We had to DO THIS when we started LIVING HERE

[@ilzitek2419]

Thank you.

[@marshamartinek5266]

Canning ground beef.

[@mylittleruralhomestead]

Saila reminds me of Elly Mae Clampet from the Beverly Hillbillies, her love for animals, no matter what kind is obvious. She's growing up to be quite a young lady. Also, I just love seeing the whole family in all the videos.

[@MikeTheFitFarmer]

She sure is! Thanks so much for watching!

[@tamararoberts9307]

It makes my heart smile seeing your children participating and learning important skills ❤️ great parenting 👍

[@laurenbingenheimer3913]

Today I pressure canned beef and beef stew. I'm experimenting with freeze drying lemons also. I love how real your family is and how you make due with what you have in your projects. Your kids are great and that shows you're good parents. Thank you for sharing your life with us.

[@terrywilliams3372]

I so enjoy watching you as a family unit. And the kids helping is wonderful. You are both amazing parents. And your kids have great role models.

[@joymay8092]

Agreed. Those kids are competent & confident. What amazing adults they will be! God bless this family!!!

[@annal3708]

Just what I wanted to say! All five of you can be so proud of yourselves! Greetings from Sweden.

[@maryloomis8075]

Yeah...the saws all works great on roots. It's what we use here. Thumbs up on the work you are doing on your homestead. Your daughter cracks me up...I was her about 50 years ago. LOL

[@sandrajohnson9926]

It's amazing how fast time goes. I'm 64 & wished I'd realized how fast time flies. More things I would have gotten done. God bless.

[@shannongnazzio6844]

I was working on entertaining my grandson 2&1/2 and taking care of my grand daughter who is just 1 month old 🥰❤️🙏🏻🤪

[@StoneKathryn]

That is the toughest and most important work anyone can do! Kudos to you!

[@melissakasner9722]

My husband and i got baby chicks there egg layer's.also we planted vegetable's we live in Chicago Illinois and we did it people think we gone crazy but got to start somewhere right can't get goats or 🐮 ect but I'm excited to see how this goes plus i have 5 cat's 1 dog 🐹 and take care for the homeless cat's to i feed squirrel's and birds so I'm a very busy women lol. Thanks for sharing your lives i love them all. God bless

[@ardenpeters4386]

made up Eliot Coleman's seed starting mix! changed chicks to larger crate. and oh so exciting ... laundry! 40 degrees cloudy. over a foot close to two STILL of snow. so still can't plant, nor put up greenhouse 😢. first year here. getting impatient!

[@mahalathacker6513]

We have been working on our small raised garden beds, planted lettuce and green onions.

[@tamararoberts9307]

Yes, Mike, the company my hubby works for started with 1 dump truck and now they are a multi-millionaire construction company. Everything has a start ✨️

[@antiowarr9467]

I always enjoy the vids when the family works together as a family, it just feels right... cheers

[@brendahogue5487]

Love your videos

[@adelacoburn1396]

Hello Mike, Lacie and kids, Oh I'm watching this video waiting for my bread dough to rise ⏳🙂. Take care and God bless..

[@lv1689]

And most importantly your children are so respectful. And hard workers what a neat tool. Post hole diggers.

[@angelzhomestead]

Working on repairing the house.

[@tammy2813]

We are cleaning pastures, getting hay fields cleaned, fertilized etc, and getting garden beds ready for the next season. Also planting seeds and already have our cool weather plants in the garden. Everyday there is more to do!! Love this time of year!

[@maracohen5930]

Cleaning up a wreck of a side yard here in suburbia, a block from Puget Sound. Because our soil was Polluted by heavy metals via a hundred years of the ASARCO Smelter, everything I have to do has to wait until the right environmental conditions so that I don’t make a lot of dust out of the marine clay we are on, and it has taken awhile to get all the materials and learn raised bed gardening, and how to keep the edibles from becoming poisonous. So now is the time, and I hope to have a 4x12 safe for growing raised bed in by tax day!!!!!

[@jenniferward5216]

Saleh is a real farm girl.

[@terryjohnson6392]

I've been a fan of yours one you first started utube. So I can say everything has been done with blood sweat and tears.

[@MikeTheFitFarmer]

Thank you Terry! We really appreciate you staying the long haul with us.

[@SimplyJanHomestead]

God is so good Mike & Lacey! he is our provider! I remember when we had to use the hand saw and hope it would cut the roots! Y'all have worked so hard to get to where you're at!

[@readingdestination9025]

It’s rainy and muddy today, for me, so I’m repairing my daughter’s dog’s bed…fun sewing day.

[@jadaveator4387]

Clearing my 1 acre land by hand lots of thorn bushes,Ivy, and branches, organize my compost area. It's too early to plant anyting weather is not warm enough.

[@donna1018]

That’s a really neat hole digger I’ve never seen one like that before!

[@StoneKathryn]

We have been working on cleaning up a large tree that fell over during the winter about ten feet in front of our barn. We have had to walk around it all winter. It fell toward two of our raised beds but it didn't wreck them because the limbs held it up high enough it didn't crush them. There was also a large cattle gate there and again the limbs fell so that it didn't get hurt either. We have a lot more wood for our wood stove now. Half of the tree was dead so we now have wood to burn right away next winter and the other stuff has to dry a few years. It is a box elder tree so they burn pretty well. We have black walnut to burn too so having the box elder makes it easier to burn the black walnut because that burns so much longer and it is hard to get it going. We were lucky it fell the way it did. It was too big to want to cut it down ourselves. Go Lacie! Hole digging is no fun. Clay soil is hard to dig into. Oh boy, root! Time to get a mattock! Sawsall works too! I like that two man post hole digger! We have to dig down to 34 inches to get below the frost heave. I was wondering why those bent pipes were in the goat area. You're using those to make the goat shelter. Thanks for mentioning the Bootstrap Farmer hoop bender. I bought their starter trays because of you guys. Great video as always.

[@cynthiaarmstronghopefulhom9672]

Today was punning and leaf mulching day for us. Its aways nice to have family helping out working hard and creating wonderful memories together just like you and your family.😊

[@graceinthegarden9151]

Prior to the weather fast track change AGAIN. I've been planting, up potting plants that are too big for the seed trays and much more. Only managed to get 1 shrub in today. Had to get it in ground even though it's raining. Than this afternoon I watched my twin grandchildren after school. I'm glad your wife is feeling better. Always nice to see everyone working together. Great family. God bless and keep you and yours.

[@charmainemrtnz]

I started my veggies for spring. I am in Idaho, Boise area and it got to 63 today!!! Very unusual but inspiring. I have 7 GreenStalks. I can’t get down like I used to so seeing if vertical gardening works for me.

[@sandrajohnson9926]

I think Spring has come early by 4 weeks to the Southwest Missouri. Of course, we can always get down to freezing quickly. I am itching to put everything in the ground.

[@suesokoloski6644]

Well living off the grid does look like a family affair everybody does a little bit of everything that’s good even for the kids to learn a little bit of knowledge on how to do and then when they get big they will have the know how your wife’s are a worker keep up the good work and keep showing us how it’s done thank you ☺️

[@bonniestawski219]

I love this video and I love y'all! God bless each of you! I'm so proud of y'all!

[@courtneylee2187]

Ordering birds, put together a utility cart, planning garden beds with what plants I have started so far. This weather has me set back a bit. No one likes cold rain.

[@suepalmer9044]

Enjoyed the video and seeing the kids . LACY IS A HARD WORKING WOMAN.

[@doncastor4807]

today we built a bigger brooder for our 10 day old chicks (the rubbermaid tubs only good for like a week we've found) this will be our first flock and we started our seedlings for this summer's garden. y'all have inspired us and today's economic and political climate we feel is fixin to make homesteading a necessity. 🙏🙏we can do this

[@StoneKathryn]

Fantastic! Kudos to you!

[@masspyro5167]

I cannot get enough of your videos.

[@mamareed810]

Thank You Lord that Spring is here! So nice to be out in the warm sun & get some chores accomplished! We are still trying to clean up all the Fall Leaves in between the March Winds!

[@LeeCraftyHomestead]

starting seeding indoors and family tree stuff

[@goldieb6696]

Recently I came a cross this family who are farmers and who also put god in their every thing I love them so much, and pray for health strength and god continual blessings on them.

[@TSGEnt]

Digging up the garden and adding compost getting ready to plant. Beets, bean, celery, lettuce, cucumbers, squash. You know, good food!

[@GreenheartGal]

We built a little greenhouse today, that will hold our sprout 🌱 trays and we planted a couple new types of radishes (White Globe and Watermelon varieties). Building was part of today’s math lesson and the 11 year old loved it. I enjoy watching everybody getting ready for spring and summer, too. Our last frost isn’t until May but it’s pleasant enough to start outdoor projects now. I envy your pond. That isn’t easy to find or maintain here in Arizona. I would also be laying on the ground with the critters 😎 when the chores are done. ✌🏼to your busy, inspiring family.

[@janinebutler5205]

Hi . Working on my greenhouse. Hopefully we will see a BIG harvest .

[@debgrouette6885]

You asked what we're doing?... we're getting ready for sheep shearing tomorrow, followed hopefully not too closely with lambing!

[@cherylharless281]

What am I doing today? Relearning how to walk!

[@evalinawarne1337]

PRAISE GOD 🀄🀄🀄❤️❤️❤️ Cheryl. I will pray for you. I had to in 1997. Knee surgery. I had P.T for a year. THANK you JESUS HALLELUJAH 🀄🀄🀄🀄🛐🛐🛐

[@deborahlawing2728]

Blessings to you.

[@StoneKathryn]

Good luck! I got hit as a pedestrian 7 years ago, in August it'll be 8 years. I'm still trying to walk the way I used to. My bones all over my body didn't break but they got knocked out of place so I still can't quite walk like I used to. My left leg was an inch and a half shorter than my right leg but that is finally loosening up. I'm in pain everyday but it's less and less as bones pop back into place. I usually hear them pop when they do. Also my muscle adhesions will tear apart now and then as I can move more. My jaw is finally back into place. I still can't do stairs with both legs. I have to go up and down one at a time because my left hip won't let me step that far up or swing down. It sucks but I think in a couple more years I might have everything back again. I'll be 62 years old but at least I won't feel like I'm 80 like I did right after the accident! I walked two steps out of a store and the 16 year old kid texting jumped the curb with his car and went right into me. What a change in a couple of seconds. My two boys are teenagers now and I couldn't do much physical things with them like I would have wanted to do. The more I walked the more pain I would have. I can almost walk right again.

[@GrannySanny]

I spent today starting my spring deep cleaning getting ready for the weeks ahead when the final cleaning and leaven removal will be completed.

[@MikeTheFitFarmer]

We are looking forward to Unleavened Bread!

[@loreenhall2230]

Hi mike . i just love to see you guys working togather 👍👍👍

[@deborahtofflemire7727]

Kids are growing fast.

[@patprettyman3792]

I am preparing a place to plant 2 Huckleberry bushes coming first week in April, the I am going to move my strawberry plants in to a green stalk.

[@chantaln6843]

The property is looking really organized & beautiful. Bravo 🎉

[@honeysucklefarm1216]

I’ve been up potting tomatoes, and starting some melons, cucs, and others things. I also reorganized my seed starting greenhouse. I’m using some very old shelving that I am a little worried about holding up (use what you got). I am so excited to be able to prepare for the garden!

[@linacabrera3172]

Hello, you are an amazing hard working family. May God continue blessing you👍🎈💕💕💕💕💕💕💕

[@mainenanabear9746]

Ohhh my CAROLINA CLAY! That stuff is so difficult. I remember when we first moved there, we had never seen anything like it. My kids had no idea it would stain clothes like it does AND didn't realize the cool things that can be created with it. Yes I definately miss NC and the weather there!

[@Taoss123KeyholeJourney]

Next time you put in fence posts or garden posts, try pouring the dry Quikcrete into the hole and adding water. Big time saver. Not recommended for structural work.

[@choirmom78]

My husband and I are working on improving our health. We're eating more whole foods and leaving off processed food. Also we are including intermittent fasting.

[@StoneKathryn]

Another thing that my husband and I are doing is to lift weights 3 times a week. We go up by 5 pounds every couple of weeks. It's supposed to help you age better. We of course carry 50 lb bags of feed to the barn too! We just want to be able to still take care of the property when we retire.

[@janetwithers7427]

All your family teamwork pays off for you all. And the baby goats are adorable. You are working Lacie tooo hard. 😁 💖

[@brendahogue5487]

Dealing with the rain

[@philipedwards8762]

Enjoyed the video. Never noticed that house in the background before!

[@evalinawarne1337]

Isn't it her parents home? Lacies

[@philipedwards8762]

@@evalinawarne1337 that would be my guess

[@MikeTheFitFarmer]

Nope just our neighbors.

[@PurePondering]

LOL Josiah got some goat kisses from Meg. So cute.

[@StoneKathryn]

I think she was trying to nibble his eyelashes!

[@wendyburston3132]

Josiah, you eat man!!! You're a growing boy-man.

[@Mindy56743]

Cleaning house. Can’t work outside today because it has rained most of the day. I am so happy it is spring time.

[@barbarabrand190]

I had BIG plans...but then my 3yo Jersey bull broke out of the corral. So my big plan changed and I had to reinforce, repair, and catch my Wally. He is a charmer. Went over the visit the teen ages in the neighbors yard. (My 12 month old girls waiting to be be bred in the fall.) The 3 baby mammas, one with a bull calf

[@barbarabrand190]

The 3 baby mommas were not happy. One as a 4 week old bull calf, Sassy Pants, was in the maternity ward and the other 2 are just to round to escape out of the damaged corral. My goats were angels staying put and watching the show. Wally came home with a little encouragement and bucket of grain.

[@emilydebary4738]

We're planting potatoes and making new raised bed garden boxes today along with helping the new billy goat settle in. Might even have to butcher the bully rooster. Love watching you and your family work!

[@charlesvickers4804]

Working on four duck domes with the bootstrap 12 ft

[@jenniferward5216]

Cody loves Josiah.

[@aarontopil1566]

Will you share a cliff notes version of your Starting a Homestead talk with those of us who can’t make the trek to Tennessee? Would love to here more on how you did it. Big fan of the channel. 🤙

[@GoFishOffice]

Looks like progress

[@TrippyMama03]

I love that y’all are so real. I’ve been interested in moving in a yurt and are working on it, an all I find is people that have the money to do anything and we don’t have that right now so this is refreshing y’all are like how I’m going to do it. Thanks so much I appreciate the authenticity y’all have. Definitely give me the hope we can do it and do it the way I plan to, reuse recycle, up cycle🤗🤘🏼🙏🏼🥰💗

[@annwithaplan9766]

Good job. I'm working on building a small chicken coop for my new baby chicks. Not going to put them in the same coop as the original flock. I let them play around inside the new coop while one side was still open and they loved it. It's costing me less than $100. in supplies, too. : )

[@StoneKathryn]

Can you share your plan? That sounds wonderful.

[@belieftransformation]

Great progress & nice editing, Lacey! Be easy on your wrists; us mamas have lots to look after that need mobile hands! Love that the kids help🤗❤️🇨🇦

[@bradfordcoleman5130]

I like seeing Laci help you with all the different types of work on y'all homestead. She is your helpmate like God intended for husband and wife to be and she is funny too when you give her orders and she makes a joke about it, hahaha

[@rebeccazody1278]

I love lopping! Second it my electric chipper. I am almost 69 and enjoy the activity. You are doing really good making improvements to your homestead. Human kids are adorable.

[@evalinawarne1337]

I am 68 Rebecca. My daughter is REBEKAH. Blessed birthday soon.

[@sandiraven6173]

I love watching your family dynamics. Your family is super awesome. Thank you for sharing your life with us.

[@llackey50]

Worked on preparing some raised garden beds here in Piedmont, NC.

[@kevingilbert6242]

We had a thunderstorms all day yesterday so I cleaned out the baby goat shelter and put in new hay. We were blessed with seven babies last week from our four nannies. Four doelings and three bucklings. They're now all bottle babies, I feel it makes them easier to handle when they're older, especially the does for milking. Also milked four nannies, one twice. She's giving us 3/4 of a gallon plus daily.

[@camicri4263]

Work, work, work....when you think you are done....there is another project! Well done you guys! 🤗

[@courtneyrbrown]

Today I’m working on building a 2nd raised bed to grow even more food this year! 😊

[@tiaponce1110]

Hey man! Today I raked up debris in the yard from cutting down a tree and canned 11 quarts of pasta sauce. On top of taking care of all my plant babies. Productive day! I feel you on that Carolina clay. About impossible sometimes!

[@roxannesykes415]

Missouri rocks here

[@deboraheversole1303]

Lol and sand in central Florida.

[@authorcharlieboring]

Today in northern VA I am tilling my garden plot with my electric cultivator. I also have a no-till garden where I plant green beans.

[@kenkrausse3624]

Rock steady

[@armidaperez5360]

Your hard work is really paying off your place is really coming together slowly but surely 👍

[@tomrausch7014]

You bought metal to make hoops? Maybe not in your area, but around me used 14 foot trampolines are just being given away. The legs can be cut down for the in ground tubes. Jumping surface as weed stop, gravel road underlayment or shade cloth. Many KZbin videos.

[@nancyhongthe1]

I filled my garden beds and prepared for planting. Now if only my starts would stop dying... it'll work out somehow.

[@jerrypearce5920]

Mike you are a man that likes to keep everybody busy haha. You remind me and my dad! 👍

[@laurakiffmeyer9221]

I'm working on menus for summer camps and watching you live the dream

[@annal3708]

I have just sowed the first seeds indoors, like peppers sweet peppers and onions and leaks. Greetings from northern Sweden. Perhaps not as cold as Alaska but definitely still several feet of snow.

[@lindaanderson5264]

I live in Idaho the weather is beautiful today I'm going to finish setting up my greenhouse and starting to plant my babies indoors.

[@MynewTennesseeHome]

I repotted some plants and seeded some new in my greenhouse and the regular livestock chores and a little youtubing, watching and posting😁 I have premier one too but my goats GI Joe belly crawl under the fence , they don't try to go over. I have to stake down between poles to keep them in.

[@MikeTheFitFarmer]

We have to do that for our ducks fence.

[@mystiarnold6405]

Sala, that was me at your age. I was always outside cuddling up with the animals enjoying the sun.

[@conniecashion6901]

working in the office , love watching your family

[@leroyfox753]

Where did you get that two man post hole digger/auger thingy? That thing is amazing!

[@MikeTheFitFarmer]

My dad has had it for years. ~ Lacie

[@leroyfox753]

@@MikeTheFitFarmer Thank you for the reply! It looked like a solid built tool. I'm going to be on the lookout for one.

[@wrightfamilyhomestead]

I fully believe Lacie can do anything!

[@thestilettogardener]

Lacey you are such an inspiration and the reason I watch this channel 💚

[@Chuck1929]

Great family farm. I love to see that you’re growing your farm.

[@deanlewis1650]

I try to remember... Use it up wear it out Make it do or do without

[@diannamc367]

That is a great deal on those tools Mike! I went through there shortly after I saw you speak and you must have already grabbed them!😅 I'm glad you are putting them to such good use!!!

[@mauriceryton]

Always something to do on a farm. Smart choice of the saws all. I use mine for the same task when needed.

[@stevenmills3]

You should not wash eggs the last 6 or 7 weeks un-refrigerated if you don’t wash the coating off the outside! Collect them more often and don’t let them sleep in the nestbox

[@MikeTheFitFarmer]

A lot of our eggs go to our clients who don't wish to buy dirty eggs.

[@bradfordcoleman5130]

I see just as you and Laci said that the land is mostly clay-type soil

[@kriskloeblen3670]

Always nice to see all the animals! Always something to clean up on a farm/homestead. You gotta keep it all tidy….

[@heatherkelley6393]

Lacie, that is the beginning of carpal tunnel. I'm going through the same thing.

[@jimmendenhall5507]

Well tomorrow I'm going to build my composting toilet and finish painting the bedroom.

[@deborahbentzinger7433]

Roof on rabbit pen extension.

[@jeaniepartridge6701]

Starting pepper seeds.