Well We've Never Seen This Before | Homestead Vlog

Well We've Never Seen This Before | Homestead Vlog | May 31, 2023

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Pasture Raised Pigs, Checking Gardens, Identifying new battles, and identifying some wild herbs!
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Hey y'all, I'm Meagan. My husband Andy and I grew up in rural NC and as newlyweds, decided we wanted something more than the typical American lifestyle. So we started growing our own food, I learned to can and so started this passion of food preservation and knowing where our food comes from.
Even though we grew up around this lifestyle, we still had to learn for ourselves, the ways of our ancestors before us. We now grow a huge portion of our food, including our own meat.
High society and MSM want you to think you don't have time to grow, preserve and cook your own food from scratch, but I am here to help you along the way. As a working mother of 2 on a busy little farm, there is time, we just have to prioritize it.
Through my weekly videos, I'll show you how to prepare easy meals cooked from scratch, tips on preserving your garden harvest and the occasional farm video. Live life on YOUR terms
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@virginiaallisonpeck2517 Жыл бұрын

You are a blessing in my life. I’m disabled and I know you don’t know me. But you all are my friends. I really enjoy the lovely way of life you share with us. Thank you ❤️🎚🕊🇺🇸🦋🐝🌼🌺🌸🌻

@TrueGritAppalachianWays Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

@jvin248 Жыл бұрын

Depending how temporary your electric fence will be, my father used to use plastic binder-twine from hay bales to tie back electric fence. Tensile strength of the twine is around 300lbs per strand. We were fencing sheep and goats around the buildings and equipment to weed-wack the yard, didn't need t-posts in most cases, just tie to a low tree branch or edge of the hay rake . He also used that trick with the cows 'down in the swamp', but we never kept pigs on a hot wire. If you are feeding hay you probably have a pile of plastic baler twine "for free". More permanent corner solution are the ceramic donuts with galvanized wire to the posts. Another option is a short section of split garden hose and wire to the post. But that twine was pretty inexpensive and quick to put up and take down.

@TrueGritAppalachianWays Жыл бұрын

I shared this with Andy, he said his grandpa used to use the water hose trick all the time, haha, I had never heard of it before!

@Katemarlowe 6 ай бұрын

My husband is a fence contractor. He said to put the corner post insulators on the outside so it pulls the other way and it should fix the problem.

@cherrysmith9467 5 ай бұрын

Deer love tender shoots. I put electric fence around my garden BUT I don’t have numerous gardens lol GOOD LUCK 🍀 We are throughly enjoying binge watching your videos♥️ hubby says crows are bad at eating corn like that. 🤷‍♀️

@dirtfloormotors Жыл бұрын

I used the ceramic doughnut shaped insulators on corners, a wire through the center holds it to the post then a wire around the outside groove of the doughnut holds the fence wire.

@jvin248 Жыл бұрын

Same comment I was going to add. The plastic connectors are designed for holding the wire off the ground not taking the wire tension in a corner.

@TrueGritAppalachianWays Жыл бұрын

Thanks y’all!

@jamiejohnston4983 3 ай бұрын

Same

@danabaker596 2 ай бұрын

Last year, our garden was perfect. Nothing touched it. Deer, raccoons, squirrels, rodents, rabbits...nothing. Why? We are NOT SURE, but we have 9 outdoor cats that we take care of (feed and water). Someone speculated that the cats are running things off, but we don't know for sure. We were stunned that nothing was touched in our whole garden. This year may be different. We'll see. Thanks for the great video! ❤

@nathanwood4697 Жыл бұрын

Might have to set up a game camera. 📸 Got them now with bluetooth to your phone or computer. 👀 Thanks for sharing!

@cajuntc74 Жыл бұрын

Those insulators are what we use too and we are lucky if they hold up a full year. We just walk around from time to time and replace them.

@phyllispitts6656 5 ай бұрын

I really enjoy watching your videos!

@TrueGritAppalachianWays 5 ай бұрын

thank you

@sharonmckee2403 Жыл бұрын

Watching y’all reminds me so much of the home I grew up in. We only had a few cows… one of yours looks just like one of ours.

@stevewoods293 5 ай бұрын

Glad to see ya all and family steve from Oregon

@deborahjennings4119 Жыл бұрын

Last year deer ate our sweet potatoes to the ground. I'm keeping my slips going just to replace them. We got deer netting at Lowe's and trying to get it around some of the garden.

@johndenoma6397 Ай бұрын

Great videos. Cut all the small trees out to open up the area. Use the firewood.

@tpaw6908 Жыл бұрын

I have the same problem. When I can the fence is up but yep the corn and taters those stinkers got caught on camera 2:30 am . They all are being run out for some reason. Have a blessed day.

@TrueGritAppalachianWays Жыл бұрын

Thank you my friend, you have a blessed one too!

@hawkrose8403 4 ай бұрын

One of my most favorite flowers is purple echinacea and I just started it from seed. Hoping they come up. I want to be able to. Enjoy it for a long ng time

@drk218 Жыл бұрын

After 40 years of living here and raising gardens every year, last year was a first for us with the deer eating everything we planted, including sun flowers and other flowers. They didn't bother the peppers or squash, but they did everything else. 😢 We had to build a fence around the garden for the first time ever. We definitely know how yall are feeling. Very upsetting 😢

@missouribroad978 Ай бұрын

We have 10 acres of woods and my husband hunted this past fall for deer at our place. Didn’t see one despite plenty of sign. A couple days later I found deer tracks 3 feet in front of our living room windows. My husband said “They like to tease me.” 😂

@TrueGritAppalachianWays Ай бұрын

hahaha thats what they do

@Calamity_Joan Жыл бұрын

My Dad was from North Carolina, and I so enjoy your videos. Love watching and learning about your daily life. Thanks for sharing.

@TrueGritAppalachianWays Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!

@timlewis5096 11 ай бұрын

I used short lengths of 1/2 inch low pressure poly pipe.4-6n inches long then I would cut a slit along one side to slip the wire in then I tied the poly pipe section to the T posts

@vickeypierce293 Жыл бұрын

My mullein is blooming!! Beautiful bloom I have reached the time in my life where I don't get upset anymore over creatures eating on my garden. The more you try to keep them out the more determined they are to get in...so i just keep planting. I will say for some reason they don't eat what is in my grow pots??? The funny thing is I have a driveway monitor that has a red light....which when you drive or walk in front of it the alarm goes off in the house...every night they always set the alarm off at 10 pm...and they just dance in front of that red light lol lol...but they are very punctual lol

@TrueGritAppalachianWays Жыл бұрын

That’s so funny that they come at the same time! We spent some time up in Fancy Gap recently and every night at the same time a herd of deer would come through, it almost reminded me of how my cows are, like they can tell time lol

@christymartin3846 Жыл бұрын

Y’all crack me up 😂 ❤ God is Good, and he does provide. It looks like he is providing you Deer 🦌 & Turkey 🦃 for your freezer! Thank you again for sharing your lives ❤ Good to know that the locust, I have been feeding, (in a subdivision), is not the only strange thing, “I have never seen”, that is happening..😅❤

@brendawhite1540 4 ай бұрын

You all hard working peole I gust wish I had a half o arse I love how you have stuff I was raised like this

@gardengrowinmawmaw8642 Жыл бұрын

We don't have problems with deer, but the ground hogs are horrible. We shoot everyone we see. I spray human urine around my garden perimeters every evening. That is helping.

@TrueGritAppalachianWays Жыл бұрын

Good idea! We have groundhogs around here but don’t really have to much garden pressure from them most of the time. If the deer were out during the day I’d shoot everyone of them too 😅😅

@sharabrooks8371 Жыл бұрын

We live in Devotion,NC and have a terrible time with raccoons eating our corn on the stalk and striping it

@1972BRJ Жыл бұрын

Deer are a problem here also, I've tried several different things over the years, one thing that did help a few years back was a fence, the black netting, I bought it at Lowe's, it worked until fall, rutting season I guess, they ran straight through it. Another thing is Billy's bone sauce, from Perma Pastures Farm, it stinks but last year I used it around my sweet potatoes, pumpkins and field peas. No problem with deer after I applied it. I'm believer of that stuff. Good luck this summer, I hope y'all can conquer them!

@TrueGritAppalachianWays Жыл бұрын

Yes, we have some of Billy’s bone sauce that we use at our gardens that aren’t close to home. It works well, we ended up putting stakes in the deer trails with it on it and that really helped. Looks like we are going to have to put some here at the house.

@ednamyers5760 4 ай бұрын

I'm not a fan of the deer in my garden either..them and the raccoons... I think I'm going to try hanging my hubbies stinky socks in the garden... LOL that'll make them think twice... really enjoy your channel.. from Ohio... thanks for sharing

@buzzybeeT Жыл бұрын

New NC subscriber here. Loving your videos! I'm in Person county...just a few counties east of ya'll. Deer are a problem here, too. Our corn, sweet potatoes, and field peas usually get the worst attacks from them. They absolutely demolished the sweet potatoes tops last year, but they came back out and had we an excellent crop!

@TrueGritAppalachianWays Жыл бұрын

Glad to have you here my friend!

@vicky52557985 Жыл бұрын

i loved your story about the free rocks lol

@laurarowland7926 5 ай бұрын

Grandaddy always said you plant twice 1st for you 2nd for the animals so they leave the rest alone..also has anyone had string beans grow,bloom and produce no string beans??..I have had it happen 2 years in a row..these are plants I didn't plant

@scottdobbins4826 6 ай бұрын

Don't use the yellow clip on for corners they arent designed for that. Make up the round or oblong ones with fence wire for corner attachment. I try to have my wire so it is pushing the insulators against the post which reduces stress on the clip on straight runs.

@snarky_farmer Жыл бұрын

Deer pressure here in lower SC is insane. We've had to get nuisance permits from DNR in the past.

@joewarren3n1 6 ай бұрын

Skunks love to get in corn after the ears are filling out

@vicky52557985 Жыл бұрын

Megan i just saw those onions you had the other day. Called egyptian walking onions they have those curly things and then the grow little bitty onion in a bloom form and when it falls over then the are planting those little onions for more plants .

@lucindasutt7365 4 ай бұрын

Enjoyed the tour, Thanks😊

@conniewoodall8910 Жыл бұрын

Oh that's terrible. So much time and hard work goes into gardening and it's so frustrating when critters ruin it!

@chicodillon Жыл бұрын

The critters are violating the peaceful coexistence rule!!!!!

@TrueGritAppalachianWays Жыл бұрын

You are exactly right 😂

@user-xr6rc2br6c 5 ай бұрын

Know how you feel, only thing I've found to keep them out is electric fence

@cherrysmith9467 5 ай бұрын

On my corner tee post I put a double set on insulators on top of each other but one on the correct side of tee post and then go around on next side weaving wire back and forth trying to take the pressure off of just one. LOL I can’t explain it clearly hopefully you understand what I mean.

@TrueGritAppalachianWays 5 ай бұрын

yep I gotcha!

@tommyperkinshuntingfishing8424 Жыл бұрын

The deer is getting your sweet potatoes and the drought is getting mine

@TrueGritAppalachianWays Жыл бұрын

Praying for rain for y’all 🙏

@tommyperkinshuntingfishing8424 Жыл бұрын

@@TrueGritAppalachianWays thank you very much

@donaldwells2102 Жыл бұрын

😊

@bradjoyce1040 Жыл бұрын

We live down on duggins rd the deer get everything I dont have a fence around the devils waited for my wife's lillys to bloom for they destroyed them even the ones on sides of porch steps I recon the flowers mean as much to my wife as the my garden does to me but we don't can or freeze flowers anyway got poly wire and push in post every where 9000 v around garden

@TrueGritAppalachianWays Жыл бұрын

Hello neighbor! I feel like the deer pressure is so strong in this area, they released coyote’s several years ago around hanging rock to “control the deer population” but I swear I think they’ve gotten worse each year

@marilynsimpson4640 Ай бұрын

We have used those in a line and never lost any. I think you just got a bad batch.

@creative1877 Жыл бұрын

As a nurse are you able to tell your patients about natural remedies? Also, can you share information about living off the land with them? I know some healthcare employers would rather push the modern science version of treatment such as pills and shots, rather than a natural remedy for something simple. Have y'all thought about putting some type of fencing around all the crops and gardens? Something to keep the deer and turkeys out. I would hope someone has created a fence that could be quick and fairly easy to set up. Why should you knock before you open the refrigerator? There could be salad dressing May the Lord bless you and keep you

@tc41089 Жыл бұрын

" I know some healthcare employers would rather push the modern science version of treatment such as pills and shots, rather than a natural remedy for something simple." I KNOW THAT'S RIGHT HERE IN NE KS!! My husband's PCP would rather push BIG Pharma Rx's than seek anything natural. No $$ in the latter.....

@TrueGritAppalachianWays Жыл бұрын

Hello my friend! So honestly as a nurse that is a very slippery slope, I may mention simple remedies occasionally but I am not allowed to go against drs orders. That is one reason I would like to completely step a way from nursing, the corruption in healthcare is sickening. Yes we do have a fence that we put around the garden at the creek and a fence around the main garden at the house. We honestly didn’t think right here at the house would be to much of a problem, the deer have proved me wrong 😅

@lynettemunson7953 Жыл бұрын

The only good deer is the one in your freezer!

@TrueGritAppalachianWays Жыл бұрын

100%!!!!

@oops8985 Жыл бұрын

I think your basil didn't come up because it was planted too deep. It's more of a surface seed that will form a jell coating after watering. It will be clear to white jell plump up around the actual seed. I just sprinkle on surface and keep wet and it goes crazy for me here in Midwest TN. I've got patches that came back now for 8yrs. I collect seed every year and give to friends and family and most tell me not to give them any more because it's taken over EVERYWHERE.

@TrueGritAppalachianWays Жыл бұрын

You may be right! I plant it the same way every year and usually don’t have trouble, but if it don’t come up this time I’ll definitely try what you suggested!! Thanks my friend!

@oops8985 Жыл бұрын

@@TrueGritAppalachianWays Thank YOU and family for your time and keep em close! I'm just really beginning to stretch my ability when it comes to growing food. I'm sure y'all have way more experience than I do. I found also that I didn't keep things wet enough to keep them alive after they got sprouted. DANG IT!

@eg5569 Жыл бұрын

You can buy bottled mountain lion pee and spray it. It’s expensive though. It’ll keep everything away. I also take rattlesnake blood and mix it in water and spread it around the house to keep them away too.

@TrueGritAppalachianWays Жыл бұрын

Very interesting, thank you for sharing!

@stevewoods293 5 ай бұрын

The white tail deer up here in Oregon run around in my trailer park like dogs and they eat everything jalapeños & flower they love our gardens but your not suppose to eat them after you shoot them and im not going to kill anything and let it rot

@johndenoma6397 Ай бұрын

Harvest Deer!

@sandraward116 2 ай бұрын

..venison can smell a pea plant 🪴 from a hundred miles off.....🦌🦌🦌..

@virginiaallisonpeck2517 Жыл бұрын

I wonder if the road construction is causing the deer to move and maybe be hungrier then they were before??? Just a thought.

@alittlesouthwindfarm3074 Жыл бұрын

If you had cut worms at the base of the corn the turkeys could have been in there pecking to get the worm? Hopefully that doesn’t continue

@TrueGritAppalachianWays Жыл бұрын

Luckily we haven’t seen anymore damage! I hope that was a one and done thing

@jeffreythomas2787 4 ай бұрын

A good deer repellent is a 30/30Marlin,use and don't tell anyone 🎉🎉🎉😊😊 f j b 😊😊

@cherrysmith9467 5 ай бұрын

Is your comfrey the kind that doesn’t spread? I want to start some and I am being told to get the Russian kind that is sterile and doesn’t spread.

@TrueGritAppalachianWays 5 ай бұрын

yes its the kind that doesn't spread

@MichaelThomas-ps5qg Ай бұрын

Don't your state have crop damage permits?

@TrueGritAppalachianWays Ай бұрын

Honestly I have no idea

@melindaberns6625 4 ай бұрын

what is the rattle noise in the background, frogs, or what...

@TrueGritAppalachianWays 4 ай бұрын

I think it was our tripod lol, its since been fixed

@marilynsimpson4640 Ай бұрын

Those aren’t any good for corners, you need to run the line through a spool. Didn’t know you could train pigs that way, always put a ring in their nose.

@TrueGritAppalachianWays Ай бұрын

I wont ring a pig because I always say they got a short enough life as it is, might as well let them enjoy it.

@marilynsimpson4640 Ай бұрын

Those aren’t any good for corners, you need to run the line through a spool.