tell me cows you got a milk this morning jeremiah two cows so jessica this morning huh
she usually doesn't come out in the morning milking she does evening
yeah we kind of give each other breaks that's smart like i'll machine milk this
morning and then she'll hand milk hope in the evening the horse whose idea was that
i'd say it probably is a joint idea but it probably was more my idea
you're the cowboy huh yeah well i wouldn't have called me a cowboy man
what's that it's called a cow can't kick some of the worst marketing and probably that's the name
of it yeah and they spelled it all with k's it's just it's great you cannot acronym though no okay
it's a great product it's just like i'm just like why would you do that like it's not even the right
lettering for the correct spelling so i don't know it's a kick bar essentially it's better than
a hobble it just puts a little bit of pressure on the nerves that run right by the utter which keeps
her from picking her foot up and since we started using it we don't have any more spilled milk this
is going to hold your milking yeah this is a belly melter so it hangs underneath them so that way the
like on previous milkers the line from where the cups are back to the tank are usually pretty long
this one keeps them short so it's easy to clean you don't have to like scrub out the lines and
like dry them out and stuff it's just real simple you just knocked his head behind you
oh yeah we need yeah see this is the line yeah we're about to get a couple of cows they're
gonna do three gallons a day that's gonna be helpful milking six or more gallons a day huh
you don't want to milk it by hand like grandpa no grandpa milked 15 by hand yeah but i gained
twice a day i guarantee you the peeps on those cows were not that small oh yeah see this is why
we looked into it yeah she's a great cow but her teeth are tiny especially the back ones
it's ready to go and take that
so all you got to clean out is these guys yeah and then you're just going to turn
had to catch up just doing two at a time no i'm just you gotta do one at a time or it
loses pressure because here i'm saying that when i put press down in the beginning i was adding
making the vacuum so if you pick them up all at the same time you actually lose your pressure
that's the wilder steel film crew for their show on abundance bus this is an essential oil based
fly spray does it work yep now that you know your chemical based stuff will work like all day this
works about half the day now you said jessica does not use the machine in the afternoon why is that
she likes uh i'm gonna say to you i might ask you this what about the romance and just quietly
getting some work done in the morning it's cool of the morning what about the romance
yeah the roman's kind of out the window with that oh man that's very romantic to me
because my hands aren't doing this so i it really warms my heart it makes me feel special
to not have to handle yeah i really appreciate that jessica on the other hand she comes out
she's the poet and so she's like i miss you i'll get my hands in there and i'm like okay
she's down in production i think because she's in heat
yeah they go through they go up and down so she's on a down like that's actually about
a gallon less than what i've been getting consistently but like i said it fluctuates
a little bit where's your bull at i don't have a bull right now what are you gonna do
for these two i've got a guy with sexed jersey semen who's gonna do a.i on both of them
what do you guys do with all this milk jeremiah we've gotten creative we'll make a lot of butter
achieved we've been giving it away to families local families that can appreciate you know wall
mills what next jeremiah uh well we gotta get the milk in and bottle it we gotta get it cold
first time driving a fuller jump jeremiah wanted him over there to help haul them
just before lunch with jessica herself i was here in january yes and already there's compost piles
there's layer chickens on the rice got some that's the next stage of brooding layers and ducks
the greenhouse though where do you want to take us um i guess we'll people are going to want to
see that this is my favorite place yeah so kind of working little bits at a time so we've got
like this little strip of planted garden but we'll spread out um i had all my fruit trees
over here we just moved then and uh yeah so we did the greenhouse it's been in an order
of importance like we had to get the greenhouse to get the seed started to get the gardens in so
priorities and just going down the list and what has to get done or else you not get done i saw
this brand spanking new in episode 7 they're still yeah that was it was seven right it wasn't eight
right i think it was seven yeah seven yeah there was nothing there during there we are usually
so much yeah we actually crunched because the camera crew was coming for episode seven
and jeremiah and wes were out here that morning like finishing putting the tip
actually the first thing i ever did with this green house was shoot episode seven
that was the very first thing yeah jeremiah and wes west from the shoe film crew no wes from
this is now very used uh we started thousands of seeds in here which are now at this point planted
out um kind of some scraggling stuff in here that'll be planted as we have more space developed
but we got to get everything out of it here pretty soon because it's getting over 100 degrees in here
yeah off as hot as it's been almost everything in here was started from seed almost
actually yeah like 99 points and it's all jamming yeah how happy are you are you happy
i'm very happy is this everything you thought it would be yes look look at it
but you see your eggs she's got eggs under her she keeps chasing me out of
my garden and i'm like listen honey we're gonna have to work something out there
okay so what killeders do is they try to lure you away by going and acting like they're hurt
so like watch watch her oh yeah she's hurt she's just crooked lure me away she's gonna
act like she's hurt so you can attack her yeah and get away from her babies she's acting like
the sacrifice of a mother she's acting like she's easy to catch yeah we put up two high tunnels and
one is more perennial focused and one is like annual focus so here i did leave a space to be
able to make these are my fruit trees and we'll keep them under the shade cloth until we can
plant them as well as some other perennials and then in here we've got rhubarb and we're going
to do some artichokes and some ginger and other things that can grow kind of like perennials and
then down the middle is all citrus because we can actually grow that hair with some protection nice
this is where the pigs were yes they were here when you were here yeah you used the
pigs they were here in january two pens that were the exact footprint of these
and we kept our pigs in them and they trashed the they decimated it and then you could
put down your things so how appreciative are you for this weed paper i mean this weed plastic
he said you need to try this it's really great it's really good okay it's very
sour prepare yourself it's called calamandin you're going to tell me how it is it's fruit
why do you have that why do i have it okay so very much too sour to eat on their own but really good
for using for flavoring with like like a lime so you can make things with it
i put it all in my mouth i've told everybody these are all chestnut trees that will
hold stratified a bunch of chestnuts over the winter and planted these and so these are trees
that are going to go up jess are you a crazy plant lady i don't know what do you think if you have
if you have hundreds of plants without a plan you might be a crazy clown maybe i like rebecca i know
rebecca's great house is like bursting i know it is we're gonna start piling a lot of wood chips
in here and working towards building an orchard around this pond at the end of the season nice
where are you going to get your wood chips we've just put our name on all the local arborists list
and they call us and we just ask them like where they got them and hopefully they don't have
anything sprayed on them yeah maya bought this land without me seeing it he came out here how
did you feel about that i mean it was some mega truck yeah it was it was an exercise and trust um
but he brought me back out in april so he came in december he brought me in april and when we were
here visiting we planted this tree so it's now over a year old because we've been here this is
why ben likes it's your first tree you've ever planted there's the famous uh dock we all went
fishing i think well there's still episode two-ish yep you're talking about the kids
yeah following your lead it's pretty cool looking at wilder still and like the way that we've i
mean we have this memory book of this first year here kind of talking about the process i know and
being here now on the weekend of the big event the grand finale it felt very far away when we started
jess when jeremiah came down here and bought this
you were blind yeah do it was this going to be a legacy property like forever in the family type
of thing like you're gonna be buried here or was this just gonna be oh we could flip it and
find our dream home one day we really wanted a place to like come and stay forever like we
wanted deep roots and so this property was a little smaller than we were looking for
but it was so usable um being that it was all cleared and all of that stuff there was a lot
of open land around it so the hope is is down the road to be able to acquire more when you have a
lot of kids you know like and hope to have them close we'd like to have more land down the road
you unloading it a little bit now we get the cooler out we're about to take jess on a ride
to see her shop she's never been in a tesla before hey you're like me you can't find a door handle
you figured it out though you have to talk to it you say open the door
right look at this this is the key oh my goodness
and you hold it up to the car to unlock it he's like that's not a car he said
no it's like a hotel key you ready jess i don't know just
what the heck first impression of the tesla it's pretty nice i feel honestly
like i looked back and saw ben sitting on that solid white seat i feel like we're too dirty
this is not a farmer's car i see my little farm kid back there
at you hopefully the cyber truck is gray or something inside it's black oh it's black
so jess you said the town is dying or was dying why are you attracted to a dime why
is that an opportunity for you for this job i would say like it was very much
dead 15 years ago and there's been growth that's happening that's very commercial and for me being
able to come into a place i see all of those empty buildings not as economic failure but as
economic opportunity because a lot of people are going to be able to come in and open a boutique
or cafe or a donut shop or whatever natural pet food store and all these little things
that a town of five thousand not might not be able to support but if we're serving as an anchor
point all those empty spaces are opportunities for other people's dreams because like i mean you know
when you have a youtube channel and an online business like you don't really have to open a
brick and mortar like we don't have to do that we could have enough success just where we are
but by doing this there's multiplication possible for people town gives lots of space so other
there's a gym yep so this is actually our building right here the white one or the the
orange one orange one should i park um go around back we'll add my keys for the button and then
that's closed that's a little wedding chapel and then these are empty and then
those there's like a hardware store and like an antique shop
there are several empty buildings you have dreams for that house right there oh yeah i own it
um we can't get in right now but it's got we could walk around it but we can park back
you can park back here and we'll walk over but you want to have a little homestead
there a little coffee shop coffee shop yeah so where people can come and kind of see
and then this is actually the roasting building what all right we got to see
this yeah pull in here and park in this back alley i found rebecca in facetime
basically we have the main building which is the it's the carolina homestead exchange which is the
store that is going to have like homesteading stuff and i'll take you in there in a second
but this is the alley behind it and we actually this is part of our property here and my vision
here we'll have the roasting house which will have like a pop-up coffee shop out of the back
and my hope is is that we'll be able to do like these farmers markets and these events where we
have all this outdoor space for foot traffic but eventually once phase two is done we can run into
the coffee house property and we'll have all this foot traffic area nice that'll be really cool
what about this this glass here you're gonna change this so right now we have to have like the
it's like we have to have all this like remediated and whatever whatever yeah professionals that's
those removers yeah because this was actually a burger joint in like the 50s wow and this is
going to be where you're going to roast coffee roast coffee and then we'll do like a little
pop-up coffee shop in the back where you can come up to this window and like we'll have all of this
for foot traffic next up this is a merc this is going to be a mercantile yes the mercantile
wow
so tell us what you're going to keep what you're going to um so we had them leave all the old
fixtures because it just to be able to use some of them we probably won't use but this is cool
how they had the outlets yeah so this was a hardware store and you can kind of see that
in these fixtures so a lot of them we won't use but some of these have been in here for like
multiple generations like check out those old bins
how cool are those and then like these old tables that nail bin look at this view of the town
you see that's a bustling town you're gonna have it yeah yeah you're gonna see every shop open oh
really chicken section where we sell chicken nice supplies what else are you going to sell here um
so you're going to sell chicks here actually yeah that's the place for you know murray mcmurray
you can't work with murray mcmurray and not have chicks for sale we'll have our you know days that
we have chicks in the spring but we want to have chicken keeping supplies dairy so like a place you
can go in person and buy a stainless steel bucket or cheese cultures or you know organic or natural
mastitis treatment and stuff like that because you know you can't just go buy that stuff anywhere
it's like a mass general store but with more of a farm yeah approach to it for homesteaders
so we probably won't have tons of like yeah we'll have some tools that are specific to certain jobs
but mostly it's going to be what are you going to put in this i don't know yet but i love it
something's got to go in that something good that's what i'm going to put in it
all right so my favorite part so back here is going to be the classroom and in here
is where we're gonna have like imagine the biology tables from eighth grade you know like
we're gonna have tables and a kitchen set up and so you can come and sign up for classes
and learn to start seeds or learn to do sourdough here we have a house that she will use to model
a backyard homestead you have a little homestead back here teach that well i i shot two shows today
and i don't think i concluded either one of them so i'm going to do it here forget if
you if you see the same angle same outfit at the end of two different videos so here we go
the first one where we toured with jess and jeremiah an amazing couple doing absolutely
amazing things as you can see from this video if you don't already i encourage you to follow them
on youtube at roots and refuge i don't think you'll regret it if you like and
are inspired by people doing really big things that's just in jeremiah