Rent MY HOMESTEAD in East Tennessee

Ah, a coffee time out here at the picnic table, got some Amish cookies with me.

I'm a miner about a mile from here, so blooms are coming out.

We got the plums hitting off early and the pink ones behind are the peach trees.

Got a couple hundred fruit trees on the property here.

Where's it I'm telling you this?

My life has just changed, so this homestead is up for rent on a year lease.

That comes complete turnkey, move in ready, furnished, and you're dropping in on a garden set or already planted out to come up.

It's getting warmer, it's already starting on the emergence.

All the fruit, got the chickens, got ducks, fenced in two and a half acres, you know, keeps the critters out at night.

It is pretty wild out here.

We're at the very last telephone pole on the whole line and the very last water main out here as well.

So behind me, thousands of acres of forest, and you hear coyotes sometimes, but I am going to put this place up for,

like I say, a one year lease.

I'm going to take you for a quick walk through on it and show you what we got going on here.

I know a lot of you have asked, you know, what does your place look like?

So here you go.

And again, our agent, I'll put the contact below, Bert Lee, and you can contact him.

One thing, no cigarette smokers, we don't want any smokers.

There's a fire risk anyway.

We're already in a cabin.

No candles, that sort of thing.

But you can talk to Bert.

You're going to have to do a full background check and the deposits as well.

And if this place, you think it's a fit for you in this certain time that's going on right now.

I can say, made it just turnkey ready to drop in with the fully furnished, a little bit of rain coming down here.

It might be a rainbow, I guess.

But it's a beautiful time of the year that the seasons are starting to change right now.

And a lot of things are coming back to life again.

So let's take a walk around through the property in the house.

And again, I'll leave up the information, the email contact as well as a telephone number for Bert Lee, our agent.

And he's tend to see here.

So let me walk you through a wide out view here.

Been working on the orchard for about five years now, the valley that I live in here.

Talked away, but there's still some roads that's going down beyond the trees over there, a small country road.

Front and deck, multiple places to sit.

They just watch well in bird life, cloud life, storm life, move by from west to east, got to swing down at the end here.

If you're into that with rocking chairs as well, homestead has some ducks on it as well right now.

And also chickens got a few different varieties there.

We get about a dozen eggs per day right now.

These chickens are more wild style, they're not in the enclosure in a run.

We let them wild forage and roost up in the trees.

We did build a place out of four of them, they go in and nest in the box in different locations.

What they like to live in the trees, rooster usually stays undercover with a few others, but they're just up in the trees quite a bit.

They know how to evade wild predators.

That's the whole thing is they don't get caught in a run and get decimated by a raccoon possum or something.

They just get away from them.

Plus the ability for them to seek out their own protein sources and help us with pest control around the orchard, that's a win-win.

Now when I first dug those holes with the auger out there, before I even planted anything, what it looks like off the deck,

still exactly the same as like a timeless spot.

Year or so into the orchard grow and leave start to change color, get a technicolor view around you as the mountains change.

And we got some fill in finally and I've really been doing a lot of pruning on those over the last year or so to get maximum fruit production out of it.

And now we're really starting to crank on the fruit with the pears, the peaches, apples, lots of elderberries and cherries coming on a little bit.

I just walk out there pick a few fresh fruits and trade it a few people to just stop by to trade what they also have.

Roots a little bit of a strange one out here, that's why I was growing it as a higher value.

Not so many people doing it, so fruit trades pretty well.

Picking table, we removed half of a row of trees with that picnic table back in there.

So when the leaves all grow in, you're tucked in, you got a little cave back there.

A couple rows over area for a small campfire.

For me, I only drink white wine pretty much.

And if you start the campfire looking directly west, sunsets over our neighbor's house going down in that small V at the end of the valley down there.

And it's pretty wide open in the field, a lot of gusty winds and fun storms coming through just wide open vistas.

If you're into that wild weather and just watching sunsets, this is the place for you as well.

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We do grow and produce obviously here.

So almost everything is local from what you're seeing here.

From the cucumbers we grew the tomatoes we did, the peppers ourselves we grew the eggs.

Obviously from our chickens lettuce, that thing grapes are from our vines.

Strawberries are from a friend who we trade with occasionally for different fruits.

The yogurts are from the menonites just down the street, the Amos community as well as the cheese is that they're putting together.

They do a fair few different types of cheese.

Fresh veg here, all out of the garden.

And you know, it's seasonal, more of the eating than it is.

You can buy anything at any time.

And we did a whole heap of different types of cherry tomatoes one year.

I think there are 10 plus varieties in there.

The Roma's as well.

Different types of lettuce, sweet peppers, snack peppers, they sort of thing.

Easy to grow and this is the gardens that we already have gotten ready to replant.

We'd like to do companion planting, especially with the marigolds to drive off past.

Just like using the chickens out near the orchard.

You can see the carpenter bee box up there.

We do got carpenter bees through the beginning of the season.

Basil's off to the rye, but we planted a bunch of just herbs in this side of the garden.

We have another side that we're doing veg with.

We did try this red okra, grew well and getting in there.

You can see it's a little bit about head high.

But those are continuous producers.

There's just so many possibilities of growing things out here.

And the grapevine's just starting to come on strong now.

So it's been about 30 years going on the fourth year that we've had those.

So every vines now producing at least at this level and we got different types of grapes

from the whites to the concord purples to these Mars here.

So heaps of possibilities for doing veg production and that sort of thing.

As I said, it's working homestead and it's just drop in turnkey ready.

You already have things available for you.

You don't have to wait multiple years before things start producing.

Already, let's kind of the key and the luxury of it all as well.

So interior log home here, family room and we've got a 78 inch TV because I do editing on that.

And you can watch movies as well, trying to make it livable and when people come by to visit

different places for them to stay, take the kitchen because we're spending a lot of time there.

You know, we're growing our own food.

So you spend more and more time in the kitchen, preparing things as you get them out of the plants,

the field or the front or whatever it is.

We do have a little coffee bar over on the right below the clock there.

You can stock your own bar if you want to.

High top chairs on the table and the kitchen.

There are some appliances in there, but we took them out.

Just try to clean things off and rework the countertop there.

But the island, you know, there's all kind of veg everywhere you look as well.

The potatoes came from the men and nights though we did not grow those.

But you've got a couple of different sitting areas so people can be over in the sofa.

You've got a couple people here, you can have some coffee and chat and somebody on the table.

So there's a different areas where you can, you know, find your groove if you have a few people over.

And the master bedroom and it looks back out into the field there.

Simple but comfortable.

Try to make it, you know, nice ceiling fans to move some air around with the open windows,

getting the fresh breezes in also at sunset.

The direction from it and moon set as well in the evenings on a full moon.

If it's clear skies, you get the same.

It kind of really comes in the window.

Keep you awake if you don't close curtains on those full moon nights.

But if you got kids, we got the twin beds in here.

Looks right out onto the front porch.

And again, just trying to keep it comfortable.

Everything's fully furnished, turn cute when you come in.

You got linens there, you got towels, you got a fully stocked kitchen like

oodles of dishes and pots, pans, these sort of things to use.

And then we plan to turn this right here around presently recording into a queen bedroom.

So same day at queen beds, looking out onto the front and out into the front field.

You can watch sunrise in through the windows.

Comfortable and, you know, families plenty of space for that.

For you and yourselves coming in here to enjoy what this place has to offer.

There's many a possibility.

If you're looking for some tranquility and, you know, getting back to that natural vibe

and escaping out of the madness, this is the place for you.

I think again, my life has just changed drastically and we are in a completely different set

of motion at the moment versus staying here.

So I know somebody can appreciate it and use it at this pivotal time right now when there's

a lot of chaos in the world, great place, turnkey, drop in, everything works.

And you're ready to start producing outside the system of the centralized supply chains

that we're used to relying on.

You're kind of off that instantly coming out here.

And I'll even leave you the Bushnell binoculars so you can check out the birds, the wildlife

and the stars.

That's why this place is called star meadow.

Some of the most incredible star viewing planetary ecliptic views that you'll find still left

without all the light pollution and the eagles and hawks coming through.

I wouldn't say on a daily, but definitely several times a week is arriving at thermals

on the hills that are building behind the meadow here.

So I'll leave all the description of what we have at this property below as well as

Burt Lee's contact telephone number.

Other open 9 a.m. to 2 on Saturday, they don't generally take calls outside that.

There is an email I'll give you as well.

You can contact.

But Monday to Friday, regular business hours in Burt can give you a better description.

Cally's also working over there.

And yeah, they're helping us get somebody in here.

And thanks for your attention and your time.

Hope you enjoyed even what I'm doing out here on the property and what I've done from

start to finish.

You know, what's going to do a video series on that?

But it's like, you know, listen to Danny down at Deep Style Homestead is like, yes, set

enough the cameras and try to get every shot and then come in and he's like, ah, sometimes

just rush through the work and I forgot to turn on the camera.

Well, it's like that many a time, especially when you're just not doing things, you're like,

ah, I forgot to bring the camera out there and you almost need to have somebody else filming

while you're doing all these things.

But that's not practical.

That's not the real world.

I just get the work done and from this point forward, everything we put out here is

going to produce more and more and especially this year, I'm cranking it with the different

types of homoses like wood hummus and these sort of leaf hummus that we've broken down

over the winter as well as some natural fertilizers, some algae and these sort of things to try

to really crank it, fish emulsion and then hitting everything with copper sulfate.

So, ah, you know, we don't get any fungus out on the trees.

So it's going to be a bumper year this year.

So again, I thank you so much for taking the tour of the property with me.

I'll see you next time.

Bye for now.

Hey, if you want to see more images around the farm through different seasons, check out

the Facebook fan page, Star Meadow Cabin.

That links in the description box below along with the information to contact Bert Lee

to a range of showing of the homestead.