Kristin's Vlog #1 - Our Challenges

Kristin talking about some of the main challenges we've been running into setting up our homestead and videos.

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[zezt]

Hey Kristin, really enjoyed your first vlog and look foreward to many more.

What excites me is you are city dwellers doing this which will inspire others!!!

Have you go this book, I recommend: The Edible Container Garden: Fresh food from tiny spaces, by Michael Guerra

ISBN 1-85675-220-8

[TheUrbanHomesteaders]

i'm glad you're looking forward to many more, because many more there will be! thank you so much for the book suggestion... the next time i'm at the library, i'll look it up.

[8rf]

Husband(or boyfriend) is working and you are chilling. Cool. :)

[TheUrbanHomesteaders]

isn't he such a nice guy? and such a hard worker. hehe... i always aspire to be more like him. : )

[TreehornAbides]

Although I imagine that you want to eventually have a low- input, self sustaining garden, if you want good soil next year you may have to bring in a lot of soil amendment. What you are doing with composting will produce wonderful soil in a few years, but for next year it might be best to buy a few hundred pounds of manure. It's $3.50 for a 40 pound bag at Home Depot, I'm sure that a real farm store would offer higher volume for a cheaper price.

[TheUrbanHomesteaders]

check out the followup to this video. we found a source of manure for free in the city! police horses!  thanks so much for your valuable suggestions.

[richard1948benz]

a 6 min and 45 second video, and um, you said um 42 um times.

[Fielderfarms]

What kind of dog is that? Very sweet

[MsVikie]

Feel free to write me at crystal_brook_farm@yahoo.com. We could do a work trade, if you two would like to come out and help on a farm I could teach you some of the things you would like to know. Glad to see you are trying to be self suffient. Do not give up and keep searching for info at your library, on the net, and your local farms. Most farmers are happy to share their info and manure for a better growing environment for you fruits and vegetables.

It is the journey that makes life good..

[redfish365]

Kristen, you're so cute!

[HillbillyHomesteader]

Sounds like you need a broadfork to break up that soil. Its a tool that kind of looks like a supped up pitch fork with two handles. Its a great tool, even better than a rototiller because you can work the soil deeper. This tool is also known by these other names as well. U-bar digger, grelinette, garden digger, deep digger and two-handed fork.

[tigger8895]

ever thought about foraging for food as well?

[YourGardenShow]

What a great mission; more power to you. Good luck in your endeavor, it is a very enviable one!

[zuseable]

add raine catching drums to your guter down spoutes for free water for garden i have them on three out of 4 sides of my house even put one in the grouned and morterd rockes around it and made it a well i have gold fish in there and they have survived three years in there i thought they would all be dead after thise winter but they were stil alive i started with 12 after 3 years im down to 8 but some were black so i just might not be abul to see them sorry for ramblen on by good luck

[Thekozlowskis]

wow love what you are doing......... keep up the good I will keep watching

[katirizzle]

Good luck guys! when i'm out of college i want to homestead like you guys. I think it's important.

I ate some acorn squash recently. I baked it to make it soft, then added lots of salt and pepper and made acorn squash ravioli with those wonton wrappers you get at the store. I ended up putting them in tortilla soup which was pretty good.