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The Secret Garden Homestead
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Welcome to our channel! We just purchased our 1964, 1 acre homestead in the heart of the Bay Area, California! Follow us as we rennovate our forever home, homeschool our 4 little ones and turn our little peice of heaven into a true secret garden amongst the surrounding city!
Full Homestead Tour | Our 1-Acre California Property | 2025
Welcome to our 1-acre California homestead! In this video, we take you on a homestead tour to show you our exciting journey of transforming our property into a thriving homestead that's a little bit country and a little bit suburban. If you're passionate about country living or dreaming of starting your own homestead, this video is for you!
Don't miss out on our suburban homestead tour, a glimpse into how we’re making this place our own. Stay tuned for more updates on our homestead property tour, as we share all the steps and challenges of starting a homestead in California and building a new farm 2025.
Make sure to like, subscribe, and follow us on this incredible adventure!
Chapters
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00:00 Introduction
01:47 Part 1: The Back Field
03:27 The Good: The Chicken Coop
04:50 The Good: The Back Orchard
09:55 The Bad: The Mess
12:03 The Ugly: Lack of Fences
13:08 Tip: Repurpose What You Can
15:20 The Future: A Mini Flower Farm/Greenhouse
18:00 The Future: The Berry Patch
19:43 The Future: Sheep!
20:40 Part II: The "Backyard"
21:00 The Future: Kid's Treehouse
22:34 Citrus Grove Tour
25:25 Misc Ideas
Don't miss out on our suburban homestead tour, a glimpse into how we’re making this place our own. Stay tuned for more updates on our homestead property tour, as we share all the steps and challenges of starting a homestead in California and building a new farm 2025.
Make sure to like, subscribe, and follow us on this incredible adventure!
Chapters
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
00:00 Introduction
01:47 Part 1: The Back Field
03:27 The Good: The Chicken Coop
04:50 The Good: The Back Orchard
09:55 The Bad: The Mess
12:03 The Ugly: Lack of Fences
13:08 Tip: Repurpose What You Can
15:20 The Future: A Mini Flower Farm/Greenhouse
18:00 The Future: The Berry Patch
19:43 The Future: Sheep!
20:40 Part II: The "Backyard"
21:00 The Future: Kid's Treehouse
22:34 Citrus Grove Tour
25:25 Misc Ideas
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Our Back to Eden Disaster | December California Homestead Citrus Orchard Tour
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In this video, we share the story of our Back to Eden disaster on our California homestead. We initially tried to implement the Back to Eden gardening method in our backyard orchard, but unfortunately, the heavy December homestead rains ruined our plans. Instead of focusing on our garden failures and homestead setbacks, we decided to give you a full citrus orchard tour and show you how our citr...
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Building the New Entrance for the Orchard & Garden | Cutting Back Trees Enjoy the Homestead View!
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As the 2024 comes to an end, we are working so hard to complete some of the final projects that we would like to finish before we go into year 2. In this video, we’re building a new entrance to our orchard and garden with a beautiful Costco pergola as the main feature. This backyard pergola serves as the perfect garden entrance, welcoming visitors while enhancing the orchard view and garden vie...
Butchering our Thanksgiving Turkey and Harvesting Pomegranates From the Backyard Orchard
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In this video, we show you how we prepare for a homestead Thanksgiving by butchering our Thanksgiving turkey and harvesting pomegranates from our backyard orchard. Watch as we walk through the entire turkey processing and DIY butchering process, offering tips for those interested in homestead butchering and sustainable living. We also dive into the exciting pomegranate harvest, showcasing the b...
Homeschooling as a Christian Family in California (Is California too far gone?)
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Bay Area, California Backyard Orchard | We have big plans for 2025 including growing Mangos!
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Spend the afternoon with me as I show you our California, backyard orchard and explain the exciting updates we are going to make to it as we enter into our second year on the homestead! Plus, I'll be sharing some of the specific varieties we plan on planting in Phase 2!
Mini Homestead Tour | Sharing Our Vision | Making Beef Stew
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Today we are tackling one of my favorite cuts of beef, stew meat! Also, join me on a quick tour of my citrus and pomegranate trees. Beef Stew Recipe www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailv2&iss=sbi&FORM=recidp&sbisrc=ImgDropper&q=beef stew recipe&imgurl=bing.com/th?id=OSK.2c3d3b0ea545f4abc7670fa2b2973313&idpbck=1&sim=4&pageurl=8e66f32dd0a517586a8d731e2e2a1c1b&idpp=recipe&ajaxhist=0&ajaxserp=0
DIY, Custom, California kid's Playground & How Much We Spent!
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In this video, we take you through the entire process of building our epic DIY custom playground in California! From the initial playground design to the final touches, we share all the details of our backyard playground transformation. You'll get a behind-the-scenes look at our playground build, playground construction, and the DIY projects that made it all possible. We also reveal how much we...
Building The Chicken Coop on Our New California Homestead
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Building The Chicken Coop on Our New California Homestead
Building Our Small Homestead Fence and How Much We Spent
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Building Our Small Homestead Fence and How Much We Spent
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We Are Back! Living at the Hospital and Springtime on the Homestead
Installing iSpring Six Stage RO Filtration System
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Installing iSpring Six Stage RO Filtration System
What's In Our Garage? // Finally Organized!
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Planting our orchard, Our first step in our Bay Area homesteading journey
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Planting our orchard, Our first step in our Bay Area homesteading journey
✨️Tour Our 1 Acre California Homestead. Building our Homestead Year 1
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Homesteading in the BAY AREA, CA! | VLOG
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Homesteading in the BAY AREA, CA! | VLOG
Nice vlogging❤ from nepal
Thank you for watching!
Are there any tips we missed? We would love to know other tips you would recommend for a first-time homesteader or for those starting up a new homestead!
Anyone else experience homestead/backyard project fails due to weather or unforeseen circumstances?
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Hi love your videos, we’re did you get the cardboard?
Thank you! We bought the cardboard rolls off of Amazon. Sandbaggy Biodegradable Landscape... www.amazon.com/dp/B0BZQTL6HW?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share Our original plan was to save cardboard boxes but we had 6000 square feet to cover, so we felt like this was the best option!
love it! good work guys! the Pergola is really pretty and l love the birch and japanese maple!
Well done! Great vid, and Happy Thanksgiving!
Thank You! Happy Thanksgiving!
I will say this cudos for processing your own birds. We do this on the easy here inTexas.. you need a larger process for Turkeys. Bigger pots and plucked. We process in like 10 seconds for feathers. Go bigger and you will be really happy.
Thanks for the tips! Yeah, we thought we went big! But soon realized it wasn't big enough!
That was so cool!! Congratulations and awesome job on processing your beautiful birds! Every turkey I have seen is black though, I’m curious about your white turkeys. What are they called?
These are called White Broad Breasted Turkeys. The Black ones are the Bronze Broad Breasted turkeys and i believe those ones get a tad larger!
@Thesecretgardenhomgave yourself a thumbs up CRUEL b#######estead
nice birds
Thank You!
So glad I found you! We are a homeschooling family living in Vancouver, BC, which is a very hard place to raise children. So many friends left for more conservative areas during C too. But the Lord is hedging us in and I’m seeing fruit in my children’s lives ❤️
Us mama's have to stick together 🤎! I am praying you and your family are able to make lasting, christian family, connections right where God has rooted you!
Thank you for sharing. My family lives near Los Angeles, and we are a Christian homeschooling family called to the entertainment industry. It’s a weird dichotomy for most people who don’t understand why God called us to this state and to that industry, but I’m going to trust The Lord and obey Him because that’s truly the only place of safety and provision. I’m glad you’re trusting in Him as well. Your family is so blessed because of your obedience. 🙌🏽
I absolutely love this! This is so true! I can't explain why we feel so strongly called to stay in the Bay, but we know it's God's call for us! Praying he can use us for HIS glory! It is so cool that you are down in LA, i imagine it is not easy, but what an amazing call!
Yes! Similar to the Bay Area, it’s got its ups and downs, but we’re definitely called here and it’s honestly such a blessing to live in such a beautiful state.
Those kids are so sweet! Makes me miss when mine were that little ❤
Hey sweet mama. I just subscribed to your channel. This is an amazing testimony. I am so glad you are making the best decisions for your family and are bring guided by the Lord and surrounded by a lovely community of believers . 🙏☺️
Thank you so much! I feel so blessed 🤎
We've done PSA in California as well... What do you think about the idea of the tax credit for homeschoolers that is being discussed?
To be honest, i have not paid super close attention. We do support the HSLDA who are working hard for us homeschool mamas!
We are in AZ using the ESA program and I understand that the HSLDA does not support the government having any hand in homeschooling. They probably won't represent someone if they are using the tax money since it isn't pure homeschooling (which is completely separate from any government involvement).u@@Thesecretgardenhomestead
Wow, that's amazing that your whole church basically moved out of state!!
They are am amazing church, we are wishing them the BEST!
Nice homestead! What avocados varieties and where did you procure them ? I have a large grove in hills above San Jose. I am in sunset zone 16 - NorCal coastal thermal belt. The trees thrive here. Your location is VERY important for avocados as they are VERY finicky trees. Totally worth growing just be ready for a lot of work taking care of them - after 2-3 years they really toughen up if they can handle your microclimate and soil
We bought ours at our local nursery! They are Fuerta, Hass and Lamb Hass varieties. We are over in the Clayton area.
@ thanks for update those are great varieties. My 2 cents if you want year round supply Is to also plant Reed and Carmen. Carmen has 2 distinct blooms and is known as the “everbearing” Hass bc it looks and tastes like Hass. Reed is a large green cannonball that is a summer variety like Lamb that complements Lamb in the summer. I have excellent results with all the varieties. Good luck farming !
Thank you so much! I was wondering about what varities i would need to have year-round avacados!
It is my first time on your channel and I have just subscribed. Thank you so much for sharing. Keep up the good work. All the best on this journey.😊
Thanks for subscribing!
You may struggle with those mangoes based on the rootstock they are grafted onto. Don't take this as gospel but I would assume they are on turpentine rootstock which does not do well here (im in the bay as well). Mangoes can absolutely be done though. Ive got mangoes, longons, guavas, white sapotes, all sorts of tropicals and subtropicals unprotected in the east bay hills doing great.
Awesome, I think your Orchard is great!! Good job and I hope all goes well with the plan. I would take a look at paw paw trees as well. I am so excited I bought 3 of them and have never even tasted the fruit. But it sounds so delicious. They have a short shelf life and only harvest for 2 months, so only way to get them is to grow. Good luck!!
Oh, thank you for the idea! I will for sure look into them!
Hope guests will welcome if have paying guests facilities.
I would love to have a csa and/or a farmstand in the next few years as the trees start really producing!
You can grow mangos in 9b. I have mangos and I live in zone 9b.
Do you have any tips to help them get through the winter, or have yours just bounced back?
Always happy to watch homestead orchard tour Here are some tips for growing mangoes 1. Get a seedling variety, they get acclimated for our dry weather, turpentine root stock grafts don’t do well in California, that’s for Florida. 2. Make sure it’s well drained soil 3. Put a shade cloth/tarp to avoid frost in winter 4. Make sure it gets plenty of sun, may be a south wall spot. 5. Give minimal amount of fertilizer in spring. I am in zone 9b, I have 15 mango trees near Santa Barbara.
Thank you for all these tips!
Nice job Ryan and Christina
Thank you!
Looking great!
Thanks!
Wow! Love that! Are those turkeys?
Yes they are! we are butchering our own turkeys this year for Thanksgiving!
Thanks for the video. I am installing this very one on our Texas country home. We have well water. I will be mounting this to the cabinet next to the sink cabinet where I am opening up access for some cookware storage and this. Our under sink is filled with either pull out trash on one side and disposal and dish washer to the other side. I may just put up plywood to mount this to or make a vertical drawer to slide out the filters. Lots of ideas. We will also use this for our coffee maker and refrigerator ice & water. Thanks again. All the best from north Texas.
It's a great system! Glad to be of help.
Thats cool.
Dang!! Luxury quarters!!!! (Cover over the run not leaving it open to rain to avoid future headaches for you & the chickens. Likely you are.) They will thrive in this wonderful setup!!!!!!! Thank you for sharing!!
Thanks for the encouragement! We will be doing a video soon on the design and specifically how much we spent!
👍 that great! Ive done the same with my large and small barns ive re done over the yrs on my land. Saved all the old wood and hinges ,ect. Best of luck to you guys 👍
You have such a beautiful face and features, please dont ruin it with plastic surgery❤
I love Hollyhock! Ours aren't ready to flower yet but I can't wait!
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Amazing remember to keep being about your kids dont let your own bs get in the way and be good forever
One more time means about twenty times. So cute all the time.
Nice explanation Ryan
Glad you liked it!
Friend you need more lights
am sure there are many exotic fruits that can grow in your zone and ruin the orchard and make it boring with just apples and pears.
We plan to plant many trees... for now we are starting with the basic ones that we know how to care for
All the Best for your new your Journey 🎉
Thank you so much 🙂