The video is a candid, conversational vlog of a family farm after a recent grease‑fire that forced them to move into a 100‑year‑old farmhouse. The speakers discuss re‑establishing their routine to achieve a healthy, self‑sufficient lifestyle. They describe the day’s priorities: processing dairy (milk, yogurt) with limited kitchen outlets, troubleshooting a dehydrator, and dealing with a $10,000 food inventory loss. They detail the mechanical work of clearing 1.5 acres of pasture—using a skid‑steer, grapple forks, and a harrow—to remove sticks, roots, and stumps, and they estimate the time required. They talk about inspecting and handling a large shipment of tiles, checking for cracks, and planning ventilation. Sheep health is a recurring concern, especially a ewe named Bale that may have retained placenta after a premature lamb birth, and the importance of lamb production for their food supply. The vlog also covers greenhouse tasks (watering, bug‑netting, Agribon), the introduction of “Never Sink” trays, and observations of pollinators. Family dynamics surface as they assign chores, discuss the financial impact of lost food, and celebrate progress (e.g., a stick‑free acre, boys’ skill with the stump grinder). The overall tone is informal, enthusiastic, and occasionally stressed, reflecting the challenges and pride of hands‑on farm life.
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Hey, you ready to go with me?
Yeah.
Balloon and all? Little boy had a rough and tumble day yesterday. Which one you taking? Okay. Fallon bumped his head right there. And then cut your finger. Was it rough and tumble? It was. I think after 2 weeks today of being disrupted from our house from a grease fire, settling in the 100-year-old farmhouse. I think we're ready to start back a quasi-normal schedule. Our family's goal is to be as healthy as possible, and that certainly includes growing and eating our own food. We only have so much time, money, and energy, so we're always asking, what is the most important thing we can do today to accomplish that goal? One is to process the food we've It's already grown. Milk coming to temp. We've been having to put it right there, which, my goodness, counter space is at a premium in here. We would put it on top of the snacks. In worst case, we can put it down on the floor. It's a dehydrator. You put a third a cup of yogurt in this one, a third a cup of yogurt in this one. This is the warm milk from today. Already short of outlets. We cannot be short of another outlet. Does that outlet by the fruit not work?
What is it?
It's the one by the door. Maybe it's the dehydrator? Right there. The vacuum worked in that outlet. I know. Dehydrator or not, let's—
I need you to go with me today. At the house we have to touch every single one of the tiles over there to make sure none of them are broken.
That's a several day job. No! No, no.
All we have to do is, she said When you pick up the box that the two tiles are in together, if it crunches, then you have broken tiles in there.
Okay. Sweetie, you have no idea how big that job is. Stop.
What are you saying?
Nothing. I said I'll do anything for the beautiful one.
What did you really say? It'll take an hour. You've got big strong boys.
Well, we're picking up sticks this morning. We're doing something on the farm.
You can only give her a little bit of food at a time because then she will never eat it.
Let's take him down and let him feed the sheep some feed. Bale had what looked like could have been a retained placenta. Placenta yesterday. She birthed the premature lamb and it seemed like she still had some placenta hanging out. That could be bad because that could turn into an infection. That has a part of the placenta hanging out. This is her, what looks like has passed. I believe there's a baby in there. Yeah, that's how I feel when I found out I need— I really need to be doing tile. Instead of picking up sticks, which is clearing a pasture for cows. I just feel deprived of proper farm jobs in these last 2 weeks because we've been having to focus on moving in houses, houses. I mean, I know that's the number 1 priority, but it's, it's just not as cool as farm projects. This one's Bale. If we have a mascot of the sheep, it's Bale. It's one thing to have a premature baby which could have been the previous nachos fault. Uh, it'd be another thing if she had retained placenta and got an infection and died. She'll get a pass on this one. Catching the vibe here? These sheep are— they're for food. Well, we don't eat them, we eat their babies. And if they don't have any babies, we don't have anything to eat. So it's pretty serious if they don't produce a baby in a year. That means we would have fed them an entire year without any fruit. That's not good, nor sustainable. Henry, you're flooding the greenhouse. You're supposed to spread it out. Spray a little water in here, keep the dust down, or flood it. Maybe the boys have figured something out with the machine. That'd be nice. Otherwise we're doing this, going through, we're throwing sticks. I don't know, I was jonesing to do this job, I guess to get it over with. I think I'd rather count tile. Okay, he scraped this, so let's see how that is. See if he made these ones that are left over any easier. Converting raw land is no joke. First you got to put down the trees, then you got to sort them, then you got to smooth the surface, then you got to get rid of all the leftover roots. The plan of attack here is we're going to go in a circle around it in a radius to where we can reach it. Throw it. We're probably a little far right here, so we need to go around it. Our pile, let's say that took about 40 minutes for one man to do this acre and a half, 2 acres. Oh my gosh, there's probably 20 of those. 20 hours. Wondering if we should pretty much call it after that thing goes through with it. Just get the big stuff up. Maybe he's getting some topsoil but not much because of those grapple forks. Look how smooth it's getting. I think we'll to pick up sticks after the machines are done. We'll see what the machines can do. I think he might have done this area though, so look what all I still got. Maybe I could have left some of those little ones. Henry's helping. You may have affection for land, but you don't really come to love it until you work it, until you lay down your life for it. That's, that's true love, walking every square foot of it. It's about time for their lunch. Let's see what Jonah's up to. I believe he's been working on this stump for an hour. Wow, look how smooth he's getting that. Jonah's gotten really good at that. We need to let them do their thing here and then pick up sticks. We're going to let the boys do their thing, then we'll come in with a fine comb. Lunch for some energy. How's the food inventory going? How much food that was destroyed? A lot.
Almost $10,000.
$10,000.
That's what happens when I'm buying bulk.
How long did it take you to calculate all that up? All morning.
I've been working on it. But now this afternoon we've got to go over to the tile.
Did you ever get that stump out? Yeah, you did, man. That took you all morning. And how's it going moving those sticks with that grappler?
It's fine.
I think it's going to be the trick. So you got to finish doing that.
Roots are still on the ground.
I think if they're little roots, it's gonna be okay. They're gonna die. After you've gone through the machine, we'll get anything that's too big for the mower.
I'm also gonna go over it with the smoother, that Harrow you bought. I ran the skid steer out of diesel. Uh, no!
Oh!
It's the second time now.
He's run out of diesel in the skid steer. It's hard to start a diesel when you run it out. It's not like a gas. Did you already eat?
Yep.
Was it good? Yep. Was it enough?
Yep.
This is the stand?
Yeah. Get iced coffee!
Go get your $5.
All right, we never come in and do one. Someone else wants iced coffee.
Wasn't too long ago y'all were setting this up. Can't stop her, guys. What are you doing now?
Sheets. I had to wash them all, so I got the Bettys.
Okay, is that all?
That's, that's all that it is.
It's an all-in-one. It's a sheet, it's a blanket, it's all in one piece. And you take it off and on like a sheet. So how was it?
I mean, it's still making a bunk bed.
You're out of breath.
I know, it's hard.
Let's go lift some heavy.
But yeah, I know, that's gonna be real good.
Tile time. Well, maybe this is gonna be a little easier than I thought. Got all these tiles. Are all our tiles here? Another pallet there. Another pallet in the back. Huge pallet there. So far so good. None of those cracked. These aren't susceptible, I don't think. We just got this one and that one left. Good call. Are they just parched like crazy? Are they pretty all right? Should we ventilate it? Or cold weather's still coming, isn't it?
Cold weather is still coming.
Looks like you got germination. We should probably put the bug net over it. I figured we had these poles up here for something. Of course, that could have been fall planting.
It was for Agribon.
One year we built the greenhouse and the table. The next year we rig up these poles for Agribon or bug net. This year we introduced these Never Sink trays. Now gardening down here took what, a few minutes? And then now we can drag ourselves back up to the tile. Temptation is to mow this shaggy yard, but look, look at the bumblebees on that. Are we just gonna let this yard go wild? I hate to mow that. Is this a honeybee? Wow, there's a honeybee.
I feel like it's not hurting anybody. We don't need this space right now.
It's very ugly.
Is this very pretty?
Look over there.
I'll take this ugly any day. Well, you see our path?
Yeah, I know. As long as we got a path. We seem to think those are okay. Josiah just came and got us and said Floppy has had her babies. Is it okay?
Oh, you people.
Doesn't that guy look flat? Oh God, I didn't have to help her this year.
You didn't have to help her last year either. Nope, you only helped her once.
Who's that?
This is Belle.
Oh, we've come a long way since 5 years, haven't we, Rebecca? Yeah, we have. We got a good batch. Hi guys. Hi. How many babies does this make? Does it make 9 babies?
10?
I don't know, this one's not really moving its back legs. Let's leave him alone, we're stressing them out. Got to the last one, so it sounds crackly. He's not gonna need maybe all the whole pieces, so maybe you can still use it. You got you a slide down the stairs. This is a nice space for dinner. It's in the shade. You have a killer view. Jonah works all day on that pasture and he wants to show it to us.
Wow, this is crazy! Pull up to the edge.
Wow, this is so cool. No sticks? Yeah, there's— this is a lot stickless than the ones we've done in the past. This is probably an acre and a half. Proud of you, buddy.
Thanks.
Good accomplishment. We're getting so close. It's good we got these boys.
I know, this is so amazing. This is so amazing.
Yeah, thanks for all your work in it. Guess I'm just gonna have to thank myself. Thanks for risking life and limb on that chainsaw. I did chainsawing too.
