Homestead Update August 2020
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2020
- Our southeastern Illinois homestead sits on 41 acres and has a 3.5 acre pond. On our homestead we raise chickens, ducks, Nigerian drawf goats, and pigs. We also have a nice size garden and a small fruit orchard. Today I will look and see how the homesteads doing.
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Country View Acres
P.O. Box 469
Robinson, IL 62454
We live in southeastern Illinois on a 41 acres homestead. We just finished building our log cabin overlooking our pond. We are trying to grow our own food and raise livestock. Follow us on our journey living the rural life and developing our property and becoming more self sufficient.
It's amazing to compare these videos to your older ones. The positive changes are fantastic. You and Rebekkah are doing a great job.
Managing a farm takes a lot of work. You all are doing a great job!
I love watching your channel. You both have a lovely attitude, you're hard working and you have a beautiful homestead. I really enjoy watching your progress with all that you are achieving and look forward to every new video. Love from the UK.
Thanks for all the beautiful scenery .
You have a beautiful place..all your hard work has payed off..from North Wales in the U.K.. xx
We used to put a trot line across our pond...stretch a line across the pond, use empty milk jugs to attach the lines going down with the sinkers... go back a few hours later and collect your fish
For the apple tree you are concerned about having the fire blight,,, as soon as possible cut the branch you pointed out and either tie it tightly in a large trash bag or burn it well away from the orchard. (The following actually works) Take two tablespoons of the treatment powder and mix it with water to create a paste that will stay in place,,, so thick is the key here. Apply it to the branch nub fairly uniformly including the face of the cut and at least an inch on the bark. After a few hours LOOSELY set a clear plastic freezer bag over the nub and secure it in place. LOOSELY is important as you want the area to drain off any moisture as well as not overheating. After a week remove the plastic and leave the area alone. Think of this as a strong shot of the antibiotic before you resume your usual systemic applications. This worked on 7 of 8 infected trees in old orchard that came with our new house.
Galas are my favorite apple!
Wow, that house and lake is gorgeous
Pond still looks great Evan! We just got 6 Indian Runner Ducks.... It's like watching bowling pins moving around. The plus is they don't fly away. Y'all should build a nice little foot bridge over that washed out culvert area.
Thanks so much for showing everything going on there in this video!! I was wondering about the garden and animals. As always, BEAUTIFUL homestead, you two have a lot to be proud of!
With the fire blight remember to clean your tools as that can spread it
I was wondering if the bacteria would spread to animals if fed to pigs?
Looking good around there Evan. You all had some good harvests from your gardens and orchards. Thanks for sharing with us and sharing along your way.
Love it, so peaceful.
Hi..... Evan nice to see you beautiful fish pond and duck pond it a big pond I love watching your video, thank you for sharing your video homestead chicken farmer garden 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 👕🐔🐓🐥🐕🐩🐖🐈🌱🐐🎥👍👍👍
Lovely homestead thanks for sharing.
Yard starting to look really good
Beautiful homestead. Thanks for the tour
The pond is looking really good.
Thanks for the update it's looking good
Everything is looking great Evan! Thanks for the update!
Great update, thanks for sharing!
Beautiful beautiful homestead so peaceful! God bless !
Wonderful property! So green, so beautiful! Congratulations!!!
Great vids, what a beautiful place
Thanks for sharing the update. Looking good!👍
Everything is sure looking good. Thanks for the update!!! Peace!!!
Bill
Love all your videos.
Pond looks good. You can see the reflection of the trees very pretty.
Thank you for your updates...nice work! Your property is amazing mate...
Keep going man...
The video looks incredible!
I mentioned it before, but I’ll repeat my suggestion.. a windmill based pump setup would be a very cheap and convenient way to build a fountain system for your pond without increasing your electric bill..... Plus a windmill would look aesthetically pleasing on the homestead. A mini windmill driving an old dirty pump would be a great starting point.... a full size one might even let you irrigate your fields... Later you could swap in an electric pump if necessary.
can't wait to see the dock/ boathouse with solar panel build..!
Looking good!
Looks perfect xxx
Beautiful property. Happy for you. May God continue to bless you.
That’s a nice piece of land and with your house location is awesome!
Great video.
Thanks Chuck
I just bought a solar pump system from Rural Power Systems Inc. that would be perfect for your pond aerator. No outside power or batteries needed.
Beautiful view wow
Awesome for the update and God bless
Thank you very much for this video.
You have a beautiful property and doubly so because of the pond. Sorry about the blight situation. It really must be disheartening. The peaches looked yummy and I immediately thought "cobbler" my favorite and also peach milk shakes. Hardees used to have a delicious one and then they quit selling it. I guess they couldn't find any peaches that tasted like peaches anymore. Y'all have a Blessed day.
thanks for the update on your homestead..will be very exciting to see a fishing dock
Your farm is really beautiful !
The sickle Bar mower is fantastic for trimming up tight around the pond! The 2-3 feet you cant mow easily
Great video, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the tour
Oh boy, the challenges of lots of water in hilly country! We know it very well! Best of luck, you'll learn it as you go! Take care.
I love your updates 😁 Sorry to hear about the ducks and the apple trees. I know the fugi apple was Rebekahs favorite. Thank you for sharing ❤️
Beautiful
And a nice clean pond
Looking so good. It's my favorite place to visit on UA-cam 😁👍❣️
You are so lucky nice homestead
Wow that overflow is so strong. Great to have the water for the test of your summer. You'll need it. I believe Europe is having allot of heat waves and also America and Canada. Sending regards from Australia ❤️💙😍
Nice garden bro enjoy watching thank for sharing vid big like..
we lived,for 6 yrs.,in a farm town...row crop...the weren't like your farm,love the way you live...
Good video thanks for the update
I really like your place and what you both have done over the years. That's my goal with our property, and it's what I want to do when I am finally able to retire. Solely time for taking care of a garden, orchard and animals. It's a lot of "work", but somehow when I'm working on our property it really doesn't "feel" like work. I like to call it my therapy.
This guy is great 👍
Love, love this video.would love to see an update of this.
for the second time, put som barley straw bales in the pond for cleaner water!!
maybe 10 or 20 small bales will do the work!!
JudithB LOL! Trying to catch up is my daily job too!!! I ground up a gallon of cucs and squash into brine to make pickle relish tomorrow. Picked peppers, cucs, squash and tomatoes too. Started 6 paks of Black Seeded, Cos, Romaine lettuce and chard and kale to transplant into beds as they empty. I will plant carrots and radishes and peas directly into beds in Sept. I did start removing the old strawberry pools in the yard, and will plant new plants in the garden hoop bed next year. Busy time of year!!! The grass in your back yard grew in well too!!! Its all looking good!!!!
Engineer 775 has great hammer pump and generator set ups from his pond
...GOOD ONE, KEEP SAFE...
Best farm youtuber
Ducks are funny: they always sound like they're scolding you! LOL
That is what they do when they are out of food. I think they are scolding me.
Your pups are so beautiful and big now. Sorry that culvert didn’t work out 😩. But your farm is majestic to look at 😉
Fire blight can spread from using your cutters. I've heard you should dip your cutters in a pail of bleachy water between each snip, & cut a couple inches past the damaged area. Good Luck. I enjoy your channel. Beautiful Place!
Rain! Here in East England we are having a heatwave. Hopefully we will have some thunderstorms mid week.
Everything looks so lush. So sad that you lost those fruit trees! My parents had a plum tree which never produced much. if they had plums, they were eaten by insects and birds before they were fully ripe, Finally they cut it off.
Evan, new subscriber here. On your pond algae issue we bought tilapia and they cleaned up our pond and die off when temperatures drop. You may already know this.
Yea, I learned that earlier this year. We are planning on installing an aeration system to help the problem.
Good job today Evan, I enjoyed every minute of it. The homestead looks so green and pretty. Thanks to all the rain that you weren’t happy with.lol . Rebecca’s sun flowers are really tall and beautiful. What are you making with your pumpkins..? Love seeing the ducks. Do you still have the crippled one ? God bless ,take care.love ya
You got a lot of heat from the comments when you put that culvert in. Now you get another shot at it.
I really love your homestead and channel. You guys are so cute together. Love your animals. I only have 3 saanen goats. Man those are cute. They pull your jeans out of your boots. When I was young my dad had an orchard. To my knowledge fire blight is very contageous. The best way is to remove a tree completely once they have it. Put the cut up tree in plastic bags and burn them as soon as possible. Do yo happen to have hawthorn bushes in the nabourhood of the orchard ? They are said to be the culprit. They bloom the same time as apples and pears. The bees fly between the hawthorn and the fruit trees and they bring it over. Here in the Netherlands you will never see hawtorn next to an orchard. I love your channel so much I've subbed.
Hey Evan ever think of using the cycle bar to trim along the edge of the pond
Rebekkah I love freezing peaches for pie's in the winter....... I use lemon juice and they keep their color and don't turn brown on me. I wash them dip them in hot water for 1 minute, peel them, sprinkle them with lemon juice, cut them into slices, bag them and freeze. I also make a spanish rice with tomatoes and green peppers then stuff it into a green pepper after I cut the top off (save it and use it for the lid) . I followed the recipe and blanched the peppers first but didn't like how they turned soggy so now I just dip them quickly into hot salty water to clean them and stuff and place in a small aluminum pan I get from the dollar store that I have added some marinara sauce on the bottom. I put a spoon or so on the top too a handful of cheese your choice I use swiss. Wrap with foil and into the freezer they go. In the winter I can take them out and put them right in the oven to bake. Your choice if you want to defrost them or not, do it in the fridge. I bake around 45 minutes at 350 degrees. Sometimes I add meat sausage usually. Some homemade bread and walla...... Supper in a pinch and the house smells good to. Hugs from Minnesota
Plant your corn in at least four rows about 12 inches apart. Corn needs this block-type planting to ensure good pollination.
Pond lookimg pretty Here [n Fl too
To clean/clear the pond, 2 things you need to do: add rocks of like around or in the water and you need circulation. Get a couple of solar fountains. Missouri a nd Arkansas has some of the cleanest streams and water says around. You can see the bottom s.
Squash is ready if the vines are dead, better pick those soon
Such a beautiful heavenly place to live.You and Rebecca are so blessed. You should thank our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ for all your blessings. There just can’t be anywhere else in the world as wonderful. You are blessed so well is because you are grateful for what you worked hard for ,and and you take care of it.
I read a article about the fire blight that stated the blight starts at the end of a limb and works toward the bigger limbs and then to the main base and it said when you see that happening cut back from where it is dying to stop it from going any further.
Where is the other dog that was outside?, I see him now. The pigs are growing so good!
Pork and bacon are looking good hope you like the names
SOLAR PUMPS WOULD MAKE A FEW SMALL FOUNTAINS TO AERATE YOUR POND - CHEAP AND EASY TO SET UP ON POSTS IN THE WATER !!
When you're cutting off those branches, make sure you clean all those tools with alcohol after each tree treatment as to not spread it manually within your orchard.
I was just about to suggest the same thing! Any pruning you should clean your tool before moving to the next tree!
Farm is looking fantastic. Curious... Whatever happened to the persimmon trees...? Rebecca could make a great batch of jam or persimmon pudding as a special treat!
Grass carp for Your Pond.!
Grass carp!
Everything looks good 👌. We were wondering if you have problems with water moccasins being that close to the pond.
You should start grafting your apple trees to your self pollinating apple trees
From the overflow you could develop electricity to charge battery.
thx
I think you need to go larger in diameter for your conduit. Extra length would be good too
Look into a bog filter you have all the items needed to build it and most pond shops that sell pond or in your case a mini lake they normally have people who design the filter system I should know I had a 2500 gallon koi pond
F I could recommend a Plecostomus Fish for your algae problem . They are algae eaters. Our pond had algae bad and I bought 2ea. fish and they ate all the algae in my pond. My pond size is only a 1.5 acre size. I did this approx 2 years ago and I still do NOT have algae. The fish weigh approx. 3-4 pounds now.
I appreciate your tour of your homestead. It is just beautiful. My husband walked by and asked if I was looking at a golf course when the pond was up with the cut grass. You and Rebecca always seem so calm and smile all the time, even when things go awry. I learn from you each time I watch an episode. The garden is wonderful and looks so nice with the fence and the ground cloth. Sorry about the bacterial infection on the apple trees. There is a place in Lansing, NC (Ashe County) that specializes in heritage apple trees. Here is their link. When you replace yours, you might enjoy looking at their huge variety. bighorsecreekfarm.com/
Need a pond aerators they have solar setups,
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Hi there are fish out there im sorry im not sure of the name for the pond awesome video Evan