The older our homestead gets… the more I realize “weeds” are sometimes some of the most useful

Ajouté : 2026-05-17

[00:00:00]What every homesteader doesn't realize they need, and this is probably going to surprise you, but it's clover. I think clover might be one of the most underrated plants on your homestead.

[00:00:10]Most people see weeds, but I see fertilizer, rabbit feed, bee forage, ground cover, and less mowing. A mistake we made was planting two big plots of clover, but not planting them around our fruit trees. This is yellow clover, and it is just starting to bloom right now.

[00:00:27]Clover feeds your fruit trees by helping improve the soil and slowly adding nitrogen back into the ground. So, we're going to be tilling up all of this grass and planting clover all over the ground.

[00:00:38]You can harvest the clover and feed it to your meat rabbits. And the clover that's growing your fruit trees, you can also feed the branches or the prunings to your rabbits as well. This helps add fresh forage variety and help cut feed costs. The clover also feeds the bees, which we have seven beehives now, so that clover is feeding our bees. And the bees help pollinate the trees and the garden. And honestly, perfect weedless lawns are for people who completely rely on the grocery store. The more we homestead, the more I care about useful plants than perfectly manicured grass.

[00:01:14]Because the goal isn't to fight nature non-stop. It's to build systems where everything supports something else. Less mowing, less wasted space, more food, more pollinators, more resilience. Once you start seeing clover as food instead of a weed, you'll look at your yard completely different. Follow along to watch us till up all this grass and plant clover. Thanks for following along. We'll see you in the next one.