The Prepper Broadcasting Network - Draven Rock Homestead: Growing Freedom Series - Random Garden Talk

Episode Date: March 11, 2024

The Mistress and Dane D. discuss random garden stuff! Planning a new configuration of the garden, what their planting this year, and a few other random tid-bits thrown in there.SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS:If you have questions, or just need prayer, please email me at:[e-mail] Draven Rock Homestead Merch here:https://dravenrockhomestead.creator-spring.comFind our Locals community here:https://dravenrockhomestead.locals.comFind our Patron community here:patreon.com/DravenRockHomesteadFind me on Instagram here:https://www.instagram.com/draven_rock_homestead/Find me on Facebook here:https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100090222994092AFFLIATE LINKS:Nutrimill Grain Mill:https://www.shareasale.com/r.cfm?b=437695&u=3797169&m=44804

Welcome to Dreamin' Rock, where we discuss homesteading, self-reliance, and unapologetic independence. Get ready for your host, the Mistress of Metal. Hey, hey, rock stars. I am the Mistress of Metal. Dane D. from the Gun Metal Armory is here with me. That's what they call me in the hood. If you're new to Draven Rock, welcome. If you're a returning listener, welcome back.

You know I'm always happy to have y'all here. It's been in the end of your week or the beginning of your week, depending on when I upload this, with me. That's a good point. That's a good point. So today is going to be another in our Growing Freedom series. And we're going to discuss planting your garden based on what your family eats. Maybe a few new things you'd like to try or haven't grown before.

And planning where to plant everything and when the time is right. But before we get started, if you want to connect with me, you can find me on Instagram and Facebook under Draven Rock Homestead. I have a Teespring shop also under Draven Rock Homestead. If you're interested in some DRH merch merch head on over there and check those out um if you want to support Draven Rock I'm still asking you to wait I still haven't updated my Patreon or my locals account um that's in the works so just give me some time but I'll let you know when that's more up and running and you can go look at that if you want to contact me directly or privately if you have questions

or if you just need somebody to pray for you you can email me at dravenrockhomestead at proton.me and as always those links can be found in the description of this podcast um also still trying to muster up the courage to actually record and post some videos to my rumble channel again there's nothing there yet but I will let you know when I finally get over that fear and actually do post something. I'm not afraid to have you post anything. Okay, so quick homestead update. There's nothing major really to report. No chicken problems this week.

Imagine that. Thank the Lord. We've been busy planting our little seedlings and talking about a new way that we can configure the garden this year, which has actually been put into action. And we have some new additions to the garden coming as well. And also we've been talking about what we want to plant, what extras we want to plant, and where in the garden those need to go.

We have started the, as far as reconfiguring, we've started the daunting task of moving all of our raised beds 90 degrees. Hold that thought. Keep going. So that we can have more room to build more raised beds and, you know, in turn have more space to plant more things. We've also built another huge, and I mean huge, raised bed. Huge to us. Oh, yeah, it is to us. On the backside of our garden, it's back there by the backside of the chicken house. But still within the electronic fence perimeter.

Yes. And I'll post pictures of that tonight or tomorrow. And I took my bucket garden apart yesterday, reconfigured it, and reconstructed it into three separate sections of the

same height instead of it being three levels that gives us more room in the garden as well to move around and i'll post pictures of that too so i also want you guys to know that she doesn't just tell you that she does this stuff and then i'm actually doing everything. She actually does all this stuff herself. Okay? I come out and help sometimes, and I'll put some screws in

or throw some brad nails in or whatever. Hey, we should try it this way, or maybe you can do it that way. And you're like, oh, no, let me try it this way. I don't want you guys to think that she says she's building something and really it's me because it actually is her. The other thing I wanted to say when I said hold that thought is us turning those beds 90 degrees and getting them ready to plant

meant that I had to dig up all of my winter wheat that I planted. Yeah, it had to go. All of my winter wheat that I planted. Ugh. Yeah. It had to go. Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to use the three or four beds. What was it? Three or four, something like that. Beds. It was four.

To plant in. They all had to go. I had read the information incorrectly on the winter wheat. I thought it was going to be ready sooner than it would be due to our climate. And I was wrong, you know, and that's something that I am, I'm okay with admitting it doesn't bother me any. I'm annoyed that I don't get that entire wheat harvest. Some of it, you know, we were able to put into buckets and small planters and we'll see how that ends up but um this is another example guys of us being gardening for what four years now something like

that yeah this is the fourth year yeah and we still make mistakes i mean there's master gardeners that have been doing this 20 and 30 years that still make mistakes. Yeah. Or if they don't make mistakes, they still have problems as far as weather goes or pests or whatever. Yeah, that's what happened to us last year with the tomatillos and tomatoes. We got our butts kicked. But I just want you guys to understand that it's something that me and her preach all the time. Get this crap out of the way now.

When we're not dealing with a food crisis or anything like that, or I don't know, maybe China buying, you know, nine metric tons of grain every 10 minutes. And that's not an exact quote, but I'll talk more about that on my podcast later. Go ahead, sweetie. Sorry.

I do want to talk today about practicing. You need to practice. I know we've talked about this before, but I cannot stress it enough. You need to practice. I know we've talked about this before, but I cannot stress it enough. You need to practice gardening. You can't just buy your seeds and be like, oh, I'm just going to keep this seed vault back here for a just-in-case situation. I was practicing growing wheat, and we saw how that ended up.

Because, as I've said so many times before, your garden is not going to be 100% successful on that first run. It just won't. Our first run, rabbits got a hold of everything. Rabbits and deer got a hold of everything, tore everything up. And that taught us a big, huge lesson, which is why our garden looks like it does now. And why there's a bow and arrow next to the back door.

I'm just kidding. That's not true. That's not even close to true. But you have to keep in mind that your pants are going to suffer transplant shock. Whatever you start in the house to be transplanted after that last frost date, it's going to suffer some shock, and not all of them are going to make it. Some of them are going to die because they just can't handle it i'll also keep in mind sometimes you might get a really good transplant remember

when we transplanted all those tomatoes and we thought yeah half of these are going to die and they all lived so we had the most crowded bed of tomatoes it looked like a freaking forest she had to keep going in there and trimming out the bottom of them to keep airflow coming through because it was crazy. Yeah, it was pretty crazy. But we had a really good tomato harvest that year. Yeah.

I got some really good salsa made from those tomatoes and some really good tomato sauce. And y'all, it's so cool to see the plants coming up and then to see all these little stages where, you know, it sprouts and then it's hardened off and then you plant it outside and then it grows more and then you finally see it start to set fruit

and then you're finally able to see the fruit turning red if it's tomatoes and then you're finally able to harvest the fruit turning red if it's tomatoes and then you're finally able to harvest it. Guys, it's really fun. Like I'm a freaking, I'm a guy that doesn't really get into that kind of stuff. But, you know, this is really cool, guys. The reason I'm into it is because I want to control my food. Yeah. That's the reason I'm into it.

Like, okay, let me rephrase it before i wasn't into it now i am because i don't want someone else growing my food i don't want someone else here hear the word i'm saying someone else controlling my food yeah do you understand the word i'm saying controlling my food i want to know that I know what went into my soil. I know by what went into my soil what was being fed to my plants and my vegetables and my fruits. Because if you know all of that, then you know what's going in your own body, right? Right.

And if you have to use like the chicken manure for fertilizer, right? You let it dry out, make sure there's no pathogens in it, it fully dries, and then you can use it in the beds and you can use it in your soil to fertilize it and we know what we fed our chickens. Yep. Unless they happen to eat a random bug here and there, but that's, I mean, generally.

One of them tried to eat a black widow earlier. Oh, my goodness gracious. That was. Had to stop that from happening. Yeah, yeah. But they got some, they got a couple of really good grubs. Grubs. Grubs. Grubs, yeah, they got grub worms today.

Only two, and there's seven of them. Yeah. Somebody got. I gave Ulamay one of them. I don't know if Annie took it away from her or not, but. No, they're like that. They'll be grasshoppers before long, and they'll be getting plenty. Anyway, so we control what they eat, which means we control what goes into our soil

which means we control what we eat again yeah if that makes sense um and how much we grow of any one thing yeah we control that as well that's another thing too i wanted to talk about is growing what your family eats. Now you can grow bunches and bunches of things that you know that you buy a lot of the time from the store. Like tomatoes or potatoes? Yeah.

My best friend back home told me today that she buys a lot of zucchini and tomatoes. Zucchini and tomatoes? What about potatoes? Let me see what else did she say. Is she a fan of the potatoes? I don't quite recall.

I myself am a pretty big fan of potatoes in multiple different ways. Oh, squash. Squash, zucchini, and tomatoes is what she buys the most, and that's what she's going to plant the most of. Okay. She said that she wants to plant broccoli this year, but it may be too late. I'm not quite sure what zone she's in. I'll have to look that up.

quite sure what zone she's in. I'll have to look that up. Broccoli is kind of more of a cool weather plant. So we'll have to look that up. We'll have to look up what zone she's

in and then we'll have to discuss it. So she's got one of the three sisters the native american three sisters that they talk about right the corn squash and beans right you remember hearing oh yeah peppers talk about growing those things in unison you know you can grow the corn which allows the beans to grow up the corn and yeah the squash grows along the bottom and blah, blah, blah. Anyways. We eat a lot of zucchini and a lot of squash and use a lot of tomatoes for tomato sauce

and salsa and just tomatoes in general in a salad or or whatever no problems with scurvy no um but we also eat a lot of um lettuces and cabbage and um my mind went blank well we eat lots of different types of vegetables. We got all kinds of bacteria that we can. Peppers. All kinds of peppers. Hot peppers, bell peppers. Black peppers.

We eat a lot of herbs. Oh, yeah. Put those in everything. And we grow them, too. You don't say. But, I mean, I have this whole list. I think it's, what, three full pages front and back of what I wanted to plant this year. Yep.

And that includes flowers to bring in the pollinators. That's something else you have to consider, too, is what flowers are you going to plant that's going to bring in those pollinators. And we've already started what? At least just under 300 plants so far. Yeah. Just under 300. I think all of the first tray that I planted was nothing but tomatoes. It was.

Amish paste and Romas and... Jubilee. Jubilee and I think some kind of cherry tomato or something. Yeah, yeah, it was a large red cherry. Every single one in that tray has come up, and I'm so excited. Yeah, it's going to be great. So excited. And a lot of them are multiple.

Now, some of you guys might think, well, if there's multiple in there, you need to trim some off or you need to thin them out a little bit. And sometimes we do that if they're really close to each other. But sometimes we just separate them, you know, very generally. Very carefully. You know, and if we can make it work, we do. And if we can't, we don't, you know. But we try to, you know, we usually put two or three seeds in every cell, and we try to harvest all of it.

Yep. You know, being that why would you waste it? Yeah. You know, if you can, grow as much as you can. The thing is, we have so many tomatoes growing at this point that we're not going to need one bed this year. We're going to need probably two or three beds this year for all the tomatoes. So that's going to be interesting. We could plant some of them in the buckets too.

That's true. Yeah, we could. Because I do plan on building more bucket gardens. Just the single ones that are the same height as the other ones that I took apart and reconfigured yesterday. If you guys want to see what she's talking about, she'll probably put a picture up on Instagram. Yeah, I'll post some pictures, yeah. What a bucket garden is and what she's talking about.

She might be able to show you the first kind we made, which was the kind of bleachers configuration. Yeah, it's already up there on my Instagram. So you guys will see how it was changed. Okay, that works. I also want to plant a lot of beans this year. I want to do lima beans and more green beans and pinto beans and black beans. We found those last year.

I want to plant those. And peas. I think the coolest thing that we're going to plant this year. We'll tell you about it in a minute. Don't give it away. We'll tell you about it soon, apparently. Oh, man. Don't give it away. We'll tell you about it soon, apparently. Oh, man. Don't give it away because I'm really excited about it.

Okay, alright. Fair enough. I keep thinking, instead of just saying what, what C's to start, I keep thinking it says wheat. I'm like, yay! You don't even have freaking wheat on here. It's a massive staple. You're like, no, tomato, yellow squash, pumpkins, you know, screw wheat.

So just to, I mean, because I have a whole lot of things on this list, but just to give you a rundown, and we've already mentioned tomatoes and peppers, bell peppers, jalapenos, serranos, javaneros, you know, all the hot peppers because he loves them. Those peppers are hot. Dang, girl. We also started some bunching onions, and they're doing pretty good.

They are bunching. But when the time comes, we're going to plant pumpkins. I'm really looking forward to that because there is nothing better than homemade pumpkin puree. Well, the thing is we've never had pumpkins successfully grow yet that's true we've had the the vines grow but we haven't had the pumpkins grow yeah we almost had watermelon a few times and then went no i quit we did get a couple of little baby ones little baby ones they were good though yeah they were all right i just it just wasn't enough for you, I guess. Yeah, like when I think watermelons, I'm thinking like the big old, you know, ten times the size of a football kind of watermelon.

I didn't plant those. No, you planted like the sugar baby ones. I planted like the little baby ones. Little baby ones, yeah. Then they came out being really, really little babies. Yeah, and we haven't had cantaloupes due yet. Nope. Well, they tried, but no.

Yeah. But we're going to plant more kale and spinach and cabbage. That not only feeds us, but that is also treats for the girls, too. Because kale and spinach, they love. And it's got some really good calcium in it for them. Things like that. You spelled tomatillos wrong sorry okay spelling bee champ over here so uh i'm also gonna do like i said zucchini and yellow squash i'm gonna do cucumbers because i love cucumbers dane loves to put cucumbers in his water especially in especially in the summertime.

It's very, it's like refreshing, you know. And for what it's worth, everything else spelled it correctly. Thank you. I love you. Spelling problems trigger me. I planted some Brussels sprouts, y'all. And I'm really excited about it. Like, I can't, side rant,

I can't date or marry or love a woman who can't spell. Okay? She might get one word wrong here and there, but she can spell. And it's really nice. She doesn't need a freaking spell check. This is all handwritten. In my defense, I wrote this list early, early one morning.

And you only got one word wrong? When my brain wasn't on yet. You could have also said that you were just kidding. You were like, oh, tomatillos. Tomatillos. Okay. Anyways. Did I plant cauliflower?

I don't think we planted any yet. Maybe it wasn't time yet. Ha. Ha ha ha. Herb joke. time yet. Ha. Herb joke.

We got some seed tomatoes in and my sweet potatoes will be coming next month. They're going to be shipped in April. Are they the strips? What do they call that? Shoots?

You had to say it. Slips. Good job. What do they call that? Shoots? You had to say it. Slips. That's it. My slips will be shipped and delivered next month. I'm excited about those too. We've got seed potatoes. We've got onion sets.

We've got garlic ready to go. We need to put that in the freezer so it can do its cold... I forget the name of it. Strategization. Whatever. Anyway. Stratification. That's it. Spelling Bee Champ is lost. We also planted some

ground cherries. I think those are tomatoes. Ground cherries? A type of tomato. Are they really? Okay. Yeah. I was wondering if those were something like sweet or something more kind of... I don't know.

We'll find out. Savory. Okay. I saw somebody plant some on YouTube a couple of years ago. I bought some seeds last year, planted them this year. We'll see what happens. Yeah, and we don't buy our seeds from Baker Creek because reasons. Yeah.

So sad. So sad. And I have a whole list of flowers that I want to plant to bring in those pollinators. Now, if you remember, I think it was last year, Now, if you remember, I think it was last year, I did a show on different herbs and flowers and things that you can plant next to other specific plants that will help ward off pests. Yep. So you'll have to go back and find that podcast. I can't remember what the name of it was, but it was another in the Growing Freedom series.

I was going to try to plant some loofah this year. Yeah, man. Tired of paying for them. But I'm going to wait. We won't have the room for it. Yeah, we don't have the room this year, so we're going to wait. We could probably build a trellis and kind of do it that way, but... I'd rather wait. I'd rather wait, yeah.

You got beets? Yeah. You got marigolds? I don't know if it's time to do beets yet. We also haven't had any success with strawberries yet. No, and I wanted to do blueberries this year, but that's a two-year deal. You have to wait two years for those to...

And we're kind of waiting until we move to figure out when we're going to do that. So the stuff that we're doing now is 90 to 120 days. That's what we're looking at. And then I have a whole host of herbs that I want to do. But, point is, we have a lot going. And we're going to have a much bigger garden this year than we did any of the previous years. And we're going to have to build more raised beds to do that.

Mm-hmm. And I am excited. So excited, y'all. Because that means I'm going to have a lot of canning to do toward the end of the summer. Are you sure you can? Oh, yeah, I can. You have a steam canner, too.

I do. Oh. Yeah. That's awesome. You have, like, three or four canners yeah i can you have a steam canner too i do yeah awesome you have like three or four canners don't you i have three three it's impressive um i like a woman who can okay so let's see what else is on my list over here? So if you remember from a previous show, not too long ago, a couple of weeks maybe, I did a show on how to get started starting your seeds inside and direct sowing outside and all that. Dana and I have not only started a bunch of seeds in seed trays, but we've also started them in other types of containers

that I talked about on that show, like Solo cups and... Old water bottles. Old water bottles. Pretty much any old plastic bottle. I even saved some of my cottage cheese containers. Like mom used to do old school? Yeah. Grandma used to save all the cottage cheese and sour cream containers.

Yeah, but they were putting leftovers in theirs. I'm planting plants in mine. Yeah, right. But we've planted some, started some seeds in some of those. But we've planted some, started some seeds in some of those, and I'm going to post up pictures of those probably within the next week or so. I need to wait for them to come up, you know, so that I can show you that it's doable.

It's totally doable. Speaking of that, we've actually even, just as a side note, when it comes to planting, we transplanted some of that winter wheat that I'm shedding a small tear about into a cardboard box. Yeah, we're going to see if that works. We're going to try it. You know, we've seen people grow potatoes in cardboard boxes. Yeah. And I want to try that this year, too. Yeah, we've got boxes ready to go for it.

So we're going to see what works. We've also got some tires. Yeah, my old tires. Oh, they're huge. My old tires. Yeah, they're what? 35, 1250, something like that? I think they come up to my hip. Yeah, they're big tires. You got big tires in your truck.

But we also had two left over from when Dane got new tires this past... When did you get new tires? I don't know. A couple months ago. Yeah. So we saved two of those,

and those are in the backside of the garden, too, by that huge bed. I just know that it costs a lot of money. I'm going to plant something in those, and I'm excited about that, too. But, okay, now it's time to talk about the new thing we're gonna try to grow this year that both of us are super excited about oh my gosh okay y'all go ahead it's peanuts i'm so excited we're growing peanuts i am so excited I cannot wait I cannot wait It's not time to put them out there yet

Nope, not quite But I'm so excited We just can't hide it I can't wait I can't wait for them to I can't wait I can't wait to harvest them It's gonna be crazy guys

It's gonna be great This is the first time we've grown these We're hoping they're gonna grow We're hoping they're gonna grow we need to do some research and find out the exact conditions that they need yep and amend the bed that they will go into and we also need to be able to uh protect them because you know we have field mice and we have ground squirrels and they can be jerks yep obviously i mean not really jerks because it's not like you can tell hey don't get under these like it they're just doing what they do they're

just doing what they do so we we're hoping that we can uh protect that crop yes which we may have to over build that particular bed like a little tiny fortnox to keep out troublemakers. I'm not quite sure what I'm going to grow them in. I've seen videos of people planting them inside like old

feed sacks. So Yeah, but they don't have or buckets. I don't know. We'll figure it out. But I'm excited. Yeah, it's going to be amazing.

I can't believe it, man. I also looked up how they grow. Have you seen that? How they grow? Okay, so what I saw was they grow up, okay? So they have their roots and they have their normal stem, right? up okay so they they have their roots and they have their normal stem right and then the stem sends out you know uh leave branches right with leaves on them and then these branches send down what look like roots each branch sends down what looks like roots and at the bottom of that root

once it goes into the ground it makes a freaking peanut oh that's cool yeah and some i mean i think some of them stay above ground and some go below ground but generally they're just like these hanging things with peanuts that is cool i'm like are you kidding me dude i'm gonna have to find a video of that i think it i think it differs a little bit differing ways but dude it's so nuts man the way that the peanuts grow and the way that they're set up but don't don't look for it right now we're trying to finish this show i'm just gonna take that away from you but let's see what else is on my list over here oh yes i stopped using the seed to spoon app. I mentioned that in one of my last shows.

Because it wouldn't let me put any more of a certain number of vegetables or whatever it was I was planting in my garden list. Yep. So we decided not to mostly paid. And I don't... You know, you try not to have to pay for anything if you can absolutely... Because some of the prices are just getting really up there as far as apps go. And they want you to pay that same price every month and i'm just not doing that well and what it comes down to is it's a cost for convenience right you can easily keep track of that stuff yourself you can easily look up the

information yourself yeah it's not overly difficult to do that no okay it's meant as a convenience and there's nothing wrong with the app the app's great great. It's just that we just don't feel like it's something we need to spend money on. Yeah. At least not right now. Yeah. Our electric bill is going to be really high in a couple of months. Yeah. Pluses and minuses, right?

Yeah. But I did download and I started using this other app called Veggie Garden Planner. It seems to be so far, seems to be pretty okay. It's a mostly paid app too, but the cost for it was like five bucks a year. Okay. So trying that one out. We we're gonna see how it works hopefully they keep it at five dollars a year we'll see one of the other things that that we're thinking about too is expanding our gardening area or setting up another gardening area so we can continue to grow more and more food.

It may not be here, but we're thinking either when we get moved or if we need to stay here a little bit longer, we may set up more area that we can grow stuff at, basically. We're basically trying to prepare for any eventuality and how that might go down. You can stockpile food you can stockpile seeds which you know are only going to last a certain period of time but if you need to stockpile food uh there are some things you can stockpile right like grain grains are a great thing to stockpile how long do grains last if they're stored correctly? Indefinitely.

Yeah, didn't they find some grains in an Egyptian tomb or something like that that they were able to sprout? Yeah, one of the pharaohs. There was like 4,000 or 5,000 year old grains still sprouted. Like, okay, this is awesome. Yeah, as long as they're kept

in a cool, dry place, just like with anything else, they'll last indefinitely. It's crazy to think about, but if it's done correctly, it will last. Yep. So when you order grains, whether it be wheat or whatever it is we like to order wheat from azure standard and that is they have like a 50 pound bag of hard red wheat berries for 45 dollars you can get two of those 90 something dollars dude and free shipping if it's over a certain price and you're good to go. They drop ship them wherever they need to be drop shipped,

generally pretty close to you. Ours are on my way to work, so no big deal. But that's something to consider, guys, is what can you do to control your food supply, right? what can you do to control your food supply, right? Oh, I did want to mention, too, fish mocks, fish antibiotics. Yeah. Can't get those anymore.

Nope. Thanks to the FDA. Yep. So if your fish gets sick, good luck. You're going to have to get them from an actual veterinarian now. You're going to take a $1 goldfish into a veterinarian. That makes a lot of sense. Yeah.

And if you're a prepper, you know what you use fishmocks for. Yeah. But can't get it anymore online. Not very easily. Thanks, government. Yep, they screwed us again. Won't let us control our own destinies at all.

I know you've heard me talk about lab-grown meat, too, and how I'm not a fan. We plan to, when we get moved, we plan to raise our own chickens.

Meat chickens. Yes, meat chickens. To have our own meat. But I also want to learn how to hatch my own eggs. My own chicken eggs. So we need a rooster. Yep. You're going to have to let me have a rooster.

Another pot order right here. I'm also going to have to let me have a rooster I'm also going to learn how to raise and breed goats for dairy and for meat I have bought a book on it and when I got it Dane rolled his eyes yep I sure did

I also want to learn to do the same thing with sheep for meat and for dairy and for fiber. And I want to learn about cows. I'm not sure if I want to do

a dairy cow or not. But definitely would like to. And I've heard of people doing this and i really want to do it because it's going to feed our family for probably a year or more um but go to auction you buy two calves and you raise one to slaughter and one to resell at auction and the money you get from that one you buy two more calves and you just keep the process going that makes sense now is do we know what they cost i don't i haven't i started doing the research on that, and then I got pulled away for some other reason. I can't remember.

But I got to do some research on that for sure. And I do want to mention, too, if you decide to raise your own chickens, either for laying hens or for meat chickens, especially laying hens. You want heritage breeds. There are also heritage breed goats and heritage breed sheep. Those are the breeds you want. You don't want these hybrid breeds because you really want the heritage breeds. I know that a lot of the breeds, period,

have been like the broodiness has been bred out of them because most people just have them for two years and then end it and then start with a whole new flock or they just keep adding to their flock every year, you know, because that's just they're selling the eggs or whatever. Maybe they have a big family. But a heritage breed is what you want. As far as chickens go?

As far as chickens and goats and sheep. Heritage breeds. Yeah, heritage breeds. And you also need to do the research on your particular soil type. If you have goats or sheep, because I have read and seen videos on there could be parasites in your soil that's going to cause health problems for certain breeds. I found out that there's a breed called, I think it's Gulf Coast something or other sheep.

That's what I'm going to try to get later on when we move. Right, when we have more space. Yes. We have an acre and a half, but a lot of it's covered with desert brush and scrub. Rocks. There's nothing for a sheep to eat. Rocks. Yeah, they wouldn't be able to eat anything it'd be silly yeah um just for the sake of curiosity i looked up as of uh march 11th

basically like tomorrow um the cost of a calf you know if you want to buy a calf it depends on factors such as age gender and whether or not they've been weaned. On average, calves can be obtained for between $200 to $300. Okay. Okay. The cost of a cow ranges from $2,200 to $5,300. Oh, see, there you go. Depending on breed, gender, and the weight of the cow. Feeder calves are over $2 a pound at many auction markets due to the pandemic.

The expected annual average cattle price based on a given heifer, steer, and slaughter cow is $50 per hundredweight for a slaughter cow. That'd be a 1,200-pound cow. And $145 to $130 per hundredweight for steers and heifers, which are 550 to 520 pounds, respectively, according to that.

Now, I don't know what a slaughter cow is versus a steer and a heifer. That's something we got to learn about. Yeah. I'm not sure what hundredweight means. I'll buy another book. I'm guessing it like every 100 pounds, I'm guessing, but I could be wrong. We'll figure it out. I'll buy another book.

You'll buy another book. But that's what they're talking about now there's also uh studies you can do on cat uh calf cow profitability and things of that nature but again we will do another podcast on that once we actually learn it i'll start a new series called holy cow? Yeah, maybe so. Holy cow. We're dorks. Yeah, but that's okay.

We're a little dorky, but that's all right. I'm okay with it. Are you okay with it? I am. All right. Oh, for Christmas, I bought Dane the Perfect Pickler. If you don't know what that is, it's a fermentation kit, and it's sold by The Perfect Pickler.

Now, it's the son of a guy on YouTube and on Rumble. His name is Zach, but the name of his channel is An American Homestead. Zach, if you're listening, thank you for The Perfect Pickler. Yeah, I like Zach. He's all right. We haven't made anything in it just yet. We want to try to do some salsa, some fermented salsa. Yep. But we'll have to report back on that too.

Just waiting on the garden so we can have fresh stuff. Oh, no, wait. We have stuff in the freezer. We sure do. Maybe we'll do that. Now you're talking. Okay. Okay. So, I think for now that's going to do it for this show.

Oh, we got to go eat dinner. We have to eat dinner and we still have to lock the girls up too. Lock them up. Yeah, it's almost 7 o'clock here which means it's getting dark. Yep, it's almost there. Getting dark. So,

we will see you next time and thank you for joining us. We'll either talk about more gardening stuff or as we keep moving our garden forward. Or maybe we'll talk about something else. Who knows? Who knows? We'll see.

Okay, so we'll see you next time. Bye everybody. Bye guys. Thanks for joining us. Tune in next week as the mistress increases the momentum toward relentless freedom right here on Draven Rock.