The video captures a candid family gathering on a small farm where daily chores, child care, and farm management intertwine with broader decisions about livestock and health. The morning starts with parents helping children put on shoes and boots, while a calf follows its mother. The conversation shifts to a family meeting about acquiring feeder pigs: they discuss timing (December vs. spring), breeds (Idaho pastured pigs, guinea hogs), sourcing from Cliff Davis, feeding strategies using food scraps and fresh manure, and fencing considerations, even reviewing a "Permaculture Pigs" DVD to approve its menu and training chapters. Interspersed are updates on household matters—milk production, breakfast plans, and a water quality issue requiring clean water. The dialogue later moves to dental health concerns: Rebecca and others talk about past root canals, a theory linking a root canal to Lyme disease, upcoming oral surgery, bone graft timelines, and the possibility of implants or bridges, noting the expense and long recovery. Throughout, the tone remains informal, humorous, and pragmatic, reflecting family dynamics, collective decision‑making, and the practical challenges of running a small, diversified farm.
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He's doing good. He's got the calf following the mom. Can you carry the tumbler? Can you carry the tumbler? Can you get your shoes on first? Where's your rubber boots? Where's your snow boots? I can't make this stuff up, y'all. What are wet? Oh, okay. Well, there they are. Let's put them up here to dry. I think you guys like the Mr. Brown, where are your shoes story because it happens to all of you, doesn't it? With children, it may not be with shoes, it's with something. Okay, so all you have left— where are your rubber boots? Okay, your play shoes. You're putting them on the wrong feet. Does that matter to you? Uh, yeah. You want to switch them?
Sure.
Un-Velcro them, honey. Come here. That means unstrap them. Get down there. Unstrap them. Get your foot out of them. Pull your tongue out. Pull this tongue out. This is a tongue, okay? Pull it out like that.
Okay.
Now you do it. You do it. Good boy.
Where did the claws go?
Right in that bucket?
Yes, put them in there one at a time though so you don't drop them on the ground. So, you know, really Mr. Brown's story of finding his shoes is just the struggle of a child trying to grow up and a struggle of a parent trying to keep that child alive and well.
I wouldn't bail on the pig butchery. I was sick on the pig butchery.
You were sick? You were not feeling well?
No.
Yeah, well, that's when Mama was taking care of you, buddy.
I actually like them.
Tack, tack.
Bill, you want to get her more scoops?
Family therapy, please. She's going to move.
Get this up.
Get her—
oh, there you go. Good job.
Good job, Lily. Well, I'm gonna mark this milk. Almost 2 gallons. Good day, good day. And Lily, you gonna make breakfast? What are you gonna make? Rebecca, you already ate?
Yeah, I just had a snack.
What'd you eat? Coleslaw. Baby coleslaw. Tell us, that's the S for you.
I didn't have any yesterday.
Every day.
Sad.
So you got to catch up today.
But I'm making more.
Come on, kids, let's eat.
Here we go.
Everybody gather around, we're gonna have a family meeting. I have a special question I need to ask everybody. What? Well, I'll give you a hint, it's in this quiche. It's our, um, and it's not, it's not eggs.
Pork?
Yeah, there's pork in this. So you guys know we like to eat us some pork. We also have a lot of food scraps, like epic food scraps and fresh cow manure.
We're getting big.
Hey, well, I'm not telling you, I'm asking you. We have an opportunity to get pigs first week of December, 2 feeder pigs, and then we have an opportunity in the spring to get a few, some more, 2 We've been talking the talk, haven't we, Becky? Be better to have pigs all year round than like 5 at a time. Instead of 5 at a time, do 2 all the time. What do you think about that, Jonah?
2, 2 for 6 months and 2 for pretty much 5-ish, 6 months, 7-ish.
There might be some—
yeah, we can— we don't have to do it where it's like right at this time.
There's Idaho Pastured pigs that we would maybe like to try out, but they're not available until the spring. They grow a little slower, but they grow faster than like a Cooney Cooney.
Right.
Or like an Ewok. Huh?
Or a guinea hog.
Yeah, they grow faster than a guinea hog.
I want a guinea hog.
Guinea hogs are fun, but they grow so slow.
And they get pretty big.
Yeah.
They get fat.
So, um, we have an opportunity to get some of these pigs from Cliff Davis. 2 or 3. Can we meet? That's it. Is everybody okay with that? Yeah, like, we're probably gonna put them in the forest. We're gonna scoot on out there and feed them every day.
It's convenient to have Sally.
I think we need to pick up fresh manure around the water trough and feed it to them, and the food scraps. Yeah, this is kind of a time of rest, so we're kind of like saying adding something to our plate during this time of rest. Is everybody okay with that? Sure, it's really not that much more, right? Sally will make it fun. Only hit electric fence once.
That's not—
thanks, bud. Look what this is. This is the DVD, the Permaculture Pigs DVD. This is the authoring like the DVD menu, and we have to approve it. Oh, there it is, Permaculture Pigs. That looks good, right? So let's do chapter— play film, chapter selection. Oh, getting pigs, training to a fence. So make sure we like the font, the picture came out nice. Bye-bye, bye-bye, bye-bye. Bye-bye. I love you.
Where are we going, babe?
Tell them where we're going. I don't even know the name of this place.
Going to the oral surgeon.
So you guys—
I think they're called endodontists or something.
Remember on the Great American Farm Tour, they had to get my back tooth pulled.
Abscess tooth.
It was the third on this side since I've had Lyme disease.
Which, which another dentist has said they have seen one tooth infect other teeth, which is my theory. Theory on this because it just seems all too right there. Like, since— yeah, since you've had— because it started with the first tooth, which was a root canal, which we believe brought on the Lyme disease because it happened before your Lyme disease came on. And if you people don't know, just research root canals and what can go wrong with those because there's lots of information out there on that, and there's a lot that can go wrong.
I guess I basically used up my immune system.
No, what it is, it made me vulnerable There are little blood vessels off of your root, and while your root is healthy and there, then the, um, the bacteria cannot grow in those little, little blood vessels. But when you get a root canal and they put in, um, the fake whatever that stuff is in there, the body no longer can like keep the bacteria in check in those little blood vessels and therefore infections and stuff can grow. I mean, it's like documented. This is not medical advice. I'm not a medical doctor or anything, but I'm just saying it started with the root canal and then it was the tooth behind it and then it was the third tooth eventually and since then you have not had any more issues with abscessed teeth since that has happened.
The partial didn't work.
No.
Well, we lost it.
You lost it.
And it was very uncomfortable.
You lost it and you didn't like it.
So we tried that. So we're hoping that—
We're hoping that we can get implants, maybe a bridge.
Yeah, and that's not too late.
We're just gonna find out. I don't think it's too late. I don't think it's too late. I feel like they're gonna help us.
Okay. So—
Well, Rebecca with Rachel somewhere. Good news and bad news. The good news is they can do it. The bad news is— it's gonna be like— the first initial process of building the bone back, surgery— takes 6 months after surgery for the bone to grow back enough to have it planted there. So that's 6 months and then if all goes well, then they can do the implants. Uh, it's expensive. But so is— if I don't get this fixed, my other 3 teeth on top don't have anything pressing against it, and the dentist said eventually they're gonna fall. Look who's there! Look who's going out there with them. It's like everybody's heading out. Cousins, Mama. Let's change real quick.
That's better.
See, and then it makes the fence tight. So you do it at the top and the bottom. When we get Sally back, I'll bring minerals. BBC needs it.
And A, we just filled those one, two days ago, three days ago maybe.
It's crazy.
The water's filthy. Why? They cleaned this off with the hot bean beans. Yeah, forgot to, and it splashed all around.
Okay, well, we need to go get clean water.
Hey, hey guys!
Hey, look right here!
It is so cute.
Give me the extra to go fix it in. You know what I mean?
Yeah. After this whole paddock, you can start doing your eyes down there. Ready? 1, 2, 3.
