In this hands‑on farm vlog, Victor Justin Rhodes and his family demonstrate a series of practical chores aimed at improving their homestead. The video opens with a chaotic chicken roundup, where the family uses nets, feeding buckets, and evening feed to train wild chickens to return to the coop. They then shift to garden preparation, laying cardboard over a future garlic row to suppress weeds, followed by mulching once the garlic is ready. Throughout the day, the family constructs semi‑permanent side and cross fences using rebar posts, splicers, and poly‑rope, while also mowing, raking grass clippings, and moving hay and manure. The children actively assist with cutting cardboard, hauling materials, and operating tools. The vlog concludes with an enthusiastic announcement for the final fall registration window for the “Do‑It‑Yourself Abundance” member area, highlighting limited premium spots and a link in the description.
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1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. A lot of them are missing. They didn't come home because Jonah didn't see them. To round them out of the trees, we're gonna have to, uh, you're gonna have to let them out. We're going to have to now pour out their water. Let's go get water, go get feed. We're gonna have to put a fence around them. They're not coming to their coop. We needed to move this way across the farm, but if we move it, they're definitely not coming to the coop. We can't even herd them to the coop because the coop will be way over there and they're going to be wanting to come here. I'm walking back and either that bush is talking or there's a chicken in there. What we're gonna have to do is move them around in the net for a while. So maybe we can train them to come to a bucket. We can feed them more towards dusk, and then maybe they'll go in instead of running off to the woods. Jonah's rounded up some from the woods. These are the guys from the bushes. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9. 9 out, dude. 10, 11. Jenna's gonna go get a net because we've got them all here to feed. Jenna's here with the fence and net. These chickens are so wild, they run away even if I have feed.
Isn't that Papa?
Yep.
One made a balk and I went straight for him, Papa. Now I know some more hiding spots. Hey Papa, if you run over these with the mower, it busts your mower up, right?
I bet.
Yeah, it does it.
Hey buddy, coming. Give me one second, Gideon. Coming. One advantage to this is we won't have to shut them up. Get that fence hot. So that'll kind of make up for the work we have to do in moving this net. Okay, you wild birds, we gotta domesticate you a little bit. Let's come feed them a little bit this evening to try to get them accustomed to us coming with a bucket, get them looking for us, anticipating us right here. In this first row, we're gonna plant garlic, but it's not ready for another few weeks, so we need to keep the weeds at bay. So we're gonna just put down cardboard. Look how fast it already comes back, fellas. No wonder. Look at that back here. Bring me cardboard, kids. You got a lot of energy. Let's use it. Let's go rip off this extra.
Good.
Yeah, actually, we're just gonna keep the seeds down with this, remove it, and then plant the garlic, and then mulch. Okay. Oh, Mom, good job getting us a soft rake yesterday. That helps get up this junk. Josiah, who— hey, kids, you guys got all the energy? Come on, Lily. Lily, come on, look, rake up these grass clippings. Good job, Jonah. Okay, we got about 15 more feet. That might do it if we split it. We have a huge piece. It's gonna be perfect. We just have to cut it in half. Do you want to do it? Cut it right down the middle. You see what I'm talking about? Yeah. Come on, guys.
Yeah, go get it.
Oh, look, you made it, Mom! Mom, we made it just perfect. Look, we had just enough cardboard since we're hauling that hay. Come on, let's get up some of this. Let's harvest some of this manure. Oh, good job. All right. Oh wow, that comes up nice. That's a good balance there. Lots of dry old hay, a little bit of manure. Let's get where we Couldn't get there. 2x8s. We're just doing this just to keep the weeds at bay. It's easier than keeping it hoed for 3 weeks. Not the prettiest weed prevention in the world, but thinking it'll work. Stud. We're gonna move you. I'm excited this afternoon because we've been out and at it for 45 minutes and it's just now our regular time, so we've had extra time. We've had extra time to work on the farm today. Very excited. We're putting up a side fence right here to go through here. Look how crazy this is. We didn't mow behind the cows here and look how crazy it got. And there's good grass right there. That's absolutely nuts. That's an 8-foot-tall weed, and I hate it too. Look, it's all gone to seed. Ah, yes. No, what's the matter? You doing that yourself?
Yeah, it's fine, I can do it.
We're implementing splicers this year, just a lot more efficient, looks a lot better than just tying it off or, um, using metal wires. We're working real hard right now putting side fences up. We've got a bunch of these rebar fence posts. They're going to be semi-permanent, so we'll leave these side fences up and all we'll have to move is our cross fences.
We'll come through with the beta string trimmer when we have time like this.
Yeah, we'll mow behind the cows, which will include string trimming.
The reason we're putting this hand on is if it gets wild and woolly, we can just unplug it, and when it's time to put them back in here, shrink trim it, and then we put it back.
There's our line. So we have a perimeter all the way around this field, and then we have a lane to get the cows through and out into this pasture. Then we put up side fences like this, and Here we use cross fences to go across it to let them come this way day by day. They can always go back to the lane and then go find shade or go find water and the minerals.
Poly rope frays better than that, Papa.
Does it?
Yeah, it doesn't turn into balls. It frays together.
Come on. It's like he knows. That was super easy. It's time now to get his water. Let's put the water right here so that it's out past this way beyond our pig fence because we're going to get in there with our compost. Bring the, uh, bring the water tank. We made it with our hose. Turn on, Jana. Now let's get the sheep shelter out of here. We made it! One last thing to do, and that's mow behind the cows. We did it, Jonah! Jonah, high five! Extra work today, feeling good about that. End of the workday. One more announcement about our fall registration for Do-It-Yourself Abundance member area. If you don't already know about that, that's a library of instructional video, an online community, and at the premium level, direct access to me. This is the last call. We're closing this Saturday night at 10 PM. The premium member area is almost sold out. There's Limited spots in that, so once you guys get on, on this, we're closing down registration soon. I want to give everybody adequate attention, so I limit it. We will— we won't be launching this again until spring, like February-ish. So hope to see you on the other side. Oh, link in description.
