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From what I have seen doesn’t the duck weed need more manure? Dung?

I didn't catch if you were growing spring wheat or winter wheat. I direct sow winter wheat, and have never had serious weed pressure. The winter weeds aren't as competitive as summer weeds, and by the time spring rolls around the wheat is well established and does a superb job of weed suppression. I do broadcast some fine woodchips or shredded leaf mulch after the wheat emerges, taking care not to bury it, but typically only in small amounts that don't prevent all my chickweed and deadnettle from growing in fall and winter.

What differentiates that from cider?

Nice job

Im intrigued, how many sugar beets you guys planted?

Similar process for squirrels, but the shoulders are even worse. I've got four deboned and I'll try grinding them; got tired of fried or stewed squirrel and thought I'd try a squirrel burger! lol

Are the roosters noisy ?.

I have a purebred silky rooster and a bunch of cross bred silky hens

These certainly are beautiful birds and fascinating to watch. I'm glad to hear that they are very easy tempered and so they are easier to keep than other breeds. 👍🏻

We're upgrading our coop size soon and really looking forward to letting my silkie girls hatch more babies. I love their broodiness because, since they're easier to relocate, it's so much easier to make sure they get out for water food and the colossal broody poop.

I got some seeds from MIgardener for next year, I am very excited to get a good crop this year!

Dear Chris and Steph, As you know, I was looking forward to this video which completes one full year with your silkies. I was a little apprehensive that perhaps there would be downsides which you had not anticipated. Well, the switch to silkies has obviously been a success. I am very grateful to hear this good news. It was very good to hear that the setting silkies are very easy to handle. As you have done in the past with your chantecleers in the past, I was very pleased to hear that you provide a private place for the setting silkies. Secondly, it was very good to hear how well the young silkies integrate with the mature birds. At the same time, I like very much how you carry out the integration. I was interested to hear that, at present you have 22 laying hens which are producing about 11 eggs per day. What size are silkie eggs? Would they be the same size as graded small eggs? Or are they the size of peewees? Now being elderly, whenever I can, I buy small eggs. They are the right size for me. I really don’t need a large egg. Am I right in concluding that you have enough hens to keep you supplied with eggs year round? If so, this is great. Your switch to silkies has been a success, with many built-in benefits. Thank you for bringing us up-to-date on the raising of silkies. Your video should prove to be valuable to other homesteaders. Sincerely, Larry Clarence Lewis London, Ontario.

That was a fun video. I am tempted to try out the silkies. I have never had any because I thought they were fancy, useless chickens. You are changing my mind..

How did these pelts hold up over the last 2 years? My boys and I are in our research phase of tanning rabbit hide. Thank you for these in-depth videos showing each step of the process.

My neighbor has 6 month old silkies and wants 25 dollars per hen is that high?

Was this sheep’s wool shorn off

Love how clear and slow paced your videos are. The practicality you are proposing has many more positives than negatives.

I've switched to silkies this year. Just getting to the point where younger roosters are maturing. In a future video can you cover what male to female ratio you keep in your flock?

That celery is beautiful!

Hi do you use the deep litter method?

Did you ever PH the water? Ive had problems with bad PH and caused the hair to slip

Such a wonderful harvest. 👍🏻❤️

Dear Chris and Steph, Once again, what a great video, this time your growing of sweet potatoes. You have obviously hit upon an ideal way of raising sweet potatoes in barrels. What a great harvest! It appears to me that you have plenty for your family of four, plus plenty for slips for next year. As always, thank you for these videos which spell out your experience, and what you have learned. Any chance of an up-date on your raising of silkie chickens this spring, summer, and fall? I would really like to hear how your switch from Chanteclers to silkies has gone. Sincerely, Larry Lewis London, Ontario.

The greenhouse tour just shows me you're for real and there is no pretense, which is very refreshing. If the truth be told, I bet every single large-scale gardener has areas exactly like it at times on their property. No judgment and no shame in the game! I think you do a fantastic job with your produce!

Beautiful harvest!! Thank you for sharing.

Have you found in your experience that the bits that get broken off (in ground) come back the following season? I'm in New Brunswick, grow zone 5a but they did change it to 5b this year.

Beautiful sweet potatoes 🙂I may actually switch to planting in barrels 👍

Impressive Guys. If I grow sweet potato's I will put them in barrels.

I hate to see you working so hard to get the nuts out. I'd like to share with you a way that may be easier. I use the bench press on my husband's workbench. I have used a hammer also but you will want to put a glove on because it does Sting. And again pointy end up And you don't want to crush them you just want to half them. Then I use a nipper mini wire cutter To cut them from the sides. Then if all goes well the nutmeat should just fall out and you're removing the shell from the nut instead of trying to dig the nut out from the shell. Hope this may help someone. I am in awe of all the shagbark Hickory trees you have. I have only a few and I love them. Thank you for sharing Your beautiful trees with us.

Do you have to stretch it , does it still work if you don't stretch it?

Great information and thanks for sharing. I never thought about feeding burdock to rabbits. I know when we had goats, they loved it so I'm not sure why I never thought about giving it to the rabbits, but I'll definitely be adding that to their diets next year. Also, our rabbits each have a different opinion of our wild mint. Some love it others won't touch it. I just found you channel about a week ago and seem to be binging on your rabbit video the last few days. Thanks for all the great insights, I'm not new to rabbits but revising out breeding program and infrastructure.

Yes a garden tour! Good to see you grew peanuts again. No frost in the sunny south but its coming..

I love your videos! So relatable. What do you do with eggolant? I have never tried them.

I have a white Chinese goose. It attacks me every time I pet it. I love it and plan on getting a lot more. Adorable personality.

Gourami fish also like duckweed.

I have 1 Chinese Weed eater gander, 8 Welsh Harlequin and 3 Blue Swedish. This is our first winter here in Wisconsin and I need to think through this. Maybe I need 2 or 3 heated buckets? I don't need them to go swimming but I sure want them all to be able to drink.

Where to get them in Canada

I don't have a press or juicer of any sort, so I split the canes lengthwise and use water extraction. Water extraction definitely creates a pretty strongly flavored product compared to sorghum syrup from the grocery store. It's pretty salty, actually, which might indicate a high mineral content. One step I do which eliminates most of the foaming and creates a clearer syrup is to clarify the juice before boiling it down. I add a small amount of bentonite (home brew product, used in fining wine), and store the juice in the refrigerator until it has settled, then decant and reduce the clear liquid. If there's a lot of juice, I will do a partial cook before fining. I usually harvest my small batch of canes early during seed set, before the plants have invested their stored sugars into making starches to fill the grain.

Granted, I haven't tried it yet, but it is in fact well documented as edible for humans.

Dear Chris and Steph, I am catching up on your videos. I am glad you did a video on your silkies during the winter. Do you plan to do a video on your hatching programme during the spring and summer and how it went? Sincerely, Larry Clarence Lewis London, Ontario.

I found a hickory nuts tree a couple days ago and I've started processing then but I kid you not the shells are 1/8th to a 1/4 inch thick and I have to use wire cutters to crack them open! They taste great but it's takes me 5 mins at least to complete just 1 nut. Is this normal. Coming to this video I see your walnut walls are super thin compared. Are they old or just not ready. Tia!

Looks like sugar cane juice 😍😍😍😍😍😍

Happy to see Charizard over seeing the operation! 😂

I've raised both ducks and geese for almost 2 decades (I never bred them though). We had a gander (male goose) named Ajax who fought off a weasel and defended the flock. We didnt even know about it until we noticed his neck was swollen and found the bitemark! Luckily, Ajax survived. He was a good gander but always attacked me (even when it wasn't breeding season). Also, we did have a red-tail hawk divebomb our ducks and geese when they where bathing. However, the hawk abandoned his mission when he got closer and saw how big they were (I was standing right there but the hawk ignored me).

Love lemon cucumbers 👌

The float test is good for walnut but for hickory is not as useful. Fortunately the hickory nuts show worm holes very clearly.

Thank you for this video! I have three massive soybean plants with hundreds of pods well past edamame stage and am trying to wrap my head around how to harvest them as dry beans. This was exactly what I was looking for

Making today

Hi again as I said I would.... My wife had ordered and we have received our seed.I'll be raising these next year.Roma have great taste but gardening isn't only a hobby I've very interesting to have a more productive tomato as Roma hasn't produced this year and 6a Mid Ohio had a summer drought the worst I've witnessed but we're better off then our neighbors as usual They are normally getting good or great reviews Thanks

Thanks for the education! I just bought 3acre property with at LEAST 50+ Hickory Trees! We have so many nuts. I dont think ill get to do anything with them this season, but next year, i have big plans!