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your journey is so expiring... I have 20 acres of forest I have owned since 1972, and until 2019, I had not even been on it in 20+ years. Watching shows like yours give me ideas of what to do, and what NOT to do (no dozers to clear land as an example)... Thank you, and keep it up!!!
THIS!!!!! This comment you made Fred is the #1 reason we are on RU-vid!! If we can help just a few people with ideas and a little inspiration to go back to the land, then all of the hard work of filming and late night editing is all WORTH IT!!!!
Your family was 1 of the 1st homesteading channels that my family started to watch. I wanted to them you because of you and many others today we did it. We put the down payment on 6.6 acres of land that has no zoning and we are so happy it's unreal. Thank you so much for helping us believe this was possible!
Rhonda..... we KNOW YOU and we totally remember you being with us for this entire time!!!! Wow, we couldn’t be more excited for yalls adventure....... wahooooooo, it is going to be AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@BetterTogetherLife Right we couldn't be any more blessed right now. Now just got to wait for Ohio weather to make up its mind so we can clear it. lol Hopefully cutting the 1st tree this weekend will definitely be keeping track of how many trees we cut
I use 1/2×1 welded wire. I also though put in a natural wood board about 2.5x1 for them to lay or sit on in winter and a natural stone same size in summer. Gets them off the wire.
Love it! I'm pretty sure that the difference in your garden growth that is closer to the potatoes is because the potatoes are keeping the soil looser than the areas farther away from them.
You guys are major inspiration for me! About a year ago I decided to make my lifelong dream into an actual goal. Currently a single mother in Dallas who yearns for a slower life for my son. You are proving the it is possible. We will have my sister living on property as well. I just can’t wait to make it reality and you’re making me even more certain that this is what my future will look like. I’m trying to get somewhere in North Central Texas. Thanks for the inspo!!!!!
Hello guys I am a fellow Texan from Fort Worth but I now live in South America. Colombia to be exact. I live in the Andes mountains. I am about to buy some property and Homestead. I love your channel and spent all day yesterday, mini hours, listening to your channel. I love it. Thank you for all you do!
You could also put a 1x12 board like 18in. Long in the cage they will rest on it. Don't use pressure treated because they will chew on it.. also I grow Timothy grass as cover crop to harvest for mine
Oh Harold, I wish chipper was worth it. But it takes sooooooo long! I would rather burn it and make biochar. But yes, if I were to find a chipper that was decent for a decent price I would try it.
It's amazing to see how much has changed since guys started there. I LOVE crimson clover. I used it as a green mulch around corn once. I like it better out in the pasture, but either way it is so pretty.
You need to get a Plastic Resting Floor Mat for the bottom of the rabbit cage. Your bottom floor needs to be made out of hardware cloth, the sides you can use the stuff you just bought. The Plastic Resting Floor Mat will help with keeping the sores on there feet at bay. Even if you used that same stuff you just bought your rabbits would still have sores on there feet. It just happens.. I have been raising rabbits for 5 yrs now and the Plastic Resting Floor Mats work great and sores go away fairly fast once you place them in the cages.
Looking forward to an update on this video after that big snow we got a couple weeks ago, Wondering what survived and what wasn't quite as hardy? I Drove a truck for 23 years, the last several running TEXAS twice a week. I bought almost a dozen palms through the last few years down there and brought them home. I have to keep them in planters, and bring them in during the winter. We can have a pretty decent little winter here in Southeast Missouri. They thrive bigtime in our muggy, humid as heck summers, man. I have several palms in my home born in Texas and raised in SEMO, a piece of the greatest country in the world surrounding me year round.
Thanks for the tour. Just a thought, or two: Yaupon holly is a great mosquito and no-see-um repellent. It also make a wonderful tea and coffee substitute. There's even some farms that are selling the leaves and starter trees as a cash crop. You can put some cardboard, plywood, or ceramic tile on the rabbit cage floors so that your bunnies don't get sores. Here in Utah, it gets so hot that I use ceramic tiles in the summer and have even put them in a frig at night to cool them down. In the winter, because we can get down to below zero, I use cardboard on the floor under straw of wood chips. The rabbits are happy and more comfortable and I get the cardboard for free and the tiles were leftovers from a tiling project. When you transplant trees and bushes, try putting a shade cloth over them, mulch them and water them with banana water. I make banana water by blending one or two banana peels with water, pour that into a five gallon bucket, then fill the bucket to about 4 gallons of water and stir. Pour about a quart, or so, around your transplant and mulch and shade it for about a week or two (especially if you're getting really hot summer sun. Anyway, thought I'd share some tips that have worked for me so you' can enjoy more successes.
Man great video. I’ve been so busy lately that I haven’t been able to watch your channel or any of my favorite channels. So much has happened so cool to see everything. The pigs are growing so much. Hopefully I have time to watch more. Great job and god bless!
Rabbit poo pellets the garden loves it Natural biproduct of keeping rabbits It's a cold maneur but rabbits diet is very similar to horse so very nutritious to your soil.
Thanks for sharing the link to the rabbit cage flooring that you are recommending. Building some rabbit hutches will be something we will work on this year.
You brush pile You hate If its dried out at least some what (Maybe rent) a track loader Run over the pile flating it outthe best you can Then get on top and start spining in a circle in place. Youre going to be grinding it up.. Keep moving over The best you can.. Then maybe.start a compost pile with it... Should be a lot easier than hand feeding a chipper
There is no link for the cover crop. Also, you should get goats. We have had a total of 13 in the last 2 years (9 born on our property) and only 1 little stinker who escaped. And he actually walked up to our front porch!
Thank you!!! We certainly will consider goats. Haha. Sorry, just updated the link for Green Cover Seed in the description. It is also here: www.greencoverseed.com/?YTFriend
I got a kick out of your excitement for mulberry trees since I just cut down about 20 of them on my place to make room for apple, pear, cherry trees and more garden area. wish I could have taken them out of the ground and put them on your homestead. good luck on all your endeavors.
There is enough grass back there for you to rotate a couple sheep now but I can understand the hesitation. One small step at a time is usually the best way to go anyways. It’s looking amazing.
Love the videos. Yall have done a lot of work. Curious though, with all the attention your property and animals get when do you find the time to spend with the kids?
Oh interesting question. Hmm, all day everyday? We homestead and homeschool together. Heck….our channel name literally is “Better Together”. So we do everything together! We love it!!!
All the brush you accumulate can turn into charcoal by making a cone fire pit OR Check out how "edible acres" puts brush "in place" on contour- to eventually build hugel beds. Saves a lot of energy/labor to build a bed, by letting time break them down, instead of dragging around the brush/processing.
@@BetterTogetherLife the goal is to strategically place the brush piles and eventually dig on contour - putting the excess soil over the wood. Being covered and wet will break it down quicker. Edible acres will explain it better. Just a low energy option to use the brush that you have already accumulated, in areas that you do not need to currently develop.
You mentioned The Mother Earth News a couple times in your video, and that made me remember I have a huge stack of those stored away that I need to sell. We downsized recently, and I no longer have enough room. Your homestead is looking great!
If you were ever to see watch goats will do to over grown brush you might change your mind. Plus you can milk them depending on the type. Meat is just as good a lamb maybe a little better. They are less up keep also depending on type. And I know it’s the eyes that freak you out.
Awwwwwwwwesome!!! THREE Mulberry trees, yay!!! And a billion cuttings on the way. ;D Don't cut yours up. Let them grow and grow. Figs and mulberries are related. Both have edible leaves, both grow fairly easily from cuttings. Mulberries are sometimes called "inside out" figs. And I'm so inspired by your coated wire flooring. I need to do that, too. My amazing bunnies deserve it for all they do for me. I love your garden. I see so much success everywhere and I was all smiles watching the whole video. I cannot believe what pigs can do. Wow. So rewarding, all the way around. Great job.
Becareful with the bigger holes in the wire.. coyotes ate the toes off our rabbits! Just give them a place to stand like an old board or something solid.. we had to put 7 or our 9 rabbits down as they had no toes left!!!
Just a suggestion....why if you rent a wood shipper and make woodchips for the yard and garden. Look at Justin Rhodes video and also Lumnah Acres video also. Great day.....
Making your own wood chips is a VERY time consuming task. With very little product in return. The famous permaculture designer Geoff Lawton says that it is always cheaper (in time and money) to import mulch than it is to create it yourself. So I make Biochar.
Fun to see your property! I love what the pigs are doing. In my head I love the idea of pugs and chickens. In reality having five boys has killed any desire I have for more animals. I’ll stick to flowers and fruit trees for now. You guys are doing great 👍
I would get the rest of the brush down and let the pigs forage on that green brush as well and feed them near anything needed rooting out. A brush blade on a cat would get stumps, roots, and all the crap up in a pile to burn. I don't think goats would do that good a job in such short order. I know once cleared that the ground would make good garden or other.
Hey. My boyfriend is a big fan of your videos. He did however ask me to write to you regarding wire-floor cages for buns. Where we come from wire floor for rabbits is considered abuse. Please, please look into welfare for rabbits. there is so much research on these highly social and intelligent animals. They can be very clean given the chance, they do not need wire floors at all. All animals are work, bunnies are considered exotic animals because they are work. It'd be easy to give them proper flooring. We enjoy the bunny poop dirt as well, it's amazing.
Thanks. I am very disappointed in his management of the rabbits. The diseases and negligence will cost them sooner or later. He mentioned breeding so I guess their plan is to sell and then kill the leftovers they can't manage to keep alive and healthy. This is a shame
If your wondering about the bare patches, with pigs they are creatures of habit and will poo or pee in certain places, Iv found these areas always seed badly because of the high nitrates or whatever I ain't no scientist haha, those areas usually catch up but it can take some time.
paradoxchild01 my parents live in Kansas and have a fig tree. And another RU-vidr in Jersey has one too. If you’re in Texas you shouldn’t have a problem growing one.
if you're not already aware of them.... check out Gardening with Leon and/or Arms Family Homestead for some great videos and advice on self-watering tubs. Both of theirs work really well.
Pigs are pretty predator proof. Except maybe a bear in Alaska! Haha. These pigs are STRONG! And fast, and they will eat anything. Kind of like little hippos.
Philip Butler why would you? The “produce section” like you said is crap food sprayed with chemicals. Look it up, Moringa. It only can grow in the south though.... or maybe up north as an annual.
Better Together Life who said anything about spraying with chemicals? People thought Johnson grass, kudzu and Chinese chestnuts were great too. Your not hard headed at all. Did you even look at the sites I linked? Not exactly links to Dow Chemical or Monsanto.
Is there nothing that's toxic to pigs? Would a forestry mulcher have taken out a lot of what they're now eating? In other words, are they not good enough "forestry mulchers?" :D
goats will be better for your homestead as far as cleaning up your land. with sheep they will eat and graze down to the dirt plus they have to be sheared. witch i love both sheep and goats. i was all set of fallowing you until you said you didn't want goats. lol
