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I am waching her for so many years, I have now an urban garden with 2 greenhouses in the middle of huge city in UK becouse of her and Garden Girl, Learned to make soap, pickles, save,etc.Lots of love Becky.:)
Dear Becky, I looked for a much newer video to reach out to you. It had been a while since I was researching chickens, we are now new chicken parents. Thank you for helping before and continuing to help my new journey so heading back into continued research. Just know that your weight loss as it is wonderful to your health doesn’t make you more relevant. You were always relevant. May God bless you beyond measure! In Christ, Heather
Thank you.....good advice......our driveway already goes through the middle of our property. Yep......we have hills! And a creek. In the approx 4 years since we've been here. ....chickens and a garden.....more importantly......a cleared road with water/erosion control. ....but yes.....good advice. Gots to take your time!.......the rain and heat this summer has taken a toll.......weeds etc.....even a power outage or two has us planning better control!.....
I have moved a driveway before. Constantly fixing a driveway is a huge pain that never goes away. I give general advice everyone has to make their own adjustments according to their property.☀️❤️☀️
Becky you are getting sweeter as you are getting older. I learned so much and benefited from your knowledge. You are an inspiration for so many. Love and respect from Pakistan.
Beautiful as well as functional has been my goal with setting up my chicken run & coop and garden and permaculture edible forest areas. Sustainable zones. Great concepts!
Great advice! Right now we live in the city with a nice sized backyard. Since we've lived here with chickens and a garden, I love the idea of keeping the chickens and garden as close as they are to our house right now if we ever get a real homestead in the future. I love watching our chickens out the kitchen window! When they free range sometimes, they will sit on a perch we have outside the window waiting for a treat. I love it 😄 I would still want that experience in the country. And having the garden close is definitely helpful. It's both pretty and convenient.
I thank you for letting me know about the zoning aspects of Homesteading. I think you did one as well a couple of years ago. I just love it when you update everything that you do. And Becky, you look fantastic. I love your hair.
Hay Karen, thank you for being a member. I like to do updates, because we never stop learning. We have learned a lot and are going to share it all with you.☀️❤️☀️
Such great advice! Love how you break it down into zones. You are bang on about the pastures, so many make the mistake of overloading them so they aren't sustaining. Stay awesome! 💟☀🌈
It takes one to know one = BEAUTIFUL Becky! Thanks 4 the practical and 'common sense' vid. I think we 'want' above our needs and in no time swamp ourselves. So the very thing we could enjoy ends up being something we soon want to sell and get out of...WHAT a waste! I appreciate how U 'slow us down' in your sage advice. Not many care out there...but U 'definitely' want people 2 enjoy what U R experiencing = true to self homesteading. As U say Becky, U can always buy more later...whoa down! Your place looks soOOOoo homey. I am happy 4 U. Your 'kind of infectious/positive spirit' deserves an oasis...such as yours! WELL DONE! Health and God Bless! :)
Thanks Marie, I can’t stand the spoiled want, want, want, more, more, more, now, now, now attitude. Like some how people are missing out. When what they are really missing out on is a calm, peaceful life. ☀️❤️☀️
Hey Becky thank you for the video and I understand what you mean there that's for sure and I agree because I watch Stony ridge farmer I don't know if he ever heard of him that's his RU-vid channel I've been watching what he's been doing on his farm
Thank you, you've helped us learn so much! We've been looking for a year. Haven't found the place that's pleasing to our eyes yet but you put into words what we've been looking for.
The number of people I know who jumped in without planning is amazing. Hopefully, others will watch your video beforehand. Also, this was a beautifully shot video. A screenshot from this video would make a wonderful computer wallpaper.
My grandmother had a few chickens, a few cows n a goat , she work very hard, she loved her little Fram, But To much can be hard on a family , you're right.
Thank you I have learned the hard way And had alot of lost trying to find the right animals I love the chicken s and ducks have had foxes to get them causing me alot of sadness
Build a better coop and run. Get a good farm dog. God knows everyone has a lazy pet dog that lives inside and does nothing. People need working dogs. Trust me the dog is much happier living outside. ☀️❤️☀️
A series about the individual zones and going deep into information about them all would be very helpful to people like me planning out their property!
I used an arial photo to plan mine as there was already a house and 2 buildings on the property. I used that to scale the rest making sure I had enough space for my fruit trees, chickens, garden, and additional greenhouses. I invited like minded people over to see what I was thinking about and I asked for some suggestions. Another set of eyes is really helpful to see layout problems because we are all biased towards our own design. I fenced around the garden then put the fence for the chicken yard around that. The chickens patrol around the entire parameter of the garden in the garden season and they have free reign of the garden all winter to fertilize and eat it down to the ground.
100%! Zones and planning in REALITY is so important. It's easy to get excited & get ahead of yourself. I know people that have too many animals for the land they have. It's dirt! Nasty, dirty, maintenance heavy, & smelly. You can muck poop, but the urine soaks into the ground. It's nasty! I don't recommend. A way to help with smaller homesteads & "pasture" are mobile fencing options (like Premier 1) that can be moved across "lawns" and garden plots. Yes, respect your Zones, but it can provide flexibility. I personally have diversity in "pasture" area because I live in a seasonal area. #1 is some type of permanent structure or area, like a barn with a joining barn yard. But I don't depend on housing my animals there 100% of the time due to over soiling & eventually parasites. Even for chickens. Therefore, in good weather seasons, I provide 2 options, traditional pasture & mobile "pasture". I personally used mobile pasture before I installed permanent fencing for my permanent pasture. Mobile allows my permanent areas to rest, be cleaned, and to use ALL resources for animal feed. It does require input, but so does mucking out any permanent area. So it's a trade off.
Love it! There’s a gentleman by the name of Greg Judy whom is an expert on pasture management. He runs cattle and sheep. It is a science in itself as there are parasite cycles to break, optimum plant height, paddock size and rotating etc…etc…etc…We already have the hens In our urban backyard and totally enjoy them. When we move in a couple years, we plan on maybe a single mini Jersey cow and a couple weened grower ram lambs to eventually “develop” our 4 acres of very weedy agricultural zoned tropical rainforest land
The one true answer is people need to have way less of everything to be sustainable. People are such greedy hoarders. Look at the size of houses, cars, trucks. Look at all the storage units. That is just crazy and nobody needs all that. ☀️❤️☀️
FL is 99% sand, swampy with lots of swampy bugs and snakes and stuff and lots of humidity. People flocked here but tons move “half back” to TN, GA, Carolina’s and what not. Lots of people leap before they look. ☀️❤️☀️
Hi Becky, very informative video, helpful. Any advice on how should I plant several fruit trees in my lawn? I know they need plenty of sun, but I have no idea how to decide about their location, in the middle of lawn, around, or in zig zag pattern? I want to see them from my kitchen windows and to be complementary to my yard, not in the way. I'd love your opinion on small trees or bushes fruity and flowery.
I would say, less is more, start with your favorite two fruit trees, give them plenty of room and plant them back away from the house as far as you can in a sunny spot. Then a bit closer to the house plant berry bushes, again not to many and give them room. Get all that going good and producing well, then consider more if you want more☀️❤️☀️
Hey Becky☺I'd like to know why some "off the grid communities" have outside kitchens after they build a kitchen in the main house? Thanks for the info "I've been absorbing" off the grid living video's for myself💌
I don’t know what they are baking, cooking or how much. I have a well insulated cabin and use a Quisinart oven and a one ring induction cook top. Again go small. Also I don’t live off grid. To be perfectly honest I have always been a minimalist not an extremist. ☀️❤️☀️
You are always RIGHT!!! 😊and I’m working on it.. I’m in the buying of the hay in my zone 3 and I try to move my chicken house over 1 similar size space every day to a fresh spot as I am successfully raising my 4th generation of Cornish hen chicks given to me (25 chicks) 1st, 2nd 3rd generation roost in a large leafy bush and the egg laying house is surprisingly empty at night but during the day I gather a doz eggs every afternoon so zone 2 is very busy but clean or manageable (I have no idea what to do for the winter in zone 2) please help with winter ideas for zone 2 watering the grass to wash it isn’t going to work in winter .. I will try to cull the baby roosters but because of these days I was wanting to keep the hens … How do you organize and manage in winter Becky !?! Please help - more videos please!!! 😁♥️♥️♥️
@@BeckysHomestead yes, being logical will bring success need to cull.. so hard now when they are cute babies, I should have never said yes to take them on.. Cornish are a huge amount of work and they have to be in fresh grass or you get overwhelmed in a mess.. They are like kids in a playground now but that is the benefit of summer.. The learning experience must be that and end very soon.. THANK YOU !!! 🤗
Thank you so much! I am currently looking for acreage to start my homestead and not sure what I need. Do I buy land with some terrain changes for character (live in south so it's mostly flat and hard to find)? Or what shape am I looking for? Where do I need to place everything, etc.?
Yeah, you have a way of saying things that makes everything sound like an accusation, like only you know the right way. Lot of common sense here, that I can't imagine people needing to hear.
It’s so nice but wondering why there’s only one pig. He looks so lonely. No animal likes to be alone. I’m not sure how people can get attached to their animals and slaughter them though. At least it seems more humane than factory farms but animals want to live freely and be loved.
