In this informal farm vlog, the host (Speaker B) walks viewers through a day of farm chores that illustrate his “cardio” grazing plan—moving cows from a low‑quality, thin‑soil pasture near the house to better pastures while maintaining a continuous “vein” of activity across the farm. He demonstrates halter‑training a cow with his son Jonah, repairs a milking tray with makeshift L‑braces, and discusses using the cows’ manure as winter fertilizer to improve soil organic matter. The video also showcases family food experiments (eggs, mushrooms, cultured cream) and briefly promotes the upcoming Great American Farm Tour series on Amazon Prime. Throughout, the host blends instructional moments with casual banter, highlighting problem‑solving on the fly and the educational value of involving children in farm work.
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Oh my gosh.
Hey, hey, hey, that's enough. Are you supposed to be blowing bubbles in your milk?
This is mine. Huh?
All right, we're going.
Can I get my toy to drill?
Why?
Because I want it.
Okay.
To keep a roof to the way.
Okay, that's rooster defense there. Don't drill the door, though. You want a coat on? Get in. You want your coat on? Today I want to at least show you guys— look, I want to show you, we're at the heartbeat of the farm right here. This is the heart. But in the pastures for the cows, we've got to get them out of this lower area. I'll show you that in a minute. Why? And we got to get them out on the other pastures. We need veins from this heart to the pastures of our farm, veins extending that way, that way, and that way. I'll show you that in a little bit. We've got to do our normal chores. by saying the same thing over and over and over. For example, one of her favorites was willful waste makes hopeful want. Oh snap! Hey, hey, we're gonna have to train him on this. Now he's gonna tear up our fence. Oh my Oh my gosh, we're gonna have to go turn it on, Jonah. Not yet, not yet. Okay, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. All right, turn it on. You gotta know that that's on, okay? Boy, it didn't take him long to figure out it's not on, does it? Here you go, buddy. There you go. That's for me. You put the rope halter on?
Yeah, I think.
Good job.
That's it.
Bring the camera, please. There, there's the Jersey flock already. Watch her, she's wanting to lean over. I'll try to prevent her from falling.
Oh, you can't.
There we go. Okay, this is getting to be a problem. Oh. Not that per se, although that is a problem. This— they keep knocking this over and they bend over, they come way forward, and we about lose our milk. You know what, plans are gonna have to change today. This is gonna have to be secured. It's interesting, both of the cows are doing this. Never, never had this problem before. They did so good for so long, and all of a sudden they're knocking this tray over. So I'm gonna secure it in like that with some braces. Jonah! Hey, Jonah! Golly, really? Can you go get me some L-braces? She's so full of milk she's dripping. She keeps putting her foot right there. How am I gonna know? Come on. And she has to get to that to be able to reach over and down. What are you after? We've got our 8. Doesn't help. Did we have a small one?
It was one.
That actually might be pretty good. Come on. All right, so we want it right there, but— oh wait, your screws might be too small and they're going to go right through that. See if it will actually hold. Oh, all right, you got a star bit?
Yeah, gotta start it in the drill.
All right, are you going the right way?
Yeah. Is this all I need to do is on one side? She's dropping.
No, do two sides. Do the other side too. Okay, thank you. Hey, Aunt Phyllis, Exactly how much poop do you have in there, honey? They pooped. Now don't get me wrong, I'm complaining— I'm not complaining. I guess I sort of am complaining. This will be fertilizer for the garden. I just gotta— I just gotta remind myself that fertilizer for the garden. Trying to get Aunt Nellie to nurse a little bit, get a little bit more. Although we probably got, what, a gallon and a half, three-quarters there. That's a little trick I learned by observing nature. That cow has always got more for that calf. So what if we put the calf on let the calf nurse after that and get it flowing again. So now let's watch. So this is what we have now, okay? And let's see what it amounts to.
What do you think?
Don't you think she was holding out on me? You were holding out on me, Aunt Phyllis. Hold me out.
I bet you we got a quarter A gallon.
Here's my problem, guys. Right here where we are, this is the lower pasture. It's closest to the home, it's the most convenient pasture. It also happens to be one of the worst pastures. Very thin soil here. So this is a great wintertime— let's get some manure, let's get waste hay down here for organic matter. This is going to come back greener than you can ever imagine, even in the dry— especially during the dry times, this will be stronger. You don't have to worry about rotational grazing in the winter because grass is not growing, so you don't have to worry about mowing it down with the cows at a vulnerable growth stage. You don't have to give it that adequate rest because it's not growing. They eat it down, it's gone until the spring, it starts growing. But we are out of grass here. We're out of places to put hay without manure. We've, we've added enough organic matter here. We got a whole farm to tap into. There's some grass left. We could start feeding less hay. I totally forgot to put Bear out. Come on. I already put the lanes down, shut the gate. Hopefully he'll let me walk him. A little bit of halter training we did with him when he was little is paying off right about now. Wow, that worked! Rebecca, we're really moving forward on the scaps diet. Sausage shows up for breakfast. Collards.
I know, I'm excited about this.
Our eggs, of course. Uh-oh, mushrooms. We're not big, huge mushroom fans. We got any big mushroom fans in the audience? It seems like people are really passionate about mushrooms, or they really, really dislike them.
I'd rather really dislike them.
So I don't know, I'm not gonna win. Today with not this, with the psychic mushrooms. No way to win. Okay, let's put it with a little bit of egg.
Did you eat a mushroom?
Did you?
No.
Go for it.
No, not eating mushrooms.
You're not doing it?
No, I don't want to. I don't, I can't. I won't keep 50 of them for you.
She can't.
If neither of you like I'll try them. I'll try one. I don't want to touch it. Do you like mushrooms?
Oh yeah.
Jonah, what do they taste like?
They're good.
Okay, Rick, what?
He's eating them straight up too. Where is he eating that culture cream? The sauce on these eggs. See, that's the good thing about this diet is we're— we are eating new and different kinds of foods, like culture cream. Look at that, like it's amazing. We've expanded our palate for our brains and our bodies. Hey Rebecca, you know what today is?
Um, President's Day.
It's day 4. Our Great American Farm Tour ought to be up unless there's a problem. Let's see. Oh, still publishing.
What's that?
2 to 4. What's day 4? No, it's not. Isn't it?
Thursday, Friday, Monday.
Oh, business days. And then it probably goes Friday, Monday. Oh yeah. Okay. All right. Okay, hopefully 2 more days. The Great America Farm Tour will be on Amazon Prime. Hopefully by this weekend. Let's make a big weekend out of it. You want to be a part of that? Sign up for that. We'll send you reminders over the weekend to watch this thing, give you little gifts. Also, if you sign up now, you can go ahead and watch 3 of the chapters for free. Extended edition too.
