Hi RuthAnn! I have been binge watching your channel on my tv. I just logged in on my phone and subscribed to your wonderful channel! I thoroughly enjoy watching everything you put up on here. You are such an inspiration to me. I’d love to have the ethics and values you’re bringing to this world through your hard work and teachings. Please never stop. Your family is beautiful and I love how you’ve taught them that hard work produces such beneficial results. My boys are 24, 21, and 11. I feel like I’ve failed my kids because I raised them in this modern world and didn’t prepare them for the REAL world. May God forgive me for my ignorance and complacency. But I want to start to do better by all of them and I’ve been trying to follow along with you and other homesteaders to learn skills for myself and my family. Moral of the story I am just very inspired by you and how you’re a keeper of the old ways of our precious ancestors. My paternal grandmother was from an old order Mennonite background. I learned a lot as a child from her. I see her ways in so much of your channel. It reconnects me to my childhood and how I worked and helped her. Sadly it didn’t translate into my parents home and skipped to present day. I want to learn to make cheeses and breads and to refresh my memories of gardening with grandma. I remember so much as I watch your channel. It’s like a light comes on and I’m back there beside her learning from and helping her again. Those were my most treasured memories on this earth the ones with her. She was my best friend and my mentor and my rock as a child. Sorry to ramble you just take me back. Anyway, God Bless you and your precious family and I am praying for your family and homestead to be protected and for you all to flourish in Jesus name AMEN! I am Leslie McDonald and I am down in Florence Alabama. My love to you and yours! ❤️🙏🏼
Hi RuthAnn I was so happy to meet the family that were staying with you. I don't know much about India and did not know that there are people of Jewish faith in India. They were super sweet and I really enjoyed your garden tour. God bless all of you.
A great example of how people from different religions can get along together, simply by respecting, and being interested in, each other as people and their beliefs.
At first, I felt like it was such a waste giving the skimmed milk to the pigs (we got American Guinea hogs last July), but they love it and it will benefit us eventually. Before, I'd clabber some for us and give the extra to the chickens. I admire all that you do and we are trying to do the same... We moved out of the city Sept. 2021 and got our 1st milking cow the end of that month. Love hearing the questions, sometimes I wonder if the cow had 4 compartments, or just 1 big one!
Hi RuthAnn and sweet family! What a blessing you and your family are to be so gracious and share your home, farm and especially your friendship with others. I hope everyone has a blessed day!
Great vid 😊 I love hand milking too even though I have a machine, the cows and I have a better bond. I appreciate the work going into the vege patch. I don't have pigs any more. 😂😂 Made me laugh, split into 2 like that too. At the time I had about 200 chooks of various special heritage breeds, having their own pens but spread out around the top 6 or 7 acres of the farm. We have a LOT of sheds! Small ( 10'x15') to HUGE and some other large specific coops. Most would be let out every day, the others every alternate day. After we had some ongoing fox trouble, some of the chooks went to the pigs for protection! They wouldn't leave and became great friends, forming an amazing symbiotic relationship together. The chooks bred profusely with the pigs and hatched many chicks that used to use the pigs, including the big boars as foot warmers on cold winter and frosty mornings!! 😂😂 It was an amazing sight! It certainly was bewildering and mesmerising to most of our visitors. I only regret not taking pictures or video of them during those few years. I got rid of all of the pigs except for 2 at that time. Having nearly 40 pigs was a LOT of work and prep and expense, especially when still having to run the rest of the farm. Numerous other poultry, game, meat chickens, milk goats, sheep, beef cattle, milk cows, children, home schooling, not including anything to do with the house or cooking or butchering or gardens or pets or native animal rescue etc ALL kept me very busy. So when the pigs went, it freed up some time that I badly needed. Things are a LOT simpler now. A dozen chooks, a few ducks, a flock of geese, a dozen sheep a few cats, some fantastic work dogs (I do work for some neighbours, bartering my time for hay, oats and wheat) and just a few cows. Two of which are Fresian/Holstein (the black and white typical milk cow) and a Holstein X Jersey. I subbed a few days ago and have been enjoying your vids. God bless you and all your family in all your endeavours, from Down Under here in Australia 😊😊😊
We also had horses and ponies and many native and aviary type birds. David the donkey will founder if he gets overweight too much. It was wonderful that your lovely friends could visit from so far. Were they from a farm too or from town? I've enjoyed some of your cooking vids, still have many to watch ..... We've had a few good milk cows, our favourite, the best in every way was a beautiful golden Jersey, we let her retire gracefully when she injured her hip with her last calf, so she was kept as a grasseater only for her retirement. In Australia, there are no cow barns for them to be kept in unless injured etc. All dairy cows are on full pasture all the time, only brought in to the dairy or yards for milking or handling etc. Have a wonderful day 😊
So interesting! I live in the suburbs, but I spent time with my grandparents and an aunt and uncle on their farms when I was a young kid. I don't think I'm cut out for all out homesteading, but I am growing some vegetables this year and I love to cook from scratch and general homemaking when I'm not working.
Just found your utube. You give such great detail. Being older and living in the Los Angeles environs, I'm living vicariously. Do have a good size garden in the front and back yard, growing vertically and get quite a bit of produce year round. Had chickens when the kids were young. Good memories. Love seeing you pray together.
Thank you, RuthAnn, for such a fun, informative video. I recently found you and subbed. The first thing you taught me was how to pressure can dry potatoes. Thank you, thank you! It is so much easier and the final product is delicious! I love the ingenious way you wash your potatoes! Your children are blessed that you are teaching them what is important. I look forward to learning from you! God Bless you and your family.
Growing up in Wisconsin, and helping out on a friend’s dairy farm in the early 70’s, I was shocked to my very core the first time I walked into a “mega farm” barn! The smell was disgusting and the poor heifers were covered in poo! I have never been so disgusted as I was that day! I love that your sweet cows are taken such good care of.
You are my new favorite. I will be spending days watching your videos. You are so knowledgeable.😊. Thank you for doing this for for us to Gain so much information 🙏
This was so interesting. You are an excellent teacher. All cultures have to eat. Fascinating how similar and yet diverse this is achieved. Thank you for sharing this.
RuthAnn, do you have recipes for dry seasoning's like chili seasoning to make chili,taco seasoning to make taco's, and some of your canning recipes I would like to see video's on them. Love your channel. Enjoyed when you had the Jewish couple and their baby visit you. I feel that this is what our creator meant to love out neighbors, love one another I also keep the the bibical sabbath and the feast, i am a Yahweh follower and Yahsuha has blessed my family. when i lived up in Ohio, I went to the Amish country, stayed for a week. I could have stayed longer, I fell in love with charm Ohio it's so quiet there and the people are very nice. I'll keep you and your family in my prayers my dear, i'm 82 yrs and am a witness to the coming oj our Messiah, Oh how blessed i am. Ginny from Jacksonville Floridae
I feel the need to mention that the boney look of the milk cows is how they are supposed to look. They are not under nourished! It's just the breed of cow.
I raise Muscovy ducks. I think they make amazing pets with egg benefits. I also raise quail for eggs. We have space o chickens, but live in a city that doesn’t allow them. Quail are considered gamebids or pets like parakeets. As long as the6 are raise humanly, the city doesn’t rest it them. Muscovy ducks are considered pets like dogs so I’m allowed 2 per property. I live on a outlet lot, so I have 4. I have about 34-70 quail, depending on if I’ve just hatched. I do sell some but mainly for pets and eggs.
Such a beautiful farm! Your knowledge is amazing, what a gift you’ve been given! I grew up in Des Moines, a city girl. I love Iowa! I have relatives in Independence, Waterloo, Tripoli, Oelwein. Where are you? 😊
I had to milk a cow when I was young (and we still lived on a farm). I remember hating milking; because, the cow would slap me in my face with her tail and kick the bucket over. Things may have been better for me, if you had been my teacher. Watching and listening to you today has told me a lot about what was wrong with my milking. Thank you.
Thank you for such wonderful videos. I learn so much from you! I can’t find the link to the stirrup Hoe. I’m a farmer’s daughter and much older than you but I have never seen a stirrup Hoe. I now want one. 😂
What is the brand stirrup hoe that you are using in your video, please? I recently came upon your channel and am thoroughly enjoying your videos. Thank you for all you share!
Hi RuthAnn! I would love to know where I can get a stirrup hoe. I’ve been weeding by hand and my fingers look terrible, because I don’t like using gloves 😆
This is very interesting! I was also wondering about your last name being Zimmerman. Isn't that a Jewish name? Did some of your husband's relatives convert from Judaism to Mennonite, or are there Zimmermans that came from Germany who were never Jewish?
how did your Jewish friends come to find yews & spend a week on your farm ?? also is your son Maxwell i hope i got his name right is he your adopted son ? he looks from another country ? but so loved by your family 🥰😁
I love loved love this video. Is it possible to turn off the background music? I have a hard time hearing and it makes it more difficult to hear the dialog.
Wow what an amazing video. Thank you for sharing with us. I just found your channel recently and so happy i did. You have such an amazing family and a beautiful farm.
Growing up in the city without a connection to my food supply, I learn SO much from your videos! Thank you Zimmermans!
Such a delight! Thank you!
Hi RuthAnn! I have been binge watching your channel on my tv. I just logged in on my phone and subscribed to your wonderful channel! I thoroughly enjoy watching everything you put up on here. You are such an inspiration to me. I’d love to have the ethics and values you’re bringing to this world through your hard work and teachings. Please never stop. Your family is beautiful and I love how you’ve taught them that hard work produces such beneficial results. My boys are 24, 21, and 11. I feel like I’ve failed my kids because I raised them in this modern world and didn’t prepare them for the REAL world. May God forgive me for my ignorance and complacency. But I want to start to do better by all of them and I’ve been trying to follow along with you and other homesteaders to learn skills for myself and my family. Moral of the story I am just very inspired by you and how you’re a keeper of the old ways of our precious ancestors. My paternal grandmother was from an old order Mennonite background. I learned a lot as a child from her. I see her ways in so much of your channel. It reconnects me to my childhood and how I worked and helped her. Sadly it didn’t translate into my parents home and skipped to present day. I want to learn to make cheeses and breads and to refresh my memories of gardening with grandma. I remember so much as I watch your channel. It’s like a light comes on and I’m back there beside her learning from and helping her again. Those were my most treasured memories on this earth the ones with her. She was my best friend and my mentor and my rock as a child. Sorry to ramble you just take me back. Anyway, God Bless you and your precious family and I am praying for your family and homestead to be protected and for you all to flourish in Jesus name AMEN! I am Leslie McDonald and I am down in Florence Alabama. My love to you and yours! ❤️🙏🏼
Welcome. I’m so glad you’re here!!!
What a beautiful learning experience for both families ❤
I loved loved loved this video!! So neat learning more about the in-workings of maintaining a homestead. Your guests had great questions!
Hi RuthAnn I was so happy to meet the family that were staying with you. I don't know much about India and did not know that there are people of Jewish faith in India. They were super sweet and I really enjoyed your garden tour. God bless all of you.
I loved this video! When you took your friends to your Mennonite family, I got teary eyed. That was beautiful 🥰
I felt like I was visiting your farm! Thank you for showing us! You are an inspiration to me! ❤️
Terrific video. I learned a lot and I grew up on a farm! Thanks for sharing and best wishes to both lovely families.
Very nice video I love it,learn things and they are very nice people it was super to see you all together! Thank you for sharing those moment! 😊😊
I loved this so much. Her joy kept me smiling.
A great example of how people from different religions can get along together, simply by respecting, and being interested in, each other as people and their beliefs.
At first, I felt like it was such a waste giving the skimmed milk to the pigs (we got American Guinea hogs last July), but they love it and it will benefit us eventually. Before, I'd clabber some for us and give the extra to the chickens. I admire all that you do and we are trying to do the same... We moved out of the city Sept. 2021 and got our 1st milking cow the end of that month. Love hearing the questions, sometimes I wonder if the cow had 4 compartments, or just 1 big one!
What.a wonderful treat this was to watch, thank you so much Ruthann and guests!!
How wonderful was that.😀 Safe travels 💐🙏🇺🇸
Friendships are a lost art 💔 thank you for sharing the joy between you all
That was a wonderful visit and learning some about their country as well as teaching them about ours.
Hi RuthAnn and sweet family!
What a blessing you and your family are to be so gracious and share your home, farm and especially your friendship with others. I hope everyone has a blessed day!
Great vid 😊 I love hand milking too even though I have a machine, the cows and I have a better bond. I appreciate the work going into the vege patch. I don't have pigs any more. 😂😂 Made me laugh, split into 2 like that too. At the time I had about 200 chooks of various special heritage breeds, having their own pens but spread out around the top 6 or 7 acres of the farm. We have a LOT of sheds! Small ( 10'x15') to HUGE and some other large specific coops. Most would be let out every day, the others every alternate day. After we had some ongoing fox trouble, some of the chooks went to the pigs for protection! They wouldn't leave and became great friends, forming an amazing symbiotic relationship together. The chooks bred profusely with the pigs and hatched many chicks that used to use the pigs, including the big boars as foot warmers on cold winter and frosty mornings!! 😂😂 It was an amazing sight! It certainly was bewildering and mesmerising to most of our visitors. I only regret not taking pictures or video of them during those few years. I got rid of all of the pigs except for 2 at that time. Having nearly 40 pigs was a LOT of work and prep and expense, especially when still having to run the rest of the farm. Numerous other poultry, game, meat chickens, milk goats, sheep, beef cattle, milk cows, children, home schooling, not including anything to do with the house or cooking or butchering or gardens or pets or native animal rescue etc ALL kept me very busy. So when the pigs went, it freed up some time that I badly needed. Things are a LOT simpler now. A dozen chooks, a few ducks, a flock of geese, a dozen sheep a few cats, some fantastic work dogs (I do work for some neighbours, bartering my time for hay, oats and wheat) and just a few cows. Two of which are Fresian/Holstein (the black and white typical milk cow) and a Holstein X Jersey.
I subbed a few days ago and have been enjoying your vids.
God bless you and all your family in all your endeavours, from Down Under here in Australia 😊😊😊
We also had horses and ponies and many native and aviary type birds. David the donkey will founder if he gets overweight too much.
It was wonderful that your lovely friends could visit from so far. Were they from a farm too or from town? I've enjoyed some of your cooking vids, still have many to watch .....
We've had a few good milk cows, our favourite, the best in every way was a beautiful golden Jersey, we let her retire gracefully when she injured her hip with her last calf, so she was kept as a grasseater only for her retirement.
In Australia, there are no cow barns for them to be kept in unless injured etc. All dairy cows are on full pasture all the time, only brought in to the dairy or yards for milking or handling etc.
Have a wonderful day 😊
It’s what our world needs more of…..sharing culture ❤
So interesting! I live in the suburbs, but I spent time with my grandparents and an aunt and uncle on their farms when I was a young kid. I don't think I'm cut out for all out homesteading, but I am growing some vegetables this year and I love to cook from scratch and general homemaking when I'm not working.
What a fun video! I just love Gwen! And your gardens are beautiful.
Just found your utube. You give such great detail. Being older and living in the Los Angeles environs, I'm living vicariously. Do have a good size garden in the front and back yard, growing vertically and get quite a bit of produce year round. Had chickens when the kids were young. Good memories. Love seeing you pray together.
I love the joy of your guests! Our simple lives become interesting in the eyes of others. Did you make these new friends through TH-cam?
We met them through instagram
I think it is great that you opened your farm open to your friends. That is great. I love to watch your channel thank you
I understand why you left the Mennonite life but it's great that you are using the gifts God has given you to be a blessing to others. I love it.
I enjoyed this video so much, I think I smiled through the whole thing. Thank you🌻
Thank you, RuthAnn, for such a fun, informative video. I recently found you and subbed. The first thing you taught me was how to pressure can dry potatoes. Thank you, thank you! It is so much easier and the final product is delicious! I love the ingenious way you wash your potatoes! Your children are blessed that you are teaching them what is important. I look forward to learning from you! God Bless you and your family.
That was a very nice visit. Thank you for bringing us along.
This is great! I loved it. What a blessing to have visitors from another country and culture. So blessed.
I loved this video! I learned so much and I love how it shows that we can have rich experiences with different beliefs from our own!
I loved this! Full of good info and wisdom for me to gather. plus I got to enjoy your beautiful friendship with each other.
How fun to have the visitors asking questions that I would love to ask, too! Thank you.
Growing up in Wisconsin, and helping out on a friend’s dairy farm in the early 70’s, I was shocked to my very core the first time I walked into a “mega farm” barn! The smell was disgusting and the poor heifers were covered in poo! I have never been so disgusted as I was that day! I love that your sweet cows are taken such good care of.
Wow! What a wonderful experience for you all 👏
This was so interesting. Been binge watching and have decided you are Superwoman 😃 You have a wonderful family and home.
Beautiful video. I love how nice and knowledgeable you are. Today's video was wonderful and I felt like I was there.
What a blessing to be able to tag along with your farm guests. I have learned a great deal!! Thank you so much!
You are my new favorite. I will be spending days watching your videos. You are so knowledgeable.😊. Thank you for doing this for for us to Gain so much information 🙏
This was so interesting. You are an excellent teacher. All cultures have to eat. Fascinating how similar and yet diverse this is achieved. Thank you for sharing this.
I am glad you have close ties with your family and are respectful of other faiths. Very peaceful video
Wonderful video! Such beautiful families ❤
What a precious family, and video! Thank you for sharing.
RuthAnn, do you have recipes for dry seasoning's like chili seasoning to make chili,taco seasoning to make taco's, and some of your canning recipes I would like to see video's on them. Love your channel.
Enjoyed when you had the Jewish couple and their baby visit you.
I feel that this is what our creator meant to love out neighbors, love one another
I also keep the the bibical sabbath and the feast,
i am a Yahweh follower and Yahsuha has blessed my family.
when i lived up in Ohio, I went to the Amish country, stayed for a week. I could have stayed longer, I fell in love with charm Ohio it's so quiet there and the people are very nice. I'll keep you and your family in my prayers my dear, i'm 82 yrs and am a witness to the coming oj our Messiah, Oh how blessed i am. Ginny from Jacksonville Floridae
OUTSTANDING video ‼️. The blessings of the Lord are surely yours ❤
I really admire you and your families lifestyle, it's really fascinating to me. I'm learning so much. Love the cows and pigs xo
GOD is good all the time!
Thank you for sharing … was very interesting to learn about kosher means … hope we get to see them make butter
Wonderful! God bless.❤
I feel the need to mention that the boney look of the milk cows is how they are supposed to look. They are not under nourished! It's just the breed of cow.
What is the tool you used in the garden please? Thanks 😊Regina
Not sifted, as dry ingredients. Wet are strained.
I raise Muscovy ducks. I think they make amazing pets with egg benefits. I also raise quail for eggs. We have space o chickens, but live in a city that doesn’t allow them. Quail are considered gamebids or pets like parakeets. As long as the6 are raise humanly, the city doesn’t rest it them. Muscovy ducks are considered pets like dogs so I’m allowed 2 per property. I live on a outlet lot, so I have 4. I have about 34-70 quail, depending on if I’ve just hatched. I do sell some but mainly for pets and eggs.
Such a beautiful farm! Your knowledge is amazing, what a gift you’ve been given! I grew up in Des Moines, a city girl. I love Iowa! I have relatives in Independence, Waterloo, Tripoli, Oelwein. Where are you? 😊
Jewish people usually don't eat pork. They are unclean to them, but I like pork. I'm not Jewish.
New sub here. Love your Chanel.
Love Orthodox Judaism and Jews. Sincere and amazing god fearing people. Thank you so much for being open-minded and amazing
I had to milk a cow when I was young (and we still lived on a farm). I remember hating milking; because, the cow would slap me in my face with her tail and kick the bucket over. Things may have been better for me, if you had been my teacher. Watching and listening to you today has told me a lot about what was wrong with my milking. Thank you.
Thank you for such wonderful videos. I learn so much from you! I can’t find the link to the stirrup Hoe. I’m a farmer’s daughter and much older than you but I have never seen a stirrup Hoe. I now want one. 😂
Thank you for this video, I Love how you explained everything to your guests, you are so knowledgeable
I love your channel so much, and your sweet spirit of freely sharing your knowledge with homesteading ❤
What is the brand stirrup hoe that you are using in your video, please? I recently came upon your channel and am thoroughly enjoying your videos. Thank you for all you share!
Hi RuthAnn! I would love to know where I can get a stirrup hoe. I’ve been weeding by hand and my fingers look terrible, because I don’t like using gloves 😆
This is very interesting! I was also wondering about your last name being Zimmerman. Isn't that a Jewish name? Did some of your husband's relatives convert from Judaism to Mennonite, or are there Zimmermans that came from Germany who were never Jewish?
How very interesting Ruthann. I enjoyed this video very much.
❤️thank you so much for a very informative video. Took me back to my childhood in the country where I helped on my neighbor's farms.
how did your Jewish friends come to find yews & spend a week on your farm ?? also is your son Maxwell i hope i got his name right is he your adopted son ? he looks from another country ? but so loved by your family 🥰😁
yes thoroughly enjoyed your video today May 25/23 🇨🇦💕🥰
I love loved love this video. Is it possible to turn off the background music? I have a hard time hearing and it makes it more difficult to hear the dialog.
Lovely video. Enjoyed it so very much. Thank you for sharing it with us 😊
❤❤❤❤Love this….thank you for sharing….amazing….
Recently found your channel and love it. Subscribed!!
I loved this video very interesting and educational thanks for sharing your family and your guess with us 😊
Awesome! Thank you for sharing.🙂🐷🐔🐈🐄🐖🦆🦃🐣
Very interesting.
I am in Iowa and looking for a milking cow in the future. Is there a way I can contact you when it is time you are ready to sell one?
I see you and the children doing all the work does your husband help at all?
When I was little girl and used to lived on dairy farm and so much good memories.
How nice this was. Thank you for sharing this adventure.
A great video. Loved the information and interaction with you and your Jewish friends.
Loved this! Thanks for sharing your friends with us❤!
Thank you dear for sharing your videos. Be blessed
Hey From Se Iowa!! Not far from you! just found you awsome
that was so interesting, thank you for a wonderful video!
What a fun visit sharing customs. Thank you for sharing with us
That was delightful! Thank you 😊 Val C
Loved this video. Thanks for sharing so much.
What an amazing video!! So beautiful!
I loved this video!!! Very informative.
Such a beautiful video 1 Thank you !
So very very fun!,, thank you so much !!!!
Do you use the stirrup hoe in between plants??
Wonderful video RuthAnn!
Very interesting and informative.
Thank you so much I so enjoyed this
Your cows are so calm with strangers
Absolutely a beautiful video.
Loved this video so very much.❤
Wow what an amazing video. Thank you for sharing with us. I just found your channel recently and so happy i did. You have such an amazing family and a beautiful farm.
Welcome!! So glad you’re here!!!
Beautiful ❤✌🏼🤍🙏🏼
Very interesting. Thanks