We live on a formerly Amish farm in the Midwest.. Right now, we have chickens, bees. rabbits and quail. Our goal is sustainability. We have 6 adult children and 8 grandchildren. Some of the fondest memories we have as children include farming with our families. We endeavor to create those same memories for our grandchildren and teach them where our food comes from.
Papa Joe blacksmiths, keeps bees and is the rabbit/quail guy. Nana Cynthia is large and in charge of the rest of the animals. She is an avid quilter, with an online quilt shop, gardener, candle maker, soap maker, herbalist and all around explorer. :)
We try to be completely organic and are a registered Monarch Waystation, member of the Pollinator Partnership, member of the National Wildlife Federation and exercise a combination of Back to Eden and permaculture gardening.
We aren't experts by any means. but our ministry is to feed hungry people.
Oh…a slammer. I have one on each door. I just love them! Our neighbors…not so much. For windows I use sprayway window cleaner with paper towels and microfiber cloths from Menards. No streaks and a clear view! I have a daughter who sure surprised us with her anger towards us. I pray for her but I can’t carry her baggage. Our son is just the opposite and they were both raised the same way, go figure. I trust God has this because I sure don’t understand it. You have room in your heart for these Amish kids and God took care of the rest!!!:):):)
What a blessing! I love the Amish communities. We just visited SUNRISE FARMS in Winchester, the men are fantastic and kind. Great conversations. I canned 26 quarts of tomato sauce, 10 quarts of peaches and 8 - 1/2 pint jars of cowboy candy. I have a plan to visit your shop during the shop, hope to meet you soon!
My ardent love for oil lamps and lanterns enabled me to adopt the nature of watching various videos on RU-vid and I stumbled upon your video.....In this era of LEDs and flashlights....I truly cannot describe how much annoyance it creates with its starkness as opposed to the flickering flame which brings a strange sense of tranquility and bliss ....I love to turn off the lights in my room and light up an oil lamp or lantern and bask in the warmth of the flickering flame.... I reckon I am an " unapologetic old soul" ...Your video really provided the much required information about illuminating capacity of a candle...a dead flame oil lamp and an Aladdin lamp....It was really blissful to watch your video.... Warm regards from India 🇮🇳💖....
Oh my, good luck with the ostrich. I acquired 2 juvenile ostrich years ago at a livestock sale... I went to get a feeder calf and came home with two ostriches. All I can say is they don't do well in IN winters but they make mighty fine jerky and burger. 😊
It's NOT staying on our farm. I know my limits. Those birds are mean! I have a friend who turned her back on one of hers, it kicked her until she ended up in the hospital. Nope nope nope! Thanks for watching and commenting!
@@appalachianmercantile yeah, I learned pretty quick to NEVER wear earrings...lol. I did try the Robinson Caruso thing... nope you can't ride an ostrich,... but to control them all you have to do is grab their head and their neck is so weak you can drag them anywhere.😊
Yeah, where I live we have red clay soil, gets all over your clothes and is such a pain to get out of them its like brown pudding all over the ground 😭 My only success with red clay has been composting, it turns red clay into a very rich soil, adding sand into my compost also helped alot
That's our plan once Hubs has time to put our compost area together. For the end of this season, it is chop and drop. LOL Thanks for watching and commenting!
Listen, calm down your gardens look amazing and you truly are as blessed as you are a blessing to others, I appreciate the honesty but you have to realize what so many people are experiencing this year which is discouraging at best,,,
Darker soil? What does that tell you? Higher organic matter. Why? It looks like your soil is washing and eroding, bringing the topsoil to the first area of tillage or low land. Look into soil erosion and sedimentation. You'll have heavy soils in low lands because the eroded soil deposits there and organic matter accumulates in wet areas. Please, learn about soil and management, it's actually really easy and logical and will help you manage your land better. There's also prescribed grazing that improves your forage value. So many easy concepts out there for people to learn and implement
@jenniferhahn2851 it's darker from where there used to be a garden there and horse manure was added on a regular basis. Erosion would have better soil downhill, not the east to west. Where I was pointing is all clay, which I probably didn't make clear. Thanks for watching and commenting.
You must till your soil, that's why you have severe compaction. Try no-tiling. Look into soil health. You'll have weeds when you disturb the soil. Some"weeds" aren't bad, a variety of plants and roots can be beneficial to your soils and vegetables. Till and you will ruin your soil, reduce your production, and increase weeds. Lots of information out there for you to learn
@@jenniferhahn2851 it's our first year here. It's clay soil. As I said in the video, we will eventually be no till. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Yea, chicory does great here too. I’m about to harvest some and make coffee too. Just dig the roots, clean them up, chop and roast in oven on low. I love foraging in spots like that! I bet you have wild lettuce too!
Thank you - I've wondered if people wanted my videos to be longer. When I do the garden tours, I feel like I'm just droning on and on. LOL Thanks for watching and commenting!
Too cute! Roly Poly fur babies that will grow FAST! Hunny is sporting quite the tan line socks! Thinking maybe he spends a great deal of time out in the sun with all this building up of your homestead. Thanks for sharing your newest family members!!!:):):)
I add layers of forest soil, chopped leaves, grass clippings, pine straw, rotted logs, green mimosa leaves etc. If I need a row I get soil from a drainage ravine in the woods where piles of sediment are four feet deep and I use this and a mix of the other stuff to make mounds for melons and squash. I add my green grass clippings to my garden under plants to cover the ground and there`s a lot less weeding to do. My compost is made in the garden constantly. The most "tilling" I do is digging small holes for some transplants or seeds. There are huge earthworms everywhere.
That was what we did at the old farm. We still haven't had time to construct the compost bins and haven't been able to source the same way we could before. Slow and steady wins the race. I do wish we had a woods. I am NOT a proponent of tilling. This year it was done out of necessity - time and funds. Thanks for watching and commenting!
I am currently fighting a very large patch of poison oak in my daughter’s backyard. I am spraying it with 45% vinegar, natural herbicide, then tarping until spring, southwest Ohio. The patch is that bad and she is highly allergic. I hope to make it to your shop someday. I have a king size quilt on my long arm waiting to be quilted today. Stay cool!
It`s everywhere around my yard and it`s eating me alive. It got on my foot, right hand and legs. Covered in scabs. My toe was itching and I scratched it and chunks of the skin came off. I bought "poison ivey/oak killer." It does NOTHING!
I have some poison ivy in the front of the shop. I will be fighting that one alone - Hubs is allergic. *sigh* The shop used to be in Fairborn, so I am familiar with that area. Hope to see you soon! Are you doing the state shop hop?
I like my nesting boxes sort of like yours as well EXCEPT when broody moms start hatching babies … I’m always afraid they’ll fall out. I end up putting a large tote under it filled thickly with shavings to break a fall during hatch days only 😅
That's good to know. These will all be new layers, so it will be interesting to see how many broody types we get. We're also getting chicks from the hatchery late Aug, but those breeds were hand picked rather than barnyard mix. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Thanks! It's a work in progress....evidently I had issues with my 'words' today. I called cucumber beetles cabbage beetles, etc. Ugh! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Give yourself lots of grace! You’ve done and learned so much in the past six months. It’s admirable that you even started a garden. Please also remember that weed free gardens sometimes indicate the use of herbicides.
When is the shophop. Where are u located. We live in Oklahoma. Would love to visit your part of our world. Love watching your videos. How do u kerp all that garden space weeded ?
Shop hop is entire month of August and September. I usually go out in the mornings for a few hours and sometimes in the evenings. Thanks for watching and commenting.
Your gardens are going to be beautiful. Here in Montana, we have our first summer flowers starting t bloom, Irises and peonies Soon the others will mature enough and fill in after this fade away. We are struggling with getting our veggie garden planting finished due to the rain, but no complaints as we need the rain. Thanks for the tour
The rain has added to my difficulties this year as well! Are you posting content and tours? If so, I'll pop over and look. I love a good garden tour! Thanks for watching and commenting!
I love your videos. I came to your shop when you were at your previous farm. I can’t wait to visit your new place. Have learned so much from watching your RU-vid channel. Congratulations on not hanging your big girl job. It’s truly amazing. Enjoy!!!
Good grief girl, with move, work on place, quilt shop, etc give yourself a break regarding the gardening. The place looks amazing 😍 I'm green with envy. ☕🙋♀️
Nice barn! Have you raised turkeys previously? Will you be selling poultry or is it just for your own use? Will you process yourself? We have Amish in our area that process for $3.00 per bird. It’s not terribly expensive but when added to the price of the bird and feed it can add up. I. Wondering what type of birds you’ll raise also? Wow, I’ve peppered you with lots of questions there 🙂
I had turkey growing up. We will be selling and eating. We do process ourselves. These birds are a heritage breed called Bronze turkeys. They differ from your grocery store turkey in that all the meat tastes like dark meat. It is more flavorful and not dry like typical breast meat. Once you have eaten a heritage breed turkey, you will never eat another 'grocery store' turkey again. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Thanks for sharing your build and your property! It’s super enjoyable watching your progress! Are you keeping it non electric there? I don’t know if you said in a previous video
@@tracy6144 We are putting in some electric, but will easily be able to go back to non-electric should we need to. (i.e. a tornado went through last week and we lost power for a bit). The quilt shop and blacksmith shop both have power. He has welders. I have the computers, longarm machines, internet hook-up and credit card machine. We put in some in the basement of the main house for the freezers and more recently the grow lights. (High tunnel isn't done yet.) We do have electric in the pantry that runs the fridge and occasionally the toaster. LOL One more outlet in the living room that we use if we want to watch a movie on the TV. (The Amish like to come over occasionally and watch with us.) That's pretty much it for electric. None in the bathrooms, bedrooms, etc. We still use the oil lamps and re-chargeable Miller lights. My stove is propane. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Grapes don't mind draught conditions and thrive in unfavorable soil conditions. Being on that hill, in our research, should really help them thrive. Thanks for watching and commenting!
Very cute, fun project. Love the idea! Would be better video if you condensed your speech. You were 2 min in before you did anything. Your hands look lovely, by the way, well kept. Thank for a cute "quickie"
It makes working out there so enjoyable. Sitting on that porch looking out over the garden with all that bird noise just checks all the boxes and brings me such joy. Thanks for watching and commenting!
That was what the Hubs was concerned about, so he was going to plant them up out of the way. Do you store your rolled leaves in a humidor? Thanks for watching and commenting!
When I am using as a treatment of a condition, I make an infusion in a glass quart jar. This one is 1 part coltsfoot leaf, 1 part march mallow leaf and flower, 1 part mullein leaf. Put them in the jar and pour boiling water over them to the rim. Let steep for 1/2 hour or so. Obviously the longer you steep, the stronger the tea. Strain it and drink about 1/2 cup as often as needed until the cough goes away. Store unused tea in the fridge. I will sometimes add a little chamomile for sweetness. It's just another great reason to store each herb separately rather than all together. You will get to know your body and what works for you, so you will add a little of this and less of that as you go along. I like to add a little peppermint to this one just for flavor. The marsh mallow flower adds a bit of sweetness. Just remember if you add honey to any tea to make it more palatable/sweeter, the tea needs to be cooled off some. Otherwise, you will lose the antibiotic properties of the honey. Thanks for watching and commenting!
