Your beds look amazing, you work so hard and it is paying off! Seaweed is an amazing fertilizer. With all the pine needles in your soil, it could benefit from some lime added, especially if growing tomatoes. I really enjoy your videos!
You all impress me every time. I didn’t have enough compost this year either, but next year it’s on! Your raised beds are looking great, and you handle the whole yay it’s garden season....oh it’s still snowing-thing very well! Keep up the good work, and thanks for inspiring us.
Ha well this week it’s 60degrees and I’m in shorts.😂 I have to wear pants until about 8 because the lows are still in the low 30s🥴 Hope your guys have a great week.
Man, that weather sucked, so glad that the sun finally came out. Nice job getting your beds going. I wish that I could have screened the soil that went into my garden area but the soil went down and I had to try and pick out logs and boulders later, which is a pain in the butt. Happy spring and happy gardening you guys 😊
Nice shoulder rig!! I use a very similar rig (.44 mag) in Florida for wild pig or coyote encounters. The made in Alaska Diamond D rig I have is very comfortable.
It’s amazing that your last freeze day is in may. I live in central minnesota, and my last freeze date is June 1st. The ocean can keep things warm, even in Alaska.
@@AnAlaskaHomestead Do you harness the wind power? Just curious about windmills up that way. It's probably far from any large populations and there's a transmission cost that would be too high for long distance lines.
Liked them raised beds Brian, I see some shonuff food growing over there soon my friend!! I always get my last frost date wrong over here lol, Mother Nature surprises me every year!! Lotta sweat equity going on over there, y'all have a good Thursday and stay safe up there!! Dan
We are trying to make things happen. Especially since it’s looking like Covid isn’t a short term issue. I’m not worried as much about getting it as I am with depleted resources like lumber and TP👍 Have a great week Dan.
Ryan at Wildwood made an appearance on your channel here so I checked out his channel and subscribed to both of you guys. What you are doing is what many want to do. Work hard, live free.
Alaska spring.. Love that screen you made. Thats work to save money but it will be so worth it. Good luck on the garden this year. Have a wonderful weekend you two..!!
@@AnAlaskaHomestead McGarvey rings up a good point... do you two take off from your chores (or at least most of them) on the weekends, or do you continue with a little work every day through your weekends? As a man about to retire, I’m curious about how other people do their retirements....
@@Rick_Sanchez_C137_ I tend to take more time off on the winter because the weather sucks. I work pretty much everyday in the spring to make the most of the warmer weather and there is a lot to get done. The cool thing about being retired means you are your own boss and can take a day off whenever you want. 😂
Cutting trees out the paths, First Aid on Rookie, Scratched my head on the big wire. Hardware cloth was the key. Not peace's and parts left behind. Everything was goin along good until the snow started falling. Bet sifting that cold wet dirt was a nightmare. You been a busy man no doubt. Stay safe and have a great week!
Thanks CB. I’ve been waiting all winter to get projects going and the time is now. Come hell or high water😂 mixed with a little snow. Yeah I though I had a lot more big rocks in that dirt but I was wrong. Still screening, maybe one more day and I’ll be done. You all have a great week too.
This was a great video. Everything is looking AMAZING 😁 My one request is that you would please, please edit the sound of your saws and whatnot down a little. It's never a good thing for the viewer to have to raise and lower the volume so much ❤️ I am looking so forward to watching you mill your own lumber next week but at a more doable sound level. Nothing but love for you guys
Hey guys!..Great video as usual..Some of that chicken manure and used up straw would be awesome in your compost. All the best to you both, God bless and stay safe.
If you burn wood throw some wood ashes in there with your new compost up that you made and throw some fish in it into your compost let it rot and for your new bedding beds picked up some peroxide and put two tablespoons to a gallon of water when you start planting your plants that won't give him a big boost Dana from Maine and also find old seaweed and kelp and grind that up and throw it into your compost
@@AnAlaskaHomestead You mentioned in one of your other videos about how a moose will feed the family for a year. You must fly out somewhere, up north? To moose hunt, since there aren't any on the Islands in southeast Alaska...
@@AnAlaskaHomestead We used to hunt along the Denali Hwy and Taylor Hwy up toward Chicken. Always saw a lot of Grizzlies & wolves while out moose & caribou hunting..
Great video guys, it has to feel amazing to live the lifestyle you both have chosen. How cool is that. I was wondering how do you get your power there? Do you have power on the island or do you do it by generator? Do you make your own power there? Thank you again for sharing your adventures with us.
We love it here Rich. I never want to leave😂 except to upload videos. Hurry up Starlink🥴 We have a Yamaha 2000 we run during the day to charge the batteries. This summer the solar panels go up.
Looks like you've got some nice dark, sandy, and loamy soil. I would imagine that if you tested it with a soil kit you'd be surprise how good it is. It will obviously be very acidic due to the pine needle breakdown, but there are various crops like blueberries that thrive in acidic soil. So what you really need is alkaline to raise your PH. With its loose sandy make up it will also be great for all of your root crops once you get the PH straightened out: potatoes, beets, onions, radishes, turnips, carrots etc.
you make your beds same as i do but i saw 2x12 cedar planks on my mill sooo cheap and i get soil out of my cow pasture grows things great with all the wood you have should get a harbor freight cheap mill made me cry when you sawed that log up old timers always called spring snow poor mans fertilizer you have a lot!!
Man I just miller two more logs for the greenhouse and I’m about to pull the trigger on a real mill. The chainsaw mill has its place but if you want to do a lot of lumber get ready for a sore back😂
@@AnAlaskaHomestead well get ready to have a blast! youll be busier than a one armed paper hanger then, had mine for 20 yrs have built 2 buildings addition on 2 more and have several piles of lumber! and still milling more its an addiction
Also forgot to tell you you can put seashells crab shells anything like that that's just been harvested going them up and throw them into your new compost pile to help build it up you'll see a big difference coming next year then you won't have to buy compost in town
I have used the vetrician as well for my chickens, stuff works great. Also have used Apple cider vingar in water to nurse chickens when they get sick. it seems to work really well. I dilute with water. I would have never thought you could raise chickens, or even have a garden, on an island where your at. I figured the bears and Sasquatch would have eaten them all. I am surprised that the electric fence works to keep them out. You don't have electricity supplied to you so your just runing it off batteries? are you able to get a high enough shock in the wires? i have the same set up here and it works for coyote, fox, raccoon. Its just you guys have big bears to worry about. What are the wildlife issues like? Have you seen the Sasquatch? Just noticed in your vid that you don't have a hawk stopper net over the chicken area. Do they have hawks and eagles there? In my area Hawks are everywhere, they fly in packs, and if they see the chickens out from under the hawk stopper netting they devour them. I once had to untangle a very large hawk that got stuck in the netting. it was very dangerous, thing had claws and what not. very angry. had to cut netting very carefully to get him out. After that i have not had it happen again.
We run it all off of batteries. We’ve only had to put one bear down. She was persistent and kept trying to figure ways into the chicken coop. She broke off two wire insulators and then I seen her digging under the fence. That was strike three. We do have netting over the chicken run. We’ve had two hawks and an owl try to get inside. The eagles for some reason never bother the chickens.
hey no dis love what your doin have you ever thought of getting a wood mill you got a lot of fallen pines you can turn into lumber and also sell some of it to make money they not to pricey for what your using it for youll get your money back in no time just a thought yes im new to your channel jus watch alot of homesteaders on youtube
YOUR the second Alaska channel trying to grow food , I HOPE YOU MAKE IT, LOT WORK, WHERE I live you just throw a seed out, no raised work just add chicken poop, from the local chicken farms, grow just about year round,
I imagine you guys also use the chicken manure for the gardens once it's composted enough? Rabbits also make really good garden manure and of course, are a good source of meat. One person I read about raises worms in an insulated bed under the rabbits, then he sends in the chickens to scratch for the worms and defecate and ends up with a dynamite compost.
Looks like your weather can’t decide if it wants to be spring or keep on snowing and stay winter. We keep having arctic air come down every couple of weeks here in Kentucky and a crossed the Midwest. Makes it rough trying to keep garden plants going.
That is so dangerous, I would never stand downhill from a log I'm cutting. Something that size roll on you, you could loose a leg. Please be careful, love your videos! Sorry for your doggy, so sad, well wishes too you. I have a few getting old and not a 100% anymore.
Nice lumber for the raised bed. Jealous of the stihl chainsaw too. We are having the same issues with lumber costs here in Sweden at the moment. hope you guys are well?
What a pain in the butt to have to screen that. It looks like beautiful rich potting mix tho. I do feel your pain. I just went to a nursery yesterday to get some REAL bags of dirt. I told that lady that I want actual dirt not a bag full of sticks, which is what Home Depot and Walmart call organic soil. I said you know like the dirt we used to be able to buy for the garden. She told me to use bags of topsoil mixed with potting mix and cow manure. She said she usually Uses Chicken manure but they were out of that. I think I got three Tomatoes last year and I want to be able to grow tomatoes like I used to be able to. I blame the bag of sticks for the failure last year. I'm doing all container gardening this year. Except for some fruit trees I planted in the yard. I was told to put a banana peel in the hole before the tree for tree nutrition. So far so good, they look beautiful. I already have peaches on the peach tree. Fingers crossed the containers will be more productive with actual soil. I'm wishing you great success this year too.
That’s awesome on the fruit trees. Yeah it’s not cool paying good money and getting a bag a sticks😂 I’m still screening the only good thing is the weather is better now.
Great video. You mention the composting and your soil, good spot. What do you plan to do on your homestead so you don't have to go to the store to get compost?
@@AnAlaskaHomestead I was curious about that as in what are you composting, i.e. what type of crops for niteogen as it seems you only have chicken poop which is great but you have only a small quantity. I know some crops provide more nitrogen for compost than others. I learned that from. John Jeavns book and video "How to Grow More Vegetables ...." but that seems to cover warm climate small farming. I am asking you because I am studying succwssfully composting in a very cold climate. You guys are doing such a good job and successful so I am choosing to learn from you guys! 😁 Hooe I'm not bugging you in other words!
@@redcossack245 not bugging us at all. We throw in table scraps, seaweed from the beach, all the plants at the end of the gardening season and the little big of leaves we get from our alder trees. We also mix some hay in as well. That basically everything we can get our hands on out here.
Crazy weather there. I recently saw a gardening video that said if you spray the wood on the outside of the bed slugs and snails ( other critters as well) won’t go near them. It also said you would have to redo it after every rain.
Where we are composting is pretty futile because the bears will just eat it... Buy it in town! You are right again. Yes it IS possible to compost in a bear =proofed way but at disproportionate effort.
Howdy Brian!! Quick question: what's the manufacturer of your chest holster??? I've done some reviews on my channel for chest holsters for my Taurus Raging Bull 454 Casull, but haven't found "the one" yet. Yours looks like it might serve me better as it seems to fit a more "mature" gentleman's build better... lol! The problem I have with all the ones I have is that it needs a belt-loop tie down of some kind to make drawing much easier. Once I retire and get moved to AK, maybe I'll design and build the "perfect" chest holster.... lol!!
Lumber prices are crazy. Yeah. That is why I'm building my raised bed out of old tires. Look like you know what. But, absorb a lot of heat from the sun!
Hey now... I like that idea of using old tires for a raised bed. Are usually free and I like the idea that they and you said the lumber prices were higher than a cat's ass The solar will raised the soil temperature by the solar heat. Good Lord why didn't I think of that!
We’ve had a body wash up but I didn’t find it. Most of the stuff that washed up here is trash. Old buckets fishing gear. I’m always on the lookout for a Japanese buoy but haven’t found one yet.
"Good Simple Living" youtube channel has a series on Rabbits, how to raise them and some recipes. Just thought would throw that out there in case you are interested in that. Cheers
If you are using the soil from your land from by the Conifer trees you will have acid soil you will need a soil tester an some garden lime to sweeten the soil I'm sorry if you think I'm bugging in on your business
@@AnAlaskaHomestead are there any plots or cabins for sale or in general area?? im looking from wrangell to sitka mainly but not sold on anything or area just yet but im going to vist later this year and travel and fish to see where i want to live... i feel i can travel for hunting but fishing i think i prefer living in that area as to living in fairbanks and travel to go fish 10-30x a year lol... opinion? as you already made the jump 🤷🏻♂️ 😇🤪 weather i will get used to its location location location i do want a store close by and a gun store for bows, arrows, ammo and new parts. 🤦🏻♂️ idk as much as im on google its hard to decide from los angeles
i want halibut, salmon, crab and shrimp is there a area that can provide most of that?? i can grow i have worked for 3 hydro stores and have a goood green thumb so thats not my worry is meat lol any help will go along way i plan to move up by next spring
I see it's starting to warm up up there a little bit. Looks like a bear or two must be out to. Always do like the Canadian trappers do in case they get a bear out early get you a flair pistol they don't like that fosforus to well just keeps on burning when they get hit. Right now is the best time if you're going to get a bear to eat before they get into the surface sunk cabbage. If get the right recipe the bear sausage are good and chops. Out there you don't have to worry about the bears getting into the garbage. Bears are in the same genitic family as pig/hogs. You just got to cook them all the way through real good because of triganoctice really bad. Somebody came on Thursday here and stolen my datsun pickup bed trailer. Well I hope everything is going okay up there
Sorry to hear about someone stealing your stuff. That really sucks. Yeah, our neighbors said one was mucking around by their place the other day. Ha I bet a flare gun would do the trick. The weather has been great the last couple of days and projected to be sunny for the rest of the week.
