Dear Becky, I looked for a much newer video to reach out to you. It had been a while since I was researching chickens, we are now new chicken parents. Thank you for helping before and continuing to help my new journey so heading back into continued research. Just know that your weight loss as it is wonderful to your health doesn’t make you more relevant. You were always relevant. May God bless you beyond measure! In Christ, Heather
I am waching her for so many years, I have now an urban garden with 2 greenhouses in the middle of huge city in UK becouse of her and Garden Girl, Learned to make soap, pickles, save,etc.Lots of love Becky.:)
Thank you.....good advice......our driveway already goes through the middle of our property. Yep......we have hills! And a creek. In the approx 4 years since we've been here. ....chickens and a garden.....more importantly......a cleared road with water/erosion control. ....but yes.....good advice. Gots to take your time!.......the rain and heat this summer has taken a toll.......weeds etc.....even a power outage or two has us planning better control!.....
I have moved a driveway before. Constantly fixing a driveway is a huge pain that never goes away. I give general advice everyone has to make their own adjustments according to their property.☀️❤️☀️
Becky you are getting sweeter as you are getting older. I learned so much and benefited from your knowledge. You are an inspiration for so many. Love and respect from Pakistan.
Great advice! Right now we live in the city with a nice sized backyard. Since we've lived here with chickens and a garden, I love the idea of keeping the chickens and garden as close as they are to our house right now if we ever get a real homestead in the future. I love watching our chickens out the kitchen window! When they free range sometimes, they will sit on a perch we have outside the window waiting for a treat. I love it 😄 I would still want that experience in the country. And having the garden close is definitely helpful. It's both pretty and convenient.
I thank you for letting me know about the zoning aspects of Homesteading. I think you did one as well a couple of years ago. I just love it when you update everything that you do. And Becky, you look fantastic. I love your hair.
Hay Karen, thank you for being a member. I like to do updates, because we never stop learning. We have learned a lot and are going to share it all with you.☀️❤️☀️
Beautiful as well as functional has been my goal with setting up my chicken run & coop and garden and permaculture edible forest areas. Sustainable zones. Great concepts!
It takes one to know one = BEAUTIFUL Becky! Thanks 4 the practical and 'common sense' vid. I think we 'want' above our needs and in no time swamp ourselves. So the very thing we could enjoy ends up being something we soon want to sell and get out of...WHAT a waste! I appreciate how U 'slow us down' in your sage advice. Not many care out there...but U 'definitely' want people 2 enjoy what U R experiencing = true to self homesteading. As U say Becky, U can always buy more later...whoa down! Your place looks soOOOoo homey. I am happy 4 U. Your 'kind of infectious/positive spirit' deserves an oasis...such as yours! WELL DONE! Health and God Bless! :)
Thanks Marie, I can’t stand the spoiled want, want, want, more, more, more, now, now, now attitude. Like some how people are missing out. When what they are really missing out on is a calm, peaceful life. ☀️❤️☀️
Such great advice! Love how you break it down into zones. You are bang on about the pastures, so many make the mistake of overloading them so they aren't sustaining. Stay awesome! 💟☀🌈
My grandmother had a few chickens, a few cows n a goat , she work very hard, she loved her little Fram, But To much can be hard on a family , you're right.
The number of people I know who jumped in without planning is amazing. Hopefully, others will watch your video beforehand. Also, this was a beautifully shot video. A screenshot from this video would make a wonderful computer wallpaper.
Hey Becky thank you for the video and I understand what you mean there that's for sure and I agree because I watch Stony ridge farmer I don't know if he ever heard of him that's his CZcams channel I've been watching what he's been doing on his farm
Thank you, you've helped us learn so much! We've been looking for a year. Haven't found the place that's pleasing to our eyes yet but you put into words what we've been looking for.
100%! Zones and planning in REALITY is so important. It's easy to get excited & get ahead of yourself. I know people that have too many animals for the land they have. It's dirt! Nasty, dirty, maintenance heavy, & smelly. You can muck poop, but the urine soaks into the ground. It's nasty! I don't recommend. A way to help with smaller homesteads & "pasture" are mobile fencing options (like Premier 1) that can be moved across "lawns" and garden plots. Yes, respect your Zones, but it can provide flexibility. I personally have diversity in "pasture" area because I live in a seasonal area. #1 is some type of permanent structure or area, like a barn with a joining barn yard. But I don't depend on housing my animals there 100% of the time due to over soiling & eventually parasites. Even for chickens. Therefore, in good weather seasons, I provide 2 options, traditional pasture & mobile "pasture". I personally used mobile pasture before I installed permanent fencing for my permanent pasture. Mobile allows my permanent areas to rest, be cleaned, and to use ALL resources for animal feed. It does require input, but so does mucking out any permanent area. So it's a trade off.
Thank you I have learned the hard way And had alot of lost trying to find the right animals I love the chicken s and ducks have had foxes to get them causing me alot of sadness
Build a better coop and run. Get a good farm dog. God knows everyone has a lazy pet dog that lives inside and does nothing. People need working dogs. Trust me the dog is much happier living outside. ☀️❤️☀️
Love it! There’s a gentleman by the name of Greg Judy whom is an expert on pasture management. He runs cattle and sheep. It is a science in itself as there are parasite cycles to break, optimum plant height, paddock size and rotating etc…etc…etc…We already have the hens In our urban backyard and totally enjoy them. When we move in a couple years, we plan on maybe a single mini Jersey cow and a couple weened grower ram lambs to eventually “develop” our 4 acres of very weedy agricultural zoned tropical rainforest land
The one true answer is people need to have way less of everything to be sustainable. People are such greedy hoarders. Look at the size of houses, cars, trucks. Look at all the storage units. That is just crazy and nobody needs all that. ☀️❤️☀️
A series about the individual zones and going deep into information about them all would be very helpful to people like me planning out their property!
I used an arial photo to plan mine as there was already a house and 2 buildings on the property. I used that to scale the rest making sure I had enough space for my fruit trees, chickens, garden, and additional greenhouses. I invited like minded people over to see what I was thinking about and I asked for some suggestions. Another set of eyes is really helpful to see layout problems because we are all biased towards our own design. I fenced around the garden then put the fence for the chicken yard around that. The chickens patrol around the entire parameter of the garden in the garden season and they have free reign of the garden all winter to fertilize and eat it down to the ground.
Hi Becky, very informative video, helpful. Any advice on how should I plant several fruit trees in my lawn? I know they need plenty of sun, but I have no idea how to decide about their location, in the middle of lawn, around, or in zig zag pattern? I want to see them from my kitchen windows and to be complementary to my yard, not in the way. I'd love your opinion on small trees or bushes fruity and flowery.
I would say, less is more, start with your favorite two fruit trees, give them plenty of room and plant them back away from the house as far as you can in a sunny spot. Then a bit closer to the house plant berry bushes, again not to many and give them room. Get all that going good and producing well, then consider more if you want more☀️❤️☀️
FL is 99% sand, swampy with lots of swampy bugs and snakes and stuff and lots of humidity. People flocked here but tons move “half back” to TN, GA, Carolina’s and what not. Lots of people leap before they look. ☀️❤️☀️
Hey Becky☺I'd like to know why some "off the grid communities" have outside kitchens after they build a kitchen in the main house? Thanks for the info "I've been absorbing" off the grid living video's for myself💌
I don’t know what they are baking, cooking or how much. I have a well insulated cabin and use a Quisinart oven and a one ring induction cook top. Again go small. Also I don’t live off grid. To be perfectly honest I have always been a minimalist not an extremist. ☀️❤️☀️
Thank you so much! I am currently looking for acreage to start my homestead and not sure what I need. Do I buy land with some terrain changes for character (live in south so it's mostly flat and hard to find)? Or what shape am I looking for? Where do I need to place everything, etc.?
You are always RIGHT!!! 😊and I’m working on it.. I’m in the buying of the hay in my zone 3 and I try to move my chicken house over 1 similar size space every day to a fresh spot as I am successfully raising my 4th generation of Cornish hen chicks given to me (25 chicks) 1st, 2nd 3rd generation roost in a large leafy bush and the egg laying house is surprisingly empty at night but during the day I gather a doz eggs every afternoon so zone 2 is very busy but clean or manageable (I have no idea what to do for the winter in zone 2) please help with winter ideas for zone 2 watering the grass to wash it isn’t going to work in winter .. I will try to cull the baby roosters but because of these days I was wanting to keep the hens … How do you organize and manage in winter Becky !?! Please help - more videos please!!! 😁♥️♥️♥️
@@BeckysHomestead yes, being logical will bring success need to cull.. so hard now when they are cute babies, I should have never said yes to take them on.. Cornish are a huge amount of work and they have to be in fresh grass or you get overwhelmed in a mess.. They are like kids in a playground now but that is the benefit of summer.. The learning experience must be that and end very soon.. THANK YOU !!! 🤗
Yeah, you have a way of saying things that makes everything sound like an accusation, like only you know the right way. Lot of common sense here, that I can't imagine people needing to hear.
It’s so nice but wondering why there’s only one pig. He looks so lonely. No animal likes to be alone. I’m not sure how people can get attached to their animals and slaughter them though. At least it seems more humane than factory farms but animals want to live freely and be loved.
You are a wealth of knowledge so much food for thought please keep sharing..thank you for this video ❤️ Blessings 💗
I will, I love to Homestead and hope I spark a fire in others.☀️❤️☀️
Becky, while you were talking about zones, I was admiring your cabin logs. Warm & mellow! That’s one cozy corner. How about an updated cabin tour?
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@@BeckysHomesteadmaybe a zone tour as well?
Dear Becky,
I looked for a much newer video to reach out to you. It had been a while since I was researching chickens, we are now new chicken parents.
Thank you for helping before and continuing to help my new journey so heading back into continued research.
Just know that your weight loss as it is wonderful to your health doesn’t make you more relevant. You were always relevant.
May God bless you beyond measure!
In Christ,
Heather
I am waching her for so many years, I have now an urban garden with 2 greenhouses in the middle of huge city in UK becouse of her and Garden Girl, Learned to make soap, pickles, save,etc.Lots of love Becky.:)
Thank you.....good advice......our driveway already goes through the middle of our property. Yep......we have hills! And a creek. In the approx 4 years since we've been here. ....chickens and a garden.....more importantly......a cleared road with water/erosion control. ....but yes.....good advice. Gots to take your time!.......the rain and heat this summer has taken a toll.......weeds etc.....even a power outage or two has us planning better control!.....
I have moved a driveway before. Constantly fixing a driveway is a huge pain that never goes away. I give general advice everyone has to make their own adjustments according to their property.☀️❤️☀️
Becky you are getting sweeter as you are getting older. I learned so much and benefited from your knowledge. You are an inspiration for so many. Love and respect from Pakistan.
Great advice! Right now we live in the city with a nice sized backyard. Since we've lived here with chickens and a garden, I love the idea of keeping the chickens and garden as close as they are to our house right now if we ever get a real homestead in the future. I love watching our chickens out the kitchen window! When they free range sometimes, they will sit on a perch we have outside the window waiting for a treat. I love it 😄 I would still want that experience in the country. And having the garden close is definitely helpful. It's both pretty and convenient.
Oh ya, both pretty and functional. That’s the good life☀️❤️☀️
I need this video
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Perfect timing .. we are resetting our homestead this fall .
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Becky haven’t seen you in a wile. Pray you are doing well
I thank you for letting me know about the zoning aspects of Homesteading. I think you did one
as well a couple of years ago. I just love it when you update everything that you do. And Becky, you look fantastic. I love your hair.
Hay Karen, thank you for being a member. I like to do updates, because we never stop learning. We have learned a lot and are going to share it all with you.☀️❤️☀️
@@BeckysHomestead I am so willing to learn about anything you
put out there regarding homesteads. Thank you 😊 💓
Great tips maybe to a diagram or overhead shot to see your layout. Tx, love your videos, keep sharing, maybe do some shorts? It inspires me.😊
Beautiful as well as functional has been my goal with setting up my chicken run & coop and garden and permaculture edible forest areas. Sustainable zones. Great concepts!
Another great video Becky. Always good to see your videos. I look forward to them. All The Best and a Happy Autumn Season to you.
Thank you, you too☀️❤️☀️
It takes one to know one = BEAUTIFUL Becky! Thanks 4 the practical and 'common sense' vid. I think we 'want' above our needs and in no time swamp ourselves. So the very thing we could enjoy ends up being something we soon want to sell and get out of...WHAT a waste! I appreciate how U 'slow us down' in your sage advice. Not many care out there...but U 'definitely' want people 2 enjoy what U R experiencing = true to self homesteading. As U say Becky, U can always buy more later...whoa down! Your place looks soOOOoo homey. I am happy 4 U. Your 'kind of infectious/positive spirit' deserves an oasis...such as yours! WELL DONE! Health and God Bless! :)
Thanks Marie, I can’t stand the spoiled want, want, want, more, more, more, now, now, now attitude.
Like some how people are missing out. When what they are really missing out on is a calm, peaceful life. ☀️❤️☀️
Such great advice! Love how you break it down into zones. You are bang on about the pastures, so many make the mistake of overloading them so they aren't sustaining. Stay awesome! 💟☀🌈
Lot’s of people have hoarding problems which is the opposite of sustainable.☀️❤️☀️
You look so pretty!! Thank you for your videos!!!!
Your so welcome and kind☀️❤️☀️
Would love to see how your zones are situated on paper. ❤❤❤ Love and missed your videos!
My grandmother had a few chickens, a few cows n a goat , she work very hard, she loved her little Fram, But To much can be hard on a family , you're right.
To much turns the dream into a nightmare. ☀️❤️☀️
Thanks Becky for good common homestead sense. Using a Zones 1-3 Layout will be put into practice. 👍🏾
Just remember start small, you can always add more later if you really need it. ☀️❤️☀️
@@BeckysHomestead Yes
The number of people I know who jumped in without planning is amazing. Hopefully, others will watch your video beforehand. Also, this was a beautifully shot video. A screenshot from this video would make a wonderful computer wallpaper.
Hahaha thanks. Also maybe share the video, because it’s never too late to make adjustments.☀️❤️☀️
Hi Becky I love your video about your homestead and how to make your homestead
There is a lot to think about to get a good homestead up and running, but it is worth it.☀️❤️☀️
You're so adorable. Brave and innovative too🥰
Thanks☀️❤️☀️
Good advice, would've loved to see examples like your homestead
Hello how are you doing?
Good information! If you fail to plan you plain to fail
Hahaha good one. We never wing it.
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Good video and advice , think you have a great blessed day AMEN .
Thanks☀️❤️☀️
Hey Becky thank you for the video and I understand what you mean there that's for sure and I agree because I watch Stony ridge farmer I don't know if he ever heard of him that's his CZcams channel I've been watching what he's been doing on his farm
Thank you for this!!!! Btw,you look FABULOUS!!!!
Hahaha thank you☀️❤️☀️
Thank you, you've helped us learn so much! We've been looking for a year. Haven't found the place that's pleasing to our eyes yet but you put into words what we've been looking for.
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You inspire me so much. And look at how happy and healthy you look. Love it.
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100%! Zones and planning in REALITY is so important. It's easy to get excited & get ahead of yourself.
I know people that have too many animals for the land they have. It's dirt! Nasty, dirty, maintenance heavy, & smelly. You can muck poop, but the urine soaks into the ground. It's nasty! I don't recommend.
A way to help with smaller homesteads & "pasture" are mobile fencing options (like Premier 1) that can be moved across "lawns" and garden plots. Yes, respect your Zones, but it can provide flexibility.
I personally have diversity in "pasture" area because I live in a seasonal area.
#1 is some type of permanent structure or area, like a barn with a joining barn yard. But I don't depend on housing my animals there 100% of the time due to over soiling & eventually parasites. Even for chickens. Therefore, in good weather seasons, I provide 2 options, traditional pasture & mobile "pasture".
I personally used mobile pasture before I installed permanent fencing for my permanent pasture.
Mobile allows my permanent areas to rest, be cleaned, and to use ALL resources for animal feed.
It does require input, but so does mucking out any permanent area. So it's a trade off.
The best video so far! Thank you!
Thanks☀️❤️☀️
I'm a huge fan of that lamp behind you
Thanks, it’s vintage. I love old lamps
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Hi Becky, thank you for sharing this awesome advice and information 🌻
Your welcome☀️❤️☀️
Love that a dumbstead. 😂 too cute. Yes lay out is so crucial
We have all seen them. That is not what I’m going for. Homestead Park is the name of this property for a reason.
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So import. Thank you for sharing
amazing guidelines
All to benefit others☀️❤️☀️
Thank you!❤
Would have loved some visuals with this video. But thanks for the interesting and great info 👍🙂
As a Floridian, you should talk about preparing your homestead for a hurricane.
Thank you I have learned the hard way
And had alot of lost trying to find the right animals
I love the chicken s and ducks have had foxes to get them causing me alot of sadness
Build a better coop and run. Get a good farm dog. God knows everyone has a lazy pet dog that lives inside and does nothing. People need working dogs. Trust me the dog is much happier living outside.
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Very good.
Your home looks amazing- would you ever do a home tour?
Yes I can, but sometimes I hate to show to much. I like my privacy too.
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miss your videos !! Hope you are well !!
Right
great advice, thanks
Love it! There’s a gentleman by the name of Greg Judy whom is an expert on pasture management. He runs cattle and sheep. It is a science in itself as there are parasite cycles to break, optimum plant height, paddock size and rotating etc…etc…etc…We already have the hens In our urban backyard and totally enjoy them. When we move in a couple years, we plan on maybe a single mini Jersey cow and a couple weened grower ram lambs to eventually “develop” our 4 acres of very weedy agricultural zoned tropical rainforest land
The one true answer is people need to have way less of everything to be sustainable. People are such greedy hoarders. Look at the size of houses, cars, trucks. Look at all the storage units. That is just crazy and nobody needs all that. ☀️❤️☀️
@@BeckysHomestead amen, Becky!!!
Thank you Becky it is always enjoyable to learn from you and all the great info you share with us! God Bless.
A series about the individual zones and going deep into information about them all would be very helpful to people like me planning out their property!
I used an arial photo to plan mine as there was already a house and 2 buildings on the property. I used that to scale the rest making sure I had enough space for my fruit trees, chickens, garden, and additional greenhouses. I invited like minded people over to see what I was thinking about and I asked for some suggestions. Another set of eyes is really helpful to see layout problems because we are all biased towards our own design. I fenced around the garden then put the fence for the chicken yard around that. The chickens patrol around the entire parameter of the garden in the garden season and they have free reign of the garden all winter to fertilize and eat it down to the ground.
Thank you for the information.
🇨🇳Biden🇨🇳 for Prisonerdent 2023
Yayyy something other than another chicken video😊
Haha all the chickens need my help
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Becky I really love that green lamp in this video! Love your chicken videos!
Nice video.
Thank you very much I have applied many of your ideas to my channel
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HOLA, SALUDOS DE PUEBLA, MEXICO.
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Omgosh, is that puppy dog new?
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Hi Becky, very informative video, helpful.
Any advice on how should I plant several fruit trees in my lawn? I know they need plenty of sun, but I have no idea how to decide about their location, in the middle of lawn, around, or in zig zag pattern? I want to see them from my kitchen windows and to be complementary to my yard, not in the way.
I'd love your opinion on small trees or bushes fruity and flowery.
I would say, less is more, start with your favorite two fruit trees, give them plenty of room and plant them back away from the house as far as you can in a sunny spot. Then a bit closer to the house plant berry bushes, again not to many and give them room. Get all that going good and producing well, then consider more if you want more☀️❤️☀️
I just moved to Florida and the ground is so sandy. How have you grown pasture where you are?
FL is 99% sand, swampy with lots of swampy bugs and snakes and stuff and lots of humidity. People flocked here but tons move “half back” to TN, GA, Carolina’s and what not. Lots of people leap before they look.
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Hey Becky☺I'd like to know why some "off the grid communities" have outside kitchens after they build a kitchen in the main house? Thanks for the info "I've been absorbing" off the grid living video's for myself💌
Heat. Indoor kitchens in the south can get far too hot in the summer.
I don’t know what they are baking, cooking or how much. I have a well insulated cabin and use a Quisinart oven and a one ring induction cook top. Again go small. Also I don’t live off grid. To be perfectly honest I have always been a minimalist not an extremist. ☀️❤️☀️
@@BeckysHomestead thank you...so less is more maintable💌
Thank you so much! I am currently looking for acreage to start my homestead and not sure what I need. Do I buy land with some terrain changes for character (live in south so it's mostly flat and hard to find)? Or what shape am I looking for? Where do I need to place everything, etc.?
You are always RIGHT!!! 😊and I’m working on it.. I’m in the buying of the hay in my zone 3 and I try to move my chicken house over 1 similar size space every day to a fresh spot as I am successfully raising my 4th generation of Cornish hen chicks given to me (25 chicks) 1st, 2nd 3rd generation roost in a large leafy bush and the egg laying house is surprisingly empty at night but during the day I gather a doz eggs every afternoon so zone 2 is very busy but clean or manageable (I have no idea what to do for the winter in zone 2) please help with winter ideas for zone 2 watering the grass to wash it isn’t going to work in winter .. I will try to cull the baby roosters but because of these days I was wanting to keep the hens … How do you organize and manage in winter Becky !?! Please help - more videos please!!! 😁♥️♥️♥️
Step one scale down, you clearly have too much for the size of your property. It is not sustainable.
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@@BeckysHomestead yes, being logical will bring success need to cull.. so hard now when they are cute babies, I should have never said yes to take them on.. Cornish are a huge amount of work and they have to be in fresh grass or you get overwhelmed in a mess.. They are like kids in a playground now but that is the benefit of summer.. The learning experience must be that and end very soon.. THANK YOU !!! 🤗
@@gwendolyne5115 If I was near you,I would have bought those baby roosters from you.
@@honeybadger8942 wish you could be near too 👍 we would have a deal and a nice friendship
Can you redo this post updated with more information like a visual information please please please❤❤❤
Will egg hatch, if Roaster r remove, when hen start laying.
You have to have a rooster for your hens to lay fertile eggs that will hatch. 🍀
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Did you start out with chicken then the pig?
Yes, but Neil is not a meat hog, he is a pot belly pet. A friend gave him to me years ago☀️❤️☀️
Hi,I would like to work the Homestead with you,,do need a Volunteer??
Yeah, you have a way of saying things that makes everything sound like an accusation, like only you know the right way. Lot of common sense here, that I can't imagine people needing to hear.
Dumpstead 😂
It’s so nice but wondering why there’s only one pig.
He looks so lonely. No animal likes to be alone. I’m not sure how people can get attached to their animals and slaughter them though. At least it seems more humane than factory farms but animals want to live freely and be loved.
you where much prettier without tattoos
I think if you plucked your eyebrows youll look younger