14 HOMESTEADING IDEAS YOU CAN DO NOW! WITHOUT LAND! (1/4 acre or less) - Garden / Self Sufficiency
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I'm moving to my new homestead ... starting from scratch. 12 acres.. mostly pasture and a 2 acre pond
Meme Zim
I look FORWARD to WATCHING YOUR FAMILY VLOG. To SUPPORT YOU.
HUGS LOVE PRAYERS FROM MICHIGAN
*Meme Zim ... Are you going to do videos on your progress❓.... I hope so, so we can all follow your achievements etc‼️*
Awesome! Congratulations on your 12 acres!!
Ohh a pond if i was lucky enough to have a pond you bet I get that jem stocked with some fish :)
@@evalinawarne1337 lol maybe... i have thought about it... just weird listening to myself talk
I live in an apartment, almost half our complex will be starting a garden this Spring. We have a great landlord. I've started a compost pile, which my neighbors fully support. This is my learning room while my husband and I save for a house with land
Hi Mary
You have to admit Art, you look and seem to have a pep in your step since you stopped staying up late. 👍
yes
I agree!
Tip number 15: start a small worm farm. It will improve the quality and production of all your garden.
This should be tip number 1. Our worm bins are priceless to us!
Yesddd anc worms ❤️😍
How do you start?
We had a 1/4 acre property we filled. Literally. Had food to share! And could have done more!!!
You people are doing it right. Raise your own kids, teach them to take care of themselves and others, explore the land with them. THANK YOU! The world needs more parents like you folks!!
Or... 15. Beekeeping. We do it on our deck.
It's a new style for Art and Bri channel, for new viewers.
Art and Bri,
I know you are dealing with mold in the house. Check out Barndomiums. Tear down that house completely. Build a huge kitchen, huge storage cellar, several bathrooms, rain storage, and etc. Your channel and market are huge and being the first and your situation they probably will give You a great deal. This also will add value to the homestead if You decide to upgrade.
Todd Jones you pay’n? 😂
Lots more donations needed for that, but it's a hell-of-an-idea.
Todd Jones did you win the lottery and have money to share 😆
They have been working on plans to rebuild, and landscape so it doesn't happen again, Todd Jones. But it takes forever to put things in action. And that was before the covid crap, shut downs, lumber shortage, so its all taking longer than it normally would have.
We are trying to build a barndominium but the contractors in NC consider that a custom home and quoted me 200 a sq ft. And that doesn’t include the land, water, road. We can’t afford it
Great video!! Here’s another idea: DEHYDRATE!! Get a (refurbished/if possible) Excalibar nine tray dehydrator. Buy fruit and veggies in season by the case from local farmers. For example, right now tomatoes are $25 - $40 a case. Slice them with an inexpensive mandolin from an Asian grocery store, or Amazon; just be sure to wear a mesh glove to protect your hand! Dehydrate all that wonderful, fresh, in-season produce and put it in Mason jars to eat for the next nine months. We like apples, strawberries, pineapple, bananas, kale, onions, tomatoes, herbs, and so much more! Store on shelves in your basement or pantry. We make Greek yogurt every week in our dehydrator, too!! A truly essential tool that has saved our family thousands of dollars over the last five years: paid for itself many times over.
This is definatly the BEST advice Video I have ever seen. It's quick and to the point, not a lot of extra talking, BUT tell's ya everything you need to know, Thank You !!
I agree! Enough information on each topic to know whether it is worth looking further into. Also, most where ideas that were easy to implement and easy to adjust for individual situations since they are long term
Hi jona
I'm with ya, but never go full Justin. Love you guys!
Love this guys 😁 well done. You have a lot of fans here in Australia xxx
Yes! We love them, fellow Aussie here, so thankful to find their channel 🇦🇺
And South Africa! 🇿🇦
Yep, aussie here 🇦🇺
Another Aussie here, love their channel 🇦🇺
So sweet that there is so much support outside the USA for this wonderful family and thier channel.
I'm a homesteader love it, hard but a healthy lifestyle 🐥🐓🦆🐈🌻🐛🦋☕😊❤
This is the best video for beginner learning......I love it.....Especially like you enthusiasm...not a beginner here, 78 yrs. old, and 94 degrees, but your enthusiasm makes me want to go out and tackle something!....Larry @ Scoot's Organic
Love this! This has been us for our last 9 yrs of marriage and now after years of moving and looking we are moving onto our first property 😍😍😊😊
Congratulations its our wanderful life! I hope all your dreams come true.
Beautiful farm land and Art’s great @ Teaching should have a classroom for young Farmers
Hello Mary
Micro hydroponics Really excited me, because we live in a townhouse without the ability to grow a regular garden. (The only thing we Can do is have a container garden!)
Wanna know something funny? I bought a small rosemary in a pot and set it up on the door step so it LOOKS ornamental but I use it in my cooking still!
My tip: Join a community garden in your area! You can practice growing crops for productivity, saving seeds, preserving, and learn from other gardeners. God bless!
Hello Sarah
Art I'm handicapped in a wheelchair but I live out on a farm 5 acres for small farm and I really want to pick up something I can do remind you I'm in a wheelchair but I really like the idea of fruit trees
A narrow raised bed. High enough for you to easily reach and narrow enough so things don't get lost out of reach - maybe access from both sides? Or even 5 gallon buckets!! The dwarf fruit trees would be great.You could likely hook up with a local 4-H or FFA to come out and help get you started.
If you have a deck you could maybe grow a dwarf fruit tree on the ground next to it. Also, blueberries and a lot of citruses have small varieties that can be grown in 5 gallon buckets
My grandfather gardened for many years in a wheelchair. Anything is possible.
Claire Campbell - Hey Blondie! Great ideas
Definatly can be done by keeping the trees trimmed short, for easy picking. Anything (including berries & bushes) can be grown in raised beds.
Anna is a girl after my own heart. Especially when working for the Rhodes, I know, have done it, going like a bat out of hell...lol...y'all are awesome.❤Kiss Mr. Moooo🍀🇮🇪
Hi Pamela
If you do write a book, make sure it has big pictures in living color. It would be a book worth keeping around the house.
You sold me on the Sweet Potatoes ! 🤓
Hello how are you doing my friend
Art
Your demeanor seems more lively since your not staying up late
You guys had a rocking garden this year
Hello Patty
This was a killer video - straight, to the point, great energy, professional, and encouraging...and most importantly there were no fillers - all of these are seriously such great ideas! I was looking for a video exactly like this - I want a large homestead but want to learn how to do everything first. Thank you so much!!!
Hello Trisha
Art...I do believe that the changes you made has benefited y’all!!! The last videos have been awesome and filled with great energy!!!
Hello Michelle
I have 8 dwarf fruit trees growing in a bed 12 metres by 1.5 and I have too much produce, so I sell what we don’t use. Cram them in! Also 8 chickens!
You've come a long way...but now picking the sweet fruits of that labor
My God I think I wrote almost every thing you said. Great information and loved today’s vlog. Thank you so much, I’m really learning from you guys
Hi 🙋♂️
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💙I have 3/4 acre and you guys have become my inspiration over the last few months. I have bought a greenhouse and started seedlings!
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Thanks! I have sweet potatoes growing now in the back yard. Did not know I could eat the greens!
Hello 👋
As I’m watching this, I’m thinking about the contact I made for raw milk. Drooling over the ideas of what I can make. My message alert goes off with “we’ve got milk”. I pick up a gallon this afternoon!!! I’m sure you get how excited I am right now.
Let the experiments begin! I hope you find a recipe that you like fast so you don't waste too much milk. We all have different tastes, so good luck.
ps I've tried a few for sour cream but don't like them. S, if you find a good one please pass it on. Oh and a good small curd creamy cottage cheese recipe would also be very welcomed.
All good ideas! I’m so grateful for the time we lived in the city and were able to learn how to cook Whole Foods, make butter and yogurt, can, compost, eat seasonally, waste less, etc. so many things you can do
This is great advice for growing food without a homestead.
Robbie Dearnley - SUNRILLOW HOMESTEAD -Northern New South Wales Australia
How true and how encouraging. I often feel overwhelmed learning and doing it all at the same time. Wish I had learn't more in our pre homestead days.
Sweet potato greens!?!?
Mind blown! 💨 And I am growing sweet potatoes! Lunch tomorrow! Thank you friends!
I love the energy in this video. Great job!
There is such a sense of true joy in these videos now 😊💜🎉🎉🎉
Hello how are you
I live in a mobile home park. I planted a herb garden and two raised gardens. Container tomatoes. Herbs: lemon balm, rosemary, parsley, basil and tyme. Oh and chives. Raised gardens, leaf lettuce, zucchini, squash, cucumbers, carrots, green onions and potatoes. I also had mint. I canned tomatoes and salsa. Froze the zucchini.
As the cool kids are saying these days this is "fire" content Art!!
Keep up the good work!! You either look well rested or put on a good front!!
*Have a good'nnn*
I love it when I learn something new when watching my homesteading channels! I learned that I can eat sweet potato leaves...
What’s so exciting about that is...I just planted my slips!!! I can’t wait to try them! Thanks so much Art!
I try to learn something new everyday. or share something that will help others.
I live in the city, very small yard, and have been growing veg and some basil in my front yard and side yard flower beds for several years (with a few flowers interspersed.) Two years ago I decided I need perennial food options. I already had chives and thyme, so I added blackberry vines in the backs of my "flower beds" and a raspberry bush in my side bed. I'm also trying asparagus but it's a pretty small area, and not sure how it will turn out. Anyway, these are really great ideas I'll have to think about.
This is literally my dream for as long as I can remember.
As a kid I'd always find a way to twist our games for me to have a little farm.
Yay!!!!!!!!! GOOD GOING GUYS!
Hello 👋
Love this. Such a neat format!
Hello Deb
Since we live in the desert food is scarce for animals. The rabbits eat anything that is in reach. The rats and mice eat any young plants as well. In or out of the garden. Wood and plastic don't last long in the super dry heat. We try like crazy, but reap little. But I love gardening, so I keep on keeping on! Thanks for sharing your journey!
You guys have seriously stepped up your blog game! It looks so good, thank you as always for sharing your story!!
I love you guys. It's been a fun four years and cheers for many more. I am excited about the mushrooms!! Pro Tip to other viewers: When I have too many to eat on time, I avoid letting them get slimy, and let them dry then keep them in a jar. They last a very long time when dry, and you can rehydrate them in water overnight, crumble them and add them to anything for texture, flavor, and health, or marinate them and keep them in the fridge. I have a jar of trumpet mushrooms, shiitake, and a blend of miscellaneous from here and there. When they are dry, I include them in salads by hydrating them in the dressing.
Hello Dawn
Wow, that was great Art. Excellent video. Up beat and encouraging. 💖👍
Hello Janet
We live in town on a small lot but have made the best use we can of the back yard. We have raspberries, blueberries, rhubarb, one fig tree, two espalier apple trees, two pear trees (one espalier, one kept pruned small), grapes, five 4x8 raised veg boxes (great for less bending to plant and harvest) and nine half wine barrels for herbs, strawberries and greens. This gives us produce for fresh eating and to share with neighbors. Bulk produce for canning and freezing is purchased from local farms eliminating the middle man profits. I planted a small bush variety of blueberry near the sidewalk in front between two flowering bushes and the neighbors and kids know they are welcome to stop and pick a handful to snack on). HOA states no veg gardening in front but this seems to be ok. This is not to brag but to encourage others to plant even if it’s a few pots on a balcony. Grocery store tomatoes don’t even come close to a sun warmed just picked tomato. Thank you Art and Bri for this encouraging vlog showing others what can be done even with little space.
Hi Tricia
@@christiandavidsonlamore6301 hello, do I know you?
@@tbrown2302 hope you are safe from the virus?
Wow! You're enthusiasm is contagious art. All of these suggestions are fantastic!
Hello 👋
WOW! Impressive amount of information. I used to buy raw milk, loved it, then it became illegal to buy/sell it in Oregon. I will need to see if that has changed. My neighbor has 2 blueberry plants that produced gallons of fruit (freeze, fresh, jam, cobbler, canned pie filling, and still more) 😃
Thank you for a wonderful video!
I heard if you "buy a part" of the cow then you can get the milk from "your" cow that someone else keeps and milks for you.
@@rosejafari8917 cool! Thanks for sharing this.
Phenomenal amount of great material here. Covering value added services is essential to overcoming lack of space.
And thank you for being such a bright light for the rest of us ☺💝
Caution when it comes to foraging, some plants are on the state protected list so be careful. I know in my home state when my mom was alive, her garden club had given a talk all about the protected wildflowers. So please do that research first. Love the tiny grow light! That is on my list for my next paycheck. Thank you.
I live in a subdivision on 1/3rd acre property. So realistically, about 1/6th's an acre of land I can plant on (because front yards have to be mostly grass. Ugh.). I still managed to plant 10 semi-dwarf fruit trees (5 types) in the back corners. And I'm planting 7-10 types (roughly 21-40 bushes) of berry bushes in mulch beds elsewhere in the yard. With plans for raised beds for gardening once we get our deck put in. And that'll still give us space to walk around on green grass in a tidy, well kept, HOA approved yard.
It takes some effort and planning. And sometimes creative language such as "dwarf ornamental trees" is needed to avoid questions from snooty HOAs. But it's possible to have a nicely productive yard full of fruits, vegetables, and flowers in a small subdivision lot. Not to mention the year round colors and interests that plain grass lawns down provide.
We grow a lot of food in containers though we have a big backyard it's easy for us to walk outside of our back porch and pick herbs onions tomatoes cucumber zucchini corn lettuce greens green beans squash peppers strawberries potatoes yams and more It doesn't have to take a whole lot of space to grow food.
Hi Susan
Wow! Five star vlog rating today. Brilliant!!!!!!!
Hello Susan
I was surprised at how good a lot of these suggestions were. Sneaking plants in here and there into a tiny front yard is actually a suggestion I had no seen anywhere else.
Great video! So nice to listen to such positivity especially this year
Loved this video! People need to hear this! You do look more energized with your new sleep changes/resolution!
Every one of those tips are so Do-able. Thanks for making it seem possible.
Hi Terri
I currently buy half a gallon a week from a local farmer so I get a chance to really know my usage and learning things like cheese and yogurt making. I always said when I was a kid that i wanted a milk cow but that’s a loooooot if milk haha
What a great video!! Love the way you did the editing and all the great info!!
Hi peg
Four upright freezers. Have you looked into the economics of adding a walk-in to your house rebuild? With two more mouths to feed and your older ones in their teens you're going to need even more food in the next few years.
Who would give a thumbs-down to this video??? Awesome video!
!!!!!!!!!! Great information thank you for the time that you spent doing this!!
I'm in the city and I have a tiny backyard. But I did put the wood chips in the garden area a few years ago so the soil should be really rich underneath it now!!
GREAT INFO!!! Thanks!
Hi Tina
Excellent advice, excellent video despite having to film while dodging the raindrops!
Hello Elizabeth
In Bulgarian nettle is called kopriva(коприва) it's rich on iron. You can make tea with it, rice(I prefer rice with veggies, meat and nettle), soup and a good fertilizer.
Good to see you trying a different style. I hope you pick up some lucky new subscribers who can benefit from your knowledge and enjoy the family vibe.
Beautiful farm! Great video.
Hi Mona
What a brilliant vlog so many ideas ,I won't ever be able to have a homestead but I can implement some of these ideas ty xxx
Hello Marie
one of the best videos listing the ways to begin to homestead on small footprint. And yes....Art you seem happier and peppier these days. Love and blessings to you all, BrendaLou from Deerwood Farms in rural Jordan, MN
Hello Brenda
Hope you are safe from the virus?
@@christiandavidsonlamore6301 vacinated here
@@brendalouquilts that’s good , where are you texting from?
I've been trying to do some things. But I am limited with storage space... there's no way I could get a cheese press setup in my tiny 1 bedroom duplex I'm renting.
But, I got a garden going in the yard! And have started fermenting. though I'm running out of space to ferment!
Hi Esther
the mushroom bag idea is really imteresting! that's so efficient
Art and Bri, have you considered growing zipper peas? They are my favorite! I live in FL and my uncle grew them back in the day. When my mom and I moved to Morganton, NC, she planted them in our garden and they exploded! She could grow anything, except when the peach trees got infested with something that rotted them from the inside out. May God continue to bless you and keep you.
A good cover crop as well.
Hi Lori
I loved this! Thanks so much!!
Hello how are you
We have 3 acres, but I'm hoping to MAXIMIZE as much as I can. Love some of your ideas. Your tomato trellises have inspired some ideas for me on bean trellises, too! We get CRAZY wind here. Sometimes we get gusts over 60mph. Store-bought tomato and bean trellises are just worthless. I made tomato trellises by cutting cattle panels in half and then arching them into a semicircle. With this aerodynamic shape I've lost ZERO tomato plants to the wind this year. They've had record production! You could barely see the leaves on my lucky tiger cherry tomatoes because they were covered in so many tomatoes.
But the semicircle shape DOES NOT work for beans. 😂
Excellent video.. your enthusiasm is fantastic and encouraging! Also, save tree leaves in the fall and put them in a compost pile or a corner of your garden. They will break down into wonderful compost.
They will break down faster if put in large garbage bags, watered well, pour in a beer & a can of regular coke too. Add a few small breather holes and watch the magic.
Awesome video!!
It gives people some hope that they can do it on a smaller piece of land:)
Great video! We just bought 24 acres last year and we are doing most of what you recommended.
Hi how are you doing my friend
Wow, Art & Bri, I believe this is your best video yet! Such positivity! Bravo
I had no idea you are so tall! I’m looking forward to seeing your new finished home ! 🙏🏻💗🙏🏻
Hello Debbie
We're with you on this one! We only have an acre but on it we have a nice size enclosed garden space and dairy goats. Chickens coming in the fall. We're hoping to have pigs next year and expand the garden out as well as adding an orchard.
I’m growing in bucket n window sill n tables because desert mountain rock have few cacti I can forage in emergency not something want to eat everyday temporary home til hubby retires ….I do dry can - saving for pressure canner …. Thank you for sharing the knowledge do love learning different things for future…God bless ❤🙏🙏🙏🙏
I grow a lot on my window sills!
Next move is out of my condo onto a couple of acres. I love watching your videos for the great tips and insights
Great job on this TH-cam guys!! Lots of great simple ideas anyone can use
Hi Elaine
You sure have a wonderful enthusiasm today. It’s great. Thank you for today.
Hello Teresa
Excellent video, rich with valuable information. Thank you!
Thanks Art and Bri!
What an encouraging video. Lots of great ideas for folks to try out.
Wow Art, I've never seen you so animated and full of vigour! Whatever you're doing is working Mate lol Keep it up!
Loved the video. We live in the city with 1/10th of an acre. Some great ideas. Maybe you could make 15 videos and elaborate on each idea in this one.
Love your enthusiasm!!.
Great to see a new kind of vlog style. It's such a joy to see this family. Blessing s
These are all fantastic ideas
I just found ripe Natal plums at my kids' school. I'm going to plant some! I hope that I can shape them into tall hedges that will shade my chickens! (Summers here are awful!) And we know that most of the plant is toxic, my chickens are on one side of a block fence, and the plums will be planted on the other side.
Love your farm and sweet family. Thank you for all you do.
Hi how are you doing ?
Art and Bri! Loved this video! ❤