The video follows a North Carolina family as they tackle a full day of homestead chores. They begin by sorting rocks from a cleared two‑acre field, discussing how the rubble can become garden walls or containers. The conversation shifts to managing a problematic rooster, deciding to place the aggressive bird in a maggot bucket to use its larvae as feed for chicks. The family prepares a maggot bin, adds mulch, and explains the benefits of breeding their own chickens versus buying chicks. Throughout the day they work on home improvements—installing a new roof, testing a dryer and washer, and building a retaining wall. They also make yogurt, discuss B‑vitamin supplementation for a child, bake a chocolate cake, and plan a Taco Tuesday dinner. Later they pull weeds around tomato plants, cover them with a silage tarp, and move rocks for landscaping. Interspersed are light‑hearted family banter, encouragement, and reflections on dressing up and personal health. The vlog showcases practical DIY techniques, animal husbandry, garden maintenance, and the collaborative spirit of a small‑scale homestead.
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Good morning! You on the bike today?
Yeah.
You ready to sort through some rocks with the Mini X today?
Yeah.
Lily, what animals are you not doing? Closer and closer to getting dried in. It's so important, especially since we live in this North Carolina temperate rainforest. Josiah, gonna sift through some of these rocks. Like, let's keep that one. Rebecca has some landscaping ideas for nice rocks like that as walls or container. I don't know. I trust her vision. That rubble? Remnants of what was a chimney. Now with the chimney gone, they can put the last trusses on over here. Look who's with us.
There's the rooster.
It's your best friend there. That rooster, the only thing stopping from Gideon being able to do his chores by himself. What's the problem? He's really mean. You have one other rooster in there, Gideon?
And then there's another one up there.
Are you sure? If we have three, we want two. We can put this ornery rooster in the maggot bucket. Oh look, he's not even coming towards you.
Wait until I get in fully.
Okay. All right, I'm not sure getting rid of that guy is— well, we don't need three. I just heard somebody crowing. Listen, definitely a rooster up there.
All right, what?
Yeah, that's where they're getting at. That's it, just lift it up right here. All right, you're gonna be able to get eggs by yourself now, right? Yeah. Meanwhile, our 2 acres that we cleared over the winter, it's jamming. The wood chips should help with the rotten smell. Maggot bucket, great for growing chicks. A little mulch down first. We got us a rooster sandwich here. Go ahead, drop them in. It's way more efficient for us to just buy chicks, but we keep a rooster just in case we can't get chicks and we need to breed. Hey, the beautiful one! Are you about to leave? Well, you look nice. That's your new thing?
That's my, uh, realization that I don't dress up enough.
I know, I see her out, she's dressed up at— oh my gosh, 8:30.
I dressed up yesterday.
You look nice.
And I did a dress-up the day before. I put clothes on.
What are you up to?
Well, I had to bring the— I did a new filter. I had those two boosters.
You know, that's good. That's what made us able to replace this guy. Look, they know, they're trained. Not yet, guys, give it a day or two. Flies and other carrion will come and do their thing. They'll lay their larvae in there, those turn into maggots. They come to the light in the holes in the tunnel and come out and feed our chickens. Yeah, look, they're excited. What do you think about your roof being completely put on today?
Oh, it's very exciting.
And perhaps a wall, probably, probably today. What's your goal today? I'm gonna have those string beans. Mom's got him on string bean duty. You need help? No. Teaching Josiah to make yogurt this morning. For every half gallon you do 1/3. Let's stir that because cream's on top. 1, we did 3, 3. Turn that on. Let's get to 105. What you got? I know if she's put apple juice in the kid's cup, she's tricking them.
No, we're just doing a B vitamin.
How do you know he needs B vitamin?
Because, um, I've just been reading some things and I felt like this would be beneficial to him.
Let's get you some.
What's more, you suck it to him, B vitamin?
Well, no, I'm gonna give him just a little more juice.
I think that's more sugar than a Coke. Boy, we cut it close. Are you gonna eat right here? What about shell beans?
I'll do that out there in the yard.
He was still hungry after our egg breakfast and I said You know what? Yogurt is a good option because it's from the farm. Where do you like the mattress? By the pine trees. Oh, you're getting this pillow? Yeah. Let's do it, Josiah. Sorting rocks.
Okay.
You as excited about running the machine as you used to be? Just sort through it, and rocks like this pile up over there. Okay, so that then you can come get it with the truck loader, and we'll use them for something in the future. Okay, probably a front yard retaining wall for garden. Most men don't learn how to do this until their 20s, 30s, or even older, or ever. Henry, you want to ride? Got him. You make this look easy, and then once you're done, just pile it back up nice. Okay, I gotta weigh our sea monsters to see if we're on track. The last ones we killed on time, but they were way too small. They were probably at least 25%, 30% underweight. The schedule of butchering— 1 pound 2 ounces. They are 4 weeks old today. We need at least a 6-pound bird in 8 weeks, and that would give us 4 pounds in our freezer. That's ideal. We're gonna get 2 more and average out 3. 1 pound 2 ounces, 1 pound 2 ounces, and 1 pound. Time for a little domestics. Jar's not drying. It's going but not drying, and I wonder if it could have something to do with the amount of vents. Mr. Google Pants said it could, so Let's try it out. That vent is like 10 feet long. Just cut? I think I can just cut. Could be a problem.
It could. This could definitely cause issues.
You've got to push it in on me. Keep going, keep going, keep going. Can I get out? Definitely works better with a camera. Hope that's on. Oh, but you'll give me a big old kiss if I get this jar going again. Because this homestead laundry is building up fast. Measure how wet is it on a scale of 1 to 10.
10, it's like 5.
No, 4. All right, let's get it down to a 0. Hey, give me the red light. It take— it's a 5-minute session. Keep my teeth from getting infected. Well, no, actually I've had breakthrough today.
It's wound.
It's finally feeling a little better. No heat, none. Vent had nothing to do with that. What you making?
A chocolate cake with chocolate frosting.
Oh my goodness. Do you know about this cake?
She asked.
We could have worse problems, you know.
I know.
Let's go get this dryer for your mom. I'll let you drive yourself. You coming with?
Of course.
Hopefully there's a dryer in this farmhouse. Hopefully there's not goblins down here. Is that a dryer?
That's the dryer.
Okay, we're in Mountford. Yeah, but it actually puts off heat, right? I think. I can't remember. Oh boy. Power's on. Heat coming out? Kind of. Feel inside, see if it's hot. Oh, there's our appliance, dolly. Are you taking advantage? No! You never know with you. You got it, you got it in!
Oh yeah, wow!
I'm the birdman, babe.
The birdman.
I make the impossible possible. All the shots. Thanks for making the ambiance more Now how are we gonna know if it's working?
In 5 minutes I'll come back.
Okay, I'll take that to the metal pile. By the time I get back, let's see if it's—
you take this one over there to just let it sit and fix on its own?
Yeah, good one. No, I'm gonna take it to the metal pile because that's what keeps happening.
Y'all are always switching dryers out. Just save it, and then, and then when that one breaks, you can be like, oh, we got one.
Yeah, right. I hope, I hope that's not what we did with that one. I think it is working.
It is. The dryer is working, so I'm starting the washer.
What you cooking us tonight?
We got— well, we're doing Taco Tuesday on Wednesday.
Surprise, surprise, we're having tacos again. Every week.
Once a week.
This porch is this cabin's redeeming value, but not when it's sunny like this in the evening.
It's hot.
So why not put the table down there?
Right now?
Blitz! Let's do it! Look at that! Get the rocking chairs over. Look at this! Is that not a million times better? It is. It is. Get into bed. No umbrellas required, huh babe? And do we still have a view?
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
Still have a view. We have to go look at the house later, babe. You excited?
Yes, I am.
We're nervous. I'm excited. Lily, look at that cake! Oh my gosh. Yeah, I like that. That's one of your hobbies. Look at this guy walking even. He's afraid he's gonna hurt it, but the doc said toe weight. Pull down our— we got our supervisor. The goal for this evening: pull up the weeds outside the tomatoes over there. And then cover it with silage tarp. Would you pull in your truck right up there? Look, you're gonna get those. There you go, that'll keep you busy for a while. Just save that one for him. But I was growing from the outside. Boom! Grab some weeds, everybody. Henry, grab some weeds, take it to Sally. Beck, you happy?
Yes, much better.
Sally, load of weeds. We got a tarp down. It's not pretty. Yeah, push on the other one. Mom, how you like your pile of rocks? It's nice. Oh, how you like that view?
It's nice.
We got us a window here. Changed our mind. No TV over there. It's facing the bright side anyway, so it'd probably be glare-ish. And if you put a TV here, theoretically the whole living area could see it.
And I can have like a picture on it. Yeah, when we're not using it, which is actually not that often.
