Sometimes we have to make hard homestead decisions in life and we have to make those decisions before anything suffers. This was one of those times where the goat herd just got to be too hard to manage by myself and I was getting behind. People don't realize how much time it takes to manage a goat herd, trimming hoofs, disbudding kids, giving cd&t shots, deworming them, milking them, cleaning out goat barns, keeping them fed and watered, and spending time with them .... and thats not even everything. After my cancer treatment ended, in some way I thought every day I would get better and stronger and back to being me but its been 6 months and not much has changed .... things have actually gotten worse in some ways. So I had to make that tough decision to find ways to free up some of my time and take some of the load off of my plate and as much as I hated to do it, getting rid of most of the goats was the obvious way .... when compared to all the things I do on the homestead, managing the goats took the most time. It won't always be like this but for now it was the best decision and I know some people are going to hate me for it but this isn't your life and its not your homestead which you can both manage the ways you see fit. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gq_OKFTETb8

Ive met a lot of people who think potato plants need to be standing up in order to hill them. Some people even won't grow potatoes for that reason because they think its too much work in smaller gardens and maybe they feel they don't have enough soil to grow them properly. Some people have switch to other methods of growing potatoes. Instead of growing them in ground, they grow them in feed bags, large pots or containers, and some people even use a variation of the compost bins made from pallets. They all do this for the exact same reason, space available and soil required to hill them. So this tip is a method i have used for many years that works perfectly. Hope you enjoy, don't forget to like and subscribe. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oD1uaj41cnQ

how i do dishes on the homestead joke cat This is spicy goulash ... with lots of red pepper and pepper flakes ...... my cat will destroy a bag of jalapenos pepper potato chips and apparently spicy goulash now ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlLcYxpDToo

My fig winterizing fig trees method works. This is the second follow up video showing new growth starting to form. If you have fig trees and harsh winters, you can keep your figs from dying back all the way to the ground for minimal costs and time. I will link to the previous videos below: Part 1 How I winterize my fig trees: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHPkl57wnSg Part 2 Did winterizing fig trees work?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPUixYPd_q8 ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2XbZaKnvZM