SHE Wanted To FARM - Until She Didn't

[@Anamericanhomestead]

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[@RedFlyerMedia]

Self Reliance Festival is amazing! Can’t wait to meet you!

[@RonLumbar]

You're a coward and a petty bully

[@SugarCreekOffGrid]

Looking forward to seeing you!

[@RonLumbar]

Are you going to censor comments at the festival too? Can't take criticism, can only shell it out.

[@Anamericanhomestead]

@@RonLumbar I don't ever censor comments. Calm Down.

[@PalmettoParatrooper]

There's no such thing as a lazy homesteader lol. Since I started homesteading and raising six children I have never worked longer or harder, but it's totally worth it if you stick it out.

[@thisworldneedsjesus313]

Tell me about it! Been sitting in the nicu for 2 weeks with my baby, and my phone has been going crazy the whole time. Literally 10 min after delivery, Dr want even out of the room yet, had milk customers calling. Lol

[@schrauca3094]

@@thisworldneedsjesus313 🙏🙏🙏🕊️

[@sarahharvey7844]

yep... its hard work. but its so awesome to be able to have pantries and freezers full of food.

[@nancyc4905]

💯

[@doubles1545]

I disagree. I treat my homestead as a full time job, and occasionally I work overtime to complete a project, but I have time to rest, time to work on other things (currently studying Spanish and herbal medicine,) time to play, and time to relax and enjoy what I work hard for. I simply won’t allow my homestead to rule every hour of my life. Obviously, a person who lays around all day long cannot homestead, but it doesn’t have to be a sunup to sundown kind of thing.

[@homesteadinghusband]

We are just starting out on 11 acres. Our chickens started laying in July and I attempted to harvest 1 rooster...needless to say all the youtube videos didnt prepare me at all. I cried and put off culling the rest of the roosters (we still have 3 too many) In october 2024 some new country friends are butchering some meat birds (i think like 40) So we are going over there to help, learn, and get tough so next spring we can start our own meat birds and keep moving forward. Its a tough road from soft suburban disney kids to homesteading, but we're gonna keep doing it anyway because we have a dream.

[@elizabethloger1326]

❤

[@Anamericanhomestead]

Keep living your dream. You're the 1%.

[@quest4knowledge768]

I still dislike and sometimes cry when I butcher but when I'm done I'm proud of what I do for my family and the life my animals have until one bad day.

[@dakotahays2836]

Bring your roosters to your friends they won't mind. We've done it for friends. Now I have ground rules because the first time someone came for us to show them, they chopped off the whole head & let him run around it freaked out my chickens so bad.

[@sarahharvey7844]

@@elizabethloger1326 i've heard that people give up around year 5 or 6 because its hard work. imagine our great grandparents. if you didn't homestead and produce your own food you didn't eat. it could come back to that. so keep up with it. Push through year 5 or 6. I'm on year 6 and i had so many doubts about my choices, i even contemplated selling all my animals (not my house or property though). But then i came to my senses and pulled my boot straps back on and started working on more skills, like making cheeses with all my goats milk.

[@melissahettick6576]

I’ve risen to overcome & relearn what our grandparents/parents failed to teach us. Homesteading is the desire to learn and actually do the work yourself.

[@tbjtbj4786]

I don't think they fail to teach. I think most of the younger people failed to listen.

[@melissahettick6576]

@@tbjtbj4786 unless you were born and raised here in America and are in the lower to middle class/working class & now are 45 to 55 years old, you wouldn’t understand or agree.

[@tbjtbj4786]

@@melissahettick6576 lady. I quit sure I understand homesteading better than you. You are right on the age range. I am living on one of the few last pice of farm land from a family that were fl. Pioneers from 1823. Grew up working on the farm. Just down the road y grate aunts still lived in the original 1823 house that was added on to over the years. But even in the 70s they still didn't have water or lights in the house. When I went to work off the homested/ farm I would get in at 11pm then load and stack hay at night. From what I saw of all the old folks around here. They tried to teach any thing they could because they knew just how hard it was to live that way. Most of the generation you're describing. Didn't lesson to the old folks. Didn't do what they were told. Didn't care about the old ways. Again I doubt they didn't teach i doubt people payed attention. Don't blame them for personal failing

[@EssentialTam33]

​@@tbjtbj4786I'd give you 10 thumbs up for this comment if I could. Solid gen-x here who saw two siblings follow in dad's farming/gardening footsteps and two who didn't. It was a choice!❤

[@Forest_Actual]

The older I get, the harder it is for me to process my animals, but I still do it because it is necessary.

[@milliemrrobinson1074]

I'm not in a position to truly homestead, but I learn so much about gardening, preserving foods, making breads, etc. My grandfamilies were all farmers, and I saw the necessary use of animals being prepared for food. I couldn't do it at my age now, but I know it's a real part of homesteading. I live in a townhouse with a nice yard and have raised beds and two chickens and a small coop.

[@wildervibes]

I will admit that sending a chicken to freezer camp for the first time was the day my family and I have started praying before every dinner.

[@KristelViljoen]

😂😂❤

[@maryjane-vx4dd]

The 1st rooster I sent to freezer camp had been attacking me for 4-5 years. When he came at my chest I had no problem sending him to freezer camp

[@wildervibes]

@@maryjane-vx4dd yea mine was a rooster that was getting aggressive

[@edvincent556]

I just butchered my first turkey this year. It was so hard to butcher her, because turkeys have such a great personality. Chickens were easy compared to the turkey. Thank you Zack for encouraging us to be better.

[@utopicconfections5257]

My husband feels the same way about his geese...but I like them too and for some reason I'm the only one they like. So they stay.....I just call them livestock guardians.

[@mishkahappy3839]

I love my turkeys best! We started breeding them a few years ago, now i never have to be without turkey personalities all year long. Watching your turkeys become amazing moms is the best.

[@HomesteadingWithCotons]

I was a city dweller for most of my life. Just the last two, I've been working on homesteading. I'm still far from our ultimately goal, but in two years I have a garden that gave more produce than I could keep up with, chickens that lay me all the eggs I need, goats that have provided me with meat and milk, and a solar system that powers our RV and well pump. It's not impossible. Yes it requires hard work, but it's achievable for anyone that isn't lazy, has some common sense, knows the right people to ask when you need help, and hopefully some savings or income to fund your projects as they come along.

[@RonLumbar]

And avoid trash channels like this guy.....This is bottom of the barrel content, like middle school level

[@rosephelps3259]

You are absolutely correct. When I was growing up if we didn't raise it and process it, we DIDN'T eat! I was taught to raise, butcher and preserve the meat my family ate.

[@donnamaniscalco]

This is my third year gardening and growing vegetables and fruit. I add more every year. I also started implementing electroculture which has increased the harvest. Next year I plan on adding chickens for eggs and chicken. I have no problem harvesting animals and have a hunting license as well. I should also note that I’m 62 years old and doing this alone. I’ve also learned how to ferment harvests,to have food later on. It’s hard work and I’ve had issues with worms eating my tomato plants, but there are so many options to kill bugs. And sometimes you have to. I thank God that my dad taught me how to hunt, garden, and process them for food. It is worth it in the end, eating good clean food and knowing you put your own sweat and muscle into it.

[@KristelViljoen]

62? Respect.

[@DebraGorsline]

I have to say I understand where she is coming from. Some people enjoy their animals and consider them part of the homestead. I have 2 rabbits for instant fertilizer and 10 hens for eggs. I do eat meat but some of us don't have the heart or stomach to deal with the "processing". We grow close to 40 percent of what we eat, catch our own water, seed save etc. Actually, I would be fine just being a vegetarian, but to each their own. I love your channel and your honest approach. I'm thankful that the world has people like you that can "process" the animals. As a child, my parents would make me participate in the butchering. As an adult, I gladly leave it up to someone else.

[@hardstylzz5024]

Having a small micro farm less than 3 acres is fun, have laying chickens, rows of blackberries, raspberries, lemons, and Satsuma trees, now waiting on materials to make my first blackberry wine, and later in December gonna make lemon and Satsuma wine. Even the chickens love it when i plant covercrop in gardens to replenish the nitrogen in the soil.

[@4chomestead680]

I live in an “intentional homesteading community” here in the Ozarks in Arkansas. It is filled with people who have been watching homesteading videos for a decade and think they are going to live it out. Needless to say, they all hide in the a/c all day and very few are even attempting to garden..but they will certainly talk trash about me who has been homesteading for 15 years and has tons of experience homesteading because my homestead has weeds, and sometimes an animal dies, and it doesn’t look perfect to their city eyes. Quite frankly I am tired of all the homesteader wannabe’s. Raising food is HARD work!

[@Anamericanhomestead]

That is ALWAYS how it is with intentional communities. They are basically living a communistic lifestyle and it ALWAYS fails. I've done videos show casing this fact in the past on my New2Torah channel.

[@4chomestead680]

@@Anamericanhomestead yes, I saw them after we moved here. It’s awful and we’re basically trapped…but I have met good people outside the community. Been watching you for a long time Zac and I appreciate every single minute you’ve given to educate others!

[@4chomestead680]

@@Anamericanhomestead and this one is currently imploding. But we own our land and our home with zero debt. I don’t participate or depend on this place for anything.

[@krickette5569]

@@4chomestead680 Is this the one located somewhere between Harrison and Branson? I saw where a youtube Prepper channel did an advertisement for the place, talking about how great it is, etc. Funny though, they don't live there. I've wondered how it was doing. (I live just a smidge South of Harrison)

[@4chomestead680]

@@krickette5569 yes, it is. They are paid to advertise…all of them.

[@thatguychris5654]

I had 2 great years of lima beans. Each year growing more than the last. This being the third year, I had the biggest plot yet. However, this year deer made a new path by my property and found the patch. Total devastation with zero output. You have to be ready for the good and the bad.

[@cavymomma]

venison is tasty I hear ;-)

[@schrauca3094]

Luckily, I have a Menonite butcher not to far from me and they butcher and process my animals. I really should learn how to do it though. 🤔 I have to chuckle cause I’m 63, a widow and yet I try to build and fix things….well, I McGiver a lot 😂 and as it is it’s tuff but I’m happy and surviving. It is very satisfying knowing where one’s food comes from. Gardening and raising your own👍 YAH bless you and your family.

[@thelmaavila3685]

I think, in my opinion, many "pretty" women are hoping to hook up with an able man, who is being led around by his (ahem) hormones. I'm not pretty, and I'm 62 years old, but my Dad taught me the essentials of survival, which includes hunting, fishing, processing the animal. I can fence, arc weld, and breed livestock. GET'R DONE!!

[@northernozarkhomestead]

Turkeys yield a lot more food per dispatch than chickens, They do smell worse though. We process our own poultry and small ruminants. We buy cattle from neighbors and send them to a local butcher. I think I could process a cow, but logistically the size of a cow makes it harder. Cool weather for long enough that works with our schedule can be a challenge in the Ozarks too. One thing id addd to Zac and others comments about knowing where the meat comes from, Just because you know its not grown in a bio generator vat and actually was an animal that stood in a pasture; does not mean that it is an animal that wasnt treated with shots, including clotshot, steroids, growth hormone, antibiotics et al or fed GMO food like stuffs.

[@Anamericanhomestead]

You are very much correct

[@sarahingham8345]

My 13 yo son and I did a bunch of chickens last year, this year we have two goats to process, and we are going to ask our friend who processes his own sheep to help us so we can learn. My son is eager to learn and wants to learn to hunt the abundant deer here in NW Tennessee!

[@andrearutledge5349]

Great video, I have a wee little aspiring Homestead with gardens and chickens and barn cats and a dog. While I have not butchered my own chickens yet, I have helped people butcher theirs. I always offer my services to people when they are processing or butchering food in any way because I want to learn from them! These are definitely skills that we have lost and I want them! And I know I will be butchering my own chickens probably even this year. My buff orpington goes broody several times a year so I always have extra chickens.

[@bitslittle]

Since watching your land video like 3-4 years ago and aquiring land I've learned how to do so many things. Tallow, butchering chicken, tomato sauce, butter, cheese, milking, and growing some veggies among other things.

[@tryingndoing]

As a young kid I learned how to cut up whole chickens. That skill saved lots of money over the years as cut up chicken parts always cost more at the stores. The skills taught to the young ones (such as shown here) are useful throughout life. Seriously want a small “homestead” with garden (plenty of reps and sets in that art) and raising chickens. No plans for larger meat producers because I know how to barter! Lol

[@SgtSnausages]

Homesteading sucks, folks. And I farking LOVE it!

[@ohmyet2173]

As a true homesteader I can’t tell you how many deer and pigs I’ve had spread out on my island being processed! There is nothing harder than having to put down a pet turkey that a dog took a chunk out of. But she didn’t go to waist. Sadly she got canned!

[@iamhis5580]

I have one more question??? Why are these other homesteaders watching this lady then? Like if she’s not really a homesteader and especially if she’s putting up inappropriate pictures, why would anybody be watching her stuff?

[@Anamericanhomestead]

Because her post was shared in a homesteading group and it snowballed from there.

[@iamhis5580]

@@Anamericanhomestead - ok makes sense

[@michaeldalton8374]

Soft pron

[@RonLumbar]

This guy has a holier than thou complex but he whores out products for huge corporations....Real homesteaders aren't sitting around making KZbin videos & censoring critics...these talky-talk guys are the ultimate hypocrites.

[@EssentialTam33]

I'm not a homesteader. I would love a few critters. Hubby says nope! And it's okay. However, I would never presume on those who are. That being said, my father grew up on a farm, and when we were kids visiting and auntie crawled under the house (SC low country) and grabbed a chicken for dinner, i happily took my turn at plucking because them's good eatin!😂 I hope I could rise to the occasion if necessary 😊.

[@pisgahfarms6241]

I started my homestead adventure 6 years ago. I started slow. I had never done any of it prior to that. Started with two garden beds. Added 3 more the next year now I am up to 13 large beds with two good size I ground plots. I got chickens my second year. Started with a few and have at least 20 at any time which doesn’t seem like much but those provide me my husband and kids with plenty of eggs. Sometime during that 6 year period we started to incubate eggs to raise our own. Last year hubs made a chicken tractor and we raised meat birds. I processed those birds. We started with just 10 of those. This year we will do many more. The point is don’t overwhelm yourself when you start. Add something each season and learn. This way you will also understand when you have reached your limit. During all this I learned to can my food. Dehydrate things. Make seasonings, medication and more. Homemade bread and other things. I try to purchase something about 2x a year that may cost a bit (things I have to save for) that improve said home stead. Oh I forgot we also added bees about 4 years ago. This year I knew that i needed to step back bit and reduced the size of my garden. Amazingly I still brought in a lot of food. We buy a cow from a friend and it gets sent to a butcher that we trust. ( I don’t have the land for that size animal) you can do this with a small piece of land. We have 4 acres and we only utilize less then an acre. Sure we have room to grow but we both work full time and we have limits on time. I want to be a good steward of what Yah has blessed me with. Starting small helps keep you from giving up. You don’t have to do it all, you just have to start

[@Angel283]

Welllll, I learned a new phrase today LOL.

[@colleenmarie6265]

Either way let us support our local farmers

[@poacher7805]

My first experience was a steer my father kept in the barn for about a month prior to butcher. Graining,hay and water daily. Then we opened the door and when he came out of the barn about 30 ft away was a big oak and when he got close he dropped him and dressed him out right there hanging from that oak. When he was done you never knew a cow was there.

[@angelikac6767]

hardest thing i had to learn was prosessing my rabits , not nightmare stuff but i was a little worried about beeing able to break the cute bunnies necks. a year later its just midmonth chore

[@SingPrayPaint]

I wasn’t raised on a farm but i has the privilege of participating in the raising of a few farm animals growing up. When i married my first husband we bought a home on a half acre & raised a steer, chickens, rabbits & turkeys, & grew a vegetable garden. Now in my second marriage & in my 60’s, we’re enjoying a (sort-of) mini homestead. Right now I’m only raising chickens, ducks & guineas. If we could afford to we would buy a calf. I’m terrible at gardening tho. My ex husband knew exactly how to do it & apparently i didn’t glean enough from his expertise. Here in Texas there are way more gophers, moles, voles & bugs then there were in the California desert. I’m good at butchering chickens but the gardening thing is a fail after fail for me. So frustrating. I can keep the bugs at bay with homemade remedies but I’m at my wits end over the ground varmints! It’s tough to do all the work needed when i have chronic illness. Doing my best tho. Everything unto God!

[@ALMOSTHEAVEN304]

YOU RIGHT, way too many people romanticize the idea lol So she has chickens but buys the eggs at a store😂😂

[@HoneyBadger0704]

Yep. Soup Lines for them

[@betterlivingonabudget]

I find it ironic that there seems to be two completely separate mindsets/interest group viewers on YT. 1) Those that are here to learn/share info, and those that are here to impress/be entertained.

[@RonLumbar]

This channel is here to sell you shirts made in China.

[@KristelViljoen]

Can't we have both? What is wrong with being authentic? I love reading about people's lives and their experiences and I also love new and relevant information. I don't find it ironic at all. God let the sun shine over everyone's heads. Including you.

[@JennfamousartBlogspot]

Devils advocate: chickens for eggs and goats for milk with most food coming from the vegetable garden is a take on homesteading that doesn’t require butchering yourself. That garden would have to be huge and/or be in a mild winter climate of the south to be sustainable (maybe)

[@thesmiths629]

I like the term. "Thirst trap" is why I don't subscribe to lots of channels. Jp sears, Mikayla peterson, Anthony Chaffee, Dr Berg, are all some that come to mind. I Appreciate your decency!

[@Anamericanhomestead]

You think Dr. Berg is a thirst trap....please explain

[@thesmiths629]

@@Anamericanhomestead 😂 Yes. I unsubscribed from his cannel well over a year ago because his channel kept using radom women's bodies as the advertising feature.

[@elizabethloger1326]

Every few months my world collides with the Subaru driving crunchies at the Health food store and my local farm where I get beef. I have a hard time controlling my face🤣 We do share some of the same understanding about food and I am glad they are in the local csa supporting! I look very different and I am the only one who left home considering my personal protection with hay flying out of the bed of my truck and some sort of manure stain on my overalls😏 Its not for everyone but I think it should be.

[@sam2943]

All true, great story and analysis.

[@NortheastHobbyfarmer]

When yer right yer right. Working on it. Not at all squeamish and tend to the critters and gardens daily. Not a farmer more of a homesteader. Off grid when necessary, Survivalist from my separation from the Army. Reagan conservative and lifetime mountain explorer coast to coast. Still don't know or have everything I need to but I keep trying. God Bless you all.

[@l0I0I0I0]

If its not for her, then it's not for her. Not a problem. Honestly who cares. Granted the modesty thing is an issue but a seperate one.

[@mikeh6583]

We've been butchering animals on our homestead for years. My wife and her friend were butchering some of our chickens a few months ago, my wife doesn't mind butchering but hates killing them. I made her dispatch few just so she knows she can if I'm not around. My buddy and I were busy framing a building while the ladies butchered, we needed to stay on task, so it was nice that they could handle the ugly things if we are doing other projects.

[@susanvaughn741]

I’m holding out for soilent green!

[@pammaddox4947]

I have a hard time w butchering, but my husband & son can do it. I know i need to learn.

[@cristiandelarosa7683]

If I ever get the opportunity to Homestead I want the full experience

[@tombrewer8136]

Appreciate you being conservative!

[@terryhardaway3285]

Shabbat Shalom family, This Sabbath is Ki Tavo, "when you come in," Davarim, (Deut.) 26:1-29:9; Isaiah 60:1-22, (6of7 Haftorahs of Consolation) Galatians 3:1-29. Theme: Curses, or the blessings of Avraham Avinu; for indeed, the righteous are justified by faith, "emunah." Baruch Hashem! Am Yisrael chai, Baruch haba b'shem Adonai! (Matthew 23:39) Be well and be Blessed! A fellow sojourner

[@tracilynn6675]

Shabbat Shalom!

[@konaken1035]

It's Pickle Perfect!

[@justinoffutt]

Maybe she can have a house in the country and support local farmers by buying their stuff

[@WW_SHTFF_WW]

I haven't been going to farmers markets regularly for some time. I used to go to them pretty regularly before 2012. After that, maybe I'd go once every year or two near the end of the season looking for closeout butternut squash or home-grown potatoes to put in the root cellar. But I got lazy over the last few years and didn't bother much with the squash or potatoes. Farmers are dying off and the kids are not replacing them. Forget big farms, I'm talking about small farmer market producers. This season I went to 5 of our local markets looking for a 20 to 25 pound bag of Kennebec potatoes and was shocked the markets had declined so much when it came to farmer's produce. Market 1: shut down completely. Market 2: Had 27 tents and 1-1/2 produce sellers. The rest were baked goods, jams, honey, soaps, arts and crafts. The main produce seller had a small, but OK collection. But she could not supply the potatoes as she said the drought and deer had wrecked her crop. (I was surprised the deer ate the potato greens as I thought they were poisonous.) She had a few pounds of potatoes to sell that were the size of eggs. She did have some pawpaw's to sell, but I was too late and only small ones were left. I think they averaged about .75 each. She is an old gal, a fixture at the market that I remember from when I first started to go there decades ago. But she is looking tired and I don't know how much longer she can go on. There used to be a meat seller there that travelled with a portable freezer. He sold organic beef, chicken and lamb. In the old days they had mainly food at this market. But one by one the old timers retired or died and the young'uns didn't replace them. There was a nice apple producer with a decent orchard. He died and kids sold the farm and the new owner cut the trees down. A dairy farmer there used to sell nice white peaches. He retired and died in less than a year after he retired. The '1/2' seller at Market 2 only a handful of produce items and no potatoes for me. But they did run a small dairy farm. She and her daughter were Mennonites and they sold raw milk at the farm. But she said for legalities you can't buy the milk, you have to buy shares in the herd and get your pro rata share of milk each week from the cows. There was also some confusion about selling the milk over state lines, but she said I'd be OK even if out of state as I would be a partial owner. For a $20 a month, which is the minimum share, you get 1/2 gallon of raw milk. And if you want more milk you just size it up from there. (The milk comes out to $10 a gallon per week.) I was telling an old gal down the street about this and she thought $10 was expensive. I told her I pay almost $12 a gallon for non-raw ultra-pasteurized grass-fed milk at the store, so $10 is not that bad. (Just a note...in a food emergency, get ultra-pasteurized milk. It last 6 weeks to 2 months unopened in the refrigerator...maybe longer.) Market 3: Had 12 tents and 1 produce seller. The produce seller said they could not sell me a #25 bag of potatoes, but they may be able to come up with it later if she checks with some farmer friends and gave me their contact info. They were trying to help out an old timer there that could not go to the farmers market any longer, so they didn't know all the details. They said he is trying to sell the farm to someone else. They did have 2 small baskets of potatoes. They were the square green baskets. Like you get 3 or 4 large tomatoes in and were $7 a box for the potatoes. I don't know how long they will be able to keep it up if they can't find someone to replace the farmer. There used to be a giant produce seller at market 3. He was also a fixture there. The biggest seller I've ever seen at any farmers market...but he is no more. Market 4: Not a traditional farmers market, this was a private owned 'roadside attraction' farmers market that specializes in home grown corn. The corn was not organic, but it was non-GMO. They used to sell peaches with the fuzz on them, some years apricots (home grown ones with flavor) and Kennebec potatoes among the other produce. All the home-grown farm produce was gone. No more apricots and the peaches were commercial peaches. Hard as a rock, no fuzz and no flavor or fragrance. No more Kennebec's either. Just commercial potatoes. Market 5: 18 vendors 1 produce seller. He is old and don't know how many more seasons he has in him. He said he could sell me a #50 pound bag of Kennebec for $32. Although he hadn't dug them yet, so who knows how the drought affected them. I looked up a listing for more farmers markets near me. They got 4 more farmers markets within a 35-minute drive in 2 neighboring states. I hate driving that far to find out they got nothing for me, but I may give another one or two a try. Really sad, honest food is getting tougher to find all the time. What a mess!

[@jerrylindsay67]

Completely agree Zach, we grow and butcher all our own except our beef but have a friend who raises the beef for us being or property isn't large enough for cattle. I see people all the time ask how do you kill those animals. How do you not if you want healthy food. God bless

[@caseydoodlegirlartforte2569]

I still remember butchering my first rabbit. Oof that was a hard day, but I have NEVER been so thankful for a meal as when I raise an animal from a baby to the plate. Btw, rabbit tacos are AMAZING 😂

[@KristelViljoen]

I am a 52 ish year old women and have a back and front yard forest and vegetable garden in South Africa. Every tree was planted from seed. I have calluses on my hands for years now. I've never had my nails done or my hair cut at a salon. I have a collapsed vertebrae from carrying cement bags ( 50kg) and soil in 25 litre buckets simply because when I was younger a wheelbarrow was just to expensive. I have one now, second hand. I cut down and chop wood, manually. My husband work full time which means I can't rely on him to do that. The wood that we use for our rocket stove, we (me and my husband) are collected by the roadside. What always get me is how spoiled most women are. Most doesn't know how to heat water outside or handwash clothes and yet they complain and cry about how hard life is with dishwashers and laundry washing machines at their fingertips. I have never bought compost in my entire life. Sometimes I cut branches with pruners into small pieces by hand just to ensure it brakes down in time to get enough organic matter available for the growing season. We visit a farm and pick up manure by hand in the grasslands for aditional fertilizer. Summertime average between 35 to 40 degrees celcius and most people, like us, do not have air conditioning in our homes. Yet we do not cry or complain over it. We are glad when we stumble on or are blessed with free resources and thank God that our yard is big enough to produce enough food to see us through every year. It's heartbreaking to see people complaining with so much luxury around them. We celebrate everything from a new pair of shoes to the free firewood that we are lucky enough to stumble upon before someone else pick it up. Every fruit and every vegetable are harvested. Nothing goes to waste. Either we or our chickens eat it. When people say that they have it hard I always think, compared to what?

[@LegacyFarmandHomestead]

Jack Spirko does not pull punches lol.

[@bufordghoons9981]

She's a real live Lisa Douglas like the one in Green Acres. I think she played Farmville and thought farming would be just as easy and fun.

[@taracriste1]

Homesteading is messy, hard, a lot of work, not easy, but also extremely fulfilling and rewarding at various times. It's definitely not for everyone. My husband likes the idea of a farm or homestead but he doesn't really want the work, hes definitely won't butcher a chicken or rabbit. He doesn't even want to do the dispatch. He likes having chickens for the eggs and hes willing to pay for the feed and let me do the work or let the kids do the work. And you might think dang he should be more supportive but my sister has it worse than I do, her husband wants nothing to do with anything "farm" or "garden" or "homestead". She can only have the traditional dog animal. She has to get eggs from me, we get milk from a local farmer. May the good Lord help these men be more self sufficient in Jesus name amen

[@bethwisconsin6602]

I’m fortunate to have good neighbors that have taught me how to harvest chickens.

[@DebraGorsline]

I love vegetable soup, potato soup, egg flower soup. So many different kinds to eat!

[@cassityart7001]

Yep. So while this ladies has now had a reality check she is not alone. There are couples who buy property, build infrastructure buy animals then come to the “one bad day” moment and decide a petting zoo or rescue farm is what they are now. It is only down the road a few more months when the hobby farm animals have eaten their resources in feed an there are no more resources for the family food. Management step one, walk the process out so this doesn’t become a family food crisis.

[@tyger13us]

in real life it's "Green Acres".

[@reality_is_the_key]

Every day is a long hard day farming. I'm not saying it's bad, but there are NO shortcuts. Not really. I'd never do anything else because THIS is how I can give my family the MOST. It's bugs, various types of manure, blood, frustration, and there's no wearing summer dresses and flip flops. I look like a scarecrow most days but my farm is in order.

[@joshua511]

My wife can't handle processing chickens (she did once and only once) but she still helps by taking the carcass and bagging it up. I'll take it.

[@arvaterry6526]

👍🏻got it

[@nathannewell5512]

Shabbat shalom.

[@YahwehsbountifulHarvest]

Shabbat Shalom

[@lorismith7708]

Here's an example. I work in a grocery store & I see these products on the shelf every day. I shake my head, knowing the amount of crap that is put into these products. A new product that just came out is Mrs. Butterworth Dunkin Glazed Donut Flavored Syrup. 🙄 It sounds like crap. 🤢 Thank you for helping keep people informed!

[@KM-vq4wg]

Oh wow, I have family ancestry from Camden!

[@rrwildernessranch]

OK, I’m not even five minutes and then you’ve got me laughing my behind off.

[@DJ-uk5mm]

Love your channel, I don’t understand why homesteaders especially the American ones never seem to focus on fish. They are the easiest to grow and the easiest butcher. Depending on the breed you can even get ones you don’t need supplemental food just leave to Nature feed them all year round……… You will need to keep predators at bay. One of the best fish in the United States is the grass carp. It’s an invasive at it for the United States. But it’s really good, eating a grows incredibly fast and guess what you can feed it on? Yes that’s right GRASS… just like cattle and sheep if you’re in warmer climates, don’t forget tilapia….. and of course trout for cooler climates, although trout are carnivorous so you’ll have to have a separate pond, growing protein fish and the food sauce with the trout or black soldiers, fly or worms

[@avahdiamond7624]

If any of these wannabe homesteaders want to give up and give me 5 acres, i wouldn't say no. 😂 Im in an HOA and raise quail in my bathroom. Putting 30+ in my freezer every month. Waiting for the bubble to burst so i can make abreal homestead

[@impeachorrevolt]

I remember my grandpa had a hat that said if dolly parton was a farmer she'd be flat busted...😂 didn't understand that until i was older.

[@i2sky532]

If I hear "seed oils" one.more.time.

[@Anamericanhomestead]

Studies that came out this year are now showing that seed oils do in fact ruin your metabolism and decay mitochondria. The science behind these studies are pretty solid and many experts are changing their tune. So yeah, she got that right. But even a broken clock is right twice a day.

[@carriecreates1207]

Very good video! I have 2 acres with chickens and a nice garden. I need to buy 1/2 pig and beef, due to my strengh or lack thereof. But I do know where it comes from.

[@dhoffman4955]

Satisfaction is not what I was thinking after plucking a million pin feathers. More like, thank God that’s done and I won’t have to do it again for several months.

[@michaeldalton8374]

People that think butchering is cruel, gross, or inhumane should visit a modern slaughterhouse.

[@KristelViljoen]

If we backtrack around 100 to 200 years ago butchering animals wasn't an issue. We are getting more and more disconnected from nature. Every piece of meat that we put on our table was butchered...What is amazing is that we are now entering an era where we have to explain it to this generation. ( Except the impossible burger, which I and I'm sure most people can not accurately explain.)

[@PioneerMountainHomestead]

This is a little off topic, but related to butchering. We raise and butcher for ourselves, but the state does not allow us to butcher for others. The work around is to sell the live animal to the consumer and provide a hauling service to take the animal to the butcher. The consumer is responsible from there. Is this the same practice with all states? Just curious if this is just in my state. Also, raising animals for direct sale is a good way for homesteaders to make extra money. It often takes just as long to do daily chores for one animal as it does for a couple of them. People that are worried about where their food comes from will pay a premium to a farmer who cares for an animal in a humane way and feeds them quality feed. We regularly sell pigs this way and customers tell us our meat is better than any store bought. We sell at premium and never have any we cannot sell.

[@annabischoff4954]

This reminds me.. having worked in many restaurants, I was always shocked by ppls ignorance. Many ppl. Do not know what parts of animal bodies they are eating. Not to mention ignorance about how things are grown. They just appear in a grocery store!!😂😢

[@YahwehsbountifulHarvest]

Yep. Most children think turkeys come from Walmart

[@maryr7023]

Yes, as a waitress I encountered people who didn’t know that fries are potatoes and that white bread is wheat bread without the bran.

[@JulieTorres-qe2ls]

I reached down and rose up to do the necessities 40 years ago. To the Isabelas i always comment "So you're vegan?"

[@MotarkMadman]

I'm trying to find a homestead property hopefully in the next year. I know very little and know it will be a huge learning curve and is gonna kick my butt for a long time. Growing up a city boy doesn't help, but I want to get far from the city and less reliant on the system at all costs.

[@EarlyMusicDiva]

More power to you! Hope the learning curve isn't too steep!

[@SK52414]

Wish I could homestead 😢

[@TheLocalOption]

Going Hope to see you

[@GammaCharlotte]

They'll change their minds when they get hungry enough or their children are hungry - unless it becomes too late for them

[@CilverLining]

I've got one foot in each camp. We have chickens for the purpose of egg production. Right or wrong we treat them like pets, but it's a pet that gives us a return on investment. At the end of their laying life cycle I don't know if I could butcher them. However, I have no reservations hunting deer and processing them. In a situation of absolute need could I butcher our chickens, yes. If we had hens that we did not name and were specifically raised for meat then I think it would be different, but we're not there yet in our homestead journey. I think it just depends on life's circumstances and the purpose of the animal.

[@kerryl4031]

Yup, that's the unpleasant side of things. We sent our Muscovy ducks away for processing one year - never again! We do it ourselves 2 at a time so that stress levels are kept low for the ducks and for ourselves. We still don't like doing the deed but boy do they make terrific burgers. Very low fat birds. I do have a hankering for a nice crispy goose though.

[@hmms0709]

Say it louder for the thirst trappers in the back!!!😆

[@Charity1277]

Gosh I like this guy.yes agree women need to get back to modesty

[@mercyonus5292]

Did anybody comment about killing animals to protect your animals?

[@kymberlieporter]

Do you grow your own quail feed? I have quail & turkey (as well as chickens) and I'd love to figure out a way to feed them myself, self sufficiently.. I am wanting to do fodder trays and grow some sort of worm but I'm very lost...

[@YahwehsbountifulHarvest]

That is not even logical. My teen son and I have been roughing it for 3 1/2 years out in the Ozarks. We have solar power but i think the batteries are depleted. We are trying to get a generator which is on layaway somewhere. We are going to build a stone oven and also build a cottage around that oven

[@trishapomeroy9251]

Oh Zack, she'll just flash her way into finding a man to do all that for her. I can't stand people who claim to be conservative and post flashy body pictures. Anyway, it would be great if she got a reality check...doubtful.

[@scole1999]

😂Ok after the first cpl min., I just started laughing and I’m done! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@222mmax]

MARANATHA LORD

[@yagottabkiddin]

She wants to garden and have pets

[@durgan5668]

Shrug, Dad couldn't harvest the rabbits, so I took that on at age 13. Not everyone is able to do all things. And I had to remove the 'booties' of the fur from the feet, before Mom could prepare and package them up for the freezer. Just some aspects hits some folks harder than others. Me, its food, so that's just part of it.

[@RainCountryHomestead]

She keeps using that word but I do not think it means what she thinks it means

[@Anamericanhomestead]

Enjoyed your video at the life podcast 👍

[@RainCountryHomestead]

@@Anamericanhomestead Thank you, I so enjoyed and am grateful to be a part of it

[@michaellynn6226]

I hope you do get to meet Jack Spirko. I've been listening to his podcast for over twelve years now and it has changed me for the better.

[@janeywelch9983]

I’m gonna get some laughs but I had to pray for days the first time I had to dispatch a mean rooster.

[@danielhurst8863]

I can't get upset that someone getting into homesteading finds it hard to harvest animals. Some people simply are not built for it. They may, with time, be able to process an animal, but taking some city people, putting them on a farm, there is going to be culture shock. Let them grow into it, it's a process and it takes time. FYI, I've been skinning and butchering animals for over 55 years and live on a 50 acre homestead.

[@MyDadCanFixAnything]

I want a homestead…but where’s the nearest nail salon?

[@Fr1ti4e88]

Are you going to train with tactical response while you’re in Camden?

[@thehappymeatfarmrios4948]

It’s nice having a peace of mind knowing we are eating real meat on our farm. ❤