My name is Danielle and I feel called to inspire the dreamers, those of you who want to grow their own food and live a homesteading lifestyle. I am going to turn your someday into a reality, no matter your limitations. We have lived in all situations and I have found ways to continue the homesteading lifestyle no matter where I have lived, and you can too!
I post educational shorts throughout the week and full videos on Fridays!
You can find me on
highdeserthomesteader.com
@highdeserthomesteader on instagram
and High Desert Homesteader on pinterest pin.it/5CUubRe
I hope to see you around!
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I just found your channel and have been binge watching. I am enjoying your enthusiasm. You remind me of my oldest daughter. My youngest daughter is in graduate school and is enjoying her houseplants. She has a balcony, but with tropical storms, she does want to have to move everything every time there is a storm.
Figs are really nice. They can grow 40 X 40 X 40. They make their own climate. I had three. Same with the rest of my sixty-two fruit trees. We planted early, mid, and late season for each tree. I have since moved, and I miss our food forest. We had herbs, grapes, berries, cacti, four or five 4 X 8 garden boxes, and a ten thousand square foot organic garden. Plus, we had thirteen large compost bins and a small water catchment system. I want to recreate it but larger.
Enjoyed your video from Sri Lanka .
Curious to what state? Where we live is considered the high desert too, wondering if it’s the same
Utah
@@highdeserthomesteader we have a high desert in Oregon, they look similar
Hello from British Columbia Canada 😁 Just stumbled across your page and subscribed! Love seeing other homesteaders ideas Looking forward to surfing through all your videos 😁👏
Welcome!!
Watching from South Africa, lots of work but satisfying... I have a small garden and seeing your beds gives me hope for my own little garden 🎉
As my great aunt Ella used to say "That boy can eat!". Great video.
I admire your choice of lifestyle. It’s my dream and at 66 I’m striving to figure out how I can make it happen. God willing. 🙏🙏
We had to start with gardening on an apartment balcony! Start where you can!
When I grew cauliflower, I pulled the leaves over the heads and tied them, kept them pure white. I also soaked everything everything in salt water to kill and remove all the little worms I couldn’t see
Smart!!
I didn’t hear , pumpkins ?❤
Hoping to grow pumpkins yes!
Just found your channel. I’ve watched a few of your videos. Hope your back pain eases up. We just moved to a new location and are starting over so I can totally relate with all the things.
It's sooooo exciting and full of to do's!
Greetings from Australia. Are you going to eat the rabbits or are they 'pets'??😯😯You need to get a power planter (auger and a drill ) - that was some very hard digging with a spade🤣🤣
I should rig something up like that!
Always look forward to Friday and a new video. Enjoy seeing the progess of your garden and projects each week.
Thanks for being here!
Hi. It's Roger from canada 🇨🇦. Good to watch another of your videos. Like to watching all the things you and your family does round of your yard. Getting the courage to going back to Brazil, and starting like you did. Congratulations for all you doing. God bless. God is good all the time.
You made the place lovely - love the bunnies!☺♥
We're working hard!
Just found your channel and I have to wonder what it must be like to homestead in the desert? Are you guys attached to city water or a well? Must be hard keep the solid moist for your garden? Looking forward to your journey 😊
We are city water. But are harvesting some as well for watering. Yes, I have grown cover crop to act as a mulch in the soil.we get high winds that blow away wood chips! It is a journey for sure!!
You need cow manure
Yes, we should have spread some first
Just found you here in the UK looking forward to seeing what you do in the future.Subscribed
Welcome to our high desert family! Glad to have you!
Just found you here in the UK looking forward to coming along with your progress.Subscribed
So glad to have you!
Enjoyed the video 😊
It was so exciting
Do you have issues with birds eating your crops?
So far that hasn't been a real issue. I wonder if in a few years they will know where I am and get my seeds
Great viewing. What is your water source?
So far it's just the city because we are still in city limits. We are building a rain water collecting system to help water some things we have.
@@highdeserthomesteader what is your average annual rainfall? I’m considering moving to the desert here in South Africa and 150ml/annum is the norm. Thank you for answering my questions.
We go by inches here sorry🤷 but we get about 10-12 inches of rainfall per year on average.
You've got alot of work to do very rewarding work loving your content
It's so rewarding! Thanks for being here❤️
Following your heart and what you feel is good for you and your family.......Very awesome very courages..........keep on keeping on being you.....
Love this! Thank you!
Praying for your pain. Not fun with all your kids to play with and teach, and a newborn…but…take your time. 🤗
Ok GIRL! I’m doing something around here and here you say “my favorite sandwich ever right now…” or some thing like that, and I look up and watch and oh my goodness! That looks so good! 😋 Definitely going to make that, probably tomorrow! Fun with the chicks. Another adventure! Great video! 🤗🤗🤗
It's sooooo good! Worth it for sure 😊
Congratulations! Such a Blessing!
New sub Anne sent me over. ❤❤❤
So glad to have you!
What state you live?
Utah
How have your trees done since?
kzread.info/dash/bejne/lKiTzrSeY6ytZZM.htmlsi=4CAHg7hRF2YxeAdL I touch on my trees in a lot of my videos. They are doing great 👍 I read this book and was hooked on the idea of growing a shorter tree: www.amazon.com/Grow-Little-Fruit-Tree-Easy-Harvest/dp/1612120547/ref=pd_aw_ci_mcx_mh_mcx_views_0?pd_rd_w=4LMZZ&content-id=amzn1.sym.b6f63020-40c7-426a-9c3f-c15ee0c5d228%3Aamzn1.symc.2b06b7e8-a86c-4e6e-b02c-90d58278f4f1&pf_rd_p=b6f63020-40c7-426a-9c3f-c15ee0c5d228&pf_rd_r=5ZB3DY96BNB7V5NH3J92&pd_rd_wg=oymgb&pd_rd_r=272bde5e-8e28-4034-9591-f8ad0324f664&pd_rd_i=1612120547
New to your channel and have watched a few video's. Have a missed the video where you insulate the chicken house before putting the interior wall liner on, after all you get snow there and they need protecting to.???? or is that an up coming video.?? along with covering the rabbit hutch.??
No insulation, animals are fine. In fact our summer is more difficult in the animals than winter
Ok here is the Mom in me. I try not to comment but every time I see it… I gotta say something. Do your research on letting aluminum foil touch your food. Just….bad. Not good. Use parchment paper first, then the foil. Although now the parchment paper has crap in it…might do some research on that too. But the foil? A no no. 😖
Will be aware of that now, thanks
My mom and my grandma always, always canned pears and peaches and apricots every fall. When my husband and I bought our first home it had a beautiful apricot tree. My Mom’s eyes glowed! I remember the first year we picked the fruit, we spread it out on sheets in our garage…😳😵💫. There was SO MUCH! Quarts and quarts and quarts! and I canned that fruit for years. Miss that tree… even 40 years later… 😵💫😂🤗
Love it! We are still eating those 🍐
Hello! My husband went out of town on a guys trip this morning, so I am treating myself (because it is hot outside in So Cal today) to a binge day of your channel while cleaning the house. Loving it! Wondering how you like your electric pressure canner? Also, I was dying when the kids were picking the jalapeños…I wear contacts and made the mistake JUST ONCE of touching the pepper, then taking out my contacts and PUTTING THEM BACK IN in the morning. 😭😭😭 I literally thought I was going to die. 😂🤣😂 It was intense! I always have people look at me strange if I happen to have to buy them at the market, because I will use a plastic bag to pick them out and then put them in another plastic bag. 😳😵💫 I explain I wear contacts and they’re like “OH!” Crazy. But I would suggest that you keep that in the back of your mind…not sure if saying “don’t rub your eyes” would help or make them rub their eyes. 🤷♀️🤦♀️ But it is the oil on the peppers skin that is the problem. Just a thot. Enjoying your channel! Thank you!
I love my digital canner. It isn't as big as a large pot, but it doesn't heat up the house👍 and it is less work.
The article you read at the beginning made me want to cry at how times have changed this drastically. It shouldn't be so difficult for people to find a place where they can garden and raise chickens and other animals. Thanks for sharing. I loved watching your little hens look out their door and explore their outside space. Your Pesto looked really good.
I'm not a doom and gloom person, but this article did make me a little frustrated at how times have changed for the worse in some ways. Really great things have also come, but really? Just let people grow food! Haha
Lundatv checking in from Sweden 🇸🇪
I am wholly impressed every time I watch your videos, your garden grows so lovely and the chickens look healthy and happy!☺♥
Thank you!!
Hi 👋 there, every time i watching your videos, i feels like my heart will pump out of my body. Because i want to do that, but i haven created strength yet to make that decision. But I'm praying to God almighty, I'm shore he will guide my path for a right decision. I live in Canada 🇨🇦 with my two kids 16 and 13. I'm from Brazil, and i willy want to go back to find my self on the country side. God bless you, and your family. Its always good, and healthy to watching your video. God bless. From Rogerio, Tiago, & Emely. From Ancaster, Ontario Canada 🇨🇦
It took us little steps st a time to get where we are
Thank you for showing us your progress.It's impressive how you defy the climatic conditions and manage to create a paradise. Lovely greetings Madi
Love having you here! Thanks for the encouragement
Everything is looking good, chickens sure are enjoying the run and will provide you with some good fertilizer for your garden. I don't have a garden even close to what you have as we live in a subdivision so it is just raised beds for me. I tried something different last year, growing my cucumbers vertically using some wire shelves that I had left over and they do not take up all the space on the ground with their spreading but instead grow up the shelving giving me more cucumbers and harder for bugs to get to them. Also tried planting some bean plants in the same 5 gallon bucket that I have my tomatoes growing and the tomatoes seem to enjoy the nitrogen that the bean plants put in the soil and are doing really great this year. The beans only produced a few beans, but I was doing it just to see if the tomatoes improved with their growth which they have, so I am pleased with the results.
I love the experiment!
Great garden! Where did you find that garden fork/cultivator? I need a sturdy one to break through desert soil. Thanks!
Yes! It was something I saved up for because these things aren't cheap. I did get the ones with metal handles because yes, this desert soil needs some work!! www.treadlitebroadforks.com/products/the-square-foot-gardener-broadfork-24-wide-6-tines?gad_source=1&gclid=CjwKCAjwps-zBhAiEiwALwsVYcU3zxwdm2LD0unAANZNftEvKXJZPeU0T8hsgBRCLBTw2wOyKAODmRoC5TgQAvD_BwE
@@highdeserthomesteader Thanks!
From SCRATCH? Scratch means FROM NOTHING. You unloaded tools & seed from the mini van. You had a mini van. You had a house to move into. The land was bare but you had resources. FROM SCRATCH means you had no resources. You had to build your tools from sticks & rocks. You had to create shelter from natural materials. !
It means something different for different people I guess🤷
Maybe I should grow a tree to use for wood to build garden tools. But by the time the tree would be ready I'd be a carcass on the ground 😂😂
From scratch simply means you build or make something from raw ingredients, such as homemade bread. You don't need to grow the grain, oh where do you get your seed, mine your salt, churn your butter and make your pans from materials you mined from the earth and melted down😂😂
There’s gotta be one. Go you, I guess 🙄.
Wonderful work on your homestead. Good to see the kids getting dirty 😅 What specs is your fence? Love from Zimbabwe 🇿🇼
Glad to have you! These kids get dirty every day and I love it! The fence is 8 feet tall with 2inch by 4binch wire. Sorry it's in US customary measurements!
@@highdeserthomesteader Thank you, no worries, I will use the conversion SI tools. Love how the kids will always be your first sincere critics.
I loved the multi purpose winter shovel. I use mine to colect leaves with rake to transfer to compost pile. I truly understand how much work you did to get to this point from zero.
Yes the snow shovel was super helpful! It's been so much beautiful work! And we are still building things from the ground up!
Go ahead and get them on it now. Come fall before it freezes spread seed, the animals will push the seeds into the soil. Come early spring, if you can, get them off of it. Maybe partition two paddocks. Let one grow while they fertilize the other with their urine and poop. We brought a couple pastures back this way. We are in the high desert too without irrigation on some of our pastures. We raise dairy sheep and meat sheep.
Thanks for the tips! I was thinking of sectioning it into two or three sections. We are still saving up for fencing and a shelter or we'd have them this fall!
What kind of dairy sheep do you have? I'm considering that as an option
@@highdeserthomesteader We use electric netting to move and contain. It works great... however with littles they would have to learn to stay away from it. Fencing is SOOO expensive right now.
@@highdeserthomesteader I have East Fresian sheep. They are wonderful. Sweet mellow and above all else not destructive or naughty. They do well in the high desert climate. Low parasite load and pretty easy keepers. The milk is rich and sweet. I make cheeses, yogurt, icecream, freeze it and freeze dry it. The nice thing about having the dairies is you can breed them to a meat ram and use the offspring for meat. When ready to renew your milk stock you can either buy new ewes or breed to a dairy ram and keep the offspring.
I will keep that in mind. Where do you like to get yours?
Do you have a cellar? Where do you put your can goods.
In my basement
Can u add the recipe for it
homesteadingfamily.com/curtido-recipe/ this is the one I used
Why don't you put mulch on your soil in your garden? It will help suppress weeds as well keep to soil moist. We are also still just starting out and are fortunate enough to have a swamill closeby where we can purchase wood chips from. It mskes a huge difference, as I cannot afford to water any of my fruit trees or plants. We live off rainwater catchment only
We put them under our trees once and they all blew away haha they are also not cheap here
You're doing an Excellent job 😊🎉 🙏 I subscribed to your channel..
Glad to have you!
@@highdeserthomesteader Happy to be here 🙏
will yall support back?