Do Only Southerns Do This or Northerners The Same Way? (LIVE)

[@YourSweetEyes]

Brooke, I think you have done extremely well managing all you have to do on a farm and having an active family. Unless someone have had a major health issue they would not understand the difficulty in dealing with the illness, medication side effects and the depression and anxiety that comes from not being able to do the things you once did. You handle your life with grace and positivity; I honor you for that. ❤

[@CogHillFarm]

Thank you❤️

[@patriciaday9510]

People have to live it to really understand it!! I know i live with chronic pain n fibromyalgia n pain pills n muscle relaxers aren't always the answer..It's day by day..

[@3_3645]

Very true it's difficult

[@christinecasaccia2994]

I have sarcoidosis, neuroendocrine CA, and diabetes. I so understand what Brooke goes through. It breaks my heart. I hate seeing people who suffer from chronic illnesses.

[@sharrondinnis1335]

@@patriciaday9510AMEN🙏🏻🤗

[@ladyjoann1957]

How small and sad are those who seek to hurt others with their toxic tongues. I 100% agree…let’s all put love and kindness out there and the world will be a much better place!

[@teresaflores3704]

KINDNESS MATTERS!!! BE KIND THIS WORLD IS ENOUGH OF A MESS!!!

[@patriciabarr57]

Brooke, it hurts my heart that someone was mean to you. I’m so sorry that happened. You and Jason seem like the nicest people in the world. I love all your videos. Yours are my favorite channels. Happy New Year to you all! ❤️

[@janmartin202]

Sorry Brooke, if it looks like we are going to have some serious snow, we do tend to make sure we are prepared. Living in Eastern Oregon, we don't want to go out during a snowstorm if we don't have to. Personally, we enjoy our wintertime. Happy New Year. We love your family and all of the precious animals. I don't believe we have missed a single video since we found your channel a few years ago.

[@elizabethclark8374]

Hi Jason, Brooke and MaryCarl, Happy New Year to your family!! My wish for ya’ll for 2025 is that 2025 is even better for your family than 2024! Elizabeth in Texas

[@denisesiriann7315]

Please don't let other people upset you. I think you are terrific, you take care of the farm, your family, your animals. You need a break. I wish I had your energy. Happy new year.

[@renestay1687]

Jason and Brooke, you tried for that baby. You gave his last hours all you could, including love, care, safe space, and medical help as well. It's just life, life determines what is to be. It brought you both to him. He was so sweet. Your neighbor did right as well. He knew you are good loving animal people and just good in general. Thank you for all the videos!

[@LindaHollister]

😢😢😢.

[@mickeyjones2874]

I have cast iron fry pans and a dutch oven from the 60's. I used them over the open fire cooking our meal's while we were "hippies" living in our tepee on land we bot, to start " living off the land". Moving from the big city to the country on our 5 acres! My oh my, those were sure the good ole days !!

[@patsyquinn1482]

It hurts my heart to hear about that comment. Your videos are just delightful. Love everything you show us. Happy New Year to you good people. 🎉❤

[@donnacarier264]

Brooke, I am so sorry! I agree. We need to build each other up, not tear them down. That was a critical spirit, for sure. It's happened to me before, but I chose to forgive that person. Brooke, you are so beautiful inside and out. Be a duck and let it roll off our backs. I love yall! Happy New Year!

[@julieagain]

Wishing Jason, Brooke, Mary Carl & the Cog Squad a Happy, Healthy, and Prosperous New Year.

[@kathleenroman9379]

Happy New Year Cog Hill Farm! May God continue to watch over you all, animals included! You are a blessing to me & I thank you for it. ❤️❤️🙏❤️❤️

[@janetpatterson4584]

Caden is leaving his mark on the world in such a positive way ❤

[@ecper4184]

Brooke, you're perfect just as you are! Happy New Year to all of you at Cog Hill!

[@rososborne3995]

I laid in bed and watched videos of all my favorite creatures and suddenly it was 12:15 am. So now it's 1:07pm on the 1st January. in Queensland Australia ❤ Love to you all. Happy New Year.

[@cherylcurrier945]

I don't stay up until midnight anymore. The year will change without me.🎉🎉 Happy New Year to both of you🎉

[@marcyhawkkotovsky2212]

Brook, keep in mind that when someone shares their negative opinion, what they have to say is their problem and NOT yours. Please don’t take on someone else’s problems. I learned that lesson and it has saved much grief. And, you’re doing really good ! Rock on Brook !

[@CogHillFarm]

You are correct!❤️

[@darleenmuhly529]

I won’t be partying but will be up at midnight. I’m a night owl and never get to bed til after midnight or later. Love you all and wish you a healthy , happy and blessed New Year!!

[@kimcohill773]

We always made sauerkraut in a large crock with an inverted plate set on top of the cabbage. The crock we used was one my great grandma had used Tried and true hand me downs. 😊

[@chi4ever982]

Us too. Always one in the root cellar and another under the sink.😂

[@gafairbanks2434]

I always got the job of " stiring " when I spent the holidays with my grandma. I found her HUGE crock in the ground by the house we now live in ! I was putting up a bird feeder. WOW, their hundreds of $$$ now if ya can find one. I have a SUPER recipe for crock dill pickles, if you'd like. Jason, get those grapes started along your woodline, they are needed in recipe. 😋

[@MyCatDuck]

Miss Brooke. I know you are one of the most nicest, sweetest, giving, caring, beautiful inside and out honest person! I have never met or talked to you, but just getting the pleasure of watching and listening to ya'll makes every day a wonderful day. God has blessed all of us to have ya'll in our lives. We need more people, like the Smith family, in our lives. Thank ya'll from the bottom of my heart ❤️

[@patriciaharner5156]

I so much agree!!!!!!

[@sheilaphelps6358]

super glad u have a great family for me to watch DAILY ITS WONERFUL

[@teresaflores3704]

You two are the BEST!!! I ENJOY YOU SO MUCH❤❤

[@vickiberry3150]

Wishing you all a Happy New Year! And a prosperous one, and most of all a Blessed one!!!

[@janisstasiak544]

I am sorry someone is treating you in a negative way! They have no right to say these things! They are miserable people! You are amazing! Keep being you! 🌸🌻🐝🦚🦆🦃🦢🐓🐖🫏🐎🐄🐐🦮🐈‍⬛🤗💕

[@ChrisBury20]

Happy New Year Cog Hill! May God bless you all and the farm throughout 2025

[@Sandra-qt4wr]

Love my cast iron. Loved Tony’s video 🎉on cast iron. Learned my Dutch oven is The Birmingham Steel. Wouldn’t take anything for it. My son is a plumber in Montgomery and I have asked him to be on the lookout for pieces I am looking for. He stopped at a yard sale and brought me a 14 inch skillet just before Christmas and I can’t wait to fry chicken in it. Brooke I have been on steroids since April and have put on 20 lbs. just came off them Christmas Day. Looking forward to getting back to my normal weight. I too have been diagnosed with autoimmune disease with PMR one of the side effects of the initial shots in 2021. You are a beautiful woman. Your heart is as good as gold. Thank you, Jason and Mary Carl for the love and care you give your animals. God bless you and your family. Happy New Year 🎊

[@JerilynnSchultz]

Happy New Year, Cog Hill ! Brooke you are terrific! Please don't take that unkind comment to heart. You have so many fans that love you!😊❤

[@marylouruss1087]

I just ordered the Fermintation Kit from Hoss. I plan on trying cabbage next spring. I did a small garden this past spring after my husband passed. Something to do and it did well. I think he was watching over it. So now i'm ready for spring. Prayers for Caden.

[@craigcanfield5474]

HAPPY NEW YEAR to the most awesome , the kindest, the hardest working & the best lookin' family on You Tube!! Thanks for spreading the love!!! ~ Mrs. C.♥♥♥

[@SUZYRIDE]

52:50 OMG Brooke I’m sorry to hear that noise. Continue to ignore that noise. You and Jason are amazing humans.

[@patriciaharner5156]

You guys are awesome 😎 people! I would love to be one of your neighbors!! I feel like when I watch your videos that we are visiting! So much fun. Love you guys! Patty from Georgia!

[@JaneHammWilson]

I wish you both a happy and healthy new year. I’m so glad Caden got to come by for a visit. He had been wanting to so much. Thank you both for supporting him and all the prayers. He is counting the days until he can get back to all his normal activities. ❤from Caden’s grandmother.

[@judyklein3221]

Happy New Year to a marvelous family! Thank you for all the wonderful videos over the past year!🎉🎆🎊🎇💕🤗💕

[@WandaHudson-r7q]

Love watching your videos and love your compassion for animals and people. You are all the best! Happy, happy New Year!!!

[@seashoresue]

oh my, you both are such lovely people. I will say never even noticed any weight change. How gracious you are to respond as you have. You are so beautiful, and it is the only thing I ever noticed! God Bless

[@Dee.C]

Happy New Year ! Get well Caden ! Listen to your mom , she knows best .

[@deborahmirelli3715]

I’m the same Brooke, I can’t do crowds anymore. You, Jason and Mary Carl are just right the way you are ❤️❤️❤️

[@melaniemonti8115]

Happy New Year Cog Hill Farm!

[@barbarastrait2343]

Happy New Year !!! 💜✨️🙏

[@ShawnLucas-en4rf]

You and your family have a wonderful new year 😊❤

[@k-lo0007]

As a Louisiana Southern girl, I continue to get up "with the chickens" and go to sleep "with the chickens!" Staying up late has never been a thing for me. I was always up early to take care of my horses & dogs - no matter the weather... 🤔🤪😁 Love you & Jason & your animals.❤❤❤ Happy New Year

[@marygatdula2744]

My father used to put plain white bread in a glass of milk, and sometimes, he and my mom both would put cornbread in buttermilk and just eat it with a spoon. I will probably still be awake after midnight, but not just for New Years, but just because I rarely get to sleep before then. My youngest son is like Caden. Since he was little bitty, he would love working. He still works hard and seems always to be busy. I hope you all have many blessings in 2025.

[@vivianrowan9587]

Here in SE Kansas, we don't get the snows like we did in the late 70's & 80's, but for sure we cleaned off the shelves when they foecasted snow! On winter we were snowed in at the farm for a week or more. The kids loved it until the milk started getting low! Their Dad actually got out big tractor stuck in the road trying to make tracks so we could get out! Also, what I understand about washing cast iron is that it USED to be true you couldn't put soap on them but that was when their soap had lye in it but it's safe now. I do wash mine with soap.

[@ramonalisa8546]

Brooke, im so sorry for their rude comment. I had same said to me by a visiting nurse & that was the last time she was allowed to come back

[@alisonlightner866]

Lol, come 9 pm I'm going to bed. The only thing that will wake me up is the darn fireworks. God bless you and Happy New Year.

[@cindyesposito5884]

I lived in CT til I was 55, and at the 1st mention of snow everyone rushed to the store and bought milk, bread, eggs and toilet paper!

[@sfviris5582]

Love you, Brooke. ❤ Happy new year!

[@pamelacrowell2007]

🤣🤣🤣 Maybe if I lost weight, I wouldn't be so hot natured!!!! Oh, wait, I've been hot most of my life even when I was skinny!🤣🤣🤣 At 71, I'm battling my weight and just a change in medication can cause fluctuations in weight and hot/cold body temperatures. Brooke, you are beautiful and I love your attitude about mean people!

[@LindaHollister]

The same here. These people need to mind her own business😡😡😡😡.

[@Sheila-id7ym]

Happy New Year to Cog Hill. I hope 2025 brings nothing but good.

[@lovespurpleflowers]

Keep praying for the return of Sweet Sadie, I am so hoping that she returns home!😢 P.S. Happy New Year dear ones, I just finished a cup of coffee next to the fire, so cozy!

[@pjb5618]

Have a wonderful and BLESSED 2025 ❤❤❤

[@anniedozier1963]

Happy Holidays and Happy New years..❤Cog Hill Farm ❤❤

[@elainedegoede6276]

Happy New Year to everyone, praying for God's grace and God blessing to you all. 🎉❤️🙏

[@LindaHollister]

I stay up late, late now. Just about every night. Try to get up by 10, 10:30😂😂. I love listening to you all. You both are so funny😂😅😂😅. Popcorn😂🎉🎉. Yes, untin 4:00 am.

[@trem5931]

Ya'll are truly good people. Enjoy every video and live...

[@zannaB60]

I grew up in Iowa, and I remember there being a run on Rock salt, or any salt to help melt the ice and snow and make the sidewalks safer. The second thing they went for was shovels.

[@Tinkergrumpybuns]

I grew up on sauerkraut. My Nana ‘s family was from Germany. She would make a Sunday dinner of roast pork with sauerkraut that simmered on the kerosene heater in the kitchen. She cut up a potato and tossed in, added caraway seeds and home crispy bits from the roast as it cooked. I would be sneaking forkfuls . lol.

[@PoorMansHomesteadCanadaBC1961]

I use lard to season my cast iron frying pans and my cast iron frying pans never get washed in soapy water anymore they only get wrenched out with hot water and I haven't had a problem with anything sticking to them ever since I stopped washing my cast irons and soapy water😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁😁

[@beazersbaby]

We have always used lard, my Mom and Gran did as well.... Shannon in Virginia ❤❤

[@angelasheppard7197]

Amen Brooke. ❤ I'm with you. I was told once, in front of my teenage son, 'you have such a pretty face why don't you lose weight?' I had to stop my son from jumping that person. Just talking about it brings up emotion. I'm on meds that makes it hard to lose.😢

[@lynno7725]

Happy new year Cog Hill Family Farm & the lovely Cog Squad!!! May you have a blessed 2025!!!❤

[@sandydixon9020]

Happy New Years have a wonderful one! ❤️🎉❤️

[@beck42071]

I lived up by Chicago until I was 35. I never had to run to the store if bad weather was forecast. My momma taught us all to keep our pantry well stocked starting in October. We were also taught to keep no less than 24 rolls of toilet paper at all times. lol

[@missierasmussen8061]

What a great couple you both are and we are blessed to have you in our lives! Happy new year to you and everyone of the beating hearts you love.

[@bernicebrown2527]

Happy New Year Jason, Brooke and MaryCarl and your Mom!

[@robinfolse5068]

Ohhhh I’m livid someone said that to you Brooke. I have multiple autoimmune disorders and you AMAZE me because I’ do not see how you do what all you do.

[@wandaarganbright4056]

My family, on both sides, are predominantly German. My Granny had a permanent hole dug in the back yard for her Kraut Crock. When we made Kraut (we shredded the cabbage) and covered the crock with burlap and buried it for 3 months in the fall. Authentic German Sauerkraut! I have her 3 gallon crock and my Granddad's 16 inch hog knife for butchering hogs. I have lots of my Grandparents old manual items, cast iron included.

[@CogHillFarm]

Awesome!!!

[@williamleopold507]

We love watching your videos every time they are on . We wish you all health and happiness in 2025 . God Bless you all.

[@melaniemonti8115]

Brooke, there is a dairy farm in Chelsea called Sweet Magnolia Farms and I have been buying raw, grass-fed milk from them and making my own yogurt. It is wonderful!

[@tfisher67]

I seasoned my new cast iron from Lodge with Avacado oil but keep it seasoned with bacon grease. I also clean with just hot water and chainmail when needed. Dry immediately and if I have time, I'll dry it in a 425 oven. Once completely dry, I'll wipe it down with a very small amt of bacon grease while the pan is still warm. This is just my experience, but it has served me very well. I saw Jessica Sowards use soap on a used pan she had that was rusted real bad but after that, she doesn't use soap. Just FYI. Happy New Year everybody!

[@karenbarnes5517]

My Daughter - in -Law and myself has had Flu A-B pneumonia and Covid rolled into one package ! We both have been sick it took month but I think we’re both going to make it! Both being nurses doesn’t help any … ! At least we didn’t get put into hospital, we did everything at home … shots Iv’s medication etc…..we doctored each other with help from great medical staff we sure love !!!

[@3_3645]

Probably safer to not be in a hospital, can't rest there either

[@Kathleensailorgirl]

Happy Blessed NewYear 🎉🎉🙏🕊🕊🕊🥰

[@harriettejohnson8569]

I’m with you on the organic milk! I can’t figure it out either but it’s more cost effective for my family of two to pay $6 for a half gallon that doesn’t sour before we can use it than to have to pour it down the sink. Happy New Year Cog Hill! Love yall 🎉

[@fondadeen1164]

Thank you for the temp and time

[@glendafreeman423]

Happy & Healthy New Year! Much Love!

[@lindabowers7390]

HAPPY NEW YEAR JASON, BROOKE AND FAMILY.

[@janisstasiak544]

Us too Michael! Out by 11 pm!🤗💕

[@KarenMerleBDunn]

Happy New Year to y'all ! I watched this on replay, and it's 11:49 pm now, so yes, I'm up for the New Year to begin !🎉🎉🎉

[@BeckyLitster]

You all work so hard I enjoy watching from Utah 😊

[@KathrynRice-tz9dn]

Brroke, We had a sizable bog nearby when I grew up. There was a hill there wherein we were able to slide the hill, get going fast and the skid across. If we did it in what we called them flying saucers. Any how, down the hill we flew, skidded across spinning all the way and go into a snow bank on the other side. It was so much fun. I'd set out to ice skate, then , skates and all, flying down the hill. I staggered home to my momma, only to be stripped a d put in a tepid water. If you go in hotter water it's not good. Can't go from ice cold to hot. Love all y'all. Your friend, the chicken farmer's granddaughter. 🐓🐔🐣🐤

[@karenbarnes5517]

Happiest New Year 2025 to CogHill and your family 🎉

[@kathygirlygirl4109]

HAPPY NEW YEAR JASON, BROOKE, MARYCARL AND MARYLOU!!!!!🥳🎉🎆💃🕺🥳🎉🎇💃🕺

[@mandyevans8153]

Happy new year from England 🇬🇧 xx

[@wendirobinson6853]

God bless you all for many years to come, Happy New Year to your family from ours.

[@karenbarnes5517]

I have one of those , and a corn stick and muffin pan. I have all of both grandparents cast iron pieces.

[@leann4925]

HAPPY NEW YEAR and want to say thank you for a joyous fun year. I had Jack in the Box tacos as did not want to cook. Much Love Leann

[@Fred_Bender]

I have friends who are in to Dutch Oven cooking .They attend "Dutch Oven Gatherings" where people show off there skills with Dutch Oven cooking .They cook everything with cast iron .

[@garyjinontariony]

Happy new year, just see it is 11.39pm eve, was wanting to get to sleep by 10.00pm night kids, nice dutch oven. God Bless

[@christinecasaccia2994]

Brooke, you are beautiful inside in out! I love watching your videos. I laugh, I learn, and I appreciate just how loving to all your animals. ❤

[@ooshybermi8310]

Happy New Year 🥂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥂 All the very best for 2025 🥳🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥳

[@annettebeavers7866]

Happy New Year. Hope you all will have a great year 2025❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@LydiaUtsinger]

Happy New Years Eve !❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@doelke9542]

Happy New Year from PEI, Canada

[@PamHunsinger-xu2fg]

What kind of hateful person would say something like that to you? I hope you blocked them because you certainly are one of the nicest people EVER! I am shocked to my core that someone could be so small-minded and mean? I could never asy something like that to anyone, unless they were being mean to a friend. THEN all bets are off and I can out-mean most people in that case. My motto is "What comes around, goes around" which is very true. Karma is spelled "HAHAHAHAHA". I would love to get your recipe for the Greek Chicken. I heard that Hoppin' John is the thing to eat on New Year's Day. I need to try the sauerkraut recipe, but I need to get the tops for the jars. Don't listen to hateful people. You and Jason are truly two of THE nicest people ever!

[@rohashimoto2774]

Happy New Year. We're having Japanese noodles for New Year's Eve and sushi tomorrow if I get up early enough.

[@pamstarr6570]

Happy New year Eve and happy new year day to you both and Mary carl😊😊😊❤❤❤❤

[@reneeallison2396]

Happy New Year blessings to the Smith family. ❤

[@Patricia-l2o9p]

Happy New Year to your family and the babies………….😊❤️ Have a great evening……….

[@debbieselland6591]

My Dad was a dairy farmer for 40 plus years and when they had company, when it got to be his bedtime he would say, " You all are welcome to stay as long as you want but I going to bed" Mom always stayed up until the last quest way gone. She also got up the same time he did at 4:00 a.m. to start milking! I sure miss Dad and those days.

[@debrasteffy7879]

Happy New Year everyone!

[@eileensien514]

Idiots abound everywhere. Some of us, however, were taught by family or friends to have a properly stocked pantry and how to bake. - Always have dry powdered milk in the pantry (it's basically freeze-dried milk). Un-opened pouches of dry powdered milk are shelf-stable for years! Plus, you can mix with water to one's preferred thinness or thickness. - Always have bread flour stored in air-tight containers (yeast in the freezer is a bonus) ... so you can bake bread (for cheaper than at the store - with the added benefit of warming the house in the process in the winter). - Always have boxes of plain dried potato flakes (they're freeze-dried blanched shredded potatoes) in the pantry - not only for making mashed potatoes in a pinch, but for thickening soups & stews, as well as for adding to the bread dough. - Always have peanut butter in the pantry. - Always have canned veggies in the pantry. - Always have dried beans stored in air-tight containers in the pantry.