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Northern Sun Mercantile
United States
Приєднався 24 тра 2024
Our videos focus on the small homestead farming lifestyle and are targeted towards people that want to learn more about small, local farming, sustainably raising chickens for meat and eggs, gardening, greenhouse growing, honeybees, and so much more!
At Northern Sun Mercantile in Rawsonville, Vermont we are passionate about providing local foods farm to table, Vermont gifts, and beautiful plants and flowers from our greenhouse. We operate a small retail store where we sell our products and products from other farms, growers, and crafters from around Vermont and the Northeast. We raise and process about 700 broiler chickens per year for meat and currently have about 150 laying hens for eggs. We have two greenhouses on the property that we operate from early Spring through Fall. We also have several colonies of honeybees that we manage for honey. We are always adding to our workload with various things and have a plan for next spring to raise more of our own produce in raised beds.
At Northern Sun Mercantile in Rawsonville, Vermont we are passionate about providing local foods farm to table, Vermont gifts, and beautiful plants and flowers from our greenhouse. We operate a small retail store where we sell our products and products from other farms, growers, and crafters from around Vermont and the Northeast. We raise and process about 700 broiler chickens per year for meat and currently have about 150 laying hens for eggs. We have two greenhouses on the property that we operate from early Spring through Fall. We also have several colonies of honeybees that we manage for honey. We are always adding to our workload with various things and have a plan for next spring to raise more of our own produce in raised beds.
Our Homestead Barn Build. Framing The Roof SOLO In the Snow
In this video I frame up our roof on our post and beam 18x30 barn.
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Vermont Wild Foraged Apple Hard Cider Tasting and Bottling. Step by Step How to Bottle.
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In this video I taste and bottle delicious hard cider that I made from a mix of wild Vermont apples and drops from a local orchard.
Our Homestead Barn Build. Setting the Main Beams
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In this video we set the main carrying beams for our new barn garden center
18x30 Post And Beam Barn Build. Setting And Plumbing Posts For Our New Homestead Barn
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In this video we set all of the exterior post for our new post and beam barn.
Part 2. Post and Beam Pressure Treated Barn Foundation. Fine Tuning Level and Concrete Footings.
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In this video we do the final leveling, squaring, and concrete center post footings for our new post and beam barn.
Getting Started On Our New Post and Beam Barn. Gravel pad and PT Foundation
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We get started on our new post and beam 18x30 barn structure. In this video we prep and level the site and install pressure treated 6x6s as a foundation.
Winter Prep, New Chicken Coop, and Garlic Planting
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This video is an update on projects that we are working on this fall
Broiler Chicken Processing Tutorial. How We Process Over 4000 LBS Of Chicken Per Season.
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This is the final part of our broiler chicken series. In this video we process the Cornish Cross Broilers that we documented from the day they arrived to us two days old.
Making foraged wild apple cider, hard cider and apple cider vinegar
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In this video I forage wild apples and turn them into hard cider and apple vinegar.
Step by Step Guide to Building a Fold-Away Chicken Perch
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Step by step guide to building a fold away chicken perch. Perfect for when you clean out your coop! And easy to build!
Moving Cornish Cross to Pasture. 3rd Video in our Broiler Chicken Series
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Moving Cornish Cross to Pasture. 3rd Video in our Broiler Chicken Series
Setting up a chicken tractor for broiler chickens. Video #2 in our broiler chicken series.
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Setting up a chicken tractor for broiler chickens. Video #2 in our broiler chicken series.
Actual Video of a Baby Chick Hatching
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Actual Video of a Baby Chick Hatching
How to set up a brooder for raising broiler chickens. This is the first video in a series.
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How to set up a brooder for raising broiler chickens. This is the first video in a series.
Growing mums for retail. How to install mum nets. #greenhouse #greenhousegardening #gardening #mums
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Growing mums for retail. How to install mum nets. #greenhouse #greenhousegardening #gardening #mums
Full honeybee colony inspection looking for possible swarming activity #honeybees #northernsunmerc
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Full honeybee colony inspection looking for possible swarming activity #honeybees #northernsunmerc
The BEST chicken and eggs from our field to your table! #eatlocal #pasturedpoultry #northernsunmerc
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The BEST chicken and eggs from our field to your table! #eatlocal #pasturedpoultry #northernsunmerc
How we cook the BEST Wood-Fired BBQ chicken! #pasturedpoultry #woodfirecooking #eatlocal
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How we cook the BEST Wood-Fired BBQ chicken! #pasturedpoultry #woodfirecooking #eatlocal
Feeding scratch grain to our spoiled chickens
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Feeding scratch grain to our spoiled chickens
Visiting and touring our Vermont store! #northernsunmercantile #vermont #eatlocal #giftshop
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Visiting and touring our Vermont store! #northernsunmercantile #vermont #eatlocal #giftshop
Northern Sun Greenhouse Tour #gardening #vermont #annuals #vegetableplants #herbs
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Northern Sun Greenhouse Tour #gardening #vermont #annuals #vegetableplants #herbs
Nucleus hive 2nd inspection #honeybees #beekeeping #nucleuscolony #vermonthoney #beenuc
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Nucleus hive 2nd inspection #honeybees #beekeeping #nucleuscolony #vermonthoney #beenuc
Inspecting a newly installed nucleus colony.
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Inspecting a newly installed nucleus colony.
How to cut up a whole broiler chicken
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How to cut up a whole broiler chicken
Wow! Be careful up there.
Thank you, I will
Nice video! Sounds delicious.
Thank you! It was the perfect balance of sweet and not too dry!
Gonna be some happy birds!
They are! Already hunkered down for the winter here with two feet of snow in the last two weeks. Nice and warm in the coop!
Nice work Dan!
Thanks!
Lol, they aren't happy with that snow!
Nope! They’re not interested in going out at all
You have a lot of food it’s good for the hole week
Is your barn just setting on the gravel or is anchored down?
It’s just sitting on the pressure treated foundation on gravel right now. We couldn’t dig regular footings because of electrical lines that run under it. We’re hoping to pour a concrete slab at a later date. On a positive note the substrate is river rock under the topsoil so we’re fairly confident frost won’t move it too much. Thanks for watching and happy thanksgiving!
@@NorthernSunMercantile Thanks and Good Luck with the build!
I haven't seen this kind of construction before., granted I haven't seen everything nor do I know everything. Aren't you concerned with the posts folding like dominoes?
Hello, once the top is permanently tied together there won’t be any risk of the posts toppling. That’s why I have so many temporary braces in place until I get the rafters installed up top. The angle braces also lock it into the pressure treated foundation. Thanks for watching! Happy thanksgiving!
Outstanding. I have 35 Cornish Cross that I will be processing in about 3 weeks as we are in their 5th week of growth and doing well. For our little homestead I process about 70 per year for freezer camp. You are so organized and keep sharp knives. I’m a one man show so I have stations and little help but am totally exhausted after. My first year I hand plucked and that about killed me but my chicken plucker has saved my life. I am thinking about having friends help me and I will give them chicken for their help. As you know each bird is so valuable and takes such energy to acquire, raise, butcher and package that I hate to part with them. I don’t sell but I’ve been offered $50 per bird which are 7 lbs birds. I think I might sell 5 to recoup my purchase and feed costs. I subscribed so look forward to seeing more thx
It’s awesome that you’re doing it to fill your freezer! It’s so rewarding to eat good food that you grew yourself! My suggestion would be to find one or two volunteers for processing day and offer a chicken each in payment at the end of the day..it’ll be worth it. People like to learn and if you have time to teach that’s part of their payment. It is definitely exhausting to do it all yourself! Thanks so much for watching! Stay tuned for more!
@@NorthernSunMercantile, that’s what I will do. There is a family with kids that want to help so it will give me peace of mind. I’m 70, and it’s snowing outside as I live on a ski resort in Utah and just can’t be outdoors all day long. Next time I will time it better. Great content and keep up great work
Great content and very informative. As a duck hunter for more than 30 years, this is exactly how I have processed ducks. The scalding, plucking, separating of parts and vacuum packing will definitely come in handy with processing Cornish Cross for personal use. Thank you! Liked and subscribed. How many acers do you use and approximately how many broilers do you raise annually?
Thanks so much for watching and subscribing! We run our chicken tractors on around 4-5 acres. 700 birds per year although we hope to expand that next year. I’ve done batches for my personal use of 40 birds on less than a 1/4 acre. It doesn’t take that much space although they will burn your lawn a bit temporarily. It does recover quickly though. Stay tuned for more videos!
Absolutely wonderful job showing the process, including a few tricks I hadn't seen before, such as twisting the head off & hooking the legs through the skin. Thank you!
Thank you for watching!
not very helpful for people who don't know what a grinder is. Are grinders randomly found on properties?
Grinders are typically attached to the top of the cider press and “chew” up the apples into a pulp for pressing. I bought the press on Facebook marketplace a few years back. They’re fairly easy to find. Thanks for watching.
This is a very interesting and informative video.
Thank you!
I want to try the hard cider when it's ready, please?
Cool!
Perfect music
Damthun
My cornish cross chicks have been in the brooder for almost 2 weeks. First time trying to raise my own meat.
Congratulations on getting started! It’s very rewarding to raise your own and know exactly where your food comes from!
Paint strainer is a great idea!
So pretty!
Beautiful layout! Love from Seattle.
Nice informative video, good job, Dan!
That chicken makes me drool 🤤 ❤
You are the best!
You guys are the best!
Very good one
enjoy ladies
I love to see your videos, thank you ❤
Wooo hoooo great video!
Thank you!
That was a nice tour of all the beautiful flowers...large variety 🌼🌼🌼🌷🌷🌷🌻🌻🌻🌻
So cool, wish I was there to help!
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Yay!!!❤
Awesome, Dan!!
This is awesome…keep the videos coming ❤❤❤😊😊😊😊