Homestead Citadel

Its been a while. What's happening, folks? If you're a #grazier #farmer #homesteader next week's video is a can't miss topic: how to plan for and manage through a drought. Like most of the Mid-Atlantic, we've had a significant dry spell here. About 2 months with little meaningful rainfall. I did a forage assessment this week and we're having to purchase in additional hay to cover for the lack of regrowth we would normally be seeing in our pastures for fall growth.

Finished up the summer fencing project in this week's video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBj2lrh4lB4

Good to be back at the homestead after a week away making memories with the kiddo. Vacation video will drop as soon as we can get the editing done. It was an action packed trip and the farm was mostly uneventful. 😅

Got started on that cabinetry project in this week's video and a little bit of everything mixed in. #woodworking #farm #homestead #cowstr https://youtu.be/MpSR3T7pOQU

Can't resist sharing. I haven't done any "fine woodworking" in a long time. While this ain't perfect, I'm still pretty proud of it. I'm planning to put a distressed look on the countertop. The drawer pulls were all turned on the lathe. I think future builds I'll ditch the drawer slides and use traditional techniques just running on wooden supports. #proofofwork #woodworking #cabinetry #grownostr

Quarter quart sounds better than half a pint

Sunday funday making spatulas on the wood lathe. I made the first one for a friend and Katie got jealous and wanted one so I had to make a second. 😅 #woodworkimg

TIMBERRRRRR! 4 large trees gotta go before I can get to installing the next run of fence. They all have a pucker factor to them 🫣 and I'm behind on splitting wood for winter firewood customers 😬 https://youtu.be/qiZHgczTEe8

This aligns incredibly well with my thinking. I'm a big fan of the "you are the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with" mentality. I prefer bitcoiners, paradigm challenges, and people generally fighting for a better society for our future generations. As a farmer/homesteader my neighbors don't understand me and my family thinks I've lost some screws. I started walking my own path about 10 years ago now and wouldn't change it for the world. The future is incredibly bright living this way. While nostr isn't ready to serve all creators yet, building here is my long term vision. YouTube serves the fiat servitude machine. I'm happy to say, YT is the only fiat legacy online presence I will need to divorce myself from when #nostr has a solution for long form creators. 🧡 #vlog #regenerativeag #permaculture #homesteading nostr:nevent1qqs9lyydf5mhwjysjw359uj2djqc2xw6t3p292z6dh34n3jzdz5ygcqpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7q3qrtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudksxpqqqqqqzprf05t

So, I have a splinter embedded into the corner of my eyelid rubbing my eye. It's been 5 days of annoyance. I learned it I look the other direction it's not too bad lol. I can feel it and move the splinter over my eye socket bone to try and rub it out, but the wife can't see it to get with tweezers. Guess I'll be making an appointment to get this fixed. Pretty confident it is locust wood too from when I was turning handles on the lathe 🤦 The good news is, I successfully undeleted an entire weeks worth of MP4 files. 😅

We've made a change this week and decided to post only to YT. Rumble hasn't been worth the squeeze. Fear not, we are of course saving our videos ourselves awaiting the day we can easily self host and become a #nostronly long form #vlog https://youtu.be/y-j3Ksf0YpU

Testing my computer skills today attempting to recover a weeks worth of video that got deleted. 🤞

#nostronly is where I want my content asap. Waiting for long form economical options, self host a bonus 🤞

New video drops every Sunday morning. The bottle calf we saved a month or two ago is hitting some big milestones in this week's video! https://youtu.be/BdVSa1JPNdw

The hardest days farming never get easier.

Apparently vlogging is trending. Something I finally frontrunned! Goal is to be nostr only but large file hosting isn't quite economical yet, but would prefer to self host. #vlog

Freeze dried maple syrup yogurt is to die for! 🐄🥛🧡😍

Part way through the process the chicken stock (top tray that you can actually see) looks oddly like styrofoam. Experimenting with some strawberry yogurt cookies, plain yogurt, and finishing the last bit of shredded zucchini to round out this run. #farm #homestead #farmstr #freezedrying #food

Been head down building today without the camera since getting home from church (see photo at the end 😉), but this week's video did drop this morning. 😁 https://youtu.be/m1SL7MdooeI https://rumble.com/v6xdmzg--fire-cows-and-chicks-a-hectic-week-on-the-homestead.html A jack of all trades. This week: cabinetry, fencing, vet among others.

Finishing a 540' run of perimeter fence today. About 3 months ago I finished a 1,000' run of fence. I didn't think I could turn this around so quickly. After today, I'll only have about 300' to finish this 5 year perimeter fence project.