We Bought a Farm: Bauernhof Kitsteiner daily videos (VLOG) UPDATED!!!

JB has started a daily video of life on the farm. I've been told this is called a VLOG. We will be doing one of these almost everyday so stay tuned!

May 2015

• Episode 1 (Farm Introduction)
• Episode 2 (Farm's name)
• Episode 3 (Small garden)
• Episode 4 (Cattle Erosion)
• Episode 5 (Eastern red cedar)
• Episode 6 (Tomato plants)
• Episode 6.5 (Tomato plants)

June 2015

• Episode 7 (Local biome)
• Episode 8 (Smoky Mountains)
• Episode 8.5 (Smoky Mountains)
• Episode 9 (Soil quality)
• Episode 10 (Pond erosion)
• Episode 11 (Paw Paw Patch)
• Episode 12 (Pot-Bellied Pigs)
• Episode 13 (The geese arrive)
• Episode 13.1 (The sick gosling)
• Episode 13.2 (Sleeping goslings)
• Episode 14 (Tending a runt)
• Episode 15 (Potbelly piglets update)
• Episode 16 (Garage Apartment remodel)
• Episode 17 (12 goslings in a tub)
• Episode 18 (Brooder System)
• Episode 19 (Goslings mowing system) 
• Episode 21 (Guinea Keats and ducks arrive)
• Episode 20 (Youth group removes cedars!)
• Episode 21 (Guinea Keets and Ducklings arrive!)
• Episode 22 (Dismantling coyote dens)
• Episode 22 (Mobile goose tractor or lawn mowing system)
• Episode 23 (Reseeding burn patches)
• Episode 24 (June bugs)
• Episode 25 (Goslings move to poultry netting)

July 2015

• Episode 26 (Picking blackberries)
• Episode 27 (Ducklings move to mobile "tractor" and update on goslings)
• Episode 28 (Smoking some butt and brisket)
• Episode 29 (Update on reseeded burn areas)
• Episode 29.2 (A look at our test burn spot)
• Episode 30 (Guinea fowl coop)
• Episode 31 (Our new ewes!)
• Episode 32 (American Guinea Hog/Kine Kune mix piglets move onto Bauernhof)
• Episode 33 (Gosling update! I have a cameo in this one!)
• Episode 34 (Training pigs to electric fencing)
• Episode 35 (Catching piglets!)

August 2015

• Episode 36 (An animal update: sheep, pigs, ducks, and geese)
• Episode 37 (New mobile shelter for sheep and pigs)
• Episode 38 (Feeding fermented grains to the pigs and sheep)
• Episode 39 (Abigail feeding ducks)
• Episode 40 (Laying chicks arrive!)
• Episode 41 (166 new chicken sin our brooder: 101 broiler and 65 egg layers)

September 2015

• Episode 42 (Training Guinea Fowl)
• Episode 43 (Chicken tractors with 3 week old broilers and layers)

October 2015

• Episode 44 (Repairing degraded land using sheep, pigs, and chicken)
• Episode 45 (Repairing Arrowhead Pond)

November 2015

• Episode 46 (Making chicken stock)
• Episode 47 (Our 9 week old Cornish Rock Cross chickens are ready for processing!)
• Episode 48 (Processing day for the broiler chickens)
• Episode 49 (The scalder and plucker in action)
• Episode 50 (Finishing a long day of processing chickens)
• Episode 51 (An update on, and closer look at, our layer chickens.)
• Episode 52 (Introducing a ram to our ewes)
• Episode 53 (Pig update)
• Episode 54 (Using sheep against brambles)
• Episode 55 (Our portable pig/sheep shelter)
• Episode 56 (Pasture improvement with sheep, pigs, and chickens)

December 2015

• Episode 57 (Introducing 3 new pigs to the farm!)
• Episode 58 (Combining the geese and ducks into one family)
• Episode 59 (A video Grampa shot showing the overflow from our pond after a long, hard rain. If we had not fixed the damn wall, we may have lost the pond. The repair was just in time.)
• Episode 60 (Another video shot by Grampa after a long, hard rain. This video shows our sill working as designed when the volume exceeded the capacity of our main drain.)
• Episode 61 (Sheep playing follow the leader!)
• Episode 62 (Flooding of the duck and goose paddock.)
• Episode 63 (The geese and ducks enjoying the flooded paddock.)
• Episode 64 (A pond in need of repair. Getting dangerously close to some big problems.)
• Episode 65 (Quick fix of our pond in danger.)
• Episode 66 (More water management issues -- A cut back erosion channel in a valley.)
• Episode 67 (Feeding fermented grains to our sheep and pigs.)
• Episode 68 (Our birds sleeping after having their wings clipped.)
• Episode 69 (Dead ducks! Ugh!)

January 2016

• Episode 70 (First big snow of the season)
• Episode 71 (Thinking of gardening in the winter snow)

February 2016

• Episode 72 (Checking for eggs at our new EggMobile) 

March 2016

• Episode 73 (Sheep in a new paddock)
• Episode 74 (Moving geese to the pond for the first time)
• Episode 75 (The geese finally understand the pond!)
• Episode 76 (Missing geese found ... on a nest!)

April 2016

• Episode 77 (Twins! The first lambs born on the farm!)
• Episode 78 (The first lambs on the farm, enjoying Spring on the first day of life!)
• Episode 79 (Four geese lost in one night. One goose sitting on a nest.)
• Episode 80 (Spring lamb update.)
• Episode 81 (Tree planting preparation.)
• Episode 82 (Tree planting preparation, Part 2.)
• Episode 83 (Getting our first tress in the ground!)
• Episode 84 (Heeling in some of our bare-root trees that we couldn't plan right away.)

May 2016

• Episode 85 (Moving the sheep by walking them across the property.)
• Episode 86 (Using our sheep to clear an overgrown, weedy area.)
• Episode 87 (Getting started on our farm's first swale.)
• Episode 88 (The new swales in action)
• Episode 89 (Bonfire at the Bauernhof)
• Episode 90 (Introducing "Cinderella")
• Episode 91 (Planting the swale)
• Episode 92 (Dung beetles in the pasture.)
• **Bonus Episode (Barn swallows trapped in garage)
• **Bonus Episode (Watering trees -- Wendi Cameo)
• Episode 93 (Using thistle to improve the soil.)
• Episode 94 (New chicks arrive!)
• **Bonus Episode (Sheep in yard)
• Episode 95 (Using sheep to mow the yard.)

June 2016

• Episode 96 (Turkeys on the farm)
• Episode 97 (Adding some layer to the farm)
• Episode 98 (Updated on broilers and layers)

July 2016

• Episode 99 (Trimming the swale) 
• Episode 100 (Our new ram)

August 2016

• Episode 101 (Moving turkeys)
• Episode 102 (Turkeys meet sheep for first time)
• Episode 103 (New turkey/sheep integration)
• Episode 104 (Starting seeds for fall garden)
• Episode 105 (New floor of egg mobile)
• Episode 106 (Rotational grazing with sheep)

September 2016

• Episode 107 (Moving the Egg Mobile means we need to retrain the flock)
• Episode 108 (Maximilian Sunflowers popping up all over the farm)
• Episode 109 (Getting started on our garden ... finally!)
• Episode 110 (Our mobile livestock shade shelters)

October 2016

• Episode 111 (Spiderwebs as a marker of pasture biodiversity and regeneration)
• Episode 112 (Red-Winged Blackbird chasing a Red-Tailed Hawk)
• Episode 113 (Our current livestock watering system using 275-gallon IBC totes)

November 2016

• Episode 114 (First piglets!) 
• Episode 115 (Drought)
• Episode 116 (Putting our new ram in with the ewes)
• Episode 117 (Ram lambs growing despite the drought)

December 2016

• Episode 118 (Piglets nursing on a different mom) 
• Episode 119 (Mother nursing other piglets as she prepares to give birth)
• Episode 120 (Pig home birth)
• Episode 121 (Smoking pork from a farm-raised hog)
• Episode 122 (Using pigs to till the land in preparation for our Food Forest.)

February 2017

• February 123 (Felling an old Elm)
• February 124 (New Mangalitsa pigs)

March 2017

• Episode 125 (Massive rain event and our swales and pond just barely stayed intact.)
• Episode 126 (How we move our pigs when we need to get them across our property.)

April 2017

• Episode 127 (Rotational grazing pigs to regenerate poor pastures)
• Episode 128 (Shaggy mane mushrooms in our pastures)
• Episode 129 (Sheep in new paddock)
• Episode 130 (A temporary "release valve"/level sill on our swales during major rain event)
• Episode 131 (Dung beetle on our farm!)

June 2017

• Episode 132 (Blooming parsley attracts beneficial insects)
• Episode 133 (Got the chicks in the tractors!)
• Episode 134 (More piglets born on the farm!)

July 2017

• Episode 135 (Ducks and ducklings)
• Episode 136 (Our geese and goslings)
• Episode 137 (Vegetable garden!)
• Episode 138 (Melon and squash garden)
• Episode 139 (Layer chicks and turkeys)

John's Farm/Permaculture Blog Posts

• Chicken Brooder (September 2015)
• A Bauernhof Kitsteiner Update (September 2015)
• Time to Start a Forest Garden (February 2016)
• EggMobile Bauernhof Kitsteiner Style (February 2016)
• Permaculture Basics: Edible Forest Gardens (March 2016)
• Who Needs a Plow When You Have Animals (March 2016)
• The First Year at the Bauernhof (May 2016)
• Making an Herbal Tea with Local Ingredients (May 2016)
• Sheep Paddocks (May 2016)
• We Have Dung Beetles (June 2016)
• Don't Wash Your Hands (June 2016)
• Spiders is Good (June 2016)
• Plasson Bell Waterer Installation Instructions (June 2016)
• Wild Onions (June 016)
• Mob grazing with Sheep (June 2016)
• Excited about Hornworms (August 2016)
• Salatin-Style Chicken Tractor Hand Truck or Dolly (August 2016)
• Using Lawn Hay (August 2016)
• Making Bone Broth (September 2016)
• Sheep Hoof Trimming (September 2016)
• Rendering Duck Fat (September 2016)
• Evidence of Farm's Regeneration (October 2016)
• Making Head Cheese (December 2016)
• The Trouble with Facebook Permaculture (December 2016)
• How a Newt Matters (February 2017)
• Dealing with Broomsedge (February 2017)
• Patches of Spring Regeneration (March 2016)
• Pigs, Plows & Wildflowers (March 2017)
• Grass Fed Lamb (April 2017)
• Spring Forest Plants (April 2017)
• Woodland Edge Plant Identification (April 2017)
• Positive Poultry Impact (April 2017)

To read all of my past posts about our farm, click here.