This content was created by Victor Justin Rhodes. This content was uploaded by Victor Justin Rhodes. This is a YouTube vlog titled "Not an Orchard: But Planting Fruit Trees" (created 2022-03-10). The excerpt is an informal farm/home video featuring a primary host (SPEAKER A) and at least one family member/assistant (SPEAKER B and children named Lily, Jonah, Josiah), discussing day-to-day farm tasks (planting, compost, hay, animals), a small on-camera incident with a chicken in a creek, and business/logistics topics (shipping basil seed bonuses for orders of Rooted Life, Abundance Plus). The host also speaks candidly about personal health issues (chronic Lyme, inflammation, reactive arthritis), diet experiments (50 g carbs), and occasional references to external media (Joe Rogan, Robb Wolf).
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It's not there. It's not there. I'm looking for the tumbler to wash the cow's milkies. Let's find that. Is it still raining? It definitely rained. Super relaxing. Sleep. But it's not still raining. One thing we've noticed about me over the last years as I've struggled with chronic Lyme I've got a lot of inflammation. My back is stiff this morning. Real stiff. That's one of the symptoms. Pain in my feet. I've still got some reactive arthritis stuff, but my feet have been in pain for the last almost 10 years. The third thing that's happened as a result of this inflammation is probably unnecessary weight gain. For example, I've gained 20 pounds since the fall, after, I would say, recovering from my reactive arthritis bout. I'm trying to set you guys up right here on my porch. I'm trying to get a shot of— is it included? I'm gonna look in my frame here. See, I want the shot of me walking from that garden to that garden to give you some perspective. I think I need to back it up because it's not getting it in one frame. Here the banister is in the way, so maybe I need to move up to where the— to where I can see that. If I lean out, uh, yeah, I could maybe do that. I can see them both right here. That's it, that's the shot. I am 43 years old and realize I probably can't eat like my 20-year-old self. I'm 43 and have a chronic illness and tend towards high inflammations. It just is what it is. And admittedly, I've been eating more like the rest of the family, uh, for the last several months. You know, just not terrible. I mean, anybody else would think it's a diet, but for me, somebody who's thriving more on high protein and low carbs It was a lot. Jonah, have you seen the tumbler?
Yeah, it's all done.
Oh, you got the tumbler?
It's all brought down.
Josiah, the pails are right there. What's that?
Our brake stuff.
Nice, put them in a little box down there. We're talking about working on his go-kart. Your bolts are coming probably today or tomorrow.
Um, Papa, can you go get my cowgirl boots from Sally?
Yeah. Mom's calling me anyway, so let's go see who's calling. Lily, here's your shoes. Yes, what you need? Now what happened? Hey, little man. Hey, you're saying hi.
Yeah, I know.
Is this the first time she's waving? No, he's been waving. Nice. But it is new. Or— hey, little man, you gonna get up and help? Come on. Okay, Heather. I'm not calling her my assistant anymore. She's got two assistants. She's the CEO— no, not CEO, COO, Chief Operating Officer of our business. She's saying we have a text. We might have to refuse a shipment on something. Let's see what's going on. I gotta respond this morning. It's amazing how this business has grown over the years. Such a blessing. Creating jobs, creating jobs, thanks to you guys. Thanks to you guys. You guys are awesome, our loyal viewers and customers, uh, subscribers to Abundance Plus. Thank you. All right, so the basil seeds that we're sending out as bonuses for those who order the Rooted Life by March 7th, turns out if you send those in a package, it's like $3.50 just for shipping. And with everything else, that like totally erases any kind of profit profitable margin, plus it seems excess. If we put these seeds in regular envelopes, some say seeds get crushed. I'm kind of thinking these aren't— these are basil seeds, they're super thin. Heather has pressed some and there's very minimal damage. So we're talking 100 times more expensive to put in a package versus an envelope. I'm thinking it's worth the risk to put it in the envelope. Let's do that. All right, so it turns out we had 3,500 people sign up for these, for this bonus, and it would— that means it would cost $12,000 just shipping, not counting seeds, stuff like that, versus a 50-cent whatever it is postal envelope, it's like $1,800. What would you do? I mean, what would be the responsible decision? Yeah. Now, of course, if anybody's seeds are obliterated in the mail out of 3,500— I don't know, it's probably gonna happen, uh, we would help them on a specific basis, individual basis. Josiah's getting y'all an umbrella. It is starting to rain. We were going to do that, guys, but that's going to be weird in the rain. It's okay, as the farmer side of us a little harder to document it, take you guys with us when it rains. And that is a consideration for our projects around here. It's not raining much right now, so if that continues, we might just do it. We might set you guys up and— well, I've got this. This is waterproof. Okay, let's water this. It's not raining in here. Update here: these onions are suffering, probably getting too big for the planters, got beat up in shipping. She, she up-potted some of these and they're doing so much better. So I'm gonna say it's the— it's that hill. They're running out of soil over here. We've ordered our compost. We need to check on that. It's supposed to ship this week. I think I would have heard something by now. It's Wednesday. We're waiting on our compost so that we can transplant these out into our field. You about out of hay over here?
Yeah, I just got that.
That's something we could do. I could get you a couple of bales of hay with the Kubota. Yeah, we could do that. We don't want our animals in there, guys. It's too— it's too wet. We keep them off this when it's wet. I see the problem though, don't you guys? There's a hump right there. This— this ground here is lower than it is out there, and so it puddles here, of course. So we need to build this up and bring that down, probably move soil from there to here.
'Cause when I wash it, if the dirt's up to here, I'll just wash it all away.
Is it dead? They're saying something's in the creek. Struggling. It is. Lily, let my foot up. Is it a sheep in the creek? Who is it?
I don't know.
Okay, okay, just grab them up. They've got the chicken feeder on their head. Holy moly.
From Mama's bedroom.
Is she okay? Okay, okay, she's okay. Grab her, grab her. We're going to go warm her up.
Hope—
yeah, who is it, Lily? No. Okay, she's okay. Where was she? She had fallen in the creek. How, how'd that happen?
I don't know.
That's so weird. That's a chicken waterer.
Stuck this on her head. She found it. Oh, it's probably in that chicken coop. So I got in there, couldn't find a way out, and then Fell off the bank.
Okay, we're gonna dry her off in there. Lily, you can go get a towel. Whoa, let's get her in there. Here, this is the first thing she wants, is to be with her people. Was she moving when you saw her down there?
Yeah, she was— her head was going up and down.
Okay.
And I also saw it from Mama's bedroom. I was a piece of trash.
We could have lost her.
She is a big girl.
What happened? I didn't want them out.
You left the gate open.
All right, normally we let them out to get their minerals, but not on a super wet day like today. It's lower here, higher here, lower here. We need to scrape this, this hump, probably over there. Jonah's saying we can't really build it up from here. The frustration is we've built this garden up. This is our second— first year it sucked because it was compact and didn't have the nutrients. This year I think it's going to jam. We've left more manure on here, a light layer of wood chips. It's going to be a jamming squash garden. But so I ain't going to mess with it this year. In the fall, after the garden's gone, we'll do the scraping And then we'll let the animals manure it. We'll have the wood chips breaking down all winter, and it'll probably set us back a little. What? Oh shoot, the calf's drinking. Oh, just, uh, she came in here, I guess. Okay, thanks, Susie. Let's get the sheep back in. Spot it. Don't let the calf out. I'll spot it here. I'm not letting them go into the cows. They're confused. Lily, can you get away from the gate? I guess you're all right. So to deal with the inflammation, I've been trying this 50 grams of carbs thing. I don't know, I made it up. I'm gonna have 50 grams of carb in a day. That's not Oh gosh, guys, come on, stay with me, stay with me. It's not a whole lot. It's like a cup of rice, or like a cup of rice is 45 grams, and a cup of rice is not that much. Uh, or a bowl of yogurt, full banana, maybe a little bit of chocolate. It's been cool because it's been a bit freeing. I can have whatever I want as long as I don't go over 50 grams, and we'll see what happens. Maybe that's a control the inflammation stage or not. Maybe I have to get even stricter. Well, I was doing good. I was cruising in 3 weeks. I don't know, losing about 2 pounds, 3 pounds, and I think that's reflective. The pound weight's not like I'm fat or something. It's just that it's kind of reflective of, to me, whether I'm getting this inflammation under control or not. And then I had this significant spike, like over a pound or something in a day. I'm like, what the heck? And I ate potatoes. I ate potatoes as my 50 grams because that was my first suspect. And then Rebecca heard on Joe Rogan, Robb Wolf I think, and somebody else, they were talking about how chicken can actually be
