A Constant Battle || Clearing The Jungle of Kudzu
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- The kudzu is in full force this summer, and it’s making the cleanup of the back acreage difficult.
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Did you know you can feed the kudzu to the pigs as well as dry it as silage for them? The protein content is about 14-15%. There's a renewable source of pig food!
That’s awsome
Obviously, you didn’t watch the video.
My great great aunt makes woven baskets from the vines and feeds the leaves to her chickens.
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@@amandaforeman2626 Ben talked about this fact at the beginning of the vid.
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Great family class to take together!👍🏻😊
Meg, all your cooking looks amazing. You work so hard yet always seem so relaxed while doing it. I really enjoy watching the whole family sit down to eat together! Thanks!💖
over the winter, after you build the greenhouse, you should research and build a silage pit big enough to get your tractor in/out. you can silage your corn stalks, especially if you expand your corn, and kudzu. if you overbuild it, it will be scaled for the future.
There are lots of used for kudzu. Edible and medicinal.
So cool good for you and the boys! Meg your amazing! Taking care of so many things! Ben is amazing too! I've been canning a lot still and it gets harder as I grow older. But just got a bigger root cellar here. YAY! I've need one since we moved on another place of our property and I don't have to go to my daughter's and use our old one. Guess what we remodeled a double wide that was pretty much like yours had to be gutted! But it was free except for what it costed to move it! My daughter and family moved to our house and we moved to their's. Then when we finished this one we did a air bnb out of their house! Lol both our kids live on family land close to us! Which is so cool!
Yes! Tame your land! It’s looking great!
Thank you
Loved everything about the video. 😊 Ben, every bit of land you make usable also makes it more valuable. Awesome job👍👍👍
Husband and 6 of 7 kids did Kung Fu and Judo. We have several black belts. Best thing, ever.
We have had rain and thunderstorms every afternoon for last month. Lights out and all. Blew my front panels off the overhang over front porch the winds were so bad. I live in Central Florida though. Peace. Made me hngry so I guess I'll go start supper. It looked so good. Peace!
We've really got the opposite problem. All the trees we have are around the edges of the property, our closest thing to a "forest" is only about 10 yards at its thickest.
Kudzu isn't a problem this far north. But we've got spiky prairie rose bushes everywhere under the trees! Just have to get some fruit and nut trees planted too, before we let the poplar and spruce take it over.
KUDZU is one of the most invasive plants that was brought to this country. If you look along major highways, you will likely see the results of your Highway Dept
Have you thought about doing it the "lazy genius" way? If you enclose either goats or pigs in an area like that (preferably first goats to clear the bush and kill the trees by chewing off bark, then pigs to dig up the roots) they could clear 80-90% of that for you in 1-2 weeks (depending on the size of the area and number of animals) while also keeping themselves fed and entertained. Love the small chore vids!
Hey Ben, do you mind telling me what kind of mulch chipper you are using. I love watching the land getting clearer. It is looking good. Glad you and the boys are enjoying your martial arts class.
You can get some of them nut trees from talking to Gold Shaw farms He sell's some of the the trees you are looking for He might still have some of them.
Wow. I wonder if your neighbors would let you run your stock through their kudzu, or harvest it for feed.
that meal your wife made at the end of the video looked absolutely delicious
Sounds like you have a goat paradise!
Short and sweet...love every video
Enjoyed the video
Kudzu, chain on bucket on tractor, rip it out the ground and drag until most comes out?
Run a few corn stalks with corn attached through your wood chipper an see what it looks like. I am curious to know. SEMPER FI
You can use grass clippings right
Plant black walnut.
I wish I could cook like Meg
Goats luv eating it
you can eat all the parts of the kudzu except the vine.
Woah that is frustrating 😔.
Enjoy your class 🙌.
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LOVE Buggy's kisses for Daddy!!!!!!!!! She is so beautiful. Nature girl.
The kudzu had almost taken out some very nice oak trees had to go in and cut out the vines found more this year I do not like KUDZU
Good job 💕
Kudzu grows 10 to 12 inches per day.... ugh... and wisteria... double Ugh.... 2 plants I would NEVER NEVER plant EVER.
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Pecans
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Hi, Ben! So glad you started karate classes. That’s a great activity for you and the boys. Congratulations!!!! Kudzu grows 18 inches on a hot day.
Last video you were wondering what you could feed some of your animals to cut down on feed costs. I read something today that says that Goats and dairy and cows meat cows thrive on Kudzu, and grass clippings for an excellent silage.
The Hollar boys! What a force they are. The truck is sparkling! Great vlog as usual. 💕💕🌻🌻
That's cool, you and the boys doing something together. Kudzu is invasive but animals love it!
Those fajitas looked delicious Meg. Ben nuts trees will round out your homestead, meat, eggs, milk, cheese, veggies, fruit and nuts awesome. Blessings to you all. 😊🇺🇲
I did 17 years of Jujutsu with my son, we started wen he was 7 and he's 31 now. I think it's awesome that you are doing that with your boys. They will always remember this.
Love the channel and thank you for sharing your family and your life with us. Keep up the great work
If I remember correctly, horse chestnuts are soap for body and clothes. Check it out, more self-sufficiency!!
I say root cellar over where the embankment was dug out, and maybe another trailer married up to yours, for more room.
Love your videos and thank youfor bringing us along!!
Blessings!!
Martial Arts is a lifelong meditation. Such a healthy outlet, just one class can change so much. You learn how to kill with your bare hands, only to also learn it is never something you will want to have to do, and you will do everything in your power to prevent it.
Karate is so much fun! Kudzu is super high in protein and is great for pig feed. Also if you ever raise meat rabbits it's great for them too!
Ben and Meg, I would love to see a couple of pictures when you both were around two years old so I could see who the kids look like. I keep changing my mind lol!
Best decision I ever made, other than my choice of spouse, was starting martial arts. Even when I did (I was older than my instructor), it was an amazing challenge. Stick with it and, with a good instructor, you learn things you never thought possible!
My current goal is being able to get back into shape (the past two years have been hard, medically speaking) and go back to class for my 2nd degree. It's a never ending challenge and gardening is the best physical therapy I've found!
The hill is going to look nice when cleared from all the trees you don't want, and the under brush.
We have black walnut, and pecan trees 100 + years old. The squirrels, and wild boar go crazy trying to get the nuts. Most of what they get has already fallen to the ground.
Karate with the boys is a good thing. Meg, and Buggie need to find something fun to do.
Glad you and your boys are learning karate. I think it's a great practice for people who like to live an active lifestyle. I hope you take advantage of all that outdoor space and set aside room for a home dojo to train when you can't make it to your sensei's/sabum nim's/sifu's facility. There are so many things to do at your farm to supplement what you're learning in the dojo. For example, chopping wood with an axe develops the same muscles you use to throw a punch. Practicing outdoors in different types of weather builds stamina. I've trained barefoot, outside in cold New England or Sierra foothills winters. I've also trained in 106-degree Northern California summers. Or practice your basics in lakes or rivers.
There are so many ways to incorporate your martial arts with being in nature.
We have ivy that grows around our trees but it's so invasive that it will kill trees it wraps around (not sure it can be used as fodder though). In the past I have been so against cutting trees down but thanks to you and a couple other channels I see now the benefits of clearing out and letting the sun shine in. I'd love to do a "fast" marshall arts (I've done tai chi). It's a workout too and if you speed up the moves it's pretty lethal also. Great bonding time. Have fun with it.
Pecan trees for sure! Yum! Love what you're doing guys!
My favorite time of the day Hollar Time! As I watch this its dark outside we really really need rain just like you I,m afraid its going to go around. We are in an actual drought and want rain so bad! I,m glad you and the boys are doing an off homestead activity Go Hollar Men!
I wish we could send some of this Deep South Louisiana your way. We’ve been getting rain every day some days all day long. Todays the 1st day we haven’t had rain in a month. We started out in a severe drought & now the swamp grass is taking over my lawn.
@@julieagain That sounds like an incredible amount of rain!
@@StoneKathryn it is. Filled up my 50 gal water drum that’s connected to the gutter system in 1 day. I have to empty it daily so the mosquitoes don’t grow in it. The way summer started I can’t believe I’m throwing water out 😳
Hi Ben! Morgan at Gold Shaw Farm raises chestnut seedlings every year. Maybe talk to him about getting some.
SO cool the boys are doing karate! Sounds like a blast! Kudzu is just crazy!! I live in Atlanta and we have it growing ALL over. The government even uses goats to help clear up kudzu lol
Glad your family is able to do some fun things together. Interesting tidbit about the pigs eating kudzu. I didn't know that.
as someone with a "black belt" in two different karate disciplines... do it for at most 2 years then look at how far you've progressed before you spend any more on it. you can continue doing it on your own in the mornings as a physical fitness activity without it costing you any more. just don't let it be known at your school you might be doing this because 100% they will hold it against you.
Karate classes for all the boys.. Fantastic!! 🌻💖🌻
What about a pit silo for corn and possibly even Kudzu. Might make some good animal feed.
Stephen Bruhner who wrote healing Lyme lists Kudzu tincture best for headaches. Yes, my husband, son and myself have used it with great success. It's good as a salad too. We are from SE KY in the mountains and I'd love to have it, we had to move. Dry it and mail it to me please 😆 🤣
Love the videos. Hope your doing well!
Those fajita's look amazing! I want Meg as my personal cook! In the mean time, I think I need to cut up some onions and peppers, and see what else I have!
Glad to see you and the boys having some off time together for fun as well as a learning experience. That kudzu is as bad as wisteria but at least with kudzu you have feed for your animals. Both are really bad in the south. I didn't realize the kudzu vines got that big, it was like a pipe. Good luck with controlling it. Y'all have a Blessed day.
You Guys are Inspirational…. Shout Out from Hawaii!
Cows ang goats love kudzu! It's invasive and grows at least 1ft/day. Glad you and the boys have found an activity to enjoy.
Chesnuts are amazing. Where I’m from a meat company fatten their pigs mostly on chesnuts and the quality of meat amazing. It’s on another level. Hope your tree planting goes well and in a couple of years your pigs can start feeding themselves.
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Great news about the Karate. As a woman I recomend to Buggie to start it too. Shotokan is especially for defence only. When I was a young girl and was going home late in a dark streets I was always a bit scared so I started Karate. After that I had the confident on any situation. Even Meg can do it if she is interested. 👍👌
Package and sell kudzu. My husband is using some he bought right now!
You are quite rapidly making changes to your property so you can better use the property you have. Since you are wanting sustainable food for your animals why don't you check with your neighbor about cutting his back every couple weeks or months to help supplement your pasture for the cows since you have confirmed they like it. It will give your pastured a little more time per rotation. And while you are using the pigs to help clear out the woods, it will enable you to more easily control the timelines. As far as the vines tying the trees together,that is occurring above the canopy so unless you want to get/borrow a couple goats to decimate those vines going up the trees it will have to be that cross you bear.
It is fantastic seeing how you went from being so overworked in CA that you were missing out on being as involved in your sons' lives to not only being there and teaching them homesteading skills and going off the farm to learn and enjoy other skills together.
I hope as part of homeschooling you teach your children the wide variety of know how you have. My Dad was born to older sickly parents. At age 11 he went to work full-time to support them and get medical help. He became a factory worker. That was the end of his know how. He did love his family well. He raised his neice and 4 daughters with love. I have turned into a lifetime learner to be more self efficient. Love that your able to do such a variety of things on the Homestead.
Kudzu can be eaten by pigs, goats , chickens, humans.
We have kudzu on our acreage it is hard on our brushhog and tractor. We got with our local county extension office to find out more about it it can be used for fodder for animals, the flowers that bloom the last week of September to first week of October you can use those flowers to make jelly which tastes like grape jelly. And the vines can be used for basket making
Karate! What a great idea. You and the boys will have so much fun.
Maybe your pigs could go next door and help the neighbors. Win-win.
Make sure to buy carnation walnut for meats with the best taste verses black walnut which had more bitter meats & the tree is actually for wood harvests not nuts.
Great progress all over the homestead & in the kitchen! Thanks for sharing & blessings to your family 🤗❤️🇨🇦
Fun family event. It’s great that you all have an affinity to martial arts 😊
Fantastic job of fighting the kudzu!
I take the kudzu flowers and steep them and make kudzu jelly. my family thinks it tastes like grape jelly.
So happy you and boys are doing something together beside homesteading. Karate is great!
Good afternoon beautiful family
Ben, you can do so many things! Amazing!
Hope you get rain yep that kudzu is disastrous
Don't forget a few pawpaw trees. 😊
Sounds silly but if you haven't watched victorian or Edwardian farm or wartime farm by the same people you should. They bring back farms from that period and granted it's in the UK theres some great info or idea starters especially when you're trying to not spend tons of money. Also in the wartime farm one they make silage based off instructions from WW2. They also reference Stevens book of the farm which you can get online for free and it has some great still relevant info. I use it a lot and just modify to my growing zone
Good suggestions for more resources. Thanks.
Have you check on ordering trees from the SC Forestry Tree Sales? You should be able to get sapling trees in bulk that will serve as forage for your livestock.
Kudzu makes good cow feed
Well, I learned something new again today! I had never heard of kudzu….it grows like a weed but has some really good things about it😉! I think your plan for all sorts of nut trees is absolutely fantastic. The chicken fajitas looked so good y’all!
I love me some Hollar time!
No really I enjoy following your family to see what’s happening on your homestead
Kudzu is totally edible from the roots to the shoots to the flowers and the leaves the only thing that is not edible is the seeds
🙋🏼♀️🕊. Don’t forget the hazelnut trees.🕊💕🕊🍀🕊💕🍀🕊💕🍀
I had a tomahawk chipper shredder and after I didn't need it any longer I sold it to a buddy. He found they originally offered a finer screen for the hammer mill portion. He would then run shell corn through it for feed for his chickens. Made for less waste when feeding chickens.
Thanks for commenting about another possible use of the wood chipper. That sounds great.
Pam says- I watched a youtube from Korea where they harvested kudzu root ground it up and made starch powder for glass noodles. It's scary what they eat sometimes. Their roots were 3 feet long and like 4 inches diameter from an area that they dig continuously. 😎
Wow, you can even make a flour with it.
Feed the kudzu to the cows and pigs.. they will love it. Dig up the roots.. run them through your wood chipper.. feed that to the chickens
Are the roots nutritional?
@@MrJcalvino Very. It is sometimes called Chinese Arrowroot because you can dry and grind it use it as a flour and thickener.
In china they will dig them up, chop and steam like a potato. The young leaves are like spinach, and the little flower bunches make for an actually tasty jam/syrup.
Best way to get rid of kudzu overgrowth... Use it!
Maybe try cutting as many kudzu vines at the bottom as you can at one time, and just let them dry out? It's what people do in the UK with strong thick ivy vines, you can see the tree underneath starting to "breathe" again once ivy is dry and dead.
Kuduz is great for your animals.
Karate gave me a much needed edge a couple times in my past. Maybe Buggie can get in on it when she's a bit older, and Meg too, it can give a girl a real sense of freedom to be able to defend herself.
We have wild grape here in Minnesota that grows very fast. It will climb up trees and any bush and choke it out. That kudzu sounds really prolific! I'm glad the animals love it. Our goats love the wild grape. They help us keep it under control. That does look like hot work cutting and chipping those trees. I'm glad you get help. Yum Meg, chicken fajitas! Thanks for this Hollar family.
Amazing that our forefathers thought Kudzu was a good idea for the U.S. Apparently the cattle in Europe would eat the invasive mess!