Don't Do THIS On Your Homestead In 2024! Please!

[@barbarasingleton6756]

Right now even though I'm stuck in the burbs, I have every possible spot I can garden in use. And even though there maybe circumstances where people can't up and go right yet, I do feel that one can start the basics right where they are. Even in an apartment. Start building skills now so you're ready on a bigger scale. I love watching your videos. You have a great talent for spreading the urgency without the fear mongering and that is an amazing talent!!!!

[@CountryLivingExperience]

Awesome. Do what you can where you are.

[@robertselvig8835]

Our life is so much better with our garden, solar, fermenting thanking GOD for people like you. I say be consistent do something every day and bit by bit you will see a difference. Thank you Eric.

[@CountryLivingExperience]

Amen! You're welcome.

[@meljordan220]

There's not much time left. Do not stop. He is right!

[@lisahill7728]

Thank you for all your honest videos and sharing your thoughts and heart. May you have a blessed 2024.

[@CountryLivingExperience]

You're very welcome.

[@Jacksk2992]

Thank you for your heart for others!

[@missdes8775]

I love that you’re a follower of Christ! ❤I needed to hear this message today. Thank you!

[@CountryLivingExperience]

Amen! Glad it was helpful.

[@Garcia19960]

Amen brother! God bless you

[@sajjad3]

Thank you for your heart for others

[@alexremen3058]

Thank you brother, God bless you 🙏 🙌

[@CountryLivingExperience]

God bless you too!

[@takeitslowhomestead5218]

Thanks for your encouragement. You’re doing a good work.

[@CountryLivingExperience]

You're welcome

[@imnguyen6658]

Thank you for the words of encouragement and motivation!!

[@CountryLivingExperience]

You're welcome

[@bobcole3852]

Well said, I hope the right people listen...

[@CountryLivingExperience]

Thanks. I sure hope so.

[@ashleehouse5204]

Thank you for the encouragement.

[@CountryLivingExperience]

You’re welcome

[@agapefield]

😢praying for Colby!

[@dellcooper2796]

We are out in the country, but not as far out as we were 47 years ago when we bought this 10 acres. This 3 mile road had 7 houses on it, now there's more than 50. In the 52 years we've been married we've never lived in a town. But we've only been "homesteady" off and on. We've usually raised our own meat and had a garden. The motivation comes and goes. As we are aging it's getting harder and harder to to do the heavy lifting required. One of our sons and his wife and young son moved a large trailer in and have been lots of help, my husband was made a paraplegic 16 years ago. He still gardens a does a lot around here. We will keep on keepingon as long as we are able. Thank you for the inspiration and motivation you give us!

[@CountryLivingExperience]

So glad you had family move in with you. That will be a big help for sure.

[@LaTrompetadeDios7]

Amen, i love your advice. Keep up the good work. We need a voice like yours in this crazy world of wickedness.

[@CountryLivingExperience]

Thank you. Will do.

[@mulenga1222]

Thank you for the encouragement, i follow and watch your channel and it's really a blessing 🙏🏿 i just moved into the country and i watched your video on how to grow strawberries and they are coming up well. Thank you. I am learning a lot from Zambia

[@CountryLivingExperience]

You're very welcome. Glad it was a blessing. We have good friends at Church who are from Zambia.

[@mulenga1222]

🙏🏿 i am 3 months old in the country, and trying to plant different things then a friend of mine said check this channel on how to plant and manage strawberries then he told me , i think he is an adventist. I quickly subscribed and now i am blessed. I am also learning how to fees and protect the soil. I am facing challenges with fruit trees like oranges and tangerins they are not doing so well compared to mangoes and avocados. I planted 3 months ago and i have added a bit of vege fertilizer and chicken and goat manure

[@mulenga1222]

Praise God for church friends😊

[@CountryLivingExperience]

Amen! I have had challenges with certain fruit trees in my area. I just transition to different types of trees that grow well instead of trying to grow the difficult ones. I have given up on apples but am now planting more figs. God will show you sister.

[@davidwelty9763]

I completely agree with this. It was not until year 3 that things started working well on my property.

[@whinged]

Wonderful message sir Erick...Happy New Year to you and family

[@CountryLivingExperience]

Thanks. Happy New Year.

[@stephmoore22]

Something I’ve been praying on is the fact we financially can’t move right now. I would like to give people hope who are in our same situation. I know this is where God wants us right now. It may never be a homestead. I have to find a way to work with what we have. I got off all social media (except a little bit of KZbin) and have been creating community in my neighborhood, church and in our homeschool groups. We have 4 families on our street that we invited over for a cookie exchange during Christmas, we are branching off of our coop with more like minded families and our church has a community garden so we are taking a row there. We also have a garden and chickens in our backyard. We are doing what we can for now. This world is getting crazier, and we all need to be doing what we can now. It’s the little things. I also am learning from those who fail so I feel like possibly we will be more equipped if we ever do get homestead. We will go where God leads us. In Jesus name, amen. ❤

[@CountryLivingExperience]

Amen. Great that you are creating community. That is very important. God will guide.

[@timcastle6996]

No sir. We love our life now. I couldnt imagine going back. I dont need things, i need peace. Work, and family that is safe.

[@CountryLivingExperience]

Cool

[@timcastle6996]

I am however a little discouraged about rain water containment. We went to our amish touwn who quoted a 530gal tank only to find out it went from 480.00 to 870.00 not sure how to secure water

[@katiebradford9751]

The summer of 2023 in Texas was so discouraging and quite honestly trying to recover from the losses and discouragement it brought forth. Hoping the small break this winter will give me the time needed to be ready for the challenges ahead for this growing season. Praying for a better weather year, we sure need it. Good video, great timing!

[@CountryLivingExperience]

Keep it up Katie. You can do it!

[@doubles1545]

I feel you. I’m next door in New Mexico and I had a terrible garden year. Plus, 6 of the 10 fruit trees I planted last spring died in the heat. But it’s a new year, so let’s get geared up to try again!

[@krystlehammond1447]

I was ready to call the garden a no-go this year. Darn crab grass. Just need to get back to it

[@CountryLivingExperience]

The weeds have hammered us this year too. You have a lot more little helpers around the house than I do.....;-)

[@derecklhood]

Amen! Thank you for the encouragement but most of all thank you for giving the living hope of Jesus Christ! Keep it up, brother!

[@CountryLivingExperience]

You're welcome.

[@happy2cya70]

A wonderful message! Thank you so much! We live in a neighborhood with only 1/3 acre but we are making the best of it! We have planted fruit trees, have veggie beds and have built outdoor cooking areas for grid down times. My husband and I are both physically challenged now and do the best we can. We would love to buy a little piece of land somewhere (preferably with established fruit/nut trees), but honestly at this stage of our lives, even just moving is overwhelming. Maybe we could buy something for a bugout location and a place to practice with our fire arms.

[@CountryLivingExperience]

You're welcome. A good bugout location with fruit trees is good. Make sure you lrean some survival skills in the place you are at now.

[@dmark6699]

Very Good video. Trying to locate property out of the state of Washington. The people of Israel took a desert and made a homestead, takes work but doable.

[@CountryLivingExperience]

Absolutely doable! Hope you find that property soon.

[@straighttruthstudios]

Great video brother!

[@CountryLivingExperience]

Thank you.

[@traviseurbin9729]

Thank you for your videos. We have been trying to figure out what we are going to do in our home/Homestead. We haven’t really set anything up for Homestead, except that we have planted a bunch of trees and established some gardens which need to be fixed. I keep wanting to move because we have a Mortgage. We have plenty of equity, so I keep thinking that we could take our equity and start over without a mortgage but as you said, it’s hard to reestablish everything. we have almost 100 fruit trees and over 100 berry bushes as well as asparagus and beautiful flowers we have planted. I appreciate you sharing your Christianity as we are Christians also and we recognize the signs of the times. We are running out of prophecies to fulfill.🙄… keep the faith and thanks again for sharing on your channel

[@IHGChick]

Be aware that though you seemingly have great equity in your place now, so does everyone else so to buy something different would really cost you. It's all a wash. Speaking of wash, I am given to understand it's to be another incredible flood.

[@CountryLivingExperience]

You're welcome. You may want to try to take that equity now because of the extreme slowdown in the real estate market. But, 100 fruit trees is amazing.....that would keep me in place since they take so long to develop.

[@CountryLivingExperience]

@ironwinged1 The Bible lets us know that God will never use water to cleanse the Earth again. The next time He cleanses it, He will cleanse it with fire.

[@soggyb4082]

I’ve seen a lot of the people that move to the country can’t think about what they need, they spend more time running back and forth to town everyday or 2, also hitting that drive thru. Once a week to town is pretty much what is easier to do once you get in the grove of things with a list.

[@CountryLivingExperience]

Once a week for us still.

[@jesstellsya]

Hey there! I feel like a video like this can put you at risk for attack, though at this point, I haven’t seen anything like that, so you must have a great community here! I’m new here 👋 I have some experience living on a small hobby farmstead (big ol’ garden, around 30 chickens) on 6 acres. Now, I live in the city, and we have a good amount of space for a good sized garden of our own. As Roots and Refuge puts it, this is our waiting room acting as a classroom. Recently, my husband and I were expecting our 5th baby, but he passed away in utero at around 14 weeks along. This was so devastating for us. He was finally born very recently, and for some reason, in my grief, I’ve never wanted this dream of acreage and a small homestead so badly… and my husband expressed similar feelings. We’re trying to balance paying of debt, saving money, and making it home suitable for resell. That’s going to mean lots of side work for my husband, finding ways to minimize buying on my part, and maybe me finding a way to make money from home. My husband is also in the Air reserves, and he gets word on all kinds of news. He says he thinks it’s important to get us out to the country sooner than later and often second guesses moving us to the city for his job. Our other goal is to bring him home somehow. We’re still figuring that one out, and it’s a goal got after the other goals. God is good, and He makes all things beautiful if you let Him. He has in our lives, even if we’ve made mistakes, or bad things have happened to us…

[@CountryLivingExperience]

Thank you for letting me know. We have a good community here but there are some that get a little rowdy from time to time. I have developed thick skin but I can always ban them from the channel so they can't comment anymore (if using profanity, etc.). God is good. He will provide for you.

[@meljordan220]

We are to know the signs of the times. We may not know the day, we may not know the hour, but we are to study so we can see it coming so it does not take us as a thief in the night. " We are not children of darkness but of the light and of the day " in other words we're supposed to see it coming and we're supposed to recognize what's going on and not just go blindly through life with our eyes closed not looking. We are told to watch and pray. Pray it does not come in the winter and pray it does not come on the Sabbath day

[@CountryLivingExperience]

Amen and Amen!

[@peacetruth3074]

Thank you for the encouragement brother. My husband and I are also Christians and don't know what we would do without our faith in Jesus to get us through the tough times and give us peace about our existence in this difficult world.

[@CountryLivingExperience]

Amen. You're welcome.

[@Jophiel50]

You really are the coolest 😎😇😎. I appreciate you being so true. ♾💎✨

[@CountryLivingExperience]

I appreciate that. Thanks

[@timcastle6996]

Love the moringa tree behind you. Does it do well in the greenhouse?

[@CountryLivingExperience]

Thanks. Yes, it does great in our greenhouse.

[@israelashworth]

I have lived in the country here in South West virginia all my life....I am beginning to look more into off grid solar and greenhouse....almost at that point to get it done....BUT.. I believe people try and copy others instead of using other people's knowledge to make their own plan. I'm a Christian also, but I'm not perfect yet. God is my guide through the Holy Spirit in Jesus' name, Amen.

[@CountryLivingExperience]

Amen. Keep moving forward.

[@beebop9808]

Funny this homesteading thing. Back in the 60's when I was growing up we ran the farm to survive. Weren't nothing special, it was just how it was. Fast forward to today. No more farm, live on the edge of the burbs. Worked in the big cities all over the eastern half of the US mostly but never cared anything about living in any city. Forced into early retirement by a couple of years. Lived through gall stones, lung surgery for bacterial infection, HEP-C, type II diabetes and lastly cancer. All is good that I'm aware of today. Momma's prayers answered from all those years ago I'm sure. Not sure I'm so deserving myself. But the place is paid off, car's paid for. No loans and hope to be yanking out the power companies meter in about 3 to 4 months when I finish my solar and get it tested well enough. As for Jesus coming back for a visit and the world going to pot. Yup and yup. It's about to get nasty no matter what's coming sooner or later. Folks best get ready for it now. I'm 60 years old trying to keep at least one foot out of the grave. Don't spend much time thinking about Jesus dropping in. One way or another, time is a whole lot shorter for me than it has been. Far as I'm concerned he could put his foot on the gas a little bit! Ready to go home myself! But in the mean time you do what you gotta do. God bless you brother! One way or another it's all gonna get better one day. We just gotta weather the storms ahead of us and believe.

[@CountryLivingExperience]

Glad you are doing better and that you have everything paid off. God bless you as well.

[@samuraioodon]

I’ve been talking to my wife for over a year about it. She’s not a country girl 😅I’m having a hard time convincing her because of the ease of convenience. Maybe in another lifetime?

[@CountryLivingExperience]

I hope you are able to do it.

[@michellerenee1976]

Praise Jesus! 💖🙏🏻

[@lindaholmes6411]

❤❤❤

[@daisyprincess2415]

My corn crops are turning yellow in this winter please help !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@CountryLivingExperience]

They usually don't grow in the winter unless you are in a tropical climate.

[@daisyprincess2415]

@@CountryLivingExperience wish i could do something

[@Doc1855]

Invest in gold.

[@gordonw9208]

Man, I am still subscribed to your channel because you do have good content. But I've noticed I stopped watching your videos at some point and I think its because of your clickbait thumbnails and titles. Personally I don't think its help8ng your view count. The target audience you are going for probably appreciate titles that actually have something to do with what your videos are about. IMO the era of clickbait is over, people know what it is and value transparency. What you do is your thing, I will stay subscribed, but just wanted to give you some constructive criticisms. Happy new year!

[@CountryLivingExperience]

I appreciate constructive criticism. However, understanding KZbin and how the algorithm works is a long complicated process of which I have invested a lot of time in. My views and subs have only increased as I have modified titles and thumbnails. That said, the quality of what I say in the videos has not diminished. I can see how certain thumbnails perform on the back end and this one is performing exceptionally well. Was the quality of the information in the video any less than normal? Happy new year.

[@gordonw9208]

Your content is good, if it wasn't i wouldn't have bothered commenting what i did. I appreciate your response and see where you are coming from. I suppse if I was uploading videos I would probably be doing the same. God bless!

[@CountryLivingExperience]

Thanks. I appreciate the conversation. God bless you as well.

[@chrishall5141]

I was with you up until you tried to claim that the world‘s coming to an end and it’s obvious. Don’t you know that we’re naturally selfish because we see things through our own eyes. We are so self-employed that the world must be ending while we are alive. Every generation in history has had groups of people say that, and the only thing they all have in common is every single one of them have been wrong.

[@CountryLivingExperience]

I can only warn you and pray you listen. You make the choice.