Why we always have problems | Day 10 Surviving off the land

Bailey, the youth group's out! I think it's her and I's fault. We fixed that overflow waterer yesterday and didn't turn the fence back on. Happy 10th and final day of eating off the land. Sometimes same as every other day. Where's my shoes? Which door are they at? Is brown or black? Okay, brown. That's not— don't get in that garden. There they are. Living off the land hasn't been that all— all that difficult. We've got our systems in place that we certainly could save spices and salts, some sauces. You don't have to have sauces. You can make sauces from the land. Come on, look here. Moved your food that way. Her food's always outside and never in the rain. Last night we got home from the town hall meeting, generator was running, the power was out, the internet was on. We weren't left in the dark. Aline, we lost our internet. We said Starlink. But one thing that frustrates me from any field and any— and a lot of the influencers in that field, experts, teachers, is A lot of times we don't see, like in the health world for example, you don't hear about their cravings, their cheats, their falling off the wagons, and it just seems unattainable, especially when you mess up. So, I don't know. I show you this, guys, because everybody messes up. Even after you've been doing it 19 years, you forget to turn back on the fence. And maybe we turned on the fence, who knows? They got out a different way. But I think that's what happened. And ironically, strangely, it's encouraging to others. At least that's what you all have told me when I meet you. Hey, we got Fossil Cowboy! Hey, why you got him in a blanket? It's so cold. And it was— he's got a good coat. I just want to baby him. And there's danger in taking the blanket off. Certainly don't take the blanket off right now. No, I won't until it get warm. In the peak of the cold. Are you keeping my daughter warm? Be sure to keep her happy. Their water's probably frozen. This is nature's way of keeping the water unfrozen. Gravity fed, always moving. Papa, you know how to cross the creek without getting your shoes wet? How are you You wearing Mama's shoes? Oh, that's funny. That's how you cross the creek without getting your shoes wet. You go right over the net. All the choices. And the slumpy ground. Was it hooked up? Yeah, everything. All right, maybe it wasn't our fault. What about the cows? Hey, to the cows and all the milk supplies. They're ready. Okay, good. Come start doing the hay. The 10th reason you might grow your own food is for love and respect for the animals you're gonna eat. I think it's animal kindness, to be truthful. Did I already talk about that? It's either that or you're doing this to— for local seasonal foods. I think I talked about the local and seasonal, you know. Doesn't— food doesn't have to— no, that was environment. Food doesn't have traps so far. Uh, seasonal, just the health benefits and the excitement of eating in and out of season. Uh, animal kindness. Are we thawed out? We're not working. Hey, good morning, Smiley One! You need help with anything? Sure, if you want to get them a 5-gallon waterer, that'll do it. It's unplugged. Where's the shop vac, I guess? Oh, that's the chicken water, Jonah. I'm gonna use this to clean out the car. Goody, Daddy didn't put it back. I've sort of done the same thing. I had this cord running during the power outage last night and I didn't come put it back up when the power went on. When the power goes off, the generator can't power everything, so not every circuit's on it. So sometimes we have to run a drop cord. Have you ever thought about it? I think the things you get frustrated at other people for, like them not putting the cord back— I didn't put a cord back. It's just sort of a mirror of some things you need to work on yourself. So you got the dry hose out of the root cellar? Yeah, this spigot got frozen. I know, that is definitely a rookie mistake that I made. I mean to go around every— I went around last night, but it was too late, it was already frozen. So I got to do it earlier. This is the reason to build redundancy. What's wrong with waiting until the ice freezes on the creek? Um, for the cows? Yeah, we won't remember. The redundancy here is more than one spigot, not just one water hose, two in case we have to go to the further away spigot thawed out in the roof cellar. I mean, we're doing redundancy right there because the chicken water froze. We have a vacuum-sealed water ready to go. We actually have a third redundancy, which would be the creek. We got the hose coming. We had to do that because he stepped in it. Yeah, they got poop in theirs. We got to do them too. Can't do a 50-gallon one on this, or the taller one of this, because we won't be able to reach it. This is crazy. We just now— the water we poured out Not 15 minutes ago, it was freezing out. I'm honestly afraid for the cows, that they would slip. Let's get them back in here fast before it gets even more frozen. Look at this! Just one of the— well, it's a double batch of focaccia bread. Yeah, we're throwing out all our normal rules for vacation. Yeah, we're eating sandwiches. Day 10, last day. How'd I do? You did great. What'd you learn with me? Living off the land, but learning that we actually have a lot of our own food. I know, right? I'm pretty happy where we are. Meal coming up. Eggs. Upon reviewing vlogs, I definitely already talked about kindness to animals, so it must be the other one— eating seasonally. Why are we missing a gate on the pig port? Okay, I'm gonna switch the gate to the other side of it. If you guys want to get a couple of nets encompass the whole area where we're gonna till for a garden. You understand? Yeah. And start one net— start one net on either side. Someone asked— actually, it was Annie's mom. Thank you so much for watching. We love that you watch. We love to hear your reactions to the stuff. A good question: why do they have so many problems? Seems like every day they have problems. That's what this vlog's about— problems. We didn't have any problems. We wouldn't have a show. But we do have, uh, you know, 5 kids working on the farm and me, and we have Annie, and then we have, what, 120 animals in the winter, 300 in the summer? What's the chances something's gonna go wrong? I just lean into those because that's what, what's interesting, right? The hero wants something. We want to grow our own food. We want to last long for our children, enjoy our grandchildren. That's what we want. That's our goal. And so to do that, we're growing our own food, we're living this healthy lifestyle, and there are things that get in the way. There are orcs and jokers that get in the way. Like the wind came and blew up this tarp. These are the jokers and the orcs. The wind and then the crazy rain. What was that? That was Saruman, that Hurricane Helene. No, that was the That was the devil himself. Now we overcome these problems to get to our goal. You guys like it too. When we have a big problem like Hurricane Helene, we get 3 million views. We have a little problem like the silage tarp comes up, you still like it. 40,000, 50,000 views is not bad. We could open up and do the whole thing, but then that would mean there would be uncovered ground for longer. Mother Nature is modest, and you want to keep her covered. Made her bare here, so we need to get that covered. If, say, they tilled here first and this became bare, well, it would take them a longer time to do a bigger area. So that's why we keep it to— this is about 1,200 square feet. No, no, it's half that. It's about 600 square feet. Okay, pig water heater works. You won't help me to set sit there and watch. Well, do you think— do you think I can help you? It's fun. Animal on new ground is always fun. What's crazy is they will be doing this work for us while we're on vacation. They'll be tilling our garden. Okay, we got the gate back on. Does anybody get as excited about this as me? You weren't even looking. I'm excited. We're getting food. You've got to do that by hand without those pigs. All right, that's a fun way to do it. Is this box talking? What did we pack that talks? Oh, a little boy. Don't forget to pack him on vacation, Beck. Oh, look at this. She's Baking up a storm. Grass-fed burgers, gluten-free buns. At the Caneras, we're gonna go see Uncle Pete. Green Dreams TV. It's been 2 years. I know we didn't go to Florida last year. We got a regenerative orange farm. Who knew that was a thing? With citrus farm, we're gonna see on the way. So we do have some content for you, but we are taking a break from vlogs. We won't have content every day, but we do have some neat things coming your way. And this will be for BLTs. So you're gonna pre-make some bacon too then? Yes. How'd it turn out? I think this one turned out— I think it turned out okay. I hope it'll be okay. And I know your buns turned out good. Looks like store-bought buns. Hey, are you eating off the lamb diet? Is that what you're on? Meat, cheese? That's gonna look like my plate. Meat, salsa from the lamb. It's the last— it's the last meal of the 10 days. Tomorrow, vacation. We got some bonus— we're not vlogging for a couple weeks, but we do have some bonus videos coming for you, some compilation videos. The hurricane, a year in review, regenerative citrus farm, two canaris's farm, and a vacation compilation. All right, happy day.