"Work while you work, play while you play, this is the way to be happy each day. All that you do, do with your might. Things done by halves are never done right!" We loved memorizing that poem. ❤
Yes, a before and after would be great. It makes me feel better about my own overpacked pantry, to know that your pantry doesn't look picture perfect either.
Pantry chat is my favorite! I sit down with my morning cuppa and it's great inspiration to get into the garden. Just hitting peak summer here in Australia.
"Plan your property before you place your permanent buildings..." So true! The buildings were already in place on the property and planning around them is a pain.
Yes I agree! We put an alley way of fencing down the center of the property. The alley is to help rotate from pasture to pasture. We make sure to have proper fencing and housing feed and all for a new animal if we get one (or more of a kind).
My house sits on top of a "ridge" and the entire acreage slopes gently, either east or west, down to creek bottoms. All the buildings have to be on the ridge so it creates some issues for us.
Definitely agree on the wait a bit and observe your property for a while. Here on our acreage in the rolling TN hills water movement is a very important issue. Knowing where it comes from and where it's going will be key in the design of your property blogs and resources.
Hey I just wanna say how much I love these pantry chats! I love to listen while doing chores, gardening, or like right now I’m listening like a podcast in the car! Love y’all! ❤️ Kristy in Missouri zone 6b 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
It was a really good thing I listened to you. I’ve been on my property for 1 year and boy I’m glad I didn’t immediately place the chicken coop, greenhouse, garden beds etc; because watching the sun shift through the seasons, my chickens would have roasted in their house, and my garden would have been a flop. 👍🏼 Texas sun and heat, and I have some trees and the seasonal shade from the house to consider.
Josh prayers for you for a quick recovery, hope you feel 100% very soon! Great info about moving mulch in order to amend the soil, using store bought buttermilk as a starter, temps to store ferments etc. Merry Christmas 🎄 to both of you, and your family!
A lot of hay, at least in Washington state, has a weed free herbicide added to it and it will kill your garden and garden plot. Most vegetable plants are co side red weeds so the weed free hay will kill them and soak into the soil. It took my parents garden almost three years to even grow grass after a few years of hay mulch that turned out to have the weed free portion. Just a heads up. I personally use wood chips, I buy pine shavings from a local feed store. Maybe not fiscally great, but it helps.
I grow a lot of my own herbs and make tinctures, salves, teas and more. I show a lot of that on my channel. I am not a monk, lol, but I do enjoy the herbs.
I am new to gardening and noticed you mentioned slowing down in year 7. Do you take a sabbatical year from gardening? If so, how does that work as far as sustaining the family foodwise?
What I took from that is slowing down on new projects like new garden beds and areas etc apposed to slowing down directly on growing veg. But I could be wrong
We sell miniature Jersey cows in TN and I am happy to put people on a wait list. We only vaccinate when a customer wants it, or again, as Josh said, according to necessary state laws. Blessings guys! Great podcast! Always love hearing what you're up to! :)
What's the idea of a miniature cow? More manageable milk supplies for a small family? Or are they just cute? 😃 My daughter will be just starting out and I hadn't heard of miniatures.
@@C5Rose3 For a homestead, it's the perfect cow as they give about 2 gallons a day. They are smaller and easier for children to lead around. Not as intimidating. They also don't eat as much as a standard Jersey. They are also VERY cute! Their babies are tiny. If you decide to keep a breeding bull or a male for meat, they also aren't as intimidating and more manageable. We are in love with them. :)
@@C5Rose3 For me, it's about having beef while being able to process it all myself, and they eat a heck of a lot less. The only thing I don't like, is they usually cost the same as a full sized cow.
Love your program always have/ i’m excited I save the bottom part of my celery and I read it in water and it does not get big and voluptuous like the salary in the store but it is so pungent and it’s a little bitty stocks and I put them like in cut them up small put the little pieces in deviled eggs and people just go crazy because the celery is so flavorful i’ve been doing this for years
Sometimes reading the book is better than watching a movie because you can use your own imagination. Sometimes the movie can help when one doesn't know about certain things in the book.
Hi Guys, i have only recently found your channel and love listening to you and your catelogue. I do have a couple of questions or maybe please do these vidoes. I would love an understanding permaculture 101, maybe a short video showing how you do it on your homestead. Also i dont have snow in my area so i would love to see a video on what you do for those big snow packs you tell us about. On the food front i would love to know how to use dehydrated food - i only use it as dried fruit, herbs or teas. But you seam to use it in other things, i was wondering how to do so and what to use it in. Have a wonderful Christmas and New Year. Thanks for your help - Nicola
As our family's livelihood is based on our dairy cow herd, be aware that a vaccine is a completely different thing than an antibiotic. There are slaughter withholding time frames for vaccines but no milk withholding. So like Josh said, do the homework and know where the cow comes from. But there is no need to be scared of a conservative vaccination program based on the needs of a person's particular area.
My cows are unvaccinated, because I started with 2 vaccinated dairy cows and raised their daughters for milk and their boys for temporary bulls and steers for the freezer. I'm located in Northern California with a 'closed herd' . I have 2 extra yearling heifers.
@34:00..bean tunnel/hoop Not knowing where those folks are, or the amount of snow they get...but up here in eastern Washington our snow loud can be 2 - 3ft. It's suggested that you support a trellis/hoop every 2 feet (maximum of 3ft). I used welded hog fencing and arched it, and less than a foot collapsed it. This year I reinforced with 3/8ths rebar.
I rarely get sick but caught a bug about 6 weeks ago. It wasn't Covid and really wasn't all that bad after the 2nd day. Unfortunately it really hit my stamina and I haven't recovered. I was out dismantling a garden this morning Nad it really woe me out more than it would have just a couple of months ago.
My mother made a huge crock of sauerkraut and when it was done she would can it. Don’t know if there was any steps specific to sauerkraut that she followed but there would be dozens of quarts to be added to the pantry each year.
A better series is Fr. Brown by GK Chesterton. It’s older about the turn of the century 1900. BBC has also put out a series on this one, but unfortunately has gone way off track. The old Fr Brown shows are closer to the books. He has written many other books also. He is a good voice for these times, if you know what I mean. He nickname is the Apostle of Common Sense. He use to debate liberal personalities back in the day. He was so funny! There a few people that have books on Chesterton, and there is the Chesterton Academy in Annapolis Maryland that has done very well. I’ve never read the series you are describing, so I can’t comment on them. You just have to be very couscous when reading them. Chesterton is good, but some paint Catholics in a bad light. Which is far from the truth. Also, the place monks live are called Abbeys. Thank you, I will look into that series.
Sorry you've had to deal with the virus Josh - our household was sick in August and it does take awhile to feel back to normal- and get our appetite back 🤔 looks like you lost some weight 😕 God's blessings for your family
I’m sorting through your videos. Trying to find a spot where you mentioned your favorite squash variety. But I can’t find it. Can anyone help me? Thanks! Love the pantry chats
Is yall's primary source of income coming from the homestead? Or do you have a primary outside source of income that you earn while working remotely at home?
I take it you guys had covid/recovering from in the video? What herbs would you recommend? I’ve currently got it for the very first time even though I’ve worked in a maternity hospital the whole time 🙃 really want to feel better now, any herbal tips?
Can you guys do a video on life on your homestead in the winter. ? I would like to see your covered high tunnels .what is a day in the winter of your homestead? From Ontario
"Work while you work, play while you play, this is the way to be happy each day. All that you do, do with your might. Things done by halves are never done right!"
We loved memorizing that poem. ❤
You should do a BEFORE and AFTER pantry tour. It would encourage those who think this has to be done perfectly, to simply DO IT.
Yes, a before and after would be great. It makes me feel better about my own overpacked pantry, to know that your pantry doesn't look picture perfect either.
Yes!! I would love this, as we don't currently have a pantry or basement, this would help me with some do's and don't's on building one.
Pantry chat is my favorite! I sit down with my morning cuppa and it's great inspiration to get into the garden. Just hitting peak summer here in Australia.
"Plan your property before you place your permanent buildings..." So true! The buildings were already in place on the property and planning around them is a pain.
Yes I agree! We put an alley way of fencing down the center of the property. The alley is to help rotate from pasture to pasture. We make sure to have proper fencing and housing feed and all for a new animal if we get one (or more of a kind).
@@milknhoneyheritagefarms4706 That's a great idea! May work for us too. Thanks!
My house sits on top of a "ridge" and the entire acreage slopes gently, either east or west, down to creek bottoms. All the buildings have to be on the ridge so it creates some issues for us.
Definitely agree on the wait a bit and observe your property for a while. Here on our acreage in the rolling TN hills water movement is a very important issue. Knowing where it comes from and where it's going will be key in the design of your property blogs and resources.
Hey I just wanna say how much I love these pantry chats! I love to listen while doing chores, gardening, or like right now I’m listening like a podcast in the car! Love y’all! ❤️ Kristy in Missouri zone 6b 😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Thats the way I do it. Listen while doing farm chores.
Yall are the best ! Always look forward to your pantry chats! Hope you have a very Merry Christmas and lots of Happy Birthdays!
It was a really good thing I listened to you. I’ve been on my property for 1 year and boy I’m glad I didn’t immediately place the chicken coop, greenhouse, garden beds etc; because watching the sun shift through the seasons, my chickens would have roasted in their house, and my garden would have been a flop. 👍🏼
Texas sun and heat, and I have some trees and the seasonal shade from the house to consider.
Josh prayers for you for a quick recovery, hope you feel 100% very soon! Great info about moving mulch in order to amend the soil, using store bought buttermilk as a starter, temps to store ferments etc. Merry Christmas 🎄 to both of you, and your family!
For those looking for the book series, it is spelled "Cadfael" by Ellis Peters. Looks like a great series! :D
It is an excellent series and afterwards it was made into a movie series. Really good British production. Recommend the books first
@@elizabethmoore6993 Maybe some after Christmas sales! :D
Stay well and Happy Season for all your loved ones.
Pantry tour!!! I’d love that!
I love Cadfel ! I think that Derek Jacobi really made the character come to life.
Six days until the solstice when we get to see this. 🎄 Merry Christmas 🎄 to you all and have a blessed new year. 👼
I want to see the "real-in-use-kinda pantry"! (Please ❤️)
Good chat. Hope you feel better real soon. I like that you two will slow down a bit. Merry Christmas
I would love to see your pantry! My pantry area needs a Rehaul too lol
A lot of hay, at least in Washington state, has a weed free herbicide added to it and it will kill your garden and garden plot. Most vegetable plants are co side red weeds so the weed free hay will kill them and soak into the soil. It took my parents garden almost three years to even grow grass after a few years of hay mulch that turned out to have the weed free portion. Just a heads up. I personally use wood chips, I buy pine shavings from a local feed store. Maybe not fiscally great, but it helps.
Ohhhh I love brother cadfael! Like sister Fidelma and a bit of father Brown mysteries :)
Bdays 3,10,14,17,31 plus anniversaries 16 and 27!! Merry Christmas
I grow a lot of my own herbs and make tinctures, salves, teas and more. I show a lot of that on my channel. I am not a monk, lol, but I do enjoy the herbs.
Pray that you are back to 100% soon, Josh.
I am new to gardening and noticed you mentioned slowing down in year 7. Do you take a sabbatical year from gardening? If so, how does that work as far as sustaining the family foodwise?
What I took from that is slowing down on new projects like new garden beds and areas etc apposed to slowing down directly on growing veg. But I could be wrong
I love Brother Cadfael! I knew who you were talking about long before you mentioned his name :)
This is the year of Jubilee. Taking a land sabbath with an abundant pantry is not a bad idea.
Pantry tour!!😁❤
We sell miniature Jersey cows in TN and I am happy to put people on a wait list. We only vaccinate when a customer wants it, or again, as Josh said, according to necessary state laws. Blessings guys! Great podcast! Always love hearing what you're up to! :)
What part of Tennessee? Can you send me a private message? I don't know how.
What's the idea of a miniature cow? More manageable milk supplies for a small family? Or are they just cute? 😃 My daughter will be just starting out and I hadn't heard of miniatures.
@@HeatherNaturaly If you post your email, I can contact you that way. :)
@@C5Rose3 For a homestead, it's the perfect cow as they give about 2 gallons a day. They are smaller and easier for children to lead around. Not as intimidating. They also don't eat as much as a standard Jersey. They are also VERY cute! Their babies are tiny. If you decide to keep a breeding bull or a male for meat, they also aren't as intimidating and more manageable. We are in love with them. :)
@@C5Rose3 For me, it's about having beef while being able to process it all myself, and they eat a heck of a lot less. The only thing I don't like, is they usually cost the same as a full sized cow.
Josh, you look to be feeling a lot better. Great 👍
Love your program always have/ i’m excited I save the bottom part of my celery and I read it in water and it does not get big and voluptuous like the salary in the store but it is so pungent and it’s a little bitty stocks and I put them like in cut them up small put the little pieces in deviled eggs and people just go crazy because the celery is so flavorful i’ve been doing this for years
I like celery leaves more than the stalks. I grow them from store bought celery. It counts as greens, right? 😆
@@calamitysue1274 I basically just grow my own from the root of the salary from in the store
Even in my house in the winter time
i love yalls pantry chats!!
QUESTION - are you guys going to do a year in review like you did last year? I really enjoyed that episode 🙂
We have the same "problem " with our pantry. Overwhelmed.
Sometimes reading the book is better than watching a movie because you can use your own imagination.
Sometimes the movie can help when one doesn't know about certain things in the book.
Hi Guys, i have only recently found your channel and love listening to you and your catelogue. I do have a couple of questions or maybe please do these vidoes. I would love an understanding permaculture 101, maybe a short video showing how you do it on your homestead. Also i dont have snow in my area so i would love to see a video on what you do for those big snow packs you tell us about. On the food front i would love to know how to use dehydrated food - i only use it as dried fruit, herbs or teas. But you seam to use it in other things, i was wondering how to do so and what to use it in.
Have a wonderful Christmas and New Year. Thanks for your help - Nicola
As our family's livelihood is based on our dairy cow herd, be aware that a vaccine is a completely different thing than an antibiotic. There are slaughter withholding time frames for vaccines but no milk withholding. So like Josh said, do the homework and know where the cow comes from. But there is no need to be scared of a conservative vaccination program based on the needs of a person's particular area.
Cream separates when frozen and the fat goes crumbly. I use it for baking only .
I do freeze my goat cream until I have a couple quarts. I then thaw it and make butter.
You two are amazing I adore you both
My cows are unvaccinated, because I started with 2 vaccinated dairy cows and raised their daughters for milk and their boys for temporary bulls and steers for the freezer. I'm located in Northern California with a 'closed herd' .
I have 2 extra yearling heifers.
@34:00..bean tunnel/hoop
Not knowing where those folks are, or the amount of snow they get...but up here in eastern Washington our snow loud can be 2 - 3ft. It's suggested that you support a trellis/hoop every 2 feet (maximum of 3ft).
I used welded hog fencing and arched it, and less than a foot collapsed it. This year I reinforced with 3/8ths rebar.
Next week can you start the video with a shot of the farm to show us how much snow you have?
Haha, takin' it easy is the biggest challenge.
I rarely get sick but caught a bug about 6 weeks ago. It wasn't Covid and really wasn't all that bad after the 2nd day.
Unfortunately it really hit my stamina and I haven't recovered. I was out dismantling a garden this morning Nad it really woe me out more than it would have just a couple of months ago.
I know several people who have had the same thing! Negative coof test, but zapped them like coof. I hope you get back to normal/feeling good soon.
6 more days from my posting. 😁
Solstice here we come, YEA more light for barn chores.
My mother made a huge crock of sauerkraut and when it was done she would can it. Don’t know if there was any steps specific to sauerkraut that she followed but there would be dozens of quarts to be added to the pantry each year.
A better series is Fr. Brown by GK Chesterton. It’s older about the turn of the century 1900. BBC has also put out a series on this one, but unfortunately has gone way off track. The old Fr Brown shows are closer to the books. He has written many other books also. He is a good voice for these times, if you know what I mean. He nickname is the Apostle of Common Sense. He use to debate liberal personalities back in the day. He was so funny! There a few people that have books on Chesterton, and there is the Chesterton Academy in Annapolis Maryland that has done very well.
I’ve never read the series you are describing, so I can’t comment on them.
You just have to be very couscous when reading them. Chesterton is good, but some paint Catholics in a bad light. Which is far from the truth.
Also, the place monks live are called Abbeys. Thank you, I will look into that series.
GK Chesterton is fantastic.
How do you process your onions before you twine and hang them. Drying in the sun?
Sorry you've had to deal with the virus Josh - our household was sick in August and it does take awhile to feel back to normal- and get our appetite back 🤔 looks like you lost some weight 😕 God's blessings for your family
I’m sorting through your videos. Trying to find a spot where you mentioned your favorite squash variety. But I can’t find it. Can anyone help me? Thanks! Love the pantry chats
Is yall's primary source of income coming from the homestead? Or do you have a primary outside source of income that you earn while working remotely at home?
5 out of 10 kids in my family birthday is the first week of February..also my father..
Happy Birthdays😊
GAPS requires that chicken manure be composted for 120 days if you. are selling that veggie product to the public.
What kind of pressure canner do you recommend?
I get it. There are 5 December birthdays in my family
LOVE the Cadfael series!! He uses his knowledge of herbs to solve murder mysteries like CSI, but a lot less sophisticated.
I've heard baby chicks are vaccinated before they are sent off to their new families. Is this true for your chickens?
I know the two different places that I have ordered chicks, you have the option if you want them vaccinated or not.
I have a lot of chicken/turkey fat off the thanksgiving birds and was wondering if I would render this fat the same way I would beef/pig?
I take it you guys had covid/recovering from in the video? What herbs would you recommend? I’ve currently got it for the very first time even though I’ve worked in a maternity hospital the whole time 🙃 really want to feel better now, any herbal tips?
I’m going towards dairy goats because I’m on only 1/3 of a acre .
Please let us see your pantry 😀
The OverAbundant Pantry😝
Can you guys do a video on life on your homestead in the winter. ? I would like to see your covered high tunnels .what is a day in the winter of your homestead? From Ontario
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Josh....u do look tired....I know it is hard to do but u gotta slow down ...rest and relax a bit!
Why does this channel not show people how to do things anymore…