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Poplar Creek Farm
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Приєднався 9 лют 2020
Join us on homestead journey! We are growing each year to become for self sufficient and sustainable.
August Azure Standard Grocery Haul
We LOVE azure standard and order regularly! We order all our bulk products from them.
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Відео
We’re MOVING!…Hopefully.
Переглядів 10314 годин тому
We are in the process of getting our house ready to sell because we’ve decided we need more land! #homestead #moving #homesteading
Raising Meat Chickens Series Part 2
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We raise Cornish cross meat chickens every year to feed our family. We raise them on pasture for 8 weeks and then process them ourselves. I will be sharing the whole journey from start to finish! #meatchickens #homestead #selfsufficiency
Why I’ve Been MIA
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It’s been almost 2 weeks since I’ve posted! We have been SO busy with my husbands business so I haven’t had much time on the farm. I will be posting more regularly again now. We’ve had lots happen though. Our IPPs have left the farm, we harvested a pitiful amount of potatoes and LOTS of onions. #homestead #homesteading #garden #ipp
Raising Meat Chickens Series Part 1
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This is the first video in a series on raising meat chickens on our homestead! I hope this will encourage those on the fence to take the leap. We love raising our meat and knowing how it was raised and what it was fed. #meatchickens #chicks #raiseyourmeat #homestead
The Harvest is Just Beginning
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I love when the garden really begins to produce! It’s so fun to “grocery shop” out of the garden. By end of July we will be swimming in harvests. #gardening #homesteadgarden #garden #gardenharvest
Preparing for Winter in July
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A lot of homesteading is preparing during the warm months for the winter. That means putting up food, preparing to heat our home and extending our growing season as much as possible. We are actually on top of these things this year! #homesteading #homestead #fallgarden #gardening
My Redemption Garden
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The last few years my garden has been a massive struggle but this year is different. This year is my redemption. This year I feel so proud of my garden and so proud of the abundance. #gardening #garden #homesteadgarden #homestead
GrubTerra Black Soldier Fly Larvae Review
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Grubterra was kind enough to send me a bag of the black soldier fly larvae to try and review! After doing research on the product I decided to agree and so far I am really impressed. They have great nutrients chickens need, keep food waste out of our landfills and the chickens seem to love them! #grubterra #review #grubterrareview #chicken
Early July Garden Tour
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It’s July which means the garden is really starting to take off! I am so thankful for how abundant is going to be. There are definitely still some weeds taking over BUT I’m much more in control this year. #gardentour #gardening #homesteadgarden #homestead #garden
June Azure Standard Haul
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We love azure standard! This month was a big haul before we do the pantry challenge. Check out azure standard: www.azurestandard.com/?a_aid=68a5305536 #azure #azurestandard #groceryhaul #azurehaul #haul
The Battle Of The Weeds Is On
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I struggle every year with weeds and this year is no exception. I’m trying my hardest to stay on top of them but they are slowly getting away from me. #weeding #garden #gardening #homesteading
Easy Seed Saving
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It’s the time of year we need to start looking ahead to seed saving and doing what we can to help keep our seeds pure to their original varieties. #seedsaving #gardening #homesteading #garden
They Will Be Leaving Soon
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We are no longer going to be breeding Idaho pasture pigs BUT we still love this breed and love our current breeders. They will be going to a new farm shortly just up the road! #idahopasturepigs #homesteading #homestead
Summer Pantry Challenge, Join Me!
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The pantry challenge is a month long of no grocery shopping! We are planning to do it for both July and August but with some exceptions (coffee). #pantrychallenge #homesteading #homestead #locavore
Early Morning Garden Talks | The problem with convenience
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Early Morning Garden Talks | The problem with convenience
How I Am Combatting Weeds This Summer (or am trying to)
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How I Am Combatting Weeds This Summer (or am trying to)
Putting up our cattle panel trellises
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Putting up our cattle panel trellises
Succession sowing for maximum production
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Succession sowing for maximum production
3 Things pigs need to keep cool in summer
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3 Things pigs need to keep cool in summer
We found the culprit of the tomato plant massacre!
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We found the culprit of the tomato plant massacre!
What is eating ALL my tomato plants?!
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What is eating ALL my tomato plants?!
Potatoes and Corn are in, what’s next?
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Potatoes and Corn are in, what’s next?
Another successful farrowing with our IPP
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Another successful farrowing with our IPP
I haven’t ordered in so long, I always forget about it. Thanks for the reminder!
Alrighty! Thanks for sharing, Miss. 50 lbs. of flour? That would last me 5 life times. You must bake a lot.
I go through that every 1-2 months lol I do bake a lot. We don’t buy any bread products from the grocery store anymore.
Can you give a review in the future on how some of the products performed?
Absolutely! 😊
If you have any questions or just want to chat about homeschooling don’t be afraid to reach out! We are north of you but always out and about. ☺️
Thank you!! I seriously appreciate it. I’m so nervous and excited
@@poplarcreekfarm19 It can be intimidating! We are starting our 9th year.
@icypatch.homestead that’s amazing! I’m already shocked at all the resources locally but in a good way! I’ll take any advice
What beautiful weather you had and nice green pastures at your home. Yes, it’s a treat gardening as a couple.
Good luck. It will all work out. We too deliberately downsized a mansion for a smaller and cheaper home on land.
Thank you! I think having land is much more worthwhile than a big house!
We just found our 1st place. We also hunt, so we know the dilemma of finding land. He's talking with me about moving again! I said if we find the perfect place, I'll move! I'm excited for you both! I don't know if I would have ripped out the garden, could have been a selling point! Please keep us posted
I only ripped it out because even our realtor said gardens are selling points but not that big of one 😂 I’m really hopeful we find something soon!! It’s definitely hard to find the perfect property.
You look so young every time I see your videos I think your a teenager.
😅 I get that a lot. Must have a baby face
Good luck on your new adventure! Hope everything falls into place
Thank you!
It must have been hard for you to dig your garden up. I feel sorry for your husband’s efforts with all that firewood. Is that going to be a bonus for the buyer? Good luck to you. Hope you can sell it quickly.
It definitely was hard and yes the buyers are lucky with all the firewood lol
Me too!! It's amazing the work they do, and sooo quickly LOL
Yes exactly!
Interesting information. Thanks, Miss.
Thanks!
And remember…‘We’re growing today for a better tomorrow’. 😎 Sorry.
I forgot my sign off 😱
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Good information. Thanks, Miss.
Thanks for watching
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Things are looking good especially considering the rough start. Congratulations!
Thanks! 😊
Wow, that’s a lot of food. Thanks for sharing, Miss.
Thanks for watching
I remember hearing your husband’s chainsaw going on a previous video. That’s a lot of wood. I hope he has a hydrologic splitter! Do you have a whole house wood furnace or just a wood stove? I’m sure your fall garden will be successful.
Yup he was blocking for next year! We do have a splitter thankfully. We just have a wood stove with a blower which is sufficient to heat our home. It’s super cozy. Thank you, I’m very excited for a fall garden this year.
Green beans grow on the same plant as yellow beans? You can eat them raw?
Green beans and yellow beans are 2 different varieties but grow similarly. I have all my beans planted very close together and yes you can absolutely eat beans raw.
I don't think cucumbers grow up usually...
They can be trained to a trellis, they grow tendrils that will grab the trellis. This prevents a lot of diseases on the plants
Kamyl? What was the name of that? Also, that squash looks like a zuchinni....
Haifa’s finest zucchini, I get the seeds from fruition seeds it is a zucchini just a different variety. I’m not sure which one you didn’t get the name of? Kajari melons?
@@poplarcreekfarm19 01:39 - I just picked Kamyl (?) a couple of days ago, holy Kamyl (?) Also, do the Haifa's finest Zucchini actually come from Haifa?
@y.shaked5152 ah chamomile! It’s an flower used in teas and tinctures. Haifa’s finest zucchini was brought to the states with the help of a couple from the Middle East. The wife was named Haifa and that’s where it got its name.
I kinda wanna see those peas.
They are starting to turn yellow and die
I’m happy for you that you’re proud of your success. After all your work you deserve it!
Thank you!
I tried to grow coneflowers this spring. Zero germination also.
Flowers can be tricky! Normally I grow lots of cosmos and they are always super easy
Wow, do you get opportunities to review things like this often? I imagine the first time was a lot of fun
This is my first offer and I wouldn’t just accept anything to review. This one made sense though!
Well in that case congratulations are in order! What a fun milestone!
@OneMound1 thank you! 😊
Lucky chickens!
They certainly are
Thanks for the review, Miss.
Thank you
Chocolate is in a world wide shortage because of weather issues right now. The Azure price has held until they need to get more of certain ones and yes the one you got has more than doubled in the last couple of months. I know you are doing a pantry challenge but if you guys like dark chocolate so far it’s held.. right now 5 lbs of dark chips is about $30 but no telling what will happen next. Just an FYI to look at the prices of other options from Azure. I’m a chocolate fan.😁
Oh I know! It’s sad how much chocolate has gone up and likely will continue to. I too am a big chocolate fan 😆
Very nice and lovely
Thank you ☺️
Any time you are doing better than you ever have, you are successful. Its always the goal, just be better than you were before. I'm jealous though that your amaranth (pigweed) isnt spiny. (Dont bring in cow manure from some other place is the lesson there) My wife and I have battled the heck out of weeds and still do. The biggest thing is that it can rob the plants of what they need. But if you just plant more, that is 90% of it.. but then you have more weeds as you have to have more space. Gardening is tough, but you deserve to be proud of what you've done and it will get better.
Thank you! Believe me I learned my lesson with manure, we brought in horse manure and that’s when the weeds went WILD! It’s been a constant battle since then. Never again!
Wdym? Yeah, maybe your garden doesn't look like some picturesque garden found in some magazine that was planted by professions in a staged setting. But when you take into account life, the success and setbacks of nature, along with the fact that you're growing food for your family that will be better for you guys. I see your garden and hope you feel as proud as I would having that in my yard. Keep up the amazing work and thanks for the tour! 👏👏👏
Thank you so much! I am feeling pretty proud this year.
Beautiful property! Do you reuse your weed fabric?
This weed fabric is absolutely reusable but because of my issue with voles coming up from under it I won’t be reusing it
@@poplarcreekfarm19 2 things we learned that MAY or MAY NOT benefit you. The weed fabric does attract certain rodents, but some could be beneficial. In our raised bed, oddly we have voles (they ate every strawberry plant) but in our field we just have shrews and moles under the weed fabric. Those will eat the Japanese beetle larvae, AND they sort of "till" the soil for you. So pros and cons.. but if they are eating your plants, for sure its a vole and not good :)
@HomesteadDNA yea that ate like 60 tomato plants and probably 25-30 pepper plants 😭 it was awful. Definitely doesn’t feel worth it. It was nice for the weeds but I can fight those
BT for potato beetles?
I do think that would help but because my garden is so close to my bees I even worry about organic pest control.
@@poplarcreekfarm19 Spinosad is organic, and if you get the larvae it will end them pretty quick. BT might work too, as they still eat the leaves, but i know Spinosad does.
@HomesteadDNA does it possibly affect bees though? That’s always my concern. My bees are just outside my garden. It’s a pain to squish them but I can manage that if needsd
Quite a variety! What do you use for fertilization?
Neptunes harvest fish emulsion is my go to typically, it’s easy and works super well!
Wow, that’s a huge garden. I’m surprised it looks as good as it does. A lot of your stuff I’ve never even heard of. What would a lunch box pepper be? Something mild like a banana pepper? Keep up the good work.
I grew the lunchbox peppers last year. Very mild. I won’t grow them again however not because there was anything wrong with them but because I am not done exploring.
They are those small sweet colorful peppers often sold in bags as snack peppers in the grocery store. My kids love them that’s why I’m growing them. Thank you!
@@poplarcreekfarm19 Thanks
What protein percent do you feed them and how much/often? Also what is the minerals and how do you offer those?
Our breeders and feeders gets a 18% protein feed, 20% is more ideal but this is what I have access to, and the most they get is 4lbs of feed per day. We occasionally do nexgen2090 minerals but honestly I don’t do it year round. Some people deal with more significant rooting without minerals but we haven’t had that issue fortunately. Minerals are mixed in with daily feed rations at the rate on the bag.
I’ve heard of Azure but wasn’t really familiar with their products. I’m more of an ALDI’s guy. I hope you can make it last for a month! Nice to see two well-behaved young people.
They are good kids! It’s a wonderful company definitely check them out
Wow pantry challenge! I hope you are allowing yourself to forage a bit!
The garden will help a lot! Plus wild blackberries will be coming in soon. We will be overwhelmed with abundance.
I bet you senses of taste and smell will improve dramatically! I hate the garbage that we eat. Although I did have a Wendy’s double cheeseburger for lunch……
@OneMound1 all in moderation
We took our "kunekunes" to the butcher this week. Our biggest pig "Buster" we think was an IPP as his hanging weight was 209. We're thinking of "upgrading" to IPP soon as waiting 18 months for Kune Kune's to mature is no fun! I'm curious what your processing cost was per lb.?
I definitely think IPPs are the way to go for a smaller meat breed because you get the best of both worlds! They don’t get huge like many breeds but still grow out at a decent rate. I believe our total cost per lb was around $4.50 and that is with non gmo feed.
Do the best you can and learn from it. I am not one to give advice but possibly you are tackling too big of an area considering your circumstances. I have had a similar issue . Good luck!
Thanks! I do agree and will make changes in the future.
I know it’s hot, hard work but you’re getting it done! Don’t give up. You’ll be proud when you see the results.
Oh absolutely!
Good idea for a video.
Thanks!
Thanks for the information, Miss.
Thanks for watching!
Great information, but a lot more work than most of us are willing to do! Thanks.
I understand! This is a way for my family to save money on gardening.
@@poplarcreekfarm19 Absolutely. Never a bad plan.
I took your daughters opinion to heart!
She is a smart little one!
That is one cute little girl you have
Thanks
Lots of love from india India🎉🎉🎉
Thank you!
...❤get back to your tub full of little joys and the "why" comes back immediately ❤😊
Every little bit helps. Suprisingly you actually have more weeds than us - not an easy task LOL. Too bad about the voles -seemed like a great method.
I just let the weeds get too bad for too long so now they take over lol