Moving the "baby chicks" into the main chicken coop. Building the animal shelter for the upcoming cow and steer. Fence line work. Truck fix. Farmhouse cooking. Transforming the Farmhouse into a Homestead.
For your cow shelter if possible make the paddock side open enough to get your tractor bucket in there for clean out... whole lot easier than a pitchfork lol
I hate crispy bacon, I can not stand it. Melissa loves crispy bacon and cant stand when its not. Lol. I am not going to tell her your trick or I will have to eat crispy bacon. Haha.
Cow. Just make sure you are able to your tractor into pen and cow shelter. You will need to be able to fork up the cow patties and fork in some rolls of hay.
I enjoy watching 👀 the videos, you teach me a lot of things that I need to know, and so do Melissa with her cooking 🍳. Your videos are serene, thanks 😊.
Melissa is a woman after my own heart with the cook stove, the bakers island, hoosier and making the deals, can't wait for her cooking videos again. Oh my Melissa making butter, cheese, and wine nice. Blessings to you and your families. 😊🇺🇲
wow Joe, I've been a long time fan, had some misfortunes in the last year or so and haven't been on here but this place has come a long way. Sometimes watching you makes me feel tired on your behalf. What you do is exhausting. I don't know how you do it. I'm trying to downsize to keep my older life coming to get me and you're building it up and to me - I could not do that. I admire you. I also love your summer weather, not so much your snow below 0 winters. But i'm dealing with 96 degrees in what would normally be August weather for TN but it's hella hot and muggy. Mosquitos will eat you up no matter what the sun;/ rain/ clouds do.
We are huge pottery and ceramic fans. My three granddaughters and I have a big barn ceramic studio. We are excited to see Melissa's ceramic studio up and going with all her.molds.
Awesome Joe I knew that you would figure it out because you like things done right the first time and a lot of people could learn from you! 👏👏👏🤩🤩🤩😎😎😎💯💯💯
To bad I'm in Canada my wife used to make wine but quit we have like 6 carboys a corker that sits on the floor plus everything you could think of that you need for making wine.
my next door neighbor has chickens. they spend half of their day over here in my yard. I did have ant hills . chicken power ants no more. and pesticide free solution at that
Our neighbor and us both free range our.chickens. They visit often but everyone goes back to their coops at night. We both share many eggs with our neighbors. :)
Looking good around there Joe. Get the kitchen set up for Momma's Video room. That will be so cool and she will have so much fun out there. We will be glad to see her in her videos once again. The gardens are really growing , you're going to be loaded at harvest time and canning time will be busy. Stay safe and keep up the great videos and the improvements around there. Fred.
Can't wait to see Melissa make that butter. You haven't had good butter until you've had fresh cow butter. Sooooo good. I haven't had any since I was a yungun lol but I've never forgotten what it taste like. Slather some on a homemade biscuit with some homemade apple butter, yum 😋😋. Great video Joe!!!! Tyfs God bless you
I thought the "My Self Reliance" videos had the WORST when it came to OCD, NOT EVEN CLOSE WATCHING YOUR VIDEOS, Take MELISSA ON A VACATION AND RELAX...
It started as "The Farmhouse," as soon as we have the cattle here, I will be changing the video title to "The Homestead." Perhaps in the future it could become a "Farmstead." You can look up the difference in the last 2 terms. As "The Farmhouse" it is basically a hobby farm. Melissa wants to do her pottery and sell it, make soaps and stuff and do the same and also make videos on how she does it as well as her cooking videos. Once we get settled with the milk cow we can sell raw milk legally here (as long as you follow the loopholes in the rules) and we will probably do that. If that works we may get another milk cow, who knows. For all I know we will hate cows and get rid of them. Lol. Nothing is set in stone. I want pigs next spring because extra raw milk or the whey from making cheese is awesome pig feed. We want to grow our own pork and beef for the freezer. With the bigger garden and the added animals we will get closer to self sufficiency. All that said, it makes for good videos as well.
@@NorthernSeclusionI’m so glad that the antique kitchen will be used as a country kitchen for Melissa! I have been missing her cooking show for such a long time Joe. So excited to hear this news. The farmstead is coming along really well Joe, and is very nicely arranged for the garden, fruit trees, and now the upcoming cows. Lots of berries and garden veggie’s to harvest soon. Glad you decided to plant corn this year. There is so much you can do with corn. Remind Melissa that she wanted to plant some sunflowers as well. Wow the rhubarb has grown huge. We have lots of flooding here in Iowa as well as MN does. It’s just horrible. The tent seemingly was spared, that’s good. I can’t wait until Melissa can start her pottery, soaps, and maybe honey. I’m not sure what’s happening with any bees this year at your farmstead. Well, TC you two and keep on, keeping on! I wanted to tell you that I am glad that your surgery came off good Joe. Vicki from Iowa. 🌻🪵🐓🦃🦨🐂🐕🐣🐱🌻🚣🏼🎣🚜🛶🏕️🎏
Joe you should cut some of that high grass cows can only eat so much grass you don't want to get snakes are poisonous snakes are mice and rats with all that high grass you're doing good work for one man I like how you get one project done at a time you need to go up to the tent and fix your road cut the grass up there can you cut some of those trees going into your tent for firewood
We have no poison snakes or spiders or anything here, We have at least 10 outside cats, I have not seen a mouse or a mole or a squirrel in 4 years. Lol.
Because the new ones in the coop need time to figure out that the coop is "home." Once they are familiar and it is their regular place, they will know where to come back "home" to at night.
do rods go through the top of that island block top? Perhaps as well as glueing, you can tighten them? Looking forward to that getting fixed up for 'As the rooster crows'
Joe, If you can, have a way to get a skid steer into your shelter to easily clean out manure in the spring. If not you will be taking it out by hand tool and that is no small task. The cattle will hang out in there more than you think from October to April.
Not many ticks this time of year. I saw a few earlier this spring but its been well over a month since I have encountered one. Free ranging the chickens helps with that.
Great video, Joe. I see that you are all healed up by watching you lift those logs up on the splitter, digging the holes for the posts and getting that shelter built. This past week or two we have had a lot of heat here, up in the upper 80's to low 90's and humid weather. Heck our grass is turning brown!! Thanks for sharing all this. Appreciate you and all the hard work you do and sharing that. Juddie
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I do not have family that lives that far south in the state. I do have subscribers that live down there but none that I have heard are directly affected that I have heard of.
What makes it a homestead? Homesteading use to mean acquiring land from the federal government and developing it into a livable place. What does it mean to you?
Yes it did mean that 200 years ago. Here is the meaning of the two in todays world. This is copy and pasted: Homesteading is a lifestyle of self-sufficiency. It is characterized by subsistence agriculture, home preservation of food, and may also involve the small scale production of textiles, clothing, and craft work for household use or sale. What is Farmsteading? Farmsteading as living on a homestead, but running a small business of the homestead where you raise your own food, but raise enough surplus to pay for what you eat yourself and possibly make some profit along the way. (Think farmers markets.)
@@NorthernSeclusion Well, I'm not quite 200 yet, but sometimes I feel like it. Your definition seems to fit your lifestyle quite closely, so happy homesteading.
Just joined you tonight and found it all fascinating. I grew up on a farm with animals we raised and fed several children. The greatest impact in my life. Now over 70 yo I can just watch and remember.😊
You can watch and remember but you are also a person with great knowledge about how things were done back then. I would love to hear the stories and learn from you.
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You should fill the kiddie pool with water for the ducks to float in. With how you both are enthusiastic fisher people, maybe you should dig a large, deep (so it won't freeze solid) pond and stock it? Then you can just go to your pond for supper.
Chances slim aggravating hernia .Will always feel it at times nothing to worry about lightly push on it if hurts will go right away .I work out heavy been 8 years never injured my hernia repair .Glad to see you getting cows ,Gring every time see you eat frozen burgers .
@@NorthernSeclusion Good for a cold (mucus). I wish I could grow it, but have had no luck in Florida. Now, pineapples, we can do. Have 6 or 8 in different stages right now.
I bought half a dozen ducks eggs at the farmers market last week. I enjoy them, but not sure how to bring flavor to the richness of the yolk. Do either of you have any suggestions. TY 😊
Hello Joe and Melissa, Joe you are always busy.. You should slow down a bit cause your battery will slow you down. ( You work like the Energizer Bunny. That's the battery I'm talking about) God bless🌹🙏❤️
