The video captures a lively, informal conversation among family members and farm helpers as they wrap up summer tasks on a small farm. The dialogue covers weaning and breeding a six‑month‑old heifer, reinforcing fences, and managing a young bull’s fertility. Participants harvest and process acorn squash, drying them on racks, flash‑freezing, and vacuum‑sealing for long‑term storage, while also preparing produce for the pigs and the root cellar. A garage clean‑out is performed, including a safety check of a carbon‑monoxide monitor. The group trades services, swapping a facial for a chicken‑butchering lesson, and shares community advice on transitioning Cornish Cross chicks from starter to grower feed. Throughout, they discuss task delegation, motivation, and family dynamics, illustrating the day‑to‑day rhythm of end‑of‑summer farm life.
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Bring some of those men and let's go.
I don't wanna go with you.
Oh, just for a little bit.
No! I don't wanna go with you!
Kind of reminds me of the little dog we used to have, Teddy. I wanted to get him to go with me so bad. He never wanted to. He just wanted to be with Mom. Any chance he got, he broke away and ran home. Harriet, what are you doing over here? She must be in heat. She keeps breaking out from the 2 acres, traversing the creek, coming all the way over here. Lily to the rescue. Only gonna force it so much. She's gonna take him home. None of the other kids were like this. All of you wanted to go when you were 3 years old. It's day 2 separating Jonah and Josiah. Jonah's doing the little animal chores. That means everything but the cows. I know Beefcake is not necessarily a little animal at 500 pounds. Them two being together all the time button heads excessively. They too— this seems to take some— has taken some pressure off of that.
Here they come, and we're missing a pan.
The nose cap's 6 months old, right? Let's wean her. She's not getting pregnant. I talked to the guy we bought the cows from yesterday. One of my cow guys, he said that sometimes if they're still nursing, they won't come into cycle. So she's 6 months old, it's totally fine to wean her with a cow. She's slamming that alfalfa. Whoa, whoa, whoa, let me get started with her and then we'll get you on. She's not used to me, for one. And then definitely not used to you. I guess the little bump Gideon received discouraged him from milking.
You don't want to milk, Gideon?
It could be our bull, you know, maybe he's still a little too short, a little too young. I don't know, not totally fertile yet. It's really important that these guys get bred because that's how we continue this milk cycle. They have another baby And they freshen again. Yeah, train that guy. He's good. He's in that ornery teenage stage where they test the fence constantly. All right, turn it off for a second. I'll reinforce this fence.
Somebody's up to something.
You open the door? Is it hooked up? Actually, the door— push the button. Let's see if it works. And Jonah, did you get Harriet, her buddy? Yeah, good job.
Do you think it's too wet to work on the trail?
Yeah, it's way too wet. Good thought though. Oh, you can help me get acorn squash up. All right, what motivated you, Jonah?
I want to get the vehicles under the shelter.
This is what you cleared out of here? Yeah. Is it good stuff? Yeah. Jonah, we could surprise Mom. She could be coming in this garage.
We just set these tools out.
We have a neighbor down the road. Late, late neighbor. Rest in peace. He had nothing, nothing. Not a shelf, not a shoe, nothing in his garage but a car. So we're doing this one for George.
Ta-da!
A clear garage, not one thing in it. Oh, there is one thing. It's very important though. Carbon monoxide monitor. Can't wait to see what the beautiful one has to say. You already done unloading the truck? What y'all working on now?
Ain't got on the truck.
Oh boy, I'm gonna help, uh, harvest acorn squash. Gideon's supposed to be with me anyway at all times. Come on, Gideon. Gideon, come on, come on. It's time. It's not gonna get much bigger. The acorn squashes are here. What an amazing fruit. What an amazing fruit. That's what I should be kissing. Lasts like 6 months on the counter. Low carbs. A whole wheelbarrow load of squash. 3, 4, 6 months. These are your size squash.
These are mine.
This should go to the pigs.
It's green.
Yep. Okay, just leave it to the side and we'll take it to pigs. We're gonna do pigs next. We put on this rack because they're wet and they just need to dry out before we put them in the root cellar. None of this need to go to waste. Boom! Heck yes! Don't lose stamina. It's the end of summer. You're tired. I'm tired. Do the right thing though, whether you feel like it or not. That's what I'm doing today. We're getting this flipped before it all goes to weeds. Tomorrow we'll shape these beds. We'll add compost and shape the beds. I think I heard Mom coming. Shut the door behind you, bro. What are you, in a race at a barn? Hold on.
Oh, I'm gonna get to go in.
Yeah, we're getting you your button. Look, he graded out here. Oh boy, look at you after your facial. What? Looks so nice.
Thanks.
What do you mean, what? What's your first reaction?
Fear?
Cheer? Not that it's beautiful.
It does, it does. It feels really good. I want to do it more often. It's very nice.
Yeah. Wow.
Okay, if anybody's looking for a facial in Asheville, Evolve Studio.
This lady traded us a facial for a teacher how to butcher chicken. We'll do it. Anybody, anybody a masseuse? I'll teach you how to raise chickens. It's still going to be tight. Don't be nervous, just do it straight. Yeah. Wow, you're good. Bet you're going to go through your mudroom. Can you open the door all the way? Yeah. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Why?
And look, go look in the back. It's like there's not a lot of space.
It's so tight. How did you get that in there without running into it?
I don't know.
I don't know if that's gonna work. Oh, you have a little room back here. Not if you had the hitch on though.
No, I had to take it off.
Yeah, see, that's not worth it. Rebecca, we'll just have to get you a pink side-by-side to go in here with you.
We'll keep painting something down so that you know when to stop.
Oh.
My car has lots of space.
I know, right? Mom getting some cuddle time. Driving Henry crazy. He said, no, she's the— he's not the baby. Boy, if we had another one, we'd be in trouble, wouldn't we? Nobody else was jealous. Little, little second party. Ice cream and brownies last night with all the soccer folks. Is this tendril dead?
I mean, the whole stem's dead, so yeah.
Well, the tendril's on the end, isn't it? Oh, maybe not.
If you hit this one and then go to this one and knock on it, that one sounds not hollow.
Oh, look. So are we calling it? Are we gonna let it go a little more? Put beautiful ones up too. She made more cream cheese and bacon mix for our peppers. Let's have those tonight since we forgot to have them at the party. Yeah, they go good with chili.
Yeah, they'll be fine.
We got leftover chili from the party. Made a big mistake, we put the— all the food right along through here, which this party was— this house was amazing for parties, wasn't it? It was. We probably had 30 people. No, we did, we had 30 people. We put our chili over here and forgot to put it over there. And by that time I came through, which was last, most people had missed it. So good news for us, we have a lot of chili. You're gonna put this stealer in these peppers. And this is me in the office checking the view, doing some work. You guys want to do question of the day? Abundance Plus question of the day, maybe they'll appreciate that. Angie, she wanted to know, does she do Cornish Cross feed starter and then switch to grower. Start them on starter, most definitely. You can switch to grower at 3 to 4 weeks if you want to. The only difference between starter and grower is grower is less ground up, so it's a little easier to manage. It doesn't get so dusty. But the starter, because it's more ground up, it's easier for the chicks, little chicks, to get in and to digest. But if you have a bunch of starters still and you're at 4 or 5 weeks old, that's fine. Normally we just let it run out of starter and switch to grower. It's the Abundance Plus community, free trial right now. Get in there, ask me something. Hey, you gotta help her. I do. He had to help, so we had to get him separate, something separate. Is this like Play-Doh? Thanks. Oh wow, he did that. He actually did pretty good.
Tell me how they are.
They're delicious. Did the red ones work out too? And I noticed you got 2 trays. We're flash freezing them right now. We're gonna bag them tomorrow. I'm gonna vacuum seal them. Vacuum seal them. Probably get another 2 trays. Still, there's nothing like fresh.
