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- Опубліковано 14 лип 2024
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I was born and raised 20 minutes from Boston, MA. At the age of 17, I was diagnosed with Anxiety. My personal experience with the prescribed medication was NOT POSITIVE. So I decided to find better way. I didn't know it at the time but, that was the BEGINNING for me! I have been “FINDING A BETTER WAY” in all areas in my life ever since. Better ways of how to create a modern homestead affordably, and a better way to provide my family with healthy foods, and so….. much MORE!
At Lumnah Acres we hope our experiences can help guide you to find YOUR BETTER WAY! Please join us in sharing our journey with you, let us be a guide to Modern Homesteading, Self-Sufficiency, and FREEDOM for you!
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Good share and tour where everything is working in a roundabout way to give a great end product....You're definitely up beat and hopeful which makes the channel fun to follow....never mind little mishaps...The abundance is sure in coming....Enjoy the weekend with the family!
Thank you! I am glad it makes the channel fun to watch. We appreciate the feed back too! We need to focus on the positive but learn from the mishaps. We hope you have a great weekend too! We will see you tomorrow!
Given the opportunity, your chickens will kill every one of those ducklings. That's why the ducklings have been hiding under the coop. Often times we had to separate mother hens and their chicks from the rest of the flock as the other chickens would peck the chicks to death. Chickens can be nasty, and as you've pointed out, will each just about anything. In this case, however, it is more likely an expression of the "pecking order" behavior.
We were hoping the mothers would be better protectors
Gina: A bread alternative might be crepes/wraps . I make mine in the Wok; for 2 eggs, two tablespoons of alternative flour, pinch of baking soda. Rice, tapioca, pea, lentil, potato ( give potato flakes a buzz in the processor ) or mashed, etc. Add milk to make a runny batter; pour a thin layer 1/8" or less into a hot skillet with Vegetable oil or Ghee ( clarified butter ). I use Ghee; then rolled up and cut in strips in my fried rice dishes. Or pour over a 1/4" layer of finely chopped vegetables, peas and shrimp; Egg Fou Yung or any omelet style dish. Adding a little starch will add body. Over a 1/4" layer of frozen peas, corn niblets, grated potato, and tinned corn beef or bacon bitts would also make a full meal pancake. Happy cooking Bert
PS I have also used the wraps to make individual pizza's. Just add toppings and cooked them on the stone in my Delonge toaster oven. Bert
That sounds so good! Thanks!
I just watched a couple of your videos and I'm hooked. Thank you.
Thank you very much! We are glad you are enjoying them!
Congratulations on your top 10! I love watching your content and find your journey inspiring. Thanks to you and your family for sharing your progression on this path!
When you butcher the cockerels this weekend you could move all of the pullets for sale into the same tractor and free up one of the tractors for the ducklings. Also, why not advertise Mr. Biggs to be sold as a package deal with those barred Rock pullets? He could be moved in with them as soon as you have the cockerels out as well. He would also help stop any arguments between the two batches of pullets. That would allow you to move Rufus into New Yolk City and get him set where you want him to be and your Icelandic project would be off to the races.
That is a really great idea! Thanks! Mr. Biggs might not like it but I bet Rufus will!
This was enjoyable to watch, helped to chase the winter blues away a bit! 😊
Al, you guys truly are one of my most favorite, if not the favorite, channels on UA-cam. Your positivity , your ideology, the way you treat your animals, the way you go about things... It's truly inspiring. Thank you.
Thank you! We are glad you enjoy the channel and we really appreciate your feed back!
hi guys thank you for the Friday update nice hearing from you Mr. Biffs. good morning Gina and Olivia, those 🐷 pigs are really enjoying there freedom, and the ducks a looking happy to, the 🐔 chickens are looking good and growing fast, the 🐷 pugs are doing great work, whoop the garden is really jamming, when your bless your bless ,till tomorrow same time same place,as always beautiful God bless 👋 bye. 👍🍅🌿🌳🌱🌾🌽🏡🔨
Thank you! Yes the homestead is doing great and is truly blessed! See you tomorrow!
Lumnah Acres 👍👍🏡🔨
Start a fish tank for freash fish you can make fish emulsion fertilizer great for vegtables.
I really enjoy the Friday updates. The gardens look great, especially the hay bales, potato, pig pen squash. Sad to see those male blossoms, it's been some time since I've had any, and soooo yummy. Exciting about the chicken harvest. I'd be interested in the net weight difference between the Cornish, and Barred Rocks. Sad to see about the duckling, but good luck catching them to move to safer quarters. ^Edit^ No updates on your beehives?
It's been brutally hot, and humid here. Little to no rain, although north of us, same heat, lot's of storms.
Thanks! Good to know, We will have to weigh them and see. It will be interesting
Al, I owned a private NH waterfowl hatchery. I never put waterfowl and chickens together.They were constantly feuding! The geese absolutely hated the laying hens. There was peace in the land when I separated the birds...Do you have any mesh under your raised beds to discourage moles/voles? Love your raised beds. So much easier.
I love watching your weekly update! Everything is coming along so nicely and I love how enthusiastic you are about the relationship between the different aspects of the system. I hope the pumpkins grow enough for you to win the #homesteadpumpkinchallenge! How tall do the green beans grow? What will you be using to stake them up on? Great update!
The beans we are growing will be around 12 inches tall and they dont need to be stacked. One of my favorite parts of farming this way is how everything works with each other and makes each other better! Good to know you like the updates!
Hello folks at Lumnah Acres !! Oh I wish I had more space than I do, I would love to start with some 🐔's and slowly add the other animals but untill then I'm happy to watch you guys and learn more and more about homesteading !! Great update on the garden, especially the sweet corn and beetroot !! I Love your enthusiasm for everything you obviously love doing it !! Thanks for sharing
Thanks! I bet one day you will have that space!
Can't say I am impressed with the new style dry hatch incubators. I had a Sears redwood 400 goose egg incubator. You could dry hatch, as long as you didn't use the bottom water tray. It hatched hundreds of show chicks for a neighbor without a hitch. Looks like these new models are reinventing the wheel... Not sounding encouraging for me, when I get ready to buy another wet hatch incubator. Best of luck. I will follow your hatching venture to see if you have success.
Here's a tip.... #Spaghetti squash make a deliciious pie, make just like sweet potato, and add "LEMON!" flavoring...it's to die for!!!
Thanks, that sounds delicious!
Always enjoy the homestead updates. I will be doing a update on our garden this Sunday. It's going crazy!
Thank you! I bet its going to be a good one!
LOL! Little too excited with the warm weather? You're a character, Al! :D
I left the Boston area a long, long time ago. I grew up just minutes by MTA from downtown Boston and worked there when I was in my early twenties. But quite a long time ago I headed for the rural life also. I've never wanted to go back but I do enjoy living several hours away in New Hampshire so that I can visit Beantown now and again for museums and theatre.
Sweet, ppl dont realize that all the things we consume cost$ or is it they just too lazy.....keep at it hope your homestead thrives always in GOD willing
Your are the best!
Enjoy your spirit!
I'm really amazed the chickens know how to get water from the device you use to water them. It would be educational if you showed the process of pinching the extra growth on your tomatoes so people just starting will know what to do and why they need to. I think it may help people be more successful which will encourage them to keep growing. Thanks for the great video.
Thank you! Great idea! I will add that in an up coming video!
Awesome modern steader garden critter update!💖💖💖😍💖😍
Thanks! How hot has it been there?
It's going to be 100 or over all weekend it's been in the high nineties four weeks now we are all over it and it gets up to 100 almost every weekend it's totally stressing the garden and squelching my activity outside LOL I'm always very envious of your thunder showers and rain storms but I'm sure it comes with its own challenges
I don't think I could take that heat. I hope your gardens hang in there! Yes they do come with there own challenges but I will take them over your temps. Lol, I am not good in the heat
Linda's Pantry awesome smile, darlin! Look @ you, wow!
It's amazing the difference in your homestead from then til now, what a difference!!!
Hey guys. Great episode. Thank you for this.
You really an inspiration. I enjoy your videos everyday!!
Thank you! We appreciate you watching!
I had a little loose bunny this morning, but she was just within the pallet the kennel sits upon. she was enjoying it being cooler than where her mama is. Now they have froze water bottles. Ice for everyone!
I b they love the ice bottles!
@14:00 I decided you need to be on t.v. again. Or a big timer on youtube. You're a little funny. In a great way.
Thanks! Lol You like my Singing? We all need to have a little fun!
See what makes you stand out and do it. Because I've been trying to watch/ keep up with the Justin Rhode's farm stops, and you have to stay fresh and real to keep attention of folks who are watching many youtubes.
I have one that has 4 latches on his cage because he loves to get out, he is very smart and I don't blame him. Love seeing him run around and play
So much fun to watch.
Great video. Really appreciate it. 👍
I feed my sourdough starter and Laura to grow on the counter for about an hour hour and a half maybe two. Then you put it in the refrigerator. You won’t experience molding. Then take it out once a week discard part feed it do the exact same thing. And take that discard feed it and make your sourdough. I’m 70 I’m learning my husband and I been studying it and loving it
I didnt start anything in the house and we the lost of peas and greens we have already the eat. I was in Epsom, New Hampshire last week and on the way I saw a big field of just cabbage and they were the size of baseballs, it was crazy. I was like holy crap! and hubby was like meh! haha he didnt care
I bet that field looked beautiful!
oh it was really cool to see. I popped up out of my seat. I just have ever seen that. It was on a hill and thought that was cool too. It was horizontal to the hill and though how do they water it if at all
you guys are awesome!!
Thank you!
Beautiful garden 🍅🥦🥒🥔
You are excited cus you’re doing great! Congrats! Keep up the awesome work and commitment
great video. thanks for sharing...gives me plenty ideas for my new homestead. so excited to get started
Thanks! Do you have the new homestead or are you working on it?
Lumnah Acres I have a small acre place I'm temp renting for now for way to much money waiting to move. all my animals are being stored everywhere until then. horses chickens ducks rooster pigs rabbits ughhh the list goes on as well as my gardens temp in buckets.... i have a offer in on a 20 acre property I'm waiting to move to. it's trashed from previous owners and going through foreclosure and its gonna take alot of work and needs a whole do over inside and out... but it's my shitty dream lol feel free to subscribe to my channel and watch my journey. Loving your videos.
Al, I watched this 2017 season vid. You remain the same today: enthusiastic, passionate, farming. You’re a cool dude, in my view! Oh, and had to add it’s nice to see your property without ice, rain, or......TORNADO warnings!
I love your farm man good job, keep it up. Also babies die its something I have become use to sometimes they just born sickly... and have to let mother nature take its course.
I have the same issue. I've been all excited to purchase something, and come to find out the listing is from HOURS away.
Bummer!
your so positive, that's awesome! Good job though, everything looks great
Love your farm! Enjoy watching!
One of my better channels by far!
Everything is looking good! Spaghetti squash is pretty awesome it grew pretty good here in ma last year, it was my first time growing it and we got a great harvest. Thanks
Good to know! Did you grow it this year?
Yup I did butternut, spaghetti and sugar pie pumpkins all stored all winter here in MA
we grew our spaghetti squash on a trellis this year and the results were amazing
love love love!!!
Thank you for your service, sorry to hear about your health problems
Another great video! Everything looks great pigs are really working. Thumbs up!
Thank you!
The "stead" is looking great! Keep the little ducklings separated from the hens, they will live longer. FYI. Those peppers are going to pop up any day now
Thanks! We cant wait for the for fresh peppers! Olivia loves green peppers, not red or orange!
You’re missing saying you feed the animals and getting the eggs. And guessing how many eggs you gonna get that day. I just love that game.
I like what you're doing. I'm trying to position myself to be off the grid in 10 years.
New Yolk City 😂 I see whatcha did there
such a good and happy lives on the farm.
If your soil is too cold, corn and beans do not grow, thats why your soil blocks did much better.
Our weather has been wonky too. I finally just tossed my sour dough starter too. (SD) Potato bread is awesome, just be sure to rice the potatoes. Great job with the garden. You ought to use a tea on your garden. David the Good on UA-cam shows a very easy way to make yourself a tea with stuff good for the garden. Good Luck with your garden! Oh, on your zucchini & squash, if you don't prune down some of the leaves, your flowers won't get pollenated. Which will cause your fruits to only be female, that means they grow a little then die.
Thanks Great info! Compost tea is great!
I would get the ducks outta there Al . . . Chucks are too much dinosaur to trust them. With the head missing tho, it could be a neighborhood cat; mine always preferred eating the head. A cat could climb the tree, drop down, climb back up and out. Hey for non-gluten bread, try grinding up some split green peas. They make it a fun color and add tons of protein. Thanks!
That sounds like a great idea to add to bread! The chickens havent been touching the ducks, I dont know what it is. Thanks
you are right but when I am around I dont see them chasing the ducklings at all. The ducklings run in and out of new yolk city city limits too (the fence)
I am not certain that the chickens aren't involved but can't see them just eating the head . . . Seems like the chickens, if hungry would eat bones and all. The carcass is only missing it's head.
Eagle GoldenGate ...Mother Nature can be cruel. We all know that.
Lumnah Acres... put up game camera (is that what it’s called) you can observe later. See what’s going on when you are away.
Damn you got it all figured out looks like fun no play homesteading going on over there
:)
Nice 🏠 video, really appreciate it.Thanks.
You are a character sir. Thank you for producing videos, from an Aussie. :D
That is very interesting. I've never seen someone bed green beans. As in without a trellis or at least string or fencing for them to grow.
Every thing looks great. Also, you are sooo much fun!
Thank you!
Very good job but you always do a good job so I keep up the good work and I will keep up watching God bless
Nice update!
The only eggs I'm collecting are squash bug eggs, even on my zucchini, and I planted radishes between, supposedly the keep the squash bugs at bay - not here!
Bummer! Hopefully you can save your plants!
Lumnah Acres the acorn squash looks so so, that's where I got most eggs as well as bugs and mating bugs, bastards 😀 the zucchini still looks healthy, thanks.
Wow good job.
You better get the Mason Jars ready....I hope you like Pickles...lol..I see a lot of canning in your future....plus are you refridgerating your sourdough starter after 5 days after getting it started?...I do and when I make bread I just let the starter come to room temp before I start making it....thumbs up
We have a lot of jars in the basement! :0 Thanks for sharing about the sour dough starter!
Wow man your place is jammin lol. Good luck selling your pullets. If they don't sell they'll be tasty lol. Too bad about the duckling
Thanks! We are going to have tons of food! yes poor duckling
😂😂😂 I'll be checking tomato crotches tomorrow 😂😂😂.
Good Idea! :)
for the chicken tractor, i saw some one uses wheels in both sides and pushes fro the other end... and then moves the wheels away from the tractor but they are are attached to in... thought to share and this may help to make it easy... thx for sharing the video...
Hi myfirst time seeing i waited afew mins to see if i liked you isnt that awful but i do so i will be excited to see more i do love this way of life growing up hard in country living the best to you and your family
Thank you! Thats not awful, lol. Glad you are liking the channel
Do elevated vegtable beds four feet above ground can grow shade vegtables under bed and sunny above in elevated bed two crops on same space one over the other.
nice garden
Thanks I can't wait till we get to start using it again this season. We just got another foot of snow!
You dont put babies with the hens, they peck them. Poor things...
You briefly mentioned a concern about gluten, have you thought about trying amaranth?
Al, where can we get the Siberian type of poke beans? Gardening always seems to be a challenge. I am looking forward to more chickens because of your videos. I do better with animals than with plants. Thanks Al!!.
I am not sure a subscriber sent them to me. I would check Baker Creek heirloom seeds. Tell them Lumnah Acres sent you.
lol Here in Texas where we are it's like 6 hours any way you go to get out of the state. If we go straight up its a day and a half drive. someone is complaining about a three hour drive? wow that's an afternoon trip here.
Lol! It is funny different peoples perspective on driving based on where they live!
Keep growing and going.only peppers and homesteaders will be okay in the times to come
Good to see you Gina
But today we lost Olivia
But we still have Pluto
Busy family..😄
@8:41 Hay Dude you just pulled out a lambs quarter, I know you like salad and that plant is the original lettuce. It has much more nutrition then lettuce, it can also be cooked as a green veggie!!! Up until the 1960's lambs quarter was a staple on most dining tables. It wasn't until refrigerated trucks and trains came along that lettuce appeared in the grocery store!!! So go ahead and try it, you just might like it!!! The young plants are best!!! ;-) p.s. lower right hand corner of the picture, is a nice young lambs quarter.
I would never put ducklings in with full grown chickens , what did you think was going to happen?
They were born in New Yolk City, I dont believe it is the chickens doing it
You my be right but I would never trust my chickens to be good babysitters.
We have had Barred Rock chickens and they can be murderous. We have seen them kill each other. Just a little too territorial. Please separate the chickens from those little babies.
Hey whatever your doing keep doing it great vid
I think it's a really bad idea to have those duckligs with the "main flock". Why don't you set the ducklings and the mamas in a chicken tractor or something? Your channel is great.
Thank you, They ducks went broody under NYC so I wanted to see how they would do raising them naturally! Not GOOD! :(
Al, do you take deposits for your meat birds. I know when we did it, we had an issue with people backing out a lot. And I didn’t have the freezer space to store up birds. So we set up a preorder process with a required non-refundable deposit. We pre-sold 85% of the birds and the rest went on a waiting list (this was the only deposit that was refundable in the event that there were no birds available.) the wait list covered us in the event of not everyone making it through the growing season. With the exception of one raccoon during an opportunistic electric fence failure one year, the rest made it.
I have gotta start growing corn carrots onions etc
I live in KY and it appears we are about a month ahead of you this growing season, but Spring arrived about 6 weeks early this year.
Do you have a large population of deer around your property? What about other garden-raiding critters? If so, how do you manage that problem? We have so many white-tailed deer here that they are becoming almost tame. They are even invading the city (Louisville).
You can use electric fence. Or try putting some urine around the gardens critters dont like that
You need to start a Beehive not just for the honey but because they polinated your plants.
Ducks need a swimming pool. It's too hot for them, even in spring. Plus what is needed for digestion. We learned the hard way too the first year. Keep the pool out or pond until fall.
You should put your city in the description of your craigslist ads. I had the same problem until I started doing that. "Chickens for sale. (Dothan AL) "
....looks good.........over all
Thanks!
If you watch this video yourself, and watch closely everytime one of the little ducks came close to one of the hens. I think your hens are peeking the baby ducks to death. I have seen it before. You need to keep the baby ducks separated from the hens till they get much older and bigger.
How long and wide are those raised beds
It depends some are 10 feet and some are 16 long and 4 feet wide
Sad about the duckling, but the garden's growing fine. Thanks for the update.
Yes it was and it is crazy how jammin the garden is
Garden has really taken off! Could be an Owl killing the ducklings. Very typical for them to decapitate chicks and ducklings. We have some here that prey on stray cats and kittens and they do the same damage.
Thank you! That is good to know! Crazy they are doing that to the kittens and then they just leave them weird!
I believe that owls prefer the brain since it is highly nutritious. They will often remove the head and leave the rest of the carcass. Hawks do the same. You might be able to deter them by putting up netting or fishing line. You could also try visual deterrents such as scarecrow or shiny streamers or pinwheels that move in the wind to simulate movement by an animal. I strung fishing line over the fenced in area and hung long Mylar strips (from emergency blankets) and that seemed to work well. The motion of the Mylar strips was enough to keep them out of the yard.
The duckling wasn't touched its weird
this is absolutely fascinating, I am eating up all this valuable information!!
A.J. ...I am also. It’s a mystery 🧐. What killed the duckling???
@4:26 Duckling loss...so, not a way to find livestock..!
Love Of Life ==You All ARE...!!! Love this channel..!Peace :)
Remove you ducklings from the chickens theymay be pecking them in the head resulting in your dead ducklings
I hope not! That is terrible
I found that out the hard way good luck and enjoy your vlog!
thats exactly whats happening
That is what I'm thinking as well
You got to move the ducks from the chickens, they will kill everyone while they are little.
What fertilizer do you guys use for your tomatoes?
Those are tendrils lol not tenticals.also I notice chickens chasing your baby ducks.they maybe killing them.you might want to put mom and ducklings in a broader unit ducklings are bigger
How did the chickens react to baby ducks? I would have thought they would attack.
Try aquaphonics
Farming with water only.armstrong farms
You really should consider doing something safer for those ducklings until they get bigger. Did you seriously say you pinch the extra growth out of your tomato's "crotches" LMBO
I sure did say that! Lol, what would you call it? Thanks
Removing the suckers. LOL
Lol! From the crotches right?
Mar Barnes I was thinking the same thing lol. Had a good chuckle.
Those little sprouts in the "crotches" are called suckers and you do, indeed, have to pinch them out.
You should probably put the mama duck and the baby ducks in a chicken tractor
We are going to move the ducklings
what kind of wood stove do you have?
I've heard that accent before even down here in southern mass
Lol, Born in raised in the south coast of MA
Have you tried dried beans, like solider beans?
Either a rooster hit that ducling or Pluto had a quick chomp.