Video 1 Transcript
Two creative projects we have not yet done are, one is making a permanent teepee, you know, with like 25 foot long poles that are really really strong and wide and thick metal, kind of waterproofing them and then staking them, you know, a couple feet in the ground with a concrete base. We also plan to make a small like garden tower that overlooks the top of our property, kind of looking down over our orchard, and that should be pretty simple but kind of fun. Also, I've done a lot of planting, like planting lots of edible plants on our property and one plant that I think is really neat is called Nanking cherry. It's a edible cherry bush that just produces tons of these small cherries that have these little pits in them. They're maybe the size of like a dime, these cherries, but they're yummy and this plant grows very quickly. I've seen a plant grow from about six inches tall to about five foot in one season. It's wild. And anyway, you can make a really nice privacy screen by just planting them every, you know, a couple feet, every few feet, and then these will grow to be like five to ten foot tall and wide and produce a ton of food and block a lot of wind and sound and give you a lot of privacy. So having an edible privacy hedge from Nanking cherries is something you might consider.
Video 2 Transcript
A few creative projects we've done on our homestead. One is we got a bunch of those 55-gallon watered barrels that you can buy for cheap on Facebook Marketplace and cleaned them out, put water in them, and then dug a hole and buried them and put stuff on top to kind of insulate them from the cold and from the hot. And so we have kind of like an underwater little deposit of water in case we ever need water for our orchard. So that's kind of fun. Another creative project we've done is we have a small room. It's about five by six and we have multiple hammocks hanging from kind of like a two by six board that is screwed in and attached to like the ceiling and the studs in the wall. And it's really fun for our kids to be able to read books or to hang out in there. Just kind of a fun use of a small space. We also took this rickety old shed. It almost looked like you could knock it over and we made it super duper beefy. So we put a concrete floor in and then we had double thick walls. So we'd have like two by six walls and then we'd have like two by four walls and then we'd have three quarter inch plywood between the two. And we used hurricane ties and then we would bolt the walls to the floor. And we even had double thick windows. We had two walls and two windows. Makes it so so insulated. Like never the temperature in there rarely changes. Almost everywhere is insulated like crazy except for around the door. So that's that was a really fun project. I don't know if it costed about ten thousand dollars to do that but that was a lot of fun and definitely worth it.
