@Homestead Citadel
— · 5 videos curated
Family documenting their Appalachian homestead journey: livestock, gardening, self-sufficiency skills, relocation narrative.
All 5 videos
Feeding Our Sheep Trees to Stretch the Grazing Season
Fourteen-minute walkthrough of silvopasture: using chainsaw-cut tree browse to extend sheep grazing into fall, manage forest edges, and build firewood supply on a small Appalachian homestead.
Our First Winter on the Homestead: Firewood and Sheep Grazing Planning
Walk-through of first-winter planning on a PA mountain homestead: firewood procurement, stacking and drying strategy, rotational sheep grazing to stretch pasture, and regenerative land management for cold-season self-sufficiency.
Our Sheep's First Days On The Homestead
Step-by-step introduction of a dairy sheep flock: pasture preparation, breed selection rationale, barn setup, and managing initial integration challenges.
First Look at Our New Homestead (After Being Forced Out)
Drone and walking tour of a new raw-land homestead property in Appalachia: soil assessment, water, livestock plans (chickens and sheep), rotational grazing layout, and the practical first steps for building self-sufficiency from scratch.
We Spent 7 Years Building This, Then We Had to Leave
Appalachian homesteaders document seven years of land development derailed by adjacent industrial agriculture, then walk through due-diligence research, regulatory processes, and warning signs for rural land buyers.