This content was created by Victor Justin Rhodes. This content was uploaded by Victor Justin Rhodes. This is a YouTube vlog titled "Working Together, for Lily's Dream" (created 2023-12-25). The excerpt is an informal, observational farm/family narration by a primary speaker describing winter chores and projects: troubleshooting a Suburban, moving it to a trickle charger, inspecting paddocks, demonstrating a "hay bomb" grazing technique, assessing pasture and manure distribution, counting steers and a bull, and working on a retaining wall for Lily's horse turnout (Peaches). The speaker also describes family activity around lunch (sourdough, fried chicken sandwiches) and references family members Jonah, Josiah, Leah, Billy, Lily, and Mom. Overall it reads like a single-speaker farm vlog with instructional and documentary elements rather than a structured multi-person interview or meeting.
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Happy cold December day. So cold and everybody with us. I think we'll take the Suburban on a chores. Smell that. What is it? Truck stinks like toxic. Did you let it warm up? It had a— it was running through its filter. All right, just let it warm up. Once you get that started, can you go take it to the trickle charger? And maybe because that— but it just keeps on not starting, so let's see if it needs a deep charge. As for us, we gotta check the bromance's fence. And while we're out there, I'm going to show you the hay bomb. How did that get way out here? Let me show you all the bromance and the hay bomb. I can't probe it in, ground's frozen. Ah, not so terrible. 4.5. First thing we've done in this bromance paddock, the semi-permanent paddock. Big ice, big trough. This can fill up in the afternoon when it's warm and the water lines are thawed out. And then in the morning, all we got to do is break the ice. We have a paddock we cleared last year, but it didn't really go back— grow back that great. I mean, there's bare patches everywhere. This is what I'm talking about. This is what we're What are you doing? The hay bomb. Do you see that hay coverage? Do you see the hay coverage? We fed hay here, I don't know, a couple days ago. Wasted hay that they didn't eat and mucho manure. Manure there, manure there, manure there, manure there. But that's a couple of days ago. I'd probably like to see a little more wasted. This is today. Now don't eat it all, waste some, okay? This was wood, so it's a fungal environment, and we need to go more to bacteria, grass, and that will do it. You guys will do it. Steer number 1, steer number 2, 3, steer number 4, steer number 5, steer number 6. Cuffer shifts. And a bull. Introducing the hay bomb. I call it the hay bomb because, well, Will Harris called it the hay bomb. I heard from the wind, and, and many of the grazing heroes all use it when they clear forest. They hay bomb it. Joel Salatin, Greg Judy. Continuing to work on this retainer wall for Lily's horse turnout. We're all chipping in together to help and support Lily with her horse. Jonah on the mini X. This was once a garden bed. Ah, case in point. Beauty's giving up her zone 1.5 garden bed. We had asparagus and strawberries here, but it just makes sense— peaches! At night, Lily likes to put peaches up, and especially in the winter, he'll spend a lot of time in the stall. And then when animals are not on the pasture and they're on deep bedding, he'll have his own deep bedding turnout. Had to build this retaining wall because there's a slope slope here, and we want it to be even so his manure— we can capture his manure and urine in the deep bedding. So really, I mean, he's just going to be a composting-making machine, that Peaches. Warm in here, is it? I'm happy you bought the cabs. That extra thousand is worth it. 25-degree weather. Josiah's been up on the mountain on this frozen day. There's no mud when it's freezing. It's a puzzle piece. We're gonna remove these two little ones and get that real nice big one. And we had to pull off the job site because life happens. The dentist called, they're gonna see them earlier. Mom's gotta get ready, we've gotta cook lunch. Let's get the lard up to mucho temp. Uh, we have a problem. That's not gonna be enough nuggets for everybody. Would, um, fried chicken nuggets be good on sourdough bread? Possibly, she says. That might make it go a little further. This is for me. Sourdough has been in the fridge a couple of weeks. That's about all we have. She says maybe toast. Homemade butter sliced on this before we bake it. We checked on this and the butter— oh, that's a good idea. Now we can spread the butter around. Why am I getting good at something I'll never eat? How's the breakfast, everyone? Brunch. It's good. You like it too? You like that sourdough? Hey, did anybody try the chicken sandwich? Is it too weird? No, it's not like enough breast. It's a thing, fried chicken sandwiches. If somebody in the comments will be shouting it out, it's their favorite thing. Look, Leah's trying it. You like it with chicken on it? I think she started a trend. Everybody jumped up to get some. Billy, you happy with the horse turnout so far?
