We Are Just Absolutely Tickled
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 ม.ค. 2020
- Life on our new homestead just keeps getting better and better.
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Intro: Let Me Love You by Loving Caliber
40 Love by Ooyy
Ganja by Oozy
Get To Know You by Cody Francis
Metallic by Luftmensch
Wicked One by Velvet Moon
Let Us Go Back by Tomas Skyldeberg
Like Stone by Daniel Gunnarsson
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Hey Ben. Try building Bat boxes and scattering them everywhere. They love the mosquitoes. If you build it, they will come.
If I was going to pick a team I would pick Ben everyday of the week and twice on Sunday, he is so great!!! Not afraid of hard work and has a vision for his family!!! Just a great husband and father, the world needs more like him!!! TY BTW those are BIG chickens!!!
Great video as usual! Please continue to be proactive with awareness of ticks and Lyme Disease 💚💚💚
plus about 6 other diseases
The 12 seasons of NC.
Winter
Fool's spring (we are here)
second winter
spring of deception
third winter,
the pollinating,
mud season,
actual spring,
summer,
hell's front porch,
false fall,
second summer,
actual fall
Lol. Yep. I live in eastern NC and we always say if its cold wait 5 minutes and itll be hot. In a day you can experience all 4 seasons😌
You have the happiest animals! It makes my heart happy to see how much joy you both get in making their lives good and productive.
Oh yeah, when we moved to NC and got property with woods and a little stream we were so excited. Hubby would say, let's go walk in our woods!
Like you have your own little state park :)
Julie Riddell yes!! That’s how our property is except without the stream. I bet that would make it extra magical
@@WMHhomestead Yes! I am so excited for Meg and Ben and they are so entertaining to watch :) They are going to make that property just beautiful.
Ben I to is a recovering alcoholic, sober several years,.. isn't this life so much better, wish I had learned it as early as you.. your doing a good job so in the morning while your drinking your coffee you just think I own a farm... God is good.. beautiful family
I LOVE the sound of rain on an umbrella or roof. Very calming
Are you considering guinea hens for the tick problem?
Also look into swallow houses to attract the birds, they eat millions of flying bugs!
Katjo Daniels I LOVE our swallows! Those are my favorite birds! They’re like jets doing aeronautical stunts! Love em!
I love your spirit! Your family is wonderful and the fact that you all work together is inspiring! I live in north central Washington State in a small town. We live in the county but only a few minutes from town, very rural. We've raised chicken and had a garden.
My daughter moved to a big city and bought a house in town. I promised to move to wherever she moved. (I thought she was going to get a place outside of town.) I'm sad because i don't want to live in the city but i love my grandchildren and children too much and will not break my promise. I love your vlogs and will continue to live vicariously through you! I am going to get them all gardening and, who knows, they could have chickens in their future! Love you and always wish you the best! God bless!❤
When I was stationed in Hawaii we used Coke to get the red clay out our uniforms. Just pour a can or two in with you wash and wash as normal.
Tip about red clay soil and jeans... buy jeans/pants the same color as the clay so you do not see the stains.
Lol, good idea
Or just have work pants and non-work pants and don't worry about the stains ... As long as they start out clean right? ;-)
Lol
Or, you can start doing clay dyed clothing for some of your marketing ;) I recall a Dirty Jobs episode with Mike Rowe where he went to a place that markets t-shirts dyed with red clay dirt, in Hawaii, I think.
@@peterellis5626 Interesting idea.
You have such a hard working husband Meg !
I live in SC. Use hydrogen peroxide to remove the red clay stains. I have to do this all the time. It also removes blood too. 😁
In the future sometime, you should consider digging out your swamp and put in a fish pond, that way you can supplement your diet with fish as well as have water perhaps year round for irrigation if needed.
Great idea!
Exactly what I was thinking. Make good use of those artesian springs and clay soil.
William Moore what a clever idea!
I agree!!!!
I was thinking of some kind of pond. Even just a wading pool for the boys. You'll love it in the summer.
The chickens are really enjoying the green grass and moved so easy. And the piglets are growing like weeds. You all are doing great. God Bless Y'all.
My chickens seem to prefer the feed to the grass.
Crazy how well the pigs have cleared! Almost makes me want to get some for clearing.
Love to see the progress... pigs and chickens are such hard workers! Your posts are such motivation for me to keep moving forward... ! Thanks!
Your farm looks great. I love your forest, especially because you can walk through it now!
If you dont get that freeze you might want to consider a few guineas for spring hatching.
Got to love them happy chickens
Have you met the neighbors in the house on the hill? I think of that every time I see it in the distance.🙂
I love to hear the cold comments concerning mosquitoes. I spent several years in Alaska, my coldest winter was -55°f. The following spring I learned why they call the mosquito the Alaska state bird. I hope you get some dry weather even though you have an awesome crop of mud.
Video worked fine for me. Amazing how them pigs stick their noses in stuff and it vanishes, that's gonna be green grass in the spring. Cool, just cool huh ? Yup ! Cool !!
I’m getting the “something went wrong’ message.
It seems to be working for some, but not for others. YT might not be done processing it on their end. Maybe try back in a bit!
Worked straight through for me, New Mexico, USA. CenturyLink IP.
Something went wrong message for me too (uk)
Same... South Carolina, USA
I got the message too.. Texas
The humor of two people telling one story. There's always a dominant one.
Watching the beginning of this video I had to go back and look for a video from last year. Compared to past year you guys now have a sparkle in your eyes and even with a lot of work you guys do you seem to have just blossomed.
OMGosh the pigs (and bacon bits) did a beautiful job!! And your joy? Such a ray of sunshine!
Can't help but wonder if the junk was the guys way of dealing with mud and swampiness...just smh at the guy.
So cool to see you using and prepping your land
You're finding out how smart pigs are. The chickens are beautiful. So happy about your huge garden to be.
By next winter, your homestead will look different. Maybe even a house to live in too. Thank You for your video. I look forward to your next video. Like your expression of life in this video. Entertaining. Informative. Believable.
Hi..... Ben and Meg (The Hollar Homestead) nice to see you both are doing a hard work and a good job, thank you for sharing your video homestead chicken farmer garden 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 🐔🐓🐥👕🐖🌱🎥👍👍👍
“Iron Out” is what we used to remove red mud stains from baseball uniforms. Works like a charm
I used "Iron Out" on my whites about once a month when I had really hard water. Not sure you can use it on colors though. It's pretty bad smelling, got my whites a lot cleaner though.
Those grins! Your checks must be sore! This spring garden will be huge!
Get a few guineas, good watchdogs, a little loud, but they LOVE ticks! Great job on the herding, y'all! 👍🏻❤️📹
I love watching you 2 herd pigs and chickens!!! There is just something really neat about seeing how the pigs and chickens both clear the land!!!
The fence makes moving animals easy . Good work
Some locations soak T-shirts in that clay and sell them as specialty items. So claim it as a Hollar thing🤓👍.Embrace the water? Yes! Embrace the red mud too!
That type of fencing that you use makes life so easy for you to care for the animals.
I'm also tickled to few the woods being exposed! I would love to see some drone shots of how it is evolving.
Dawn and cascade dish powder mix in to loose paste will get anything out of Jean's. I took axel grease out of the butt of my Jean's. I was dumb and sat on fuel tank to polish chrome stacks.
Anytime we have ever bought property, we always visit it after an extensive rain . If it happens to be raining when we are walking the property even better. That way you get an idea of water flow and potential flooding issues. But, welcome to the rain of NC. Every year, like clockwork. Muddy boots are the norm for working outside in the winter.
I so look forward to your videos. I check every day. They are encouraging me as we (my daughter and spouse and two little boys and me) clean up our property as well. I closed on 18 acres the same day you closed on your property. Yours was recorded before mine. The clean up has been similar. Can't believe people live like this! We had 5 sleeping cabins to clean out , a kitchen building, and a fifth wheel. 14 buildings in all. Carpets have been ripped out of all the cabins and fifth wheel, and absolutely filthy furniture, and gross mattresses and bedding. The previous owners were substance growers and had two mastiffs that had been kept in all the buildings and one nice shed we will use as a chicken house. All the couches were actually black and greasy from the dogs. The smell was unbelievable. There was resin and wires to dry their product strung in many of the buildings and a thriving (and probably high) mouse population in all buildings. I am still living on my ranch (minimum of 6 hours away-usually longer pulling the trailer). I have brought all the mattresses, furniture and garbage back and burned it. Then I haul the springs and leftover metal to the metal recycle. We have bleached all the buildings and painted them. Then we had the ceilings insulated and tongue and groove pine put on the ceilings. My daughter laid vinyl plank flooring in all the cabins. It looks so good! Did the ceilings in the kitchen building and bathhouse also. My daughter and family are living there this winter with no heat (we are solar so far). Thank goodness for the fire ring. They have a fire every day unless it is pouring rain. They are basically living outside and the 4 and 7 year old love it. I come and go. We've added a couple of solar panels to the existing array and a generator to run the lights, washer and fridge. Sun is only on the panels a few hours each day on these shortest days. This was built as a summer camp. This last trip I got two dogs relocated and a pen built. We have it set up for them to sleep in an old cabover camper (that was filled with garbage that had to be disposed of). We moved over Christmas break about 25 large olive trees (dug from my ranch by my daughter who really good with a backhoe). The clay on the root balls had to be hacked and washed off. An awful job. They are now all planted ten feet back from the fence on the new property. Looks wonderful. Also planted English Laurel along the actual fence and amaryllis belladonna between the road and the fence. Slowly but surely. Again your videos are so encouraging. I plan on spending more time there this summer if I can get more of the animals moved. It is so hot here where I live in California and so much cooler at the new place.
Happy for you guys ! Lovin the pigs ! A tip for others out there, I thought of when you gave us your reassurances on your fence/water stuff. When fencing across a stream, for permanent fence but maybe a way to rig up between 2 stakes, to go with the electric systems, is to use plastic barrels suspended on their sides, to float up & down with the water level, blocking livestock from going under the bottom wire of a fence spanning the stream ( crick ;) . I ADORED this idea, when I saw it in the ( innovation & DIY applauding, ) publication "Farm show" .
You have a farm wardrobe and a town wardrobe. The farm wardrobe is your go to everyday clothing. Make peace with mud stains.
Glad to see Ben actually collects the electric fence the way it’s supposed to. Makes life easier.
I’m always happy to see pigs. That’s why I watch TH-cam. Don’t forget to give them belly rubs. It tenderizes the meat “on the hoof”
I'm vicariously enjoying your happy critters. Also your rain and mud - I'm up to my hips in snow right now, and I hear there's more to come. I miss my chickens, but I sure don't miss shovelling out to their house every day (sometimes twice) all winter! Their house seems a lot further away once the snow starts to add up! I'll see if I can design a better system involving the garage, which is only 3 covered steps from my door. Then I can get chicks this spring - yay!
So, I live in Brazil, here we don't have electric fences like Premier1's.
I tried to find and nothing, tried to import and zero response from Premier1. now trying to import from Germany. I see the possibility of a new business there. All My love from Brazil
What firm are you using in Germany?
Sandra Johnson still searching and negotiating. Do you know any?
I can't remember which video I watched but Premier one gets there wire from Germany
We just pulled a tick off of a cat - in January in Wisconsin!!! It is going to be a bad year for ticks! You should get a flock of guinnea hens! They just free range around your property and roost up in the trees at night. They do an amazing job keeping the ticks under control AND they will alert you when a predator is nearby!! (We have no ticks on our property - the cat who came home with a tick likes to go hunt in the woods across the road where the guinnea hens dont visit!) Love to watch you guys work your land!!
I'm really impressed with the electric fence for the pigs....and crickets & mosquitoes ~chuckles~ welcome to a NC winter!
When we first got our land we was playing near the ga red mud small pond,my boot got stuck. I sunk to the top of my boot was my husband had to come pull me out. When it dried up we got my boots out left two big wholes. What we need is more grass every where we r more mud. But by the grace of God we will be able to get sees for grass soon and have more time to spend on farm. I am working now from 7:30am to past 6pm,6 days a week. God will provide
The day you clear the last section to move the pigs is going to be a happy dance kind of day. Looking forward to it. YAY FOR ALL THE CHICKENS AND ALL THE PIGS!!! \🤩/
Hi from Scotland I can't believe how far you have come since settling on you new home stead the weather here in Scotland us crazy as well lots of heavy rain and high winds where I live we don't have any snow yet and even on the high ground there's not much the weather is strange all over the world I can't wait till you get your garden started and grow all your own veg I grow all my own and it is so different to shop bought veg I wish you and your lovely family all the very best I watch all your vidios but don't always comment stay safe take care Anne Scott from Scotland
Hubby is a blessing ..
Yay! Good piggies! So glad they are working hard for you :)
Your 🐖's n 🐔 are doing a amazing job on the ground. Critters do your thing. May your gardens be bountiful.
Sweet! Thanks for clearing up about the premier one fence in water. It sure seems to be a blessing for anyone who wants to move livestock!
love seeing yall's enthusiasm over things. So good to see ya'll settling in.
Thank you for taking good care of your livestock.🙏🏻❤️
Talking about being in the observation stage...we have been homesteading for 3 years and I am still observing and changing systems. I hope eventually I find the things that work best for me, but if not, here’s to continuous growth 💜 you guys are some of my faves
Always excited to see what you two are doing on the homestead! ♥️
Ben here is an Idea: Buy a set of rear tires for the mower place some bolts through the tread of the tires making them into snow tires this will help you get around the yard
The water is a true blessing !!!!
Love your comment to the chickens. Almost like to think they are listening to you. Nope just got lucky. Great work with pigs and piglets. Love watching the little one bounce around.
This was absolutely the most beautiful video I’ve seen this week! Meg , you made everything look beautiful as if I were right there in the woods! Thanks for the information on the fence because we are looking into getting one like that. Wish I was your age again! I can almost picture what spring will be like there. You will be at 100 subscribers before you know it ! ❤️
Love the little fat piglets and the chickens. They need a video with just them oinking and squaoking are moving around. Love happy fat animals. The chickens look like pillows with legs.❤❤❤ You guys will have a great year this year, you two seem to be thriving and the kids as well( we dont seem them that much but its understandable since they oryou might not feel like putting them too much in front). I am sure by the end of 2020 you will be in the house and enjoying it, Meg will have her workshop in the old house and in the future many more cute animals. Cannot wait to see you garden this year
Y'all's excitement is so heartwarming. Just be glad all this rain isn't snow.
Beautiful people always love the woods! Seeing what nature gives us is amazing. I love my woods and what secrets I find through the seasons.
Looking good I cant wait to see your garden.
I’m glad you explained about the electrical fence, I wondered about it too. Your baby pigs are so adorable!! ♥️
You Both are great Love your humor. The new Farm is going to become amazing. Oh WoW..I see the vision. Can’t wait until late summer. To see how it all will look. Awesome! Great job guys. Bless you All! 💛
Drought-stricken California has been getting a TON of rain this winter. I'm loving the pigs and how they are working and cleaning things up for you.
I really love your springs, I hope to see what you will do with them in the future!
loved the intro - so beautiful!
Yeah!! I got to see the whole video! Love it! Thanks for sharing.
Good job Ben and Meg! happy pigs and chickens
And we are tickled for you and your woods! :)
Very nice update. I like these kind of updates. You are well on your way to revitalizing the land.
It is so nice to see you both laughing and being silly. Your break gave you your joy back!! 🤗
Yes! Can't wait for growing season 😁
I'm so glad to see your videos. I enjoy watching your world sssssooooo much.
Luv seeing your happy faces and your progress.
SUCH WHOLESOMENESS I LOVE YALL !! but seriously, since watching y’all buying your property up to now it’s just so inspiring like mY HEART IS SO HAPPY FOR YALL LOL
For the red clay when new: Rub a wet bar of fels naptha on the spot to create a lather on the area and throw in the wash!!
I love the little snippets of flowers and moss 💕
Awesomeness !!! The chickens and piggies are happy happy happy !!! Y’all are good chicken and piggie peoples ! Love how content they are ! ❤️ And I cant wait to see that garden ! Wooohooo!
Bat boxes are an amazing idea. Be creative in outer design. They create beauty as well as beneficial for nature and you🌻
Video has worked for me. Love watching you guys. Keep on doing what you do!
Ben For the chicken coup mount a hand bar on the lower part on one end and a set of wheels on the other end that can be retractable when it is sitting on the ground making the chicken coup easier to transport by one person .
Thank y’all for sharing your beautiful homesteading!
Just so neat, you all. Love watching the build. Like the helpful comments too. Yeah, NC red clay.
Hi everyone at Hollar homestead. I just wanted to say that in the seven months (I think it is seven months), that you have been on this homestead you guys have done wonders, that land looks so much different from when you moved in. Kudo's to you all. You both have done so much and the children, bless them. Love the little pigs they are cute. We too are having strange weather here in the UK for this time of year. As you both say it is what it is. Have a great day .
Great job done by Pigs, Chickens and you all 😊. Always great to see happy Animals and People. Always Love to see the progress being made. Always nice to see your smiling faces also. At least the Wind isn't blowing at 20-25 mph and 34° feeling like 25° with Snow and Ice. Heading to you like here in Potomac Highlands of WV. God Bless and Peace Be With You All ☮️ 🙏❣️
I don't know which is more fun to watch your boys enjoying the land or you two enjoying it lol its cool to watch
We have a friend that make little green houses to grow vegetables for a longer period of time. He makes them out if plastic and wire. Wire is bent into a half circle. Then he adds the plastic over the top. Am amazed at how long it extends the growing season.
Your pigs and chickens are looking great and so healthy. Love your natural water sources. You are so lucky to have those. Lovely video. You are rocking your homestead :-)
Feeling tickled FOR you. :) Greetings from California where we are living vicariously through you when it comes to farm animals! We do garden and enjoy growing a variety of veggies.
Thanks for sharing you guys are awesome. Love watching and seeing all the work you have done.
Aww that baby pig loves a scratch xxx Love the chickens too xx
I know what you mean about the joy of having woods of your own. We’re on a little island in the Pacific Northwest, and although there are trees and woods all around us, the patch of firs, maples, cedars and ferns and old stumps on our lot are my treasure! Only God can make a tree 🌳
I JUST LOVE YOUR EXCITEMENTIT IS SUCH A BLESSING.
Loved the visuals at the beginning of the video of the mushroom and plants. I guess that's what you call it.