Getting The HOMESTEAD Ready For WINTER - Wood and Hay!
It's time to get ready for winter! In late summer, our attention turns to what needs to be ready for winter and finishing any chores that must be done.
Firewood
Some things like firewood are a given that need to be addressed. We are blessed to have LOTS of saw mills in our area and they produce what they call slabs. These are slabs of wood that are first cut off a log to square it off. They bundle these slabs into 1 ton bunches and charge $20 for locals who will use them for firewood.
Hay
Hay is another commodity that needs to be stored up for the winter. The fresh green grass that our animals have been eating all spring, summer and fall will be gone soon and you want to store up nutrient dense hay varieties that will keep your livestock fed. It's really important to find a good quality hay grower in your area. Anyone can bundle up a bunch of weeds and sell that as hay. We usually buy from a guy whose fields are all pure bermuda or fescue. Bermuda is great for sheep and highly nutritious for their winter needs.
Soon the harvest time will be here for our sugar cane and we will sell that to a local distillery to be made into rum. We will do videos on his operation coming up soon so stay tuned!
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NO don't say the W word.
It's inevitable! :)
already snow in wyoming/montana
That's beautiful country right there. My wife was raised in the tropics...this is as far north as she is willing to go. LOL
Like doing things that people tell you, you can't do that. I'm in zone 5a. Do you think banana plants will work here? Trick question.
Weirder things have happened!
I like your idea for the banana plants. I would like to try that with Pomegranates. Hopefully a zone 7-10 plant will make it in a zone 5! If so, my wife and daughters will truly be excited! Thank you for another great video!
We have a pommegrante that has been neglected but still growing in our greenhouse. We'll see if it survives this winter.
Hi, I just wanted to say Thanks for the video you posted on YouTube about Freeing Your Subs! That video introduced me to Steemit and I couldn't be happier! I look forward to seeing your posts on here!
Welcome aboard!
Thank you!
thanks for sharing details on the prep for winter :) interesting to learn what goes into it
We will be doing lots of videos coming up this winter. It will be our 5th winter living off grid.
Another awesome well laid out plans to share for others to see!
THANK YOU WEETREE!
Now you're in trouble. You said that nasty "W" word. I remember dreading those days. Canadian winters can be so brutal. That's why we're south in the sunny tropics. Except now is our winter, rainy season when everything gets soaked every day. Your bananas should survive as long as you don't too many hard freezes without snow cover. Our bananas have already given us our fruit for this year. But we don't have to cut them back for cold weather. I wish you lots of good luck, because there is nothing like having our own bananas.
THANKS! We are really excited to see if they can survive!
How do you store your hay? Do you have a barn to put it in or do you cover it with tarps outside?
We cover it with tarps. going to do that today actually because it might actually rain! YAY!
Getting ready on a homestead for winter can be a lot of work!!
I love the homestead, just don't think I could convince the wife to agree to homesteading. Hopefully you have a mild winter.