today is my 85th birthday and I want to thank you for your videos. I have watched you for several years and get a kick out of watching the children grow up. You have been a blessing in my life and I wanted you to know that thank you so much for just being you.
That’s so true wouldn’t it be sensible to have a 4H style as half of school curriculum. Farming skills would reinforce math, science, biology, botany, chemistry, and weather science. How prosperous and educated would our children be. ❤
I agree with you, but since it won't what will YOU do about it. I am volunteering in my community garden and getting certified as a MASTER GARDENER thru my Ag extension so I can teach others. It's about making sure we take care of one another. Even if it just means donations of soil and seeds to your local 4H or FFA
Hi.... Justin Rhodes and Rebecca and nice to see you all I really enjoy watching your video homestead beautiful great good job keep it up bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋👍👍👍
You absolutely can Prune squash. There must be something else that's a problem because I Prune my squash every year to open up space to see the squash and lessen powdery mildew. They thrive. So id check for squash vine borrers or something else.
The chickens are going to love that squash vine borer in that squash stem. The damage looks like pruning was coincidental. I bet you find a maggot inside the stem, maybe a few.
Hey Justin, you may want to throw some raw peanuts unroasted in shell in the soil between other plants and water, grow your own peanuts for homemade peanut butter. Harvest and roast. Small compact Top plant and they grow under the ground
Always start waaay more seeds than you need. You could have an adverse event that takes out several in your garden. You will have plants to ready to replace them. You don't always have time to start more seeds. If you don't use them they go in the compost. Seeds are cheap.
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If you get a freeze dryer i highly recommended blue alpine. I got one because after our home burning down i don't have room to can or store a bunch of jars. I can freeze dry 25lbs of food (2 gallons of liquid in 30-50% less time. Pre freeze meat and its done in 18 hours 😊
Future thought... You could harvest pumpkins off hoop trellis....and...leave pumpkin vines up...as shade ...and forage....use the hoop trellis as a place to put the pigs...let them work for you...pull their shelter butted up one end of trellis, and put a gate on the other end...let them eat old vines, and till, and dig weeds..then move the pigs when their done....toss on compost where rows will go along trellis.. cover with tarp...ready to plant next year....working ahead❤
Why not put in another hoop house /high tunnel for the winter growing. And you can alternate which hoop house the chicken over winter 🥶 and keep crops year round
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Next year is probably going to be a cakewalk with the house being done and so so much infrastructure being put in this year. It's unreal how much y'all have gotten done in the last seven months. PS I say "storeboughten" too. Learned it from my mom, who grew up in rural Boone County, WV.
Your squash plants might has squash bug borers. I trim my squash plants and they don't look like yours, but they do when a squash bug borer gets in my plants.
harvester right freeze dryer has codes for % off on a few channels i watch like cog hill farm and they do tons of foods from fresh fruit to candies amazing content on it hugsssss
pretty much missed the spring season with some roofing and other things around the place, but got Chickens this spring, AND starting a fall garden. Also Cherry tree actually put on a few cherries for first time this year so that was nice.
Hey Justin! Can I ask why you don't have something that contains some water for the geese to go into. I'm sure they would love to bath themselves and sit on the water.
They don’t need it and it would be just one more chore. And besides we used to do that for ducks and a chicken drowned and we realized we needed to prioritize our chickens. So now the geese are supportive of the chickens so no bath for them.
@@theJustinRhodesShow that makes total sense. I'm glad I asked as I was going to put a small tote with the goose and chickens and now I won't 🙂. Great content by the way. I have learned so much from abundance plus and the channel. Thank you 👍🏻
@@theJustinRhodesShowhusbandry 101 doesn’t apply to the geese then. Maybe when chicks big enough a pool would be nice. I have geese and chicks. It can work
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Thank you for sharing your life and family with everyone. What a beautiful testament to all your hard work and God's blessings. Do you mind sharing what co-op you are presenting using, I'm trying hard to stay away from GMO's and so many chemicals. God bless you and your family. 🙏❤️
I prune squash all the time this should not have killed it. You could have transferred something to it from the pruning shears. Butternut squash will wilt if it gets to hot and water does not help. Yet a Zucchini has no problem with heat. I put a 4 foot high raised bed inside both sides of my Cattle Panel tunnel. There I could put a shade cloth over it if it gets to hot. Tomatoes grow better in dapple light not full sun believe it our not. They are a tropical plant that grows under trees.😁
Ive been a subscriber since the Great American farm tour. I've not seen your views plummet like the last couple years. Justin the Salesman is not why folks watch your videos. Good luck with the channel.
buys cheese, buys chickens and turkeys instead of hatching and raising sustainably, sends meat off to processors, instead of cut and packaging on property, doesn't can... You have some great videos but the fact that your still at the grocery store and paying others to pack your meats is an interesting concept as you continue to state your self sustaining? with all the help you have constantly on your farm.. The packaging and cutting of meat is the best part and I dont get why you send it off to someone else . I dont know about your location but here you rarely get your own meat back from a processing plant. hence why we do it all on property .. Cheesemaking is so much fun and so rewarding (you buy cheese)..... Canning is a wonderful way of keeping your harvest... Sorry I love your vids and watching your interaction with the kids but the fact your making it seem you do it all is a bit concealing on your part..
Really, it is quite fascinating to see how hard you work and how dedicated you are. From managing the farm, and chores, being a Dad to 5 kids, a husband, a TH-cam Channel, an online Community and A Publishing Business. ALL WHILE BUILDING A NEW HOME! Makes me exhausted typing it all. I hope balance and slowing down are in your near future. God Bless!
I have a sensitive question, after your oldest son’s accident with the dirt bike how has your view on ATVs changed? I see y’all have gotten a four wheeler, are y’all’s children getting taught how to ride them? Genuinely curious
Anytime I seen my horses, goats doing the rump rub. I did a lice check. Once ordered a large order of hay for the winter. Infestation came after that. Had to treat the whole farm. It happens. But the rump rub was the first sign.
What happened to the giant swimming pond y'all had the huge bull dozer thingy digging out? The one you tore the dock out of. We haven't seen the kids in it this summer. Didn't you even build a beach area at some point? Did it dry up from lack of rain this summer?
my dream for this family is to have a feild with wheat to get their own bread. aswell as animal feed. 10 sq feat per loaf is doable for the land they have.
😄 I have 10 minutes to kill and see a Rhodes video pop-up. Great, start her up and it's a 30min video! Well, at least I have something extra special to watch later!
What do you do about rodents? I never hear you teach about rodent’s getting into your feed etc? That would be a concern for me! Thank you and have been following for several yrs! ❤
I think your son could have ADHD or a sensory disorder - one sign is he wants to touch and play with everything. I am that way too lol and I am in my 50s.
I think this kid has more of an evil streak too.i have seen him drow rocks at the meat birds before.he doesn't look as happy ever.i don't think he is into homesteading.lol
Justin is a Great dad. He is fair, loving yet has clear expectations for his children blended with chores and family fun.
today is my 85th birthday and I want to thank you for your videos. I have watched you for several years and get a kick out of watching the children grow up. You have been a blessing in my life and I wanted you to know that thank you so much for just being you.
🎉happy Blessed Birthday
Happy 85th Birthday!🎈
Happy birthday 🎁
Happy birthday 🎉 thanks for watching :)
Happy 85th Birthday from Downunder in Australia. 🎂🎉🌻
Every human being should learn these skills. This is what should be taught in public schools.
for sure.. sure
That’s so true wouldn’t it be sensible to have a 4H style as half of school curriculum. Farming skills would reinforce math, science, biology, botany, chemistry, and weather science. How prosperous and educated would our children be. ❤
I agree with you, but since it won't what will YOU do about it. I am volunteering in my community garden and getting certified as a MASTER GARDENER thru my Ag extension so I can teach others. It's about making sure we take care of one another. Even if it just means donations of soil and seeds to your local 4H or FFA
It used to be. It was called Agriculture.
Preach
"It's incredible to witness the blend of tradition and technology in farming today. Great job!"
Hi.... Justin Rhodes and Rebecca and nice to see you all I really enjoy watching your video homestead beautiful great good job keep it up bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋👍👍👍
Hi Mr. Rhodes. It's utterly amazing how beautiful the new hill pasture has turned out. Great job. God bless your new home.
The beautiful one’s dream garden also gives great leaning content for us garden noobs! So thank you Rebecca!
Sometime I would love to see aerial views showing all of the clearing, pond building, etc. you've done over the last few years.
Good idea. Next time for the fall tour
@@theJustinRhodesShow you can access older google maps photos from the last decade and include them? Showing the changes over the years!!
You both look to the future you.
Children are blessed in future.. And Dad will never retire.. just slow down ❤ happy day !!
Great tour of the variety of interconnecting, interspecies, food production on your homestead!
Don't forget to put freezer alarms on your freezers. That way you'll know when one breaks. You won't lose hundreds of pounds of organic meat.
Justin: "Stop touching everything."
Gideon: Proceeds to touch everything.
😂
You absolutely can Prune squash. There must be something else that's a problem because I Prune my squash every year to open up space to see the squash and lessen powdery mildew. They thrive. So id check for squash vine borrers or something else.
Beautiful home ❤
Great tour. A lot of work. Good thing you have the kids and Annie. There is no way I would be able to handle what you do since it is just me.
Love the way you call the animals "people" and store bought items "boughten".
The chickens are going to love that squash vine borer in that squash stem. The damage looks like pruning was coincidental. I bet you find a maggot inside the stem, maybe a few.
The abundance that you make can be celebrated with your neighbors😊❤
God bless y’all ! You are well Blessed! Thank you for sharing your gifts with all of your followers!
Such big progress on the farm. Next year with the home remodel under your belt life will be a walk in the park.
Pasture looks good. Glad to see that peach tree made it
Hey Justin, you may want to throw some raw peanuts unroasted in shell in the soil between other plants and water, grow your own peanuts for homemade peanut butter. Harvest and roast. Small compact Top plant and they grow under the ground
For the freezers, look into a WiFi thermostat that has temp alarms to alert if the door gets left open or unplugged or freezer dies.
Lovely video. Yes, you can prune squash. It has to be done properly, with good roots on the plant.
Happy birthday, Janepar! Many more! God bless you all and many prayers 🙏🏻 Nurse Judi in Scottsdale AZ and Eucharistic Minister 🙏🏻
Yea Justin could hear the pull of the hill in your voice looks so green, great job ❤
Blaze looks gorgeous!!
Always start waaay more seeds than you need. You could have an adverse event that takes out several in your garden. You will have plants to ready to replace them. You don't always have time to start more seeds. If you don't use them they go in the compost. Seeds are cheap.
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Love the sun flowers
If you get a freeze dryer i highly recommended blue alpine. I got one because after our home burning down i don't have room to can or store a bunch of jars. I can freeze dry 25lbs of food (2 gallons of liquid in 30-50% less time. Pre freeze meat and its done in 18 hours 😊
Just got one Thursday!
Future thought... You could harvest pumpkins off hoop trellis....and...leave pumpkin vines up...as shade ...and forage....use the hoop trellis as a place to put the pigs...let them work for you...pull their shelter butted up one end of trellis, and put a gate on the other end...let them eat old vines, and till, and dig weeds..then move the pigs when their done....toss on compost where rows will go along trellis.. cover with tarp...ready to plant next year....working ahead❤
Why not put in another hoop house /high tunnel for the winter growing. And you can alternate which hoop house the chicken over winter 🥶 and keep crops year round
Awesome growth! Love the wholesome, inspirational content💞.
Looks great Justin🙏
Looking fabulous! Blessings guys!
Yes your right ..I’m getting ready for fall Gardening 🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱
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Next year is probably going to be a cakewalk with the house being done and so so much infrastructure being put in this year. It's unreal how much y'all have gotten done in the last seven months. PS I say "storeboughten" too. Learned it from my mom, who grew up in rural Boone County, WV.
Right! It’s gonna be a HUGE growing year.
You’ll want a backsplash in the downstairs kitchen. The wall will be destroyed by all the water usage it will get. 😊
i do my garlic and onion power in my dehydrators outside / garage then process in grinder
Your squash plants might has squash bug borers. I trim my squash plants and they don't look like yours, but they do when a squash bug borer gets in my plants.
harvester right freeze dryer has codes for % off on a few channels i watch like cog hill farm and they do tons of foods from fresh fruit to candies amazing content on it hugsssss
Your pasture looks like a green carpet. Golf courses would be jealous.
It’s a great way to learn
pretty much missed the spring season with some roofing and other things around the place, but got Chickens this spring, AND starting a fall garden. Also Cherry tree actually put on a few cherries for first time this year so that was nice.
Hey Justin! Can I ask why you don't have something that contains some water for the geese to go into. I'm sure they would love to bath themselves and sit on the water.
That sounds like a great idea!
They don’t need it and it would be just one more chore. And besides we used to do that for ducks and a chicken drowned and we realized we needed to prioritize our chickens. So now the geese are supportive of the chickens so no bath for them.
@@theJustinRhodesShow that makes total sense. I'm glad I asked as I was going to put a small tote with the goose and chickens and now I won't 🙂. Great content by the way. I have learned so much from abundance plus and the channel. Thank you 👍🏻
@@theJustinRhodesShowhusbandry 101 doesn’t apply to the geese then. Maybe when chicks big enough a pool would be nice. I have geese and chicks. It can work
so excellent
I love seeing progress. It is so satisfying 😌 Great job
Very sweet.. good work, do hugelkultur beds! This year is a bumper crop year, cheers!
Love the longer vlogs!
I love to share recipes with your productions of meats, vegetables, and herbs.
Sustenance brother. ❤❤ Amen
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❤😊 love your place. You’re doing so much with it from Washington state
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Play with your body down that Al the time because it help me with my body hurts
Those squash plants in Zone 1 looked like they may have other issues than cutting the leaves off. Have you checked for Squash Vine Borer?
Thank you for sharing your life and family with everyone. What a beautiful testament to all your hard work and God's blessings. Do you mind sharing what co-op you are presenting using, I'm trying hard to stay away from GMO's and so many chemicals. God bless you and your family. 🙏❤️
You are very welcome
What a lovely tour!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I prune squash all the time this should not have killed it. You could have transferred something to it from the pruning shears. Butternut squash will wilt if it gets to hot and water does not help. Yet a Zucchini has no problem with heat. I put a 4 foot high raised bed inside both sides of my Cattle Panel tunnel. There I could put a shade cloth over it if it gets to hot. Tomatoes grow better in dapple light not full sun believe it our not. They are a tropical plant that grows under trees.😁
Ive been a subscriber since the Great American farm tour. I've not seen your views plummet like the last couple years. Justin the Salesman is not why folks watch your videos. Good luck with the channel.
buys cheese, buys chickens and turkeys instead of hatching and raising sustainably, sends meat off to processors, instead of cut and packaging on property, doesn't can... You have some great videos but the fact that your still at the grocery store and paying others to pack your meats is an interesting concept as you continue to state your self sustaining? with all the help you have constantly on your farm.. The packaging and cutting of meat is the best part and I dont get why you send it off to someone else . I dont know about your location but here you rarely get your own meat back from a processing plant. hence why we do it all on property .. Cheesemaking is so much fun and so rewarding (you buy cheese)..... Canning is a wonderful way of keeping your harvest... Sorry I love your vids and watching your interaction with the kids but the fact your making it seem you do it all is a bit concealing on your part..
You make many good and honest points.
You got a new subscriber. 😊
Add me as well! 🇨🇦
Really, it is quite fascinating to see how hard you work and how dedicated you are. From managing the farm, and chores, being a Dad to 5 kids, a husband, a TH-cam Channel, an online Community and A Publishing Business. ALL WHILE BUILDING A NEW HOME! Makes me exhausted typing it all. I hope balance and slowing down are in your near future. God Bless!
lol. Makes me exhausted reading about it wow! That is crazy.
💚 SO much progress continuing to happen, how exciting to see the house getting close to completion..will you be in by Thanksgiving? 💚
You should get some solar panels to help with the electric bill
Have you ever thought about doing a smoke house for some of your harvested meats?
Those fading squash look like they might have vine borers.
I thought so too. I prune mine heavily and they thrive UNTIL THE VINE BORERS FIND THEM! They die in a day.
Love the tour! I am curious why you aren't using a walk in freezer at this point? Should be a cost savings.
It’s to spread the risk. If one chest freezer goes out we’re limited in our loss.
I like those flats you’re using with the diagonal open cell. Where did you get them? Thanks.
I have a sensitive question, after your oldest son’s accident with the dirt bike how has your view on ATVs changed? I see y’all have gotten a four wheeler, are y’all’s children getting taught how to ride them? Genuinely curious
I prune zucchini and squash, you may have a vine burrower?
I miss vlogs like this 😊
This was a tour, not a vlog per se. But gonna do one once a quarter :)
Roma tomatoes make the best sauces.
Anytime I seen my horses, goats doing the rump rub. I did a lice check. Once ordered a large order of hay for the winter. Infestation came after that. Had to treat the whole farm. It happens. But the rump rub was the first sign.
“It’s not, because I checked it two days ago.” lol cutie pie oh my goodness!
First! Love tour videos!
Why is there a rag on the corner of the freezer door ?? The doors not closed. WAste.
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Have you ever used the side of that hill to try gravity irrigation before ?
Where would the water come from? Rain water I know is free but collection & transportation costs!!!
@@tonygrimes13 20$ pcp pipes.
I’ve lived on a 30* slope for 30+ years. Builds muscle and lung structure 😂
Corn needs to be planted in 4 rows, at least for the wind pollination
I love everything you’ve done. But I don’t agree in that small space that those pigs are kept in .
Gideon caught you lying 😂
Good job checking your dad Gideon. No lying allowed. Be real and be honest.
Hey Rebeka what grade of agri-bond do y'all use in your area? TIA 😉
Love the tours! No pond?? Haven't seen much since the redue ❤
They have a large pond across the road from the house being re-modeled.
"justin Rhodes just a thought, how has the farm changed from when you fist started to now as a video tour
What does “a little meta “ mean?
Where are you in western North Carolina? I am a born and bred in NC and spend a lot of time in Marion, NC where my Mother’s family lived.
What happened to the giant swimming pond y'all had the huge bull dozer thingy digging out? The one you tore the dock out of. We haven't seen the kids in it this summer. Didn't you even build a beach area at some point? Did it dry up from lack of rain this summer?
The pond is still there, was in a recent video.
@@tonygrimes13 My time is limited darn it. which one? I would love to see it. xoxo Althea
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How old is Mister Brown now? ❤
I have pruned my zucchini plants with great success
Justin, how many acres do you have there that is wooded and pastors now
I don't think you killed the zucchini plant. It looked like it was wilting before. I think it was suffering from vine borders already.
Gideon would give Dennis a good competition for the nickname "the Menace". He will grow up to be a leader, but until then, yikes!
my dream for this family is to have a feild with wheat to get their own bread. aswell as animal feed. 10 sq feat per loaf is doable for the land they have.
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400 pounds of potatoes!!! How are you going to eat all those before they spoil? Unless do you sell them?
2 adults, 5 children & 2 grand parents!!!!
Nooice! 😎 STOC
😄 I have 10 minutes to kill and see a Rhodes video pop-up. Great, start her up and it's a 30min video! Well, at least I have something extra special to watch later!
Love it
What do you do about rodents? I never hear you teach about rodent’s getting into your feed etc? That would be a concern for me! Thank you and have been following for several yrs! ❤
They have outside cats.
QUESTION. How many acres do y'all have?
I think your son could have ADHD or a sensory disorder - one sign is he wants to touch and play with everything. I am that way too lol and I am in my 50s.
I think this kid has more of an evil streak too.i have seen him drow rocks at the meat birds before.he doesn't look as happy ever.i don't think he is into homesteading.lol
He has a sadistic streak in him. I've seen him hurt the animals @@kerstinmahnke8863
Typical boy!
I think he meant mantle, not hearth. Hearth is on the floor in front of the fireplace.