Supply Run to the Old Cabin | Hatching Eggs & Planting Potatoes
We retreat to our old place to pick up a load of soil with the hope of harvesting a crop of potatoes this fall, while in town we have a laundry list of errands including picking up hatching eggs with the ultimate goal of expanding our flock once again. Sometimes life during an Alaskan summer can be hectic but we keep on trekking.
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Can you have too many chickens? We think not 🤪 It turns out it wasn't too late to toss a few potatoes into the ground, fingers crossed for a good harvest this fall. What is your favorite veggie you're growing in the garden this year? 🍅🥕🥔 We hope you enjoyed coming along for our day packed full of errands! ~ E & A
Tomato’s 🍅
All of them. 😊. First time leaving a comment on your channel. I've been watching you 2 for a while. Enjoy your new place.
🤣 A nice variety of tomatoes is my favorite this year. Also, birdhouse gourds. Wish me luck on a nice harvest.
What's The Reason For Feeding The Chickens The Wet Chicken Foon And What Is In Your Mix 🙌🏽
@@bradleeferrell917 are Tomatoes A Vegie or Fruit 😅
My favorite channel ❤️
I so totally agree!!!
I love to watch them when I need to decompress from the madness
Mine too!
I wish they posted more often, they are the best.
Amen to that. 🙏🙏👍
You two get more done in 24-48 hours than most people can do in a week. Your new place will be great as you build up. My wife has become a real fan of you. She refers to you as those nice Alaska people. She really enjoyed how excited Ariel was about eggs. Be careful and safe. Till next time...
Ya they get stuff done… did you see the gallon of coffee?😂
@@ramaicacarper6281Many of us love our coffee. It isn't like they're on methamphetamines. 🤦♀️
Hello! Chicken math = never enough chickens.
You two are amazing together, your videos are my favorite and look forward to them.
The ladies are so funny when you put a new egg in. They just tuck it under and smile. Thanks for the video, always love the way you treat your dogs.
I love how all of their animals are family.
Wow - I am subscribed to many gardening/farming/homesteading channels, yet this is the first time I’ve ever had the sweet pleasure of watching hens scoop the eggs underneath them. Now that was so endearing! ❤
It is very sweet to watch that.
All I could do was say "Awwwe" when I saw them pull the eggs closer to them to keep them warm.
What are you going to do with the old property? Sell it, rent?
It would be really weird if a hen didn't want one of the eggs and pushed it over the edge. So unnatural.
💚 So exciting all those hatching eggs for the broody hens! What a beautiful drive to your old place and back..it's SO beautiful up there. Love your little potato patch. 🥔 Will you be bringing the high tunnel and more soil to your new place?💚
These folks make Alaskan self sufficency look simple but these two are an exceptional team I think . Thanks for showing us what is possible . And how to thrive not just survive !😍🙂
Wow! Lots of thumbs up for that. The Hedemora is a rare Swedish chicken breed and a great addition to any backyard flock. They’re docile and good egg layers, laying up to 150 eggs yearly. The breed is also believed to be the world’s hardiest breed.
Good info
Even in the midst of frantic errand running we still get some drone footage of a stunning Alaska spring! Love Ariel’s chicken talk! I can hear the excitement in her voice! It’s coming together a little at a time!
Thanks for showing Bandit and Bo. You know I am the biggest dog fan 💯🐾💖✔️. @Simple Living Alaska
Poor Bo, has to be lifted in the truck. You know he’s thinking; mom, don’t film me, the other dogs will laugh at me! 🤣 As always, beautiful scenic videography from y’all; mixed with plenty of homestead how-to. Y’all rock it every week. 👍
Hug to those doggies!
You two Rock!
Another beautiful road trip with you.
new babies on the new place wd
You are truly my favorite channel. 💯🙏🕊️❤️🌻🌻👍 I have really enjoyed watching your videos while I recovered from Cancer. Thank You for sharing your experiences with me. You are an amazing couple. 💯💜❤️🌻🙏🕊️☕👍
I love how he just keeps working and let's her jabber. It reminds me of my husband and me when we are doing something together. 😂
Hens are so sweet when they go broody. I love the way they seem to cuddle the eggs. ❤. The old Place looks so lonely. It served you well. When I was a member of the local grange the grange master planted a large garden every year and he planted it in straw bales. Everything from rhubarb to zucchini. For his potatoes he'd make a cage from wire, place some of the straw in the bottom, plant a couple of potatoes and fill the cage up with straw. You'd probably be able to find the details on line. He raised some beautiful vegetables. Love to all, human and critter, Lori from Springfield. ❤
Oh I must look into this. I have no space left in my garden but a bay ale I could use!
LOL I just KNEW you guys wouldnt be able to resist at least a small garden!!! And Im glad of it.
For all the soil amendments that you have done that soil is golden!
Yay 🎉 another video!!! Just can't get enough!!!
Good evening from Syracuse NY everyone thank you for sharing your adventures in life
The cinematography is so beautiful! Thank you for sharing this with us.😊
Super late spring over here in Vermont as well, we lost about 95% of our local apple crop here about 4 or 5 nights ago, when the weather went down at night to 23 degrees F! It was supposed to be a light frost, not unheard of in beginning of June in VT, but we lost apples, blueberries, and most strawberries of local farmers and the little guys like me, of course. So sad, but it's that kind of year, and for every loss there's something to be learned, I think. I love that you're planting something on your new property, so cheering, and such a beautiful piece of land. I look forward to your videos, the nature and animal shots, and of course your sweet, sweet animals. Thank you!
It's sort of sad to see the garden that way. I know you have plans, but i remember last year how crazy it became. Oh well, on to new things. Also, I started laughing way too hard when I saw the name of the cat door. Chubby Cat 😂😂😂
I know your next garden is going to be fabulous, but the lack of one at the old place is a bit sad. Can't wait for the new garden plans and beautiful veggies and flowers. And the nature footage!! Spectacular!! Awesome video as always!💕
I was shocked at how quickly without an active person around to care for it, mother nature was going to take it all back. The old place looks like it's waiting for it's next family to come, a little sad to see it like that
I am so looking forward to seeing how they develop the new garden and property, though! Change has to happen and you can see how happy they are!💕
@@jjallie18 me too!
Alaska is beautiful! Thanks for sharing your 'fast lane' life and beauty of the state with us.
The chicken clucking softly as she maneuvered the egg underneath her feathers was so endearing! I was wondering if you’d load the tractor to fill the trailer. But no, you did it old school!
I love how seeing how your energy increases when you talk about your animals and garden!!! Excited to see what hatches!!! 🐓 🥔
Very happy to come home from work to a new video!!
Its so funny, as long as Eric has coffee he can accomplish anything!😁Love that you’re getting more chickens can wait to see all the new babies 🥰That soil really does look awesome, I would definitely bring it all to the new homestead in time. Love your videos ❤️So happy to see them come up on my feed. Have a great day guys!🌸🌼🌸🌼🌸🌼🌸🌼
That cup of coffee in town really made Eric smile!
A&E 😢 I never knew how attached I had become to the old homestead until I saw it again and it looked so abandoned and lonely. I can accept change, but somehow this one was hard for me. "We" put so much work into it, putting on the siding, laying the concrete floor for the stove, building the bathroom and outhouse, planting, reaping, canning, cooking. Man it was a lot of hard work "we" did at that place over the years. So forgive me if I shed a tear 😢 for leaving it. Sigh! I wonder if I'll ever see our little cabin in the woods again.🤣🤣🤣 I am sure you thought you lived there by yourselves and did all that work just the both of you. Oh no, you have a gang encouraging your efforts. Be blessed🙏 and stay sweet ❤ 😂
at least some potatoes!!!!🤛 can't wait until the new garden!!!
Thanks for taking us on the road trip! I’m glad you have a small garden for the summer. I know Ariel is such a good gardener and a “plant whisperer”!
The mountains and rivers are beautiful. Love seeing the wild life. So glad you had a safe trip. Are you going to sale the old place sometime?
16:26 This man is a unapologetic legend. Let's go.
So glad you are able to gradually take and reuse what you need from your old property. You are really multiplying your potential with being able to continue to work with the property and projects on the old property for plantings, and hope it produces for you both! Best of luck with the hatching eggs! Can’t wait to see them ❤
Looks like you marked a lot of things off your list. Good job.☮️❤️ I hope the bees are going to do well.
Im a born raised city person but I love your videos. I am really in awe of all you do. Look forward to your weekly blogs.
Your channel is my favorite. Reminds me of my husband and I when we were your age. We sawed our lumber and built our house. We have always worked well together.
You guys are my trip to alaska
Bo knows... Bandit's ready! They're such GOOD boys. Always ready to travel and "help". When it's time, haul that tractor down to strip the garden soil and load it, m'be even the compost pile too. Good to see the chicken gangsters are out on bug patrol. I'm with you, summer time is cold brew coffee time. I keep two 1/2 gal jugs on hand and rotate the grounds screen basket between them. A lot smoother tasting coffee with cold brew too. For multi-day road trips, camping, etc. freeze up batches of cold brew and use that as your ice for the cooler. Exciting to see how the new place comes together.
It's funny you get 5 chicks then they grow up and you get a few more then you end up with a rooster. And your hens want to sit and you let them because nothing is cuter than a momma hen clucking to her chicks......🐤 before long you're up to 40! Then you think next spring I might get ducks. 🦆 😳 😁
I absolutely LOVE the broody hen episodes! I just giggle...Arielle you are an excellent hen mama!
Road trip!! 🛣The aerial view of the mountains was so majestic. Thanks for sharing your adventures with us. Peace.
Like 👍before i see the video😉 You are amazing ! Thank you from Greece!😎
so glad you're taking your soil!
MY FAVORITE ALASKAN KZhead COUPLE ! 😁👍
I love my early morning wake up calls to get ready to hit the road !!🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 THANKYOU from Ipswich Queensland Australia. I love every addition of National Geographic you film and post on here for me and all other folks worldwide who will never see Alaska any other way than thru your lives. Big hugs to you both, Eric & Arielle and Gods richest blessings of provisions and protection for you and your creatures and homestead. Travelling mercies also for every day. 🇦🇺🤗🙏💞✌️👍👊👏🇺🇲 He knew you before He did knit you together in your mothers womb.
Thanks for offering an escape from the world. God Bless you guys. You inspired me to start my own garden by the way. I used raised garden beds and absolutely love them..
This episode is called ''Old door, new door and back" ! 😂🤣
MAKING PROGRESS EVERY DAY, I LOVE THAT
I love chicken ... I love how the mama's care for the eggs and chicks ... and I love when mama stands up and and all the little chicks come running out from under her. So dang cute!!
Your videos always give a loving family like vibe!!
You live in the most Beautiful part of Alaska with the greatest scenery all around you and it is like a dream come true Thank You.🤠
A proud woman from Sweden here!! Silverudd blue and Hedemora eggs! 🤩👏🏻👍🏻 I've got silverudd myself! Fantastic lovely little girls!!!
The worst part of this post... Having to wait 3 weeks to see all the Babies😍 So exciting to see what hatches. I grew up with chickens and can't wait to have them again one day. I will just have to live vicariously through you tubers until then lol
Thanks, Eric and Arielle! Today, I learned so much more about chickens! Maybe, just maybe, if I were younger, the knowledge would help me eliminate my fear! 😉 Can’t wait to see the little hatchlings in 3 weeks! 🐣🐥🐔As for the slower growing season, we have experienced frost here in New Hampshire in late May and early June. Set farmers back as some young plants were lost and fruit trees were damaged. My brother, further south in New Jersey had to wait to even start his tomatoes… climate zones appear to be shifting. Your drone footage was simply beautiful as always!Thanks again! Oh and once again your planting of potatoes brought back sweet memories of my youth as we always had a hardy crop! 💞
Ariel talking to Eric and he is shoveling, lmao!
Dont drive to long, its not safe to drive if ur tired ✌️ Dont want to lose one (2) of my favorite youtubers ✌️
I'm so excited to see you planting ANYTHING! Was kinda sad when you said you wouldn't be gardening for awhile, so YAAAYYY!! You two are the best kind of humans!❤✌My favorite veggie in the garden this year is a kind of pumpkin with no shells on the seeds. It's called "Kakai" from Baker Creek Heirloom seeds. Also "Kajari" melon from same company. Seeds from them are always fantastic, fyi.🍀P.S., Your chickens are so adorable😊
Exciting weekend for y’all! I can’t wait to see how many potatoes get harvested and to see those new chicks! This is a channel I look forward to all week! Blessings ❤️
Wow man. That train got me all exited. I am a train Driver and always love seeing trains in your videos thanks Eric for not editing that out. 😅😊
I could sit and watch your videos all day long😂❤🇬🇧🇬🇧
It must be tough to walk away from all the infrastructure you put so much hard work into. But if you need to move on, it's best to do so while you are young enough to "weather the storm". I wish you two all the best, as you move onward to the next chapter in your life. Take care Eric & Arielle🚜🐔🐓🐣🐤🥚I'm growing broccoli, wasabi, and peas for the very first time, but my two favorites are tomatoes(Cherokee Purple) & peppers(snacking small ones called Lunchbox red, orange & yellow). 🍅🫑🌛🌜👍🏻✌🏻
My Rhode Island Red hen hatched two chicks two weeks ago and then I gave her 6 more eggs that should hatch in another week! My rooster is a Barred Rock. Both breeds lay lots of large brown eggs, so I hope most are hens because roosters go to freezer camp. I keep the chicks separated from the rest of the flock for the first three months. I have a separate area inside the hen house.
The old place looks sad and lonely. I hope you find new people to love it.
Pro tip : Put down a tarp in the trailer with ropes on the front the front corners. Tie to the tractor and drive off and you can unload the trailer in seconds.
As always you deliver the most exciting videos to me. I get so excited to see a video pop up and I have the stop what I'm doing and watch it. Ariel u captured Alaska's beauty in your filming and I just want to say thank you for sharing your life with us.❤
Love your quick adventures with a wonderful cup of coffee. Brought tears to my eyes to see the high tunnel standing there looking lonely. Glad you are taking some of your good soil. I know you are transitioning to a new home with new adventures but seeing the old cabin tugs at our heartstrings. Love any news about your chickens. New adventures. Red currants and wild raspberry jelly is one of my favourite things to eat. So lovely to get currant bushes. Great video of the beautiful Alaskan wildlife.
Thought you may take your polly tunnel to the new place
The rosters looking after his girls making sure they were ok
Just minutes after I was jonesing for a new episode of your Alaska adventures you happened to post this one.👍🏼 I hope you get a good hatch of new chicks and the perfect mix of male and female to select from and build up your numbers.🐣🐤🐥🐔🐓
We hope you let them hatch some babies❤
My goodness, I love clucky hens. That little noise they make.
Wow, cluck cluck, mother hens want chicks. That’s amazing. They seem very determined. Looking forward to seeing some chicks. 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍💕💙💕💙💕💙💕💙💕💙💕
It made me kinda sad to see the old place getting broken by the weather.
We will be back to fix her up ;)
Beautiful broody hens. I learned something new from you, I never knew that brown eggs were crossed with another breed. I’m loving the new property .
Not ALL brown eggs...just their brown eggs, because the Icelandic chickens they have don't lay brown eggs.
@@joannathesinger770 Makes sense. Thank you.
I freeze coffee in ice cube trays overnight for trips, and my precious java never gets watered down😂 love the channel.
I love watching your stuff. I think to myself, people watch the kardashians when they could be watching you guys. You guys are the best!
Alaska has spectacular views thanks for sharing to some of us who unfortunately can't make the trip. It's always exciting to see what your plans are next. Hopefully you'll have a lot of little Chickies before to long. Be Blessed 😊🇺🇲
By far my favorite channel! Any other plans for the old property?
Yes we have some work we will be doing down there!
I can’t to see they hatch, ❤
Me too !
I have a " broader buster" cage. Large enough cage, All mesh, hanging off the ground. Some water and food. Lock the broody up two day. She gets drafts up her bottom and no darkness. A second broody added to the same box also works. Once free, she has lost the secure warm nesting feeling. Likewise, I have some dark cages, nest on one half and food and water available. Sticking my hens in there on wooden eggs and they go broody in two days. Then they can hatch in private, spend a few day with their clutch before they are released to roam the coop. It helps eliminate the pushy layers from adding to the clutch or even kicking the broody off the clutch. I hate finding my broody in another nest box sitting on today's eggs rather than her original ones.
Did you bring the bird feeder you made in honour of your cat that passed up to the new place?
We plan to ❤ his name was Hunter.
@@SimpleLivingAlaska sorry I forgot his name. Sweet Hunter, a piece of his spirit will be with you.
You guys are an amazing partnership for our youth to aspire to. If potato’s have an extra long chit, plant it lengthways at same depth as others. No need to go as deep as it is long. 👍🏻🥰🥰
Just realised after watching this I planted my sprouted spuds upside down. Thought it was the roots!
😊😉🫠🙃🙂❤️💜🩵💙💚🙏🙏🙏this is my favor channel to watch because you both are so adorable together and I just enjoy watching the way you both take care of your chicken and your adorable dogs your friend always Rosa olbera from Texas it was 105 hot here today and all week it's going to be in the 100 I am so glad for air conditioning lol
I thought that your new cabin was further north from the old one? So why does the snow go away faster up north?
👋😎👍
Rain, broody hens, garlic, berry plants, potatoes, fencing and a compost heap - it's beginning to look like your home! YEA!!!!
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Never want your videos to be over❤
Was upset to see the old garden and was missing the harvest already. Thank you for setting out "something" for us to watch being harvested.
I always enjoy watching your vlogs, take care you both.
Redneck pro tip for driving posts... start post by hand and push down using the tractor bucket. Takes some finesse but avoids hitting your hand with the sledge
As usual, beautiful scenery abounds!! Good luck on your mini garden and also the broody hens!!
Your drone pictures of nature are superb. Loved the moose in the river drinking & running.
Wow! Mother Nature is amazing
The drone shots were gorgeous, thanks!