The video is a day‑in‑the‑life vlog of small‑scale farmer Victor (Speaker A) and his crew. The morning begins with a flurry of chores: milking cows, checking a cow for mastitis, moving a calf that spent the night with lambs, handling a moose, and tending to sheep and goats. The team also works on garden tasks, including cleaning raised beds, planting cover crops (winter wheat and peas), and dealing with frost‑damaged sections. Equipment issues arise, such as dead batteries for an energizer and a generator setup. Guest helpers (Caitlin, Alexander, and others) are assigned tasks like fetching nesting boxes and batteries. Throughout the day, Victor performs a mastitis test and treatment, discusses a new product launch called “Permaculture Pigs,” and shares a fire‑cider recipe with Rebecca. Family moments include a visit from Victor’s father (Pop), who reflects on the farm’s legacy and the appeal of their vlogs to older viewers. Casual conversations cover cheese tasting, jewelry, dental appointments, and future plans. The vlog blends practical farm work, product promotion, personal anecdotes, and intergenerational reflections, offering a vivid snapshot of farm life and community.
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Pretty much the best cheese. Biodynamic cows, raw cheddar cheese. Bring me an apple for yourself, man.
What?
Bring me an apple.
Oh, don't forget a frozen.
You like big old chunks? You like me to cut the big old chunks in half?
Yeah.
Here you go, Gideon. Jonah, you forgot to get a nesting box. Will you please do that this morning? Two nesting boxes. Hey there. So foggy. I hear a car, can't see a car. Jonah, will you get an extra battery for this? He's on it. He already knew. He already knew I was gonna ask for— We got guests this morning. What are y'all's names? Caitlin. Alexander. Okay, good. This morning we're gonna just do the chores, milk about 8:30, so hopefully we can get done with everything by then. Um, we switched here— well, we switched their coop out yesterday, forgot to put in nesting boxes, so some of them jumped out. And we've got to open this door, so when you go shut that Energizer off, please. If you missed yesterday's vlog, we also cleaned out the raised beds. Good morning to you too, buddy. And we put in, uh, cover crop seeds— winter wheat and winter peas. We wanted a coop a hair different than Jonah's micro shaw so that Donald could get in there. He liked it. So we put the water on that big pallet, and that helps them shake off a lot of dirt. Manure before they get to it. And that, that was a lot cleaner. Huge pile to work through. It's half red, half green. It's half— the batteries are half dead. We need two, please. You go get another one. Let's test it. Should be blinking all green. Yay! Good move. Yesterday we got one garden completely closed off. That means half our gardens are shut down. We need 4 more shut down. Swiss chard in here, see, hidden in there. This is taking the brunt of the frost, the lamb's quarter. There's Henry. I'm trying to look over at the sheep to make sure the cows didn't knock over the fence and let moose out or the sheep out. See sheep in their fence, can barely see it. We'll get a closer look in just one second. Yeah, giving them a little hay. Just in case. They have plenty of greens today though. That hay's probably a waste, but I guess they do like it. It's more, uh, I don't know, less protein. Had to come in for a second. We've got an electrician here, different lines for all our freezers and fridges, whole different line for our cool room, and talking about a generator. Because when your years of hard work is stored in these little magical boxes, you don't want nothing to go wrong. Good morning, Aunt Flossie. Hopefully Aunt Phyllis is okay. Yesterday, Stud Muffin was a little rough with her. He's trying. Shoot. Oh no, that knocked her over. I don't see her. They're usually together. Okay, I think they're here in the lane. So worried. Okay, she's standing. That's so good. Did it happen last night, Stud? Come on, let's go back. I don't really want to take you unless I have to. Oh, look, Moose stayed in His pen. Oh, it didn't happen last night. Okay. All right, we're gonna take you both then. Okay. Seems like he's calmed down a bit. Maybe it's over. Hopefully it happened last night. He's still wanting to be with her though, so— oh yeah, he ain't going without her. She's not limping or anything. That's real good. Okay, so she's— we're trying something different. Yesterday we put the, uh, Moose, her calf, with the lambs last night so her milk builds up. We didn't put him in the stall. It was so much easier and it worked. He's still out there. We're gonna leave him out there for the milking, but she's not liking the change.
Come on. Hey, come on. Hey, hey, hey.
Well, they both went in the stall with some hay.
All right, uh, just let's just see if we can see anything.
Oh yeah, I'll be able to fill it up, no problem. So we're gonna fill this up. This is a mastitis test. We did it 2 days ago and it It looked a little funny. Yeah, now unfortunately I didn't catch it at the beginning, so it's gonna be creamier. It's better. Do you want me to do one more treatment?
Yeah, I mean, we're gonna do it right now, but I think that it's okay actually. It doesn't look—
does it call for two treatments?
It does. Okay, it calls for what we did.
It calls for Grandpa's old hobbles.
Hey girl, we're gonna give you an alfalfa pellet. We learned our lesson last time. Are we gonna hold the tail up or— oh, let me give her—
Alex, grab the tail and lift it up in the air. She's less likely to kick all the way up. Yeah, you got her some feed.
Oh, that's in there with her.
Yes. Oh, come on, good girl. Thank you, Miss Thang. Almost— wow, it's a gallon and three-quarters maybe. So how was it, Moose? I see he stayed in there. That's good. Turn this fence off. Let's get him out. You ready to go to Mom? Here. Now you got to go to Mom. She doesn't need to come to you, okay? You go to Mom. Go ahead, go ahead. Good, good deal. All right, got a little time before breakfast. I need to crunch on video editing. Got a dentist appointment today. Gonna work on Permaculture Pigs, getting more stuff out. Guys, that is launched! That launched, that launched today, which for you it would have been launched 2 o'clock dentist appointment. For you guys, have been launched 2 days now by the time you're seeing this. So check it out if you haven't already. Permaculture Pigs, everything you need to know from raising pigs From Piglet to the Plate. Let's see how that's doing. Basically announced that by email, and it looks like people are getting in and able to make orders, so that's good. I just check in emails, just usually people are kind enough to reply if a link is broken or something like that, but everything looks like it's up and running. Permaculture pigs, pigs for everyone! Hey Rebecca, want to take a shot? Oh, Fire cider? It grows limbs, you know.
To health.
Cheers.
Cheers, Anna.
That's yummy! Woo!
You next?
No.
No?
I'll taste it, I'll taste it.
Woo!
Gives me chills. What's in that fire cider, Rebecca? People are gonna wanna know.
Horseradish?
Horseradish.
Jalapeños.
What? Jalapeños.
I hope you have jalapeños.
White onion, garlic, turmeric. I can't remember if I put ginger. I think I did. Cinnamon. I have a video on The Beautiful Life on how to make it.
You did. What'd you call it? Firesider?
Master tonic.
Master tonic. Okay, 11:30. Oh my, I have to leave by 1:30. But I think I can wrap up this email and get some editing done. Let's see. Well, I'm gonna have to close up the editing for this morning. Not done. I have to do some this afternoon. Gotta go to the dentist. You guys got a jewelry store going on, it looks like. Mm-hmm. This is nice.
What's your favorite ring?
Uh.
Let me tell you.
Let's see.
That one?
This one.
That's my birthstone.
Which is your favorite one?
This one, because it's my birthstone.
Okay, you guys not into it?
No.
What's the matter? You don't want any jewelry? Girls. Oh, it is?
Well, unless when a boy buys a wedding ring, I guess. Oh, only one boy for me.
Yeah, he's having a good time.
He said jewelry robber.
He's a jewelry robber. Are you robbing?
Don't!
Went to the dentist. That was okay. Whoever gets excited about going to the dentist? Well, we thought we'd visit my dad on the way home. See, you got your mug going, Pop. Yep, as a gift from your fans.
It's the only thing you'll use, huh?
You got a pocket knife too now.
Oh, it's beautiful. Beautiful.
Don't cut yourself.
That pocket knife, I bet that guy paid $100. Yeah, for that knife.
It's nice. Did you open all your letters yet?
I have. This is true. He's opened most of them.
People are reading to him?
Every 10 or 15 minutes.
Oh nice.
I can't still see real good.
Yeah.
And they enjoy reading to me too. You have to. Most people are very nice.
Yeah.
But I better prove it. Last time I looked, he's over 550,000. Yeah. Subscribers.
Everyone that walks in the house has to check out the cards and watch the vlog.
They got to see the cards and watch the vlog, huh?
Absolutely.
Absolutely.
Yeah, I see him over there.
Got Wayne and Dena hooked on the vlog.
Oh really?
Yes, they've never seen it, didn't know how to do it. Yeah, so now they're addicted.
You're getting everybody addicted to our vlogs.
I refer them, and they do watch. Usually if they watch one, they want to watch the other one.
See what happens What's next? Why do you think people like it so much?
I think it takes people back, older people in particular, yeah, to their dreams, or maybe their former life. It takes one back, and for a few years And you guys, what more beautiful way of life is there?
Yeah.
I mean, when you see the way you guys live and those little children respect them, even the visiting children, they get that experience. It's rare, but it's so healthy. It's so good.
Yeah.
Like I told her, this is the way that what he knows. Yeah. Back here, back here.
And people watch those children with a big smile on their face working.
I mean, really.
Yeah.
You know, you don't see too many children working with a smile on their face at any age.
Yeah, they love to work.
They do, they love it.
They do. As they eat their greens at the table, they grab the stuff up here. Old touch. Yeah. So anyway, thank you guys.
Yes, sir.
For getting us started. I guess, thank you to my dad. He had a beautiful place, and I know I said to you a long time ago, he was always proud to say we, we grew everything on this.
He was proud to say we grew everything on the plate.
Absolutely, that's good. And I know you, you say that every once in a while.
We're proud to say it too, about every meal.
So anyway, may the good Lord bless and keep you and all your kids and all your fans for who knows 1,000 years. Well, we love you.
We're going to go live the show.
Yeah, live the show.
They got to get moved, show or no show.
I know these people, when they meet you at shows, they got to know you got work.
Yeah.
Working.
Yeah.
Does he ever come in?
No, because they probably got working hands too, I guess. Just two working hands come by.
Yeah, but thank you for coming by.
Yeah. All right, well, time to do afternoon chores. The visit to my dad, let's see, he's not doing as good as he has been the last few visits. As you could saw, you know, speech has slowed down a little bit. Still legible. That's ironic. Still legible. What am I trying to say? Anyway, so Pop still has his wits about him. It was good to see both my brothers there at the same time, so all the, all the sons were in the room with him. Does it matter?
They're both—
I don't know.
We have more business in Asheville. Yeah, she's getting me an appointment to the, uh, dentist. Y'all know about some of my teeth problems during the— from— it happened during the Great American Farm Tour. Well, we're looking at getting some implants for the back of my teeth. I want to enjoy steak from both sides of my mouth, so we got referred out. A lot going on, and it's 8 till 5. Supper would be ready soon. Oh my word, are you kidding me?
Hey, hey, we're doing your chores for you so you don't have to.
Oh my gosh, look at this! Aunt Rachel, they got you out doing the chores?
Good.
Okay, good job, guys. Thank you. Wow, you guys moved the sheep, you got the moose, you got moose in, man. Thank you, guys.
We just gotta go to the luchador, luchadores, and then supper.
