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Honest Homesteading
United States
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 7 ต.ค. 2011
My family and I love living out in the country. We've now got several acres of woods, fruit and nut trees, berry vines and bushes, and vegetable gardens so it's quite the playground for running experiments! With this channel I plan to share some of our many experiments and tell you what we've got going on around the homestead. Not only will I show you what we are working on, but I also aim to follow up with each experiment so we can track the results and figure out what really works (and what fails!) and what we could improve on or do differently. I'm certainly not an expert, but I enjoy putting these experiments together and hearing from others on what they are trying to do as well!
The Bubblegum Plum
While you can't actually blow bubbles with this plum, it is definitely a variety that is true to it's name! The taste is quite good and extremely similar to the taste of bubblegum. If you get the chance to try it, I definitely recommend doing so!
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Our Apple Grafts are Blooming!
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Our multi-grafted apple tree is full of blooms this year! A few we have tried a few of these before, but most of these will be varieties we have never tasted before. To see more on some of these varieties, check out the videos linked below: Hudson's Golden Gem: th-cam.com/video/OcjmYZRLl6U/w-d-xo.html November Peach: th-cam.com/video/iGWpmGA1Ftk/w-d-xo.html Vanilla Pippin: th-cam.com/video/0p7C...
The Vanilla Pippin Apple
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We finally got to taste test our first Vanilla Pippin apples! These were grafted on our "frankentree" back in Spring 2021 and bore this fruit in 2023. This isn't my favorite kind of apple flavor, so I likely won't make a full tree dedicated to it anytime soon with my limited space, but it certainly gets to keep it's place on our frankentree! If you have tried this kind before, let me know what ...
Milling Old Walnut Logs for Rift and Quarter Sawn Lumber
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Being as busy as we are, we rarely get to our projects as quickly as we intend to. When it comes to milling, a consequence of that is that when you cut up partially dried logs for lumber, they tend to bend and bow as soon as they are cut from the log. Here I show you how I'm cutting the boards to try and minimize those effects on the lumber before they get stacked to dry. With any luck they wil...
Our Orchard Had a Baby: A New Apple!
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One of the lesser known byproducts of having an orchard is the possibility of wildlife spreading the seeds of your fruit. This year, I got to taste the first fruit from one of these "volunteer" trees!
From Tree to Furniture - in 5 minutes!
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Our first big homemade lumber project here on the homestead was turning an old ash tree into my oldest son's twin size bedframe. See in just 5 minutes a glimpse into the work that went into creating it! If you'd like to see the other videos these clips were taken from, see the videos below: Milling Boards from an Old Ash Tree: th-cam.com/video/eMTPDt8QPEo/w-d-xo.html Milling Slabs from a 20" As...
Our Largest "Bradford Pears" Yet!
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This year we got to harvest our first fruit from this Bradford pear tree! The fruit pictured comes from Bradford Pear limb that we grafted over to the Peggy Asian Pear variety and the taste was absolutely worth the work that went into it!
Grafting with Parafilm in Summer Heat
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I grafted several peach trees this July, wrapping the scions and buds in parafilm, leaving the grafts exposed to some of the hottest days we experience in the summer here in Indiana. It has been six weeks since the grafts were made, so now we can see how well the parafilm held up in the heat, and how well the buds pushed through the parafilm. See my original video on parafilm: th-cam.com/video/...
Mourning a Neglected Peach Tree (Part 3)
มุมมอง 745ปีที่แล้ว
Unfortunately not every project I embark on is a success... And even more unfortunate is that I didn't graft any new trees from this one so with this tree dies a variety that I will have to purchase in order to get it back on the homestead. But I must say that we always got a good crop from this tree and wish it well in that orchard in the sky! See what my plans were for this tree in the first ...
Milled Ash Wood Bed Frame Build
มุมมอง 272ปีที่แล้ว
Last year we milled a large ash tree down to some usable lumber and after letting it dry for a year, we were finally able to turn it into furniture! What I made was based on the Ana White bedframe that can be found at this link (though we are not affiliated in any way): www.ana-white.com/woodworking-projects/simple-bed-twin-size If you want to see how we milled or prepped any of the the lumber ...
Using a Thunderstorm to Fell A Dangerous Ash Tree
มุมมอง 235ปีที่แล้ว
I want to emphasize an abundance of caution as I share this video. What I did here absolutely had a lot of risk involved, but at the same time, leaving this tree in place was also risky as limbs from a dead tree like this can fall at any time and pose significant risk as well. At this point, I figured that the danger while felling the tree would actually be less than not doing anything. Additio...
Removing a Tree Stump From Our Garden
มุมมอง 130ปีที่แล้ว
A few years back we fenced in a new garden area, but we are still working on taming the area. Today I'm removing a tree stump that so that it won't interfere with our tiller anymore so I figured I'd show you how I do that! While I usually only use an axe to do this work, if you've got a tractor that can make it easier, why not?
Removing Fireblight From Our Pear Trees (Part 3)
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Just over two years ago, I did some massive pruning on this pear tree in order to remove all traces of fireblight and regrow the tree. Today I'm pulling out the pruners for the first time to find and cut out any new fireblight infection that I find. Fortunately, it seems any infection is only at the tips of branches, so there is still a lot of hope that I can keep this tree! Check it out! Fight...
Replacing Trees in Our Orchard
มุมมอง 241ปีที่แล้ว
When a fruit tree dies, it dies for a reason. When we replace it, we need to take that reason into account if we can. Today I'll tell you some of the reasons why I don't like to simply replace a tree with an exact replica of the one that died.
Harvesting Hickory Logs For Later Milling
มุมมอง 341ปีที่แล้ว
Harvesting Hickory Logs For Later Milling
Our First Scrap Metal Run | Cleaning Up the Homestead
มุมมอง 257ปีที่แล้ว
Our First Scrap Metal Run | Cleaning Up the Homestead
The BEST Chicken Coop Improvement We Made
มุมมอง 266ปีที่แล้ว
The BEST Chicken Coop Improvement We Made
Planing Ash with the Dewalt DW734 Planer
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Planing Ash with the Dewalt DW734 Planer
Sawmilling FAIL (Part 2) - Milling an Oddly Shaped Log
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Sawmilling FAIL (Part 2) - Milling an Oddly Shaped Log
Sawmilling FAIL (Part 1) - Loading an Oddly Shaped Log
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Sawmilling FAIL (Part 1) - Loading an Oddly Shaped Log