Selling Blaze, Freezing Broth + Homemade Lotion

Home— happy day. Homesteading starts in the house. Zone zero. As much as I want to get outside and do a project, this comes first. When you home scratch cook from home every meal for 7 people, this is what your kitchen looks like constantly. What happened? This just got loose. Would you look at that? Wood chips off of, uh, chipdrop.com. It actually worked. You can list yourself there as someone who wants wood chips, or you can look there as somebody who needs to dump wood chips. Around here, the landscapers Graders have to pay $20 to dump wood chips, but, um, Chip Drop has set it up where whoever wants wood chips, you can opt to actually pay $20. So for the landscaper, it's beneficial because one, it's probably closer to their site. Two, they don't have to pay $20 at the dump. And three, they get paid $20, and this is worth it. $20 all day long plus a cash tip, because that would cost $240. Have you smelled that? Yeah. This— what do you think? This is amazing. It smells so good, so, so fresh. It's so right. Why am I so excited? You see that compost, that, that wood chips? Combined with animal manure and urine turns into that rich, rich compost. And how valuable is that? Before it composts, it's a deep bedding for these animals to absorb their poop and urine. Carbonaceous diapers, Joel would say. Getting a little gross in there, right? Yeah, boys, can you put it on your list to give her a scoop of wood chips? Think it'll work. That is why it's critical we fix this bucket. We fix things. We fix that too. I know, I thought our limb— our rim is bent and it's leaking a little bit. He's hammering it back, but I doubt that'll work. Maybe it will work. Keep hammering it. It's not quite there yet, is it? Wow, okay, okay, that's good. Store them in this shed for many reasons. One, it's close. It's close to where we're going to need them, the deep bedding pole barn. It's south-facing. That's where the sun is going to be in the winter. It's covered, so they'll, they'll stay dry. They'll dry out even more. We want them dry or they won't absorb the moisture. A couple of things here. This is my future food, definitely when I break the fast, going to broth, ruminant broth too, beef. We have bones. That's He-Man, y'all. That's That's from our butcher. These bones, these are marrow bones. I'll roast these and have— you call it beef butter— on a steak or something. Oh, I'm gonna freeze them like this until I need them and just do a couple at a time. This is what it looks like after it's done and we've cooled it. And look at that gelatinous broth. We're making broth with these bones, and I'm working on getting it as gelatinous as possible. That means it looks like Jell-O when you shake it. This fasting is the ultimate test of delayed gratification, isn't it? Putting off food, something very essential. And now I'm even prepping food. Josiah's helping me so I don't have to. It's calories, you know. I'm trying to find that line, figure that line of The more calories you burn, the more energy you have to produce. That's only— can come from fat. I don't know if I have much left of that. And then it's muscle, so I want to mitigate that. They also say you should work your muscles with some weight training to preserve them. So I figure me just maintaining my role in the house and on the farm and as a father husband, probably enough. Sad day for Lily today. Blaze has been sold, her pony she's off her own. We ain't gonna have 3 horses on the farm. We don't have enough grass and land for what we have, let alone a 3rd horse. This was the pony Henry rode. Will, will Henry be able to ride Luna or Shadow?

Shine.

Shine. He was good to her.

I'm glad that you were here for Lily when you were. Okay, now you're gonna go somewhere else that's gonna be good for you. You be a good boy, okay?

Ponies are a little—

ponies can be feisty.

It looks scary.

It looks a little scared.

I can't figure out how to get it to set down. It just won't. You're scared. You're a professional hauler now. Paying you that cash.

Yeah, it costs $30.

I'll pay you. You got to give me 70 cents per mile and then you can have the rest. I give you $30. That means I, I just cover the truck expenses. You get all the profit.

You had one last hurrah with him this, this weekend with your cousins, didn't he?

She did. Show you something I'm, I'm doing lately. This might be because I'm not eating. Video on my fasting journey later, but This was leftover— well, Lauren cooked this for us. It was bim— bim— bim bam.

No, it's bit and bat.

And we had— not only did we cook enough to eat it twice, we cooked it enough to save some. Super Cubes, link down in the description. We put some in these silicone Freezing cubes.

Cool.

We let it cool off. You don't want anything to leach. What? Yeah, that's good. Go put it in the oven to roast. You can put up to 4 of these since they're 2 cups. From here over is all leftover food. We have bibimbap, taco chili, some regular chili. There's some beef and vegetable soup and pork roast. We've forgotten to do a meal, or we need a really quick meal, or we're going to travel. You just take that with us and we're already prepared. No prepping. Make sure there's no liquid on the bottom. Or it freezes to the shelf. Ask me how I know. You win some, you lose some, and some are rained out. Our cabbage, while it was fermenting, becomes sauerkraut, molded. That's a huge bummer because we grew 3 cabbages, we processed that we waited a couple of weeks. We didn't get enough liquid over it, I guess. Just did some research. It's not true mold, and they say you could skim it off and eat the rest, but if it smells tangy— the rest smells sour and tangy. It smells weird. It smells like old lady feet. Unkempt old lady feet. Okay, no offense at On today's episode of Burn It Up Cooking Show, first supper. Let's get a marinade going. We've got our homemade chick dark meat, we've got soy sauce, black pepper— I mean, it's not, it's soy-free soy sauce, uh, gluten— well, it's gluten-free soy sauce, uh, apple cider vinegar, salt, rice vinegar. Let's go. First, let's make our marinade. 10 cloves of garlic, 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar, salt and pepper to taste. What's salt and pepper to taste? Well, I'm just imagining these are all spread out. What would I put on them? And look at that, we got the kitchen cleaned up. Well, ish. Lily's got a horse birthday party. It'll help her. She's sad Blaze is gone. She's got some friends having a horse birthday party. Let's make that happen. Hey, you don't have any smaller shoes? No, these are one of my shoes. Goofy. Hey, I don't care as long as he's got shoes on. Chauffeur Josiah. All right, she get settled, Josiah? She gets settled? Yeah. Fair traffic. Oh, what are you doing?

I'm making my lotion. You can see my jars down there, they're empty.

Oh boy, body lotion out of shea butter, coconut oil, coconut, calendula oil from the farm, cocoa butter, cocoa, cacao butter, or cocoa butter. And you know what, they had this— I like with coconut in it on the clearance aisle. Should I have gotten that? Because you're just adding coconut oil.

No, because they, um, would have done something to it. Uh, there was like a lavender one.

I see.

I didn't want lavender.

Well, you can't—

this is the problem. You've put dirty spoons on here.

Oh, you know, you're saving us $244 a month pretty much by making this yourself, and it's healthier.

Well, I would put tallow in it if I had tallow, but but I don't have any tallow, so I can make you some tallow. Yeah, but that's not going—

is that what you mean?

It's not going in this batch. I would put it in here. I'll put rendered—

homemade tallow too.

Rendered?

No, I can do that. The Burn It Up cooking show continues. Our chicken has marinated. It's time to go. It's about an hour till eating time. Notice there's liquid developed in the bottom. I guess that's all right. Started out thicker.

Mm, that's good.

What is it, soy sauce? What else? Uh, garlic and honey. Oh, salt, pepper. That's it. That's nice. Happy day.