YARD TOUR Nova Scotia Homestead (One Year Later)
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- Check out the yard tour posted last year and let us know in the comments if much has changed (that is a joke because I am telling you that a lot has changed haha)
A Yard Tour of our new Nova Scotia Homestead : • A Yard Tour of our new...
This is the one year in yard tour of our Nova Scotia homestead. We are in the highlands of Cape Breton at the peak of fall colours and it is glorious. Dominic has done so much in this past year and only has bigger plans for the upcoming year!
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We are Jenny and Dominic and we moved from BC to Nova Scotia in Summer 2020 to learn to grow our own food. We are trying to live more sustainably and stop throwing away so much spoiled produce. We are releasing a vlog every Sunday to share what we have accomplished in the world of growing food (and a little of life in Nova Scotia).
If you want to follow along to see what it is like trying to be Canadian Homesteaders, drop a comment and introduce yourself below!
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Im so excited for you guys!!!!
Thank you!
I love that you're using your animals to improve your land. Your family is definitely confident and energetic as you make progress together as a great team.
Thanks Pam!
She is adorable. Congratulations on all your hard work. Hello from our homestead in Missouri
Thank you so much!
I recently found your channel and its been a lot of fun binge watching your videos (great progress). I love the drone shots and the permaculture mindset. Thanks for giving us a peak into your life; your family has been an inspiration to me. I look forward to following your journey!
Thank you!!
Just found your Channel today. We just bought a 4Acres dry cabin in Fairbanks Alaska I love your Channel.
Lots of hard work all through the year,has given your family lots of good home grown food. Keep up the good work.❣️
Thank you Marguerite 😊
your family has inspired me to not give up on doing a homestead for my family of three thank you. I keep watching your video and learn something new everytime. yes, big improvement from day one
Thank you ivette! So happy we have inspired you!!
Rent a Mini excavator and get after those stumps. Will get you alot better pasture . Good job on the progress.
Thanks Glen! This is a good idea.
So...first of all...that little Jeannie! What an imagination! Watching an imaginary Peppa Pig from her little tree stump! Secondly, the fall colors are amazing! Thirdly....I LOVE LOVE LOVE your property! So cozy and so many projects and wonderful animals! Quite the happy little homestead! Lastly...we have a few questions...#1: Can compost get so hot that it could catch on fire? (don't laugh...I have no knowledge of composting!) #2 Dean wants to know why you don't cut wood and sell it!? A little side project after all the animals are gone for the year! Looking forward to Wednesday's Video!
Dom here. 1) yes composts can get hot enough to catch fire under the right circumstances from what I know. Usually only with large scale type of composting, think like municipal composting.
2) Most of the wood I cut is softwood, not sure what kind of market there is for that here. In my dream world where I win a minor lottery, I'd like to put in a wood stove before next winter. So I could burn some myself and that stuff will be good and seasoned by then
Good progress, love the music !
Thanks!
OMG Dominic just in the first 5 minutes you list soooo many changes.. from your "happy pruning/thinning - to improved front lawn" How can you say not enough changed??? And what about all the forest thinning and cutting of the fabulous maples? Give your self a head shake and reality check. Cause man you have been working your tush off :-) Congrats you two!!!!! You are role models for many :-D
Thanks as always Monika!! 😍
I watched your initial yard tour video, and then I watched your yard tour video one year later. You got a lot done. Both of you working and two little helpers, you got a lot done. I really enjoy your videos 😊
Thanks Paul! We are trying for sure!
I think it's awesome what you guys did within that year.
Thanks Thomas!
@@ODriscolls hi your videos are great ms. O
@@juliasmith2884 Hi! Haha thanks!
It’s always great to go back and look at how much you’ve been able to accomplish. Often times while we are in the middle of doing something, it doesn’t feel like you are being very productive. Great job guys! Looking forward to seeing what else you do on your homestead. 👍
BTW- I think I told you this once before but my Mom was born and lived in Smithville Nova Scotia. I just looked on the map at how far you are from there. Wow! Didn’t realize you were that far north!
Haha yes we are up in the highlands on Cape Breton Island. Nova Scotia is deceptively big
It often feels like everything is going at a snails pace. A lot can happen in a year though!
you guys are so inspiring, first years gardening but id love to homestead in the next few years. good luck
Gardening in finding is the hardest part! You'll be ready!
I can't wait for the sheep! Fun video as usual :)
Me too! Thanks Mar!
I love edible acres. He’s got the best chicken run.
He does! Dominic is always watching him. I love how he gets so many scraps. I want to get a deal with a restaurant like that
Ok, I agree with Dominic. Not enough has changed! BUT, I also agree with Jenny. You needed to do a fall tour video. I am going to say as kindly as I know how, that the biggest change this year has been within yourselves and your family. The children have grown, learned and matured. Your confidence and skills have developed and improved and I think you're planning more, not that I expect your impulsivity to ever go completely, which is just fine.
Really good work this year you guys!
As for the garden, we had a so-so year too. It was a learning experience also. I was young and single when I started gardening and I am still learning and having so-so years almost 40 years later.
Thanks as always for sharing! Beautiful fall colours right there! All those folks racing by on the trail could see the colours fine from your video.
Thanks a always Kevin! The colours are hanging on this year! It's been a big learning year. If we had less real jobs to do I think it might go almost as fast as we like 😄.
Thanks as always Kevin!
Great video, great progress, especially with having little helpers in the mix! Have you thought of getting ducks for meat? Some ppl don't like the taste, but it's my favourite meat next to lamb.
Dom here, we both really like ducks(as food). If we were to get some it won't be soon as I am not the fondest of ducks and I would only want them if they were to serve some purpose. If I start doing mushrooms though it would be fantastic to have a couple of ducks on patrol to keep the slugs away. Otherwise I'm happy with the chickens
thank you for this awesome video ... i hope that we could see more before and after pictures or video of the forest turning to silvopasture
Thanks Ronald! We do talk about turning the forest to pasture in a lot of videos. I should put together a playlist of the videos!
Dominic will you be leaving tree stumps as they are out will you be grinding them? I agree with Jenny about changes. You may not think of them as significant, but each small change moves you guys close to your goals. Great video!
Dominic here. I left the small stumps as they are (~3 feet tall) on purpose. Next spring when it is nice and wet I should be able to pry those out by hand. The big stumps I will cut down as far as I can with the chainsaw and let them rot in place. I don't have a grinder and given that this will likely never be mowed for hay, I don't need to grind stumps really. Would be nice if I did have a grinder though!
Dominic and Jenny this is great love your videos. You guys work so hard and it shows. Love seeing Jeanie she is growing so much and talking a blue streak. Cutie
Dom here. Job to get Jeannie to be quiet for a minute now haha. We will have to get together over Christmas
@@ODriscolls absolutely !
Dominic you are right,nothing has changed at all. NOT! Lol! 🤣😂🤣😂
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It's looking great! Do either of you have jobs away from the homestead?
Thanks! We're both teachers
Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
Edward Everett Hale
I love that!
Love it too ❤
How'd that greenhouse work over the winter?
It was OK while we were home. The first winter, it was fine because Dominic was always home to tend to it and pull the snow off (we had the chickens living in it and it was great). The second winter, we did not have chickens and left for a week, and we obviously had 200cm of snow in that one week. It did not survive.
@@ODriscolls oh my goodness. I miss they snow so much. Anyhow. Keep up the good work in SK.
Think a mini excavator would be a better choice than a side by side, for pulling out all your forest stumps. Could rent different models to test out first.
That's a good idea!
Dom here, mini excavator would make my life a lot easier! I reckon I can get the majority out by hand. Side by side would be fun to have and helpful for all kinds of stuff.
@@ODriscolls yup, can’t go wrong with a good side by side. 🇨🇦