In this family‑style vlog, Victor Justin Rhodes (Speaker A) and his partner (Speaker B) walk viewers through a busy day on their homestead. They start by searching for sweet potatoes in a garden bed, debating whether to use a fork or bring in sheep to clear the area. After deciding to let the sheep graze the sweet potatoes, they set up fencing and observe the animals eating the foliage. The crew then finishes a raised‑bed project, plants a winter cover crop (72 % winter rye, 14 % crimson clover, 12 % hairy vetch, plus a small mix of other species) across six beds, and weeds remaining garden rows. The vlog also recaps recent fair results, highlighting second‑place wins in peppers and tomatoes, a Judge’s Choice photo award, and yard‑art accolades for Jonah. Jonah’s health update follows: he reports zero pain on a 1‑10 scale after recent acupuncture and is preparing to transition from a walker to crutches, aiming to resume mowing in two weeks. The episode closes with a schedule for the next two days—moving sheep, harvesting sweet potatoes, relocating chickens, and preparing for a trip to Ohio—while encouraging viewers to stay tuned for the upcoming work.
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Look at that. They gotta learn to move fast. You ready to do the pigs, bro? Jenna, you need anything? No. Okay, hold this for me.
Thank you.
We're gonna basically have enough. I think we have enough.
What do you think?
Yeah, no grain.
Well, what about the grain in the feeder?
Good point, my man. Let's fill up all those buckets with it. You think you're gonna ride the motorcycle again?
Definitely.
Really? Definitely? Yeah. You ain't scared? No, not one bit.
Maybe a little bit.
What'd you learn from this? We got to learn something. Please tell me we learned something.
I'll get more gear so if I do fall off, it maybe won't hurt me.
Okay, I like that. I like that. I don't know if gear would have helped him in that case, but directly— but I do think just having the gear and getting that safety mentality would help. So I like that idea, Josiah. While you're feeling that, I'm gonna see if we even have sweet potatoes. We need to get these gardens converted over before we run out of daylight as winter approaches, before it gets frosty. Gideon, bring a fork. Yeah, bring a potato fork. Where's the potato fork, buddy? I couldn't find something. A sturdy pitchfork. Something. Yeah, I'm not gonna— yeah, look, we've got to get these up and get the chickens in here to prep the garden, cover it, let the weeds die off for 2 weeks. Yeah, I can't do that without a fork. That won't work. Okay, that's a, um, manure fork. Yeah, it's too— the Tongs are too fine. Okay, just get the broad fork.
Gideon, where's that broad fork?
You had it. You said— is this— will this work?
Will this work?
We can try it. Look who's back, our contractor. He's been MIA a few days because he and his wife— well, his wife had a baby.
It doesn't work. It's okay, Papa.
It is super hard. To find the sweet potatoes. And I just had an idea. Could I get sheep in there to clear this? And then we will have a— then we could see where the potatoes would be. The only problem I can think of that is, what if these aren't ready and they need more time? Whoa, hot dog, hot dog! Do sheep eat sweet potatoes? Okay, there's one way to find out without chicken bringing them in. Let's get some greenage. Okay, get some greenage, take it to them. Bacon. Beef brisket. Sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep! Hot dog! They're crushing it. They eat it. Let's set it up. I'm going to start string trimming around this. You guys start putting up the net.
Bring it here.
I'm going to show you how to do it, honey. You undo the strap. Hold it all up in your hand. Now look for this strap where it's connected. Okay, there you go. Hold it by the poles. Take that one off and put it in. You want to attach it to the— wrap that around just the nylon strap. the babies? You two getting the babies? Yeah, I'll get the mamas. Sheep. Sheep, Sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep, Sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep, sheep. Come over here. They care less about the alfalfa now. They're all over the sweet potatoes. It's working.
Come on, Henry.
Guys, I think they like this better than the field. What do you think?
Yeah, look at Henry.
Let him have it. Let him touch one. It's good to tame them.
This one's already tame.
Sheep mean gardening sheep.
Hey, hey, sheep!
We were able to get these guys over here the easiest because they're tame.
Easy, little one.
Supposed to be a training right now, but I can tell the water's down, guys. Really? Oh wow, there's a lot of water still in it. We got a plug in. We got a plug. Okay, then we didn't lose our plugs. Jacob, it's been a while. It's been a while. 2 weeks or a half-ish. 2 weeks. Lots changed. A lot has changed. How you doing, Jonah? You need something? I got your broth there. Let it cool off and then you can go at it. Mom's at the acupuncture. Okay, what are we gonna do since I haven't done this in 2 and a half weeks? We're gonna do the same stuff but light. Okay. How was acupuncture? It was great. We heated up potatoes, Rebecca. And we got leftover chicken. Did you get your seeds?
I did, they're in the back of the car.
Okay, we're gonna finish the raised bed project today, guys. Seeds! Sow the seeds. I felt so good on the training. That's because he said he's gonna take it easy on me, but I know it's the carnivores paying off again. Took about 10 days straight and started feeling better.
Hey, that's better than it took the first time.
Now we know. And now I'm making the connection with food, and it's a lot less— I see those potatoes, it's like if I eat that, my feet are gonna hurt for 10 days. It's not so tempting. Okay. Come on, Gideon, Lily, we're going to finish weeding these garden beds. We got 2 more to go. Okay, winter cover crop: 72% winter rye, 14% crimson clover, 12% hairy vetch, and then 1-2% other. This is a winter cover crop. This has to be spread over 6 beds evenly. We're going to use plants to do the work of the farm. In this case, cover the soil, and not just cover the soil, add organic matter, nutrients, all kinds of good stuff. So you probably do 2 handfuls per bed. Okay, and then you spread it evenly. Go ahead, 2 handfuls and spread it evenly. It'd be better if we were too sparse and we had to come back. Okay, there you go. Now I'm gonna say don't step on the bed, but I guess whatever it takes to get it done. Got your, uh, raised beds planted.
Oh good, thanks. Yeah, that's exciting.
I got— oh, you got all the results from the fair? Yeah, we never got to take the people to show them.
No, we didn't.
We got some—
we got mainly second place.
Who got first? Um, did you get first?
Somebody got first.
Josiah got first in his Legos.
No, I don't think it was with the Legos.
Okay, the—
I got second place in my peppers, which I'm like, who had better peppers than me, right? Because they didn't. Um, I got second place in my tomatoes. I didn't win anything for my photos, but Gideon Gideon won!
Oh, Jonah won with his yard art. We got to show you this yard art, guys. We couldn't take you to the fair because we couldn't take Jonah to the fair.
Look at Gideon. Gideon won Judge's Choice.
Judge's Choice.
Hold on a second, you gotta do this. He won Judge's Choice on his photo.
I'm in your shadow. Judge's choice with Winnie there. With Winnie, the winner. Yard art. Yeah, Jonah welded this with— for me for Mother's Day, and it's a butterfly.
It's a ladybug.
Let's go put it in your garden bed right now. Okay, ribbon and all. There you go, right there, ribbons and all.
Ribbons and all.
Jonah, yeah, let's wrap up the vlog together. Did you accomplish your goal today? What was that, a goal for you to drink more water?
No, I didn't.
You didn't drink more water? No. Get in, we'll get him some— a glass of water. Okay, you getting better?
Yeah.
Scale of 1 to 10 pain?
Zero.
Zero.
I'm just uncomfortable.
When you gonna get off that walker? Uh, two weeks. Two weeks? You're gonna try the crutches? Okay, two weeks we'll have you mowing. He asked me 2 days ago, could he mow? Yeah, we'll get you mowing. All right, so thank you guys for joining us. Tomorrow, Jonah, we got to move sheep. We've got to, uh, to weed the potato garden. Hopefully the sheep will get done with— let's go check that. I'll go check that. Let's go. The hope is those lambs will eat down that sweet potato. Could I be harvesting sweet potatoes tomorrow? I don't know. I only have the next day, and then I go to Ohio. By the time you see this, the event's pretty much over. But let's travel back to the future to when I'm shooting this vlog. I've got to go to Ohio in just 2 days. Chickens have done a stellar job in there. We need to get them out too. That's part of it. They're done in there. Let's get them on to another job. 2 days of work left. Let's knock out the potato patch tomorrow, and you guys knock out these sweet potato leaves. Look, you can already see in there to the ground, that whole strip right there. All right, I'll give you one more day in here. Okay, guys. That'll give me tomorrow to do the potatoes, and then we'll harvest these, move the chickens in here.
