In this vlog, Victor (Speaker A) and his wife Rebecca give viewers a spontaneous garden and farm tour while juggling personal challenges. The video opens with a brief mention of their upcoming 19‑year anniversary and Rebecca’s rough night, prompting Victor to discuss ways to boost her mood, including cold plunges and a supportive family atmosphere. They then walk through their permaculture‑style garden, highlighting raised beds, herb sections, and the performance of various crops such as potatoes, raspberries, blueberries, and cabbage, noting successes, failures, and upcoming harvest plans. The couple also showcases animal husbandry tasks: milking cows, feeding chickens and turkeys, moving livestock, and building a PVC chicken‑drying rack, complete with dimensions and design rationale. Throughout, they reference on‑farm food preparation—shredded cabbage for breakfast, taco‑Tuesday meals, and future tomato‑sauce plans—emphasizing how much of their diet comes directly from the land. The vlog blends practical farm advice, DIY project details, and personal family moments, ending on an upbeat note about the growing self‑sufficiency of their homestead.
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You got your flower press? Yeah, Silverland flower press. This is coming out nicely. G-Dog, you going with? I guess not. Very nice. Jonah actually opted out of chores this morning to weed. His idea. Hopefully the beautiful one is gonna give us a garden tour. Her beautiful herb garden, her permaculture bulletproof style garden, her beautiful raised beds. Teddy, that's for the pigs, bro. Are you gonna do it? You don't need me? Okay. So Rebecca and I's anniversary coming up June 23rd, actually. 19 years. Hey Rebecca, it's gonna be more like 7:45-ish. Hey, this doesn't look like you're any— 7:50. You feeling all right? Yeah, a little rough night. She's had a rough night. All right, um, yeah, 7:45-ish. Needless to say, Rebecca and I want to take a day off from vlogging this weekend, but we still want to get you guys a video. And many of you been asking for a garden tour. So how about a garden tour with the beautiful one? And hopefully we can film that today, doesn't get rained out, and we'll put that up for you guys on Sunday. I let Teddy loose. Come on, stay with me, bro. More and more turkeys sleeping on the perch at night.
Teddy!
Cherry!
Wow.
I'm back to get Rebecca for the tour, but I don't know if the weather's gonna hold out for us. Shoot, it's windy. That's bad for the mic. Hey, my man. Hi. You don't want to come this morning? No. Becky?
Yeah?
You see that storm brewing?
I do.
How do you think we can beat it? How long do you think this tour is going to take?
I've never done a tour.
It's the rainouts there, almost an hour or so.
It did.
You think you can wrap it away? Yeah, I think it did. I don't think it did. Did it not? All right, we're going for this tour. Might as well start right there at the sunflowers, huh?
They're so tall, I can't even reach that.
So tall all of a sudden. Well, we just wrapped up the garden tour. How do you think it went, Rebecca? How do you feel overall about your garden? Some, some mostly successes, some failures.
Failure, some success. I mean, this is the thing. When you grow different things in different areas of your garden, sometimes they do better. So like the potatoes, we've never hilled potatoes, but down there in that bottom, I think that the water washes the, washes the soil out from around them.
And we're gonna need to hill the potatoes.
Yeah.
So, so, all right, but the lesson, the takeaway—
oh, you know what, we should go over there and look at all the raspberries that we have.
Yeah, because there's mucho raspberries right here. You forgot to talk about that in the tour, but oh well.
Yeah.
Oh my, looky here, Becky. This oftentimes gets forgotten just because it's across the street, but holy smokes. Oh, they're not ready. They're still very hard. They're going to be huge then. This one may be ready. No, definitely not ready.
Black raspberries.
Okay.
Which is why they're not ready.
Okay, and then these are raspberries. Oh yes, look, look, they're getting closer.
And then these down here—
oh, here we go—
are more raspberries.
Okay, yeah, here's one. That's one ready. Okay, all right, we're gonna be overrun with raspberries.
Well, we'll freeze them.
Hopefully we're gonna be overrun with blueberries, our favorite. Yeah, unfortunately Blueberries are harder to grow than raspberries around here, apparently. We just come over here for a second and you got to start weeding, don't you?
Yeah. Oh, you don't want them.
Always the nurturer. I think we're gonna have a good blueberry crop this year. Yeah, it takes a while for blueberries.
It does. We've struggled in this area. I mean, you just can't do it all, you know? Yeah, like you just do as much as you can and then be happy with what you got done.
Try to prioritize what's most important to you. Yeah. It doesn't feel like she's got a whole lot of milk, but maybe she's holding it back a bit. We'll see. Could be because we milked late yesterday and on time today, and I think we put up the hamburger kind of late. All right, Becca had a terrible last— terrible night last night. She's feeling a little anxious after an American farm tour type of stuff. So trying to help her. Ah, we've been doing our cold plunges in the afternoon, but come on, let's give her a boost this morning. All right, hey, hose us out, buddy. Lily took over milking for a second. How was it, Bird? Good. Good. We about done?
Almost done.
Let's see how much she ends up— ah, she's going to end up giving us 2 gallons. That's fine. There's nothing wrong.
Again, right?
Yes, sometimes extra, but we'll take it. Let's go, Flossie! Got the Polar Plunge filling up, babe. Oh good, this is the moment I've been waiting for, Rebecca. This is the moment.
There's that one.
Our cabbages.
Oh, look at that one!
It's time to kiss and harvest some cabbage. Look at this one. Oh, that one.
There's one over there.
Oh, so we're gonna get— they're not fully ready, but with so many cabbages, we can harvest some early because we want some cabbage this morning in our breakfast. Because we're not gonna be able to eat all these cabbages once at maturity, right? So might as well start eating them.
One of those up there?
Yeah. Well, you want to get a purple one and a blue one and a green one? How about these two right next to each other? Then we only pick up this one spot. You kiss the green one, I'll kiss the purple one. Ready?
Yay!
Shred this cabbage out here. The beautiful thing is no bugs, none. We got this ice maker for chicken butchering, which we're gonna use on Thursday, but you might as well put it to work all the rest of the year, right? Is it 50?
It's definitely 50.
We gotta— you gotta toboggan on it, June. This is racing. Tastes like old times. What? I'm really excited about this breakfast because—
At your plate!
Well, we got our eggs, we got our yogurt, our bacon, and cabbage.
We grew all this stuff.
My favorite. It's a rainy one. Drizzling. That's perfect. That's the perfect kind of rain. No, we're not watching movies. You just keep drawing, buddy. Hey, Rebecca. I'm building this chicken drying rack. How far apart the tongs? 10 inches? Uh, 10 tongs drying 10 turkeys. And then how tall? 10 inches tall?
Yeah.
Is that too tall? And do it just like we did last time, rectangle. Are you seeing if they have it in shorter length, right? Oh, I couldn't find one online. I couldn't get one here shipped on time for Thursday.
No, no, no, no, we're making a PVC.
Yes, yes, I'm making one out of PVC. How big to make this thing? How about let's make it as big as our— as our table. 6 feet, maybe a 5-foot by 20-incher grid paper. A 20-incher by 5-foot will give you 20 drying racks. I think that's too much. I think we can go much smaller. Okay, is 20 drying racks too many?
No.
Oh, you can't have too many? Oh, that works perfect then. All right, sits on a 6-foot by 2-foot table nicely. Perfect. This is my design then, a 5 feet by 20 inches. The grid is every 5 inches, so the posts are every 10 inches, but it's like a diagonal. So see how it's diagonal here, so there's a little more room. And that's 20 posts and little legs at the end to offer a little bit more stability since we have a couple of inches on each end. All right. It's still drizzling. It's still drizzling. We're not complaining. We're dancing. We're dancing. Okay, man, it's a riot. They're out of water, they're out of feed, and they've turned over the feed. Even these guys, they filled up their water with shavings. Oh my gosh, I'm glad we did this first.
Oh look, a sea monster got in there.
Look, they're the same age, to give you an idea.
I put it—
no, those are normal chickens on the right. There's a sea monster in there. Oh, you put that in there? That's funny. That's probably twice as big, same age.
Oh, let's try.
And those are fat chicks, man. They're big birds. And those little chicks there, they're like bigger stock chickens to stay in our sheep fences. Uh, so that's as big as a normal bird gets right there, buddy. It's what, 3-ish weeks old? Well, we got us a chainsaw. We got us a tree on the line somewhere, the word on the street is. So let's hurry up and get the cows and the sheep moved, then we'll go take care of that. It's causing our fence to ground out. We're moving the turkeys now. I wish you could have seen it. We had a battery die. We went and got another one, but Every one of them, almost every one of them was sitting on that shaw. It's got poop in it and stuff. Here, you know what, dump it. Just kick it off in there so it all falls out of that pan. Thank you, you've been very helpful today. But I just had to switch the turkeys. I mean, look how nasty. They'll get 50% of their diet off the land if given the opportunity. Look, they have fresh feed, they're going for grass. So Jonah, we'll probably start moving them every 2-3 days. The more we move them, the more they'll get off the land. I want you to see what's happening here though. One piece of land— chickens, turkeys, cows come through here, sheep come through here, and another posse of chickens come through here. We're getting this— we're getting so much from just one little spot of land, aren't we, Gideon? Chidlers come through here too. Jonah, when do you think we should remove their crib? I don't know if any are sleeping in it. Maybe a few. Let's give them another week. I think they're almost big enough to not be subject to aerial predator. It's a few small ones in there. Okay, these guys are actually 8 weeks old tomorrow. We're gonna harvest them— not tomorrow, the next day. This is the first time though we've had to go get more feed in the afternoon, so they've been really efficient and we're really happy about it because look how big— how big do you think? Can you even pick one of those up, Mr. Brown? Yeah, go for it! Grab that big one right there.
This one?
Yeah. How heavy is that?
It's heavy.
That's a hen. Hey, look, we just got their feed. Doesn't take them long to find it, I tell you what. All right, fattening up real nice for harvest in 2 days. Hey, tomorrow's the last day we feed them. Thursday morning we don't feed them, okay? We hold their food out tomorrow night. All right, got 45 minutes. Let's go cut this tree.
Hop in the fence. Yeah, that'll do it.
That'll ground it out. Taco Tuesday from the land. Our salad, our beef. Hey, soon tomato sauce, and it'll be actually all cilantro, tomatoes.
The only thing we won't have is lemons.
Exciting!
Pepper.
More and more of our meals are getting more and more from the land.
