Can You Homestead In The City? Our Take On Urban Homesteading

[@jodilea144]

As much as I’ve enjoyed watching y’all over the last few years, redoing furniture and growing your business, I think I enjoyed this even more. It’s so nice to see your efforts at growing your own food and to know that the little glimpses we see on your other channel are part of a real effort to teach your children how to not only survive, but to thrive, in this “brave new world” we are seeing around us. Kudos to you both - and may the Good Lord continue to bless your family abundantly. ❤️

[@jamiandzeb]

growing all the food is a struggle for sure but we're doubling our efforts this year and being more proactive about the things we plant and what the kids like to eat.

[@jodilea144]

@@jamiandzeb it definitely is! I lost a lot of my stuff with the extreme heat last summer, but I just keep going and we keep having enough. I’m expanding my garden/flowerbeds on a massive scale this year. I’m removing all the grass from the immediate “yard” area (we are blessed to have another 6.25 acres beyond it) and planting it all in a mixed cottage garden style, with veggies and herbs alongside my flowers. I already had it that way on a smaller scale, but I’m tired of trying to keep the grass from encroaching or having to weed eat the walkways. I look forward to seeing y’all’s progress in the coming year. 😊

[@judymcmillan6516]

I think it is great that you are growing your own food . How expensive was your freeze dryer. Where did you get it

[@dawnsykes9171]

So excited about this channel. That’s most of the KZbin that I watch is homesteading channels. ❤

[@carolynmoody9460]

This is The most impressive video I've ever seen!!!! Hope you show more of this 👏👏

[@robincivis9501]

My mouth is watering just looking at all that homegrown goodness!!

[@hiddencreekgardensbethmcmi3720]

I live on 1/10 the acre in suburbia. I am amazed at the fruit trees and veggies I have been able to grow. I am continuing to add more perennial veggies. I have 4 berry bushes and 8 fruit trees. It's very addictive.

[@ellew5645]

Excited for this new channel. I watch everything on JRV. This looks fun

[@shuddle82]

As you know, those carrot greens are great for all the animals.

[@kathyaakananabluebird]

Bravo for sharing this journey with us!

[@marinaroper6922]

How wonderful , to have enough land to grow beautiful and delicious vegetables.

[@oliviapineda1318]

Loved that you shared the other side of your lifestyle and will continue to share with us and some of your recipes. I really enjoyed it.

[@lesliejohnson7247]

Congratulations on getting the channel up and running! I love it!

[@jeannet9592]

I just learned about your second channel today! I really like it!

[@jamiandzeb]

Thanks!

[@cindyleeger]

Love it! Love this content, so happy to come along.

[@janeyjanedee2493]

I don’t know how you do it all but I’m going to enjoy this channel as well as the other. You two are very inspiring.

[@Rustinpeacegardens]

Love this new channel, such an inspiration!

[@scotchgirl9727]

Excited about this new channel! Great start! (And hopefully others will follow your lead and start preparing for our challenging times ahead.)

[@samjdolittle]

Love it! Looking forward to seeing more of this side of your life!

[@kellykremer8493]

I'm so glad I found you! I LOVE your non-traditional, f-it we're doing it anyway, if the bread's not perfect, I'm still gonna eat it attitude. I have been so afraid to deviate from the norm and it's folks like you who make it okay for us to do so too. THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH!!!!

[@jamiandzeb]

❤️❤️

[@cynthiafisher9907]

This was really fun! I love all the same things, so I’m going to love being subscribed to this channel as well.

[@whynotredesign]

I didn’t think I’d like this video and I was wrong. Great job guys. Subscribed and will tune in. Thanks for sharing.

[@susanellis8089]

What an incredible launch video! I have a 5 acre hobby farm in Canada 🇨🇦. Love ❤️ your content. So much to learn and be inspired by! Looking forward to seeing this channel grow. Best wishes this new adventure brings you everything you are hoping for and more.

[@TheRepurposedSouth]

Excited for channel!!

[@anitawells3705]

Glad I found you ❤️ 💕 💛 💓❣️🙏❣️Jesus ❤ you❣️ you can tell you all have a good connection together it's good to see families interacting like this

[@CindyP10]

Love this! I didn’t even know you had a new channel. 🤩💜

[@jamiandzeb]

Just barely, we’re only 3 videos in 😊❤️

[@CindyP10]

@@jamiandzeb Yup, I watched them all 🤩💜

[@krissybragg7358]

I’ve been following you for years and I absolutely love watching you redo furniture. This video was a surprise, but a very welcome surprise, please keep up the good work and show us how to do all the things you do.♥️

[@karenhanley3912]

Great video ! Looking forward to your homestead channel too! I would love to see some of your recipes too !You guys are an amazing team and family 👍

[@LindaSmith-vq1br]

I love the new channel and have already subscribed. Always glad to have more content from you and yours. I look forward to watching your future videos and testing out your recipes. Thanks for this!

[@jamiandzeb]

recipes coming! we've had to amend so many so that Zeb can eat them too so it's taken a little while to refine that process so it can be repeatable.

[@cynthiafisher9907]

@@jamiandzebAre you finding the new foods to be just as good as the way you used to eat? Or do you find you miss “regular” food? That pizza looked pretty incredible!

[@jamiandzeb]

@@cynthiafisher9907 we love them. So are different but we’re getting used to it. I Jami at not as strict about it. But Zeb follows his diet strictly and he loves it.

[@karenharvey743]

I have been a "JamiRayVintage" follower for a few years but this is the first video of your homestead Chanel that I have watched. I really identify with what you are doing. It makes me love you and your family more! Thank you for sharing your life with us. God bless you!

[@jch1965]

Woohoo! Love watching your other channel and know I’m gonna love this one too! 🎉. I’m looking forward to your kamut flour recipes. 😊

[@carolynlunel9382]

Sooo excited for this channel! I am kinda in awe of how much you guys do! Very inspiring.. thank you for sharing it all❣️

[@jamiandzeb]

Glad you made it over! We’re excited too!

[@carolynlunel9382]

@@jamiandzeb ❤️ of course!! It'll be so fun!

[@joytoyouandme4593]

This is exactly how I grew up, we always had a large garden and my Dad hunted for much of our meat. He also helped others with butchering and meat cutting and bartered this into free meat. Ever butchered 5 pigs in one day? I also learned how to can pinto beans after I got married from my Mother in Law. I’m now planting what I can on my 10k lot in suburbia, and blessed to live in area where organic and grassed is available. Love the Pacific NW for just that reason. Can’t wait to watch your new channel grow!

[@jamiandzeb]

5? So much work!

[@cindyleeger]

I have Hashimoto too.

[@kaihandren9309]

This was a great video ! You & Zeb really work hard .... just loved it all ! I'm a gardener (not a food garden) & there's something magical & reverent walking in a beautiful sunlit or a twinkle lit moonlight garden full of God's Glory !

[@jamiandzeb]

I really loved the garden last year. I’m inspired, I want to fill the shop grounds with edible greenery! ❤️

[@maryellenkrause7126]

Please think about making a cookbook with your recipes and tips

[@JL-hn6hi]

Great overview for your new channel !

[@cynthiafavela2388]

Thanks for the encouragement, just start where we are and try new things!

[@FranLu-qs2xv]

I love the inspiration to eat what you make & from your garden. I'm learning and trying. Adorable sheep & cow. What a wonderful neighbor!!! (Mine puts poison pellets down on their grass & sprays in the air. Ug)!

[@kristeneichholzer3761]

I can’t believe how incredible you two are!! ❤

[@elenalatici9568]

I can't BELIEVE the amount of work you do!! I started watching you JRV channel a couple of years ago--maybe more. It was during the pandemic. You had just bought the house and were working hard on it. At the same time, you were already painting and selling furniture and had a shop. Then you bought the old church, and I watched the two of you do all of that work while STILL painting and selling furniture and managing a shop. Now I see your incredible garden, the canning, freeze drying, bread and pasta making, milking a cow (not that easy to learn actually), feeding chickens, gathering eggs, cleaning the nesting boxes, plus sheep. AND you have 5 children, or is it 6? I am the eldest of 5 and grew up with a lot of those things. Nearly all of it came from my father's efforts. He was a genius, although he never would have claimed to be one. In fact, I don't think he had any idea that he was a genius. We had sheep, cows, ducks, and a horse .I canned tomatoes with him. He planted a vegetable garden (the sheep loved it), restored old cars and trucks, restored an old farmhouse, including all the plumbing and electricity by himself. One of the happiest times was cutting the hay, with an old tractor he had to start with a crank, then piling the hay onto a 1938 Ford farm truck so my brothers and I could ride on top of the pile. AND he made the best ice cream ever with cream from our Jersey cows with fresh peaches (please give that a try). He bought old furniture and refinished it, but we didn't sell it. All of that was back in the 50's and 60's. Watching the two of you of brings back great memories, and I am grateful that you remind me of happy times.

[@jamiandzeb]

Sounds like an amazing way to grow up!

[@elenalatici9568]

@@jamiandzeb Pretty much. It wasn't all like living in a pastoral painting, but we had a lot of fun. You could also lie down in a field or in the woods and not get up with Lyme Disease. Your kids are experiencing an amazing way to grow up too. My guess is they'll have a lot to contribute, wherever they are.

[@heathermacleod7068]

I’ve been watching you guys for years now and am definitely here for this!!!! I too am a avid gardeners and do tons of canning. I’ve finally convinced my man to let me get chickens. And am working on him to let me get a cow, pigs and bees. We also hunt wild game (Deer, moose, ducks, geese, etc and fish) I’m very lucky to live on 100 acres and feel beyond blessed! Can’t wait for all your videos on this channel!!!

[@jamiandzeb]

Yay chickens!

[@heathermacleod7068]

@@jamiandzeb 🥰🤗

[@denisehaddix6646]

It's great to be able to grow your own food. You know exactly what you're eating. And yes, you don't need a lot of land. I live in the city and I only have a small piece of land and my backyard has no grass. It's all flowers and vegetable gardens. I grow everything organically and I do it from seed and I use heirloom variety. It's nice to eat what you've grown. I'm so glad you're sharing this with everyone out there. Food is continuingly going up in price and we have to have some way to combat that. Looks great, hope next year's is just as impressive.

[@jamiandzeb]

It's so satisfying. We didn't have to buy Fresh tomatoes until November this year!

[@denisehaddix6646]

@@jamiandzeb that's great! I won't even eat tomatoes unless they come out of my garden. I think they taste like cardboard. I just wish I could have some chickens, so I could have some fresh eggs. And I definitely don't have room for a cow. I don't use the tomato cages. I get cattle fencing and make a big tunnel and that's what my tomatoes grow over.

[@kaihandren9309]

Denise -- how nice to meet a new friend like you ... !

[@tracyphillips5754]

Great video Jami and Zeb! Your bread looks amazing Jami and your pizza too!

[@leecantu1]

Very best time for this new venue!! I grow in my basement during the winter, greenhouse early spring, I have hydroponics like iHarvest, Kratky, Aero gardens, soil, and thinking about Daxiga fish aquaponics. Definitely ready for canning with all the supplies, but it's kind of scary. Lol If you do put together a cookbook that would be AWESOME!

[@jamiandzeb]

Oh that’s fun! We want to get some hydroponics going, probably in our basement too lol.

[@sersk9]

Love this. Thank you for showing how to grow your own food v

[@dancingdaisydesigns531]

II have been watching you for @ 6 years now & I am so excited to see the homesteading things you do. I grow a small garden, just started canning this year , cook allot from scratch & I can't wait to compare notes. I also have Hoshimotos so I am excited to see the recipes & hear how you can modify them to be GF, etc. I hope you make Gluten Free or just suggesting how to make a recipe GF will be a regular part of the cooking videos. I feel like allot of people are waking up to the dangers of over eating foods like gluten & it will benefit many people. I have not tried kamut flour, thanks for the idea.

[@jamiandzeb]

We’ve been using Kamut flour for pretty much everything because Zeb seems fine on it, but, if you have to go completely gluten free he like oat flour best and it’s easy to make in a food processor at home. We’ll do a video 😊❤️

[@Lookingup22]

Love this video! So inspiring and helpful for preparing for the days ahead.💕

[@RinaMeyers]

I was so excited to see you had posted on this channel. Love everything about you guys and this is amazing. I really had hoped on 2 1/2 acres in the Rocky Mountains BUT doing things at 9200' is very different than lower elevations!

[@jamiandzeb]

Oh wow that’s high! We have 2 acres off grid that we hope to eventually develop and I thought it was high at 7300 feet.

[@fionag8869]

Great vid u guys!!

[@mariebedonie8760]

Nice, I really enjoyed this video.

[@pollyporter-campbell7493]

Thanks for a glimpse into ypur homesteading life. I know y'all are skilled and experienced in this life so you may not need tips but you might like to check out another YT couple. The channel is called "Garden Answer" and they live in Oregon. They, too, have lots if tips and tricks.

[@JamiRayVintage]

I love their channel. She’s a master gardener.

[@karenhills8535]

Such a sweet video

[@jamiandzeb]

Thanks Karen! ❤️❤️

[@thekrew406]

Love this channel

[@GraceFilledHomestead]

Great video!!!❤

[@diywithtarnya]

Great video you guys. ❤

[@CynthiaKinate]

Zeb - did you get your chickens to go into the new coop? I have found it best to move them at night and when they wake up in the new spot it's like they have always lived there!

[@jamiandzeb]

Sadly I still have to make the new coop but that’s a great idea on moving them!

[@CynthiaKinate]

@@jamiandzeb You've got a lot going on! also when adding new chickens - put them in the coop at night. They all seem to get along better that way!

[@gerdavdlinde3132]

❤ love the video.

[@misskelly4405]

Cool channel! I may have missed it but didn't hear what USDA hardiness zone do you live in?

[@jamiandzeb]

We’re in Zone 5 in Lehi Utah. Probably closer to zone 6 because the elevation is only 4600

[@misskelly4405]

@@jamiandzeb I'm in AZ. Raised in Phoenix but live in Springerville now. Zone 6.

[@WowWowzie]

Beautiful family ❤

[@urbanlegendsantiques]

I just tried crème fraiche for the first time last week. I was thinking about you guys and I was wondering if you have the capability to make some.

[@jamiandzeb]

We might, Zeb hasn’t tried it yet but he’s doing all kinds of fun dairy “experiments” right now

[@Agenda21Truth1]

I am glad you discovered that there is NOTHING WRONG with Raw Milk...in fact, it's Beneficial❗️

[@TheRepurposedSouth]

Excited for channel!!