In this homestead vlog, Victor (Speaker A) walks viewers through the recent expansion of their 10‑acre property, detailing how they maxed out the land with beef, pork, lamb, and chicken, and added an extra acre of pasture after intensive hand‑clearing and professional grading. The family discusses the economics of grading (e.g., $1,500 worth of hay per season) and the feeding plans for their growing herd of steers, cows, and sheep. Throughout the day they operate heavy equipment—a Mini‑X tractor, backhoe, and chainsaw—to haul logs, clear brush, and build a new pasture, while family members (Becky, Lily, Gideon, Ashley, Randolph, Josiah, and others) assist and comment. A subplot follows a child’s leg/pelvis issue, with Becky and a medical professional (Speaker F) debating whether hardware removal, PT, or chiropractic care will help. The vlog also touches on future homestead plans: building a house on higher ground, expanding garden crops (green beans, sweet potatoes), and enjoying meals (grass‑fed burgers, roast) while celebrating with kombucha. The tone is conversational, enthusiastic about progress, and occasionally concerned about health and workload.
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I maxed out 10 acres of land with beef, pork, lamb, and chicken. Check out my freezers. Mucho pollo, and there's plenty chancho— pork, pig. At first glance, beef looks really good, but let's grab lunch and supper. Lunch: US Wellness grass-fed burgers. Dinner: a roast. Our roast, homegrown roast. But we're getting low on our supplies. This is boughten, boughten, ours, a couple of ours, ours, and then you boughten. But for a bunch of carnivores, we're running low. Lambs, even worse. This, got that lamb and that lamb. Very scarce. It's why for 100 days we hand-cleared land with a chainsaw. And yesterday we had some pro graders come and help us finish— you know, cleaning up the stumps and stuff. And they did an acre in a day. And today they're coming back to clear one more acre. And clearing these 2 acres means at least another month of grazing, or $1,500 worth of hay. We profit from the grading in just 2 seasons. These are up-and-coming steers: 1, 2, 3, 4. We have plenty of beef fall this year, but we got to make sure We have enough for them to eat and enough for the cows to eat, the bull to eat, and all the sheep. Do you think I should fill the Mini-X up with gas? Is it empty? Almost. Sure. Not gas, diesel. Diesel then.
There it is.
—and spread.
See?
All right.
He has a little bridge so he can go— There he is. There he is, Henry. I'm gonna make him a house today. Whoa! Cool. See, look.
He's like, hold my apple. Hold this.
Hey, look. See? He eats slugs and stuff. He's not gross.
Lily, you want me to take you to Ashley? You can help her?
Sure. Sweet. Whoa! Whoa!
You see that tractor? Yeah.
You want out here too?
I got you a helper. I asked her last night, she like hanging out with you? She said she does.
You did? I like hanging out with you.
I said, what do you guys talk about?
She said horses. Pretty much.
Hey, are y'all on a platform? Yeah. Oh, let's see. This thing is a beast. Look how high we're off the ground. Austin, you got your buddy? Yep, we're buddies now. Y'all ready to get back at it again? Okay, good. What's wrong, Dad?
We're pinpointing where there may be an issue that he's having. Like, like his glute isn't firing. My back is. But it's like he's more having— like, I go like that.
Maybe the chiropractor will help today. You coming with?
Yeah, I need to make breakfast, but if you wanted to go outside, I'll take him. I'll come out. Oh, I need to come out.
I need to be outside. All right, let's go. We need to get them Sally for hauling the logs. You love dirt? Yeah. His birthday tomorrow, Beck. Oh no. We're gonna follow him around for the day.
Last night he woke up from a bad dream, I guess, crying tractor, tractor. Then this morning, hello. This is literally his first words, hello, because he saw me. Papa tractor.
All right, hello. We're gonna catch that on film tomorrow. Put a little GoPro on you, follow you around, see what you do. Come on, let's go.
Yeah!
What's he got you doing? Nothing.
Let's load this big pile first.
Okay.
Wave at the operator, he see you. All right. How long you been driving?
I was 4 when Dad first bought a little backhoe for me.
You hear that?
I wasn't but like 2 days old and, uh, Dad got me on the backhoe.
Psycho.
They're hauling logs out of the mountain so these guys can clear. Tell me again what you're doing.
So I'm gonna put all the firewood and stack it, organize it over here, and then I'll put all the logs, the good poplar saw logs, pine logs behind me.
Some of the logs that were on in that trailer, Ashley and Lily had poison ivy on them, and I just pointed that out to them. Yeah, because I read that poison ivy, even when it's dead, can still be active.
What do you say, girl? It's dead.
He says it's dead. We cut through with a chainsaw, it's gone.
No, but the oils are still present in the vine.
Randolph's here with the pipe.
They got Josiah on a job clearing this brush.
You got about 30 minutes and then we got to go to the chiropractor. Okay. Breakfast of champions. How's it going out there on the machine? Good. You having a blast? Mm-hmm. Great interview. Gideon, you found your town shoes behind the car.
Okay, good.
Are you concerned about his shorter leg?
No. Why not?
Because I don't think it's actually his leg. I think it's how twisted his pelvis is. So the leg bone attaches to the hip bone, and so when you're right, like you can see, he still looks like he's— that's pulling this. So it's not— so I think that it really, once his muscles relax relax and he's more level, it will look much more even.
Really? So what's it gonna take to get his muscles to relax?
Um, getting the screws out should be helpful. I mean, it's just hard when you've still got hardware and just getting used to it, like more PT, more just using it. Yeah. Okay.
We were thinking we would go to PT again.
Well, that makes us feel better. Yeah.
What is taking us so long?
Why? Where do you want to be? Home. You want to be—
you want to be driving the machine? Yeah.
Did she help you? Yeah, look how little my knee bend is.
Not very big.
It used to be like that. Wow, I'm super hopeful. I was freaking out. She just said it's in your back. Or pelvis. You just gotta get, you just gotta get that leg working out again.
Yeah. Am I limping now?
Yeah. Yeah. Wow, hey! A little. I don't feel it.
Beef burger lunch. Sear in the burger juice. We'll do it together.
No! You can't touch it!
Beef, it's what's for dinner. Let's go check on the job. That'll be cooking and it'll be ready for us when we're done. Let's see what these guys have been up to. They beveled this bank. This is like all usable pasture right here. Look at the lilies coming up. You guys like our tree island? I like our tree island. This was especially bad ravine, and now we'll have access. We can get from that pasture up to our new one up there, our new one here. Oh my gosh, just look at that!
Woo! Oh, whoa.
I'm like, maybe we should build a house over here.
Yeah, ours was— we was gonna build right up there. That would have been spectacular.
It's probably best that we just leave the pasture and stay in our house since we're gonna do it.
You got a better view up there? Yeah. Yeah.
What excites you about this? Having more acreage for your motorcycle.
More for cows and sheep. This is a nice view. What's exciting you? All the new, um, grass we'll have for all the cows and the view. The rows turned out nice. Sweet potatoes from the land, beef from the land, the green beans from the land. 2 out of 3.
I don't grow enough.
I need to be— Okay, hey, ease up on yourself. It's not gonna be this year. It's not gonna be this year, Becky. Slow down. Got a remodel coming.
But I do want to have fresh green beans, so we're gonna grow some.
Celebrate everybody. Cheers. And let everybody have a kombucha tonight. Cheers.
