Cherry Pickin'

Happy day, y'all! Welcome to another day in the life. It's Sunday seed day. We're growing our own food, we're eating what we grow, we're cooking a turkey. Devon, the beautiful one, still recovering from stepping on a nail. Did you ever fix that water line leaking? It was leaking yesterday. Our nets around the trees has been brilliant. 100% protection for our very valuable fruit trees. Uh, y'all left the milk out yesterday. Okay, I might make some sour butter. Oh, you know it's your fault, Jonah. You got ants in it. How come we only have a half a thing? She's normally giving a full thing. She isn't? When'd that stop? When Jonah started milking. Uh-oh. Yeah, painters worked Saturday, yesterday, and today. Hey, what are y'all two up to? We're doing chores. Okay, what are your chores? Um, chickens and Blaze. I don't think you want to put that egg in that pocket. Can I hold it? No, it'll burst, it'll burst, it'll burst in that pocket. All right, save some for tomorrow. All right, Jonah, you gotta go wash this and then we can go back out to the cow. Here you go, Mama. Extra protein from the skim milk would be good for mom and nursing pig. You need to put some hay in this so we don't break the eggs when we get them. The chickens have been crushing it helping us stir this compost pile. On the outskirts of the compost, we have more compost, and when that gets wet, the chickens' feet just get dirty. I'm telling the boys we need to go from— we need to get some wood chips in here. See, that's not poopy, that's composty. We are rich in eggs, y'all. Even if I I do have to clean out this chickshaw. I don't gotta go in the coop. Don't go in the coops. I only got to clean it out because they pulled their hay down and the poop can't fall through. See, they checked on the turkey poults. We got them over the weekend, weren't vlogging, but they came. Took them 3 days to get here. That is very stressful, giving they hatched. They haven't had any food. Water feed. Lily must have done this. See if anybody's dead. We lost 5. Really? Yeah, open it up. Yesterday I picked out 5. 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. We like to eat a turkey a month, so that only leaves 15. Is it? Yeah, there's one behind. Okay, 1, there's 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, or 16. 6, 15, 16 maybe. Inevitably some more people will die, probably, certainly in the field. We want some to give away. That might do it. All right, we might not have to order any replacements. I think we must have ordered 20. Yeah, one died upon arrival, so that makes sense. They're prepping to paint homestead house. I'm excited, we're getting near the end. You're getting it. This grass though, look. Look at that clover. That clover is 3 feet tall. We're gonna lose honey in it. We lost the sheep a long time ago. Now to pick up all these crazy nets. We had to rig some hooks because the steers put their nose under the water and knock it over. You know, there's two half days for the farmer. Once when the livestock comes and then once when it leaves. They usually start wearing you out towards the end, towards the harvest day. Makes it a bit easier. They start eating your fruit trees, they start tipping their water, start getting out. I put a log under it on this 30-degree slope to get it more balanced. That way it gets more full of water and doesn't make it a little more difficult for them to push over. Mow behind the cows, break down that grass. It's organic matter quicker into the soil, gets any weeds they didn't eat, and the edibles grow back faster. They don't have internet, they're bored to death. Here they come. Plus they need it. I see ABC, Advanced Biological Concepts mineral program. Been doing that for years, folks. One reason we raise it at home, gonna be the healthiest meat. Mineralized meat, mineralized milk. That means that's the food that we're eating. We eat what our food eats. We are what our food eats. Normal grass-fed beef operations aren't going to do that. One person, we'll make a bit of a funnel here. Generally the one wants to get back. When one gets out, you don't got to worry too much. How we doing? So they made breakfast. Yeah, did you make Dutch babies? Yeah, you look nice. What's the occasion? Cherry picking. I can almost walk on my foot properly. Wow. You know you're a homesteader when you have eggs with a side of eggs. Rebecca, should I start the turkey now or right before we leave? You can start. How's your foot? It's much better. I'm a little nervous to start it now because I don't know how long it's gonna take me out there. Shouldn't take long. And then how long is it gonna take us at cherries? A neighbor called us and they've got lots of cherries. They said come get them. Can we get all we want? I figured what we could do is pick some for them too. Let's bring up a dozen eggs too. And we have a big boy. We're supposed to cover this. Can't get it covered. Wow. Put the lid on this little buddy. I don't think it's gonna fit. I think it can be slightly covered. Sealed. Does it have to be sealed, Rebecca? No. All right, there it is. All the ripe ones are high. They've got all the low-hanging fruit. That's not a saying for nothing. I don't remember cherries being so red. I thought that was like a— no, it's a dyed thing. No, no, they come naturally. So they can be, they can be. It depends upon the varieties. She didn't even realize this was here. She bought this and now She realized she has a cherry tree. Hand him a ball, Henry. Get in your little— climb up in this tree. Come on, I'll hand you a ball. This is the one time Papa's telling you to climb a tree. Hey, how is it? Tasty? Give me a boost up. All right, I'm not that flexible. Look, there he goes. Just say, have you tried one? Gideon has the advantage. He's small. If somebody could get up near Gideon holding the basket, he could drop them down into you. You holding the ladder or waiting to go up and go even higher? Holding the ladder. Made some, uh, homemade condensed soup. Is that what this is? Cream of mushroom— cream of mushroom soup, but without the mush. Billy's working on the cornbread, trying a classic. Turkey divine. I've steamed some broccoli. We have our condensed soup combined with a container of sour cream. I've got a layer of broccoli in the bottom. Mom likes the turkey cut real fine, I just found out. So here we go for the beautiful one. I'll put the sauce on. Rebecca, cheese and then the breadcrumbs? Cheese and then the cornbread, yes. I got a masterpiece ready. Cornbread crumbled on top, cheddar cheese, cream of mushroom without the mushroom, turkey, and broccoli. Turkey from the farm. Uh, you might be a homesteader if you have turkey on just some random Sunday in May. We'll start that in a little bit. I'm a little early, it's 3:30. We got cherries, we got turkey. Devon, how is it? Good. How is it? It's a one-plate meal, one-dish meal. I realize every meal's Probably had one pipe mill. What I meant is one dish. We only dirtied one dish. No, Henry likes it.