How to Build a Farm in 6 MONTHS

Anyone get fooled into thinking that was Toby or Abby ? 😮

In SC or VA

Their pond looks great😂 I like the way you keep poultry better, but that was a great point of view!

1 min... 😍

I could tell from :05 where you were 😜

Roots and refuge jesses house

Suggest how about Allison's greenhouse. This was her hope; she needed her place on the farm too. She was so excited when she was talking about her garden and flowers. I think that would give her something that she may need now. She has had a couple of rough years in her job off-farm. This could give her such a pick me up. It is just a suggestion as it was a couple of years ago when you talked about it. Would you talk about it even? Thanks!

Cutest moment: when Ben told Katie, "I have a camera"

I thought it at 3 seconds because of the barn.
I got it at 6 with the appearance of Gabe.

She's my favorite gardener

The first drone shot with those trees by the lake! That's when I realized where you were.

That very first side shot of Jess's house, I knew where you were. But I love when you guys do videos together! When you two talk to one another about your farms, we get more explanation and a deeper understanding of the plans and goals than we do in just the regular videos, because you're discussing it with each other and not just with "us" out here who in the moment, don't ask questions.
Side note: today is March 11th, I am WAY behind on your videos, but watching this one this morning with my breakfast really just made my day start off on such a happy and optimistic mood! So, from Louisiana, I'm sending you good vibes for a Happy Friday and hopefully you'll get something knocked off your to-do list this weekend that makes your heart happy!
Much love and keep up the fantastic work and putting out good things into the world, Morgan (and Jess, too)!

Roots and refuge ❤️

You have said before that Toby's breed is from the Alps. Not at all true. He's from the Apennine Mountain Range in Eastern Italy, not the Alps of Northern Italy. The Apennines run almost the whole length of Italy north and south. The Alps are just at the very northern edge of the country, running east to west.

Maremmas are from the central part of the Apennines, primarily Abruzzo, hundreds of miles from the Alps. It is about 600 miles from Toby's ancesters' home in Abruzzo to the nearest Alps in Lombardy.

In this video, you say that Maremmas are from the Italian side of a mountain, and Great Pyranees are from the French side. Wow! That "mountain" of yours is about half the width of Europe, with a few mountain ranges in-between. It covers half the length of Italy and the whole width of France - about 1500 miles. It crosses the Northern half of the Apennines, the entire Alps, the Massif Central mountains in Central France, and lands in the Pyranees at the very west of France.

Knew right away you were at Root n Refuge!!

I got it right

Are u in south Carolina

10 second! Roots and Refuge farm. The second you said Gabe I knew instantly.

When you said hi Gabriel haha

Just lovely. Jess got the most beautiful smile and the little boy is the cutest one I've ever seen.

"Hey Gabe"
that's all you need to say to explain where you are 🙂🥰

With Jess & Jerimiah
In the new farm
Roots & Refuge
Love them also
Linda from Ct 👍🏻

I live in SC. I can't wait to find out more about R&R! I love how clean and organized their farm is. It's beautiful.

Really love the calves. You are working so hard to build your farm. That is a good thing for you. Hope you become self sufficent. Do you have a wind mill yet?
Many old time farmers came through the depression because of their wind mills supplying the power separate from any power grid.
God bless

Currently Gold Shaw is the only farm specific vlog I watch, but I do follow a few hoof trimmers on here. It’s interesting to see a Day-in-the-Life view of lives I definitely couldn’t do. (I’m a very disabled city girl but loooove animals)

Those pigs are so fuzzy! I’ve always seen pigs with just…more coarse hair, if that makes sense? But those are downright wooly-looking pigs!

That orphan calf needs to br fed more than just twice a day

Great to see that she knows the correct way to milk a cow. She is milking the pair nipples, starting from the two anterior (towards the head) nipples and then the posterior (towards the tail) ones. Then she follows with the drying of the quarters by jumping from nipple to nipple once she is done.

Knew when you said “hi Gabe.”

Dude when I stopped watching you you has only birds.

👍👌🏻

Roots and refuge … less than a minute in! Lol

(Just a sidenote: the Alpes where the marema comes from and the Pyrénées are to different mountains ranges, they feel very different)

New puppy!

Your doing right thing brain storm all your ideas bring it back to your farm and just start getting out there with Toby it will just fall in place as you go just stay focused on your 1 project at a time.Only thing you have it harder then your last stops of farm freinds is that Vermont is cold Alot! So ur projects have to get done in April to September but you could always start a volunteer hands on at farm and you get help and they get the experience. You could always get a horse it's what my daughter does and at end of week she goes horseback riding as a reward and every year when school gets out more kids come now there a volunteer camp to care for all animals and now the farm has all this positive energy that brings to everyone on farm figure I throw it out there

Morgan you can not work as fast a two. Roots & Refuge has two full time farmers and kids. On your property Allison can not participate to the same level.

Roots and refuge!!!!!!my fav

ROOTS AND REFUGE...LOL Everywhere you've been is for the hard core ones that follow y'all!! I wanna be able to meet them all and You with your Family plus animals...💜

calves have faces like Disney characters. Very pretty.

So glad to see you on R&R love them!

4 second mark I knew you were at Jess and Miahs Roots and Refuge farm.

It’s a lot of food for thought that will help you better visualize your goals and plan what you need to do to get there. You’re a very organized thinker and talking to Jess just reinforces that you’re on the right path.

I loved the visits to the other farms to see how they do it. You are not far off from they’re homesteads. Indeed.

THE CONSTANT. RENEWAL. OF. RESOURCE. CROP. ROTATION. MANEWER. CHICKEN. MOVE AND ROTATE. ANIMALS. AND. MANEWER. COMPOST. MAKE A GOAL. AND. THE BARN. FOR. WINTER REST. OF. THE LAND. THE COMUTE. TOO WORK. ALL ANIMALS. INSIDE FOR. THE. WINTER. A. GREEN HOUSE. THE MOST. IMPORTANT. AS. CHICKENS. FULL BLAST. WIDE. OPEN. ALL DURING THE. GROWING. SEASON. FOR THE. VEGETABLE. GARDEN.

Morgan, as soon as you got outside around the animals my guess was you're at Justin Rhodes farm.
I'll keep watching and find out.
Oops, nope I'm wrong. It is Roots And Refuge farm.

Roots and refuge

At first i had to double check i wasnt on a different farmers channel- but then i remembered quickly you had said a couple videos back that you had been excited to farm-sit a friends farm