SO MUCH You Haven't Seen! 

Julie, I'm an AZ nurse. Born & raised. I get it totally. Born at St. Joes hospital, 4 decades of nursing, LOVE AZ, moved from a beautiful property in the Arcadia area. Bought on my own. Single mom. Moved to Old Town Scottsdale 15 years ago. Big mistake! I miss my property & fruit trees. WHERE WAS RU-vid 30 years ago? I'm still a nurse & Eucharistic Minister. I take Communion to patients at hospitals & rehab. I wish l could help you! All my funds went to my son & raising him. Its hard, but l dont want hurricanes, bugs, mosquitoes, snow. We just have to deal. Huh sister! God bless you 🙏🏻 and many prayers 🙏🏻 ❤️

Give your corn stalks a Shakey shake to get those silks pollinated! That few stalks will have a hard time getting pollinated if you don't.

Potatoes are in the nightshade family, dont feed very many to any animals!!!

Not positive, but i think Doug and stacey had their rain water filtered into their cabin.

I love your enthusiasm! If I was only 30 years younger I’d be doing the same as you! 😊

You kids are SO fun and funny and real!!! I'm blessed that I found you. Thanks for visiting the girls for Meg's shower!!!!! I think I'm gonna love you, too

Potatoes themselves grow under the dirt

You’re great. I’m here for your personality, and whatever else you share is extra. Happy Sunday!

I just found you. I watch Justin and Rebecca, Jess from Roots and Refuge, and many other similar sites. I used to live in a house with a yard south of Tucson but the owners raised my rent and priced me out. I ended up homeless for a few months and struggled to find a new place. Now I’m in Phoenix in a senior apt complex, but they’ve raised the rent four time in two years. So I’m continuing to search for affordable housing and looking for ways to get food and keep me afloat. My apt complex has no porch or back patio so no place to grow food. I love to find ways to get food and build a storage plan to be prepared for all circumstances. I am a senior (76 years old) and don’t know people here. I love to follow people and feel like I have some “friends” that I care about. I do have friends and family in California, but it costs too much to live there. I pray that you and your family continue to be healthy and happy. Blessings come your way. Julie

God’s beautiful nature is plentiful on your property

Thanks for the tour, you have a beautiful place. Here in the UK we have an association called 'Pasture for life' that farmers can become accredited to when they pasture raise their livestock. It's not just about pasture feeding stock though, it's also about regenerating the land, and encouraging wildlife back to it. It thrilled my heart to see such a diverse mix in your pasture for this reason. I think for too long the word 'pasture' has meant just grass to people, and it's why our soils are dying. Many of them have stopped feeding those large round bales in one place too, and now roll them out to take advantage of fallen seed, and left hay being mulch. It makes so much good sense. Your milk has to be so much better for it too. As for mess; no-one is ever going to lie on their death bed and wish they'd swept the porch lol

You guys are hilarious! Love what you're doing.

Love your enthusiasm. Glad I found you through R&R.

It is nice to watch fellow Texans enjoy homesteading! Thanks for a tour of your lovely homestead.

You have a true homestead. How smart you two are . All your plans and ways to continually rotate your animals is genius. Bet it cuts down on your feed bills. So glad I found this channel.Blessings.🎉

I love the fact that your family is doing things your way and you have made it work. Live the life you love and let the rest roll of your back, just like water off your cute ducks! God bless y'all and keep on growing!!!!!

That is exactly what I feel when I watch. I find you all very inspiring and I love you show us all the things you are trying to do whether they succeed, or you learn something instead.

Ducks also love to eat snails……& slugs🤗

Thank you for the update! And the reality...

You guys are great! I feel like you would easily be in my friend group back home that we left when we moved to the ozarks. So glad that you showed up in my algorithm!

In Jamaica we call that plant shama macka or shame oldlady. We always use our feet to brush the leaves and watch them close up.

So amazing architecture beautifully made❤❤

Hello from California....which we would love to leave someday and follow in your footsteps! I found you because I follow many of the people you just visited for Meg's baby shower! I am continuously inspired by all that these channels provide for the true grit of homesteading. I'm hoping that my husband and I can be able someday in the NEAR future to do the same. You are so down to earth and positive! I'm glad I found your channel!!

I absolutely love that you upsized and downsized at the same time 😃 As long as you have a solid roof over your head, it does not matter what it was to start with, if I could I would love to live in a mobile home or refurbished shed! 3 of us live in a 5 bed home, but only because we have been here 24 years and our mortgage is almost paid and we wouldn't save much by downsizing and would not find a nicer area! New Subscriber, looking forward to following your journey! Lx

Need to plant corn in 4x4 ft area so u get better pollution

New subscriber. Looking forward to your channel and journey 😊❤❤

It's NOT super nerdy! I am in Seguin, TX, and am excited to see another Texan. But I see pine trees and we DO NOT have those. Glad I found you!

You have a beautiful homestead and I really enjoyed your tour. Thank you for sharing. I watch Bri from Scratch also.

Ducks r good gardeners so let them into ur garden I understand ur Enthusiasm about gardening many blessings from North Texas❤

Do you have a video about the rain catchers, the type, where you purchased them from, how you use the water, do you have to treat the water, how you catch it from your roofs...etc

Hi! I'm one of the many new followers, saw your video on R&R and really liked it. I live in the Netherlands and it is so interesting to watch the lives of homesteaders in the US. So thanks for sharing! ❤

Well hello again from sunny Jamaica. I have been a subscriber and viewer for a while. I watched the entire build process and am still enjoying your videos. I too have a youtube channel and am learning ti grow food in adverse co dition inbeds because the soil we have is lime stone. I'm inviting you to take a peek.

Love your love of nature & can do attitude!!!

Love the video the flowers love from Hartford Ct 💐🌹👍

We are in NE Texas on 6 acres! We moved here in October of ‘23 and started following you summer of ‘22 (from the beginning) while we were still in suburbia. Y’all were the first people my husband said, “Ok I can relate to them.” Thank you for your contribution in souring us on to our dream property.

This is such an awesome video.

I'm an ICU travel nurse. I no longer trust our government or healthcare system. I'm looking for sustainability. Have a couple of properties. Hopefully I can buy some land next. Keep motivating us because you really are living the dream. This is what God intended!

Just a quick hello from here in Willis , down the road

I’m happy for the two of you & your family! May God continue to be w/your family & homestead! Enjoy your summer & keep hydrated! Cheers!!!👏🏻🫶🙏🏻

Nice to meet you I live in central Texas. In a very small town. I’m a little too old to garden but I do grow things in pots. It thrills me to watch you young people homesteading. Love that you love gardening. I do too.

We got 8 feet of water in our house, when Harvey Hit. We lost everything on the first floor. A flood or weather challenge, really can humble you.

I feel like, we should keep water storage in each state. It helps the environment. Rhodes Family uses a lot of water for the animals. Great for gardens, etc. First time watchi g you from SE MICHIGAN GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🏡🙏🙏

Thanks for sharing your land and lifestyle, really enjoyed the visit, your friend from Alaska, God Bless you all 🙏❤️

It is so fun to have found your channel through Jess. I am living on a very small lot on the small island of Lāna’i. My husband has no interest in homesteading, but through watching homesteaders like you, Jess and Miah, Art and Bri, Justin and Rebecca, and the Hollards, I have been gardening, making food from scratch and buying eggs from our local egg farmer.

hello from central Wisconsin! so happy I found your channel! I follow Roots and Refuge and thee Hollar’s also

This encourages me. “May have to do it the hard way, instead of most expedient.” Thanks! So needed to hear this.

I so need rain tanks in my little backyard to help ….San Antonio

Your homestead and shed to house conversion have been such a huge inspiration to me and hoping to be able to purchase my own acreage in the very near future! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and journey with us all here on RU-vid!

Beautiful land🥰 Many blessings 🙏🏼

🐝Thanks for the great video🌻

You guys are so rad!!! I love nerding out with you!!! 🤓❤

I'm a Texan too! Huffman, Texas.

Beautiful video. I love your excitement over the "little" things in nature and your homestead. You've got spunk, girl! And, I like it. I seem to have missed a video or some thing about that wall of fence. ❤❤❤

Screen your porch in and no bugs!

I love you guys. Your channel is so amazing.❤❤

Here from Roots and Refuge! ❤

Thank you for the tour. I am also in Texas and looking forward to owning my own piece of property to homestead. It is good to see someone that lives in our area to glean advise from. I look forward to seeing more.

Shake your corn stalks so they pollinate, corn needs a lot of corn to do really well

Yes, I am one those new people to your site and am glad I'm here. So, yes, thank you for the Welcome Newcomers Tour. The wit that just seems to naturally flow from you two is infectious. Make a plan; work the plan; and plan for change.

All the food I'm growing in small spaces is for the same reason.

Thanks for sharing your awesome property. I love it great job guys.😊

🇦🇺When my parents lived in Papua New Guinea (PNG), we lived in raised houses with 2x 25,000 gallon water tanks under the house. That was our only water. We had a steep back yard in Mt Hagen full of 100’s of pineapples.

Oh my goodness so happy I ran into your channel. I am also in central TX BUT I am new to gardening in this climate. I will be checking out ALL your videos to get some tips. Thank you and I would love to get to know you guys better if possible. (Not to be creepy or anything lol) I am originally from the east cost so my gardening skill there were 100% but here lol 40% maybe 60% this year lol. Just keeping it real. I will email you, in hopes to connect. God bless.

Thanks for sharing your journey 😊

I am not a homesteader, but have watched this channel since about the time y’all were preparing for the shed to house to be delivered to your property. And I have learned a lot from watching! I am a prepper, not necessarily for a SHTF situation, but more of a whatever comes. During the Pandemic we didn’t suffer from not having toilet paper or anything else! Same during Snowmagadden. We are an older couple (I’m 72, hubby is 82), and although he still works part time, we don’t know how much longer he can. But whatever comes our way, we will survive! (At least we pray through God’s Grace we will!) Thank you both for sharing your journey and being so open about it. May God bless your family abundantly. ♥️ from a fellow Texan

y’all are on the right track and every day is a learning experiences…🌱🌱🌱

I love those vevo beds😊

I'm sure the garden has changed! We've had SOOO much rain in Central TX the past week. My garden is like a soggy jungle today.

Potato is a night shade so are peppers I'm not sure it'd be good for any of the animals.

Y’all are awesome and it’s so great to see fellow Texas homesteaders figuring out how to thrive (and keep things alive) in some less than desirable summer conditions.👊🏼💚🌱☀️

Roofing question: what do you use/ recommend for materials if you want to catch rainwater? We have a Victorian so our roof has many levels.

No nightshade leaves for animals or people. That includes potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, and eggplants. Sweet potato leaves are good to consume. Cook down like spinach with garlic for a side dish. Animals eat them as is.

Hey we're from Katy , Texas too ❤

Hi from the UK.As a newcomer to your channel (i also watch Jess and Jill etc) it is lovely to hear your story and how its grown since you arrived. You have done some amazing things to improve your land and how it works for you. We rented a small plot of land about 3yrs ago, put up a polytunnel and started to grow. We soon realised we had a water problem and have spent alot of time finding ways to collect and use water. We put drain pipes off the polytunnel which runs into big IBC containers. We also have to use water bottle/wick methods for some smaller areas. We still have so much to learn but are enjoying the journey. This year we have alot of high wind and no sunshine issues, so its going to be another learning curve for us. It is my happy place and just love to watch each seed sprout and so look forward to the growing season ahead. I am going back over some of your older videos, but i look forward to your new videos. I learn so much from every video i watch. xx

So I’m in North Zulch, between Madisonville and Bryan College station, how close are you to me? I love what y’all are doing

We're in central Texas too! We're about 30 mins North of Austin. Hoping we do have a meet up! Please 🙏, let us know if you're having a chicken processing day or pig processing day that y'all want help with. I have 53 years of life experience but no homesteading experience and I'm anxious to learn before we do these things ourselves. What a beautiful property y'all have.🥰 Hoping for something just as beautiful, y'all worked really hard.

Loved seeing your ducks! You should try defrosted frozen peas. My duckies love them and it gets them niacin, something young ducks need.

Love Goldie💗

Cypress TX here - retired and living on a 1 1/3 acre unrestricted rare property find in Cypress

A humble suggestion to make a stupendous meal: When the corn is mature and ready to pick for dinner, fill up a stockpot with a couple gallons of water and put it on the boil. You'll need at least two people to go to the corn patch -- one to pick & shuck the ears, and the other(s) to run them into the kitchen to get them in the pot ASAP. Serve with a tossed salad, or whatever the family's in the mood for that will keep them from wanting to have all the corn for themselves. (OK, I'm exaggerating, _but not too much._ )

Please post if you got the real bad rain, your pond might be really flooded now hopefully not over the Bank It’s raining pretty hard right now here in Houston, but I feel bad for everybody in Kingwood in Conroe that are been flooded out. Prayers to them all. 🙏🏽🌱

Hey I love the fodder ideas. But I believe all solanacae leaves (potatoes, tomatoes, peppers) are toxic to animals (and humans!). Love your place!

Cows love potatoes

I’ve been told it is illegal to harvest rainwater in Florida. 😢

Plant some clover I hear the cows love clover deep south DANNY from deep south you need to watch him. He’s really great with his cows.

Cows love potatoes, they can eat them and it will not hurt them. The RU-vid channel the veggie boys actually feed their cows their left over potatoes from their harvest just not allot at one time. But yes they can eat them and they love them.

Your cows could get sick and die from potato leaves. On top of that, there’s no way normal white potatoes can grow in your hot summer, so I hope you got that mixed up. The cows can eat sweet potato leaves, as can your family.

Land Herr in waco got expensive since chip and joanna came

I appreciate seeing this tour. I just bought 3.19 acres of raw land in Arkansas, literally in the same city as Jess from Roots and Refuge. It is shaped like a football field and sometimes that rectangular shape feels restrictive. Do you all have an aerial shot of the land?

I have started to harvest water from my subpump in the basement. The potato leaves i believe are poisinous. I know they are fot humans. Don't know for cows.

sweet vid

💚

Can you please direct me to a link for your fuzzy microphone?

😊😊

Hi! Great journey! What are your property taxes like?

We are empty nesters and I have two people here very sick with their immune so I buy plenty so we don’t have to go to the stores even now in 2024 if we go go to the stores, I take my own sanitizers and I sanitize all the buggies All the handles all that all the things that you would touch on the buggy because I don’t wanna risk my love wants to get sick or catch an infection from the we try not to go to the stores so I am a boat buyer. I buy cases of corn cases of green beans, but I’m hoping to can my own green beans this year, and as far as produce, I’ve been successful not having to produce while I’m growing a small backyard garden and a little bit in the front you can think of garlic onions, potatoes herb every I’m already on my third batch of potatoes. I do a lot of succession plans and so I’ve gotten sometimes the cucumbers are so, I’m gonna make pickles, but I always give my neighbors some all my neighbors have some kind of tree or plans that we all share to start making mayonnaise prices at the store outrageous. We just hit the Joeys, which is related to H-E-B‘s and we stocked up on so much you get more bang for the buck and Jovi the point or the trick is you gotta go super early in the morning so you don’t get the crowdbut you get a whole bunch of stuff for not much money there🌱🌱🌱 There is a Hispanic suit called Caldo and the other day I had almost every vegetable from my garden in the soup 🥘

How fo you get on vegos list? To try out get free? I love the idea of the tomato planters but on limited income are just to high priced for me even if worth it. Too bad vego and greenstalk and harvest right dont have a income based price :) program

Is the white fence by your pond yours? What ki d of material is it?

DONT FEED NIGHTSHADE FOLAGE TO HUMANS OR PEOPLE! POTATOES ARE IN THE NIGHTSHADE FAMILY. SO ARE THE LEAVES FROM 17:58 EGGPLANT, TOMATOE , PEPPERS, AND EGGPLANT. Yams and sweet potatoes are technically not from the nightshade family.

This is like a mobile home? Or does it have foundation? Is it ok for storms or hurricane season ? ❤