00:00We were living in this beautiful city. Everything was kind of perfect and we just looked at each
00:04other and yearned for something more. We referred to it as Sleepy Hollow when we first got here.
00:09We pulled in and we got stuck like within three minutes. We could not access the property.
00:16We decided to move into a neighborhood but we felt like something was missing and then his
00:21grandfather who was a farmer for many many years passed away. We had an opportunity to come and
00:27breathe life back into the farm. My grandfather was born on the next hill over and grew up here.
00:33My grandfather's failing health the last several years had kind of prevented him from really
00:37maintaining this property. There was absolutely nothing. No structures, no buildings. It was
00:43essentially abandoned. We first lived in an RV for eight months and they thought that was the coolest
00:49thing ever. Camping out for eight months and then the farm life. The animals, our garden, all of that.
00:56They have been a part of that process. You know, every step of that process alongside us doing it with
01:01us. We have a little bit of history of flipping houses. We enjoyed that process of starting with
01:07nothing and just watching it transform before our eyes. We also hired the Amish to help us with that
01:14and that was actually really neat. Just getting to know them and we're in a big Amish Mennonite community
01:20here. Being able to watch that process and then watch your vision come to life before your eyes has
01:26been really, really neat. You know, it's nothing about health in mind. So I kind of introduced him to this
01:32lifestyle of healthy living and eating and finally I think you started to sort of adopt that, you know,
01:39the same habits and that's what kind of led us here to farming. Organic way of farming is kind of
01:46the old
01:46way of farming. Modern farming is very chemical driven. So to farm organically, you kind of go to the old
01:54school methods of farming. All of my equipment that I have, which I'm massively undersized, is mold equipment.
02:02Like my stuff is from the 40s and 50s and I'm having to like weld on it and wrench on
02:07it and put new
02:08bearings in it. Our goal here is to create an ecosystem that would help support not just our
02:14family but all the local farmers around here. Up here it's very rural, very agrarian. Our nearest
02:19neighbor is over a mile away and it's just totally different. So life kind of slows down on here.
02:25It's 40 minutes to go to the grocery store. We just want a simpler lifestyle where we slow down and
02:29the
02:30little things become big things like catching a frog or chasing fireflies. I think that really is
02:36American. Kind of as American as it is.
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