Homestead Process

@ItsJustinRhodes NGL though...I'd apply to the COO position. Lol

I could hire a COO to take my business to the next level. Minimum $120K plus equity plus bonus. Instead I'm spinning up 12 AI "candidates," giving each the same brief, and reading their first 90-day plans. The winner helps run my company for just $200/month.

@HVFDavidWorrell I meal plan just to save my brain from deciding what to make out of my pantry. I think youre confusing meal planning with grocery shopping. I have 95% of what I need at home but I plan it out so I know what im making each night, not to go buy it all from the grocery store.

I have a question? Why do people meal plan if you have all the ingredients you need with a well stocked pantry?

@Mathew_of_LWFAH Really? Why are they seasonal for you? I mean weve had lower egg production, but still getting a few a day. This is our first year with chickens so I'm very curious.

The scenery is absolutely stunning. Eggs here are seasonal - 2nd week of February to 2nd week of November. So here come the eggs!

@Mathew_of_LWFAH We are waiting for ours to arrive! It feels like its been forever. She is so close!

Look at how cute they are! And this is at about one week of age. They’re getting big already.

We are in the same boat, learning and making mistakes. Ours is due sometime soon after Thursday and we didnt plan that well at all. Hopefully the storm will be past by then but I'm sure we will have some lessons we learn. We will do better next time. Thank you for sharing all that you are its so encouraging and helpful to us.

This is really touching to me. It’s difficult to explain how seriously we feel a responsibility towards stewardship of animals and conservation of land. We’ve lost a few already - it’s the nature and reality that pigs have large litters for a reason. It’s how they survive as a species. 2 births a year, 6-12 piglets per litter - if unmanaged (as noted in many southern parts of the country) they become incredibly destructive. We can’t guarantee survival of them all - and the reality is, as much warmth as I’ve offered and as much security and safety and nutrition I’ve given the mothers, it’s the wrong time of year for this to occur - albeit in what looks to about be a historic snow / ice and temperature event. Pigs provide our family pork and are an important enterprise for our farm. The mothers will be pregnant again soon and likely give birth to the next litter by May, but I feel a deep sense of responsibility for each and every animal here regardless.

@milkandhoney93 We just came in from out. all the animals look like they're hating it (except our pyrenees who couldn't be more thrilled), but once food got there everyone perked up. now some hot cocoa time.

Time to go bust some ice.

When are we going to remove artificial dyes from medicine? Especially children's medicine. They only serve an aesthetic purpose and lots of kids have negative reactions to them? Make medicine JUST medicine. @SecKennedy

@HemmerleinLee Same here! We're in shorts and sandals. Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas Eve, it is almost 70 here today. I hope you have a wonderful day.

@HemmerleinLee We're running pigs through our brush. keeping them in about 2,000 sq.ft. for 10 days at a time. Then just selecting the trees that are dying, or not serving allows the canopy to open way more. By next year we should have a couple extra acres of pasture.

I have multiple areas on the farm that I want to develop into a silva pasture, but to be honest thinning trees has never been my forte. The idea of cutting and thinning goes against my nature of wanting to plant more.

@milkandhoney93 That's awesome!!

This was a gift from our local cattleman & friend from church, Jake. He gifted us this beautiful knife because we are loyal customers to his families cattle company. We buy a whole cow+ from Jake and his family every year. He had the knife made by another gentleman from our church, Mike. Mike is also my uncle. This is what it means to have a community. And better yet, it’s a community of likeminded, God-fearing, men and women who pour into one another’s lives each and every day.

@Mathew_of_LWFAH @AcornBluffFarms If you do this, I'd make the trip from VA.

Sometimes you all post pictures of the chicken we raise and I just wish we could have a big community meal where everyone brings a shared dish because they all look so good. @AcornBluffFarms thank you for sharing - it looks so good!

@HemmerleinLee The algorithms are really different. I've been on TikTok for 7 years. So when we started the Homestead account, I already knew a lot of the ins and outs...X on the other hand is a mystery so far haha

@HomesteadProces That's awesome my Tiktok doesn't get a lot of traction.

Some accounts grow exponentially overnight for no apparent reason and get thousands of followers and sometimes even more. If you are a small account and you woke up the next morning and your account had just skyrocketed over a viral tweet how do you think you would react.

"Instead of organic carrots having to be called organic carrots, maybe they could just be called carrots, and carrots grown with chemicals could be called chemical carrots?" "And maybe those that grow with chemicals have to demonstrate and show the chemicals that were used in the production?" "If that was on the supermarket packs, I wonder how our behaviour would change."

America needs more chicken coops & home gardens. We need to do a better job of teaching people to be independent & not rely on Big Food for food.

@HemmerleinLee I'll get some extra time off my day job...so I'll work more around the homestead getting some projects done most likely.

Are you part of the population that will have a short work week and get time off for the holidays or are you part of the population that has to work while everybody else gets time off. I do realize that many of the people I interact with are farmers and homesteaders so that's pretty much the 7 days a week kind of thing.

Let's talk about how Management Intensive Grazing can not only increase profits, but can make your animals WAY healthier too. Reduce your Reliance on chemical inputs and pharmaceuticals by introducing a better (and arguably less expensive) management style.

If you invented a machine that: - Runs on grass - Produces high-quality protein - Fertilises soil while operating - Builds topsoil - Requires zero electricity - Self-replicates - Provides 100+ byproducts (leather, tallow, gelatin, etc.) You'd win every environmental award. We call it a cow and want to ban it. Genius.

@milkandhoney93 We don't have a single tree within 200 feet of the house, and all the animals for the most part are put up currently. Worst we'll get is kids refusing to sleep in their own room, and maybe a piece of siding to retrieve. lol

@HomesteadProces Stay safe!

The husband is out walking the fence line to ensure no damage was taken from the high winds. The toddler is napping. The wife is having an afternoon cup of joe while cleaning up the house before supper. It really doesn’t have to be so difficult. Just make do with what you’ve got and seek peace with where you’re at.

@milkandhoney93 Not sure if it'll move that way, but I was told we are expecting the same winds tonight.

@HomesteadProces Yes! It was very intense. We had reports of 70mph gusts as well. It’s a good thing he walked the line, the fence was down and the goats were in the holler!