October 24, 2024 • 39 mins
What happens when life throws a series of unexpected events your way, and how do you adapt to maintain stability on a homestead? We share our personal journey through family milestones, particularly a recent wedding, while simultaneously navigating the challenges of my mother's health as she transitions to living with us. Amidst these personal shifts, the homestead faced a severe drought, forcing us to feed hay earlier than anticipated. However, the rains have finally come, offering relief and hope as we work to restore our routine and prepare for the colder months ahead.
Our commitment to sustaining our homestead's productivity is more crucial than ever, pushing us to diversify our ventures and support community projects. Join us as we explore the excitement and trials of raising 130 Jumbo Cornish X-Rocks meat birds with neighbors and the joy of discovering the deliciousness of Jumbo Pekin Ducks. We're also planning for expansion, with the addition of American Bresse chickens and the prospect of Emden geese, all while gearing up for Thanksgiving and the changes to the Self-Reliance Festival in 2025.
In the spirit of resilience, we delve into winter preparations and the wisdom of sustainable living, inspired by a vibrant 95-year-old's unconventional health philosophy. Our journey includes participating in events like the Kentucky Sustainable Living gathering, where we share insights on topics like family milk cows. The recent catastrophic weather events have humbled us and reminded us of our purpose. Our focus remains on community support and readiness. As we continue to grow and adapt, we're reminded of our humble beginnings and the ongoing journey toward a self-reliant and fulfilling life on the homestead.
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Located in Bellevue, TN at 161 Belle Forest Circle. 615-467-3200. Go see attorneys, Tee Gorham or Jad Duncan for all your family's legal needs. Tell them you heard about them on this podcast!
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Speaker 1 (00:14):
Hey y'all, welcome to Keeping it Real, the Gorham
Homestead podcast, where we talkabout real food, real natural
living, the real art of naturalhealing and real life out here
in our Tennessee homestead.
I'm your host, Dawn Gorham, andtoday is Sunday, october the
20th 2024.
I always have to think aboutthe date.
It's bad.
I had to look at my watch.
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I'm a little bit out of contextbecause I'm doing it on Sunday.
I normally do this on Thursday,but I will actually post it on
Thursday.
I wanted to grab tea while Ihad him for a minute, because I
cannot nail him down during theweek.
So don't say a word.
T.
No dirty jokes.
I can't get him to do thepodcast with me during the week
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because, god bless him, he'sjust so tired and he doesn't get
home till after six.
So today you are listening toepisode number 22.
And our topic today is our fallhomestead highlights all the
things that we have going on.
Let me get my little notes overhere so I can see, and T has no
idea what we're talking about,so I'm just going to roll with
(01:16):
it and he's just going to haveto hop in.
But before we get started,today's episode is sponsored by
Hamilton, gorham and Duncan.
Since we have T here today,they are your full-service law
firm located in Bellevue,tennessee.
Call T or Jad T Gorham or JadDuncan for your family's legal
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podcast and they will give youspecial family treatment.
Don't laugh, they will, theyabsolutely will.
If you tell them you heardabout them on the podcast, then
they'll be like oh yeah, let megive you my cell phone number.
Yeah, absolutely so, anyway.
So where have we been?
What's been going on?
I have not done a podcast nowsince August the 15th.
(01:58):
Today is our first day back.
So lots been going on, lotsbeen going on.
Do you want me to start withthat so you can hop in, or do
you want to just roll with it?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Tell me what you got.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
What do you got going on so right after the last
podcast, we started preparingfor a wedding and so, um, and
then my mother got ill and gotsick ill, as I would say, um and
has been in the hospital.
So we had the wedding, we hadICU visits, my mother's been
down, just a lot has been goingon.
(02:28):
That has sort of turnedeverything upside down for me
for a little bit.
But my, you know, family is ournumber one priority.
So mama came first.
Everything else kind of comesafter that.
But we're getting our feet backunder us.
Mama's been moved here, we'reout of the hospital, she's here
with us on the farm and, youknow, we're making
(02:49):
accommodations, trying to getour routine back, trying to get
life back in order, as well ashelping her heal through this
process.
So, anyway, that's sort ofthat's where we've been Right,
right, anything else that youcan think of.
That's been going on over thelast two months.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
No well, we finally got out of the drought, which
was nice, oh God, yeah, that wasscary.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
We had a bad, bad drought here.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I mean, the only plus was, I think I cut the grass
twice in the last, oh, I'd say45 to 60 days, and it was a dust
storm both times.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
We started having to feed hay in August.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
That's a first for us .
Speaker 1 (03:27):
You have to forgive us.
We have the little rabbit ice.
We both drink water out ofthese big old container things
and it has the rabbit ice in it,and when you go to take a drink
you cannot help but get amouthful of ice.
So if you hear us chomping, Iapologize.
That's why.
Yeah, so we made it through thedrought, started feeding hay.
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We haven't had to.
I mean, we have put out morehay, but it hasn't been as bad
as it was at first yeah,everything's greened up again,
but not really growing much yeah.
We're preparing for winter.
I kicked something under mydesk Preparing for winter, so
we've done the pantry inventoryand, tia's, I have done the
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pantry inventory.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I was going to say I have an inventory.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I didn't ask for your help this time.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Oh, I did it.
I got it all done, I know.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
And I knew what to order.
Some stuff I had to order fromAzure Standard because we always
in October do our pantryinventory before we go into the
winter and order the things thatwe don't grow, because it's the
end of the season and that'sthe perfect time to sort of
figure out you know what we wereable to grow, what did well,
what didn't do well, and then we, you know, fill those gaps, you
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know, with things you know likewheat, berries and flour and
organic sugar and sucanat, andyou know all of the things that
we can't produce.
So I've done that.
The wood we got our wooddelivered.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
We got our wood delivered, still got more to cut
.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah, so we burn wood as our primary heat source in
the winter.
So we've got a.
Is it a cord?
Was it a cord?
Delivered yeah, a full cord ofwood delivered and hopefully
that'll.
We probably need more, to behonest.
I mean if it were to be areally bad winter.
But what you're?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
you're looking at me well, I mean, we have at least
two cords we do total.
Yeah, okay, perfect okaydelivered one and we still had
one plus what I've cut off.
We had an oak tree that felland I'm slowly piecemealing that
into firewood.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Nice, okay, good deal , all right.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I need to sharpen my chainsaw.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And it's time to sort of figure out all of the
winterizing things Right, likeour heated water bucket that we
have for Rip and Dolly and thetank stock tank heaters.
We need to test those and makesure those are still working.
We need to unhook theirrigation system.
I mean there's lots of thingsthat we need to get done in
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October before we go into any.
I mean we've had some coldnights.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
It's been in the 30s.
We've already had our firstthree or four frosts.
Now that we've had this, pastweek?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah, but we need to winterize everything.
Get everything ready, battendown the hatches, clean out the.
Did you burn that creosote log,like you said?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
you were going to, I did.
I did the other night.
Okay, good, you know I didn'tread the instructions.
It actually says have a fire ortwo and then do it.
You're not supposed to like,but I'd already lit it that
doesn't make sense to me.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
What if you've got like?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I don't know what if you've got a huge bird nest up
there or something.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
We probably did.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
We've had about eight birds I know that makes me so
sad and they're so pretty littlebirds too.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
They're blue, they have blue feathers, they're
adorable and they get caught inour wood-burning stove, and I
find them well after they'redead, although there was that
one that got out.
I mean, I got it out and itflew all over and it finally
flew into and drain some ofthose water hoses that we have.
Is there anything?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Do you think we ought to unhook the automatic waterer
from the stock tank or justwrap heat tape around it?
Because I think we could orderheat tape and keep that son of a
gun warm.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah that's what we need to do.
I like that.
I mean, we haven't had to fillup water for cows in what six
months?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yeah, it does really really good, that's nice.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Because I have a bad habit of forgetting that I'm
filling up the water for thecows and the next day, yeah, I'm
pretty sure that's how weburned up our well pump Probably
Multiple times of doing that,yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
So that's sort of where we are for going into the
winter.
All of the tomatoes are in thefreezer and I'm getting ready to
get those out.
Oh, one more thing that we needto do is the bees that's.
You know, it's our first yearwith bees, so it's our first
year to go into winter with bees, and I'm told that they need to
be condensed down into one boxso that they have less that they
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have to work and have to doover the winter.
I don't really know how thatneeds to be done yet, so I'm
going to contact either Joe froma bees closet or one of my
other bee mentors, mentorsskeletor yeah, bee mentors, this
must be a skeletor to get themto come over and show me since
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I've never done it before, causeI want to make sure, cause
they're doing really great, likethese ones that I got that are
local bees that I got from Joeat a bees closet.
They are very docile.
Yeah, they're laid back verygentle and they're doing great.
I mean I haven't had to messwith them, you know.
I know you're supposed to feedthem through the dearth and all
that kind of stuff, and I did goout and give them some sugar
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water, some.
I didn't do a whole lot andthey did great.
I mean they're still thriving.
So I know I need to get somebee patties to put in there to
feed them over the winter.
Or they might die over thewinter or they might die.
So I will definitely be feedingthem through the winter.
Just don't know what that lookslike yet.
(09:14):
So anyway, okra we've had okra.
Palooza, from our neighbor, hasbrought me two big old garbage
bags full of okra.
So I have more okra than I caneven fathom.
Some of it I ran through thefreeze dryer.
Some of it I froze.
Some of it I ran through thefreeze dryer.
Some of it I froze.
Some of it I chopped up.
I have some that I'm going tomake pickles out of.
I just haven't done that yet.
And tomatoes are ready to goand it's time to make winter
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soups.
Yes, so that's what we have onour preserving front for October
.
Yes, yes.
Is there anything else you canthink of that.
You and we didn't get picklesthis year and I know you're sad.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yes, we um, I thought we were going to try to get a
couple of bushels Our uhgroundhog ate all our pickles.
Apparently, the groundhog likescucumbers as much as I like
pickles, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yeah, we're going to get that son of a gun next year.
I've got the trap out there.
I'm just not real sure how toset it.
They say there's a specific wayyou have to do groundhogs
because they're a little bitsmarter than the average bear or
dog or whatever.
So I'll figure that out.
I'll get that little crittertaken out next year.
(10:22):
I'm declaring war.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Groundhog war.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
It's funny Every time I had a gun with me I would not
see him, but it seemed likeevery time I went down there
without one, there he was Mm-hmm.
But we'll just see.
Okay, if I can't get it,hopefully Rip and Dolly, or you
can.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yeah, rip and Dolly aren't going to, they're only
concerned with the yippingcoyotes, that's all they.
Anything else that comes up,they lick it to death.
So, animals, that's where weare.
What's going on with theanimals Milking?
We've been in a dry periodsince August, the 1st August,
september, october yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
No, no, since September the 1st.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yes, I was going to say so yeah, August 30th was my
last day to milk All right.
So milking starts back up.
Prissy and Scarlett are due tocalve.
Their due date is October the31st, so looking forward to
seeing what they have.
I'm really hoping that Scarletthas a heifer Prissy.
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I don't care what she has,because I can't get an A2, a2
calf out of her anyway becauseshe's A1, a1.
So I don't care what she has,it's going to be sold regardless
of what it is.
So community chicks.
Oh, what I was going to say isthe good thing about having a
dry period and having the farmshut down for the last two
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months is that it gave me anopportunity to really reimagine
and sort of reinvent how we dothings before we start back up.
It's hard to change thingsmidstream when you have
customers going all the time,but shutting down gave me a
chance to really rethink thisand how we can be profitable.
(12:08):
And so, going forward, startingNovember the 1st, my customers
will be paying monthly insteadof by the week, because that was
a lot for me to keep up with.
They pay up front on the 1stand I started offering add-ons
like do you want butter permonth, do you want eggs for the
month and giving them a discountnot much, but a little bit of a
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discount enough to make itworth my while.
And there's two and several ofthem have taken me up on that,
like I got one that wants achicken a month and one that
wants you know, wants a coffeecreamer and wants butter, and so
that's, that's a way that Ifound that I could add more
value for my customers as wellas more profit for me, so that I
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can actually make thissustainable Cause the end goal.
If I don't start making moneythis year, the IRS is going to
say sorry, no, if you're not afarm anymore, so I have to make
a profit this year.
It has to happen.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
So if I don't make enough money, they say, hey,
you're not a lawyer anymore.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I think they would say you can't write off your
office deductions anymore,because how are you feeding
yourself?
Is what they say.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Gotcha.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
They would call you a hobby lawyer.
You're not a lawyer.
You're not a lawyer.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
You're a hobby lawyer .
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Hobby lawyer, sort of like Hobby Lobby.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Anyway, so, yeah, so we got to turn a profit this
year.
It has to happen.
So that's one of the thingsthat's going on.
We've got 130 chicks in thebrooder.
They are almost four weeks old,ready to go out to the chicken
tractors and those.
I really made a commitment thisyear that I was going to try to
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do more things to buildcommunity within my actual
walking neighbors neighbors notjust, I mean, I love doing the
dixon county homesteadersalliance group, but I wanted to
really um bond with my actualcommunity, like that I could
walk to their house or get on aside-by-side and go to their
house.
(14:15):
So we're doing a um communitybatch of um Jumbo, cornish
X-Rocks yeah, meat birds andwe're all going to process them
together.
We're all sharing in the cost.
I'm doing the work, but that'sokay.
I volunteered to do it.
That was, you know, part ofthat's part of my labor of love
for the community building and Ithink some of them are going to
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come over and help.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
They offered to come and help with the chicken
brooder to get that revamped andthe chicken tractors to do some
repairs to those.
So we'll see how that works out.
Yeah, in fact, after we get outof here I'm probably going to
start working on the tractors.
Just got a couple little minor.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
We need some brackets on the metal brackets to hold
those in place and just to, justto shore them up and make them
more secure.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
This will be the fourth, third year, we've used
them.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Third year?
Yeah, Third year we've usedthem.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I mean we built them on the concrete pad.
We're standing in right nowwith Tony.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
With Tony Carroll.
Yeah, it's been a couple years.
They've done well though.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yeah, and this is another year we're doing
Thanksgiving turkeys.
We have had some loss this year, some weird loss, just turkeys
dropping dead for no reason.
Um, but turkeys are.
Turkeys are fragile, they'refinicky.
They say once they get to 16weeks old, or 12 to 16 weeks old
, that they're indestructible.
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But and in years past that'sbeen true, and this year, though
, it's just been strange, and Idon't think it's the bird flu or
anything like that I think theylook like they got chicken pox,
which is not dangerous tohumans in any way, shape, form
or fashion.
It's not transmissible, itdoesn't affect the meat,
anything like that.
It's just one of those thingsthat sometimes turkeys can get
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and the meat, anything like that.
It's just one of those thingsthat sometimes turkeys can get,
and we've never dealt with itbefore and there's nothing you
can do about it.
You just kind of have to let itrun its course, the same way
you do with human chickenpox.
So that's where we are on that.
We still have 23 left, and Ihave 22, no, 21 on order and
then one for us.
So we only have one left, thatis a buffer.
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Yeah, that's kind of scary.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
We still have freezer ones.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah, but that would be for us.
I mean, I would never sell that.
That would have to be.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Remember early on we lost a couple of them once they
got big because the guineas werechasing them and they were
getting tangled up in the fenceand hanging themselves.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Yeah, that was accidental.
That's because they're dumb.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yes, I get that.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
That's they're dumb.
They're just turkeys are dumb.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Dawn and I actually hunted down the guinea who was
causing all the problems, andwell, you can imagine how we
solved that problem.
But yeah, the guinea is no more.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
One less guinea.
We're down to five guine and Ithink they saw what happened, so
they're toeing the line.
Guineas are not causing aproblem now.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
No, they're being like good old guineas they're
supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Mm-hmm, and we've added several more ducks.
For somebody who said I didn'tlike ducks and didn't want ducks
, I sure do have a lot of ducks.
Duck math, I think, is as badas chicken math.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
How many do we have now?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I have no idea, I know we have.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I'm thinking like 30-ish.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Dirty ducks Maybe.
We've got a lot of khaki camels.
We've got ruins.
We've got black Swedish, we'vegot the new babies.
We've got Muscovies and thenthe newest ones that I'm really
excited about.
I don't know that T's delvedinto it enough to be excited.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
I am head over heels.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Jumbo Pekin Ducks.
We ate a Pekin Duck, was it amonth ago?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
About three weeks ago .
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Yeah, something like that.
I'd never cooked it before,never eaten it before, and I was
pleasantly surprised.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Like I had a mental aversion.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I wasn't sure I was going to like it.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Yeah, it was very good.
The only thing that surprisedme is it reminded me of salmon,
in that it's very rich.
It's very rich, yeah it filledme up a lot quicker than I
thought.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
But you know, normally, yeah, when you have a
meat that is like that, though,if it's rich, then typically
that means it's more nutritious,right, you're getting more out
of it.
So, yeah, I was really pleasedwith the Pekin ducks, and I
started out with 10, and now Ionly have four, because I'm
stupid and I thought they'reducks right, ducks can deal with
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water.
So I put one of those babykitty swimming pools in their
little junior high brooder, andsix of them got over in the
water and couldn't get out, andso when I went down there the
next morning, six of my preciouslittle Pekin ducks that I was
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so excited about had drowned,and so I was really sad.
But the four that are remainingare really really doing well.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
What is that other little bird that's in there with
them?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
That was the surprise chick that Murray McMurray sent
with the meat chickens.
They always just throw in arandom chick.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Have you looked at that?
It looks like an unmade bed man.
It's got its feathers.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
It thinks it's a duck .
Oh, it thinks it's a duckbecause it has lived with the
ducks since the ducks were,because it was too small to put
anywhere else.
So I just put it with the babyducks and it will not anywhere.
The baby ducks go, that chickgoes.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Yeah, I've noticed that.
I mean it hangs right with thecorral.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah, I have no idea what kind it is though.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I hope it starts quacking.
That'll be hilarious.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
You never know, it might it might.
And the other thing we've addedis the American breasts from
Breast Farms.
These are chickens and they area meat bird and also an egg
laying bird, but they aresupposedly like the Wagyu beef
of chicken.
They are that well, the Frenchbreast.
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So the French.
I'll just do a little backstoryand you can go look it up.
But the American breast is alittle bit different from French
breast.
You can't really call them thesame.
But they raise their birds onraw milk over in France and then
when they get ready to servethis culinary delight, it is
supposedly like divine.
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It is such a good chicken thatthey say you will not ever want
anything else, and they serve itin very high-end restaurants.
So, and the good thing aboutthem is they can reproduce and
it does take them about four,four and a half months to grow
out to full size so that you canprocess them.
So it does take some more input, does take some more work, but
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you can hatch them, you can keepthem going, you can get their
eggs and put their eggs in abrooder, you can have a mating
pair.
There's lots more things thatyou can do, because with the
jumbo Cornish X-Rocks that weget from Murray McMurray.
While I love them and I love howbig they get, it's a constant
input.
They can't breed.
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So I'm having to always orderthem in, and if something were
to happen and I couldn't getthem shipped to me, I would have
nothing but egg layers.
So I'm really excited aboutadding these.
I plan to breed them, I plan toget good at breeding them and I
plan to sell them.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Yeah, and we'll even sell them cooked, whatever yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
We're going to do all of it.
$60 a wing, $60 a wing.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Well, it's like Wagyu meat About $60 a wing One, two
wings $120.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Yeah, Chicken feet for your broth.
I need $20 for the feet.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Whole chicken about $1,200.
Sounds fair.
Whole chicken about $1,200.
Sounds fair Wagyu.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Yeah, do you know the geese that I want the Emden
geese To order, one of thoseready to cook, processed in a
bag like we process them, islike $400.
Yeah, yeah, american money.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
American money yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
We're adding Emden geese, but they're sold out for
the year so I haven't been ableto order any.
I keep getting on there aboutevery week looking, but it looks
like it's going to be springbefore I can get geese.
But we are adding we're goingto have the goose we're going to
have.
Your goose will be cooked too.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Yeah for $400.
You can have a warm homestead.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
goose Does that mean we can't eat it, we have to sell
it $400,.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
I'm not eating it.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
No, seriously, but I think that I don't know.
That was on a website.
I looked it up because I washoping to find a goose to cook,
just so we could have it and eatit before we order them and see
how we like it.
Sort of like we did the duckRight.
But no, I'm not paying $400.
I'll wait and grow it out andif I don't like it I'll just not
have any more.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yeah, it's trial and error.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Yeah, and American Breast Farms right now also has
about 30 roosters that are fourand a half months old.
He contacted me earlier andsaid that they had some for sale
, so I went ahead and got 10.
They're shipping to me tomorrowand they are ready to process.
So I'm really excited.
There's the ones that we have,the chicks back there.
He's selling them for $10 apiece and they're four and a
half months old and I was like,absolutely I should have gotten
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all of them, but I didn't.
I just wanted to try them.
So got 10 roosters that aregoing to be shipped to me
tomorrow that are four and ahalf months old.
I can't wait to hear them atthe post office when I go pick
them up.
They complain about the cheep,cheep cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep
, cheep.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
I can't wait until they're cock-a-doodle-dooing
back there.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
That's going to be funny.
So, yeah, anything else thatyou can think of?
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Not off the top of my head.
There was something else we hadgoing on.
I can't remember.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Self-Reliance Festival's over.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Self-Reliance Festival's over.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
We're going down to one time a year, starting 2025.
It's going to be in the fall.
Not sure of the well, I'm notsaying I'm not sure, but the
details, the very excitingdetails of all of the 2025
changes will be released afterthe first of the year.
We're just not disclosing theinformation at this point.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
We could tell you, but then we'd have to kill you.
We're going to keep that toourselves.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
We're building the excitement.
That's what we're doing.
So I don't know what myinvolvement will be next year.
Things may be changing.
I'm not sure We'll see goingforward, but I don't know what
my involvement will be next year.
Things may be changing.
I'm not sure We'll see goingforward, but I don't know.
It's always exciting, it'salways fun.
No matter what, I'll always go.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
I mean, you're an officer or something.
I'm not an officer.
I thought that's what Nicolesaid.
I'm staff.
Staff, but you're like oh, shesaid technically Leadership
Technically that I'm leadership,technically that she's
leadership.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Which means I think she just didn't want to hurt my
feelings.
Technically, you're like onthis, but when?
We make the real decisionswe're not going to let you,
we'll not include you, we'lltell you yeah, just tell me,
that's fine with me, that'stotally fine with me.
Getting into winter.
It's really we're shut down forthe winter pretty much from
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Thanksgiving on, which is goodbecause that gives us time.
This year it's a good time.
Mama's timing for being sickwas a really good timing.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
I know.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yeah, so we can help her recuperate, recover, get
back on her feet, get throughher illness.
Hopefully she'll be all welland good to go by spring.
Yeah, that worked out reallywell for all of us, I know right
, and we normally have a hugeThanksgiving harvest here to
celebrate the end of the season.
I'm not sure what that lookslike for us this year.
We may skip it just becausethere's so much other things
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going on, and we may opt forEaster instead, because Easter
we can do things outside.
We can have the Easter egg huntoutside and not have to At
Thanksgiving.
Everybody's sort of confinedinto this building and it gets a
little tight.
So what do you think?
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Yeah, I agree.
We just need to have animmediate family Thanksgiving
For Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Yeah, so that may be what we do, and we're also going
to have to work on makingpermanent arrangements for mom.
Don't know what that looks likeyet, but if that looks like
adding on to our house or if webuy a tiny house that's like ADA
or they call it accessorydwelling unit, if that's
something that we could do, justgot to kind of that gives us
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time to not have to have thingshere in the cannery.
That's a good place for her inthe meantime while we make those
decisions.
You know and it also hasbrought into focus my thoughts
on me and T aging in place,because some of these decisions
that I'm making for mom, becausesome of these decisions that
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I'm making for mom, could alsobe decisions for us long-term,
if Chase ends up wanting to keepthis property and we need
somewhere for us to be, where wecan have all of these
accommodations.
We need to think about thislong-term for aging in place,
because you're an old dude, ohshit, I am so immature, though.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Long-term for aging in place Because you're an old
dude Shit.
I am so immature though I justfeel like.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Oh, I know.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
I'm going to be like that guy at the lunch or the
picnic today, which?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
guy, the 95-year-old.
Oh, I loved him.
I loved him so much.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
And he was sharp as a whip.
I mean he just and he has him agirlfriend.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
They're coming here to visit.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
That's what I heard.
Yeah, the other guy was realyoung, like 82.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Really young, yeah, yeah, Spring chicken yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
You know I'm 57.
We don't need to, I'm fine.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I know we still need to think about these things.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
My body's breaking down, but health-wise.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
You know what he said .
His secret was.
What secret was what?
Stay away from doctors and stayoff medications.
Well, we do a pretty good jobof that, yeah.
So I was like, yes, that's myplan as well.
So, anyway, so upcoming, we gotKentucky Sustainable Living
coming up.
I will be talking all thingsfamily milk cow that is in
(28:01):
Bowling Green, kentucky, at theAg Expo Center.
That's coming up this comingweekend and that is what October
the 25th, 26th, 27th I thinkit's the 26th, 27th.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
So Saturday, sunday, which day are you doing?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I'm going to be talking on Saturday and I
actually get to talk on the bigstage.
I know, right, I'm excited.
Well, you know I'm not nervousabout this one because I could
talk family milk cow all daylong, right.
And now I've kind of done itenough that I know my order, in
which things should be addressedand when people start asking
questions.
I mean, like I could be therefor three hours.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Right, I mean, I get You're on your game.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yeah, I know my stuff when it comes to keeping a
family milk cow, so I'm reallyexcited about that.
So if you're in the area,please join us.
Come see us at the KentuckySustainable Living Very excited
to be a part of that this year.
I'm sad that the Back to theLand Festival was canceled, but
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a lot of those speakers who weregoing to talk have gone to help
our friends, brothers andsisters in North Carolina and
East Tennessee.
So our hearts, our thoughts,our prayers go out to those
people.
It has really brought intofocus a lot for me and T and
we've had a lot of discussionsabout.
(29:18):
You know this is why we do whatwe do, but at the same time,
you know, I've always beenterrified of tornadoes.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Right.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Well now, I'm terrified of tornadoes and
mudslides.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Well, we had a tornado, our first year here.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Yeah, but I'm scared to death of them.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Right, it's not like I run out to greet them, no but
I'm truly terrified of tornadoes.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
But you know there's God, bless those people, and I
suspect that a lot of thosepeople were prepared minded
people.
But there's nothing you can doto prepare for that.
That is just an act of God thatyou know like a, you know like
a nuclear bomb or you knowsomething crazy.
(30:02):
There's just nothing you can do.
And that to me that was veryhumbling Because I had kind of
gotten to the point where I'mlike in my mind, really prepared
for anything, like I felt likeI could handle anything coming,
and that really knocked me downa notch or two In that that's
(30:24):
just what's the word I'm lookingfor.
That is just like anoverwhelming thing that you
can't.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Thing.
That's the word you're lookingfor Thing.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Thing you think I'm looking for thing.
Yeah, it just makes me reallysad and I don't think we'll ever
really know the devastation.
I don't know that they'll everhave a real number, do you?
No, I don't think they will.
I mean, I don't know thatthey'll ever have a real number,
do you?
Speaker 2 (30:47):
No, I don't think they will.
I don't think they're going tofind all the missing people.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
I don't think they will either.
It's just heartbreaking.
Heartbreaking for people whohave lost people, Heartbreaking
for you know, I think about thelittle kids and the babies and
just all of that stuff.
But we can always learn alesson in any terrible, awful
situation, and the lesson thatwe can learn is that number one
(31:15):
community.
Those people are helping eachother like you wouldn't believe.
The people who are prepared andthe people who didn't get their
things washed out from underthem are helping their neighbors
who did.
And so that is the great thingabout living a prepared
lifestyle is that you makeyourself not a problem Like
(31:38):
people.
Emergency people can give helpto other people because we don't
really need anything, andtaking ourself out of an
emergency situation so that helpfor other people who are
elderly or less fortunate thanus, that's part of being
responsible.
And so number one is community.
Number two is just the sheerimportance of having generators
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and a way to have water and away to feed yourself.
Those are the three main things.
You know that you've got tohave some access to, Definitely,
so anything else, no, thegarden's pretty much done.
Garden's done.
We're about to get out thereand pull up that fence.
(32:24):
You think we ought to pull upthat fence?
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Probably yeah, because we've got to take up
that.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
It's our third, fourth year with that weed
barrier, fourth year, fourthyear.
So we got to pull up that weedbarrier.
It has broken down it is nolonger doing anything.
Yeah, so it's time to pull thatup.
I want to amend the soilunderneath it.
I want to amend the soilunderneath it.
I want to put down some tarps.
Let all that stuff die over thewinter.
(32:49):
Put down some manure and youknow all of the things that we
can put under there before weput the tarps down.
Shovel some compost.
You know a bunch of stuff outthere, some biochar, biochar,
yeah, and get it all ready forknocking it out this spring yeah
, I love garden season, I knowand get it all ready for
knocking it out this spring.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Yeah, I love garden season, I know and I hate it.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
See, I don't like gardening.
I know, as a homesteader Ishouldn't even like that's
blasphemy, but I don't.
I don't like to garden.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
That's one of my favorites.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Yeah, and I like to preserve the food Right and I
like to pick it, so that I meanI like the, I know, and I like
for you to pick it.
I like the harvest, see, Idon't like going out there in
the heat and sweating andbending over, and I like being
in the kitchen yeah, where awoman should be right.
Barefoot and pregnant.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Oh me, yeah, so oh and I don't know if told me
about it, but I haven't lookedinto it.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
They are the prettiest pears I've ever seen
in my life and I'm reallyexcited to put those up and make
some pear preserves.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
We don't have a pear tree in our orchard, do we?
Speaker 1 (33:55):
No, we have several, but they're not producing.
I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
One of the ones we did in Bellevue.
They produced really quickly.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
We just couldn't reach them.
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
So I don't know, I don't know,I need to get Tim Riley.
Tim Riley is our tree guy.
The tree man, the tree of life.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
He may not know much, but he knows about his trees.
Yes, he does.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
I think he knows about a lot of things.
I think he does know a lot too.
Knows a lot more than I do,yeah, exactly.
So, yeah, probably just needsome TLC.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Yeah, I mean the apple one produces, but like
plums we haven't been gettingany plums.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
No, we may just need another variety of plum to help
that one along Sometimes that'sthe thing we probably need to
replace a few.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
This winter Got a couple of those that didn't make
it.
Other than that we're about atthe end of the year it's
wrestling season, so that meansfarm shuts down.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Yeah, farm shuts down , everything becomes all things
Chase.
So you'll be all things Chase,I'll be all things Mama for a
little while, and then battingdown the hatches for the winter
and living off the pantry, whichis fun.
I love doing the pantry, sowe'll be doing the Pantry Power
Challenge again in January,which the boys like because I
cook a lot.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
A lot.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Chase actually complained the whole time we
were doing the Pantry Challengeand then as soon as it was over,
he was like why doesn't Momcook anymore?
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Why are we?
Speaker 1 (35:25):
not doing the Pantry Challenge.
Can we go back to the pantrychallenge?
Because then it became oh, I'mgoing to stop by the store and
get something, or we're not.
You know, because you get lazywhen you don't have to.
But we do better.
We're doing better because ourdiet has to be cleaned up for
all things going on in our livesright now, and we do good most
of the time.
Usually, it's just hard whenyou fall off the wagon.
(35:48):
It's hard to get back on it.
You're right, all right.
Well, I think that's it.
Before we wrap up, do you haveanything to say to the listeners
?
You won't be back for a while.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Where am I going?
Speaker 1 (35:59):
You'll be doing all things.
Chase, you'll be wrestling, ohyeah.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
So he probably won't be back on the podcast for a
while.
Probably not, especially oncewe start practicing five days a
week.
I'm not really looking forwardto that.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
now that I think about it, make you hurt thinking
about it.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Last year I was all gung-ho, Heck.
Yeah, I'm an assistant coach.
Now I'm going.
Oh man, kid needs to graduate.
I'll be sore for the next fourmonths.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
But if you need a lawyer, give me a call.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Yeah, so don't forget Hamilton Gorman Duncan, our
sponsor for the podcast.
Give them a call.
They are in Bellevue, Tennessee, and they will help you out
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Speaker 2 (36:54):
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Speaker 1 (36:55):
Personal injury?
Yeah, anything like that.
You can give them a call.
We did have one of ourcommunity members call us, call
us on his way home from SelfReliance Festival.
So it's good to have friends inlow places.
Yeah, he called us from theback of a cop car, which is
always a good opening line.
Hey, I'm in the back of a copcar, so shout out to our buddy
(37:20):
that was in the back of a copcar.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Don't say a word.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Yeah, yeah, note to self hey, don't consent to
search and seizure or search anddon't talk.
That's all I got to say aboutthat.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
All right.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
All right.
So thank you much for tuning inand I hope you've enjoyed
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And whatever you've got on thedocket, y'all remember, just
(37:57):
keep it real.
See, y'all See ya Go Vols mydaddy was a guitar picker
Playing all the local clubs andmy mama was a waitress where
they parked M18 Wheeler trucks.
We didn't have much money.
Times were kind of hard, livingin a trailer on the edge of
(38:23):
grandpa's farm.
Yeah, I may not come from muchbut I've got just enough.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
As long as my baby's in my arms and the good Lord
knows what's in my heart Irefuse to be ashamed, it's just
a southern thing.
Hey y'all, welcome to Keeping it Real, the Gorham
Homestead podcast, where we talkabout real food, real natural
living, the real art of naturalhealing and real life out here
in our Tennessee homestead.
I'm your host, Dawn Gorham, andtoday is Sunday, october the
20th 2024.
I always have to think aboutthe date.
It's bad.
I had to look at my watch.
(00:34):
I'm a little bit out of contextbecause I'm doing it on Sunday.
I normally do this on Thursday,but I will actually post it on
Thursday.
I wanted to grab tea while Ihad him for a minute, because I
cannot nail him down during theweek.
So don't say a word.
T.
No dirty jokes.
I can't get him to do thepodcast with me during the week
(00:55):
because, god bless him, he'sjust so tired and he doesn't get
home till after six.
So today you are listening toepisode number 22.
And our topic today is our fallhomestead highlights all the
things that we have going on.
Let me get my little notes overhere so I can see, and T has no
idea what we're talking about,so I'm just going to roll with
(01:16):
it and he's just going to haveto hop in.
But before we get started,today's episode is sponsored by
Hamilton, gorham and Duncan.
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Call T or Jad T Gorham or JadDuncan for your family's legal
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Don't laugh, they will, theyabsolutely will.
If you tell them you heardabout them on the podcast, then
they'll be like oh yeah, let megive you my cell phone number.
Yeah, absolutely so, anyway.
So where have we been?
What's been going on?
I have not done a podcast nowsince August the 15th.
(01:58):
Today is our first day back.
So lots been going on, lotsbeen going on.
Do you want me to start withthat so you can hop in, or do
you want to just roll with it?
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Tell me what you got.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
What do you got going on so right after the last
podcast, we started preparingfor a wedding and so, um, and
then my mother got ill and gotsick ill, as I would say, um and
has been in the hospital.
So we had the wedding, we hadICU visits, my mother's been
down, just a lot has been goingon.
(02:28):
That has sort of turnedeverything upside down for me
for a little bit.
But my, you know, family is ournumber one priority.
So mama came first.
Everything else kind of comesafter that.
But we're getting our feet backunder us.
Mama's been moved here, we'reout of the hospital, she's here
with us on the farm and, youknow, we're making
(02:49):
accommodations, trying to getour routine back, trying to get
life back in order, as well ashelping her heal through this
process.
So, anyway, that's sort ofthat's where we've been Right,
right, anything else that youcan think of.
That's been going on over thelast two months.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
No well, we finally got out of the drought, which
was nice, oh God, yeah, that wasscary.
Speaker 1 (03:11):
We had a bad, bad drought here.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
I mean, the only plus was, I think I cut the grass
twice in the last, oh, I'd say45 to 60 days, and it was a dust
storm both times.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
We started having to feed hay in August.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
That's a first for us .
Speaker 1 (03:27):
You have to forgive us.
We have the little rabbit ice.
We both drink water out ofthese big old container things
and it has the rabbit ice in it,and when you go to take a drink
you cannot help but get amouthful of ice.
So if you hear us chomping, Iapologize.
That's why.
Yeah, so we made it through thedrought, started feeding hay.
(03:47):
We haven't had to.
I mean, we have put out morehay, but it hasn't been as bad
as it was at first yeah,everything's greened up again,
but not really growing much yeah.
We're preparing for winter.
I kicked something under mydesk Preparing for winter, so
we've done the pantry inventoryand, tia's, I have done the
(04:09):
pantry inventory.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
I was going to say I have an inventory.
Speaker 1 (04:11):
I didn't ask for your help this time.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
Oh, I did it.
I got it all done, I know.
Speaker 1 (04:16):
And I knew what to order.
Some stuff I had to order fromAzure Standard because we always
in October do our pantryinventory before we go into the
winter and order the things thatwe don't grow, because it's the
end of the season and that'sthe perfect time to sort of
figure out you know what we wereable to grow, what did well,
what didn't do well, and then we, you know, fill those gaps, you
(04:40):
know, with things you know likewheat, berries and flour and
organic sugar and sucanat, andyou know all of the things that
we can't produce.
So I've done that.
The wood we got our wooddelivered.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
We got our wood delivered, still got more to cut
.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
Yeah, so we burn wood as our primary heat source in
the winter.
So we've got a.
Is it a cord?
Was it a cord?
Delivered yeah, a full cord ofwood delivered and hopefully
that'll.
We probably need more, to behonest.
I mean if it were to be areally bad winter.
But what you're?
Speaker 2 (05:19):
you're looking at me well, I mean, we have at least
two cords we do total.
Yeah, okay, perfect okaydelivered one and we still had
one plus what I've cut off.
We had an oak tree that felland I'm slowly piecemealing that
into firewood.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
Nice, okay, good deal , all right.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
I need to sharpen my chainsaw.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
And it's time to sort of figure out all of the
winterizing things Right, likeour heated water bucket that we
have for Rip and Dolly and thetank stock tank heaters.
We need to test those and makesure those are still working.
We need to unhook theirrigation system.
I mean there's lots of thingsthat we need to get done in
(06:00):
October before we go into any.
I mean we've had some coldnights.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
It's been in the 30s.
We've already had our firstthree or four frosts.
Now that we've had this, pastweek?
Speaker 1 (06:09):
Yeah, but we need to winterize everything.
Get everything ready, battendown the hatches, clean out the.
Did you burn that creosote log,like you said?
Speaker 2 (06:20):
you were going to, I did.
I did the other night.
Okay, good, you know I didn'tread the instructions.
It actually says have a fire ortwo and then do it.
You're not supposed to like,but I'd already lit it that
doesn't make sense to me.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
What if you've got like?
Speaker 2 (06:35):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I don't know what if you've got a huge bird nest up
there or something.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
We probably did.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
We've had about eight birds I know that makes me so
sad and they're so pretty littlebirds too.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
They're blue, they have blue feathers, they're
adorable and they get caught inour wood-burning stove, and I
find them well after they'redead, although there was that
one that got out.
I mean, I got it out and itflew all over and it finally
flew into and drain some ofthose water hoses that we have.
Is there anything?
Speaker 1 (07:14):
Do you think we ought to unhook the automatic waterer
from the stock tank or justwrap heat tape around it?
Because I think we could orderheat tape and keep that son of a
gun warm.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
Yeah that's what we need to do.
I like that.
I mean, we haven't had to fillup water for cows in what six
months?
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Yeah, it does really really good, that's nice.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
Because I have a bad habit of forgetting that I'm
filling up the water for thecows and the next day, yeah, I'm
pretty sure that's how weburned up our well pump Probably
Multiple times of doing that,yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
So that's sort of where we are for going into the
winter.
All of the tomatoes are in thefreezer and I'm getting ready to
get those out.
Oh, one more thing that we needto do is the bees that's.
You know, it's our first yearwith bees, so it's our first
year to go into winter with bees, and I'm told that they need to
be condensed down into one boxso that they have less that they
(08:08):
have to work and have to doover the winter.
I don't really know how thatneeds to be done yet, so I'm
going to contact either Joe froma bees closet or one of my
other bee mentors, mentorsskeletor yeah, bee mentors, this
must be a skeletor to get themto come over and show me since
(08:29):
I've never done it before, causeI want to make sure, cause
they're doing really great, likethese ones that I got that are
local bees that I got from Joeat a bees closet.
They are very docile.
Yeah, they're laid back verygentle and they're doing great.
I mean I haven't had to messwith them, you know.
I know you're supposed to feedthem through the dearth and all
that kind of stuff, and I did goout and give them some sugar
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water, some.
I didn't do a whole lot andthey did great.
I mean they're still thriving.
So I know I need to get somebee patties to put in there to
feed them over the winter.
Or they might die over thewinter or they might die.
So I will definitely be feedingthem through the winter.
Just don't know what that lookslike yet.
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So anyway, okra we've had okra.
Palooza, from our neighbor, hasbrought me two big old garbage
bags full of okra.
So I have more okra than I caneven fathom.
Some of it I ran through thefreeze dryer.
Some of it I froze.
Some of it I ran through thefreeze dryer.
Some of it I froze.
Some of it I chopped up.
I have some that I'm going tomake pickles out of.
I just haven't done that yet.
And tomatoes are ready to goand it's time to make winter
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soups.
Yes, so that's what we have onour preserving front for October
.
Yes, yes.
Is there anything else you canthink of that.
You and we didn't get picklesthis year and I know you're sad.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
Yes, we um, I thought we were going to try to get a
couple of bushels Our uhgroundhog ate all our pickles.
Apparently, the groundhog likescucumbers as much as I like
pickles, yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Yeah, we're going to get that son of a gun next year.
I've got the trap out there.
I'm just not real sure how toset it.
They say there's a specific wayyou have to do groundhogs
because they're a little bitsmarter than the average bear or
dog or whatever.
So I'll figure that out.
I'll get that little crittertaken out next year.
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I'm declaring war.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:24):
Groundhog war.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
It's funny Every time I had a gun with me I would not
see him, but it seemed likeevery time I went down there
without one, there he was Mm-hmm.
But we'll just see.
Okay, if I can't get it,hopefully Rip and Dolly, or you
can.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
Yeah, rip and Dolly aren't going to, they're only
concerned with the yippingcoyotes, that's all they.
Anything else that comes up,they lick it to death.
So, animals, that's where weare.
What's going on with theanimals Milking?
We've been in a dry periodsince August, the 1st August,
september, october yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
No, no, since September the 1st.
Speaker 1 (11:02):
Yes, I was going to say so yeah, August 30th was my
last day to milk All right.
So milking starts back up.
Prissy and Scarlett are due tocalve.
Their due date is October the31st, so looking forward to
seeing what they have.
I'm really hoping that Scarletthas a heifer Prissy.
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I don't care what she has,because I can't get an A2, a2
calf out of her anyway becauseshe's A1, a1.
So I don't care what she has,it's going to be sold regardless
of what it is.
So community chicks.
Oh, what I was going to say isthe good thing about having a
dry period and having the farmshut down for the last two
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months is that it gave me anopportunity to really reimagine
and sort of reinvent how we dothings before we start back up.
It's hard to change thingsmidstream when you have
customers going all the time,but shutting down gave me a
chance to really rethink thisand how we can be profitable.
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And so, going forward, startingNovember the 1st, my customers
will be paying monthly insteadof by the week, because that was
a lot for me to keep up with.
They pay up front on the 1stand I started offering add-ons
like do you want butter permonth, do you want eggs for the
month and giving them a discountnot much, but a little bit of a
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discount enough to make itworth my while.
And there's two and several ofthem have taken me up on that,
like I got one that wants achicken a month and one that
wants you know, wants a coffeecreamer and wants butter, and so
that's, that's a way that Ifound that I could add more
value for my customers as wellas more profit for me, so that I
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can actually make thissustainable Cause the end goal.
If I don't start making moneythis year, the IRS is going to
say sorry, no, if you're not afarm anymore, so I have to make
a profit this year.
It has to happen.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
So if I don't make enough money, they say, hey,
you're not a lawyer anymore.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
I think they would say you can't write off your
office deductions anymore,because how are you feeding
yourself?
Is what they say.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Gotcha.
Speaker 1 (13:23):
They would call you a hobby lawyer.
You're not a lawyer.
You're not a lawyer.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
You're a hobby lawyer .
Speaker 1 (13:29):
Hobby lawyer, sort of like Hobby Lobby.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (13:35):
Anyway, so, yeah, so we got to turn a profit this
year.
It has to happen.
So that's one of the thingsthat's going on.
We've got 130 chicks in thebrooder.
They are almost four weeks old,ready to go out to the chicken
tractors and those.
I really made a commitment thisyear that I was going to try to
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do more things to buildcommunity within my actual
walking neighbors neighbors notjust, I mean, I love doing the
dixon county homesteadersalliance group, but I wanted to
really um bond with my actualcommunity, like that I could
walk to their house or get on aside-by-side and go to their
house.
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So we're doing a um communitybatch of um Jumbo, cornish
X-Rocks yeah, meat birds andwe're all going to process them
together.
We're all sharing in the cost.
I'm doing the work, but that'sokay.
I volunteered to do it.
That was, you know, part ofthat's part of my labor of love
for the community building and Ithink some of them are going to
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come over and help.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
They offered to come and help with the chicken
brooder to get that revamped andthe chicken tractors to do some
repairs to those.
So we'll see how that works out.
Yeah, in fact, after we get outof here I'm probably going to
start working on the tractors.
Just got a couple little minor.
Speaker 1 (14:56):
We need some brackets on the metal brackets to hold
those in place and just to, justto shore them up and make them
more secure.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
This will be the fourth, third year, we've used
them.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
Third year?
Yeah, Third year we've usedthem.
Speaker 2 (15:11):
I mean we built them on the concrete pad.
We're standing in right nowwith Tony.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:18):
With Tony Carroll.
Yeah, it's been a couple years.
They've done well though.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
Yeah, and this is another year we're doing
Thanksgiving turkeys.
We have had some loss this year, some weird loss, just turkeys
dropping dead for no reason.
Um, but turkeys are.
Turkeys are fragile, they'refinicky.
They say once they get to 16weeks old, or 12 to 16 weeks old
, that they're indestructible.
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But and in years past that'sbeen true, and this year, though
, it's just been strange, and Idon't think it's the bird flu or
anything like that I think theylook like they got chicken pox,
which is not dangerous tohumans in any way, shape, form
or fashion.
It's not transmissible, itdoesn't affect the meat,
anything like that.
It's just one of those thingsthat sometimes turkeys can get
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and the meat, anything like that.
It's just one of those thingsthat sometimes turkeys can get,
and we've never dealt with itbefore and there's nothing you
can do about it.
You just kind of have to let itrun its course, the same way
you do with human chickenpox.
So that's where we are on that.
We still have 23 left, and Ihave 22, no, 21 on order and
then one for us.
So we only have one left, thatis a buffer.
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Yeah, that's kind of scary.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
We still have freezer ones.
Speaker 1 (16:33):
Yeah, but that would be for us.
I mean, I would never sell that.
That would have to be.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
Remember early on we lost a couple of them once they
got big because the guineas werechasing them and they were
getting tangled up in the fenceand hanging themselves.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Yeah, that was accidental.
That's because they're dumb.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Yes, I get that.
Speaker 1 (16:48):
That's they're dumb.
They're just turkeys are dumb.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Dawn and I actually hunted down the guinea who was
causing all the problems, andwell, you can imagine how we
solved that problem.
But yeah, the guinea is no more.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
One less guinea.
We're down to five guine and Ithink they saw what happened, so
they're toeing the line.
Guineas are not causing aproblem now.
Speaker 2 (17:08):
No, they're being like good old guineas they're
supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
Mm-hmm, and we've added several more ducks.
For somebody who said I didn'tlike ducks and didn't want ducks
, I sure do have a lot of ducks.
Duck math, I think, is as badas chicken math.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
How many do we have now?
Speaker 1 (17:24):
I have no idea, I know we have.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
I'm thinking like 30-ish.
Speaker 1 (17:30):
Dirty ducks Maybe.
We've got a lot of khaki camels.
We've got ruins.
We've got black Swedish, we'vegot the new babies.
We've got Muscovies and thenthe newest ones that I'm really
excited about.
I don't know that T's delvedinto it enough to be excited.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
I am head over heels.
Speaker 1 (17:48):
Jumbo Pekin Ducks.
We ate a Pekin Duck, was it amonth ago?
Speaker 2 (17:54):
About three weeks ago .
Speaker 1 (17:55):
Yeah, something like that.
I'd never cooked it before,never eaten it before, and I was
pleasantly surprised.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Like I had a mental aversion.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I wasn't sure I was going to like it.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Yeah, it was very good.
The only thing that surprisedme is it reminded me of salmon,
in that it's very rich.
It's very rich, yeah it filledme up a lot quicker than I
thought.
Speaker 1 (18:15):
But you know, normally, yeah, when you have a
meat that is like that, though,if it's rich, then typically
that means it's more nutritious,right, you're getting more out
of it.
So, yeah, I was really pleasedwith the Pekin ducks, and I
started out with 10, and now Ionly have four, because I'm
stupid and I thought they'reducks right, ducks can deal with
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water.
So I put one of those babykitty swimming pools in their
little junior high brooder, andsix of them got over in the
water and couldn't get out, andso when I went down there the
next morning, six of my preciouslittle Pekin ducks that I was
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so excited about had drowned,and so I was really sad.
But the four that are remainingare really really doing well.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
What is that other little bird that's in there with
them?
Speaker 1 (19:05):
That was the surprise chick that Murray McMurray sent
with the meat chickens.
They always just throw in arandom chick.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Have you looked at that?
It looks like an unmade bed man.
It's got its feathers.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
It thinks it's a duck .
Oh, it thinks it's a duckbecause it has lived with the
ducks since the ducks were,because it was too small to put
anywhere else.
So I just put it with the babyducks and it will not anywhere.
The baby ducks go, that chickgoes.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
Yeah, I've noticed that.
I mean it hangs right with thecorral.
Speaker 1 (19:35):
Yeah, I have no idea what kind it is though.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
I hope it starts quacking.
That'll be hilarious.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
You never know, it might it might.
And the other thing we've addedis the American breasts from
Breast Farms.
These are chickens and they area meat bird and also an egg
laying bird, but they aresupposedly like the Wagyu beef
of chicken.
They are that well, the Frenchbreast.
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So the French.
I'll just do a little backstoryand you can go look it up.
But the American breast is alittle bit different from French
breast.
You can't really call them thesame.
But they raise their birds onraw milk over in France and then
when they get ready to servethis culinary delight, it is
supposedly like divine.
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It is such a good chicken thatthey say you will not ever want
anything else, and they serve itin very high-end restaurants.
So, and the good thing aboutthem is they can reproduce and
it does take them about four,four and a half months to grow
out to full size so that you canprocess them.
So it does take some more input, does take some more work, but
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you can hatch them, you can keepthem going, you can get their
eggs and put their eggs in abrooder, you can have a mating
pair.
There's lots more things thatyou can do, because with the
jumbo Cornish X-Rocks that weget from Murray McMurray.
While I love them and I love howbig they get, it's a constant
input.
They can't breed.
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So I'm having to always orderthem in, and if something were
to happen and I couldn't getthem shipped to me, I would have
nothing but egg layers.
So I'm really excited aboutadding these.
I plan to breed them, I plan toget good at breeding them and I
plan to sell them.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
Yeah, and we'll even sell them cooked, whatever yeah.
Speaker 1 (21:30):
We're going to do all of it.
$60 a wing, $60 a wing.
Speaker 2 (21:33):
Well, it's like Wagyu meat About $60 a wing One, two
wings $120.
Speaker 1 (21:37):
Yeah, Chicken feet for your broth.
I need $20 for the feet.
Speaker 2 (21:42):
Whole chicken about $1,200.
Sounds fair.
Whole chicken about $1,200.
Sounds fair Wagyu.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Yeah, do you know the geese that I want the Emden
geese To order, one of thoseready to cook, processed in a
bag like we process them, islike $400.
Yeah, yeah, american money.
Speaker 2 (22:02):
American money yeah.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
We're adding Emden geese, but they're sold out for
the year so I haven't been ableto order any.
I keep getting on there aboutevery week looking, but it looks
like it's going to be springbefore I can get geese.
But we are adding we're goingto have the goose we're going to
have.
Your goose will be cooked too.
Speaker 2 (22:18):
Yeah for $400.
You can have a warm homestead.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
goose Does that mean we can't eat it, we have to sell
it $400,.
Speaker 2 (22:25):
I'm not eating it.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
No, seriously, but I think that I don't know.
That was on a website.
I looked it up because I washoping to find a goose to cook,
just so we could have it and eatit before we order them and see
how we like it.
Sort of like we did the duckRight.
But no, I'm not paying $400.
I'll wait and grow it out andif I don't like it I'll just not
have any more.
Speaker 2 (22:47):
Yeah, it's trial and error.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Yeah, and American Breast Farms right now also has
about 30 roosters that are fourand a half months old.
He contacted me earlier andsaid that they had some for sale
, so I went ahead and got 10.
They're shipping to me tomorrowand they are ready to process.
So I'm really excited.
There's the ones that we have,the chicks back there.
He's selling them for $10 apiece and they're four and a
half months old and I was like,absolutely I should have gotten
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all of them, but I didn't.
I just wanted to try them.
So got 10 roosters that aregoing to be shipped to me
tomorrow that are four and ahalf months old.
I can't wait to hear them atthe post office when I go pick
them up.
They complain about the cheep,cheep cheep, cheep, cheep, cheep
, cheep.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
I can't wait until they're cock-a-doodle-dooing
back there.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
That's going to be funny.
So, yeah, anything else thatyou can think of?
Speaker 2 (23:41):
Not off the top of my head.
There was something else we hadgoing on.
I can't remember.
Speaker 1 (23:47):
Self-Reliance Festival's over.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Self-Reliance Festival's over.
Speaker 1 (23:54):
We're going down to one time a year, starting 2025.
It's going to be in the fall.
Not sure of the well, I'm notsaying I'm not sure, but the
details, the very excitingdetails of all of the 2025
changes will be released afterthe first of the year.
We're just not disclosing theinformation at this point.
Speaker 2 (24:16):
We could tell you, but then we'd have to kill you.
We're going to keep that toourselves.
Speaker 1 (24:19):
We're building the excitement.
That's what we're doing.
So I don't know what myinvolvement will be next year.
Things may be changing.
I'm not sure We'll see goingforward, but I don't know what
my involvement will be next year.
Things may be changing.
I'm not sure We'll see goingforward, but I don't know.
It's always exciting, it'salways fun.
No matter what, I'll always go.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
I mean, you're an officer or something.
I'm not an officer.
I thought that's what Nicolesaid.
I'm staff.
Staff, but you're like oh, shesaid technically Leadership
Technically that I'm leadership,technically that she's
leadership.
Speaker 1 (24:50):
Which means I think she just didn't want to hurt my
feelings.
Technically, you're like onthis, but when?
We make the real decisionswe're not going to let you,
we'll not include you, we'lltell you yeah, just tell me,
that's fine with me, that'stotally fine with me.
Getting into winter.
It's really we're shut down forthe winter pretty much from
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Thanksgiving on, which is goodbecause that gives us time.
This year it's a good time.
Mama's timing for being sickwas a really good timing.
Speaker 2 (25:20):
I know.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
Yeah, so we can help her recuperate, recover, get
back on her feet, get throughher illness.
Hopefully she'll be all welland good to go by spring.
Yeah, that worked out reallywell for all of us, I know right
, and we normally have a hugeThanksgiving harvest here to
celebrate the end of the season.
I'm not sure what that lookslike for us this year.
We may skip it just becausethere's so much other things
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going on, and we may opt forEaster instead, because Easter
we can do things outside.
We can have the Easter egg huntoutside and not have to At
Thanksgiving.
Everybody's sort of confinedinto this building and it gets a
little tight.
So what do you think?
Speaker 2 (26:01):
Yeah, I agree.
We just need to have animmediate family Thanksgiving
For Thanksgiving.
Speaker 1 (26:05):
Yeah, so that may be what we do, and we're also going
to have to work on makingpermanent arrangements for mom.
Don't know what that looks likeyet, but if that looks like
adding on to our house or if webuy a tiny house that's like ADA
or they call it accessorydwelling unit, if that's
something that we could do, justgot to kind of that gives us
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time to not have to have thingshere in the cannery.
That's a good place for her inthe meantime while we make those
decisions.
You know and it also hasbrought into focus my thoughts
on me and T aging in place,because some of these decisions
that I'm making for mom, becausesome of these decisions that
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I'm making for mom, could alsobe decisions for us long-term,
if Chase ends up wanting to keepthis property and we need
somewhere for us to be, where wecan have all of these
accommodations.
We need to think about thislong-term for aging in place,
because you're an old dude, ohshit, I am so immature, though.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
Long-term for aging in place Because you're an old
dude Shit.
I am so immature though I justfeel like.
Speaker 1 (27:12):
Oh, I know.
Speaker 2 (27:13):
I'm going to be like that guy at the lunch or the
picnic today, which?
Speaker 1 (27:17):
guy, the 95-year-old.
Oh, I loved him.
I loved him so much.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
And he was sharp as a whip.
I mean he just and he has him agirlfriend.
Speaker 1 (27:23):
They're coming here to visit.
Speaker 2 (27:25):
That's what I heard.
Yeah, the other guy was realyoung, like 82.
Speaker 1 (27:29):
Really young, yeah, yeah, Spring chicken yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:32):
You know I'm 57.
We don't need to, I'm fine.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
I know we still need to think about these things.
Speaker 2 (27:38):
My body's breaking down, but health-wise.
Speaker 1 (27:40):
You know what he said .
His secret was.
What secret was what?
Stay away from doctors and stayoff medications.
Well, we do a pretty good jobof that, yeah.
So I was like, yes, that's myplan as well.
So, anyway, so upcoming, we gotKentucky Sustainable Living
coming up.
I will be talking all thingsfamily milk cow that is in
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Bowling Green, kentucky, at theAg Expo Center.
That's coming up this comingweekend and that is what October
the 25th, 26th, 27th I thinkit's the 26th, 27th.
Speaker 2 (28:13):
So Saturday, sunday, which day are you doing?
Speaker 1 (28:16):
I'm going to be talking on Saturday and I
actually get to talk on the bigstage.
I know, right, I'm excited.
Well, you know I'm not nervousabout this one because I could
talk family milk cow all daylong, right.
And now I've kind of done itenough that I know my order, in
which things should be addressedand when people start asking
questions.
I mean, like I could be therefor three hours.
Speaker 2 (28:35):
Right, I mean, I get You're on your game.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Yeah, I know my stuff when it comes to keeping a
family milk cow, so I'm reallyexcited about that.
So if you're in the area,please join us.
Come see us at the KentuckySustainable Living Very excited
to be a part of that this year.
I'm sad that the Back to theLand Festival was canceled, but
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a lot of those speakers who weregoing to talk have gone to help
our friends, brothers andsisters in North Carolina and
East Tennessee.
So our hearts, our thoughts,our prayers go out to those
people.
It has really brought intofocus a lot for me and T and
we've had a lot of discussionsabout.
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You know this is why we do whatwe do, but at the same time,
you know, I've always beenterrified of tornadoes.
Speaker 2 (29:26):
Right.
Speaker 1 (29:29):
Well now, I'm terrified of tornadoes and
mudslides.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
Well, we had a tornado, our first year here.
Speaker 1 (29:32):
Yeah, but I'm scared to death of them.
Speaker 2 (29:34):
Right, it's not like I run out to greet them, no but
I'm truly terrified of tornadoes.
Speaker 1 (29:41):
But you know there's God, bless those people, and I
suspect that a lot of thosepeople were prepared minded
people.
But there's nothing you can doto prepare for that.
That is just an act of God thatyou know like a, you know like
a nuclear bomb or you knowsomething crazy.
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There's just nothing you can do.
And that to me that was veryhumbling Because I had kind of
gotten to the point where I'mlike in my mind, really prepared
for anything, like I felt likeI could handle anything coming,
and that really knocked me downa notch or two In that that's
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just what's the word I'm lookingfor.
That is just like anoverwhelming thing that you
can't.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Thing.
That's the word you're lookingfor Thing.
Speaker 1 (30:35):
Thing you think I'm looking for thing.
Yeah, it just makes me reallysad and I don't think we'll ever
really know the devastation.
I don't know that they'll everhave a real number, do you?
No, I don't think they will.
I mean, I don't know thatthey'll ever have a real number,
do you?
Speaker 2 (30:47):
No, I don't think they will.
I don't think they're going tofind all the missing people.
Speaker 1 (30:51):
I don't think they will either.
It's just heartbreaking.
Heartbreaking for people whohave lost people, Heartbreaking
for you know, I think about thelittle kids and the babies and
just all of that stuff.
But we can always learn alesson in any terrible, awful
situation, and the lesson thatwe can learn is that number one
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community.
Those people are helping eachother like you wouldn't believe.
The people who are prepared andthe people who didn't get their
things washed out from underthem are helping their neighbors
who did.
And so that is the great thingabout living a prepared
lifestyle is that you makeyourself not a problem Like
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people.
Emergency people can give helpto other people because we don't
really need anything, andtaking ourself out of an
emergency situation so that helpfor other people who are
elderly or less fortunate thanus, that's part of being
responsible.
And so number one is community.
Number two is just the sheerimportance of having generators
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and a way to have water and away to feed yourself.
Those are the three main things.
You know that you've got tohave some access to, Definitely,
so anything else, no, thegarden's pretty much done.
Garden's done.
We're about to get out thereand pull up that fence.
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You think we ought to pull upthat fence?
Speaker 2 (32:26):
Probably yeah, because we've got to take up
that.
Speaker 1 (32:29):
It's our third, fourth year with that weed
barrier, fourth year, fourthyear.
So we got to pull up that weedbarrier.
It has broken down it is nolonger doing anything.
Yeah, so it's time to pull thatup.
I want to amend the soilunderneath it.
I want to amend the soilunderneath it.
I want to put down some tarps.
Let all that stuff die over thewinter.
(32:49):
Put down some manure and youknow all of the things that we
can put under there before weput the tarps down.
Shovel some compost.
You know a bunch of stuff outthere, some biochar, biochar,
yeah, and get it all ready forknocking it out this spring yeah
, I love garden season, I knowand get it all ready for
knocking it out this spring.
Speaker 2 (33:07):
Yeah, I love garden season, I know and I hate it.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
See, I don't like gardening.
I know, as a homesteader Ishouldn't even like that's
blasphemy, but I don't.
I don't like to garden.
Speaker 2 (33:19):
That's one of my favorites.
Speaker 1 (33:20):
Yeah, and I like to preserve the food Right and I
like to pick it, so that I meanI like the, I know, and I like
for you to pick it.
I like the harvest, see, Idon't like going out there in
the heat and sweating andbending over, and I like being
in the kitchen yeah, where awoman should be right.
Barefoot and pregnant.
Speaker 2 (33:38):
Oh me, yeah, so oh and I don't know if told me
about it, but I haven't lookedinto it.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
They are the prettiest pears I've ever seen
in my life and I'm reallyexcited to put those up and make
some pear preserves.
Speaker 2 (33:53):
We don't have a pear tree in our orchard, do we?
Speaker 1 (33:55):
No, we have several, but they're not producing.
I don't know why.
Speaker 2 (33:58):
One of the ones we did in Bellevue.
They produced really quickly.
Speaker 1 (34:01):
We just couldn't reach them.
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
So I don't know, I don't know,I need to get Tim Riley.
Tim Riley is our tree guy.
The tree man, the tree of life.
Speaker 2 (34:10):
He may not know much, but he knows about his trees.
Yes, he does.
Speaker 1 (34:21):
I think he knows about a lot of things.
I think he does know a lot too.
Knows a lot more than I do,yeah, exactly.
So, yeah, probably just needsome TLC.
Speaker 2 (34:28):
Yeah, I mean the apple one produces, but like
plums we haven't been gettingany plums.
Speaker 1 (34:33):
No, we may just need another variety of plum to help
that one along Sometimes that'sthe thing we probably need to
replace a few.
Speaker 2 (34:41):
This winter Got a couple of those that didn't make
it.
Other than that we're about atthe end of the year it's
wrestling season, so that meansfarm shuts down.
Speaker 1 (34:53):
Yeah, farm shuts down , everything becomes all things
Chase.
So you'll be all things Chase,I'll be all things Mama for a
little while, and then battingdown the hatches for the winter
and living off the pantry, whichis fun.
I love doing the pantry, sowe'll be doing the Pantry Power
Challenge again in January,which the boys like because I
cook a lot.
Speaker 2 (35:14):
A lot.
Speaker 1 (35:16):
Chase actually complained the whole time we
were doing the Pantry Challengeand then as soon as it was over,
he was like why doesn't Momcook anymore?
Speaker 2 (35:24):
Why are we?
Speaker 1 (35:25):
not doing the Pantry Challenge.
Can we go back to the pantrychallenge?
Because then it became oh, I'mgoing to stop by the store and
get something, or we're not.
You know, because you get lazywhen you don't have to.
But we do better.
We're doing better because ourdiet has to be cleaned up for
all things going on in our livesright now, and we do good most
of the time.
Usually, it's just hard whenyou fall off the wagon.
(35:48):
It's hard to get back on it.
You're right, all right.
Well, I think that's it.
Before we wrap up, do you haveanything to say to the listeners
?
You won't be back for a while.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Where am I going?
Speaker 1 (35:59):
You'll be doing all things.
Chase, you'll be wrestling, ohyeah.
Speaker 2 (36:08):
So he probably won't be back on the podcast for a
while.
Probably not, especially oncewe start practicing five days a
week.
I'm not really looking forwardto that.
Speaker 1 (36:14):
now that I think about it, make you hurt thinking
about it.
Speaker 2 (36:16):
Last year I was all gung-ho, Heck.
Yeah, I'm an assistant coach.
Now I'm going.
Oh man, kid needs to graduate.
I'll be sore for the next fourmonths.
Speaker 1 (36:25):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (36:27):
But if you need a lawyer, give me a call.
Speaker 1 (36:28):
Yeah, so don't forget Hamilton Gorman Duncan, our
sponsor for the podcast.
Give them a call.
They are in Bellevue, Tennessee, and they will help you out
with any of your family lawneeds.
T's partner, Jad Duncan, can doyour trust.
T can do your will packages,Any estate planning their firm
(36:50):
can do Divorces, child custody,misdemeanors.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
Personal injuries.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
Personal injury?
Yeah, anything like that.
You can give them a call.
We did have one of ourcommunity members call us, call
us on his way home from SelfReliance Festival.
So it's good to have friends inlow places.
Yeah, he called us from theback of a cop car, which is
always a good opening line.
Hey, I'm in the back of a copcar, so shout out to our buddy
(37:20):
that was in the back of a copcar.
Speaker 2 (37:21):
Don't say a word.
Speaker 1 (37:22):
Yeah, yeah, note to self hey, don't consent to
search and seizure or search anddon't talk.
That's all I got to say aboutthat.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
All right.
Speaker 1 (37:34):
All right.
So thank you much for tuning inand I hope you've enjoyed
today's podcast.
If you like the podcast, itwould be really great if you
could subscribe and leave theleave a review.
It helps other people to findour podcast and you can find us
on the socials at the GorhamHomestead and at
thegorhamhomesteadcom.
And whatever you've got on thedocket, y'all remember, just
(37:57):
keep it real.
See, y'all See ya Go Vols mydaddy was a guitar picker
Playing all the local clubs andmy mama was a waitress where
they parked M18 Wheeler trucks.
We didn't have much money.
Times were kind of hard, livingin a trailer on the edge of
(38:23):
grandpa's farm.
Yeah, I may not come from muchbut I've got just enough.
Speaker 2 (38:36):
As long as my baby's in my arms and the good Lord
knows what's in my heart Irefuse to be ashamed, it's just
a southern thing.
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