Prepping our High Tunnel for 100s of Plants (to feed our family of 7)

Pretty soon for an event and we've got to get this cleared so that's ready to go when we get back You can see in the last video. We busted our balls to get this to where it is now today There's no guests coming to help and right now It's just me everybody else is still in the house honking their shoes We've got to get the weed fabric and drip tape up and then fill this bed with compost add compost to this bed shape that bed and Shape all these beds where the chickens were they have totally leveled it that took about 20 minutes longer than I thought it would 35 minutes later we got it, but it is 7:30 I'm kind of wondering where the kids are at the cows need to be milked What's going on? 7:30 just now, won't get up just now, you ready 7:30 twinsies, huh? How cute hey big bird it's time to get up. What's going on? Come on sleepy head. Delayed gratification yesterday Saved his lemonade from last night Look at one of Louie's cookies. Rare treat I feel better. The boys are out Gideon will do his chores and join me soon The beautiful one will join me soon. Okay get another one. It's in a bowl on that table on the island. I don't see it. I don't see it. Louie! Where's the cookie? You took his cookie We've been doing two meals a day I love it. Now it's a kid's snack but it's been a lot less work Okay come out after that okay Gideon, Henry come out after that We eat a big brunch at 10. I'm looking forward to it We get the intermittent fast advantage there. We're done eating at six. We don't eat again until 10. Is that 16 hours? The second thing is it's a lot less work because you're only doing two meals a day and one of the meals is breakfast and I guess because you're fasted. It's okay that it's basically the same thing every time. Sausage from the farm, eggs from the farm, yogurt. We eat a nice supper. We make twice as much as we need, and then we have a leftover. So really, what is that? Cooking maybe three, four meals a week? It's been awesome. Now we gotta build our beds. Yeah, chicken squat. That's what eat while it's hot. Guess what? What? That hen moves, moved it where it's, now it's under that trailer. Oh, is that better? No, yeah, it's better because people won't bother with it. All right, listen, we got to dig our beds. Kids. That one, the one on the edge is easy because we just go along the side of the greenhouse. Okay. and i'll take that and put it on the bed on the left reestablished that path makes me wonder if it's worth it to have the chickens in here because i had to rebuild the barn but their happiness under here when it's cold raining they're giving us more eggs that's the priority over the garden so i just pay for it with some exercise establish our next line give me a rebar baby from in the barn no No, there's one right there. I'll go get the brass fork. Yeah, go get the broad fork. It's going. Is it going down? Yeah. All right, broad forking it because it got compacted. Not just where the chickens were, but also down where the tomatoes were. It doesn't look too compact. No, it's not. All right. Gideon, you want me to help you or you want me to start down here? You want me to help you? Yes, please. Okay. What's wrong? Let's do it. I got it, Papa. Going from the shovel feature to the broad fork feature. That Irish gem. Papa. Yeah. The animals bit the water line, and it's got a bunch of holes in it, so we're going to go fix it. How'd they bite the water line? With their teeth. Are they pigs? No, it's little tiny marks. Little tiny holes. Oh, not the cows. Something else. No, something else. In the woods. All right. there's two spots really bad that we have to fix all right thanks oh i went up there the water wasn't line was not work wasn't working i go up there uh right up the um whatever the big thing is called the tank yeah you know a little shut off yeah there was a piece of wood stuck in it i had to take it off and pull the wood out oh wow good thank you for doing that it's nine o'clock one hour till breakfast the goal this week is to get this all set up to get these two beds going get all these six seven beds reshaped and get that bed reshaped and covered impossible goal but you know what we do we aim for the impossible extraordinary things happen what's an impossible goal for today so i'll stay motivated let's get these two beds oh should we aim for that third bed let's get these two beds shaped composted weed fabric and drip tape That's a lot. But I've had the boys, but they really do fix the water line. Ginn just went to a lesson, Beautiful One is working in the greenhouse, Lily's working in the house. We've got one row broad forked, one more to go. I need a distraction. Why don't we go talk to the Beautiful One, and she'll show you how she gets her tomatoes going. Wow! Should we take an inventory of the tomatoes? Show the people how you made, how you did it? Um, well, okay. So here's the thing. I think that what we can do in two rows, we can put the tomatoes and the peppers in two rows, and then we'll do. the cucumbers and green beans in a row okay and then we'll do i'm going to do some squash in there and some of my pumpkins these are going to need to be transplanted before we go no no i don't think so i think they're gonna have i think when we get home we're gonna have to transplant everything fast all right show me your trend show me how you've made these tomatoes step one how i made them so well so i'm trying a different variety it's called Cipolla's Pride so we're gonna try that and then i have my staple carolina and i have cherries these are the best cherries they're washington cherries they're so good you have them on a heat mat i do i have them on a heat mat and then i just i i just have this on them when it was colder because it would keep kind of the heat in that's an agribond just keep them warm because that's what i wanted was to keep them warm i did the peppers in there too all right i did my peppers and my tomatoes hey if you don't want a broadfork We can just talk. Okay, well, I wanted to ask you this. Yeah. Okay, if you're going to Broad Fork, I'm going to go get the big Broad Fork. Huh? You want to be the two gardeners? We'll be the two little gardeners. We've done one year after the hurricane of garden. so if you did this broad forking over there in our existing gardens it would be different it's so easy well yeah i mean the soil is we don't even we don't even do it anymore but it was twice as compact last year oh yeah this tie tunnel got washed away with all with all the soil that was in it The greenhouse is kind of shifted away. It's a little longer than I thought. we got two two bed two beds broad forked we've hosed it down We're gonna take break for breakfast and then compost. Just had breakfast, lunch, brunch, 50 minutes, 12 loads of wheelbarrow. Do you think that's enough cadence? I do. Because I might not need 12. You only need maybe an inch. I think you're an inch. So I did one, two, three, four, Six bays, say, with one. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16. Two or three more loads. So maybe four loads of bed. There's something real right about that, isn't there? It gets better every year. We give more than we take. We give more. What? Give them more than we take. All right. B-tour. Henry keeps forgetting to shut the gate. Why don't we just get one of those? You know those? So, you can't protect these sunflowers, the chickens keep getting out. If that thing pops, that thing's going to fling. She likes her plants more than chickens. So we better keep these chickens out of this. Her mom's deleting this chicken run. Hey, come on, we've got to finish this compost. At this point, we need to finish the one row and get the compost covered. We don't want it to dry out. It wants to be covered. I got one row covered. That feels good, even though I didn't. finish all that I wanted to finish. I'm gonna put, wait on this, I don't want to staple this yet because I want to wait till I staple. Put the other one in and it gets, we can use one staple, two tarps. Looking good. Can never have enough compost. I'm afraid I'm not going to get this high tunnel job done this week. Tomorrow's our last chance. Can you guys help? Can I get help? Do you need help? No. Do you need help? You're my guarantee. Help? We'll see. Kind of mixed answers there. We'll see. Happy day. It's going to be a big day. Getting ready for our trip. Finishing this high tunnel. We've broadforked two full rows. Let's compost this row. Cover it. Let's finish broadforking this. Shape. What do we got? Three or four more beds right here? I said finish composting that. Well, yes, but also broadforking that. We got a big bed here. We need to go. Did it go past? I don't know. Did it go past the silage tarp? I'll be happy if we get these bed shapes composted and covered so it can be settling while we're gone. In beautiful South Dakota. Is that west or is that midwest? It'll be that our first event that far west. We're excited to meet some of the you cowboys and girls. Hey girls. Composted let's give it covered. I see the boys are back from milking. Let's see if I have any hope of them helping Happy day. Oh, yeah I'm literally just hit myself. Oh Oh. How'd milking go look great? Oh good. Are you guys gonna be able to help me? Does that mean? I hope so. Okay cream separate for me Thank you Get this guy. Look at this guy. All right, the goal is to Um, reshape these beds that we were standing on where the chickens were and cover it with silage tarp and uh, So reshape these and put compost on them. I think we're gonna max it out this year building beds after the chickens Beauty's not a fan of bringing the chickens back in here in this winter And I don't think I am either. Let's see what the boys think You think we should bring the chickens back in here this winter? Definitely not. We'll have to rebuild that again? No, definitely not. Okay, are you up for building a hoop coop? Yes. A greenhouse coop on skids, mobile? Everything must be mobile. You up for that before winter comes? Sure. Me too. Yeah, keep going, keep going, keep going. No, no, no, keep going. Keep going we gotta get the roots to be able to penetrate this compacted soil. Things are going so fast now I can't even keep up. I was gonna put down the tarps but I keep having to do a line for them that it's hard to keep up with them. Maybe if you get that I gotta go check on Henry. You guys get that done you can start bringing in compost. He said he would be helping Lily. He was bothering mom. Okay good boy. I like it. I'm just doing bucks. It's hard to know how much to bring, right? I know, it is. But I got almost the full box of the Chicken Tender. They're the lightest book. Yeah. And you're doing a talk on chicken butchering. Yeah. So I feel like Chicken Tender is probably going to be a good seller. Okay. I'm also going to bring a box of Rooted Life Plus One because I have it. And the Four Homestead Builds because I feel like that one, it's a really heavy book. Yeah, and let's save one back if we sell them all and start just shipping them. Yeah. um and then three whatever is here all right we get two free check-on bags yes 50 pounds 50 pounds all right so pack comfortable baby yeah and then whatever we have left we'll pack books Mm-hmm. and well this is it too we could also we also get a check a carry-on okay so if we have to yeah We could do that. Let's load up. Mom has to tell us all the things we have to do if we die. Okay, what's our? Let's review. Which, we're going to get a tutor for Henry and Gideon. Again? Yeah. So bad. So we don't have to deal with them. Yep. An all-day tutor. Yeah. Okay. And then... We have to go to the therapist. Um, or Donna. Donna something. Donna Gibbs. Donna Gibbs. We'll just put it on tape so you'll have it. And then we're supposed to... I'm gonna get a cleaner too, for the house. I'm gonna move into Mom Yergo's room and I'll sleep in there with Henry and then Gideon will sleep in my room. Okay, it's funny. The things Rebecca thinks about, she got the email from Deltas we're flying? She got the email from American Airlines and her first thought was, I better prepare for my death Really? Really? I better double check the times of our flight. Right. Probably she also told you. What else did I tell you? That we'll have plenty of money if you die. Oh yeah, we're worth more dead than alive, baby. We're going to take care of you. Heather will set it all up for them and she'll help them. And I gave her a list of moms to call if she needs help. You're going to put it in the Vanguard S&P 500, but Heather knows this. Heather knows what to do. And you're going to live off the interest the rest of your life. Is it really that much, though? Oh, yeah. Yeah, it's a lot. For all five of us? Yeah. And they'll pay all the debt off, too. You would pay off all the debt. Everything would get paid. Now, don't be getting hopeful here. I'm not. I'm not, I know, I don't want, I know we're coming home, I know we're coming home. I don't want to tell Henry that his parents aren't coming home. No. She said, who would tell Henry? I said, probably you. And she goes. Oh. I don't want to tell him. Well, I mean. Yeah, nothing, nothing like that can make you grow up. He told me to wake him up tomorrow morning. Before I leave, to shake his head. There he is. He won't let me do the potatoes. He wants to do it. Well, that's good. He's a helper. He's taking forever. It's okay. Let him take forever. All right. Yeah. Honey, would you be sad if my papa died? No. We have 76 pounds of books, so. Alright. You gotta take ten of those. So these are six. Six rooted lives. How much do I need, Mama? And if we sell out, we'll leave one, we'll give them free shipping, and we'll still sign them. We'll sign them before we ship them. Okay. Okay. We might be able to take more rooted lives. Yeah, if anything, take more rooted lives. Leave it to these boys, the garden with the mini-X. We're going to the garden. We're going to the garden. We're going to the garden. We're going to the garden. We're going to the garden. We're going to the garden. We're going to the garden. We're going to the garden. We're going to the garden. All right. Leave it to these boys, the garden with the Mini-X. whoa can you do it that's a load too heavy for you huh yeah we tried to do it by hand what happened i don't know we got like two scoops down to the side one i've done 10 loads and by hand the last good for you nice looking beds guys you forgot that one bed along the edge almost done with this Lily's calling breakfast. Papa, did you put that... You know, see how the rows kind of break up? There's like a path right there. Is that what you want? No, you're supposed to do that too. Mama, it's better, Papa. Because then you don't have to step across the beds. Yeah, you can get around. I guess they have a built-in path right there. Midway, which isn't a terrible idea. Murder to breakfast. Two very important things to wrap before we go. Finish this garden. I think we'll do it. we need to put chicks out we got layer chicks in the brooder they're overdue getting out but we've had kind of a cold cold spring that threatened rain we never got the rain we need the rain badly i love it we're almost done yup okay i gotta put these pins in y'all put some compost on that and then we'll get the chicks out soil's wet compost on top it'll build up Be protected while we're gone, ready to hit the ground. When we get back, we're going to be planting hundreds of plants. Now, free the birds. Get him a cage. Give me a cage. Get all the layer chicks out. Oh God, be careful guys. When you pick it up, that thing will attack. Fiercely. That poor thing is sitting on eggs that aren't fertile. No, that's hurt. There's a black one under there. I'll get it later I made it. I made it. free the birds they don't want to be free i don't trust it oh they will once they figure it out It's a really fragile little piece of pipe Draft farm list Official farm list we're getting there let's take a break though before supper is this a Special steaming method? Um, I just don't want all the steam to go out. You're being so patient. You got it? You got the insurance? You coming? Oh, can he? Yeah, and then we can do all the dinosaurs. Yeah. Don't let him out. Okay. This is good. Oh, my God. Ah! La la let, la la let me be free.