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today's video we're traveling to Maine to meet one couple that is living a dream life
of having a tiny house on their very own Farm as you can imagine owning and running a farm
is a lot of hard work so it's really nice that when they come home at night they're coming home
to a space that's low maintenance but still super cozy inside if you like these kind of
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hi I'm Erin I'm David we own tiny Acres Farm and this tiny house
the original idea to build a tiny house was kind of just a whim of mine just one night binging
YouTube I went down the rabbit hole of tiny houses I designed a foam model of my house which
is sitting up over there and that was the two scale representation of what we're sitting in now
I asked my mom for a small loan to make it happen and she said yes over
the past eight nine years I've paid off the tiny house it's been a great
journey and been living in it much longer than I thought I was originally going to
I built the tiny house shell in a matter of about six months it took me another
about five to six months to finish the interior so all in about a year
I brought local contractors in my community over to double check as I was building it
and then there's about another 5 000 added in over the past eight nine years as with
most homes and Home Ownership it's you're never done building when you start all in
this endeavor has been about thirty thousand dollars I originally built a tiny house when
I was 20. I built it in Vermont and towed it all the way across country to Colorado lived
in that for a while when Aaron moved into the house about five years ago
we are here on Tiny Acres Farm we are an organic market Garden that also grows mushrooms I've been
growing mushrooms since high school for the past 10 years so it's always been a
big hobby of mine one thing led to another and our hobbies and interests became our business
we were given the opportunity to lease land from my parents that made Farm access a lot
easier for us we were able to park here on the property the house is situated in the woods so
we're tucked back it keeps us nice and cool in the summertime we are right next to our
mushroom woodlot which was by Design mushrooms grow extremely quick we always think of it as
like our own little hobbit Shire just with mushrooms growing and Moss and everything
this is the outside of the tiny house we're about 13-4 high just under 13-6 we
have eight feet wide 20 foot long it's built on an Iron Eagle Trailer one of my favorite
Parts is just the aesthetic of this wall of Windows it looks like a Sea Coast shanty
the cedar shakes was a must-have for me just really love this New England style I grew up
with it so it feels homey very nostalgic and I think it turned out really well and it's held up
this is going on nine years we oil a cedar every other year and paint the trim as well and that's
pretty much the only maintenance that we have to do and luckily it's not that much I think it took
me two and a half if not three months to shake the whole thing and I built it in about seven months
this big window here as well as the big window on the back of the house are both reclaimed
windows I built the house in Vermont and so I was able to find these two big windows at
a salvage place they had previously gone through a fire but other than that the
window was fine I did choose to go with vinyl windows on the rest of the house knowing that
these windows are not going to be as efficient as the other ones couldn't be happier this is
massive window both sides really lets a lot of light in feels really really open on the inside
so when I was designing the house it was really important for me to have as much space on the
inside and part of achieving that space on the inside was basically bolting everything I could
so instead of choosing to have my loft on one side or having two Lofts as a traditional tiny
house would have I decided to just Vault the bathroom and Vault the kitchen all the way up
maximizing the inside space and put the Loft up here in the 13-6 kind of living Atrium area
so this is kind of the main big room of our tiny house it's our living room
and our kitchen kitchen's one of my favorite part of our tiny house it's
pretty big takes up about a third of it we cook all the time we grow all of our
veggies and so we utilize this all the time we love having our pans available
this stove I got out of a camp in Colorado redid the whole inside this thing's a beast foreign
so one of our favorite things I worked in kitchens for a really really long time and
one of our main points was having a really good triangle is access to your stove your
fridge and your sink all at one time so I don't have to move I can stand in one spot and cook
not so much a two-person kitchen but for one person you can cook a whole meal really easily
so as we come over to this side of the house this is our living room it's also kind of a
guest bedroom our couch is very multi-use it's our fermentation station we do a bunch of Kombucha we
do a lot of canning all of our preserves go in there the other side has all of our electrical
components our 30 amp hookup previously it held all of our solar system equipment when
the whole house was off-grid now the farm is off-grid so we pull our solar from the farm
also there's a subwoofer in it so it's really cool to watch a movie and the whole thing shakes
so this over here is a really fun part of our tiny house we have two cats one's inside only and one
is outdoor but she comes in at night I insisted when we brought cats in the house that I did not
want to see the litter box so our solution was to have a little side table for our couch and inside
there's a little litter box we're able to clean it out and all the litters contained all the smell is
contained and the cats love it foreign over here on the front wall of the house this is our window
wall kind of a passive solar wall Heats it up in the winter time we can also open up most of these
in the summer and let all that nice cold breeze in in the afternoon this is also my desk when I was
a student I worked here a lot and now that we run our business we run our business off of this thing
this is our laugh ladder that comes down too one of my favorite Parts is you can always
swing it up out of the way and then you have this big huge window to just look through and
enjoy what's going on outside we really love this part of the house really makes it feel
a lot more open than having it just closed off with a Stairway and of course love to
relax with some movies and TV so that's able to swing out of the way and swing in if we need it
we have a queen size bed up there we have a skylight all four Windows go across
sleeping up there it's not too claustrophobic at all it actually feels like you're sleeping
outside but nice and cozy you can close everything up in the winter time
so over here at this side of the house is our bathroom I insisted when I built the house to have
a full bathroom I wanted a walk-in shower I wanted a toilet I wanted a plates to put my clothes
the only place that you can actually close off and get some privacy
the favorite part is the shower as Farmers you really need to clean off at the end of
the day so having a nice live shower definitely a plus must-have for me
we have a composting separating toilet solids go in a bucket liquids go in the gray
so let's go look at the mushroom woodlot and the market Garden
so here is the mushroom woodlot this is where we do all of our seasonal outdoor organic cultivated
mushrooms primarily we do shiitakes grown out of logs with the crib Stacks that's what we call
those kind of crisscross Lincoln Logs stacks it takes about a year for the mushroom to actually
grow out into the log we have about 1200 shiitake logs all in production we primarily grow in Maple
Birch and Oaks and beaches those are the main Woods that we use we have about 12 different
varieties of shiitake that we grow these are all logs that we inoculated this past winter and it's
pretty labor intensive up front but it's something that you can continuously Harvest from and reap
the rewards and benefits from for years to come these logs will be in production for about five
to seven years for the most part we also fruit oyster mushrooms out of straw which we grow in
a naturalized Hut that we supplement with what we call Forest fog it just retains the moisture
for the mushrooms a little bit and they absolutely love it these are our oyster mushroom buckets we
pasteurized straw and layer it inside the bucket with the inoculated grain spawn it takes about two
to three weeks for a bucket to fully colonize the fruiting body is actually the mushroom that you
eat so that's what we Harvest and that's what we sell and eat ourselves because they're delicious
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so we're here in one of our Greenhouse growing spaces right now we have cucurbits in here so
cucumbers some squashes we also do some Asian long beans and Wing beans
so we have about a quarter acre undercover meaning we have three different High tunnel
greenhouses similar to this one we grow mostly solanaceous crops like eggplant
tomatoes cucumbers in those in the summertime and the shoulder seasons in the spring and the
fall we usually do crops that need a little bit more protection from cool weather we have about
an acre and a half of field growing space and then around a half acre in the mushroom wood lot
it's really magical being able to walk out your front door with a cup of coffee in the morning
take a stroll through the mushroom wood lot see how things are progressing and enjoy a good
morning sunrise in the garden when we first had the concept of moving out here and creating our
farm we knew that we were going to be incubating a business we had the full intentions of building
this business to move out and to grow not only grow as a business but grow as a family and as
individuals ourselves so we're really excited to be able to now have the opportunity to have
a new property that we're going to be moving on to with a lot more acreage a lot better organic
matter and just being able to really build our dream that we've started here and do it and bigger
and better and be able to touch more people with it thanks for watching this week's video please
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