Thank you for sharing. Because of the conference, I have "found" many more families to enjoy. I don't have a RUclips channel, or a farm. But in my heart & mind I do. Again thank you.
Michael Pollan, Omnivore's Dilemma. Where I met Joel Salatin. Slippery slope, man, slippery slope. I worked a desk job in Manhattan NY then. And here I am sitting in a travel trailer on 20 acres of woods in SW MI, with the foundation for our house almost fully excavated just a few feet away ;) There really is a movement ;)
Totally agree. When we were first starting out in 1999 after buying 15 acres we read his first book. It was a true fit for us. His marketing ideas changed organic meat birds from hobby farming to profitable enterprise. Joel is the first modern sustainable farm business pioneer. Amen! Blessings.
I have been watching some of your videos on our TV, now that I'm on the computer I am your newest subscriber. Joel Salatin is EPIC. I am excited to see where your homestead lands! Happy and safe journeys to you. Blessings!
Wow He has a big beautiful place , Yes it that time of year my grandson got strep throat ,hope y'all get to feeling better and Thank y'all for sharing God Bless
At the end, since you were at a train depot, I half expected Ethan & Lawrence to get on a train. LOL What Polyface is doing is simply right. AND, they are showing it can be done large scale. The industrial farmers do not HAVE TO do it the destructive way they are doing it.
That was so awesome to see! We will definitely need to add that to our list of places to see next time we are there. It was so good to see you all again...until next time! 💕
Loved this video. You guys are great on the camera and I really like your energy. I'm new to the homesteading idea but I really enjoy the self-reliance piece to it. While I'm not a homesteader, I started my channel to become more financially self-reliant. You just got a new subscriber! Keep up the great work and I'm staying tuned for more!!
Thanks for sharing a wonderful video of your visit. Sorry to hear you're getting sick.Stop off and get a bottle of elderberry syrup to fight your colds/flu. It will knock it right out and help you to stay healthy thru the coming season. Sherry (Daniel's wife) wasn't on the farm while y'all were there cause she was in TN at the Homestead Expo that we presented at, and then she was off to another conference. We really enjoyed having dinner with her - homesteading and farming are near and dear to her heart, but she really lights up when she talks about her kids and family. Really a sweetheart. We're looking forward to visiting Polyface one of these days, real soon. Hope your adventures continue to be fun and profitable.
I am thankful we grabbed elderberry at the conference! So we have been taking that, and some garlic/ginger/honey/ACV mixture I makeup. We will burn out the germs! That is so awesome you were able to hang out with Sherry this weekend! She sounds like an amazing woman.
Great video! I love when you cut to the music! First time viewer. I live in TX with hubby, son 2 dogs 12 chickens, currently 4 rabbits, bees and all kinds of food. And 2100 subscribers.
Great information. You or any other homesteader could open up your farm and let people come and look around. You could have a work day, I am betting you would have a 100 people show up just to have chance to see a working farm.I went to see Joel’s farm in June 2018. Since I was coming North on I-81 my google map took me in the long way ,about 12 miles of the backroads.
Way cool production! I'd like to see a carbon footprint analysis of this type farm. I bet we'd all be very pleased with the results. Everything there looks so much happier, healthier, and less stressed! Can't wait to get my hands dirty too.
HEY! What a coinkidinks....we ate at the Depot Grille, too! Miss you guys....hope to see you a CERTAIN week in November! Either way, one of the things for which we'll be giving thanks is YOU! :-)
I just watch this video, and it is indeed interesting. In your travels be sure to check out Alabama. I have traveled from one end of Alabama to the other and I find the northern third to be more to my liking. But here in the northern third we do get some cold weather and sometimes a little snow. OAG
Just over here binge watching your videos. Don’t mind me😉. I told the hubs that we would try to get together when you come to NC. It’s going to be a fun time! And I have local grass fed beef 🥩
Wahoo..can't wait for more ...I wish I could of seen more seemed a lil short n sweet...dark herb tea.. think of ur winter spices most of them actually support ur immune system..also idea don't throw peels out of onions and such I understand you don't want to eat them but put in something like a big herb metal tea holder to cook it in the broths of ur meals..so u get all the micro nutrients... Edit: great start to my day ty and I'm glad it's kinda come full circle for you guys...
New subscriber! Hope to meet you at the conference next year! You will love all the books by Joel Salatin I’m rereading Family Friendly Farming now! Best of luck and if you’re ever in Upstate NY come visit!
Hi , I live up here in North East Ohio on my Plum Brook Farm. It's not much farm yet but I hope that it will become more so one day. If you folks are ready to buy and get started with your homestead I am going to suggest the mountain area of N. Carolina. Somewhere near about Art and Bri. Now you are going to ask , why the mountains of N.Carolina ? It has mostly to do with the weather. If you are from California then you know that having enough rain can be an issue. The mountains of N.C. normally have enough rain. It is far enough south to have a long enough growing season. But it does not get quite so hot up in the mountains. During the winter you will have some snow but once again you are far enough south so that you will not usually get very much snow . Basically a relatively mild winter. My winters can get pretty cold and since I am not far from Lake Erie I can sometimes get a lot of snow. I am 76 . If I were younger , I would sell this place and start over again in N.C.
Thank you for suggestion! We are in the mountains of NC right now, and they are really beautiful. It is definitely on our list of places to look at for settling.
Hi Hollars! First time visitor here. Welcome to the Northern Virginia area, and it sounds like you guys really loved the Homesteaders conference. I was drawn to this video by your reference to Joel Salatin. We visited Polyface last year a long time before we started YouTubing (just a short 3 months ago), so to see your footage was inspiring! The drone footage was spectacular and added so much context to your story. Loved seeing the chicken tractor tracks. Good luck with your journey and we'll be sure to check in to your channel! What kind of drone do you have?
Thank you for stopping in and saying hi! We really loved Polyface, it was so inspiring to see. We use the Mavic Air and we LOVE it. So tiny and portable. Good luck on your homesteading journey!!
Hi ya'll, First time viewer so I thought I'd thank you for a very well done video. Have you ever wondered what Joel could produce on a square mile of Iowa corn land knowing that soil must be mined to death?
What part of Virginia is this homestead located. I would love to move to Virginia.....a little partial as I was born in Richmond, and grew up in a rural town called Rockville.
One chickenflu in the neigbourhood and the government moves in, picks up all those chickens and woop .. into the shredder they go. All twenty thousand if that's what you have. Happens once or twice yearly. Welcome to Europe.
You mentioned Joel Salatin as the progenitor of the current movement of homesteaders. Granted, he's great, but this seems to me to be just the latest period in a long-standing cycle. _E.g.,_ Back-to-the-Land movement, Wendell Berry, Carla Emery, ... Thoreau, Darwin, _et al._ (And you could obviously cast a wider net as well: Holmgren, Mollison, Yeomans, ...)
There have for sure been a long line of amazing people who have led this “movement” and carried torches of their own. To say Joel was the beginning was probably misrepresenting in a way. What I had mostly meant by that is that he is a large influence for a lot of us newer-generation homesteaders, and from the many others I’ve talked to, Joel was kind of the “gateway drug” that sparked a desire for most jumping into this within the last 10 years or so. But I certainly don’t want to exclude all the other greats that showed up before Joel!
@The Hollar Homestead Sorry if it sounded as if I were chiding you. Didn't mean it that way. "Gateway drug" is a great way to describe Joel. :) He's certainly wonderful, he's definitely addictive, and he's done a lot to spread the word. I also appreciate how various sources of evidence--including from folks like Joel--continue to inform and validate the approaches.
LAST DAYS WARNING! Jesus is coming and if anyone is still in sin they will be cut down. Repent from sin and seek JESUS with all your heart. Now is the season! JESUS IS COMING! HEADS UP!
Look around, he is a money making sad face. His animals are too crowded and he cares only about making money! I thought y'all wanted to get out of the rat race! I grew up living like y'all talk about. It was a love filled life, not trying to think up ways to get another dollar!
Thanks for sharing your experience 👍👍👍
Soooo Cool 😎😎😎
YOUR living the Dream for MOST of US who CAN'T RIGHT NOW
Thank you! I'm Inspired even MORE now!!
Thank you for sharing. Because of the conference, I have "found" many more families to enjoy. I don't have a RUclips channel, or a farm. But in my heart & mind I do. Again thank you.
In your heart totally counts. ❤
Michael Pollan, Omnivore's Dilemma. Where I met Joel Salatin. Slippery slope, man, slippery slope. I worked a desk job in Manhattan NY then. And here I am sitting in a travel trailer on 20 acres of woods in SW MI, with the foundation for our house almost fully excavated just a few feet away ;) There really is a movement ;)
Totally agree. When we were first starting out in 1999 after buying 15 acres we read his first book. It was a true fit for us. His marketing ideas changed organic meat birds from hobby farming to profitable enterprise. Joel is the first modern sustainable farm business pioneer. Amen! Blessings.
He just makes sense, and makes the whole thing so approachable. Love him!
You guys are so blessed and so cute..lovely farms and thank you so very much for showing us around...God's guidance and stay blessed
Joel Salatin is so inspiring.I would love to visit his families farm one day.Safe travels to your family.Hope the boys feel better
I have been watching some of your videos on our TV, now that I'm on the computer I am your newest subscriber. Joel Salatin is EPIC. I am excited to see where your homestead lands! Happy and safe journeys to you. Blessings!
Thank you for taking us on your trip to Polyface farms! will be praying that y'all stay health.
Thank you!
What a fun stop! Something I hope we can do some day!!
Definitely worth the trip!!
Wow He has a big beautiful place , Yes it that time of year my grandson got strep throat ,hope y'all get to feeling better and Thank y'all for sharing God Bless
Thank you Charlotte, we’ll be better in no time.
At the end, since you were at a train depot, I half expected Ethan & Lawrence to get on a train. LOL
What Polyface is doing is simply right. AND, they are showing it can be done large scale. The industrial farmers do not HAVE TO do it the destructive way they are doing it.
Exactly!! I wish more “big ag” would adopt his process. Getting on the train would have been awesome haha.
Awesome Video, It was great to meet you guys at the conference! Hope to see you guys next year.
Following along on your trip and this was a great feature to see how a homestead can go bigger and be sustainable.
Keep going!
Awesome. Hate to be redundant but these videos just make my day. I can tell y'all are having a great time.
Thank you for that! That’s nice to hear ❤️
Fun you got to talk to Daniel. Love the drone shots. Wish we had gone again.
We'll have to make a trek out there together next year! ;)
That was so awesome to see! We will definitely need to add that to our list of places to see next time we are there. It was so good to see you all again...until next time! 💕
Yes! So nice to see you again! ❤
Have a wonderful visit...
That’s a bucket list visit for sure!
Oh yes!
Great video. Joel is an amazing and inspirational.
Loved this video. You guys are great on the camera and I really like your energy. I'm new to the homesteading idea but I really enjoy the self-reliance piece to it. While I'm not a homesteader, I started my channel to become more financially self-reliant. You just got a new subscriber! Keep up the great work and I'm staying tuned for more!!
Hey, so glad to have you along with us!!
@@TheHollarHomestead Thank you!
Thanks for sharing a wonderful video of your visit.
Sorry to hear you're getting sick.Stop off and get a bottle of elderberry syrup to fight your colds/flu. It will knock it right out and help you to stay healthy thru the coming season.
Sherry (Daniel's wife) wasn't on the farm while y'all were there cause she was in TN at the Homestead Expo that we presented at, and then she was off to another conference. We really enjoyed having dinner with her - homesteading and farming are near and dear to her heart, but she really lights up when she talks about her kids and family. Really a sweetheart.
We're looking forward to visiting Polyface one of these days, real soon.
Hope your adventures continue to be fun and profitable.
I am thankful we grabbed elderberry at the conference! So we have been taking that, and some garlic/ginger/honey/ACV mixture I makeup. We will burn out the germs! That is so awesome you were able to hang out with Sherry this weekend! She sounds like an amazing woman.
Very cool experience for you guys and amazing shots!
Thank you!
Where is this- it’s pretty impressive! It so good to see y’all again!its very rewarding homesteading.safe travels 🙏👍🏻🌞🏡❤️
It's Polyface Farm in Swoope, VA. It's a beautiful place!
THANK YOU FOR SHARING!!!
Great video! I love when you cut to the music! First time viewer. I live in TX with hubby, son 2 dogs 12 chickens, currently 4 rabbits, bees and all kinds of food. And 2100 subscribers.
Thanks for joining us!
Hello new subscriber here. Came over from watching Bobblehead Homestead give you a shout out during his Roots to Refuge visit video. Thumbs upped.
Thanks for joining us!
Thx nice to know your vlog.
I wish I would’ve known you guys were coming! I would’ve had you do the private tour with us 💜
Next year! ;)
Ethan and Lawerance, some of my favorite people! So glad ya'll caught up again.
Great information. You or any other homesteader could open up your farm and let people come and look around. You could have a work day, I am betting you would have a 100 people show up just to have chance to see a working farm.I went to see Joel’s farm in June 2018. Since I was coming North on I-81 my google map took me in the long way ,about 12 miles of the backroads.
I have so many ideas for things like this! Love it!
Way cool production! I'd like to see a carbon footprint analysis of this type farm. I bet we'd all be very pleased with the results. Everything there looks so much happier, healthier, and less stressed! Can't wait to get my hands dirty too.
I bet Joel would blow the "efficient" companies out of the water!
Great video guys I really enjoyed it.
Thank you!
HEY! What a coinkidinks....we ate at the Depot Grille, too! Miss you guys....hope to see you a CERTAIN week in November! Either way, one of the things for which we'll be giving thanks is YOU! :-)
It was tasty, wasn't it? We are thankful for YOU too, and we will see you soon (maybe that certain week 😉).
I just watch this video, and it is indeed interesting. In your travels be sure to check out Alabama. I have traveled from one end of Alabama to the other and I find the northern third to be more to my liking. But here in the northern third we do get some cold weather and sometimes a little snow.
OAG
A little snow would be nice. We will for sure be checking out Alabama!
Just over here binge watching your videos. Don’t mind me😉. I told the hubs that we would try to get together when you come to NC. It’s going to be a fun time! And I have local grass fed beef 🥩
😮 That’s a homesteaders love language haha! Please don’t watch the first ones. They are terrible. 🙈
Great video! Hugs❤️
Thank you! ❤
Wahoo..can't wait for more ...I wish I could of seen more seemed a lil short n sweet...dark herb tea.. think of ur winter spices most of them actually support ur immune system..also idea don't throw peels out of onions and such I understand you don't want to eat them but put in something like a big herb metal tea holder to cook it in the broths of ur meals..so u get all the micro nutrients...
Edit: great start to my day ty and I'm glad it's kinda come full circle for you guys...
Oh I love to save onion bits and ends for broth. They add so much flavor and nutrients! Celery and carrots too. So good!
I want to get the Homestead movement to the West Coast!!!!
It really needs it out there!! It’s growing though, slowly.
New subscriber! Hope to meet you at the conference next year! You will love all the books by Joel Salatin I’m rereading Family Friendly Farming now! Best of luck and if you’re ever in Upstate NY come visit!
Great video!!! :D First-time visitor and new subscriber!! :D Our Organic Life
Thanks for joining us!!
Hi ,
I live up here in North East Ohio on my Plum Brook Farm. It's not much farm yet but I hope that it will become more so one day. If you folks are ready to buy and get started with your homestead I am going to suggest the mountain area of N. Carolina. Somewhere near about Art and Bri. Now you are going to ask , why the mountains of N.Carolina ? It has mostly to do with the weather. If you are from California then you know that having enough rain can be an issue. The mountains of N.C. normally have enough rain. It is far enough south to have a long enough growing season. But it does not get quite so hot up in the mountains. During the winter you will have some snow but once again you are far enough south so that you will not usually get very much snow . Basically a relatively mild winter. My winters can get pretty cold and since I am not far from Lake Erie I can sometimes get a lot of snow. I am 76 . If I were younger , I would sell this place and start over again in N.C.
Thank you for suggestion! We are in the mountains of NC right now, and they are really beautiful. It is definitely on our list of places to look at for settling.
If ya make it to KY feel free to stop by! Serenity Valley Farms Kentucky
We’ve already passed through KY, but we might go back through.
@@TheHollarHomestead you guys are welcome anytime...
That is so amazing. Visiting polyface is definitely on my bucket list - were you fangirling the whole time? I know I would have been!😂
I was so in awe lol!
I'm sooo bummed 😔 we had tickets & could not go 😢😢😢 had such a good time last year tho!!
That's too bad!! Hopefully next year you can make it!!
Way cool drone shots. I want some poly bone broth. Rest up quick.
Hi Hollars! First time visitor here. Welcome to the Northern Virginia area, and it sounds like you guys really loved the Homesteaders conference. I was drawn to this video by your reference to Joel Salatin. We visited Polyface last year a long time before we started YouTubing (just a short 3 months ago), so to see your footage was inspiring! The drone footage was spectacular and added so much context to your story. Loved seeing the chicken tractor tracks. Good luck with your journey and we'll be sure to check in to your channel! What kind of drone do you have?
Thank you for stopping in and saying hi! We really loved Polyface, it was so inspiring to see. We use the Mavic Air and we LOVE it. So tiny and portable. Good luck on your homesteading journey!!
I say he's the Einstein of the movement. Good video.
That's the perfect way to put it!
I CAN'T WAIT! What state are you moving to? 😀
Great video; thank you. You might just fall in love with the mid-Atlantic States.
I think we will!
Ah now I miss you guys all over again. LOL. ~ethan
Right?! Sometime before the next conference we need to meet up again.
Hi ya'll, First time viewer so I thought I'd thank you for a very well done video. Have you ever wondered what Joel could produce on a square mile of Iowa corn land knowing that soil must be mined to death?
Oh gosh, I think he would do something beautiful!!
amazing!
What do people do with all the scraps left from the butchering process? With that many birds I could imagine it’s a lot
I believe he sends most of it to the pigs to take care of. If they don’t get it then the compost does.
So his chickens are grass fed but his cows and pigs were not how are they fed and what are they fed
What part of Virginia is this homestead located. I would love to move to Virginia.....a little partial as I was born in Richmond, and grew up in a rural town called Rockville.
It is on the north west side of the state. It is so beautiful!
i would so love to go to polyface but my wheelchair wouldnt be able to get through all that mud and grass , i would want to pet every animal there lol
Oh it was hard to not pet everything haha!
Does Joel have a RUclips channel?
Bark! Bark! Ruff...
LESS MUSIC...more talking
One chickenflu in the neigbourhood and the government moves in, picks up all those chickens and woop .. into the shredder they go. All twenty thousand if that's what you have. Happens once or twice yearly. Welcome to Europe.
You mentioned Joel Salatin as the progenitor of the current movement of homesteaders. Granted, he's great, but this seems to me to be just the latest period in a long-standing cycle. _E.g.,_ Back-to-the-Land movement, Wendell Berry, Carla Emery, ... Thoreau, Darwin, _et al._ (And you could obviously cast a wider net as well: Holmgren, Mollison, Yeomans, ...)
There have for sure been a long line of amazing people who have led this “movement” and carried torches of their own. To say Joel was the beginning was probably misrepresenting in a way. What I had mostly meant by that is that he is a large influence for a lot of us newer-generation homesteaders, and from the many others I’ve talked to, Joel was kind of the “gateway drug” that sparked a desire for most jumping into this within the last 10 years or so. But I certainly don’t want to exclude all the other greats that showed up before Joel!
@The Hollar Homestead
Sorry if it sounded as if I were chiding you. Didn't mean it that way.
"Gateway drug" is a great way to describe Joel. :) He's certainly wonderful, he's definitely addictive, and he's done a lot to spread the word.
I also appreciate how various sources of evidence--including from folks like Joel--continue to inform and validate the approaches.
LAST DAYS WARNING! Jesus is coming and if anyone is still in sin they will be cut down. Repent from sin and seek JESUS with all your heart. Now is the season! JESUS IS COMING! HEADS UP!
Look around, he is a money making sad face. His animals are too crowded and he cares only about making money! I thought y'all wanted to get out of the rat race! I grew up living like y'all talk about. It was a love filled life, not trying to think up ways to get another dollar!