dreamed it would be so challenging just to get into the garden
a basket I have some string have some scissors so let's get out in the garden
and let's get working what you're looking at is lambs here and we're going
to harvest that
if you look really closely you'll see lots of bees so we want to keep some of
the flower heads on for the bees but this is what pollinates my garden I want
to be Tasha Tudor someday I want to be in my 80s and still doing all of the
beautiful things that I love
here are the herbs this tea it's ready it's dried and this is some fresh below
me as you seen in another video these are rose petals and it's tangerine
peelings these are going to go into all kinds of wonderful lotions and soaps so
much of my menthol tea it's ready to crumble and put into teabags like it did
in a video before
people talk about my birds they hear in my videos I do I have lots of years ago
when we sold everything that we owned now we sold anything of value so we sold
anything modern appliances we sold our TV our vehicles and we sold our home and
at that time in my life I gladly sold it all but yet I mourned the loss of it and
at that time I didn't have no internet and so I went to the local library and I
saw the books of Tasha Tudor I wanted to be inspired I wanted to create something
peaceful I had so much turmoil in my life and selling everything was so
freeing and getting out of debt but it left me with little to have I didn't
have very much but when I poured through the pages of Tasha Tudor I realized that
you can live an abundant life without having much stuff and beings that I came
from a plain background the Amish and the Mennonites I wove anit all together
into my own little world that I created as you see I still have that world and I
never gone back never brought the TV back into my life and don't have the new
trucks and don't have anything new but it's given me such peace of mind and
it's given me a purpose in life I'm on a journey to even sacrifice more and have
more zero waste and I can't wait to share with you some things that I'm
doing differently but Tasha Tudor and living an Amish style lifestyle has
really created a lot of peace in me instead of having those oil lamps for
just prettiness I uses oil lamps for light I was very blessed to have a lot
of heirlooms and we kept all of those heirlooms so most of the furniture that
you see and my oil lamps a big majority of all that stuff came from Grandma
Fanny and her family and they are heirlooms that I would cherish the rest
of my life as you see behind me is my greenhouse
right now I have chamomile I have tea I have all kinds of oregano
all kinds of herbs and spices that are drying in here I'm adding all kinds of
baskets and things like that I can't wait to share with you oh my thrifty
Thursdays the difference in what I am buying yes we're still going there and
we're having so much fun but it's geared towards different things not the plastic
knickknacks that you see but go deep beyond all of that and find some really
good resources to live a more sustainable and zero-waste life a
zero-waste life is something that I'm passionate about
and somehow somewhere I got a little bit off track and I can't wait to share with
you all of the things about my zero waste life that are coming in the videos
ahead my channel is changing slowly but surely it's going back to very
simplistic way of life and it will have a Mennonite Amish type feel to it
because that is my heritage and so I want to embrace that I would love to
encourage all of you to go to your roots of your life and embrace your heritage
there's so many people in my channel that come from different walks of life
and different heritage find out where your ancestors were from and create in
your life your roots you will feel so much at peace because of it and I am at
peace here on my little homestead this is where I ended up in a dilapidated
little piece of property that nobody wanted but slowly we turned it into
something that we do really enjoy I can't imagine living anywhere else
because I put so much time and effort and tears into this place and it is what
I want it to be and that is the key is to find where you're at and enjoy where
you're at no matter where it is turn it into your own little Garden of Eden it
doesn't matter what you own it's what you make of it so Tasha Tudor has
inspired me and living the Amish lifestyle has
inspired me because they are ultimate simplistic people but yet they have such
a desire and such a dream that it's becoming popular once again and so we go
on this journey on simplicity together so let me show you what is in my
greenhouse what I have is in the beginning it is chamomile then I have
some teas I have some lamb's ear and what you're starting to see is all kinds
of baskets and in these baskets I'm going to have all kinds of herbs and
all kinds of things that I'm dehydrating those are my dehydrating trays
everything dries so beautiful in here
and then I still have a few herbs that I need to plant and right here is
knowledge which is a replacement for celery of some sage and some butterfly
bushes that I need to plant their seedlings and then I have some squash
that are still in this that the seeds I threw in there thinking they wouldn't
germinate so creating a Tasha tutor or amish-style lifestyle it's something
that is beautiful Tasha Tudor was not Amish but yet she
held a lot of the same same thoughts she held a lot of the same lifestyle and
truly my friends like the rug says we are blessed no matter where we live just
use the resources that you have and make your place a little bit of heaven on
earth
I've gotten so much feedback on people loving the simplistic videos but I want
to hear what do you do to make your life a little more simplistic what are some
things that you're working on right now I want this channel to be interactive so
share with the others some tips and some tricks on having more simplistic life at
your home take care everyone we'll see you guys tomorrow
I forgot to add I also have the video of where I make tea into little tea bags
right here is the video take a look if it's something you're interested in
it's from long ago