One thing to consider with commercial timber production is the destruction left behind by timber companies. Neighbors had their pine timbered out and it looks like a war zone. Those huge logging trucks (they need a staging area for those large semi log trucks) and cutters trample everything in their path, and they leave mounds of treetops after cleaning up the trunks. I would investigate the niche market for the black walnut and even the sassafras. It has beautiful grain. Wood crafters, furniture makers, etc. would take one tree at a time and be more careful in the harvest. Congratulations on the chicks! They are always so much fun to watch.
@@tanneradams20 it is the way the people do there log harvest. Do they distroy everything, even the way the water can hold into the ground? Most commercial loggers don't care about the land and the ground. They care about the easy money! And then it is possible that your land is so destroyed that it stays barren and ugly for years what work you do it. It is the way of how the loggers are doing there yob and leave the land and ground behind you can see if they are good and carring people ore they only want to have money. G'D BLESS and greetings from Inge Noordam (the Netherlands/Europe) PS just look at next video ua-cam.com/video/PsnawHCLWOg/v-deo.html
Yes, logging can be very disruptive and we have seen the mess left behind if not managed afterwards. We are looking to understand what we have so we can plan for how we use the land now and for the future.
Afted looking at lots of properties, many logged, I passed on them. Stripped and ugly. Trees bring animals, firewood, health. I kno u wont strip your property. Its horrible wen they do it tho.
Getting the forestry consultant in was a very good call. They can give you very valuable information about what you have growing on your property when you're not confident about identifying it. That's value. However, their opinions about the value of your timber are heavily biased toward commercial timber production and the interests of industrial loggers. As homesteaders, that's not where the value in our woodlands really lies. Those "field trees" that were dismissed as having no value? No value to a commercial operation. Potentially very high value to those "small niche markets". And by very high value I mean slabs from a field black walnut of substantial size can come close to paying for your own sawmill from one tree. But you need to be able to do some felling and moving timber and sawing it. There's some infrastructure to be developed to take advantage of these things. Even without selling any of it, there's value to the homesteader in doing their own mill work with trees on their land. Every board foot you don't have to buy from outside is money n your pocket ;) And if you start doing some woodworking for yourself, you'll find that Sassafras may not be commercially viable, but you can build a perfectly serviceable chair from it - and on and on ;)
Well Said Peter! Much of that "trash wood" that has little or no commercial value will work fine as siding on barns, fence posts and rails, firewood, and if you're at all "crafty" you can make gorgeous things out of cedar, sassafras, black walnut and others! things as simple as cribbage boards and cheese boards. If you're not very crafty yourself...cut and dry the wood and offer it to those who ARE crafty at a decent price! Don't just look within the confines of "commercial" value (although that is not to be discounted!!) you can cut and split firewood for next winter NOW and have it ready to produce dollars for the homestead every year from now on.
@@susanbaker8130 it's a matter of scale. The lumber mills are looking at that yellow poplar for making plywood and MSB. That's a much bigger market. We're also probably not looking at the same kinds of cedar in Tennessee as in Oregon. It may or may not produce useful lumber for that kind of purpose. But on a homestead, even if it's only good for fence posts and pole barns, that's real value.
@@peterellis4262 Eastern red cedar is NOT the same cedar we have in the Northwest. Much smaller and quite invasive, much (MUCH) more drought tolerant than our Western Red Cedar. The "lumber" cedar tree of the east is Eastern White Cedar
I do agree about looking into the destruction left by logging. Have you watched a video from Doug and Stacy published about 3 weeks ago? Showing the destruction left behind after felling. Congratulations on the chicks.
You guys are so cute!!!! New babies on the Homestead!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So happy for you guys. Please don't think that your property & or the trees are worthless!! They are NOT!!!!! You guys have all the wood you need & then some. For fencing, out buildings & much, much more!!!! Your property is BEAUTIFUL & I am very Jealous!!! LOL!!!! Always hoping for the Best for you & yours!! Many, many Blessings!!! Till next time! :) 😊🐣🐔🐤🐝🦋🐞🌺🌻🏵🌱🌼
Cedar isn’t totally useless, being from the west coast you know that. You can make outdoor furniture, picnic tables, trellis all sorts of stuff with cedar. Watch a Surviving Ringworm video, he makes all kinds of stuff out of cedar.
We had 31 acres "select cut" in 2013. We had them leave the wild cherries and oaks and maples over 8". They did not want any pines. This year, a stranger would not immediately know we have had the property cut. Yes, they had to have a staging area. We ended up with a 2 acre area with our house, pole barn, chickens and gardens out of their staging area. They did leave a mess of stragglers and branches, but those have been reclaimed by the forest.
Congrats on the chicks! Exciting times. Logging on the east coast in the early days was extensive, and had zero thought process for future growth or preservation. This is the primary reason for the establishment of Smokey Mountain National Park, as it was some of the last stands of virgin growth hardwood forest in the Appalachian mountains. Conservationists wanted to preserve what they could and land was set aside and purchased for the park. Just imagine that almost all the land in East Tennessee had been cleared by hand for farms, leaving only small areas of forest left. Most forested areas are probably no more than 100 years old as farms were abandoned or reclaimed by nature. Our neighbors, those whose families settled, cleared, farmed this land were amazing men and women who endured incredible hardships to make this place their home. Yet, many people mock their culture and heritage with no understanding of how they lived. I love that you are showing some of the things that you have encountered as you explore your land so that others can see how tough these people were.
when thinking about your trees remember not only your local market but other markets that maybe interested in what you have. A little bit of research may fetch you a pretty decent return.
Rick had some very interesting information. It's a good thing you recorded his talk, so you are able to refer back to all that information. Baby chicks. YAY!. I have them, too, and they are just over a week old. (However I did not hatch them, but got them from Murray McMurray Hatchery.) Great video!
Poplar I had a lot of them on my old farm and great fire wood LOL now got 43 Douglas Fir 6 story high on 1 acre . Can not cut down with out a permit or that there dead ,
🇬🇧 Seeing the chicks with their mum is so cute 🐥🐥🐥. How sad for all the chicks that get hatched and shipped and never know their mother or be mothered. Interesting about the trees!! 🤔
It is very exciting to have your first new chicks:)) I was so surprised when Ranger Rick said that the cedar was worthless, except for your own use, given that is very sought out and popular here in Oregon. Informative Vlog.
Yes, we were surprised too until we learned the difference between eastern and western cedar. We are still excited to have so much cedar and will use it for quite a few projects here.
@@TheKraemerLife I used a small cedar tree to make a bottle tree in the garden. Stripped all the tips off and left limbs that could hold the weight of a bottle. Lots of different sizes and colors of bottles. It's a southern garden tradition.
We did this years ago we had 100 acres of woods and we selected how much and size they were allowed to take only on 20 acres and 10 years later we cut again and in another 20 years we'll cut again. And no we didn't clear cut and replanted what we cut. Congrats on the new babies. Be Blessed. 😊🇺🇲
Congratulations on the baby chicks!!! They are so cute!! That was very wise having an expert evaluate the tree situation. I don't think most people would take the time to do that but it is important to manage the forest well.
Thank you. We have about 50 acres for forest/woods and we want to ensure that we are clearing where it makes sense and also we needed to learn the many types of trees we had as we were unfamiliar with several.
Just a thought maybe some of your wood can be sold off for firewood to folks close buy, hum it wood not bring in a lot of cash, but we pay folks for face cords and cords of wood for our wood stove....love in Christ Sherril...
Yes, we will use as much of what we can as possible. Fire wood, building, craft projects, ash and bio char for the garden. Wood is such an amazing resource to have on the homestead.
Yeah !! Baby chicks !! The land will produce that long term investment for your later years & you get to harvest the cedar for your own Bougee raised beds & fencing !! Go you !!
My smile is as big as Nate's. I love that your mama hen has had some babies for you. I am sorry your woods didn't yield what you hoped for but perhaps it will add to your retirement income down the line. Maybe you could make something with the sassafras roots...like root beer or tea. LOL. Have a Blessed day.
Yes, the babies were a pleasant addition to the homestead. We were more interested in learning about the types of trees and how to manage the forest than having a bunch cut down but it did let us know we might need to find a different place to build back there...we shall see what we end up doing with the knowledge.
Height is the only correct version of this word today. Heighth is no longer considered a standard spelling of this word, if it ever was. Since height rhymes with flight and might, two other words that end in -ght, you will always know how to spell the ending of the word.
At least now you can plan and know what to do for the next 10-20yrs, and what is what with you trees, that's good news. Baby Chicks! Who doesn't love baby chicks. LOL Congrats.
@@TheKraemerLife I'm stuck in the city but I like to percolate ideas to make income for my dream. Both require strict vetting of people because they will be in my dream. 1. Micro homesteads where people live and learn in a tiny house with its own animals garden and orchard while apprenticing. 2. Fishing pond , bunky cabins and a micro diner/ genral store. I think the client selection is the most important part. I know I'm not very original but I have little tweaks to make things more attractive to clients.
Kapper Outdoors wife makes beautiful things out of the Sassafras wood. Isn't it funny how a wood can be so sought after in one part of the country and not valued at all somewhere else? Congrats on the first Homestead Hens. peace y'all
Yes, we are learning that things considered low value are some of what we really looked for and hoped we had because we knew the value of using it to build with.
Wow I didn’t know you could have someone come in to assess your trees like that, very interesting. In Northern Michigan you have to have 10 acres or more before they will select cut just never knew the branches coming out of a tree would be a problem! The less the better😁
I'm glad that you were able to have Ranger Rick come in so early in your ownership. Like you, I would have had so many questions. I'm glad you have a video documentation to help you remember various trees and the details. Does your big red oak tree cast acorns? Some of our oaks are "mother" trees and some aren't as much. I wonder if anyone would be interested in the large walnuts? I used to accept a neighbor's leaves and it was full of nuts. Tons of them sprouted which was fun but not something we could grow on our village property. Do folks in TN tap sugar maples? That is a valuable tree in my neck of the woods. You might want to get into the nuts and seed collecting habit. We plant found seeds at the farm sometimes, as well as seedlings people don't want (all by permission of course). We also have planted thousands of low cost tree seedlings from the state. It's a fun hobby that we won't necessarily get much of the benefit from, but maybe the grandkids will? We did hire a forester to access a portion of our woods for firewood use, that is, maybe Ranger Rick would have used the word "crop"? We supplement our heat with wood (actually it's probably 80% some years) so it was good to have reinforcement about our ideas on gradually improving our timber by culling (but using) the less desirable trees. We cut a LOT of ash, for same "borer" reason. We were able to harvest timber about 10 years ago from part of our woods. It really helped our income that year. We hired the forester to make the deal and oversee the process, which protected our woods from a big mess and kept "safe" what shouldn't be cut. He put out the job for bid to a couple of companies that he trusted and liked working with. I think one worked with horses. He made a small percentage of the deal, well worth it for us. I noticed that another comment described a neighbor's "war zone" left by a company which is so tragic :( It's always kind of sad to lose mature trees but ours worked out better than I hoped (I was really apprehensive). So, when the time comes, you could keep the idea of hiring someone who is respected by both the timber companies and landowners. How many little chicks, or was Karen not allowing visitation yet? :)
Yes, it will be great to look back on when we need to. The nut and maple trees interest us but we may not do anything with them this year. I'd like to see if we can tap the maples tree to see what we can get. We are looking to clear about an acre or two of cedar for an orchard. I really want fruit trees...we have considered nuts too but I am not as familiar with them so will have to see what makes sense in this area and compatibility. Karen has 3 chicks with her and they are integrated into the flock. We have 5 that will be separate for now...we may introduce them here in a few more weeks once they are old enough to be outside full time.
Good girl Karen! I think hen's that brood and raise their own chicks are priceless! If she doesn't have too many, you can buy some day olds and let her raise them.
wow.... That was So Very Interesting about the trees, And congratulations on your baby chicks.... so wonderful I am excited for you.... Thanks for sharing that information with us.... So looking forward to seeing your vision for the property......
Probably find there will be a small one man sawmill near you (there are some on You Tube) the ash, walnut and others have great value to them. It will be hard to know the value until you find out what price various logs are actually bringing. You will be able to drag out cut to length logs, with a tractor yourself to mill or sell with a little research on how to tackle the job.
Thanks for the info about the trees. I have 6+ acres and most of it is trees. Oak, black walnut, maple and lots of junk trees. But one man's junk is another man's treasure. Watch those babies, hawks love them. Another great video!
Yay You Got Babies! Love it, and Nates excitement is priceless! Glad to have seen this video and watched through it till the end and seen Karen's little ones. The trees are all nice to me, love them. You will have some good ones and other than the cedar which I thought was so very valuable also I mean it sells for much more than pine. ❤
There is a big difference between Eastern Cedar and Western Cedar. What you see in the stores is mainly Western Cedar. It has more heartwood and tighter grain, as it grows slower.
Yes! Thank you! It was interesting for us to learn about the eastern cedar and how different it is to what we were used to so we were not surprised when he kept saying it wasn't valuable. For a homesteaders it is but not commercially.
@@TheKraemerLife I see that, but ya know with what is going on in the world with supply chain issues, and lumber I have to wonder if that may change in the future and then you all sure sitting on a gold mine for sure. You are anyway you look at it because you got your dream homestead, the land, the treasures within, your love and your together doing what you both love to do and have dreamed of doing. The blessing of all that in itself the best treasure of all. Love yas❤
Personally I wouldn’t do anything those logging companies make a horrible mess to the land , just go look around and you will get a idea how bad they destroy the landscape. A lot of people are cutting their own trees for their personal use as that is what I do . Love your videos have been following y’all from the start . I live in west Tennessee.
The forest in our property was destroyed by timber companies. The past owners sold a bunch of trees and were disappointed in what money they ended up with. Trees are dying left and right of where their trucks went through the land. The water runs differently and is killing the roots of the trees. The ground is tore up horribly. Many trees were damged by the trucks. I don't know if we can repair the damage done. It's sad to see the forest dying. I really don't recommend selling your trees. It's not worth the devestation!
Great that you had him come look at your trees . I was thinking get rid of the pines as well, you have some wonderful trees for lumber to use in the future! I remember poplar trees being on my grandparents farm. Enjoyed the knowledge!
Chicks and trees. A little now and a little later. I was also a bit surprised at the relatively low value of cedar. However, that means you can use as much of that as you need for projects around the homestead. The other surprise was the relatively young growth; I mean the land has been there forever. But as Rick explained, the land was probably clear cut at some point for open land, so it makes sense that whatever is there has had to fight its way back. Also interesting is the aggressive stance towards the invasive species. Makes sense though. So, maybe the Poplar stands will become the retirement supplement later. With the B&B concept, having a few nice trails around the property with 'destinations' could enhance the draw. Have you thought about having people 'intern' for room and board, etc. (once you have that set up) to help with some of your woodland projects?
Yes, we have considered the room & board to exchange for help with projects and/or also income to assist. We also want to make paths and trails throughout the areas we plan on keeping wooded. It will be a project though so may be an acre at a time.
That is so weird about the Cedar trees. Im from the north west like you but in Canada and Cedar is the most expensive wood to buy and poplar is not used for anything. Do the cedar trees not grow very big there or something? Mama chicken and chicks are so cute to watch, enjoy.
Not only are ailanthus trees invasive, but they are a favorite of spotted lantern flies, a very destructive pest we're fighting in the mid-Atlantic region. I hope we can solve this problem before it spreads down your way!
Where I live it used to be big cedar forests, huge trees. Lots of useful information gained from your Forester. I remember my black hen Fi ('fee') hatching chicks. I had her and the chicks separated from the rooster but the rooster managed to fly up through a gap at the top of the fence and he killed all four chicks. Nate, your excitement is contagious!
ACTUALLY YOU HAVE A TREASURE TROVE WITH THOSE POPULARS MOREL MUSHROOMS GROW AROUND THEM THERE'S A GUY ON UA-cam CALLED LEARN YOUR LAND THAT TELLS YOU ALL THE DIFFERENT MUSHROOMS THAT GROW AROUND THEM🥰🥰🥰
Start planting trees that will yield a great $$$ return. Even if you don't harvest them bcos they're not ready, it will increase your land value, in the event you want to sell or to will it to your kids. To bad you didn't take some stretchy plastic tape with you & a marker to write the species of the tree on it, then tie it around the tree.
We need to clear out some areas that we want to replant in and hope to start that this year. We will be putting in an orchard because that is valuable to us as it produces food and income potential in just a few years.
One thing to consider with commercial timber production is the destruction left behind by timber companies. Neighbors had their pine timbered out and it looks like a war zone. Those huge logging trucks (they need a staging area for those large semi log trucks) and cutters trample everything in their path, and they leave mounds of treetops after cleaning up the trunks. I would investigate the niche market for the black walnut and even the sassafras. It has beautiful grain. Wood crafters, furniture makers, etc. would take one tree at a time and be more careful in the harvest. Congratulations on the chicks! They are always so much fun to watch.
Loggers job to log. Land owners job to manage after that. If the land stayed barren and ugly then that’s on your neighbors
@@tanneradams20 it is the way the people do there log harvest. Do they distroy everything, even the way the water can hold into the ground? Most commercial loggers don't care about the land and the ground. They care about the easy money! And then it is possible that your land is so destroyed that it stays barren and ugly for years what work you do it. It is the way of how the loggers are doing there yob and leave the land and ground behind you can see if they are good and carring people ore they only want to have money. G'D BLESS and greetings from Inge Noordam (the Netherlands/Europe) PS just look at next video ua-cam.com/video/PsnawHCLWOg/v-deo.html
Yes, logging can be very disruptive and we have seen the mess left behind if not managed afterwards. We are looking to understand what we have so we can plan for how we use the land now and for the future.
Afted looking at lots of properties, many logged, I passed on them. Stripped and ugly. Trees bring animals, firewood, health. I kno u wont strip your property. Its horrible wen they do it tho.
Getting the forestry consultant in was a very good call. They can give you very valuable information about what you have growing on your property when you're not confident about identifying it. That's value. However, their opinions about the value of your timber are heavily biased toward commercial timber production and the interests of industrial loggers. As homesteaders, that's not where the value in our woodlands really lies. Those "field trees" that were dismissed as having no value? No value to a commercial operation. Potentially very high value to those "small niche markets". And by very high value I mean slabs from a field black walnut of substantial size can come close to paying for your own sawmill from one tree. But you need to be able to do some felling and moving timber and sawing it. There's some infrastructure to be developed to take advantage of these things. Even without selling any of it, there's value to the homesteader in doing their own mill work with trees on their land. Every board foot you don't have to buy from outside is money n your pocket ;) And if you start doing some woodworking for yourself, you'll find that Sassafras may not be commercially viable, but you can build a perfectly serviceable chair from it - and on and on ;)
Well Said Peter! Much of that "trash wood" that has little or no commercial value will work fine as siding on barns, fence posts and rails, firewood, and if you're at all "crafty" you can make gorgeous things out of cedar, sassafras, black walnut and others! things as simple as cribbage boards and cheese boards. If you're not very crafty yourself...cut and dry the wood and offer it to those who ARE crafty at a decent price! Don't just look within the confines of "commercial" value (although that is not to be discounted!!) you can cut and split firewood for next winter NOW and have it ready to produce dollars for the homestead every year from now on.
Cedar closets and chests? Walnut timber? Seem pretty valuable to me.
@@susanbaker8130 it's a matter of scale. The lumber mills are looking at that yellow poplar for making plywood and MSB. That's a much bigger market. We're also probably not looking at the same kinds of cedar in Tennessee as in Oregon. It may or may not produce useful lumber for that kind of purpose. But on a homestead, even if it's only good for fence posts and pole barns, that's real value.
Well Peter you said what I was thinking..there are thousands of dollars there is they do the labor
@@peterellis4262 Eastern red cedar is NOT the same cedar we have in the Northwest. Much smaller and quite invasive, much (MUCH) more drought tolerant than our Western Red Cedar. The "lumber" cedar tree of the east is Eastern White Cedar
Congratulations on the baby chicks.
That was smart with Ranger Rick. Now you know what you have. No years of guessing.
Exactly, we needed the knowledge to help us plan
@@TheKraemerLife did he tell you what to plant to up your game? You can grow a lot in 20 years.
What a blessing, to have new life being born on your homestead:))))
I do agree about looking into the destruction left by logging. Have you watched a video from Doug and Stacy published about 3 weeks ago? Showing the destruction left behind after felling. Congratulations on the chicks.
Yes I Did😭
Yes, I have seen hundreds of acres of deviation after logging, it is sad.
@@TheKraemerLife at least you have 10 to 20 years to develop infra transport to that area so nothing else is destroyed in the progress.
You guys are so cute!!!! New babies on the Homestead!!!!! YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So happy for you guys. Please don't think that your property & or the trees are worthless!! They are NOT!!!!! You guys have all the wood you need & then some. For fencing, out buildings & much, much more!!!! Your property is BEAUTIFUL & I am very Jealous!!! LOL!!!! Always hoping for the Best for you & yours!! Many, many Blessings!!! Till next time! :) 😊🐣🐔🐤🐝🦋🐞🌺🌻🏵🌱🌼
Thanks so much!! We do not see them as worthless as we have no plans for commercial harvest. Education was what we were after.
Your baby chicks are a beautiful surprise! Congratulations! New life on your homestead already...
Yes, thank you
Aw, the baby chicks are so cute. The mommy is a good mommy.
Cedar isn’t totally useless, being from the west coast you know that. You can make outdoor furniture, picnic tables, trellis all sorts of stuff with cedar. Watch a Surviving Ringworm video, he makes all kinds of stuff out of cedar.
Yes, we have several projects we plan on using cedar for, great resource for us.
I often enjoy
' surviving ringworm ' fun to watch.
At least you have this vlog to refer to in what is good or not in your tree’s!
Congratulations on the birth of your baby chicks!!
Thank you!!
Lucky did his thing, congratulations on the chicks!
Yes he did. All the babies have feathered feet too
That was a good plan, now you know about your trees. The chicks are lovely. 💕💕🌻🌻
Yes, thank you
We had 31 acres "select cut" in 2013. We had them leave the wild cherries and oaks and maples over 8". They did not want any pines. This year, a stranger would not immediately know we have had the property cut. Yes, they had to have a staging area. We ended up with a 2 acre area with our house, pole barn, chickens and gardens out of their staging area. They did leave a mess of stragglers and branches, but those have been reclaimed by the forest.
Good idea to get an expert in!! OMG baby chicks!! YAY!!
Yes! Thank you!
Congrats on the chicks! Exciting times. Logging on the east coast in the early days was extensive, and had zero thought process for future growth or preservation. This is the primary reason for the establishment of Smokey Mountain National Park, as it was some of the last stands of virgin growth hardwood forest in the Appalachian mountains. Conservationists wanted to preserve what they could and land was set aside and purchased for the park. Just imagine that almost all the land in East Tennessee had been cleared by hand for farms, leaving only small areas of forest left. Most forested areas are probably no more than 100 years old as farms were abandoned or reclaimed by nature. Our neighbors, those whose families settled, cleared, farmed this land were amazing men and women who endured incredible hardships to make this place their home. Yet, many people mock their culture and heritage with no understanding of how they lived. I love that you are showing some of the things that you have encountered as you explore your land so that others can see how tough these people were.
Thanks. It is always interesting to learn about the land and get perspectives about what it used to be like.
Sassafras is good wood for smoking meat! Look up about sassafras tea it's what the first root beer came from!
Also the sugar maple makes syrup
Excited for the sugar maples
Great info from Rick! Learned a bit o stuff I never knew 🙂👍🏻
Yay baby chicks! 🎉
So glad!
when thinking about your trees remember not only your local market but other markets that maybe interested in what you have. A little bit of research may fetch you a pretty decent return.
Love the chicks!
Congrats guys.
Thanks, they are super cute
baby chicks yeahhhhh hugss
Thanks for sharing with us!
Great information from Ranger Rick. Love Cedar.
Cedar is one of my favorite trees.
Logging is a huge skill base like farming it takes years and generations.
Rick had some very interesting information. It's a good thing you recorded his talk, so you are able to refer back to all that information. Baby chicks. YAY!. I have them, too, and they are just over a week old. (However I did not hatch them, but got them from Murray McMurray Hatchery.) Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it, baby chicks are so fun.
Beautiful property! You need a side by side to travel your property
That would make it easier :)
Poplar I had a lot of them on my old farm and great fire wood LOL now got 43 Douglas Fir 6 story high on 1 acre . Can not cut down with out a permit or that there dead ,
Oh no...that is too bad that you can't cut the fir trees down
Hello Marie how are you doing
The cedar there probably looks quite different from cedar here in Oregon. Bug Repellent too. Craft wood 👍 Yes so cute new baby chicks!😊🤗❤👍
Eastern cedar is quite different and not as strong as western white cedar but still very useful
Very interesting I enjoyed it.
You got some useful information to manage your woods. And life continues on the Kraemer Homestead! Very exciting!
Thank you!
Cedar makes for great raised beds if you can get anyone to mill it. I'd love to get my hands on some!
Yes, that is one project we plan to use cedar for :)
🇬🇧 Seeing the chicks with their mum is so cute 🐥🐥🐥. How sad for all the chicks that get hatched and shipped and never know their mother or be mothered. Interesting about the trees!! 🤔
It is cute to watch them follow and learn from her, she has done great with them
It is very exciting to have your first new chicks:))
I was so surprised when Ranger Rick said that the cedar was worthless, except for your own use, given that is very sought out and popular here in Oregon.
Informative Vlog.
You have Western Cedar. Very different from Eastern Cedar, which is what they have.
Yes, we were surprised too until we learned the difference between eastern and western cedar. We are still excited to have so much cedar and will use it for quite a few projects here.
@@TheKraemerLife I used a small cedar tree to make a bottle tree in the garden. Stripped all the tips off and left limbs that could hold the weight of a bottle. Lots of different sizes and colors of bottles. It's a southern garden tradition.
We did this years ago we had 100 acres of woods and we selected how much and size they were allowed to take only on 20 acres and 10 years later we cut again and in another 20 years we'll cut again. And no we didn't clear cut and replanted what we cut. Congrats on the new babies. Be Blessed. 😊🇺🇲
That is a smart way to do it
Interesting.
Congratulations on the baby chicks!!! They are so cute!! That was very wise having an expert evaluate the tree situation. I don't think most people would take the time to do that but it is important to manage the forest well.
Thank you. We have about 50 acres for forest/woods and we want to ensure that we are clearing where it makes sense and also we needed to learn the many types of trees we had as we were unfamiliar with several.
Seater make great fence post too
Cedar
Selective cutting goes a long way..dont just logg away..and the friends i live with on our farm use cedar for all kinds of stuff
Yes, we have lots of plans for all our cedar, I think it is a wonderful wood.
I guess Lucky got lucky lol
He did well!
Very interesting💥
Very!
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Just a thought maybe some of your wood can be sold off for firewood to folks close buy, hum it wood not bring in a lot of cash, but we pay folks for face cords and cords of wood for our wood stove....love in Christ Sherril...
Yes, we will use as much of what we can as possible. Fire wood, building, craft projects, ash and bio char for the garden. Wood is such an amazing resource to have on the homestead.
I love the baby chicks. Very interesting info on the trees.
Baby chicks are so fun, and fluffy
Yeah !! Baby chicks !! The land will produce that long term investment for your later years & you get to harvest the cedar for your own Bougee raised beds & fencing !! Go you !!
Yes, we have cedar to make pretty much anything we want to at the moment which is a good issue to have.
Black walnut and sugar maples = more sustainable food. Gathering and tapping in your future?
Would like to tap the maples for sure
My smile is as big as Nate's. I love that your mama hen has had some babies for you. I am sorry your woods didn't yield what you hoped for but perhaps it will add to your retirement income down the line. Maybe you could make something with the sassafras roots...like root beer or tea. LOL. Have a Blessed day.
Yes, the babies were a pleasant addition to the homestead. We were more interested in learning about the types of trees and how to manage the forest than having a bunch cut down but it did let us know we might need to find a different place to build back there...we shall see what we end up doing with the knowledge.
I would dig up those sassafras roots and boil some tea. Also can you tap those sugar maples for syrup?
We would like to tap a few trees to see what we get
20 years will go by faster than you can imagine
Congratulations on the new babies.
Thank you!
Omg, good news on the trees and great news on the new additions. Good sign for more great things to come. Yeah baby chicks🐣🐤
Yes, baby chicks are so fun!
Sassafrass makes Sassparilla drink in the old days. Also is it used to make rootbeer?
Height is the only correct version of this word today. Heighth is no longer considered a standard spelling of this word, if it ever was. Since height rhymes with flight and might, two other words that end in -ght, you will always know how to spell the ending of the word.
Congrats on the baby chicks and the Poplar timber in your future!
Thanks 👍
Hello Susan how are you doing
Thanks Ranger Rick I learned something new today. Great vlog.
Glad to hear it
At least now you can plan and know what to do for the next 10-20yrs, and what is what with you trees, that's good news. Baby Chicks! Who doesn't love baby chicks. LOL Congrats.
Yes, thank you!
Try the homesteader grapevine you might get folk wanting cedar and other timber, who will come and take it out for you.
I see great value in the cedar and we have plans for some projects to use it.
@@TheKraemerLife I'm stuck in the city but I like to percolate ideas to make income for my dream. Both require strict vetting of people because they will be in my dream. 1. Micro homesteads where people live and learn in a tiny house with its own animals garden and orchard while apprenticing. 2. Fishing pond , bunky cabins and a micro diner/ genral store. I think the client selection is the most important part. I know I'm not very original but I have little tweaks to make things more attractive to clients.
Oh my goodness those baby chips are adorable!
Wait till you see them chasing after mama, so cute.
Mark the trees to be removed.
We have a house on a lake were they have do commercial timber harvesting and it truly like a bomb went off. I hate driving by it. It’s so ugly!!
Yes, that is all too common
Kapper Outdoors wife makes beautiful things out of the Sassafras wood. Isn't it funny how a wood can be so sought after in one part of the country and not valued at all somewhere else? Congrats on the first Homestead Hens. peace y'all
Yes, we are learning that things considered low value are some of what we really looked for and hoped we had because we knew the value of using it to build with.
Congratulations on the babies 🥰
Thank you!! 😊
Hello Margie how are you doing
Wow I didn’t know you could have someone come in to assess your trees like that, very interesting. In Northern Michigan you have to have 10 acres or more before they will select cut just never knew the branches coming out of a tree would be a problem! The less the better😁
Yes, very interesting to learn.
Congratulations on the babies!!!!!
Babies! Congratulations everyone ❤
Thanks :)
How wonderful to have new baby chicks ♥️♥️♥️♥️
It really is!
I'm glad that you were able to have Ranger Rick come in so early in your ownership. Like you, I would have had so many questions. I'm glad you have a video documentation to help you remember various trees and the details. Does your big red oak tree cast acorns? Some of our oaks are "mother" trees and some aren't as much. I wonder if anyone would be interested in the large walnuts? I used to accept a neighbor's leaves and it was full of nuts. Tons of them sprouted which was fun but not something we could grow on our village property. Do folks in TN tap sugar maples? That is a valuable tree in my neck of the woods. You might want to get into the nuts and seed collecting habit. We plant found seeds at the farm sometimes, as well as seedlings people don't want (all by permission of course). We also have planted thousands of low cost tree seedlings from the state. It's a fun hobby that we won't necessarily get much of the benefit from, but maybe the grandkids will?
We did hire a forester to access a portion of our woods for firewood use, that is, maybe Ranger Rick would have used the word "crop"? We supplement our heat with wood (actually it's probably 80% some years) so it was good to have reinforcement about our ideas on gradually improving our timber by culling (but using) the less desirable trees. We cut a LOT of ash, for same "borer" reason.
We were able to harvest timber about 10 years ago from part of our woods. It really helped our income that year. We hired the forester to make the deal and oversee the process, which protected our woods from a big mess and kept "safe" what shouldn't be cut. He put out the job for bid to a couple of companies that he trusted and liked working with. I think one worked with horses. He made a small percentage of the deal, well worth it for us. I noticed that another comment described a neighbor's "war zone" left by a company which is so tragic :( It's always kind of sad to lose mature trees but ours worked out better than I hoped (I was really apprehensive). So, when the time comes, you could keep the idea of hiring someone who is respected by both the timber companies and landowners.
How many little chicks, or was Karen not allowing visitation yet? :)
Yes, it will be great to look back on when we need to. The nut and maple trees interest us but we may not do anything with them this year. I'd like to see if we can tap the maples tree to see what we can get. We are looking to clear about an acre or two of cedar for an orchard. I really want fruit trees...we have considered nuts too but I am not as familiar with them so will have to see what makes sense in this area and compatibility.
Karen has 3 chicks with her and they are integrated into the flock. We have 5 that will be separate for now...we may introduce them here in a few more weeks once they are old enough to be outside full time.
Good girl Karen! I think hen's that brood and raise their own chicks are priceless! If she doesn't have too many, you can buy some day olds and let her raise them.
She only has three, she rejected all that hatched after those first three for some reason.
wow.... That was So Very Interesting about the trees, And congratulations on your baby chicks.... so wonderful I am excited for you.... Thanks for sharing that information with us.... So looking forward to seeing your vision for the property......
It was an interesting walk through the property.
Baby chicks are awesome. I love your excitement. 🙏🏻🙏🏻❤️👍🏻😃
Yes they are!
Congrats on the baby chicks!!
This was an exceptionally interesting show. Thank you.
Our pleasure!
Wow. First babies born on the homestead. Congratulations.
Yes! Thank you!
Probably find there will be a small one man sawmill near you (there are some on You Tube) the ash, walnut and others have great value to them. It will be hard to know the value until you find out what price various logs are actually bringing. You will be able to drag out cut to length logs, with a tractor yourself to mill or sell with a little research on how to tackle the job.
Exactly, we do hope to get a sawmill at some point.
Thanks for the info about the trees. I have 6+ acres and most of it is trees. Oak, black walnut, maple and lots of junk trees. But one man's junk is another man's treasure. Watch those babies, hawks love them. Another great video!
Yes, the junk trees are good building materials for the stuff we need here on the property.
Excellent video! Very informative
Thank you!
Yay You Got Babies! Love it, and Nates excitement is priceless! Glad to have seen this video and watched through it till the end and seen Karen's little ones. The trees are all nice to me, love them. You will have some good ones and other than the cedar which I thought was so very valuable also I mean it sells for much more than pine. ❤
There is a big difference between Eastern Cedar and Western Cedar. What you see in the stores is mainly Western Cedar. It has more heartwood and tighter grain, as it grows slower.
@@lynnbetts4332 Thank you I didn't know that.
Yes! Thank you! It was interesting for us to learn about the eastern cedar and how different it is to what we were used to so we were not surprised when he kept saying it wasn't valuable. For a homesteaders it is but not commercially.
@@TheKraemerLife I see that, but ya know with what is going on in the world with supply chain issues, and lumber I have to wonder if that may change in the future and then you all sure sitting on a gold mine for sure. You are anyway you look at it because you got your dream homestead, the land, the treasures within, your love and your together doing what you both love to do and have dreamed of doing. The blessing of all that in itself the best treasure of all. Love yas❤
Fascinating walk and you guys are so cute with the chicks.
Thanks
so your trees are great and most are keepers awesome hugssssss
Congratulations on your new chick's!
Very interesting
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Very interesting information from Ranger Rick.
Personally I wouldn’t do anything those logging companies make a horrible mess to the land , just go look around and you will get a idea how bad they destroy the landscape. A lot of people are cutting their own trees for their personal use as that is what I do . Love your videos have been following y’all from the start . I live in west Tennessee.
We wanted to know what we had so we can plan how best to use the land, no plans of commercial harvesting.
The forest in our property was destroyed by timber companies. The past owners sold a bunch of trees and were disappointed in what money they ended up with. Trees are dying left and right of where their trucks went through the land. The water runs differently and is killing the roots of the trees. The ground is tore up horribly. Many trees were damged by the trucks. I don't know if we can repair the damage done. It's sad to see the forest dying. I really don't recommend selling your trees. It's not worth the devestation!
That is so sad. We were looking for knowledge of the trees we had not looking to have them cleared out.
Things look like making headway toward new adventures.
Great that you had him come look at your trees . I was thinking get rid of the pines as well, you have some wonderful trees for lumber to use in the future! I remember poplar trees being on my grandparents farm. Enjoyed the knowledge!
Yes, thank you
Black walnuts produce edible nuts & doesn't sassafras have herbal benefits 🤔🤨...those babies are exciting & very cute...I love baby chicks 💕❣️
His perspective was different than homesteaders as he looks in cash profit but still good information about the types of trees we have.
21 days. We just got another Broody hen. So that's how long it takes.
Yes, 21 days is when you should start seeing the eggs show signs of hatching. We had 10 hatch out over a 5 day period
Chicks and trees. A little now and a little later.
I was also a bit surprised at the relatively low value of cedar. However, that means you can use as much of that as you need for projects around the homestead.
The other surprise was the relatively young growth; I mean the land has been there forever.
But as Rick explained, the land was probably clear cut at some point for open land, so it makes sense that whatever is there has had to fight its way back.
Also interesting is the aggressive stance towards the invasive species. Makes sense though.
So, maybe the Poplar stands will become the retirement supplement later.
With the B&B concept, having a few nice trails around the property with 'destinations' could enhance the draw.
Have you thought about having people 'intern' for room and board, etc. (once you have that set up) to help with some of your woodland projects?
Yes, we have considered the room & board to exchange for help with projects and/or also income to assist. We also want to make paths and trails throughout the areas we plan on keeping wooded. It will be a project though so may be an acre at a time.
@@TheKraemerLife Smiles!☺
That is so weird about the Cedar trees. Im from the north west like you but in Canada and Cedar is the most expensive wood to buy and poplar is not used for anything. Do the cedar trees not grow very big there or something? Mama chicken and chicks are so cute to watch, enjoy.
It is a different type of faster growing cedar so the wood is not as strong/desirable. I think it is still great building material and we will use it.
Not only are ailanthus trees invasive, but they are a favorite of spotted lantern flies, a very destructive pest we're fighting in the mid-Atlantic region. I hope we can solve this problem before it spreads down your way!
Good to know, we are going to look into how to remove them effectively so they do not return.
Where I live it used to be big cedar forests, huge trees. Lots of useful information gained from your Forester.
I remember my black hen Fi ('fee') hatching chicks. I had her and the chicks separated from the rooster but the rooster managed to fly up through a gap at the top of the fence and he killed all four chicks. Nate, your excitement is contagious!
That would be sad, Lucky is doing fine with them as so are the other hens. Karen keeps them safe and sound.
ACTUALLY YOU HAVE A TREASURE TROVE WITH THOSE POPULARS MOREL MUSHROOMS GROW AROUND THEM THERE'S A GUY ON UA-cam CALLED LEARN YOUR LAND THAT TELLS YOU ALL THE DIFFERENT MUSHROOMS THAT GROW AROUND THEM🥰🥰🥰
Interesting, I might look into that for resale even thought I cannot stand mushrooms, other people seem to like them :)
Nothing as adorable as new baby chicks! Congrats on your first batch! (Warning: don't name 'em if you're gonna eat 'em)! :o)
LOL, we will still name them :)
Start planting trees that will yield a great $$$ return. Even if you don't harvest them bcos
they're not ready, it will increase your land value, in the event you want to sell or to
will it to your kids. To bad you didn't take some stretchy plastic tape with you & a marker
to write the species of the tree on it, then tie it around the tree.
We need to clear out some areas that we want to replant in and hope to start that this year. We will be putting in an orchard because that is valuable to us as it produces food and income potential in just a few years.
To hear that cedar is worthless sounds sad to me.
Us too, it is a very different cedar than we are used to on the west coast though.
@@TheKraemerLife Just one more proof that all words have their meaning in context.
… and get rid of those invasive …
Not born but it was hatched!
Cedar spiritual uses
by that time Jesus already came...and the earth will be nothing like we know now...all evil will be cut out...