Today we are reflecting on the past few years and the overwhelming amount of work that it has been. It’s time to slow down and make homesteading fun again.
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🤔 Less is MORE..imho.
Moderation is marvelous. 😂
Enjoy your loved ones friends!!!
To everything there is a season….Amen
Loved this ❤️
Haven't missed a video since you started, but the best part of this one was hearing there will be more videos!! Scaling back shows your wisdom from God. Looking forward to seeing more of you in 2023!! You are my favorite channel without a doubt. ❤️
God is obviously giving you the wisdom, His wisdom, to make some changes to live the life He wants you to have.
Continue to trus in Him and He will direct your path.
Hi Kevan and Sarah sounds like fun can't wait till you start showing more fun things on the homestead. Your wood stove is very nice, sharp looking stove. having 2 homesteads is very hard as you know your running back and forth ,by the end of the day your dog tired. my parents had 2 properties. 250 acres half pasture for the cows the rest for gardening . my parents ran this farm from 1945 to1960 . they ran into financial problems and end up selling.
I'm so happy for your family. It's nice to know that you guys are going to be doing things for yourselves again. I've been watching you for years. I found you by chance, and now you guys seem like family. I miss the frequency of the videos bc I love to see what you are doing, but I understand! Congratulations to Grace and her fiance. That is so exciting as well. I hope we will be allowed to see one pic of her on her special day but can understand her wanting privacy too. I can't believe she is old enough to get married! I am happy you are going to take time to enjoy your new home, farm and blessings. I am excited for this ride to begin. God bless you all!! 💜🙏
Your most profound statement is near the end. You left the rat race pace then created it again where you moved to. How human. I retired and found myself doing the same thing. It took nearly a year to realize and give myself permission to sit on the porch…and do nothing. We change our place but not our mindset. Best wishes to you in the new year and God blessing and peace be to you.
Happy New Year from Syracuse NY everyone thank you for sharing your adventures and your farm
Y'all nailed it 💯%. I'm not even 40 yet, and with 2 kids left at home for a couple more years, I'm thinking the same way for the long run. we just bought our almost 6 acre homestead and I'm not trying to rush into the whole thing at once. I've done this lifestyle my whole life and have seen how things change year to year and I don't want to work myself to death changing it all the time. I don't want to do this huge production just to show YouTube, but to be ABLE to work it and provide for us 4. If there is extra, then we will trade, gift, and sell, but it's not worth working yourself to death. My dad is 71 and keeps going every year to still share with me and my sister and our families, even though I grow the same things, or what I don't grow he will, and vice versa. We also do some crops with cousins as well for a bigger production area, then share with everyone that participates. It makes the job easier to crop share with family. I can't wait to see what this year brings as all with these new beginnings!
I also am thinking of doing a larger scale canning session for a few particular items that will last a few years instead of canning everything we need every year. Like, grow a bunch more tomatoes this year, can up a bunch of ketchup, sauce, whatever, then next year only grow for fresh eating but use that space for maybe green beans and can a bunch for a few years. It just sounds easier to me that way so I'm not doing a bunch of stuff every year. That may be something to think about too.
Look forward to what you are bringing us in 2023. Thank you for realizing you can do it all but you can do it all better. Congratulations to your daughters engagement.
If you can't enjoy it, why bother?
Have a blessed New Year.
It comes to you after being very sick, life is a blessing and working as hard you to do,whilst highly motivational for your audience, is draining and straining on your bodies. Please take care of yourself, your life is precious to all of us. Thank you!
Love the new Woodburner It's a good 1 may u have new blessings this year Keith in sc
Make a chart of likes and dislikes for each of you. Then go by the chart of what is fun to you. Farming and homesteading is hard work! But you have to love what you’re doing for it to not become a thing you regret. I loved working with the animals on the farm but hated gardening. I loved working in tobacco but not in haying time. Do what you love!
Congratulations to Grace and her partner on their engagement and I wish them the very best for the future. I am so glad that you both have taken the time this winter to refocus on what you both want to do and scaling back. Now that the most is over from moving from the property to the other but truth be told I have enjoyed everything you have both done. Happy New Year.
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Thank you for sharing the tuff stuff with us!
It is like watching ourselves at the breakfast table lol. This is the reason we love your channel. Have loved it for years. It is like watching ourselves. Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and concerns and your vision going forward.
Congratulations on your daughter's engagement! Scaling back to make it fun strikes me as a good idea. You'll really enjoy your lives so much more.
With your stove? Did the actual weight of the stove present any issues with the foundation? I know my parents had to put in a large pier to support their stove on their pier and beam house (but their stove was larger), and I am limited on type of stove in my doublewide, due to the weight. I totally agree that sometimes, you have to step back and re-evaluate. I have so many projects that I want to do, but, as a single 66 yr old woman, I just can't do by myself. One major decision I made is to scale back my alpaca farm. I have been breeding for 18 years (13 of them while working full-time job), and now, I am downsizing and converting to just a fiber farm. Instead of 30 animals, my goal is to get back to about 15. I want a shop space where I can dig into all those fleeces and do something with them. I want to finally finish my greenhouses and be able to sit out on the patio and enjoy my gardens, veggie, herb and flower. And fish in my 3/4 acre pond! I've been here 12 years and never fished in my pond. Got a pier built during the drought last year, so it's time! My neighbor's grandson fishes it regularly and has caught a 4 lb bass out of it!
I was afraid you were going to say you were cutting out videos. I am looking forward to the ‘new’ videos!💗
More fishing!!!!
Have a fun new year! Take it easy and enjoy each day.
We are in Northwest Arkansas and lost our home in the November 4th tornado outbreak. We had to move to town temporarily and we have had to cut back on pigs alot and will not do a big garden this year because we are building a shop house. Lots of stress in the last 2 months we will keep cows and this summer will be alot of work trying to get back to the farm.
You both seem so excited to be starting the new year with a new resolve. The stove looks like a winner, especial being able to burn coal as well as wood. God is good and you both strive to follow His plan. Looking forward to the coming videos.
We will sign papers this week on 12 acres just north of you guys in Holden. I've learned tons from you guys and we, just like this video, will keep it manageable for my wife and I. My Niece lives there in Ava as well and is starting their off grid lifestyle as well. Rock on good people of earth!!!
I am so glad yall going back to like yall use to when you was not so overloaded . I am learning how to grow and I want to learn from yall . Your gardens were so great in the old house i can not wait . Love your Christian Family , I am a Christian to .
Yes a lot of people are going to get a huge wake up call this year. Time to hunker down and figure out how you are going to survive what is coming. 🍀
So happy to hear about your plans for 2023. I have seen a bit of weariness in both of you and was concerned for you. Yes, working two properties, taking care of all the animals, putting in a new home, helping Kevin's parents and all the other activities you have how did both of you have time for you? I'm so happy to hear you scaling back. I'm really happy to hear that Sarah will be working with flowers and herbs and more cooking shows. Sarah you have mentioned so many times your love for flowers and herbs, but we never got to see you really have a place special for them. I can't wait to see what you do! Kevin, I'm really excited to see what you are going to do with the ducks! What fun that will be! I know that we have enjoyed watching them at your first homestead waddling around. Both of you are hard workers and I believe God has seen that and blessed you mightily, but He also wants you to enjoy this time also. I have had a desire my whole life to have my own homestead. This is the year I'm doing it. I'm 65 and I know that I can do it! You two, more than anyone else I know, have put that desire into action. Thank you so much for being a trailblazer. I'm really excited to see this coming year in the life of Living Traditions! Love you both!
I am so glad you are feeling better! HAPPY NEW YEAR!🎉. I had a beautiful Modular home with a basement with 10 ft ceilings. In that basement we installed a HUGE wood stove that was plumbed into our vent system. When that stove was stoked it heated the 3000 sq st house easily.
So honest so true. Thank you for the real talk. Bless you.💜🙏💙🙏
I’ve watched your channel for several years and have enjoyed every episode. However, in my heart I was worried you were spreading yourselves very thin. I totally understand the reevaluation. Looking forward to see what you have in store for us. Sending love from Wisconsin ❤
You two are my favorites. I always look forward to seeing your videos.
My husband and I have had to do the same. He has always worked full time while we've homesteaded and homeschooled. We moved from 2 1/2 acres where we sold eggs, chicken and produce. We moved to a 51.5 acre run down dairy farm and added meat rabbits and Thanksgiving turkeys. We started loving winters because we needed rest so badly. We are in our 50s. In 2020 the co-op we sold everything to went belly up. Then, in March last year I needed a hip replacement. We have re-evaluated everything going forward. We're still homesteading, but much more intentionally. I am enjoying my goats and garden more than I ever have before.
I've been with you from the beginning 👏👏back to your roots👏👏love all you do.. Blessings
I'm 71 and have over 70 acres in west Tennessee. I just can't do the things I'd like to do anymore. My body's is part dinosaur, my ass is a dragon. Trying to find anyone to do things around the farm is tough so a lot of things just don't get done.
I'm glad you two are considering just slowing down. I don't think anybody lays in their death bed wishing they had put up just 1 more quart of tomatoes.
" Don't worry. Don't hurry. It's better to be late to get to the Golden gate than to get to Hell on time"
I’m hoping you a good and Happy New Year.I’ve always loved your content because it feels honest and real.. Thanks for all you’ve done.Can’t wait to see what the new year brings..
It’s tough to scale back. Grand kids still get their eggs, garden produce, etc. Want us to continue to raise hogs, etc. They are good kids and they do help us when they can. we’re in our seventies and still in good health so we are blessed.
Congrats on your daughters engagement! I love your stove! I especially love the fact that it burns coal as well. That’s very nice to have options. When I rented a cabin once, they had a heat strip along the walls that had something to do with the fireplace that helped keep bedrooms ect warm when fireplace was being used. I wonder how that works and if it could help you with heating the whole house?
I wonder did you work so hard because of all the scare tactics out there that the world we know was coming to an end. I know myself what with all that talk of shortages and fear did to me it changed me, but through prayer and trust in the Lord, “no more fear” I can’t live that way anymore. Shame on all those people who preyed upon us.
I love that you all have come to the realization that sometimes it's just to much and I feel like as homesteaders we do feel like we have to do it all ourselves, that's why we got into homesteading and it is a great feeling but when it start effecting your family it is wise to step back and makes some changes!
Happy New Year you guys! I love your plans. Stopping to smell the roses is a great thing to do. Being conscious of as much of our time as we can. Life is short; and time seems to fly by. The balance between your work and lifestyle will take some Nerdy Farm Math; but I know you'll work this out. So much work, you guys!. I've watched you both build your lifestyle from rabbits, to pigs and beef. You are so wise to scale things back. I've watched you try and succeed at all you choose to do; you should be proud! Your personal life and marriage come first. Congratulations for Grace. Living an examined life will give you the reset you need to be happy as you cab enjoy the homestead.
You will still need that big garden you will soon have a whole new house to supply
Even with scaling back keep in mind that's a process also…don't get discouraged. We've been retired for 10 years now and it's still a process scaling back even with just cooking for 2 instead of a family, not buying some things because it's a deal, getting rid of stuff and letting go of "things" that are sentimental because we just don't need things because your at a different place in life! Life is a process and you have to enjoy it on the way!
Looking forward to more cooking and canning videos and just more videos!
Congrats on your daughter's engagement! Another life change! Sarah will be help planning a wedding so will be busy busy!
Oh YES! Foraging on your new property will be fun! And In the kitchen with you both!!! ❤ y’all, Kristy in WP😃🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Sounds good. We are looking forward to more as you feel like sharing.
You guys are so inspirational with what you do. I miss living in the country having my animals. Watching you guys build the farm property to the way you want and need it has been fun. Youve been so busy with so many projects i get the fact that your tired. I dont blame you. Scaling back some is a good idea because basically its just you two. With those plans, you will have more time and fun doing other things on your to do list. Plus hopefully some day you will have the pleasure of grandkids to enjoy. Keep up the awesome videos. We all are here with you guys for a reason. Thank you for sharing your life and homestead with us. 💜💜💜
I’ve not been here from the beginning but I do love you guys and enjoy your videos!!