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2 ай бұрын

Ben is talking all about our composting making operation today, explaining the different methods he uses, what we use it for, and how the finished product turns out.
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@buffeysarber836 2 ай бұрын

I think we should have a “super thanks” baby shower for Meg! I started! 🥰 Anyone want to do this just like a card shower??? Maybe spread it to your other KZfaq friends 😊 I would love to make her feel special and I know lots in the community love this family!

@sharlarose1996 2 ай бұрын

Do we know what she is having?

@user-qw7nf8nq7g 2 ай бұрын

Great idea! I just did one too. ❤❤❤

@amandamarie3583 2 ай бұрын

Doesn't KZfaq take a big percentage of that stuff? Maybe just send cards with gift cards to their PO box. 💖

@angelavaughan9477 2 ай бұрын

We do not. It's a surprise for them.@@sharlarose1996

@buffeysarber836 2 ай бұрын

@@sharlarose1996I do not. But no matter what it will be as cute as buggie!❤

@dianesierakowski9317 2 ай бұрын

Meg it looks like your tummy dropped! Hope you’re feeling good! Love how you’re glowing! ❤❤

@irmibullinger1421 2 ай бұрын

She definitley looks ready to pop!

@shirleysparks1148 2 ай бұрын

I was going to say the same thing looks like baby has dropped and is ready .

@desirebarlow1288 2 ай бұрын

Yes, I was going to say that, another girl 🤞💓💞

@andreaclark9398 2 ай бұрын

They need to train one of the boys with a technology gene to help Meg with editing when the baby comes. Just an idea. They are all so talented and helpful, love how they all work together.

@faithrada 2 ай бұрын

Meg's idea of a baby present.. A crockpot. LOL .. What is not to love about this woman?? 😅

@danielapettus7693 2 ай бұрын

A hot compost pile you need in your greenhouse in winter keeps it warm

@MrJcalvino 2 ай бұрын

Didn’t thought of that. That’s clever because 1 or 2 C more in the greenhouse could be the difference between frozen vegetables or not

@joannmahaffey1068 2 ай бұрын

Great idea. I have done this and it does work.

@joannmahaffey1068 2 ай бұрын

Another great video. Thanks Guys

@tubularguynine 2 ай бұрын

@@joannmahaffey1068 - You replied to Daniela, you didn’t comment to Ben & Meg.

@donnamays24 2 ай бұрын

Stop…the Hollars just posted and I gotta go watch! Blessings guys❤

@terrimccullough724 2 ай бұрын

5 years! Wow… I remember you hunting for properties before you settled in this property.

@annmatthews3579 2 ай бұрын

Hooray for the hollers homestead

@jenniferward5216 2 ай бұрын

I love how Ben says hello ladies to the hens as though they are humans makes me smile😊

@kimgoren8895 2 ай бұрын

Now that is a t-shirt...Compost is my happy place.

@jacquethirlkel3001 2 ай бұрын

Idea: Three older teen boys- have one or two make some freezer meals under Meg’s guidance . So Ben and the boys can throw dinner in the oven so Meg can rest more after the baby comes. Especially using up any vegies still leftover from last year’s garden?

@larryfeeks6620 2 ай бұрын

I always enjoy seeing your family having dinner together at the table.

@buffeysarber836 2 ай бұрын

Wonderful video! Love hearing you teach compost magic Ben! Meg…you are an amazing cook! And you look about ready to have the wee lil one! 💕 can’t wait to be introduced! Have a healthy and fast delivery! God bless your family! Thanks for praying at dinner Ben…always praying with you!

@maryjemisonMaryjay1936 2 ай бұрын

Amen 🙏✝️🙏

@lucretiawrolstad3997 2 ай бұрын

Agree with you. Always bowing my head and praying

@user-xc6hi7kx5x 2 ай бұрын

Yes, let’s treat Meg. How and where do you send it?

@debbieyzuel7887 2 ай бұрын

Mom looks like she's close. Sweet family.

@daniellevilloria227 2 ай бұрын

Seeing lots of comments about twins… what a fun surprise that would be! I’m currently 40 wks with #5, looking forward to hearing your birth story!

@pampilgrim2274 2 ай бұрын

Hi, Ben! Excellent video! My favorite method is your chicken compost! Praying for all of you especially Meg!

@bonniehollingsworth1996 2 ай бұрын

I really loved that new view of the dinner table. But there is never enough of the Bug. I enjoy your kids so much - their ages match my own grands. The composting lesson was well put-together. Ben, you are an amazing teacher.

@claudettehernandez3402 2 ай бұрын

My father planted 3 oaks some 50 years ago in his front yard. My sister started raking them up and using them for making compost for her lavender farm. I’ve been composting for 30+ years I save my kitchen scraps and garden greens, have woods and many leaves already and flagged down some tree trimmers and had them dump their trailer on my property. All good

@jadeinthewoods 2 ай бұрын

A crockpot is a perfect gift for a new Mom! It’s rough when you have an infant and you’re running on a few hours of sleep. With a slow cooker, you just throw everything in it and turn it on. Easy, peasy.

@LovelyIslandVacation-ch6wo 2 ай бұрын

Or you can have the other parent cook all the meals for the first few years!!! It’s even better than expecting a woman to cook and tend to a baby and recover.. he can even do a weeks worth of meal prep at once and save himself some time

@terracorr9031 Ай бұрын

Omg. I thought so too. I was asked to do one of those gift registries. Which I didn't feel was necessary. I did ask for one thing. A crock pot. I practically begged for a crock pot and I got shut down and never got a crock pot! YES! Meg needs a crock pot. Or something like fancy bath stuff to pamper herself.

@marthareedy 2 ай бұрын

Love this family !!

@petrosros 2 ай бұрын

It's not just the compost that will go up, I have seen large wood chip piles do the same thing, and the process given the right conditions can go incredibly fast.

@theunsteadysteader 2 ай бұрын

'Rice a phoney'!! I love it!! ❤❤

@deecooper1567 2 ай бұрын

😂😂😂 Meg is just adorable 👵🏻👩‍🌾❣️

@karlapatterson7194 2 ай бұрын

You absolutely took the words out of my mouth, I laughed out loud when I heard that.

@kailesancez 2 ай бұрын

Ooh looks like some body's baby is dropping. Anytime now. So excited to see the new baby! It has been so sweet to see Buggy grow from a tiny little bug to a tot bug. 🥰🥰🥰🥰

@dr3406 2 ай бұрын

💕💗💕🙏🙏🙏 May your family be blessed and your garden,too, in Jesus name!!!

@crazylifehomestead 2 ай бұрын

crockpot dinner - Venison stew with backstrap, potatoes, peas and carrots, onions, gravy from the stock, bread and butter! Lots of yummies! Fed 3 people and then some with a 7 qt crock pot! I use it for lots of meals! Chicken/steak, taco seasoning - quesadillas, tacos, enchilada, etc. or Chicken/pork, creme of ..., with side dish and bread/butter. I can go on for days! 20 years with my crock pot and it's still going!

@nilajatroy7347 2 ай бұрын

Crockpot Sunday is the best. Put the food on in the morning and when you come from church. Done!!

@TheWickerShireProject 2 ай бұрын

Same... Our biggest problem was enough material. Everything is clay and rocks. We found a 600 acre farm that cannot give it away fast enough. Blessed to take Home half a ton of 2 -3 year old compost for the Big Melon grow fest and veggie garden this year.

@teressachilders5714 2 ай бұрын

🎉Meg! Your shelf is dropping. So close❤

@allonesame6467 2 ай бұрын

When he says "pigs" remember he's got American Guinea Hogs which root much more gently than bigger-bodied feeder type hogs like the pink pigs. So your mileage will vary if you have big hogs. They can go through all the scraps you can give them. 💖

@sherikubishta7326 2 ай бұрын

Time to make crockpot ready freezer meals for this busy time coming up! Keeps the heat out of the house too! So nice to pull out pulled pork or teriyaki chicken with no extra work!

@cassityart7001 2 ай бұрын

There are some really nice dyi trommel soil sifter plans available. Weather you are using wood chips or hen yard compost (grass, garden waste, pine shavings...) method this type of sifter is fast and can work with a small motor. I have to date this year screen sifted by hand 35 five gallon buckets. Not even close to the total need. The trommel is less than half the time. Blessings to all 🌞🌱❤️

@alicegilbert4186 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for letting us visit

@radmilamiljanic5977 2 ай бұрын

All that compost plus Bret as chief gardener, you'll be eating good this summer:)))

@clarisaocain3130 2 ай бұрын

That baby getting low. Getting ready to coding this world!! I pray great health for you both!!!!

@polgarauk5606 2 ай бұрын

Good evening first here for a change

@shadowmancer7040 2 ай бұрын

Woo! Hollars!

@patriciahusk3428 2 ай бұрын

Another great teaching video on compost! This was very interesting and I learned more information like I always do with the Hollars🤗! Meg, you look great and I’m glad you got a new crockpot! Every household needs one🥳🥳🥳🥳!

@batpherlangkharkrang7976 2 ай бұрын

Hi..... Meg and Ben nice to see you all love watching your video homestead bye

@user-qw7nf8nq7g 2 ай бұрын

Baby Shower Thanks! Love your family and your content! ❤❤❤

@TheHollarHomestead 2 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 🤗

@dianadriverasbury9130 2 ай бұрын

I love that you are putting together a self-sustaining homestead. Just the way I would do it if I were young again!!

@StoneKathryn 2 ай бұрын

Thanks so much Ben for showing your two systems of making compost. I like that the benefit is no smell for the chickens and the pigs while your compost is made by the animals. You've got this dialed down really well! I'm so glad you can get woodchips now. Thanks for talking about the offal decomposition in a hot compost pile. I like your method of letting the chickens to do the compost in a month. Cool, make compost tea! Yum, crockpot chicken! Great dinner Meg! I love the name "Rice a Phony." Thanks for this video Hollar family!

@simoneconsciousobserver3105 2 ай бұрын

I am love Bens passion for all things compost. I didn't throw the grass clippings away today. Not that I need to make compost but my friend said she'd give me some horse manure and I figured I'd try my hand, just for fun, and maybe a raised garden bed

@dixsigns1717 2 ай бұрын

I love the Hollar Homestead videos. Hopefully, your tractor will be home soon.🙏

@deannewilliams3321 2 ай бұрын

I guess I’m going to have to get some chickens to compost for me. Can’t wait to meet the new baby!!

@tammystark6364 2 ай бұрын

I would take the 50 degrees today. Am sad watching your weather. I live in southern Wisconsin and today we had a late season snow storm. I am so done with winter. I want to plant. I have been gardening vicariously thru your channel.

@kellanrevere 2 ай бұрын

My best friend lives in Appleton. I feel sorry for you guys. We are in the 80s here in FL

@galeharris6696 2 ай бұрын

Me too--I'm in Vermont, same thing. We were almost there, then boom! 8 inches of snow..hang in, we'll get there!

@kmcquack8989 2 ай бұрын

I could watch these compost videos all day. I usually end up trying something new everytime you make a vid about soil

@jimmiemeeks9795 2 ай бұрын

Meg I was hoping for buggy to have a sis but girl but looks like a boy . Appreciate y'all sharing such a wonderful story 😊 thank y'all

@beverleysimmons7885 2 ай бұрын

I think twins!💝🇨🇦

@juliesaunders8171 2 ай бұрын

I thought twins as well

@lesliestout1241 2 ай бұрын

Howdy from west Texas!! 🤠

@drekfletch 2 ай бұрын

Something you may not know, and a lot of viewers may not know: "compostable" takeout containers are, between the binder and the waterproofer, likely to contain a class of chemical known as PFAS that don't break down and build up in soil, plants, animals (including the human apex species), and manure, and can reach carninogenic levels. So while the organic structural base will compost, the chemical will stick around IN the compost.

@janetwithers7427 2 ай бұрын

I admire that you make your own composts. ❇️💞❇️

@greenbankreptiles 2 ай бұрын

Making compost with chickens is great.. this year new beds to use my stock pile.. think I need more water on my work compost bins.. probably a turning too.. mother nature works wonders! Much love and respect to you all

@serita50 Ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing 😀 Yes five years, my how time flies now a days. Good luck and well wishes with the baby Meg 💕

@rodmackinnon8497 2 ай бұрын

During haymaking season . . . wet hay in the barn was a danger in the old days . . . burned down many a barn. Cheers.

@gkiferonhs 2 ай бұрын

Compost is a lifestyle choice.

@Karamelk4 2 ай бұрын

Things breaking when you move, is the energies clearing. It's a good thing... opening the way for new and better. 😊

@metalmartha2571 2 ай бұрын

Ben, I have an idea for all that compost that needs to be sifted…Why not build a mesh barrel with a crank on the end, load it up and let the barrel do all the work. instead of running your compost through a screen, which is very labor-intensive. Just an idea😃 what a fabulous method you got going already! Good for you guys really looking forward to seeing how your garden turns out this year! hello from Canada

@vickieginn7503 2 ай бұрын

I’ve been staying off of social media. Had to have a break from all the insane things going on. But my first few lookie loos, I find some great wonderful news! I didn’t know y’all were pregnant!!!! CONGRATULATIONS! 🦋 and thanks for the informational video!

@ardenehanson2840 2 ай бұрын

When my father in-law was a young biy on the ranch they had sheep. Thousands when they would find a dead lamb dad said they'd just put it on the compost pile. It woykd d3compise really fast even the wool. That is so amazing!

@rosiebill2817 2 ай бұрын

I only have a roof top garden in the middle of town but between my guinea pig and a bucket system wormery we can make some thing. love compost, love worms.

@petgranny194 2 ай бұрын

Compost fires were fairly common where i lived - next to a dairy preserve. That compost got so hot that when they went to scoop it out, the inflow of air caused combustion - but we are talking HUGE piles of manure.

@tubularguynine 2 ай бұрын

A friend of mine puts a 'I Will Take Your Wood Chips' sign out by the road in the Spring, and he usually gets more than he can use.

@belieftransformation 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing & many blessings to all🤗🇨🇦

@rebeccarussell4584 2 ай бұрын

Bless you and your family and the newest soon to be here.

@shirleymurphy1958 2 ай бұрын

Setting here looking out the window and listening too you about composting. It a Northeaster up here in Maine . April 4th. You gave us hope our spring will come.

@barbaralarson1897 2 ай бұрын

Hard to believe I’ve been watching in and off for 5 yrs.

@paintedpilgrim 2 ай бұрын

On the allotments we get a load of partially rotted horse manure from the local police, it still takes a little while to be usable but adding it to the ongoing piles it rots down within a couple of months, within all the trimmings and dead plants, over Easter I also got a half load of well rotted cow manure (that smelled and felt like it had just rained)which a farmer friend was looking to get rid off that just got dumped straight onto my beds and mixed in with old mulch that was past its best and dug over. Wish I could have chickens on the plot otherwise they would do the work, but i can't. So let farmer and police buddies do the work for me :)

@lydiamitchell6814 2 ай бұрын

Hope we get to see more on the add on to the house soon! 😊

@nctplarry 2 ай бұрын

Another super-great episode, Ben!! But, I vote for more "concerts" from Ben's guitar playing. "Inquiring minds...." and I know your fans will enjoy hearing you again. Keep up your great work! ~ Dr. Larry S. Anderson • Tupelo, MS (birthplace of Elvis)

@tamijohnston8401 2 ай бұрын

Love you all❤!

@jacquethirlkel3001 2 ай бұрын

Thank you Meg! And Ben too! God bless!

@Sandi_W 2 ай бұрын

Good evening Hollar family 💜

@maryh8230 2 ай бұрын

Those are some healthy looking chickens!!!

@charlenefoster6779 2 ай бұрын

I always learn so much watching you.

@tinafortin8958 2 ай бұрын

HELLOOO from 🇨🇦 near Sudbury Ontario ☺️ Love your Compost videos Ben 👍🏻 ... GOD'S Continual Blessings to you and your family, Especially Sweet Glowing✨ Meg 💕 🙏😇🕊️❤️

@peterrowellranson8649 2 ай бұрын

Really like the shirt you are wearing Ben and Meg you are awesome love the 🐛 as always ❤️ great video, 👍

@ginagruber1732 2 ай бұрын

You're just validating what I've been trying to get going. Don't think I'll run out of leaves anything soon with old growth hard wood covering a quarter to a third of 10 acres. The humus under the existing leaves is just amazing looking.

@camicri4263 2 ай бұрын

Great to see you! Blessings!

@lydiamitchell6814 2 ай бұрын

Baby has dropped a little! 💖

@denisewilson8367 2 ай бұрын

Compost is the 2nd life blood of the garden, only water is above it. Thanx for the helpful hints, Ben.

@diannsmith4625 2 ай бұрын

I agree with the cards and/or gift cards to the PO box. It would be great.

@charmainemrtnz 2 ай бұрын

Thanks folks!

@tarheel2u 2 ай бұрын

Ben, here is an idea for your compost. Run it through your wood chipper before putting on gardens.

@sun.wolf19 2 ай бұрын

hello from WNY prayers sending to y'all, thinking of you all while storms are churning. prayers y'all made it safely through the weather events

@Berley_1234 2 ай бұрын

busy time of year !!! happy planting

@markericksonsr3130 2 ай бұрын

I really enjoy watching you and your family grow.

@connierigsbee7318 2 ай бұрын

I wish y’all were closer… we have a nearly unlimited supply of horse manure… from 3 sources! Our garden soil is black!

@nancygreen8182 2 ай бұрын

Perfect timing! I was going to go back through old videos to search for you composting videos.

@galeharris6696 2 ай бұрын

Yes Ben, you can get a compost pile too hot. In Vermont, barns can burn down due to silage, essentially cow corn that is cut into small pieces and packed in a silo, ferments and composts. If farmers aren't careful, the silo catches on fire. Also piles of hay stacked in the barn, if not completely dried, can compost and the same thing can happen. Many many folks have lost their barns this way, a now not-so-well-known fact. But it is incredible, none-the-less, what Mother Nature is capable of! I wait for your videos, and am always excited to watch, old farmer that I am. So wonderful to see a new generation of highly dedicated souls, loving the earth we were given to care for. Gale in Vermont, under 8 inches of new snow, ha ha!💖

@alexisd8190 2 ай бұрын

I finally got my nanna to ditch our compost bins and do an open compost pile yay. she is still saying no to the chickens though even though i played the compost card haha.

@66bigbuds 2 ай бұрын

Now contact lawn care companies. You will need tons of green material to mix with the wood chips. I found a lake community that puts their pond weeds in piles for pick up. That stuff burns up wood chips fast.

@sarahgriffith8790 2 ай бұрын

Meg, glad you got a replacement Crockpot, makes life so much easier, my crock cracked also, time for a new one ❤😂

@donaldmontgomery8169 2 ай бұрын

You guys are super talented and I really enjoy your videos.

@catracampolieto8989 2 ай бұрын

I have a compost pile from cleaning my rabbit cages. Hope it gives me enough. I've been saving all of my rabbit gold since November. So I'll be making rabbit tea. Great video. Thank you so much. ❤❤❤

@toadstool5591 2 ай бұрын

Rabbit manure can be used straight on the garden, right out of the pen. It does not need to age because it does not get hot. It will not burn your veg.

@catracampolieto8989 2 ай бұрын

@@toadstool5591 yes I know it's a cold manure. I'll be adding the rabbit manure in when I plant my veggies outside.

@tammysarrazin-ux9tv 2 ай бұрын

thing is Ben when you first started you tube you were composting in the city hugssss

@diannemiller4754 2 ай бұрын

Meg you are looking good 😊 I was wondering if your wee one has dropped ❤thanks for sharing your composting ideas. I have chickens but haven't been able to start a compost yet.