just discovered your channel we love it please keep going I showed this too my wife she loves it we are watching all of the you tube videos we are in the process of buying land in the middle of are forest to build a homestead pray for us we need guidance God bless
Love what you are doing. We (family of 7) are striving to become more self sufficient. We currently have a garden and plan to get chickens and an aquaponics system up and running. We really appreciate the effort that it takes to do what you are doing. Great videos! Getting some wonderful ideas from folks like you. Keep up the good work!
What you need is an ecozoom planchera for the inside of each of your homes, it runs on very small bits of wood, one of these would mean you would probably never need propane again.
Zac, Jamie, Tim and Joann! Greetings from the sticks of E. Texas. I wouldn't quite call us "homesteaders" but my husband's family has been on this land for 5 generations and still retain knowledge of "the old ways". We occasionally plow with Grandpa's old Georgia Stock plow and mule/horse/donkey, for instance. I realize the geography is different between our locations but I thought I'd "put a bug in your ear" as for building ovens and such. When my father-in-law was a young man (born 1903) they used Sand Rock and "Gumbo Mud" for chimney construction. Gumbo mud dries HARD in the sun. I am currently drawing up plans to build an outside BBQ pit, oven, cooktop using this construction. If there is anything like Gumbo mud in your area, you might look into using it also, as well as the natural stone you might find around. When I finally get around to building my set up...I'll let you know how it turns out. I have SOO enjoyed your videos! Watched all 8 episodes in 2 days. Zac and Mr. Tim, my husband is sooo pleased (
Thought it was funny you kept the accident in the video. Makes life interesting! Thanks for sharing your life with us, this is better than any show that could be seen on TV.
I found you via Pinterest! Watched all 8 episodes. My husband and I are just about 60 now and are finally moving on dreams of homesteading (slowly). I am greatly encouraged seeing your parents living completely off grid along with you, it gives me hope :) We do intend to make use of solar power and not live quite as off grid as you, but still am so encouraged! Looking forward to later episodes.
Love the oven I hope it works out for and cuts down your propane costs. Your chooks look all grown up. Are you still bothering to compost your food scraps in the tumbler? All our vegetarian food scraps go to the chickens (except avocado - it's apparently poisonous though we didn't have a casualty). Even the stuff they don't eat like orange peel and onion skins break down in the run pretty quickly. It creates great soil that can be harvested for pots or added to the garden.
I don't understand why you cannot use cedar inside? It is one of the primary wood types we burn in Southeast Alaska. Red and yellow cedar, hemlock, etc. An annual cleaning is more than sufficient to keep the risk of a chimney fire low. LOVE the videos. Can't wait for season 2!
Hello im me and my family are moving to a hometread later this year and have got many great ideas and inspiration from you. So I would just like to say thank you.. :-)
Awesome outdoor oven! Umm - curious about the height tho ... thought might be a few inches too high for Jamies shoulder comfort ... Awesome tho! Thanks for sharing! 😁
Hay Zach, I notice those side arms. How bout a video one day of you guys out shooting, tell us what gun/s you use when you're out to get game for the family.... Shalom
Just curious if you have looked into cooling options like earth tubes? A/C is not necessary, but a comfortable indoor temp in summer is always great if you can achieve it.
Shalom all the way from South Africa :-) We look forward to watching a new episode of An American Homestead every week and enjoy each one thoroughly. My daughter has asked me ask you what song you used when you were making the brick pizza oven? Keep the videos coming and thank you for sharing them with us. Stay blessed.
Hey Homesteaders! I just began watching your videos yesterday and am enjoying them. We are in the St Louis area and are wondering if you guys are in MO or AR? We would love to do what you guys are doing! BTW one large high RPM exhaust fan in the roof of your homes will be as close to A/C as you can get and much better than no exhaust fan. They can be solar powered directly meaning NO BATTERIES needed but they would only run when light is present - not at night. But a lot of savings from not having to buy batteries. If you want to know where to get the controller that can do this solar fan without any batts just let me know.
Thanks Zach for sharing the oven, It turned out great, When you show an overall of the cost of your oven would you also show the dimensions also? I would love to try and build on of these also.
Awesome video guys! I've been inspired and plans for my own homestead. But I'm curious of the song name and artist of the song playing in the video. Shalom.
I'm loving the videos. Thanks for sharing. I did notice you were doing jobs around property and had a gun in its holster? Why would you need to do that? I'm from Australia and don't feel the need to do this.
To protect family and/or livestock from Coyotes, Bobcats, and other predators..but mostly, to defend and protect against the lunatic fringe... That's a good enough reason right?
What makes you think you can't burn cedar inside? Just curious... we used cedar all the time to keep our house warm in the winter when I was growing up in Kentucky.
+She Wolf Cedar, like pine and other resinous woods, creates a larger amount of creosote when it burns. It isn't so much that it can't be burned, but rather that the chimney needs to be maintained more often. A build up of creosote is what causes chimney fires, which often result in house fires.
Outdoor oven You could convert that thing to a rocket mass oven and burn way less wood and it would burn cleaner. yep yep I got rocket mass heater/oven on the brain.
Please forgive me. As mentioned, I am from Australia and we don't have the gun culture here. It's unusual to see someone right out in the country with a gun at their hip. I understand the need if you have wild beasts dropping in for a visit. So far as uninvited trouble makers? Who often would that happen?
What a beautiful brick oven! I can almost smell the yummy bread that will be backed in there.
Yes, fresh baked bread smells so good! Videos coming soon!
just discovered your channel we love it please keep going I showed this too my wife she loves it we are watching all of the you tube videos we are in the process of buying land in the middle of are forest to build a homestead pray for us we need guidance God bless
Getting rid of cedar is good especially because ticks love cedar! Brilliant fix! Blessings!
Love what you are doing. We (family of 7) are striving to become more self sufficient. We currently have a garden and plan to get chickens and an aquaponics system up and running. We really appreciate the effort that it takes to do what you are doing. Great videos! Getting some wonderful ideas from folks like you. Keep up the good work!
Love that brick oven. Would love to cook one of my sourdough loaves in that. Good job.
1:50 when the one chicken realizes what's being said about her.... LOL
What you need is an ecozoom planchera for the inside of each of your homes, it runs on very small bits of wood, one of these would mean you would probably never need propane again.
Zac, Jamie, Tim and Joann! Greetings from the sticks of E. Texas. I wouldn't quite call us "homesteaders" but my husband's family has been on this land for 5 generations and still retain knowledge of "the old ways". We occasionally plow with Grandpa's old Georgia Stock plow and mule/horse/donkey, for instance. I realize the geography is different between our locations but I thought I'd "put a bug in your ear" as for building ovens and such. When my father-in-law was a young man (born 1903) they used Sand Rock and "Gumbo Mud" for chimney construction. Gumbo mud dries HARD in the sun. I am currently drawing up plans to build an outside BBQ pit, oven, cooktop using this construction. If there is anything like Gumbo mud in your area, you might look into using it also, as well as the natural stone you might find around. When I finally get around to building my set up...I'll let you know how it turns out. I have SOO enjoyed your videos! Watched all 8 episodes in 2 days. Zac and Mr. Tim, my husband is sooo pleased (
Thought it was funny you kept the accident in the video. Makes life interesting! Thanks for sharing your life with us, this is better than any show that could be seen on TV.
Really loved and appreciated this video series. Hope and pray there will be more to come!!
9:35-Donkey Stalker. Love the videos Zach and Family. Not just this series, as I started (and continue) with New2Torah.
Can't wait to see how you did at the fair!
You have a awesome place.
Whit
I found you via Pinterest! Watched all 8 episodes. My husband and I are just about 60 now and are finally moving on dreams of homesteading (slowly). I am greatly encouraged seeing your parents living completely off grid along with you, it gives me hope :) We do intend to make use of solar power and not live quite as off grid as you, but still am so encouraged! Looking forward to later episodes.
Thanks Cindi! Thank you for the kind words. Share our videos on Pinterest and social media like facebook. It will help us grow our audience!
awesome! you all should get a ton of blue ribbons! good luck.
Love the oven I hope it works out for and cuts down your propane costs. Your chooks look all grown up. Are you still bothering to compost your food scraps in the tumbler? All our vegetarian food scraps go to the chickens (except avocado - it's apparently poisonous though we didn't have a casualty). Even the stuff they don't eat like orange peel and onion skins break down in the run pretty quickly. It creates great soil that can be harvested for pots or added to the garden.
Nice videos! Thanks for the info on the brick oven.
I don't understand why you cannot use cedar inside? It is one of the primary wood types we burn in Southeast Alaska. Red and yellow cedar, hemlock, etc. An annual cleaning is more than sufficient to keep the risk of a chimney fire low. LOVE the videos. Can't wait for season 2!
Yes, in the Pacific Northwest we regularly use cedar
Hello im me and my family are moving to a hometread later this year and have got many great ideas and inspiration from you. So I would just like to say thank you.. :-)
you could look in to bio gas i use it on my farm itake the manure and give at another use beside fertilizers
Awesome outdoor oven! Umm - curious about the height tho ... thought might be a few inches too high for Jamies shoulder comfort ... Awesome tho! Thanks for sharing! 😁
Hay Zach, I notice those side arms. How bout a video one day of you guys out shooting, tell us what gun/s you use when you're out to get game for the family.... Shalom
lol at 1:51 I think the chicken heard you 😂😂😂
Just curious if you have looked into cooling options like earth tubes? A/C is not necessary, but a comfortable indoor temp in summer is always great if you can achieve it.
Shalom all the way from South Africa :-) We look forward to watching a new episode of An American Homestead every week and enjoy each one thoroughly. My daughter has asked me ask you what song you used when you were making the brick pizza oven? Keep the videos coming and thank you for sharing them with us. Stay blessed.
Im a little disappointed you didn't answer my question, is there a reason for that?
Hey Homesteaders! I just began watching your videos yesterday and am enjoying them. We are in the St Louis area and are wondering if you guys are in MO or AR? We would love to do what you guys are doing! BTW one large high RPM exhaust fan in the roof of your homes will be as close to A/C as you can get and much better than no exhaust fan. They can be solar powered directly meaning NO BATTERIES needed but they would only run when light is present - not at night. But a lot of savings from not having to buy batteries. If you want to know where to get the controller that can do this solar fan without any batts just let me know.
I would grow a large patch of bamboo... It grows fast and furious and can be used to burn!
Thanks Zach for sharing the oven, It turned out great, When you show an overall of the cost of your oven would you also show the dimensions also? I would love to try and build on of these also.
You really need to consider cooking with solar ovens.
We did but they only seem to work when conditions are perfect. But we will do a video on those at some point for sure!
Awesome video guys! I've been inspired and plans for my own homestead. But I'm curious of the song name and artist of the song playing in the video. Shalom.
I'm loving the videos. Thanks for sharing.
I did notice you were doing jobs around property and had a gun in its holster? Why would you need to do that? I'm from Australia and don't feel the need to do this.
To protect family and/or livestock from Coyotes, Bobcats, and other predators..but mostly, to defend and protect against the lunatic fringe... That's a good enough reason right?
Im digging the .45! (I think) haha! what type of pistol is that?!
9mm Glock 17 :)
awesome!
What makes you think you can't burn cedar inside? Just curious... we used cedar all the time to keep our house warm in the winter when I was growing up in Kentucky.
+She Wolf Cedar, like pine and other resinous woods, creates a larger amount of creosote when it burns. It isn't so much that it can't be burned, but rather that the chimney needs to be maintained more often. A build up of creosote is what causes chimney fires, which often result in house fires.
Chainsaw + bare or levi legs = disaster. Please get a good pair of protective chaps and use them. Your family will thank you.
Its Chevy on Chevy violence so it doesn't matter, long as it was a Ford or dodge lol
Rocket stove for more outdoor cooking abilities..
Easy DIY.
At 9:15, how big a propane tank do you go through per month?
Outdoor oven
You could convert that thing to a rocket mass oven and burn way less wood and it would burn cleaner.
yep yep I got rocket mass heater/oven on the brain.
i like your hair wrap. How do you do that?
5thgenerationfarmer Check out Wrapunzel!!!!
Forgive me for my ignorance but what purpose does the donkey serve? It seems like another mouth to feed.
Please forgive me. As mentioned, I am from Australia and we don't have the gun culture here. It's unusual to see someone right out in the country with a gun at their hip. I understand the need if you have wild beasts dropping in for a visit. So far as uninvited trouble makers? Who often would that happen?
Still with the music, No Thanks Al
A minor critique... You say 'so' too often.