In this informal farm vlog, host Victor Justin Rhodes (Speaker A) and his family members, especially Rebecca, walk viewers through a full day of garden and livestock tasks centered on planting sweet potatoes. The video opens with a light‑hearted greeting and a quick tip to keep newly arrived sweet potatoes fresh in water. Rebecca shares recent seed‑starting challenges, applies fish fertilizer (described as very smelly) and neem oil to combat aphids and whiteflies on tomatoes, noting partial success. The group then tackles fly problems on their dairy cows, demonstrating an all‑natural apple‑cider‑vinegar‑and‑orange‑peel trap that temporarily reduces fly landings while milking. They discuss moving cow pats to limit fly breeding sites. The vlog shifts to pig care, describing how a feeder and water trough rolled down a hill and how they reposition feed for easier access. The core gardening segment showcases a no‑till, no‑weeding method: each sweet‑potato bed receives five wheelbarrows of compost, then the slips (sourced from “New Sprout Mountain”) are planted in soft, dark soil, with family members helping cover the rows. After planting, the crew transitions to a cooking segment called the “Burn It Up Cooking Show,” preparing roasted dark‑meat chicken with herbs, gluten‑free biscuits, a squash casserole, and cucumber salad for a special dinner. Throughout, the tone remains enthusiastic, hands‑on, and family‑centric, emphasizing practical, low‑cost solutions and the joy of farm life.
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Crazy hair, don't care. Happy Sunday Seed Day! Good morning, Winnie. Good morning. How's it going? Good morning, Sabina. Good morning, you little tiny thing. How you doing? First trick with sweet potatoes is when they arrive, if you're not ready, put them in a glass of water. Okay, I'm coming for you guys. Later.
So when I went on a trip last week, some of my stuff didn't survive, so I had to start some more seeds. I'm gonna fertilize my green beans in the garden. I had whiteflies in my tomatoes, so I, I dealt with that with neem oil. I sprayed that 2 nights ago, so I'm gonna go I guess I can do my first fish fertilizer first. Ugh! Oh, it stinks. Oh my gosh, it stinks so bad. Jonah just came down here and he's like, oh, it smells. You guys smell that?
Yeah.
It's stinky. I was like, yeah, it's fish fertilizer. And they're like, oh, are you trying to be gross? Coming out here to see also what the neem oil did to the whiteflies and aphids that I had. Okay, wow, there are a lot less, um, overall. Of course there's still some. I wasn't expecting it to be a miracle, but it does appear though that it helped. That was mainly aphids. There was whiteflies here. I'm just going to treat again in 3 to 5 days. Just look at these amazing tomatoes.
Folks often ask me How do I cut down on the flies in cows? Okay, they're gonna have flies. You're not gonna get them rid of them completely no matter what you do. See it? Okay, holy cow squat, mucho flies.
I got an idea to destroy it.
All right, what's that idea? Okay, this is one way to get rid of flies. Yeah, that killed a few. They're attracted to this manure. Can you see them when I walk through here? Look at this. Can you see that? I'm going to show you in a minute the all-natural, super easy way to slow down the flies. But first, let's milk the cows. For milking, she does have a bit of flies on her. Go ahead, Jonah's mate. What did you put in that?
A lot of— it's pure apple cider vinegar and then some orange peel.
Did you make that up?
Yeah.
Does it work? Maybe not.
It does work.
Oh yeah, they're not landing on her anymore. That's a temporary fix while we milk. It's another way. Somebody fly swatting while we milk. We're full of tricks today. Minerals, that will also help.
We are very, very out, which is bad.
Completely. We were completely out of Redmond's. What else?
Look, uh, I'm not sure what this one is, but this is K.
Here's the single best thing I think you can do. To slow down the fly population, we move them. There's no— zero cow patties over there, and many of the flies stay behind. Before, during, and after. Doesn't that look so much better?
Yeah.
Just did the sea monster shore for the last time, or as Rebecca calls them, the meatballs. Look at those guys. I see it, I see it. Fat and happy. Tomorrow we butcher them. You gonna be sad? No. Pigs had rolled their feeder and water out. Got the water going. I think I'm gonna put the feed up top so we can get to it easy with our buckets. It fell out. And rolled down the hill. Drift container in there. We got the scoops on it still. I think we put it right there, just, uh, those trees will block it from rolling down the hill. I think they're on to us. You just step over from the side-by-side, dump it in. Let's do this. Oh look, he pulled these off the shelf. Get them, put them on. That's what we do.
He knows, he knows that we all put shoes on.
That's what we do with those. First we're planting squash plants. Man, look at that root system. Thomas here for a work week. Watch him, he's running off with the plant. Hey, can I have it? Thank you. Thomas, I think they got this. Let's go and cover the sweet potatoes. This is our no-till, no-weeding secret weapon. We pulled this off that garden. We've got to pull this. You want to grab that in, Thomas? Thomas, I bet you $100 we're gonna pull this off and there's not gonna be a weed under there. Minus that. That's what would happen without this thing. There's a hole in it. That's what happens. Yeah, there's a hole in it. Cows getting in here. We built these rows before covering them, covered them, and now look, so ready. Started my timer. Hey, where'd you get your sweet potato slips?
Um, New Sprout Mountain or something.
New Sprout Mountain or something. You can see it's real dark soil. We put down 5 wheelbarrows of compost on each of the— each of these beds. There's 2 beds right here, so that would have been 10 loads in all. It's a pleasure to plant this, isn't it, Rebecca?
It is.
Look how soft it is. Yeah, it's just gonna poke it in.
Oh well, I did on that first one.
There, look at that.
I would go to like right here-ish. Yeah, like I would bury that. So it's gonna be different on everyone.
Been going ahead of them with a rebar post and Open it up for them. 24 minutes. What in the world? She can't even wait. You know, this works better with a camera. Jumping in the creek. Is the creek water even cool? It is.
Yay!
On today's Burn It Up Cooking Show, dark meat chicken. Let's get us some— this will have to do for chives, this onion green. Our homegrown dark chicken meat, 2 tablespoons onion chives, 4 cloves minced garlic, 4 tablespoons rosemary, 4 tablespoons thyme. 1 tablespoon oregano, a couple teaspoons salt, and how about a teaspoon of pepper? 1/2 cup of olive oil. Lily's making gluten-free biscuits. What do you think, guys? Good enough. We're having special guests tonight, so we want to be extra special. We're gonna put it on 400. We got about an hour and 15 minutes. I think that's enough time. Get a little more supper. Yeah, what are you making?
Squash casserole with our yellow squash and cucumber salad.
Look at all your peppers coming in.
I know, I'm so excited about it.
Okay. Chicken's plenty done. Look at that, looks good.
Looks so easy. It really looks good.
Look who's here! Hey y'all, come on in, come on in.
How you doing?
Good, how are you?
Yeah, I am good.
Hey y'all, squash biscuits! Wait till you see this. Boom! Chicken from our land in honor of the chicken meat course this coming week. And then cucumbers from the land. Cucumber salad. How is it, Henry? He's loving it. Mom's plate, my plate. Josh, how is it? Oh, look at that, that is looking good. I haven't had any Mr. Road's chicken yet, but— Oh yeah, there it is, kick off the week. Oh yeah, that's it right there. That is good.
