Their Farm Had ZERO Water Access, So They Did It Themselves (Autumn's Harvest Farm)
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Tim and Sarah started farming together before they even knew they wanted to get married. After 20 years, they have a great business model for cows, pigs, chickens, sheep, turkeys, and more. But they are missing one crucial thing: water. They didn’t know when they bought their property that digging a well is obsolete nor did they know that the city would not lay water lines. Their only option was to buy water at the local water hub next to the fire station. During the heat of the summer they would take up to 10 trips a day, just to have water for their livestock and themselves. So, Tim become resourceful and innovative. He dug ponds and ran drainage lines from his pastures to it along with all the gutter run off. With a solar pump, they now have water access all year long!
Autumn's Harvest Farm
Romulus, New York
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I'm not a farmer, don't want to be a farmer, but i like the innovative approach to solving problems as well as the productivity gain solutions. Thank you for giving an outlet to these innovators.
Thank you!! I’m so glad you are enjoying our conversations with these amazing farmers! ❤️
Awww I was looking forward to seeing the other livestock, especially the pigs 😢
Oh I’m sorry. We try to keep our videos within the same timeframe and the water issue was just too good to pass up and talk more about. But you can check out their socials to see more about their farm.
I found this interview very interesting, but I think kit deserves a "part 2".
We really enjoyed meeting them and being at their beautiful farm. We are definitely leaving the door open to make a sequel or the part 2!
What a great way to start a relationship...get chickens & cattle! 🤣 Love this story already. Have driven past this view many times never realizing this was their farm. Welcome to the Finger Lakes, folks. A wonderful slice of heaven on earth.
It was so beautiful just being on their property. It was astounding when they told us they didn't have water! For as big as they were and the farms around them its wild that they cannot get water access!
@@BreakingNewRoots I wish I knew you were a Water Snob when you were here. Just a few miles from my village is a natural spring called Whiskey Hollow where many, many residents get their pure, delicious drinking water.
@@vonniemerriam974 Oh yeah!! We will have to pass back through! A watering hole called Whiskey Hollow!?
What a great story. Thanks
Thank you so much! They are such great people! Insane how they have overcome such an insane hurdle!
A great couple with a wealth of hard earned knowledge. I have thought of Murray Gray cattle for our farm. There are several breeders near in Idaho. Have you looked into going carnivore? It has been a huge health benefit for our family. You are inspiring farmers!
Tim and Sarah are awesome!! And their cows are really cool too! I haven’t heard about their meat being specific to a carnivore diet but I’ll have to look into it. We are mostly carnivore ourselves.
I’ve been eating the Murray Grey beef raised by Tim & Sara for over a year now and it is hands down the best beef I’ve ever eaten, and I’ve eaten a lot of grass fed & grain fed angus, Hereford, etc. I’m full carnivore and nothing else compares. I even moved to Tennessee and I bring big coolers up to their farm in NY to fill up my meat stocks. This breed is a gem! And so is Autumn Harvest Farms!
Oh wow!! What a compliment! I love to hear that!!
You can lay metal roofing on a slope. Rain runs down the slope into a gutter. Then the gutter runs into a pipe and on into a storage tank. You ca.n even make your own underground cistern. Or buy an underground fiberglass tank. Put in a solar pump.
Oh that’s a good idea too.
Thanks!
Thank you so so so much! We appreciate it!
the finger lakes is a beautiful place love the video going to check them out
Yes they are!! We loved being there!
Excellent video
Thank you so much!
Starting a farm from scratch with no prior experience must have been incredibly challenging
Absolutely! They speak to that slightly. But mostly they said they hade really enjoyed the learning process.
That was very interesting. I had heard of something similar with the drainage system, I had just not seen one implemented in this manner. Well done Tim and Sarah. I water with dug out water but do no filtration at all - I can see it for the house, just not sure why the sand filters for the farm. But no matter, it works for them. Good stuff. Good interview.
thank you!! I thought it was really genus! I think they do the sand filtration for the home farm so they don't have to worry about seperate piping but I could also understand not filtering it. Such a cool set up to see though!
I have watched several of your videos now and something I would be really interested in is what most of these people do for an Off-farm job or what their prior jobs were. Sometimes it takes money to make money, I have really enjoyed the videos.
Absolutely! If they have an off farm job we talk about what they do. For example, in this video, they do not have off farms jobs.
Hey we raise Murray’s!!
Oh wow!! That’s awesome!!
New Sub here. Love all that you are doing. Just went to Polyface a few weeks ago. For some reason your questions captivate me. I love hearing all the answers from the experienced farmers. Keep it up! I loved Justin Rhodes great American farm tour! I think you’re better than him as an interviewer! And I’m in it for the long haul.
Hi!! Thank you so much!! We are learning so many amazing things from so many different farmers! We are really enjoying our travels!!
23:00 they show there pond
are you heading to Just a few acers farm? farmer Pete!!!! Garrett here Farmer G in Pfafftown NC
Hey Garrett!! Pete was definitely on our list but he has always been very vocal abut not allowing people to visit. We saw him at the Ithaca Farmers Market though and that was great! He is a very nice guy!
@@BreakingNewRoots did you record that farmers market visit???
Love the videos! But we need MORE ANIMALS!! I want to see the different enterprises not just hear about them. Keep up the good work!
Thank you so much! We will try and do better about incorporating more animals!
I’m curious why they would drain the fields to a pond to have to pump it out again rather than let it saturate the soil. Is that because the ground was too porous to hold water & a pond was the only way to retain the water?
Because they don’t have water access on the farm at all, including drinking water. Their option was to pool all the water runoff into a pond and use that for water for livestock and themselves to drink. Also, the water that is going in the drainage lines is not taking from the saturated soil, it would be running off the farm either way. So instead of letting it leave the farm, they put it to use.
@@BreakingNewRoots That makes sense. I wonder if using permaculture principles would yield a different set of uses for the land that would even more adaptable to the geologic structure of the ground? I don’t know how all this stuff works sufficiently to know, so it’s a mental exercise of what I’ve learned at University of RUclips😉
@@ttopero the problem isn’t about what they are growing on their land, it’s about drinking water. They don’t have a well, or a spring, or a city water connection. When they turned on their facet in the house, nothing came out. Maybe it’s better to explain what a drainage tile does. It doesn’t drain the soil of the water in it, it channels the water coming off. When the soil is saturated and cannot hold anymore water the rest of the water runs off. They are moving this water to a pond so they have water access.
The geology is all shale, so a well doesn’t work up there. The water runs off the shale into the lake, so you have to capture by directing the water to your ponds (biological holding tanks).
I was not ready for that interview to end when it did. 😂 These interviews keep me so captivated and my brain turns into a mega sponge. 🧽🧽🧽😊
They are such a great couple and it allows us a follow up potentially in the future!
Thanks!
Thank you so much!! This is so appreciated!!