I’m so excited to show you what we are doing on our 2.5 acre homestead. It’s been a journey from the city to the farm, but after 6 years we now have livestock, an orchard, a garden, and an apiary. We are producing most of our own meat and much of our own vegetables. We are becoming more self-sustaining. There’s so much more to learn and accomplish, but I’m at the point now where I feel like we are actually doing it! Thank you for coming along with me on this journey. 🙂
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Could you point me to a video of you explaining the logistics behind the cows? I thought that 2.5 acres would barely be enough for one cow but you have like 6. I'd be interested to see what the thinking is behind that
Great Homestead!
awesome vid!
2.5 acres, enough space to do many things.
Did you "dig" that well yourself? (the two of you?) … I want to do that for my future farm but I am sure the height of the water table is the issue … and also the health of the water (human level).
Nice bee on your shoulder 🙂 … well done.
At 1:22 there's a bee on her shoulder. I thought that was super cute! Then I noticed that her shirt is all flowers! That explains the confused bee!!! Lol! Thanks so much for sharing your homestead with us!!!
Thank you for sharing your beautiful homestead. We just bought two acres and we are so excited.
I'm thinking about doing bee keeping for a sustainable project. Is it true the honey being harvested are warm/hot to a degree? So does that mean the hive itself is warm? Thanks!
Oh I forgot, the beef cattles. Since you have 2.5 acres, I heard its 1.5 acre per cattle, how is it possible you have more than 2 there? Is it just a myth? Growing sustainably to sustain the cattle how'd you do it with 2.5 acres? Or maybe 1 acre?
What is that spinning thing you werebusing with your honey?
Love it. We have been gardening for a few years and now will try a few dual purpose chickens. Been following Joel Salatin, Rhodes, living traditions, a bunch of others,…hope to see you at homesteaders of America conference in va this October…driving from Pittsburgh 😃🌈🤙
Better late than never; I congratulate you for the good work. Watching from Kenya
what's the breed of your cows?
It’s fun to watch you guys! Adventurous!
Butcher fee? All you need is a good cool morning and a few helping hands.
The tour was interesting. We're moving on to 2.3 acres and it both seemed huge after little tiny city lots and small compared to so many of these other homesteaders. We're thinking goats, not beef because so far we don't have a ton of grass here in our part of Southern Utah, so all your grass looks amazing.
I want to live this life sooooo bad
I love the tour! Thank you for showing. I'm a little confused how you have so many cow pastures on only 2.5 acres?
I am wondering, as you talk about butchering the cows at a facility, As a family that hunts, what would be the difference for us to butcher the beef ourselves and save the expense? We do this anyway with any large game we harvest.
Amazing
Wow, just ran into your channel through Liz. I love what you are doing unfortunately I live farther north in the PNW. This shorter season is really limiting. However I do have a question. How did you figure out how to sell your eggs? I love chickens and have had them before. Last flock, the coyotes got them. The electric portable sheep fencing we were using fell down. 🙁 Do you have to deal with them? Thanks for your thoughts?
Very impressive farm. We live in Southwest Missouri on 1.95 acres that we bought in December 2019. Last year we planted 180 tomato plants (I don't plan on doing that again!), plus cucumbers, zucchini, yellow straight neck squash, Illinois squash, bell peppers, jalapenos, watermelon, green beans and onions. I'm excited to follow you on your journey again this year.
So fun to find you & your channel via Liz Zorab's channel! 🥳
I'm in Long Beach, California and want my family & I to get the heck outta here & up to Washington state to do just what you're doing! For now it's Urban Gardening 🤷♀️
I also found your Insta page and look forward to following!😊
I'm over @the.joy.of.dirt on Instagram 👩🌾
PS…❤ your homestead & the tour!
Just found you thru Liz! I am impressed by how level all the tops of the t-posts for your trellises are. Lol. Looking forward to your channel.
Ive just found you with the help from Liz Z channel. Byther Farm and find you so enjoyable to watch.
Im just starting out in a few months time a new adventure on a small holding in Cornwall UK 🇬🇧. My land is only 3.6 acres. And only a small part of it turned over to growing veg. ( 0.13of an acres) i hope to be opening a summer camp site for a handful of tents. Im not planning to raise meat to eat but do have chickens for eggs that will move with me. Also hoping to have a few ducks, a couple of pet pigs, have a hive just need some Bees, maybe 3 alpacas for walking with.
What are the posts you have towards the end of your video in your veg garden pls.
I use to have 3 acres & loved everything about it, I raised rabbits to sell & that
I spent 15 years doing, But ended up losing everything in the housing market crash
of 08 & haven't been able to get another piece of land since. Now we're in our mid
60's & 70's & JUST NOW GETTING on our feet & if everything goes right we hope
to have enough $ & energy to find us some land like we had @ 1 time but I doubt it.
you have a big cattle herd, how is this possible with 2,5 acres… or do you have extra land for them?
wow this is amazing!!!! great job! did you order a hand pump kit? if so can you tell me where! what a great idea.
I found your channel by watching Living Traditions. We only have 2 acres in the southeast Missouri bootheel area & are just beginning to homestead. Actually, we're in the process of building a house on it & are currently still living in town. I was thinking since we don't have much land that we wouldn't be able to have cows, so we were looking at getting a couple dairy goats instead. I thought about Nubian does & breeding them with a meat goat buck since we could also grow the kids out for meat. Still doing research though. We were wanting to try to cut down on feed costs for our chickens we already have & the goats, pigs, & rabbits we want to get when we finally get to move onto our property. I'm thinking if we have cows it would cut down on land used for pasture &/or to grow food for the animals. I'd appreciate your thoughts. Thanks.
G'day from South Australia! We met on Farmstead smiths Live. I wanted to come over watch and sub. Awesome intro and contracts on what you have done- its hard work lol 🙂
Well done. Im not a fan of your chicken tractor design but love the pigs, cows, orchard, n super veggie garden.
You're doing great! Are you guys still working regular jobs too?
We're in northwest Arkansas, still in a suburban area, but we have a half acre – doing what we can here! 🌳🌱🌳🌱😁
Ten seconds into the video and I had to stop… hit the like button and subscribe. Best wishes from the U.K.! 👍
Good video. We are relocating to Indiana an old farm house on 2.5 acres. Has a barn and some fencing for paddocks. I don't know if I could do all that you have but nice to see what is possible.
Cruel ppl everything growing to sloughter
wow so many small homesteaders say 5 acres is just small enough and they usually plan to upgrade land within a few years. Seeing your 2.5 acre homestead with so much variety is awesome!! I was looking for larger places but I think I will try 2-3 acres for our next home. We have rabbits and chickens right now. Can't wait to get more land!
super great job…. everything looks wonderful. love the bee on your shirt too cute. pammie from chicago il