The Grass-fed Homestead - YouTube Channel

One of the biggest highlights I've experienced since starting the Grass-fed Homestead YouTube Channel was getting to interview Joel Salatin!

It was a big honor that Mr. Salatin gave me a few minutes of his time to do this interview.  

I wanted to learn how to make butter.  I did what anyone would do who wants to learn something...YouTube.  I saw multiple videos of people using a carton of store-bought cream to make butter.  I thought, "why would someone go through all the effort to make butter from store-bought cream?"  They might as well just buy butter.  This wasn't what I wanted to do.  I wanted to go to the source.  I needed a cow.

I continued my internet searching and found Realmilk.com where there was a directory of raw milk dairies.  I had never heard of raw milk, so that opened a whole other can of worms. Anyway, I found this grass-fed organic dairy in metro-Atlanta.  They had Jersey cows, reportedly the best cream on Earth.   I had to go check it out.  My family and I went to visit the farm one Saturday morning.  I got out of the car and I was awe-struck.  This was an amazing farm raising pastured-broilers, pork, produce, organic eggs, and lots of value-added products in addition to their yellow, creamy milk.  It was a 5 acre family farm that was the sole-livelihood for the family.  

Seeing this beautiful farm with a wonderful, multi-generational family all living and working together...it truly inspired me.  We bought some cream and made the best butter I had ever had.  But more importantly, a spiritual awakening occurred in me.  I wanted to farm.  I just loved being on the farm.  I kept going back and buying milk and other products weekly.  Visiting the farm was always a wonderful treat.  I talked to the farmer every chance I could, picking his brain on different topics until I finally realized, this is the life I wanted for our family. This was the beginning of our journey into homesteading.  

I recently went back to Atlanta for a visit after moving away 2.5 years ago.  I went back to the farm for a visit and sat down with the farmer again.  We had a real serious, deep talk on the business of farming.  I filmed part of our conversation.  It was so full of rich wisdom that would be so helpful for anyone who is thinking about getting into farming.  Here is the video I made... it is our origin story and a business class wrapped into one    Enjoy!

We have an exciting upcoming event! We are hosting a dinner/presentation with the Duke himself, Paul Wheaton.  Paul will be presenting on "Replacing Irrigation with Permaculture".  For details about the event, click here

2016 was a great year for us! We had a lot of successes establishing our homestead in a short amount of time (see 2016 Successes and Failures)
We are charging ahead with big plans for 2017

Cool news guys! Justin Rhodes launched his Kickstarter campaign for The Great American Farm Tour.  Justin and his family will be stopping at The Grass-fed Homestead on the tour!  We are really excited to have them here.  They will also be featuring us in their documentary film about the tour.  We were featured on on the kickstarted page along side the bigs such as Paul Wheaton, Joel Salatin, Curtis Stone, Diego Footer, and more.  What an honor!

Check out the kickstarter here: The Great American Farm Tour

The campaign got funded in just a few hours but you can still help support the Rhodes family while getting deep discounts on the film and gear.

That's great news Dan! I really can't wait to watch that project unfold, those kids are going to have such a wonderful experience, and man, that documentary is going to be fantastic.

Hi Destiny! Thanks for stopping by the thread!
I know, this is going to be epic!

Hey Dan, I don't know how I missed this but I just subscribed to your channel after you got me laughing with this video.



I enjoy watching Justin and it looks like you are putting out some good stuff too. Keep up the good work !!

Hi Miles! Thanks for checking out our channel and subscribing!  I'm glad you got a laugh out of the video.  Perhaps the "Justin" character will come back sometime like the real Justin's mullet man character.  

Last night The Grass-fed Homestead hosted an evening with Paul Wheaton.  Paul presented "Replacing Irrigation with Permaculture" to 80 people over dinner at the Coeur d'Alene Resort in Idaho.  The attendees were highly entertained as Paul performed colorfully as only Paul can.  There were a lot of questions from the audience throughout the evening so the presentation went longer than expected.  No one seemed to mind though... the room was nearly full with folks networking well after the presentation officially concluded.  

Despite having just donated a pint of blood in Spokane approximately 30 minutes earlier, Paul generously agreed to a short interview with me before the dinner presentation.  We talked about the origin of the intentional community at Wheaton Labs, toxicity in commonly used sheet-mulching products (newspaper and cardboard), having neighbors that make large-scale herbicide applications, and shippable core rocket mass heaters.  

In my below VLOG are highlights (and some "behind the scenes") from the evening including a portion of the interview:


I will be publishing more of the presentation and the interview soon.  Please subscribe to my channel to get notified of the additional footage of Paul that will be published.  

A special thanks to Jocelyn who was a joy to work with while organizing this event.  She also donated her laptop for the event when the Macbook failed to pair with the projector.  Thank you Jocelyn!

Thanks Dan!! Looks like you had a good crowd and learned some good stuff to put to good use back home.

Love the way you put together a video too!

Thank you Miles!  It was a great evening with LOTS of info (and video to edit).  

I give this YouTube Channel 10 out of 10 acorns!

The Grass-fed Homestead is a wonderful channel that shares Dan Ohmann's journey with homesteading and permaculture! He posts wonderful and informative videos that can help beginner to advanced homesteaders!