Our Family HAS always wanted to be off grid and be completely sustainable AND working hard on moving out of the small city and moving up to our 44 acre property and starting completely fresh. We have a cabin ALREADY on our 44 acres and some road work COMPLETED but we have need a lot more infrastructure to be successful. Our property is mostly up hill with a lot of challenges to create and build our structures!! We will need to install a well for our off grid water system, off grid power, garden and food storage, and expand and multiply our animals for farming. We have experience in raising goats and chickens but want to raise pigs and attempt year round greenhouse. We want to have most of our food raised on the property and have a much more simple life. We want to build quality buildings that make since and support our family and animals. Join our journey in making accomplishments and mistakes!!
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There is a place in Farr West, Utah that does auctions for farming stuff. They seem to have cattle gates and fencing go for fairly cheap. The company name is Northrop auctions. We have bought some damaged galvanized stock tanks for our garden. The guy running it super down to earth and seems to be an all-around good guy.
It's always good to find fresh eggs. I just love fried eggs on unsalted buttered toast and a pinch of pepper. that and a morning cup of gunpowder and that's me ready for the day. Nice coop....
Polished wooden floors look so good and you can clean them and polish easy by just throwing down some wax shavings and with a soft broom and sweep it. Comes up with a lovely shine. Thanks for posting....
We had a post hole auger and the shear bolt just kept letting go. After we soon ran out of bolts we decided to weld it up and sort it out come winter rest and maintenance time. 4 years later it's still running sweet with no problems and no shaft kick back to the tractor. Thanks for posting....
When I decided the time was now to rebuild my 1976 Honda CB125J Single I cleared and cleaned one corner of my mates work shop. Doing this took 2 days and I then built a work bench and put up a big set of shelves. This took 2 days. I then moved the bike in and unpacked all the boxes onto the bench and up onto the shelves. Just doing this single act before I had even picked up a spanner to the bike so to speak made me feel that good stuff was going to happen. Prep work is often just as important as the project. Felt good just to start the rebuild in an allocated space. Bike is finished and on the road now. Only took 2 years. felt good to work within a team as well. Thanks for posting....
Marc with all the Fencing you have done, it is a wonder that you are not on the US Olympics fencing team! 😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣 On the invasive Red Cedars that you call Junipers, they all need to be cut down for fire control mitigation, because in high temperatures of summer thy can spontaneously combust, as the cedar oil has a low combustion point, especially if there has been a drought. Red cedar trees can be a fire hazard because of their growth form and flammable foliage. Their limbs grow close to the ground, and their foliage contains volatile oils that make them easy to ignite. When a red cedar tree catches fire, it can act as a ladder to spread the flames to other trees and nearby buildings. A burning red cedar tree can also send thousands of embers downwind, which can increase the rate of a wildfire's spread. Also if you are planting Apple Trees you do not want a red cedar with in 1/2 half a mile of the apple trees, as the Red Cedars cause Apple Rust.
I have to laugh when "impressed with the machine" when in reality that tool has one heck of a driver Mark. Mark is amazing and the machine is just as if it was part of Mark his third arm you might say. Yes, amazed the family teamwork but also the team of machine and man, Mark the Man 🙂
When we did the fencing for the sheep pens the feeling of joy thumping in the last fence post was a close second to taping in the last staples. Then to look down the fence line to see how much we had done. Those were great days many days ago. I enjoyed watching this one, thanks for posting....
Marc is MAGIC with that excavator. 😀 Everytime he gets in that thing and works his magic on the side of your mountain I'm amazed. I love it. THANK YOU for sharing your lives with us. More videos please 😉
👍👍👍👍👍👌You all are truly amazing foresight, planning and action, on very challenging terrain, great teamwork and operator skills!!! Great video thanks for sharing!!
Are y'all building the greenhouse into the hillside to utilize ground temps? Possibly build a cellar room at the back of the greenhouse buried? Not to mention it would help stabilize the hill as well
The grinder looks to be in great condition! So many possibilities as to what you can do feed wise now, including corn from the chickens and pigs. 🎉💫❤️💫✌🏻🇦🇺
Said it before will say it again. Your property is so beautiful. The vision from raw to where you are and where you are going is amazing. You guys rock.
Great video and progress you guys. Ola always makes me laugh when she starts to panic and Marc just sits there laughing, " Just let me work will you". Stay safe you guys
That excavator is like 3rd arm the way you operate it. Imagine having 5 friends with same machines and skills. You would do a year worth of work in a day
Good job u 2!........................ need video on fire guards and do you have a Fire prevention plan????.... I'm in British Columbia and we have forest fires everywhere right now.. The Province of British Columbia has been dealing with them for 100 years!
