In this informal homestead vlog, the narrator (Victor) walks viewers through a hectic morning on the farm with his children Henry, Lily, and Josiah. The day begins with a frantic search for Henry’s jacket and boots, followed by a planned clearing of trees using a chainsaw and a grapple. The crew battles broken hydraulics, fuel limits, and icy conditions while cutting roughly 2,000 sq ft of brush. Throughout the work, the family jokes, helps each other, and shares moments of pride. After the labor, they transition to the kitchen where Bernadette prepares turkey broth and egg‑drop soup, emphasizing the benefits of home‑grown food over store‑bought produce. The vlog also promotes the upcoming Abundance Plus Film Festival, inviting viewers to become local hosts. The tone is candid, conversational, and light‑hearted, mixing practical farm advice with family banter and a community call‑to‑action.
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What should I put in the yogurt? Banana. Alright. Gave them a little farm fresh breakfast this morning. You guys feel the love? Mm-hmm. Feel the love? I like you. I like you too, Henry. We gotta find his jacket. Do you think it's up there? No, it's not up there! Our immediate mission: find Henry's sweater. Do you have Henry's coat? It's in your room? Uh, now we're trying to find his boots. The thing is, we're gonna work harder to find his coat and his boots than the amount of time he'll actually spend outside because it's so cool. The bigger mission is to grow our own food. You see, for our health journey The grocery store quality is— you need the nutrient density of homegrown goodness. Oh, don't hit that truck. Do you know where his— Henry's boots are? We tried. Shoes. Missing a lot of stuff this morning. Story of my life. I'm determined. I even got all the chainsaw stuff ready last night. It's fueled up, ready to go. They said it's at their trench they just dug. Hey, I haven't seen your airsoft trench yet. Wow, how cool! And they dug it all with a shovel. What a cool place for some kids to play. He found his boots. 20, 30 minutes finding all this stuff, he can come out for his 5 minutes. All right, you're happy now? It's time. Let's load the chainsaw stuff. We should just go cut down trees because I can go back another day and pick them all up. I like it. We'll incorporate both machines and the chainsaw. It's gonna be a good day. But ice in there. Is it ice? Are you breaking it for them? Yeah. Take it one little step at a time. We got some trees along the edge and we got a little batch right there. How long does it take us to clear, I don't know, 1,200 square feet? Fuel pit stop. I'm very excited about this because I can't remember the last time we were able to work longer than one round of fuel. We still have over an hour. Here we are at the top of this cluster. We've got incredible amounts of work Done. Look at that! One more tree in this patch. No, maybe, maybe two. Those two trees. Uh, I'm shocked this camera still works. It's shattered, can you tell? But we are done. We've had a good day. Almost through two tanks of fuel here. Yeah, farm vlogging is rough on a on filming equipment. We're calling it. The boys can pull up some stumps. Let's go see what we got for lunch. Lily, it's your turn to help mom with the meal. Before we go in for lunch, Lily has a surprise. Oh my word, you have cleaned this out, organized it. So proud of you. Thank you, you're a hard-working girl. If we zoom in, guys, it's a little better. Oh yeah, okay. What broke? Hydraulics. Farming's hard on, uh, grapples too. There's definitely a price to pay for the, the amount of work these guys get done in such a short time. Boys, we got the work done this morning, didn't we? You guys did. How much did you clear? 2,000 square feet probably. Can't show you on camera, but I ripped my pants today. Josiah, my man, rough baby dishes. Man, I'm excited. The home Homestead Design Workshop. You did a good job on the porch, my man. It's nice here. Ideal arrangement for me. Physical work in the morning, you know, Lyme starts slowing me down. I start, I start not quite thinking right. Physical labor of it all. It's actually a really good day for me when I can work physical in the morning and then mental in the afternoon. What are you doing in there? Cleaning the airplane. Okay, you stay right here. I'm going on a walk. What's wrong? I'm stuck! Is your foot stuck? All right, there you go. I think for today's walk, we're going to review the show notes. Really, I've prepared this workshop for 15 years just reviewing the notes. Man behind the curtain, you ready for this? Yeah, so what is the solution to all these problems? They seem so out of our, out of our control. Man, get some sleep, eat well, make sure you're exercising. All right, get in. Okay, he's not in here, huh? I think he might have went out the door. Okay. Oh, there he is. There you are. Get in. He did so good. Yeah, you know, he kind of had to reel him in again. He needs to stay close. Technically, it went real well. Really helped a lot of people. Hope you guys got in on that. By the time you have this, it's all over. Our next live event you won't want to miss, it's a local international event. It will be the Abundance Plus Film Festival. What are y'all doing? You don't play over here. Oh no, we were gonna try to ambush you. We're gonna have this international film fest. We need local hosts all over the country and world. Would you guys consider joining our team and being a local host and bringing together local homesteaders around you, being the source of the party? I'm gonna leave a link down in this description if you want to be a host for the upcoming end of March Abundance Plus Film Festival. Did you watch it? I watched some. How'd it go? Good. I went and split wood with the boys, so I didn't watch much. You're living it, babe. You're living it. Yeah, I was living the dream. Now back over here grinding Cheese. Turkey divine. When you homestead, turkey doesn't have to be for Thanksgiving. Turkey once a month. We want turkey, especially once we got onto turkey divine. Yeah. On today's show of Bernadette's Cooking Show: egg drop soup and turkey broth. First, harvest the smokes. Second, bring the broth to a boil. Third, salt and pepper. Fourth, Spring onions? Bunching onions? Slump. Egg drop soup, dar. Best tasting broth. Turkey's better than chicken? Yeah, slightly. Watch out! A little bit. Break a world record in one of our videos. What record you gonna break? I don't know, we have to find an easy one. How many boogers can you eat? None! The most eaten boogers? The fastest Sudoku? The best cartwheel? Let's see it. The most finicky guy. He gets one drop on his shirt, he's gotta take it out. So if you ever see little Henry without a shirt, that's why. It's often he spilled a little thing, a little bit on his shirt. You get me a little cup? Oh, he saw your sweet tea. Southern boy. He's got no shirt on. Yeah, I got no shirt on. I like my sweet tea. I got my shade. You like your grits, your fried okra, fried catfish, cornbread and buttermilk? Oh, it's a good Southern collard biscuits. How come How could I forget biscuits? Buttermilk biscuits. You got a biscuit in there?
