My Mom taught me to plant seeds like one spends their pennies at the market. She said, "A seed pkg is like a bank account. There's no reason to plant and harvest a 50 ft row all at once unless you are planning on putting the crop up for the winter. 'Consumer based' gardens need to be succession planted". She was doing 'raised bed/square foot' gardening before it was 'all the rage'. She even saved her own seeds and developed her own varieties of early and late crops. I wish I'd learned a tenth of what she took with her.

I work a full time job with folks jealous of my farm. Yeah, a lot of fun... But am packing the 401 to the max to escape someday. My farmstead and goat herd are doing great. The goats totally pay for themselves and cover some of the farm payment, but not all. I do need to sell my house in the city and move into an RV at the farm. Will save a lot of running back and forth and money! A work in progress...

My favorite quote from this episode “you can’t homestead from jail” 😂😂😂

I'm a kindergarten teacher with a long commute. I can't homestead until our house is done, so I've got my students growing plants in our classroom windows.

Video quality and techniques are already way better. I can't wait everyday to see your videos and just got even more entertaining.

Each of us (Randy and I) both work full time jobs. Me- 40 hours a week and him a little bit more. Everyone should do what works for them. ;) Great video!

We are starting to homestead little by little. We live a few towns over from you guys. Thanks for all the info. It really helps😃

Just getting stated in Torrington. The quality of your cinematography has been really good the past few videos. Maybe it’s always been like that and I’m just new here hahah.

Great topic. I'm a 9-to-5 worker and just diving in to self sufficiency. I'm very fortunate that I work form home, it really helps.. We're starting small and ramping up as we can afford the materials / time. Started with a garden. I'm building an orchard now. Chickens next year. For me however: My golden time is not before work - it's after. I do the majority of my outdoor work between 5 and 7PM (and on the weekends). Obviously when I get chickens, I'll feed/water/let them out in the morning - but likely won't clean the coop until after work. My morning is relaxation, coffee, warm up. Evening is a touch of manual labor to clear my head of all the busy buzzy work noise, get a nice burn in your muscles, and get you charged up for dinner and a good night's rest.

I loved all the video shots you did in this one! Great job! Thanks for all the tips.

Very good points. Hopefully people will see this and truly think and plan things out! Great information!

You are right, it takes money to buy ground and start a homestead plus keep the supplies coming to build everything and feed everyone. I worked as an R. N. Which allowed me to farm homestead for years. I always allowed an extra hour in the morning for problems and if no problems I just enjoyed a coffee while looking out over the farm. Down time is very very important.

I love the half-time flush theory

Really good topic thanx

Great video - very informative. We're both starting our homesteading journey, while working 9-5 jobs. Can't wait to make the transition to full time, but gotta get our ducks in a row first. Thanks so much for sharing. Loving the channel - definitely subscribing!!!

Homesteading w/ a 9-5 here. Your video is SPOT ON! I thought I could do it all, at first. Fortunately, my home and my job are both in rural communities. Most of my co-workers are also farmers of some sort. I learned quickly to add on tasks slowly and only once I had everything else down pat and part of the system.

I worked full time and milked 40- 100 max goats everyday plus the pigs chickens etc. Was always tired. As we won at several National shows we became well known in goat world so the request for goats was big. We bottle fed every baby and was there for each birth. It got to be that the joy of anything was drained out. We downsized and regrouped. I retired few years ago and moved to the city. I miss the farm and would love to do it again someday but at a manageable scale. Thanks for great videos.

This was most informative! Thank you

Very nice. You got some great shots!

Do worry so much about making beautiful cinematography. Just put out good info. Love your spirit and show.

thank you...

Great to see that Avasva has new instructions to save my money and energy to build it.

Great video 👍👍ive been subed for a while me and my husband really like your channel. We moved recently hoping to homestead. Its going to take time. Right now were living on my moms boyfriends land renovating a double wide. When we find land we will move it and start our homesteading 😊slowly but surely. Thanks for making awesome vids they will come in handy for us when we finally get to get started on our own land😊👍💕 God bless

always love the honesty. Keep sharing. Guess we will just be gardening, that seems plenty to keep up with. Would love to do more we have the land but the fam has to be on the same page or its unfair to all involved. Blessings.

Would love to see more on this (maybe in the podcast....) I do most of the homesteading but my job pays too good to not work and to "keep us in the lifestyle we are accustomed to." I have found chickens are always a good one. I do small batches of meat birds and rabbits because they can be a weekend harvest. Dont know how we are going to handle the larger things but we are working our way up to them. The 60 fps really paid off. Love the water puddle!

Coffee of heroes right there

I love your channel We are at one of many forks in the road of life. I hoping to start a homestead with my family,like you and your family. What states are the best for homesteading?

I like your content of this video, I really enjoy your editing and production skills! I am a new subscriber coming over from a collaboration that you recently did (Lumnah Acres). I recently retired from a job of 32 yrs. my wife who is still working for maybe 2 more years and she will retire. I have wanted to Homestead for all my adult life, but never found myself in a financial or a partnership that had the same dream. My wife of 34 yrs. has been the correct partner for homesteading, we have had gardens that worked out well over the years, but couldn't keep animals for food until now. Our occupations has been working for a utility that required 7-24 & 365 days of operation. Electricity is something that 99%+ of the population cannot do without. What that accounts for is very long hours and around the clock demands, and travel, not conducive to homesteading. The reason I'm explaining this is to add one more element to your topic....patience! Raising children, working full time jobs, and trying to maintain a simple roof over your head, it's the 'rat race' we all want to be rid of.....like you said, "we all can't stop and start homesteading". We all can do some part of it at varying stages and circumstances of life, but not all at once. Patience, Planning, and in full agreement is the fundamentals to start with! One thing that is not being discussed much anymore....is the 'grubstake' finances need to be strictly adhered to, and sacrifices of vacations (get used to staycations), new auto's, farm machinery, the latest & greatest food processing equipment, elaborate housing, volume acreage, large inheritances of money & real estate, are not a reality for 99.9% of us. I don't want to be a 'downer' to the dream, but eyes wide open are a must!

@Homesteady hey, Aust! I’ve become very interested lately in finding out more about sheep on the homestead! Have you ever raised sheep or do you have any opinions on them? A really cool thing I heard is that their wool is EXCELLENT for using to line neat boxes for chickens because they don’t scratch through it as easily! Thought this was really interesting!

You were speaking about building a new chicken house! Have any plans drawn up or sketches? What size possible?

What about your spouse? If you have a team it helps a lot

i logged on and found 80 plus emails in the Google Spam file and all of Homesteady there too. i went to my google email and very few emails and all my favorites channels not there, none! my Google spam folder had 280 + emails. so i checked read it over there was your emails all most of my favorite channels too. Just the day before all of my emails were in the email folder. So maybe tell your subscribers to look in there spam folder. like you videos... google doo doodle

I got no full time job / I got no work commute / I can work from home / I got no career obligations / I never had a boss that owned me / I never rented my time except the time I spent making movies based on the production schedule / I want to plant fruit trees first / then I want to start farming with two 2 pigs just like Homesteady / I want to plant stuff in a raised beds with home made authentic munchie compost / without getting fired / so I like listening to Homesteady and I signed up for the Friday Homesteady video and podcast list. I did have a stroke seven 7 years ago so I am not able to sit up roll over stand walk skip jog run waterski snowboard do yoga sit down for dinner hold a chair for a pretty girl I am flirting with arm wrestle a pretty girl I am flirting with / so I go ALL THAT going for me. Pretty sharp beautiful nurses have been arriving at my door asking to come in and if they can do anything for me Real Quick / seven years ago when I first got here I fell in love with Cristina Hernandez from a little town near Guadalajara / she has a bunch of kids beautiful smile in every standout photo she takes anywhere - I mean every photo your eye goes right to her smile / sometimes her friends take a photo of her about to eat some Mexican food and the table top is filled with all sorts of tasty treats she is about to eat and drink / and she is smiling / she enjoys being a Zumba instructor so she is in great shape for a young hot teenage babe in her mid forties. I got nothing to offer her at all except she knows I am on her side. She went to work somewhere else one day and Facebook kicked me off forever so I don’t see any new Cristina photos. It’s fun to send her email and say hi on the telephone. Cristina can ride a horse and dance real good. Then Diana walked in last Halloween in a Wonder Woman outfit - turns out she is a well trained physical therapy person so I signed up real quick and Diana is willing to push me onto the sunshine patio where I get to pick up ping pong balls and put them into a ping pong ball box - so far Diana has won each time we arm wrestle - so pretty soon I am certain I will be real good at picking up fresh Homesteady eggs and putting the eggs in a egg carrying thingy like your kids use. I watched you guys make pastry squeezer beef jerky in one video. Keep eating beef jerky it’s tasty.

The only thing that I could disagree with is the “don’t get paid hourly”. My husband got moved to salary a few years ago. So, now instead of getting paid overtime, he works even more and gets nothing for it. I’d kill for him to have a 9-5 or 8-4 or ANY 8 hours. Lol! He works 11-12 hours a day 5 days a week and has a 45 minutes to an hour commute each way. That leaves me doing 90% of the homesteading and our weekends pretty busy with the remaining 10%. We are fortunate in that I can stay home and homeschool the kids, so at least we aren’t both away every day. There is so much we would like to do on our homestead, but I just cannot take it on by myself. Our dream is to have him work from home one day.

automation automation automation try to do everything on the farm in less then hour a day and two hours tops would be my suggestion frost free auto water are the sexiest and i mean the sexiest thing ever made for cutting down on chores. food automation is ok for some animals like pigs but not so good for other animals like chickens. a good balance in time vs money is a big deal to feed every day and save money or to not feed every day and not save money but not really be able to track your expense to ferment or not to thats a super big question and if done right can save a tone of money but it is worth the labor every day soaking feed and having to feed everyday instead of once a week would it be at half the food savings on a small scale maybe not but if you know how to do it you can up scale it. just my thoughts

Is the boom new? I noticed it on your Instagram photo, and noticed it used in this video, pretty sweet :]

Your profile picture kinda looks like mr bean haha

The notion that one can make a living homesteading is a bit out there..I believe that's called farming..As yourself homesteading is for other things like the lifestyle, being more self sufficient and that list go's on and on. Can one make money at it,,yes,some, can one become totally self sufficient,,most likely no. Still everything adds up..after all is said and done we live lives that have many options which we pick and choose.

now it's not just the dog wreaking havoc while you're gone all day... ok, most days he doesn't eat the couch or the garbage & get sick all over the house...but what if he were...

Ah! a french press man!

So if you don't pay your bills you'll end up in jail????

Go to Avasva page if you want to learn how to build it yourself

I use to see your videos a lot, until I saw that you are the only one that does the talk and look like your wife is not allowed to talk.