Good morning Lumnah family,and critters. Such a joy to watch all of your videos in the morning. It's been such an incredible journey watching you build your farm up. God bless y'all
Yes, you do need a charge controller since the voltage from the solar panel will vary and won't charge the battery correctly. Also, you might put the whole rig behind the wire to protect it from the bears as well.
Late night so I watched some of your old videos. Loved Flat Stanley. Then watched you thanking everyone when you got to 1,000 subscribers. Love memories but now is best.
Never realized that clover had separate blooms that got pollinated. Never looked at them that close. Thanks for showing that. Love your videos and miss my morning visit to your homestead when you don't put one out. You have been a busy person with all you have built in such a short time. Thanks so much for the hard work getting these videos out. 😊
I live in Iowa and it's been extremely warm for this time of year. Mid 90s with heat index of 100 plus. My garden and flowers are loving it as long as I water daily. I've gotten green onions- leaf lettuce- a few cherry tomato s. I started a strawberry patch with 9 plants 3 years ago. It's now 8 x 4 foot and producing berries. Asparagus is done and my first picking of green beans will be in the morning. I really enjoy watching all you are doing and growing. Thank you for teaching and sharing. Stay safe and God Bless!
Your high tunnel looks terrific -- the amount of growth in just a few days is remarkable. We are planning to add a greenhouse to our property for 2021, so I am pleased to see yours in action. We don't have issues with bears, but the main problem with our blueberries is the number or birds that devour them. We resorted to protecting the blueberries with PVC cages that are covered by netting. Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA -- 6/22/2020.
You changed my life. I could no longer garden where my daddy taught me to garden due to deer and woodchucks which were not around when I was a child--they arrived in the late 1990's. I live in northern WV just below the Mason-Dixon Line on 5 acres of an old farm which my parents bought in 1937. It is just off the main street through town, but is an oasis for me (and deer). After seeing your electric poultry netting, I got online to Premier 1 Supplies and ordered the deer fencing kit which includes 100' and the charger which will support 400'. I now have 21 beautiful tomatoes of several varieties, gorgeous cabbages, a nice bean row and okra planted. I plan to order another 100' and enlarge the garden area after a bit of brush cutting and tilling work. BTW--Gina, the birds will also go after your strawberries and blueberries--good luck.
I am most curious of how the electromagnetic field from the electric fence will/ may affect the bees. Loved your video - thank-you, for sharing your journey!
Al, I know when it is blazing hot, snow is the last thing on your mind. Keep it in mind when you choose a place to mount the solar panel. The sides of the greenhouse will need to be kept clear, out 4 or 5 feet, to accommodate what slides off the top and of course the panel has to be higher than your snow on the ground. Close to a path you normally have clear is good too, so you can easily get to the panel and clear any wet snow that has stuck on the face. You know what I'm talking about. Gina, love the dress. Cute!
I wonder if your bees would enjoy a special blend of flowers designed to bloom throughout the year. Prairie Nursery in Westfield Wisconsin has phenomenal seeds. several years ago I used in their monarch blend in Wisconsin and had amazing results.
Hey Al, Wrap some bacon around one of the wires and when the bear goes for it ... zap! This will train them not to go near it just like the pigs with their fence. Sometimes if the bear doesn't touch the wire with its mouth or other sensitive skin area it will push right through the fence.
I did a three sister's garden in large buckets. I made one for my mother, and one for myself. My mother is older so she has grown a garden in a plot for years. This year I did garden plants in planters for her. She loves it. I am excited to see how your garden grows.
You need a charge controller or you will boil and overheat and over charge your battery :) we have a 2600 watt solar system to run a lot of the power for our house :)
Hi Al I just thought that I would share something with you that I learned about potatoes from MI Gardener ( I believe it was anyway ). There are two types of potatoes, determinate and indeterminate. What that means is that determinate potatoes only produce potatoes at one point on the plant and therefore do NOT need to be hilled. While indeterminate produce potatoes on multiple places on the roots and will produces more potatoes the more times you hill them. So you may want to research your potatoes to find out what types you have. I will look for the video and post a link in another comment for you. BTW I love your channel and you have inspired me to leave the burbs and return to the farm. I too suffer from anxiety and watching you guys along with Weed em and Reap and the Hollar Homestead plus many other help me to unwind after a long day at the hospital. Thank You so much.
You guys are an inspiration ... my son (30) and I are just about to put up our first greenhouse .... I intently watch you to see how hard is done easily ... 🐝
You know what would be funny Al. If the bear is near by watching you and saying... I'm going to unhook those terminal tonight and take all that honey. Heheheha. 😆
With Olivia, that’s typical of an intelligent child. Everything needs to be just right and true, otherwise, somebody’s prevaricating!!! Either tell the truth or don’t speak! Love it!!!
Wow..we here out in the country in good old Pa. Are so so excited how well.EVERYTHING is doing in your growing home stead... And you guys sure do spur us on..we are 64 and 68....and just love you guys....thanks for sharing you amazing journey with us...God bless...
Good Morning From The United Kingdom. My cat is called Pumpkin he is a rescue cat he is very affectionate and likes everybody he meets. Figaro is a awesome cat guys.
Al, set several buckets near the pile of dirt/mulch/compost/whatever, scoop with you tractor FEL and use it to fill the buckets. It takes just a few minutes to fill a pile of buckets this way. Lift the buckets into the mule for transport, carry the full bucket to the point of use and dump. Load the empties back into the mule for transport back to the pile and repeat. It seems like a time waster to shovel material into buckets from your FEL to carry them a few feet only to dump them out again. We moved 10 CU. YD. of "soil-less mix", via five gallon buckets in no time at all.
Amazing how tall those potato plants shot up. Adding dirt was great! I never did mine like this, as I covered mine the minute they came up, kept them hilled so no green showed. You are going to show me differently. I'm eager to see how well your method works. It's time for the blooms!
Figaro doing his inspections lol. I’m thinking you may want to extend that bee fence perimeter to 12 feet away from the hives. Any closer and the electromagnetic field could make them upset.
Al, you are so close to The Office trifecta of bears, beets, and Battlestar Galactica!! My family has been waiting for you to complete it ever since the bear showed up. Cheers from Germany!!
One of the best things about planting flowers in your veggie growing area is they look fantastic and attract bees and other pollinators and are beautiful also and provide cut flowers for the house..happy all around..js
Collect up your leaves (and your friend 's & neighbor's leaves) in the fall. Preferably keep them bagged so in the spring they are nice and dry. Feed them to a chipper/shredder and use them to mound your potatoes, mulch walking paths and as weed suppression under your squash. They are typically organic and weed free. We never have enough, and we live in the woods!
That's great to hear, I'm urban and have almost no grass, so I picked up everyone's bagged weeds last year and that's what I'm using. And I stored the bags in the garage all winter and parked outside!
add a PIR light near the hives, use the solar panel you bought to power it, if a bear comes by it will set off the light and spook it enough for it to run away... hopefully...
Good Monday mornin New Ham Shire .... at least you don't have to move the fencing for the beez every few days. Turkeys are outgrowing the chicken tractor .... might need a TT (turkey tractor) in the future. It did kinda dawn on me that those turkeys are prolly going to have the CT to themselves soon enough? Heh heh .... Nora doing what Nora does ... just another escape artist. I think she learned all that from the New Yolk City gang ~8^) It is always nice to have an outdoor kitchen of sorts to kkep the heat out of the house .... Love sweet potato fries and burgers. Have a great week AL, Gina & Olivia ... take care.
The garden in the greenhouse is looking amazing. So glad you put up a barrier around the honeybees. The temp today here in NY (The Bronx) high was 90 now at 83. It went from a mild winter straight to summer lol.
=D OH AL... Figaro is the Farm Foreman, everything must meet with his approval...LOL ; ) =) The greenhouse garden is looking wonderful. It's nice seeing Olivia's little garden growing
I use a 30 amp PWM solar charge controller, for my fence! You can set it to run the fence to evening hours, fence off during the day, while charging the battery.
Having worked for the forest service and having had bears destroy equipment more than once, I suggest setting the solar panel and charger inside the fenced area rather than outside it.
It is getting so busy here at our homestead. This morning we went and purchased 16 baby Pearl Guineas for us and 12 for our neighbors. A total of 29 Guineas are in my brooder. When I showed my neighbor our brooder, which is the 4X4 brooder that you built, he liked it so much and wanted to know if we could build him one. He is going to get the materials in the morning. Al, he really likes your brooder design.
Looking great. I agree with the other posters, if the panel doesn't have a mechanism to regulate the charge, the battery may not last as long as you would like. You might also consider putting some kind of non conducive insulation on top of the battery so it doesn't short out of the wind knocks it over. Awesome job though.
Yes, always have a charge controller this will save your battery for undercharging and overcharge and they are cheap. Also you can get two batteries to link in serries and this will help when you have poor weather days.
Good mauhnin Lumnah Acres! Yes, you may need to keep bears and deer away from the blueberries but also some bird netting over the tops birds love blueberries! Great video today, oh and I was wrong once again on the egg count lol! Take care Lumnahs!
Al you might also want to put a electrified fence around the high tunnel to keep the bears away! Hope the pigs, goats and bees will be safe. Be sure to carry pepper spray or other repellent when you're outside! You've worked to hard to make your beautiful homestead! God bless and stay safe and healthy.
Get a wood-chipper and make your own wood-chips for ground cover? I bet your forest gives enough fallen branches for this. Thanks for that gorgeous close-up of the bee on clover! I could watch that for hours.
Grass clippings. I use mine to hill things up and mulch. Works great! I guess you'd need a bagger for your tractor, tho. But it is a thought. Shalom and Blessings from Missouri!
Al, you need the specifications for the solar panel. Premier One talks vaguely panel. The closest panel (PRS 200 or 200X) presently on their website shows a 40 watt panel, but you need to know what voltage the panel generates. Some panels are 12v, some 18v, while others can be 24v or 60 volts. If you assume yours generates 12v, then the panel makes 3.3 amps. 3.3 amps shouldn't hurt your deep cycle battery, but you still need to monitor the water level. In any case, I'd still include a charge controller in the system. For the green house, look into the solar powered louvers. Installed in the end wall, they will cool the green house automatically.
Your greenhouse veggies look amazing. The bees are doing great. We had Italian and they were aggressive. I will have to remember the variety you mentioned. Everything on the acres look great! Thank you for sharing.
Good morning. Was all that clover there to start with or did you seed it? We started seeding clover in the bare patches of our yard. It smells so great after a rain. Have a great day everyone.
I really enjoy the channel! I was looking at your brook and swampy areas in your undeveloped pasture and had a thought: here in SouthEast Georgia when we have land that doesn’t drain, we dig a pond. The pond would allow the land to drain and the reclaimed soil could be used to fill in low areas. You could develop the brook to fill the pond (when it’s flowing) and it would also be an excellent way to store some of your snow melt.
I guess Im asking the wrong place but does anyone know of a tool to log back into an instagram account?? I was stupid forgot the account password. I love any help you can offer me
@Grayson Gabriel I really appreciate your reply. I found the site thru google and Im trying it out now. I see it takes a while so I will get back to you later with my results.
I think you should put it inside the electric fence, just where you can reach it to turn on and off, bear gets shocked it might get mad and tear the component apart seeing it's close by
I was looking at some of your older episodes recently and I see the progress looking and the logical upgrades and expansions I see you today putting up electric fences around your bees and I look into the future and I see AL in his office/Lumnah Control staring at several computer screens,clicking a remote moving the mouse and saying to Olivia how many eggs today? she says 25 and Al says sorry hun its 26 better take two egg buckets when you pick them up..Another click on the remote and up goes the side curtains on greenhouses 1 & 2 another click of the mouse and that's the pigs and all the hens fed ,next its the goats turn to be fed. Figaro have you checked all the trail cams this morning I know you're past doing the patrol yourself,better send Pluto to do a check on the goats. Hey Gina is that Bacon sandwich ready all this clicking is giving me an appetite I could use some breakfast? ...if it is just put it on the conveyor from the kitchen up to Lumnah control in the tower on top of the barn....I like it " Cheers from Canada,looking good Al
Glad you got the bee's protected now, hopefully that will keep the bear away. The vegies in the greenhouse are looking good. I can't wait to see the stuff grow in the other garden now. Y'all got gardens all over and that's a good thing. The animals are all loving happy and contented, another good thing.
I need a therapeutic cat like Figaro. We had a very nice calico once, but wife is on the fence about picking up after a new cat, vet care, and care when we travel. Although the goats are your mainstay, we love to observe the pig and chicken interactions with their keepers and protectors.
We had an old neighbor who kept bees, he'd hang bacon strips on the electric fence to teach the bears a lesson that kept them from coming back. I've been mixing leaves (last years) with dirt to hill my potatoes, it seems to be working.
Are those homemade frig pickles I spy? mmmm Bee's buzzing & all that beautiful clover makes happy honey dreams! Good on you for the electric fence Al 👍👍
you might consider placing the charging mechanics & solar panel inside the fence, keeps bears from knocking them over, lowers your risk of loss investment (leave the on/off voltage switch outside the fence please (LOL))
I got 13 eggs today. i have 17 hens, how many hens do you have? I have seen a vast improvement in my layers since fermenting the food i give them. i enjoy seeing the kids run around, now my wife wants some. thanks for sharing your videos.
I mentioned about grazor it is called grazon,it will also show up in your garden plant's,the plant look's good but then the leaves begin to show signs of stress.
UGG yeah we’ve had temperature in the 90s for the last two weeks before it finally rained and cool things off a little bit. Summer hits and it hit hard
my pigs are working the woodline transition between forest and field clearing the briars, I like it that the pigs get the shade, they still manage to sunburn, clearing the new pasture and they go in every night safely away from bears saves a lot on feed
You might be finding you are having hive drift. Both hive are facing the same direction and within 3 feet of each other. Bees sometimes will favour a strong hive and so workers from the weaker hive will move to the stronger hive. If you angle one of the hive so it faces a different direction you might be able to stop hive drift. Worth keeping an eye on bee numbers in each hive. Love the Chanel.
Make sure to check your plants for potato bugs, tomato horn worms, cabbage worms etc.. Also watch out for raccoons when your corn develops ears. They will ruin them. You need at least 4 rows of corn to cross pollinate.
Good morning al, have you ever given any thought to acquiring a gravity box now that you have more out building on your property for storage of a gravity box in order to buy feed in bulk from your local coop. No bags required and you can load bucket full at a time comming out of the gravity box. The feed is usally cheaper but its not pellitized.if you aquire a gravity box you can get a cover also for them which would stop Figaro from getting into the gravity box also or in thst case you could leave the gravity box outside. I mention this because you are getting more and more aminals on your farm and its a way to keep feed costs down.
I love the way Figaro checks everything out on the farm. Figaro is like the shop foreman of your homestead..........hahahaha
Love your goats and the pigs. Love the way the kids jump ad run! So fun to watch.
Good morning Lumnah family,and critters. Such a joy to watch all of your videos in the morning. It's been such an incredible journey watching you build your farm up. God bless y'all
Thanks for coming along on the journey with us!
Yes post the Bear Cub Link
Yes, you do need a charge controller since the voltage from the solar panel will vary and won't charge the battery correctly. Also, you might put the whole rig behind the wire to protect it from the bears as well.
Late night so I watched some of your old videos. Loved Flat Stanley. Then watched you thanking everyone when you got to 1,000 subscribers. Love memories but now is best.
I forgot about flat Stanley
Check out his video of , How to do a front end alignment on a car, It might be his first.
Never realized that clover had separate blooms that got pollinated. Never looked at them that close. Thanks for showing that. Love your videos and miss my morning visit to your homestead when you don't put one out. You have been a busy person with all you have built in such a short time. Thanks so much for the hard work getting these videos out. 😊
YES, chargecontroller is essential between solar panel and battery. You'll wreck the battery without it. (won't stop charging the battery without it).
I live in Iowa and it's been extremely warm for this time of year. Mid 90s with heat index of 100 plus. My garden and flowers are loving it as long as I water daily. I've gotten green onions- leaf lettuce- a few cherry tomato s. I started a strawberry patch with 9 plants 3 years ago. It's now 8 x 4 foot and producing berries. Asparagus is done and my first picking of green beans will be in the morning. I really enjoy watching all you are doing and growing. Thank you for teaching and sharing. Stay safe and God Bless!
Your high tunnel looks terrific -- the amount of growth in just a few days is remarkable.
We are planning to add a greenhouse to our property for 2021, so I am pleased to see yours in action.
We don't have issues with bears, but the main problem with our blueberries is the number or birds that devour them. We resorted to protecting the blueberries with PVC cages that are covered by netting. Best wishes from Kate in Olympia, WA -- 6/22/2020.
We have been very happy with how much it has helped our garden
Wood chips act as a great cover and retain a lot water. It also keeps the soil temperature hot in winter and cool in summer.
You changed my life. I could no longer garden where my daddy taught me to garden due to deer and woodchucks which were not around when I was a child--they arrived in the late 1990's. I live in northern WV just below the Mason-Dixon Line on 5 acres of an old farm which my parents bought in 1937. It is just off the main street through town, but is an oasis for me (and deer). After seeing your electric poultry netting, I got online to Premier 1 Supplies and ordered the deer fencing kit which includes 100' and the charger which will support 400'. I now have 21 beautiful tomatoes of several varieties, gorgeous cabbages, a nice bean row and okra planted. I plan to order another 100' and enlarge the garden area after a bit of brush cutting and tilling work. BTW--Gina, the birds will also go after your strawberries and blueberries--good luck.
I am most curious of how the electromagnetic field from the electric fence will/ may affect the bees. Loved your video - thank-you, for sharing your journey!
Oh how nice that garden looks. Hope that fence works to detour the bear. It definitely should. Love to watch the bee's work. Thanks for sharing.
I love the way hope bobs along when running 🏃😍😁
Al, I know when it is blazing hot, snow is the last thing on your mind. Keep it in mind when you choose a place to mount the solar panel. The sides of the greenhouse will need to be kept clear, out 4 or 5 feet, to accommodate what slides off the top and of course the panel has to be higher than your snow on the ground. Close to a path you normally have clear is good too, so you can easily get to the panel and clear any wet snow that has stuck on the face. You know what I'm talking about. Gina, love the dress. Cute!
I wonder if your bees would enjoy a special blend of flowers designed to bloom throughout the year. Prairie Nursery in Westfield Wisconsin has phenomenal seeds. several years ago I used in their monarch blend in Wisconsin and had amazing results.
I bet the bees would love something like that.
Figaro is the farm boss, he has to supervise all farm activities! Those taters are looking amazing! Blessings to all.
Hey Al, Wrap some bacon around one of the wires and when the bear goes for it ... zap! This will train them not to go near it just like the pigs with their fence. Sometimes if the bear doesn't touch the wire with its mouth or other sensitive skin area it will push right through the fence.
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I did a three sister's garden in large buckets. I made one for my mother, and one for myself. My mother is older so she has grown a garden in a plot for years. This year I did garden plants in planters for her. She loves it.
I am excited to see how your garden grows.
You need a charge controller or you will boil and overheat and over charge your battery :) we have a 2600 watt solar system to run a lot of the power for our house :)
Hi Al I just thought that I would share something with you that I learned about potatoes from MI Gardener ( I believe it was anyway ). There are two types of potatoes, determinate and indeterminate. What that means is that determinate potatoes only produce potatoes at one point on the plant and therefore do NOT need to be hilled. While indeterminate produce potatoes on multiple places on the roots and will produces more potatoes the more times you hill them. So you may want to research your potatoes to find out what types you have.
I will look for the video and post a link in another comment for you.
BTW I love your channel and you have inspired me to leave the burbs and return to the farm. I too suffer from anxiety and watching you guys along with Weed em and Reap and the Hollar Homestead plus many other help me to unwind after a long day at the hospital. Thank You so much.
It is so fun watching your plants grow. Getting in the dirt and seeing the plants shoot up.
You guys are an inspiration ... my son (30) and I are just about to put up our first greenhouse .... I intently watch you to see how hard is done easily ... 🐝
You know what would be funny Al. If the bear is near by watching you and saying... I'm going to unhook those terminal tonight and take all that honey. Heheheha. 😆
With Olivia, that’s typical of an intelligent child. Everything needs to be just right and true, otherwise, somebody’s prevaricating!!! Either tell the truth or don’t speak! Love it!!!
It’s not like they are lying , it’s a prediction and they can’t always get it right .
Wow..we here out in the country in good old Pa.
Are so so excited how well.EVERYTHING is doing in your growing home stead...
And you guys sure do spur us on..we are 64 and 68....and just love you guys....thanks for sharing you amazing journey with us...God bless...
Good Morning From The United Kingdom. My cat is called Pumpkin he is a rescue cat he is very affectionate and likes everybody he meets. Figaro is a awesome cat guys.
So glad you were able to protect your bees. The garden is flourishing you are certainly work hard on your garden.
Figero is the Quality Control Manager on the homestead.
Evening /Morning from New Zealand! ;) Congrats on your 202k subscribers!! Stay safe, thanks for todays video!!
Figaro the QC. Making sure everone has delicious snacks and water lol
96 degree most be like living in a desert for you guys, but for us in Florida is a typical day at the beach. LOL
That’s usually our summer time highs
I just read that this week, up north will be hotter than Florida, and my gardens have enjoyed the cooler days lately : )
Its 110 here today in central Florida its going to be like this all week fun times.
Al, set several buckets near the pile of dirt/mulch/compost/whatever, scoop with you tractor FEL and use it to fill the buckets. It takes just a few minutes to fill a pile of buckets this way. Lift the buckets into the mule for transport, carry the full bucket to the point of use and dump. Load the empties back into the mule for transport back to the pile and repeat. It seems like a time waster to shovel material into buckets from your FEL to carry them a few feet only to dump them out again. We moved 10 CU. YD. of "soil-less mix", via five gallon buckets in no time at all.
Amazing how tall those potato plants shot up. Adding dirt was great! I never did mine like this, as I covered mine the minute they came up, kept them hilled so no green showed. You are going to show me differently. I'm eager to see how well your method works. It's time for the blooms!
Meanwhile on the "Figaro Acres" channel...."Al acts like he owns this place, but he doesn't even test the goat's water. I suppose I'll have to do it"
i always enjoy your videos they are relaxing love the projects and seeing the farm grow you have an awesome blog cheers guys
LOL Why don't cats need Birthday presents? Because they already own everything.
Figaro doing his inspections lol. I’m thinking you may want to extend that bee fence perimeter to 12 feet away from the hives. Any closer and the electromagnetic field could make them upset.
Al, you are so close to The Office trifecta of bears, beets, and Battlestar Galactica!! My family has been waiting for you to complete it ever since the bear showed up. Cheers from Germany!!
One of the best things about planting flowers in your veggie growing area is they look fantastic and attract bees and other pollinators and are beautiful also and provide cut flowers for the house..happy all around..js
Collect up your leaves (and your friend 's & neighbor's leaves) in the fall. Preferably keep them bagged so in the spring they are nice and dry. Feed them to a chipper/shredder and use them to mound your potatoes, mulch walking paths and as weed suppression under your squash. They are typically organic and weed free. We never have enough, and we live in the woods!
That's great to hear, I'm urban and have almost no grass, so I picked up everyone's bagged weeds last year and that's what I'm using. And I stored the bags in the garage all winter and parked outside!
Thanx for the update on the bees protection! and, your greenhouse production is totally awesome! I'll enjoy seeing your future meal creations . . . :)
add a PIR light near the hives, use the solar panel you bought to power it, if a bear comes by it will set off the light and spook it enough for it to run away... hopefully...
KNIGHTS MEDIA CLUB that’s a good idea.
so pleased your bees are protected, your polly tunnel looks amazing well done to you all x
Good Monday mornin New Ham Shire .... at least you don't have to move the fencing for the beez every few days. Turkeys are outgrowing the chicken tractor .... might need a TT (turkey tractor) in the future. It did kinda dawn on me that those turkeys are prolly going to have the CT to themselves soon enough? Heh heh .... Nora doing what Nora does ... just another escape artist. I think she learned all that from the New Yolk City gang ~8^) It is always nice to have an outdoor kitchen of sorts to kkep the heat out of the house .... Love sweet potato fries and burgers. Have a great week AL, Gina & Olivia ... take care.
Good morning Lumnah family ☕️ Al, wishing you a belated Happy Fathers Day... heat and humidity here in Philadelphia, unBEARable... have a blessed day
The garden in the greenhouse is looking amazing. So glad you put up a barrier around the honeybees. The temp today here in NY (The Bronx) high was 90 now at 83. It went from a mild winter straight to summer lol.
Your farm is beautiful! Your hard work is paying off! So proud for you!
=D OH AL... Figaro is the Farm Foreman, everything must meet with his approval...LOL ; ) =)
The greenhouse garden is looking wonderful. It's nice seeing Olivia's little garden growing
Nice and awesome. Happy Father’s Day and God bless
Great video with lots of lovely outdoor activities. Glad you can protect your things from the bear. Your potatoes look great. 💖😺
I use a 30 amp PWM solar charge controller, for my fence! You can set it to run the fence to evening hours, fence off during the day, while charging the battery.
Having worked for the forest service and having had bears destroy equipment more than once, I suggest setting the solar panel and charger inside the fenced area rather than outside it.
It is getting so busy here at our homestead. This morning we went and purchased 16 baby Pearl Guineas for us and 12 for our neighbors. A total of 29 Guineas are in my brooder. When I showed my neighbor our brooder, which is the 4X4 brooder that you built, he liked it so much and wanted to know if we could build him one. He is going to get the materials in the morning. Al, he really likes your brooder design.
Looking great. I agree with the other posters, if the panel doesn't have a mechanism to regulate the charge, the battery may not last as long as you would like. You might also consider putting some kind of non conducive insulation on top of the battery so it doesn't short out of the wind knocks it over. Awesome job though.
Yes, always have a charge controller this will save your battery for undercharging and overcharge and they are cheap. Also you can get two batteries to link in serries and this will help when you have poor weather days.
Good mauhnin Lumnah Acres! Yes, you may need to keep bears and deer away from the blueberries but also some bird netting over the tops birds love blueberries! Great video today, oh and I was wrong once again on the egg count lol! Take care Lumnahs!
Al you might also want to put a electrified fence around the high tunnel to keep the bears away! Hope the pigs, goats and bees will be safe. Be sure to carry pepper spray or other repellent when you're outside! You've worked to hard to make your beautiful homestead!
God bless and stay safe and healthy.
Get a wood-chipper and make your own wood-chips for ground cover? I bet your forest gives enough fallen branches for this. Thanks for that gorgeous close-up of the bee on clover! I could watch that for hours.
Grass clippings. I use mine to hill things up and mulch. Works great! I guess you'd need a bagger for your tractor, tho. But it is a thought. Shalom and Blessings from Missouri!
Al, you need the specifications for the solar panel. Premier One talks vaguely panel.
The closest panel (PRS 200 or 200X) presently on their website shows a 40 watt panel, but you need to know what voltage the panel generates. Some panels are 12v, some 18v, while others can be 24v or 60 volts. If you assume yours generates 12v, then the panel makes 3.3 amps. 3.3 amps shouldn't hurt your deep cycle battery, but you still need to monitor the water level. In any case, I'd still include a charge controller in the system.
For the green house, look into the solar powered louvers. Installed in the end wall, they will cool the green house automatically.
Your greenhouse veggies look amazing. The bees are doing great. We had Italian and they were aggressive. I will have to remember the variety you mentioned. Everything on the acres look great! Thank you for sharing.
I love the song you play all the time , it makes me smile when I hear it.
I really enjoyed the shot of bees on clover . Reminded me of my childhood. I miss bees.
Love the new chicken tractor... good job!
Mow 1/2 of the clover pasture and then mow the other 1/2 when you have new flowers. This keeps the nectar/pollen going; depending on the weather.
i like seeing how much your homestead has grown since I've been watching
Good morning. Was all that clover there to start with or did you seed it? We started seeding clover in the bare patches of our yard. It smells so great after a rain. Have a great day everyone.
I really enjoy the channel! I was looking at your brook and swampy areas in your undeveloped pasture and had a thought: here in SouthEast Georgia when we have land that doesn’t drain, we dig a pond. The pond would allow the land to drain and the reclaimed soil could be used to fill in low areas. You could develop the brook to fill the pond (when it’s flowing) and it would also be an excellent way to store some of your snow melt.
You should put the battery inside the wire. If a bear messed with the battery and or any if the connections the fence will not be hot.
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I was stupid forgot the account password. I love any help you can offer me
@Rogelio Anakin instablaster ;)
@Grayson Gabriel I really appreciate your reply. I found the site thru google and Im trying it out now.
I see it takes a while so I will get back to you later with my results.
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Everything is looking so great! I like the Ruth Stout Method with potatoes because I'm lazy and dislike having to dig for them come harvest time.
Those goats are having the most beautiful and happy life. Everything is looking great!
I think Roots and Refuge uses hay. You might try that. Love your channel. I'm a 54 year old woman and you make me want to build things. Giggles!
I think you should put it inside the electric fence, just where you can reach it to turn on and off, bear gets shocked it might get mad and tear the component apart seeing it's close by
Good mornin' Lumnahs! So, that new chicken-tractor you made looked a whole lot easier to pull! 😃
It sure does move easily
I was looking at some of your older episodes recently and I see the progress looking and the logical upgrades and expansions I see you today putting up electric fences around your bees and I look into the future and I see AL in his office/Lumnah Control staring at several computer screens,clicking a remote moving the mouse and saying to Olivia how many eggs today? she says 25 and Al says sorry hun its 26 better take two egg buckets when you pick them up..Another click on the remote and up goes the side curtains on greenhouses 1 & 2 another click of the mouse and that's the pigs and all the hens fed ,next its the goats turn to be fed. Figaro have you checked all the trail cams this morning I know you're past doing the patrol yourself,better send Pluto to do a check on the goats.
Hey Gina is that Bacon sandwich ready all this clicking is giving me an appetite I could use some breakfast? ...if it is just put it on the conveyor from the kitchen up to Lumnah control in the tower on top of the barn....I like it "
Cheers from Canada,looking good Al
Good Morning Lumnah Acres,
Thank you for sharing your day.
Glad you got the bee's protected now, hopefully that will keep the bear away. The vegies in the greenhouse are looking good. I can't wait to see the stuff grow in the other garden now. Y'all got gardens all over and that's a good thing. The animals are all loving happy and contented, another good thing.
I need a therapeutic cat like Figaro. We had a very nice calico once, but wife is on the fence about picking up after a new cat, vet care, and care when we travel. Although the goats are your mainstay, we love to observe the pig and chicken interactions with their keepers and protectors.
Your garden is beautiful.
We had an old neighbor who kept bees, he'd hang bacon strips on the electric fence to teach the bears a lesson that kept them from coming back. I've been mixing leaves (last years) with dirt to hill my potatoes, it seems to be working.
Are those homemade frig pickles I spy? mmmm Bee's buzzing & all that beautiful clover makes happy honey dreams! Good on you for the electric fence Al 👍👍
Clover honey has GOT to be my favorite flavor. Hope y'all get a good harvest!
you might consider placing the charging mechanics & solar panel inside the fence, keeps bears from knocking them over, lowers your risk of loss investment (leave the on/off voltage switch outside the fence please (LOL))
Yes, it's high 30C+ here too warm for me..haha...Your greenhouse crop are certainly growing.
Awesome Exide battery. Husband has worked there over 25 years now.
wood chips or grass clippings are good to use as organic mulch, thanks for a great channel and all that i learn from you guys
I got 13 eggs today. i have 17 hens, how many hens do you have? I have seen a vast improvement in my layers since fermenting the food i give them. i enjoy seeing the kids run around, now my wife wants some. thanks for sharing your videos.
I mentioned about grazor it is called grazon,it will also show up in your garden plant's,the plant look's good but then the leaves begin to show signs of stress.
UGG yeah we’ve had temperature in the 90s for the last two weeks before it finally rained and cool things off a little bit. Summer hits and it hit hard
No mustard on your burger? Awwww... LOL! 👍😁
Everything is looking amazing. Please 🐝 careful. Hope you are safe and healthy.
my pigs are working the woodline transition between forest and field clearing the briars, I like it that the pigs get the shade, they still manage to sunburn, clearing the new pasture and they go in every night safely away from bears saves a lot on feed
that Bear will easily rip through that fence BIG TIME! And you will learn the hard way!
Good job in protecting your honey bees from the bear 😃👍 greenhouse looking amazing! 😊
You might be finding you are having hive drift. Both hive are facing the same direction and within 3 feet of each other. Bees sometimes will favour a strong hive and so workers from the weaker hive will move to the stronger hive. If you angle one of the hive so it faces a different direction you might be able to stop hive drift. Worth keeping an eye on bee numbers in each hive.
Love the Chanel.
Make sure to check your plants for potato bugs, tomato horn worms, cabbage worms etc.. Also watch out for raccoons when your corn develops ears. They will ruin them. You need at least 4 rows of corn to cross pollinate.
NEXT BUILD?
A garden tool shed beside the greenhouse
so you can reclaim the summer kitchen
just a thought
We have the next build planned. It’s something like that. Now we just need to wait for permits and all the other fun stuff. 😆
Good morning al, have you ever given any thought to acquiring a gravity box now that you have more out building on your property for storage of a gravity box in order to buy feed in bulk from your local coop. No bags required and you can load bucket full at a time comming out of the gravity box. The feed is usally cheaper but its not pellitized.if you aquire a gravity box you can get a cover also for them which would stop Figaro from getting into the gravity box also or in thst case you could leave the gravity box outside. I mention this because you are getting more and more aminals on your farm and its a way to keep feed costs down.