WEBVTT 00:03.220 --> 00:05.640 Ah, coffee time out here at the picnic table. 00:06.460 --> 00:07.920 Got some Amish cookies with me. 00:07.980 --> 00:09.920 Amish Mennonite are about a mile from here, so. 00:11.040 --> 00:12.020 Blooms are coming out. 00:12.120 --> 00:14.760 We got the plums hitting off early, 00:15.060 --> 00:17.380 and the pink ones behind are the peach trees. 00:17.860 --> 00:20.020 Got a couple hundred fruit trees on the property here. 00:20.840 --> 00:23.400 Reason I'm telling you this, my life has just changed, 00:23.500 --> 00:26.880 so this homestead is up for rent on a year lease. 00:28.260 --> 00:31.000 It comes complete, turn key, move in ready, 00:31.920 --> 00:35.840 furnished, and you're dropping in on gardens that are already 00:36.460 --> 00:38.280 planted out to come up. 00:38.420 --> 00:39.000 It's getting warmer. 00:39.260 --> 00:40.320 It's already starting on the emergence. 00:41.000 --> 00:43.180 All the fruit, got the chickens, got ducks. 00:43.980 --> 00:45.400 Fenced in two and a half acres. 00:46.660 --> 00:48.600 You know, it keeps the critters out at night. 00:48.740 --> 00:49.920 It is pretty wild out here. 00:50.080 --> 00:52.340 We're at the very last telephone pole on the whole line 00:52.860 --> 00:54.760 and the very last water main out here as well. 00:54.940 --> 00:57.440 So behind me, thousands of acres of forest, 00:59.060 --> 01:00.800 and you hear coyotes sometimes, 01:02.300 --> 01:04.120 but I am gonna put this place up for, 01:04.500 --> 01:05.800 like I say, a one year lease. 01:06.260 --> 01:08.620 I'm gonna take you for a quick walkthrough on it. 01:09.320 --> 01:10.780 I'll show you what we got going on here. 01:10.820 --> 01:11.720 I know a lot of you have asked, 01:11.860 --> 01:12.960 you know, what does your place look like? 01:13.660 --> 01:14.540 So here you go. 01:15.040 --> 01:17.440 And again, our agent, I'll put the contact below, 01:17.560 --> 01:19.460 Bert Lee, and you can contact him. 01:19.860 --> 01:22.340 One thing, no cigarette smokers. 01:22.480 --> 01:23.320 We don't want any smokers. 01:23.380 --> 01:24.140 It's a fire risk anyway. 01:24.320 --> 01:25.180 We're already in a cabin. 01:25.180 --> 01:27.500 No candles, that sort of thing. 01:28.040 --> 01:29.020 But you can talk to Bert. 01:29.700 --> 01:31.440 You're gonna have to do a full background check 01:32.640 --> 01:34.340 and the deposits as well. 01:34.820 --> 01:36.800 And if this place you think it's a fit for you 01:36.800 --> 01:38.620 in this certain time that's going on right now, 01:39.080 --> 01:42.820 like I say, made it just turnkey ready to drop in 01:42.820 --> 01:45.140 with the fully furnished. 01:45.600 --> 01:46.960 A little bit of rain coming down here. 01:47.080 --> 01:48.180 It might be a rainbow, I guess. 01:49.600 --> 01:51.140 But it's a beautiful time of the year. 01:51.320 --> 01:53.160 The seasons are starting to change right now 01:53.160 --> 01:55.040 and a lot of things are coming back to life again. 01:55.860 --> 01:58.700 So let's take a walk around through the property in the house. 01:59.160 --> 02:01.060 And again, I'll leave the information, 02:01.240 --> 02:03.060 the email contact as well as the telephone number 02:03.060 --> 02:06.360 for Bert Lee, our agent in East Tennessee here. 02:08.020 --> 02:10.800 So let me walk you through a wide out view here. 02:10.940 --> 02:14.140 Been working on the orchard for about five years now 02:14.140 --> 02:15.920 in the valley that I live in here. 02:16.900 --> 02:18.420 Tucked away, but there's still some roads 02:18.420 --> 02:20.300 that's going down beyond the trees over there, 02:20.300 --> 02:24.380 small country road, front deck, multiple places to sit 02:24.380 --> 02:27.800 and just watch bird life, cloud life, storm life, 02:28.060 --> 02:30.500 move by from west to east. 02:30.780 --> 02:32.080 Got to swing down at the end here. 02:33.120 --> 02:35.360 If you're into that with rocking chairs as well. 02:36.520 --> 02:39.480 Homestead has some ducks on it as well right now 02:39.480 --> 02:42.980 and also chickens got a few different varieties there. 02:43.120 --> 02:45.220 We get about a dozen eggs per day right now. 02:45.740 --> 02:47.160 These chickens are more wild style. 02:47.300 --> 02:49.500 They're not in the enclosure in Iran. 02:49.500 --> 02:53.500 We let them wild forage and roost up in the trees. 02:54.100 --> 02:55.700 We did build a place out for them. 02:55.760 --> 02:57.440 They go in and nest in the box in different locations. 02:57.860 --> 02:59.420 What they like to live in the trees, 02:59.740 --> 03:03.560 rooster usually stays undercover with a few others, 03:03.560 --> 03:05.640 but they're just up in the trees quite a bit. 03:07.000 --> 03:08.600 They know how to evade wild predators. 03:08.760 --> 03:10.160 That's the whole thing is they don't get caught 03:10.160 --> 03:13.120 in Iran and get decimated by a raccoon possum 03:13.120 --> 03:14.800 or something, they just get away from them. 03:15.040 --> 03:18.140 Plus the ability for them to seek out 03:18.140 --> 03:19.900 their own protein sources and help us 03:19.900 --> 03:21.340 with pest control around the orchard. 03:21.660 --> 03:22.220 That's a win-win. 03:23.860 --> 03:26.920 Now when I first dug those holes with the auger out there 03:27.520 --> 03:29.060 before I even planted anything, 03:29.380 --> 03:30.560 what it looks like off the deck, 03:30.660 --> 03:31.780 still exactly the same. 03:31.840 --> 03:33.080 It was like a timeless spot. 03:34.500 --> 03:36.880 Year or so into the orchard grow 03:36.880 --> 03:39.420 and the leaves start to change color, 03:39.560 --> 03:41.660 you get a technicolor view around you 03:41.660 --> 03:42.640 as the mountains change. 03:43.820 --> 03:45.380 And we got some fill in finally 03:45.380 --> 03:47.240 and I've really been doing a lot of pruning 03:47.240 --> 03:49.700 on those over the last year or so 03:49.700 --> 03:52.120 to get maximum fruit production out of it. 03:52.600 --> 03:54.500 And now, you know, we're really starting 03:54.500 --> 03:56.240 to crank on the fruit with the pears, 03:56.840 --> 04:01.420 the peaches, apples, lots of elderberries 04:01.420 --> 04:03.520 and cherries coming on a little bit. 04:04.360 --> 04:06.500 I just walk out there, pick a few fresh fruits 04:07.040 --> 04:08.080 and trade it with a few people 04:08.080 --> 04:10.020 to just stop by to trade with. 04:10.240 --> 04:11.500 They also have roots, 04:11.620 --> 04:12.800 a little bit of a strange one out here. 04:12.900 --> 04:14.420 That's why I was growing as a higher value, 04:14.580 --> 04:16.000 not so many people doing it. 04:16.000 --> 04:18.580 So fruit trades pretty well. 04:19.300 --> 04:21.940 Picnic table, we removed half of a row of trees 04:21.940 --> 04:23.480 with that picnic table back in there. 04:23.520 --> 04:25.160 So when the leaves all grow and you're tucked in, 04:25.200 --> 04:26.480 you got a little cave back there. 04:27.240 --> 04:30.200 And a couple rows over area for a small campfire. 04:31.060 --> 04:33.180 For me, I only drink white wine pretty much. 04:33.680 --> 04:36.420 And if you start the campfire looking directly west, 04:37.260 --> 04:38.920 sunsets over our neighbor's house 04:38.920 --> 04:41.440 going down in that small V 04:42.140 --> 04:43.620 at the end of the valley down there. 04:44.400 --> 04:45.840 And it's pretty wide open in the field. 04:46.020 --> 04:48.800 A lot of gusty winds and fun storms coming through, 04:48.940 --> 04:50.160 just wide open vistas. 04:50.260 --> 04:51.480 If you're into that wild weather 04:51.480 --> 04:53.760 and just watching sunsets, 04:54.220 --> 04:55.740 this is a place for you as well. 04:57.920 --> 05:01.920 Product you love, the 72 hour emergency food kit 05:01.920 --> 05:03.660 from my Patriots supply. 05:04.120 --> 05:07.040 Not only emergency food, but camping food 05:07.040 --> 05:09.880 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06:22.960 the peppers ourselves, we grew the eggs obviously 06:22.960 --> 06:24.560 from our chickens, lettuce, that thing. 06:24.740 --> 06:25.820 Grapes are from our vines. 06:26.920 --> 06:27.960 Strawberries are from a friend 06:27.960 --> 06:30.040 who we trade with occasionally for different fruits. 06:30.620 --> 06:32.260 The yogurts are from the Mennonites 06:32.260 --> 06:33.660 just down the street, the Amos community 06:33.660 --> 06:36.940 as well as the cheeses that they're putting together. 06:36.940 --> 06:39.460 They do a fair few different types of cheese. 06:40.860 --> 06:42.700 Fresh veg here, all out of the garden. 06:44.020 --> 06:47.160 And just it's seasonal, more of the eating than it is. 06:47.300 --> 06:49.020 You can buy anything at any time. 06:49.920 --> 06:52.440 And we did a whole heap of different types 06:52.440 --> 06:53.680 of cherry tomatoes one year. 06:53.840 --> 06:56.820 I think there are 10 plus varieties in there. 06:57.760 --> 07:00.840 The romas as well, different types of lettuces, 07:01.220 --> 07:03.500 sweet peppers, snack peppers, these sort of thing. 07:04.180 --> 07:05.840 Easy to grow and this is the gardens 07:05.840 --> 07:08.600 that we already have gotten ready to replant. 07:08.700 --> 07:10.000 We like to do companion planting, 07:10.880 --> 07:13.700 especially with the marigolds to drive off pests, 07:13.780 --> 07:15.660 just like using the chickens out near the orchard. 07:16.640 --> 07:18.400 You can see the carpenter bee box up there. 07:18.500 --> 07:20.460 We do got carpenter bees through the beginning 07:20.460 --> 07:22.720 of the season, basil's off to the right, 07:22.800 --> 07:25.960 but we planted a bunch of just herbs 07:25.960 --> 07:27.000 in this side of the garden. 07:27.100 --> 07:28.680 We have another side that we're doing veg with. 07:29.200 --> 07:34.040 We did try this red okra, grew well and getting in there. 07:34.040 --> 07:35.780 You can see it's a little bit about head high, 07:36.260 --> 07:38.020 but those are continuous producers. 07:38.300 --> 07:39.560 There's just so many possibilities 07:39.560 --> 07:40.720 of growing things out here. 07:41.840 --> 07:44.420 And the grape vines are starting to come on strong now. 07:44.540 --> 07:46.340 So it's been about third year 07:46.340 --> 07:48.220 going on the fourth year that we've had those. 07:48.960 --> 07:51.980 So every vine's now producing at least at this level 07:51.980 --> 07:53.200 and we got different types of grapes 07:53.200 --> 07:56.280 from the whites to the like the Concord purples 07:56.280 --> 07:57.280 to these Mars here. 07:58.300 --> 08:01.900 So heaps of possibilities for doing veg production 08:01.900 --> 08:02.820 and that sort of thing. 08:03.540 --> 08:05.000 As I said, it's working homestead 08:05.000 --> 08:08.360 and it's just drop in turnkey ready. 08:08.640 --> 08:10.860 You already have things available for you. 08:10.960 --> 08:12.720 You don't have to wait multiple years 08:12.720 --> 08:13.960 before things start producing. 08:14.220 --> 08:15.000 They're producing already. 08:15.720 --> 08:16.680 And that's kind of the key 08:16.680 --> 08:19.220 and the luxury of it all as well. 08:20.240 --> 08:23.340 So interior, the log home here, family room 08:23.340 --> 08:25.080 and we've got a 78 inch TV 08:25.080 --> 08:26.680 because I do editing on that 08:26.680 --> 08:28.560 and you can watch movies as well. 08:29.160 --> 08:30.540 Trying to make it livable 08:30.540 --> 08:32.380 and when people come by to visit 08:32.380 --> 08:33.880 different places for them to stay, 08:34.180 --> 08:35.020 take the kitchen 08:35.020 --> 08:36.280 because we're spending a lot of time there. 08:36.440 --> 08:37.520 We're growing our own food. 08:38.140 --> 08:39.960 So you spend more and more time in the kitchen 08:40.480 --> 08:43.300 preparing things as you get them out of the plants, 08:43.460 --> 08:45.420 their field or the front or whatever it is. 08:46.000 --> 08:47.320 We do have a little coffee bar 08:47.320 --> 08:49.040 over on the right below the clock there. 08:49.420 --> 08:51.400 You can stock your own bar if you want to. 08:52.120 --> 08:56.580 High top chairs on the table and the kitchen. 08:57.040 --> 08:58.460 There are some appliances in there 08:58.460 --> 08:59.280 but we took them out, 08:59.620 --> 09:00.660 just try to clean things off 09:00.660 --> 09:03.180 and rework the countertop there. 09:03.660 --> 09:04.300 But the island, 09:04.660 --> 09:06.880 there's all kind of veg everywhere you look as well. 09:07.220 --> 09:09.000 The potatoes came from the Mennonites though. 09:09.100 --> 09:10.160 We did not grow those. 09:11.040 --> 09:12.620 Well, you've got a couple of different sitting areas. 09:12.840 --> 09:13.600 People can be over in the sofa, 09:13.800 --> 09:14.620 you've got to go people here, 09:14.720 --> 09:15.940 you can have some coffee and chat 09:15.940 --> 09:17.560 and somebody on the table. 09:17.680 --> 09:18.480 So there's like different areas 09:18.480 --> 09:21.000 where you can find your groove 09:21.000 --> 09:22.800 if you have a few people over 09:23.640 --> 09:24.760 and the master bedroom 09:25.280 --> 09:28.380 and it looks back out into the field there. 09:29.400 --> 09:30.700 Simple but comfortable. 09:30.960 --> 09:33.500 Tried to make it nice ceiling fans 09:33.500 --> 09:36.360 to move some air around with the open windows, 09:36.520 --> 09:37.760 getting the fresh breezes in. 09:38.740 --> 09:41.180 Also at sunset, the direction from it 09:41.180 --> 09:42.840 and moon set as well in the evenings 09:42.840 --> 09:43.720 on a full moon. 09:43.820 --> 09:45.220 If it's clear skies, you get the same. 09:45.400 --> 09:46.660 It kind of really comes in the window. 09:47.320 --> 09:49.000 Keep you awake if you don't close curtains 09:49.000 --> 09:50.260 on those full moon nights. 09:51.000 --> 09:52.380 But if you got kids, 09:53.180 --> 09:54.500 we got the twin beds in here. 09:55.100 --> 09:57.160 Looks right out onto the front porch. 09:58.540 --> 10:00.020 And again, just trying to keep it comfortable. 10:00.120 --> 10:01.500 Everything's fully furnished, 10:01.680 --> 10:02.480 turnkey when you come in, 10:02.560 --> 10:03.760 you got lens there, you got tiles, 10:03.920 --> 10:05.300 you got a fully stocked kitchen, 10:05.460 --> 10:08.980 like oodles of dishes and pots, pans, 10:09.140 --> 10:10.220 these sort of things to use. 10:11.740 --> 10:14.860 And then we plan to turn this right here 10:14.860 --> 10:16.820 around presently recording into a queen bedroom. 10:17.900 --> 10:19.520 So same thing, queen beds, 10:19.780 --> 10:22.360 looking out onto the front 10:22.800 --> 10:24.200 and out into the front field. 10:24.240 --> 10:25.980 You can watch sunrise in through the windows. 10:27.440 --> 10:28.600 Comfortable and, you know, 10:28.680 --> 10:30.220 family's plenty of space for that 10:30.720 --> 10:33.300 or you and yourselves coming in here 10:33.300 --> 10:35.520 to enjoy what this place has to offer. 10:35.840 --> 10:37.340 There's many a possibility. 10:37.840 --> 10:39.500 If you're looking for some tranquility 10:39.500 --> 10:41.820 and, you know, getting back to that natural vibe 10:41.820 --> 10:43.240 and escaping out of the madness, 10:44.140 --> 10:45.400 this is the place for you. 10:45.900 --> 10:47.820 And again, my life has just changed drastically 10:47.820 --> 10:51.120 and we are in a completely different set of motion 10:51.120 --> 10:53.120 at the moment versus staying here. 10:53.840 --> 10:55.320 So I know somebody can appreciate it 10:55.320 --> 10:59.120 and use it at this pivotal time right now 10:59.120 --> 11:00.420 when there's a lot of chaos in the world. 11:00.700 --> 11:03.460 Great place, turnkey, drop in, everything works 11:04.040 --> 11:07.680 and you're ready to start producing outside the system 11:08.220 --> 11:10.320 of the centralized supply chains 11:10.320 --> 11:11.740 that we're used to relying on. 11:12.180 --> 11:14.640 You're kind of off that instantly coming out here. 11:16.060 --> 11:18.780 And I'll even leave you the Bushnell binoculars 11:18.780 --> 11:20.420 so you can check out the birds, 11:20.640 --> 11:22.720 the wildlife and the stars. 11:22.720 --> 11:25.500 That's why this place is called Star Meadow. 11:25.760 --> 11:27.540 Some of the most incredible star viewing, 11:29.120 --> 11:32.720 planetary, ecliptic views that you'll find still left 11:32.720 --> 11:34.140 without all the light pollution 11:34.140 --> 11:36.660 and the eagles and hawks coming through. 11:37.580 --> 11:38.640 I wouldn't say on a daily, 11:38.820 --> 11:40.060 but definitely several times a week 11:40.060 --> 11:41.500 because we're riding the thermals on the hills 11:41.500 --> 11:44.660 that are building behind the meadow here. 11:45.380 --> 11:46.720 So I'll leave all the description 11:46.720 --> 11:49.060 of what we have at this property below 11:49.060 --> 11:51.800 as well as Bert Lee's contact telephone number. 11:52.320 --> 11:55.400 They're open 9 a.m. to 2 on Saturday. 11:55.860 --> 11:57.940 They don't generally take calls outside that. 11:58.020 --> 11:59.520 There is an email I'll give you as well. 11:59.600 --> 12:01.440 You can contact Monday to Friday, 12:01.540 --> 12:02.420 regular business hours 12:02.420 --> 12:04.340 and Bert can give you a better description. 12:05.000 --> 12:06.640 Callie's also working over there 12:07.660 --> 12:10.740 and yeah, they're helping us get somebody in here. 12:11.900 --> 12:14.520 And thanks for your attention and your time. 12:15.080 --> 12:17.320 Hope you enjoyed even what I'm doing out here 12:17.320 --> 12:19.160 on the property and what I've done from start to finish. 12:19.560 --> 12:21.560 And I was gonna do a video series on that, 12:21.560 --> 12:24.560 but I was listening to Danny down at DeepSouth Homestead. 12:24.960 --> 12:26.520 He was like, yes, setting up the cameras 12:26.520 --> 12:27.600 and try to get every shot. 12:27.720 --> 12:28.800 And then he's like, ah, 12:29.000 --> 12:30.300 sometimes I just rush through the work 12:30.300 --> 12:31.420 and I forgot to turn on the camera. 12:31.880 --> 12:33.120 Well, it's like that many a time, 12:34.480 --> 12:35.880 especially when you're just out doing things, 12:36.020 --> 12:37.680 you're like, oh, I forgot to bring the camera out there. 12:37.900 --> 12:40.500 And you almost need to have somebody else filming 12:40.500 --> 12:41.620 while you're doing all these things, 12:41.640 --> 12:42.560 but that's not practical. 12:42.720 --> 12:43.560 That's not the real world. 12:44.080 --> 12:45.200 I just get the work done. 12:45.540 --> 12:46.680 And from this point forward, 12:46.760 --> 12:47.600 everything we put out here 12:47.600 --> 12:48.880 is gonna produce more and more. 12:48.960 --> 12:49.860 And especially this year, 12:50.280 --> 12:53.660 I'm cranking it with the different types of homuses, 12:54.240 --> 12:56.740 like wood hummus and these sort of leaf hummus 12:56.740 --> 12:58.280 that we've broken down over the winter, 12:58.800 --> 13:00.180 as well as some natural fertilizer, 13:00.400 --> 13:01.800 some algae and these sort of things 13:01.800 --> 13:03.000 to try to really crank it, 13:03.480 --> 13:05.340 fish emulsion and then hitting everything 13:05.340 --> 13:06.260 with copper sulfate. 13:06.640 --> 13:09.440 So, you know, we don't get any fungus out on the trees. 13:09.460 --> 13:11.240 So it's gonna be a bumper year this year. 13:11.440 --> 13:12.580 So again, I thank you so much 13:12.580 --> 13:15.160 for taking a tour of the property with me. 13:15.240 --> 13:16.140 I'll see you next time. 13:16.400 --> 13:16.860 Bye for now. 13:18.060 --> 13:19.780 And if you wanna see more images 13:19.780 --> 13:21.720 around the farm through different seasons, 13:21.920 --> 13:23.980 check out the Facebook fan page, 13:24.260 --> 13:25.380 Star Meadow Cabin. 13:25.480 --> 13:27.080 That link's in the description box below, 13:27.400 --> 13:29.560 along with the information to contact 13:29.560 --> 13:32.660 Bert Lee to arrange a showing of the homestead.