This Changed Our Farmhouse Location, but We Just Can't Say It or Spell It!! Homesteading Ep. 37
Вставка
- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- We want a potager garden, a french kitchen garden, right out our front door of the new farm! Even though neither one of us can say it or spell it LOL.
🌹 Check out Just Dig Farm & their beautiful potager garden! / @justdigitfarms
🌱 Harvest Right Freeze Dryer: affiliates.har...
💻 Our Website: www.thecoghill...
📺 Our Main Channel: / @coghillfarm
😁 Cog Hill Shorts Channel: / @coghillfarmshorts
👕 Our Shirts: teespring.com/...
🌻 Hoss Garden Tools & Seeds: shrsl.com/2rrhc (Promo Code cogsquad21)
🌺 Vertical Planter(GreenStalk) lddy.no/7s1k (Promo Code COGHILLFARM for $10 off)
🐐 Gallagher Fencing & Chargers: qaam1.gallaghe... (Promo Code COGHILLFARM)
**(Please note that some of the links above are affiliate links, & at no additional cost to you, I will earn a commission if you decide to make a purchase after clicking through the link)**
-------
Mailing Address:
Cog Hill Farm
PO Box 2204
Selma, AL 36702
coghillfarms@gmail.com
-----------------
✅Connect With Us:
-Facebook: / coghillfarm
-Twitter: / coghillfarms
-Instagram: / coghillfarm
--------------
🎧Podcast is uploaded WEEKLY:
-Podbean: coghillfarm.po...
Thanks for listening to our latest cogcast podcast, & we will catch you on the next homesteading episode!
Jason, Brooke & Marycarl
Cog Hill Farm
#farmstead #homestead #farm #homesteading #modernhomsteading #gardening #garden #farmlife #homesteadlife #podcast
Brook, I've noticed you smile and laugh quite often since your husband is at home. It was a rare thing before. You actually sparkle when you laugh, it's so nice to see. So very happy to see!
I noticed that too! 😁
I think she was stressed about Jason being stretched too thin.
You can see the love they have, when they look at each other.
They are a loving couple. Really seem to respect each other, communicate well too.🤗💕🙏
The sign of an extremely well read person...is the mispronunciation of words they have read.. but never heard.😉🇿🇦
When we moved to our 5 acre farm 30 years ago, the first thing we did was build a barn for our horses and a coop for our chickens. Then we started on our house. Need to take care of critters first.
There you go Rocky, for sure!!🤗🐾💗🙏
You might consider a wood chipper. It would help the mulch on the garden and get rid a bunch of down trees
Excellent idea! And they won’t have a problem finding trees to mulch.
Tree trimmings, low branches, cutting down trees for firewood & chop up the "tree tops" to make trails in your woods for the toot toot to go thru.
a bunch of the tall grasses could be added to the compost piles.
Still loving these!! Thanks for taking the time out of your day to share your adorable life with us!
This is my first day of retirement and able to enjoy your podcast.
🎈 🎂👏👏👏👏 CONGRATULATIONS 😉👍GOOD JOB
Congratulations to you 🥳
CONGRATULATIONS !
CONGRATULATIONS!!!! God loves you. Jesus loves you and died for you. God bless you. May you enjoy every second of your retirement...
Good for you 👍 hopefully you will enjoy it to the fullest 🌻
Haha Brooke, please don't get upset (I know you won't), but your alpha and Jason from what I can gather follows most times cause he values your opinion..Brooke, you compliment Jason alot on what he does..I think you guys compliment eachother which is a great couple :)
It's wonderful that your plans for the new farm are still fluid. You can change your mind about the position of the new house and garden and not stress about it. So glad you're taking advantage of learning from other homesteaders and gardeners and taking back the best options. Very exciting! Thanks for sharing!
When my father retired about 30 years ago my mother once made the comment “I married your father for better or worse .... but NOT for lunch!” 😂😂😂.
Please keep a 1 or more hour on U Tube ‼️‼️😂👵🏻
Justin Rhodes has a kitchen garden right outside the house and a deep mulch chicken run alongside it. Works perfectly, vegetation and weeds flicked straight to the chickens
Back in the day when I put in a garden, I would get out and do my gardening every evening. The boys would pick the produce every morning. We all loved to eat our produce and looked forward to our supper.
I think a wood chipper would be very beneficial
❤🤍💙✌
They are so horribly LOUD!
Some dormers on the new house can bring more natural lights into the main floor and dress up the look on the front of the new house.
It is hard to disagree when you think so much alike. You two were made for each other.
It is really wonderful to watch.
I so completely agree. It is beautiful.
Speaking of little tractors.....little "O" fits Mary Carl real good.
My thoughts exactly!!! I can see it now...big O mowing with little o mowing right behind on the hill with the sun going down in the background...
My husband and I watch all your podcasts, we so envy your lives, my husband is so jealous of your garden Jason LOL God bless you all 😊
It's called a potager, paw-tah-geay. Great idea. Justin Rhodes' family really does this with their raised beds, and so does the Parisienne Fatmgirl, in a big way. But just call it a kitchen garden if you're more comfortable with that, beccause it's a world all-over thing.
We so enjoyed y’all coming! Even though we desperately needed the rain, I hate we got drenched and cut our visit short.
I would expect that when your daughter finishes college she will become a internationally famous expert on domestic birds.
Why did you say your name was Brooke Smith? Not Coghill?
That is her real name....Smith
I would say MC already is an expert.
Her and Ellory are on the same level. If we didn't tell her to shower she wouldn't remember until she could smell herself lol!
I just enjoy listening to you all and watching the UA-cam videos! Relieves my stress some! 👍. Thank you all and thank you for being yourselves!!! 😁👍
You must check out Linda Vater’s potager garden on UA-cam. I’m so jealous of you both!
Housing Market - my granddaughter just sold her house on Saturday. Never was listed - got 10K over asking and no inspection. You surely can do even better than that with your place.
@Janie Fox if interest rates & lack of affordable housing keeps up (at least here in Ca) its a sellers market for sure! A regular 4bdrm 2ba 2100sq ft, 1970 build, was remodeled, just sold for 1.3mil listed 1.1mil, 5 houses from my home in South San Jose!! My ex lives in our home, told him hurry & retire..want to sell! lol. Hope these guys can sell quick, their homes & farm there is so nice I think. 🤗💕🙏
Our soil is rough….very rough (solid sand). We bought our own chipper, but couldn’t afford more than a standard size one. That doesn’t make much of a dent. Then, as the summer progressed, the power company was trimming brush in our area. Since we’re right off a major Highway, I told them I’d leave a gate open and we’d take whatever wood chips they wanted to dump. They were thrilled because they didn’t need to call people to ask and figure out where to dump, etc…. By the time they finished, we had a 20’ wide, 10-15’ tall, and 400’ long Larger than a football field! 🥳 we’ve been mulching and tilling it in everywhere! The first loads they dropped really were breaking down, so we put those in the high tunnel and pumpkin patch.
A potager....( PO-TA-JAY) 👍 Love y’all !!!!
You two are my favorite country people in the world. I mean that from the bottom of my heart. Just keep being you ❤️❤️⭐️⭐️
Retirement is great. My husband retired a year ago in October after spending 23 years working 14 hour shifts at night. WE just realized the other day that we haven't had an argument since he's retired. LOL. Things are so much more relaxed. Ya'll will love being able to spend that valuable time together.
I looked up the pronunciation of "Portage" on youtube because I was curious. It was pronounced "Por-tidge". Not sure if it's right or not, but it doesn't really matter. We all love ya'll no matter how anyone pronounces anything.
We have ordered a tornado shelter from Lowe’s to have installed on our garage. Hold 4-6 people. We have seen one already installed and is very impressive.
Howdy Jason & Brooke. What a wonderful day!
Congratulations
You will be leaving a beautiful legacy for whoever buys your place. It is added value.
You 2 make me smile
I love the fact that you guys are humble enough to laugh at yourselves and so honest,it’s so refreshing,seems like I know you guys,I just love Marycarl,she’s so precious,I watch all you homesteaders channels and seems to be what y’all have in common keep it up,I never watch regular TV anymore
No worries on pronunciation Brooke, Think of it as a Cross between Pot and Cottage, and add R at the end. Pot-tage-r always reminds me of Porridge! :) and plain old Kitchen Garden is perfectly fine! and the Heck with anyone who doesn't have a little heart for a hard to say word!
I love watching you guys cause, you are the real thing, so down to earth. I just love y'all.
No disagreements that's awesome I think you both "falling in love again" !!
I was reading-up on kitchen gardens in Wikipedia. According to writings from the 16th century (Maison Rustique by Charles Estienne) the typical kitchen garden primarily contained root veggies, leafy greens, herbs, and an assortment of fruits. Hence the name "potager", since a potage is a soup. The word "potager" is properly pronounced po-tah-zjay, but, personally, I love the way Brooke says it! Also, even though the "Acadèmie Francaise" is very snobbish about the French language, I found that most Frenchmen were charmed by a "Southern" French accent in much the same way we Americans are charmed by a Frenchman speaking English.
This is the way all people and couples should live ... Life is too short for us to be angry or mad most of the time. This is the way my husband and I lived. We were married nearly 43 years,
when the Good Lord needed him. All the best to you all. I went to their site as you recommended and they do have a beautiful place and I would like to create a potager garden as she has.
Get you a chipper and you can chip up all down branches you clean up off the farm. Start you a chip pile out in the woods area and you can even use this between the garden rows to control
weeds and mud.
I love watching all of you. I think a POND CAN SAVE YOU MONEY. A lot of farms use a pond to water animals and other needs like your gardens. But then it could get nasty if a lot of ducks are using it unless filled and a good exchange being fed and drained by a stream. Plants would be fine but animals health may be another. Al from Lumnah Acres collects rain water off of New Yolk City chicken coop. There are lots of ways to conserve water to cut down expenses from city water. You all have so much to plan. The price of wood and other materials you could take apart your pens and brooder buildings. What ever you choose you have a lot to do. I hope some companies sponsor tools like a wood chipper.
God Bless you all.
I was told that horse manure brings all kinds of weed seeds into a garden, where as cow manure does not. The reasoning of it was that horses eat both grass and weeds, but cows eat grass and avoid eating weeds. Does this ring a bell with anybody?
Manure(s) really should be composted before using, this would raise the temp far enough to kill seeds, at least in an ideal world.
Cows have 2 stomachs, so the seeds get digested. I made the mistake of getting a few pails of horse manure and my once lovely flower beds became choked with weeds, oats etc. Took years to recover.
@@gwentrebish1479 Cows are ruminants means cud chewing, & have a complex digestive system of 4 "stomachs." The first one ferments the food. They regurgitate it & chew it thoroughly. Grass is their natural diet, grains & corn are hard on their digestive system.
Horses don't have multiple "stomachs" i.e. rumens & don't chew their cuds.
I miss MaryCarl in the Pod Cast. I’m glad you are unloading the videos at 8am. I like to watching videos in the mornings. Your newsletters are great I enjoy them.
I love my news letter ...matter a fact I love everything COGHILL FARM FAMILY.....
A brown recluses has like a two prong bite. The emergency room doctor told us. They also live in amongst Dark Places!
Can't go wrong with your gut instinct. Do what makes you Happy and excited.
P-o-t-a-g-e-r garden.
Po-ta-jay sort of (pronunciation) 😁
You can do it!!! 😊
The traditional kitchen garden, also known as a potager or in Scotland a kailyaird, is a space separate from the rest of the residential garden - the ornamental plants and lawn areas. Wikipedia
I just love you guys and am so happy you got the Cog Hill 40 can't wait to see what you do with it
Trust me I have dug 5 ponds and each one was bigger So go BIG and save time and money ❤️
I picked up a used 1991 Troy Built Chipper Vac with Tecumseh Engine ( not used much) , walk behind with 4 forward speeds reverse neutral and park - just needed a little tlc - sold for 1200 new - 200 bucks at flee market - vacums and cuts leaves into tiny mulch, chips up to 3 inch branches into beautiful sawdust and tiny chips - I love this thing , my Autumn buddy - they're out there
Hi Jason and Brooke you two have not fought with each other but squabbled with yourselves (when you two forgot what you needed for the land) lol 🐷
When you clean your chicken coops, turn it with some soil for a compost pile. You have a great source to amend your soil
With all the trees you have, rake your leaves for mulch.
County extension offices are great resources for gardening and raising livestock information.
😍💙😍💙😍
Oh my days!
Y'all.. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE that first design, for the front of your new home, that Brook showed us in the photo❣️❣️
It is just GORGEOUS 🤩🤩
Great choice y'all!!
And shoot y'all..
With ALL of the privet and what not that the guy with that mulching machine took down.. y'all could take a bunch of that.. Get it shredded finer, starting now, and let sit in a big ole pile towards the back of the property.. And have your OWN mulch, from YOUR property!! 😍😍
Then, with the time that y'all have between now and once you're ready to put the gardens in, you have plenty of time to work and rework the soil❣️❣️❣️
Check with a local tree service and electric company. They often want to get rid of chips. Just be sure you let it sit for a year and add extra nitrogen where you use it.
I know the electric company in some area will bring you a truck load of wood chips but only if you take the whole load.
Is it Fort Royal or Front Royal?
All the mowing you do ... can you get a hay rake for the "O" ? you can gather and make compost for your own. It may take a while but it can be done.
Loved the pod cast as always! Not sure about a child wearing the invisilign braces, but as an adult who had metal braces and now invisilign, it is amazing! My husband and I are both in them at the moment. He suffered a broken jaw about 5 years ago. The surgery to repair got his bite off worse than before. He wore metal braces for over 2 years and they couldn't get his bite straightened out. Our orthodontist retired and his replacement is a wiz at invisilign. He has helped people, by using invisilign, who in the past would have needed surgery to correct their bite. You do have to be diligent with wearing them 22 hours a day, but they are so much better than the metal ones when it comes to comfort. When our kids were in braces the invisilign was just coming out. The kids really do love the colored bands. My daughter would chose colors based on the holidays to be festive. It helped make it fun.
If you want to use the spring for the pond you could always dig a stone brook to the pond where you want it.
The name of the garden is pot-a-jay. I second buying a chipper. It is always useful.
I'm country and looove you guys and how you speak. It sounds perfectly normal to me
My husband used to take 5 gallon buckets to Starbucks and some of the other big coffee shops for their coffee grounds, then collects them every other day and puts the coffee grounds in his huge compost pile. He also had a couple of gentlemen who were lawn maintenance crews bring and dump their leaves to us. I know the leaf situation might be harder to come by but the coffee grounds might be a good addition to your compost pile.
The other house will give you more light into your new house. I like it better. You will love the garden at the front of your house. I love it.
Use landscape cloth under your rocks to prevent them from settling. That's a good deterrent from the chickens scratching in the regular mulch! What is the next fruit or veggie you will freeze dry?? Have you seen the "safe room" that Walker Farm Family has in their house?? I have seen pictures where people's whole neighborhoods were totally destroyed and the only thing standing unharmed was an above ground steel safe room, and the people walked out unhurt!!! The Walkers have a video about theirs! It is incorporated into their son's closet! Take a look, it is amazing! Good luck with your decision! I think you should put your root cellar into the ground, partial in ground and covered with the dirt you excavated from the hole! God Bless!
You could make pig fence tunnels for the animals to avoid the lumber prices at this moment.
I used to live just north of Ozark. I used to have a large garden, and I had a friend that had composted chicken litter, from the 4 chicken houses he had. I really had a wonderful garden. Three weeks before planting, I would cover my garden in chicken litter, till it in and water it. daily for a week then let it settle.
Just an idea for y'all to think about. If you are close enough to a city that picks up leaves and grass clippings off the street, you could ask about getting a load from their dump site. Best compost and usually free or very little!
I'd want the garden in the back so that I could sit out there and smell the herbs
I love your simple design house! With your front porch being flat on the ground, I think Peaches will try to come in the house since she does not have to climb stairs!!! She definitely will be sleeping on the porch! I think you should definitely get a good size chipper and chip up all your limbs, branches and pine straw that you have on the property! It will definitely pay for itself in a short time! "Keep on Truckin'!" everything is on track! God Bless!
You guys are just way to cute together! Love your sweet family.
We re-did our deck with the plastic boards that are made from recycled grocery bags. 5 + years and they still look like they did in year one. Look like real wood too.
Your "potager" garden... I looked it up as I hadn't heard of one before and the "a" is mostly silent with the first three letters said, a brief drag and ger said last but not broken, all that said is a not so much garden but a extension of the main garden so a handy onion or some chives.,.. even some cherry tomatoes and what not, is ready to serve the daily meals. I have ruined a many a meal over taking a salt and pepper shaker out to any fresh garden spot and filling up on fresh greens. As far as getting a worm or something out of a radish... just extra protein. You have found a stairway to heaven is just outside the kitchen door and seeing that whole bunch of critters a wait anxiously to the animal crackers and feed. What a deal. I know I could live like that and feel good for doing it as well.
look at the Cozy cabins. great videos
I have been bitten by brown recluse spiders three times in my adult life. The wounds are painful and each time I was bitten, my reactions got worse. The last time, I had vomiting, a blinding headache, fever, and aches all over. I am not afraid of them, but I hope to never get bitten again.
Potager- pōw tuh jā= French informal garden and pronunciation.
Check at feed & Seed stores, landscaping or rock businesses, nurseries may all carry bulk mulch, compost, peat moss, manure.
Awe SimSim! Thanks for the info on him. I always look for him and don't see him. Now I know why! Moving the coops and house - what are people thinking! It's fun to create new shelters! Love the weekly updates(though I search every day for updates!) Brooke always says, "Whatever works for you." Let MaryCarl know we miss her, but she needs rest!
I like the safe room cause you can get to it easer at night
I love a potager (Poe-ta-Zhea). I’m putting mine in the back yard. I love the mix of fruit trees, flowers, landscape plants, herbs, and vegetables all mixed together. I can’t wait to see the video.
You might not have had farm experience , but you are so good with all your animals. I love your videos 👍👍
It's FRONT ROYAL, VIRGINIA!! Very beautiful place..
Build your storm shelter so you can use it as vegetable and canned goods storage also.
I just love your kitchen 😍 😋 garden. You two are the best, country folk are the sweetest ❤ people.
Hello from Converse, Tx. I must say...I cannot imagine having such a bit of heaven such as yours and then leaving it. My mind is blown completely, by all the time and years you spent making it a perfect wonderland. Every minute..precious..little thing you've added is a treasure. How far away is the new farm?
Hi Cog Hill Family !
Super excited to hear that you are both putting in a compost system. Would be awesome to watch the process... wink wink wink
I hope I can come to meet you, that's only 6 hours from me. My brother lived in Winchester Va and we went there till he moved back to Ct. My coworker in CT as a bus driver lived in Gront Royal when she retired. It's a beautiful area. Take in the Skyline drive while you ate 5hete. My late wife and I went there on our honeymoon in 1979. The views are AMAZING, STUPENDOUS AND STELLAR, words cannot describe its BEAUTY !! LOVE both of your channels and your knowledge.
I loved that iron gate at your friend's garden. Check flea markets and look for different fancy iron gates to put around your garden. I think that would be beautiful.
A chipper would be perfect for your property and for your purposes. You could make your own mulch with your own timber. Win-Win! 😊
I just Love You Guys! God Bless and have a Wonderful Evening!! ⚘❤😊
I know you say simple house, nothing fancy... but there are things to consider in the design process that may make your life much more comfortable later on. For example, a larger laundry room that will accommodate two washers. I couldn't live without my second washer anymore. There is always pet stuff, rugs, work clothes you just don't want to wash in the same washer with your clothes.
Go to a lumber yard, and get some sawdust that's several years old , til this in first, tarp it for about a week to cure it. This will get rid of any critters that would be there. Cure each coating as you add them. Composting , dirt or whatever. You will see the difference after each cureing, and turning of the soil. Hope yal all the best !!!
POE TA J
I love how you guys say it; so it doesn’t matter!! Tracy had to say it like 5 times for me to get it and I still say it wrong!!
My daughter in law is terrified of fish and she has no idea why. We have been working on trying not to get her too afraid and it's working but I still can't have my fish tank up yet. You could make a underground shelter and use it as a root shelter also. Have to have some cool place to put potatoes, squash, carrots etc that you don't dry. I would think an old shipping container would work great. No water should get in
Jason, for your Potager garden look into Hugelkultur. I did raised beds here and we have a tiny garden. We had to remove two big bushes, I used these to help fill the raised beds and did the layers like they do in Hugelkultur. I think they also call it Lasagna layering. So far they are doing great. Got my prayer flags up too. :)xxx
Possibly look into a ram pump from the spring to the ravine. And might need to add bentonite clay to hold the water?
Porch swings on that porch for sure
Po-ta-ger. :-)
Other issues with an underground storm shelter goes back to MaryCarl's phobia of spiders. Spiders LOVE these spaces.
Do you have a creek on the Cog 40? The geese seem to love the one you have now.
Cog Hill fam, you can download a pronunciation app that will help. I have to use one at 72 years young because simple words are stomping me. Happy days.
Sounds like the gardens of WWll where the gardens were in the yard right out the door.
You should do a hybrid porch design. Gable in the center and shed roof on the sides.
Brown Recluse are not usually seen. I got bit on the ankle at 15. Caught the infection somewhat early so mine healed in about 4 months. Just check yourself every time you go inside.
under ground will always be the best choice is because theirs no wind barrier and under ground it only gets a certin temp its like that spring you have on your property is cloder than your tap water
Love you Jason I hope only the best for you ❤ stay safe get plenty of rest ❤
God bless you both ❤ 🙏 🙌