Building (massive) compost pile before it’s too late

On today's episode of The Rooted Life, we are getting this bedding out of here into the chickens, piled up to be made into compost. It's the height of summer, it's the time to make compost before it starts getting too cold and becomes difficult. Let me be free. Happy day, y'all. I got an idea. One second on that idea. Happy day. Welcome to another day in the life. Oops, I don't want to stand him too close to that pig, that hungry pig. Henry pointed out the hole. Yeah, it would be hard to pour skim milk or any other kind of liquid in here. It would just leach out before the pigs could eat it. Actually don't have a lid for this no-hassle chicken waterer, no-work chicken waterer. Video on that coming pretty soon. There you go, now we have a lid for that thing. Hey, happy day! Did you do your turkeys this morning? Good deal. In order to do this, we're going to take kind of temporary. This is semi-permanent. This can actually be removed in order to get material out. We need a bigger bit, and of course we don't have all day to do this. Let's get our lessons in. We gotta leave for that in 2 hours, 2 hours 20 minutes. I'm afraid today though we have an even quicker deadline, and that's beating the rain. We're really in a rainy streak right now. Not complaining, just saying. I haven't been that big. I don't think I do. I don't see it. I think I know who might have that Dodge. I'm gonna be distracted here. She said— she said 5 pounds or 6 pounds. Let's do 6 so we have leftovers. Come on, cousin Lauren from Nebraska, for staying here, is going to cook us a meal tonight. That's gonna be so nice. She's so nice. I wonder what it is. Randolph, what you doing? Good morning. I'm making some boards for the loft doors and the door on the steps. Heck yeah. Can I get a large Allen key drill bit for taking off the panels of the pig— of that pole barn. Also, oh boy, beans need to go out. Brassicas definitely need to go out. Collards today or tomorrow, no later. Kind of got my heart set on this pig project, so I'm gonna think tomorrow. That one's ready to go too. Those beans need to go out too. Oh, sorry, sorry. He usually doesn't ride with me, but I'll take it. Hey Gideon, get us a food service tray, please. Use this trick so much. Because we always forget to set out the meat, so we soak it in water. Oh, I see fried cabbage in our future from the farm. This is a terrible light. Is that better? Okay, I'll get you out. Go ahead, you're free. Beck, what's spacing on brassicas? Um, I'm just gonna plant them next to the pumpkins. Yeah, so a foot and a half, 18 inches, one every 18 inches. Hey, we got help today! These Nebraska girls are good sports. We're gonna do the, uh, get the material out of the pig. Um, Randolph's getting us a bit and we're ready to go. What do you have there? Four-leaf clover. You lucky dog. What do you wish for? I'll tell you, it won't come true. Well, I think you have to tell us or it doesn't come true. I wish for a German chocolate cake. Oh, hey Lily, did you hear that wish? German chocolate cake. Tomorrow morning for breakfast. All right, we'll see how powerful that 4-liter flow is. Next question, Beck, is, is it gonna rain tomorrow morning? Sure, because that's when we'll plant. Jonah, Josiah, let's go while it's not raining. Gabby, uh, boys, are you staying here? Yeah, I am. You want to go with us? Okay, breakfast in 20 minutes. You think we can do it in that much time? The whole thing? Yeah, we can do it. We can at least get the front off. Remember that— okay, let's do it. There's no way. We have to pull the front off, we have to get Miss Piggy over, and then we have to get all that material out of there. I laid the 2 bits down there at the corner of the— yes sir, uh, when you stood into that corner post. Yes sir, we're laying right there. Yes sir, thank you, Randolph. What a blessing to this farm and the house build. There's the big drill bit. We all three just called her three different names. He called her Cheesecake, and he called her Pound Cake. I called her Miss Piggy. What if she's in heat? She ain't. We do not want her to get bred. We're gonna have fall babies. That'd be fine. It's a pain in the butt to raise piglets in the winter. Sell them if they're hard to sell. Jonah's got him distracted. Here, Josiah. He's got no internet. This is excitement. Hey, that chicken finally died. Is that the broken leg chicken? No. Who's that? I don't know. The dead chicken. So somebody got out? No, she was underneath the coop. Oh boy. It's fine if he goes over there and then we'll get— whoa! And then we'll move them both over. Whoa, look at her, boy! Freedom. Look, good mercy, you can run! How quick can we take apart the front of the pole barn? You guys got it? Almost. All right, you guys want me to get the gate off? Hey, don't you fall! Wait, if you've already unscrewed that in, you probably don't want to go on that. Don't get injured before our bike ride, a camp bikepacking trip. Have you guys ever even been backpacking? Like camping in the woods? Like camping in the woods, like in hammocks, not tent, not right next to the road. This is real camping. Should I go get a ladder? It's like right there. Oh, we can reach it. Yeah, sure. Stop taking unnecessary risks. Forget it, I just set that up for him. I like it, Jonah's taking charge. They like having a set project. And they like to hustle to try to get it done so they can have free time. I mean, that's, that's how life works in entrepreneurial world anyway, man. Okay, we're almost there. You guys hungry? Breakfast is ready. 6 after. Just got to get back in here. We— they can't be together. All right, you want to take a quick break for breakfast? No, we don't break for breakfast. How about do a record-breaking breakfast? As long as I don't go over there, you might be all right. So you're not going? I should probably check in. Let's have a competition. We'll split this in half. This kid's here versus Papa. I'll have my workout for a few, few days. I'm a hair concerned. We have had our second chicken die. I'm not concerned when one chicken dies. When two chicken dies, I get a little concerned. Concerned enough that we made change. We got rid of all the, the, the soil that was on top. Got rid of all the compost was in there. We tried to get rid of the soil. There's any disease in it. Put down fresh bedding. If a third one dies, I think we're gonna have to move them completely out of here onto pasture. The hardware up. This looks like a good spot. Okay, I tried to stay out of the house, but it's 10 minutes— it's been 10 minutes, so I need to check on those kids. All right, you are almost done. All right, I didn't get distracted at the home, but got distracted here. The gas guys are here. We're getting safety inspection. Real exciting stuff, right? Looking up gas lines. So much to building a house. It's absolutely incredible. We just wait to make sure they have all their supplies. There the boys go. Those guys said they have everything they need to hook that up. We passed the safety inspection. We're also getting a final plumbing today. You know, I didn't know how I felt about getting a permit. I'm kind of like, oh yeah, you know, it's in my house, I'll do it. I'd be able to want to do, but it came in clutch with when we had a problem with one of our contractors. We had like a third-party mediator investigator type thing that was really helpful, and we didn't feel alone, you know. It felt like they were really on the homeowner's side, and as a homeowner, we don't know if The electricians did a good job. It's not that bad to have somebody inspect and say, yeah, this is, this is safe. Does it get bureaucratic sometimes? Yes, absolutely. But with things like electrical and gas, framing structure, those core things— changing my mind on it. I think it's, I think it's more helpful than harmful. Oh my gosh, these boys make quick work. Look at our pumpkins. Interesting how these are doing better. They were just planted up and straight up. Thought these were planted in our bed, but I feel like these are doing slightly better. But regardless, they're about to be trellised. They're getting tall. Let me show you something about Three Little Pigs. Pigport is keeping them nice and dry. It's keeping their bedding nice and dry. We've made it to where we can put a lean-to off on this thing. And we can put wood chips down. That's not much, but it's all we got. It'll buy us some time. Buy wood chips, y'all. Buy wood chips. Those 3 pigs, $3,000 worth of pork easy, if not $4,500. Buy a load of $200 dump truck load of wood chips, and then you get compost out of it. $600, $700 worth of compost. We got it covered. It'll start drying out, airing out. Let's go put this wall back up and get Miss Piggy back in. I've got about 22 minutes before Lily's gonna be after me for her horse lesson. All hands on deck to get us out of this rain. Rain or shine, pigs still gotta eat. You guys made short time of that. What'd you do that in, 15 minutes? Y'all ready to go look in the lake, huh? Yeah, go play. Okay, so we switched it. Beefsteak will be over here. Hey, we got to make sure our water gets turned back on. It's It's his. Okay, thank you, Annie. All right, we switched them. That'll be some excitement for him, like a kid in a new hotel room. She's finally wound down. She's finally stopped jumping on beds. Just when I thought we can't get more people in the house. Lauren coming in clutch. What'd you make for us? This is beef bibimbap. Say it again. Beef bibimbap. And where's that from? I don't know, actually. I should have— culture. What? Korean. Korea. Okay, so tell me Tell me all about it. So we have steamed rice and we have sesame seed, uh, oil with coconut aminos and ginger. Okay. Then we have carrots from the farm with salt, um, zucchini from the farm with salt in olive oil or avocado oil. And then we have green onions from the farm with rice vinegar and a little pinch of sugar. All right, coconut sugar. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. I think there's 14 or 15 or 16 outside. How many How many people can you fit in a 100-year-old farmhouse? This might be a record. These are all Rebecca's cousins. Who's this? This is Hollis. This is my second cousin. I think so. No, or is it cousin first removed? But she's super cute. She'll shake her head no. It's so cute. Hollis. She's the most precious little thing. Do you want Gabby to hold you? Do you like ice cream? Do you like ice cream? It's right here. Look at her, she's not gonna be tricked. Do you like hard labor in the noonday sun? Let me think. How is it, Beck? 1 to 10. I'm doing my toes too. The question is, are you gonna make this yourself? I would make this before Lauren comes out. Loren, what is the flavor in here? You take your supplements. Yes, thank you. A lot of— You must do that when we're not around. I do take my supplements after dinner, but we normally eat at 5. What is it? A lot of ginger. Coconut aminos. Um, sesame seed oil, garlic, onion, and salt. It's good. Yeah. It has a fun flavor. It is delicious. Yay, happy day.