Are THEY Weeding Out Homesteading?
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- čas přidán 21. 05. 2018
- Danny looks back on the last 50 years of homesteading and how things have changed in his life. Are they weeding out homesteading?
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LOL! "USDA approved" is a joke! Every time I turn around they are recalling fresh vegetables grown by "big Ag" for some sort of contamination.
they contaminate it
If you could just perceive the pattern
Contamination or "contamination"
Control the food, control the PEOPLE!
Rita McCartt-Kordon And now they are working on controlling the water to.
Sounds a lot like communism
Dib that's what trying to happen. The older politicians are getting rich. Gave themselves lifetime salaries/pensions. Don't have be in office but a few years now and they get lifetime pensions ! That's insane. They don't have the same insurance we do either. Clothing benefits, security, all sorts of perks. Fat cats. County commissioners are starting to act that way too. Do nothing but appoint a committee to study the committee! Drain that swamp! Bee Blessed Danny and Rita in TN on Rooster's Ridge
Just found your site. Refreshing to find like minded folks.
Use green houses. You can make really cheap ones with very basic materials. You can lean them against the house, etc.
Ditto all your thoughts! I am 60 and can't believe I live in the same world I was born into. Excellent video!
Absolutely one of my favorite Porch Times ever!! Cannot find a local co-op to save my life. You mention the lack of taste in today's food and "food products" but don't forget the lack of nutrition. Vitamin and mineral content is significantly less than times past. I am raising 6 kids as best I can to not fall into a nanny state mentality. It is so hard when the other voices tell them "Just go get it at WalMart, it would be EASIER." I loathe that word "easier" now. To me the cry for immediacy and convenience has crowded out the desire for quality and good health. You use the word "homesteading" but I try to say self-sufficiency. There is a literal war on self-sufficiency today. Thank you Danny.
Have you tried looking on LocalHarvest?
Thanks for this comment!❤
Absolutely correct! I am in my 60s and know exactly what you are talking about! So much has changed, and in most cases not for the best. Before he passed, my Dad used to talk about how things had changed since they farmed during the Depression. Now I am seeing it too!
What I don't understand is why someone would give this video a thumbs down, when you are speaking the truth??
Sad...
Dan 821 there are always those that WON'T hear the truth.
Dan 821 “There are none so blind, as those who will not see.”
there are people who do nothing in life but put a thumb down on others videos, they never even watch them! If I could find out if that "job" pays well..... LOL
Let me thank you for these videos as a 20 year old living in a medium sized city in 2018. Rants like this are exactly what my family, friends, and I talk about all the time. Hopefully one day I’ll own some property, but until then I’ll just keep enjoying videos. Thanks again.
You took me back in time. Husband and I were just talking recently about this. I remember how much fun it was to go down to the co-op with Daddy when springtime rolled around and scoop up seeds to put in little brown paper bags to take home and plant. When you said that about the old creaking wood floors I could almost hear it. Yes, it's sad that things have changed so much but I am so thankful that I was able to experience all that I did and grow up in the time that I did.
Yep, yep, yep. Couldn't agree more! We still have a co-op and I love it. But they are being weeded out by Walmart, and just cannot compete when so many just mindlessly drive past them to shop Walmart. Always buy seeds a year or two ahead and try your best to keep growing out your favorites to save folks. They may not be there next year.
Full House Homesteaders W/ Homestead Mama
I absolutely can't stand Walmart.
We save all our seeds now it is our go9al to never buy seeds again if we can help it. Thanks
Oh so true. I love the way you tell it like it us. No sugar coating. Stay safe and God bless you both. 🐔🐷🐐
You made some very good points. I was born in 1987 and I know what real food taste like. My dad had a garden every year to save money and better food. I didn’t do it myself when I first moved out because I thought I didn’t have enough land. Then I found out about container gardening and have been doing that for several years. I expand every year and will have a bigger garden in the near future. The wife and I are planning on buying property hopefully in the next year.
Danny, I've got to say,..this was the absolute BEST video I've seen since I started watching homesteading videos over a year ago. Oh so true! I was raised on a real homestead myself. I lived at at my Granny's back in mid 60's til the late 70's in the country back when southern Marlboro Maryland, was still tobacco farms. Boy did I love that old 100 yr old farmhouse. We grew nearly all our food. I remember those implement stores as a kid.
When I started working my career sent me in to the suburbs down in FL. I always missed the country so right before I retired I bought land where I could do most anything I wanted. I had to go far away from my area to find it and afford it.
You are so right about growing the food, the cost of land and everything else. I ended up paying 6k an acre and that was cheap considering the prices in FL today. So I bought up in Northeast Alabama on lookout mountain. It's like going back in time where I'm at. Literally it's like 50 yrs in the past. We still have an old store where you can buy seed by the pound but nearly as many items we used to have.
Up here, we also have a syrup mill on the road I'm living but the guy who ran it passed away a couple years ago and his older siblings who own it don't make the syrup anymore since he passed. It's really sad. It just sitting there. It used a community event on syrup making weekend every year.
But anyway, I'm glad I bought this place and moved up here because we still have most of the old way of life here. The locals don't like progress. Lol Im glad about that but glad that they even accepted me when I came here. But.. there's not many places left like this anymore. I hope homesteaders fight back to keep the Gov and new progress out of what few rural area communities we do have left.
Anyhow,..Great video! I would love to continue hearing more on this subject. I feel it's important for younger homesteaders to hear about the old ways and hopefully it will inspire them. We need help to preserve what's left.
The more young folks we get to start homesteading, it will save their lives.
Donna Ratliff It sounds like you’re living in a wonderful place. Enjoy! 😀
Plenty of young folks know about homesteading. It's the under 40 crowd who are currently moving back into the country and buying up gentlemen's farms to grow their own produce like our grandparents did. It's our parents who took us off our grandparents farms and moved us to the city, buying up all the processed foods they could to make us as stupid and fat as they could.
I don’t know how I missed this Porch Time but I am glad I found it today. We still have a old feed store in town that I regularly visit. When I was a kid my grandpa took me there at least once a month when he went to buy various feeds and gardening supplies. There was much more to it back then…30+ years ago but it still has that smell. I love going there now because it reminds me of him. You are right, most folks don’t know what real food taste like. Home grown tastes wayyyyy better. We butcher chickens a couple times a year and people ask “Why? You can go to the store and buy it🤷♀️? “ I ask them have they ever seen the chickens that get processed for sale at the store? They are sad, stressed birds. No color in their combs and wattles. Raised in their own filth not on grass and sunshine. Our chickens are happy and stress free raised on grass and sunshine. Clean and vibrant. You are what you eat, and people eat stressed, unhappy, and filthy meat. No wonder people are so stressed and unhappy.
Good evening Danny. Thank you so much for this message. Your words are true. One other thing that I remember about our fruit exchange/farm store, is they knew your name and everyone had an account even though most people never used that account because they paid cash. We saved all year long to purchase what we needed. I remember the tomato, sweet potato and pepper plants in bundles and getting the bundles in large wooden crates that we ended up using for nesting boxes with the chickens. I remember butching the chickens, hogs, cows and so on. Yep, there are so many things we had that we no longer have access to. We need to support the homestead community in any way we can from buying and sharing seeds, information or whatever because it is this homestead community that is going to make it through the terrible times that are ahead. This IS a fight and with the Grace of God, we will succeed.
I'm 24 and can't agree more. Having lived in Libya and seen first hand the rapid changes and the commercialization of so many things is heartbreaking. Food here in the US is so different from what I experienced for my short stay in Libya. I've been trying to become more self sufficient and getting into it and learning is not as easy as I thought it would be. It's much more expensive and harder to find the things I want. I really really hope you keep doing videos like this. It is so important to spread the word about this.
Louna Stars and you should teach what you have learned to others of your generation to help prepare them for what is to come 😉
Danny I was just talking to my husband about how my Mom always bought her tomato plants in a bundle. She also got cabbage, onions and pepper plants in bundles. She got probably 50 plants for what the big box stores get for one plant. Like you said they don't live, I germinate most of my plants indoors in Feb and March. Things have definitely changed and it's not for the best, I am sorry to say. May God bless you and Wanda for your willingness to help educate others the homestead way.
I agree with you. I remember in the late 60's and early 70's we would go to the fishermans market at the coast and you could get a crate of 100 fish in ice. We would clean and freeze them.
As a kid I remember going into a store like that with my Grandpa, the wood floor, all that, there was even a certain smell I can't explain. I loved those days going with him.
Danny, I'm 72 & I certainly remember the stores you're talking about. They existed even when I was raising my kids. I hear what you're saying about the price of land but our wages were a lot lower then too. Forty some years ago, when California became so over-populated that land was more important than food production, dairy farmers sold out for huge profits. Many of them moved here to Idaho & built new dairies on land cheap enough to enable them to build huge homes as well. The cows on these dairies live better than most of us do! Now they say Idaho is one of the fastest growing states; guess those cows might be looking for new homes before long.
It's difficult to get people your age to discuss these things with us. It is all a simple game of good and evil and it is winning because it gets to determine what's good and evil.
I am a bit older than you are...grew up in the 50s and I can attest to the truth of what you said.
Many things have changed including the weather...I was stationed at the naval air station down your way in the 60 and it was sort of a joke that every afternoon about 3 or 4 a thunderstorm would come and dump some rain on us.
Now I understand you are in a drought in the spring, right when you need that rain...and when it does rain it is a downpour.
People may accuse me of living in the past but I miss a lot of things we had back then.
I'm pretty sure that you're right and I'm with you, not giving up.
Good grief Danny your right about the weather. Mike and I planted 4 rows of Contenders. Every single seed came up and put on the 1st set of true leaves. They were beautiful...until the big rain came. When we walked the garden we were shocked! Every green bean, the squashes that were just up and other plants that were flowering took a direct hit. We started removing all the damaged leaves. Our garden was so amazing. We did fertilize with fish emulsion to give them all a boost. That greenhouse has moved up on the list. We also have noticed that what needed alot of sun actually need less sun. We are waiting to see what the weather does with Kilauea spewing into the atmosphere. The winds of change are shifting and we must adapt to thrive. When we moved to our place we asked the folks at the farm and ranch center if there was a Co-Op here and the lady said I don't know let me ask. She came back and said the lady she worked with didn't know. She finally said they really didn't know what a Co-Op was. Both were older than us. Be blessed ya'll.
We’re blessed to live five miles from a family run nursery. I get the plants I can’t start from them. They are 1.49$ for a six pack which is the cheapest I can find. It’s an awesome place. Never buy plants from box stores!!
Have one about a 15 minute drive from my home they have been in business since the 70s sell their own brands along with some brand name stuff mostly flowers I can get flats of vegetables, seeds, seed potatoes ,and grains also fruit trees and berry bush starts .
Hi, a millenial here. I love watching these videos because one day I'm going to be done renting and own a homestead. But it's really discouraging to hear all the bad things going on right now. We need to take action. What can we do to reverse these over the top regulations and chemtrails? How do we get more mom and pop stores? You can blame THEM all you want, but anyone who is aware of everything and does nothing about it is letting it happen. I'm not going down without a fight. So what are we going to do? What kind of mayhem are we going to stir up?
Megan Loop dont wait longer than you have to. quickly begin your homestead step at a time and share knowledge and your journey with all your friends and family. show them the way. Teach them by having them help you get going then help them get going when they are ready. In the mean time buy some things for your homestead at garage sales and resale stores. Its amazing how cheap you can get things there to get started. Start learning how to preserve hour harvest so you are ready when your harvests come in.
We started a large garden in 2017 without sod busting on terrible sandy soil. I bought heirloom seeds on clearance last fall for 5 cents a pack and planted 60 tomatoes and peppers for 10 cents plus cost of seed starter mix. Got almost 100% germination. Grew my own from seed for the first time this year. I grew many other vegetables from seed too this season. They look awesome after a month in the ground using the Back to Eden method (woodchips) we are zone 4 upper midwest USA.
NO MORE WALMART/HOME DEPOT BONNIE PLANTS FOR ME. At 3.50 a plant????? Never knew it was so easy to start plants so cheap at home. I used large CFL bulbs with el cheapo clamp light fixtures on a cheap plastic 4 shelf unit. I feel so blessed to finally have a vegetable garden and will can, dehydrate and freeze my harvest. We find the Back to Eden really works well for us. GOOD LUCK!!!!!
3 years later and now I'm hearing THIS! I thought when I bought my tomato plants I'd baby it then 3 days later it was dead I'm thinking it was me. Now I get my plants and seed from a real farm no spraying stuff on it. I have oregano and chives growing sounds stupid but I'm proud because I'm finally growing something. Thank you 😊
PREACH! Never say die. Loved those little stores, with the creaky wooden floors and tin ceilings. Always fresh popcorn ready for Shoppers, peanuts for sale by the 5 lb bag. Purchases were wrapped in butcher paper, or put in paper sacks. I am now off work for probably a couple months, and I and my daughter are in the process of turning our little 2 acre yard into a homestead. Luckily we live in the country, surrounded by farm fields with neighbors 1/2 mile away. God Bless!
So glad we still have a CoOp here. But our nearby Rural King does pretty good too. But we started getting all our seeds from MIGardener or Bakers Creek.
To make ends meet, I make and sell pies, pound cakes, homemade cheese, jams and jellies and homemade soap. I can't advertise, and have sell by word of mouth, because I'm technically breaking the law! You can't have a "bake sale" anymore without the FDA up your butt! I don't have chef's training, or licenses, and what I make is like my grandmother made. I use lard and cultured butter, and people that buy what I make always come back for more because it doesn't taste like what you get from the store.
As for the weather - You're area is dry as a popcorn fart, and down here, we've had daily rain since the 4th of May!! It's been so cloudy that my tomatoes bloom but don't form tomatoes!! It is a challenge! I've got pinto and bush beans blooming right now, but I'm having a tough time with okra. I planted four 10' rows and I have 7 plants!! Good Grief!!
Carol Avant In Arkansas we have the Cottage Act which enables you to sell home baked goods, jellies, jams, and produce. It doesn’t cover cheese but perhaps something similar has been passed where you are. Knowing about such legislation could benefit you if you’re ever confronted by authorities! 😉
Freedom Acres - One great reason to move to Arkansas! I found out the hard way years ago - I helped a friend start a flea market booth with home baked goods and preserves. The FDA was up her behind in a New York minute. That was back in the late '90's. We can't have bake sales at the schools here, either! So sad! My son's friends still love to come over because I always have something good in the pantry! Some of them had never had real, home cooked food!
The Cottage Act enables us to still have bake sales here too! I think Texas has a similar law because bake sales aren't an issue across the state line either but I'm not sure of any other states. I'm glad to hear you're sharing REAL food with young people! They have NO CLUE what's in the boxes at the store isn't really food. SO SAD!!
Psst ... Where do I turn in my order?
Haha! I've got more on my plate than I know what to do with!
My grandpa had an old farmall cub tractor that had a plow and cultivators on it. He would work his gardens out with it, hill his potatoes with it and even hook up the trailer to it and haul up dirt from the creek bottom for the garden. Dad fixed up an old team mower and an old dump rake and used grandpas cub to pull them with to put up hay loose. I got to be a part of all that and was some of the best years of my life. The one thing I can remember about going into the old country stores in our little town was that when you bought something, it was of a good quality. Not this cheap overpriced stuff they pawn off onto us now. This was a great video Danny. You always give us something to think about.
I really enjoyed this porch talk. It brings back a lot of good memories of growing up in the 50s and spending a lot of time on my grandfather's small farm/homestead. I recall the seed and feed stores, bundles of tomatoes, etc. I miss that.
You were fired up this morning! Great talk!
We facing the same thing. NOTHING IS GROWING Right. We planted our corn 4 times and still nothing. We have just had a terrible time getting anything to germinate. My beans looked like something was sprayed on them and were shriveled up, they are finally coming out of it. I believe things are changing for certain.
I enjoyed listening to you this morning. I remember things that you remember about how the times used to be.
So much has changed and all of it isn't for our good.
Keep speaking the truth Mr. Danny somebody is taking heed to your wisdom.
Blessings to you both!!
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Danny, we planted 4 week late due to weather. We picked green beans in the garden and greenhouse today. I tasted the raw green beans and they were sweet. This year planted only 7 rows and the deer or something killed two rows. God blessed us with 100 ears of corn out of 5 35 foot rows of corn. All ready caned on the shelf. This coming from a man in a wheelchair, wife, and grandchildren proclaiming the lord God our our provider. We both are in our mid 60. Love the planter that you showed us how to make. It works very well.
This is a year -old video but, applies today. I only have one store near me selling canning jars in
A limited supply. The glass is not as thick as what I grew up with. We were a family of four
Living in Wisconsin. Nearby creek we would fish at with bamboo poles with red and whit bobbers. The bait was dug up earthworms from our property. It was a punishment to eat dinner as I ate everything from the garden and plump sweet blueberries from the woods on our property. I was always taken mushroom picking as I always had a sense of where to find the mother load. I had a favorite apple tree I would climb up on and as long as there were apples, I was there. I learned quickly to pick the very best apple and would notice a worm already attacked...I finally to eat it from the other side watching for the worm. When we moved far south, ai loved the beaches and not having to wear heavy clothing, but got used to it and had citrus trees, papaya, and the best watermelon which we didn’t bother planting as a large football-shaped watermelon cost one dollar, a two pound bag of
Peaches were sixty five cents with a free one to try. I’ve told people that we never needed a knife to cut
Steak as a fork would break it apart...no chewing needed for thirty seconds. The planting guide is the
One in your head now and common sense. Late frosts, early winter, too hot summer sun with
Dryness, then flooding. Thank you for sharing all this info. Just st sharing because you always do!
Great porch time Danny! Spot on. I miss the good old days. So true about the food in stores. I remember going to an ice house to buy big blocks of ice to put in front of fans and water coolers. Nothing like coming from the outside heat of summer into the ice house. Our property & homes (as of now anyways) are the only thing we own but others controls what we do with it & how we do it. They have laws and restrictions on everything. What ever happened to being free and having good old common sense? A world where a hand shake or word meant something.
Glenokla OMG I remember having an ice house down the street from us! Those were the days. We had a small commercial bakery right off the railroad tracks across the street that had a train car sitting for days with huge sacks of flour and sugar inside. Us kids would sneak into the bakery and take a couple fresh chocolate iced donuts. We also had a small potato chip snack warehouse up the street where the chips were in large tins and not bags! Little mom and pop grocery stores that butchered their own meats in the back dotted all over the town. This brings back so many memories. Oh the good old days. 😀
Yes, those was the good old days Janette Lavender. My father's mother owned and ran such a grocery store. At the time she didn't have a bathroom or running water in the store. You had to do your business out in the old coal shed. Then come inside and wash your hand in the wash basin. Every school day she would fix the school kids sack lunches. Back then she let people shop there and just charge their food. Needless to say, when she shut down the store many years later a lot of people still owed her money that she never got but she died rich. Many hungry mouths got food and that was the most important thing. We also had a couple of those stores in my home town but they've been out of business for many years now. It's such a shame. I always loved the ice house. We didn't have ac until I was 16. It sure felt so good in the hot humid summers. We grew up in the country so going to town was a big deal. Now I own a home in a town and wished I was in the country.
One more thing - I use a couple of worm bins and mix that vermicompost in to my ground before I plant - I also make compost tea and drench my compost pile and garden beds before I plant. No bugs and healthy plant result.
Hey Danny! You are exactly right! Well said. I hope people wake up and realize what's happening in this country! Thanks for sharing your thoughts! God bless you my friend!
We still have a coop here, we get all of our feed and stuff there. They still have all the seed bins, and anything you can think of you need, and if they don't have it they will get it for you. They even have snacks for kids for a quarter, and there is a jar you just drop your change into.
Well said Danny they will never stop me from homesteading!
Great Porch Time- As always Thanks for all you do. They just passed some ordinance in our county that would not allow for off-grid living.
"They don't know how REAL FOOD taste like"....Preach Danny!!!
Fascinating history but scary thought for the future. Thanks for sharing your knowledge.
I had total crop failure for our "spring" crops. The freezing to 90 then back to freezing in 10 days just wipes everything out. So far this year my tomatoes planted on the north side of my house that is in partial shade (only 6 hours direct light) has given be the best tomatoes. My ones in the sun are tiny compared to the ones in partial shade.
My tomatoes are small too . My beefsteak is only about half inch bigger than a golf ball smh. The plant looks great but the other kind of tomatoes are small and the plant is burnt . So trouble to get seeds to germinate no this year too.its evil what they are and have been doing to us .
the only hybrids I remember in the old days was corn, I paid $100.00 archer for my first piece of land in the early 70s. you are right every thing from seeds, to feed, to tools, to snow shoes, to wood stoves, to dynomite, to gun, and ammo, to penny candy in those old farm stores .
That was the days.
Malcolm Small when my Gramma passed 3 yrs ago they turned her Country Store into a Convenience store. What a waste. They bulldozed her Muscadine grapevines that came from Great Gramma's house. They cut down the fruit trees. Turned her garden in back of store & her woodstove trees into a parking lot. It's horrible.
your right. We have young people that won't eat home canned food, they said it looks awful, and if it isn't from Wal-mart they won't eat it. They make faces and won't even give it a try today. So sad, at home we lived off the garden, and had our own meat, We were both raised on farms. I don't see the small farmer around anymore
I really enjoy your talks, Danny. You are so right about things. I remember when my granny had hams hanging in her smokehouse. I've told my kids that nothing today tastes as good as the sausage we had when daddy butchered one of our hogs. Food really does not taste the same. I haven't found a tomato today that compares to those we grew back in the day.
I totally agree with you on this video. Thank goodness we still have some people out there to learn from. Keep up the good work, Danny & Wanda & thanks for all you do!!
Danny you are an educator. Everything you have said here has fallen upon the small town in Virginia I reside in.
1) this is the last summer the feed store that has everything a homesteader needs, including rooted tomato bundles and such, and seeds by weight, will close at summers end, For all us here, it’s a 35 min drive to Tractor Supply and the likes.
2) we have had 4 days in a row of 4 inch downpours. County snowplows have been plowing gravel from driveways and mud from fields off the road.
3) an inspector has been visiting flea market and shops looking for independent meat and dairy sellers. Wanting to know from whom they are getting eggs, apple butter etc from.-
4)farmers die off, lazy kids inheriting it and selling to developers. These extravagant houses with 4 acre striped lawns. Beautiful, fertile, profitable land, now nothing more than a landscaped conversation piece for the occupants visitors.
Thank you for these raw and real Porch Times, and Wanda for her say and take in other videos. It’s a real joy to have y’all to gather information, good, solid information.
Good morning Danny..you are all fired up this morning..and you are so right on the money..we are blessed in our area with many family farms...our college offers agricultural classes and many students are starting their own homegrown agri businesses..we have a farmer owned coop where we can buy real farm implements and they will put you in touch with farm members who can help you if you need help finding products at local farms such as animals, hay etc.
some local libraries also offer seed saver veggie seeds for free..
Before we brought our property, I made sure we were in a "right to farm" community, which we are and I checked with town hall too, so we are adding to our homestead as we go..
Love your insights and tidbits, and rants Danny..
We will keep on keepin on..
Im watching this 4 yrs later. Things have gotten so out of hand. Thank you for speaking the truth. Weve got to figure this out. Have a blessed day
Wow Danny your having some of the same issues I’m having here in south central Kansas. We had literally no rain for 7 months all winter. We are just now starting to get some. Same with the seeds. I’ve never had a problem planting okra but seeds I’ve saved for years and seeds others have given me and store bought seeds nothing has come up yet. Out of probably 100 seeds planted. This is the first time in my life I have ever gone to a store and bought okra plants to transplant. I didn’t even know you could do that till this year. Same thing with our sunsets here too. I don’t remember the last time I saw a clear sunset. It’s always “cloudy” around the sunset. Well keep on trying here as that’s all we can do is try.
Jeremiah Lackey A couple years ago Walmart started selling okra plants. Last year I saw corn plants. I had never heard of them being sold as plants, especially corn plants. But like you ,I have had to replant bare spots several times this year. I saved my heirloom okra seeds from last year and they seem to be doing fine. But I have planted hundreds of saved sunflower seeds and maybe have 20-30 plants come up.That has never happened before. Usually every seed I plant comes up, til the last couple years.
Jeremiah Lackey maybe try planting in 5 gallon bucket first & then transplant ting after they come up???
God bless you. I feel the same way. I was born in 1964. I grew up in the military. We moved every 6 months to a year. My mother and father never planted things, every tho both of their parents were homesteaders. One in Arkansas and the other is here in Wichita Kansas. Both of my sets of Grand parents were great gardeners. On vacations we got to help on the homestead. The best times of my life. Both farms were a little more than an acre. If they didn't grow it, raise it, shoot it or catch it, they didn't eat. Everyone had jobs and responsibilities. Mine was the chickens. From hatching to butchering, had to be done, or you don't eat. I loved the hogs. I me friends with a baby pig, early one summer. By fall my baby pig had to be prepared for early retirement, In a sense. That was hard. But come next summer, there was new babies on the homestead. Today, I crave that, but due to having to live in apartments I had window gardens. For the first time, I actually have a small garden. Lots of my favorite plants and flowers.. I started everything in 4 foot diameter kids swimming pools.i used leaves to fill the bottom and composted chicken manure. As well as in a smaller garden im using as a test project. Early sun with chicken manure compost, the larger with composted leaves and potting soil with organic fish emission . Both are amended with Epsom salt and bone meal and calcium. We will see before to Long how this test will go. My onions aren't doing awesome in afternoon sun, but love a less direct all day sun. I have 3 test areas with onions. One has to work. So far the all day filtered sun is in the lead by at least an inch. Tomatoes are performing different. One is in the swimming pool, with the stalk planted parallel in in the soil. OMG it's got five tomatoes. It's compost with leaves and amended soil. Another 20 tomatoes plants are different varieties as well as Cherry tomatoes, yummy. They will be split up in test gardens. They are slower growing, but look beautiful with all the blooms it's in Just like a forest floor. Can't wait to see how tall and how full of fruit they get. Take care my friend. I I'm learning allot of what I remembered as a child. Just don't wear like green pants around a rooster, lol not a happy ending. At least for the rooster. He sure tasted good.
O the good old ways, a better way, closer to the land closer to our food. The money is printed daily, a.dollar was silver, not to long ago. I am not able to buy sweat potatoes slips,
second year in a row, mine were eaten by some thing. Our hardware store sells potted plants for 6 dollars each. Always sold bundles of 50 for 1.50 .
The term homesteading is being used in adds at our local Tractor Supply, some one is noticing how popular homesteading has be come.
james manley I took a sweet potato that had nubs on it & put in glass jar with h2o. Always let tap h2o sit 2-3 days before using. No fluoride in it here. We keep voting it OUT. Keep jar full. In 2 weeks have about 10 slips rooted into another jar of h2o. Not much but still something. Those old sweet potato plants Mom grew everywhere we moved made a difference. She grew gardens & canned what she could.
I agree I'm 32 and land is so expensive in my area I'm having a hard time finding something I can afford so I can move to start my home stead
Between the weather and the environment, the place to start is indoors. Grow sprouts and microgreens and you can have salad every day of the year. I've also grown cherry tomatoes and bell peppers inside and eaten them all year long.
Look at aGardenPatch's Grow Boxes. I'm thinking I should put those inside a greenhouse or hoophouse. They aren't cheap, but if they keep the soil the right wetness and fertilize to produce more than you can growing in the ground, that could be worth it.
You can grow most things in raised beds or even fabric pots -- even potatoes. So you can get started with all of this before you have land. And you don't need nearly as much land if you use excellent soil and fish-based fertilizer.
Here in Texas I started growing 3 years ago on a 20'x20' plot. I started saving my own grown seeds and learned crop rotation. I am amazed at the way the food tastes and at how much food I can grow in 400 sqr ft of raised beds. I have over 200 thriving pole green bean pants, and 150 Okra
I moved to Southeast Alabama in 1986, in the rural areas property was selling for around $450 an acre. That same exact property is now selling for $5,000 an acre. I was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida. I remember my dad telling me that there was areas that were very much country Backwoods. That land is now selling for 30 and $40,000 easily. If I had the money I would invest my money in the Backwoods of Alabama because it's Prime real estate 20 years from now. We still have folks that live in houses without Plumbing. I know several folks that still use an outhouse. In my area some things just have not met the modern day codes that you talk about. I know two of them folks that still use a pump through their kitchen window to pump water into their house and they hit it on a gas stove so they can take a bath. Will the simple small wash rag in a washtub. Yes here in Alabama we still have old timey folks that I can gather my wisdom from about how they did things back in the day. And some of them still do it the old school way like you talked about in your video. I talk into a microphone on my Android phone so forgive my misspellings and just read between the lines
Lower Alabama Piper, we are developing our homestead in Stockton, AL
True that D1, thank you for the reminder to NEVER GIVE UP! ✌🏻❤️
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LAP ... Ever think about talking into that microphone and preserving some of that age old wisdom while it's still available?
I bought in AL on Lookout mountain near the town of Fort Payne. It's still the old fashioned ways here. Come check it out. It's literally like going back 50 years. I think you'll love it. I came here in 07 and honestly had a culture shock. Lol but I love it. It was what I was looking for but naturally after being in FL for 28 yrs it was very different. Now I go back to FL to visit family and can't wait to get the hell out there. Lol :)
You are so right. I remember the gardens my mom used to have back in the 60's and 70's. things would grow and in the small garden we would have enough tomatoes for her to can to get through the winter. Now I'm lucky if I get enough to eat during the season and a few bags to freeze.
Im so sorry ur having a hard time in the garden. Weve had more GRAY days than anything else so far as weather but my seeds have germinated i have them in milk jugs, mini greenhouses. So far so good hopefully theyll do well in the garden OUTSIDE.
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Bet you'd be a great implement Store owner! DO IT! WE NEED YOU!
You speak the truth. Permits & codes on everything. Grandma and grandpa saved the land. Then the grandchildren come along, not knowing what they have, and sells the place, dirt cheap, so to speak. It's so sad. Breaks my heart. Bee Blessed Danny and Rita in TN on Rooster's Ridge
Ever hear of MIGardener? He sells seeds for 99 cents! Bee Blessed Danny and Rita in TN on Rooster's Ridge
I was part of that generation when things begin to change. Now that I'm older I'm going back and trying to relearn some of the old ways. It may not have been as convenient or is easy but life was much simpler then. I do enjoy simple. Blessings to you and Deep South Homestead.
There is hope. You have shared many traditions through your page that has inspired me. This year we more than doubled our little urban garden and planted potatoes and turnips for the first time. Please continue to share your knowledge and experience, because it’s not lost on me.
Focus on building soil. Straw and clean mulch will help your beans to hold moisture.
This was awesome Mr. Danny!!! 100% agree with everything!! I want to ride around and blast this from a loud speaker on top of my car so everyone can hear it and come to realize the sad state we are all in. Thanks for sharing.
This is our first year gardening in Zone 6b. We are learning from you and others, please keep up the great videos. My mother always had a small garden, i have noticed the things she would do hasn't worked for me. We will continue our journey. Thank you
You are so fabulous....I am 50 and I tell my kids and my man about my grandfather and how at every meal we had a jar of fresh green onions washed and in water...and slices of fresh purple/red onion and they make a face...I have to explain that its different fresh....slowly but surely my garden is getting there so they will learn the difference and appreciate it..that is my hope..:)
I’ve started growing two varieties of heirloom tomatoes and plan to keep quite a few seeds for next year.
I just love this message at 57 years old i know what real food taste like you make me smile i say amen and good bless I love my memorys of growing up thank you so much
Your right its hard to get a small homestead going. But got to keep going
Danny, what a chance you are taking! I am surprised you haven’t been censured. You have reviewed so many things on this porch time, I-hope you get a million views because people need to know this stuff.. most people are so asleep I don’t know how they get through life. Keep it up guys, I am hoping you make a difference. I have noticed such a difference in YouTUBE in the past five years. Five years ago you could actually learn almost anything on CZcams. I loved it. I still love it, but there’s a lot more content geared toward entertainment rather than real education. I feel for you and Wanda down in that Mississippi heat. I am in northern Alabama and our heat is awful too. Heat indexes are in the dangerous levels every day. Thankfully we are still getting rain. Love you guys, keep fighting the good fight.
I believe you're totally correct. I'm old.. 70... and I remember the arguments in the 50's about seeding the clouds and putting fluoride in water, among other things. I wish I lived close enough to come help you and Wanda. My 10 year old son is also watching and learning~
I remember eating at my Great Grandparents home when I was a kid, and the food they served was so different than what is available now. 45 years ago my Great Grandparents grew almost all of the food they ate on just a couple acres of land. We have a large garden this year, and are attempting to raise a lot of the food we need for the next year. It's not easy so far.
Amen. You are speaking the truth. God bless you.
Another good Porch Time; I really enjoyed your talk. I remember an implement store back in my hometown, Natick, MA, when I was growing up. I can see in my mind the mist sprayers parked out front because we had apple orchards in town and surrounding towns. We were 17 miles west of Boston. I think the problem is the farms are being sold off because you can make more money that way than you could make from growing crops. No farms, no sale of mist sprayers (for example), no syrup cans, no seeds. End of story!
Ray Valley, Eustis, FL
Wow another great video and information. I can remember when we first moved to New Mexico 13 years ago. In the spring and summer time we would get rain storm almost every week. Now we go months and months with no rain. We haven't really had any winters in the last few years.
You are speaking the truth Danny. Its a cryin shame, and I am so sad about the world today for anyone that wants a simple life. The future is very scary. You are so right about sticking together and supporting each other. Thank you for the video.
13 years ago farmland near me was 3,000 an acre. Its almost 10-30,000 now. Most is auctioned off tho. The only ones that can afford it are industrial cattle, chicken or swine operations or Monsanto. The old farmers w hundreds of acres WERE buying up ALOT of land but now its getting too exoensive for them. I also see farming practices in place that led to Dust Bowl conditions. I have NO trees around for MILES but what weve planted. I agree w you on Tractor Supply, the plants they have are dead and the seed is OUTRAGEOUSLY priced. The average person cant plant ALOT of seed wo spending a fortune.
I was born at the time you were. This took me to remembering how it used to be. You inspired me to try to find someone to put new handles in all of those broken barn tools. I am also overplanting seeds as I noticed how it can be tough getting a good crop.
I am trying to get my parents to understand what’s going on but I think they are kinda of blind to it. You are right the government wants all the control they can have.
Check out Dustin Dean channel. The government trolls are trying to stop him and his family from having a homestead. The harassment their going through.
Ok thanks I will
Mr Danny you’re right about everything. I remember going to the co-op there in Wiggins when I was a kid and getting our peas shelled and corn shelled too. I remember my Grandpaw Beech taking me and my little brother to the old hardware store there on Main Street and bought us our first bow and arrows. Now they were kid toys but I remember that place like it was yesterday. I also remember the old Vlassic Pickle plant that was there on the tracks headed out to Flint Creek across the street from the new little Baitshop. Things aren’t the way they were and I miss those days tremendously. I can’t wait to see that restoration project you’ve got going on with that old plow. I hope that my wife and I can come and visit with you and Mrs Wanda real soon. Y’all have a blessed day Mr Danny and I sincerely thank y’all for putting out all of the information y’all do for us. Every time I watch y’all I feel like I’m back on the farm we grew up on there by Sunflower Baptist Church.
amen and amen !!! thank you for reminding us again..
Thank God I bought some heirloom seeds from Amazon and stuck them in my freezer for preservation for years to come. When I found an Amish organic squash plant at the grocery store, that is the best one that is growing because it's organic and it's from the Amish country.
So, so, SO true.. Hoping and praying we can get ourselves out of California (🙏🙏🙏) and find us some land (affordably) and homestead..we need to depend on ourselves because government is encouraging entitlements and dependency, in other words, setting the groundwork to take us from capitalism to socialism..Lord help us all..things will NEVER be the same. Pray for our country! 🙏🙏🙏
I remember buying tomatoes like that and they did grow great, don’t remember but loosing one or two in a whole row. Land is crazy high in Tennessee. In the county we live in you can’t get power unless you have a septic tank and your house has to be on a solid foundation. They will not permit Tiny house living. Wish I had paid more attention to things my granny and daddy did when I was growing up.
Danny your so right. I'm 75 and miss real food we used to eat.just can't get it any more. I've looked
So TRUE! I remember those days well! Hello from Alaska! :)
I bought a bunch of seed packs 5 years ago - tomatoes - mustard greens - basil - cucumber - oregano - celantro - arugula - spent about 2 bucks a pack and every year I keep the seeds from the plants to use them for the next year - great thing is in my green house - many of them come back without planting. - forget the $3 dollar tomato plant a Lowe’s - thank you for the video and take care.
Great Porch time Danny! I thoroughly enjoyed it! Made excellent points and I did. Not know about that watermelon thing either !
I am 55 and I remember having some of those things. I lived in a small country town and now that town is huge. I watched the land with cattle ,horses farms ECT.. disappear from eye sore buildings. Barring people from having chickens or other farm animals in town because they started annexed the land. Food in Jars change to food in mostly plastic and so many other things. I remember when a bran spankin new Toyota truck cost 5-7 thousand dollars don't remember which it was .
Love this video. I would love for my grandchildren to know what a real tomato tastes like. Tomatoes and a salt shaker were the best snack.
Just the mention of Implement store and Hardware store ... immediately triggers the memories of the "aromas" of those places that never changed through the years. I also remember playing in the seed bins as a kid. It was expected and no one ever got upset. Well, as long as you didn't mix any seeds. :) We grew up during the good times didn't we?
Lonely Prepper Homestead Yes we did my friend. Thanks
You are so very right!! I agree 💯%!!
you are so correct. My first house I bought for $15,000 now it is worth 174,000
You hit the nail on the head I'm 63 yrs young I live in Montana and I just recently retired I remember the old seed farm stores you throw it in the ground and just basically water it that was it it grew and flowered now you have to buy all this seedsoil and planting soil and fertilizer and you know what tomatoes tiny buds and then die .I make my own soil with eggshells and coffee grounds and old pieces of veg ends and use it to grow and it works fine.so amen brother I understand where your coming from best of luck t.r.from wise river mt
Thank you so much for this video it took me back to growing up in the 60' s when we would work all summer in the fields. Wish times were that way again . May God bless you , and your family always !
Another great video, thank you for what you all do! Greetings from Simpson County MS