Farming Without Electricity | Mennonite Permaculture Farm Tour 

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Your reach is just going to explode as you follow where God leads. God bless you, Steven🙌🏼

Looking forward to all the unique content you will be bringing to this new channel! Loved this Mennonite farm tour!

Mennonites found the sweet spot between no tech Amish and high tech of the modern world, they ate the way forward.

I'm a transplant to East Tn too (thank God). I definitely feel you about growing stone fruit here haha. I've seen the old order Mennonites around here and there. I don't bug them when I do but they are friendly and nice and always have a kind of pure energy about them that's hard to explain. I always wondered what their homes and gardens looked like, so this was a very awesome video. Thank you for making it.

A very interesting story and video! I love seeing people moving back to natural ways and really using all of our current knowledge to really optimize it all. Can't wait until the next video!

I am extremely interested in this! Not only the interviews themselves but also how/if you are able to maintain your own homestead while you are traveling. I would love to see you interview yourself and your wife, if she is willing, on how this new journey is going once a year or so. I kind of catch up. Good luck and safe travels!

Born is Amish country - thanks for showing up...

9:57 I absolutely love this journey of the father and the son, I’m currently going through this journey. About three years ago now I started my journey in natural farming, my mom reached out about six months ago and told me how much she loved her ash tree and how beautiful it used to be and how much shade it provided for their house, it was unfortunately dying and I really thought to myself this would be the perfect opportunity to change the soil structure and provide some abundance food or my parents property. I have was speaking with my father not long ago about the way to help me do my job of spraying and taking care of things for you guys is to cover all the fair patches with organic material like grass clippings or Strahl or something of that sort in order to heal the soil and bring the microbial population back and this week I was really happy to drive by and realize that it’s finally been done after a few conversations and the rest of the yard already looks better just after a few days. ❤ Also we completely restored the Astri and it’s coming back beautifully as well as a few quince bushes rosebushes we now have a small mulberry orchard and garden going as well as well we are covered a few crabapple trees.

Hello Steven. Thank you for this! BTW, the "Pennsylvania Dutch" dialect is not Dutch, but is actually a dialect of German, spoken only by the Amish and some Mennonites.

Amazing video! Thank you for all you do to educate the community.

Came over from your other channel. What a testimony of finding the ONE truth! Praise the Lord! I have learned a few things from this video. The Amish and Mennonite are good sources of farming techniques to learn from, for sure, especially this particular no-till farm you were at. We are very much into the no-dig method in our small garden, although I am constantly searching for ways to lessen the frequency of even organic fertilizing on our garden beds. Thank you for making this video, looking forward to more future videos from you! God Bless!

I've been trying three different methods here on the west side of the Rockies BC (Columbia valley). There is tons of rocks ... the neighbor across the road is a gravel pit. So if you remove the rocks then you're now down a foot so that adding compost and substance is necessary but the soil is black. I heard that the best soil is under the tree and everywhere here are trees. Anyways, I have 3rd year Hugelkulture beds (4 - 4' X 50'); tilled and rocks removed & compost added - 2nd year (about 700' sq); no-till cardboard over grass & compost added - 1st year (about 600' sq). 2 raised beds 5' X 15' were here and one has a plastic tunnel cover ... I'm working on covering the other plus putting in more raised bed under the extended tunnel. Mostly I'm learning how to grow food. Thank you for another example of people changing to the natural ways to garden/grow food.

Thanks for always showing such grace and nuance in your teaching. 🙂

May God bless and keep your family. I live in Tennessee and if the Mennonite farm is near me I would like to go and purchase vegetables from them if it is okay for you to tell others about them

New journey, excited to see what you share. This video was a joy to hear while driving to Canada. Still on my KNF journey, learning and loving it. 🙏

Thank you for the update, whatever you can do to capture the beauty on camera is awesome.

Excellent video. Looking forward to more!

I’m so excited for you and your wife, on all your new adventures! Looking forward to your new channel and content. 🤗🙏

They run everything off the windmill through a series of gears, pulleys, and belts. Then They can run air compressors to operate running water.

I would recommend if you haven't reading (especially) Sir Albert Howard's "The Soil and Health" or Eve Balfour's "The Living Soil" - Organic was not about "No chemicals" it was about specifically the living soil. It has been crudely reduced to that message over time.

Just wanted to pop in and say there are a ton of fruit trees native to north america; persimmons, cranberries, cherries, peaches, plums, crabapples, and paw paws as you mentioned. Great video though sir!

I love the Amish way of life!!! Thank you so much for sharing the details!! Excited to see your travels!

This is awesome Steven. Thank you for your gracious spirit to want to take us along! Peace. BTW I live in SC and we have a dairy farm nearby that uses the "12 Aprils" pasture rotation. It's really amazing. Farm name: Happy Cow Creamery......Be blessed.

Very educational. Great that your parents made that relationship. Good for you to share this wonderful culture and and important food growing information, Thank you

Great video, thank you very much, I was blown away by the rice that was growing.

Good stuff, Steven!

New channel? I'm in! ☝️😎

Loved every bit of this video! Very inspiring! Hoping for more videos like this!

thanks for sharing very usefull info for air flowing trees.

Wow thanks for showing

Love this nee channel and format. Great information and very watchable! Keep doing this!

Great launch video! Very interesting how they were open to branching into these alternative practices. Same resistance the rest of us hit in our communities. People dont like change in general. A key interest point with farmers is more profit and less labor. Loved the innovations with the water wheel and pressurized their irrigation. Curious on how they used the cart to pressure up their spray rig. Very clever. Excellent start, it will be nice when you can have interaction with the farmers. Loved the cattle rotation as well.

Ready for your new journey!

The best way to limit insect pests in an orchard is to let sheep, chickens, ducks and pigs graze. However, their grazing time must be controlled to limit the damage they can do to the soil and plants. Another important technique is to increase the plant diversity around the trees to offer Another technique for limiting insect pests is to provide shelter and cover for pest predators by diversifying the plants around fruit trees. It's also important to have a wide variety of fruit trees to limit pests.

Clover and alfalfa deter weed growth thought id share great cover crop, aid soil nutrition, they plow soil. Great green manure. Plus alfalfa is a soil builder so it takes nitrogen from the automosphere and energy from the sun to use for developement of fertile soils. Can then be great chop and drop also as a bonus alfalfa great for mucle building😂. Also both are edible and madicinal.

Here i thought i was the only one with some Jim Henson Muppet eye brows lol

This is so interesting Steven!! Love it.. Best wishes to you and your wife on your new journey .. Hugs

Subscribed ❤. Looking forward to this new series

Loved this tour..👍

Great job.

Very cool setup!

Good luck on your new journey, brother! We're looking forward to the new content. 🤙

Great video and great farm tour 🇳🇿❤️

Amazing! Thank you for sharing this video. Greetings from Madang, Papua New Guinea!

Enjoy the journey brother

I’m so happy to subscribe to your new channel.

I believe I went to their market. I saw those giant cabbage, they were unbelievable

G Wonderful farm thanks for sharing 😊

Thank you for sharing. I think I am pretty close to you and this might even be one of the Mennonite farms near me. I love seeing that there are some doing it the natural way. I love the roll of paper idea! Would love to know where they got it!

I thought the Mennonite people used electricity and the Amish don't. I have a Mennonite family near me with a food truck selling donuts and man they're the best donuts I've ever had

You forgot the most important regenerative agriculture practice to control weeds which is vegetable cover crops. Not only it limit weeds but it increases the soil fertility at the same time, is not it great? When you master it you can apply it to any size field and it works pretty well, so you do not need plastic (plastic will pollute your soil) or any special machine. Cover crops are the futur of sustainable agriculture there is no other way because this is what nature does for so many centuries.

Awesome

I love your story on your other channel! It has been a refiners fire for sure.... and ultimately we all have to bow our knees and put our complete trust in God. I will be praying for you as you and your wife set out on this exciting journey of TRUST.... Blessings.....

What a wonderful tour! So many techniques and points of interest. Im excited about this new channel and the stories that will follow. I hope in future you will just describe some of the other facets of the farms. Without electricity I hope you will ask about meat preservation and whether they use propane, root cellars, ice pits, whatever. I don’t need to know all thydetails but a general description of practices would be instructive.

Resistance to change has changed thanks to this administration! A good friend of mine also lives in the east and they farm produce as their bread and butter for 20-years UNTIL at the beginnig of C*ovid her farm business as well as many othe farmers worldwide received threat letters to cut their produce production by half or be fined by our good ole Gov! Sadly many farmers had to burn off alot of their own land or pay the cost! No reason....at all but dont comply and pay dearly. Her and many other farmers tried to stand their rights which caused her to lose her whole farmland by a fire that the fire dept couldn't give a reason. Farmers are at their mercy and folks do t even know the effect few years ago are not stsrting to see the plague our oen Gov has created! To starve us flr control. My friend had to move back her family in the city to survive a sthey lost everything for not complying! Sadly there are even more horrible similar stories of those thst own farmland dealing with corruption! Oregan is trying to control what people grow in their own yards.....this is INSANE! We the people need to all come rogether for our farmers! No farmers No Food! Thank you for sharing.

Hi thank for the video. Can you please thank the landowners and family 😊. Good video

Thank you for sharing both you and the owners. From one son of God to others truly thank you 🙏

Wow!!

It's encouraging to know that eventually, with rich organics, that bug and weed pressure are reduced.

looking forward to this channel and seeing all the awesome farms you visit!

I truly enjoyed this video.Thank you for the wonderful content. As you embark on your journey with God I pray that you and your family are blessed and these experiences be all wonderful and fulfilling ones for you all.

Keep it up!!

It’s good to see those pawpaws didn’t die from being sprayed. Any plans to move/sell them when they go dormant? I’ve heard it is good to sever the leader, where they’re attached to the mother tree, while still growing and dig them up when they go dormant.

No ploughing the soil even to start is not a good practice but simply use a subsoiler. This action will be enough to loosen the soil without turning it over, to avoid mixing layers and habitats and limit the destruction of microorganisms living in the soil because you need all the microorganisms possible to regenerate the fertility of the soil.

Hi Steven I started following your new channel very cool , I post my first video !

Your describing amish in my area. The Mennonites here have all the worldy stuff we do

Also, I missed the paper they use... can you please provide the link to where we can get it?

So it would be interesting to know how they are harvesting the potatoes are they using a horse drawn potato cultivator?

The Mennonite faith is pretty diverse, from "horse and buggy" old order Mennonite (their term) to folks that are very mainstream in many ways. Thank you for this lovely podcast. Would you consider interviewing Ben Hartman of Clay Bottom Farm? Thank you.

Where can I learn more about growing rice no till? And potatoes?

No Chem Trails in their sky!

Do they practice crop rotation? That would be interesting to learn, please. That's one of my struggles.

On your travels if you're in SoCal drop by....love my tribe

What surprises me is the width of their aisles. It seems to me a major waste of production space, is not it?

Hey Steven did the mennonite farmers rotate crops at all? Also I know they did the cover crop thing but does that mean at the end of their cycle or for planting season they just pushed them all down, tossed cardboard/plastic over it, and planted above?

Could waxed canvas be used instead of plastic for row covers?

Is the paper produced using forever chemicals like most paper products?

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How to you stop critters from eating your leafy greens? Without at most three feet tall 1/2"x1/2" or smaller hole hardware fence all of the way around, these critters would eat the greens down to ground quickly. I don't see this area is fenced in.

17:25 "sage"..."sage bush" I'm almost positive the farmer was referring to "broom sedge" (Andropogon virginicus). Lots of people mispronounce "sedge" as "sage". Its a VERY common weed in soils low in fertility (calcium, phosphorus etc). Lots of "hay meadows" having been cut for decades, in some instances, and never fertilized practically turn into broom sedge monocultures.

Dude has some killer eyebrows

How are they growing potatoes no till?

Ya Mon!

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The Meninites down there are like our northern Amish. And our Meninites are more like their Amish. Then there are the plain people.

Regenerative is great but it cannot scale, you cant compost 100 hectares to produce cheap food. Strictly small scale stuff for families. Wonderful.

Are those Malibu green beans

How do you do no-till potatoes?

They don't speak a version of Dutch but a version of German. German in the German language is called Deutsch that's probably where the confusion came from. How do I know? I'm a native speaker of Dutch.

Yay😂🎉🎉🎉

I've been living beside a Mennonite community, here in Tennessee, for the past 10 years and wondering if this was the community that you visited. I'm approximately 50 miles north of your farm.

I was looking for gardening , not philosophy . The key is compost .

Too bad they didn't want to be recorded, but you have to respect their ways of life.

Kinda ironic to hear menonites that used to farm "traditionally".... takes a quite a bit of wordly technology to make those pesticides and ammonium nitrate in a lab.. no judgement, just saying its quite misguided.

Electricity is not so modern though

Because it’s all sin they live a way better life

Great Video 😊🎉 I subscribed to your channel 🙏

Like I just posted on your other channel: "You feel so authentic...And I honor your vulnerability... However, after being so clear on the truth of what this reality is about, you've decide to yield to the cloud of the man written bible? Hmmm....so much to respond to. First off you're saying all those who do not come to the Jesus (corrupted man hungry version) that you were once aware of naturally---Are all doomed to hell? And you believe in 'sin' as it's written by the controlling, corrupted men--the same ones still playing their game with all you initially highlighted? Jesus said, "The Kingdom of heaven is within". I implore you do not stop here, this is just another test of your "knowsis". Trust me brother this is a brilliant way to insnare those mighty ones like yourself who have not complied. I am not saying there isn't a God; I know there is! However it's not the one you are focusing upon here. I promise you....go within and see 'Yourself'. Much love and peace on your path. 🤍"