so my green beans made tomatoes and my potatoes my garlic and onions my carrots
my red beets they're all up and all these herbs need to be harvested so I'll
harvest them about three times a year one of the things you can do with using
the resources that you have pretty much no matter where you live so we had this
big branch fall yesterday so what we're gonna do is we're going to cut it up and
we're going to use it for wood to cook our food this summer this is just one of
many things that you can do to use up the resources that you have now even if
you don't have a man that lives at home as a woman you can cut this up it just
would take you maybe a couple days or even a week to do it but you can cut it
up if you take your time so this is one resource I'm going to share with you a
whole lot of others when you talk about self survival here's another thing that
you can do do you have a maple tree we happen to have a large maple tree on our
property well this tree could be tapped for maple syrup
although wouldn't give you a lot you probably get about a gallon of this and
a gallon of maple syrup is very expensive now for every gallon of maple
syrup there's many gallons of the liquid that
you have to boil off but here's just another way in a survival situation you
can use your resources resources water barrels water barrels are amazing
because you're just gleaning the resource of the sky and you're able to
use the water barrels for all sorts of projects whether it's washing dishes
whether it's wash including whether it's to flush toilets if you have your own
septic system and there would be no electricity water barrels are very
important and I have two of them beside the water Barrow is
some of the branches that came off that large branch so what I did is I made
sure they were cut in uniform length these are gonna be another trellis or
teepee as I call them to grow any kind of by any plant so I'm gonna have this
for having green beans and so this is another resource that you can use there
are a lot of other resources let me show you this was grown wild and while most
people want to chop it off I want it to flourish and this is wild roses wild
roses are very edible and you can use the wild roses for all kinds of jellies
and jams you can also use them in tinctures if you add it with alcohol you
can do so many things with these wild roses they also smell amazing they also
are beautiful hedge you don't you have to go out and buy all kinds of expensive
plants you let your own native plants flourish
another rose this is all wild and I just shaped it the way I wanted it and this
is really great as a hedge as a privacy screen I would love to have these the
whole length of my property it doesn't cost you much of anything in fact you
can probably do it for free to have your own little fire pit to have your own
place where you can cook some of your food that it doesn't require any
electricity anybody can do this almost anywhere and this is another great thing
that you can use on your property that is using your natural resources and
using the resources that you have in life you don't always have to buy things
you can produce your own things and make things out of nothing so these berries
are called tea berries and they actually grow wild here in Pennsylvania but I
have cultivated these and have them growing all along my property line this
is another free resource that I can glean from these are berries that are
very very good
so when I find them if they're growing someplace where I don't want them I will
dig them up and Transplant them so they're gonna be growing the whole
length of this area another thing I cultivated was some wild roses these are
what I would call fence rows of roses these wild roses in the fall will give
me little rose hips and rose hips are high in vitamin C which you can make a
tea tinctures all kinds of things with it
that's just another free resource that you can find even if you live in a
residential area like I do the whole part of my videos are to share with you
that you don't have to have a big property you don't have to have
thousands of dollars put into things you can glean with what you have in your
area and you would be surprised all of the things that you can glean from above
me is a black walnut tree also the walnuts from this black walnut tree when
they drop in the fall I harvest them and I dry them and we have walnuts some
years we have a good one at crop other years not so good this is something else
that was free here on my little homestead
you
at this place it wasn't a homestead I turned it into one it was just a regular
place that was left go and was very dilapidated it wasn't a homestead
because there was no Garden on it there were no animals
there was nothing growing living here everything was dead that can mean
whatever you want it to mean a homestead isn't just something in black and white
a homestead can be if you have a garden if you have a deck with things that are
planted in containers things that are living things that are growing that's
what makes a homestead so if you have just some vegetables in a pot or if you
live in an apartment in a high-rise building but you have things growing
you're taking onions and you're cutting the tops off and using them and in the
bottoms you are we growing things that can be a homestead basically livable
it's turning something into a place where you can thrive this is thriving to
some people this may look like poverty but to me it's thriving this is a living
and breathing ground that I walk on it's living and breathing the home when we're
not home if somebody would come here they would see the love that was poured
into this place that is what a homestead is and that is what is using free
resources that you have no matter what they are today working I'm cleaning out
the chicken house and I'm putting manure on the garden which I will share in an
upcoming video I'm doing all of these things
it keeps me occupied it keeps me busy it keeps me moving and it keeps me young
feeling this is what homesteading means to me
homesteading means to me a breath of life in a property that was slowly dying
homesteading means to me breathing life into a property that was slowly dying
the man passed away here on this property and he left it go for many
years because he was very ill I'm breathing new life into it in fact I'm
making it better than it ever was before and that's what homestead
means to me
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