We Normally Don't Film This | A Saturday Morning

[@1870s]

So give us your feedback, Does our random things getting done interest you over just pure topic centered videos? There is no set agenda just whatever needs getting done get's done, and it can often feel very chaotic and random. Today was one of those days I had several things I needed to complete before leaving the house for the day. Cooking breakfast, preparing lunch, making tea, harvesting some lettuce and wrapping up the latest freeze dried harvest. Just normal everyday but never the same homestead stuff. 🍃 Variable Speed Hand Blender: amzn.to/3JxSjxw 🍃 HARVEST Right Freeze Dryers: affiliates.harvestright.com/1182.html 🍃 Avocado Oil in Bulk: amzn.to/3XpIszG

[@juliepoolie5494]

I enjoy the random video! I always learn something - homemade Mayo recipe and using the immersion blender right in the mason jar is quite the handy tip! And the Amish seasoning, I’ll have to look for that!

[@tammyjocooke-ov1nw]

Love love love these ‘real’ regular times of videos!!!!!!

[@nancyvonseggern1280]

I enjoy seeing all that you fit into your days. My days are also very full. It's nice to see how others manage.

[@tammygagnon996]

Love random videos

[@madmecyr]

I enjoy these vids as well. As long as you have something quick to share like the mayo recipe. And I am curious about the Amish seasoning too? Is that anywhere where we can find it?

[@ewakam1586]

You're my favorite homestead channel I know because you don't do EVERYTHING from scratch, use store bought things and show both succeses and failures and this way I can relate to you 😊

[@CopperLace]

Everyday videos are great! I love the non-topic slice of life. It is authentic!

[@kelleysciarrino8024]

Thanks for supporting a local farmer in your area. As you said we all don't have the time,space or money to raise our own meet but if you have a local farmer that raises meat in the way you would,buy local support small family farming.Thanks for this great video.

[@KuriosPC]

Absolutely. I buy farm raised eggs from Danielle's house. I have gone to Dick once or twice but Danielle is our go to. 🐣

[@4themotherload]

Your message is so important. Even if you can't do something, their are good local farmers that are growing and raising amazing vegetables/meats. We all, if we can need to be supporting them.

[@Root_and_Fleurish_Farm]

We have Cochins and they are fabulous mommas. They will brood their own and adopt chicks that aren’t theirs. Breed definitely matters :)

[@cbordes1]

Rachel, a day in the life with you is time well spent. You always teach me so much and renew in me the desire to be creative in the kitchen. Loved watching. TFS

[@laurasnyder5926]

Rachel, I havent commented yet, but I love your random videos. You are refreshing and delightful. Its fun to see what you get into in a part of a day on the homestead. I love feeling we are across the table chatting as we accompish your chores. Keep being you! God bless, you are a huge blessing to us!❤!🎉

[@painchaud2000]

This was actually a great video... normal slow living is always great to watch

[@dorothyweeksfoster3667]

Rachel.....I think that your flowers, just the way they are, in jars would be beautiful table decorations anytime but especially at a wedding!

[@vickistiles7132]

I laughed out loud as you sipped the strawberry infused tea from the jar! Yes, “random” is how most of us live our lives. That is why it is great fun to watch you create recipies, cook/can and utilize what you have on your homestead. Thank you for being you!

[@smas3256]

Those freez dry flowers would be beautiful in clear glass vases along table, on each table. Fancy ones. A globe shape w. flat bottom for the flowers with tapered neck like a waist line and an opening large enough to get a hand in to fill it. Allow the guests to take one home.

[@DigitHomesteading]

I absolutely love fishing and making homegrown teas!

[@JessicaStrasser-dy9cz]

Rachel, these are some of my favorite type of videos. Very refreshing 😊

[@robindrago6824]

Random videos are always interesting to me!

[@muddyacrefarms]

Buff Orpingtons and Silkies are the broodiest birds I’ve ever had!

[@jackiecrispin]

All the years that I had hens I found the Marans were my best broodie hens. Silkies are renowned for raising chick's

[@mel9471]

Genious idea with freezedrying the flowers! I am wishing now i had invested the money in the freezedryer and took more time planning my wedding!❤

[@alystodola]

I love kitchen videos! Cooking or day in the life type, like this one! Also, I died laughing when Rachel was shocked at the tea… “it’s the best thing I’ve ever had!” 😂😂😂

[@mywoolmitten]

I enjoy the random things videos 😊 We finally got a little bit of rain here in the middle of the mitten, hope you got some, too! Oh love the mayo!

[@doernotsayer]

Trick that broody hens… purchase a flock of bantam hens, silkies if you want more eggs to hatch 😂❤ FANTASTIC broody girls! Committed to the cause… just be ready to multiply non stop 😅

[@ShalomShalom-d5c]

How you encourage a hen to go broody is to put wooden eggs (painted white) in the nest box & leave them there. She will get the hint.

[@dawnleyrer1495]

I love random stuff 😊

[@Nins-niche67]

My friend had pale pink roses in jars on the table for rehearsal dinner for her wedding. So gorgeous

[@MrsRedAng]

Thank you for sharing all your wonderful tips and recipes!

[@ConcealedKari]

Rachel- Thank you for all the videos. I have stepped out of my comfort zone and have been making a lot of things from scratch that I wouldn’t have considered before.

[@wildfyrefarmlife8638]

Our farm is producing 80% of our meat for the year but only about 10% of our veggies but I love supporting other farms who grow veggies. I am just starting my garden. Today I am making 50lbs of cucumbers. A local farmer was selling cucumbers for a $1.00 a pound. Prices get really good when the big harvest come in👍❤️😃

[@jamjar5716]

Yes Rachel, I very much enjoyed this every day Rachel being Rachel and Todd being Todd routines!

[@christinesroutines]

Oh Rachel…if you only knew how much we enjoy these videos! ☺️ I literally stopped the video and went and made some mayo, then went and steeped some tea…and now am sipping on it after some chores around the house and watched the rest of your video! I love your reaction at the end sipping on the giant jug of tea…so cute! 🤩 Thanks for sharing the random things in your lives with us! I hope you had an amazing day on the boat! Blessings! 💕☺️

[@christyh.4092]

Our chickens are free range and the last remaining buff Orpington disappeared, so I thought something got her. But she showed up for dinner one day and watched where she went. She hatched and raised 4 of her eggs. That's the only one we've ever had to go broody. None of the Americaunas have tried. That tea looks delicious. I might have to try to make some. Thanks for sharing your creative ideas with us on the 'inner-webs'!!!

[@BostonBB]

I was going to suggest a Buff Orpington.. the only breed I've ever had that consistently hatched and raised chicks. I'd candle the other eggs and slip the fertilized ones under the broody girls too.

[@cynthianarenfro9454]

If you want some good dedicated hens for sitting get some banty or mini crocin hens. Beware they love to go broody. Mini crocin make the best mothers.

[@denisebrady6858]

Rachel after having Covid which nearly put me in Hospital for 2 weeks - I wash my hands every time I touch anything especially during cooking. I grow quite a lot of my own salads & vegetables (Organically) & yes do eat stuff while in the garden but Hygiene in the home is of utmost to me now.

[@robingirven4570]

I was going to freeze dry my peony flowers! They were spent before I thought about it again. 🤦‍♀️ If the flowers are in a bouquet- they will absorb the humidity or moisture from the air. Gotta be a quick walk down the aisle before they droop. 😐 You drinking out of that 1/2 gallon jar was hilarious 😂

[@glorygracefarm6843]

Hey Rachel, I am in my 10 year of raising chickens. I just had my 1st successful clutch hatched of 9 eggs by a Speckled Sussex mama. None were actually hers, she doesn't lay every day and she runs from the roosters most of the time. But she did great. When we realized she was definitely broody we gently moved her into a plastic dog crate to isolate and protect her from the other hens disturbing her or adding more eggs to the nest. But also to protect her from predators. My last broody mama was a leghorn and I thought we had her very secure but a determined skunk wormed its way in and demolished the nest of eggs, and eventually something got her as well. She was small so I think it may have been the skunk. They will dig under and as long as their head fits the body fits. I do have some videos on my channel of my little set up for my broody mama and chicks. They are growing great now and hopefully will be added to the big coop soon. God bless you guys, i cannot wait to have our own freeze dryer to preserve our goodies from the garden. I have over 100 tomato plants. Yeah, that a story in itself. But I refuse to not plant what God allows to grow after I prayed for them to grow.

[@ConcealedKari]

I do like your everyday videos especially when you cook. It gives me ideas.

[@amybrown8528]

Until.i started homesteading I never knew strawberry and basil went SO GOOD together! I mix the 2 in jam now every time I make it. Fabulous.

[@joeyhardin1288]

Thank you. "Justin Wilson, I washed my hands nice and clean last Saturday!" God Bless and stay safe.

[@Jolivia762]

Loved, loved, loved this video. I would definitely like to see more like this.

[@mommybear8672]

Trick to a broody hen is the right breed. I've never had my Ameracauna's go broody but every single one of our Black Copper Marans have done so. On our second clutch of babies from one of our girls right now. I wouldn't suggest you get too many tho as I spend way more time trying to break the broodyness..it's challenging.🤦‍♀️🥴

[@XOjmmXO]

I personally loved this video. It was out of the ordinary for your channel, but I really enjoyed it and would like more of these types going forward. Not all, of course, maybe once a month or something.

[@elizabethmunroe3676]

I love these random videos! It makes me try more small projects out in my kitchen.

[@wildfyrefarmlife8638]

Silkies❤️ get some silkies. They will hatch anything. Get 3 and you will be good to go.

[@clancarney2541]

freeze dried flowers?! give me a box frame!!! just wow! Ooooo or resin!

[@dianaivey2014]

I love that your just so REAL. Loved how you tested your strawberry tea. Cute!!

[@pamelacooley6457]

❤ love all of this. Enjoy your talks 😊 recipes and garden tips.Thank you for sharing part of your life with us.

[@mariagarcia-po6kl]

Hey Rachel. What a video. If you have the time do thing like this. Then do it. I would live to see what you do every morning when you wake up. I love strawberry 🍓 tea. I have to get some and lemon 🍋 to make tea or ice tea. Thank you Rachel for the tip. God Bless you and Todd. Have fun on the boat ⛵. Take care. Maria. ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍👍👍👍👍🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗⛵⛵⛵⛵⛵⛵

[@atkinsonlife-in-between6341]

Everyday life is fun....not everything may be of interest but today I found the chicken salad and homemade mayo along with the process of turning herbs and leaves into tea very interesting. You are doing great Rachel. and Todd. From northern Indiana have a great day fishing .

[@terryodom6073]

Just found your site today and have subscribed. I am enjoying your everything videos. I will probably be binge watching tonight. Take care. Bye for now.

[@Lintriage]

There is always something to learn from you two...and often times I get an ah-ha moment on how I can maybe do things different

[@mistymountainmiss]

Loved seeing the tea prep and mayo making!

[@mandam7468]

I enjoy random as much as topics. It's nice to mix things up. For me it's more of a "lets see how i get inspired today" lol I am making the tea as we speak and can't wait to try it😊

[@OurIntrovertedHomestead]

I love your reaction to your Strawberry infused tea! The surprise and excitement are adorable!❤

[@blessedandkept6817]

Me too now making me go back and write down recipe lol

[@babydii3487]

Definitely authentic and sweet ❤

[@gardenstatesowandsew]

Thank you for sharing. I am Going to try the tea ❤ my youngest son is getting married in October. My daughter was just married in June. I hope you both enjoyed your boat trip ❤

[@fincarosa6767]

Get clay eggs. Or You have to leave them, if you want them to lay on the eggs. Start marking some with an x and take newer ones. Arielle and Eric just had a video a few months ago on the clay eggs and broody hens. Good luck 👍🏼

[@shamancarmichael5305]

Always happy to see anything you do, there's bound to be something new for me, either food wise, or activity wise that I don't know much about! It's like having a chat with a neighbor, you don't have to have a topic, you're just hanging out!

[@transplanted.homestead]

I enjoyed this video style and would love to see more ❤

[@Jport3]

I love it all! I learn soo much from you!! The jar or roses are ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!!!! 💞🙏🏼💞

[@kristyharvell]

Love your everyday videos! I would recommend adding a Silkie or Frizzle hen to your flock. They go broody often and make excellent mommies!

[@gretarank2784]

I agree my silkies will gather and set on beach pebble rocks when they go broody if they don't have any eggs to sit on, my frizzle sat on eggs but once they hatched she didn't want anything to do with them so I tucked them under a silkie and she said "these are mine now everyone leave them alone" gotta love them silkies

[@CampfireKathy]

Rachel, what was the Amish seasoning you use in your mayo?

[@1870s]

It's a powered "cole slaw" seasons, we buy at our local Amish Shop

[@hilltophomestead9070]

I have had various broodies throughout the years, but my most broody prone that refuse to give up until they hatch a clutch, are my Blue/Black/Splash Marans! I can't get them broke no matter what I do so they usually get to hatch a few just so I can get them back to laying! I've also had Speckled Sussex, Columbian Wyandotte, & various barnyard mixed broody mamas. You can encourage broodiness by leaving a clutch of fake eggs in a nesting box to see if anyone has interest. I usually wait a few days once I see a broody sitting before I give her fertile eggs just to be sure she's serious.🙂

[@queenmargie6438]

I love this video I watch it all the time and I love your content today. Little bit of everything just watching learning from you. I love it. I love you guys keep it up. Peace and love her and

[@debihuntsman9314]

Rachel, I enjoy watching videos showing your every day life. The randomness is fun!

[@roxannehoben6221]

I had that Same egg slicer from Fuller Brush when I was a teenager. One of the very first things I bought for my Hope Chest. My Step mother swiped it. ❤

[@jackienoel2864]

this was a nice video, it’s been calming spending time with you just being you!!

[@marking-time-gardens]

Loved this video just as much as all of the other great videos! Trying your strawberry tea asap! Might also try it with raspberries... mmm! Blessings on your day Kiddo!🥰🌻🐛💕

[@beckydigilormo4261]

I LOVE YOU SAID LSU PURPLE!!!!!GEAUX TIGERS 🐅

[@pnwtraditions1285]

Thanks for the tea inspiration! I made my own with chocolate mint, chamomile, and strawberries! Added a little honey after steeping... Sooo goooood!!!

[@dorykoszewski3162]

I love this format of A day in the life. I bet that tea was amazing. I’m just getting into making different herbal teas and this one is now on the list.

[@kbailh01]

I freeze dried pansies, calendula, mullein and elderflower. Wonderful. I was really looking forward to freeze drying my red monarch but the deer had it for a midnight snack.

[@deba6145]

I liked this video. Day to day stuff is fun sometimes.

[@laurarochester3054]

SUGGESTION~ Todd, make a short of the mayo making please! I really think it would help people see that part of the video and you can always have the link to this video on there. Thank you! God bless!

[@considertheant2292]

Finally received my leaves and made this tea…excellent! Did not even have to add sweetener with sugar from the strawberries. Thank you for sharing. Chicken salad and mayo next on the agenda.😊

[@steviamahler6881]

We’ve had Americaunas for almost a decade. None of them have ever gone broody! We’ve had easily a dozen different breeds gonbroody for us though. Right now we have 2 broodies-both Speckled Sussex. That breed goes broody for us every year. Also, Silkies are known to be excellent broody mommas, so we just obtained a few.

[@feliciamassier2771]

Our Cochin chickens go broody every year and my granddaughters silkies also go broody. They both are great moms

[@tammyjocooke-ov1nw]

My mother in law and I dried all of our wedding flowers (mainly pink rose of Sharon dried deep plum and gold wee my fall color scheme) lots of fern and fire & ice roses .. gorgeous and nice and light bouquets!!! Still vibrate 26 yrs later too!!

[@dorothyweeksfoster3667]

oh my gosh I love crisp celery with peanut butter or cream cheese 😊

[@charlenegrady8781]

Thanks for sharing✌️🇺🇸❤️

[@sandys.1891]

I have to start making my own mayo. D/T health reasons I must remove all soy from my diet. Those darn commercial companies put soy in everything. It's overwhelming how many products on the market now contain soy. Even the back of my olive oil mayo jar says it contained soy. So in the trash it went. The only way to ensure no soy is to make it myself. Thank you for simplifying mayo in your demo. It's not as overwhelming as I thought.

[@cynthiafisher9907]

I would advise against making mayo with olive oil, it turns out very strong tasting and bitter.

[@mendyarp9158]

Love these type of videos!! Thank you so much for sharing. Hope you guys had a GREAT time on the boat!!

[@shellihall5645]

I love these videos. And I love how thoughtful you are to your future daughter inlaw. She is so blessed

[@pjk1714]

That was fun!! I believe most viewers just enjoy spending time with you and Todd. Enjoy the weekend🎉

[@bluegirl777]

I love these VLOG type videos. Super fun! Thanks Rachel! :)

[@northernkarma9296]

At the end when you drank right out of the jar, I just about peed my pants laughing! 🤣🤣😅😅😆😆🤣🤣.. too much Rachael, too much.

[@deekolbe1052]

Buff Orpington chickens are very broody. I had one hatch guinea fowl eggs, we don't have a chicken rooster. They are great mommas.

[@karolinatre1479]

I like flower ideas . Watch how to make floral ice bowl or dessert ice bowl 🥳🎃 🍂

[@BroomstickChik]

I like videos like this!! Please do more! ❤

[@audramoore8679]

I love your kitchen videos. Very interesting.

[@TannaPhillips]

The freeze dried flowers!!! Beautiful!!!

[@rainspringing]

Love the tea reaction! Need to try a variation on that myself. Maybe this winter when the strawberry leaves are nice again! Best method I know of for broody hens is buy a good smart older farm hen, that is in her broody years of life (lays very few eggs in a year, always broody). Then either have her hatch a batch and teach them the way of the chicken, or set her on decoy eggs, and have chicks shipped in. Tuck them under her at night, and they grow up the right way. I started with an Old English Game hen from a local auction. I did the later method, but the timing was nail biting. Thankfully she was quite tolerant with rather long setting times. Of what she raised the majority were incubator chicks. Due to rainy season, and not wanting her or any other hen, setting on real eggs in the outside damp. (Duck eggs would have been fine probably.) Most of the chicks raised by her over the years were so much smarter overall, and eventually went broody in their own later years. Some sooner than others. When she passed was the closest I've ever felt to wanting a chicken funeral. She was a force of nature.

[@laurab8547]

I have 12 chickens and four of them are easter eggers that I've had for three years. None of them have ever gone broody. The one broody hen I've ever had was our Black Copper Maran. I've heard they go broody often so I highly suggest you get one of those if you want to have a good broody hen to raise chicks. They are beautiful black hens. I've also heard Orpingtons also go broody often and make great mamas. My next chicken that I buy will be a Lavender Orpington. They are so pretty!

[@zormier2002]

Those purple ones are beautiful

[@tammygagnon996]

Loved the video. Thank you 🇨🇦

[@judydrouhard2651]

I like random. You tea looks so so good. 🥰

[@christineciesielski5018]

I always learn something form you! This video got me searching strawberry leaf tea! I am so excited to give it a try. Last year I picked up a love of basil tea from Roots and Refuge. Maybe I will try combining the basil leaves, strawberry leaves and a few strawberries. Thanks so much for inspiration!

[@cherylbertolini3140]

Love every day life videos.

[@GHOSTINPLAINSIGHT]

Need a little White River fishing! Taylor Bridge Store area! They always have Rainbows and Brookies in the river there! At least last I was there.....1981....... My uncle owned the lot across from Taylors Bridge, and my cousin owns it now. Moms place on Fremont Lake was a good place to find some good fish too. Of course, slip over to Newago and fish the Muskegon river..... Sorry for the rant. At times I miss my home. Y'all do whatever tickles your fancy with your content! I'll watch it how ever y'all put it out!

[@tesshomestead8019]

Tea looks amazing girl . Great job I have to make more herbal tea tomorrow. Your green stalks look wonderful. GODBLESS sweetie

[@kellyharbaugh9391]

That is beautiful I didn’t know you could freeze dry flowers I guess you can freeze dry most anything!

[@suenewson997]

Yes I would love to see more like this video please,really enjoyed it 😊

[@annettegoslin8410]

Always amazing tips and tricks from you guys. Love the random videos. Thanks for sharing the mayonnaise tip, so much easier then my previous way of making. Keep blessing us with your insights!!