Brooke and her financial savy and Jason’s pure joy over the tractor attachment plus Holly just being her awesome self is always the makings for a great video.
Every time I see Holly, she seems just so happy, loved and free! I can only wonder how her previous pet parent feels knowing just how good Jason and Brooke are to Holly. I would be watching her all the time if I'd been the one who rehomed Holly. Pure joy! ❤🐕🙋♀️
I don’t know why, today watching this almost drove me to tears. Not sad tears but happy tears for Jason and Brook. Finding that attachment and having it work so well and seeing Jason so happy. The garden will be absolutely great this year. Great work Brook and her new attachment. ❤️ Holly was right there supervising the work.
Wow! That harrow could easily triple+ your vegetable output. And it isn't such a grueling, back-breaking task. Brooke's savvy shopping to the rescue yet again. There's few things more attractive than a loving couple being supportive of one another and working together as a cohesive team. (Having Holly included is a total plus!) Such great prices on the flowers. Brooke's shopping skills never cease to amaze.
Good morning Jason. That spring tooth haro is about the best choice you could make for breaking up compacted ground. Now if had that disc you could go over the same area and break up all the clods. Or you could go over it with your tiller. I put Chisels across the back of my tiller to form rows as I go. Just a thought. You might check with cattle and horse farms around your area, a lot of time they'll either give or sell you their manure by truck load and be glad to get rid of it. Just till it in and your all set. I get several tons throughout the year and add it into my gardens. I'm planting 8 acres this year. Jason when I was 12 years old I collected bottles and mowed grass to save up to buy my first .22 rifle. Funny the stuff you remember.
My parent's neighbors have hog barns and will spread some on their fields every other or every 3rd year since their fields are right next to my parent's. Have always been great neighbors and know that if they need help with something, they just have to ask.
Thank you Smith family for all your lovely videos. Living in Assisted Living you are such a joy. Please give that lovely Mary Carl a hug from this grandma. She is pretty.
I love the excitement you guys have about everything. You bring sunshine in this old 58 yr old, disabled former police officer woman's life. I never miss a video. Thank y'all from the bottom of my heart.
Yvonne McMahan.....Thank you for your service in law enforcement. So sorry you met with injuries in your job. Just know that your service was appreciated by many! And 58 is not old!! I'm 73 and I don't consider myself old, just seasoned! LOL!
Fantastic find for the gardens. The tiller thing really broke up the ground. I swear, Holly is a teddy bear in disguise. We all want to reach out and hug her. 💖
Earlier this morning I found a solution to a storage problem I was having and that made me so happy. Later I sat down to watch your video and so imagine how much more happy I was to see you also found a solution to your particular problem! It's a good day!
Bigger boys, bigger toys. I love how excited you get Jason. You & Brooke are just such a great couple together. You always have each other’s back no matter what it is. Love y’all 💙❤️
That's her tractor. He gets to use it if she's not available. A harrow needs to be decent sized so her tractor makes sense. The next toy they get needs to get hooked up to dad's tractor. Like a radio with stereo speakers. Now I know they had all weather radios to be mounted on the fender back in the 70's. Never seen an 8 track or cassette player on one. But I never sat in one with an air conditioned cab either. How much time was spent with a radio playing in the background while working outside in the fields or in the sheds? There was always a tractor close by with the box turned on. While the youngsters were rockers at heart they never spoke up about the bosses choice of WMAQ which was AM country out of Illinois that broadcast into Wisconsin quite a ways. Probably why there's a lot fewer Eric Forman and Fez's that came out that state in spite of disco. I'm not saying Brook doesn't deserve a stereo on her tractor. But now Dad is going to want to come over and see his old paint look spiffy. I don't know if you can find a cultivator to mount on it for running up and down the rows but there's no end to what can be hauled around by that little bugger. And it fits real nice on the back side of the house. Just don't start painting it like a Scoobie Doo van. Wait until Mary Carl wants to do it. That way you're only an enabler. If your dad's around he might not like a custom paint job like that. But Mary Carl will get away with it and leave him grinning.
So happy for you getting the attachment you needed. Seems to me that the good Lord always provides for your family. Also, love seeing you, Jason, & Brooke loving on Holly and Holly eating up the love and loving y'all back. That is how animals and pets should be treated and y'all are such great examples for it! Cheers!
Jason you're like a kid in a candy store with the new toy for the tractor 🚜. I love watching and seeing the excitement of you working in the garden. Thank you Brooke for finding that for Jason
I remember my Dad adding planks with large cinder blocks and weights on his harrow plow, Some times adding me on top of them 😂 This was so the Tines dug deep. Afterwards we’d pick up rocks that moved to the surface. I’d go back to those days in a Heartbeat❣️
I'm soooooo glad this is working out for your soil! I can imagine what a relief it must be to know you'll be able to have your garden so it produces well for your family and then some ❤️
I’m so happy that you guys found the attachment you needed (whatever they called it) What an amazing difference!! I’m imagining the first settlers and how they had to manage with just hand tools and animals. Glad to be here now and not then!!
Brooke to the rescue again! What a fantastic find! It really is amazing the difference it makes with the soil. You two together are like a well-oiled machine. Your sidekick Holly is pretty great, too!
You’re like a kid in a candy store! So glad the harrow did the trick. The purchase of the petunias was a thrill too. What a savings. Always wishing you and yours the very best. ❤
So happy for you to have found this piece of equipment. Holly was happy about it too! I can picture a field full of produce, you and Brooke standing in your overalls, looking over it and just enjoying the fruit of your labor! ❤
Jason, you crack me up! You have your own forest... Buy or rent a woodchipper and you'll never be short of wood chips. Also if you use the tractor to scrape an acre of forest floor (about two inches) every year or two, (leave it in a pile for a year) and you will have enough compost to top dress your garden forever. Keep up the great work.
Holly, I’m so glad your people gave you a new area to play!! As you know, it’s all yours - but you’re so good at sharing with Brooke and Jason so they can play with their toys, too!! Good girl!!
OMG Jason the smile you had on your face when you tilled the ground was awesome like a child getting a new toy..you and Brooke are a dynamic duo God bless you both looking forward to more videos
Brook is so good at finding things that are so important for your farming success. I love watching you work the fields. Holly sure is a happy dog. She loves you two as much as you love her. She is a wonderful addition to your family.
It’s an amazing thing to be doing what you love to do every day and you folks at Cog Hill Farm do exactly that! It’s a happy dance just to watch solutions found and problems remedied. You are an inspiration to us all. Totally love this channel and thanks for sharing your farmstead journey.💕🇨🇦
Jason gets so excited with new toys LOL. Brooke saves the farm SO much money with her research and instincts for good deals and Holly makes the process so much more fun for everyone. Nugget looked so handsome with the wind blowing his thick feathers, I love being part of all you do but I sometimes miss the days when we got to see you feeding everyone. Maybe every now and then you could throw that in again? Love and prayers to all of you.
Your channel works…….because you work. Love watching you build this farm of my dreams. Reminds me of the farm I lived on as a kid. My dad even wore overhauls and my mom was about the same height at Mrs. Cog Hill. The only difference was we had a family of 16 to provide for. Can’t wait to see the veggies and all the flowers you grow. ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ keep up the good work kids.
Perfect harrow!! We call it a chisel plow and we did regular plow for deep digging then chisel plow and now we can just till. Also in between tillage we put in leaves as we didn’t have compost ready. It’s work but worth it
My goodness Jason.. coming close to skipping Morning Coffee ☕️ is high level excitement for sure. 😆 🤣 PS.. Just did a load of laundry and realized that my purple 💜 Victoria Crown Pigeon T shirt is the nicest shirt 👕 I own. 👍
So awesome finding used equipment that is a tremendous help on the farm for probably half the cost 🙂👍 . Great job Jason and Brooke !! On one of your upcoming videos could we please see all the animals ? I miss them 😔 , they are such sweet babies 🙂 ! God bless Coghill ♥️
Brooke, I am glad you are plowing instead of Jason. He kept watching the plow instead of watching what he was doing. He was so excited. Jason, you were like a kid on Christmas morning. I love your excitement at finding a solution to your compacted soil. Brooke, thanks for finding Jason’s new toy. You guys are great! I love your videos. When I see your post, I jump on watching your. Ideas. I wish they were more often but I understand how time consuming having a farm and getting the farm ready for planting, etc. Thank you Cog Hill Farm Family.
I’m so proud you found a solution to your problem with the soil for your garden, I know you guys are going to have a beautiful bountiful crop this year!
So glad Brooke located the implements for the tractor - great addition for the farm. They will really get used!!!! I can just smell the aroma from the fresh tilled soil. Holly was so happy to help! Great video - I’m always happy after seeing y’all’s videos. Glad to see the Reds are beginning to lay.
Growing up my uncle owned a Shell station. He would get change out of the cash register and treat up to a soda and candy. I still remember pulling that glass bottle of orange soda out of the soda machine.
I remember my parents buying 8 packs of glass bottles of Royal Crown Cola. 16oz bottles. And we had to return the bottles for the deposit after they were empty. We would go out looking for empty bottles that people had thrown away and we would return them. Take that money down the street to the Candy House. They had penny candy. We would buy as much as we could with what we collected. So much fun!!
There is a shop in my city that sells nothing but glass bottled soda. You can get Nehi, Dads, A&W great Ginger Ale’s on and on BUT they start at 2.69 a bottle. But it’s a treat once in awhile!
My hometown pf Hammonton in southern NJ had so many farmers back in the 50's. So many different options that they grew then: peaches, apples, strawberries, blueberries, sweet potatoes, asparagus, peppers, tomatoes, egg plant, cucumber and zucchini. We still have home gardens that grow the different vegetable varieties but the big farms now concentrate on one cash crop: blueberries. I miss the peach orchards the most especially when they bloom. I like Brooke's ability to steer Jason to the bargains she finds online.
When my grandfather started his garden, he had the same issue. Now, this was 30 years ago. He tilled, then bucket all the soil off into a pile. Then tilled again. Then, leveled it with the soil he took off. He got about 7 inches of planting soil.
You sure made that garden a lot better for planting See what a bit of researching can bring you ...lots more toys for Brooke to use on her tractor and it looked like she was having fun working on her favourite orange beast Good Job Brooke 🌈💫. 🇨🇦🦩
I loved to hear you giggle about how well your new springy plow thingy worked. And yes, I'm sure the old Ford will pull it just fine. You got some nice low gears in that old Ford. Love that you have that. She'd a beautiful old tractor. God bless!!!
I remember returning bottles to the grocery store. You had 8 or 10 packs of pop in cardboard cartons. You brought them to the customer service desk and they paid you for them or gave you a voucher. You them took the bottles to the back of the store and put them on a conveyor belt before doing your shopping. This was before plastic bottles. Cans weren't common then and were just thrown away. Dealing with the bottles was the kids job, Mum just oversaw the process.
You also have 20 acres of wood chips all you need is a chipper and a good pole chain saw. You can thin and trim your forest and improve the woods for future sale.
I am so happy you found such a valuable implement to help you on the farm. I am sure that the disc will be very valuable as well. Brooke sure is in seventh heaven whenever she gets on her tractor. I love it! Can't wait until Jason gets his going. God's blessings on you all from Proctor Minnesota!
The right farm equipment makes a big difference. I must say that new farm hand Holly sure is beautiful and full of love for you both. I just love to see her so anxiously waiting to go to work with Jason. I am sure her previous owner misses her but very happy to see Holly living her best life. I'm excited to see all your hard work come to fruition when the crops come rolling in.
How about fencing a smaller area at a time and running pigs on there. They will root up the ground and fertilise it too. Then plant something quick and green leaved to plough in and add to the soil. Soil building is the slowest , but most important basis for farming. Keep moving the pigs around as they do their work.
We had a similar problem in our field. I ended up getting a guy with a chisel plow and was able to break the hard pan from years of plowing with a regular plow. It eliminated the issues that we had with poor cultivation, it really improved production. It also increases the retention of moisture deeper into the soil. We had ours go down one and half foot because our soil had a lot of clay in it.
I love seeing you giddy with excitement over dirt. I knew it wouldn’t have been long before Brooke checked in for her turn with the tractor. Your enthusiasm for your future on the farm is heartwarming. Can’t wait to see your vegetable haul in coming months. Hugs from DownUnder.
Always makes me joyful to see the way that you two think alike and work together. And it tickles me that you get so excited when something works out for you. You both work so hard to make your farm a success.Just a little bit of history for you... when I saw you with that Dr. Pepper bottle it sent me way back about sixty -five years to when sodas all came in glass bottles and cost ten cents plus only three cents deposit. And that was for a seven ounce bottle.
Morrrrrrrning Cog Hill Farm ❤️ 🚜 I'm gonna buy 2 green staks and put petunias in mine. I was wondering Jason or Brooke my first time with a G.S. but does Petunias grow well in full sun hot all day, other just shade of early morning ....I have and still learning things from yall. Love it...65 and never too old to learn if my husband was alive he would be so proud and surprised of me. Heehehee OK Thx for another GREAT video, Jason and Brooke & have a Bless weekend. ❤️🚜❤️
Jason I bet you didn't sleep much waiting to use your new garden tool. Brooke is a great wife to you and you to her. She listens to you to help the garden. Oh my I could watch the two of you in daily.
We live in New Brunswick Canada, share our border with Maine USA. Our growing season is so short, and in February watching you while you plan,plant and enjoy the climate makes us so happy lol. We are enjoying snow,wind, and frozen everything right now. Cog Hill, you bring us joy! Love from Canada 🇨🇦🍁❤️🇨🇦🍁❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
From one farmer to another you should plow in two different directions. Horizontal and then vertical or even on a diagonal it will loosen up you soil even better. We up here in some parts of the north call your new toy a Vibershank lol . Enjoy
Great deal on the petunias! Brooke is a master bargain hunter. Are your fig tree cuttings rooting/sprouting? It's been over a month and mine still haven't sprouted. Love watching you guys working on the farm. Including Holly!😃
Brooke, you are the diva of marketplace!! You should rent your services out to help others! That’s a wonderful implement y’all got!! Enjoy and can’t wait to see the veggies growing.
When I was little, we could only get Coke in bottles. We would then have to take them back to the grocery store every week. There was a rolling conveyor belt in the back of the store and I would love pushing the bottles on there and watching them roll away to be cleaned and reused. Pop just tastes better out of a glass bottle!
I love seeing you all so excited about improvements on your farm. Cannot wait for the produce to start popping up for you all. Your roadside cart is going to be a huge hit. Are you going to hatch any chickens to sell? Then you could call your cart the "Chick Shack".
