We Built these together, and that’s Made All the Difference

I cut a rotten tree down. Yeah, a big rotten tree down.

Okay, are you gonna be sure to return the boys' $200 hatchet? Happy Sunday seed day! The weather has absolutely jammed our garlic and our onions. 77 degrees in March. It is Sunday. You're seeing this the one week exactly from what it, uh, from when it was filmed. That gives Austin and I— a buffer? Time change. It's driving us nuts. It's not conducive for farming. You change your schedule. We live by the sun. We gradually in the spring start milking earlier and earlier, start chores earlier, earlier. In the fall, it gradually gets later and later. We like to do it with the light, and then it just— 1-hour difference, all of a sudden it's rough. So we try to ignore it as long as possible. So this morning we slept in, and it makes no difference to the cows because they don't do time change. Where we tend to thrive is going to bed early, so that's where we'll get caught up, because really we should get ourselves back on this— onto this new track. It's not moving it. We should, uh, go to bed early. Okay, don't have to squeeze my arm to get me to do that. Now getting Henry the memo, that's the other thing. Okay, let's call it this. March Madness.

March Madness!

Original, right? Okay, we got a lot to do in March. Time-restraining stuff like trellis these raspberries. We tried to do this basically for free. The only thing we've bought in this, we've bought 3 long screws. We had to buy 3 long screws. They should have used bolts. I know, I know, we should have done bolts. We should have done bolts. Like this. We did bolts over here and it's great. The boys want to do screws. Okay, we'll just screw, boys. It's your farm. So there's a ton of stuff we really got to do in March before things start really picking up. I wonder if these trellises will work. We screwed holes through this. Uh, while we're at it, we're gonna fix that one. Probably replace it with a locust post. Okay, my goal is to get that done today because we've got a lot more to do this month. We've March— during March Madness. Henry, come help me! Come on, I'll let you cut it. Okay, well, no, come rest your legs over here. I got a little block you can sit on. I'm not out here mending raspberries. I mean, I am, but I'd rather be out here mending children while I'm building raspberries. You see, if I don't get the kid out here with me or somebody, I am just mending raspberries. Now I'm doing it for them. I can run these through the posts. If I don't get somebody out here with me, I'm just mending raspberries and that's it. And there's nobility in that and growing good food, even if it's just for yourself, but in this regenerative way, but I'm growing it for my family. But we can knock out so many birds with some— with stones. If we just get somebody to come out here and join me and be with me, then it doesn't matter if we get done with this because we've had— we've, we've shared a moment with a loved one And that's success. Okay, let's hope for that. But also wanting something you don't have is not success. So I need to just enjoy this moment alone, working, working in nature, being a creator as God intended us to be. You know, if we're made in God's image and he's the ultimate creator, then no wonder we're— us humans are always wanting to create something. Today I'm going to create a trellis, a finished trellis, a wire that is going to hold up these raspberries, and good things are going to come. You need proof? Okay, good things come from our creation.

All right. Oh yeah.

Wow. Okay. I am so tickled that worked. That's just a— that's just a farm gauge wire. You're gonna do all kinds of things with that. That's like tin or a zip tie or a hay string. And then I don't have to use these fancy— I didn't have to use O-rings, I didn't have to use a wire. Sure, that's nicer, but it costs money. I thought I might at least have to get that— what do you call that, gentlemen? It pulls it taut. And I could— I probably could just have that if we have to. Hopefully this will do it. Maybe not as tight as if we had that taut puller. I don't know what that's called.

Sorry.

Uh, but I think it'll work. You're betting? You coming? Might have recruited somebody. All right, happy to see you. I got one wire up. You can help me get the next one. But first, let's get these up. Here, give me a hug. I'm happy to see you. Come here. Come on, Henry. Oh, Mom, you coming? Oh good, I've won the lottery. Get in, wrap that around one in there. Okay, you coming to help?

Um, I'm gonna go and plant some seeds myself.

Seed planter. What you planting?

Well, I see them, but see, next week we're gonna be busy, so I was gonna just plant The gardener. Cabbages. Peas. Collards.

Broccoli.

Beets. Start. I don't know if I'm gonna finish, you know. But I figured I'd get, get started and then it's— work.

I'll show you. You can do it like that. That's fine. I'll do this.

But then we have to cut it every time we go through a loop.

Oh wait, it should go through.

Yeah, yeah, you gotta go through the loop first.

Well, what we did is— watch this, I'll show you what I did. And then he unravels it, we cut it, and then run it through. Is that a good idea?

Yeah, there you go.

You're doing it.

Wait, did you pull that tight? Hint, Gideon. Should I do it?

Yeah, I did pull. Why don't we electrify this?

Well, it would burn our plants. This is amazing because this— Rebecca, these trellises— I'm glad you had me do this. She's always pushing and I'm always rolling my eyes, but then I'm most the time happy we pushed. Yeah, I'm here, didn't I? Well, that's because I know you don't know what is involved in splitting locust posts.

He said, he said, do you know how hard it is to do that? But I see you've got two young strapping boys that want to do a— now have a contest.

And then that went viral on their Shorts. I know, it's 130,000 views.

So it worked out.

It worked out. You didn't—

did you even have to do it except to show them?

I only had— as soon as I got it cracked, Jonah took right over.

He knew what to do.

Oh, he wanted to do it. We didn't buy anything. This would have cost hundreds of dollars. We would have done it in cedar. Yeah, in bolts. We literally had all this. We did just buy the long bolts, but you had to buy the—

you had to buy the, the splitting mauls, the wedges.

But now we have them. But now, yeah, this will last 30 years, this locust, as opposed to the cedar, 6 years.

It was a burden for a minute, and then it's not. Yeah, every time our kids look at this, they're gonna remember the contest. They're gonna remember being taught by you. Yeah, to do this.

Hey!

Do you guys want to help me? Or— oh, you're picking up the yard. Thank you. All right, what's the plan here, Gideon? I like to try, try to give them a say, give them some responsibility here. Okay, so you want to dig that out?

Yeah, and then screw it back on here because it really isn't that hard.

It won't, it won't be strong enough. This is the end one, and we're going to put a lot of tension on these wires, and so there's going to be a lot of pressure on it. It might if it were in the middle. Wondering We'll just bury it again and it'll just lean down a little bit. If we did it that way, because look, we'd have to only do the top. Look, it's the bottom one. Look, all we got to do is create one of these. Hey babe, this locust post— 24 inches, uh, or sorry, this raspberry, the one, the one trellis that got rotten. Yeah, on the end. Do you want us to replace it with a 4x4 so it can match, or is the locust post okay?

I don't care.

All right, we'll do the locust post then. Would that work? But how are we going to mount, um, I'm gonna— I'll get the chainsaw and I'll make it flat like a 2x4. Plan is to notch out flat spot to put in the, uh, the trellis arm. There, I'll start doing this if you want to go get the drill bits. Yeah, it's just got left out in the rain one too many times. No, no, don't say that. It won't even reverse out. Oh, it's gonna be a beast to drill through that. Do we even have a long enough bit? Oh, we use this one. Use this one, bro. Use this one. It's too thick. No, too thick's okay. Too thick's okay. Hey, too thick's okay. It doesn't have to be tight. Yeah, but that, that's, that's hard to do. That's harder to do than the, than this one. And you're trying to go through locusts.

With a Jerry drill.

Nobody listening to me. This one's shorter. Oh, is it? Yeah, it actually is, and it's not much shorter. Try it, at least get it going with that one. Wow, we might have to unscrew that. Oh, it did, it made it. Nice. Let him get this started, Jonah. All right, if it made it all the way through, let's put the dirt around it. Do we have a shovel? Lean it this way more too because it's going to have stress on it. That doesn't look bad. I don't know if you'd even tell from far away. What do you guys think? Locust post, cedar post. We got 2 wires on this side. Oh, that means I can, uh, I can run my raspberries through. You got it? Yeah, you should tighten that upper one. You think? I think it's not being used yet, and I didn't want to put undue pressure on the pole. The martini task that comes from filmmaking— they call that when the last shot of the film project, the martini shot. So here we got the martini task.

All right, there we go.

Don't do it too tight. Heck yeah, let's go! Trellises off our March Madness list. Let's see what we got tomorrow. See you then. Happy day!