I admit it. This is where I'm weak.

Biggest weakness. The biggest one that comes to mind.

Help?

Oh wow, I'm actually doing that all right. It's hurting though.

Do you need help?

Yeah, still got this reactive arthritis in my knee and my feet.

Your toes.

Uh, it does seem to be getting better, but it's just taking forever.

Yeah, it's just a slow recovery.

So, Becca, I've got a list of our weaknesses. They are things that we lack. They could be assets. They could be skills. We lack— What do you think? Because I've got my notes. They're in the blue book. I'll take it with me and go over it.

Well, we lack organization.

Okay, that is a weakness of ours.

We do have a— we have a bad weakness with that. Yeah. That we are trying to recover from. It's very hard though.

Oh, that's— it's first step is identification.

Yeah. Redundancy.

I definitely have that one on the list. I'll show people what I mean by that. And that's the biggest— that's got to be the biggest one on our heart for the farm. Organization and resilience, because we're very dependent on the power. We are. And if the electricity goes out, we've got a gen— an awesome Cummins generator.

We do have an awesome generator.

But if it's a long-term thing—

Right.

And you can't get diesel fuel—

If there's no electricity for a really long time, we've got really big fish to fry. And we would be okay, but we would be scrambling.

We could, we could have a fire in the fireplace and roast something on it.

Mm-hmm. We do have a phone. This is strange. We should have put this in yesterday's because this actually doesn't need electricity to run. Not that I don't know who we'd be calling, but we do have a phone.

Broth is a big part of our everyday. Rebecca is going to make a broth-based chicken soup this morning. She's got the M50. You'll cover that?

I am.

Okay. And we have a nice little gift for you guys at the end of the broth segment, so you want to stay tuned to that. You want to check out links in the description, all that good stuff. Are you ready, Lily? Are you ready, Mr. Henry?

This is this, Papa.

This is this.

That's mine. That's my notebook. I'm gonna take it today. It's got my notes in it. I'm gonna talk about electricity vulnerability. This is our cold room. Yep. Oh wow, interesting. This is something new I haven't seen before. The cool box freaking out. This cool room, we only have butter, cheese, and stuff in here right now because that— it doesn't matter if that gets a little warmer. Let's go to fan because this freezes up. You can see it a little bit. Put it on fan. I don't know what to do about this though. That's never happened. I called the top 3 AC guys and they don't work on these little window units. In fact, they told me if that's happening it's out of fluid or something like that, and you can't put more in, so it's just time to get a new one. So that looks like that's going to be our every 2 years to keep that cool room going. Now it's worth it. We hang our meat in there, we put our milk to cool in there, we use it. How much is one of those AC units and when is it coming? $450. Over 2 years?

Yeah.

$450 divided by 48 months. Oh, it's only $9.30 a month. Okay, that's not too bad. I would say overall our weakness— well, besides the health issue, there's a theme of redundancy and resilience. This could also be about, well, what are we doing about it? We have a furnace, but we also have wood stove backup. That's what I'm talking about. There's redundancy that I'm interested invested in. You know, we use the wood furnace when it's only cold in the morning. It's just more efficient to do so. But have the wood, and we'll use the wood most all winter. But if we had to, we could use it all year round. Here we go. Don't mind the noise in here. Here, let's walk and talk so we're not— that's a bunch of cans. Our weakness is that we lack knowledge and experience in canning, which is a redundance to electricity. Because if something were to happen to our freezers, well, if we knew how to can, we'd be all right. Too small. That could be used as a wedge though. This is my wall of redundancy. A lot, a lot of these hand tools— well, like that, this is an old scythe. This is for mowing grass. Well That's for harvesting hay. That's how my grandpa and dad would have done it. So that's, that's kind of neat to have, although I have better ones than that somewhere. This is for turning over a log. This is a peavey. We basically never use that, but could— would use it if we had to start harvesting our own wood.

Is this a splitting maul?

No, that's an axe. That's a tool we virtually never use. Hey, do you know where the splitting Maul is the goat devil. Huh? That's what I'm talking about. Where'd you find it?

Over in the corner.

Okay, does it have splitting wedges? Have you seen any splitting wedges? Look, a splitting wedge looks like the head of this maroon. Yeah, there's one. All right, bring that, Jonah.

They used to be in a box. I have all this thing here because of the sharp tools. Okay, but I don't see the box here.

Yeah, I know. Look, it looks like that was once in a box.

Yeah, everything came out. Boxes disappear.

All right. Will you carry this for me, Jonah? Ahh! There's my nice sight.

I've got my chicken filling up. It's in the pot and I've got it filling up and this is what I'm making chicken stock. I want to talk a little bit about Kelsey at Families Who Cook. I found Kelsey on Instagram when I was doing GAPS diet, when I was starting— when— when I was starting to even think about doing GAPS diet, which was like December of 2019, I had gotten some test results back and they were not good. And GAPS diet was the only thing that I knew that I could do, that I had control over to help me. So when I was deciding if I was going to do it or not, I decided to find some people on Instagram who were talking about GAPS because that is, um, a good way to kind of kick around an idea and to get information from other people who are doing it. And so I found Kelsey. Her Instagram is Families Who Cook, and she was talking about GAPS, and she was talking about broth, and it was a huge encouragement to me. And we have become friends over the app. We've never met in real life, but I do consider her a friend. She has helped me tremendously in my broth journey. She has— she's done GAPS for a very long time. She has a ton of tricks. She— even if you're not doing GAPS, she is a wealth of information. The Broth Academy, I, I have access to the course and it is amazing. Um, the super broth that I've been feeding Henry is in that course, and I do believe that it is going to be, uh, a health boost for him. If you are interested in her Broth Academy, which is opening next week, I highly recommend it. She's also giving away a free ebook, and there are 25 recipes in that. And, um, I have, I have, I have cooked those recipes, some of them myself, and they are amazing.

Here, let's put these up. Thank you. We've got all this firewood cut up, ready to She split, and we have a wood splitter.

Nice.

Let's just demo like this is a big piece of oak or something, then drive this in. You can split anything with that. See if you can get it one shot. Oh, I don't know, there's not much more satisfying farm projects than splitting wood by hand. Oh, Arun shows you what's up. Don't lose that splitting wedge. We should probably have more than one splitting maul. Go devil! Definitely have more than one splitting wedge because sometimes it's really stubborn. You got to do 2 or 3 wedges. We don't have a handsaw. So we don't have the redundancy there. We have a nice splitter, we have, uh, people we know we can hire to come and split this. We split some ourselves, but I think this is a better workout than a log splitter. What do you guys think?

Oh yeah, you don't have to go to the gym.

You get strong real fast at this. Earth's gyms, the, uh the Go Devil feature, then you would have two and you could go at the other side. Yeah, see, that's going to be a matter of just getting some more supplies. Maybe one of those saws where two people run to, to get it into fire, you know, to cut it from a fallen down tree. More axes. I've never showed you guys this, have I? Well, what would be one of the most important things besides Breath, breathing, oxygen. Well, it would be water, wouldn't it? This is an old reservoir, water reservoir that's been modified. It's in a 55-gallon barrel now, and it's still, what, 3 feet deep down in there, plus the water that's going in the 55-gallon barrel. That's tapping into a spring. I mean, this could be a strength because look at this infrastructure we already have. We have a shed over it. We talked yesterday about how our well was a strength, and it is. We got good clean water. But if we want redundancy, we used to be fed off of a spring, so wouldn't that be cool? The idea there would be— what's in this? Oh well, this is when I wish my dad was around to get more This must be the old reservoir. Move that lid, let's see what's in there. Oh yeah, what is— gosh, I wish I— yeah, look, this is a reservoir putting out into this. This was probably a cow trough. Oh my gosh, that is so neat. Pick that up, guys. Yeah, I mean, it would help us for the one day we're in here every two months. That'd be kind of neat to restore that. What do we got in here? Water.

A little bit.

Okay. Gosh. Oh, this is so cool. It must be leaking or something because it's not filling up to that spot where the— it would flow out into the trough. Yeah, yeah, that might have been for the people to access. Gosh, I wish my dad were around. Spring water would be kind of neat to tap because it would— it has all these minerals, but Gosh, wouldn't it be cool if we had a line going in the house that if something were to happen to the well, you just tap into the spring, spring water? Or if you just want to mix up your water and get some mineral-rich water. In dry spells, you wouldn't have enough water to take your showers and this and that, so that's why they went to the well. I think I know that much.

We need to get that restored.

Yeah, that would be another weakness of mine. I'm not that guy. I'm not that guy that like figures out and knows and has a sense of that. I have no idea how to tap into a spring. That is like a special handyman. I like that. It's that kind of— he's like, I can figure it out.

Get a siphon, siphon from that into there or something like that.

I like it. So knowing that that's my weakness, I'm gonna need to find help for this. I think I'm gonna reach out to the Abundance Plus community first. There's the original farmhouse. Right behind it is the— is their spring. Guys, my dad grew up with no running water and electricity. Lived a fine life.

You want to see the spring up farther? It comes out of it.

That's where it's coming from.

I'll show you.

Jonah's going to go up there with the GoPro. But anyway, they had their water source right here for their drinking water and stuff. But hey, how are you going to keep milk cool if your cool room isn't available. Well, they used to have a spring house. This, this spring would continually go through like a wooden trough and they would put milk and stuff in that, and that would just keep it cool because it's coming out of the ground at like 55 degrees.

There's the cave, and the water trickles out of here. Oh, I don't know how far it really goes up.

We got dirty teats. I got that one. Oh, and it's— and it's scratched. This is gonna be interesting. If you're gonna get kicked by a cow, I know that sounds scary, you want to get kicked close. It's cut. She's walked through some briars or something, then she's got poop caked on it, so that's hard. The reason you want to get kicked on, it's like you're rubbing up and it's just like that. She's just getting me with this. But if I stood away, she got me with the end of her foot. It would be like getting punched. It would be bad. What we might have to do, we need to put some cream on her, but the calf will just suck it right off. So we really need to come out in the afternoon when we separate her, get her in here and get her treated. Cows are one of our biggest strengths. We do have some vulnerabilities there too. We only have about 8 acres of grazable pasture. Uh, what are we doing about that? Well, we supplement with hay during the winter and build compost and put that compost back on the pastures to increase that productivity. All right, we're gonna just treat her now, let her be an hour, and then let the calf over. She doesn't like that Phyllis is right there. Let's get Phyllis out. I'm gonna get all poopy because she stepped in that poop. How's it going in here, Becky?

It's going good. My chicken stock is still, uh, Yeah, it smells good.

And, uh, you're ironing. Thank you very much, boys. Let's go get some onions. Why? Why? Because we— they've done cured. They're like a month, 2 months over being cured. We need to braid them and hang them up. Speaking of onions, what are you gonna do with those things?

Uh, for lunch.

What you making for lunch?

Some Chinese.

Oh nice, Indo-Chinese.

Your favorite.

We probably consumed half our onions. Yeah, we've put them on this to cure, but they're well past cure. Yeah, some of them are— well, some of them are rotten, but some of these are not even going to be able to be braised, so we'll save these out to be used sooner. See, this is rotten. There's a number of them rotten and unbraidable. So we have a pile for unbraidable, a pile for rotten, and a pile for braidable. We got lots of garlic too. Had a good garlic score this year. We like our onions and they're relatively easy to store. You'll see how we do it in just a second. Not his favorite, but what he won't eat, we'll just compost. Can you carry this? This will be used right away. Boys, who wants to pull Henry cart? Let's do it out here on the dock in the sun, and then we don't really have to clean up. Show us your new, uh, bow and arrow skills. He's been dying to show me this. There it went. Good. You want to make sure always nobody's from here over, okay? Good job. Yeah, and always shoot towards nobody. All right, everybody watch how she does it. You put 3 together. You're going to use a cooking twine. You don't— you don't—

I don't think you have to, but the instructions I saw made it— it said it made it easier.

So for easier, so what are you doing? You're tying the 3 together?

Yeah, and then you braid it.

Just braid these guys? Yeah.

So I'll show you.

So you tied it there.

Fine, there's one. Teddy, stop it. He thinks these are balls.

And then you braid it all the way up.

Two, three.

Yeah.

So getting some more white onions because I want to do just like one color. See, like this one, add it in and it comes—

this becomes one of those.

Yeah, and so then you go like this. Give me another one.

Ah, that's neat.

And then add that in to that one.

Wow.

Like that. And then add this one.

I guess you do it and I'll do it, and the kids will— kids will feed us the onions. We're gonna take this extra down to the pigs. Do the pigs, man. He wants to do the chickens, but there's only like 3. Are we gonna get the chickens up here tomorrow? Let's get some chickens up here and then you can do it. All right, we'll shut them up tonight. Okay, it is Indian Wednesday. Arun's taking care of the lunch today. How's it going, Arun?

It's good.

Look at this coming along nicely. Looks good.

So this is our ginger garlic, is it like a main seasoning? Ginger garlic and coconut aminos, like a main ingredient. Salt. Pepper and a little bit apple cider vinegar, a little bit, not so much. And I put a little bit, uh, tomato ketchup.

And he said— I cut it off before he finished there— uh, tapioca flour. Yeah, that's what makes it stick. That's what makes all that stuff stick.

Yeah, you know, like you get some food on top. Yeah, yeah, you can add like eggs too.

Ah, did you do eggs?

I just did a little bit, not so much, like 2 eggs. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.

All right, thanks, Lily. Uh, we want to hang it out in the loft. You want to keep it in here? We're gonna hang it in the loft. Where did we put all those beautiful braids of onions? Right there. We already had hooks from last year. Man, that looks nice right there, right there on the cool room, which we should see if it's thawed out. It has thawed out. Let's go back to cool. Let's, uh, reset this Maybe unplug it, plug it back in. Maybe that worked. Lunchtime! This is a new ketchup-type sauce.

Yeah, it's a— it's like a Chinese kind of sauce.

Oh nice, I like it.

You can dip this chicken a little bit here.

Plain chicken and And then we got the Indo-Chinese chicken. Oh my word, that's so good.

And then this is called standing rice.

What does that mean?

Can you see this rice, how they're standing up?

Oh, neat.

So it's supposed to be like this so that is like all— they're not stick together.

Oh, I like it. Yeah, here's what we're having for lunch. For Papa, some simple white rice carbs, always a fermented pickle.

Why is there ketchup with there?

Indians or Arun's Chinese. And what do you have that maybe I don't have? She has a kombucha. I only do this every once in a while. And then what you got in your supplements? Are these mine?

Those are mine.

She's got some fat fire starter, which is just fat, histamine, immune, skin, hair, nails.

Nice.

And then the fat.

Let's try this. Put it in his dip.

It's good.

He's a very talented and skilled chef. He is.