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FreeSong Farm
Добавлен 21 июл 2016
Our family has been living on a self-reliant homestead for over 15 years. We made a lot of mistakes and we learned many things the hard way. We'd like to share with people-especially families-interested in this living arrangement our thoughts and observations.
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Wood Stove Cooking 1
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Making Gyro, Pita bread and Tzatziki sauce from our yogurt ( plus making butter)
Making Sauerkraut at home.
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Fermenting homegrown cabbage into Sauerkraut in a 5-gallon crock.
Raising Chickens
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Raising poultry from one-day-old chicks to productive laying hens or meat birds requires a strategy for dealing with the birds as they go through their growth cycle. A laying flock needs new hens every year, and the first six months are critical you need containment and predator protection, a heat source, feed, feeders, waterers, fencing, and tools to handle the manure they produce while contai...
Winter Is Over But Next Winter Is Coming
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Winter Is Over But Next Winter Is Coming
Weed-Free Organic Garden
Просмотров 4125 лет назад
Warm-weather field veggies like corn, beans, tomatoes, okra, and melons require a different weed control strategy than a cold weather garden like cabbage, broccoli, and onions (we use raised beds for these). Conscientiousness is at the top of that strategy. Weeds are easy to remove when they are small, so a daily pass with the hoes is in order, and tarps keep the weed-seed load in check.
Training Workhorses
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A real homestead needs traction: Tractors, oxen, or workhorses (and perhaps all three). Animal husbandry and livestock care are critical, as is growing their feed hay and field corn. With a team of well-trained and fed workhorses and the right equipment, a homestead can produce most of the family's food, and all of its firewood and mechanical energy (horse-powered turnstiles and treadmills). Bu...
Off-Grid Cooking in Warm Weather
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In the summer, we don't want to heat up the house by cooking indoors (we don't have AC). We use this stainless steel, wood-fired oven/cook top/grill. It requires no electricity, propane, or charcoal just a little bit of firewood kindling will cook a full meal for our family, pasteurize two gallons of milk from the cow, and heat five gallons (or more) of water for washing dishes.
Homesteading: Harnessing a Buggy Horse and Driving a Buggy
Просмотров 51 тыс.6 лет назад
On a large homestead you need a conveyance to get you and your tools around Fixing fences, feeding cattle, checking on things and a horse and buggy is cheaper, less maintenance, and more fun than an ATV/UTV Prosperous Homesteading on Amazon www.amazon.com/Prosperous-Homesteading-Greg-Jeffers/dp/1543168663/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1532287532&sr=8-1&keywords=Greg Jeffers Seven Years of Famine www.a...
Farming with Horses-Team of Belgian Workhorses pulling a potato plow to harvest potatoes
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Team of Belgian Workhorses, Bell and Rosie pulling a potato plow to harvest potatoes.
Mechanical Horse Power on the Homestead
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Our neighbors do not use internal combustion engines or electricity but they get it done.
Tedding hay with Bell ( draft horse) & Gracie (Mule)
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Tedding hay with Bell ( draft horse) & Gracie (Mule)
Preparing ground for a homestead size garden
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Preparing ground for a homestead size garden
Breaking a horse ( stallion) to work -First day in the lines
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Breaking a horse ( stallion) to work -First day in the lines
After The Tornado 4/5/2017 Center, Kentucky
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After The Tornado 4/5/2017 Center, Kentucky
Planting potatoes with a Horse-drawn cultivator
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Planting potatoes with a Horse-drawn cultivator
The Most Important Crop on a Homestead is Grass
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The Most Important Crop on a Homestead is Grass
"Prosperous, Debt Free, and Self-Sufficient Homesteading"
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"Prosperous, Debt Free, and Self-Sufficient Homesteading"
Grinding Wheat By Hand (and Making Whole Wheat Cookies in Wood Stove)
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Grinding Wheat By Hand (and Making Whole Wheat Cookies in Wood Stove)
Skidding firewood with Draft Horses.
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Skidding firewood with Draft Horses.
Most important crop on a Homestead is Grass/Hay
Просмотров 2537 лет назад
Most important crop on a Homestead is Grass/Hay
Great video ! Subscribed !
Great video Greg and family - keep them coming.
And you even make gyros from scratch? ♥️
Why must the wood chips be made of pine instead of cedar?
Cedar shavings release a gas that will kill all of the chicks. We learned this the hard way many years ago. Pine is safe. Other hardwood sawdust is safe.
Beautiful horses. But this is so wrong. Im sure there are better ways to break a horse and get so much better results.
Looks like you have an Ashland cookstove - how did you decide to go with that brand? Thanks for your videos.
there just like children if you dont teach them the way to be they will be the way that suits them
Good day from Ont. Canada . Back i n middle 80's we bought mare from Amish She was not broke either, but couple yrs later she had a colt we were going to hitch. We had played so much with colt that went we hitch mare took more of a fit that colt. Thanks that was quite funny when kicked out of side.
Never had that touch, horses & dogs aren't my strong point.
Was thst Bugs Bunny bathing in that kettle? XD
A lot quieter than tractors
The Amish and mennonites use those regularly.
I just LOVE those big horses. They are so BEAUTIFUL!!!!! Really neat to see you training Zeus, he is a gorgeous horse. take care!
I can't believe some people think you know what you're doing. You're a complete idiot. That's how people and horses get hurt or killed. If you don't have a better handle on you're horse you've got no business putting a harness on him.
We live in a community where everyone farms with horses. Do you farm with horses? Maybe you can stop by and show me how it is done. We have guest quarters for field hands. Bring your teams here too. I'd like to see you run a farm and feed a family for a year with horses.
That can get scary! I wouldn't want to be cranking that handle, hoping that horse doesn't decide to take off... No emergency brake!
I’ve never seen such a bad way to break a horse till now, by far the worst 🤦♂️
Thanks for the nice video of new life on the farm
A hard but simple and good life, God bless
He can't see what's beside nor behind and he hears a racket of metal clanging, I'd be a bit on edge as well.
In Deutschland Nennt man die Dinger " Wurstkessel" oder " Schlachtkessel"
Pffff only 2 hp.
HP was measured over a century ago with a 700lbs horse. My drafts are 2,000 pounds. They are 2.5 HP each. A draft cross is about 1.5/1.75. Maybe you forgot that physics lecture in college?
what about a garden hose ??????????????
Partner if you would put a horse like this in a pen and gently sack him with a lariat rope for 30 min he will stand for the harness. Safer for you , less stress for the horse.
Very cool, but how much of electric can make?
Great steed
I am puzzled as to why you have chosen to so strongly criticise a couple who completely walked the talk. The reason there are drawings in the book is because John's wife was an artist! John brought up his family on the land and ran his small holding successfully until he was almost 90.
I grew up in the 80's on a 5ac attempted homestead. My parents learned the hard way exactly what you talk about in this video. Most books on the subject are theory not proven practices. Some of best books about being self sufficient and living off the land I've encountered are the Foxfire series thats been produced over the years. Check em out if youre not familar. Lots of great stuff in them on plain living. Full of pictures, not illustrations.
Loved the video, but I would like to know why your harness is in pieces? The horsemen I have known keep the hames attached to the back pad, and place the entire harness on the horse all at once.(p.s., that tail piece is called a crupper)
I have one also and love it.
Beautiful video. Looking forward to the book.
Looks like an awesome lifestyle
Yeah! Take out those little suckers before they can even grow! :)
tough one
The other horse - NO! Go that way!!! Nooooo not that way!!!! Let me move stupid! The stallion - GET THIS DANG THING OFF ME. What am I supposed to do!!!???? WHEN I GET OUT OF HERE IMMA KILL YA ALL
Hey kid..this is how you cheat when dad isn't looking....garden hose
Looks like the same corn planter we had on our farm, and used every year without any troubles, well made equipment.
That was enjoyable!
I'd like to see someone design a rocket stove water heater. A 1000 gallon PE water tank at top of a 40 - 60' tower with a 300 sq' water collection roof, some tubing and we're ready to roll!
While this method may have worked in this case, I wouldn't recommend it. Desensitizing the horse to the harness definitely should come before the hitching, he was relatively cooperative, but he could kick over the traces, jump over the pole, and cause a lot more trouble. Hitching up with an older experienced horse is, of course, a good approach. With a bit more patience we might get more dependable horses!
This was not Duke's first day in harness or in the lines. Please feel free to post videos of YOUR horse farming activities. Some horses are easy to break. Duke was the worst we've ever had, and the only safe place to place him was an Amish feed mill as a turnstile horse. It was that or the kill auction.
That's how my mom and I used to do it. We also had a wood and glass washboard for single items.
Questions, did you make this? can you buy something like this? if you made it how would one cost? can you drive the washing machine agitator with either a gas powered lawn mower motor or use a bicycle for people power?
Where can I get the wood fired tank????
What's the solution you're cleaning the potatoes in??
Love it sir!!! Thanks so much for sharing!!!!!!
fire under a bathtub on bricks works too!
Great tank but you should have your water catchment from roof going directly into it
hmmmmmmmmmm i prefer my maytag?
Greetings from off grid Oregon. You have a beautiful place. I like the wood stove. We are off grid and we do cook with wood but only in the winter. Right now there is a 200,000 acre wild fire 3 miles from our house. Needless to say nobody cooks with wood July through September around here. We get 100" of rain and 5 feet of snow in a normal year but no rain June through September. So we cook with our solar power on a daily basis and with propane if we need the oven. Our stove is wood and propane fired. We heat with wood 8 to 9 months a year. We have gravity feed water and a solar power. Are you off grid? Thanks for the beautiful video.
Fantastic!