I'm still watching old videos. Under your deck would be a perfect spot for a 300ish gallon rain water catchment area. Like a truck box water tank. I love your videos. You don't know me but I feel like you guys are my best friends.

Hi..... Thank you for sharing your video homestead 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 🎥👍👍👍

Your homestead series is my dream aswell, however as a 28yr old in Aus, im a long way off, Thanks for all your informational videos, have learnt alot from you guys

It sure looks great Evan. Your hard work has paid off and the both of you should be very proud. God bless!

That place is looking sweet , keep up the good work Evan

Evan, I love your videos. They are so comforting. You exude such positive energy. More and more time to each. ) thank you.

I've had the 2-inch semi-trash pump from Harbor Freight for 2 years now. and are very impressed with it's performance. It's inexpensive and it cranks first pull every time.

Love seeing your updates! Keep 'em coming!

Looking good. Rome wasn't built in a day. Always wanted to say that. By this time next year it'll be even better. Thanks for the update.

Big improvement in all areas. Great job.

That looks absolutely wonderful, I remember what it looked like before. Thanks for sharing your homestead with us, Jimmy

The hay field really looks good Even. Now i can uncross my fingers.

Evan, you did a great job on the lawn. The ariel shots show beautifully. So happy for you.

Looks good Evan, it’s come a long way and you both can be proud. Thanks for sharing with us

You've got the nicest looking 40 acre homestead I've ever seen.

Doing just fine, you should look into a grass that grows very long roots, that will help to sustain the grass in dry conditions, using pond water would help a lot. dave

It's looking really good!!

Wow! Things are greening up nicely, Evan. Nothing ever grows fast enough for me! My husband is way more patient.😊 A few years ago we had to let the grass paths in our backyard cottage garden die to save on water. The pathways were (and currently are) a mix of St.Augustine and some weedy grass from hell. The water restriction has lifted, so to help the St.Augustine rebound I laid a thick layer of wood chips down to avoid a muddy mess, mostly. But wouldn't you know it, the grass just looks better where there was more multch. As for water catchment, I'm sure you're working on that. Some people just don't listen, you said that your gutter set up is temporary until you can run a burried pipe to drain into your pond. I don't know why some people think a pond is bottomless, it's not, especially if there's a drought. Your pond will be your water catchment -- no unsightly barrels around your home, and you can irrigate from it as needed. Sheesh. Don't those arm chair quarterbacks know you by now??😏

Rain collector for the farm. A pump to put in the pond to water lawn.

Property is looking great!!

Looking great!

If you top your grass seed with barley seed, it will work the same as straw but give you an annual lawn while your grass seed germinates. The barley seed will also open up the soil for the grass seed.......try it on a small area, you will be amazed

No more water bills, you have all the water you need in the pond

Wow the pastures look great and still looking forward to see your new videos hehe 😉

Great drone footage mixed into your explanation. Very informative. Looks great!

fantastic place

I would have bought a pump and pumped water from the Pond to give the gras water. That much cheaper than buying drinkwater to have on grasfield.

Beautiful pasture!

Your lawn and fields are looking good.

We had a gorgeous 120 acre farm in Arkansas that looked exactly like that but we never lived there we had leased it out to a rice farmer. Sold it a few years ago and bought 140 acres in the mountains to start an heirloom, organic apple orchard. Thanks for the advice about growing grass on a hillside because we are going to need it because sometime long in the past someone over grazed parts of it.

Your hard is paying off! The place is looking fantastic! You have so much grass that you might need to get a robotic lawn mower just to keep it all cut! Lol

Nice farm

Why not use the water off of the house roof, for watering the grass by a water catchment system.

High Five on the hay field Evan! As for the old garden area - now you know. You had a lot of weeds in that area when it was a garden, sooooo . . . . . . We live and learn - right. I'm surprised to hear that you live out in the country, but you don't have a well! And WHY are you wasting the free water that's coming off all your roofs?! At least for irrigation purposes, especially during dry times, you should have a rain-water catchment system. Is that in your plans for the future at all? At the very least, you can dig a big hole in that hill where you have your downspout, put a cistern in it, plug a spigot into the bottom of the cistern and run a water hose from it to your garden or to your sprinkler system. That cistern should easily fill up in the spring during the rainy season and give you the water you need for all your gardening needs. All in all, though, I have to commend you. You've been doing a LOT of work getting your farmstead just the way you want it and doing it in record time and doing it well. So many are haphazard and the farm winds up looking the way it did when you first bought it. This, for sure, is going to be a well maintained and good looking farm for as long as you and Rebecca own it and are able to take care of it the way you want to.

Your land is so beautiful.

Acouple bags of scotts turf builder will help the lawn around the house.

Sorry you had so much trouble but glad it all worked out.

Looks like you are making some real headway. Mow the lawn high and let the rhizomes do their thing.😉

Having the deer graze it will probably improve the root system. And, of course, they fertilise while they graze!

Hey mate, great series, we live off grid in Victoria Australia and easily fill 100,000 litres to 3 tanks from our shed which has a similar roof catchment size. That plus running a ranchio controlled irrigation system could automate your watering all year round for free. Cheers mate

all the seed that didnt sprout,, as soon as ya get some livestock on it an careful not ta over graze it,ll sprout,, thank ya fer the video

Lookin good Evan! Art in CA

Growing up my dad tilled. Consequently I lean towards tilling too. Some nutrients such and phosphate and potassium do not move through the soil as easily as nitrogen. Tilling helps distribute those throughout the soil.

I'm enjoying your videos. I found you when looking for how to set up a chicken coop in a barn. I was born in Carbondale and still have family in that area. I'm getting a little homesick watching your channel.

I was also going to suggest using a rain catchment system from your roof. Seems better than digging a trench, buying pipe and putting it underground, then buying water when you need it for the grass during heat. you may even be close enough to your garden to use it there. I see several people think the same. The other thing I was wondering was why you weren't using the water from the pond? It comes with fertilizer already in it! You might not be able to use a sprinkler without filtering it but I'm sure you can make a PVC sprinkler like I did with pipe and a drill and bit. Love your channel, you are two very hard working people and have accomplished a lot. Not telling you how to run your homestead, you are doing great, just giving a few suggestions that come with experience.

I don't know but years ago in the area I lived in we put 2inch well down with but, we only had to go down to a depth of 100 to 120feet relatively inexpensive a friend gave me a jet pump and I converted it to 220volts from 110. Plenty of water 💧 for 1+ acres.

I have just watched your series on the hay field and the grass, it was very interesting to follow your ups and down on your journey, it’s now midnight here in England but I had to stay awake to see the outcome. I hope you and your family are keeping safe and well in the strange times we are having at the moment?

Don't worry about weeds haven't seen an annual that frost won't kill . Reasead thin spots in April rite on top of residue by hand

Make sure you have plenty of grass seed on hand wait untill you know your going to get you first snow, and reseed and seed heavily and it will fill in nicely. Your not to far from us. Good luck

In my area we throw straw on top of seeds to control seed erosion and to stop birds from eating seeds

a good site for rainwater harvesting is @homesteadonomics. He created a video for his garden by just laying down a tarp, dug a hole, piped downhill into a cistern. Fields and grass are very nice. Thanks for sharing.

is there a reason you cant use the pond water? The seeded areas of your field will fill in as fall progresses, Moisture will stay in the soil longer with cooler temps, the soil temperature will stay warm enough to allow germination. Whatever seed doesn't germinate may well come up in the spring. It looks great Evan!

Looking good . I watched you doing all of the work getting the land ready for seed . That back pasture looks amazing now . Shame that company killed everything off on you but it looks good now . Like everyone said , why not pump the water from the pond to water the grass . Well now at least you know that the seeder that you bought works . You and your wife have certainly come along way .

Greta video! Looks like things are really coming along. I'd highly recommend using PVC for the down spout piping, corrugated is nothing but headaches within a few years. Cost isn't that much more either as you can use the thin wall anywhere you wont drive over.

Your property is looking great! Similar to what others have said, I wonder how a pond pump would do for watering that area. I bet all the duck poop in there would be great to help things get going! Thanks for sharing.

Thinner areas will fill in immediately foxtail, crab grass and other weeds. 2,4-D will get rid of the broad leaf weeds, but for the grasses the only way to get rid of foxtail, crab grass, and other weed grasses is to over seed. That is why the seeding rate is so high on lawn grasses. Its best to over seed both the lawn and the pasture every year. In the fall, you can easily see the thin spots and just seed where it is needed.

have you done an ariel view of the whole property so we can figure out your layout from the house round all the barns and fields

Let the grass go to seed Mow the clippings into the bare spots It'll fill it in

You could, instead of letting rain water flow into pond try 1] collect rain water in large tank. Add pump and used collected water to water lawn, wash cars, etc, etc.....2] Or dig several trenches from the rain spout out to the lawn. Use perforated pipe lying in/on gravel underlay. Cover. Then rain will water your lawn. Cut the water bill...….

Be sure to add some trees to help hold the soil better.

I was gone tell you the same thing that Louis L told you get some water thanks for your animals so you whant have to by that water

Hey ! ;-) ..like your Channel a Lot! Why dont u put a 50 gallon drum on the roof drain ...save the rainwater and use it for your garden plants!? ...thats what we do in BAVARIA...free water!

Water bill of $140.00. For that you could have bought a pump and drawn your water from your pond. Over time it will all find its own way back.

Looking good Evan! How is winter preparation coming? Cheers

Might wanna plan on getting a zero turn mower for all that grass.....just sayin

Your place is looking very nice! Everything that you and your wife are doing is well worth the effort. On another note, what kind of drone do you use for the overhead footage? It's a nice touch to your videos.

Even, can you irrigate that alfalfa/grass field out of your pond? You'd get another cutting probably.

Would you be able to bury a tank under the downpipe for water collection rather than use town supply. Or pump from the pond.

Why not get a pump and use pond water instead of city water to irrigate your new grass?

Tree roots have a lot to do with why grass doesn't grow well along the forest edge.

Buy a water tank and catch your roof runoff. best drinking water in the world.

Hi. I was born and raised in SE Illinois. Where are you located? We just sold 100 acres of tillable farm ground.

All the places that you seeded nothing grows on the edges weird

Why don’t you get a pump and pull your water out of the pond to water your lawn and garden.

Why don’t you se pond to irrigate yard?

You are going to need to keep up with nutritional needs of the soil to keep you lawn and hey fields.

Instead of a water bill you could have got a water pump and watered from the pond ! 🇬🇧🇬🇧

Give your cattle added feed and let them be well fed three or four days before turning cattle out on fields with clover 🍀 in the pasture... never turn hungry cattle out on clover 🍀 fields that is a sure way to cause bloat in cattle, because they'll overeat if hungry..

Good work, but maybe instead of piping water to lake, why not collect it for future irrigation?

You've done an amazing job on your property. Everything about it is nearly perfect. The only two things that it's missing is a creek with year around water and a well. Love the house, pond, barn, open fields, and LONG driveway. It's all gorgeous! I've been trying to find a property like yours for about 2 years now and everything is just so darn expensive. I'm just hoping that patience will pay off. ( eventually )

Harvest the deer that are grassing your hay field and make venison steaks

why not use your pond as a water source for your yard

Is there a reason you do not collect rainwater and your pawn runoff to water your garden and your animals

Have you got any Chicken farmers near you? If so they may be glad for you to take some of their "Chicken-Shit" away! Take care now.

do what yack f zay says

Puzzled. Why didn't you pump water from that pond instead of paying $140 extra on your water bill??

Why don’t you feed beef cow or Brahman cow sad sir

Lay off the background music, it's distracting