It All Happened So Fast

What started out as a pretty relaxed day working in the garden turned into a busy day of food sustainability prep.
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[@beekind4141]

My favorite part of the video is when we get to see the Family all together enjoying your time together.

[@barbludy]

Loved that piece of music while you were building that first bed!

[@joolzmac1]

I love how your garden bed boxes are “off the land” from dead fall trees, helping clear your land and save money on materials. 🌿🌱🍃

[@opalvalentine3330]

I just warms my heart to see a family pray before their meal keep up the wonderful work

[@heatherd.9390]

It is always, ALWAYS a good day when I see The Hollar Homestead has uploaded. Thanks for sharing a snippet of your lives with us. Your family is absolutely lovely. Those garden beds are wonderful. I love that you repurposed wood from your timber on the land. You will get a lot of use from those beds and they look so amazing. I love the fact that you left the raw edge, btw. Take care, Heather🇨🇦

[@BostonRocks76_Carmen]

"Our Baby's broken". LOL What a great video. Kids helping out and family working together, praying together, sitting down at the dinner table eating together. Now THAT'S THE LIFE!!!!! God Bless! Carmen

[@francescam9539]

That dinner bell brought me back to my childhood. Our next door neighbor’s mother rang a dinner bell and every kid for two blocks knew it was time to hightail it back home.

[@justanotheryummymumm]

Ben would love to see you build a rustic dining table! Like if you agree

[@JerryB507]

I was thinking the same thing. It's spring so not anytime soon. Ben needs to pick out some good solid wood and save it for this winter to build Meg a real dinner table.

[@TheLeisamarie]

Spring in the Carolinas, nothing could be finer!

[@reggiebuffat]

Spring in Minnesota is the best time of the year.

[@elmerfudpucker3204]

Amen to that!

[@dianeholder1316]

We have had a hail storm yesterday and today in Randolph county, NC.

[@chrishoneycutt9839]

Hey I don’t know much about spring in the Carolinas but I’ve heard there are a lot of Honeycutt’s in North Carolina that is my last name and I would be interested to see if there is any relation to me I know that’s kind of random but it was on my mind

[@chrishoneycutt9839]

I’m actually in the Ozarks of Northwest Arkansas and Southwest Missouri it’s pretty close in terrain and landscape it’s beautiful lots of streams rivers creeks and lakes it’s awesome where I live reminds me a lot of the Appalachian mountains

[@thehamlinwoodshop]

Great video. I enjoyed watching every minute - baby chicks, gardening, grilling the steak, family time. Thank you for sharing!!!!

[@brettsteele7386]

I love the dinner bell. When I saw that I got teary-eyed. Very wholesome and humbling. If only more families were like yours there would be fewer problems in the world. I loved it. God bless you all. With love.

[@cheongyei]

It's staged. The bell, and everything else.

[@cherylcallahan5402]

🌻The Hollar Homestead 🌻appreciate your commentary🌟 Listening from Mass USA🌟 Hello everyone on UTube

[@aprilweber7287]

Love seeing "A Day in the Life" type videos! Lovely family!

[@allonesame6467]

Buggy's talking! And the young gentlemen are growing strong! Blessings Abound.

[@lindakurtz2653]

Red sky at night, sailors delight! Tomorrow should be a pretty day!

[@ilndgirl478]

Always good to see families pray together and give God the glory

[@beerooted8550]

Love to see you all praying at the dinner table together... Beautiful family

[@monikachaffey]

Love the sounds of all the birds chirping, so beautiful, hello Spring 🐦🦢🐥

[@kathousel]

I have never been first to view a vlog...I feel so special....and it is all about me, you know.

[@TheHollarHomestead]

😂😂 Congrats! Lol!

[@dicknijenhuis9894]

I like coming in after 15 minutes so I can read the comments.

[@erin2535]

Haha congrats Kathie, you pioneer!!! 👍👍👍 but the comments r fun to read too, reminds us all about the community that we're all part of. At some level. I'm in Australia so I'm usually asleep when things r released hahaha.

[@sandypittman8182]

Isn’t it great to have those kind of peaceful but actually hard working days. It is like a sweet peace that comes over you and look back at the day with a smile and will remember it for quite awhile. Lol, sweet people.

[@Bex-rg8pj]

I’ve been following you kids since California. Keep up the good work 🥰

[@sonyagregory5711]

I bet your neighbors love Friday night bbq. It must smell heavenly for miles around! I love the rustic look of the garden beds. They are beautiful! Carolina sunsets take your breath away!😁❤🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷🌼🌷

[@carlacunningham4006]

Love watching your family sitting around the table.... such a blessing.

[@janicewilliams2194]

Gardening, Family and Good Eats together at the end of day beats everything. Nothing better than knowing "FAMILY MATTERS"

[@ChristinaMoore79]

I know this video is three years old, but I am loving how you are using materials from your own land to build the garden beds.

[@susanbaker8130]

So great that you enjoy your homesteading and appreciate everything like the first warm day and a gorgeous sunset. Happy planting and growing season: kids, pigs, chicks, fruits and veggies!

[@chelemichele1524]

Foooodddd they come a running.. Have a good evening ❄❄❄

[@kimcritchley8231]

Ben, just an idea, look for a local horse farmer willing to dump manure at your place, maybe just pay him for his fuel/time. Find the right spot on your property and start having it dumped

[@heidibartle2241]

We pick up year old horse manure and she charges us $2 a pickup truck load and she dumps it into our bed for us

[@lyndabuchholz1216]

We got old horse manure and it turned out that that horse rancher sprayed the fields the horses grazed in and all that manure was poisoned and killed my total garden so be careful about that.

[@dicknijenhuis9894]

The boys might not be so eager to roll around in it either.

[@ardenpeters4386]

but COMPOST IT.. OR you'll have grasses in your beds!! most horses out here eat bermuda.... ugh

[@bradpolmateer4266]

So true I know several people that board horses that are begging for you to take it lol

[@nancycaffee6192]

Glad to see you have a working vehicle again.

[@chrisderouchey1491]

Buggy is just the cutest little thing! And it sure was satisfying watching you dig and seeing the garden boxes sink down and level out in fast motion!

[@TXNLaurenMcN]

Chris DeRouchey ~ I KNOW, right? So far, your is the only other comment I've come across that highlighted that. That was fun to watch!

[@Lucky_5090]

Buggy is Adorable 💕

[@batpherlangkharkrang7976]

Hi..... Meg and Ben nice to see you, thank you for sharing your video homestead 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 🎥👍👍👍

[@danielafurlan322]

Full day and busy day at Homestead.....Enjoy your weekend.

[@BiterAvid]

There is a guy in Texas at a farm animal rescue sanctuary ("Imma Survivor Sanctuary"). He just does animals, no crop/no garden and he (Lester) has tons of "soiled hay" is what he calls it from cleaning up after all the wonderful animals that he has rescued. Well, he pushes it all into a pile and sets it on fire. Every time he does it, I just cringe because I know all my homesteaders are constantly working hard to eek out as much compost as they can get. I left him a comment to offer his "soiled hay" to any homesteaders nearby. I know that many of them would even come and pick it up if he was unable to drop it off. He is a school teacher and the middle school bus driver and a coach for at least one sport at the high school and then he takes care of 4 horses, 4 donkeys, 15 to 20 goats, 5 pigs (2 pot bellies and 2 wild boars) 2 alpacas, 3 long horn cattle, 1 jersey steer, a bunch of chickens, ducks and geese. He takes nothing from the animals. All he does he give to them. They are all spoiled rotten. It is amazing to see them arrive frightened, scarred, wounded, skeletal, unable to walk, and very rapidly they are another spoiled member of his two pasteurs of survivors (The Bigs and The Littles). He is a saint. But I was thinking, some sort of organization similar to Imma Survivor, maybe you can contact them in your area. I bet there are people nearby with perfect composting material who just consider it a big hassle.

[@nursesheris8777]

I got a bunch of composted horse manure from a local horse rescue... they push it into a pile in the pasture and dump bedding from the barn in there I am allowed to take as much as I can... they asked nothing in return, but I purchased round bale for the horses to eat over the winter each winter as a thank you perhaps there is a horse rescue nearby you can take your farm truck and fill ‘er up!!

[@knitvids]

Those garden beds look sooo good. You have the best family, love seeing you work together, pray together and enjoy your meals. God bless yall.

[@edwinenekwogu3655]

A very hard working family. Prayer is everything. Keep it up!

[@vickilee2185]

The family ALL looked happy with the steaks. Yes indeed spring is here and summer is following.

[@peaceoutlisar9500]

A perfect day. Buggie is so cute!❤ I can't enough of her. Love the way she looks at her brothers.

[@carolwengel4640]

A beautiful sunset and a beautiful family! God sure has blessed y'all! Hugs all around! 🙏💗🌱🙏

[@ronhart8857]

Excellent job Ben on the raised beds for the garden! You, & Megan have done a wonderful job having a beautiful homestead for your children to grow up in and learn how to survive growing your own foods! Love you guy’s , be safe, stay healthy, God Bless everyone!

[@gloriahohman2790]

Y'all are so busy, but what a beautiful life you have choosen. A lot of work but it is so worth it.

[@dorisgreenberg2811]

Oh memories! I used to call the kids in for supper by ringing an old cow bell they found in the pasture. Loved it!

[@patriciahusk3428]

Love how your garden area is progressing😘!! Little Buggy is growing so fast and will be walking soon....she’s gonna be running after her big brothers🥰!!

[@alicehoneycutt8600]

That beautiful baby is growing way to fast she will be walking by the end of summer

[@marylouise890]

👶 Cherish every moment 👶

[@armidaperez5360]

That was adorable the baby looking at chicks☺️

[@brentolsenthanksformaking2528]

God bless you and care for all your house hold

[@anna7118]

I babysat my nephew who just recently turned 13 when he was a tiny baby and he loved being outside even then...the only way I was able to settle his fussiness was to bundle him up and take him outside. Now he spends most of the summer working on their farm driving tractors -replacing one hired person during their harvest season.

[@flyingpigpreserve8562]

The Red Sky and Spring Peepers. Nothing more soothing. Buggie is happy and says her part. Too Cute. Loved when you said I bet 5 minutes and your son came out of nowhere ran right to the top lol. Dinner looked good. Happy Healthy Productive Family. God Bless and Peace Be With You All

[@archaprice3372]

It makes me joyful to see you pray before eating!

[@denisewilson8367]

I love the "a day in our life" type videos. Looks like everyone built up an appetite too. Sure looked good.

[@marysouthern548]

Saw a post on FB today about people hanging feather dusters above their chicks! The chicks snuggled together under them like they would their mother! Makes for happier chicks!

[@ronrhoades8594]

there is so much goodness with all of your family. The well balance with Ben and such is a warms of hearts

[@RoseLawrence765]

Beautiful family dinner & quality time and to top it off a beautiful sunset🥳🦋🎈

[@radarnj8043]

You got your Revere ware! Grew up on them and have them still at 67 years young!

[@bethmcmillen1064]

I love raised bed gardening

[@zinnialady5153]

Sunset beautiful, love hearing the peepers

[@joansiebens5206]

That rain storm would be "A gulley washer".

[@TXNLaurenMcN]

Joan Siebens ~ I love it! Heard often in Texas, also known as a frog-strangler! lol

[@ardenpeters4386]

love those busy fun days!

[@pattyprice2644]

Beautiful sunset for beautiful people

[@MKCarol-ms7lg]

Never thought about the similarity between chickens and kids but it is true. Buggy is so cute.

[@estellaknox4488]

Spring is here looking good with the garden have a great weekend God Bless

[@emmadalrymple4102]

Those raised beds look great! A very busy day for your homesteaders.

[@bjenuine]

Beautiful day.

[@beetee3272]

Lovely witnessing your AWESOME day 😊 Worked on your garden project, provided future food for your family but still took the time to enjoy the beauty, blessings & each other!

[@pamalapeterson5352]

Y’all are getting the rain we are getting!....we had thunder and lightning too, loud and scary....thank you for sharing your adventure together with me!......I enjoy all you do mainly cause I am 73 and am not even able to work hard anymore!....God bless y’all abundantly and stay safe and healthy!

[@marionward5958]

At 71 I agree with you. I could almost smell and taste that bbq.

[@evalinawarne1337]

I am 67 and can't do much either. It went to FAST. GOD BLESS YOU PAMALA. Marion too. From S.E.MICHIGAN. CHOW💖🀄🀄🀄💖🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹💖💖💖💖💖

[@Zeke-yv3nw]

So glad yall are doing well and getting ready to garden. Buggy is so precious.

[@brigittemadrid3739]

I love that you have Jess's boom out there with you and buggy!

[@PlowAndPantryHomestead]

You were smart to get out of the sun! I'm in East Tn and we have similar weather. It was so nice Friday and I was getting all the outdoor things done! Didn't realize until much later that night that I had gotten a sun burn. 😬. And yet, next week we might get snow. In April. Seriously?! Enjoy the life, y'all!

[@janetshepherd7183]

I used to live in Seymour TN and one April we had 18 in of snow! We cooked in our fireplace. That was around 1986 or 87. Good memories!

[@nancybrown9469]

Nothing like a Carolina sunset and sunrise.

[@luannroop1338]

Just love this precious family! Thanks for sharing!

[@mgtmoffat8411]

Spring is such a season of promise. Great video, love watching it all take shape.🌻🌻🌻🌻💞💞💞

[@teresahyneman4349]

Hello Hollar Homestead, love your homestead! Your videos are so good and informative, good job!

[@Mallikkah]

Wow!! The boys have grown right before our eyes. I see teens at the dinner table now. Your family is flourishing which is beautiful to see.

[@stacyleigh9203]

Great video!

[@marieanderson6215]

I love watching y’all

[@tdwatki]

Buggie is the absolute CUTEST!!!!

[@michellenelson7899]

Beautiful. Love chicky's. Garden beds looking good

[@Kelleena1on1]

The beds look great your work is so good thanks for sharing .were also starting our season :)

[@Jane_under_a_tree_with_a_book]

Spring just starting and it is 80 degrees. Yikes.

[@mybusylife2158]

Idea for upping your compost production: get/rent a wood chipper to shredd all the branches and small trees you clear out of pig areas. This stuff adds up quickly. It's amazing to compost and can also be used to mulch your beds.

[@cheriekreusel3756]

Even though we lived in the city we had an old church bell on a 4 x 4 pole and my mom rand it when it was time for us to come home. When my boys were young I found one at a yard sale and we put it up and rang it when it was time to come home for dinner. That brought back sweet memories. peace and love, y'all

[@midoriiakina623]

Jeez.. Opening the back door to ring the dinner bell to call back the boys brought back memories. My mom had this huge old wall-mounted bell she got from a schoolhouse that closed down, that dang thing was the size of my head and she would ring it whenever my friends and I had to come back to the house from playing in the woods or down by the river. That bell was so loud, our neighbors used to joke about coming over for dinner whenever they heard it, and we were surrounded by thick woods, a major river and farmland.

[@liltbennet]

Her so precious and cute!! 🥰

[@lorraineowen7978]

I loved how you do grace at the table, so lovely. 🙏❤️

[@jeng151]

Well, that all looks pretty wonderful. I have such spring fever too! Love the close-ups of the chicks- so cute! And your garden beds are looking great. Thank you for taking the time to video so much for us lately.

[@StoneKathryn]

Raised beds are great too because they drain well. I really like how you are doing these. Yeah, compost! Great, meat birds! I hope your BBQ was wonderful! Thanks so much for sharing this.

[@glimmermomma4373]

Beautiful 🌅 sunset!! Steaks 🥩 looked awesome!! Have a great weekend..

[@ciaobella8963]

Your homestead is looking fantastic! And only with 2 years of very hard work! Amazing. God is blessing you all, and will continue to bless you. Sending love from Tuscany.

[@sandhollowhomestead6972]

I got teary when you bowed your heads. God is good!

[@midsouthhomestead7527]

Beautiful Sunset

[@TobyCatVA]

Here in the south we get both kinds of weather, hot and humid.

[@chrishoneycutt9839]

Hey Ben , you have a great family I love your channel dude keep up the good work you’re a hard worker and you’re not afraid to get your hands dirty for me personally this is one of the top 3 best Homestead channels there is

[@deborahcollins9623]

Boys are getting so tall!! The little one is beautiful

[@lauriesickles5393]

Dinner bell just adorable!!! Ben are you going to use your mad skills and make a beautiful new farm table??

[@TXNLaurenMcN]

Laurie Sickles ~ Like the one he made for Rhenda at Heartiness Approach! Did you see the table he made for her? It's gorgeous!

[@nancygross2196]

Sunrises are my favorite time of day, your farm is starting to take shape...you have been an inspiration to me not to quit

[@elizabethbrooks4849]

Repurpose is a good thing. The boxes look good. Future veggies.

[@lenaalexandersson5615]

It was fun ringing the bell 🔔 my mom did that everyone in the neighborhood new it was time for me to go 🏡

[@georgevangordon9728]

That’s a good productive day when you get that much done .. I like days like that

[@nlcpope]

It’s amazing to compare ‘21 with where your homestead now in ‘22! Congratulations on jobs well done to birth the homestead y’all have right now!! So productive and successful with your composting, etc ! It wonderful to see how y’all have redeemed the soil there to make your beds productive…good for you, Meg and the boys, Buggy too😘❤️

[@davidremmenga9668]

I LOVE THAT YOU EAT MEALS TOGETHER! KEEP PRAYING TOGETHER BEAUTIFUL FAMILY! :)