We Ran Out | Homestead Vlog | March 8, 2024 

Thank you for filming your day so that we could visit. I know it must be a pain to set up and take down the camera but I want you to know it is very much appreciated 😊

It makes a strong community when everyone shares the load! Good neighbors are very important!

Great video! That calf is so cute. It's so nice grandma is close and is able to take care of her grandkids. Family is everything.

Meagan and Andy-Keep up the videos! Your channel is quickly becoming my favorite homesteading channel! I discovered your channel maybe 6 months ago and I love following just your everyday events. I live in Raleigh and we bought land in Oxford with intentions of building a homestead but that may never happen. I can live my dream by watching you. I may come someday and help you harvest your chickens.

You two are all ways busy at something. Never a dull moment with y'all. . I guess that's way I love your videos.

Prayer, coffee and True Grit.... always makes for a good day!!

Y’all are such an inspiration to a lot of people, hard work has it’s rewards for sure.❤

I got tickled at the cow in the back of the car.thats something me and my girlfriend would of done .Girl power where there's a will there's a way😂😂

After the State of the Union last night it's nice to watch good people doing good honest work.

Hello y'all are killing it with these videos that was another good one

I grew up on s blackberry farm. We had 13 rows 100 feet long and picked 400+ gallons a year. We put cross ties or 6x6 at each end and cedar posts about every 20 feet. We had boards about 3' wide around 5' high and 2-3' off the ground and ran high tensile wire thru the boards giving us something to tie the short and longer canes to and contain them. The rows were 5' apart so a small rider could get thru. Im looking for land to farm and recreate it but I'd put at least 6' between the rows to get in there with a tractor to mulch easier. At our current place I'm thinking about just using cattle panels on 6' t-posts to tie them up because I only have 1 spot about 40' long for 1 row so 2 cattle panels and 4 tposts for a 32' span with plants every 4'.

friend helping friend

You want 1 main trunk to the top of your grapevine. Then trellis in 2 directions. Prune from the main horizontal vine. Everything from the main horizontal vines trim back to 4 knives. Your fruit comes from the new growth. Fertilize 1/4 cup of 10-10-10 for each years worth of growth. To know if the vine is getting enough water is to look at tentacles ( the part that twist around for support) long ones mean good supply of water. Short ones means needs more water

I love watching your videos!! It is great seeing young people doing so well and helping friends and neighbors. ❤

Good morning, guys! Spring is here 🌱🌼

Tedious work but necessary for an even more viable crop. Whoever gets the most sunshine WINS!!! 😂😂😂

You’re wonderful what ever you do we love ❤️ be safe beststeaders that on amen

Looks like you’re family sure is blessed like mine

Love waking up with a cup of coffee and starting the day with one of your videos.

As I watched this, it’s on Friday I think you and Meg are doing a great job for helping out and your blackberry patch is looking great if it works for you then keep it up🌱

Hey y'all! Always look forward to your videos! Beautiful family, beautiful life! My blueberries and plum trees and much more are blooming! Baby chicks are getting big! Prayers for all for an abundant growing season!

Oh my gosh that calf is too cute! 😍 I'm dreaming of where I can put a berry patch in our yard. I've got two blueberry bushes in pots I planted last year, but I want to get them in the ground with black and red raspberries and strawberries. We only live on a little less than an acre and lots of trees, so I need to find a sunny spot

I love these videos you all are an amazing sort of comfort to me while I’m stuck in hospital love the kiddos and how much they love helping and learning

I really enjoyed it watching y’all takes me back home for a little while.

❤Loved this video. Actually I love all your videos and I think you two young people are my heroes. Do you ever make grilled chicken salad? It is a meal in itself. Make a garden salad and add grilled chicken along with your favorite salad dressing. It is also delicious to add blueberries, strawberries . If you haven’t tried this, please do. For times when you are too wiped out to cook a big meal you can have your chicken grilled and frozen . Thaw and add to salad . God bless all of you in every way. Love n hugs from East Tennessee. ❤🙏🏻🐄 🐓

Great video Megan and Andy and the back up crew. Bartering usually works out great for everyone. Glad the lady was able to get the calf home and hopefully get it on a new momma cow. Really enjoyed the gardening and farming you all did. Those chickens helped prepare the ground and fertilized it well and the seeds Andy planted should really do well. It was good letting the two young ones have time with their cousins to play . Thanks for sharing with us, stay safe and keep up the good works. Fred.

It's getting harder to find those good neighbours... you are so lucky to have a community minded area to live in...

Oh my gosh!! That calf is soooo cute!!!

Andy that burger sho looks good. From the bootheel of Missouri. God bless.

I love your videos!

Good morning from Apple So. California. Enjoying Jesus, Coffee and Ya'll at 4:30 am this morning. Blessings

Love watching your videos!! Thanks for taking time to share your farm and family life. Happy Spring!🌱🌼🌻

Good morning from Upstate SC!

momma cow lost a cutie pie calf good ol dad lost 2 kids. what a day team TG~! 4985 things left to do!~ great editing. so fun and always a learning experience, thank yall~!

I have 8 muscadine vines, both white and purple, all about 20 years old. I follow Ison's nursery method. Teach a single main leader up to 1 trellis wire about neck high. From there you want it to fork both left and right. On each side allow branches to grow no closer than a fist apart, cut anything closer. On each branch allow 2 to 3 sub branches no closer than a fist apart. I don't allow any further branching and they get pruned back to this every Feb. This method takes a bit to get it trained but it's for maximum production and based on an old UT agriculture dept. publication "Growing Grapes in TN". If left unpruned, muscadines are notorious for wasting energy on vegetative growth.

Hello there, love the channel. In regards to muscadines, you might want to check out Mr Danny and Ms Wanda at deep south homestead. They seem to have a TON of info. Best of luck, Ms Karin

Thanks for bringin us along to see how it's done

I love how your children run around barefoot 😊

I have to agree, that chicken looked wonderful. I haven't had home grown chicken since 1992.what a bummer. We've been stuck in the city and so ready to get the heck out. Anyway love your video's, love y'all ❤. God bless

Hey Andy and Megan. Spring is just here. I’m excited y’al.

There will come a day when your children will be able to look back, and know that they had the best childhood any kid could ask for! I hope they will be able to pass it on to their future children.

What a great day. Looks like the blackberry vines are in great shape. Now I got a kick out of the calf in the back of the car. I have a jeep like that and haul everything in mine. Let down the back sets and it's almost as much room as a small truck. I enjoy every video. What a beautiful family and good life you are making. Be safe and God Bless.

❤ watching your videos! ❤ that you humbly appreciate your skills and your abundance! God bless you!

My mother and grandmother bought two small pigs put them in burlap sacks and drove thirty miles with the pigs in the truck of an old Chevelle .

You guys are fantastic. My husband and I love to watch all your videos. We, too, are working on our ranch and have so much to do every day. Waiting on my garden to produce veggies so I can start canning and thanks for your help on canning.

Nothing better than eatin straight off the grill, or the frying pan!

A friend of mine said…prune your muscadines like you are killing the😁. Pruning them are easy. It definitely time consuming.

Y’all have become mine and my husband’s favorite people to watch. We just bought our first meat chickens and can’t wait to get started with gardening and canning. Thank you for taking the time to teach us how to do these things. Y’all are truly a blessing.

You are such a hard working family. I appresiate what you do.

Hope y’all have a blessed day and evening love the videos

Blackberries & Muscadines remind me of my childhood in N.C., live in Canada now & they don’t grow up here. Just came across your video & enjoyed watching it, thank you for sharing.

Coupe of weeks ago Y'all showed up on my U Tube feed ,My Lucky Day !!!! Thank You for all that you Share with US . I enjoy watching Yall !!! 😊

HI! Thank You for showing us the blackberries and how to take care of them. Years ago many years ago we picked wild blackberries. We had containers we wired then wired to our belts to have both hands free. I'm like you Megan I think I ate more than I took home. :) I hope your sewing is comin along.? Love this channel and I'am so happy for your family.. God Bless. Hugs, Rebekah Say hi to the kids for me they are such a blessing.

Enjoyed the time with you guys. Our muskedine vines ,they run and go root,I didn't know what to do with them. God bless yall today, stay happy, the Lee family

Hot off the grid always best. Muscadines make the absolute best jelly.

Great way your doing! Everybody loves blackberries at least my family does!

HELLO! I have been so sick for over a month. Glad to see you again.... 🐔🐔🐔

I always laugh and think it’s something you’re Younghans always run around barefoot I don’t know how they do it. I can’t even walk barefoot in the house. I gotta use house slippers I guess my feet is too tender and they just go everywhere. So cute and yes, they’re having the time of their life. Their daddy is right. ❤

You can haul your whole estate on Mr. Lawson's trailer Andy. That's a very beautiful calf Megan. He might have smelled s little but he appeared to enjoy the ride. Y'all have a great weekend!

I hate that when you run out of hay 😅😅😅 good time for dad to spend time with the supervisors 😅😅😅😅

Another awesome video thank you

@kinfolkfarms also has blackberries and tells how to trim them too.

Hello from Oxford NC

I had to laugh at you and Amelia cruising down the road with baby calf!! What a cutie ❤❤❤

Just found your channel. So glad I did!! Be well and stay safe! Blessings!

I really enjoy watching y'all.

great vid.. thanks

Love Andy’s sense of humor! Meagan, that little calf in the SUV was just too cute!

Great video. You’ll have to keep us up-to-date on the calf .

I used to prune my blackberries with hand pruners. i got battery operated now. And it makes it so much easier. lol

Love your videos.......Blessings !

That’s what happens when you take your children to Mawmaw and Pawpaw‘s they stay. It’s a wonderful thing. I did the same thing.

A wonderful life for kids.

Blackberries are crazy all over here in Oregon, we have a huge wall of them in our yard, nice to pick buckets full for pies

I just found yall about a week or so ago, I just love these videos. Oh yeah Megan I tried your quick yeast rolls. They are amazing Thanks from Ky.

If it isn’t broken don’t fix it. I do my blackberries very similar to yours and it works great for me also.

Hello from Georgia

Love watching!

Meghan, you should check out living traditions homestead of their milking machine. She makes it look so easy.

RU-vid channel Petals from the Past has videos on both grapes and blackberries

Always enjoy thanks

Hi Megan. When I do my chicken and dumplins I cook chicken like you do. But I take my chicken out of the pot before I put in dumplins. Drop in dumplings in chic broth only. Then when dumplins are done you can put in chicken,slow stir and get all back hot and serve. I was raised on farm, east Tenn. I am 77. Make all kinds of dumplins. I learned to cook on a wood stove when I was little...lol.

I will take your advice on the blackberry canes (we have rogue raspberry canes, galore). I don't care if it's the right way or not, lol...anything to clear up the chaos of the canes. Love watching all of the things that you guys do. Where I live I don't have anyone to chat with about our lifestyle and seeing you guys and others on YT living a similar life to us makes me feel connected.

Andy - all you want from the ground up is one trunk , possibly two ( depending upon how you traned it from the git go), one going right , one going left ( I have two wires upper & lower giving me two horizontal rows each way )- off of those you'll get the vines to trane along the wire in both directions ( horizontally of course ), from those you'll get canes - to keep it managable ( cuz it can get tangled rsal quick - especially muscadines & scuppernongs ) cut canes off leaving one every 6 inches ( I call em spikes which isn't correct but thats what I call em ) pointing up or out , never down - the grapes will grow off the year old canes - I prune in fall after harvest and leaves have fallen so I can see what I'm doin - keep lower trunks free of suckers an sprouts - hope thats clear ..😊

Hello guys!! Another good one! ❤

I come across y'all a couple weeks ago and I enjoy watching your videos. I live in Central Virginia on the in between Richmond and the East Coast

Hope you folks don't change so many hit it big and it all changes. God Bless Your Family. I really enjoy your channel...

I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who needs 3 different sets of keys and an hour lead time before I can even begin to get work done!

This is so much fun (and educational) to watch. So much work, though, and although I know it's fulfilling, I suspect I'm too dang lazy to do it. ❤❤

I always train blackberry bushes to grow all along my back fence along the side of my house did the same thing at my dad's house years ago it makes the best fence because ain't no one going to climb over a bunch of BlackBerry bushes I find it really funny every time they're ripe there's no blackberries at least the foot off the ground because the chickens probably two feet cause the chickens jump up and pick them all the time and eat them chickens love blackberries just got to keep the Turkey out there because they're too soccer's tall you can pick as many but he don't seem to bother them unless I pick them and give them to to to them I've never had the plant back Blackberries they grow wild here and takes quite a few years if you're going to gradually keep letting them go along your fence but they're so good I'll probably get at least 10 1 gallon buckets off them every year my sister comes down and picks her blackberries too

That calf was absolutely adorable. Megan, we love to buy plants too, you ever go to Beautiful Earth on 704 and 8? I love that your kids were running around barefoot, grounding is good for you. Another good video, love watching you guys.

I have to tie my goat's foot back too, oh and I've carried every kind of baby animal in the back of my SUV or pickup. Regular farm life, thanks for sharing.

❤ the videos! Reminds me of growing up visiting at my granny and granddaddy’s place in the mountains of NC. I’m blessed to be on a small place in South Central FL Osowaw Junction we straddle 9b/10a yes it gets bug choking hot here in Aug and Sep

That is the way I do my blackberries

I’m new in the south never had muscadine before.. going to have to search for some …😊

The kids get along so good. We love your videos. I had your alls energy a few years ago but getting old sucks and is so depressing 😢❤ I want a milk cow but afraid I can’t hold up to 2X a day milking 😂

The calf is SO cute. It’s so good to have neighbors and friends to help each other out. Always something to do on the homestead… it’s such a good life! We are thinking about getting a milk cow after I retire in May. God bless you guys. Enjoy your videos.

I LOVE watching your viedos

I'm so happy the calf was accepted by the cow and won't need to be bottle fed. I never minded bottle feeding calves but it sure was hard when a hand raised bull calf eventually went to auction as a steer. We raised open range beef cattle so bottle feeding was the only option for an orphaned or abandoned calf. Thank you both for a great video, and I hope the calf thrives with his new momma! 😊🙏

A good, productive day! Thank you for sharing