In this informal farm‑vlog, the narrator (Speaker A) walks viewers through a hectic morning on the family farm. The day begins with the need to move chickens out of a field before they become cage‑fighting, followed by a scramble to transplant squash and pumpkins from a high‑tunnel greenhouse before the plants outgrow their trays. The narrator decides to prioritize squash over corn, citing squash’s low‑carb fruit qualities versus corn’s grain nature. Water‑trough issues are addressed by improvising a rock‑balance to stop leaks that threaten pasture and milk production. The family integrates compost‑producing chickens into the garden, gathers feed and nesting material, and discusses moving the compost area closer to the house to reduce chores. A major subplot involves Rebecca’s ambitious 50‑foot pumpkin arch; the narrator discovers a mismatch between expected pumpkin counts and actual rows, leading to a clarification of pumpkin versus squash varieties and a scaling‑down of the arch. The vlog wraps with a plan to plant roughly 2,400 sq ft of squash, noting its long‑term storage potential, and ends on a light‑hearted note about upcoming meals and family encouragement.
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You'd normally milk them this close? Yeah. Honey just finished and raided vanilla. Honey woofs it down. Happy day. In today's adventure of eating what we grow and growing what we eat, well, I was hoping it's— well, it's gonna have to be moving these chickens. I was hoping it was gonna be planting, transplanting everything in the high tunnel greenhouse. We gotta get stuff out of the high tunnel before it gets too big Before it's britches, so to speak, and overgrowth. We gotta get all this corn outta here. Gotta get all this squash out of here. Look how big it's gotten for these little trays. If we don't, it's gonna start browning like this and dying.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Are you done, Josiah? Okay.
Oh, boy.
There's two of them. There's two of them. That's a hard. That's hard. They got three after. Whoa. What's this one? Okay, all right. Pull away, Jonah. It's over. You can be done, Josiah. It's just too much. Somebody's gonna get hu. I'm gonna need protecting this guy. You never know what's gonna happen. I have a plan. I'm gonna be relaxed if that doesn't happen. Telling myself that because it's starting over there with a wonky— why that got so wonky, that waterer. Lily, did you just water in here? Yep. Did you water these squash plants? Now that I look in here, the corn may be history because we can— we need 10 squash plants per row. I don't know how many rows we got out there, but I want to— I'm going to prioritize the squash over the corn. So we're going to plant all this squash before we put the corn. You already have 2 rows of corn. Corn ain't good for nobody. It's a grain. Squash is a low-carb fruit. It wants to be eaten.
What, does it taste good?
No?
Okay, touché. What did Zach teach us? There's no bad ingredients, only bad recipes.
No, that just tastes bad.
Maybe you need to try some of that butternut squash pie. This is gonna have to wait. The centerpiece of our farm is calling us.
What is that, meat?
That's the dairy. Beef dairy. They did give us over 20 pounds of food this morning. If they threw 3 gallons of milk— hey, are you done? I realize we're also in a paddock that gravity-fed water, and sometimes that's kind of— is it running good lately? Yeah, I think so. Water trough's wonky, it causes leakage, causes mudding, causes us to lose pasture for our precious cows and precious milk. Boys had to come up through here, and you can see what it can cause. I'm gonna get y'all a better balancer. I balanced their water trough with just a rock, and so all that weight just went other places and just warped the trough. That's probably gonna work right there.
Different— all kinds of different arrangements.
Get the chickens out of the field. They're cooped up. I cooped them up, but had enough energy to stay up till after dark, and they're gonna be cage fighting if we don't hurry up and get them out.
You did not have the energy. You were so tired.
Why was that?
At 9:40 when it was I thought it was like 10 o'clock.
It's probably 10 o'clock by the time I came in. Don't even need the balancers. Trying to get the balancers for them on time. Yes, 2 calves nursing a vanilla, both the little one and her calf. Isn't that something? Look at them going. They're all going for that clover first. He-Man looking good. We believe he's bred vanilla, just as big as Stud Muffin in a couple years.
How's the milk sled holding up? Fine. Wait, what?
How?
Door's still shut. Daggum, I'm going to have to stay up late another night. Free the birds! It's a noble A little too much, a little too much for that arm so soon. It's a noble job. We just— given all that's going on, we really need to consolidate. And putting them with the compost chicken, they're making compost which is going to come out here. So they're still working on it. So all right, we'll go get you some feed and some water. We're back getting supplies for those chickens. Lily's got some party tricks. Water, nesting material. Feed. You see, I was hoping to bring them down here with the compost posse, help make compost closer to the house. The house, it'll eliminate one extra chore. We could use that right now.
This whole like roof had a pin underneath it. How many horses could fit?
You probably put 5 horses on here on deep bedding. Okay, so now the big boys are up. For this project with me this morning. We're just putting this stuff, right?
None of this.
Yeah, just the squash.
This—
yeah, this is still growing. We need to leave 5 rows for that, and we're leaving 2 rows for Mama's pumpkins. Oh, and some of this is pumpkins. It's not going yet. I think Moonshines are pumpkins. This might be all pumpkins. We're in trouble. I don't know what's squash and what's Pumpkin. I sure hope this is not all pumpkin, but I'm having a feeling it mostly is. I'm afraid this might be mostly— there's like small sugar— small— why are we doing so many pumpkins? We don't barely eat pumpkins. I gotta go solve this mystery. If we only do— she wants 2 rows of pumpkins. You only do 10 per row, that's 20. She's planted way more than 20 pumpkins. Rebecca? Afraid I'm gonna need your help. If you're only doing 2 rows of pumpkins, you should only have 20 pumpkins.
Well, we're gonna do a 50-foot arch.
There's only 10 pumpkins.
No, because it goes up over, so you can, you can pack them in more.
Oh, okay. I hope we have more squash than I think we do.
I only—
and I don't know the difference between the pumpkin and the squash, so I'll have to have you show me.
So these are the Big Max pumpkins.
Yeah, and there's—
there was 2 in there, so we don't even need all that. So these are pumpkins. Moonshine, Jill B. Little, No Arch. Okay, so these are all pumpkins.
You planted more because you thought we were gonna be able to plant more than 20, right? Okay, so that's good. We got 4 rows so far.
This is Acorn over here.
Okay, I know what happened. Rebecca was gonna do 50 feet, an entire row arched, and then I may or may not have talked her off her ledge when she said, should we just scale down the first tier? I'm like, yeah, let's just see how the arch goes. So now it's down to like, what, 15 feet of arch? Maybe 3 cattle panels are 50 inches wide, so whatever that is, 150 inches. Plan is let's get these squash, plant the squash, see what we have left over. 3. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. Yep, an entire 2,400 square feet of squash. First, let's take off the tarp instead of taking the sandbags off, putting them on the ground, taking them from the ground, putting them in transport. Let me go get the transport. We'll put them right in the transport. You want to go get the transport? You're moving a little faster than me this morning. Bring Sally and just back it right up to the middle of this garden. Get them directly off the tarp.
And into the back of the trench.
We got one per row. I got fish emulsion, what, mixed with water. Turns out it's too hard to get it out once it's soaking wet, so that means, Josiah, we have to do it like this. Get them out while they're dry. Yep, that is easier than soak them. We're gonna be overrun with squash, which is amazing because you could store squash room temperature for 6 months. It's a great little fruit. A little late lunch today. We're gonna have a lupper snacky supper tonight, Lily. You did a good job. Taco Tuesday, I'll beat it Wednesday. Good job, happy day.
