Turning 18 Gallons of Milk into 1 Gallon of Cream! In a TEMP Kitchen

This is 2 weeks of built-up milk. 16, 17, 18. 18 gallons of milk, Becky. We really don't yet have our kitchen. I mean, the stove's in there. It's gonna be easier to do the outdoor stove. The dishwasher's in there though. We are gonna take advantage of that. Randolph's off today. Happy anniversary, Randolph. Doesn't come back till Wednesday.

Yep.

So it's gonna be 3 weeks.

Yeah.

This project. We were in denial. We were hoping. Thankfully I've already cooked my swill. We're just letting it cool off now. We're gonna need this stove for the cream separating. Does it blow up easy? No. All right, there we go. You hooking that up? Thank you. You need a lighter, Jonah? Turn it on over here. Let's get the pans out here. No, pans. Yeah, pans, pots. Let's get the pots out here, get milk in them. I can see cream on the side here. 5 gallons in each one. It's already up to 80 degrees. Grandma's here! Oh, what an angel this morning! Didn't know you were coming, but that's very helpful. I think I got it plugged in. It's European, so we have to have an adapter for the American outlets. Can I push the button to see if it's on?

Yeah, it's on.

Okay, it's on.

It's on because, um, okay, this little light is—

oh, okay.

Yeah.

Where is the other 5-gallon pot? In the guest room?

I bet.

Let me go and look. It was in there. Fourth one? I don't think one yet. Okay, you want to fill these 4 or 5 gallons here? Should I be filling this up or should I be going find 10 buckets?

Yeah, you can fill it up. Okay, because it'll start All right, we could put this on the grill too if we wanted to, on the side burner.

Oh, okay, sure. Yeah, good idea.

The left side is heating up faster than the right side, so turn it down.

Yeah, I'll just go ahead and get this out there and get it started. Let me get one.

Did you call Mom back?

No, this is great. She just showed up. It's great having Grandma up the hill because she just came down for what? I don't know, just say hey, give you something. Isn't that nice? Oh, and now she's dipping in with the cultured cream separating and takes a lot of meals with us, so it's great. She'll also benefit from the farm. She— when we run out of cultured cream, we realize. Did you dress up for the party night for Aunt Ann's recital? Aunt Ann has been at fiddle camp, and we're gonna go see her end of week performance and everybody else. So that's gonna be fun. I'm gonna get this one too going too, Grandma. What did you come down here for, Grandma?

Just to talk to him, and then you got suckered in, huh? Yeah, no, and many hands make light the load.

Good word. And you like that cultured cream too, don't you? Oh yeah, because it's our favorite meal. What is it called?

Tuscan chicken.

Tuscan chicken. That was gonna happen Friday, but we can have it on, uh, we can have it next week. We're gonna have it next week. Tuscan chicken. Mmm, so good. And it'll be all from our farm this time. Well, the cultured cream, the chickens. Okay, everything but the spinach. My goodness, come on.

Yay!

I like a working grill. We've been years with Jerry grills. All right, Grandma, I got you another one going. I'm gonna finish filling it up. Grandma's at 90.

90 on the left, 89 on the right.

Rebecca's got the equipment going. The pigs are gonna love us. They've been without skim milk for a week. Will you bring me milk slowly? Yeah, just set them down here on the on the dock. Jonah's contributing too, milking the cow right now. Thank you. Just keep bringing them out.

How long can you leave it in the refrigerator?

Well, that's been 10 days, so probably 2 weeks. That's if you get it down to 40 degrees right away, which we do. Okay, after milking. It's at 95, Rebecca. Okay, great. Are you going to be ready for it?

Yeah, it's starting. Where did Jonah put the—

you want to carry the big one?

The soap?

It's right there. I saw it.

Yeah, you have to rinse it. Okay. It's gonna be so nice. Do you have skin buckets?

No. All right, time to get skin buckets. How's it going down here?

Glad I still have a gallon.

Okay, so she, she caught it. She got it. Okay, but you have some in the reservoir. I just gotta get them one bucket real fast. How can I help? I got your skin bucket. Been pouring it into the pig scrap bucket. It's fine. All right, there you go. All right, I'll go get you another bucket. Look at that, cultured cream is back on the menu. Switch this out. Look at you, boss. Guys, you probably shouldn't call your wife boss. I knew it was a mistake the minute I said it.

I think it's ready.

All right, I gotta get you another bucket. How's it going out here, Grandma?

Okay, ready to turn that one off.

Okay.

And should we put those last two in here, or no, that's full enough?

No, you can do it. Okay, it's got to go somewhere, right?

Right.

That's the last two?

I think so.

Yay! How's it going now? Grandma washed that for you?

Yep.

Okay, good deal. You do have your reservoir. That's all we got now, so try to be careful. Has she had alfalfa?

Yeah.

Okay, I'll give her another scoop. So heads up, I'm gonna give her a scoop. Oh, did she get enough alfalfa?

I don't know, I just gave her the rest of it because I just—

yeah, that could be our problem. I probably didn't get enough alfalfa. Juggling a lot right now. I know they're gonna need to be having that bucket soon. It goes so fast. But I gotta get Jonah. Okay, Jonah, hold the bucket. We gotta get her some alfalfa so she'll be a little better for Jonah. I'm gonna have to come back for 2 more. The reason we have a kitchen on our porch— kitchen in our dining room, for those of you don't know— we're renovating our kitchen. We're 2 weeks in. Hopefully just one more week left. Thought it was going to be a week. All right, got you another skim bucket. Take this full one down. I'm gonna move Grandma's pot over. It's like 40 pounds. Oh yeah, 8 times 5.

There we go.

This is a better burner.

Yes, well, uh, it's easier to stir it and it's straight.

Are you done?

Yeah.

Okay, take that here. Take that white bucket up to your mom. Not this one, this one needs to be finished cleaning. I like one more. Jenna's done. We have to milk Flossie out though, all the way, because we've weaned the calf and that's it. Like, she'll get mastitis if we don't wean her out. I see she's giving us a present. Take that white clear bucket up to your mom, please. Uh-oh, are we out of clean cloths? Kind of. You guys think that's kind of? There's one sock in there. You did pretty good. That's good job, Jonah. Maybe half a cup.

Ah.

Thank you, Lily. False. It doesn't take long to fill up. Fresh milk. It doesn't need to be heated up because it's already at 100 degrees. Lily, I love how serious you are at this. Hey, more flossies.

Lily, we're at the end.

That's the last of it. So, uh, let me pull that out. We're gonna pour it through. Okay, hold that empty one there. Hold the empty one. No. Okay, yeah, now we're gonna pour this just to make sure we got it all. Clean out the machine. I'm gonna say you got 3/4 of a gallon.

I think we drank the really creamy ones where the cream line was.

Mistake.

Mistake.

Oh, I bet I can turn this off, huh?

If it's all through.

I want to see the magic of cultured cream beginning.

It's real complicated. You better, better watch closely.

Don't blink. Tablespoon of yogurt?

No, 30, uh, this will get 6 because that's a half a gallon.

Yep, that's it.

Well, put the lid on it and then what?

Hold on, I gotta get a whisk.

Just over there in your dining room. Is this setup driving you nuts? Having the kitchen in the dining room and on our dock?

What I don't like is that other people in the family will say, oh, nothing is where it's supposed to be, so I just won't pick up anything. And so everything is out of order, which is driving me a little bit crazy. And part of it is, is like, my purse. Like, our desk is gone. So now where's all that stuff that was on our desk? It's like spread throughout the house. So I look forward to when everything is having a spot and everything in its spot.

How much should we save? Let's see, we'll have another 2 gallons tomorrow.

Right.

Look at her cream line. That's Flossie's now.

Right.

We just need to save enough for the smoothie tonight. So y'all go easy on it at breakfast. Now to make yogurt, 1 tablespoon of yogurt into—

No.

How many? I'm gonna do like a third of a cup.

A third of a cup of yogurt into a half a gallon of milk, just straight up. You need it right on top. You didn't even stir it. I'm gonna stir it. Oh, you're gonna stir it. Surprising how easy this part is.

Yes, it's actually very easy.

You're salvaging all the cream you can get, aren't you, babe?

Exactly.

Yay! Now it's this easy. Seriously, just put in a dehydrator, a towel over it. You could put it in the oven with the light on. Yes, and that keeps it warm. That keeps it 100 degrees.

So I was able to do that when it was just— when we did 6-hour yogurt, but because I do it for 24 hours.

Yeah.

I can't not have my oven for 24 hours.

No.

It's too— too long.

So you're setting it to 100? Yep. Do you set it for a timer too?

Well, yeah, you set it and it goes off.

Tomorrow 10:15 we'll have cultured cream. So in time for breakfast tomorrow.

Well, it'll be warm. Not really. Tomorrow night.

Okay, we'll have it. See if this is cooled off. It's still so hot. But you know what we can do? Yes, since they haven't had skim in a long time. Oh yeah, cool that off. I don't have any more room in this bucket. Got more skim in this bucket.

Let's pour it in there.

Oh boy, I don't think I can pick that up. Wow, I poured some in there. That distracted them and I was able to put it over there. I feel like this guy might be a hair thin, so Socking it to them. Got more charcoal for them. Just like I said, we had a hurt chick. Sure enough. Why don't you go get it and bring it out?

But it can't stand.

You think it got physically hurt?

Maybe.

I guess I can't see it.

Put it out here. Maybe it'll be good being in the sunshine.

Water.

Oh look, it'll be all right. Definitely the unsung part of the homestead, the cleaning up after the harvest. And this is just that, there's more. The kids already emptied what Grandma started this morning from the dishwasher. We have to add that, then do the dishes outside. All right, got the dishwasher going. Let's go do the dishes outside. How's it going down there?

I did another coat.

Oh my gosh. Okay, you're painting downstairs.

Basically, I finished the whole— all of them now, front and back and sides are all painted the color.

Relax.

Now I'm gonna have to go after this dries, but maybe tomorrow or maybe the next day. I might take tomorrow off from painting. I need to go and kind of like maybe hand sand some of the areas, certain areas, because like, okay, dirt is falling on them and it's getting stuck, and then I can pick the dirt off, but then it's ugly, so I have to like sand that down and repaint it. So then it might be just touch-up.

Okay. All right, finally done cleaning those dishes, and look, it's gonna be suppertime soon. But anyway, gotta do some things on the computer. Look at this, I want you guys to see this. Let the light adjust. See this pin? Greg Judy told me about this pin for keeping a ram in. You see, if we get a ram, we got to keep him separated. Well, we're getting a ram, uh, when we get sheep. Let me get to better lighting. When we get our ram, we're getting 5 ewes, female sheep, 1 ram. They're gonna breed each other. Don't need to breed until December for May babies. Isn't that fun? Now we got to keep the ram separated. We got to have a partner. So we got a— we're gonna get a wether, which is like a castrated male sheep. So we'll be in meat soon. That is a possibility. That looks pretty intense to build, but it looks pretty neat. He said we could push that around the yard. This is what Greg Judy's suggesting. He said you could push that around the yard and the ram wouldn't get out of it. That's kind of cool. Sheep tractor. That's like a lawnmower. A sheep mower, a ram mower, a ram— how could we say that? Ram mower? Rammer? I don't know. What would you call— what would you call that for mowing the lawn with sheep? Isn't that amazing? 3 sheep in that, move that around every day in the lawn. Also just got an email from Lori. Hey Lori, one of you guys, a fan. She's been hearing us mention the member area, our Do It Yourself Abundance member area. Especially the premium package where you get 2 webinars a month with us, text access to me. I'm like a coach in a pocket, y'all. Like Uncle Justin, y'all. That isn't available right now, and it's only— we only open that up for registration in the spring, fall, and New Year as of right now. And the fall registration is going to open up. She wondered when. I plan on opening, I think, the second week of August, so stay tuned for that. Spots are limited, uh, time is limited because I like to focus on creating the content, uh, answering texts, helping folks as opposed to marketing. So limited window coming up mid-August. All right, we're really stacking it. Just, uh, just emailed with Greg Judy. We're getting 3 weathers because, yeah, because we like to eat. We like to eat lamb. Uh, mix it up. We are, uh, epic meat eaters. So wethers, because if we have sheep, we're not going to eat these mamas and the ram, so you can get attached. We are— they're gonna have their babies, and that's what we're gonna eat. So if they birth in May, it's gonna be a year before we want to eat those lambs. So it's gonna be a long time before we've grown out. So we're buying some wethers from Greg Judy, so that we can harvest them. Crunch time, getting ready. Are you guys making a mess or cleaning up a mess? The truth, truth. Kids are watching the vlogs. Hawaii, Hawaii, when we went to Hawaii on the Great American Farm Tour. Oh, it feels great. Okay, let's do this. Burgers from the land, hot dogs not so much. Beauty just added zucchini and onions from the farm. You know how to build a burger. Good job. Is it as good as it looks? So The kids are quiet. Good, good. Homemade.

This is our onion, our tomatoes, beef.

No. Okay kids, we gotta go. It's time. I like your funky socks, Lily, with that beautiful green dress. Miss Faith is going with us. Grandma is going with us. Let's go, Jonah. Bring the book.

The 20th century, whatever.

All right guys, you ready to go listen to some Old Town North Carolina music?

Yeah!

Woo! Everybody but Mom. I said woo!

What?

I said it!

I hear, I hear music. I hear a banjo.

Uh-oh.

That could be a bad thing.

What's it gonna be like?

Uh, we're gonna sit down and watch people play instruments.

Can we run around and play, watch instruments?

We'll see. Look who's here.

Hey, so you're coming to see Auntie Anne?

Oh yeah.

Coming to see?

That's the whole point.

I'm so glad you all came. You're gonna have a Great time at the show today.

How many parts do you have tonight?

I'm going to be playing in the guitar class and with the banjos and the fiddle, and then I'm playing in the live band dance set tonight.