Thursday, July 20, 2017

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
June 2015
July 2015
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
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
February 2016
  • Episode 72 (Checking for eggs at our new EggMobile) 
March 2016
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
June 2016
July 2016
August 2016
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
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

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
July 2017
John's Farm/Permaculture Blog Posts
To read all of my past posts about our farm, click here. 

4 comments:

Joia said...

Loved watching this! Congrats on the start of your biggest adventure yet! =) So happy for you guys - I look forward to following along on your journey with each video!

Anonymous said...

This was so great. It will be wonderful to enjoy this adventure with you each day. Congratulations, John and Wendi. I can't wait to see it for myself.
Joni

Kathy Ekema said...

LOVE it! And so excited for you with your new journey! CONGRATS!

Aunt Connie said...

What pure delight to watch! So excited you decided to do this! When episode 19 was over, I was like, "Whaaa? Where's #20?" Looking forward to it