I wanted my Cow in the Stanchion. 3 days Later She complied.

Watch this. Everybody's getting their shoes on, but you know who—

Oh, never mind. He's getting them. Hey, big guy, got your own shoes. Good job. Put them on. Let's go. Frosty, frosty morning. We're back to December, aren't we, guys? But you're not too thirsty, huh? Got the pig feed. I guess we're short on some scraps this morning. We supplement with grains when we need to with pigs. Gosh, we probably haven't had to maybe use 10 pounds so far. Got some skim milk. You want to make a pig very happy, like the happiest the pig can possibly get, feed it grain and skim milk. You guys want to see some pigs go bananas? Here they go. They heard me way over there, I guess. Do you guys hear me? Hey, you know the drill. Is that how it is? Come on, don't climb out. Climb out. Okay, come back in. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Uh-oh. Come on, come on, come on. Here, this one got out. Come on, come on. Well, we got her back in. She, she followed the food, no problem. The good part is that they poop right here. That's their poop corner. The bad part is that's right at the door, so we're building a mound right at the door. Let's connect. Look, that one jumped. They don't care, it's Graham Mill. They're beside themselves, they're beside themselves. All right, we're gonna get them out of here soon, guys. Hopefully on the animal garden miracle And then they get that job done, maybe to the forest. Right now they're making compost. Well, that's what happens when you leave your vest out. How'd you guys do last night? Okay, good. Look here, special guest Kaitlyn and Wade.

Yep.

From Winston-Salem?

Yeah.

Okay, not too terribly far from here. All right, you guys want to get your hands dirty or icy? Let's, uh, you pull it, I'll steer it.

All right, that's good.

Are you guys fan of the sheep?

Absolutely. Yeah, never really been around sheep very much. They are super cool.

How many acres do you guys have, if you have any?

We don't have any right now.

Cool.

I grew up on a small beef cattle farm, uh, hope to farm eventually.

So what makes you interested in this?

Uh, we're both in healthcare. I'm a pharmacist right now, and, um, just like healthy living, you know, what you guys are doing is super important in terms of like healthy nutrition. Then also we got to take care of the environment, and you You guys are doing important work, so—

well, you came to the right place, my man.

Thanks for having us.

I'm nervous right here thinking they're gonna get out. You coming back in with the bucket? All right, grab the, uh, the, the bucket. You're getting the full-on hands-on experience.

I love it.

So what are all your pharmacist friends think of you? They think you're nuts?

A little bit, probably.

Probably. So you haven't told them yet, have you?

No.

You're thinking— you're looking into this growing food? Or are you looking into doing it yourself?

Yeah.

Or you're just supporting the movement?

Well, you support it first and then get into it.

That's right.

Gotta do the right stepwise process, right?

There's y'all's ride a little later. Good morning, stud. We're gonna try to get Flossie and her calf, yet named, to the barn. So, so far it's going really good. The calf is only, what, Jonah, 4 days old, and he's already running through our fences this good. Well, thank you, Flossie. You're making us look good. She's cooperating today. Now we'll see once we get down to the stanchion. Okay, the only problem with this super cooperation is if Phyllis is in the stanchion and Flossie tries, that could be trouble. I'm just gonna let her go. She's probably gonna miss it, but we'll go get her. Phyllis? Good girl, Moose. Okay, Miss Thing, go in the stall, not the stanchion. There we go. Good. Oh, you're so close. Come on, there you go. Look at you, super pro. You know, we've been tying this calf up and putting her in Wonder if we can— we've been having to tie the calf. Let's see if we can just herd them in. Come on, come on. All right, we might have to lead the calf first. Come on, come on. Yeah, we'll get it when we get up here to the stanchion. So I'm pushing the calf. So that mama will follow. Let's get her in the back. All right, there we go. Get her out. All right, come on, girl, you're doing great. No scoop. Who would have known? How'd it end up there? Oh, you! So we had to lure her in with alfalfa. Oh, she's pooping all over our rakes. You couldn't have done better. I think you got poop on all 3 of our rakes. Look at this. Super pro. Thank you, Flossie. She's making us look good today. Oh yeah, except for the poop all over our rake. Okay, you did only get poop on one rake. Yeah. You ever seen a calf that close?

Never. Never ever.

Okay, well, we got a good job for you guys then. Okay, let's get him tied up up front. And you guys can, uh, love on him, get him used to people, feel how soft he is. Now see, he's inside of Mama, so she won't be as stressed. And we'll milk her and she'll get him right back. What's your initial impressions?

They're very soft compared to what I thought they would be like. Very cute.

Hopefully this isn't frozen. A little bit of poop on the upper udder. She's probably hosed it a little bit. I hate to do that. Assistant photographer Caitlin. These eager folks. Are ready to do something. The scoop for it all already in it. Okay, spread it out when you dish it. Nope, nope, the scoop's in it. There you go. And kind of swirl it over it so it spreads, because they don't really like it, but they'll eat it with their alfalfa. You ready, Jonah? You need help moving that leg? There so I don't get my hand dirty. All right, let's go. Putting the milk through a filter here. Who wants to grab her and growl?

I'll give it a try.

Okay, Wade, there you go. Okay, here. All right, now when you came this morning, did you think you'd be getting so close with Phyllis?

I did not know.

Does she need more? Does she need more?

Um, yes, she needs it completely. Here, grab the bucket. Lift the bucket up. Yeah, because she's doing the— she's doing the— the— now she should be good. You should be able to set it down now. She just gets excited when the alfalfa is coming. There we go.

Sounds like she's an experienced milker over here.

Never done it before.

That's Jonah. There is milk coming out, so I'm just— you're doing good.

All right, wait, pinch off the top, pinch off the top, and then squeeze.

There he's going. All right, we'll tag out.

So do you like kind of do this? Like you go like this.

Yep. Yeah. Yep. Jonah makes it look easy.

You're on the bum teeth.

Oh yeah, that's hard. Okay, Caitlin, first impressions?

Um, well, I started off on the wrong one, but after I did, it wasn't that bad.

Okay, good. So you guys watch the show from the comfort of your couch?

Yes.

And it's fun, but okay, so now is it in real life— live— is it as much fun as it is on TV?

Absolutely. I was a little nervous. Okay, but it is a lot of fun.

Look at this score. Somebody said it's 8.6 pounds, so there's like 17 pounds of food right here. That's my daily harvest. I wonder it takes so long, right? Yeah. So how long— how much longer do you— in reality, did that take than you thought it took watching the show?

I would say probably maybe twice as long as what the show really conveys.

Yeah, yeah, we're out here maybe an hour and a half, I think. What time is it? Yeah, it's 9:30. We started about 8. Yeah, took an hour and a half.

Wow.

Hey, when we get in the rhythm and Flossie's more in the groove, we do it in an hour at best.

Okay.

2 cows. They said this is what hooked them. This, uh, what?

She ran into the wheel.

Hey, now who else gets Ticked to see Jonah ride the cow. Hey! All right, thank you, Jonah.

Come on, there you go.

Keep the calf coming. He is adorable. Keeping up, no problem. We made a good decision putting them about back out on pasture. All right, Josiah, you got it from here? Yeah, you and Jonah. Look at all that milk, guys. So much milk it's hard to even pour it from the bucket, so you have to ladle it out first. We got 2 gallons plus a pint. Wow. All right, old school. Remember OG? Remember back in the day when we used to have to haul hay in a wagon? Well, that day is today. Thanks. This will be handy having 3 other adults when it comes to pulling it up this hill. This is the big climb. Y'all ready?

This is where it gets tough.

Wow, I'm not even at the pool right now.

Oh, this is all we're going— it's just right here.

Bye-bye, guys. Bye, guys. Thank you for your help. We'll see you. Good luck with your food growing adventures. Everybody grab a fork. Sally's gone, so we're not gonna haul wood unless you guys just want to carry wood by hand. For a real workout. So for our workout this morning, I thought we could— the chickens need some flooring. Now I was thinking about moving the chickens out to these gardens to help prep it, Animal Garden Miracle style.

Yeah.

And you know, we're talking about just doing these 4 plots for a garden and that, and converting these old 4— these other 4 plots back to pasture. Um, so that— we don't want to put a whole bunch in there if it's just going to turn back to pasture, you know what I mean? Yeah, but we— but they need bedding. They're on wet ground.

Yeah, it's bad.

They've worn it, you know, they've— it's decomposed. So there's all this bedding in there, over here. Yeah, see how muddy— see how muddy it is right there? Jonah's just starting to sling it. Should we just do that? Now here's another problem, probably right below the surface it's probably going to be compost. So guys, just get the surface. We decided this is— this here is our spring garden, and up there in Arun's garden, maybe this, but summer those two gardens, and then we'll come back to these gardens in the fall. So really, we need to get all this material from the pig port down there into our summer garden for the chickens to work in, for the pigs to work in. Let's get our, uh, let's get our spring garden covered. Taya, come cut this please. Or Jonah. Right here, guys, we raised 2 pigs. We're gonna have 8, 12 square yards. No, yeah, of compost. Most of that's gonna be broke down. On the top it's mulch, but down below it's gonna be wonderful compost. All right, thank you. You got the cage out of the way. Now, just for today's workout, let's just get this material and put it in the chickens. Okay, here's what it looks like. They've broken it down. They've essentially turned mulch into compost. That's the— go ahead, Jonah, drop it right there. That's the secret to keeping chickens in one spot, you know, keep it from smelling, just, just keep it nice by adding deep— by adding mulch. We use wood chips and they work it. Look, look how much they love it. We've just dropped some here. Look at them, happy scratching. Gives them something to do, but they're breaking it down. And this is just— we're just slowly making loads and loads of compost. In place with not that much work.

Look how much stuff there is.

Maybe once every 2 weeks, every month, which would need to be done. Doesn't this feel so much better, Rebecca?

Good job. It's so much better. It's a lot of hard work. Okay, so we need at least Just finished editing.

A little behind today. It's 3:40. The kids have already gone ahead of me. Oh, you're gonna come with me? I thought you were out there too. Okay, well, they're ahead of us about 10 minutes. We'll go see what we can do. All right, they must have done the luchadors.

There's Sally.

I'll have to go meet them. Okay, whoa. Nature hour. He's in on the poop.

What happened to Flossie's food?

What'd you do, Flossie? Go rolling in the mud?

Come on, I got this.

All right, you won't be able to get Moose without his mom, but maybe you can. Hey, you know what, Rebecca? We have to bring the sheep down first before we can get him in. But I'm glad you got him off of her. He was nursing mama, and we want to build up that milk for the morning. Now, we're no alumna in New Hampshire, but we do get snow sometimes. And because we're so far out, when we do get snow, they take days to scrape our road, and they certainly don't scrape Grandma and Big Daddy's road. So we gotta scrape. Let's check it out. There they are. All right, I'm just going to slide it to the end. As easy as just putting pins in the back. So you just hook the winch to the middle one? Yep, or either one if you're, um, this, this blade. I'll show you here in just a second. What? This blade is actually directional, so if you want to change the angle of where you're, wherever you're pushing. Yeah, you lift that up and then the whole thing will turn. Man, that thing is cool. All right, I hope it stops. I hope it snows. Hope it snows this year. We do go— we have had years it does not snow, but now we have between the plow and the Suburban with four-wheel drive, we aren't gonna be stranded anymore. Oh, and we're working on getting a generator so that we don't lose power for days and lose all our meat in our freezer. Are you ready? Let's go up. So we are closer and closer to be fully winter prepared. Yes, that's nice. We got a lot of firewood, got a wood stove. Okay, you ready to move them, Mom? We gotta get them in this tent plane. Oh, they keep thinking you're gonna— all right, go ahead. I'm gonna call them, Mom. Oh boy. Get Belle in.

Okay, next time we do this, we need to be mindful.

Okay, okay guys, we've made a funnel right here. Here they go, there they go. They want to comply, they want to do the right thing, they want to do what we want them to do. They just don't know what that is. Come on, you're almost there. There we go. That was good getting your tame sheep in there, Rebecca. Good job. We got one more to go, but we shouldn't really worry when there's only one out because it wants to be with its buddies. Just, we don't want it to jump the fence and learn that it can. That's okay, let it go, let go. That's good, that's good. Come back, Becky. There we go. Good job, everybody. Well, Rebecca, 4 of our 5 sheep got out. They just went up there and grazed. It's not like they jetted through the woods. So if all 5 sheep got out, it's not going to be a big deal. We can rest easy on that. Mistake number 1 is not having a joint right here at the opening of our lane. Mistake number 2, having wire— this is not it. We should have, we should have had white wire like this because they didn't see it and they just busted right through it. We live and learn. Not a big, not a big mistake. It's party time! How do you like my hat? You like my party hat?

I do like that party hat. Do you like my party hat?

Yeah. Oh, hey, where, where's the hats?

Um, up at the house. They're right next to their bed.

You didn't get one for Big Daddy?

But your necklace matches your hat.

Yes, it looks nice. All right, the New Year's Eve party begins with Naco's tacos and a lettuce cut up a taco.

We're gonna be hooked together.

See, Grandma found a hat and y'all are hooking up together.

Yeah, we're gonna be hooked together.

She can't leave, she can't leave and go to bed.

She's got a party hook.

Hooked together for 2020. She'll probably be gone by 7, huh?

6:15.

8:30.

Running out of time. Now wait a minute, guys, it's not even 7 o'clock.

6:43.

Big partiers, huh? This is what happens to you.

All right, take care, buddy.

All right, happy next year.

That's right.

Watching a movie. Mr. Brown already bit the dust.

I don't know, I think you're—

he soon followed Grandma, huh?

If I fall asleep, it like—

you think Grandma's already Is she asleep?

Yeah, she'll be asleep.

8:10?

She'll be asleep soon. Look at this.

You did not. Potato?

Yes.

For fries.

Yes.

Mmm. You cut them really thin and now you're drying them?

Mm-hmm.

And then you fry them? Fry them up. Fry them in, I guess, avocado oil? In our Dutch oven? It's good to be me right now. What do you mean? We don't have any lard?

I don't have any rendered.

Pigs for everyone, Rebecca. We gotta render us some lard. Oh my. Holy smokes, Rebecca.

Mmm. You beat Chick-fil-A. Yeah. Mmm.

Wait, I don't think you've ever had that. Have you had one, Rebecca?

How many hours until you meet New Year?

2 and a half. You gonna make it?

I'm late. Not 2 and a half, it's 3 and a half. Good job, Rebecca.

If you see me tearing up, it's because like the fence post hit my eye out moving the sheep, and so it's kind of irritated.

3 and a half hours.

It was homemade fries.

Really good. I mean, do they have eye doctors that are open right now?

They found out what was wrong. It's scratched. Yeah, well, it's on the white part.

Yeah, that's called the sclera. The colored part is the iris. The white is the sclera.

I don't think we'll ever see it on the camera. I look like a baby right now.

Crying baby.

Turn your eyeball towards your nose. Up.

How'd Rachel see it?

Right there. See the scratches?

Scratches?

Several scratches, like 4. Sorry, I had to study the eyeball in college.

Okay. And, uh, all right, well, we're just gonna heal.

Yeah.

Well, this is no fun. It's already over.

No, we have so much.

Thankfully there's so much more, and we're gonna find someone. All right, look who woke up. Hey, did you have a good nap? It's 9:45 now. You gonna stay and watch the ball drop? Not sure? You want some pie? What's next?

Pie. Pie. I'm hoping I can get it out of there. I have a key. Oh dear.

Do you need a big cutting board?

My plan may not be working so well.

How's everybody holding up? 9:45. You guys serious? Probably 10 to 2 hours and 15 more minutes.

I'm feeling a little bit tired.

We're not used to this. Unfortunately, Mr. Brown's gonna wake up tomorrow at the same normal time. Lily, I want to know what happened.

It kind of looks like a dinosaur. Here's the long tail, and here's the leg. Here's another leg. We're not gonna talk about what happened. A child. Here's an arm. Hit his head. We're not gonna tell the story. It's a long story.

It's a long story. It's a long story how that happened. How's Mom's pie, everyone?

Good. It is off the charts delicious.

Mr. Brown might catch enough steam to get a piece, maybe not.

I'll save him one if he doesn't.

Okay guys, are you gonna make it? 20 more minutes.

I don't know, they seem to be breaking down.

We're getting some breaking downage.

I'm jealous of all the people on the West Coast.

Mhm.

You can celebrate it with the New York and still go to bed at 9:50.

They could. I'm jealous.

Super jealous.

Why'd we do this?

Well, they wanted.

Did you guys have a good time? Okay, all right. We did it for the niños.

Oh wow!

Hey, 45 seconds Yeah, get your thing ready. Everybody's got their hats on. Everybody's got their blower. 30 seconds. Gotta do the blowing and the kissing. Oh, everybody count down. 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 1.

It doesn't feel any different. Aww, I got a kiss from a girl.

Hey, hey, big guy. She said people were kissing and making out. Hey, Lily, you did good. You stayed up good. You didn't get grumpy.

All right, time to go to bed.

All right, hey, the chickens and the cows didn't stay up till midnight. No, they're gonna get up in the morning, so we gotta follow them. Okay. All right.

Yes, sir.