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Eric Hammond The Joy Of Homesteading
Приєднався 14 чер 2014
Many people struggle on their homesteads of where to start, get discouraged from failure and feel downright overwhelmed. The Joy Of Homesteading channel teaches people and gives them the tools to get started, get encouraged and paint a picture of an abundant, successful life.
How to dye a sheep pink
Have you ever wanted to use a natural dye like poke weed or poke berry to dye a natural fiber like wool?
We here I’m going to show you how I dyed a whole sheep pink.
It turned out really well! There are a lot of projects that seem to be time sensitive on the homestead. Pokeberries are only ripe one time of the year.
Let me know what you think in the comments.
We here I’m going to show you how I dyed a whole sheep pink.
It turned out really well! There are a lot of projects that seem to be time sensitive on the homestead. Pokeberries are only ripe one time of the year.
Let me know what you think in the comments.
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Clover as a living mulch in your garden update
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Here’s an update to my video on using clover as a living mulch in your garden. This is a brand new bed with what I would consider dirt, not soil. Low fertility and no organic matter. I was super satisfied with the results. Overall between the two beds I pulled 30 lbs of organic onions. The local Walmart sells 3 lbs for 5.34, so basically $50 bucks in onions. The onion seeds or bulbs were $3. Pr...
Heat for baby chickens off grid solution?
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Most people use heat lamps to brood their baby chicks. This can come with several downsides. High energy consumption and fire risk to name a few. We use seed starting heat mats to keep them warm. Energy use is very low compared to heating with a lamp and the risk of fire is much lower. Let me know what you think. This is a way to provide heat even if your off grid
Clover as a living mulch for your garden beds update
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I set up four new beds this year and I’ve been experimenting with things to get these beds up and going into maximum production as quickly as possible building soil fertility. One of the biggest things is a high organic content in your soil. One of the strategies I’ve been using is a living mulch and clover seemed like the ideal plant. Relatively low growing, builds mass that can be choppy and ...
Caught a bee swarm today and installed in a top bar hive
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Finding a swarm is as good as finding a $150 dollar bill. I’m sure these swarms came from my father’s hives but it’s nice to save them and keep them on the property. In this video I put a swarm inside a top bar hive.
Lazy composting attempt
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I’m all about using as little labor as possible to accomplish any task around the homestead so when I heard about making compost that requires no turning and you get a better final product I was all in. Now this does take a year to complete but if you get started now and continuously make compost you’ll never be without and only have to wait that first time. Check out Johnson su bioreactor comp...
Easy peel hard boiled eggs
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Trying to make the perfect easy to peel boiled egg can be be tough. There are so many different methods and most of them don't seem to work at all. I've heard it all, use warm eggs, cold eggs, old eggs, new eggs, stick them in ice after cooking etc..... most of these do not work This method of using a pressure cooker to pressure steam the eggs works great and always works. Try it out and let me...
Cleaning out my winter hydroponics bed for seed starting
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Here’s the last of my winter greens I grew! What an awesome project. I’m pulling out old plants to make room for seeds I’m starting for the garden
How I start/germinate seeds indoors
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Here’s my method for getting seeds to germinate indoors. Most seeds don’t require lights to germinate, at least the stuff I grow. There are a ton of uses for heat mats and a thermostat. I used this same setup to hatch eggs
The importance of mulch and soil moisture, updates to garden beds
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Just a quick update to my garden beds and showing the moisture levels of a woody mulch vs a bare soil bed
$5 Upgrade for your raised metal garden bed
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$5 Upgrade for your raised metal garden bed
Raised metal garden bed building soil fertility when you make it
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Raised metal garden bed building soil fertility when you make it
Fertilizer for raised beds at Walmart to promote biology
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Fertilizer for raised beds at Walmart to promote biology
Grow what you eat! Getting raised beds started
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Grow what you eat! Getting raised beds started
Charcoal fixed fragile eggs for our homestead
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Charcoal fixed fragile eggs for our homestead
Best thing I ever did on my homestead
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Best thing I ever did on my homestead
High tensile electric fence will help you rotate your animals and livestock
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High tensile electric fence will help you rotate your animals and livestock
We are running out of time on our homestead
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We are running out of time on our homestead
How to cook eggs in a cast iron pan / skillet
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How to cook eggs in a cast iron pan / skillet
Do sheep need hay in the winter? Grazing in the snow!
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Do sheep need hay in the winter? Grazing in the snow!
Floating post/corner post brace installation
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Floating post/corner post brace installation
Spinning Jenny homemade for high tensile electric fence
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Spinning Jenny homemade for high tensile electric fence
Hydroponics update, zero degrees outside fresh local food
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Hydroponics update, zero degrees outside fresh local food
Digging a 4 foot post hole for high tensile electric fence
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Digging a 4 foot post hole for high tensile electric fence
LOL! That's one thing to do with the berries. Tried poke salad once, won't eat it again. Thanks for the video.
Why dont uou use backup DC batteries to run your well pump?
I’m not sure what your asking exactly, if you explain the question a little better I would be glad to answer
The fair test would be with the 6 amp high put battery that comes with the whole kit. I just got a great deal this month at Home Depot. Got this Fuel M18 prune saw /6-amp high output battery with charger for total of $279.00. Was on tax free day in S.C.
I love your approach to gardening! Layering on organic material is a great way to improve soil over the long term. Love how the clover looks btw.
thumbs up from france, I've come across the idea of clover as soil cover here and there, this is the first hands on video I've seen about it, seems to work like a charm, I'll give it a go
Wow! That was a great idea. Thanks for the update, I was wondering how it worked out for you. Did the bee swarms stay in your dad's bee hive boxes?
The bees did not stay! Darn the luck. We’ve got plenty of hives so it’s not a huge loss, but it would have been nice 👍
Exactly what i wanted to hear. Thanks for the video. My buddy has goats and they seem to always be getting out.
I had goats and loved them but they were always getting out. These hair sheep are like a goat but they can be contained easily. For a small homestead like mine it seems like the ideal animal
If you use a high output or forge pack on the m18 it’ll be the same or more powerful than the 24cc saw, I say this because I own the same saws as you, also try the new m18 pole saw it is insanely powerful, it will beat most professional saws which actually makes my eye twitch… although I love the smell of 2 stroke but I cannot believe how good they’re.
Great idea! We use those same heat mats for our seed starting in the spring. Haven’t thought of using it for brooding. We are also off grid (7 years) and have used hot water bottles wrapped in a towel for heating area where we had baby ducks. It worked well but we had to boil water and refill often. Thanks for the idea!
I decided to do no research and throw a bunch of clover seed around my veggies. Glad you're a bit ahead of me so i can see how you're doing it. I look forward to future updates!
I’ve got an update out ua-cam.com/video/SLcRhnBYeMw/v-deo.htmlsi=PBRavsPOcp97lure
Any update as of now? I’m in the same position as you, tired of loudness and dealing with carburetors…
It’s a fantastic piece of a equipment that has become a staple on my homestead. If mine broke I would buy another tomorrow. I do not want to be without it. Your not going to cut cords of firewood with it, but for work around the homestead and house it’s absolutely fantastic
Just leave it in place and put a good layer of brown mulch on top. Thank me later.
I may try that on one bed. Basically I’m chopping and dropping it, letting it maintain a ground cover and it’s working awesome
Beautiful
So what do you mulch them up? And then compost into your plants
Chop and drop right in place to continue to use as mulch and add organic matter and nutrients to the soil
Great review Eric! I work full time for an arborist. I spend a lot of time with a Stihl 201T. The 25-36cc top handle saws have long been a multi-purpose saw for tree climbers, but inevitably, the wood gets too large and you need to haul up a rear handle saw. It’s true that batteries are heavier than fuel and electric saws cut differently. I’ve had opportunity to climb with a variety of top handle saws this year. I had assumed the lightest saw would be my favorite, but I’ve discovered that bulk inhibits movement and cutting access far more than a few extra pounds. If I can get away with no chainsaw while pruning, I will. - I spent 4 hours thinning silver maples on Thursday, using only a 13in hand saw (I had the chainsaw handed up for one cut). The 201T feels twice as large as the 194T, and four times larger than the Echo 2500T, yet the 201t is not this many times heavier). For me the need for a compact power saw cuts between 2.5 inch hand saw cuts and 10 inch oak cuts. Excepting spear cuts, there are many more time consuming challenges to overcome than cutting speed - (work planning, rigging, bushwhacking)…especially bushwhacking. Incidentally this bushwhacking is slow, boring and occurs when the ground crew is least attentive or interested in your workflow, are probably feeding a chipper, and are less likely to hand up/down a different saw. I’d love to have the least tangl-prone electric saw to cover that 2.5-10 inch cutting range-and this 18V Hatchet is appealing. The slow chain speed seems to be an advantage (vines, safety) and disadvantage (rough finish cuts, more teeth required).
I am loving my m18 hatchet. It’s now my go to saw for homestead activities. It’s moved into the category that if it broke I would buy another immediately
i have have a smaller one, its less expensive, it does the same thing, but its not that good oh and it has wiskers
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Love the baby. "Star" of your video. I definitely use dish liquid with no problem. 😊
Did you know that they will eat all your veg, fruit and flowers as well? Cattle would do it quicker 😂 I have experience of this. 🐄🐄🐄
Im not allowed to have that lawnmower where I live 😭
Did you know that theyre very slow at doing it? XD
😂😆🌿
Thats lawn powered not solar powered
Yeah but, you need at least two for the yearly upgrades.
Yep. But my non hoa code enforcement officer wont let be get the services 😢.
Maybe they can be your emotional support animal and slide in under the radar
The grass is still high.
It’s starting to look pretty good now several hours later
He just moved em’ thats why.
Those animals cost a lot more than $200…
Around here you could buy a wether for 150 dollars, rams and ewe lambs are around 175 to 200
@@TheJoyOfHomesteading you fucking donut, what about the upkeep cost?
@@TheJoyOfHomesteading your lawn is so long your lawn mower is doing a really shitty job hope ya love skeeters they love long grass and lazy people who dont cut
@@metismessiah106 Keyboard warriors who won't punctuate their sentences are either uneducated or lazy. Which category are you?
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Here in Arizona when we get a swarm of bees we don't mess with them at all and let them leave on their own or call a beekeeper. There is a chance (albeit a small chance) they are Africanized bees.
Is it just me or is this tree hugger whining about everything?
Looking good so far, be sure to let us know how it progresses. Great job!!
I could see the steam. Perfect for fermenting cabbage into sauerkraut. Place large jars of cabbage in the compost with the lids exposed. You will have sauerkraut in no time at all.
As long as you shock the eggs it works both ways. I use a spoon to put eggs in boiling water. Voila shocked and peels os easy.
Boil in a saucepan plunge into ice water to shock the membrane, less that half the overall time; way less than half the effort; same result
Boil the eggs for 15 minutes. Remove from the boiling water and crack the shell all over. Plunge into ice water for 15 minutes. The most important tip is to make sure you peel that inner membrane with the shell.
I also know a good and easy way to peel an egg.. just peel it.
I do it the same way !!!
We will try that next time Eric. What is your elevation?
Right at 1400 feet
Ok, will adjust for 4877
Looks good, unfortunately I don’t have a pressure cooker yet. Can you suggest best pressure cookers?
I like a stainless steel pressure cooker like a presto brand. If you have any thrift stores you can usually pick one up for next to nothing and may just need a new gasket. The instant pot pressure cookers work great as well, and then you only need to plug them in
You do not need pressure cooker to cook eggs. You just boil some water in a sauce pot and add the eggs when the water start boiling so it is easy to peel instead of adding the eggs and cold water to cook the eggs. Just boil the water first. Use a spoon to drop the eggs into the boiling water so you do not burn yourself with hot water. Only takes about 10 minutes for eggs to cook.
Where are the carrots 🥕 🤔
I don't know why this came up in my UA-cam feed but the video was really cool and informative. I hope that more people see the video.
Thank you
Thank you for sharing
If you want healthy food you need to grow “no till”. Think of your soil as a living lasagna. Just as inside our bodies if doesn’t matter what chemicals or nutrients you put into the soil if they are not bioavailable to the plant they do no good. To get nutrients into the plant requires a symbiotic relationship with little critters, microbes and fungus in living soil as opposed to dead dirt.
Exactly
Nice upgrade. It should do the trick.
Nitrogen - phosphorus and potassium is usually what fertlizer is. Nitrogen is from sources like manure, ground up animal parts(blood meal, feather dust and leather dust), phosphorous is from rock phosphate and potassiums are from wood ashes or potash. Most common nitrogen is urea . Most of the things have fancy chemistry names to identify them and make the source consistent.
The problem is chemical fertilizers do not produce food of equal nutritional value. They provide only major nutrients. Plants grown in an organic-based soil are able to withstand pests and diseases much better. Chemical fertilizers can be beneficial for a quick boost in early spring when the ground is cold and bioactivity is minimized. Depending on chemicals completely depletes the soil and produces food that may look good but provides substantially less nutritional value.
It's the same as organic fertilizer !
With two different metals buried like that you might rust the bolts out on the ends faster. Excellent upgrade though!
Oh my word! Is all matter made of chemicals and elemnts!?!? QUICK start growing plants out of energy fields!!