Couple Turns ABANDONED Property into SUSTAINABLE Homestead | FULL TOUR
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- čas přidán 25. 08. 2024
- Full Tour of a homestead that's been 8 years in the making! We tore down a one room school house, built a new house, turned an old rusty corn crib into a barn, put gardens in, and turned a weed patch into a pasture. Now it's home.
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we bought our house and property for $3000 ...we were homeless after the covid stuff, lost jobs, your right you can make it happen if its on your heart...actally God makes it happen.
Wow! You are so right.
How? Who sold it to you that was willing to sell any property in the country for $3000?
How many acres were you able to get? Was it clear? I’m so happy for you!
Amen 🙌
@@searose6192 the average cost for an acre of land in the US is $3020 USD. It's cheaper if you find one with an ugly, old building, because the owners don't want to pay to move it.
What a lovely place, what a lovely couple. It was so nice to see someone who was a skate boarder turn his life into such abundance! You are an inspiration. I will be having my grandchildren watching you!!!
Awesome, thank you!
I just came across this video and it bless my heart to see how god can guide his children who are willing to listen in the right direction, may god continue to bless this family with good health peace joy and life here after.❤
Ahhh skateboarding. The only thing that let's you feel like a criminal without actually being a criminal. I laughed my ass off on this one-with abundance
I love your homestead, it is such a testimony to the thoughtfulness you put into each square foot of your property. You have done an amazing job using the land in ways that are productive. I have subscribed!
This is amazing! I take my hat off to you, your wife, and your family. What a fantastic job you've done.
Thank you very much!
So much WORK but SOOOOOOOOO WORTHY. CONGRATULATIONS you people have done a terrific job.
Thank you! It was definitely worth it:)
Y’all’s journey speaks to my heart. It’s very real and purposeful. I have nothing against people who got youtube money and built a big ol farm but that’s not relatable for me. I wish you CZcams success as an income source but you did this in an obtainable way without having that first. Your channel is encouraging and I appreciate your time and willingness to share your experiences with us.
Thank you for the encouragement! That means a lot! Yes...We had no idea at the time that we would be doing CZcams in the future😊 We were planning to sell produce and farm products, but with Michelle's health and some other factors, we felt like that lifestyle was too stressful for us. God led us into this...we love teaching others. Thanks for your support.
Hi Codi, congratulations on taking an abandoned property and turning into a sustainable homestead for you and your family. The extra information that you provided about the development and building process was very interesting. An extra question to add to your Q & A video would be, what was your parents thoughts and input when they learned that you were buying this property and your dreams for it"?
Glad you enjoyed! And that's a great question! I'm looking forward to doing that video. It will probably be one of the next few.
Thankyou! I feel like I really know you guys much more now. I love your current homestead, but I’m genuinely excited for your future too. ❤
Awesome! Thank you!
I love your Homesteading vision and your swing.Beautiful cow. Good job greening up the nature chickens !! Poor deer !! . Nice bee station.
I so enjoy watching your vids, I wish my husband was more hands on with me, it’s such a joy to see y’all working together as it’s so hard when only one person is seeing the dream and working tward it but not impossible , thanks for the vid
Thank you so much! And yes...Sometimes it takes time to come together on issues. Never stop dreaming though.
All I can say is WOW!!!!..what a great job y’all do on your homestead…first time watching y’all…an I’m amazed at all you have done!!! Beautiful!!! & productive!!!!! Use that old hoop tunnel to keep all tractor equipment out of rain!! Well done…I’m hooked on Y’all!😊
Thank you so much! Glad you found us, and welcome to the community 😊
Have you ever considered looking at turning the “swamp” area into a pond? You two did an amazing job at transforming your property into a working homestead.
Yes...we have. But I (Michelle) am too nervous about a pond while our kids are young😏
I love the channel
You did a great job! Suggestion for the swamp: if you have the time and money later, you could empty it of the brush and build a pond that you add some catfish to. They will grow and populate so you could homestead fish as well. You also then wouldn't have to worry about flooding as much. My grandparents live in Iowa and built a pond on their property. He only adds more baby fish once in a great while and they are able to catch and do some amazing fish fries with the whole family
I would love to! Michelle is uncomfortable with having a pond with the little kiddos. Maybe someday.
We're in NE Ohio doing something kind of similar. We bought our 7 acres in 2018 and we've been clearing back the mostly wooded property bit by bit while working 60 hour weeks an hour from home 😅 I always said I wanted my property mostly wooded so I can choose what to keep and what to clear but I have this FOMO of wishing I could have started projects years ago that we are just getting around to today.
That’s intense! I think we all tend to get fomo whichever way we decide to go 😉 But I’m sure someday you will look back and appreciate what you put into getting to where you want to be. Good luck!
You should use that hoop house next to the garden that's collecting weeds to cover your other tractor implements.
Or to plant lettuce & cool crops through the winter!!! I hated hearing him say he’d throw it out!
Very nice homestead.. and tree house for the kids..maybe you could do get a water tote to keep water back in thaw back pasture.. they hold 250-300 gallons of water..
Thank you for this video! We are a family of 4 on a 2 Acre property doing all we can to grow and get to our dream goal of adding more land to the property 😀 🙌 loved this!
Love your goals! We would also love to add some land to our homestead!
@morethanfarmers wonderful idea!! About 50 acres would fit my bill, lol 😆
Wow that is one heck of a journey! Just saw yall in Homesteady's video I and came right over and so glad I found yall! I'm going through the same beginning of building my homestead/farm (farmstead) and love learning from others!
Glad you came! 😊 Good luck with the building process.. I hope my videos are even a little helpful along the way.
@@morethanfarmers they are very helpful already! Thanks
It first starts with a vision!! Ideas are fun and all!! But doing it is different thing altogether!! Hard-work and patience and time...and now look at it all!! Well done!!
I knew you two were special !! I just discovered you Homesteaders and are happy that I did.
New subscriber here, also in Ohio on 5 acres. I like home compact your place is, good use of the land you have, we do not have large animals but this gives me a good picture if we ever wanted to have large animals. Good job and congratulations to you and your family.
Welcome! So great to have Ohioans in this community!
Awesome. As a youngster I was a metalhead and wouldn't believe that some time later gardening will become my passion :-)
For sure 😏
Thank you for sharing so much information. I can’t wait to see the inside of the house. This is so wonderful
I have such a good feeling about you two ❤ seem like really good people ✌🏽❤️😊
Thank you so much!
Just found you guys and love your channel. You are an inspiration to our family.
Maybe over time you could turn that swamp into a pond and split it for water for the cows. I grew up fishing and loved it. God bless.
Glad to have you here! If it was totally up to me I'd turn it into a pond, but Shelli wants nothin to do with it! 😊 She would be uncomfortable with a pond that close to the house with small children. Which I understand too.
If you still have a surplus in raspberries ask other farmers and homesteaders what they have a surplus of and maybe you can trade!!!
Great job. It does take a young person like you to do so much. Wonderful.
Thank you so much!
For the places your hauling water to, consider a water tank on a trailer you could fill and pull to where it is needed.
Yep! I got a tank and parts for it, just haven’t gotten it put together yet 😊
What an incredible amount of work you've both done, congrats!
Absolutely loved this video. This is something we dream of doing one day but in the meantime we are utilising every square inch of our 1/10th acre property. It’s great learning from you guys in the process. We are homeschooling believers too. God Bless.
Keep dreaming, and keep chasing the dream! Blessings.
❤THIS VIDEO ROCKS
FIRST TIMER HERE.. Just watched ( Less of The Grocerystore) Earlier.. You guys have Done A FANTASTIC JOB🎉 SHAREABLE !!
And Nerv looks GREAT
I BE BACK💕🕯️☕️
Babs from The NorthEast👋
Awesome! Thank you! 😊
You are very inspiring even to this city girl! Best wishes for a bright future for you and your family.
Thank you so much!
For your swampy area, look into getting winecap mushrooms. They are so easy. You just have to chip up almost any kind of wood and make a pile and throw the spores in and they’ll stay growing there every year.
Good to know, thanks!
Take a broom handle to make your holes for the garden seeds for plants....we use to have us all doing it....first person put the holes....second person put the seeds.....third person would cover up the seeds with the hoe....worked pretty good.
Great idea!
@@morethanfarmers loved the one about the baby cow also....you 2 did a great job saving Hero.
Wow! I had no idea you have chickens and cows that is amazing. Congratulations on building such incredible homestead. Wish you guys the best, you guys have your hands full 😅
Thanks! We sure do 😊
Maybe try to beat down some of the swamp edges and plant some wild flowers for your bees. Just a idea! Love the set up
I really appreciate your drawn map, it helps me visualize as you walk around. Looking forward to watching more videos.
Glad it helped!
I love what you've built! It's absolutely beautiful! I love to grow my own food, and I am newly fascinated by it every year - sowing, planting, harvesting and composting. This contact with earth that your lifestyle offers is so important, and your children will deeply appreciate it later.
Yes! Blessings 😊
What an incredible transformation!! Thank you for sharing
I think you need TWO hazel nut trees to get nuts. You might wanna check on that. Your homestead is full of my life goals. Well done!
We did get some hazelnuts then! No walnuts yet, but we do have two of those trees. I hope you can get to your goals 😊
Amazing you have sold and demonstrated that anything is possible as long as you keep your mind focused on what your dreams and goals are! Number 100👍✝️
Yes! Thank you!
I came across your channel this year and subscribed. It's been nice to see everything that you and your wife do on your homestead. I am glad that I looked back and was able to see THIS video to see how y'all put it it together. Thanks for sharing your lives with me.
"if it's in your heart to do something like that.. it can be done". So very true. Maybe not exactly how you plan it and when you plan it.. but it can be done. I'm new to your channel today. Loving seeing what you have to say and the tour of your place.
Amen...and no, it wasn't exactly what we imagined.😉 But we love it!
It was possible back when they did it in 2014.. The start up cost on this nowadays would be 2-3mil.
@@alexlaw1892 ".... maybe not exactly how you plan it and when you plan it..." Yup. Things change over the years. Or with life circumstances. It just requires some adjustments.
@@DawnRaeB yup just pull 2-3mil out of your ass. Not a big deal.. The average person makes that in a year easy.
It is more expensive, but we could still do it for less than 300k. A lot of it comes down to how you do it.
What a beautiful, sustainable homestead! I love how your property is organized and layed out. You are blessed with all those raspberries. I have trouble growing raspberries. Any suggestions to keep them going? I'm in zone 7a.
Evergreens are a fabulous idea. Not only do they provide privacy, they are extremely asthetic. So pretty!
Looking forward to more of this channel. 🥰
Thank you! Not sure what to say about the raspberries.. we planted em and haven't had issues.. keep em watered while they're getting established. We also compost them every year.
Wonderful! Thanks for sharing!
Our pleasure!
My Goodness! Your Life has changed drastically! CONGRATULATIONS~! new subscriber from S. California (born & raised in Ohio!)
Yes it has! Welcome to the community!
Good job you guys! I wish I started young like you did! 🤗💟🤗
I so, admire the way u do ur fruit and vegetable gardening, I live in TX zone 9 that I tried growing raspberries and blueberries and the heat here is too hot to grow anything except cactus 🌵 a some citrus ..here in zone 9, winter isn't much of winter we call our weather summer and fall.. keep up the great job..God bless 🙌
Beautiful hardworking family love from India ❤ God bless you all ❤️
This is a great tour ty for sharing...
The Lord has blessed you and your family with his guidance and leadership all things are possible. Stay blessed.
Your story is awesome. Congrats on making it happen.
Sk8rboy turned Farmerman- love it
This is an absolute dream. So organized and has the perfect flow. Love watching you guys. Thank you for the tour. ~Sammie☆
Next, try rain harvesting... and make a pond as well
Amazing couple. Self-sustaining farm. I hope I can do it in the future.
You guys are awesome, just found your channel!! You are inspiring : )
Thank you!! 😊
Great job. I enjoyed your tour.
Love all you guys did!
We are in Ohio too!
Just found your channel!
Awesome!
I also was once a skate punk and now am building out my homestead and have been working with small farms for 8 years. Also pretty freaking wild swing from what I thought I would be doing
What an awesome tour! I am totally impressed with your building skills.
Well thank you 😊 I helped my dad build our family 2 different houses growing up. I got a good head start!
Super impressed guys. Glad I found your channel
Amazing so far what I have seen in this channel but always the beginning is the best, the before and after, what you were and what you are now, a vision, a desire, a pretty radical twist, in short, pretty awesome man, love moves mountains!
Thank you so much 😀
Greating from Africa you are doing great work. God bless
Welcome here!
Just found your homestead you tube. We are in ohio as well and currently looking for property. It is always great to see and connect with others in ohio doing homesteading. Where about in ohio are you located?
Wow! That's so cool! Welcome to this online community! We are located in Central Ohio.
Beautiful journey. Have you thought about turning your swamp into a pond and raising fish? Make the wet areas work for you. The cows can utilize the pond for drinking and swimming. Your ducks or other water birds can utilize it as well. You can raise fish which you can eat and sell.And the best part is you and your family will have a place to swim...as well....
Great idea:) You'd hafta convince Michelle though about the pond. She's worried about having a pond with toddlers running around:) Maybe someday!
@@morethanfarmers simple solution is a chicken electric fence around the pond...
@@morethanfarmers but also adding cat tails around the edges and making the edges shallow too..benefit is that you can use cat tails for flour and other things too..teaching the kids to swim also...or adding a small temporary fence will help too...but the amount of fish you can grow is amazing,it will bring in beneficial wildlife that's great for the garden and bees...your bees will have plenty of water during the really hot days..so many benefits from a Pond and your using space that doesn't really get used...
I love this!!! So inspirational
Such a wonderful family! God bless 🙏
You have done great! If one day you can turn that swamp into a pond for your animals, that would be incredible.
Thanks. We’ve considered it!
Things Do Not just happened. God Blessed you. 👌🏼😍🙋🏻🙏🏼👩🏻🌾👏🏼👏🏼🍃💐🌹
So true!
Amazing, l like that you do t use chemicals in farming, regenerative farming is the future!
F*in ehhhh bud!!!👊🏻🇨🇦🇺🇲 you's did AMAZING! CONGRADS folks! 😊
Thanks!
It's beautiful. I enjoyed the tour. Thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I love to rewatch your older videos 😊
One word: Speechless.
Two words: new subscriber!
Do you plan to have a farm pond? How big will it be? Are beavers native to your area?
I would love to, but it for sure won't happen until the kids are older. There are some beavers in Ohio.
Beautyful place and family! I wish I'll have such a quit place some day too. Have a nice sunday!!
Meant to be.
The average walnut tree starts to produce nuts at an age of 8-10 years. However, there are cases in which walnut trees start to produce about 15-22 lbs. (7-10 kg) of nuts at an age of 5-7 years. Most commercial walnut orchards reach their peak production level at an age of 30 years or more.
Interesting!
Just came across your channel and I am loving it! I love how you also include your little lovins’! I love how they get involved in the garden! Thank you for sharing your Homestead Journey with us. May God bless you and your family. 🙏🏻😊
Thank you so much! and Welcome to the community!
I love your channel! Thanks for sharing. Respect for your hard work & family!
You can get more palets to make a shed for your parts to your Tractor.. 🙃
You got a lot done. And a lot of variety. Great video, where are you located?
It’s been a lot of work! Ohio.
AWESOME thank you very encouraging
I love your homestead! Do you have a floor plan drawn out that you could share?
Thank you! I can give you an idea.. 22x30. Two story. 3 bedrooms and a bathroom upstairs. Kitchen/dining room, living room, laundry room, and one bathroom downstairs. It’s all pretty packed in there 😏
Thank you! We have 4 boys and would love to buy more property and build a small house
Your back pasture is better because of the swamp and accompanying forest.. Slow steady release of water and nutrients into it..
This is fantastic❤🎉
Such a great video : ) I just found your channel today !
What inspiration!
wonderful - thank you for sharing.
Our pleasure!
really enjoyed this video. Just discovered you guys.
I heard tell that you don't want to plant any food plants around the walnut trees. Because if you don't pick up after your tree and leave left over nuts on the ground as they break down they will leach out toxic chemical. Look it up to see what you can plant next to them.
It’s called juglone (sp?) and it’s not just what falls from the walnut (or related trees). It’s in the soil around the roots too. You can look online to find out what plants are juglone tolerant. For example, I have black walnuts growing wild on my property & black raspberries & pawpaw are also growing wild right next to them. So you just have to look up what to plant near and what not to plant near walnut trees.
Good job, I am impressed, it all looks great and useful......keep it going !!!
Thanks for the encouragement!!
I just found your channel today and have enjoyed watching your family's homestead. Curious how you acquired the abandoned property?
It was for sale.. We offered them half of the asking price and got it.
You are fulfilling your dreams. Thankx for sharing you passions. You have done well. God bless you and yours. "O"
Thanks Tim 😊
Beautiful!
Thank you!
New subbie here and enjoying your videos and so binge watching them right now.
Welcome to the community!! So glad you're enjoying our content!
Excellent!
16:49 I agree hard work is absolutely necessary…..but so is money, or at the very least local social network of people willing to give you extra supplies for free.
We did it on very low pay living paycheck to paycheck 🤷🏻♂️ We did have some helpful people in our lives.
@@morethanfarmers Yep. That’s the way to do it if you don’t have money. Hard work + helpful people in your life. I also think, things tend to go more smoothly when we are moving in the direction God wants us to go, often with unexpected blessings to help us on our way (like some of things you guys mention happened at the start of your homestead like getting your first cow for a very low price and your land for 50% off the asking price.) Meanwhile fighting against God’s will is often more tiring and a rockier road with things going wrong. Of course even the right path has challenges, but they can be overcome.
I am really enjoying your videos, and bless your family!
Right on!
have you thought about clearing the swamp so it can be more water than brush, setting up a gravity filtration system that uses natural methods of cleaning the water, letting it feed back into the swamp, and then having a relatively clean water reservoir for the wildlife and also potentially for piping around to other things. Could also plant up the area to make a little grotto with boardwalks and have a nice little nature walk area or something? probably frivolous, but if it's not too expensive it could be fun just to do. could probably also set it up to have the cleaned water push the dirty water over or through something so it can be sectioned off. kinda like a water treatment plant made out of nature and using nature to filter it. idk, just a thought i had, lol.
Wow 🤩 your house and what you’ve done is just amazing. Congratulations to you, I love it…. If you don’t mind me asking: how many acres is your property, about 10 maybe? Thanks 😊
Thank you for the kind words! We live on 5 1/2 acres:)