Our plan If the Well Water FAILS
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Water expert Lance visits to look at our cistern and spring situation and provide us with a consultation. We climb the mountain that overlooks our holler to find the spring head.
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Just a side note. The winch on Sally has a "free spool" switch on the side. It's the black plastic that looks like an end cap on the drivers side of the winch. If you turn it you can pull the cable out without using the toggle or "power out" on the cable. It will save your electrical system, your batteries and your time.
Oh my gosh... number one pet peeve is Facebook ads that drive the content we see. Sometimes I can't find content that I have posted. Content that originated with me. Because the algorithm doesn't rank my own posts high enough. So frustrating.
I'm excited for this as a lifetime member but all I can think of right now of how blessed you are! If you had said a few months ago you would be climbing through the woods hunting for spring heads in November I would've doubted you. I'm so happy you are better.
🙋🏼♀️🕊hi there I would think about arranging a catch water system. That would keep your well from running dry as well. You have so many structures, to collect from. Even the chicken tractors. Blessings to you and your family 🍀🕊💕🍀🕊💕
I deleted FB because I was sick and tired of having FB opinions, shoved down my throat every day. I didn't go on there to have politics or ads thrown at me, I went on there to keep up with family and friends, but that became virtually impossible as FB dictated what it deemed necessary for you to see. I cannot wait for your platform to go live!
Do you mean the other people’s opinions, or the way they put up “the FB public service announcements” that were never asked for? If you mean the second, I concur!!!! (the first would be hard to get rid of.)
@@kimcritchfield5796 The second one
Justin, it was great to see you hiking around that mountain so well! I mean really, so glad you are doing well enough to go on that adventure to find that spring head! Celebrate that health and time!
Look at you go, Justin! I am so glad you are feeling better. This wouldn't have been possible for you just a few weeks ago.
Same here! Social media has been too much drama for this mama! Would love to have a "no nonsense" medium to find quality, accurate information, recipes, animal sales, INTERNSHIPs, mentors, workshops, getting in touch with local people.
16:25 lol, you can tell the angle of the ground by looking at that cow! Face Book... the post never stay in order so you can never go back and find something if you want to.
A couple of large water tanks that can be feed by your buildings on a wet line system can be a extra back up. Quite simple to setup
I love that you are going in your own direction away from fb. Too many reasons to leave that platform but their controlling content is right up at the top. That and harvesting info.
I plan to join abundance plus when our finances stabilize. Early Spring at the latest. Thank you for the glimpses we get in the mean time. Keep up your good work and may blessing keep coming to you and your family. God bless.
Your hike up the mountain reminded me of when we went hiking up a mountain near us to the spring every year in the late Winter. That time of year our grass is green and more chances of a running spring were possible. That was always a treat because in California springs like that are rare.
It's wonderful to see you hiking your land. Soon you'll be back to being 100% again. I don't use Facebook anymore, I honestly despise it. I only use UA-cam to watch homesteading videos. I truly enjoy all the Rhode family videos. The kids are growing up so fast. Blessings to you all. 😇🙏
Justin, you don't look like you are having any trouble at all from your arthritis. Good going!
My #1 struggle with Facebook this year has been attracting a regulator from Dept. of Ag. I have sold meat, eggs and produce for years and connected with customers through a farm page on Facebook. I'd say 10 years or more it's been fine. This year a regulator showed up and said I need inspected before I can sell any more produce. #2 for me would be no livestock sales. #3 would be censorship.
If you can find and protect the spring head, you will have the absolute best water. That's why spring houses were built.
Howdy neighbors. I grew up on a homestead on family land near Mt. Pisgah. Our property was in a small holler of which half encompassed a section of "Spring Mountain". So, you can imagine how many natural springs where located there. Our well house was an old barrel of some type. I do remember sand being in the bottom, but that was it. I don't think it was ever tested and must have provided water to owners for decades. I don't recall ever being sick from it. It was really good water.
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Hi Justin,
I saw you were having trouble pulling the milking station.
Maybe if you got an old snow board and cut it in half. Then attach the curved end to the front rails of the milking station. It may help ???
Love watching your family. We are "urban homesteaders" and dream of having our own land/farm one day. You guys have been a huge inspiration!
My #1 gripe with FB is the censorship.
It can be a struggle to get excited about a marketplace post only to find out it's on the other end of the country. Or in my case (I'm from the Netherlands) on a different continent. So a setting where you get to see everything available in your area (whatever you set that to) would be awesome there
Love those ideas Justin. Not having any one local to talk to.
Im impressed that justin is already able to climb up this hill
That would be amazing to be able to purchase animals from a central location, by state, by species, by breed, with rearing practices and feeding practices displayed, and it may get really weird when looking for milker cows or goats as they can have tags like champion and grand champion, graded milk for more digestibility, fat content measurements, etc. And then the animals used for meat and if they are grain or pasture raised. This would be the farmers' amazon!
My biggest struggle is finding help. I am a 69 yr. old woman with a 10.44 acre homestead in west-central Indiana. I work full time for the navy in addition to the farm, which allows me to keep pigs, goats and poultry. I can't find anyone to help on a regular basis.
I got a buddy looking to get into homesteading that is in Indiana. I bet he would be willing to work regularly. Any interest? Let me know and we can try to connect.
So Beautiful on your mountain 😊
How exciting! 💙
My number one struggle with social media is "the algorithm". I just want to see things I told you I want to see, in the order they get posted. Don't hide stuff, don't prioritize stuff; I want to see it *all*. I'm an adult;I know how to choose what to read and interact with --- I don't need a computer making those decisions for me.
I used to watch UA-cam guy named aqua jigger well it's something like that. He would find places I need to start digging them and they would sometimes turn out to be caves and he would dig them out. Ooh that'd be some pretty water in them caves, but he went to as far back in this particular case he could get into and he saw that the raccoons had been there. He looked in the camera and said this water would kill you if you drink it. So just because water is springing from a rock doesn't mean they in a cave somewhere in a raccoon is playing in it. There was another water story these people were digging gold and Alaska and they were getting this runoff water they thought it was mountain water. They had to rush their youngest to the hospital she nearly died he went back to see where that water came from it did not come from the ground it was surface water, and they had been logging that area and there was all kinds of petrol products on the ground and in the water stream. Always be careful. Just because it looks innocent doesn't mean ,it doesn't have a nasty bite.
You definitely have to be careful, but they were talking about testing the water before using it, so if it isn't safe they would know before using it.
I would like to see you guys do the 100 days of farming, it would be great for you to know how much you've done in that time 😊👍
Yup! You're getting excellent advise. Seriously knows watet
Rebecca? That new baby of yours just has you glowing. @ 10:45 made you look 10 years younger.
Use a snatch block and you can double the pulling power of that winch.
I find it hard to locate people who buy sell and create content by region. I live in the Mojave desert so I am constantly looking for ideas from multiple people. I have found 1 person who creates great content here in this area, Edge of know where Farms. I follow you because of the Family oriented content and the practical ideas that work any place you live. Growing and farming here in the Desert is completely opposite to what your doing though.
Yes, same here, I have learned a lot here and love the channel but I'm in Alaska where having livestock and growing food is really hard, we have to feed hay 8-9 months out of the year and only have 3 months that (usually) I can count on to have no frost. We usually have 4 ft of snow and that means animals can't leave the barn and gates don't work half the year. I'm a little jealous of North Carolina 🤣.
@@sararussell6182 wow Alaska, do you have a heated hot house for the winter?
Number one struggle with fb and other social media groups: When a person posts about any normal farm activity, and is demonized by other group members because they mention meat birds, or pigs heading towards butcher, or anything like that. Its A Farm Group. I am not yet a member of abundance plus because we were waiting until we had our land (Military couple, he is heading into his last tour) We JUST closed on our forever-never-move-again place, and once we figure out the new bill pattern, I am going to join. In the meantime, I will continue forward with what I know how to do, and research what I want to learn more about. I like the sneak peak you gave, looks pretty user friendly.
My biggest frustrations with social media are: FB chooses what I see, to many paid promos filling my feed, and blocking content on my page, yet a friend of mine can see it. Thanks Justin love love love your channel. You two are great parents with wonderful children. 🌺🧑🌾
Ok, I'm sorry... I'm lost and will need to rewatch. Don't know if it fits, but have heard of digging deeper than normal wells to get to water (off grid?). That's all I know (heard) lol ... much love ❤️
I deleted my Facebook in December and want to support only things I want to see more in the world. I found you through Roots and Refuge about 3 years ago. So funny because it was the same tomato video you all found her through. I love the your whole message. I don’t want to ingest want is on the mainstream media and social media. I turned off the cable and regular tv in 2006 because I caught a glimpse of Family Guy and knew I could no longer watch that sure garbage anymore. I know by watching shows like Homestead Heart I filled my mind with ideas and good people with a positive perspective.
I have had a number of Groups taken off Facebook because of posts about the sale of fertile eggs, or poultry, 2 of the groups were information groups and didn't have sale items on them but were still taken down. Would really like a platform where this dosen't happen, a lot of information was lost we they were taken down
Big problem I have with Facebook is the censorship. I don’t like the idea of someone using my data and then limiting me as to what I can and cannot do or say on it. Last time I checked freedom of speech was a fundamental right. I also like the idea of being able to post controversial topics and be able to openly discuss them in a meaningful and productive way.
The cancel culture should not be able to cancel the ABUNDANCE mindset.
My #1 complaint is not being able to sell my eggs, chickens, ducks and believe it or not feathers! I’d love to be able to just try to sell my goods without being watched.
35-40% grade going on that hill. Mines about 30%.
FB feels like somebody's watching me....in the wrong kinda way
So right!
The trees starting at 4:24 with big leaves look like pawpaws, if so have you tried them?
I believe Culligan 9399 w. Higgins in Rosemont Il. Will test it fir free and send you out the bottle
Hey Justin, not related to the video but you should look at question 3 here in Maine, constitutionally protecting the right to homestead. First state in the country to make it a right and a win for those who want to grow and raise their own food.
#1 STRUGGLE with FB is the algorythm that FB uses with my information to insight discord, how is ABUNDANCE+ going to program it's algorythm?
I'm hoping Justin doesn't program and algorythm.
I suppose regulations would differ for each location, but is it generally allowed to tap the spring/ water vein if it is outside your property?
I don’t use Facebook for anything and never will!
FB is the only reason we have not joined membership. There are a myriad of reasons FB should be dropped, but mainly the data mining and lack of security/privacy. Really looking forward to the introduction of the community platform. We will be quick adopters once FB is no longer involved.
I would love to know if I had any one ( community ) around me for what ever my need may be . I would love it to be Abel to not have to weed through junk to find what I need. Like I would love to raise pigs for food for my family but I would not be able to butcher them or hens or a cow just for example.
Here in Minnesota there are businesses that are called meat lockers that will butcher, cut up (they will ask you how you want the animal cut up) and wrap and freeze your animal down to 0 degrees. There are a lot fewer of them because of all the FDA regulations that are too expensive for them to do. They usually switch over to deer and bears during hunting season so you have to be careful when you want your animal butchered. They will cure and smoke the meat also. We have had our pigs butchered this way several times. You get your own animal back as processed meat also. Bigger places don't always give your own animal back! I hope this helps.
My biggest peeve with any form of social media is ......ADVERTS. Even if you sell stuff (cos we wanna buy good stuff off good people), would it be possible to keep the selling separate?
I just dont LIKE the drama and censorship of FB. I sure hope you open up the community to the public. I would love to make friends with local like minded folks. Thank you.
💜 you Justin and Rebecca your family is beautiful I’m planting a garden 🪴 what is the name of the company you order seeds from ???
I know I've heard them mention Baker Creek Seed Co. before. Johnny's Seeds is good to.
I'm not on Facebook.
Hey that’s my stepdad :)
If the water pressure is enough you could generate electricity 🤔
Can you tell me what app Rebecca was using for the property line?
If you're going to allow the sale of livestock, maybe consider the rating systems used on Uber and Air B&B... people leave a 0-5 star rating based on their experience with their host/driver... this would be seller... that way if you have the unfortunate situation of people selling animals or any items without integrity it would be something a buyer could see...
Do we really want to go to a "rating" system? Don't know about that. Can't pictures and video help with that?
while your at hit put a hydro turbine into your water system that way you never be out of wate and electric for as long as the water flow
censorship
If I was a Primadonna too I would have gotten to partner with someone like Justin because ☯️ … but I just can’t stomach that … no matter the cost
What? I'm not following what you are saying.
#1 complaint about face book is that they harvest my information for profit on their end, not to mention who knows what else they do with it. I love some of the features, I love the memories and the photos and the community aspect of it, and its one of the few ways I know I can get connected with some relatives - but I don't like Facebook (or Meta now, I guess) as a company. If I could get something similar, without feeling the corporate slime, I'd be all over it.
AGREED. I hate that FB and Google Spy on us. I'll have a conversation about going somewhere with my family and then all of a sudden, I open the FB app and there's an ad for it! Sure, it's "efficient" but wow, what a major invasion of privacy!
@@BlackthorneChronicles if you go to the app settings, you can change the permission to not have access to your camera and microphone.
@@JV-ys8fd Hey friend! I’ve had that option turned off for awhile. Feels like years or so. I still have it happening. Lol, I still don’t even have the apple OS update for social distancing tracking. I’m a stickler for privacy!!
Exactly 💯
Just finished watching and can't wait for the community feature to role out.
My issue with fb is the censorship...I keep getting " fb jailed" for dumb minor things like a mistyped or making a statement regarding protecting my kids. We are supposed to have free speech but keep being censored...youtube is getting just as bad
Constitution prevents the government from censoring you, not private companies. You agree to the cencorship when you agreed to the terms of service, that agree button.
It's the advertisers that call the shots, because social media makes it's monies from them. If they, the advertisers, don't like it, then the sm companies will not allow it. Free market capitalism at work.
@@tjeanvlogs9894 Not exactly. The current social network sites violate their own terms of service as they censor what they don’t like politically. They agreed to be a free speech platform when they began so Gov gave them a break. They now act like publishers deciding who can speak and who can’t. They should have their licenses pulled for violating their own terms. But I’m a free speech and free market advocate so I simply closed my FB account years ago. I would do the same with YT, but so many of my Homesteaders post here. Soon there will be truly free speech sites again where all can speak freely such as Abundance Plus. Nothing like freedom and competition to correct the wayward.
Justin I'm so glad to see you able to climb through the brush and rocks with the kids. We have been praying for you to get better and for the family as they worry about you. I want to ask y'all for prayers for my wife she fell and broke both bones in her leg had surgery with plates and screws in it. She can't put any weight on it for 6 weeks.
My biggest problem with fb is no selling of animals and sensorship of ideas. If a fact checker doesn't like what is said they just cover it up. Sometimes they know nothing about the animals and just delete or change what we try to get across. Very frustrating.
So proud of what you've done and looking forward to the next steps in the community process. Keep up the good work and God bless you all.
Will be lifting your wife and family up in prayer for a speedy recovery!!
@@montanaskye3227 thanks so much
My problems with current social media is, I guess, that it is free. Therefore, my information is being used and sold. I dislike the ads. I dislike that I don't always see the content I want to see, but the same 4 posts from the same 4 people. I also dislike how Facebook has become such an echo chamber and just a place for sharing memes instead of actual conversations. I enjoy IG, but it is becoming difficult, too, with those algorithms feeding me what it thinks I want to see.
Agreed! Algorithms are horrid, and ruin connection with people that you may have wanted to keep up with.
I quit Facebook. I cannot tolerate truth being censored. I am all for respectfulness and family friendly content regardless of who has what agenda. Bottom line is being allowed to speak freely! Perfect example is you not being able to show the actual slaughter/butchering. What is wrong with people seeing the food chain process? Really, I wonder just where people think the chicken wing or hamburger came from? 🤣
That's UA-cam but it is really the same thing.
Finding water and developing a community on A+ is super...but seeing you hiking through the brush Justin is fantastic. You couldn't dream of doing that a few months ago. When you have health in your family, you really have everything. All the best.
I'm very private and never learned to do FB well. Now I'm a newly retired and new land owner and hoping to connect up with community here in the Finger Lakes area in Upstate NY. This is a great place to start and make a habit of connecting. Please make it easy for us technically phobic people. ;)
I love the sound of a spring bubbling up from the rock.
I feel limited because I will not use face book. Most training membership sites use facebook. This stops me from signing up.
I’m excited about the online community because I don’t have Facebook anymore and we are moving to our new house with land in December! The ability to buy and sell sounds great! It’ll be nice to maybe try some types of food we have never tried before we try to grow it.
If I had one thing in common with your wife - it would be definitely drinking from huge cup. No matter what I drink, cup must be huge, like a flower pot, jar or whatever :D
A rose vase!
I’m with you there!
Great Video. Wow won't that be so great to have second source of water and have second water source for the animals also. Nice hike with you all. Lance was a very informative person about water. It was very interesting to me. I'd love for another way to interact with the community. Peace from WV
I'm excited about the fact that we will have access to a lot of farm goods to buy straight from the farm to the table , local instead of Mexico or whatever. Thanks for your hard work.
Too much stuff I don't want to see. I see tons of posts from people with whom I went to high school, but haven't seen since. WHY? I see some of my family, but not others. Some of my family moved to MAGA platforms when #45 lost the election and they thought he'd been done wrong - and I don't see them anymore. The people I want to see and speak with aren't on FB anymore. What I'd love to see is the opportunity to barter goods for services, or a place where we can go for help and support. For instance, I really could use a plumber - but I don't know of one locally. I'd hire one from A+ because character counts there.
Just watching you climb up that hill is fantastic after the last few months, great to see you back Justin 👍
You should get Simple Living Alaska!! They are off grid and a young couple homesteading and they have amazing content! Absolutely beautiful shots similar to your Rooted and Wilder Still content.
Yes!
Biggest issue with FB...the harvest of information and continual changes in privacy rules. Also, the censoring (of course).
I have used Facebook marketplace a lot. The thing that annoys me most is the "algorithm", and forced seller ads. If I want only local offers, I have to set filters, and then I still end up with items that can only be shipped.
The algorithm tends to show me a bunch of what I last looked for, or items that I opened. I guess that's helpful to an extent, but the next time I'm on and want to browse a category, I dont want multiple ads of the same thing. Example: 1 week I searched for chicken coop supplies, and now my feed is full of those items 3 months later with random ship only new items. When I'd like to browse all local farm items. I hope this explains that well.
The other issue with Facebook in general is their data collection and sharing. I cant scroll through my personal feed without seeing ads for items I searched for on Amazon, or other internet sites. It's very unnerving to have my morning coffee and have a discussion about needing say a new fishing pole, and log into fb, and have ads for poles all week! Very creepy!
Somehow they hear my conversations and then I see ads about the very things I was talking about inside my own home! Plus I don’t trust any ads on Facebook!
I’d like to buy meat direct from farmers in my CITY!!
My complaint about social media is the lack of privacy, labels (homesteading and prepping are weird/bad/selfish etc.), mining my habits for data to sell to third parties so they can target me with advertising, collecting my data and storing it, lack of freedom of speech, lack of civil discourse on things we disagree on (shaming and name calling instead), and engineering an agenda into my life.
Use wood strips to hold the fiber on the cold frame
I was going to say the same thing. I roll it a time or two and then a few screws hold it well, even with a small snow load held up.
I was going to make the same suggestion!
I was gonna say build a frame with 1”strips and hardware cloth, and put the cloth on that, therefore is something jumps up on it, like a cat, it will hold the weight.
I love this video today..Rebecca & Justin.I remember pumping water down in polkton nc. In the 50's...it was fun for us youngans..and daddy had a huge wooden barrel to catch the rain water..it got full,, we used a tin dipper to get the water out to sip it..aww the good ole days..farming..slopping hogs..digging taters..I love yawl.1948
So excited with your creation of a place for all things homestead! I just can’t get enough information and it’s great to know that I am not so crazy after all!
I would love to have an online farmer's market without the FB bs. Wow!
I don't do FB. I never will. I am not a farmer but I want to start some backyard chickens or maybe quail and I would want local people for advice - someone to ask about it. I would also love to have a non-FB place to easily contact farmers to see what they have for sale especially off-season.
Open up those logging roads and use them. Especially for logging, grazing trails and fun.
Privacy is the biggest concern with FB. That’s why I am not on it.
Aw wow y’all this is a beautiful blessing Justin and beautiful one! 👏👏👏🤩🤩🤩👍👍👍💯💯💯
With Facebook you only see what they decide you want. Sometime it's hard to locate the most current feeds.
They push thing into the fead that I wasn't even a part of. My control is gone
Biggest struggle with facebook? Dealing with misinformation and people posting conspiracy theories. I'm a big fan of facts over opinions and I have little patience after the last few years of people thinking their opinions are as important as actual facts. Would love to be able to flag posts I come across as not factual. The faster one squashes a conspiracy theory the better for everyone.
That was really interesting. Good luck finding a spring head on your property. Once you find it and get the infrastructure set up, accomplishing your goal for water redundancy and watering livestock will be much easier. Take care.
I’m very excited about this new community thing Justin. We have been living the “food growing lifestyle” for going on six years now and we would love to join something like you described. Put it this way, we are definitely not interested if it’s just a Facebook group. -Dan, SW Wisconsin
Hello Wisconsin
Hello Wisconsin.
4f main problems with Facebook etc:
- ads
- no chronological order of posts
- stupid stories etc. - pointless
- forced and impossible to turn off things like covid alert/survey, stupid suggestions etc.
If you decide you want to use the spring, and the head is on neighbor's land, consider buying an easement from the owner for water rights to the spring.
Great climb Justin, I envy you now, as I'm unable to do that anymore, you've really come along with your healing, prayers 🙏 answered.
FB, Well, where do I start 🤔, I have to physically, go to my friends pages just to see their content, because of ALL, the junk that's on there. A+, is one group I read regularly and some other ones as well. Its just getting too, commercialized and everything is sensered. So, it's like, why bother.
A KIDS, Platform on A+, would be super cool, it would help kids in the community see what other kids are doing. Just a thought.
Blessings
Laurel 😁
I like the kids area idea! Family friendly right?
Was it a place to keep milk cool . Look how thick the walls and lid were.
Great video on the spring search. You continue to blow my mind with what you are offering to the homesteading community.
My main complaint about Facebook is Values.