praying for my relationship to be one that honors the Lord.
Love your show I watch always till the end. I used to have a small farm like yours in my childhood.
🌻🌻🌻🌼🌼🌼🌻🌻🌻🌻 I'm just in a little unit with a stip of space but I fit a lot in there. Love what you guys are doing, one day I hope to have space to call my own too. For now I'm learning, I have chickens, raised beds, I grow everything verticle, surround my unit with hanging baskets full of herbs and flowers, line the drive way with fruit dwarf fruit trees and grape vines interplanetary with flowers, berries and herbs and grow heaps of berries in pots under the washing line. Lol its a miniature secret garden and I love it!
You should look into dairy goats. I grew up with them and they will clear the underbrush quickly. The milk is also great, especially for those who can’t tolerate cows milk. If you get a couple of hand-reared kids, they make great pets!
As for the pig issue, could you not buy some straws and artificially insemenate them for the first time until you decide to commit to a boar?