In this vlog‑style farm video Victor (Speaker A) and Rebecca walk viewers through a full day of hands‑on farm work. They start by rebuilding a mobile milking sled, installing rafters, a roof, X‑braces, and a chain‑bar system, while discussing tool challenges like a broken ladder and fuel shortage. They then demonstrate flame‑weeding potato beds, explaining why the method spares soil disturbance and helps control weeds before the potatoes sprout. The duo checks on a pregnant cow, Mr. Brown, whose udder is swelling in preparation for calving, and later celebrates the birth of a healthy calf on a steep mountain pasture, describing the silvopasture area they’ve seeded and the shelter shed they’ve built for the herd. Throughout the day they prepare simple farm meals—potatoes, crushed tomatoes, cucumber salad, mashed potatoes, and a sirloin roast—while sharing anecdotes about a local harvest party and a farm‑camp graduation. The tone is conversational, instructional, and celebratory, reflecting both the challenges and joys of small‑scale, diversified farming.
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Haha, that's exactly what I wanted. Mucho weeds. We planted the potatoes 6 inches down. We rebuilt these beds. It really brought on the weeds, but this is the initiation. And then now we're gonna burn them if we have enough fuel. We have fuel, but the ladder's not working. Although Well, it's not even sparking now. We got to do this, see, before our potatoes start sprouting and come to the surface, because we don't want to burn them. Good morning, Randolph. Good morning. What's the plan today? Today I think we're going to finish this thing. Are we really? We're going to finish today? We're going to get the rafters on, we're going to get the roof on. Well, that's all you lack, the rafters and the roof. Yeah, put the roof on and— oh, and the braces. Hey, you have a lighter I can borrow? There you go. All right, thank you. Hope it'll work. All right, I'll bring you right back.
Yeah, it's working.
Well, we ran out of fuel. Made it to right here, and I think I'm doing it right. I don't think you torch them in place. I think I've burnt them and I think they'll shrivel up. We gotta go milk Mr. Brown. Her udder is getting big, more mucus coming out. I think she's getting ready, she's getting ready to have a baby. Look how gigantic her udder is. Dang girl, you're gonna have them on this mountainside. I kind of hope she waits 5 days. We got 4 more days in here and then we backtrack to the old mountain board's course, which is a little bit smoother. It's gonna be rough to have a little calf on this steep brand new, guys. You've never grazed this. We cleared this area. Look at this silvopasture area. They love it. This— the grass seed has come up where we planted it. There's plenty of little brambles they'll eat. They're excited. I'm excited. Animals happy makes me happy. Checking in on Randolph. It's looking good. Look, much bigger diagonal pieces, much bigger. Trying to get a support as much as we can down there without having to do a Crosspiece. I think you twist it off. I have to get a tool. I'm wondering if this is worth it. I could just hoe that and already be done. I just did that row. Looks like it's working. That was before and that was after. Now I kind of like the flame weeder because it doesn't— flame weeder doesn't disturb the soil again, and you have to rake that up or the plants are just going to take take root again. What I made Rebecca this morning, that's this— potatoes. Protecting our potatoes. Try those potatoes. Tell me you're not gone to heaven. Delicious. Oh my goodness. That's the fruit of our labor, but you got to enjoy the labor. So I'm out here for half an hour, 40 minutes, got my shirt off, getting some sun, moving, some exercise. Burning points, beautiful ones. I'm really hopeful about that. You know, I wasn't so sure, but looking at it now, it's a lot browner than it was, and I'm pretty sure any little green leftover is gonna wither in the sun now. Look at what you've been doing.
I know, I've got—
how's that feel? It feels good. Crushed tomatoes.
Crushed tomatoes. I did deseed them, but there is quite a bit of seeds in here.
How many do you need in a year?
Well, I use quite a bit of tomato sauce.
I always tell her, if you don't use it up by next tomato season, no more tomatoes.
See all of this that I buy?
This is store-bought, but this is the same thing?
Oh, some of it is. So some of it's tomato sauce, some of it's crushed tomatoes.
Okay.
Stuff like that.
Yeah, look at your tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes.
That's the one thing that I actually have the most of.
We're ready to replace it. You almost got it, Randolph. Yeah, I'm getting closer than ever. You got the minerals down, you got the braces that you got. What do you like, the X-braces and the bar? Yeah, X-brace and the chain and the bar. All right, man. The milk shed is in good hands. We're on our way to a harvest party to support some friends of ours in the area who have done a— I want to say kindergarten. Farm camp.
Yeah, farm camp.
And today is graduation day.
It is graduation day. They're graduating.
Did you guess how many seeds are in this sunflower? Anyone want to guess how much does the zucchini weigh? Lily, did you guess on the zucchini? Yeah, it's a lot. How much did you guess?
I guessed 3 pounds.
Okay, cool. 6'8". 6 pounds, 8 ounces. So 6 and a half pounds. We got a 6'7" here. 1,080 seeds. Is that, is that this one? Oh yeah, Barry! We are back. Pass Randolph on our way out. Looks like he has done it. Oh man, this thing is a beast. Oh my gosh, I hope we can pull it. It ain't going nowhere. This thing ain't bending. Boy, we have a— we have a shade shed now. This, this is the secret. Did you see this, Jonah? Hookup is right in the middle, and all the pressure is now pulling on the pole, and then the pole pulls straight— these pull straight out, so there's no pressure pulling these in. I think it'll be just fine. What do you think? And there's a— there's shelter over here. Phyllis could hang out over here, and Stud Muffin and Flossie maybe over there. And they won't bother each other. What do you think? Yeah, I think we'll give it a spin when we get out of the silvo pasture. We don't need it right now. What are you making? Oh, this is easy. This is farmer's fast food.
Cucumber salad.
Cucumber salad.
Add some tomatoes to it though.
We got farmer's mashed potatoes heating up, leftovers, and a sirloin, uh, a sirloin roast. It is the next day and look what we have here. Flossie, you're looking good. Your baby's looking good. Your little bull calf. Yes, more meat for us. Thank you, Flossie. Well, you picked a gnarly place to have a baby. Come on, come on. You got to get the baby to move, in this case to get the mom to move. She's so protective. You're good, Mom. You're a good mom. Baby don't care if it's 30-degree slope. We let calf have it all first day, so tomorrow we'll milk. We won't take the calf off of her for probably 2 or 3 weeks. It's kind of exciting. This little guy was born on what used to not be pasture just last year. Well, you must have been born last night early because you're, you're getting along. You gotta love a cow who can give birth at night, no assistance. You come out and you have a thriving, healthy, have-eaten calf. What I mean by that is the calf's eaten and we don't have to supervise, make sure that's happened. They took care of it all.
