You manage to be inspiring and realistic at the same time. Don't aim for perfection. It is a lot of hard work, and you'll have to learn to do it yourself, but you CAN do it.
Thank you for your videos with real content. I am also homesteading and I have to learn calculating my cost's much more than ever. That's why i do much appreciate your informative video's. Wishing you a very good year from freezing Finland.
Delightful. I'd also like to point out that homesteading can happen on a small or urban scale without enormous expense. I'm on a small urban homestead right now with six chickens who supply not only me but a big chunk of extended family with their eggs. The rest of my backyard is a garden which gives me all my soft fruit and herbs, and a good deal of my vegetables from spring to fall (with a pantrys worth preserved each year too). My family goes hunting once a year (with a shotgun that's 40 years old) and get a good chunk of our protein that way, with summer camping trips often stocking freshwater fish too. I got my soil started by asking for the waste from the neighborhood landscaping guys with a truck, and a local pet & poultry store and composting that. My aunt has cherry and peach trees in her own urban backyard, which she trades as much as i want for help canning and preserving the rest. I pay for wind power from my local utility, and collect rain water from my gutters for the garden. The run and coop was made from extra lumber a cousin who works in theater had from teardown after a show changeover, and most of the materials for my raised beds and trellises came from construction sites where I pulled over and asked for offcuts. Any kind of practical homesteading where you live with a community oriented mindset can be done inexpensively.
Love the realness of this video. I hate that homesteading content(a lot of the times) has become so curated and aesthetic. It's nice to see and hear from real people!
Thank you! I agree, it doesn't have to be fancy or expensive. We are fixing up an old double wide. I love it because it's mine! Every new improvement is the best thing we've done so far 😄
Agreed! ‘Prepping’ is for illness, job loss… I was a single mom and just bought my first home when I was laid off ‘08-‘09… the job I was doing suddenly required a bachelors degree and I was doing it with just a GED…. I am so very grateful I grew up in the country and always kept 3-4 months of food stored up, just in case of weather was the original reason for storing food up
08-09 would be a scary time to be a single mama laid off 🥺 you have some tenacity to make it through that one. It’s amazing how just a little bit of food storage can totally change your life. ♥️♥️
@ being resourceful and creative saves a lot of money…. We ‘went on vacation’ in our backyard or went on camping trips… we made wrapping paper from paper bags we picked from the grocery store and made stamps from potatoes- that wrapping paper was part of the gift as well cause my son was so proud of what he made… I’m sure had I planned in advance I could have made my own paint… but thank God for The Dollar Tree 🙏 Microwave popcorn is handy but popping it on the stove or over a fire adds memories and saves money and healthier Growing up we raised rabbits and I am so grateful for having that experience The neighbors raised pigs and we got to see that process as well My parents were hunters and as an adult I was on the roadkill list (as a single mom it was hard to get out hunting but roadkill was a guaranteed way to get meat in the freezer and it was common practice in my area of Indiana)
@ I didn’t know about the roadkill list 😱 that is such a cool feature! And wow, we have a lot in common there. The local camping trips, the homemade wrapping paper- amazing. Stovetop popcorn is the best!!! My grandparents grow it every year and keep it in clean milk jugs for storage, it tastes way better than the microwave kind. I’ve got a variety of it here I would love to grow (if it will). Right now though I admit I’m thrilled that my kids are just now big enough to make their own popcorn in the microwave. A win is a win 🤣🤣♥️
@ Idaho just recently passed the ‘ok’ to harvest roadkill- I don’t know the depth of that new rule… but was sad when I first moved here and there was no roadkill list… we have contacted local butchers for any meat that had not been picked up and they will sometimes sell it with a good discount
So truthful! That's why I love your channel. Homesteads come in all sizes, locations, and stages of on grid/off grid. "Shiny new things" are either "saved up for", gifted, made, or budgeted in. When I bought my homestead I budgeted in getting a tractor from the sale of my previous home. A good homestead never really throws anything away...always reuse/repurpose. Thank you again!!
Wow. We use so much more wood than that and we live in a pretty mild climate. Thank you so much for sharing all of this. It is nice to see real life homesteading instead of the rich trying to sell us crap. You are very impressive
Thank you so much! Our wood consumption is pretty low because the house has good insulation and the previous owners left us with a Blaze King wood stove which has been a huge blessing. It’s very efficient!
Access to trees and wood from the land makes a massive difference when it comes to expenses for buildings and fences. We have 10 acres of open land that's mud 8 months of the year. Part of this does depend on what you start with :) thanks for sharing your perspective!❤
Absolutely spot on-historically, homesteading was often done as a VERY frugal endeavor. It was salvation for people escaping factory life, tragedy, poverty. Love your honesty and transparency 🔥
13:24 - I have a dishwasher. I wash faster and better, and don't see a reason to dry them with hot air, when they dry just the same with room temp air.
I love your homestead philosophy! You are flexible in your decor and actually very organized. I get as much of my home needs secondhand if possible b/c it will be better quality than I can afford if bought new. I have inspirational quotes around my home…”very little is needed to make a happy life” “ a simple life is a good life” Thanks for the video!
@@poodledaddles1091 secondhand goods are way cheaper & better quality than what I could get brand new that’s for sure! And it has a lot more ‘personality’ so that’s a win 😁 I’m trying to be organized but that is a slow learning process haha. Thank you so much for your kind words. ♥️
Such a breath of fresh air in the homesteading space! Thank you for being real and showing this can and should be an affordable lifestyle that adds value to our life. I honestly was debating whether to continue trying to homestead bc it didn’t seem affordable to get all the things you see and think u need … I see changes we can make and I appreciate your reality check so much! Also thanks for showing your real house! Absolutely Love your lovely homey home and all the projects and life happening inside! Also, we just got rabbits so I’m looking forward to using your videos to learn how to process them when the time comes. I would love a video about what you grow and how to do so for your animals! Thanks for all you do.
I'm with you! I work 25 hours a week, homesteading, homeschooling, side hustles..... and away we go!!! We do it as cheaply as possible too! I agree with all you are saying!
That dog is living his best life-just chillin’ in the snow.😁 Most of the people that call themselves homesteaders (on u-tube) are laughable. I was so thankful to find your channel, and learn from a serious homesteader. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.❤
A few ideas: - when you get to the science chapter with the kids, try gray dwarf peas growing inside. You can start them as microgreens, but harvesting won't kill them, so you can continue, and eventually grow them for shoots. They're great in soups, stews and salads. - monstera looks a bit lonely without a cherry tomato plant near/around it, but I think I spied, with my little eye, a tomato plant in the window sill. They'll be less enthusiastic than in summer, but if you find a good one, it will be impervious to exorcisms. You may even convince one to adapt. Or you could try the Arctic Tomato, or the 42 Days Tomato varieties. - for the crafts/cooking/survival chapter of the curriculum, try wheat flour and water, and go for all kinds of breads, flat breads, all kinds of pasta and noodles, pancakes, crepes, bagels, crackers. Fried, boiled, baked, etc.
I garden a lot and can a lot and it always astounds me when people who are new to it want to buy the most expensive stuff. I always tell people its as expensive as you want to make it. I started gardening with cheap pots on an apartment balconey with bagged dirt. Now i have a huge organic garden double fenced to keep deer out, chickens run the middle, and i grow heirlooms to save seed. Build as you go and dont think you have to have the best up front. Im saving for a freeze drier, slowly talking my husband into it. I grow so much sometimes i cant can or dehydrate it all. Chickens use the waste but it is too wasteful to me. I tried selling extra but it took over my life and i felt bad having to sell it at a decent price and i wasnt making money anyway.
Big on mutual aid & not needing a $1000 course from Joel Salatin! Thank you for your realness & for sharing your wealth of knowledge with us. I keep revisiting your rabbit videos!
We don't have a mailbox either we are miles from the highway and nearest neighbors. We are off grid though as we didn't want the expense of running it was cheaper to do solar and we are south facing. Living a frugal lifestyle does give you great piece of mind. Just found your channel. Great inspirational video.
Thank you! We definitely need neighbors' help sometimes. My family all also works outside the home as well as ranch/farm/garden. Yellowstone is not real. It's hard work, you aren't bajillionaires, and you learn to make things, or make things work.
You’re so right! Most of us are working alongside the homestead, the homestead doesn’t support it all but it certainly helps. Good neighbors make it all much better!
I used it to grow potatoes carrots garlic and shallots before putting away for the season i have these things made by veggie pod and even after ice and snow kale and lettuce are still surviving pretty well
I just bought the book, ‘The Compost Toilet Handbook’ by Joseph Jenkins… I’m ready to transition my homestead to this and use the compost made on my shrubs (we live high desert mountains so the compost will help hold moisture in an arid environment)
Agreed! ‘Prepping’ is for illness, job loss… I was a single mom and just bought my first home when I was laid off ‘08-‘09… the job I was doing suddenly required a bachelors degree and I was doing it with just a GED…. I am so very grateful I grew up in the country and always kept 3-4 months of food stored up, just in case of weather was the original reason for storing food up
I love how she keeps saying "please dont hit me" like shes talking to us while we're standing right next to us instead of watching the video, but honestly so jealous 😂
If people are looking for information, check with local extension agents. They're free. Counties across the US have them. Get into 4H or FFA. Go to the library. I love my library. They can get specific books from other libraries for you if they dont have them. For homeschool, acellus or power homeschool. Power homeschool uses the acellus program. Its $25 a month for my 16 yr old. Hes already at senior level.
Wow thank you!!! Thank you for the homeschool recommendation, I’m learning so much about it and I know I still haven’t scratched the surface. FFA, 4-H, libraries, and extension agents are incredible underrated resources. I use the Libby app from the library quite a bit too. Thank you!
100% agree with everything! And as for "organic", that label means nothing anymore. You can use roundup in my state and still label organic. As for preserving knowledge, you're exactly right, all those old skills should be shared open source instead of greenwashed, branded, copyrighted and monetized. I've learned more ACTUAL valuable info from this channel than any other of the big you-tube celebrities. When you are a homesteader, and are DOING these things in real life, you find channels like this give you the data and info you really need, instead of entertainment. (you're still entertaining though) When you are homesteading, you just don't have time to watch hours of homesteading celebrity entertainers wowing you with all of their gadgety toys and new fad books. You just want the numbers. How much land and seed do i really need to feed my livestock, what can i eliminate that they do not need, what's the fastest and cheapest way to do any and all of the above, including butchering, breeding, housing, etc. There's way too much hollywood going on in the homestead movement.
Nick Offerman is a pretty cool guy, I’ve read “Gumption” and “Where the Deer and Antelope Play” but not “Paddle Your Own Canoe”. I bet it’s a good one too!
@CedarHillsHomestead I'm not very far in, but I'm enjoying it. Not a fan of where he calls his wife his legal property in the dedication but I'm taking that with the huge grains of salt that it's a joke and it was published in 2013 when parks and rec was airing so he's playing off of Ron Swansons popularity. Thankfully he's better in real life lol
We’ve been slowly taking out trees in that area. The forest line used to be about 15 feet in front of the hutches! So it’s a slow going thing but we’re using the trees as we cut them.
Also I wish you were my big sister/friend 😭 so much wisdom and advice in this video. Not many that down to earth people in my life (the book part being like a fine wine you get to it when you get to it part really hit me LOL)
I’m still figuring it out but for us, safety first because ag-related accidents are way too common- and just remember that the kids are more important than the land. Get them involved when you can even if it slows you down and try to be patient with yourself and your kids through it all. Mine are 4 & 5 now and I feel like their childhoods are flying by 😭♥️
Lol. Ill remeber that next time i build a ramshackle building. "Dang. She looks a little wonky. That means the window goes in crocked so no one notices the other stuff. " Lol.
I just wish I was old enough to get land before the post-cov inflation Era finished destroying everything, like you guys did -- if you had to start from scratch today, this would be impossible without a 50+ hour job in the city.
I have a lot of empathy for you, we bought our house just months before the market went crazy. Values doubled or tripled in months and it’s devastating for those dreaming of getting their own property. We are very lucky and we know it. 😭♥️
@@CedarHillsHomestead I inherited the family ranch in a major city when my parents died, just an acre and over 100 years old. Brought the business out of the red and into the green in less than 2 years. Always paid 20% extra on the mortgage for principal. The Exeuctor failed to notify the mortgage company of the borrowers deaths, which caused them to cease accepting payment, put us into default, then foreclosure. Once we cured the foreclosure, they refused to accept any new payments or to let us assume the loan. No other bank would give us a residential mortgage due to the presence of agricultural activities. I was forced to sell just before the election for a 39% loss on its value. We're not looking for land because we *want* to 'exit the rat race' and Homestead, we're looking purely out of necessity. Now, our rent is TRIPLE what our mortgage was, and the properly-valued-land shortage is making it impossible to get out from under that.
@@AWesker99 I appreciate that advice -- if you know anything about the solar cataclysm likely in the 2040s-50s, then you'd understand why I don't want to be anywhere near the coast... but I do appreciate the advice.
So, you keep your breeders at 3:20 and the winter grow-outs at 3:16, with the chickens? Or do the chickens live with the goats? (I'm beginning to suspect that chickens lower the parasite load of the goats, in general). OK, so, at 10:28 you mention some growouts live with the chickens, so I'm guessing another set of growouts live across "the road", in the new cages, at 4:08. If I understood this right, you can't have more than 2 growouts at a time in the winter.
@@CedarHillsHomestead I don’t have the more recent ones but I do have the first 6 and they were handed down to me… my dad had bought them and the ‘back to basics’ from Readers Digest and I was HOOKED! Back when I was growing up there was a rendezvous in Friendship Indiana that was amazing (it’s gotten really commercialized since) and my elementary school had a program called ‘Little Hoosiers’ that was around pioneering
i love this video. I find it interesting when two of my interests intersect. The other day I was recommended a homesteading channel that I didnt recognize. To my surprise I already was subscribed, but I had known the presenter as a leftist. Basically, an anti-capitalist of varied flavors (could se socialism, communism, anarchism, etc). Anyway, I found it great to hear one of the leftist principles in this video. Mutual aid. Good on you for helping your fellow man/family/pupper! Another principle is solidarity. We stand together against things that ruin the earth, degrade community, and oppress people. You may or may not identify as leftist, but if you beleive in these things, you should really investigate it more. I converted about a year ago and am never looking back at consumerism, dems, repubs, culture war, etc. They are merely things the capitalists use to subjugate us and divide us so that they can run off with all the fucking money. anyway, glad to see this. i'm subscribed! keep up the good content even if you arent feeling the leftism. :)
My number 1 tip, though not really a homesteading thing so much as a life thing. Check if your local grocery store has a section that they put markdown and discount items. I have gotten thing like $0.98/lb lamb and $0.49/lb ground chuck from my nearby spouts. Due to zoning laws I am not allowed to have livestock where I live so things like this are one of my main ways of getting decently cheap meat.
YOU ARE ONLY 28??! 😭😭😭😭 I thought I was doing well with my off-grid project, and that I still have time to build up to something like what you have.. because surely you must at least be 30, 35! Dont get me wrong, you look very young.. but I just thought you HAD to be older, from your accomplishments, all your knowledge, your mature demeanor :D But apparently, I only have 1 year left to accomplish all that hahahah! Damn! I kid, of course.. it's not about comparisons.. but yeh, very cool that you did and learned so much, in so few years!
I have strong 40-year-old energy about me, I don’t know why I’ve always been like this 🤣🤣🤣 thank you so much. Its funny because I really feel like I'm behind a lot, but I'm trying to just love the process and accept whats going on.
@ I miss American persimmons!!! I miss lightening bugs!!! I miss swimming in natural waters that are above 50°F 🤪 And when I left Indiana, they still practiced common sense and did not observe daylight savings- I miss the summer NIGHTS But I don’t miss chiggers or copperheads
My plant science professor said ‘organic’ is just a gimmick- not any better for the environment He explained it very well 15 years ago… 1) the amount of land and water required to grow a monoculture crop to create the ‘organic’ substance on the crops is mind blowing and destructive 2) some of the organic substances have a toxic load And there was more but I’m not remembering them…. Growing your own food in a natural permaculture environment is the best all around option or starting a garden club in the area- some things I grow better than others and there are locals that can grow what I can’t… save the headache of trying and make a commitment to trade
Could I recommend homestead by region? Or best homestead states and stats based you understanding of knowledge. That would be a good topic. I see everyone running to the same areas and trying to do the same things. "Mimetic desires"
This is just how a lot of folks live out in the sticks. These days it's called "homesteading ". Love seeing this for the newbies who are too scared because of social media. ❤
Amen. I watched outdoor with the morgans, their logging equipment cost more than my house/ land and everything I own. They have a $20000+ machine for every small task. I'm happy for them but maybe only 0.1% of earth could afford to do what they're doing. I'm sorry you got burned on the truck, damn.
This video popped up at the exact time I needed it. We're looking to buy a house with a couple acres and it's been so hard to find something where we can have no mortgage. We want to be (mostly)debt free. My husband recently had a change at his job that has had some serious impacts on his health. So the pressure is on to find a property that would enable him to get a lower paying job. I feel hopeless sometimes. But your video is giving me a good message that everything will turn out ok. We just have to keep on pushing forward.
You manage to be inspiring and realistic at the same time.
Don't aim for perfection. It is a lot of hard work, and you'll have to learn to do it yourself, but you CAN do it.
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Learn to do as much for yourself as you can, BUT you can not do everything! Community is very important.
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Thank you for your videos with real content. I am also homesteading and I have to learn calculating my cost's much more than ever. That's why i do much appreciate your informative video's. Wishing you a very good year from freezing Finland.
Thank you! Enjoy those pretty Finland views for me, I haven’t visited yet but it is on the bucket list. ♥️
Delightful. I'd also like to point out that homesteading can happen on a small or urban scale without enormous expense. I'm on a small urban homestead right now with six chickens who supply not only me but a big chunk of extended family with their eggs. The rest of my backyard is a garden which gives me all my soft fruit and herbs, and a good deal of my vegetables from spring to fall (with a pantrys worth preserved each year too). My family goes hunting once a year (with a shotgun that's 40 years old) and get a good chunk of our protein that way, with summer camping trips often stocking freshwater fish too. I got my soil started by asking for the waste from the neighborhood landscaping guys with a truck, and a local pet & poultry store and composting that. My aunt has cherry and peach trees in her own urban backyard, which she trades as much as i want for help canning and preserving the rest. I pay for wind power from my local utility, and collect rain water from my gutters for the garden. The run and coop was made from extra lumber a cousin who works in theater had from teardown after a show changeover, and most of the materials for my raised beds and trellises came from construction sites where I pulled over and asked for offcuts. Any kind of practical homesteading where you live with a community oriented mindset can be done inexpensively.
Love the realness of this video. I hate that homesteading content(a lot of the times) has become so curated and aesthetic. It's nice to see and hear from real people!
Thank you! I agree, it doesn't have to be fancy or expensive. We are fixing up an old double wide. I love it because it's mine! Every new improvement is the best thing we've done so far 😄
6:34 can't help noticing the wonderful "mountain range" the wind built in your wood shed.
What a beautiful property and a lot of snow.👍
Agreed! ‘Prepping’ is for illness, job loss… I was a single mom and just bought my first home when I was laid off ‘08-‘09… the job I was doing suddenly required a bachelors degree and I was doing it with just a GED…. I am so very grateful I grew up in the country and always kept 3-4 months of food stored up, just in case of weather was the original reason for storing food up
08-09 would be a scary time to be a single mama laid off 🥺 you have some tenacity to make it through that one. It’s amazing how just a little bit of food storage can totally change your life. ♥️♥️
@ being resourceful and creative saves a lot of money….
We ‘went on vacation’ in our backyard or went on camping trips… we made wrapping paper from paper bags we picked from the grocery store and made stamps from potatoes- that wrapping paper was part of the gift as well cause my son was so proud of what he made… I’m sure had I planned in advance I could have made my own paint… but thank God for The Dollar Tree 🙏
Microwave popcorn is handy but popping it on the stove or over a fire adds memories and saves money and healthier
Growing up we raised rabbits and I am so grateful for having that experience
The neighbors raised pigs and we got to see that process as well
My parents were hunters and as an adult I was on the roadkill list (as a single mom it was hard to get out hunting but roadkill was a guaranteed way to get meat in the freezer and it was common practice in my area of Indiana)
@ I didn’t know about the roadkill list 😱 that is such a cool feature!
And wow, we have a lot in common there. The local camping trips, the homemade wrapping paper- amazing.
Stovetop popcorn is the best!!! My grandparents grow it every year and keep it in clean milk jugs for storage, it tastes way better than the microwave kind. I’ve got a variety of it here I would love to grow (if it will).
Right now though I admit I’m thrilled that my kids are just now big enough to make their own popcorn in the microwave. A win is a win 🤣🤣♥️
@ Idaho just recently passed the ‘ok’ to harvest roadkill- I don’t know the depth of that new rule… but was sad when I first moved here and there was no roadkill list… we have contacted local butchers for any meat that had not been picked up and they will sometimes sell it with a good discount
@ girl for real! Take any wins you can get☺️☺️☺️
So truthful! That's why I love your channel. Homesteads come in all sizes, locations, and stages of on grid/off grid. "Shiny new things" are either "saved up for", gifted, made, or budgeted in. When I bought my homestead I budgeted in getting a tractor from the sale of my previous home. A good homestead never really throws anything away...always reuse/repurpose.
Thank you again!!
That tractor changes everything for the better doesn't it?! ❤️ I agree with you completely and thank you so much!
Wow. We use so much more wood than that and we live in a pretty mild climate. Thank you so much for sharing all of this. It is nice to see real life homesteading instead of the rich trying to sell us crap. You are very impressive
Thank you so much! Our wood consumption is pretty low because the house has good insulation and the previous owners left us with a Blaze King wood stove which has been a huge blessing. It’s very efficient!
Access to trees and wood from the land makes a massive difference when it comes to expenses for buildings and fences. We have 10 acres of open land that's mud 8 months of the year. Part of this does depend on what you start with :) thanks for sharing your perspective!❤
I love your honesty
Absolutely spot on-historically, homesteading was often done as a VERY frugal endeavor. It was salvation for people escaping factory life, tragedy, poverty. Love your honesty and transparency 🔥
13:24 - I have a dishwasher. I wash faster and better, and don't see a reason to dry them with hot air, when they dry just the same with room temp air.
I love your homestead philosophy! You are flexible in your decor and actually very organized. I get as much of my home needs secondhand if possible b/c it will be better quality than I can afford if bought new. I have inspirational quotes around my home…”very little is needed to make a happy life” “ a simple life is a good life” Thanks for the video!
@@poodledaddles1091 secondhand goods are way cheaper & better quality than what I could get brand new that’s for sure! And it has a lot more ‘personality’ so that’s a win 😁 I’m trying to be organized but that is a slow learning process haha. Thank you so much for your kind words. ♥️
Such a breath of fresh air in the homesteading space! Thank you for being real and showing this can and should be an affordable lifestyle that adds value to our life. I honestly was debating whether to continue trying to homestead bc it didn’t seem affordable to get all the things you see and think u need … I see changes we can make and I appreciate your reality check so much! Also thanks for showing your real house! Absolutely Love your lovely homey home and all the projects and life happening inside! Also, we just got rabbits so I’m looking forward to using your videos to learn how to process them when the time comes. I would love a video about what you grow and how to do so for your animals! Thanks for all you do.
I'm with you! I work 25 hours a week, homesteading, homeschooling, side hustles..... and away we go!!! We do it as cheaply as possible too! I agree with all you are saying!
I love getting family cook books from yard sales or thrift stores, something about the history in those family cook books bring me so much joy!
The little notes and scraps of paper in those books are treasures. Sharing life with strangers in the sweetest way. 🥹♥️
Agreed! There’s magic in the margins of those old family cookbooks.
That dog is living his best life-just chillin’ in the snow.😁
Most of the people that call themselves homesteaders (on u-tube) are laughable. I was so thankful to find your channel, and learn from a serious homesteader. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.❤
Dont know if intentional, but love the 'Dr Angela Collier crossover' with '.. its _fine_ ' hahah
A few ideas:
- when you get to the science chapter with the kids, try gray dwarf peas growing inside. You can start them as microgreens, but harvesting won't kill them, so you can continue, and eventually grow them for shoots. They're great in soups, stews and salads.
- monstera looks a bit lonely without a cherry tomato plant near/around it, but I think I spied, with my little eye, a tomato plant in the window sill. They'll be less enthusiastic than in summer, but if you find a good one, it will be impervious to exorcisms. You may even convince one to adapt. Or you could try the Arctic Tomato, or the 42 Days Tomato varieties.
- for the crafts/cooking/survival chapter of the curriculum, try wheat flour and water, and go for all kinds of breads, flat breads, all kinds of pasta and noodles, pancakes, crepes, bagels, crackers. Fried, boiled, baked, etc.
Love your suggestions myself
Thanks for your tips. I hope I can have a homestead one day.
I garden a lot and can a lot and it always astounds me when people who are new to it want to buy the most expensive stuff. I always tell people its as expensive as you want to make it. I started gardening with cheap pots on an apartment balconey with bagged dirt. Now i have a huge organic garden double fenced to keep deer out, chickens run the middle, and i grow heirlooms to save seed. Build as you go and dont think you have to have the best up front. Im saving for a freeze drier, slowly talking my husband into it. I grow so much sometimes i cant can or dehydrate it all. Chickens use the waste but it is too wasteful to me. I tried selling extra but it took over my life and i felt bad having to sell it at a decent price and i wasnt making money anyway.
Big on mutual aid & not needing a $1000 course from Joel Salatin! Thank you for your realness & for sharing your wealth of knowledge with us. I keep revisiting your rabbit videos!
Loved this Sarah!
9:44 THE HYPE UP I NEEDED
We don't have a mailbox either we are miles from the highway and nearest neighbors. We are off grid though as we didn't want the expense of running it was cheaper to do solar and we are south facing. Living a frugal lifestyle does give you great piece of mind.
Just found your channel. Great inspirational video.
Thank you! We definitely need neighbors' help sometimes. My family all also works outside the home as well as ranch/farm/garden. Yellowstone is not real. It's hard work, you aren't bajillionaires, and you learn to make things, or make things work.
You’re so right! Most of us are working alongside the homestead, the homestead doesn’t support it all but it certainly helps.
Good neighbors make it all much better!
Agree, I am trying to figure out how to not buy potting soil to start my plants. A few experiments are somewhat working , but need some tweaking.
If you live near pine take the soil from around them composting the pine needles and oak leaves ect and you will have extremely fertile soil
I used it to grow potatoes carrots garlic and shallots before putting away for the season i have these things made by veggie pod and even after ice and snow kale and lettuce are still surviving pretty well
You are so right.. None of it is rocket science and you can teach yourself it. Best to you and yor family.
I just bought the book, ‘The Compost Toilet Handbook’ by Joseph Jenkins… I’m ready to transition my homestead to this and use the compost made on my shrubs
(we live high desert mountains so the compost will help hold moisture in an arid environment)
Agreed! ‘Prepping’ is for illness, job loss… I was a single mom and just bought my first home when I was laid off ‘08-‘09… the job I was doing suddenly required a bachelors degree and I was doing it with just a GED…. I am so very grateful I grew up in the country and always kept 3-4 months of food stored up, just in case of weather was the original reason for storing food up
That’s gonna be amazing!
Wow, what a cool take that I've not seen anybody else make yet. Very apt. Heck yeh mutual aid! 💪Ⓐ💪
Thank you! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️
1:30 - nice! What kind of exotic fishes do you have? I was, at one time, obsessed by live bearers.
I love how she keeps saying "please dont hit me" like shes talking to us while we're standing right next to us instead of watching the video, but honestly so jealous 😂
3:26 - could you share some hay storage tips - how did you manage to keep it so very green? Did you grow some alfalfa this year?
If people are looking for information, check with local extension agents. They're free. Counties across the US have them. Get into 4H or FFA. Go to the library. I love my library. They can get specific books from other libraries for you if they dont have them. For homeschool, acellus or power homeschool. Power homeschool uses the acellus program. Its $25 a month for my 16 yr old. Hes already at senior level.
Wow thank you!!! Thank you for the homeschool recommendation, I’m learning so much about it and I know I still haven’t scratched the surface. FFA, 4-H, libraries, and extension agents are incredible underrated resources. I use the Libby app from the library quite a bit too. Thank you!
Thank you for reminding me that I am leveling up everyday wile learning this life. Lol
I use the empty parmesan containers for composted chicken manure for my garden. That way I can sprinkle, stir, and plant!
Just be careful to avoid a mixup or you could really ruin pasta night! 🤣
@AbellaTeacher those are old containers, and everything is labeled. I now buy the Parm in the bag, so no worries.
100% agree with everything! And as for "organic", that label means nothing anymore. You can use roundup in my state and still label organic. As for preserving knowledge, you're exactly right, all those old skills should be shared open source instead of greenwashed, branded, copyrighted and monetized. I've learned more ACTUAL valuable info from this channel than any other of the big you-tube celebrities. When you are a homesteader, and are DOING these things in real life, you find channels like this give you the data and info you really need, instead of entertainment. (you're still entertaining though) When you are homesteading, you just don't have time to watch hours of homesteading celebrity entertainers wowing you with all of their gadgety toys and new fad books. You just want the numbers. How much land and seed do i really need to feed my livestock, what can i eliminate that they do not need, what's the fastest and cheapest way to do any and all of the above, including butchering, breeding, housing, etc. There's way too much hollywood going on in the homestead movement.
Please show us how you make rabbit jerky.
I can do that! ♥️
I see Gumption on your bookshelf! I'm just starting Paddle Your Own Canoe. nice to find like minded people homesteading. liked an subscribed
Nick Offerman is a pretty cool guy, I’ve read “Gumption” and “Where the Deer and Antelope Play” but not “Paddle Your Own Canoe”. I bet it’s a good one too!
@CedarHillsHomestead I'm not very far in, but I'm enjoying it. Not a fan of where he calls his wife his legal property in the dedication but I'm taking that with the huge grains of salt that it's a joke and it was published in 2013 when parks and rec was airing so he's playing off of Ron Swansons popularity. Thankfully he's better in real life lol
Thank you for your honesty. Love your you tube channel
Thank you ♥️♥️♥️
Are you able to take down the trees near the rabbits for a fire break?
Maybe I’m not seeing that break?
We’ve been slowly taking out trees in that area. The forest line used to be about 15 feet in front of the hutches! So it’s a slow going thing but we’re using the trees as we cut them.
I'd really love to hear more about balancing everything with kids. I have a 2yo and a 10mo and could use all the tips
Also I wish you were my big sister/friend 😭 so much wisdom and advice in this video. Not many that down to earth people in my life (the book part being like a fine wine you get to it when you get to it part really hit me LOL)
I’m still figuring it out but for us, safety first because ag-related accidents are way too common- and just remember that the kids are more important than the land. Get them involved when you can even if it slows you down and try to be patient with yourself and your kids through it all. Mine are 4 & 5 now and I feel like their childhoods are flying by 😭♥️
Lol. Ill remeber that next time i build a ramshackle building. "Dang. She looks a little wonky. That means the window goes in crocked so no one notices the other stuff. " Lol.
I swear the neighbors won’t look past the window hahaha
I just wish I was old enough to get land before the post-cov inflation Era finished destroying everything, like you guys did -- if you had to start from scratch today, this would be impossible without a 50+ hour job in the city.
I have a lot of empathy for you, we bought our house just months before the market went crazy. Values doubled or tripled in months and it’s devastating for those dreaming of getting their own property. We are very lucky and we know it. 😭♥️
@@CedarHillsHomestead I inherited the family ranch in a major city when my parents died, just an acre and over 100 years old. Brought the business out of the red and into the green in less than 2 years. Always paid 20% extra on the mortgage for principal. The Exeuctor failed to notify the mortgage company of the borrowers deaths, which caused them to cease accepting payment, put us into default, then foreclosure. Once we cured the foreclosure, they refused to accept any new payments or to let us assume the loan. No other bank would give us a residential mortgage due to the presence of agricultural activities. I was forced to sell just before the election for a 39% loss on its value.
We're not looking for land because we *want* to 'exit the rat race' and Homestead, we're looking purely out of necessity. Now, our rent is TRIPLE what our mortgage was, and the properly-valued-land shortage is making it impossible to get out from under that.
There's plenty of cheap land down in the deep South.
We have more rainfall and mild winters too.
Its 43 degrees right now in Central LA.
@@AWesker99 I appreciate that advice -- if you know anything about the solar cataclysm likely in the 2040s-50s, then you'd understand why I don't want to be anywhere near the coast... but I do appreciate the advice.
@@silencedogood9835 Central Louisiana, not Los Angeles.
So, you keep your breeders at 3:20 and the winter grow-outs at 3:16, with the chickens? Or do the chickens live with the goats? (I'm beginning to suspect that chickens lower the parasite load of the goats, in general). OK, so, at 10:28 you mention some growouts live with the chickens, so I'm guessing another set of growouts live across "the road", in the new cages, at 4:08. If I understood this right, you can't have more than 2 growouts at a time in the winter.
I have that book!!! I grew up reading that book and the Foxfire set
The Farmhand’s Companion (here on TH-cam) recommended the Firefox series in one of his videos and that was a good one!
@@CedarHillsHomestead I don’t have the more recent ones but I do have the first 6 and they were handed down to me… my dad had bought them and the ‘back to basics’ from Readers Digest and I was HOOKED!
Back when I was growing up there was a rendezvous in Friendship Indiana that was amazing (it’s gotten really commercialized since) and my elementary school had a program called ‘Little Hoosiers’ that was around pioneering
What $80 tanner have you seen? The orange bottle goes a long way and is $8.
I'm not sure, it was in the sporting goods store. Next time I'm in town I’ll look!
@@CedarHillsHomestead yeah that's a ridiculous price for sure. Nobody should pay that !
i love this video. I find it interesting when two of my interests intersect. The other day I was recommended a homesteading channel that I didnt recognize. To my surprise I already was subscribed, but I had known the presenter as a leftist. Basically, an anti-capitalist of varied flavors (could se socialism, communism, anarchism, etc). Anyway, I found it great to hear one of the leftist principles in this video. Mutual aid. Good on you for helping your fellow man/family/pupper! Another principle is solidarity. We stand together against things that ruin the earth, degrade community, and oppress people. You may or may not identify as leftist, but if you beleive in these things, you should really investigate it more. I converted about a year ago and am never looking back at consumerism, dems, repubs, culture war, etc. They are merely things the capitalists use to subjugate us and divide us so that they can run off with all the fucking money. anyway, glad to see this. i'm subscribed! keep up the good content even if you arent feeling the leftism. :)
Wow backed up to 2.2 million acres. Thats so badass
My number 1 tip, though not really a homesteading thing so much as a life thing. Check if your local grocery store has a section that they put markdown and discount items. I have gotten thing like $0.98/lb lamb and $0.49/lb ground chuck from my nearby spouts. Due to zoning laws I am not allowed to have livestock where I live so things like this are one of my main ways of getting decently cheap meat.
Keeping it real ❤
Wait did you say there’s a little house on the prairie movie 😮
The series! It’s from 1974! There’s a bunch of episodes and it’s family-friendly so everyone can enjoy it.
@ I read all the books years ago cuz my mom introduced me to them and she never told me there’s a series I’m guessing she doesn’t know about it either
have you considered getting wind power seeing as solar is not useful for you
Yes! We’re not as windy as eastern MT but we do get some decent breezes that could potentially help out.
YOU ARE ONLY 28??! 😭😭😭😭
I thought I was doing well with my off-grid project, and that I still have time to build up to something like what you have.. because surely you must at least be 30, 35! Dont get me wrong, you look very young.. but I just thought you HAD to be older, from your accomplishments, all your knowledge, your mature demeanor :D
But apparently, I only have 1 year left to accomplish all that hahahah! Damn!
I kid, of course.. it's not about comparisons.. but yeh, very cool that you did and learned so much, in so few years!
Right. When I was 28 people called me a baby 😂
I have strong 40-year-old energy about me, I don’t know why I’ve always been like this 🤣🤣🤣 thank you so much. Its funny because I really feel like I'm behind a lot, but I'm trying to just love the process and accept whats going on.
I'm confused about the election layoffs, am i an idiot?
I am a born and raised Hoosier!!! ❤
Amazing! I’m originally from Scott County! ♥️
@ Bartholomew county for me 🥰
@ there are moments I miss Indiana but I really love the mountains too much to move back!
@ yes! I miss my family and the farm, but the mountains feel more like home.
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I miss American persimmons!!!
I miss lightening bugs!!!
I miss swimming in natural waters that are above 50°F 🤪
And when I left Indiana, they still practiced common sense and did not observe daylight savings- I miss the summer NIGHTS
But I don’t miss chiggers or copperheads
Check out, Carla Emery's book Encyclopedia of Country Living.
Oooh thank you!
My plant science professor said ‘organic’ is just a gimmick- not any better for the environment
He explained it very well 15 years ago…
1) the amount of land and water required to grow a monoculture crop to create the ‘organic’ substance on the crops is mind blowing and destructive
2) some of the organic substances have a toxic load
And there was more but I’m not remembering them….
Growing your own food in a natural permaculture environment is the best all around option or starting a garden club in the area- some things I grow better than others and there are locals that can grow what I can’t… save the headache of trying and make a commitment to trade
Could I recommend homestead by region? Or best homestead states and stats based you understanding of knowledge. That would be a good topic. I see everyone running to the same areas and trying to do the same things. "Mimetic desires"
You should ask permission and publish your neighbor's cookbook and give her most of the money you get from selling them after publishing costs
This is just how a lot of folks live out in the sticks. These days it's called "homesteading ". Love seeing this for the newbies who are too scared because of social media. ❤
Trigal?
11:00 there is actually no difference between a hill and a mountain in the dictionary
Amen. I watched outdoor with the morgans, their logging equipment cost more than my house/ land and everything I own. They have a $20000+ machine for every small task. I'm happy for them but maybe only 0.1% of earth could afford to do what they're doing.
I'm sorry you got burned on the truck, damn.
This video popped up at the exact time I needed it. We're looking to buy a house with a couple acres and it's been so hard to find something where we can have no mortgage. We want to be (mostly)debt free. My husband recently had a change at his job that has had some serious impacts on his health. So the pressure is on to find a property that would enable him to get a lower paying job. I feel hopeless sometimes. But your video is giving me a good message that everything will turn out ok. We just have to keep on pushing forward.