I'm at the vet with my dog and it's not good news 😢. I really needed a dose of Becky today to cheer me up. Thank you for always being so positive and uplifting! Update: Thank you to everyone for all of the prayers. It wasn't cancer thank God! It ended up being a benign mammary tumor, but she was diagnosed with diabetes. She's doing much better. I'm just glad that we got this all figured out.
I’m From England and never ever grown a thing. But I love love love this channel. It calms me and even when ur in the kitchen I am mesmerised by ur energy.
Hi from Ireland. Oh you should try something really easy if it's only chives/scallion and you might seriously catch the bug! Charles dowding and huw richards are brilliant, they're in England/Wales
Funny story about fodder.... when our youngest was in kindergarten (he's 14 now so it's been a minute) we grew wheat fodder for our chickens in our garage. Apparently this was a fun fact that dear son wanted to share with his class, including info on grow lights and humidity. Unfortunately his pronunciation of wheat was lacking... Bless his teacher's heart for having to have an awkward conversation with me at the end of that day. I assured her it is in fact WHEAT not WEED that we are growing. We definitely worked on enunciation after that. 😅
When placing your chickens under trees you should put wire over the top. The trees allow predators to drop down into the run and kill the chickens. Hawks and Falcons will perch and drop, Raccoons and Opossum will climb down branches.
@@catalina8677 So sorry to hear that! Unfortunately you are among many people who think their chickens are safe because the walls are strong but everything wants to eat our chickens and they will find a way if not protected on all sides and both top & bottom as well.
Becky chickens CAN an Do Fly . I had chickens some years ago and they Flew from my front yard across the street to my neighbors back yard that had a 9 foot fence into their backyard 60 yards away! I agree with you on the trimming bird’s feathers there’s nothing wrong with trimming their feathers. I although I never did my chickens but I did do my cockatiels and parakeetss . The breeder told me you only trim one wing that way he can’t fly Maybe only kind of lopsided drunk.😆😆 Have a great week !🌱🌱🌱🌱
I’ve just had our 9 month grand daughter for the weekend. It’s thanks to you, even though I’m so tired, I have dinner put together in minutes. Lunch and breakfast all done for the week. Even though we are heading into winter (I’m in NZ) you inspire me to meal prep, preserve and grow more veges. My future self is always so grateful 💚
I loved to hear how one of your favorite thing is working on project with your husband. Same for my husband and me. There was a learning curve too but it makes everything better. Our friends are surprised that we even do grocery shopping together. But building, renovating around the house together is our favorite thing too!
Same with my husband and I! We do basically everything together and love spending as much time together as possible most days. Been together 12 years, married for 5 of those tomorrow.
TIM from Canada suggestions for people who have a chicken run and want to have more protein for your chickens. Suggestion is having a scrap pile of vegetables put inside your chicken run….. having leaves and grass and all the vegetation in a pile in one corner will help you with your chickens having some sort of I can’t post pile that’s the word I’m looking for compost pile in your chicken run, putting in lots of dirt and then leaves and grass and waste from your garden is going to help with your chickens. Having any kind of large compost pile inside of your chicken run, it’s going to help your chickens.
I am always amazed at how much you get done with a baby. It really seems like you don’t have a baby at all with the way you make your videos. You inspire me as a fellow new mom!
When baby acer is ready to run around outside. Put lattice up around your deck. It makes a great outdoor playpen in the shade. It will help keep the chickens off the porch.
If you have ever watched The Hollar Homestead they put a compost pile inside their chicken run. It attracts bugs for them, gives them something, to do, and they will eat out of it, and poop in it. All your wood shavings could be easily broken down and eventually become food for your garden. You can also grow them a row of sunflowers around their coop so it's pretty.
Due to work constraints I didn’t get to building my raised bed, or starting my own seeds, BUT I have 4 peppers, 2 chilies, 2 cocktail tomatoes in pots and tomorrow the 6 San Marzano will be potted. Next year I hope to get to my raised beds and start my own seeds, but better this, than nothing 🤷🏻♀️
The first year I had chickens they were free ranging while I started work on my garden. I went down a row dropping corn seeds. When I got to the end of the row I discovered my rooster had followed me eating each seed as I dropped it! The chickens immediately got a run where they stayed during gardening season!
TIM from Canada putting a compost pile inside of your chicken coop. Run is going to help with your chickens and help them just with their diet and eating having leftovers from your garden is going to help your chickens.
We had Silkie's and we built our coup, uh let say it was a learning experience. We made the ladder to steep and the box too high, Silkie's don't fly. We had dirt, my girls kept getting sick. (we are in Florida) Figured it out, peat gravel was the best for the floor. Chickens are the best. Nothing like having a glass of wine and sit with them in the early evenings. The eggs were delish, nothing like a fresh egg!!
Becky, I LOVE your videos for so many reasons ❤❤❤❤ One objection is the ads every 4-5 minutes. It's a bit annoying to have to skip them so many times in one video. I don't know if they are under your control, but if so.... please consider putting in less. Will continue to watch either way. Thank you for sharing so much love ❤
This is how I've always done it. Choose potatoes that are just beginning to sprout and cut into chunks, 1 to 2 eyes per chunk. Let sit out in an open cardboard box so they can breathe in a darkened room or closet. Stir them around every day so cut edges are exposed as possible. They need to form a dryish skin on the cut edges. Then plant. My grandparents and parents taught me, they grew potatoes like this every year and so have i.
Agree, this is how my farmer Grandpa always did it. He and Grandma planted around 5 acres of garden every year at least. At least acre and a half of corn, mostly for winter feed for his cattle but also some for the freezer. Grandma snuck in her pumpkin and long growing gourd plants in this field. Then there was the master field that was another two plus acres where the bulk of the plants went. The last field was at least half an acre close to the house where Grandma planted her tomatoes, cantaloupes, onions and potatoes as well as certain random plants that were her favorites. They raised seven kids through the Great Depression, WWII, dust bowl and other such hard times by raising their own livestock and canning their gardens and curing and canning the meat. I am so tickled to see so many rediscovering the homesteading ways I grew up hearing about, learning and doing with my grandparents and parents. Most of their children's families also benefited from the amazing food and canning they did every year. Really miss those times since they passed back in 1999 and 1998.
Yep the same.I think SOME of these growers make things to complicated. Lol I watch a lot of Asian growers. And they fertilize, plant and water ( occasionally weed) and walk away. They let nature do the rest.And a lot of them have FEILDS of food and no way to water everything.
I would LOVE a video on the topic of whats best to direct sow vs whats best to buy or grow seedlings 👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼 I am teaching myself how to garden so I would love that video ❤️❤️
Becky I just love all the videos you post, they are so informative.. then again you could post a 30 minute video of walking through the mud and I would still be watching 😊❤
When the time comes to move the hens into their new coop and run I want to recommend you keep the current coop. We use our old smaller coop as a ‘maternity ward’…that’s how we add to our flock. We have no rooster so when a hen goes broody we purchase day old pullets and put under her after dark. We let her sit on some eggs for 3 weeks then do the switch with baby chicks after dark. The next morning she wakes and thinks her eggs hatched. We move the broody hen in the last week of her sitting to the maternity ward then once we do the switch of eggs to chicks she raises them there until they are a bit bigger then let her ‘introduce’ them to the others. It’s worked perfectly for us.
That's brilliant we started building an enclosed run last week and suddenly 6 of our hens went into brooding mode and are sitting on dozens of eggs hopefully we get hens this hatch the last 3 have turned out to be roosters, we have roosters but we buy hen chicks in summer so they can be outside
It's incredible how many videos you still put out with a little one at home. You are rocking this. Request: I know videos are harder to do than reels, but I would love individual videos on planting. I'm really wanting to do strawberries, and I think I have all the stuff, but I have to search so many videos to find your knowledge, and I'm afraid I'm overwhelmed and won't get them planted. We just moved states and I finally have a patio that I can plant things. (Eventually - hopefully I'll have strawberries, green beans, maybe a small fruit bush, an herb bundle, and maybe some pest repellant) But a shorter video on just one or two particular items - from soil, feeding, transplanting, tips - especially for container/patio/small space garden ... Something that we can go back and watch multiple times (with ads on of course!), just in case we missed something. Especailly if you were to do it as mostly a voice over, to make it easier for you - and I'm sure there's many of us that just listen (on repeat) while we work. Thanks for all you do.
It is a regional thing, so a one size fits all rec is not worth anything. You just need to look up the length of your growing season where you live and every seed packet tells you the grow time. My daughter in Florida can plant anything by seed. My daughter in Northern Wisconsin can plant fewer things from seed than I can in Southern Illinois.
With so many raised garden beds going in, you should take inspiration from Justin Rhodes and build chicken coops that fit over the top. Then, the chickens help clean them up every season and you get the free fertilizer.
I took advantage of your special pricing with Greenstalks and purchased one. I wish now that I had gotten two. Mine is the Terracotta color and I used a variety of seeds (Bush Green Beans - 3 per pocket), some herb and pepper starts that I didn't want to spread everywhere, and a few flowers from the Clearance section at my local box store. I got 2 white Alyssum and 1 of a mini white petunia, and a tray of yellow Marigolds that I planted one each on either side in an angle so they kind of wrap around. Everything has filled in so nicely! The contrast of the greens, yellows and white on the Terracotta is stunning! Thank you for all you do!
You're right in saying that it'll take time to grow everything from seed, but upu WILL get there. I've been doing that for the past 3 years, (except for my flowers) and it is so satisfying. I really enjoy all the varieties that are available. available.
Girl, i planted a few marigolds in my raised bed a few months back (Zone 9A), i now have marigolds growing wild all over my garden. I I didn't know that they spread so prevalent..I'm loving it!!!❤❤❤
I hope you video the clipping of their wings because I need to learn that from you. Those red marigolds are beautiful and I didn’t know about them. Thanks for sharing your time and for teaching while doing so. ❤ I’ve learned lots from you.
We clip the ends off one side of the chickens wings not the boney part of the wing but their feathers and it makes them imbalanced and they can't fly over the fence. It's a old timers trick to keep your chickens in their fenced area. We also dig a trench around our coops and lay fencing down so dogs or other animals can't dig a hole to get into the coop.
I actually purchased my coop from Carolina Coops. I love it. If I could’ve built it myself I would’ve designed the same way they did. It’s been 5 years and the girls also love it. Also be careful with leaving the feed outside a protected area - it’ll attract rodents for sure. Great job on putting up that semi permanent fence! No more poopie patio is a plus!
Becky! Oh my gosh. I feel the same way and my goal is to start all my own veggies as well. And I have for many, however I couldn't get my cauliflower to take either! you are correct - from seed you get many amazing varieties. Hope you and I can master that someday! Ive been doing this for 8 years and only started my own indoor sowing during covid. just go grow lights and a dedicated growing shelf this year. all my tomatoes are wanted to be planted bu I am zone 6a so they must wait a few more weeks
Do you ever let your hair down? I would like to see it. I used it have my hair down to my waist and it was beautiful but it was a lot of effort because of how much hair it was. I cut it super short and kept it short for a long time. Now I’m letting it grow out a it’s almost shoulder length. It’s very curly and easy to manage, which is definitely different from the last time. I love your enthusiasm, energy, love for your family, chickens and dogs. I’m trying to use my Freeze Dry more. I get confused on the black knob which way is closed or open. My second batch of onions I messed up but just cooked them in a pot roast and chicken, low and slow. Thanks for sharing your love for gardening. I’m a transplant from LA to Utah. Back in LA I had dwarf fruit trees, grapes, herb garden and a small vegetable garden. Everything grew. Now it’s much harder but not impossible. I discovered a supplement for my soil that contains worms. I love it. ❤ you’re fan Susy
Always love to watch your videos Becky🤩 In our cicken co-op we put up some wooden frames, maybe 2,3 inches tall, and put chicken wire over it. Below those frames we planted grass seeds. This way the girls can't dig out the seeds but still eat fresh grass. Works perfectly. Love from Switzerland
Es ist sooo schön zu sehen wie liebevoll und sorgsam Ihr ,Euch um die Hühner und auch Hunde kümmert❤❤ Eine suuuuper Zwischenlösung😊😅👏👏💪👍 Die Flügel etwas zu kürzen ist das beste👍👍👍👍so sind sie sicher und Ihr könnt auch beruhigt sein....das kein Huhn abhanden kommt 😊👍🥰 Ich liebe Deine Live Videos ...mit all den hoppalas oder kleineren Pannen ...halt das richtige Leben....❤❤❤❤.. und Du (Ihr) lässt uns daran teilhaben ❤❤❤❤❤❤Danke Becky und Josh😊😊🙏🙏 Lg.Manu🙋♀️🇦🇹
Create a section in the future chicken run for composting. It will naturally fill with all kinds of bugs and goodies in their diet, help keep them warm longer (and laying) into winter, is their favorite playground ever, is useful on the homestead, and is the natural way to vary their diet. Any other way is synthetic tbh. Then their waste as compost goes back into the garden. The perfect cycle!
I would love you doing a video about what you should get starts for vs direct sowing. It would also be helpful to add when you would suggest starting seeds and transplanting. Would be an amazing starting point for us ❤
Marigolds are great for repelling rabbits, along with nasturtium. The added benefit of nasturtium is with the right variety, the are great additions to fresh salads.
I was going to watch you be productive this morning, then I decided to save your video until my greenhouse was planted! So happy about my decision! Thank you for sharing about all that you do. 😁😁
We just moved our chickens to a fresh spot. The run is made of chicken wire and the little stinkers figured out how to poke their heads under a gap between the wire and the ground. Neck followed head, body followed neck and, presto, they were out. Smarter than I gave them credit for.
I would love a video of details of what to plant when. When to buy seeds etc. I just bought my first electric canner and am slowly buying items needed for canning season. I am watching and learning from your videos
I recently rented a gas powered post driver and let me tell you! WHAT a game changer! $60/day (in my area) and instead of sore shoulders for a week from ponding posts, it's just bang bang bangs them in for you! (I highly recommend ear protection, and doing this in the middle of the day when you won't disturb your neighbors as it is QUITE loud)
I get it. We did mobile coop. Didn’t really work for us. So they are in a run. But I do let them out in spring and fall when garden isn’t set up yet. Sometimes in winter depending on weather. So i figure they have a good life.
Becky we moved from Idaho to South Carolina, the climate is so much more mild. But the Pacific Northwest has a lot of character/ charm , hang in there, the summers are worth it ❤️
It took me forever to figure out the potato conundrum. This is my first year being brave enough to make a dedicated potato container made from palettes so we can deconstruct at the end of the season for easy harvest. I found that we prefer the butter potatoes. It's important to grow what you know you'll eat!
Been watching you for a long time. Finally just subscribed. Your such a hard working wonderful wife, mother, daughter, sister and friend to so many. Thank you for your uplifting inspiring channel.
Chickens love swiss chard. I used to have a greenhouse with a raised bed and after sowing swiss chard the first time for a fall garden, I never had to plant again since it would self-sow. I would harvest the young, tender shoots for us and pull the large, overgrown plants for the chickens.
I love watching you pick your potatoes. I ordered my set of 1kg of Red Chieftain from West Coast seeds. I planted them after all the onions were planted and the peas and beans. I buy pansies each year too. I grow my own from seed but we need some flowers early on for the Solitary Bees to snack on. Broccoli and 2 Brussel sprouts are already planted out. Strawberries and asparagus are sharing a garden this year too. Yes, I bought a Dianthus and Ranuculas , some Dusty Millers, Lamb's Ear, and Bee Balm, that now get to live on the dogs crate next to my growing shelves until about June 04th. You could easily just give your chickens your kitchen scrapes , like peelings for them too. Bless you for taking such careful care of your Ladies. Ariel at Fy Nyth, ferments her chickens food. It helps the chickens digest more nutrients. Our neighbours had chickens and they flew up into the trees. So ya, clipping their wings stops them from flying.
I am late watching this as I have been pushing hard to get our garden planted. Looks like the same fence we just put up around our chicken coop and garden. Today worked from 9 to 9:30 to plant over 100 tomato plants. I want to can these have them to eat and to make salsa, ketchup etc. We will see how many we actually get. This week is now forecasted with rain chances everyday. We pushed against a storm that blew up to the west of us but thankfully after a quick real prayer was sent up the storm went west. The couple of days before I was planting our 5 raised beds I still have to buy another raised bed to finish planting. My son in law was wonderful and had his helper come and help me dig holes to plant in. We can't free range either. We have two hawks that live in our trees as well as many other predators that pass through our property.
The purple potatoes are amazing if you chunk them up and bake them with any /all of the following: chunked tomatoes, carrots, zucchini, bell peppers, , and garlic cloves (whole or cut big ones in half)... then season with olive oil or avocado, drizzle of sesame oil, salt, pepper, and a lil extra granulated garlic. We tried adding Italian herbs but it was too many competing flavors. The purple reg and sweet potatoes are amazing too with just olive or avocado oil, salt, pepper, and granulated garlic then roasted in the oven.
30:08 I don’t know anything about growing fodder, but I do know you can also feed them sprouts. Might be a good short term solution that doesn’t take too much work. 🤷🏻♀️
Becky only cut one wing not both. They cant fly with it done. Also they look to the gate as a way out due to it being lower than the fence. Cut some off the off cut of wire fence and secure on the gate to add height. On top of the coop.put a small fence all around the roof .
Becky thank you for explaining the potatoes. I would love to see more garden education videos. You explain thing so well. Great to see you and Josh working together.
💚 Fun to work on a project with Josh on a beautiful day. I was/am also going to mention Ben Hollar of Hollar Homestead, who makes a circular wire compost set up inside his stationary coop. Keeps those chickens busy working on and eating scraps while getting compost started. 💚
When you build your permanent coop. Ours is 10’ X 20’ with a concrete floor. Stops all coyotes, raccoons, bears etc from entering. The coop takes up fall and the rest is storage and backside of laying boxes. It has a little opening with a drop down door which is wired to a handle so we can ope😮n/close from within the coop. Their food has a drop down door also to stop feeding the rats. Good luck. We have a couple of pens to turn them out in. I hate the mud for them. By rotating we are able to cut down on the mud. Good luck!
I agree with you regarding blue mashed potatoes but I always plant a few blue potatoes (on the inside) and some pink (on the inside). They make a delightful blue and pink potato salad for special occasions.
My husband and I just put a fence just like that around our coop. We put bird netting on top to stop the aerial predators but also to keep everyone in as their wings are no clipped. The girls were eating and pooping everything and everywhere! I have been growing non-invasive comfrey as fodder for the girls, I plan I moving that around the fence for them to nibble on whenever they like. I also tried fermenting my feed but my girls were not happy with it at all… we may try to give it another go here in the next few weeks. ❤
Won't predators get to your chickens easier if you put the run partially in the woods? I wish I could have chickens. It is fun to watch your homestead come together ❤
So sorry 😒 to hear that. We lost our little dog a couple of weeks ago. So understand what you are going through. Prayers for your puppy and you/family.
Hey Becky, in case you ever wanna put a camera on something to monitor it (like how they chickens got out).. amazon sells these "Wyze" Brand cameras and they are like $30 - 40. They are iffy outdoors but I have one inside the house looking out in front. Not as good as Nest cameras but for the price they are impressive.
I think a couple of Green Stalks on the patio with herbs and greens sounds ideal. Would it make sense to have one bed planted in the herbs you freeze dry on a large scale (like cilantro and parsley)? It seems like it would be easier to me, but I really don't know.
Everyone says how easy nasturtiums are. I tried for three years and finally got 20 plants this year. Woo hoo!! I toss my alyssum and petunia seeds back into the pot, and I usually have some come up the next year. I have never heard of fireball marigolds. They’re absolutely beautiful.
In the Philippines they use purple potatoes "Ube" to make cookies and biscuits and treats. The Chinese will make Moon cakes out of them. All these uses are surprisingly quite tasty.
As a novice gardener, I would love it if you did a video on plants to start from seed versus starts. I genuinely appreciate you passing all your knowledge on to us.
I just saw a short video this weekend and I can't remember which platform it was on, but a person broadcasted sunflower seeds (I suppose just regular bird feed would work just as well) like full just dumped on the ground in a rectangle shape that would fit under a plastic tote, watered in really well and then set the tote upside down over the watered seeds and anchored with a brick(s). I can't remember how many days they left it but when they pulled the tote off there were all these sprouts underneath and the chickens just went to town. I immediately thought of it when you were talking about planting fodder for your girls. Super vague, I know 😅 but could be a way to get fresh greens for the chickens without having to haul things all over. I'm a lazy gardener lol
I love chickens.We built our coop then added a dog kennel as a small run adding chicken wire to the top as well as a tarp for shade. They can just enter the kennel when they wake saving us from needing to let them out. Cold weather we do close their coop door . We can then open the kennel door into their less secure run which is quite large. We would love to let them free range but we have such issues with people letting their dogs freely roam others property.They get to free range when it's mowing day, they enjoy it and we can keep an eye on them. Our coop is super easy to clean . We have a large door on each side which allows it to be swept out easily using a push broom. We put down some cheap vinyl flooring which we can just hose off if needed. It may sound complicated but it's a great secure system.
If your chickens are anything like mine they are going to jump up on the coop and use it to escape the run. Might want to go all the way around the coop with the fence and move the coop away from the fence. And fyi, chickens can easily hop a 6’ fence. Mine have jumped my 8’ privacy fence.
Hi Becky, glad to see you guys in the yard together. Just want to let you know about my Lavender starting from seeds. I got a pack for $1.50 coated seeds and started them on wet paper towel inside a ziploc and left it on a window sill. I was keeping them moist. They took about 6 to 8 wks to sprout. Germination rate was good. Transferred the sprouts into tray filled with compost and they are looking good so far.
One thing I'm going to try is dumping a bucket of weed seeds (from cleaning organic soybeans) on the ground in my chicken run, watering it, then covering it over with a pallet for a few days. I can do one bucket worth every couple days, and then once it's sprouted, uncover the area so they can eat it. With it being inside my chicken fence, I'd never have to worry about weeds growing anywhere else. You may look into the Chicken Tractor on Steroids system where you use your chickens to make compost. It can definitely be done in a static run area, and help provide habitat for bugs to get a start so your chickens can eat them.
I'm at the vet with my dog and it's not good news 😢. I really needed a dose of Becky today to cheer me up. Thank you for always being so positive and uplifting!
Update: Thank you to everyone for all of the prayers. It wasn't cancer thank God! It ended up being a benign mammary tumor, but she was diagnosed with diabetes. She's doing much better. I'm just glad that we got this all figured out.
Oh no! I'll be praying for your puppy!
I hope your dog gets better and Yess, becky's video's always cheer me up to ❤
God bless you Latoya and your precious fur baby I'm so sorry 😔💐,love is the key, always 💞
Praying for your fur baby.
@Acre Homestead, thank you so much!
I’m From England and never ever grown a thing. But I love love love this channel. It calms me and even when ur in the kitchen I am mesmerised by ur energy.
Hi from Ireland. Oh you should try something really easy if it's only chives/scallion and you might seriously catch the bug! Charles dowding and huw richards are brilliant, they're in England/Wales
I’d like this channel more if I didn’t feel like I’m rushing to keep up with Becky! 😅
I'm curious...is it because you don't have any land or because you don't know how? Both can have solutions but only if we know why. 🙂
Becky is like medatation very inspiring, motivational and calming,..
I'm from South Africa and am 65 years old, in a teensy home with no garden...but I adore sweet Becky!
Funny story about fodder.... when our youngest was in kindergarten (he's 14 now so it's been a minute) we grew wheat fodder for our chickens in our garage. Apparently this was a fun fact that dear son wanted to share with his class, including info on grow lights and humidity. Unfortunately his pronunciation of wheat was lacking...
Bless his teacher's heart for having to have an awkward conversation with me at the end of that day. I assured her it is in fact WHEAT not WEED that we are growing. We definitely worked on enunciation after that. 😅
OMG!! This is absolutely HILARIOUS. 😂😂😂 Thank you for my morning laugh. 😂
When placing your chickens under trees you should put wire over the top. The trees allow predators to drop down into the run and kill the chickens. Hawks and Falcons will perch and drop, Raccoons and Opossum will climb down branches.
Yes! I lost an entire flock to raccoons in 3 hrs one night!
@@catalina8677 So sorry to hear that! Unfortunately you are among many people who think their chickens are safe because the walls are strong but everything wants to eat our chickens and they will find a way if not protected on all sides and both top & bottom as well.
Good job Josh and Becky, the chickens will appreciate all your efforts.
Becky chickens CAN an Do Fly . I had chickens some years ago and they Flew from my front yard across the street to my neighbors back yard that had a 9 foot fence into their backyard 60 yards away! I agree with you on the trimming bird’s feathers there’s nothing wrong with trimming their feathers. I although I never did my chickens but I did do my cockatiels and parakeetss . The breeder told me you only trim one wing that way he can’t fly
Maybe only kind of lopsided drunk.😆😆
Have a great week !🌱🌱🌱🌱
I’ve just had our 9 month grand daughter for the weekend. It’s thanks to you, even though I’m so tired, I have dinner put together in minutes. Lunch and breakfast all done for the week. Even though we are heading into winter (I’m in NZ) you inspire me to meal prep, preserve and grow more veges. My future self is always so grateful 💚
I loved to hear how one of your favorite thing is working on project with your husband. Same for my husband and me. There was a learning curve too but it makes everything better. Our friends are surprised that we even do grocery shopping together. But building, renovating around the house together is our favorite thing too!
Same with my husband and I! We do basically everything together and love spending as much time together as possible most days. Been together 12 years, married for 5 of those tomorrow.
@@Megan9689 34 years together and 29 married ;-)
TIM from Canada suggestions for people who have a chicken run and want to have more protein for your chickens. Suggestion is having a scrap pile of vegetables put inside your chicken run….. having leaves and grass and all the vegetation in a pile in one corner will help you with your chickens having some sort of I can’t post pile that’s the word I’m looking for compost pile in your chicken run, putting in lots of dirt and then leaves and grass and waste from your garden is going to help with your chickens. Having any kind of large compost pile inside of your chicken run, it’s going to help your chickens.
I am always amazed at how much you get done with a baby. It really seems like you don’t have a baby at all with the way you make your videos. You inspire me as a fellow new mom!
Yes, I always wonder where the baby is.
Those girls did not want to be caged up after so many months of free range. I love hearing them talk to you while you are with them.
When baby acer is ready to run around outside. Put lattice up around your deck. It makes a great outdoor playpen in the shade. It will help keep the chickens off the porch.
I am 64, and I have never seen a red marigold in my life. So glad I saw this! I have grown the orange and yellow ones for decades.
You're very first mother's Day is coming as a mother I hope it is a very special day for you and Father's Day is not too far away😊
If you have ever watched The Hollar Homestead they put a compost pile inside their chicken run. It attracts bugs for them, gives them something, to do, and they will eat out of it, and poop in it. All your wood shavings could be easily broken down and eventually become food for your garden. You can also grow them a row of sunflowers around their coop so it's pretty.
Due to work constraints I didn’t get to building my raised bed, or starting my own seeds, BUT I have 4 peppers, 2 chilies, 2 cocktail tomatoes in pots and tomorrow the 6 San Marzano will be potted. Next year I hope to get to my raised beds and start my own seeds, but better this, than nothing 🤷🏻♀️
The first year I had chickens they were free ranging while I started work on my garden. I went down a row dropping corn seeds. When I got to the end of the row I discovered my rooster had followed me eating each seed as I dropped it! The chickens immediately got a run where they stayed during gardening season!
TIM from Canada putting a compost pile inside of your chicken coop. Run is going to help with your chickens and help them just with their diet and eating having leftovers from your garden is going to help your chickens.
We had Silkie's and we built our coup, uh let say it was a learning experience. We made the ladder to steep and the box too high, Silkie's don't fly. We had dirt, my girls kept getting sick. (we are in Florida) Figured it out, peat gravel was the best for the floor. Chickens are the best. Nothing like having a glass of wine and sit with them in the early evenings. The eggs were delish, nothing like a fresh egg!!
I wish I could find the video but I saw a guy feed soaked and sprouted barley to his 4 dairy cows. His set up was really cool.
Becky, I LOVE your videos for so many reasons ❤❤❤❤
One objection is the ads every 4-5 minutes. It's a bit annoying to have to skip them so many times in one video. I don't know if they are under your control, but if so.... please consider putting in less.
Will continue to watch either way. Thank you for sharing so much love ❤
Becky, it's always good to see you, and Josh working together on projects. Nice job on the chicken run!
Yes, please, do a video on the starts and Seed sown directly in the ground.
When we were kids we just cut up potatoes from our root cellar and planted those chunks (each chunk had an eye). It always worked well
I honestly thought this was the only way lol
This is how I've always done it. Choose potatoes that are just beginning to sprout and cut into chunks, 1 to 2 eyes per chunk. Let sit out in an open cardboard box so they can breathe in a darkened room or closet. Stir them around every day so cut edges are exposed as possible. They need to form a dryish skin on the cut edges. Then plant. My grandparents and parents taught me, they grew potatoes like this every year and so have i.
@@treasurespastnpresen thank you for sharing how you do it
Agree, this is how my farmer Grandpa always did it. He and Grandma planted around 5 acres of garden every year at least. At least acre and a half of corn, mostly for winter feed for his cattle but also some for the freezer. Grandma snuck in her pumpkin and long growing gourd plants in this field. Then there was the master field that was another two plus acres where the bulk of the plants went. The last field was at least half an acre close to the house where Grandma planted her tomatoes, cantaloupes, onions and potatoes as well as certain random plants that were her favorites. They raised seven kids through the Great Depression, WWII, dust bowl and other such hard times by raising their own livestock and canning their gardens and curing and canning the meat. I am so tickled to see so many rediscovering the homesteading ways I grew up hearing about, learning and doing with my grandparents and parents. Most of their children's families also benefited from the amazing food and canning they did every year. Really miss those times since they passed back in 1999 and 1998.
Yep the same.I think SOME of these growers make things to complicated. Lol I watch a lot of Asian growers. And they fertilize, plant and water ( occasionally weed) and walk away. They let nature do the rest.And a lot of them have FEILDS of food and no way to water everything.
I would LOVE a video on the topic of whats best to direct sow vs whats best to buy or grow seedlings 👏🏼👏🏼👍🏼 I am teaching myself how to garden so I would love that video ❤️❤️
Becky I just love all the videos you post, they are so informative.. then again you could post a 30 minute video of walking through the mud and I would still be watching 😊❤
Yes, please do a video on direct sowing vs starter. I'm new to gardening and have no idea what i'm doing.
When the time comes to move the hens into their new coop and run I want to recommend you keep the current coop. We use our old smaller coop as a ‘maternity ward’…that’s how we add to our flock. We have no rooster so when a hen goes broody we purchase day old pullets and put under her after dark. We let her sit on some eggs for 3 weeks then do the switch with baby chicks after dark. The next morning she wakes and thinks her eggs hatched. We move the broody hen in the last week of her sitting to the maternity ward then once we do the switch of eggs to chicks she raises them there until they are a bit bigger then let her ‘introduce’ them to the others. It’s worked perfectly for us.
That's brilliant we started building an enclosed run last week and suddenly 6 of our hens went into brooding mode and are sitting on dozens of eggs hopefully we get hens this hatch the last 3 have turned out to be roosters, we have roosters but we buy hen chicks in summer so they can be outside
That's a sweet way to do it. When mine gets broody, I just put her in a pet crate with food and water for 2-3 days, and then she is fine, much easier.
It's incredible how many videos you still put out with a little one at home. You are rocking this. Request: I know videos are harder to do than reels, but I would love individual videos on planting. I'm really wanting to do strawberries, and I think I have all the stuff, but I have to search so many videos to find your knowledge, and I'm afraid I'm overwhelmed and won't get them planted. We just moved states and I finally have a patio that I can plant things. (Eventually - hopefully I'll have strawberries, green beans, maybe a small fruit bush, an herb bundle, and maybe some pest repellant) But a shorter video on just one or two particular items - from soil, feeding, transplanting, tips - especially for container/patio/small space garden ... Something that we can go back and watch multiple times (with ads on of course!), just in case we missed something. Especailly if you were to do it as mostly a voice over, to make it easier for you - and I'm sure there's many of us that just listen (on repeat) while we work. Thanks for all you do.
Yes Becky, that would be so helpful to have a video dedicated to what to direct sow and what is better to plant directly! I struggle with this
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👍Yes, I agree - that would be helpful 😃
It is a regional thing, so a one size fits all rec is not worth anything. You just need to look up the length of your growing season where you live and every seed packet tells you the grow time. My daughter in Florida can plant anything by seed. My daughter in Northern Wisconsin can plant fewer things from seed than I can in Southern Illinois.
With so many raised garden beds going in, you should take inspiration from Justin Rhodes and build chicken coops that fit over the top. Then, the chickens help clean them up every season and you get the free fertilizer.
I like seeing your mom in your videos from time to time. Maybe she’ll let you do a small video of her in her garden
I took advantage of your special pricing with Greenstalks and purchased one. I wish now that I had gotten two. Mine is the Terracotta color and I used a variety of seeds (Bush Green Beans - 3 per pocket), some herb and pepper starts that I didn't want to spread everywhere, and a few flowers from the Clearance section at my local box store. I got 2 white Alyssum and 1 of a mini white petunia, and a tray of yellow Marigolds that I planted one each on either side in an angle so they kind of wrap around. Everything has filled in so nicely! The contrast of the greens, yellows and white on the Terracotta is stunning! Thank you for all you do!
You're right in saying that it'll take time to grow everything from seed, but upu WILL get there. I've been doing that for the past 3 years, (except for my flowers) and it is so satisfying. I really enjoy all the varieties that are available. available.
Girl, i planted a few marigolds in my raised bed a few months back (Zone 9A), i now have marigolds growing wild all over my garden. I I didn't know that they spread so prevalent..I'm loving it!!!❤❤❤
I had to super glue a chicken from a dog attack. They are so resilient! She lived as long as her sisters.
The circle coop is genius. I think I’m gonna try that
So cute watching how excited you get doing things for your girls. I love your enthusiasm about anything that you do. Good job.
👏👏👏👏 JOSH THANKS FOR HELPING BECKY AROUND THE HOMESTEAD AND THE CHICKENS 🐓 APPRECIATE YOU AS WELL 👍
I hope you video the clipping of their wings because I need to learn that from you. Those red marigolds are beautiful and I didn’t know about them. Thanks for sharing your time and for teaching while doing so. ❤ I’ve learned lots from you.
We clip the ends off one side of the chickens wings not the boney part of the wing but their feathers and it makes them imbalanced and they can't fly over the fence. It's a old timers trick to keep your chickens in their fenced area. We also dig a trench around our coops and lay fencing down so dogs or other animals can't dig a hole to get into the coop.
I actually purchased my coop from Carolina Coops. I love it. If I could’ve built it myself I would’ve designed the same way they did. It’s been 5 years and the girls also love it. Also be careful with leaving the feed outside a protected area - it’ll attract rodents for sure. Great job on putting up that semi permanent fence! No more poopie patio is a plus!
Becky! Oh my gosh. I feel the same way and my goal is to start all my own veggies as well. And I have for many, however I couldn't get my cauliflower to take either! you are correct - from seed you get many amazing varieties. Hope you and I can master that someday! Ive been doing this for 8 years and only started my own indoor sowing during covid. just go grow lights and a dedicated growing shelf this year. all my tomatoes are wanted to be planted bu I am zone 6a so they must wait a few more weeks
Thank you for explaining what determinate and indeterminate meant and how to remember what they mean. This makes so much sense to me now
mother’s day 2023 “happy mother’s day!”🎉
Do you ever let your hair down? I would like to see it. I used it have my hair down to my waist and it was beautiful but it was a lot of effort because of how much hair it was. I cut it super short and kept it short for a long time. Now I’m letting it grow out a it’s almost shoulder length. It’s very curly and easy to manage, which is definitely different from the last time.
I love your enthusiasm, energy, love for your family, chickens and dogs. I’m trying to use my Freeze Dry more. I get confused on the black knob which way is closed or open. My second batch of onions I messed up but just cooked them in a pot roast and chicken, low and slow.
Thanks for sharing your love for gardening. I’m a transplant from LA to Utah. Back in LA I had dwarf fruit trees, grapes, herb garden and a small vegetable garden. Everything grew. Now it’s much harder but not impossible. I discovered a supplement for my soil that contains worms. I love it.
❤ you’re fan Susy
Always love to watch your videos Becky🤩 In our cicken co-op we put up some wooden frames, maybe 2,3 inches tall, and put chicken wire over it. Below those frames we planted grass seeds. This way the girls can't dig out the seeds but still eat fresh grass. Works perfectly. Love from Switzerland
Es ist sooo schön zu sehen wie liebevoll und sorgsam Ihr ,Euch um die Hühner und auch Hunde kümmert❤❤
Eine suuuuper Zwischenlösung😊😅👏👏💪👍
Die Flügel etwas zu kürzen ist das beste👍👍👍👍so sind sie sicher und Ihr könnt auch beruhigt sein....das kein Huhn abhanden kommt 😊👍🥰
Ich liebe Deine Live Videos ...mit all den hoppalas oder kleineren Pannen ...halt das richtige Leben....❤❤❤❤.. und Du (Ihr) lässt uns daran teilhaben ❤❤❤❤❤❤Danke Becky und Josh😊😊🙏🙏
Lg.Manu🙋♀️🇦🇹
Always greatfull for my man! Is so sweet when you share that too ❤ gGod bless y'all!
Love that you keep ur sense of humour regarding those cheeky chickens
Becky you can build grazing boxes for your chickens for fresh greens
When sowing petunias don't cover them with soil they need light to germinate, i learned that this year and had great success😊
Create a section in the future chicken run for composting. It will naturally fill with all kinds of bugs and goodies in their diet, help keep them warm longer (and laying) into winter, is their favorite playground ever, is useful on the homestead, and is the natural way to vary their diet. Any other way is synthetic tbh. Then their waste as compost goes back into the garden. The perfect cycle!
I would love you doing a video about what you should get starts for vs direct sowing. It would also be helpful to add when you would suggest starting seeds and transplanting. Would be an amazing starting point for us ❤
Josh is so helpful! What a blessing 😊
Marigolds are great for repelling rabbits, along with nasturtium. The added benefit of nasturtium is with the right variety, the are great additions to fresh salads.
I was going to watch you be productive this morning, then I decided to save your video until my greenhouse was planted! So happy about my decision! Thank you for sharing about all that you do. 😁😁
We just moved our chickens to a fresh spot. The run is made of chicken wire and the little stinkers figured out how to poke their heads under a gap between the wire and the ground. Neck followed head, body followed neck and, presto, they were out. Smarter than I gave them credit for.
I would love a video of details of what to plant when. When to buy seeds etc. I just bought my first electric canner and am slowly buying items needed for canning season. I am watching and learning from your videos
I recently rented a gas powered post driver and let me tell you! WHAT a game changer! $60/day (in my area) and instead of sore shoulders for a week from ponding posts, it's just bang bang bangs them in for you! (I highly recommend ear protection, and doing this in the middle of the day when you won't disturb your neighbors as it is QUITE loud)
I get it. We did mobile coop. Didn’t really work for us. So they are in a run. But I do let them out in spring and fall when garden isn’t set up yet. Sometimes in winter depending on weather. So i figure they have a good life.
Becky we moved from Idaho to South Carolina, the climate is so much more mild. But the Pacific Northwest has a lot of character/ charm , hang in there, the summers are worth it ❤️
It took me forever to figure out the potato conundrum. This is my first year being brave enough to make a dedicated potato container made from palettes so we can deconstruct at the end of the season for easy harvest. I found that we prefer the butter potatoes. It's important to grow what you know you'll eat!
Been watching you for a long time. Finally just subscribed. Your such a hard working wonderful wife, mother, daughter, sister and friend to so many. Thank you for your uplifting inspiring channel.
thanks for the response
Chickens love swiss chard. I used to have a greenhouse with a raised bed and after sowing swiss chard the first time for a fall garden, I never had to plant again since it would self-sow. I would harvest the young, tender shoots for us and pull the large, overgrown plants for the chickens.
I love watching you pick your potatoes. I ordered my set of 1kg of Red Chieftain from West Coast seeds. I planted them after all the onions were planted and the peas and beans. I buy pansies each year too. I grow my own from seed but we need some flowers early on for the Solitary Bees to snack on. Broccoli and 2 Brussel sprouts are already planted out. Strawberries and asparagus are sharing a garden this year too. Yes, I bought a Dianthus and Ranuculas , some Dusty Millers, Lamb's Ear, and Bee Balm, that now get to live on the dogs crate next to my growing shelves until about June 04th.
You could easily just give your chickens your kitchen scrapes , like peelings for them too. Bless you for taking such careful care of your Ladies.
Ariel at Fy Nyth, ferments her chickens food. It helps the chickens digest more nutrients.
Our neighbours had chickens and they flew up into the trees. So ya, clipping their wings stops them from flying.
I am late watching this as I have been pushing hard to get our garden planted. Looks like the same fence we just put up around our chicken coop and garden. Today worked from 9 to 9:30 to plant over 100 tomato plants. I want to can these have them to eat and to make salsa, ketchup etc. We will see how many we actually get. This week is now forecasted with rain chances everyday. We pushed against a storm that blew up to the west of us but thankfully after a quick real prayer was sent up the storm went west. The couple of days before I was planting our 5 raised beds I still have to buy another raised bed to finish planting. My son in law was wonderful and had his helper come and help me dig holes to plant in. We can't free range either. We have two hawks that live in our trees as well as many other predators that pass through our property.
The purple potatoes are amazing if you chunk them up and bake them with any /all of the following: chunked tomatoes, carrots, zucchini, bell peppers, , and garlic cloves (whole or cut big ones in half)... then season with olive oil or avocado, drizzle of sesame oil, salt, pepper, and a lil extra granulated garlic. We tried adding Italian herbs but it was too many competing flavors. The purple reg and sweet potatoes are amazing too with just olive or avocado oil, salt, pepper, and granulated garlic then roasted in the oven.
30:08 I don’t know anything about growing fodder, but I do know you can also feed them sprouts. Might be a good short term solution that doesn’t take too much work. 🤷🏻♀️
Becky only cut one wing not both. They cant fly with it done. Also they look to the gate as a way out due to it being lower than the fence.
Cut some off the off cut of wire fence and secure on the gate to add height. On top of the coop.put a small fence all around the roof .
Becky thank you for explaining the potatoes. I would love to see more garden education videos. You explain thing so well. Great to see you and Josh working together.
I had no idea potatoes could be determinate! I wonder how many failures were due to hilling when I shouldn't be.
Thats a pretty slick tool that josh is using to wrap wire around fencing
I just got back form my garden center yet i’m still glad to go with Becky ;)
💚 Fun to work on a project with Josh on a beautiful day. I was/am also going to mention Ben Hollar of Hollar Homestead, who makes a circular wire compost set up inside his stationary coop. Keeps those chickens busy working on and eating scraps while getting compost started. 💚
When you build your permanent coop. Ours is 10’ X 20’ with a concrete floor. Stops all coyotes, raccoons, bears etc from entering. The coop takes up fall and the rest is storage and backside of laying boxes. It has a little opening with a drop down door which is wired to a handle so we can ope😮n/close from within the coop. Their food has a drop down door also to stop feeding the rats. Good luck. We have a couple of pens to turn them out in. I hate the mud for them. By rotating we are able to cut down on the mud. Good luck!
I agree with you regarding blue mashed potatoes but I always plant a few blue potatoes (on the inside) and some pink (on the inside). They make a delightful blue and pink potato salad for special occasions.
My husband and I just put a fence just like that around our coop. We put bird netting on top to stop the aerial predators but also to keep everyone in as their wings are no clipped. The girls were eating and pooping everything and everywhere! I have been growing non-invasive comfrey as fodder for the girls, I plan I moving that around the fence for them to nibble on whenever they like. I also tried fermenting my feed but my girls were not happy with it at all… we may try to give it another go here in the next few weeks. ❤
Won't predators get to your chickens easier if you put the run partially in the woods? I wish I could have chickens. It is fun to watch your homestead come together ❤
yes please make a whole video about what to direct sow and what to do as starts
So exciting great times ahead! Congratulations Becky this is a big step forward!!!!!
So sorry 😒 to hear that. We lost our little dog a couple of weeks ago. So understand what you are going through. Prayers for your puppy and you/family.
Hey Becky, in case you ever wanna put a camera on something to monitor it (like how they chickens got out).. amazon sells these "Wyze" Brand cameras and they are like $30 - 40. They are iffy outdoors but I have one inside the house looking out in front. Not as good as Nest cameras but for the price they are impressive.
I think a couple of Green Stalks on the patio with herbs and greens sounds ideal. Would it make sense to have one bed planted in the herbs you freeze dry on a large scale (like cilantro and parsley)? It seems like it would be easier to me, but I really don't know.
Everyone says how easy nasturtiums are. I tried for three years and finally got 20 plants this year. Woo hoo!! I toss my alyssum and petunia seeds back into the pot, and I usually have some come up the next year. I have never heard of fireball marigolds. They’re absolutely beautiful.
Another channel I watch, they take the lawn clippings and put them in with the chickens so they get the grass still.
We have always cut our potatoes in several pieces every eye will grow a plant, and it does not cost near as much to plant Potatoes.
I have the same issues with purple potatoes. I like the traditional color….😊😊😊
We filled 2 garden beds (10x4x1). Hubby & I spent the majority of the day putting them together and filling them.
In the Philippines they use purple potatoes "Ube" to make cookies and biscuits and treats. The Chinese will make Moon cakes out of them. All these uses are surprisingly quite tasty.
Becky .. you have so much self control with your spending … love the way you rethink your plans before making unnecessary purchases
As a novice gardener, I would love it if you did a video on plants to start from seed versus starts. I genuinely appreciate you passing all your knowledge on to us.
Yay! A upload from my favorite homestead! Have a great weekend!
Go dad! Dads are awesome! Mine included. 😊
I just saw a short video this weekend and I can't remember which platform it was on, but a person broadcasted sunflower seeds (I suppose just regular bird feed would work just as well) like full just dumped on the ground in a rectangle shape that would fit under a plastic tote, watered in really well and then set the tote upside down over the watered seeds and anchored with a brick(s). I can't remember how many days they left it but when they pulled the tote off there were all these sprouts underneath and the chickens just went to town. I immediately thought of it when you were talking about planting fodder for your girls. Super vague, I know 😅 but could be a way to get fresh greens for the chickens without having to haul things all over. I'm a lazy gardener lol
I love chickens.We built our coop then added a dog kennel as a small run adding chicken wire to the top as well as a tarp for shade. They can just enter the kennel when they wake saving us from needing to let them out. Cold weather we do close their coop door . We can then open the kennel door into their less secure run which is quite large. We would love to let them free range but we have such issues with people letting their dogs freely roam others property.They get to free range when it's mowing day, they enjoy it and we can keep an eye on them. Our coop is super easy to clean . We have a large door on each side which allows it to be swept out easily using a push broom. We put down some cheap vinyl flooring which we can just hose off if needed. It may sound complicated but it's a great secure system.
If your chickens are anything like mine they are going to jump up on the coop and use it to escape the run. Might want to go all the way around the coop with the fence and move the coop away from the fence. And fyi, chickens can easily hop a 6’ fence. Mine have jumped my 8’ privacy fence.
Hi Becky, glad to see you guys in the yard together. Just want to let you know about my Lavender starting from seeds. I got a pack for $1.50 coated seeds and started them on wet paper towel inside a ziploc and left it on a window sill. I was keeping them moist.
They took about 6 to 8 wks to sprout. Germination rate was good. Transferred the sprouts into tray filled with compost and they are looking good so far.
Good to know. I struggle with lavender but I’m determined, lol.
One thing I'm going to try is dumping a bucket of weed seeds (from cleaning organic soybeans) on the ground in my chicken run, watering it, then covering it over with a pallet for a few days. I can do one bucket worth every couple days, and then once it's sprouted, uncover the area so they can eat it. With it being inside my chicken fence, I'd never have to worry about weeds growing anywhere else. You may look into the Chicken Tractor on Steroids system where you use your chickens to make compost. It can definitely be done in a static run area, and help provide habitat for bugs to get a start so your chickens can eat them.
The chickens are so amazing. Thank you for sharing 🤗