True neighbors are missing in our society. Neighbors that you can count on and that count on you. Neighbors that build community. ❤️ You don't have to be best friends, but to work collectively is really beautiful in my opinion. And the little dachshund, sooo cute!
My husband Mark and I have enjoyed following your blog for the past few weeks. We live on a farm in Mulkeytown, Illinois, U.S.A. We raise chickens and goats. We are in the process of clearing an area in our woods, a bit off the beaten path, to build a small house. Thanks for sharing your life with us. We have enjoyed watching your blog. Thank You.
Lemongrass is used to help keep insects away. I'm sure there is a stay recipe online for it. Also bee keeper hats and mesh can help keep them off your face. Blessings
Female hog is a gilt before breeding and is a sow after she has been. A male pig is a barrow if it is castrated and a boar is intact. What a cute litte dog! We have a saying here, "one sure way to make it rain is to cut your hay" - You're "raking" the hay. We make small square bales here. We don't have stoves like that here...those are cool!
Well I much prefer the term "weather forensics" to weather forecast. "Weather forecast" is boring, whereas weather forensics sounds far more exciting 😊
Very cute ..& appropriate for researchers are required to dissect & analize satelight images & sea measuring devises..so now we've altered history ! Way to go Chantal ! I recognize that classic early period white heater..as a child I admired such in the Carl Larson family home..maybe you could borrow or build a simple casket & bury the stove packed about with straw...Im serious !
Praying you were able to get your hay up and in the barn, we struggled with our first cutting of hay this year. It was rained on multiple times, but finally had a break and rolled it and in a few days were able to bale it(small square bales) We did end up with few with wet areas in the bales, so we're just feeding them right away. Love all the animal video, especially the chicks and their mama.
My heart is just so calmed and so filled with happiness when I watch your vlogs ♡♡♡ I know you are probably busy so might not be able to answer, but I was shocked to see the baby chicks running with the flock. Here in USA they say you have to separate everyone, which I never like. And then it is hit or miss when you introduce them to the flock. But I see your flock, and that's not true at all! They all accept the chicks and get along. If I want to do that, which I so very much do because it seems more natural, do I just let it be? Keep the mother brooding in with the flock? I love what you guys are doing... it is so very special. And just warms my heart ♡♡♡ much love from northern Minnesota ♡♡♡
It makes sense - I mean what would a chicken in the wild do with her brood? I'm going to have to research wild chickens now. LOL Thanks Housewife in The Woods
We let the mothers brood in the coop with the rest, but we put a "door" so no one disturbs her and let her out a couple of times a day. Then when they have hatched we move them to the small chicken cages on the floor in the coop, so they are always together but separated. When the chicks are a week old we let them out with the others, sure some of the other hens can sometimes peck at them when they get to close to their food but else i don't see a problem, they get a long and are part of the flock at once :) Thank you so much, means the world to us!
@@Talasbuan thank you so much for your response! I think I would like to try this myself in the spring ♡ Hands down you guys have the most beautiful, well filmed and lovely homestead channel on you tube. You are living my dream ♡ We are off grid, northern mn.... which the old timers (mostly sweed and fin) say is most like home that can be found here in the state's (especially our cold! Lol) You are such a beautiful couple... and the skills you have just shine ♡
really enjoy your videos first thing in the morning while I knit and have some coffee after I get the chicken and duck chores done. They're very peaceful. (fyi, female hog = sow, male hog = boar). Thanks again for sharing your life with us.
It is some obscure swedish brand that don't exist anymore. Many iron factories in the beginning 1900 made stove like this. You can find them really cheap second hand here in sweden, or really expensive if they are refurbished. New ones are also expensive. Depending on where you live you could find something if you search for woodburning kitchen stove. Our particular model is not very good but it works. We got it for free. Hope you got something out of my rambling. /Mathias
Those tiny bugs you mentioned would be known as black flies here in Nova Scotia. They are horrible. I burn incense when I sit out on my deck to read. Seems to keep them away a lot. Have to wear netting on hats around here when doing work in the yards. Also, fruit flies are a pest. They are a little smaller then the black flies. If they are inside, which they usually are, I fill a little jar with apple juice (or any juice that ferments) to lure them in and a bit of dishwashing soap mixed in. The soap kills them. Then I cover the jar with clear celophane and poke small holes in the top just big enough for the fruit flies to get into. They don't get back out once they hit the liquid. I put a paper napkin over a seive and drain the jar over a bowl to get the flies out of there and reuse the liquid. It really makes a huge difference. A sow is a female pig and boar is a male pig and the babies are piglets. A hog is a pig that weighs over 120lbs. or 54 kilograms
We have an expression in English derived from farming and showing the importance of ‘Making hay while the sun is shining’. It is used to recommend doing something when the time is right.
I guess it is a great feeling to have such true neighbours! You could also barter pig meat for sheep meat and vice versa, so both your family and theirs won't have to put out the time and energy to raise both types of animals :) I love the tractor! Wish I could also ride on one some day :) Cheers for the great energy and labor!
We're in Western Michigan, in the US, and it was a terribly rainy year here too! The corn, pole beans and squash were harmed, and that's awful because those crops are indigenous to N. America. I sense your fear, Tova, and I hope your year turned out better. Climate change is going to harm all the small scale farmers worldwide. It's heartbreaking
7:44 Mathias practicing for the circus, I bet you can juggle too. Busy time, early & late days. Glad you have some help and good you will have extra hay this winter. Tova do your parents have a fäbod also? Thank you for the vlog, your videography is always a treat, no problem with not knowing the english word, a little Swedish thrown in adds to the video, after all you are in Sweden.
Yes, it feel very good to be done with the hay, always such a stressful moment! If you recall we made a video a long time ago, explaining what fäbod was, that fäbod are my parents, they don't have any animals of their own but they use it as a "vacation"home :)
Up home we call the smallest flies Nats. They come out of the ground and will swarm around you. In late May and all of June, we have Black Flies -- a little bigger than Nats -- that bite you around the head and neck. They lay their eggs in streams. They are worse than Nats because you get lumps behind your ears and can run a low grade fever. Everyone up home is glad to see July because the Black Flies disappear until the next year. Now that you have monetized, I like how the advertisements are at the very beginning and at the end which do not interrupt your content. Your videos are beautiful :o)
I think the small biting flies are midges & I am allergic to them so I hate them...I have heard some people smoke leaves around their table to keep them away but I don't know if it works or not...you seem so calm & at peace with your farm even tho it is very hard work...I admire your spirit
What is the fizzy drink in this vid? Aaahh, I want all your recipes! That stew looks amazing! I can't wait till I have a wood stove outdoors to cook on. Bug advice from the subtropics: - put permethrin on your clothes - carry a pot smouldering coals with you - hold your hand above your head and they'll go to your hand instead of your face - put a fan on your porch or where you're sitting outside- a breeze keeps the bugs away
& wear a bug net over your head..i used it successfully while bike camping Scotland in the un--unified north. Net saved my butt, well, my upper one ! Especially as day closed while setting tent & prep'n supper
I went dog sledding once. It was sooooo fun. I enjoyed it so much. I would love to do it again. That is a different machine. We are hoping to make our own hay. We are breaking up the old pasture this spring (2020) and are going to reseed it with lots of good grasses and I'm hoping to put in wild flowers as well.
In North America we call that machine that fluffs up the hay a "tedder". You should look into mob grazing your sheep, there is a guy on youtube called Greg Judy who has both cows and sheep and he grazes them year around and feeds a little hay but mostly the animals eat the dry grass even when it is covered with snow.
Yes! I'm watching his channel now. Very intresting. I want to regenerate the soil here with our animals, and learn everything about holistic management. We have the sheep out on the pasture during the first snow. But when the snow gets 60 cm deep or more in the winter here there's nothing else to do than gather hay for the winter. /Mathias
In Canada we refer to the Kachelofen as a Masonry Heater. We heated our home for over 10 years with one, I LOVE them! As for moving the items stored in the barn, could the house you are building be a temporary storage area for those things? It has a roof!
It has the same idea as the masonry heater, they are fantastic! Yes, we moved them there, the problem are where we gonna move them when we want to do something in the house ;D
Luv watching your daily life, I thank-you for sharing. I personally would rest from the sheep (too much time/trouble 4 now) then wait on the cow UNTIL established in your home. I wonder why you do not have ducks, as these are tasty and good for cleaning garden pests and easy to take care of (as far as I know and I don't know much). A couple of pigs seem to be easy to care for as well. You are accomplishing soOOoo much, but I don't want to see you burn yourselves out B 4 finishing your home. After the house, you will be able to spend more time on animals. Praying for you, God Bless!
In the states we call it tedding the hay. Then with the with Rake you put the hay in rows. P.S. I really need to stop watching your Vlogs at night, All the wonderful looking food makes me want to eat. LOL All of it looks soooo good.
Yeah, that´s a nice claas hay turner and a nice classic tractor in front of it also (looks like a MF?) :) I sell spareparts but almost never see them in action ^)^ It´s amazing how much old farming equipment is out there, and how it´s still in use for real farmers who depends on them for their livelihood. peace!
We borrowed the hay turner from the farmer, he dont use it anymore but dont want to sell it either, good to have! Im not sure about the name of the tractor, can check it out if you want to :) Its so nice to have these tools, the first year, when we just collected hay for the rabbits we did it all by hand, oh gosh I was slow. So if i need a sparepart i will contact you :D /Tova
I guess for sure you're going to build some kind of outdoor sitting area with mosquito netting all around it, an enclosed porch LOL do to the mosquitoes
Device pulled behind tractor and maybe horses to fluff/turn hay is called a hay rake. *More reasons why my language, English is ridiculous....... Another meaning for rake.... A rake is defined as a man habituated to immoral conduct. Rakes are frequently stock characters in novels. Often a rake is a man who wastes his (usually inherited) fortune on wine, women and song, incurring lavish debts in the process. Even though you struggle at times to find an English word, you are coming across very clearly. Impressive! I don’t know one word of Swedish. As for mosquitos and flying insects it’s to bad you don’t have Northern Bats.
haha, yeah, maybe the hay rake are a bit immoral xD We have bats but im not sure which kind, small ones that flies towards you if you are wearing something white in the evenings at summer :) Thank you!
My parents moved out of the South Dakota high FLAT plains, town of Hoven. Hot / Cold. Fathers family had homesteaded and raised corn, hogs, chickens and cattle. My parents ran a creamery there and one day mom told dad she’d starve or freeze, but NOT both. They ended up just west of Portland Oregon on a half acre lot. 2220 kilometers away from family. I have a piece of siding from a shed and 2 stones from that old homestead next to an old old picture of the homestead with relatives on horses and wagons. A guy could watch vlogs of people that have a lot of money building their homesteads watching them do commercials for tools/stuff they use. BORING! You will appreciate your homestead much more than they do. And I do too.
@@tomrausch7014 Thanks for sharing your family history. It is interesting to learn of the winds that cause family lines to move about. Your Mom sounds like a wise and valuable person.
Hello guys there again..I really watched most of your vlogs.. I envy and enjoy you.... I like to cook in your summer kitchen and especially your wood burning stove..I like SO MUCH....May you help me with a few links to search sellers to find similar in used good condition please????My best regards and still smiley..
No, GILTS are young female pigs (1 year old in effect) that have not yet had a litter. Then they become SOWS. A castrated boar is sometimes called a barrow.
just found you guys not to long ago.. love love.. I need to ask about that hammer.. I need to make one..i haven't seen all your videos yet but I hope one has information on how to make..
What do you feed your cats? I imagine they catch rodents and such, but do you supplement their diet with table scraps, or meat scraps when you butcher an animal? Do you vaccinate your cats? Do you spay/ neuter your cats?
No offense intended, are you Norwegian or Swedish? No matter, just a U.S. "farmboy" myself. ( My greatgrandfather's did ALL that and I can to.). U.S.A.! Got to "work", until you're at least 65yrs.though.(X-wives hate that "reality").
