I want to give you kudos for getting the entire family involved. Your children will have skills to survive hard times in a rewarding and self-sufficient way. You have a handsome family sir, Christ's blessings to you all.
I’m so happy I had the chance to grow up on a farm in India. I still grow plants in my backyard here in Texas now. This year, I had a lot of okras, tindoras, beans, etc.
Really great to see your permaculture system getting more and more refined. Wonder if comfrey would be a good chop-and-drop addition for ground cover around your fruit trees. Definitely took some notes while watching this video.
We live in the UK. In our mid 70s so we'll not be homesteading ..... I enjoy your videos so much. Its delight to watch you and your family progress and thrive! Thank you for sharing your lives x
Yes! I'm divorced and at nearly 60 I doubt I will be homesteading (I'd sure take it though!) Love watching your little children run around the yard and look forward to having my grandson over more as he gets older. He's just three now. :)
The U.K. and Ierland is where most of paternal heritage is from. Scotland, Whales, and Southern England, (Sommerset) mostly celtic. Most of them to America because they very poor and the colonies sounded better to prison to them. I have always wanted to visit your nation. I am related somehow to William Wallace, and others. But many many are, and I am short and I am as my ded would describe himself, 'just a fat little Englishman' (he never saw the U.K.).
Its never too late to start a little homesteading! It doesnt mean you have to grow all of your own food, just as much or little as you want. Also its great, refreshing exercise for "old" bones!
I so enjoyed this! While both my husband and I grew up with gardening and animals, for a number of years after we were married,we didn't own our place to where we could do much of that. We have our own little homestead now and last year got some animals and did some gardening. This year we expanded some, and want to continue to add things as we can. This video was so helpful and inspiring! I really enjoy all your videos and feel like I can learn a lot. Much blessings on you and your family!
Very well done. I especially like how the kids are involved in growing the food that they eat. They will learn food science, team work, the ecosystem of the earth, and so much more. Your kids will have the advantage of so many more life experiences (and memories) growing up on a self-sustaining farm than us who grew up in the cities. Keep up the good work.
What a beautiful video. If I had a Time Machine I would go back to my dads garden and insist on getting in there instead of always being kicked out of it❤
I really appreciate the video and information. I've watched the video half a dozen times now and am planning to implement once we get our recently purchased 51 acres of trees cleared out enough to start. I came here for the 3-sisters information and will most likely start with that since that seems an easy place to start. In case anyone else wants to know, I've scribed down the following for my information and wanted to share; A circular mound of dirt (about 2-1/2 too 3' wide), about every 4', 4 corn per mound about 6" apart, about a week or so later plant 4-6 bean per mound, and plant squash between the mounds. Great activity for kids! Can even use a ~6" x 6" Magnetile square 🙂 : Butternut : Oaxacan Green Dent Dry and grind into corn meal for baking and porridge. Be careful not to cross pollinate with other corn plants if you are trying to grow for reseed next year. : Cherokee Trail of Tears Buy from Seed Savers Exchange? : Adirondack Blues or Molly, and Carola... And Elba for better winter storage.
I truly enjoyed this video. Your systems are well thought out. We are limited by where we live, but it doesn’t stop us. This year our focus is on things we are good at and what we normally buy for our canning needs. We’re hoping all gardeners have a great season. We love your family!♥️👍🙏🇺🇸😎
@@FromScratchFarmstead thank you, we try to always be positive, the alternative is not acceptable to us, we’re old and need to make our time count for something.♥️
Thank you for your help videos! 🤩 I started making soap a year ago and this spring I found your shampoo bar recipe. Wow! What a game changer in our bathroom! We all love it, and my friends I have it to! Thank you for sharing! Also thank you for your spaghetti squash recipe! I’ll be trying at church potluck soon! ❤ Lots of love from Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Together and I loved how you get everything cleaned up and a really quick time. Also loved seeing your chicken coops how easy they were to move around.
New subscriber. Looking forward to your channel and journey. God bless you all and many prayers 🙏🏻 Nurse Judi in Scottsdale AZ and Eucharistic Minister 🙏🏻 ❤️ ☦️ 💙
If I remember right there are actuslly four sisters in the native gardens described in Buffalo Bird Womans Garden. The forth sister is sunflowers. They were grown in a long row along the side of the garden.
Excellent job! As a kid I have fond memories of a large garden (2 acres) we had at an out-of-town location. It was a great education, learned work ethic and bonding with siblings. You are doing it right! God Bless.
I'm in the same boat with late plantings and all the rain. I'm constantly trying to remind myself that there is still plenty of time left in my growing zone.
Watching videos of planting potatoes I see whole seed potatoes being planted. I am 68 yrs old and I grow up planting gardens and canning. I still can sometimes. But with planting potatoes my grandpa taught me to cut the potatoes with 2 or 3 eyes per chunk to plant. Maybe it's to expand the amount of hills. It was the depression time that grandpa lived. We did grow a lot of potatoes.
Yes, you could definitely cut them smaller. We had so many potatoes to use for seed and many were on the smaller side with only a few eyes on them so we opted to keep them whole this time. Thanks for sharing, that's really special that you were able to do that with your Grandpa!
Such a wonderful video. You make things look so simple. I'm pretty much on my own with the garden and it's gotten to the point where I get what I get as my arthritis has me limited. Thank you for all the time you put into showing us how you do and accomplish things. God Bless and HAPPY GARDENING.
Wow, loved this video! The three sisters method is a total game changer - it’s like nature’s perfect partnership! Your detailed planting strategies are inspiring. I also agree, potatoes and butternut squash are essential for winter! Thanks for sharing your journey and tips - totally trying the broccolini this year! Keep up the amazing work, fellow homesteaders!
In the 70's, 80's, a man in NJ, funded his retirement from growing seedlings, and his one acre garden, and greenhouse, and even his own compost. His compost, was the best dirt I've ever got. His wife, made dolls, etc. They did great, they died with money, even after the wife spent some time in a nursing home.
for what it’s worth - at 20:17 , when using a knife to cut through a hose, look at slicing rather than only forcing the blade through the hose and ensure the direction of the force is applied in a direction away from the body. At 20:17 it looks like the direction was towards the face.
So much for sharing how little space you really need to really put a good garden in. You did a great job and it was wonderful seeing the whole family get interested in this garden you did a great job. Really loved it. Thanks so much for sharing from the beginning to the end, great job on the video.
My friend planted out 1-2 acres a yr every spring She had 9- with lots of hungry teens too There was never anything in her fridge as all food cooked for a meal was instantly devoured and even a pint of mayo made up for a meal would get just about eaten. Mustard might kick around in there. Jam sat on counter with the pb as the jar was gone in 2 days. 6 loaves of homemade bread a day. Kids were skinny, not fat!
I love planting Holy Basil, Lemon Basil, and Lemon Thyme to make lemonade and tea. It’s the smell of summer for me. Check out the medicinal benefits. Especially thyme.
I love that!! We used to volunteer at a local CSA vegetable farm that grew all of those and I agree, such wonderful smells! We would like to incorporate more herbs as well :).
You can eat the greens on sweet potatoes, but here they do much better in a greenhouse treated like a tropical plant. Hopefully yours do well! I love the purple and orange flesh sweet potatoes. You can also grow your own slips which makes it very cheap. 1 potato produces 20-30 slips 🙂
I'm so excited to try the sweet potato greens and growing our own slips! We are relatively new to sweet potatoes and we'll see how they do in our growing zone. Thank you for sharing all of this!
Great video and operation. Lucky kids to grow up with that. Check out getting wood chips from tree services. Once we get a few layers breaking down we shouldn't need to water anymore. The fruit trees would love it
Lucky family, both husband and wife sharing the same passion, usually couples diverge with each complaining about what the other is doing or even worse working against it 😅
We use BCS tillers a lot in my industry. I haven't seen someone struggle with getting one started in a while. 😆 We have 4 of these here, and the trick with ours is one pull at full choke, then it will start next pull with no choke. It's been true for most I've messed with. Don't forget to turn the switch on, which I usually do starting anything with one of these Hondas. 😂 Y'all have a sweet setup!
full choke then no choke? man, you old school... I learned on the ol' Tecumseh lawn mower engines and have started many a snow blower in a single digit blizzard morning in NY State using 110AC power to git er done. cheers man
Thanks for the comment and tip! Our BCS is very old and not in the best shape so I've just had a hard time getting anything to be consistent with it. But I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for watching!
I am so happy to have come across your channel, we have a lot in common. We too, tried to grow everything when we first came to our homestead and now we try to plant what we eat and more of the winter staples. Your corn is such a pretty variety, for us painted mountain corn seems to do really well. This spring we planted it again from seed I saved MANY years ago, too many to cont, and because it was so old I planted two or three? in some holes, the germination was so good I will have to thin it out. We also plant a variation on the 3 sisters, but in our rows. We plant a corn and a bean (usually Aunt Emma's dried bean) together then a squash every four hole, it has worked so well over the years, and really maximizes our space. Love the video, you have a new subscriber here.
Awesome! Sounds like we are definitely on the same page. I'm curious to check out painted moutain corn - love the name :). Hope you have a great growing season!
Hi, I learned from a Blue Zone documentary that the Three Sisters are not only a way to grow Corn, Beans and Squash. Those three ingredients have all the 9 enzymes your body needs to make protein (meat, etc have all 9 in just the one ingredient). So a very healthy combo when you have a vegetarien meal🤗❤️
"Sauerkraut" literally just means "sour cabbage" in German. It doesn't matter if it's red cabbage or green cabbage, if it has carrots or garlic or caraway seeds in it. It is still *technically* "sour cabbage". Whomever told you otherwise can go stuff it. Politely, of course. I love your garden setup. Especially the chicken tractors incorporated into the system felt like a lightbulb moment for many of us viewers.
another tip... find a dowel that is perfect size for the hole u want to dig in the soil for corn and beans...make a pointed end and voila...fast and easy even the kids can use it with ease.
For me “Tigers eye” and “Painted Pony” are the dried beans that give me the best harvest. I’ve tried many, many, but in zone 3 these are now my regulars. For sweet potato slips, I’ve come to always grow my own instead of purchasing. The time it takes for the purchased slips to recover and start growing again can be used for actual growing of my homegrown slips…but in zone 3 I have to over-focus on time since it is a true race from last frost to first frost. Just part of the fun of gardening!
Have you thought about an area of permaculture with layered perennials? blueberries, asparugus, walking onions, strawberries, horseradish with companion planting, garlic ect? Or an area of medicinal flowers, teas, comfrey, borders to attract pollinators? Only asking because it's a dream we hope to take some time and start little by little. I have many of your videos to checkout yet. -John's wife
We have been slowly adding more perennials to our property, asparagus, rhubarb, herbs, some flowers. It's a work in progress, a little bit each year as we have capacity. But I agree, perennials are definitely the way to go!
I enjoyed your video. I've strived to be as self reliant all my life (I'm 70) as my father was before me.Here in the UK, land(as garden) is ,by and large, at more of a premium, in my back garden (you call it a backyard) I can grow nearly all the fruit and veg we need (not bananas!) on a walled plot 10yds x 40yds including chickens for eggs (I don't eat meat). All my top fruit (Apple's /pears /stone fruit ) is either cordoned,espaliered or step over,this is much more productive in terms of space. Here we need a 20ft x 8ft polytunnel,and a small 10x 6 ft greenhouse. I'd encourage everyone to explore 'no dig ' principles (see Charles Dowding). Good luck and best wishes to you and your family.
I like the 3 sister except although I love sweet corn it does not work in my small garden. Savoy cabbage has the most nutrition over red. Try kimchi similar to kraut but uses chinese cabbage which I find more tender and sweet. I replace corn to potatoes, I plant Viking for early and kenebec for later. I live where there is clay soil so I plant danver half long, I get these from the dollar tree for .25 cents and they do great. Ferry Morris is the company that dollar store uses so they are very good. My wife is from the tropics where sweet potatoes do well so she likes sweet potatoes, me not so much. Green beans "the big Kahona" grows quickllly, also onions, candy, sweet peas, lettuce, sweet peppers, and tomatoes. I also send seeds to Zambia Africa to a church work by a local pastor to help feed the many effected by AIDS. Altough this year since I retired that is more difficult.
Wonderful! I also planted too much and had so much food I couldn't use, years ago when my children were small. Live and learn! I need to go out and get the last of my seeds in, I have sunflowers and marigolds I want to throw in the ground. It could still work! ;)
just subscribed due to your description of your realization - it maps exactly to the mistake I was just about to make: "buy a new house, have a big garden" - WRONG lol 😆thanks for the deep insight, I love the tractor purchase - excellent move - you can move dirt too - I was thinking of getting a high end riding mower that could double on some small tractor tasks but having that front end load means you can create swales, and a hundred other things.. many thanks and may you have a fantastic crop this year, thanks for sharing ❤
I want to give you kudos for getting the entire family involved. Your children will have skills to survive hard times in a rewarding and self-sufficient way. You have a handsome family sir, Christ's blessings to you all.
Thanks so much!
I’m so happy I had the chance to grow up on a farm in India. I still grow plants in my backyard here in Texas now. This year, I had a lot of okras, tindoras, beans, etc.
That's awesome!! I had to look up what a tindora was. Thanks for sharing and watching!
You have beautiful children. Which is just a refection of yourselves. Living life and thriving. 2 thumbs up.
Thank you so much!
The blast off hose run was everything! ❤ Memories your children will cherish!
That's when I had to change it
Really great to see your permaculture system getting more and more refined. Wonder if comfrey would be a good chop-and-drop addition for ground cover around your fruit trees. Definitely took some notes while watching this video.
Ooh! Great suggestion - thank you! So glad this was helpful for you!
We live in the UK. In our mid 70s so we'll not be homesteading ..... I enjoy your videos so much. Its delight to watch you and your family progress and thrive! Thank you for sharing your lives x
Aw! Thanks for the encouragement!!
Yes! I'm divorced and at nearly 60 I doubt I will be homesteading (I'd sure take it though!) Love watching your little children run around the yard and look forward to having my grandson over more as he gets older. He's just three now. :)
Yes!I like you involving your children helping with the garden!
The U.K. and Ierland is where most of paternal heritage is from. Scotland, Whales, and Southern England, (Sommerset) mostly celtic. Most of them to America because they very poor and the colonies sounded better to prison to them. I have always wanted to visit your nation. I am related somehow to William Wallace, and others. But many many are, and I am short and I am as my ded would describe himself, 'just a fat little Englishman' (he never saw the U.K.).
Its never too late to start a little homesteading! It doesnt mean you have to grow all of your own food, just as much or little as you want. Also its great, refreshing exercise for "old" bones!
I so enjoyed this! While both my husband and I grew up with gardening and animals, for a number of years after we were married,we didn't own our place to where we could do much of that. We have our own little homestead now and last year got some animals and did some gardening. This year we expanded some, and want to continue to add things as we can. This video was so helpful and inspiring! I really enjoy all your videos and feel like I can learn a lot. Much blessings on you and your family!
That's awesome!! Thanks so much for sharing and so glad this was helpful!
I agree I learn so much from this channel!
@@Balanced_Waters Thanks so much for watching!
Wow!! This is amazing.. so inspiring as i have been thinking about same here in Nepal. Thank you sharing this.
@@binodmaharjan-dc3mr Thanks so much for watching!
Very well done. I especially like how the kids are involved in growing the food that they eat. They will learn food science, team work, the ecosystem of the earth, and so much more. Your kids will have the advantage of so many more life experiences (and memories) growing up on a self-sustaining farm than us who grew up in the cities. Keep up the good work.
It's such a blessing to learn and do this alongside them! Thanks for watching!
This has been the most interesting video about small area farming. Great to see a family working together to achieve this kind of goal.
What a beautiful video. If I had a Time Machine I would go back to my dads garden and insist on getting in there instead of always being kicked out of it❤
Aw! This is a good reminder though! Thanks for watching!
Same here. With a time machine, I'd ask my Papaw if I could help him in his garden, and ask my Mamaw if I could help her with harvesting and canning.
Gardening is one of the best thing. Keep shining
I really appreciate the video and information. I've watched the video half a dozen times now and am planning to implement once we get our recently purchased 51 acres of trees cleared out enough to start.
I came here for the 3-sisters information and will most likely start with that since that seems an easy place to start.
In case anyone else wants to know, I've scribed down the following for my information and wanted to share;
A circular mound of dirt (about 2-1/2 too 3' wide), about every 4', 4 corn per mound about 6" apart, about a week or so later plant 4-6 bean per mound, and plant squash between the mounds.
Great activity for kids! Can even use a ~6" x 6" Magnetile square 🙂
: Butternut
: Oaxacan Green Dent
Dry and grind into corn meal for baking and porridge.
Be careful not to cross pollinate with other corn plants if you are trying to grow for reseed next year.
: Cherokee Trail of Tears
Buy from Seed Savers Exchange?
: Adirondack Blues or Molly, and Carola... And Elba for better winter storage.
Dad is so hard working and backed by mom and amazing children, love watching every progress in your farm.
Thank you!
Great job. Loved the clear explanations and this 2 person choir - wife and husband
Plus little helpers team under daddy or mum command ❤
Thank you!
Inspiring! I love u-tube for the way it connects us from all over the world.
Blessings from Australia
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We love that too! So glad this was helpful for you. Thanks for watching!!
I truly enjoyed this video. Your systems are well thought out.
We are limited by where we live, but it doesn’t stop us. This year our focus is on things we are good at and what we normally buy for our canning needs. We’re hoping all gardeners have a great season.
We love your family!♥️👍🙏🇺🇸😎
Love this comment and all the positivity and encouragement!! It sounds like you are doing an amazing job - keep it up!
@@FromScratchFarmstead thank you, we try to always be positive, the alternative is not acceptable to us, we’re old and need to make our time count for something.♥️
Love your three sister planting. ❤-John's wife
I am watching this video from India... I really liked that you are very kind towards nature ✅🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳 LOVE FROM INDIA
Hi Jim! very cool, I'm so excited to see what you've done
Hi! We'll do an updated video later in the growing season :)
You are my new BFF 😂😂❤. Watching from Liberia, West Africa. Great work sis. I used to watch you when I was in America.
Aw! I love it! Thanks for watching!
Just subscribed. Your setup is inspiring. Your family is maximizing smart. Impressive.-John's wife
Thank you so much!
Living the best life💓. We're homesteading in No. AZ, best way to raise a family
Love it and totally agree! Thanks for watching!
Thank you for your help videos! 🤩 I started making soap a year ago and this spring I found your shampoo bar recipe. Wow! What a game changer in our bathroom! We all love it, and my friends I have it to! Thank you for sharing! Also thank you for your spaghetti squash recipe! I’ll be trying at church potluck soon! ❤ Lots of love from Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Aw! Thanks so much for the encouraging comment! So glad you are liking the shampoo bars!
What an incredible family and what a healthy way of living!!!! ❤❤❤❤❤
Together and I loved how you get everything cleaned up and a really quick time. Also loved seeing your chicken coops how easy they were to move around.
New subscriber. Looking forward to your channel and journey. God bless you all and many prayers 🙏🏻 Nurse Judi in Scottsdale AZ and Eucharistic Minister 🙏🏻 ❤️ ☦️ 💙
Thanks so much for following along and all your prayers!
If I remember right there are actuslly four sisters in the native gardens described in Buffalo Bird Womans Garden. The forth sister is sunflowers. They were grown in a long row along the side of the garden.
Someone just gave us that book - excited to check it out!! Jim is always saying we should grow sunflowers :)
@@FromScratchFarmstead It is a fascinating look at how this group really raised their gardens and about their culture in North Dakota.
@@FromScratchFarmstead And you also plant out your corn a couple of weeks before the others. So that when the bean grows it has a stem to climb.
Excellent job! As a kid I have fond memories of a large garden (2 acres) we had at an out-of-town location. It was a great education, learned work ethic and bonding with siblings. You are doing it right! God Bless.
Love these stories! What a great childhood and praying our children think the same!
I'm in the same boat with late plantings and all the rain. I'm constantly trying to remind myself that there is still plenty of time left in my growing zone.
Yes! I hear you!!
Least you got rain we are in a drought in my area...it's bad. My wells acting up
Watching videos of planting potatoes I see whole seed potatoes being planted. I am 68 yrs old and I grow up planting gardens and canning. I still can sometimes. But with planting potatoes my grandpa taught me to cut the potatoes with 2 or 3 eyes per chunk to plant. Maybe it's to expand the amount of hills. It was the depression time that grandpa lived. We did grow a lot of potatoes.
Yes, you could definitely cut them smaller. We had so many potatoes to use for seed and many were on the smaller side with only a few eyes on them so we opted to keep them whole this time. Thanks for sharing, that's really special that you were able to do that with your Grandpa!
Such a wonderful video. You make things look so simple. I'm pretty much on my own with the garden and it's gotten to the point where I get what I get as my arthritis has me limited. Thank you for all the time you put into showing us how you do and accomplish things. God Bless and HAPPY GARDENING.
Thanks for sharing! All the best to you! Hope you are still able to get out there and grow what you can :). Thanks for watching!
What a beautiful garden! A true family project. Nice to see the children eagerly helping,so sweet. Val C ❤🙏🏻
Thank you! Teamwork makes the dream work is a common phrase in our house :).
06:00 - watching your little ones work is so adorable
Wow, loved this video! The three sisters method is a total game changer - it’s like nature’s perfect partnership! Your detailed planting strategies are inspiring. I also agree, potatoes and butternut squash are essential for winter! Thanks for sharing your journey and tips - totally trying the broccolini this year! Keep up the amazing work, fellow homesteaders!
Thank you so much! Much love!
In the 70's, 80's, a man in NJ, funded his retirement from growing seedlings, and his one acre garden, and greenhouse, and even his own compost. His compost, was the best dirt I've ever got. His wife, made dolls, etc. They did great, they died with money, even after the wife spent some time in a nursing home.
Sounds like a great couple! Thanks for sharing! :)
for what it’s worth - at 20:17 , when using a knife to cut through a hose, look at slicing rather than only forcing the blade through the hose and ensure the direction of the force is applied in a direction away from the body. At 20:17 it looks like the direction was towards the face.
Good call! Thanks for watching!
Every video is highly detailed, offering step-by-step guidance from theory to practice
Thanks for watching!!
What a beautiful and industrious family!
I have an old Gravely walk behing with a rotary plow. It's a beast for making raised rows. Love that BCS you all have.
Nice! It's been perfect for getting going without needing to invest in any major equipment! Thanks for watching!
So much for sharing how little space you really need to really put a good garden in. You did a great job and it was wonderful seeing the whole family get interested in this garden you did a great job. Really loved it. Thanks so much for sharing from the beginning to the end, great job on the video.
Thanks so much!!
Your videos are great, I really enjoy watching them❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
Thanks so much!
beautiful homestead ❤ from Cambodia 🇰🇭
Thank you!!
I love how your son is like his dad’s shadow ❤
Gives me anxiety when he’s on the ground fallowing the tractor
Aw! Thanks so much for this encouragement! So glad these videos are helpful. Thank you for watching!
Very educational! Thank yiu
Oh! And scapes. I need to go pick those today.
Amazing. Good Work. The kids are very into farming and will keep them busy
My friend planted out 1-2 acres a yr every spring
She had 9- with lots of hungry teens too
There was never anything in her fridge as all food cooked for a meal was instantly devoured and even a pint of mayo made up for a meal would get just about eaten. Mustard might kick around in there. Jam sat on counter with the pb as the jar was gone in 2 days. 6 loaves of homemade bread a day.
Kids were skinny, not fat!
Wow!
Thanks for the book recommendations! God bless you and yours!
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
Thanks for all of the helpful information you packed into this video. I appreciate it!
You're welcome! So glad this was helpful!
I love planting Holy Basil, Lemon Basil, and Lemon Thyme to make lemonade and tea. It’s the smell of summer for me. Check out the medicinal benefits. Especially thyme.
I love that!! We used to volunteer at a local CSA vegetable farm that grew all of those and I agree, such wonderful smells! We would like to incorporate more herbs as well :).
I always look forward to your videos. They are always filled with great takeaways and are so well thought out. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for this encouraging comment!
Your garden is so beautiful and lush. Thank you for sharing!"
You're welcome!
You can eat the greens on sweet potatoes, but here they do much better in a greenhouse treated like a tropical plant. Hopefully yours do well! I love the purple and orange flesh sweet potatoes. You can also grow your own slips which makes it very cheap. 1 potato produces 20-30 slips 🙂
I'm so excited to try the sweet potato greens and growing our own slips! We are relatively new to sweet potatoes and we'll see how they do in our growing zone. Thank you for sharing all of this!
This was precious and inspiring. Thank you!
So glad! Thanks for watching!
This was great. Such a beautiful garden. I can't wait to see the harvest. Love your sweet family.
Thanks so much!!
Great video and operation. Lucky kids to grow up with that. Check out getting wood chips from tree services. Once we get a few layers breaking down we shouldn't need to water anymore. The fruit trees would love it
Great tip! Thanks for watching!
Tree Collards are a perennial plant that produces lots of greens in the colder months. They don’t produce as much in the hot summer months.
Your family life is so peaceful, the climate here is cool, I think the trees here are so lush ❤
Thanks for watching! 😊
Great Video! To me - the way you do it - is one of the smartest ideas I've ever seen! 🎉
Thank you!!
Inspiring ,you have a really great family there.
Thank you and thanks for watching! 😊
Awesome family and a beautiful homestead garden. Loved this video. Please keep it up.
Thank you!
I applaud your life choice and clearly great effort!!!
Thank you!
Very informative. Thank you for sharing.
You're welcome!
Very useful information for farmers. Hopefully there will be more videos like this that can provide useful insights. Thanks for sharing!'
You’re very welcome!
You are one of my favorites garden channels. Thanks
Aw! Thank you!!
Thank you. Very informative. Well explained. Great training for the children. Want drip irrigation too.
Glad this was helpful!! Drip irrigation is the best!
I love Carol Deppes book too
Your family is truly amazing.
Lucky family, both husband and wife sharing the same passion, usually couples diverge with each complaining about what the other is doing or even worse working against it 😅
We are so grateful that we are on the same page and enjoy pursuing these things together! Thanks for watching!
We use BCS tillers a lot in my industry. I haven't seen someone struggle with getting one started in a while. 😆
We have 4 of these here, and the trick with ours is one pull at full choke, then it will start next pull with no choke. It's been true for most I've messed with. Don't forget to turn the switch on, which I usually do starting anything with one of these Hondas. 😂
Y'all have a sweet setup!
full choke then no choke? man, you old school... I learned on the ol' Tecumseh lawn mower engines and have started many a snow blower in a single digit blizzard morning in NY State using 110AC power to git er done. cheers man
Thanks for the comment and tip! Our BCS is very old and not in the best shape so I've just had a hard time getting anything to be consistent with it. But I'll keep that in mind. Thanks for watching!
I am so happy to have come across your channel, we have a lot in common. We too, tried to grow everything when we first came to our homestead and now we try to plant what we eat and more of the winter staples. Your corn is such a pretty variety, for us painted mountain corn seems to do really well. This spring we planted it again from seed I saved MANY years ago, too many to cont, and because it was so old I planted two or three? in some holes, the germination was so good I will have to thin it out. We also plant a variation on the 3 sisters, but in our rows. We plant a corn and a bean (usually Aunt Emma's dried bean) together then a squash every four hole, it has worked so well over the years, and really maximizes our space. Love the video, you have a new subscriber here.
Awesome! Sounds like we are definitely on the same page. I'm curious to check out painted moutain corn - love the name :). Hope you have a great growing season!
Love this, thanks for sharing! Yall have a beautiful family!
Thanks so much!!
Awesome guys!!
Excellent video, thanks for sharing❤
You're welcome!
Hi, I learned from a Blue Zone documentary that the Three Sisters are not only a way to grow Corn, Beans and Squash. Those three ingredients have all the 9 enzymes your body needs to make protein (meat, etc have all 9 in just the one ingredient). So a very healthy combo when you have a vegetarien meal🤗❤️
Very interesting! Thanks for sharing!
"Sauerkraut" literally just means "sour cabbage" in German. It doesn't matter if it's red cabbage or green cabbage, if it has carrots or garlic or caraway seeds in it. It is still *technically* "sour cabbage". Whomever told you otherwise can go stuff it. Politely, of course.
I love your garden setup. Especially the chicken tractors incorporated into the system felt like a lightbulb moment for many of us viewers.
I live in a city but i miss living in a place like this ❤
Great video, we have one acre with probably about .5 to .75 acre to plant on. Very new to this way of life style and learning at the age of 62.
That's awesome! You can do so much on that amount of space! All the best!
another tip... find a dowel that is perfect size for the hole u want to dig in the soil for corn and beans...make a pointed end and voila...fast and easy even the kids can use it with ease.
Use a marker to draw circles for depth
Great tips! Thanks!
So glad I found your channel. I love it
Awesome! So glad you're here!
For me “Tigers eye” and “Painted Pony” are the dried beans that give me the best harvest. I’ve tried many, many, but in zone 3 these are now my regulars.
For sweet potato slips, I’ve come to always grow my own instead of purchasing. The time it takes for the purchased slips to recover and start growing again can be used for actual growing of my homegrown slips…but in zone 3 I have to over-focus on time since it is a true race from last frost to first frost. Just part of the fun of gardening!
Thanks for sharing! We are excited to grow our own sweet potato slips next year!
This was so helpful!
So glad to hear! Thanks for watching!
and the most awesome is the memories with those child is amazing less ipad phone is amazing
Have you thought about an area of permaculture with layered perennials? blueberries, asparugus, walking onions, strawberries, horseradish with companion planting, garlic ect? Or an area of medicinal flowers, teas, comfrey, borders to attract pollinators? Only asking because it's a dream we hope to take some time and start little by little. I have many of your videos to checkout yet. -John's wife
We have been slowly adding more perennials to our property, asparagus, rhubarb, herbs, some flowers. It's a work in progress, a little bit each year as we have capacity. But I agree, perennials are definitely the way to go!
1:20 the clouds 👏
I wish that my kids were little again.
Life was just so much fun
I love that second attachment on the rototiller that's a big help.
Yay!! Love that! Thanks for sharing!
I enjoyed your video.
I've strived to be as self reliant all my life (I'm 70) as my father was before me.Here in the UK, land(as garden) is ,by and large, at more of a premium, in my back garden (you call it a backyard) I can grow nearly all the fruit and veg we need (not bananas!) on a walled plot 10yds x 40yds including chickens for eggs (I don't eat meat). All my top fruit (Apple's /pears /stone fruit ) is either cordoned,espaliered or step over,this is much more productive in terms of space. Here we need a 20ft x 8ft polytunnel,and a small 10x 6 ft greenhouse. I'd encourage everyone to explore 'no dig ' principles (see Charles Dowding).
Good luck and best wishes to you and your family.
Sounds wonderful! Keep it up! 🙌
Well Organized and Great family !!!!
Thank you!
I am living vicariously through you. Love your videos.
Thank you!!
weather can always make your plans change. we had to replant 3 times this year.
Oh wow! That's a lot! Hopefully you're having a great harvest!
I like the 3 sister except although I love sweet corn it does not work in my small garden. Savoy cabbage has the most nutrition over red. Try kimchi similar to kraut but uses chinese cabbage which I find more tender and sweet. I replace corn to potatoes, I plant Viking for early and kenebec for later. I live where there is clay soil so I plant danver half long, I get these from the dollar tree for .25 cents and they do great. Ferry Morris is the company that dollar store uses so they are very good. My wife is from the tropics where sweet potatoes do well so she likes sweet potatoes, me not so much. Green beans "the big Kahona" grows quickllly, also onions, candy, sweet peas, lettuce, sweet peppers, and tomatoes. I also send seeds to Zambia Africa to a church work by a local pastor to help feed the many effected by AIDS. Altough this year since I retired that is more difficult.
Thanks for sharing these great tips! We'll have to try savoy cabbage! Keep it up!!
Wonderful! I also planted too much and had so much food I couldn't use, years ago when my children were small. Live and learn!
I need to go out and get the last of my seeds in, I have sunflowers and marigolds I want to throw in the ground. It could still work! ;)
Yes! We'd love to incorporate more flowers into our garden spaces. Love that!
Nice ❤❤
Great job
Thank you!
Great sharing video thanks❤
Those cheeses all sounds incredible!
thank you for sharing your experiences.
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
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Thank you!
just subscribed due to your description of your realization - it maps exactly to the mistake I was just about to make: "buy a new house, have a big garden" - WRONG lol 😆thanks for the deep insight, I love the tractor purchase - excellent move - you can move dirt too - I was thinking of getting a high end riding mower that could double on some small tractor tasks but having that front end load means you can create swales, and a hundred other things.. many thanks and may you have a fantastic crop this year, thanks for sharing ❤
Ha! So glad this was helpful for you! The tractor has definitely been a huge time saver. All the best!
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