Ah, coffee time out here at the picnic table.
Got some Amish cookies with me.
Amish Mennonite are about a mile from here, so.
Blooms are coming out.
We got the plums hitting off early,
and the pink ones behind are the peach trees.
Got a couple hundred fruit trees on the property here.
Reason I'm telling you this, my life has just changed,
so this homestead is up for rent on a year lease.
It comes complete, turn key, move in ready,
furnished, and you're dropping in on gardens that are already
planted out to come up.
It's getting warmer.
It's already starting on the emergence.
All the fruit, got the chickens, got ducks.
Fenced in two and a half acres.
You know, it keeps the critters out at night.
It is pretty wild out here.
We're at the very last telephone pole on the whole line
and the very last water main out here as well.
So behind me, thousands of acres of forest,
and you hear coyotes sometimes,
but I am gonna put this place up for,
like I say, a one year lease.
I'm gonna take you for a quick walkthrough on it.
I'll show you what we got going on here.
I know a lot of you have asked,
you know, what does your place look like?
So here you go.
And again, our agent, I'll put the contact below,
Bert Lee, and you can contact him.
One thing, no cigarette smokers.
We don't want any smokers.
It's a fire risk anyway.
We're already in a cabin.
No candles, that sort of thing.
But you can talk to Bert.
You're gonna have to do a full background check
and the deposits as well.
And if this place you think it's a fit for you
in this certain time that's going on right now,
like I say, made it just turnkey ready to drop in
with the fully furnished.
A little bit of rain coming down here.
It might be a rainbow, I guess.
But it's a beautiful time of the year.
The seasons are starting to change right now
and a lot of things are coming back to life again.
So let's take a walk around through the property in the house.
And again, I'll leave the information,
the email contact as well as the telephone number
for Bert Lee, our agent in East Tennessee here.
So let me walk you through a wide out view here.
Been working on the orchard for about five years now
in the valley that I live in here.
Tucked away, but there's still some roads
that's going down beyond the trees over there,
small country road, front deck, multiple places to sit
and just watch bird life, cloud life, storm life,
move by from west to east.
Got to swing down at the end here.
If you're into that with rocking chairs as well.
Homestead has some ducks on it as well right now
and also chickens got a few different varieties there.
We get about a dozen eggs per day right now.
These chickens are more wild style.
They're not in the enclosure in Iran.
We let them wild forage and roost up in the trees.
We did build a place out for them.
They go in and nest in the box in different locations.
What they like to live in the trees,
rooster usually stays undercover with a few others,
but they're just up in the trees quite a bit.
They know how to evade wild predators.
That's the whole thing is they don't get caught
in Iran and get decimated by a raccoon possum
or something, they just get away from them.
Plus the ability for them to seek out
their own protein sources and help us
with pest control around the orchard.
That's a win-win.
Now when I first dug those holes with the auger out there
before I even planted anything,
what it looks like off the deck,
still exactly the same.
It was like a timeless spot.
Year or so into the orchard grow
and the leaves start to change color,
you get a technicolor view around you
as the mountains change.
And we got some fill in finally
and I've really been doing a lot of pruning
on those over the last year or so
to get maximum fruit production out of it.
And now, you know, we're really starting
to crank on the fruit with the pears,
the peaches, apples, lots of elderberries
and cherries coming on a little bit.
I just walk out there, pick a few fresh fruits
and trade it with a few people
to just stop by to trade with.
They also have roots,
a little bit of a strange one out here.
That's why I was growing as a higher value,
not so many people doing it.
So fruit trades pretty well.
Picnic table, we removed half of a row of trees
with that picnic table back in there.
So when the leaves all grow and you're tucked in,
you got a little cave back there.
And a couple rows over area for a small campfire.
For me, I only drink white wine pretty much.
And if you start the campfire looking directly west,
sunsets over our neighbor's house
going down in that small V
at the end of the valley down there.
And it's pretty wide open in the field.
A lot of gusty winds and fun storms coming through,
just wide open vistas.
If you're into that wild weather
and just watching sunsets,
this is a place for you as well.
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We do grow and produce obviously here.
So almost everything is local from what you're seeing here.
From the cucumbers we grew, the tomatoes we did,
the peppers ourselves, we grew the eggs obviously
from our chickens, lettuce, that thing.
Grapes are from our vines.
Strawberries are from a friend
who we trade with occasionally for different fruits.
The yogurts are from the Mennonites
just down the street, the Amos community
as well as the cheeses that they're putting together.
They do a fair few different types of cheese.
Fresh veg here, all out of the garden.
And just it's seasonal, more of the eating than it is.
You can buy anything at any time.
And we did a whole heap of different types
of cherry tomatoes one year.
I think there are 10 plus varieties in there.
The romas as well, different types of lettuces,
sweet peppers, snack peppers, these sort of thing.
Easy to grow and this is the gardens
that we already have gotten ready to replant.
We like to do companion planting,
especially with the marigolds to drive off pests,
just like using the chickens out near the orchard.
You can see the carpenter bee box up there.
We do got carpenter bees through the beginning
of the season, basil's off to the right,
but we planted a bunch of just herbs
in this side of the garden.
We have another side that we're doing veg with.
We did try this red okra, grew well and getting in there.
You can see it's a little bit about head high,
but those are continuous producers.
There's just so many possibilities
of growing things out here.
And the grape vines are starting to come on strong now.
So it's been about third year
going on the fourth year that we've had those.
So every vine's now producing at least at this level
and we got different types of grapes
from the whites to the like the Concord purples
to these Mars here.
So heaps of possibilities for doing veg production
and that sort of thing.
As I said, it's working homestead
and it's just drop in turnkey ready.
You already have things available for you.
You don't have to wait multiple years
before things start producing.
They're producing already.
And that's kind of the key
and the luxury of it all as well.
So interior, the log home here, family room
and we've got a 78 inch TV
because I do editing on that
and you can watch movies as well.
Trying to make it livable
and when people come by to visit
different places for them to stay,
take the kitchen
because we're spending a lot of time there.
We're growing our own food.
So you spend more and more time in the kitchen
preparing things as you get them out of the plants,
their field or the front or whatever it is.
We do have a little coffee bar
over on the right below the clock there.
You can stock your own bar if you want to.
High top chairs on the table and the kitchen.
There are some appliances in there
but we took them out,
just try to clean things off
and rework the countertop there.
But the island,
there's all kind of veg everywhere you look as well.
The potatoes came from the Mennonites though.
We did not grow those.
Well, you've got a couple of different sitting areas.
People can be over in the sofa,
you've got to go people here,
you can have some coffee and chat
and somebody on the table.
So there's like different areas
where you can find your groove
if you have a few people over
and the master bedroom
and it looks back out into the field there.
Simple but comfortable.
Tried to make it nice ceiling fans
to move some air around with the open windows,
getting the fresh breezes in.
Also at sunset, the direction from it
and moon set as well in the evenings
on a full moon.
If it's clear skies, you get the same.
It kind of really comes in the window.
Keep you awake if you don't close curtains
on those full moon nights.
But if you got kids,
we got the twin beds in here.
Looks right out onto the front porch.
And again, just trying to keep it comfortable.
Everything's fully furnished,
turnkey when you come in,
you got lens there, you got tiles,
you got a fully stocked kitchen,
like oodles of dishes and pots, pans,
these sort of things to use.
And then we plan to turn this right here
around presently recording into a queen bedroom.
So same thing, queen beds,
looking out onto the front
and out into the front field.
You can watch sunrise in through the windows.
Comfortable and, you know,
family's plenty of space for that
or you and yourselves coming in here
to enjoy what this place has to offer.
There's many a possibility.
If you're looking for some tranquility
and, you know, getting back to that natural vibe
and escaping out of the madness,
this is the place for you.
And again, my life has just changed drastically
and we are in a completely different set of motion
at the moment versus staying here.
So I know somebody can appreciate it
and use it at this pivotal time right now
when there's a lot of chaos in the world.
Great place, turnkey, drop in, everything works
and you're ready to start producing outside the system
of the centralized supply chains
that we're used to relying on.
You're kind of off that instantly coming out here.
And I'll even leave you the Bushnell binoculars
so you can check out the birds,
the wildlife and the stars.
That's why this place is called Star Meadow.
Some of the most incredible star viewing,
planetary, ecliptic views that you'll find still left
without all the light pollution
and the eagles and hawks coming through.
I wouldn't say on a daily,
but definitely several times a week
because we're riding the thermals on the hills
that are building behind the meadow here.
So I'll leave all the description
of what we have at this property below
as well as Bert Lee's contact telephone number.
They're open 9 a.m. to 2 on Saturday.
They don't generally take calls outside that.
There is an email I'll give you as well.
You can contact Monday to Friday,
regular business hours
and Bert can give you a better description.
Callie's also working over there
and yeah, they're helping us get somebody in here.
And thanks for your attention and your time.
Hope you enjoyed even what I'm doing out here
on the property and what I've done from start to finish.
And I was gonna do a video series on that,
but I was listening to Danny down at DeepSouth Homestead.
He was like, yes, setting up the cameras
and try to get every shot.
And then he's like, ah,
sometimes I just rush through the work
and I forgot to turn on the camera.
Well, it's like that many a time,
especially when you're just out doing things,
you're like, oh, I forgot to bring the camera out there.
And you almost need to have somebody else filming
while you're doing all these things,
but that's not practical.
That's not the real world.
I just get the work done.
And from this point forward,
everything we put out here
is gonna produce more and more.
And especially this year,
I'm cranking it with the different types of homuses,
like wood hummus and these sort of leaf hummus
that we've broken down over the winter,
as well as some natural fertilizer,
some algae and these sort of things
to try to really crank it,
fish emulsion and then hitting everything
with copper sulfate.
So, you know, we don't get any fungus out on the trees.
So it's gonna be a bumper year this year.
So again, I thank you so much
for taking a tour of the property with me.
I'll see you next time.
Bye for now.
And if you wanna see more images
around the farm through different seasons,
check out the Facebook fan page,
Star Meadow Cabin.
That link's in the description box below,
along with the information to contact
Bert Lee to arrange a showing of the homestead.