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I spent over half of my life teaching the inner city how to grow their own food, I'm in my 60's now and it delights me to see, young, knowledgeable folks as yourselves putting out the info!
Hard for yall to see all the comments, but I speak for a ton of us when I say, we love to see both of you on camera!!
Stop timing yourself. Enjoy the work as much as we do watching. It motivates me as I am disabled and limited to a small Poly tunnel, flower garden and grass patch, but enjoying every minute. My favorite time to talk to God is when weeding and caring for the garden. Just so thankful that I can.🤗🙏🏽
Hi Rebecca. We love seeing you on with Evan. It’s nice to see a husband and wife helping one another. You really do a lot of work on the farm besides the hard job of being a nurse.
We are here for you Evan. Keep on growing that good life !
Hi.... Evan and Rebecca nice to see you both Love watching your video homestead beautiful great good job BYE 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋👍👍👍
Evan, you could make a giant windchime, out of the cut off pieces of pipe, and paint it.
Wow, that's so satisfying. Your work has paid off well. Let's see some happy livestock!!😊
Rebeca I enjoy seeing you and listening to your voice. Stay in the videos. 🎉
It's so great that your on the farm full time
Really enjoy your videos
How about using some “extra” oil field pipe to build a pipe rack to hold the “good” pipe?
Just a thought.
I worked on a sheep ranch out west some years ago. I enjoyed it except for
roundup time because we would gather all the sheep together in a giant
pen then let them out a gate one by one and we had to count them to know
how big our flock was, except every time I started to count them, I would fall
asleep.
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Again nice to see you back maté great video and like I always say all the best to you all. You two are so amazing together what a team it’s just like my Wife and I as she looks after me with my medicine as I’m peg feed and all my medicine too as I’ve gone through the Big (C) can I say we would be lost without a great Woman to look after us Men…
I love watching your videos. As a 'city boy" I always wanted to be on a farm. American farmers=the backbone of America!
Love the names sausage biscuits and gravy! Um Um!
Hi Rebecca we love see you on camera and I Don't judge anything now some people might but please do not take them fools to heart ok and get ready for a lot rain soon
Yeah Rebecca, you are awesome, we love seeing you with Evan and your support at crucial times is just awesome. NO need to be shy with us we love ya.
JudithB I checked the garden this am after Beryl blew thru last night. It looks fine, and I am leaning toward not planting until July except for the transplants. Seems to be less bug issues!!! I have a few branches down and a big empty rabbit cage blew over. I plan to salvage the hardware and mesh wire as I take the cages apart. May repair the quail cage tho. Your farm is lookng great and you ought to smoke some of those turkeys!!!! YUM!!
Just a small suggestion. Try putting bullodog clips on your jumper wire so you don't have to worry with knots.
A diversion above your garden would do wonders.
Hello Evan Rebecca enjoyed your video. Thats alot water not good. Have a great day.
i enjoy all the vids u 2 make thx guys cheers from alberta
Keep an eye on your livestock while grazing Sorghum Sudan grasses. Pull them before the grass gets below 12 to 18 inches to avoid Nitrate issues.Also in times of stress you need to be careful with Prussic Acid. In Texas we plant Sorghum Sudan every year for making hay. The grass will make them fat quick.
I was going to write the same comment. Mostly we never grazed this combo but cut it for hay. I also worry a bit about the potential of excess nitrogen fertilizer and the nitrate issues? Be careful.
yes i wrote when he planted and again when he fertilized to be careful !!! they make a crystal that you mix( dont remember what chems it is) that will neutralize the poisons in a drench
Yes and you can’t give them too much area at a time.
I posted the same without seeing your post. Hope you and the family are doing well. How's your haying, we have had a severe drought and my hay is minimal after they cut our irrigation water.
@@southtexashay777 Thanks. Those droughts are tough. The last 2 1/2 years were brutal in north Texas but looks like we are out of it for now. That irrigation setup you have is awesome, sad to hear they are rationing already. We should get 2nd cut in early August. Hope all is well with you and your family.
You might cut a swale just uphill of the garden to divert water around it. Also, a couple of cross-grade swales in the garden might distribute and hold up some of the water and give it more time to soak into the soil. If the hardpan under the garden is mostly low-permeability clay, you might consider drilling some vertical holes on a pattern using your post-hole auger and fill them with porous, sandy soil up to the level of the hard pan. That would capture more of the water and give it time to soak into the surrounding soil.
I just learned a new word, swale. I looked it up, that’s exactly what he needs, but the grass may overtake his garden.
It's nice seeing You 2 working together ! Those pastures are very nice for grazing !! I LOVE YOU BOTH !!! 🥰 🥰
Any time we introduced water to a fridge/freezer the result was rust. Hope you are luckier. You sure seem relaxed with no time constraints on work. You're adjust well. 👍👍👍
I think it’s the first time I’ve seen Rebecca without her MOAB cap on!!!!!
You should try to look up grazing fense tumbeling wheel... it would be a smart fence solution
Put some straw bales on the outside high side of your garden fence to keep it from washing
2:14 next season you can instead plant it by blocks and leave the paths for the electric fences.
Sand bags for the garden. Onward!
You are so well equipped. Looking very good.
Great Job guys!!
If you dig a small gulley just outside of the fence at the top of your garden you'll prevent any future washout. Only needs to be about a spade depth and width. Partly fill it with gravel and your veggies should be safe from heavy rain falls.
Hi Evan, how about a swale along the top part of the garden to drain the water away, or to hold the water to slowly feed down through the ground.
You too are doing just great being yourself on the program. Don’t change a thing. 🙂
Can you somehow line up the cut ends and create raised flower beds? Seems like they would last forever. Or weld five together of varying heights and create flower displays? 👍👍👍
wow, that crop is crazy. Looks like corn growing. But corn is just a variety of grass so....
some of my best sheep were born in Dec. an Jan
Might consider putting vegetable oil in your one gallon sprayer instead of water when you mix your spray. It will last longer, smell better to them and actually make their coats shine.
Rebecca is awsome! She should not be camera shy. It is great you have a wife who will work along side you! Loving the longer and more frequent videos. Keep up the good work.
Love the pig names. Rebecca, it's nice seeing you helping out!
I love the piggy's names. Of course I love sausage gravy and biscuits just about any time.😊
Divert the rainwater until you can regrade the garden. Working out a new daily schedule for chores is part of the change.
Love the pigs names.
YAY. REBECCA IS WEARING BOOTS. Are they the right size/ or did you give her yours Evan? GREAT Video, animals, fences, pastures, pipes, Rebecca, Evan,... well done!
On your garden from your last video, make the fencing into panels, then drill holes, place bigger pvc pipe in holes and place your post in the pvc pipe. Then screw you fence panels to the post. Same look as before and removable. Looking good as a retiree!!!! Thanks for you journey.
Hottest summer we've had in awhile here too PA.
Ohio as well, 90° today
Your cows seemed to be enjoying the new food sources. MMMM, Biscuits and gravy, Getting my plate and utensils ready. LOL.
Breakfast pigs! Sausage, biscuit and gravy... LOL...
❤❤❤ greetings from Viet Nam ❤❤❤❤
Rebecca, you may be camera shy, but it is such a joy watching both of you work together on your beautiful farm. ❤
My wife is shy as well and doesn’t make any appearances on my CZcams channel as well!
Maybe use the short pieces of pipe to weld together to make a pipe storage rack off the end of the work garage.
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Yes, we love you Rebecca. Don't be shy. Your a huge help to your hubby ❤
I need some forage its called SASAFRAS ROOTS!
Make. Sure that you have a dry grass hay available to them to help them balance their diet
Thank you Evan and Rebekah! Your farm is beautiful! Always enjoy your channel!
Take the pipe not fit for fence post and make a pipe rack.you will always be using pipe so it would be nice to have a good place to keep it off the ground.
Its the nutritional value you added by fertilizing. Watch out for your sheep when there's excess nitrogen in the soil.
Nice job with the animals , team work makes the dream work ! Awesome looking pasture too 😊🙏👍❤️
Thanks for posting Evan
That plasma cutter makes short work of cutting that pipe. I was thinking as your sheep flock grows, if it wouldn't be easier to have some border collies, that are trained to round them up for you, and maybe be watch dogs as well. Having retired from your other full time job, it has got to be easier to get things done around the farm, and not feel like you're always behind on things around the farm, but with so much to do, that probably comes with the farming life I'm thinking. I love me some lamb chops, and learned to like them after spending some time on several occasions over in the Middle East, since they seem to have more of that than beef. I miss seeing you all fishing in the pond, but guess with that duck weed and the fish kill, it makes it harder to fish and there aren't many in there and those that are still in there are probably not very big. I always liked fishing in farm ponds for big bass and blue gill, unless the pond had some crappie in it.
Hi Evan, your crop looks nice
Looked nice.
You are welcome evan
Great job, and good to see you both.
If your garden is on an incline your garden should be perpendicular to the incline and should have a ditch above it to slow down excessive excessive rainfall. At the least, if you have washout, it will only take out a few plants and not a whole row.
Enjoyed watching you and Rebecca in this video. Thank you for sharing. Have a great rest of your week.
Watch my babies with the sudan grass forage. Great video!
If you find extra time on your hands, you could try and forge something out of the smaller pieces of pipe and sell it for extra income. Doesn’t have to be anything extravagant, something simple or find someone local and partner with them to forge something out of the pipe.
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Was thinking last time you put them in the ground it was hard so if you make it a pointed end by cutting two sides off it would be like a stake and go in easier just a thought
You are getting into a routine now you are full time. Well done.
You should make some giant wind chimes with the scrap pipe😂
Maybe you could provide an update and stats on the solar system performance.
Evans. Research Prussic acid. You have to be careful with sorghum
from my understanding prussic acid moves up from the roots of the plant into the leaves when it frosts or freezes. I don't plant to graze it when it gets cold.
Another great and interesting video Evan and loved seeing Rebecca.
Looking forward to seeing how it goes throughout the year!
I swear, if Armageddon ever hits, you guys are set for sure!
What about building up a diversion berm around the top end of the garden to help divert that water flow?
Hi guys, completely off topic, but I know how much Rebecca does not like mice. Anyway I came across this video Barn Owl Box. Maybe you might consider having some around even though you have the cats. Something to think about?
I think you should build a car port or a canopy over your driveway of your work shop to help with the sun and rain
Use the scrap for a metal stock storage rack.
We came through the storm here in Broaddus TX in good shape. Had some great rain and the power went out 3 or 4 times but we are through with the storms hopefully and will have a peaceful night. Really enjoy your videos and especially when Rebecca is home and helping you. Your homestead surely is beautiful and we enjoy watching you all interact with the animals. Stay safe and keep up the great videos and the fun you share with us. Fred.
You need a cheap drain valve on the pool. Maybe PVC with a ball valve.
Have you considered throwing straw bales in the washout?
Outstanding teamwork 👍👍👍
You could turn some of those pipe off cuts into a steel rack in your shop
make a rack 3 vertical with les sticking out keep your good pipe off the ground
Like the longer format!
Hey Evan, great video. I was keeping an eye out for Moe making sure he wasn’t gonna ram you from behind and knock you over like he did that one video. Hope you’re enjoying your summer. Stay cool.
Will the front acres planted to sorghum be permanent or will you plant more traditional pasture grass in the future?
right now, it is just this summer.
Fantastic couple and channel. Wishing you all the best!!
Be cautious grazing that sudan grass, can get yourself and your cows into a heap of trouble
Evan, at the 8:00 mark when you are in with the sheep, is that "tree of heaven" over your right shoulder? I just learned I have some on my property. I'm now learning how to get rid of it. Tree of heaven is a nasty one!
Great choice of names for the feeders!
I had to put 9 joules on my fence to keep my pigs in... anything less and they get used to it.
pretty good argument for no--till but i doubt that will convince you
Sudan grass.... I lost 10 springers overnight grazing Sudan grass. Nitrate poisoning ! Prime time for nitrate poisoning ? 2 foot to 4 foot tall. And you applied nitrogen also.....upping the risk !
Yup.....I grazed it for 9 years until it caught up with me ! Dont even consider grazing it !
Hope u built burm to deter water out of garden
From past scrapping experience if you are going to haul any oil field pipe for scrap most junk yards will run a Geiger counter over the pipe because they say pipe that has had oil ran through it, it will have traces of radioactivity if it reads on their Geiger counter they will reject the whole load
Radon exposure