The sound of excitement while digging sweet potato in that young boy was the BEST part of the entire vlog...... thank you for sharing bless your family
Love your son's happiness! He will take iver the farm when he's older. I noticed he loves farming. When the time comes, let him go and find himself and he will return, 'cause he has LOVE for the farm!
The bookshelves look awesome! Babies are so funny. My little guy was a little goofy about noise too. We just always had noise to keep the baby from waking when the dogs bark.
WOW our meat birds look wonderful we did some about 38-40 years ago ours got huge the finisher we gave them really got the pretty the size of a small turkey. We also put electrolytes in their water 💦 Ian so proud of all of you. You seem to work as BBB a awesome team keep up the good work. God Bless each and every one of you 🙏🙏🙏🌻🌻🌻
Thanks for inviting us along. Those are huge. Can’t wait to see what mom and her little helper does with it. Hash browns with carrots, okay.thanks for the recipe. Guess I don’t have to wait. The best inventions starts at home. You have a beautiful sundown behind you. Beautiful family. Enjoying
I'm not sure if I had the same meat chickens. Mine were called White Rocks. They were 8 week chickens that went from chicks to around 8 lbs after 8 weeks. The first time I raised them I gave them food 24 hours a day and had many of them die of heart attacks at about 5 weeks. I was told that their bodies were out growing their internal organs and they couldn't handle it. The 2nd time I raised them I fed just during the day and, as you say, they just seemed healthier and happier and I did not lose any. They averaged out at about 8 lbs. I love it that you talk about the nitty gritty of farm life; exactly what I like to hear. Don't worry about rambling. Thank you.
Great Sweet Potatoes! Great idea for the meat birds too. My youngest daughter was the same way until I started playing the radio near her bed, softly. Only thing that kept her asleep. When she became a toddler we were gifted a Mother Goose light & player. Put on any story or music of your choice (Nursery songs, Disney music etc) and it would play for a selected amount of time before becoming dimmer and softer until off. By then she was in deep sleep and I could get some at night. To this day she falls asleep with some sort of background noise or a fan. Bless whoever invented it for parents!
I often get frustrated and angry so I save your wholesome videos to watch right after to cheer me up and calm me. Works 10/10 times. Would recommend :D You are hands down my favorite UA-cam family. Keep up the good work :)
Sweet potatoes love red clay! As long as you don't try to amend that soil too much, you will continue to get big straight sweet potatoes. Glad you got a good harvest from them!
Lesson I learned the hard way. My first sweet potato harvest was abundant with HUGE tubers. But they've gotten smaller each of 5 years as I've amended the soil. Friable soil was my goal but now I think I've got too much nitrogen and high pH so I'm adding clay back in! Crazy
Ben, we can see homesteading is your passion! Meg, you both must be so very happy to see how well your family is moving forward! There's only good things ahead of you!
The sweet potatoes have to be the largest I have seen. One potato per meal for sure. Ben I think y'all are doing an awesome job with your farm. Especially considering all that you had on your plate this year. Your Brett is quite the enthusiast over this harvest. I can see him with a garden space of his own. He will do well. Have a Blessed day.
Love me some sweet potatoes ! Potatoes are one vegetable that needs almost no care to have an awesome harvest. Make sure that they are watered and your good as long as you have good soil. Root vegetables are an easy garden. CONGRATULATIONS Your breakfast idea sounds amazing. Going to have to try this recipe. Thanks for sharing. Stay happy, healthy, hydrated and safe. God bless.
I saw a great chicken/turkey/duck feeder at a friends. She had taken a small scale metal trash can with a lid. Cut out 4 holes (one on each side) about 4 or 5 inches from the bottom. Put PVC piping into the holes on an angle. Fill the can with feed and voila! Doesn t have to fill it every day. Easy to move around.
The sweet potato/carrot/bacon recipe sounds wonderful! I don't do instagram. Facebook and UA-cam is more than enough to try and keep up with. Thanks for sharing with us. I love how excited Brett got about digging up the sweet potatoes. Your boys are such great helpers. God Bless! Carmen
@@diannt9583 I agree with you. Social media refers to large world-wide platforms where people can interact with each other, and that describes UA-cam perfectly.
I planted my sweet potatoes in a kiddie pool this year and they did pretty good for such a small space, One was massive the rest were normal sized. I took the smallest two and put toothpicks in them and let the bottom hang in a cup of water and I have slips as house plants now so I can plant them this spring.
Now those are some nice sweet potatoes. The soil there is so interesting. The color is just so cool. Some nice red dirt that makes some nice sweet potatoes. This was a success :)
The sweet potatoes get sweeter as they age. One of my favorite foods. I like to pop one in the microwave and add a little butter and cinnamon sugar, I can make a meal from just that. Sweet potatoes are the easiest root vegetable to grow. Plant the slips in some rich fertile soil and forget about them until time to harvest. You can also eat the young tender leaves and they are very healthy for you.
I'm in piedmont NC and usually only a fraction of those baby sweet potatoes will overwinter to use for seed. I LOVE scrubbing them and eating them raw like carrot sticks - taste similar too! So much raw nutrition and fiber adds to winter health.
This video reminds me of digging our sweet potatoes with you Meg. it was our only time to ever do sweet potatoes and you were part of it. Have a beautiful day
Our sweet potatoes will start sprouting about a month after curing if you keep them warm. By January/ February those slips should be 6-8 inches high. Break the slips off, pick off all but the top leaf, dip the broken end in a rooting hormone and plant in a 4 “ container keeping the soil saturated until new leaves show. (About a week) If you have a south facing window that works, if not we use an old fish tank with a full spectrum light. Plant out when you are ready. I normally get 4- 8 slips per potato, and eat it after harvesting the slips.
Wow those are some perfect Sweet Potatoes. Going to be a bountiful Thanksgiving. Do you plan to add front and back decks/porches on the mobile home? Nice to see your beautiful family happy.
It must have been a good sweet potato year. We planted two rows and they were absolutely huge!!!!!! We harvested over 100 pounds. They're laying in the basement on wooden pallets. I hope they last all winter. :)
Mom would keep the radio plays lightly in the background to put the baby to sleep. Easy listening, classical, and show tunes. Not rock or bouncy music. Music that keeps the atmosphere calm and doesn't quicken the heartbeat. It worked. I was singing before I was talking, but I slept well. Hope this helps.
Awesome job growing the sweet potatoes. This past weekend at my mom's church. A guy was passing out some tomatoes he grew. One of the reasons I want to move to a homestead in lancaster PA closer to family. To me it would be enjoyable to share.
As meat birds get bigger, they get less heat tolerant, so the ramp-up in weight and ramp-down in temperature was the secret sauce. I ended up with an 8# 8.6 oz CC dressed out at 9.5 weeks. That is with 12 hrs on/12 hrs off feed. The sweet potatoes were AMAZING! First time planting them this year from my own slips, and got 16#. You should weigh some of the big fellas on the soap scale and let us know. Monsters is right Brett!
You can do anything with sweet potatoes. You can have boiled sweet potatoes, roasted sweet potatoes, baked sweet potatoes, candied sweet potatoes, sweet potato fries, mashed sweet potatoes, sweet potato soup, sweet potato...you get the picture! And all babies love sweet potatoes!!
My kiddos ate so many sweet potatoes and carrots when they were babies, the tips of their little noses turned a light orange from the carotene. Sweet memories.
Y’all seem to be doing great . Loved the sweet potato harvest ! Teaching those boys to be a jack of all trades Is important , good job dad . Be blessed and favored ❤️🙏🏽
Hey guys, not sure if you'll see this but if you leave the butternut chunks whole, throw in beans and corn. I use deer or buffalo, but that's "3 sister's soup". A native recipe for where you live.
Jumpin' johasophats, lordy, mega taters! Awesome job guys...I am in northwest SC, not far from y'all and I have seen some good size sweet potatoes 🥔. Your earth loves you! Love seeing the bookcase filled! Stay well! 🌱🍁💕👍🏻
I've experimented with that and find that they won't go so deep in solid clay soil. Mine mostly grow close to the mother plant like a banana bunch, and sometimes will travel into the mulched paths seeking water, but not very deep. So I just carefully work from the mother plant and follow the roots to their ends to make sure I got them all.
Nice job Ben with the feeder, and juggling the baby in one arm and holding the camera in the other. Multi-talented. :-) God bless you all. Hugs from Italy.
Are those sweet potatoes a Japanese ornamental variety? I know the joy Bret felt as he was digging for this sweet potatoes! I use to have a blast harvesting my sweet potatoes, as did the next door neighbor’s kids🤗!
I did enjoy the update, thanks for sharing a little bit of your bliss with us. And the pumpkin chorizo soup looked sounds like a great match, and looked really yummy, but I don't do the Instant Gramming so I'll just have to make it up as well 😁👍👊
Hi..... Meg and Ben nice to see you all, thank you for sharing your video homestead chicken farmer garden 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 👕🐔🐓🐥🐖🌱🎥👍👍👍
The sound of excitement while digging sweet potato in that young boy was the BEST part of the entire vlog...... thank you for sharing bless your family
Everyone needs to fast every now and then!
Love how exciting your son getting helping you did up, great father and son time.
That's a beautiful memory.
Great your son is so good looking.
Love your son's happiness! He will take iver the farm when he's older. I noticed he loves farming. When the time comes, let him go and find himself and he will return, 'cause he has LOVE for the farm!
The bookshelves look awesome! Babies are so funny. My little guy was a little goofy about noise too. We just always had noise to keep the baby from waking when the dogs bark.
WOW our meat birds look wonderful we did some about 38-40 years ago ours got huge the finisher we gave them really got the pretty the size of a small turkey. We also put electrolytes in their water 💦 Ian so proud of all of you. You seem to work as BBB a awesome team keep up the good work. God Bless each and every one of you 🙏🙏🙏🌻🌻🌻
Thanks for inviting us along. Those are huge. Can’t wait to see what mom and her little helper does with it. Hash browns with carrots, okay.thanks for the recipe. Guess I don’t have to wait. The best inventions starts at home. You have a beautiful sundown behind you. Beautiful family. Enjoying
Sweet baby girl is already a princess. Love it!
I'm not sure if I had the same meat chickens. Mine were called White Rocks. They were 8 week chickens that went from chicks to around 8 lbs after 8 weeks. The first time I raised them I gave them food 24 hours a day and had many of them die of heart attacks at about 5 weeks. I was told that their bodies were out growing their internal organs and they couldn't handle it. The 2nd time I raised them I fed just during the day and, as you say, they just seemed healthier and happier and I did not lose any. They averaged out at about 8 lbs. I love it that you talk about the nitty gritty of farm life; exactly what I like to hear. Don't worry about rambling. Thank you.
Great Sweet Potatoes! Great idea for the meat birds too.
My youngest daughter was the same way until I started playing the radio near her bed, softly. Only thing that kept her asleep. When she became a toddler we were gifted a Mother Goose light & player. Put on any story or music of your choice (Nursery songs, Disney music etc) and it would play for a selected amount of time before becoming dimmer and softer until off. By then she was in deep sleep and I could get some at night. To this day she falls asleep with some sort of background noise or a fan. Bless whoever invented it for parents!
Amazing thanks for sharing 👍👍🌺🌺
Love the fact your son is out there in his bare feet. I grew up on a farm and digging in the dirt to harvest was part of it. Congrats on the harvest.
Grew up barefoot!
Thanks for the update 🤗
they are really doing a great job
I love that bretts diggin the UA-cam and the gardening! Boy after my own heart!
Love Ben's man-bun...
Nice job guys!!! Thanks for just being you❤️👩🌾
THE PIGS WILL LOVE THOSE TATER PLANTS...
thanks for the video!
I often get frustrated and angry so I save your wholesome videos to watch right after to cheer me up and calm me. Works 10/10 times. Would recommend :D
You are hands down my favorite UA-cam family. Keep up the good work :)
Need more
You know you’re good parents when your boys are able to take on making dinner and doing dishes
Sweet baby, sweet family, sweet new home, sweet sweet potato harvest... Sweeeet. 🤔😄☝️💪👉...
Sweet potatoes love red clay! As long as you don't try to amend that soil too much, you will continue to get big straight sweet potatoes. Glad you got a good harvest from them!
Lesson I learned the hard way. My first sweet potato harvest was abundant with HUGE tubers. But they've gotten smaller each of 5 years as I've amended the soil. Friable soil was my goal but now I think I've got too much nitrogen and high pH so I'm adding clay back in! Crazy
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I love your sons excitement over the sweet potatoes and it really tickled my heart. What a blessed harvest.
Ben, we can see homesteading is your passion! Meg, you both must be so very happy to see how well your family is moving forward! There's only good things ahead of you!
The sweet potatoes have to be the largest I have seen. One potato per meal for sure. Ben I think y'all are doing an awesome job with your farm. Especially considering all that you had on your plate this year. Your Brett is quite the enthusiast over this harvest. I can see him with a garden space of his own. He will do well. Have a Blessed day.
Love me some sweet potatoes !
Potatoes are one vegetable that needs almost no care to have an awesome harvest. Make sure that they are watered and your good as long as you have good soil. Root vegetables are an easy garden.
CONGRATULATIONS
Your breakfast idea sounds amazing.
Going to have to try this recipe. Thanks for sharing.
Stay happy, healthy, hydrated and safe.
God bless.
I saw a great chicken/turkey/duck feeder at a friends. She had taken a small scale metal trash can with a lid. Cut out 4 holes (one on each side) about 4 or 5 inches from the bottom. Put PVC piping into the holes on an angle. Fill the can with feed and voila! Doesn t have to fill it every day. Easy to move around.
The sweet potato/carrot/bacon recipe sounds wonderful! I don't do instagram. Facebook and UA-cam is more than enough to try and keep up with. Thanks for sharing with us. I love how excited Brett got about digging up the sweet potatoes. Your boys are such great helpers. God Bless! Carmen
Every time you go inside I think how lovely your home looks. Good work! :)
Thank you for brining us along!
im not on any social media, so its nice to see you here:)
You Tube isn't social media???
@@diannt9583 - Correct - UA-cam is **not** social media.
@@diannt9583 I agree with you. Social media refers to large world-wide platforms where people can interact with each other, and that describes UA-cam perfectly.
I planted my sweet potatoes in a kiddie pool this year and they did pretty good for such a small space, One was massive the rest were normal sized. I took the smallest two and put toothpicks in them and let the bottom hang in a cup of water and I have slips as house plants now so I can plant them this spring.
Love happy kiddos on the farm!
Excellent idea for the handle rotator on the feeder! Bonus points 👍👍👍
Now those are some nice sweet potatoes. The soil there is so interesting. The color is just so cool. Some nice red dirt that makes some nice sweet potatoes. This was a success :)
The sweet potatoes get sweeter as they age. One of my favorite foods. I like to pop one in the microwave and add a little butter and cinnamon sugar, I can make a meal from just that.
Sweet potatoes are the easiest root vegetable to grow. Plant the slips in some rich fertile soil and forget about them until time to harvest. You can also eat the young tender leaves and they are very healthy for you.
I'm in piedmont NC and usually only a fraction of those baby sweet potatoes will overwinter to use for seed. I LOVE scrubbing them and eating them raw like carrot sticks - taste similar too! So much raw nutrition and fiber adds to winter health.
I like your feeder, a really good idea. You are going to have some tasty meals with those sweet potatoes. 💖💖💖💖💖
This video reminds me of digging our sweet potatoes with you Meg. it was our only time to ever do sweet potatoes and you were part of it. Have a beautiful day
Love that he was barefoot...true gardener!!! Hugs
Love the farm life. Enjoy your videos. That feeder idea is awesome.
Those are some big taters. Nice to see all of you again. Stay warm, not suppose to be as cold tonight. Have a great one
Our sweet potatoes will start sprouting about a month after curing if you keep them warm. By January/ February those slips should be 6-8 inches high. Break the slips off, pick off all but the top leaf, dip the broken end in a rooting hormone and plant in a 4 “ container keeping the soil saturated until new leaves show. (About a week) If you have a south facing window that works, if not we use an old fish tank with a full spectrum light. Plant out when you are ready. I normally get 4- 8 slips per potato, and eat it after harvesting the slips.
I wrapped my pallets with chicken wire😊 awesome sweet potato harvest!
Nice!!! I know a thing or two about monster patatoes lol I love that he is bare feet in the ground. Love it!
Humongous sweet potatoes! I like the breakfast idea! Plus lovely to see the little one! (And all of you.) Very clever feeder design!
Wow those are some perfect Sweet Potatoes. Going to be a bountiful Thanksgiving. Do you plan to add front and back decks/porches on the mobile home? Nice to see your beautiful family happy.
Y'all have some very nice meat birds going on there! The breakfast sounds to die for! Stay safe and Blessings
The 'mobile home' is now a family home! It looks very cozy in there and bookshelves are always terrific, especially the home made with love type.
Watching this takes me away from the election news stress!
It must have been a good sweet potato year. We planted two rows and they were absolutely huge!!!!!! We harvested over 100 pounds. They're laying in the basement on wooden pallets. I hope they last all winter. :)
Love seeing your farm and all the dynamics.
The bookcases look great!
Yes they do, and I see the pantry shelves are in also. Plus the outside area around the house and camper has been cleaned up.
The movable coops work so well for soil fertility!
I so love his enthusiasm.
All I kept saying was Wow!!!
Holy cow guys, nicely done! Hope you all are settling in with baby! God bless
Mom would keep the radio plays lightly in the background to put the baby to sleep. Easy listening, classical, and show tunes. Not rock or bouncy music. Music that keeps the atmosphere calm and doesn't quicken the heartbeat. It worked. I was singing before I was talking, but I slept well. Hope this helps.
Woah! Those sweet potatoes are massive! YUM!!! Thanks for the update. Always fun to see what your family is up to.
They look delicious enjoy. Nothing better than home grown
Awesome job growing the sweet potatoes. This past weekend at my mom's church. A guy was passing out some tomatoes he grew. One of the reasons I want to move to a homestead in lancaster PA closer to family. To me it would be enjoyable to share.
Sooo good in a red Thai curry soup, yum yum. Marvelous!!
What do sweet potatoes wear to bed? Their yammies.
Thx. Needed a little chuckle today! God bless.
What is the sweet potato motto?
I yam what I yam, and that's all that I yam.
@@juliebaker6969 LOL
😂😂😂😂😂
Super cute! The littles are gonna get a kick out of that one. Cant wait
Hi new viewer here! I love your son's excitement but more that hes barefoot a day after a freeze :) He is definitely grounded. Great harvest! New sub.
You also need to get some skirting around that mobile home!
Isn’t that called a ruffle?
🤣
That is awesome!! I love Brett's excitement.
Ours were also MONSTERS this year! First time growing here!! Wish I new how to share a pic! Had some 4 pounders 😮 ❤️ Kristy in Missouri again 😂😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
As meat birds get bigger, they get less heat tolerant, so the ramp-up in weight and ramp-down in temperature was the secret sauce. I ended up with an 8# 8.6 oz CC dressed out at 9.5 weeks. That is with 12 hrs on/12 hrs off feed. The sweet potatoes were AMAZING! First time planting them this year from my own slips, and got 16#. You should weigh some of the big fellas on the soap scale and let us know. Monsters is right Brett!
The kids have grown sooooo much since this
Green apples are great with sweet potatoes and onions along with brown sugar, apple pie spice and butter. Yum
You can do anything with sweet potatoes. You can have boiled sweet potatoes, roasted sweet potatoes, baked sweet potatoes, candied sweet potatoes, sweet potato fries, mashed sweet potatoes, sweet potato soup, sweet potato...you get the picture! And all babies love sweet potatoes!!
You sound like bubba on forest gump listing all the things you can make with shrimp! Lol 😁
Barefoot and picking sweet potatoes. Love it. No more country than that 🎃.Nothing wrong with being country. Best place to be.
Yes Ben please draw up the plans. Excellent idea! It's good to see you again. I was wondering how your family was doing.
He so happy he make me happy thank i have a great time watching.
My kiddos ate so many sweet potatoes and carrots when they were babies, the tips of their little noses turned a light orange from the carotene. Sweet memories.
I absolutely LOVE your pantry 👍💗
Wow!!! They are gianormous! 😲
Too bad there wasn't a county fair this year. Those are blue ribbon sweet potatoes for sure!😊😊😊❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏
Y’all seem to be doing great . Loved the sweet potato harvest ! Teaching those boys to be a jack of all trades Is important , good job dad . Be blessed and favored ❤️🙏🏽
Amazing harvest! Bet you they are really delicious too! Enjoy
That's a great idea for a feeder. Yes, please post it
Hey guys, not sure if you'll see this but if you leave the butternut chunks whole, throw in beans and corn. I use deer or buffalo, but that's "3 sister's soup". A native recipe for where you live.
When I lived in Wasilla, AK, we had sweet potatoes large as footballs. One potato was all you needed for thanksgiving dinner.
lmao
Idk what varieties you growth there, but i watched a grandpa video from amish county who harvest sweet potato bigger than his head
Great to hear from you all again - always miss you when you are not posting... so I hang out for the next one.
Love you guys!!
Jumpin' johasophats, lordy, mega taters! Awesome job guys...I am in northwest SC, not far from y'all and I have seen some good size sweet potatoes 🥔. Your earth loves you! Love seeing the bookcase filled! Stay well! 🌱🍁💕👍🏻
I noticed the new bookshelf. Looking Good, especially what's in front of the bookshelf. Haha
Congrats on hitting 100k !!!!
Love seeing all the boys in their flannel shirts!!
Good to see you all. Great sweet potato patch you had there. And the outcome looks really good
I bet theres more sweet ltaters in that row. They can get down nearly three feet! But don't worry you'll have volunteer plants in the spring.
I was wondering, why don't they dig deeper? There's got to be more sweet potatoes lurking in the depth of the patch.
@@reggiebuffat hmm just dont know why
lol
I've experimented with that and find that they won't go so deep in solid clay soil. Mine mostly grow close to the mother plant like a banana bunch, and sometimes will travel into the mulched paths seeking water, but not very deep. So I just carefully work from the mother plant and follow the roots to their ends to make sure I got them all.
@@curiouscat3384 oh ok hope you doing good
Bookcases are beautiful 😁😁😁
It's so great to see y'all again!!
Nice job Ben with the feeder, and juggling the baby in one arm and holding the camera in the other. Multi-talented. :-) God bless you all. Hugs from Italy.
I have squash and chorizo so I look forward to the recipe! And more baby shots! I’m done having kids so I’m just LOVING all those BABES!
I love butternut squash just about any way it’s fixed. It’s definitely good eats. Sweet potatoes are good eats too.
It would have been nice to add the recipe in the description area for the 102K UA-cam subs, many of whom do not have Instagram.
Are those sweet potatoes a Japanese ornamental variety? I know the joy Bret felt as he was digging for this sweet potatoes! I use to have a blast harvesting my sweet potatoes, as did the next door neighbor’s kids🤗!
I did enjoy the update, thanks for sharing a little bit of your bliss with us. And the pumpkin chorizo soup looked sounds like a great match, and looked really yummy, but I don't do the Instant Gramming so I'll just have to make it up as well 😁👍👊
very nice size and colours sweet potatoes I bet taste good too 😋 Mum and son will be busy in the kitchen, enjoy!
I don't know why but when i watch you its like i get news from my brother ... RESPECT