hey folks it is uh busy on the homestead really busy let me share with you guys
what I've been doing over the last couple of days I'm gonna go ahead and do an extra
bonus one of my viewers asked about the layout of my farm so I'm going to share
with you guys the layout of Pine Meadows hobby farm and why I laid it out that way stay tuned
foreign
welcome back to Pine Meadows hobby for I'm your host Jerry Hanson got a lot of uh
activities going on on the homestead because the winter is really close I mean really close uh says
yeah I've been really busy harvesting the garden and getting items that uh froze in the compost
piles I have two compost piles now so one of the items I was able to harvest a bunch of cucumbers
at the end of the season here uh Halloween time I ended up pickling the rest of my cucumbers and my
wife really loves these uh dill pickle chips so these are my spice hop spicy hot Dill chips dill
pickles anyway I'll leave a link down below and I'll leave a card up here on my recipe and how I
water bath canned pickles you you just need a water bath can and pickles are probably one
of the easiest things to make so while one jar goes into the refrigerator for our use
now the rest of them will go into our pantry uh to use from week to week or month to month
same way with the green beans so I'll go ahead and take them out to the pantry and then while
we're outside I'll just share with you guys the layout of the homestead all packed in within
um almost six acres of land that we have but mind you our land is got Hills and Valleys and crevices
so it's not all usable land as far as for building but it's good for livestock so I'll put my coat on
and if you guys didn't catch it I had a sale yesterday um I went and took down my kiosk
that I Jerry rigged and got five free doors off Craigslist then I got this free canopy
uh left over or left behind by the production team raw TV is the production team that left
it behind they do Storage Wars Naked and Afraid uh Bar Rescue there's another production they
do called the gold rush in fact the film crew that was here filming the reality show in our show that
left the tent behind they worked on and they work on Gold Rush so let me take you outside and share
with you guys why I laid out the homestead the way it's laid out it's a foggy morning out here
at Pine Meadows hobby Farm up in the Cascade ranges but placement of the home which is a
double wide manufacturer at home that I purchased for ten thousand dollars from a couple about four
miles down the road we had it moved up here after we bought the land uh we had it set inside I put
it together and it was a no-brainer where to plates the house because there was an existing
mobile home that was sitting here before we have the septic the well all the hookups right here
including the power and the phone so and this is the most level spot on the farm now there's other
areas kind of level but it has a slope to it and we can't build anything here and there is a reason
this right here is my front yard where you see the deer standing over there that is actually the
uh sand filter system which is a type of system for purifying sewage water that's pumped up out
of our septic catchment tank it's pumped up here and then it drains by gravity down through pipes
that are buried in this field that's why we can't build anything up here let alone have
heavy livestock you you just don't put heavy Livestock on your drain field it'll destroy your
drain field so that's what this whole area is this is my front yard and I keep this mode for fire
um mitigation purposes and it also looks nicer oh the green grasses will come in it'll attract the
wildlife which is that's what we want but I also I'm harvesting the dead and dying trees back here
and creating fire wood piles yeah I got lots of them anyway that's that's why this part is set up
the way it's set up we've got the front which is our drain field then we've got the helmet site and
then we got the parking area which we it was kind of level enough to park uh our the RVs that we've
got and other items that we've accumulated over the years so this is all we have that's actually
level enough to be able to utilize just for us for the family for the uh the living space of
course it was an obvious choice to put my tool shed within close proximity of where I parked
the car so I can keep my Mechanics Tools close by at hand so that's why we positioned it right here
at the end of the carport so I thought this was an obvious location to place the garden I really
mapped it out cautiously uh to figure out where to place everything when I first got to the property
and I this this just stood out to me to be a good and proper location for a garden because it's got
a gentle slope and it's got uh plenty of area this Garden measures out to be 50 foot by 50 foot there
is expansion room I can't expand it but I think we'll just stick with the size we have because
they have the fencing up and it's very effective against deer so far and uh just we're adding more
raised beds I'm getting ready to completely redo the whole back part half of the garden kind of
make it look like the front half now as far as the placement for the greenhouse goes that was not my
decision uh that was actually done by Misty Rainey from homestead rescue Fame she decided to collect
all the windows that I had gifted to me from contractor friends and she built this greenhouse
right here this is actually going to be my Orchard and she put the greenhouse right in the middle of
my Orchard so I have an apple tree it's far enough away from the greenhouse so it's going to grow and
I ended up having to relocate the orchard to the back of the yard in the original location I had
spots expect out for the greenhouse was actually on the other side of that fence but I let the crew
do whatever they felt they needed to do because I gave them permission to do that and it in the
long run it worked out better because it's within steps of the garden it also creates kind of a a
divider between my yard in the garden and it just worked out for best it was good foresight on their
uh their part now the homestead came with an a feature it came with a pond which that was
awesome for me because I always I've raised ducks for years since ever since I was a little kid my
first farm animal was a pair of ducks and so I've always enjoyed being in the company of ducks and
with the pond within close proximity of my back porch I can sit there and enjoy my environment
now we come to the rest of all the outbuildings for actually the livestock on the farm I wanted
to put a fence up which separates the rest of the farm from the livestock because this is uh almost
six acres it goes up through the mountains and I already intended to have a pair of milk goats at
least just a pair of milk goats chickens Ducks geese eventually turkeys and yes even rabbits
so one of the reasons why I put my chicken coop there is because well when we bought the Land
There was a nice level spot right there I don't know what it was used for before but I figured
you know that's an ideal location to put a chicken coop because it's small enough uh to
fit the size of chicken coop I wanted to build this chicken coop is uh it's uh six feet wide
12 feet long and probably nine feet tall it uh it contains a nice little flock of chickens and
I built that it was the first building I built on the homestead in addition to the the barn I
was doing that at the same time so the chicken coop ended up there and that's why I decided to
put the chicken coop there because of the little flat space but then it's after I saw the chicken
coop in the barn I'm standing up here on my deck and looking out over my domain as I do it's just
like you know what I want to put everything in an order like a path or a little village that way I
can sit on my deck and I can just pan out over my little domain here and see everything that way I
can keep an eye on everything from my back porch so it actually helps also with doing the chores
I do a I have a pattern in which I do my chores I hit the chickens first I feed them and water them
and then the next thing I go to the Buddy Bungalow and I feed and water them then I have my tractor
barn and my well up there I just go up to the well and make sure that the animal troughs are all full
then I come over to the turkey pan and I hit the turkeys with some feed and water make sure they're
full of accommodating then right over here up to the barn yep that's my final stop so I have
a nice flow in respect to my morning chores and my evening chores it's just a nice casual walk spend
a few moments with my animals come back and my final stop is the greenhouse to water the plants
and then I sit on my back porch and maybe read the Bible uh or whatever I'm gonna do go take care of
some things in the kitchen or around the house now that I'm retired I got nothing else to do but go
fishing hiking planning for next year there's a lot of that going on so that's how I laid out
my Homestead and why I laid out my Homestead the way I did now when I got Billy Goats I had to find
a suitable location for them where they weren't in close proximity to the females so that's why
I put them over there still able to see them from my deck of course and there's the bees I put them
in a fenced off area for the chicken run uh now I figured they'd be safe from all other
predators that like to get to honeybees and it's worked it's really worked well and it gives the
bees a nice open environment to be able to be free to come and go and not be hindered
and uh it's easy for me to go and do my beekeeping from time to time also because it's just beyond
the chicken coop so um right here beyond my garden in my yard I have a 100 foot wide by
200 foot long swath of uh fenced in land for the Ducks and the geese to frolic and then also for
the chicken yard and then my uh bunny Bungalow and the also the tractor Barn where I hold the
tractor and protect my free tractor I got as a gift uh and then I got the spot for the turkeys
right here so this whole little swath contains all the other outbuildings and free range for
the ducks and geese and then also for the chicken you know how I mentioned that the tractor Barn
contains the free tractor I get a lot of stuff for free just by making connections with people
and being kind being friendly and sharing and just enjoying their company so I was talking
to this one gentleman the other day while I was down selling my art and he indicated that
um he had this vehicle he wanted to give away it has a mechanical problem but since I know
how to fix Vehicles he decided he's just going to give me the vehicle I don't need another vehicle
I really don't so what I did was I want to grab my sign and ask my son you want another vehicle
because you need a backup vehicle in case one breaks down and living out here where we live
it's always wise to have a second vehicle on hand just in case you break down yeah
so just a little bit ago I took my son down and uh to this Fella's house
and this is what we ended up bringing home a 1994 Ford Explorer four-wheel drive
free uh something happened with the transmission we put fluid in it we drove it so it turns out
it's the transmission seal that is leaking and leaks some fluid out of it so also all we have
to do is drop the transmission because it's the front seal we'd have to drop the transmission
put a new seal on it but we're going to replace all the seals the filter and the bottom seal when
it's out anyway and get it all serviced put it back in and he has a decent vehicle for free
so seals a seal kit for this plus fluid about 40 bucks maybe total
to get this thing um it'll it drives right now just as long as you keep fluid in the [ __ ] and
we can at least drive it down to the market and back but yeah a free car I've showed you
guys in the past a couple of other things I got free but I passed them on to my kids
um I bought the Subaru Outback and I gifted it to my son and then I got this
this uh RV from an estate cleanup came with that flat that boat right there it's a porta boat I
gifted that to my son also uh because I ended up with this other travel trailer and I just get so
many stuff for free anyway that's the story and that's how the homestead is laid out with all
of the stuff that I got yeah I sold some art uh laid out the homestead did some canning got a free
vehicle for my son uh do my morning chores and it makes it so easy the way the plant that I planned
out carefully all of the buildings on where I set them uh and it just makes my workflow that
much easier yeah I'm Jerry Hansen your host this is Pine Meadows hobby farm please stay tuned to
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remember be safe always be kind I'll leave some cards up in the top and some links Down Below on
the different things that I shared with you guys today like my canning my pictures and even how
I bought the land sheep and how I got this house for cheap yeah I built the homestead for free yeah
bye-bye now