Everything We Did In Our First Year on a 2.5 ACRE HOMESTEAD
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- First year on our homestead is complete! Our 2.5 acre homestead has changed so much in just the first year! Join this homesteading family and our adventures as we tell you guys about everything we were able to accomplish like getting chickens and starting our first ever garden on our first ever homestead!
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Start your fruit canes, berries, and trees right away! once those get comfortable in your garden theyll produce on their own so easy!
Thank you! We wish we would have started fruit trees early
How do you manage the diseases and pests that come along growing fruit trees? That was the most challenging part in my gardening journey. Tips and tricks would be helpful! Thanks.
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@@spacescience100 plant things that attract the good insects so they can fight off the bad insects. Like put some Marigolds in your garden. Also, a healthy plant can fight off bugs but a plant that is stressed or struggling will attract bad insects. It's crazy how that one works. Also, foliar sprays will help keep bugs at Bay too.
I live in a subdivision, but am doing this. I planted 10 fruit trees last spring. And I'm going to plant at least 6 types of berry bushes this spring. All listed as "flowering ornamentals" to the HOA. Lol! But they're in mulch beds, which look nice. And will have companion flowers around them to draw the bees and ward off some unwanted bugs. Even with 1/3rd an acre lots, it's still possible to have decent sized gardens and get good biodiversity in subdivisions.
lol Michiganders are the most wholesome people on Earth
I went from a small 1 acre homestead like yours, and now we are up to 38acres. Watch out, its addicting
THe easiest to grow are cucumbers, squash and zucchini !! Plant the seeds is dried cow poo from Lowes. Get free expired greens from supermarkets. The egg yokes will be orange. Thanks
It is very easy to retrain an aggressive rooster. Just pick it up and hold it gently like a football under your arm until they are calm and set them down. Do it repeatedly every time they act up. This has worked for every rooster I have used this method on.
Our first rooster was very very aggressive . Our new rooster has been much better and we have been able to do this
Still learning and expanding 20 years in
I love the fact that no matter how long you have been homesteading every single person says you just keep learning everyday. We love learning something new and expanding our knowledge and hope to one day be able to pass it down to a new generation. Thank you for watching!
@@AcresOfAdventure Hi what Kind of Livestock Dog so you have
I also have 2.5 acres, it's a good size for a little homestead. I got a 12 tree orchard planted still waiting for fruits, a huge garden area, pumpkin and berry patch, a few chickens, compost area... my ultimate goal is to get a few sheep and the kids want a pig. Looks like you guys are getting a lot done there! 👍
It took us 10 years to get to our homestead! So I gathered as much information as I could studying about as many things I wanted to do! Even making soap and cheese from our goat's milk! When we finally landed I was able to put my book knowledge to the test!! Great video!! ~jc
It is a great idea to have a good plan before hand!
This is my first time on your channel, and I love your attitude and philosophy so much! I find that a lot of people pursuing homesteading do so out of a sort of paranoia, but you seem to be pursuing it just out of joy and a desire for self-sufficiency for its own sake, which is awesome. Super inspiring to see other people do what I aspire to do within the next five years or so! Thanks for the great video!
My husband and I live in New Zealand and haven’t grown up in farming families but we are seriously keen to change our lifestyles and move to the country to create our own homestead. It’s nice to see someone who also didn’t come from that background making it work and enjoying it - it’s a scary prospect leaving conventional urban life behind…
No background at all, truly zero. We just went with our gut and are trying it!
Check out "Clay tall stories " you tube vids . He lives in Mapua and is getting real good at growing his own food .. Veggies, Chickens ducks , sheep ect! He also fishes and hunts and forages! I'm sure you can learn a lot from clay as he explains everything he does very clearly. Hope this is of help to you , Regards Tony from Australia!
Our young adult daughters just moved to Auckland.
I can't stop laughing at the rooster story! I've never been on this channel before but I'm loving this video 😂
We all make mistakes and that’s why we watch others and learn 😊. Great job and enjoy your farm and family.
Yes we do and it’s the only way to learn, i hope we can help others through out mistakes
Love seeing your sweet family working together. I grew up on a ranch/farm out west and growing up like that was a tremendous blessing.
Your going in the right direction , great job
Yes! I'm right there with you guys! So fun to see all that you have done in 1 year! Great job!
Thank you so much!
Great job and lots accomplished in year 1 - it's crazy what someone can accomplish when they put their mind (and body) into it! Well done on the homestead and video
Nate! Nice to hear from you! Yes we have enjoyed the journey and can’t wait to see what each year bring us! We have enjoyed your videos and seeing you guys fix up your new house, we love seeing people live out this life and teaching others.
For anyone considering building such an amazing homestead - I would recommend Bulgaria🇧🇬 as a possible location! It is amazing, affordable and it offers so much personal freedom!
That’s awesome, love to hear people from all over living like this!
Thanks for sharing. My wife and I purchased a 2.4 acre home and going thru some of the same adventures. We are building everything ourselves so we agree about enjoying the process.
Good for you. What a fantastic life you’re building out on your homestead.
You’ve made great progress over the past year ! I really enjoy watching you guys grow as homesteaders 💕
Thank you so much. It has took more work then we thought but we have been enjoying the journey!
Thanks for all the info and encouragement. Congratulations too on your first year.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it
I've got a flock of 30 on 8 acres...mostly copper morans and Saphire Gems ...I have 3 good broody hens so I sometimes raise my chicks
But if I find a breed of interest I will buy or hatch. After about the 3rd day of hatch. I go out at night and just put them under a hen up to 12 or 15 chick's per hen... makes the job a hole lot easier and the hens take excellent care of my chicks..so I've never been one to complain about a good broody hen !
I just finished year one too! Thanks for sharing your journey.... you're right - it's all about what mistakes you're willing to make!!
So true! Thank you for watching!
You are great presenter at honest and intelligent manner. Your charisma make me stay and watch this channel to the end. The way you speak and talk is just inspiration immediately .
Thank you for doing what you do. Congratulation !!!!
This was a great video. We all have had the ups and downs of our first year. Your doing a great job and your kids are learning valuable knowledge.
We have so many predators. We have a huge coop and probably went overboard. My husband built it! No break ins. But I do want a chicken tractor. I have a new gardening and some homesteading channel. Watching a ton of others. So glad I found you. Subscribed 🎉
Thank you Angie! I feel like this lifestyle makes you go overboard in certain areas and a nice coop is nothing to be mad about, glad you enjoyed the video!
Have fun good luck for starting its great fo a family I raised 6 children farming and canning food for family and I still garden for us 2
It's so great to see fencing around your garden 😀 Way to go!
Fence will keep it protected!
Love your channel and the positivity you bring, even on difficult or hard days. Always appreciate your honesty as well. Thanks for what you do and for taking the time to share it with us here!✌️🌱🌿🌾🍎🥦🍉🍏🍒🥒🍓🧅🍅🍆🥬🍐🌶🫑🥕🌽🧄
Thank you❤️
I definitely like the hoop coop idea that's very movable. About to fence in about 2/3 of an acre and then I want to give the chickens a run of the backyard!
I liked what you had to say, thanks for taking the time to make the content. We hope to be in your shoes in ~2 years.
Unless something is truly holding you back, try to get there sooner in 2 years, if this is something you want I think you should try as soon as you can, you won’t be mad when you do. Thank you for watching and wish you the best of luck!
down to earth life lessons, thank you for inspiring me to raise chickens.
No problem! Thank you for taking the time to listen to our story, we appreciate you!
Excellent job…..your work is paying off plus great for your family
Hi
I live in Grand Rapids and on just a small 70x100 lot. I have a garden and getting chickens in March. Im even adding blueberry bushes this year. So yes you can do it on a small lot. Thanks for this great video, gives motivation to us who are stuck in the city. 💚🌿🐥🌿
Thank you for watching! Glad this video can help you and you found motivation from it! We don’t think anyone needs all the land to homestead, you can do this anywhere!
Loved this video!
I started this year with a small garden & 6 chickens, definitely lots of errors along the way but I’m feeling more confident and more at peace every day. Hoping to eventually be fully self sufficient for my family. ❤
Yes! We love hearing people living like this, we hope to motivate as many people as we can to join this way of living :)
Love this so much! We are also homesteading on 2.5 acres! We're within the city so it's a little bit of city and a little bit of country all in one.This year we added a big garden, an orchard, and backyard chickens. I'm excited to follow along and get ideas for our property because it is he exact same size!
Great video. We hope to jump into this lifestyle too. Completely new. But this is so motivating to see and confirmation that it’s possible
Thank you and so glad that it could be a help to you! Nice you choose to try out this lifestyle it’s get tiring..but also very addicting. You will love it and glad again that it could be of use to you, happy to have you along!
Great job guys! We are still learning and expanding 5 years in. Its great to see more Michigan families doing this. You are making me want to make a channel of my own!
Thanks Matt! I feel like as long as we decide to keep living like this we will probably still be learning til the day we stop. We love hearing that people are doing this in Michigan as well! TH-cam is fun, we think it will be great to go back and watch these one day when we are older. Thanks again for watching and hope you will be able to gain value from future videos!
Learn what plants you can winter indoors and replant outside the next growing season. Pepper plants are one that we are trying.
Good video, thanks so much for sharing it with us .
Of course, thank you for watching Tim!
You are doing a great job 👏 Thank you for all of your great videos ❤God bless 🙏🏻
So nice of you🙏🏻
Same here LOL learned most from TH-cam on being a homesteader I live in Michigan too.
Thanks for sharing, really love your experience on homesteading
Glad you enjoyed it :)
Glad to have stumbled across your channel. We have started our homesteading journey. Have had some serious set backs but not the end. Back at it, doing what we can. We hope to move away from FL soon. Keep up the awesome work.
Awesome to have you here! We completely understand set backs. We are just learning as we go and hope to encourage others to dive head first in homesteading even if they are just beginners.
You have made so much progress guys! Well done! We hope to get to your stage one day soon…we are still transitioning:)
thank you, we still have a long way to go!
Well done Peter Cape town South Africa take care
This was so helpful! Thank you for sharing your story. I can't wait to watch more videos.
Glad to have you here!! If we can do it so can you!
Just found your chanel today. My wife & I made the jump this past September to a 3.15acre rural property in SE Missouri. It has been a major change with as you well know a lot of challenges. We are completely off grid & spent our first 3 months living in a tent while we cleared an area to get a building so we wouldnt freeze our first winter. I love seeing other people doing the same & will be putting some content together to document our progress going forward. Keep up the great work & thanks for the inspiration.
Thank you for the kind words, we will keep working to grow and make sure you do the same, it’s hard sometimes but it will be worth it all
I've used those greenhouse-shelf things a lot. What I do is put them against a structure facing South, and I use the bottom shelf for ballast and to make them very heavy. An old canning pot with a transparent lid is my favorite, because water is heavy and the transparent lid allows the sun to heat up the water which then releases the heat at night. I've also used logs and cinder blocks, anything really heavy to make them very bottom-heavy. Then they don't tip over.
Thanks for the tip!
Nice Video. We just got our first chickens ourselves. And we've got another 100 on the way. Very exciting.
Yes! This was amazing! I’m so excited for you guys to get pigs.
We love the pigs we have now!
Love what y’all were able to do on 2.5 acres! We are on a 2 acre homestead and trying to use as much as we can in the future!
Thank you! You have to get creative and use what you have to supply what you need.
We also are on two acres. Chickens, veggie garden, food forest, and dairy sheep. Working on food forest #2 this spring that's going to produce food for the chickens and sheep.
This is awesome thanks for sharing!
No problem, glad you enjoyed it shayla!
Always great to come across a video like this showing someone new giving this a try. If we could convince all the families in the country with an acre or more of land to start composting, plant at least a small garden, and do a few things to be better stewards of the land it'd make such a huge difference for our environment. Sometimes we forget that we are part of an ecosystem, not separate from it. Dirty air and water, lost topsoil, bad waste management, and all those other problems can all be drastically impacted by everyone who is able making a few small changes. Since we got a one acre property in our 40s we've cut our trash at the curb down by more than half by composting, constantly expanded our chicken keeping and gardening efforts, added swales and other water management ideas, and last year added a high tunnel that produced an amazing amount more for us and our families, and have been showing how using sunken hugel beds, added compost, and drip irrigation works even in sandy, rocky soil to create a food producing soil and diverse and healthy ecology. It's an amazing journey as you find new things to try, wishing you all the best with it!
Thank you so much for this, we love reading comments like yours. Wish you the best as well
Goats 🐐 and sheep 🐑 and ducks 🦆 as well as my beloved chooks ❤️🐓🐔
You're doing GREAT WORK 👍❣️
Thank you so much shania!
Wow that wind gave me so much life. My dream is to have freedom period.. I would just lay there and look at the sun for a while I love wind.. it gives me calming energy.. can’t wait to experience this type of freedom 🇺🇸
When I moved out of Houston I was still with simple mindset since I was alone so I got .68 of a acre coming from a apt and older I thought plenty of yard lol 15 years later and first year of gardening I realize yeah I need more land but not willing to start over I built a 10x28 leanto to raise my meat chicks and layers have their own coup and run , I learned fast that I should have put my coup outside of run where boxs could be reached without walking inside run… we learn as we go. Rest of back yard is my garden and that’s a big learning curve lol your place is just awesome Josh, don’t be suprised if in a few years you don’t choose to get more land lol loving life with growing, raising your food source is so rewarding
I have never felt so much rewarding feelings then when we started living out here and trying this lifestyle out
Youre doing so great!! Kudoes to your daughter! I have a suggestion on your box gardens. If you read up on it you'll find that if you support you climbers with stakes they will grow so wonderful. Also, consider trimming some of your tomatoes so they get plenty of air and more sun. Keep up the great work!
Thank you so much for sharing
No problem glad you enjoyed our story!
Very encouraging! Thnks for sharing!!
You are so welcome!
You should watch "self sufficient me" this guy has helped me tremendously
I have watched him!
Great job guys! Keep it up.
Thanks so much!
I love this video!! It was so inspiring 🙌🏻🙌🏻
You guys are doing great and thair are so many ways to use chickens as a resource
We are learning that, we’re trying to learn as much about permaculture as we can. Thank you
Looking very good, trying to success
That's the way to go forward
Thank you! It can be hard work but you have to sit back and enjoy the process or it will drive you crazy
This is so inspiring 😇🥰
look at you guys go! good for you guys! keep up the hard work!
-danielle&zach ramaci!
Thanks guys for the support! Hope all is going well for you two
So inspiring 😍
Thanks Peter, we hoped this would help a few people out there.
Park seeds is one of my favorite organic seed growers, but appreciate the other source. Thank you
Small steps big gains! 🎉😊😊
Merry Christmas!
Thank you! You too!
I remember back when I was little I helped my grandparents with their garden it was about 60 feet wide and about 100 feet Long
We would love to keep expanding our garden!
Luv it! Been tryin to talk my husband into gettin chickens for a long time..he says no no...
I hope you get a yes soon, start with like 4. There low Easy to take care of and not a lot of work
Good video dude!
We have 14 chickens we want more so we need to expand buy land! You’re doing great keep learning
Thank you!
Great video! keep it up!
Thanks, will do!
Great video! Glad I found your channel.
Glad you enjoyed it, hope you stay along for our journey :)
I started with two 5’ raised beds that were not very deep and a square bed with a trellis made from a pallet for pumpkins. It worked great for learning. Last year I expanded to 5 3x4’ raised beds, 4 beds about 5x2’ with cattle panel trellises as well as one for pumpkins that I chose to put 3x4’ beds so the vine can root along the ground longer to strengthen the plant. I have 3 whiskey barrels for blueberries and a raspberry plant I found on clearance I couldn’t pass up,a blackberry bush I’m regretting it’s placement so I’ll add more barrels to move that. I’m adding 5 more 3x4’ beds for veg and herbs and 5 more whiskey barrels so I can plant potatoes, elderberries and move the blackberry bush. I half built a greenhouse from recycled windows but their integrity was compromised so I have to take them down and start that over with plastic it’s been a lot of work but I love it and love what I’m able to do.
We all start somewhere and need to keep moving forward and learning as we go, great job! Thanks for watching
You and your family are doing awesome. Slow and steady and learning as you go. Have you started a compost area to help make your own soil using kitchen scraps, chicken manure, shredded paper, shredded card board, wood chips, leaves and grass clipping and spent plants.
We have! We have our compost bin in our chicken run so they can help turn it and its easy to put our chicken manure in. So far we've added all that but the paper and cardboard. Excited to see how it does for the garden next spring.
If I ever buy a house with an large open backyard someday, I am definitely starting a chicken homestead.
Got yourself a new subscriber!! Just started a few months ago, now have chickens, starting a garden, learning how to make bread, learning how to forage for mushrooms. We are in the same boat, no one has taught us this way of living so we are excited to learn it for ourselves and my little ones too! It’s a learning process and I’m ready!
Welcome aboard! Thank you for the kind words NIkkia! Love the name by the way and you will love the more you learn about it all!
Jumping in that boat myself. No experience, knowledge and very little money.
Been dreaming about it for ages, finally getting started this year.
Kin's domain a family homestead!
Good luck, My wife and I are hoping to start soon.
You will LOVe it Gary!
God Bless 🙏 teachable moment 💯 Kosher still chickens 🐔 only. ❤️
Thank you!
good video. keep um coming.
Thank you! It’s nice to hear that people want to see more of us, we plan to keep making videos for awhile!
Looking good!! We just got started 3 months ago!!
Thank you!!
This is my first video I’ve seen of yours! Loved the content! Do you plan on making any videos on “how to” purchase a homestead? Like the buying process, why you picked the area you did? And how to get financing. I want to do something similar but I have no idea how to logistically make it happen! Would live to see tips from you guys
I just found your channel while scrolling TH-cam. I really enjoyed this video!! Good for you...they say take baby steps, learn and master something and move on to the next thing. I know this video is kinda old but if you ever need guidance on raising HEALTHY Cornish cross chickens (they die pretty easy), I highly recommend watching Kevin from Living Traditions homestead. He has a whole playlist on how to raise them to perfection 👍
You got another subscriber today!! I can't wait to go watch more
Thanks so much for the kind words and extra help! Comments like yours make us want to keep making more videos!
Great job brother 👍
Thank you. We are trying are best and showing others that it can be done
Raising your own meat is weird at first but extremely rewarding! You two will be great at it!
Yeah we are still adjusting but there’s no way to learn it unless you just go do it. That’s the motto we live and die from 🙈
I’m new to your channel I watch a lot of homesteading videos. I just turned 40 in August and I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life and at 40 in the last five years to be exact. I made a lot of changes working towards being a better person and having a better life I daily dream of having a small home. It doesn’t have to be perfect livable it’s fine on a couple of acres with my chickens running around and whatever else is living on the farm the Homestead I pray on it and I dream about it and I tell myself and everyone else that I’m gonna have this one day. I want my Boys to be able to run around and be free my oldest she’s 21 and then I have a 12 year old boy with autism and I have a soon to be eight-year-old son that has some issues here and there and then I have a daughter that would’ve been 13 she passed away at birth due to DV and I lost myself when that happened but I’m trying to get back to me you know I literally dream of what you guys have and although I’m new to your channel I’m proud of you guys. You have a beautiful home and a beautiful family❤
Hello From Northern Virginia, just Subscribed 👍🏼🚜🪵🇺🇸
Well done you
Thank Susan. We are trying and that’s the most we can do!
Hello 👋 how are you doing?
The only thing I've been able to grow this year was potatoes,,,,WE had a lot of green just no fruit. GOD BLESS
God bless Cheryl! Thank you for watching :)
Love from Pakistan ❤️
Thank you!
The chooks need a bigger/longer feed dish so they all have a chance to get some food.
We have made a bigger dish since this video!
That's what I did last year too, I just started. I did three 4x5 garden beds and we got 8 chickens. We lost several chickens to predators and sickness, do we are leasing what we need to do. I also had an abundance of cucumbers for pickling. I got an electric canner for Christmas and we just purchased a chest freezer to help us get local meat.
Great! It is such a big learning cursive but one that will be so great in the long run of life!
The first thing we did was build a coop and got chickens!!
Chickens seem to be a great start for most people. Gotta love farm fresh eggs!
There is a homestead channel in VA that needs help named Off Grid Challenge; they also have chickens. Not sure if you can do a collab or a zoom live together- but I hope you would be willing to try.
Wishing only the best for your family no matter what you decide. 😊😊😊
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