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Martha: Oh, look at this. Come on.

Wanna see real soccer players,

these are the real soccer players.

This is how they get their exercise.

They'll kill the ball in three minutes.

$5 down the drain.

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[ rooster crows ]

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I've lived on this farm for about 17 years,

and like you, I'm spending more time at home than ever before.

I have 150 [bleep] acres that have to be planted.

So I'm going to take you behind the scenes

as I do my gardening projects.

A lady making her own fence.

I'm going to help my celebrity friends...

Give them to your wife. Everybody will love these.

I'm whacking my pomegranate right now.

[ chuckles ] hey, snoop.

I'm doing a pot show. -What?!

...And surprise new gardeners.

Hi! It's martha stewart. -Oh, my god!

Some people say I wrote the book on gardening.

Well...

I did.

Do you like?

This is "martha knows best."

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come on, rinze. This is my horse, rinze.

We've just had a beautiful ride

and now I'm taking him back down to the barn.

I have lots of animals here on the farm,

and I love my animals.

A lot of my friends say they'd rather

come back in their next life

as one of my pets than as themselves.

And that's true. Don't you think, rinze?

It's very important to know how to take care of your pets.

So today I'd like to show you

how to care for the animals in the best possible way.

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come on. Time to go out.

When I first finished this farm,

I did not have a fenced-in yard for my dogs,

so we have contrived to make three dog yards

out of one space.

We have this small space

if I have a young puppy or a litter of puppies.

We have a sunken garden right here,

and that can be for a visiting dog.

And he can say right down in that yard

and be safe from these monsters.

Creme brulee and bete noire.

Here's a little mouse for you. Here. Go get it.

Get that mouse. Get that mouse.

And now this is the big space.

This space is large enough for four dogs,

five dogs, six dogs, and where they can run around,

they can actually do their business

over in that far corner,

which is cleaned up every single day, twice a day.

But I've decided I'd like

to make another large dog yard for my babies.

So I just wanted to show you today

how easy it is to construct a section of the fence.

All you need to do is get some wood to make a frame,

staple some wire to it, screw in a support frame

and add a base and top to it.

Oh, how I love this.

I get such a satisfaction when working with tools.

That may sound odd, but it's true.

You can go straight to the lumber yard

and buy your one by four pine.

I've sanded the edges with a medium grit sandpaper,

and we're making this five feet by three feet.

And now we're going to use this wonderful hardware cloth.

This is what I put around the bottom part of my garden

to keep the rabbits out of the garden

trying to get to the strawberries

before I get to them.

Okay, and we're using heavy duty staples,

and just make sure

it's straight all the way to the end.

I like doing carpentry.

My first carpentry job was building my kitchen cabinets

at our little berkshire farm many years ago

when I first got married,

and my kitchen cabinets were a disaster.

Nothing was straight. No doors would close.

And I tried. I really tried.

But it was just a nightmare.

Okay, that looks good.

Okay, so now we are going to put on the security.

And we want to drill holes.

I think the corners are good.

And then a screw like every six inches

on the side.

There.

So if you want this to be a freestanding little yard,

you can put bases like this on it,

make sure the l-hinge has plenty of screws

holding it in place.

There. Okay.

Let's see how this stands up.

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wow.

One last part of this whole fence

is this beautiful top, the lip of the fence.

And this is cut pretty much exactly the right size.

You can have it overhang more on one side

or you can center it right in the middle.

And we will just screw the screws in.

What did we do before we had electric- and battery-run

tools like this?

It was so difficult, and every project was a real big deal.

Now look at me.

A lady making her own dog yard fence.

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[ chuckles ] look at this.

Still has to be primed and painted,

and I have to make about 20 sections like this

for the yard I have envisioned, but it's definitely worth it.

You have something that will last a good long time.

It'll keep your animals safe and give you peace of mind

while you can relax indoors without the puppy.

So we've seen lots of studs on my property.

Now I want to show you some really cute asses.

Now, I've never worn a garbage bag before.

This is totally new for me.

Oh.

-This is oscar. -Oscar. Woof! Woof! Woof!

So oscar got his haircut. Have you cut justin's hair?

He would remove one of my fingers

before he let me cut his hair.

Oh, brother.

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martha: So now I get to speak to one of my famous friends.

This is hailey bieber, who's married to justin bieber.

She wants to talk to me about grooming her dog.

Here she is.

Hi. -Hello!

Oh, look how pretty you look.

-How are you? -I'm good.

-This is oscar. -Oscar. Woof! Woof! Woof!

-What's that? -Woof! There you are.

Woof! Oh, look. -What's that?

Do you remember my roasting of justin?

Hailey: Yes, of course. We were just talking about that.

We had such a nice time. That was a fun night.

Yeah, it was great. It was really fun.

So what are you doing with oscar?

Do you want to know something about dog care?

I would love to get some tips

on how to give my dog the right haircut.

I gave oscar a haircut a couple of weeks ago

because I found a tick on him when we were in canada.

So I shaved him,

but I shaved him with, like, the wrong shaver.

I did the best I could, martha, I swear.

But he had a very jagged haircut.

He looked like a little rat. Oh, but now it's growing back in a little bit, I can see.

But, you know, dogs don't like to be shaved

just because the hair itself acts

as an insulation against the heat

and also against the sunburn.

So don't let them get sunburned

while he doesn't have a coat. -Yeah, for sure.

Justin, did he participate in the shearing of the dog?

He tried to help a little bit and he just kept being like,

"you're just ruining the dog.

You're just ruining his haircut."

but it grew back nicely.

Sweet. Yes. It is growing back nicely.

I tried to keep affirming him

and telling him he looked really handsome

so that he didn't feel bad. -[ laughs ]

so oscar got his haircut. Have you cut justin's hair?

He would remove one of my fingers

before he let me cut his hair.

Really? No way would he let me cut his hair.

Oh, brother. I asked him if I could and he was like,

"you're funny." -[ laughs ]

give my love to justin... -For sure.

...And keep up taking good care of your pets.

-Thank you, martha. Bye. -Ciao, ciao, oscar.

-Say bye, oscy. Say ciao, ciao. -Bye, oscar!

Woof! Woof! Woof!

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now, our big chore of this week is dog washing.

Ari. -Hi, how are you?

This is ari katz. He is raising black labradors.

He's going to be helping me out today.

Ari and I met at westminster last year

when he was showing this beautiful dog.

And this is safari, who was -- was she number-one bitch?

-Last year. -Last year at westminster.

The year before, I showed empress qin,

my female chow, who did very well.

So we've been very happy with our beautiful dogs.

So now you're going to rinse?

I'm going to get ready to do the chow chows.

So this is carlos villamil. He is my driver on the weekends.

More famous for taking care of the dogs

because he is like the dog whisperer.

Let's go. Let's dance.

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spanish music -- they love that.

He has devised a dog-washing outfit

out of a garbage sack.

Is that for me? -Yes.

Now, I've never worn a garbage bag before.

This is totally new for me.

I don't think the arm holes are big enough, carlos.

Here, just -- I'll do that.

I'll do that. I'm the dressmaker.

Come this way.

Also, these are scented.

Why with a scent garbage bags?

Ask those people. Ugh!

Do you like?

So, okay, let's start.

There's many rules to follow when you're bathing animals.

We don't shoot it right in their face,

and make sure the water is a nice,

mild, warm temperature.

Now you're going to get some shampoo for dogs.

So, start at the neck and go down to the tail.

Just make sure you really get those hindquarters nice

and wet and soapy,

and then rub-a-dub-dub.

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so, very important to rinse totally.

You want to get every bit. Can you stand her up?

I need to get her stomach.

She looks like a platypus. [ chuckles ]

okay, carlos. I'm done with her.

Oh, there she goes.

And, boy, I would be totally soaked

if I didn't have my garbage bag bib on.

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now, blow drying. Now you sit. Sit, girl.

So now when you're using a hair dryer,

put your hand under the hair dryer

so that you never, ever burn your dog.

I do my dogs every single day.

That's to check them for fleas and ticks

for knots and brambles and and whatever else.

A good, healthy dog could probably be groomed

at least once a month.

Oh, yeah.

But be careful with a brush like this

on the hindquarters or underbelly of your dogs.

Hindquarters are extremely tender.

Be cognizant.

You wouldn't want anybody brushing you. [ laughs ]

roughly and pulling out all of your hair.

No. That hair.

Okay, we're going to stop with the blow drying.

Good girl, qin.

I lower her myself and just --

let's do safari's nails.

-Yeah. -Aww.

And that's how she gets in the car.

She's so great.

So the nails, they're my pet peeve.

I like to keep them very, very short.

And once a week -- -you do?

Oh, yeah.

I use this fantastic rotary dremel

that's designed for wood but works perfectly for dogs.

So this is long. You'll know --

my dogs have not had their nails done for five months.

-Oh, five months? -I know.

That's not good.

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ari, come here. Have you seen the donkeys lately?

-No. -They're so cute.

Hey, rufus. This is billy.

-Yeah. -That's rufus

and this is clive. Oh, I love these so much.

Now, these are sicilian miniatures of different sizes,

but these beautiful donkeys come from a farm down

in alderson, west virginia,

where I had to spend five months at camp.

-Yeah. -I love them.

And next door, our two newest -- jude and truman --

named after my grandchildren,

and they are rescues.

Now, they were skittish and sad and just in about four months,

they are like different friendly animals.

And look. It looks like they have nail polish on. I know. So shiny.

-So beautiful. -Varnished.

[ laughs ]

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I love these surprise calls.

She doesn't know it's me, by the way.

Hello, I'm ari. Nice to meet you.

Hi, ari. Nice to meet you.

So I have four pet ducks in my backyard

and they have a water feature

and they have a nice part of the yard that they live in.

But I need to build them like a coop --

a chicken coop but for ducks.

So any advice you have on that would be awesome.

And I'm here with martha. Here's martha.

-Hi. -[ gasps ] martha stewart?!

[ laughs ]

yes, martha. Martha martha.

Hi, how are you?

I'm so great. It's so nice to meet you.

Oh, how nice.

Now, are you raising these for to eat,

or are you raising them as pets?

So we kind of inherited them from a poultry farm

that was closing, so we were... [ duck quacking loudly ]

okay. We hear you. [ chuckles ]

so we are raising them as pets.

At of the beginning of the pandemic panic,

we were like, "oh, we could have eggs."

-we love duck eggs. -Right. We love duck eggs.

Anyway, you do need a coop.

At night, it's very important to have an enclosed yard --

top, sides and bottom.

-That has good ventilation. -That has very good ventilation.

Yes. This is the shed that they sleep in now to be safe,

but it's just -- it's really small.

It doesn't get great ventilation.

We have to clean it, like, constantly.

I would make it so you can walk in --

at least five and a half feet tall.

Okay. Okay.

So for that, you'll need eight-foot two by fours.

You have to sink the two by fours down into the ground

at least two and a half feet,

and I would make them maybe four feet apart.

And then I bury my wire, my side wire, down at least

eight inches into the ground.

-That's important. -That way nobody's going

to burrow under the fence.

And then make a gate. You have to have a gate.

-Yeah. -I will do that.

Thank you so much. -You're welcome. Thanks.

Thanks for being there.

Oh, martha, it was so nice to meet you.

This is the coolest. Thanks, guys.

-Oh, great. Bye-bye. -Bye-bye.

Bye!

Oh, my gosh. I just spoke to martha stewart.

She gave me the best advice.

My ducks are going to have the best coop ever.

Thank you so much. This was so cool.

Suki got a rabbit. -She got a rabbit?

-She left me just a leg. -Oh, no!

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martha: So here's a part of the program that I really like.

I find it very interesting that my producers

are trying to find projects that are going to impress me.

I like to do this. I like to see what people are up to.

Now, I'll be impressed if I'm impressed,

but I'm not going to fake it.

Hi, I'm laney kleuser, and this is rotini.

We live in woodward, oklahoma, and we have a project

that we really hope impresses martha.

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this is our cat tree made out of reclaimed branches

that fell down in an ice storm a couple of years ago.

It's got a lot of nice, really scratchy places for cats.

It's basically just the branches screwed to plywood, leveled off,

and then upholstered to look like a really nice piece

of furniture in our house that we like to look at

and our cats like to lie on.

Martha, I hope this impressed you.

Martha: I have cats, and I know how much cats love to climb

and be on top of it all.

Empress tang and princess peony

would adore such perches.

That cat tree is gorgeous.

I wouldn't mind having that in any room in my house.

Laney, congratulations. You've done a good thing.

Hey, guys.

Everybody happy? Everybody good?

Maybe I'll sprinkle them. Should I sprinkle the geese?

-Oh, with the hose? -Some of them like it

and some of them don't.

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if they hated it, they would be running away.

Nice gentle rain.

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I have no favorites. I'm like my mother.

My mother had six children

and none of them were the favorite. None.

All creatures great and small on this farm...

[ rooster crows loudly ]

okay, so now we're going to exercise the dogs.

This is going to be fun.

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good girl. That's a good girl.

Now it's time for me to call my dear friend zac posen.

Hey, zac. -Hi!

-Who's your puppy? -This is suki.

Oh, hi, suki.

There's creme brulee. Hi, creme brulee!

Hi, creme brulee. Say hi to suki.

-Where are you? -I am in bridgehampton.

We've been gardening since March.

Well, it's so easy to garden in the hamptons.

-It's it's incredible. -Yeah.

You can grow anything any time. It's so great.

Yes. She's been protecting my garden.

Oh, she has? Because the property is not totally fenced in.

Well, I worry about deer.

There's a lot of deer in bridgehampton.

You better watch out.

-I scream at them. -At night is when they come

and they secretly eat everything. I know.

Right. Well, suki's been getting --

she got a rabbit.

[ gasps ]

she got a rabbit?

-She left me just a leg. -Oh, no! [ laughs ]

the city dog has acclimated nicely

to the country. [ chuckles ]

well, anyway, first let's get to your question

because I don't want to not answer a question that zac posen

poses to me.

Ari's dog want to go in the pool.

It's not allowed.

Safari, don't get in that pool.

[ gasps ] too late now.

My grandchildren are coming up,

and they don't like dog hair in the pool.

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let's get to your question, because I don't want

to not answer a question that zac posen poses to me.

I was wondering what you would put in the garden

that I can give to suki to eat

that will be nutritious and healthy.

Well, I think you're crazy

if you're growing your dog's food like that.

But if you love suki that much, most food is okay for dogs.

But don't let them eat produce

such as onions, garlic, grapes and avocados.

My dogs love carrots cooked.

They love peas. They love kale.

And I must say, my beautiful, energetic dogs have not had

to visit a veterinarian for now over two years.

Wow. Because that's when I started making their food

on a regular basis.

So I think it's -- I think it's really healthy

and they really love it.

And the bunnies.

Anyway, I'm so happy to talk to you

and see you looking so well.

-Thank you. You as well. -And happy. You look happy.

You look happy, zac. -I am happy. Thank you.

Good. And someday maybe I'll be able to wear a party dress.

-Of course. -[ laughs ] bye-bye, darling.

Bye.

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look, they find a little tiny bit of shade.

See that?

And this is really hot.

And it's hot for the chow chows.

My grandchildren are coming up,

and they don't like dog hair in the pool.

And I don't blame them.

Ari's dog wants to go in the pool.

It's not allowed.

Safari, don't get in that pool.

-[ gasps ] too late now! -Safari!

Safari, safari. Come here.

[ laughs ]

jump in and save my dog.

[ laughs ] -up the stairs.

Looks like safari is going to need to be groomed again.

[ chuckles ]