Homestead, Family and Future Plans for 2024 

Even though I turn 70 this year I love watching you 'young uns' living the life you do. I truly admire you all. I was born and raised in the Appalachians- just north of Asheville in the tiny town of Weaverville. Life then was much as you are living now. When things started growing too much and the old ways began disappearing, I retired to a tiny town in the southern part of West Virginia to be able to live the way I was raised. And just for the record, being Appalachian is something deep inside oneself, not a matter of geography. Not many people can grasp this anymore, so I thank God for people like you all who keep the good old ways alive and well! May 2024 bring you and yours many blessings and prosperity!

Don't give up Megan! You and Andy are full of Ole fashion info that's lost nowadays and didn't grow up in the same environment as yall so your content is interesting and educational.

I am an 85 year old man, living alone with my dog, 5 milk goats and 4 chickens. Because of my age and health, I have had to alter my homestead type lifestyle and reduce my number of animals. I sold, my Jersey milk cow and calf, about 20 of my meat and milk goats and most of my chickens. Also had to give up my big in ground garden and now am gardening in containers right at my back door. Luckily I am in NW FL where I can garden year round and have a beautiful garden right now. I still pressure can and have several hundred jars of garden produce in my pantry right now. Have no plans to give that up!

What makes the channel Meagan and Andy is " your just normal people" and you let us see that. I have just recently found your channel and have watched about 20 videos then tonight watched this one. Love ya both. Please don't stress about keeping a schedule. Just let life happen and enjoy. Thank you so much for taking the time and effort to share your life with us. Best wishes, Deb

Please do not stop doing the videos

I am 73 an ur channel is a breath of fresh air in these times we are living in! THANK YOU 👍

I’ve been around for about a year… and it’s one of my favorite channels. Yall are about as comforting as a hot bowl of homemade chicken noodle soup! This household sure does love yall! Keep on keepin on!

I love all your videos, but my favorite from 2023 was when Meagan’s mom came and played the piano and her, Meagan, Jacob and Maggie sang old hymns. I still go back and watch it occasionally. Happy New Year Lawson family! May God richly bless you in 2024!

I have been bedridden for a year and love watching everything y’all do. My goal this year is to be able to sit up and maybe even walk. So just keep on doing what you have been doing. ❤❤

Your channel turned up on my feed a few months back and I was hooked straight away. You’re real, no pretensions and so relatable and I love that. The way you are passing on the knowledge of generations to Jacob and Maggie just swells my heart. Someone once told me that if I want to know anything just ask an old timer and that’s what I get from you. Keep on, keeping on folks and you’ll do just fine. ❤

We are just like you guys, we raise and kill, and butcher our own hogs chickens. Raise a garden, hunt wild game and live a good hard working life. We started watching you guys a week ago and I told my wife right off the bat, these guys are real. And we love watching your videos. Keep it up and God bless you all. From Lincoln co WV.

Thoughts: 1. I believe God wants you reaching folks. 2. Yall are our kids age and we are so impressed with your way of life and work ethic. 3. People used to work intermittently away from home so they could afford necessities, but not 40 hour weeks. I applaud your goal. 4. My goal is to have a low spend year in order to save money and use up so much of the stuff around here. (Less clutter!) 5. Your kids will be blessed by your lifestyle.

Andy, your a man after my own heart. The respect and love you have for your family is precious. It doesn’t come to how much money you have or make . Family comes first. Love you both so much.

YOU FOLKS AMAZE ME WITH THE THINGS YOU DO. MY WIFE AND I HAVE BEEN HOMESTEADING FOR 5 YEARS NOW AND LOVING EVERY MINUTE OF IT , EVEN THE TOMATO CANNING AND HOG BUTCHERING. IN THE FALL AFTER HOG PROCESSING IT DOESNT SLOW DOWN EITHER. HUNTING SEASON COMES ON AND I'M HUNTING DAY AND NIGHT TO PUT MORE FOOD IN OUR FREEZERS AND SHELVES. IT'S A TON OF WORK BUT GIVES US PEACE OF MIND. I'M CURRENTLY 72 YEARS OLD AND I FEEL LIKE IM SLOWING DOWN A LITTLE BUT STILL HARD AT IT. WE LIVE ON 12 ACRES AND HAVE CHICKENS AND TURKEYS AND RAISE PIGS EVERY YEAR. PROCESSING MEAT IS MY FAVORITE TIME OF YEAR.WE PROCESS ALL OUR OWN CHICKENS AND HOGS/TURKEYS. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK AND ABOVE ALL ENJOY YOURSELVES. IT GOES FAST. GOD BLESS !

Yup! Right. I love your channel because I respect young people doing things the old way. And your children are learning and seem to be enjoying their chores. Plus you are being original and honest.

Thats why I love you guys, cuz yall are just normal people. May God bless you and your family with abundance in 2024.❤

What I want to see for 2024: A cost breakdown on what it costs you to grow your food. How much you spend on feed for pigs and how many lbs you get at harvest. We live a similar way, but grow different things than you do. So I’m curious how much it costs to grow your veggies and animals. I saw you gave your pigs a corncob a day. But is that all the grain they get? Same for your cows and chickens.

Me and my husband watch you all the time. Our health isn't very good. It gives us joy watching you and Andy. Wishing we could do what you do. Please keep going.

I've been bragging about yall to some friends so I'm praying that you will get more subscribers and that 2024 will be even bigger and better for yall this year!

I found you through gardening. Now, I was raised in the Northeast, city girl. Far from your up brining. My husband and I had a major shake up in our life in 2012. This is when we moved to a rural area and started gardening for our mental health. Long story short. I value your old ways, hard work and how you try not to be wasteful, I love watching you all work together as a family and seeing your children listening, learning and doing. You say you are just normal people, I think you are getting followers like myself because, we need more "normal" people these days. This is going on too long, so I'll just say I appreciate all your time you put into your videos and thanks for all the tips and tricks you provide for us who want to learn.

HNYs, guys! The name, True Grit, caught my attention. Homesteading, farming and gardening require true determination and grit (elbow grease). Thx for staying true to your calling 🙏🏽

Y’all make my heart smile so big!!❤I live in the Florida panhandle now but my heart will forever be in the country. Sometimes I listen to y’all with my eyes closed and it’s like I’m back home.

I love your videos! I'm 69, born and raised in East Tennessee. I grew up watching my relatives kill hogs, and my grandfather grew tobacco, and you haven't lived until you have been chased by a chicken with no head.😂 I begrudgedly helped my mom can and now I wish I had paid closer attention. Keep up the good work!

You feel like family to me. Most of my family are subscribed to your channel and we often mention you. I'll say "Did you guys see Andy and Megan's video today?" Keep up the good work, God bless you. Sue from KY

I would love a piece of the bacon.... so good... So glad you didn't give up... because people love you.. just because of your honesty, and compassion... you are down to earth, real people.. I pray 2024 will just continue to grow, and your farm has a prosperous future.. I certainly will be here most days, sadly sometimes the notifications don't come..and l have to keep pressing the, all notifications... You all are so beautiful, and I love and admire all you do, try to do, and just bring in to others lives... God bless you all, much love and appreciation from Australia

I live down in North East Texas. I love now learning old ways of living. Husband and I are talking about getting animals this year. So, our grandchildren can learn what we have.

Keep pressing on. I just turned 72 and grew up on a working family farm. That is how my parents lived and raised 5 children. While my husband and I had factory jobs, we still farmed some and raised a garden. Now being a widow, I still have chickens, raise a garden and preserve my own food. It does bless me to see young folks such as you taking an interest in being self sufficient. I am a part of the Appalachians also. I live outside a small town in Southwest VA, just across the Tennessee state line. So likely not more that 2-3 hours away from you all. The farm live is a good life. I no longer watch TV much at all. RU-vid gardeners and farm homesteaders have become my entertainment. I can select the content that I enjoy, good clean wholesome viewing. Have a prosperous and wonderful 2024.

You showed up in my news feed and I subscribed while watching that video. I just knew you were my kinda person. I've enjoyed every single video since and look forward to your next video before you even put it out! Lol. Yall are just awesome and do what I would love to do.

You hooked me with how wholesome the both of you are. I'm originally from Appalachia as well and greatly appreciate both of you keeping traditions going. Happy New Year.

Happy new years. I hope the new years brings you better things than the last. Keep the videos coming,we need more normal people showing the old ways of life.

Grumpy Old Man (my husband) and I live in central Alabama and have our entire lives. There's a lot of similarities between Appalachian ways and plain ole southern country ways. I was actually born and raised in the city (Birmingham) but moved to 'the country' many years ago. I get anxiety now when I have to go to the city. I can't wait to get back home. I really enjoy your videos. Y'all are real. I prefer videos that show real life...not the perfect ones that seem staged. I like the fact that Meagan swings the camera around to show what the kitchen really looks like when she's in the middle of canning, fixing some lunch for the kids, etc. Or that Maggie is in the other room crying because she popped her balloon. That's real life.

I don’t really comment but I absolutely love talks channel for the simple fact you are “just normal folks”. Megan I too can smell the dirt and long for the days of sunshine tasting tomatoes. I absolutely loved the shelf you built for Megan’s present. I watch all yalls videos and love them. Keep up the great work.

Hello guys.i love your channel and knowledge I gain from you guys.i was raised in the city in florida but always had a desire to garden and homestead.so 7 years ago moved to goldsboro nc.im 65 and now have acreage and gardens, chickens and raised 2 pigs last year for processing.so it's really never to late to become more self sufficiant.thanks for your channel and knowledge and sharing it.

That’s why we watch you,just normal people and it’s so natural to ya

I just found yall a week ago and love everything you do. Looking forward to seeing what is in store for 2024

You can do anything but you can’t do everything. Good words of wisdom that helped me especially in gardening.

Being at home more is priceless. I had to take a job outside of our business, because we almost lost our family business. Hoping things change in 2024, but this job will help us out and we need it. Thanks for having your channel. It is amazing.

Y'all are so appreciated with all the skills, knowledge and experience you've deployed! Especially sharing your and your children's lives. Y'all said that you were just normal people and can't believe that anyone would watch your videos. Well, let me tell you that y'all ain't NORMAL! Y'ALL SURPASS NORMAL! YOU give knowledge to many that have never known what a real life of independence IS! Just growing food is under people's skin in this day and time. People are really looking for FREEDOM AND SELF. ONE OTHER THING, y'all really have a way to make me REAL HUNGRY! Keep on with the kicks to people's brains, IT'S WORKING! Can't wait for more vids and really want to see Andy sawin cedars. Shelf was great! I LOVE WOOD, ESPECIALLY CEDAR AND WALNUT! DOIN' IS WHERE IT'S AT! Y'all are still really young compared to myself and I really enjoy seeing life still being lived the way you do. Y'ALL GOT A LONG WAY TO GO LEFT IN THE GOOD LIFE AND MANY REWARDS TO COME.

Keep on trucking! I’m learning so much from you guys. Love your channel. My first video I watched was you saddling your horse. I was so glad to see another homesteader with horses. They’re my guilty pleasure. Haha. Most people call em hay burners but who knows we all might be riding little horsey down to town before it is said and done.

Happy New Year. You guys have an awesome channel and I love watching you even just bantering.

Megan, Andy I'm a 67 yr mom. Live up here in Grand Rapids,Michigan. I live with my 3 adult kids and I have a real hard time walking. I started watchin you guys about a year ago. The first time I saw and heard you two I was hooked. I started a homestead years ago when I was first married. We had Pigs cows, chickens for meat & èggs, Goats,rabbits & a big garden and fruit trees. My thoughts were raise my 3 kids the best I know how. But my husband screwed that up. Go forward 25 yrs. I got on utube and there you were. So much in common. You two do. What I wanted to do. I will never have.it again, but I can have fun relating to everything you do. Thank you for bringing it back. Love you two And the kids of course. God bless ya.

Please don't ever give up. I'm a recent member and I am absolutely impressed with ya'll. It's hard to find people that like the old ways and are totally honest. It means a lot to me. Ya'll make my day and every day. I'll always be there for you all. God bless you and know you are in my prayers every day. Lots of prayers and love, Mary Jane Watson Virginia

Blessings to you and your family this coming year. Thank you for taking the time to put out videos. I love how genuine you all are and you always have something good the share or teach.

Country people know Country people love your videos you live the way I was raised their is no better way of life you'll are a great bunch and a great family God bless you in the new year ❤️

My grandmother had people that brought a gallon glass jar with a lid and they would exchange jars and buy her buttermilk in the jars and that was extra money for her to get things she would need but yes I found your channel really interesting and like I said it brought back memories of my grandmother and for that I thank you both and I hope you have a great 2024 and a blessed year

I love your videos. Y’all are my kind of people, love the training your kids are receiving. God bless you above measure this coming year.

My wife and I are newer subscribers and found your channel and were immediately hooked. We are moving to our 13 1/2 acre property in WV, and enjoys your realistic content. We enjoy learning from y’all. We both have knowledge, but enjoy learning from people who actually live the lifestyle. Keep up the amazing content. God bless y’all.

Happy New Year! Praying for you to all be safe, well and blessed.

Got your cookbook for Christmas. We enjoy watching all your videos and have learned a lot! In 2023, we got our first chickens, 24 hens. We put out a garden on our small 1 acre TN homestead. We have canned, froze and dehydrated our garden bounty. Very impressive how you live off the land as you do. Blessing in this new year.

Looking forward to watching and learning from your family in 2024! So Thankful that my husband found your channel!

Enjoy watching you all. We live in east Tennessee and live a lot like you do. We aren't able to raise our own beef and pork but we have a friend we buy from. We do have a garden and preserve as much as we can. I love connecting with people of same interest. I loved the shelf that he built. I would rather have something like that than anything you can buy. Keep doing what you are doing. I think more people need to go back to these ways

I love your channel. Would love to see more videos on gardening and your animals and canning. Both of you inspire me to want to do more.

I have committed but probably not enough. I love the videos. Please keep up what you’re doing. This year show us a lot of your animals. Cows, pigs chickens all of it. I’m 70 I’ve done some farming, I grew my beef and pork. Love y’all.

I started watching you in 2020 with a different account. I’m so glad to see your channel grow. I appreciate that you keep things real and I’ve learned so much from your videos. Thank you for sharing your skills and life style with us. I hope you have an auspicious 2024. God bless and peace be with you.

I enjoy your videos and down to earth and loving people !! Your honest and show what true GRIT living is !!!

Amen ❤ The good, the bad and the ugly ❤. I love that you guys have come together and made this community possible ❤🎉 never too old to learn. thank you for giving me hope for the future generations ❤ keep up the great work

I appreciate all 4 of you. I get excited almost each morning to see a video uploaded. So basically, you're my first video of the day!! Happy New Year!!

I was raised in Polk county NC and when I found your Channel I felt like coming home. Living in Utah is a lot different, but you fill my heart with home. Thank you.

The reason I subscribed to your channel is because I wanted to learn how to survive if the world falls apart. I stay for the same reason. And now I consider your family my family. You guys are really good wholesome, hardworking people. Huge respect.

I enjoy your family. My family on dads side were pig and corn farmers from rural central Indiana. I chose the military as a career and left that behind. Your family and mine are so similar in how you live and work. Makes me remember my childhood. I am retiring and love your gardening and canning videos. I will have the time to put into growing more of our food. You are helping with that! Thank you!

My wife and I love your videos. You folks are true down to earth people. If I was 40 years younger I wouls love to have a homestead. I'm 73 and have gardened since I was 5 which I still do ...in containers. Have a happy and prosperous new year. Mike and Debbie Branson, Missouri

Ya'll and Doug and Stacy are my two favorite homesteading channels

its the old ways people need to learn keep going strong

I for one am probably what you would consider the old folks and I can tell you there is hope in the younger folks. Several of my younger sons friends are learning many of the older ways and crave the importance of family and community. You know you don't always have to teach people things to explain your culture. Simple walks through the fields and woods, showing them simple pleasures, explains why you chose to live as you do and why the traditions are so important to you both.

I love you both so much. My Dad was a long haul trucker, and my Momma ran a hog farm. She'd have me out running feed in the growers while she checked on the farrowing barn. I thank God I had Parents that taught me how to work. Thank you for what you are doing.

Keep on doing what yall are doing... In turn please rest......l know how you can work to much...l am ,69 and from Kentucky ...but l am proud of you both...

Trust Me we can tell when people are real or not . Thank you for Being real .

I found your channel by looking for country people around my area. I was raised in Hickory Tree and now live in the Bays Mountain area. I enjoy every video. Things I like to see are: Meghan cooking,canning, homemaking, Andy planning the crops,working with the many pieces of equipment, sawmill work,how you choose the tree and how you use the wood.The children anything they do playing and learning to do different things. It's all good. Looking forward to this next year.

Andy the good Lord blessed you and I both with a hard working wife!

Hope y’all have a blessed and happy new year. I love your channel, it reminds me of how I grew up in the Carolinas from my parents & grandparents. Sadly, they’ve been gone for years and I moved. So keep doing what you’re doing! ❤

Thank y'all and God Bless 🙏 Prayers for all of us ❤️ Love y'all.. You all are doing a great job 👍 keep doing what your doing.. Love all of your videos.. Don't give up y'all ❤️.. keep it coming..

Thank yall for presserving history and reminding us how we got to where we are today

Just wanted to say hello from Southeast Texas, ya'll keep up the good work and we'll be watching more of you. And so you know the reason I watch ya'll is because you are normal people. Stay safe and I know ya'll will be fine.

Dearly love this channel! Blessings for you and your family!! ❤❤🙏🙏xxoo

I'm 60, and I love watching you guys. My parents were raised in West Virginia the way guys are living. It takes me back to my younger life and brings great memories just watching your videos.

I know exactly what you're talking about when saying it's hard to find good employees. My husband is retired now, but he did have his own home renovation business for almost 35 yrs. That was the main thing he struggled with,,,trying to find young men that actually wanted to put a good days work in. Also hard to find men that can be trusted to be left in a customers home while my husband was gone picking up supplies etc. If you can have one more day at home, do it. Specially while your kiddies are still at home. LOVE your channel and always look forward to your video's. Wishing you a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous 2024!

Good morning. I feel compelled to tell you two how impressed I am with you, your honesty and sincerity. Your ability to maintain your family, jobs and productivity on your family farm is inspiring . I live on Long Island, New York. I plant 4 tomatoes every year. I first heard about you from Tipper Presley , Celebrating Appalachia. I have been following them for about 2 years. Tipper recommended your channel. I was very pleasantly surprised at your honesty and stamina, your ability to tell things the way they are in a charming, and down to earth way. Keep up the fantastic work. Thank you, Jane

Your normal down to earth people and that’s why I love watching you you’re not fake at all. There’s so many fake ones out there but you can tell you are good people and I thank you.❤

i found your channel by looking for homesteaders in North Carolina. i thoroughly enjoy watching your videos. So impressed with how Jacob and Maggie help garden and food prepping. It's impressive that Maggie is 5 and can make biscuits. Sure glad y'all didn't give up on RU-vid.♥

First of all, you guys are killing it. I grew up on ranch in a small town in the hill country of Texas. Today I run a social media company and get to observe a lot of creators - you've figured it out. Keep up the good work! My ask for you - take care of yourself and your family - that's a great 2024 goal. Life isn't a dress rehearsal. Love your channel.

The best thing about y’all is that you flat out keep it real.you are who you are and y’all ain’t out here trying to be something you’re not.y’all have never had a bad or boring video just keep ‘em coming.y’all have old souls and the good lord knows that this world needs more of that

This morning my son killed two wild hogs (juniors…small). I told him about your hog killing videos and how you encourage community and helping one another. I love that. So you are having an impact encouraging folks. Nit is a pleasure to watch your family working together. God bless you all!

Love watching the show. Truly true grit and beautiful people to learn from.

I cut back, too, this year. I was working (always shorthanded) in a metro hospital, commuting, caregiving for my Dad, burning the candle at both ends. I gave notice last summer, took a few months off, started in long-term care in October many fewer shifts in my FTE. Now we are moving my Dad into an assisted living. Took care of selling his house and getting his belongings ready for auction. Looking forward to having time to get my family healthier. Looking forward to much more gardening, canning, and especially quilting. Also needing to work on remodeling our 115 year old house. Thank you two for also making the effort to get back to basics.

Hello from Apple Valley Calif. I'm 60 yrs. old and a new subscriber, I watch your channel every morning around 4am with my morning coffee. Whatever y'all put up I'll be here. Blessings

In this day and time, Normal is a great thing!!! Really appreciate y'all and enjoyed watching this past year. Also love that you are NC born and bred like me!!!

My wife and I love y’all’s videos we’re watching from Hilliard Florida Mickey and Karen

I live between the Brushys and the Blue Ridge in the edge of Wilkes Co. I consider it Appalachia. We have hollars and all. I am proud to be an Appalachian American.

Please don’t quit the videos! I’m new to watching the channel and loving it. The country ham video got me hooked.

New subscriber today, and you got me when you were hanging vlothes. That is my favorite chore. I also garden and have chickens. I have retired recently, found youtube, and your channel. Down to earth people. ❤😊

You’ve become friends! I joined during the garden season and I’m sure this gardening season you’ll double your friends! Happy New Year!

The garden tour is when I found you folks.

I love how y'all show a real lifestyle. I've watched other channels and they are more about the things of the world, y'all are the best,.

The reason People like your channel is because you are down to Earth Country folks that Other Country People can relate too. I just wish I lived closer than three hours away

I love watching your videos!!!

So nice to see a younger generation living this beautiful lifestyle. Im on the other end getting older and doing less. God bless. So glad youtube showed your channel.❤

Time spent with family is NEVER wasted time. I have been fortunate to be able to travel all over the U.S . "all fifty states" and rural America is pretty much the same every where. There are some cultural differences but the people are pretty much the same. Down to earth good people. Like Ya.!!

Y’all are the hardest working-most knowledgeable, humble and genuine people and I Love watching and learning from you both! Wishing you much success in 2024! I pray God blesses you abundantly!

😊 I watch your videos for over a year now and I can't wait for a new video to come out just keep doing what what you're doing I'm looking forward for the next video y'all be safe y'all be good

Don’t give up. I grew up hearing how to live this way. I have been a nurse for 40yrs and life got in the way of learning the skills I saw my family do growing up. I have started learning more now and I so appreciate y’all and your videos. Thank a bunch!