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I think Rose is way more valuable to the homestead than a stove. Finding a lady who would be willing to live in the initial conditions you experienced? She is definitely one of a kind. Love your family!!

Your wife is the prettiest, most beautiful lady. Her eyes practically twinkle and she has the kindest smile. What a happy family and wonderful life you made together.

I got a spot of land 40 years ago, had some Lumber delivered, and built the first section of my house. We are completely off-grid and self-sufficient. Today that house is 5000 square feet, it is indistinguishable from any house in the city. My wife and I raised 7 kids so we needed the room. We also home-schooled our kids, three started University at the age of 15. Over the years I built on according to our needs. In the beginning the solar power was really expensive and a little bit primitive. Now the house works like any other house with Electric appliances thanks to the huge battery bank that I have. Bottom line, It's doable people, make no mistake it's not cheep and the expenses are all front-loaded. But the payoff is priceless. Everyone of my now adult children has a good relationship with the Lord, that's what matters to me the most.

You provide the most beautiful content and you deserve support. I am an Arab national residing in Germany. I am a fan of hunting and wildlife. How I wish to spend the rest of my life like the wonderful life that you live in the wilds and forests among deer, bears and fish and in the arms of the beautiful nature. I wish you happiness and progress. Keep waiting for new trips from you every Love you

I looked up "healthiest thing in the world" ... came across a picture of Rose over a caption that read "A unit that is cared for by a woman, mother and wife that loves and tends to the physical and emotional needs of her husband and children, who in turn love and value the woman who is central to the success of this cohesive group that we call family...the foundation of a healthy and stable society".

Sold and subscribed when he told his wife, “you’re the heart of the homestead”. So sweet.

"Rose" is truly a beautiful woman/wife/mother. Everyone around her is blessed by her presence. ANDDDDD she made the pie!!!!

When I was in 3rd grade we lived with my grandmother and that is about the exact same stove she had, we would take baths in a galvanized tub also. Wow, that brings back memories, I am 69 now. Thanks

Yes, we would need a quality wood cook stove. But more importantly, you would need a quality lady like Rose. She certainly is the centre of your existence.

ROSE! Everyone needs a Rose!💗

Your wife is more precious than the finest gold. May God bless you and your marriage

My grandma cooked on a wood stove. Grandpa chopped the wood and shoveled coal for their central heating. They also had a two seater outhouse when the one tiny indoor bathroom was full. Since they had seven children, the house was full indoors and outdoors during holidays with an abundance of grandchildren

Jeff keep saying "that is a primitive technology", and I stay "THAT IS MY DREAM!😭". 🤣🤣

When my mom made a pie and had dough left over she would put cinnamon and sugar on the dough and coil pieces up. She baked them for treats for he4 3 boys. She called them “squirrelies”!

Rose is so awesome. What a great mother and partner. She impresses me every video. This whole family and Dave is awesome.

My family in the coastal rural areas of the West-coast of Southern Africa had these stoves. As a youngster visiting from the city on extended holidays, I remember that these stoves were constantly kept warm and that there was always something on the stove cooking or backing. Hot boiling water for tea or coffee and the kitchen in every house in the small village was an "open house tea room' for all the kids in the village. With fresh bread and homemade jam any time of the day ...cookies and rusks to dip into a hot cuppa. In the evening we sat around the long kitchen tables playing cards while the heat of the stove kept us all warm, no electricity just oil lamps lighting up the game and it was easy to see the stars at night, all you had to do was open the top half of the kitchen stable-style-door and allow the brightness of the night sky in. You guys are great. Thanks for the memory flashback.

I grew up with a wood cook stove much older than that one. It was EVERYTHING! I had a warming oven on top, a regular oven and we used it to keep water hot in a large copper boiler. Easier to use than people think. You learn where to cook on top, in the oven, etc. It actually is more versatile than modern stoves in many ways.

Rose is for sure the hart of that home, Jeff is the entertainment, the girls are the backbone.

I agree with other commenters. Rose is your greatest treasure and biggest asset to the success of your homestead life. Cherish her.

My friend's parents have a sheep ranch here in Idaho. They are completely off grid. They have a windmill that pumps water into a water tower. They also have a hand pump in the house for water during the winter months. They have another windmill that pumps an air compressor. The compressed air is used in the house to run air tool adapted appliances and an automotive alternator that charges batteries . The batteries run 12 volt RV lights and such. They have an inverter if 110 volt AC is needed for something. The last time I visited, they had built a solar bank to help keep the batteries charged. Their kitchen is divided in two. The wood cook stove is in the outer room so the double divider doors can be closed to keep the heat out in the summertime. They have lived like this since I was an kid in the '70s. I have always been impressed by their self sufficient lifestyle.

I am 75 now, but when I was a young boy my Grandparents had a very rural farm. My Grandmother cooked on a big wood/Coal burning stove. It heated the kitchen too and some of the rest of the house. There was a big Pot Belly stove in the middle of the house that heated the rest. She could make anything on that stove and I loved to eat anything she made. They raised their own chickens and grew their own vegetables. They were preppers before any of today's preppers were born.

another benefit of a wood stove... after chopping firewood to restock the box Jeff earned an extra slice of Rose's amazing huckleberry pie

When i was growing up, every household in Bulgaria had those stoves! I can definitely confirm that food even taste better when cooked on it and also in the oven part of it. We used to toast our bread on top of it and yes, it does heat a large space area :)

Rose is an absolute treasure, the oven is old school and perfect for your lifestyle. I love all your cast iron cookware, I have a collection of Lodge cookware myself & a 1930's Griswold waffle maker that I purchased from the U.S. Enjoy your off grid adventure.

Rose is so darn adorable. The girls amaze me and Dave cracks me up. Jeff of course is the cornerstone of all of this. Keep up the good work.. You guys are awesome.!!

When I was a child of 6 yrs and younger ( 52 now) my Grandmother used a wood cook stove . ( Warm Morning brand ) The Kids , she had 8 , all went in and built my Grandparents a new house with electric appliances and heating/cooling . She loved the a/c in Summer ( gets hot in Tennessee ) but the rest not so much . I miss her so much .

We got ours for a hundred dollars as well ;) Nice to see someone using one ;) On the "You can do it" point? I retired at 60, my wife and I moved from suburbia to 20 wooded undeveloped acres. We're not off grid, but I'm building our house, a timber frame that I'm harvesting from our land, we're gardening, raising chickens, ducks and rabbits, the house is a passive solar design that we'll supplement with a rocket stove and we have a stove very much like yours. It takes dedication and a willingness to work, but it can be done ;)

Rose is the MOST valuable. Then the wood burning stove. My wife’s idea of roughing it is going to a camp sight or even hotel and her idea of making dinner is making a phone call !

Rose...you are delightful! You are the heart of the off grid dynasty!! The stove is good..n helpful..You..Rose ..are the heart of that dynasty...n I for one, appreciate allllll that you do to keep it all going forward! The stove is even better, if one has the correct " black iron" tools to go with it..instead of the " slippery molecule, whiz bang ,non stick pans n pots" of today...they will burn ,if you use them on a stove ,like that...get cast iron/ black iron cookware for your " wood burner stove" , you will see an immediate difference in your food prep! 👍🥘🍳🧙‍♂️🍳🥘👍!!

As someone who’s not a carpenter and going to do a home-build kitchen, it would be awesome if you guys did a “kitchen tour” how you organized it to be the most functional etc. Since the kitchen is the working centre of the home it important to set it up right.

I built my kitchen around my wood stove. It was a relic out of our past cabin from history. Cant imagine winters without it. Yes it does cook as well as gas and electric - and just as fast when it's heated up. But after cooking - stoke it with those 4" logs on your pile, particularly hardwood if you can get it, and it'll sit there and percolate heat into your house going on and on and on. Move the teapot to the right hand side and it'll stay hot but not boil. A trick to baking biscuits in the oven, get wood chips and spread them out on top of the oven under the other burner plates and let them burn while your biscuits are cooking. You'll get nice golden brown biscuits. I have 3 extras of these stoves out in the yard, 2 are in good shape if anyone's interested. Reno, Nevada.

Love that sparkle in her eyes when you challenged her on a pie.

I think the most important thing to get for an off grid home is a partner that is willing to go back in time before electric, someone with this much patience and love... this looks amazing and peaceful, I always think this is for me, I'd so love this life, but then I see your daughter in the background standing near the wood stove warming herself and toosh makes me think "oh hellllll no" I don't think this is really for me. I think for me it's more the thought and wanting a peaceful place, away from negative evil people, away from the hustle and bustle, but with the basic, running water and electricity. I don't mind living off the land, I can handle that.

You guys are funny. The dialogue I mean. Laughter is contagious and its been a long time since I've been able to just relax and watch a chill video. Thanks for that.

The heart of the house is the wife-mother-cook but you don't need me to tell you that! What a treasure. If all men had treasure like that to come home to the world would be what the plan was in the first place; harmony where everything makes sense . What a look into perfection. Really. I treasure silence and the first time I found it I was in a monastery in Colorado twenty years ago. There's no screens in your domain and you're not measuring success or security like the rest of us who obsess over your neighbors new car or wearing masks or social distancing. I don't speak for anybody but what you've shared brought me to tears. We can hope there's still a chance for solace, happy repose in time of uncertainty. Thank you and your family.

I am 65 years old. My grandma was from Poland. When I was a kid, she still used a wood burning kitchen stove in their home in urban Milwaukee in the 60s. She made the best food and even "cheep chocolate" cookies.

Brings back memories of my childhood. My mom cooked on a stove like that for the first 10 years of my life. Her's had a warmer on the top where we would keep our mittens and toques. Eventually my dad added a hot water tank at the back. It was shaped like a propane tank and had a faucet at the bottom. It kept our little house so warm and cosy. Thanks for sharing this Jeff!

I lived off the grid for many years, not so hard we went through the war years had oil lamp fireplaces in every room, outhouses, all my girls were homeschooled. we ate from our gardens caught cod, haddock salmon, trout, cut our fire wood and even dug some coal .we forged a lot of our tools. and by the way, my family lived just outside of a town. now that I'm old I am so thankful there are people like you that are the salt of the earth that can give back to the people of the plant. I look very forward to more videos in the days ahead

Your wife seems like a sweet, caring person! What a great team you are!

In inherited ours from my mother and dad who got it as an old stove in the 1960's my wife and I started out in heated wall tent camps in the British Columbia wilderness,movedthat stove numerous times with our camp until it sits in our handcrafted off grid solar powered log b+b we started building in '88 ....11 grand children and a life of memories we often show off our vintage wood cook stove ,like an old friend,that made a wall tent in the wilderness our first home seem a warm,bright place!

The old cookstove sure is nice. Have been around a few when I was a kid. The heat from wood can't be beat. Great video ! Rose is definitely the heart of the family. The huckleberry pie is a favorite, and looked delicious. 👍

I have a cookstove in my house and absolutely agree. Unfortunately, when our roof was replaced, we realized the chimney was no longer good to use. I miss it terribly and after running out of propane this winter, it's worked its way higher on the priority list to get a chimney up. I do have another woodstove in the basement but the cookstove is my favourite. I loved making coffee and pancakes and being toasty warm when the power was out.

In 2016, I bought a gorgeous, brand new cast iron wood cookstove the same size as yours, handmade, imported from Mexico, on ebay for $1200. I adore it. We were in the sticks of West Ga for 13 months, we used that thing several times a day, every day, for every meal, including homemade pizza, roast chicken and cake, and to boil water for baths, dishes and laundry. It's stored away for now, but we will undoubtedly need it in the future, I'm grateful for the experience I have with it so it won't be guesswork later.

When I got married, my wife and I went to Colorado for our honeymoon. Her uncle had a cabin in the mountains that he made available to us and it had a wood cook stove in it. It was awesome! My wife took to it immediately and loved it. It didn't take her long to master it and food cooked on it was just better because it was cooked on a wood stove. I gotta say though, that huckleberry pie gave me chills. I mean like weak in the knees, hands shaking, drool running down the chin, goosebumps and crossed eyes. I'm insanely jealous yet at the same time, I feel like my life has been enriched just getting the opportunity to see it. Did I mention that I love huckleberry?

you could make a leather wood carrier with hanldes to bring in the wood after splitting it. Put your logo on it and tan it. I think it would be a big money maker for the young ladies. Bill N.

I grew up with a stove like this .Had a water jacket for hot water . In winter the stove ran 20 hours a day .On the cold mornings as wake up I could hear the hot water boiling in the tank . Also cooks better because the heat is more constant..No thermostat clicking in and out every 50 degrees

What a sweet adorable wife. You really hit the jackpot with her.

I love how you got hypnotized by hashbrowns for a few seconds. Great video. Now I want a wood stove. My grandmother cooked on a wood stove. I remember the smells and warmth. Blessings

Hey love watching you guys I hope you're all safe hope everything is going OK for you My prayers are out there for you guys all 🇨🇦Canada we hope that your Prime Minister opens his eyes and stops this crazy stuff and leave them truckers alone

Bringing back memories, we had a Ray Burn growing up in the country, the food cooked baking is better than anything else. We had a tank (wet jacket) at the back of the stove it was to heat the hot water, it heats the room dry's the clothes cooks. As a child I chopped sticks brought in wood gathered twigs and it is not that long ago in 1960's and 70's.

I grew up on a farm in South Africa in the middle of no where and we call them Coal Stoves. It lived in the kitchen and this was the heart of the home but we had a smaller one in the living room that you could feed Anthracite into. Many fond memories as a small boy having a bath in front of that fire with water heated on it. Bring back the good all days.

Wood stoves are the best way to cook especially cornbread . My grandma in Virginia made the best pies you would ever want to eat and she never had anything other than a wood stove . Every morning she baked about 5 dozen biscuits and they never went to waste as people would show up to eat and sometimes grandma would cook breakfast 3 or 4 times and I have seen her make extra biscuits as well .

Thank you for these inspiring videos.. I treasure them from afar. It's hard to explain ...but my whole being turns serene and joyous watching the interactions with your family. The kitchen is normally the heart of every home, but a wood stove kitchen looks unbeatable. Thanks for inviting us to join in

My grandmother cooked this way her whole life, wood/coal stove and wood/coal heater in the living room. No hot water. Life was still good. :)

Well I'm convinced that the world needs more Roses cause she Truely is the heart of the homestead. Anyone can save up to buy a wood cook stove. But landing a beautiful smart and kind partner in crime. That is a very key thing in a successful happy life. My hat is off to you Rose.

I watch these videos in the suburbs and start to dream of a better life, of diy, living with nature, being self sufficient. Someday soon I will join the lifestyle.

Thank you guys for posting this! A "planning to go off-grid" series, almost like a "how to" would be a phenomenal set of vids, if you guys were to continue loosely down this vein. Im sure a lot of other people dont know where to start with making the jump!

This is why we love our Canadian friends... just great folks

At 16, I began learning to cook on a wood cookstove. The scars on my forearms prove it. But I loved it, even with the big learning curve. I'm 64 now, and, fondly remember my first dinner guests pretending to LOVE my leather venison roast...❤

Speaks volumes that your wife still has a wonderful smile and sense of humor after 11 years.

The timing of the wood cook stove in an off grid cabin, using a modern smart phone. Love it.

Wow! My grandma had one of those Wood Stoves! We loved it!. Funny, when my parents bought her an electric stove, she sat it in a corner to show off to her friends…” Look what my daughter bought me!” But she still used the wood stove. We LOVED using her wood stove! I guess we were fascinated by the opportunity to use Fire! She cooked EVERYTHING on that stove. As she got older, she BURNED a lot of things on there! But I just loved her burned fried eggs and biscuits! 😊 And, it was ALWAYS warm in her house! So warm and toasty! Thanks for bringing back those wonderful memories! 😊❤

Just seeing his great wife makes my day win she smiles she is great on this program.

I actually grew up in San Francisco and all the rentals I was in had a wood burning/natural gas stove in all those houses. I'm talking from 1950 till 1975 then I moved to Santa Cruz. You get that thing cranking in the morning and cook most of your meals then while heating the house. Thanks for the memories.

A wood cook stove would be a good purchase to keep on your back porch for some outdoor cooking when grilling out. Obviously, you would have to keep wood in stock. Nice addition to a back yard kitchen. Or if you were so inclined, add one to your kitchen, then when you have a power outage, you have a way to keep warm and cook.

Great vid, just a tip fix an old tyre to your chopping block fill with logs and swing away till you are down to the size you require much easier,safer and faster. John from Tasmania

That stove is what my grandparents used in the heart of New Mexico.

No disrespect but your Wife is beautiful and has one of the most genuine (prettiest) smiles I've ever seen!!! Look forward to your videos to see that smile !!!

Growing up we had a Home Comfort stove. Used wood on 1 side and propane on the other. Dad installed copper piping to an old water heater upstairs, so we got free hot water out of it too.

Love the stove, but more importantly all the amazing cooking and baking you can do with your family. Especially with Rose and the girls!!!

Rose is a rose. I love her gentle spirit

I remember my grandparents woodstove. Fond memories sitting by the stove in the morning when my nan stoked up the fire as it heated the house too. She baked all her own bread too, it always smelled so good. They had no running water either. You had to go to the well down road for it.

Thank you for your video. Brings back memories. My Grandma cooked a on similar stove from about 1935 to 2003. She had an electric range but, still used her wood stove. She lived on her little mountain ((Moscow Mountain Idaho) until she was 96 years old. I remember a neighborhood picnic in the middle 1960s. It was out in a meadow away from any electricity. So some of the neighbors brought out a cook stove and wood so everyone could warm their dishes. Took four men to move the stove into place but, it worked well.

Rose! I aspire to be like you in so many ways! Our family dreams of homesteading and living off grid one day! We're making strides to get there by selling our house and moving onto a converted school bus! All of that is happening by the end of March! Thank you guys for sharing your beautiful family and life with the rest of us who dream of following in your footsteps! BTW, we would love to come for the wilderness campout but it's not possible for us to get there. Would you guys be able/willing to record the teaching sessions? We would be happy to pay for the content. Blessings!

That cook stove is absolutely wonderful. But it pales in comparison to your wife. You are truly blessed and that is a gorgeous pie.

I'm watching this as while folding my laundry. Completely forgot I'm in my apartment. I was so drawn into your kitchen. I was smelling the wood burning eggs and hash brown cooking 💗💗💗 One day soon I'll be off grid. I'm beginning to downsize now.

Back in the 1970's I cooked on a wood stove a couple of times, at the house of someone we knew. I have to say that a wood stove is the BEST stove I have ever cooked on. Once one gets used to the stove, it is very easy to use and does a wonderful job.

A timeless necessity for any homestead, off grid or not!

The mom is so incredibly adorable. I have such a crush on her. Love this family.

I live in an old house in a small town in Wash. State. My kitchen came with a 100yr old kitchen chimney that just called for a wood range to be reinstalled. I got an old one and started building fires in the firebox and the kitchen became so inviting so that any visitors just naturally gathered there. Thirty years later, I now start a fire every morning just for the warmth, hot water, and a place to read the paper with my feet warming up on the open oven door.

My grand parents and great Aunt and Uncle had 2 of these wood cook stoves. One in the kitchen and one in the summer kitchen. Ya summer kitchen was a real thing. I remember my great aunt explaining it to me. Simply it was just to hot in the summer to cook and bake in the house. So all the cooking and baking was done in the summer kitchen. It was attached to the main kitchen as like an addon to the house. all the windows would swing out and the entrance had a screen door. The windows went all around the room. The wood cook stoves were available with water heaters and bakers ovens. They work great but hard to find in good condition and new they are very pricy. But they are a buy once in your life time thing, likely outlast everyone in your family.

I love your family's vibe. You are a fun bunch. Love the stove and Rose is adorable. Homesteading heaven. Thanks for sharing the videos.

Rose is indeed a gentle, selfless, kind and precious rose....we hope she is very well loved and appreciated and gets to do her girly stuff and also to relax some.... You are a treasure Rose...the most valuable person.. I admire you Rose because I could not do anything close to what you do....you are so patient ....

That stove brings up memories. I had two old maid great Aunts (Alma and Marie) and a bachelor great Uncle (Walter) living together on a farm outside of town in Oklahoma with a wood stove in the kitchen on which they did all their cooking. All 3 were pushing 100 years old when they passed away in the 70's.

Grand parents had a wood stove in their kitchen while I was growing up. (Great uncles did also). Nothing better in winter.

My wood cook stove is a Findlay Condor, and it looks just like your stove. I have mine on castors out in the garage, and when I want to use it, I push it outside and cook on it. It works GREAT! I have a propane stove in the house. SR

Man you're so blessed having a lady like Rose. She's a keeper. God bless ya all with deen

Those are SKILLS at it's BEST !!! this LADY is a TREASURE , and HER SMILE is POSITIVE and CHARMING.... I still REMEMBER , as a KID , visiting my GRANDMA , and She had 2 stove's , one was GAS , we're SHE cooked every day , because Shi lived alone , but when we visited , and She wanted to cook SPECIAL DISHES , She always used the CHARCOAL STOVE , and the food TOTALLY TESTED DIFFERENT !!!

Reminds me of my grandparents farm when I was little. I think they had a warming cabinet along the top. Great to see the sunshine outside.

I think you’re awesome for living and raising your family the way you do! Also if you get paid for taking down trees for people/ tree trimming technically you’d be getting paid to make breakfast and heat your house with the spoils left over from tree work. I’ve done it for 15 years! Thanks again for the awesome videos

I'm a farmer who lives out in the country. I'm in the Philippines and even this looks like an adventure compared to how we live. Amazing!

Kind if a real life version of the Ingles. Rose reminds me of Caroline Ingles. A very cool existence. Well done folks, you've won.

Good to see you haven’t changed in all these years. A wood cook stove is awesome!

Great video. Rose is delightful and obviously key in making the off grid life work. You both seem very easy going.

First time viewers, Wifey (77) and I (81). Brought in by your title. In my parents place in Montana, (sold long ago) wood cook stove and wood stoves in the rest of the house were wonderful. Their cook stove had a water comparment on the right side and coils somewhere in it to heat hot water going to the tank in the bathroom about 10 feet away. The tank was maybe 20 gallons (been 1993 since I was there) as I remember. The tank was a plain uninsulated galvanized tank. You felt the tank to see how much hot water there was.

Almost caught a tear when she agreed to make you an exquisite pie.

Lived with a wood cook stove many years just using snappy sticks twigs. A good set of pruning shears were all I used for cooking. In 15 minutes I had the coffee water boiling and within 30 minute the eggs,grits and bacon were done. I used a stove similar to yours. Looks like the same model. Since I have acquired a Stanley waterford which has air tight seals and can heat the whole house. I do split nice hard wood for that one. likes to be stoked once in the night but not always necessary. It make a lot of creosote around the oven after a month or two due to the tight seal and large amount of iron. I built a large heater with an oven from the old wood stove parts and a 300 lb propane tank. Works quite well and hold the 16" pizza pan.yah! The stanley will only take a 15" pan. So now its just acting like extra counter top with a marble slab on top. Looks like the winters you have are a bit colder and longer than ours. Like what your doing and like you sharing. first time watching. Our internet is way pitiful so cannot upload much. Be well

I love my wood cookstove. The first time I cooked a turkey. I put it in for the normal 3 hours. Mistake. It literally fell apart. Flattened out. Lol no carving. It was the best tasting and so very moist. I have learned since and it has been fun learning and cooking in it.

"this is the heart of the homestead... I'm talking about you" what a charmer!🥳