City to Farm in 2 Years (2.5 Acre Homestead Tour)
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- čas přidán 17. 05. 2023
- Welcome to our 2.5 acre homestead/farm tour! We're a young couple in our 20s who decided to pursue a more sustainable way of living by growing our own food and raising animals on our own land. In this video, we'll take you on a tour of our homestead/farm and show you everything from our vegetable and herb gardens to our chicken coop and pig pen. We'll talk about the challenges we've faced and the lessons we've learned along the way, as well as share our tips and tricks for sustainable living. Join us on our journey to a more self-sufficient lifestyle!
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You guys are doing great!! Love the new garden space and I 100% agree, make it pretty!
I’m in White Lake MI, what infrastructure do you provide your pigs for winter?
Do you have regrets on using 2x2 lumber for your chicken tractor? I used 2x4s but did something a bit creative to reduce the felt weight when moving.
I noticed when you move your homemade chicken tractor, you have to move the water separately. Why not make it to where the water is hanging or connected to the chicken tractor so that it moves along with it? I'm not sure if this is a helpful idea or not, but I thought I might suggest it.
You have a precious family. I’m a 66yr old woman who recently moved to 8.4 acres. I have 5 Pyr mixes, 2 cats and 12 chickens. I need to get a chicken run built so I can garden! Those rascals eat everything!
Sounds like a great set up! A chicken run will help a lot!
Pigs are super smart. I had a friend she had pigs. But one would back up take off running screaming and go through the electric fence! So funny.
They are soooo much smarter then I thought they would be, and cute 🙈
You and your wife seem so genuine and personable. We really like your channel.
Thank you so much!
I am planning on starting my 1 acre homestead very soon and I'm watching different channels for inspiration. One concern I would have about your farm is protecting the chickens from predators during the evening. Especially since you have the food outside and unprotected, I feel it may attract raccoons, wild dogs or possibly bears.
So inspiring. We are in our 50’s and unfortunately didn’t learn about homesteading until a year or two ago. We are in the process of finding a new home with lots of land so we can raise chickens, ducks, goats, and a garden.
Try a couple of French Alpine goats. We had two of them in milk and were getting 1.5 gallons of milk a day. Make sure they are dehorned when very young. Goats are escape artists but when they escape, they just hang out on the other side of the fence. They are a blast to be with. They love weeds more than grass. They would clean up your wooded area as well. Electric fencing works with them. Maybe they could be in with the pigs.
Just a piece of advice, build raised beds that are taller.. As you get older, the easier you make the gardening the better. We have 3-raised beds that are 3-feet high, 2 feet wide, and 14 feet long. Also, we have 12 raised beds that are 2 feet high, 3 x3 wide and long. It makes it too much easier to keep gardening as you get older. Also, if you live in a colder climate...building a green house to extend your growing season for some items is awesome!
I came here because of the Eddie Family recommended your channel. I love there channel so much. Look forward to getting to know your farm as well. ❤
Love the idea of compost bin in the chicken run. Suggest you add a latch to your nesting box. A raccoon can easily access it otherwise.
Oh. Wow. Good point!!!!!! Blessings everyone everywhere and always
It was a great tour around your land with all your animals. They're all happy. I like how you've arranged your raised beds, and those pigs do a marvelous job of tearing things up!
Thank you! We hope to have a great harshest from this garden
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I think its very important to add 2 more things to your homestead...The 1st is a few Honey Bee's...I have 3.5 acres and an old farm house...bought as a fixer upper, and I've done basically what u have done. I have just 3 hives, like a hobby, but it works great cause the bee's keep everything pollinated, garden and flowers and fruit trees...then there's the convenience of having your own honey (which right now is getting pretty expensive) and u will get more than u can use, so u can sell some...plus its a great learning tool for kids, my grand kids loved it....the 2nd thing u should start is a separate herb and medicinal plant area...u can make your own salves, topical antibiotics, tinctures, and oils...great for those aches and pains at the end of the day..makes more natural medicines for the family, like cough syrup and cough drops, helps with healing cuts and scrapes, some plants help stop bleeding or clots the blood, stomach problems, constipation, some plants and flowers are great to make your own tea blends with...the list goes on....Seeds are easy to get from places like "Mountain Rose Herbs" and "Baker Creek Heirloom seeds". U can find them both on line and they will send u their catalogs...Also, do your research and learn how to collect your own seeds from your crops and save to use in the next year . Saves money and its pretty fun..again the kids can learn from it...One last thing I added (but I have no kids here) is an old wood burning cook stove...in case the power goes out, u can still stay warm in winter, and cook, while everyone around u panics or has to deal with noisy generators.. Your doing a great job, looks very nice...happy trails to u my friend...June Bug from Southern Oregon.
The Eddy Family recommended your channel, so after watching you, I am looking forward to many more videos! You are a beautiful family and I am so grateful to Brandon and his wonderful family for introducing you to us. God bless you!
Very well done! Congrats for doing it in your 20's, its always been a dream of mine, I am in my 40s! Chickens, rabbits, garden, 7 tree orchard and bees here!
Thank you! 😁Do you like doing bees? We have been talking about them
Thank you Pastor Batchelor for your teachings on country living!
I think you and your family are doing wonderfully! Look at how much you've gotten done in such a short time. Barely over 2 years and your place looks great, plus you have almost 40k subscribers who you are teaching and sometimes letting us learn along with you. Your pigs are pretty dang cute and cool. My grandparents had a ranch when I was growing up. Their main income was raising and selling pigs. They had cows, chickens and horses too. I always loved the pigs and chickens, even though the horses were amazing to be around and the cows were great too. You're are teaching your children very important things and you should be so proud of that. Can't wait to see your garden all grown up. Thank you for sharing all that you do!✌️🐓🐔🐣🐕🐈
Thanks for such a kind comment, we appreciate you😁
I really enjoyed the tour and your humor. I think what you are doing on your homestead as a family is great!
Sent over by Eddy Family Farm. Cannot wait to watch.
Just wanted to let you know I am here from Eddie family farms and I'm looking forward to seeing all of your adventures
Awesome! Thank you! We are happy to have you here!
I am here because of Eddy Family Farm!
🐔🐔🐔🐔 Looking forward to watching your channel.
We are blessed to have the opportunity to meet you and excited to show you us🙏🏻
Great video! Keep up the good work. Nothing like trial and error to expand your homestead.
Good bye City life😂❤We did that same thing 30 acres paid off homestead started with 4 chickens now own 40, 6 duck’s, 4 Dogs, 3 Hogs and three cows and we have food forest 11 fruit trees 6 raised bed of vegetables
Oh! And also, your property is looking beautiful! Love the setup you have of the pigs in the woods, the huge chicken area and the pretty garden! Goals! :)
Thank you so much!😁
Love the idea of the compost bin/area in the chicken run.
Those re the cutest pigs I've ever seen - I didn't know there were curly-haired pigs, so adorable! Love seeing this tour of your homestead and hearing about all the changes over the past 2.5 years! Had to sub because I'm looking forward to seeing more!
Great to find a fellow Michigander! I grew up homesteading but we finally have our own land and we’re excited to start!
Wow I like your setup for everything Can’t wait to see the garden when it’s in full bloom your doing a great job for your family keep it up 😊
You are such an inspiration, amazing and you inspired us to create our CZcams channel with how incredibly natural and real you are. We went through a really tough patch last year, we lost our farmland and ended up renting a really rundown patch of land. Its nothing like what you have but creating the videos is spurring us on and keeping us going. One day, you never know but we might be in a position to have a farm again. We can only live in hope.
This is refreshing to watch😊
Welcome to homesteading! Started watching from Eddy family farms!
Thank you, we love learning and can’t wait to learn and grow more!
Your fluency in narration is top notch👌You have a great farm,I have learned alot from today's tour.I am in Kenya,I love gardening and homesteading
Love learning so much
Eddy family sent me. Love watching home steaders.
I really enjoy the content keep it up brother! We are starting our journey this year so I’ll be following along!
Great video, and congratulations… y’all have found your heaven 😊
Yes! Thank you! It has been great!
It's wonderful to live and take care of animals in a farm, I really like that kind of life
I really like how you emphasize that this isn't a 2 day thing. Its something that happens over a longer period of time.
Just subscribed after watching Brandon Eddy’s video. Looking forward to your Spring this year and see what you’re doing. Goats? I love goats. They can be a lot of fun.
Awesome! Thank you! We love the chance to meet new people, very grateful for you
Sorry but can't watch live videos due to bad internet 😞 but Love watching your videos 🤗
Congratulations on your Homestead y'all have done an Awesome job ❣️
God Bless you and your Family ❣️🙏❣️
No reason to be sorry, we appreciate you always watching!
Just came over to your channel from Eddy Family Farms. You have a beautiful garden during your growing season!! 😊
Brandon from Eddy Family Farms sent me. I sub and checked the all notifications. Congratulations on your little farm. Wishing you all the success you both deserve. Enjoy your life, be safe and God Bless.
Love this and all the tips. Id add a rain barrel to your coop under that gutter and any other gutters, and you can use it to feed the animals and water the garden. I got a LOT of water in ours the first day, just from a couple rain showers throughout the day.
Good job, it looks great! Get them flowers in! You’ll love it even more😊
We have tons of plants in now 😃
This was great! It made me so homesick for Michigan!
We enjoy being here, but we believe you can make every place a good one, it’s what you make it
Family of 8 here about to do that same thing. Already on the land, but starting the garden this summer! Ordered the chickens, they will be delivered in June.
Hi from Louisiana! I’m from Eddy’s family farm. Will be happy to support your family’s channel. God bless you and yours😊
I seen you on Eddie Homestead. I thought I would look in. You do have a nice setup. Bring older 80's I can not do like I did. In Florida we can have two gardens a year. Because of her age we keep it small and enjoy vegetables and blueberries. What you were doing with I was able to stay home and raise our own children with what we've saved by growing our own food. I love watching Steve's homestead places and wish we could do it yet.
Saw your intro video on Eddy Family Farm. Best wishes as you continue your homestead. 😊
Thanks for coming and we are thankful for your kind words and wishes🙏🏻
Great efforts, great rewards!
Your garden looks great! Im on my second season gardening. I grew garlic and was amazed that I did it. Now i love making Garlic Puks. For those that don't know about garlic puks... in a food processor blend peeled garlic with olive oil. Put in ice trays and freeze. Then i take them out wrap in foil and put in freezer bags and freeze. These are so handy. You can mix with butter instead of olive oil.
Saw your short video on the Eddie family farm and enjoyed it a lot I subscribed and will be watching your videos I am sure will be good entertainment for everyone
Welcome aboard! We feel great to get some new viewers and get to know some new people. Thank you for giving our family a chance🙏🏻
this is why i wanna go to the states, man you are doing good- keep sharing this content
This is awesome. We're planning to do a Homestead soon.
This is most helpful
Glad it was helpful! And wish you all the best on your journey!
Love the video’s thanks for sharing and advice bud.
Great video! Thanks for the content
Hey guys we are coming to you from eddys farm glad to be here
I made my chicken coop smaller and higher so I can put lots of organic material under them and they poop on the pile at night (I have no bottom just the fence material you use) after a week or two of them pooping on the pile I pull the pile out and move it in front of the coop and add another under the coop. I keep rotating piles out from the coop and adding another under the coop every week or two turning the piles further away from the coop and closer to the garden. By the time I’m done turning the piles and chickens have made their way through it getting all seeds and bugs out of it after several weeks, it’s good to add to the garden and closest to the garden by that time. So it’s a nonstop system which allows them to work and gives me great compost for the garden while reusing the scraps made from maintaining the yard. Win- win- win
I enjoyed your video. Eddy homestead sent me over. Very informative!
Just discovered your channel and i totally love what you're doing. We live in Portugal and we feel the same way about our modern day society! You got yourself a new subscriber.
Learning a lot from your videos. good content. Watching from New Zealand.
Thank you for the support, we still find it crazy people all over watch!
I love watching your videos! Thank you! Sweet family! I just discovered your channel recently so I’ve been trying to catch up on your other videos. Any tips you have on raising chickens is especially helpful…we live in a very hot/humid area of Georgia, born and raised in the south, getting chickens in August. Raised a few as a child, back in the 1970s, but felt like we didn’t have the proper coop and run. I’ve been doing a lot of reading and research on raising chickens in hot climates. Safety from the heat and predators is my main concern. We are going to let them free range when we get home from work every day and can keep an eye on them. My husband is going to build a large run for them to be in while we are at work and keep them safe from predators. I feel like because of the heat, our coop needs to be the “open” style that is screened in on one side with the screen or hardware cloth that has small openings, for good ventilation. Any advice is much appreciated! Your videos are really great!
Thank you so much for enjoying the channel and hope you enjoy more! We have quite a few chicken videos although we try to show a little or everything. Thanks again!
Loved watching your video. Beautiful family!!
On your chickens....if you are going to keep them safe you need to have some kind of roofing. They are open to predators!!
Thank you!😁
Thank you for the info! Very helpful!
Glad it was helpful!
Hey guys I'm fast approaching 2 years building a homestead in Ireland. I too found abundance plus and joined immediately.
How i found your channel was that im planning on a video showing the progress made.
Like minded or what lol
Thanks for the inspiration
Eddy family sent me over here. Like what I see. Love these channels.
Thank you for the support, it means a lot to our family and we are grateful to have you here!
I’m glad I found your channel
Happy to hear that, thank you!
I found your channel through Brandon Eddie, glad to watch fellow Michiganders channels👍. I’m in NE Lower peninsula, recent transplant from metro Detroit
FYI next yr plant your potatoes in big barrels that you 're able to drop on a tarp in autumn... way easier then planting in ground. You;ll be digging deep to get at the potatoes this yr
3 months later & still no home tour? Was hoping to watch that. You guys have done great with a small acreage. Good use of space & doesn't feel cramped.
This is awesome and an inspiration I hope to get here one day.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Here from Eddy Family. Love them
We do too and thankful that you came by to check out our channel also, thanks!
Hi good luck on your homestead. Came over from Eddy farm.
Hello Acres I came over from Eddy family farm But like you, we're in the cold weather right now waiting to get our gardens in I like to plant Tomatoes 2 zucchini plants A couple of cucumbers, Red beets Definitely some Strawberries I'll be enjoying watching You have a beautiful family!!!
Thank you! Yes this is the hard season but we call it the planning season and just can’t wait for spring to be able to get it all going again!
Feel the same
You've achieved a tonne in your first couple of years!! We're about 18 months in now. Always want to do more! Hard with working full time, but we're doing our best! loving the veggie bed area! we're just testing out how it works out to do something similar with a pumpkin patch (we are just coming into spring here!). If it goes well, we'll use the same method to create more growing space for other veggies next season!
Very nice
New follower, fellow modern homesteader 😊
Great production. Here is what is wrong! That water-funneling shade setup at the back of your house. It needs to be taught and sloping away from the house. Keep up the great work. Love your pig plow idea followed by chooks, let your beasts prep the land, awesome.
Hey there! I came over from Eddie Family Farm. I’m originally from Ohio (pls don’t hold that against me- lol) but am now in NE Ga near Atlanta. I subscribed and look forward to watching your family grow and your animal menagerie as well ❤
Love the video. I have a small amount of land myself and I am seeing all sort of great ideas. I will be subscribing.
Awesome! Thank you!
Blue cactus dairy goats has a plethora of good info on dairy goats, and they sell babies every spring, but I don’t know for how much, but Crystal is very passionate about her goats, keep up the great stuff your showing!! I don’t watch tv anymore, I only watch folks like y’all!!
Thanks for the info! Angie the kind words, we appreciate your time to watch and comment on the video, thanks again🙏🏻
Maybe Having the coop moved to the full sun in winter, keeping it covered and adding barrels of water with a small heater in the barrels to keep it from freezing will create thermal mass which may keep the chickens more comfortable.
Put some onions between those peas and carrots. Onion deter carrot moth or whatever it is plus they will create a wall to protect ur dainty carrots from the peas spreading out.
Hi! I just saw you on Eddy Family Farm and decided to subscribe to your channel. Can't wait to get to know y'all. God bless!❤
You are doing great
Downloaded abundance plus because of you. I love it and so excited to use it. Just started our homestead so no garden or animals yet. Live in Georgia and welcome any advice
Good layout.
thank you for the great video
I just watched one of your videos and let’s mr tell ya you guys are doing just great
Looking good to me !
First video I have watched of yours,enjoyed it and have subscribed. Love from Blue Ridge Mtns of North Carolina
Welcome aboard! Glad you enjoyed and we love North Carolina!
Enjoyed the farm tour
Thanks 😁
nice setup!
Love your channel. I don't think we are considered homesteaders or not but we have chickens and a garden. I don't think we have room for much more. Keep up the good work.
Homesteaders are just people trying to live more self sustainable and if you have chickens and a garden that sounds like that to me!
@@AcresOfAdventure I agree! I have chickens, garden, quails and soon rabbits with only an acre. 👍
Im subscribing bc I'm starting from scratch in 2025. I'm in an apt right now but I'll start looking for my homestead property in Aug of 2024. I'm in Virginia, close to Carolina so I should have some good areas to look at. I prefer water on my property. It's gonna be me, my special needs daughter, our garden, greenhouse, and animals both inside and out. I can't wait. We plan to sell fresh produce.
Research "Raised Row Gardening" (Not raised bed). Also research small "Food Forests". You're doing great at learning and adapting!
Have seen any of Tyler Nolan's videos? He is just getting into chicken and other fowl. But he built a cool chicken coup. I really enjoy your videos. You are off to a great start.
Never heard of him, but Thank you for the love and support
Great video! Just came over and subscribed from facebook! ❤
I used to do in-ground gardening but a gopher ate all of our progress so now we are switching to beds. Watch out if you have gophers too!
I sure hope not, this is our first year trying this!
Dude this is the goal. My bro and I are looking to do the same and keep our families on the land. One thing I might say is keep the meat birds and the eggs birds separate just for like illness and stuff. Wouldn’t want to lose a meat. It’s bc an egg bird got them sick ya know. Maybe im wrong
Doin good young fella. Mate eh, my only 2 bobs worth is, that you go and gets 4 good size posts and put them in for you shade cover. Put em in on a bit of an angle and concrete them in. By doin this you can pull it tight. I hope you don't get heavy winds as it'll flap like he'll and break the post ya got.
Info from Queensland 🇦🇺
Much love from down south
Thank you!😄