This content was created by Victor Justin Rhodes. This content was uploaded by Victor Justin Rhodes. This is a YouTube family/farm vlog titled "Planting a Week’s worth of food (in an hour)" (created 2018-03-06). The excerpt is an informal, diarized transcript of Victor Justin Rhodes and multiple family members (children and other speakers) doing farm chores—checking on a cow expected to calve, tending chickens and horses, and planting seed trays (basil, cabbage, Swiss chard, kale) in a greenhouse while discussing soil, watering, and logistics. Tone is casual and instructional about small-scale gardening and daily farm life.
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Today we plant seeds. Plant seeds. So excited about that. Put them in there. Good morning. Nothing. No calf. Still no calf. Help, help. Apple cider vinegar in the process of tricking her. 3 sprays yesterday, 4 sprays today. It's an acquired taste. Apple walked right in. We are putting them up at night just so we can check on them a few times after dark. Not much change back here. Still swollen vulva. Not Doesn't seem much bigger. Doesn't seem much tighter there, but it's just going to change a little bit by a little bit every day. If anything's changed, it'd be the depth of this right there in between the tail and her backbone there. That is getting deeper. Jona's taking a little easier this morning. It's been light for a while, so at least let the dinos out. Good morning, ladies! Good morning! How's everybody doing? How's everybody? It's good for me to do the chores every once in a while anyway, because the kids often miss out on some things like chicken doo-doo in their nest area. I wonder what that is. What do they— what are they doing with that? And then they're definitely not checking the dust box, are they? A few holy chicken squats in here. I could get some of these rocks out too. They bring rocks to the surface after bathing a few times. Pretty near empty. Fill that up with water now. I just got my little finger over the hole at the bottom. I've lost that apple cider vinegar for them too. I do that about once a week, just, just maintenance. You ready to go, Mustang? You lead the way, Mustang. She likes a neck rub. I'll give him his space while, you know, while I wait for Stead Muffin to come out. Hey, don't go in there. No. Oh my gosh, she went in there. Ridiculous. Let's muck the stall. I'm not going in there. You guys coming out? Yeah, it's okay. You need help knowing where to go? Come on, come on, sweetie. Let's go. Come on, you can do it. Come on, go, go. Come on, there you go. Now see if you'll follow. Oh yeah, oh yeah. Come on, guys, you know you want the fresh grass. Frozen? No, not too bad. Happy munching, guys, happy munching. Maybe today, maybe today she'll have that calf. Is the suspense killing you? It's kind of made me feel like It's never gonna happen. Oh, look who's here! Look who's here! Hey, what's the matter? You can't wake up this morning, but you're getting up and at them. Hey, I let your birds out, I gave them water, I cleaned the poop out. All you gotta do is feed them. Don't get too excited. Hey, farm chores always fun. The same old same old can get old for an adult. You can imagine how old it would get for a child. Oh, before we go in, let's check the greenhouse. So excited about this. It's starting to be a little warm in here. Sauna in here. Okay, we got the soil block stuff ready. We got the soil ready. We're gonna plant today. We got the chiddlers ready. You guys ready? You ready to plant? Don't be too enthusiastic. Before we plant, Beedi's tired. Check him out. Violet, what do you think, beautiful one? She gonna have this baby today?
Huh, no, she didn't have it today. I was really hoping she was gonna have the baby in the daytime. I mean, she's gonna have this baby. It's gonna happen.
We gotta bring him in today.
Just like all those mamas who think they're never ever ever gonna have their baby.
You ever feel like you're never gonna have your baby?
Oh yeah, especially with my first, which this is her first. I called my friend and I said, well, I guess I'm never gonna have this baby, and then I had him like 2 days later.
So does it feel like you're never gonna have this calf?
Do you even know you're gonna have a calf?
You do?
You know he has to. She has to be prepared.
Be careful. Come on, help with seeds. It's time. Is that a crazy hair don't care horse?
Yeah, I'm gonna help.
Okay, good. Come on, Mr. Brown, let's go. I was so excited for the afternoon to come because it meant we were gonna plant our seeds. The Rhodes family is back to planting seeds. Now we planted the basil plant in the bus. Look, we got our little green room here. Light from both directions. How many you gonna drop in there? Um, 3 or 4.
Whoops, I just put in a couple. Here, just throw some in.
But this is different, like trays of seeds, like enough to feed our family seeds. We found a pallet to go across these sawhorses. Hold on, let's set up sawhorses first. You guys set it down. Are they set up though?
I think so.
All right.
Oh sweet! And that means we have a whole nother room for some down here.
We got the coconut coir on the trays.
Okay, we need our spade shovels. Go to the porch and get our spade shovels, honey. They're up on the porch on the shelf. Just pour enough so that, you know, we can still move it around and we can— you don't want it too deep and then it's because then it's hard to push this down.
Okay, well then just do that.
You don't put too much water. Well, I guess you can always add more soil. We started working it because we haven't done this in a while. The kids are excited. They're all jumping in, all trying to get a piece of the action. I'm gonna do it too! Okay, everybody's gonna start Jono, will you go get another spade for Mr. Brown?
Where is it?
Over on the A-frame chicken coop. The only way you know for sure if you've done it right is to try it.
Can you help?
Go ahead, do it again. The first one crumbled. They like to do things, but there are just some things they just can't do. I'm gonna have to pack it in. Oh my gosh, that's okay. If you, if you lack one, give it to me. Watch, let me do it.
You didn't get out of there.
There, that's nice. A little more there, a little moist. Nice. Okay, all right, so you've gotten most of it. Let me just get a little bit more. We want to really jam-pack this tight, do a little X.
All right, I want to pull it down.
It's Josiah's turn, he's going to do this tray.
And then I'm gonna do a tray.
Okay, that's good. Let me top it off.
Make sure he tops it off, Papa.
How many, how many are there?
How many packets?
Yeah.
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
Finally though, we were out of time. I had to take over. We had to hurry. We wanted to get it done. Okay guys, we're gonna have to step this up into high gear. Look, I'm gonna take over this job. Jonah, you gotta find me more trays. We've got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. We need 3 more trays. Okay, Josiah, you guys will get to help plant seeds in a second. Okay, let me get us going. Josiah, good job.
I need to go get a marker.
More soil. We won't probably be able to do all this.
We went to plant weeds.
If you put more than one, it's okay. You can plant. We have plenty to plant. Okay, I did the— okay, I've done those. So do I.
Done these.
Wait, where did you— did you—
are those all the We planted cabbage, Swiss chard, and kale. The problem we had, well, we did not have enough soil.
We put too much water in that and we have no more soil to add to it. Got to get more soil, but we did get 5 trays planted. And if all those grew up and we planted 5 trays a week, that'd be more than enough veggies for us every week. So I think we did pretty good. Beauty will pick up some more— Beauty will pick up some more soil on Friday.
