Kitchen

The beautiful part of growing and raising your own food is cooking your own food. Food should be delicious and simple, here are some of our favorite family recipes, enjoy!

How to Render Lard – Don’t Miss This Healthy Fat

You can use pork fatback or pig leaf lard to learn how to render lard using this slow cook method in a crock pot, stove top, or Dutch

How to Make Yogurt

Don't be without homemade yogurt! Whether you prefer Greek, frozen or in a smoothie with milk or cream, you can learn how to make yogurt at home.

Head Cheese

Unlike American or string cheese, a head cheese recipe contains no cheese, is made from boar or hog meat, high in nutrition and easy to make.

Homemade Pork Rind Chips

Learn to make healthy carnivore pork rind chips for all your favorite dips and snacks. With this tutorial, you'll soon be enjoying this crunchy, salty treat in your

How To Freeze Green Beans

Learning how to freeze green beans fresh from the garden (without having to can or dry them) is the best way to put them up to cook later

Homemade Bacon (Cured, Smoked, Cooked)

Learning how to make homemade bacon is extremely simple. You can follow this bacon recipe for a smoky, thin or thick-cut bacon perfect for breakfasts, sandwiches, or straight

Justin Rhodes on Youtube

It's neat to be cooking meat over this view, seeing the cows in the distance where this one used to graze. This is Stud Muffin. I knew him by name. I loved him. I think it's really special to be eating meat that was loved by you. It's nice to remember him and to be thankful for him

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Eating meat that was loved by me

Justin Rhodes 17 hours ago

After getting really sick from handling chickens and then not washing my hands properly, I and the beautiful one are extremely cautious. How do you wash your hands when you're on the go, on the farm without a sink? How about a soap on a rope?

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How to keep your hands clean on the farm

Justin Rhodes June 29, 2026 7:06 pm

Happy butchering day on the homestead! It’s the peak of our season and rush month June as we juggle daily chores, cornish cross in the brooder and in the field, and a full day of processing chickens with the whole family and a few friends.

Come behind the scenes as Justin and the crew fire up the scalder, sharpen knives, move fences, and time everything so one batch of meat birds is heading to the chill tank while a fresh batch of chicks gets turned out onto new pasture.

You’ll see:
• Early‑morning garden trellising, hornworm hunting, and “sauna‑mode” greenhouse work
• Members arriving to help with butchering
• Kids catching birds, learning the craft, and keeping the butchering line moving
• Jonas’ hose and water setup in action, plus our upgraded cool room and packing station
• How we stagger meat into the cool room and freezer, then wrap the week with Shabbat rest
This video is equal parts homestead hustle and family life—showing the reality of harvest season, the systems that make on‑farm butchering doable, and the joy of raising and processing your own food together.

If you enjoy honest farm‑life vlogs, small‑scale meat production, or want ideas for organizing your own butchering day, you’ll love this episode. Hit like, share your best butchering‑day tips in the comments, and subscribe to follow more of our seasonal rhythms on the homestead.

Watch the uncensored version on Abundance Plus: https://abundanceplus.com

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We Butchered 100+ Chickens (in a Day)

Justin Rhodes June 29, 2026 6:57 pm

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The Ultimate Chicken Butchering Set Up Just Got Better

Justin Rhodes June 28, 2026 4:00 pm

Look at our DIY walk-in cooler. Built this for half the price of what we would've had to pay. It's hot outside but inside this air conditioning with a cool-bot cooler, it's 37 degrees. Let's harvest and hang some meat

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Guess What I Built

Justin Rhodes June 27, 2026 5:54 pm

I built this walk-in cooler from the Luke Doherty plans. We'll hang our beef, sheep, and pigs, plus cool off our chickens. Built it in our butchering shed for convenient access. Can't wait to use it. Can't wait to share the entire video with you on YouTube soon

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DIY Walk In Cooler Tour

Justin Rhodes June 26, 2026 6:56 pm

We just completed the missing link for keeping our homegrown meat completely on the farm. Now the sheep and lamb and pork are conceived here, born here, harvested here, cooled here, and butchered here, feeling a little more food secure tonight.

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Conceived, Born, Harvested and Butchered

Justin Rhodes June 25, 2026 6:42 pm

Join us for an eye‑opening tour of Polyface Farm with legendary farmer Joel Salatin, as we explore one of the most innovative and productive farms in America.

From rebuilding depleted soil without chemicals to composting with pigs, deep bedding systems for cows, and game‑changing pastured poultry, Joel shows how regenerative agriculture can heal land, grow nutrient‑dense food, and create real opportunity for young farmers without massive debt.

You’ll see:
• How Joel turned bare, eroded ground into thriving, fertile pasture
• His compost “fertility factory” using cows, pigs, and carbon
• Pastured broilers that one person can move—4,500 birds in 60 minutes
• Why mobile, modular infrastructure lets you farm without owning land
• How “moving, mobbing, mowing” cattle can build soil and sequester carbon

Whether you’re a homesteader, aspiring farmer, or just curious where your food comes from, this tour will challenge conventional thinking and inspire you to see animals, land, and food in a whole new way.

Hit like if this farm tour fired you up, drop a comment with your biggest takeaway, and subscribe for more regenerative farming, homesteading, and family‑farm life videos.

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro – Why Polyface Farm is different
1:40 Building soil without chemicals
9:30 Deep bedding, pigs, and compost
24:00 Pastured poultry and mobile infrastructure
40:00 Cows, carbon, and regenerating the land

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Joel Salatin on Soil, Cows and the lies We’ve been Told (Polyface Farm Tour)

Justin Rhodes June 25, 2026 4:00 pm

The most underrated homestead animal needs no grain, just grass. A simple mobile pen moved daily. There's something special about something that can live and produce meat just from the land, with no external inputs

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The Sound of Food Security

Justin Rhodes June 24, 2026 8:22 pm

We give the sheep good soil and in return they make that soil even better

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Sheep Restoring Soil

Justin Rhodes June 23, 2026 6:16 pm

This is how you keep it real while traveling and have little mini adventures:
1. We're sleeping in a dome.
2. It's in Amish country.
3. We're sourcing some food from the locals.

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Grabbing Cream in Amish Country

Justin Rhodes June 22, 2026 6:41 pm

You start Father’s Day before everyone else, trying to cold‑smoke 12‑day‑cured bacon with a finicky pellet tube and empty torch tank, and decide to talk through 15 things you’ve learned in nearly 20 years of fatherhood—things like teaching kids to care for themselves and others, letting them fail when the stakes are small, and above all genuinely wanting them with you. Between relighting pellets and loading bacon slabs, you pull Gideon into the project, tease him about the old days of never finding his shoes (the inspiration for your children’s book), and share how sometimes you break your own rule about not helping with tasks they can do when the relationship moment matters more than total independence.

The day swings from philosophy to farm chaos: you check on a drained pond and admire the boys’ DIY pipe repair and budding YouTube entrepreneurship, get a “hurry!” call from Lily that turns out not to be dead piglets but a surprise farrowing, and quickly reorganize pig pens so the sow can eat heavy while keeping older piglets safe and nearby. You talk about not being a dream‑crusher—remembering your own dad telling you permaculture chickens would never sell five copies—and contrast that with your kids’ experiments, choosing to encourage them instead of protecting them from every possible failure.[Attachment]
Homeschooling and work blend together: you and Rebecca explain how you’ve moved toward “immersion learning” on the homestead—kids doing real chores in the morning, then free to pursue interests later—pulling from unschooling ideas but keeping structure and hard work so they don’t grow up soft. You give Henry reality‑based rewards (chores first, then his police video game), have the kids help string‑trim around pig nets, set a new Premier fencer to power the high‑tensile, and show how doing hard things—from pulling old wire in tall grass to turning compost—builds character the same way your dad’s firewood jobs did for you.

Amid fried‑chicken‑and‑biscuits brunch, World Cup matches, and Father’s Day gifts, you and friends reflect on the best things your own dads gave you: horses, unconditional love, faithful love for your mom, and simply being wanted and taken along, even when it was inconvenient. The cold room and ice machine finally kick on, locking in future butchering plans for chickens, pigs, and the steer, and you close the day with black‑raspberry crisp, Leah and Asher visiting from the “Eden’s Promise” goat dairy, and your two core rules boiled down: truly want your children, and when you inevitably blow it, look them in the eye and apologize so they know you struggle too and it’s not all their fault.

Apprenticeship map: https://justin-rhodes-8b6f01.lpcontent.net/childapprenticeship

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18 Years A Dad. Here’s What I Tell Every Father

Justin Rhodes June 22, 2026 4:00 pm