EXTREME COLD

Tea party! This is Peaches and Blaze. This is a different kind of cold. We're like single digits or close to it. It's like piercing. Oh God, son of a biscuit eater! My heart feels sharp to breathe. I know you northerners are laughing because it's like -20 where you're at, but we ain't used to this. It's a free country, you can move across state lines. Today's project is just go around the farm and make sure everything's okay. Namely, does everybody have water that's unfrozen? Uh-oh. Oh, okay, the kids have broken this open. Turns out it's actually going to get 34 degrees this afternoon. That's what's so beautiful about living in these mountains of North Carolina. It does freeze usually at night. But then it warms up during the day enough that water lines are thawed out and we can tend to water. The question is, did our trough heaters work or did we blow a fuse? Oh, it's 10 degrees out! We're completely unfrozen. You too, huh? Heck yes! I think that deserves the unfrozen water dance. How the little sheep doing? Everybody Just nursing everybody. They're taking— it takes a village to raise a child to the next level. Everybody the mom of everybody. What you doing? You stressing y'all mom out getting out? Yes, always getting in the feeder. Come on now. The high tunnel doesn't help much when the sun isn't out. Hang in there, ladies. That's a solid block of ice. Sun, it's almost up. Come on, sun, warm them up. They need you. In the event of a completely frozen out— I just left it. I shouldn't have brought it out of the greenhouse. I need to put it back in the greenhouse. I thought quicker. Just another one. I can remember Joel Salatin wrote one of his books, Wintertime Is a Time to Write. That's right. I'm gonna show you guys something I'm writing down about where to place certain things on your homestead. I got the beautiful one. We're going to do some construction. By that I mean solve problems. Remember when your dad, Big Daddy, he once told me it wouldn't be construction without big problems? Without problems? You weren't supposed to have problems on this site. No, there were supposed to be no problems. It was supposed to go fast and easy. We got a mismatched door issue to deal with this time. Apparently the door that we actually got for this bathroom is too big. 2-foot 10-inch doorway. Needs to be, uh, 2 foot 12. There, my front door. Don't mind it, we are under construction. In laying out your homestead, permaculture teaches us something called zoning. House is zone 0, where we live. It's where we spend most of our time. Zone 1 is right side of our house. In this case, we have a kitchen garden, a chicken run. That's zone 1. The lower the zone, zone 1, means the things you would visit most frequently should go there. This is zone 1 because this is our sidewalk down to our garage. You pass this area the most. Don't mind the construction. We're very happy that's going on. We're not going to complain. We're not going to halt it. What would go in zone 1? What would you visit very frequently? Well, kitchen garden. Kitchen garden. Kitchen garden. Kitchen garden. Those are like cut-and-go type of a garden that you could visit for, you know, you want to put lettuce in here, cucumbers, tomatoes, something, you know, that, that grows and you can pick at it throughout a season. You might just run out and get some tomatoes for your eggs, a little salad for your dinner, just real quick. Next to that, chickens. You know how you figure out what's in zone what, what should be closer? Figure out how many times you visit a day. If you let out chickens once and then you put them up once a week, you're You're man— you're managing it somehow, and then before you know it, it's over 700 visits in a year. I think if the beautiful one would let me, I would put the chickens right outside our kitchen window, and you just reach out and grab the eggs, and you just— you could go out the door and there you are, the chickens. Chickens are one of the most frequently visited things in the world. Now you could try to eliminate your visits by bulletproofing your run, and then you'll have to put them up in out. But still, you go get their eggs every day. You, you minister to their water every day. Where to put chickens? As close as socially acceptable to your front door. Why am I standing in the road? I'm standing in the road just to say, for us, that's our front yard. Get the chickens out of the backyard and into the front yard. Many of you have chickens in the wrong place. They're too far away given how many times you visit them. Get them close as socially acceptable, meaning how close will your spouse let you put them? How close will your neighborhood let you put them? Put them close. You'll thank me later. That's a little bit about what I'm writing about today, teaching today, getting ready to teach you guys in February. Is it February 5th? February 4th, Sunday, 2 PM. Zoning is just a fraction of what I'm going to teach you in Setting Up Your Homestead for Success 2024 style. Actually, so if I were planning a home— if this were my— this is our guest house, but if I were planning a homestead here Well, what does that mean then if chickens and a kitchen garden should be in the front yard? You also want to consider something else, and that's called sectors. And that would include sunlight, which this, this tree is going to create an obstacle. We couldn't remove that tree. We'd try to first work around it. Uh, we would want to be on the outer side here. So I think I would clear this tree over here. Let's say we're going to keep the tree. I would start the kitchen garden right here. Raised beds or on the, on top of the garden bed. I maybe level this out a little bit if I could. Maybe trellis— trellis, that's not the right word. Editor, what's the right word I'm looking for? Where you take— it's going from this and you go like this. I'm also considering that this is the south and the sun is crossing along through here, so I'd probably wrap gardens around the corner of this house and over through here and would probably— look, this is a nice flat spot. I'd probably put this— we're starting to get in my zone 1.5 2. This would probably be crop garden. Probably put chickens right between the two. We'd have a chicken run right here and they could service the crop garden. They could also service the front yard garden. Can you guys see that? Do that yourself. Go out and say, how can I put the chickens in the kitchen garden closer to the house? Join me at that workshop. Link is down in the description. I got so much more I can help you with. Good day for YouTube videos. Good day for more record. Well, it was a cold but productive day. We gotta go. The sun is setting. Happy day. Check out the workshop. Link down in the description. February 4th. See y'all there.