Today we catch up with you all! It has been a busy spring on our homestead. Usually, winter leaves us all sitting inside our homes, by a fire, dreaming of all the new things we want to try on our homesteads in the following spring. We always spend that time talking together about big plans for the season. This year was no different! And in no time we had a few big ideas.
Early in February the weather got nice, and so we decided to jump start our season! It began with a serious upgrade to our existing barn. The barn was built on a gravel pad. The gravel drained well but made it very difficult to clean the barn. So it was time to pour a concrete floor. This has been on of the best improvements on the homestead!
The next big project we began working on was our pasture improvement. Over the last few years, our biggest problem with livestock was a lack of enough pasture and good pasture at that. Lots of our property that we were not using was heavily sloped, and not good for pasture. So we cut a road to our barn, (to get the concrete truck in) and used that to fill our sloped area. Now we have some serious pasture area!
Finally, we began prepping for our new orchard. This year we realized, (as we talked about in a previous show) the importance of growing fruit and other perennials on our homestead. The beauty of fruit is that it takes less and less work each year while yielding more and more fruit! So preparations began to install an orchard of many different fruit and nut trees! This Saturday we have an Event at the farm, where we will be installing the orchard!
Join us for that event: https://www.thisishomesteady.com/early-bird-orchard-planting-workshop-tickets/
It has been a busy spring! We’re excited to tell you all about it! Join us for the chat, and Q and A session afterward.
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Having listened to every podcast you have done over the years I was sad to see the standard of this podcast so low.
I appreciate what you are trying to do with changing format and try things out but for me this one just didn’t work. Gaps, pauses, mistakes, background noises, mouse clicks, phone bings and a general lack of thread were all evident.
The reason I have listened to every episode is the quality of productions was a huge differentiator it would be a shame to lose that.
Keep at it, go back to what you are good at, high quality production with great content. Don’t take this content the wrong way but I miss it the way it was!! Thanks
James, I really appreciate the feedback! That episode was just a recording of the live stream, not an actual podcast episode. That said, one of the biggest questions we are trying to answer here right now is what does our audience want most? Quality shows or Quantity, and I think I know what your answer is 😉 We will have a survey out soon to get feedback from all of you, would love it if you filled one out to help us know what direction to go!
Well Aust I personally am glad y’all take time out to make these podcasts and videos. Especially with a full time job, a sports team of kids, and a farm life! Perfect or not I will continue to listen to everything y’all put out! Thanks for the laughs!
Thanks Kurt! Means alot!