Farm Tour by @cahlen on 3Speak
Here's a tour of the new farm I'm Garden Hermitting on. My main concerns at the moment are getting the irrigation cleared in order to test it, and figuring out what to build in order to survive the...
Tags: #life #lifestyle #farming #gardening #survival #outdoora #minimalism #nature #offgrid
Hey everyone, Callan here, and I figured this would be a good day to give you a little bit of a tour of the property that I'm living on. You can see, I'm living under this unknown tree. I don't know what type of tree it is. Take a picture of the leaves, maybe one of you guys can tell me. And it's a standard poncho shelter that I have been living under or lived under for three years while I was in the other town. We've got my... bike here. I got rid of the solar electric bike, so I'm just using the pedal bike now. And you can see there's the tractor I was telling you about the other day, but let's take a closer look at this tree, okay? You see, this is what it looks like this way. This is the bark, and these are the leaves. So it's probably something really basic. like a cottonwood or something, but I've never really paid that close attention, so I'm really bad at identifying trees. But I'm sure one of you guys will know. Okay, so this is where we were. Down here, we built this little outhouse the last two days. We've been working on that. Just need to put a door on it today, and it's all done. This is the garden that they have going. Lots of... Giant sunflowers, look at this guy. It just gets so huge. Look this. This is my hand. I have big hands. This guy is like... Very cool. And then, you know, this isn't that big of a space, but they actually grew a huge amount of food in here. Lots of squash and melons and I think potatoes. I think I saw them harvesting potatoes yesterday. corn, I got corn here, lots of variety of sunflowers, lots and lots of sunflowers basically going around the whole thing. Then yesterday I planted some kale there and some more squashes back there. I think it might be a little bit late in the season, but maybe we'll get some stuff. So anyways, a lot of this has been harvested, all the melons were in here and stuff like that. Okay, so, here's the badass tractor I was driving. Pretty sweet. I was also running that thing. I dug the hole for the outhouse with that. And next to the property, it's very close to a railroad. You can see, that's the rail line right there. which is actually kind of cool. You know, people would think it'd probably get annoying, but so far, it's not annoying. I actually really like it when the trains come through. Then this hill goes up, and this is up here, the previous owner, I think, like 30 years ago, was bringing dirt from another place over here and lifted it up. It's like 15 feet higher up here than the neighboring property with just dirt that he added because dirt that's irrigated by, well, I'll go over there and show you the watering system. Guessing, and I'm aiming to grow three sisters, so corn, bowl beans, and squash. And then over here, walk over here, This is a pile of building material, which I've started adding elm to, because they were just going to burn this pile. But I'm thinking maybe I should save this. Well, most of it, I think. I don't see any treated stuff. So then there's also all this scrap wood, which I could use to build something. I'm not quite sure what to build. And that's actually where I'm leaning right now, but I'm curious to know if you guys have other ideas, stuff I could do. And this place has all the tools you need to do, the woodworking, so that won't be a problem. So anyway, it's just giving you guys a thunder the road and goes over to where I'm about to show you. Okay, so it ends up over here. I think it flows in through there. and then you can open up these things, you just pull it up. Okay, so this is the next box, flows into here, somehow, and then this opens it up, and this goes out to the garden, so I have this little, or more like, I don't know, the field, I guess you'd call it, and it flows. Right in the middle of it, okay, so the next thing I gotta do because I need to be able to flood the field before they turn it off in a few weeks To see how the water flows that'll help you make a lot of it's gonna be doing that with all of these guys and you can see of them So there's a fair amount of work. We'll just go down to the end Okay, so that's where we came from flows down And the ditch kind of ends here, although there's another ditch which is going that way out towards the field. So maybe somehow we have to figure out how to link these experiment. It might just require some digging, but it's possible it might require some piping or something like that, hopefully not. Anyways, the ditch kind of continues over here, even though it stopped there. and I think it continues down basically the rest of the field. So, anyways, I'm guessing I'm going to be gardening growing over on this side. And also this field has lots of rocks in it, so that's another thing I'm going to be doing is pulling out all these big rocks, which is another thing that could maybe be used in the build for my winter shelter. You know, if maybe just stack around or underneath the fire. to hold heat in. So anyways, that's where I'm living at the moment, and those are my options. So really the big concern right now is getting that irrigation running so we can make some decisions about what to do before the ground get too cold to do anything so that we're not in a big rush when spring comes around. And then figuring out how I'm going to stay warm and dry in the winter, okay, so. Now, personally, I think to myself, you know, I lived outside for three years. It got pretty cold, like, negative 10, negative 15 Fahrenheit. You know, there was rain, there was snow, there was wind. And I'm like, you know, I can do it. But where I am is, like, I'll say to the locals, you know, what I'm thinking of doing, and they're just like, dude, it's not like you think it is, you know, it's a... It's rough, you know. And, and one of these people even lived, you know, back in the place that I used to live, so they know what I've dealt with, and they're like, it's not the same as where you are, or where you were, okay? So, anyways, I should probably take them seriously and plan to, uh, have something to keep you warm so I don't die, but, uh, anyways, if you guys got ideas, I like the TP idea, I'm even thinking of, um, I made a video many years ago, I think it's called cheap PVC pipe, yurt, or something like that. If it's just my video, my website for PVC, you'll find it. I basically just got a bunch of half -inch, Schedule 40 PVC pipe, and some, you know, some junction things that, you know, go to angles. and I built a kind of a hexagon -shaped yurt, and I put the, you know, the insulation that's aluminum on both sides and has, like, bubble wrap in the middle. That was basically the walls of this thing, and even had a little hole in the top for smoke to go out. And that only cost me a couple hundred dollars, I think. It would probably be quite a bit more. You know, they're not too expensive, and then maybe even using the same bubble wrap insulation, and then coating the outside with the all -weather, gorilla duct tape. That stuff is really strong. So maybe that'll work. Or maybe like a painter's drop cloth, you need 12 by 15 for like 25 bucks or something like that. I might only need two of those, and then I can wrap them around poles. The PVC pipe might not be able to hold that because it's pretty, the drop cloths are probably pretty heavy, especially if they get wet, they get heavy. So I'm guessing it would bend, which means I might have to get Schedule 80 or... find a place where I can get like 12 foot or longer kind of thin wood poles without having to pay for them. So it's not really a forest nearby within sight that I can see whether they would have things like that. But, you know, basically there's mountains nearby, you know, within maybe half an hour, hour drive. So if there's a place where people are allowed to go cut firewood, you could probably go cut some dead trees or something. Anyways, I like the TP idea because it's, you know, I've never done it. It's kind of, it's very Native American, you know. I'm not a Native American, but I was born in America, so I kind of am, and in a way, I like the idea of living like that. You know, I'm growing, planning to grow up the three sisters, so. Plus, then I don't need to buy, like, a fireplace or anything like that. The question is, you know, what parts are, am I going to use and where am I going to get them, so. Anyways, that's the update on that. I'll keep you guys informed about how things are going, and I'll see you later.