We Got This Expectant PIG out Just In Time

Strawberries fared well last night. We've got a crack. We're filling it up faster than it can leak. Secret to this green stock is to just keep it hydrated. The water's gonna run in through it though because it was a nice rain on the plants last night. Sure, you could use a cracked bucket for egg collection or, uh, carrying compost or something. Doing a little meat shopping. Grandma and Big Daddy have our freezers for now during all this reconstruction. Turkey and some stud muffin. Added a stud muffin chuck roast and some more stud muffin, a little bit of pork for a nice, uh, spaghetti. Where are we gonna put all this meat? We've got one little ordinary freezer, one little ordinary fridge. That's just not enough for a home cutter. We have an idea for a fridge right there. Either erase this, either delete this, put the stuff that's there there. I think we can do that. Fridge right here. I urgently need to get the pit— get Beefcake out of there. That mama pig is gonna have a baby, have babies any day. Any day, it's possible. It might be a little strong, but she's gonna have it very soon. With that wood chips covered. Yeah, folks, this is your golden ticket. Promise me, do not raise animals in one spot without deep bedding or else they're just living in their own manure. The chickens will even spread it. I'll let them spread that one. It's on a little bit of a slope. I do need to make sure some need to get up on the higher end. This one will be all right, I think. Gideon, I'm more concerned down here where we're also sloping this way. There's no smell and Well, let me show them this. Get in. I haven't showed you guys this yet. Here, I've showed it a million times, but maybe you're new here. Move some of these wood chips to the side, and there you have compost. You didn't have to turn it. Ideally, you have your chickens right next to your garden, and you can transfer over the compost easy. Why wouldn't you do this? Even if you have to buy wood chips, buy wood chips. The chickens will spread this, gives them something to do. I mean, look at how much they like it. Fling this up there. Even in a static coop like this that doesn't move— don't have a permanent coop, couple reasons. One, poop is designed to fall through the bottom. This is what it looks like me cleaning a coop. All their manure came through to the ground, and you just move it around and spread that manure love. Spread it. And don't you ever have to touch it. And if you want, for good luck— you don't have to, the chickens will spread that out. We have some very important guests over the weekend. I can't wait to share them with you. Joel Salatin, Kaylee from the Honey Homestead— the Honey Sted— we're getting bees. And Nick Freitas. And we're having a big old barn dance. Permaculture side of me wants to keep this lawn crazy for the bees. I've been seeing some bumblebees on it, even some honeybees. Must be some neighboring bees or some wild ones. We had to do the permaculture mullet, you know, business up front. This is our front yard. Come on. We're gonna have to mow this. We got plenty of wild areas. All right, so we, we're gonna need a haircut. All right, all spread out right now. I've been so— for a year, you guys realize? I think 2 days ago marks the 1-year anniversary. Okay, started construction on our holler house. Love this. We don't need anymore. Some of it we still need and use. Save us some trips if we get this over there. All right, but we should probably move Beefcake, then worry about this. That buys us no freezer space. I'm wondering if we ought to take the fridge over there. I'm thinking we get that fridge over there. What? Well, then we'll also have more freezer space. Well, help us turn it then, I guess. I'm kind of thinking about putting Beefcake in here. You think he'd help us turn this compost? Josiah just put this compost up. Well, it's gonna get warm fast now that it's piled up. These guys go out soon, but not soon enough. Cows have been out though. Those cows have been out all winter. It's a lot of work to put them out. Boy, after about 30 minutes of deliberation, the easiest thing to do is put Stud Muffin in here, but it's not that easy. We got to get the net, we got to get a shelter, we got to get some water, and then ultimately he's going to go in there, or she— it's about time these guys go out. And we got some hay bombing to do with our new clearing, right? It's going to be harder, but that's— we won't be having to do any unnecessary work. We got to get them out anyway, we got a hay bomb anyway, we might as well do it, right? What do you want to work on? I'm gonna get their shed get up there and then I'll pick some hay. Okay, let's go look and decide where the paddocks are going to be. Put the steers with the sheep, they get a whole hay bale. A hay bale for the cows, probably no more than 3 days. This is hay bombing, which is what Joel does, which Greg Judy does, Gabe Brown does. Truly, that's got to be the best thing to do. I want it to roll down the hill, but I want it to unravel. And we got so lucky, it quit unrolling at the end of the dirt and And then it just stopped. This was once forest, so it's fungal. I think what one thing we're doing with the hay besides just covering up modest Mother Nature is introducing bacteria. Is that right? So that we can encourage grass seed as opposed to fungal forest floor growth. Plus the cows will be dropping a lot of the manure and they'll waste a lot of this hay too, which will be organic matter on top. Thank goodness for this lens hood. $60 lens hood just saved a $3,000 lens. Took a break for lunch. Did you and Annie get the electrical up there? Yeah, here's the hose. Literally all we need. That's it. There is a limit to this well. It will only push water out there so far. I don't think that water is going to get up there. I mean, I guess it's worth a try. They're hungry. We're gonna get y'all over, all right? Got some fresh hay for you. They've done a spectacular job hay bombing in there. How you doing, He-Man? The one in the back. You doing all right? Our new breeding bull. No water? Okay, we're going to get the gravity flow going. I guess just land it, Josiah, and let's go ahead and feed the pigs. We can't move them unless we have water. Kids, we have to go get plumbing supplies. Want to rush and see if we have the parts. There's no rushing with the kids. You aren't down here, I'm gonna go. 5 minutes later. Come on. Here all this is, which is great. Good job organizing this, Annie. We have a female to female. Bag of tools. Let's see if we have water coming down the mountain. Oh, it's broken. Hey, we're gonna patch this here. This was just a temp fix. So that water back there is actually coming off the mountain. It's gravity-fed water. I'm glad it didn't get more complicated than it did. Anna, you keep them from going that way. Jonah, why don't you herd them up? Boy, it's gonna be hard to get them across this green grass. Hey, Hey, all right, cheat up a little bit. Cheat up there. Up, up. They're going for it. Oh, this is going good. You had to go over ice cream to eat kale. Jonah, you sure you don't want to get the lambs in the trailer? You ready to go get the sheep? You wait here, we're gonna get them going and we're gonna herd them up with Sally. Jonah thinks they'll follow the alfalfa. It's gonna be hard to get the trailer up there anyway. Maybe let them have some. You going the road? You take him with us in the side-by-side. Hold it. Don't let him go. Oh wow, they're going after him in a bunch. This is going really well. Jonah's doing really good. That's why I'm surprised they haven't gone for the grass. Come on. Okay, so this is a lot easier than trailering them so far. They're that crazy for that alfalfa, they're gonna pass all this green grass. They're out of shape. They've been on deep bedding all winter. Come on, come on. They finally found the grass and we are 30 feet away. Here it comes. I like how Floppy was about 300 feet away and then remembered her baby. We're almost there, almost there. They are out of shape. Okay, so this is a, uh, show me. She's very tired. Okay. Party's over, sheep. Yeah, well, that's your baby. Hey, who is that? Who's that boss lady on the pole? Let's get Beefcake over. You want to move them over with pig panels, right? Or get him in the trailer? Trailer. All right, hopefully the tractor will start. Sheep are gone. So now we have a spot for Mama Pig. Wow, that's an epic looking shot right there. By the way, we finally figured out a product below our video. Wasn't that nifty? The cranking up the trough, that's from Polyface Designs. The plans for that is in that book in our product area right below these videos. Can you, um, let us put the Mama Pig in here? Well, that was easy. I just think because there's more room, Jonah's He said he'll put a— he'll put the pig panel on this gate so they can't get out, the little piglets. Should we test the green, the green one? No, we already got it. Let's go. All right. The idea is that this wall can come down. That's our door. Got us a little snack, distract them until it's time to do something. Nice shirt, man. Look who's here. Okay, just in time to take over the filming because I have to leave at 4 and we're kind of in the middle of something. Open that gate! There she is. That's what we want. All right, this is working out too nice. Do not push her. We all know how that goes. That went really well. Push the board in, Jonah. Help him. Help him get the board in. Yeah, good. Couple drills, zip tie. Okay, all right. Oh, you didn't tell me. I thought it was run over. I thought you were gonna turn. Did you feel it? No. What'd you make us? Mexican. Okay, if you need interpretation, she said Mexican. Austin and Ashley visiting for filming, getting bees tomorrow. What do you think about your house? I love it. I'm glad that you had to move in. I know, right? It really worked out. We've got a lot of setting up for you. Even all these people fit nicely in this big living room. Isn't this place better than the cabin? Yeah, isn't it so much better? Would you have lived here from the start then? Oh yes, really? Definitely. I don't know, I kind of miss it over there. I think I might be the only one feeling it.