VIDEO: Weekend Garden, Quail, & Firewood
We had a pretty productive weekend! We harvested quail, cut firewood, and picked the beans in the garden.
Category: Backyard Homestead
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We are keeping a video record of what we plant in our garden, where we plant it, and how much we harvest each year. We also raise chickens, quail, and fish. We are trying to become as self-sufficient as possible in our limited space. We live in a neighborhood. Our garden, fish, quail, and chicken space is about 3,000 square feet total. We wanted to lower our monthly grocery bill and to know where our food is coming from. We want to be able to rely on our own healthy, fresh, homegrown produce and less on processed and packaged food from stores.
VIDEO: October Garden Update
Garden update for October. We have been adding a lot of fall vegetables to the garden. We need a little help identifying a mystery plant. Thanks!!
VIDEO: Harvesting Blue Lake Climbing Green Beans
October 15, 2017 – Harvesting some Blue Lake climbing green beans and other produce from the garden!
VIDEO: Groceries for the Months of August and September
Grocery update for the months of August and September. We are on target to meet our goal of spending less than $100.00 per month this year on groceries!
VIDEO: End of September Garden Harvest
We harvested the first of our new Top Pick Purple Hull Peas along with a lot of other things from the garden. We also dug our sweet potatoes. We show our garden produce weigh in update!!
VIDEO: Root Knot Nematodes
The foliage on our peas was looking yellow and curled and the plants weren’t growing very quickly. I consulted a friend and he gave us some insight.
VIDEO: Groceries for the Month of July
This video shows our grocery shopping trips for the month of July. Our goal is to spend an average of $100.00 per month for the year for groceries. This month brings our grocery spending for the year to $717.82. This brings us to an average of $102.55 per month. We have five more months to…
VIDEO: 5 Question Tag
I was tagged by Emma at Misfit Gardening and Kent at Blessed Farm. This is the 5 Question tag. In this tag you are supposed to answer the following 5 questions: 1. What three channels influenced you the most? 2. What three things are you excited for? 3. What three things are you good at?…
VIDEO: Back to School!
It’s about that time!! I have been getting my classroom ready for the incoming Kindergartners!! Kids come on Monday – ready or not!!
VIDEO: Garden Harvest and Lunch
We picked cucumbers, green beans, tomatoes, and peas.
VIDEO: Pulling Green Beans and Planting Peas
The green beans have slowed down so much that we decided it is time to pull them and plant some more purple hull peas.
VIDEO: Creating a New Strawberry Bed
We are creating a new strawberry bed with the daughter plants we caught off the plants in our original strawberry bed.
VIDEO: How We Water Our Garden with Water from Our Fish Pond
We show how we attach a hose to the pump in the pond to water our garden with our good nutrient rich fish water.
VIDEO: Chick
We have integrated Chick into our flock of girls. We closed off her escape route so she has to learn to get along. It’s going fairly well, hopefully it will get smoother for her.
VIDEO: Planting Purple Hull Peas
We are planting purple hull peas where we pulled the last two rows of corn. We also plant climbing green beans where the other Roma tomatoes were.
VIDEO: Pulling the Roma Tomatoes and Replanting
The Roma tomatoes have really slowed down in production, so we decided to pull them. We harvested all the tomatoes from the plants, pulled the vines, and replanted where they were with butter beans.
VIDEO: Timelapse of Aquaponics Impatiens
A week to week look at how our impatiens grew over time in the pond filters.
VIDEO: Fertilizing our Peppers with Worm Tea and Chicken Dirt
We are fertilizing our peppers with worm casting tea and chicken dirt. We then mulched the pepper bed with hay.
VIDEO: Groceries for the Month of June
Groceries for the month of June. We spent $62.03 for food for the month of June. We have spent $604.89 for the year. This brings us to an average of $100.82 per month for food. Our goal for the year is $100.00 per month on average!!
VIDEO: Garden to Table Meals for Tuesday through Friday and Garden Harvests
About a week’s worth of garden to table meals and garden harvests. I tried to remember to video everything we picked and what we cooked each day. We only eat a midday meal. We don’t eat breakfast or supper.
VIDEO: How Many Steps I Get in One Day Push Mowing Yards
I help my brother mow yards during the summer. I thought it was interesting how many miles I walk in a day of just mowing. Thought I’d share!
VIDEO: Tropical Storm Cindy and Our Garden
The remnants of tropical storm Cindy came through bringing some pretty heavy rains and high winds. The corn and sunflowers didn’t have fun…
VIDEO: Canning Tomato Sauce
We are canning tomato sauce, diced tomatoes, and tomato juice.
VIDEO: Feeding the Catfish in Our Backyard Pond
Feeding our catfish during the day. They are usually night time feeders, but we wanted to try to catch them eating on video. I misspoke in the video and said they will be two years old in October, that is incorrect. They will be a year and a half old in October. Some of them…
VIDEO: Propagating Our Strawberry Plants
We are capturing the daughter plants from our existing strawberry bed to use to plant another strawberry bed.
VIDEO: Moving Day for the Baby Quail
The baby quail are about five weeks old so we are moving them to their outdoor coop! We are also starting a new batch of eggs in the incubator.
VIDEO: Introducing a New Chicken to Our Flock
We got a new chick the Thursday before Easter. This video shows how we have attempted to introduce her to the rest of the girls.