My Biggest Threat

Time to wrap up the end of this SWOT analysis. Today, opportunities and threats. Our guest cabin, huge opportunity. We're using it as that, hosting people like Holistic Hilda next week. Joel Salatin earlier this summer, Roots and Refuge just a couple of months ago. You know, we're exploring these opportunities are just that, they're not necessarily commitments, they're something worth exploring. What if we did a commercial kitchen in there and we're able to process and ship our own pork sticks? Give me grace here, I, I hesitate mentioning any of this because It's all only possibilities at this point. I don't want anybody's hopes getting up. I don't want anybody to take it as I'm doing this and then I don't. Oh, Justin didn't do what he said. No, I'm not saying we're doing this. I'm just exploring opportunities. Another one, we are doing this. You can, you can mark it down because there's the sandbags to hold down light stands, camera, mic stands. Here's a couple of backup mics for a couple— for some of the cameras that are coming, just in case the mics that are right here go out. We have some redundancy. We're setting up a video podcast set right there. We'll be shooting our very first one Wednesday, so a little less than a week. This is some of the gear. We've got some mic where you— oh, we got some, uh, these are lights that will light up this picture. Lights in the background. You want to be as dynamic as possible since it's static. When you have 3 cameras, that helps because you could choose between 3 angles. Uh, it'd be a video podcast. That means it would come out in video form and audio form. Speaking of market farm for pigs, we have to decide, uh, do we want to expand our homestead like pasture for cows, or do we want to get into market with pigs? And we have an opportunity, I think. We're exploring it up on top of the mountain. There's another acre, I think, flat enough that we could have pigs. Pigs have four-wheel drive, they don't need it flat. But they will erode it if it's not reasonably flat. So that's why we're looking for flat areas. This is probably one of my biggest threats. You could also say opportunities. This is a public road right through the middle of our property. Now we are on the end of the street. There's one person— there's one gigantic property behind us, like 350 acres. That's an opportunity and a threat. Threat because it could be sold to someone else. It could be an ornery neighbor. They could do a development. Same thing on the other side of us that is easily accessed from our property, 100 acres. Same thing could happen. It's also an opportunity because should those places come for sale, maybe we're the buyers. But it also serves as a big threat right now since it's such expensive and large properties that we don't really have the cash flow for. I'll say yet because I don't want to give up on that dream. I don't want to say I can't. That would— that's a big dream and hope of mine that maybe we would acquire one or shoot for the stars, both these side properties next to us. This is a nook of our property. It's not the greatest, it's not the easiest. That's why we haven't come in here yet. But it's possible pasture. Uh, well, we've ran pigs through here, I think last year. But it's also a possible pig land, 1 to 1.5, maybe, maybe we could squeeze 2 acres out of this. Mind you, 1 acre is 10 pigs, uh, twice a year, so that's quite a bit. A lot of parts of me wants to expand pig— I mean, I got two females for that reason and a male. There's an opportunity right there. That's about an acre of forest. That's just, just about as perfect as you can get. It's almost square-shaped. We could easily have 10, 12 paddocks in there, move them around on an 80-day rotation. Uh, right now these pigs have are helping us plant pasture. Uh, we'll probably move them tomorrow, but just, just so you know, this is what pigs can do. This can be a problem, them tilling, but it can also be a wonderful solution. Look what they've done. Look at the grass. Okay, yeah, disturbed right now, but these, these old spots I've been about the perfect tillers. Let's do a really light surface till. They don't really root it up too bad. They're like chickens but just much faster. I love it. Do I do a mix? Do I do one or the other? But 1 to 3 acres, well, that could be 1 to 3 more acres for our cows, less hay we would have to buy. Or it could be pig farm. They don't blend well with the rotation of the cows because the cows can be rotating as quickly as 15, 30 days. And if the pigs were in that rotation, this would just— it just wouldn't recover by the time they got back around. So I'm learning from Joel Salatin, it's best when the pigs don't have a job like reseeding pasture, it's best to have their own glen. So they would have been here, say, and they would come back in 80 days, and this would have had time to recover. This wouldn't have time to recover before the cows come back to it. You understand what I'm saying? Dulce, I'm satisfied with this. Look at that frame help Didi has today. A lot better. I'm gonna treat it. We're gonna treat it, let him sit an hour, and then put the calf in here. She is gonna kick me. Maybe not. Jonah's been home, it's his turn, uh, with the baby. Although I had the baby, so I guess he cleaned the house. Oh, it looks good. It looks good. The house almost looks as good as your new haircut. Hey, yeah, we haven't got a good shot of that yet. Let's see that. You know what they say about those, right? Business in the front, party in the back. Little man won't let you set him down? No, he hasn't. He hasn't since vacation. Vacation, work, the work trip. Workcation. Workcation. I'm making yogurt. And we're gonna try to move pigs before Jacob gets here in 40 minutes. Think we can do it, Rebecca? Mm-hmm. Move pigs, finish making this yogurt. All right, Jonah, do you think you can put my yogurt away? Yeah. Mom's got the dehydrator going. 105. Jonah's gonna label it. All right, we got 30 minutes to move these pigs. That's not enough time, but That's my style. Aim for the impossible. We decided to move the pigs today because we're not filming tomorrow, and this is gonna be interesting. We want to capture that, and Arun's gone, so we'll do it while we have the help. And why put off till tomorrow what you can do today? You guys aren't going to be hungry, are you? You're still eating. Decide where shall we put that drone. Maybe about right there. Where you can see both paddocks. All right, first thing we got to do is get the water down. So let's open those gates. Arun's got it up enough under this beautiful beech tree. Just look at this scene though, isn't this beautiful? I love this pasture right here, that rock silvo pasture. I'm telling you, we've been out here for 10 minutes, we've already got them moved. All we've got left is seeding that and putting straw down. I'm telling you, pigs are, pigs are the easiest. Once a week, 30 minutes, move, and then just feed them every day. They're fun too, rubbing them on the, rubbing on the tree. I love them. All right, we got it! Look at that! This land will forever be better thanks to what we did today. I just heard Jacob driving. He's here. We gotta go and It's fine, because guess what? We're done. Jacob, we made it just in time. What's the goal today? Um, it depends on if you can do the get-ups or not. It depends on how you're feeling. I keep testing the get-up because I can't quite with my knees and my, my toes, of all things. But I think today we'll try to do most of our one-arm swings with the 25, 26. So, all right, and then, uh, we'll see if we can do a get-up. Elbow. Put it up under. And the hand. Curl the heel. Eyes on the shoe. Sweep the leg. Good. Go up tall. Adjust your feet. You can step around or windshield. Alright, so tuck the toes. Take your time here. Good. That was a hair disappointing. Just ended up having to stretch there at the end because I couldn't do a get-up because my back's so stiff. This happened another time I tried to train in the morning. Kind of takes me all day to get loose enough. Oh well, we did something. The stretches was good. On today's episode of the Bernadette Cooking Show, leftovers. Show JD Jonah's haircut. OMG, haha, I love it. Well dang if that ain't the best mullet I've ever seen. Tell Jonah that I'm proud of him. Like really proud. Grandma, probably not. Yeah, we like it. It's a win, it's a win. JD likes it. How long you gonna keep it? I don't know, this afternoon. Not too, not too long. All right, we support you, whatever you want to do, buddy.