We're Turning Forest into Meat

That's guys in the morning. Sailors warning. Vacation special. Henry Washes Machines is coming today. Enrique. Yeah, 9 o'clock. Do you guys want to hurry and get your chores done? And clear till 9? I can't. Why?

It's too much.

You could be done by 8. Bring them in and go for an hour.

Yeah, but it takes forever to take the truck.

So do you want to go after? 30 minutes is better than no minutes, right, Josiah?

Mm-hmm.

Do it.

Yeah. Okay.

Should have done this last night. The last of our lamb from the farm. Good thing we just killed Nutshell. Half a cup of salt for every half gallon of water. I do warm so it dissolves. And I forgot to thaw it out last night, so I'm just gonna go ahead and brine it. That's what you call this, put some salt—

soaking it in salt.

Got our lamb soaking, also thawing out. Hopefully by lunch.

Is it worth it to put all that wear and tear on the machine for just 30 minutes of work when we could just leave it out there for days?

You're talking about moving the machines out there? Yes. And you would just move them out there after he washes? Do you want a partner in chainsawing?

I don't know, I needed a chainsaw blade.

Really?

I've told you this twice.

Why didn't you tell me? Mark was here yesterday.

Oh, I realized.

Dude, we decided to do some clearing. We have an hour. You're a tender heart, tender soul. Tough guy like doing this? I don't know.

Hey, hey little man.

My sack of potatoes. Happy day, and welcome to another day in the life of conscious people eating what they grow and growing what they eat. Let's clear this field for more beef and milk. Let's work this pile up. We got 45 minutes till the machine washers come. Fat and grease in the machine is going to keep these machines going a long time. The science called me over. I think he set his tracks off. That's 2 inches off this way. Turn that way. That's probably it.

Turn it back on.

Okay, stop. I don't know what to do. Hey, you guys, you— did you have fun? Good and bad news. Good is we got a lot done. Bad news is it broke down, but it was towards the end, so We still got a lot done. Unfortunately, the track loader will not get to be washed, but we'll take what we can get. Okay, he— plumber got his gas line out.

I know, so then do we just have them come back and put—

Randolph can do that. He's the fill-in-the-blanks kind of guy. Okay, this is making me so nervous. Okay, everybody back in. People who can't control themselves, back inside.

This is what she was envisioning for the outside. So this is more our style, like what we have. This will be black.

Oh, okay. Okay, so you're not gonna do black trim anymore?

Correct.

When a woman says, what do you think, it's— you gotta forget that it's a chance. Stop.

What do you think?

It's not what I think.

It is.

I want to know what you think.

It is. I think it's great.

It's what I want to know what he thinks.

I think it kind of works. You think it'll look good? Wonderful.

But I was— I'm literally gathering information.

See, it's not true. What he said is not true.

It's not true. What I was saying is sometimes we are— it is trick questions, but I'm working on it.

Make it even more confusing. Women are so nice, they tend to be indirect. But I passed the quiz. I got the answer right. Hey, what's that? For what?

Here's the playhouse.

Dang, you're building a big one.

What are you building?

A playhouse for Henry.

So what are you going to make?

Uh, bricks.

What?

Bricks.

Okay. Lily's got him up there on blocks. And we got all these locusts for you too. It was just thrown away in the dumpster. See this poopy concrete? No necesito. The only reason we do that is so that people can get to their minerals. One mineral feeder for sheep and cows. If we do two mineral feeders, we could put the mineral feeders in with them, and then they don't have to come out here and poop this up. We're having to scoop up this manure, and that's my pet peeve. You don't have to handle manure. You can build systems so that Well, the manure falls in the wood chips. Now, Gideon, I helped you with your project, you come help me with mine. And did I say the mineral sled I built was way too big? And I'm trying to perfect a build for Homestead Builds Book Number 2, and so now is the prototyping time. My idea, instead of 2x4s— one of the ideas is a 1x— well, 2x6 instead of a 2x6, a 1x6. Babe, do you think you have time to build a house like this and a kitchen? That's what he wants to do.

I've already built one wall.

Okay. It's only 4. All right. The line of the chop saw. Get in and bring that drill. Don't drill anything. Putting this bad boy together. Let's put these guys in. Put the shims in. We'll know exactly where it's going. I think this is gonna be a good little sheep feeder. A little cow feeder too, for just a couple of cows. What you building?

Uh, sandbox.

I'm about to cut our bottom out. I got off somehow. I think I'm done. I'm having brain fog. Ready to go home?

Yeah.

Okay, let's go see what they're doing on the sheetrock first. You want to? Want to see them walk on the stilts?

Really big stilts.

Is he?

He's really tall.

Let's go see.

I feel like I could have started— I should have started this 2 hours ago. Whole onion.

Cube. Broth. 2 or 3?

You said 2 or 3. It's a pretty big one. We're gonna do 3 cups, right, Rebecca? And we are gonna do a tin foil— that kind of doesn't fall in— and that way some of the liquid can come out. You booking our trip? Mm-hmm. New bull, new ram. Virginia. The warm springs are closed. They are.

They're closed on the Wednesday.

You ready? We'll go up the night before, Sunday night, get you 2 or 3 hours in Nighttime driving. This afternoon, sorting through film festival qualifiers. So if you're seeing this and these are your films, congratulations, and I'm very excited for you. Some really cool stuff. This film festival is Coming out exactly like I would hope it would be. Quite the eclectic things. Like, this is Belgium? Belgish? It's already won 2 awards. I can't wait for you guys to see this. This is not the typical thing you might see. A tiny house farm tour. Killing the Queen. Oh man, this one just came in. Super excited about that. We're about to check the oven here. I'm just skimming through them. To qualify them because I want to see them in real time with you guys. This is going to get us outside of our boxes. These are no ordinary films. These are extraordinary films. I took them to see if our lamp— whoa, lamp ain't falling apart. Oh, it smells good. It's not falling apart. It's too late. Ah, daggum. Ah, I think that's our last of legs, and I don't feel like I've protected it. This needed to go all day. I'll let it go 30 more minutes. It's going 375. Well, that hurt it. The Memory of Cabisa. Sorry if I pronounced that wrong. A couple of these, we need subtitles, which is great. A Pig's Life, how cool. Late Frost, super good about how a farm in Europe is combating extra colder temperatures. Gardening with Dad. I can't wait to see that one. I love this father-dad relationship type stuff. Stuff. Oh my word, you might not want a snack during this one. How a Guatemalan family is feeding their family with worms. With worms. This is different. You're gonna like this. Let's make sure we're on the same page with Dan. That's actually not a terrible arrangement. We're looking for themes for 3 nights, or 2 nights and 1 day. Each afternoon or evening The goal is 6. I think we can do it. 6 shows for each viewing. You can join us for this for free. Just need an email. March 24th through 26th. Watch online or watch with friends. Find a local party. There's like 70 hosts across the world. So maybe you can get plugged in. Becky.

Yeah.

Look at our films.

These are the films, huh?

Yeah, we're missing 3. My Extreme Carnivore, the Farmer Friends submission, and Austin's.

Oh, we are for sure saying Austin's. This is gonna be good enough. That's true.

The goal is to have 6 each night, so hopefully others will submit by the 28th. And it's time to take the COVID off. I did get a call in the interim here. Nachos ready, so we will have some legs to try again. I'm gonna roast it all day. Actually, Rebecca, do we want to save it and have something else for dinner? We could have leftover spaghetti and then just cook this tomorrow.

Yeah, well, we're not gonna have this for dinner.

I kind of want to do that because it's a shame. It'd be a shame. So what would be best? Just keep cooking it tonight covered until it's soft? Yeah. And then once it's soft, roast it on top and then just reheat it? I'm gonna turn this down then, right? 275, low and slow. Thank you, Lily, for dinner. What do you got? What do you got? Yeah, he snuck in, found his toys for tomorrow. Where are they?

It's my mom.

Didn't— how did he find them?

I think somebody told him.

We had to give him one so he just wouldn't go crazy. Special vlog tomorrow, little man turns 3. Getting an extra vlog this week. It's my birthday tomorrow. I'm gonna get pizza and ice cream and a special gift from Grandma and some special homemade gifts from the brothers and a bug gift from your sister. He misunderstood and he wants his one toy now. I never seen him eat his plate so much. You thought that was the deal, huh? By the way, 5 hours later, fall off the bone. That's what I'm talking about. We'll par-bake this on Saturday. We'll take the lid off, we'll par-bake it for 45 minutes to brown this up nicely, and it'll be good. You want to say happy day?