Quarantine In the Country | Farm + House Tour

[Music] [Applause] [Music] that is my milking stanchion right above it my house good morning miss tang right here the cow we milk her there will milk her later bedrooms right there a european-style house where the farm is actually underneath the living quarters but how did that come to be well we'll talk about that but this is our life in the country mega house barn mega barn house and farm tour let's get going this is where we start the blog to give you guys perspective today this is our front porch there's my sturdy brothers apron we're gonna start here on the porch and go in the farm well give you guys some history of the place but also you guys have been asking and asking and asking we're gonna give you a complete house tour later on but first this porch we hung the swing it's a wonderful view look at the view of our farm and try to give you guys perspective today okay our parking lot but then we have our Luchadors our RAM and weather out on pasture we have some chickens on pasture out there we call this violets pasture after one of our late cows and then out there is where the main cow herd is across the street here sometimes it's nice steak mills here the kids particularly love it we got some plants ready to go in what do we got here lavender this table not a single nail look at how it's built isn't this neat kind of a European style this is super sturdy real wood look at this style Rebecca's grandpa built this and that is built to last probably one of my favorite features we got a backup generator right here nope they're pegs he would have drilled probably with a hand drill and then put pegs in there it's a style we have a shoe nook for all our shoes save mr. brown shoes there they're never in there we're always looking for mr. Brown's shoes cathouse you got good morning guys feed and water for them so let's take you from the porch swinging out is our front yard you want your high-intensity stuff close to the house we have raised beds Rebecca has planted peace that's one thing about this this quarantine and living in the country is it's really not that much different for us because we are such home buddies if you're gonna be a successful homesteader or farmer you really need to be home so we work from home we school from home we shop from home well what else do we do we do everything from home so Rebecca's got some peas there coming up this nice trellis this is early in the season so we don't have anything going in here but soon this will be completely jamming of produce [Music] right next to the raised beds it's always smart to have chickens at least next to your garden if they're not doing the gardening for you we are building a nice fence permanent since we've been using premier one poultry net it's nice but if you've kept two chickens in an area longer than three years you can go ahead and build a permanent fence so but they will still work for us we will put deep bedding down we'll put down wood chips to keep their run dry and absorb the manure and then look look what happens underneath it develops compost that's a good thing right here because look what happens you can get the manure that chickens manure and scratch and it ends up being compost we feed the guard and the compost and it's right here so it's easy we're gonna have a gate right here to bring it out we have a gate down there for hauling in big wood chips and stuff right in the middle you got a spring melt goose right there guys so the compost the chickens feed the garden with that compost but then you have extra or you weed then you throw it right over to the chickens now remember this is right in our front yard we're those people we're not even backyard chicken people we're front yard chicken people right beside the chicken we have a nice Rock sidewalk here with grass growing in between I like that feature we did find this amazing huge rock on farm right there at the entrance and we really like it this gate is easy open you know it kind of gives the open feel but it also gives clarity of where our yard is and where it isn't we have swinging gate you wanna show them how this works because what if we that one of the favorite features about this barn look we're gonna talk to it more but we live in a like we converted a loss like this barn used to be was built for a lost half of it was to be a hayloft the other house for a ranchers quarter look how that worked he pulled that open and you lifted the brace out Randolph our carp design this he's got a shoot for the pen go ahead and show him that and then that way we could drive in there and unload on the dock we can unload heavy furniture we could unknown groceries anything like that okay look if you just need they maybe get Sally to side by side through you just open one if you need to get a car through you open both Thank You Jonah for that demo trash bin recycle cover there and trash so what happened why do we think no horse boy my dad would call it his white elephant of 1994 he built this to be a horse ranch barn he and my brother we're gonna go into business running a horse ranch in a minute you're gonna see like this what we have Jonah for tea stalls 40-ish 30 ish 37 stalls downstairs because his white elephant of 94 because for whatever reason it never happened but it did not look what we're doing here we're turning we're going down from our porch we're going downstairs you see this a lot you see this pawpaw tree I think it's them no not pawpaw persimmon persimmon tree here South is that way so it's it's not going to shade the gardens and we got a little bit of strawberries growing around it and this is a nice little area but you think it's alive look it's blooming so the white elephant the business never happened but now several horse ranch barn it's turned into an e ie i/o barn all kinds of animals we park our Sally side-by-side right downstairs guys right downstairs look that's the porch I came from okay this is where we park the car that's the green house we'll get to that in a second but look we can store up to gosh how many thousands of pounds of food do we have in here right now Jonah two three three a thousand two more and then we could do through here - yeah and this is you're right it's super convenient cuz it's a concrete floor so if we spill feed it's easy to pick up we have two two cats that do a fabulous job keeping mice out of this we could knock he's here like this it's great on the ground and it looks like all there and I just whip there's a leaf or a board it all out yeah really fork organic farm order from them once a month and we order in bulk and saves a lot of money there's some bags here because we ordered some pig feet we don't need a lot of things feed but this this is like grain chick starter feed that we feed everybody and then alfalfa propels some organization ideas in here we have our mineral programs over here and our five gallon buckets you can see the labels these goes to the cows these goes to the sheet yep we have some spares up there some extra we have these milk buckets that only are for skim milk that we feed to the pigs the reason we don't want to use milk buckets for other things this milk cloth clappers whatever on the side and you just don't want to like get water or eating that you just always use the milk so you can take her though she's probably going to need two more because we have 19 gallons of milk to cream separate plus whatever we harvested a it's a it's a cream separating day also in the garage our natural treatments for sickness these are supplements vitamin C for the animals at all times charcoal if somebody were to get a sick nozzle stuff our synergy animal product program Thank You Jonah for that light this can help with mastitis or any cows sickness a rub and then this is our batteries charging station we have solar-powered Energizer's and we keep batteries charged for them because the the energizer has run off a battery at night or when there's no Sun we always keep some charge for if the battery goes dead and then that way we can go out and replace them coming out of the garage we have the milking area we're going to get to that but look there there's the lofts what do we do with the loss well we had hay we stored hay in here we store loose hay in here now that we can use for the chicken bedding in these big bags we put down pallets so we can store hay in here but look how much storage you can get in here this is like a hundred and fifty square Belle's in that room and so you've seen these stalls before but we'll get to it more when we're milking but two stalls for holding the cows when they're not milking one stall one time the stanchion she's fine we've got her a little bit of a snack I don't mind be in there for a little bit we have a Horning off table outside the greenhouse you grow your plants inside the greenhouse and like this week we need to start setting these guys out they're being babied they haven't had the direct Sun they haven't had direct win they're getting watered real good they need to start transitioning to outdoor environments so a little bit by little bit we'll put them out here on this hardening off table and get them used to the big world right next to the greenhouse in between the cow area this is beautiful we have an asparagus and strawberry system mulch so it's low-maintenance those crops grow they don't have to replant them again and again we'll have food for decades here but what's nice is we have our water station here we have a 4-way hose connector one going to each thing one goes to the greenhouse one goes to the washing station that's right and one is for washing things and we have a cage here to catch grass and hay before it goes down into our gravel which is a French drain which drains way over there below the greenhouse they closed but you don't want to get hay or grass in there because it gets planted or you know slime eventually and will clog up our games so we put this down we clean our buckets here and with our bucket sir we sift it we run it through this to get out any food scraps that we could reuse and we put our water there and we water then we put our water in our watering cans and water the garden okay here I am water's coming out of that from what we just we just ran it there's your perspective there guys spigots right there behind the greenhouse comes down through here and out here so we got the milking area we have a trail here to get the cows in we have multiplied our raspberry and blueberry patch deeply mulched we're gonna grow grass in between the rows it's a nice little area for them so walking down the raspberry and blueberries come here a little further and we've got garlic we've got some volunteer garlic from last year we guard it off from the dead cows this is a cow pasture they're not here now they've moved on they were here a little bit ago there's our bedroom that's the kids bedroom there's our bedroom there's the cow section we have a pile of wood chips there we're gonna do a a shed right there and that way we can use wood chips in our bedding inside our cows stalls to absorb manure and urine when they're in there right there's our perspective our house violets pasture so cows graze on this side we have some chickens down there and we have a ram system a ram and a wither that move around in a mobile cage here here let's go we got to move them right let's go move them they move around in this field they started here moving them twice a day this land gets over 60 days rest before we come back that's important for breaking off the parasites cycle that's important for your letting grass to recover before you mow it again and this field just keeps getting better and better because of that rotational grazing system and the ramps are safe and they can't get out of this cage and get to the use who are currently over there because if a ram can see a you you've got to have a pretty good fence so they don't get to them because we want to time our breeding we don't want them to breed until October so then we have spring babies and we don't have winter babies these chickens are out on pasture restoring building up some of the poor parts of our pastures you want to improve pastures put animals on it that's what we're doing with our chickens right there all right there's the Rams we are in a lane we get our cows to pasture through a double line lane and we get our sheep cross farm in this too so you can run cows or sheep out through here and then open it up to where you want them and pasture and move them around every day people have asked us your life hasn't changed much so this quarantine has it and we're like not really we're real homebodies but you know one thing that's maybe different is we're not having as many guess we're like some of the most socialized homebodies on the planet and we missed that but maybe because that's not happening have a little bit more time and so we've ended up probably growing more food then maybe we would have I don't know I think it's important to stay busy do something positive and that's what's cool about living in the country and on a homestead is there's always something to do so we were just out in the field we're back at the greenhouse hopefully I'm giving you some perspective watching the vlogs you see a lot of these scenes but you don't necessarily connect them together the holler farm sign that was the name of our farm when we used to market farm I always meet up it's always like packed with somebody at least this is this is so there's the garage in that neat you can open the door and go into the garage yeah you wouldn't even have to go outside this was a brilliant idea from Rebecca in the hallway why not hang our tools in the hallway that way they're close to the door and they're not taking up any space and we have a kind of a wide hallway here so this has worked out really good I've got these hooks from Lowe's this just got to be one of my favorite features look at this this is a huge basement there's our house guys insulated one stall we've used four hey one stall we have for a tack room another like that's where our furnace is you know if we wanted to soak feet in the winter and not freeze we could put it in there this is more tables for growing plants outside and tool room concrete floor all kinds of cool from great light great guys a lot of papaw stoolies passed down to us here backtracking a little bit to show you grandpa sighs we're gonna get to the history in a little bit hang on guys okay there's grandpa's old sigh back down here to the basement we have our fencing stall in there all our fencing supplies we have our low tunnel supplies in here we have a stall for the course source park ourselves but they get work great for different things we have our shop here okay a table saw chop saw this weekend we built many of things in here we built our chick shawls in here this weekend we built our sheep Shawn here this weekend we're gonna build a a pick Shawn here it's gonna be real nice because we have our tools right there this is wide enough this is wide enough to put an eight by eight foot Shawn here it's finish influency mini housing here yeah it's good lighting the tools are here there's power right there this has got to be one of my favorite features you can open this garage door to get the thing in and out let's show them where we are here you open this garage door and there it's that pasture with the garlic in it there's our pile of wood chips for using as bedding the cows are around the corner there's the bedrooms again there's the shop there's an animal stall we're going to get to that let's get to that in a second okay Jonah the secret door so you don't even want to go outside to go to the barn well you don't have to and some of you may recognize that you see this this is our loft this is where we keep our freezers somebody said how much does it cost to run all these freezers guys we have our what do you have in there we have our chicken we have our beef we have you want showing my chicken a lot of our chicken pork guys work around a hundred percent of our meat and we eat me every single day it's kind of mess in here it's a never going battle some extra chairs but look inside here a cool room this is custom built I've hired my buddy to build this for me Jason so the land and he built this and we bought this door insulated or it's really nice it doesn't walk behind you but we keep our milk in there we keep our milk coolers for cooling off our milk after we milk we keep vegetables in there we've hung meat in there this is a multi-purpose area this is great this cool room is one of the best things we've ever done wherever halfway done with the farm tour we're gonna then milk and then we'll show you guys inside the house back downstairs we even have a water source down here you have a water spigot so look there's our milk bucket full of skin we just came out that door let's go out the other end of our house again hanging more tools maybe more gardening style tools because our garden our crop gardens are over here also over here look more outdoor stalls what are we using for here let's shown can you open that one stall door yesterday we store our wood splitter here Oh firewood firewood inside and downstairs super convenient more firewood some kids toys in there wood chips wood chips shortage in pallet walls and inside are they in here hey the pigs are actually in here we have a deep bedding stall hey guys right below our bedroom that's our bet that's my bedroom right there and it's super convenient for training it like little pigs we trained our lambs here they're on deep bedding so this this woodchips absorbs their manure and urine here's fresh ones put add some fresh ones every day and eventually this turns into compost so it keeps them clean and we get compost out of them and we have a little run here for them they're now training to follow a bucket they're training to an electric fence well here they go yeah they're going into our backyard you can munch on some grass get some water our house our backyard piglets our crop gardens looks like Jonah we got to put a fill our tarp back sometimes our tarps blow off these tarps are for keeping the weeds from growing encouraging worms until we're ready to plant so crop Gardens it's the chicken garden demonstration chickens and a tractor three chickens move down out what three weeks ago we built a garden in about a week we'll plant a garden so we're demonstrating the miracle that is working chickens in your garden so you come well some of our potatoes have come up yeah you said our potatoes didn't come up some came up right next to our Gardens chickens compost corner these chickens are working this area we have compost where's this compost come from this is bedding from our cows stalls and chickens after we pile it up we get it heated up we pile it in these pallets they heat it up then we open it up and chickens help spread it and we've got compost this is the perspective then we can hawk compost from there just to right here to feed our Gardens so having these close to each other make sense chickens feed the garden the garden can feed the chickens inside the chicken coop we've tried this mineral feeder Jonah's raised it up because they were perching it good morning to you too and it seems to be working I don't think they're getting in it now Jonah okay if there is our chicken compost corner there's our market Gardens there's our home not market gardens crop Gardens a pasture for the cows another pasture for the cows well he's happy to say good morning this morning at me coming back down towards the house from the crop gardens back to our yard we have a crop garden in our front yard where those were those people put us crazy food grown people got cabbage under a bug net 50-foot rows one two three four of them so it's 14 feet across 50 feet down lilies tended to the chickens in the front yard we're back to the front yard but I want to just show you quick cross the street this is when we get into the history we've got an old barn my house old barn the kids have built some swings this is the old corn crib this is an old grill needs to be prepared to take them to the my dad's tracked us where we parked that we have some of our machines in here we have like two store there's our meat shelf for raising meat chickens there's our turkey shop for raising that some of our equipment trailer in the back somebody asked and I remember area where do you store off seasonal stuff that you don't use all time well here's our chicken processing stuff stored in the old barn staying out of the Sun and the elements food grade barrels for you know we have a barrel there for chilling the birds after they've been harvested also scalding the pigs a hundred gallon stainless steel barrel it's just food safe barrels just for various uses around the farm corn crib this is where my dad would have stored corn that they would have fed to the animals and themselves my grandpa acquired this place in 32 1932 and he had a dream of building an office over this stall well my son did it Jonah did it grandpa Henry would really enjoy would really enjoy that so more pasture up there we have fruit trees planted in among our pasture one thing I'm really proud of and this old barn is that grandpa built that by hand I mean there were no power tools or anything like that for him wood off the land and what's exciting is that we are thinking about there's a flat area there and we could use a shed for some of our equipment maybe for hay for woodchips just all-around use I thought about getting one of those metal they come and assemble it type of thing but that barn is nearly a hundred years old and we're still finding great joy and satisfaction from it so I'm thinking we do that shed we ought to do it ourselves and we dot do it grandpa Henry style would off the land gonna last could be repairable from the land if something went wrong okay our house the pastures we've talked about where the Rams are the chickens are right now but over here just across the street the original the original the old farmhouse where my dad grew up grandpa Henry what about that fortunately I interview my dad my dad is now no longer with us but I interviewed him in 2017 when we're taking a break from the great American farm tour he tells you but how about some history from him about this old house I mentioned the house had a porch that pretty much went all the way around though it wasn't finished completely and my uncle Aussie built the house and he used to use lumber to build it and the ceilings were 10 feet high when my dad and mom bought it I'd say around 1930 somewhere in there they lowered the ceilings to eight feet and they used material out of out of good luck school wasn't open very many years but I've got a list of the people that attended there and actually my brother Ralph started there and it was seven grades all met in one classroom and he was a little underage so he just got to go a couple of weeks and they decided is too much for him but anyway we lived on other farms for my dad to earn a cricketer no salary and his objective was always to buy something so he could up end up here and be independent in fact he bought this place for five hundred dollars initially the initial 60 acres and was making $50 a month and paid 25 a month till they paid for it when you think about that what you have to pay for a house today is a tremendous market even though he is paying half of what he made but it didn't take him long to pay off $500 though I figured if somebody makes $50,000 a year now 2 years and half their way they'll be like getting this for 50,000 there's no way yeah and now because we didn't live here all the time initially we would rent the house and my mother told me that at least one tenant paid $4 a month for it and he was a barber down in fletcher and another tenant was here about nine years and he had a bunch of little kids and nothing hardly and so he didn't pay anything I was in the 30 that was no that's just much later oh okay I should feel that in the one that didn't pay anything was after I bought the place and moved to California oh okay my mother was looking after it for me and so she let this person live live there for nothing so you guys grew up here a little bit earlier forties I'd say the forties I actually left here in 51 to 52 to go into the Navy but as we were growing up the house was not underpinned was not insulated Wow and wind blew we didn't have a basement actually water would accumulate and a hole we dug down under there to bury our potatoes to keep them for the winter so we constantly fought that water under the house and we had an outside toilet we didn't have electricity until either 47 or 48 I believe might have been 47 and at that time the minimum bill was $2 if you didn't use $2 worth you still had to pay $2 and the fella that was the barber he apparently did pretty good and after they moved and we moved in here permanently this field right here in front of the house we used it as a potato pass the the upper part here and the bottom for corn what have you and off to the left that groove real good hey I remember we had soybeans that were really good we but we stacked big stacks of soybeans right out along the road and Justin you saw in one of your vlogs where a guy used to scythe mm-hmm and that's what they cut the soybeans with but it had a cradle sigh through the cradle and to catch it and you know have it gathered together nicely and then we'd stack it same thing when we just had regular hay we would cut it my dad had a horse-drawn little mowing machine and then we would win Roy and break it up and stack it in a big stack with a pole up the middle and some slats and things beneath it to keep it from rotting and you would just leave it out in the weather yeah just you could stack in such a way to protect the interior right and only a few inches would get damaged actually who knew how to stack it that way well my dad knew how and he taught us how you just throw it to the middle of stack and somebody get up there and walk around the pole and keep tramping it down and get stick and stay and I guess that's you've heard of looking for a needle in a haystack that makes you realize how hard it'd be to find the next little field out here where your house is now Justin that was also a little less than an acre of land went almost to the creek well it did go to the creek at the time but the creek was over this way a little from the flood of 1916 but my dad grew potatoes there and boy did they make good potatoes in one year as a 4-h club member I had an experimental crop of corn to try to grow a hundred bushels per acre at that time North Carolina only averaged about 37 bushes an acre on corn well I made 87 miles and that was a real accomplishment for me so we're passing my dad's on how the original farmhouse more pasture this is what we call our North field it's not really the north it's just facing north and I guess that's why we call it that it's not that great because it doesn't get a whole lot of Sun but it has improved dramatically just running the animals on it and going behind the animals we're back it's milking time we were gonna head out there show you the pastures but we'll do that when we take the pigs feet we'll show you where the lambs currently are and the cows and what the kids are doing first let's milk this cow and get mom the milk for the cream separating grandpa bought the barn for the farm in 1932 my dad ended up buying it from him and now we're buying it from the estate and I'm milking by hand with my daughter my dad when they were here sustenance farm if you did not grow it you did not eat horse they had a family car everybody had a family cow back Shane and my dad milked by hand my grandpa built by hay heat milk 15 cows a day by hand twice my granny did ten my dad had a family cow one or two and now I've got one and she's milking but that's for generations to hand milk on this barge in this family that's pretty special just milk Posse two gallons what's nice about this extension it's under our shed here it's south-facing so the pad will be sanitized a little bit later today don't get some Sun just watch oh I should show you our gate look if you want a big gate we have that okay and this is such a way that you can't get out but we could get out see wait hold on shut it shut it so we can show them so if this gates shut it's a people because people's gate but if you have a handful of milk or if you want to haul your alfalfa Palin or whatever haul something through here you just you swing the door open that's pretty nice we just walk up these stairs and up into the house okay we are back downstairs when the boys brought the cows in we have two cows you put the dominant cow in first in the stands and she walks right in take some time to train them to do that but then they just do it you just hurt them in there run them through shoots whatever you got to do to get them in there and then over time they becomes a habit they just walk right here this one's in here Phyllis you ready you ready so since they're way out in the pasture we can't just put them out in the pasture yet I got to go together we'll open this stall guys this is all happening I don't need my house I love it we love living under a barn if we can't have it to do over again we might make the barn adjacent to our house like walk right under a pavilion or something maybe not necessarily under because sometimes noise you know cows banging the star pigs banging the door or whatever not really smell because you shouldn't have bad smell on a farm bad smell on a farm is just mismanagement if you have bad smell you just need to either move the animals or add deep bedding that's it Salter's to it so she's backing out being a good girl this morning going right into her holding stock woodchips on the floor catching the manure we got a pile of manure and woodchips here that will go towards making our necks comfortable for the garden we've shut her in come on this Bank next come on Mustang we got our thirty gallon food-grade barrel here with alfalfa organic alfalfa a little treat for them a protein boost is very high in protein and it helps keep them keep dropping that meal that's a grain free treat that helps drop their milk and overall health boost our sea gold ounce a tablespoon that's a probiotic and I guess apple cider vinegar is also probiotic its overall health boost as well I'm gonna milk her and then I'll show you guys the cream separating processed the kitchen in action stannum is piling up cream separating right here look the whole quarter cream already pour in the milk in out here and cream home you know all our eggs right there oh yeah this is where I've been pouring the milk this morning you got some more right here you ready for it grandma over 20 gallons men it's happening Rebecca Smith nice get our ice cream maker this is the cream second up she's got cultured cream from last week did you turn it into butter and this is a happening kitchen people want to know what we do it's our milk well here at all it we first drink it and then we make yogurt put it in the dehydrator here 100 degrees for 24 hours you can put cream in there for 24 hours 100 reason we make cultured cream just last year and then we make butter out of our cultured cream and there's a stick rent they good to get it all done at once we'll probably run the dishwasher three four times today four or five times she says they're inside skimming I do want to show you guys this something I turned on the sprinkler I should show you our little raspberry patch right next to the house another persimmon tree our vegetables guys our spring crop is coming in nice we have lettuce ready to go ready to put on our plate spinach ready to put on our plate nice to grow the spring and fall crops in our yard because they're intensive you have to cover them when there's frost coming and uncover them during the day Oh getting spray it's a lot easier to do if it's right in your front yard it's also easier to harvest like you'll have to harvest Aled and kale and Swiss chard and spinach all at once you do that when you want to eat it come right out and grab it go back inside eat it let's show you where the cows and use are right now you sheep and the pigs [Music] and the cows home sheep no that's not where they always are back don't move there tomorrow and they're gonna go around the farm rats that was quick in the spring because grass is growing so fast fifteen to thirty days they'll uncover the entire farm in the summer it slows down we get down to sixty in the winter 120 days it takes something to get across the farm the Sheep the cows and then we're going to travel further north through the silvopasture and up to where the pigs are helping us clear for more silvopasture and at the outer most of our property access road around the edge car Pigs clearing more of that turning that helping us turn that into that all right you guys still don't get a perspective let's try let's try aerial perspective from the drone first shot is of our house panning up to the north side so back behind me back to the crop gardens the compost chickens and the back pasture now let's switch to the south side so next shot is of our house panning up to the south side so that's our greenhouse that's our strawberry asparagus patch that's violets pasture the Rams and where the ewes and the cows currently are and finally the silvopasture pigs the next shot is panning up from the house west so across the public road to my dad's old barn grandpa's old barn the past more pasture and orchard the final shot here is taking off from the house just going up as far as the drone could go to give you some perspective of where everything is outside one more thing the house over there we've come down the house across the creek Rebecca's sisters building them a tree house epic tree house this is what we call a pretty place can you see why the cup pretty this is it's in the neck of the creek that's of the Cape corner of the creek this is where we're doing our polar plunges the the Rams are right out there the RAM the cows are way out there and our house is back over there the old farmhouse how's the water this morning this one of our cold days finally the long-awaited you guys are gonna get a house tour it's been all day clean and have we been that's been my theme lately quarantine has boosted yeah my desire to get this in order so taking advantage of the opportunity making a problem into solutions right let's start with the kitchen in the heart of the farm is what's all about eating yeah so this is the kitchen where all the kicking happens and we recently redid the kitchen well not recently last year but I just love how bright it is I love that I finally have a tile backsplash open shelving and we switched some things around which was awesome and we gained all of this cabinet space yeah makes me very happy used to not have yes this used to be the fridge I think this is notable right here in the view yes right outside the window is the farm yes so it's kind of nice my house your lands from here and yeah the different animals are getting out or anything like that also a great note is the gigantic kitchen sink yeah GameChanger huge I love it pit three well not three to five gallon pots in here yeah if needed and I love it love it love it cool yes you know we bring we put our eggs in and process them there baskets we put our eggs in the containers there all right the mobile cart oh maybe all our milking Joe this is after milking cream separately so we have all ours there's just a couple of ones probably not even the fridge anywhere we probably drink all the milk you should speak to this what do you have in their country my cultured cream going we also use this for yogurt and we also soak and dehydrate nuts okay for digestibility and this gets used four five times a week that's our nothing spies but what you have there is my rinse aid so I as we eat oranges or lemons I go ahead and stick them in vinegar and then I will filter it out and I put it in a jar underneath the sink and so then when my dishwasher says it needs rinse aid I use that cool and it works great let's go to the living room okay choose for everybody I'm sure they've seen that plenty yeah fine mr. brown shoes this is wonderful to have living room is a work in progress it's not complete as to what I want I want to get new light fixture new couch I love the wood stove mmm a centerpiece of the living room 70,000 BTU for all the guys out there it is it is just lovely you can see the fire and it is just a very cozy warmth this was a fireplace when Jess and I moved in here will it be 20 years sister no 19 19 years it'll be and so we had a fireplace here and when we decided to put in the wood stove I was like as long as I can see a fire you can do what you want so we have the glass in the front that was always a must for me and you can see it yeah so you know we stack the wood right on the poor from the basement oh look you can see out the window here too and can you see the boys out playing on the wood chips so it's kind of fun to be able to see what's going on yeah my favorite feature in here because the book show just shows what we're all about yes you built these for me whoa I wonder if Lily was a baby yeah so yeah we've had use bookshelves for a while that's because this used to be a wall and so this should be a lot yeah that was a garage doors and locked doors door dining room yeah this is the dining room this was just unfinished loft mm-hmm and we have turned it into our dining room and done some additions again still work-in-progress got some things to do in here but my favorite part of this room I think is the Sun that comes in from these doors about 9:00 a.m. you can kind of you need their work so I went inside but once it gets up it's it's amazing it's um it's really nice to be able to you can see the garden you can see you know the chickens you you get kind of a good feel for the outside which is nice you know our house this place is very nice it seems pretty much see the entire fire from some window yes I mean I have big plans one day to knock down all of the walls in these three rooms and to open it up into the loft area we'll move all our freezers into the room that the cool room is in and we'll move the kitchen over there completely new kitchen and that will actually become the office the kitchen will become the office right now Justin's office is here in the Dynamo hello mind is course it yeah which it's nice to have him back in the living space because even though he's working these guys ear muffins on he's still very much a part of it and all little bit louder for him to hear over okay I'll tell you if you work at home too can get yourself an office but just it's not how we do you know like we it took us a while to get to grip with that because that's not normal but yeah we that's why we work at home that's why I always go at home the kids could do their math books here the kids good unless our audio in the living room we're on the floor or outside we're yet we don't have desks we're very unconventional in there that we don't sit at desks they listen to a lot of audiobooks Lily what are y'all Institute now and then what do you listen to at night yeah people are saying that map is my favorite where did you get that math so this map came from Ikea in like 2011 I want to say was the first time we came to Ikea actually I'm going to take this map and put it up on the ceiling and we're gonna get a new light fixture in here it's gonna be more central to the table and eventually we'll get a new table and here I wanted to do a big gallery wall of just photos of our family and you know from when Justin and I were kids and the babies and the whole nine yards so that's the work-in-progress something that we're gonna do through those doors I know wants to know are the freezers and the fridges showed it this morning but show the connection again like right outside these doors again guys we don't show again it's embarrassing but everybody's got a room like this right Rebecca well this is unfinished this is this is being given away I have a have a have a taker all ready for it and I just there's still some yeah you know we're still deep in quarantine clean everybody's got unfinished messy room yes this is another people love this when they come alive so I just bought these baskets on Amazon you can probably buy them at any home store and then these are like what are these called they're electrical conduit things stripped I'm in know what you came anyways you I just screwed those in and here is all of our produce and I like it because it the kids can get to it easily and it's beautiful I mean look at all the wonderful colors and it's just fun yeah I think you should give them a sample of her of what's inside our cabin is just basically hydrated not crispy nuts by Western a price and then just as serious peanut butter addiction we've added some things into our life for a mechanist feed so Hugh it has its coconut sugar it's not it doesn't have maple sugar in it Becca has a serious drought mango it they're so good and there's your standard and yeah so would you got let me see what's over here wait you might want to see what's in the fridge that's fine the fridge kombucha eggs that we've watched eggs that we watch egg whites from I made ice cream today this is maple syrup from a local up not a local but a New York organic maple syrup farm that was like this syrup was made like a month or two ago yeah and it's anywhere almost this is like there's our raw milk and yogurt this is a whole change ketchup mayonnaise and sauces so that's good yeah good all stored in glass yes I ditched the plastic Wow okay our hallway is actually really wide it's six feet wide it was made to have closets running along this wall so if you can see the lights are positioned on this side yeah because it was made for that the closets never got built because there actually aren't there's no like coat closet or anything so this has become our coat closet you can see our coats hanging this is also another quarantine project has not happened yet this is new I just put this together from Ikea it's solid wood shown that camera equipment in there it's gone I put all his camera equipment in here and he's got all of it organized got our printer this is moving over there let's see you do pull up I can't doing Teddy's toys Teddy's toys are here catch the bathroom while you're there bathroom this is original bathroom that is that is actually gonna get redone as soon as all of this quarantine stops and we can get back to normal and get Randolph we can get Randolph in the house so basically what the plan is we're gonna take the washer and dryer and we're gonna flip them over here to where the bathtub is the bathtub is obviously leaving what's wrong with it it is a clown foot and it's not deep enough or big enough and I just I want and it's not what's the word I'm looking for it's it's too much like we have a separate shower and a we can combine email better space better use of your space so what's gonna happen with this space there'll be a wall the wall will extend all the way here with a sliding door in there and then this will become a big closet with a laundry sink in it for me and so then this will be laundry room and then we'll be bathroom in here we're going to take out the shower and this will be the vanity toilet will stay where it is and over here because the wall is gonna come over we're gonna have space here for a bath tub shower combo so that is how this will turn out it's gonna be amazing I can't wait I have some fun stuff picked out to kind of give it some space or some spice and I think it's gonna turn out really nice how many loads of laundry to do today Oh - at least if I'm not doing two a day we're getting backed up yeah so summarize the the amazing book collection here okay so we're crazy reading I love to read and so we have all sorts of different books here these are all of our like homestead well not all of them this is some of their farming our homesteading farming homesteading I think the other ones are over for ya we have some on this side as well and my business book business books up here then just some storage I'm not again we're still in clean mode art supplies I've got some office stuff there lots of kit books we've got puzzles these are my health books and youth young readers yes yeah we just read them the call of the wild these are these are books up here that's our nonfiction fiction so what was the you got your latest point - a book that's how much you liked it this one loved oh yeah where the Craddock Singh loved it I liked the this series recently it's um starts with windmills of windmills and war yeah I mean I just finished I just finished the Alice Network and it was good book I mean is it takes you read a thick book like that a week maybe she's a crazy bastard here I'd love to read let's back up and go in that now you gotta let us in here look guys she cleaned it up we can come in here I worked all day well I had because one of the children had desire to get their toys in here so this room is getting a complete redo as well to make better use of our space and got my office desk over there I've got kids toys here so far and then we got our piano pianos in here to start doing that again and yeah so this is our guest room that is going to be double as a playroom office so we're gonna keep the bed but we're girls that well this is actually we just sanded and painted a barn door yeah so this is one of the barn doors from upstairs I'm not sure which one it was it might have been the one to our bedroom no it might have been the one anyways it was an extra barn door and we painted it but it's gonna leave it sleeping yeah because we have big remember the days in the days when we were just scraping by we put this room on Airbnb because we couldn't pay our bill so we did that and it was a lot of fun people did so yeah it's good times in this room all right let's move on yeah to the kids room well these little nooks are interesting these little fur gloves and I'm actually going to be redoing this day we're although because our children were all really young so now we can kind of a little bit service hooks to hang they serve but also nuts for like gloves and tow bargains yes gloves hats all right so this is the kids room Teddy's room this is where Teddy sleeps in here and it's pretty basic I want to get all toys out of the bedroom I just wanted to do clothes and sleeping that's it yeah and here is the Presidential Suite okay so that's what we used to call it when we first got this so when Justin and I moved in here it was just a 2-bedroom 1-bath home and when I was pregnant with Lily we we wanted to make some adjustments and Justins dad said hey let's put that master Sweden that we've always talked about and Justin and I were kind of like okay if you want to do that and so he did and we I said there's two things that I want I want a bathtub and I want lots of windows those those were the two things everything else I was like I don't care I just want those two things one dose I got the lots of windows in the bathtub he obliged me Justin actually made this bed for me like not not like put the covers together I made this wooden bed in a white plan that's the bed he did this bed he made it and with his own two hands it was my birthday present the year we moved in to this room which was 2011 so we have done that this is one of my favorite spots to sit and look out you can see the dogwood tree the creek I love to have the creek I love to have the creek mode we did so that we can see it and actually I can see it from my bed like which is nice I really really love that and yeah so we're just keeping on got my cut away got our closet got a bathroom all my natural remedies herbs okay over here we have our sauna it's a sunlight in sauna and we've had it I don't even know how long it's probably been a year it's just it's its first self-care yes so for both of us with my Hashimoto's with Lyme disease one of the things I kept reading about was a sauna a sauna sauna so we saved our pennies and we got this on sale and so it has been one of the best things that we've done it's super relaxing and it's just so good for your health it's how we get so much reading done yes we sit in there for 40 minutes every night yes it's nice to relax unwind get away from screens unwind the brain think about something else and then get in the bed yes it's a precursor to so yes we love it I actually one of the things that I would love to do is to take this window and make a porch out here make a door with a porch to go out yeah let's show them the view I hear love see we could see the back to sit back here and drink tea and just hear the creek yeah I can see oh so you can identify problems from the other house the tarp has come off the tarp has come up and it needs to be put back but yesterday the work never ends here so here we have our bathroom it's we have two sinks but we don't use this one yeah we never actually use it so one day when we eventually remodel this one which it doesn't really need it but one day it will and we will do some shifting of things and get rid of that sink because we don't need it yeah but I love this bad it's super nice to have a window that opens that's one thing I want to do in that bathroom when we remodel it is put in a window that's bigger because we don't really have anyone in danger of looking in our windows so I I just wanna I just love it cuz like when I blow-dry my hair I can open the window and the nice cool breeze comes in keeps me nice and cool well I'm blow-drying my hair when that happens well I hope you guys enjoyed that video of the quarantine in the country yeah our farm tour and home overall it's kinda nice because we're normally home anyway right and we have had a little bit more time because maybe we're not having these mini guests and some of those had been cancelled that we were gonna go to and stuff like that so and I probably would've gone out a little bit more yeah I've been like it's been I'm a homebody yeah it's felt a little hard yeah having same I can't imagine if you went from a very full life to having to do this it would maybe make you a little bit crazy I think see that being in the country and on a homestead there's always something to do yes there's always and it's very positive stuff to do it's good in a way to be quarantined right now to be focused on the homestead and the farm because what you do now in this time of the year the spring you end up harvesting and reaping the benefits to that later yeah so it's a good time it's really good in the country

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Published: Sun Apr 19 2020