4000 lbs of BEEF and NOWHERE to Put It!

so we have 4 000 pounds of beef that is ready for us to pick it up very very soon and this is where we're planning to put it and if you're wondering where's the freezer well i have the same question [Music] so long before we started even knowing what homesteading was we had another dream that was even bigger and that was the idea of someday being able to own our own herd of beef [Music] but that's a pretty big jump when you don't come from a ranching background or a ranching family so homesteading was really the route that christian and i took right from the beginning to get us a little bit closer to that lifestyle which set us up for success and we had the opportunity a number of years ago to start an actual herd of commercial beef probably should get out and get the gate that would be your job i'm the video person [Music] this is third cutting alfalfa that we're feeding because these are our babies so we want them to put on as much weight grow as fast as we can get them to grow over the winter time so we feed that in addition to the grass they have passion so our herd has grown over time and our goal from the beginning was to be able to offer grass fed and grass finished beef to the public directly farm to fort this year marks the real beginning of that process [Music] a little bit windy today [Music] so last year 2020 was our first little test run of our beef business we just had a few steers to process so we had those butchered and we sold the beef locally and it sold out it did fantastic so this year we are doubling up our output so last year we snagged this used walk-in freezer off of craigslist and it worked great to store the smaller number of steers but we just processed 13 steers that's right around 4 000 pounds of beef i know right and so that freezer and our little personal freezers they're not going to cut it anymore we've been converting this old shop and getting it ready for a custom walk-in freezer we had this freezer slated to be finished in december and then things happened and the freezer guy that we hired to build it had to put it off but now we're really down to the wire because we have to go pick up these 13 steers next week and as you saw there is no freezer in the shop at the moment but he was supposed to come before christmas and then he was supposed to come the week after christmas and then he was supposed to come last week and then he was supposed to come yesterday and then he was supposed to come this morning and we have not seen him yet and i'm a little worried this freezer guy may not exist and i suppose we should have a backup plan but we don't have a backup plan so have you heard from the freezer guy yeah he's supposed to be just leaving denver okay stress is running a little bit high around here this morning okay the freezer guys showed up so they are indeed real people and i feel very relieved yeah that's them in the enterprise rental truck i guess so it's the next morning i didn't film the guys working on the freezer yesterday because i just felt like it could be awkward but i want to go snoop and see what they've done it's pretty cool it's a lot of progress so this guy specializes in taking old freezer panels and then repurposing them into new freezers which i like because it's recycling and it also saves you a lot of money so that's what these are they're panels that he's salvaged from other freezers and has repainted and cut down to size for us so they have this on the bottom and yeah looks good [Music] i am very relieved to report that after many many roadblocks the freezer is finally complete it is a monster so i had plans to document the whole process of it being built and then the company that we ended up using uh let's just say they weren't my favorite there was some issues some communication issues some showing up on time issues so i kind of lost the drive to try to document that on video because yeah anyway it's done it was stressful at times but it's done and all we have left to do is to go pick up a million pounds of beef from south dakota [Music] the moment of truth is here it's the day when christian's gonna go pick up all the beef finally [Music] do [Music] here it comes he left in the dark and he's getting home in the dark that nine below so that's looking good it won't be empty for long [Music] look at that bad boy big old thick guy it's your thick we're still getting our shipping details and our website set up but if you are interested in ordering grass-fed grass finished all-natural wyoming beef from us when we're ready to roll i've left a link down in the show notes you can join the email list and get updates as soon as it's ready

Channel: Jill Winger - The Homestead Mentor

Views: 41,811

Rating: 4.9694366 out of 5

Keywords: 4000 lbs of BEEF and NOWHERE to Put It!, grass-fed beef, the prairie homestead, homesteading, freezer storage, storing beef, grass-fed beef vs. grain-fed beef, grass-fed beef recipes, storing thousands of pounds of beef, how to, how to store meat

Id: J7brS_3-PuM

Length: 7min 41sec (461 seconds)

Published: Wed Feb 03 2021