Kids laughing and playing in the background is not noise to us, but an indication that the children's joy filled needs are being met. Laughter is infectious and gets us chuckling along...
Debt free is so important. Everything keep raising except paychecks. I got to find a way to help bring in money but I can' t work because of health issues. Got to get out of this city. God's blessing to you and yours
Maybe start with an RV. I bought mine off of Facebook Marketplace for $2800 (Florida). It has 2 bedrms. I purchased 5 acres of land and am in the process of clearing it soon. Step by step. Slow and steady is key. You go this!
Mike you must be doin something right because your wife is smiling and beautifying herself and she smiles every time she looks at you man!! you guys are really representing what real couples strive for! common interest an goals- love you guys!! Good on you 5!!
Mike Love that you and your wife are doing these posts together, your wife is awesome and humble just like you. You are very inspirational. Keep it up.
I can only imagine the hard work, frustrations and anxiety of living the lives you do, but definitely, from the smiles on your faces and those of your children, it is the right life for you all and I can only watch, appreciate, laugh and enjoy your vlogs, wishing I was 40 years younger!
Hey, its so great to see young families living this way and farming. Beautiful flowers and turning it into a business. So wonderful, they didn't quit but pressed on to another ideal. God bless them. Thank you for sharing. I love the hard siding too.
I really enjoyed seeing their property and yurt. I think the wood siding looks beautiful and would look great on yours too. I also love flowers, everything was so pretty. I'm looking forward to the coming year and what all you guys have in store for your homestead 😊❤
This is great! Everything is possible. I agree with finding a need and filling it. They're doing it with flowers!! Thank you Lacie and Mike for sharing and featuring them on your channel!
My sister called me one day and told me that she put baking soda around her plants and home and it killed off all the weeds for up to 6 months. I have not tried it as yet. But I did get a large bag at Sam's club. So I am going to try it around my fence in the spring after the threat of frost is gone. Take care and God bless you and yours.I really like the comment by the one below me. It just goes to show the love and light of God in your marriage. Keep up your faith in God. That love also shines through your children.
Thank you for another great inspirational and educational video. All those blooming flowers made that homestead look like an enchanted forest . The children play area was the icing on the cake!
I enjoy all of your videos, I especially enjoy how much you share with us other peoples channels and journeys, you are so beautiful a family. God bless you guys. Also, looking forward to your Yurt renovation.
When we started out we looked at buying a yurt but the ones we priced were way out of our range. We tried instead to build a round house with straw bale walls and cob thermal mass. Ran out of time before bad weather set in that winter and ended up living in a friend’s 5th wheel instead for a while. In the end, we built a pole barn and later renovated it into our home. Love thinking (& living) outside the box! So cool you call a yurt home!!
hi guys. i grew up in whittier, calif. we had a small 2 bedroom home. parents in one and 3 kids in the other. we did have some land. we raised goats, rabbits, and chickens and pets. so my dad built us a room the size of an average bedroom with windows, door etc. he put storage benches in it, a blackboard and bins for our toys. once built we were then no longer allowed to play inside the outside. i lived in what we called our 'play house.' i would get my lunch and eat out there. and sometimes even dinner. i loved it. even during the winters and cold i was out there. it is the fondest memory i have growing up. my dad built us an outdoor fountain made our of boulders like you used to find in mt. parks. ah such memories...
She really does have a great Instagram! So cool you guys got to take us on a trip over there. Yheir place is really cool and awesome to see them adapt on their farm plans to keep successful.
Really enjoyed this tour. Happy families enjoying LIFE! That's what it's all about :) Edit to say, Lacie is glowing and pretty as always. There is just a beam of goodness that comes off her sweet face!
Baker creek heirloom seeds are great seeds too. I also turned a guy on to your channel from Kentucky. Shawnee workshop. Check him out. I think you would all enjoy. I turned him onto your channel He loves it
That's neat that you were inspired by Beverly and Shane to put the windows and siding in you yurt! It's great when you can get good ideas from other people doing similar things! I sure like all the animals you guys have. And all the gardening you do. You guys have me great ideas to try at my little hobby farm. Thanks!
When looking at rural land, how do you know which zoning restrictions will let you do stuff like yurts and tiny houses, or other cheap housing alternatives? How do you know which areas you can safely do this? Or are people just going so far out there, that nobody notices? When looking at plots of land there's this mess of zoning crap that's hard to navigate. People talk about finding land cheap but not about this part. Hope someone can comment on this.
I love flowers as well. I grow some flowers but usually give them away for people using the flowers for funerals. I grow vegetables too, but just for home consumption. I am so glad to see like minded people. God bless America.
Beautiful young family enjoying life and understanding when challenges are infront of you... one must change gears to reach that next level. Continue on, everything awaits you and your dreams.
I know little to nothing about farming, but I have been doing my research and have tried growing different things in a small garden in my backyard. I admire these people who have the spirit and fortitude to live off grid, in yurts or tiny homes, with their own water systems and power and things. This takes hard work but if I could find myself a woman with the same drive and spirit.., I be gone out to become a home stead-er. I have a plan in progress so that I may reach this goal before my time here is up. Takes a lot of hard work and love. I wish all of you the Best.
Maybe placing lot of cardboard in the area they plant n composting on top n fabric n/orheavy mulch on the paths...when the seedlings r big enough they will have strength their roots to go where the grass n weed roots were 😊...it is awesome that way n way easier
I just realized you guys are super close to me. I have wanted to get some property in WNC & set up a yurt for years!! I have not seen yurts around our area, how does it stand up to winds, hail, our tornadoes & hurricane winds coming inland?
That's beautiful, but I just hope you are all safe from floods. I can see how close you are to the James. I am hoping you are above the flood line. I'm thinking about building my home/yurt, and growing my own food someday.
Laci, not what you're doing but let us ladies know you are looking great! Mike is a lucky guy. I continue to enjoy you guys and your babies inn your life journey! Looking forward to more.
so far i havent seen any one of the yurts you guys have shown that have GUTTER systems installed---out here where all my water comes from catchment system, gutters are critical---but the upkeep, lemme tell ya... i 100 % recommend water catchment//UV filtration....cant wait for some replies especially about the transition to hard siding---my liner seems to have developed a sloshing sound i havent been able to drain or figure out the exact location of the leak inside the walls---but insde the yurt is dry thank da lorrrrd
OK so this is what I do. I tell people how to run their businesses LOL. What a great capture recognizing that this is the direction you needed to go. The addition of doing the weddings is amazing. The next thing that I would suggesst that you gravitate to is photography. Pictures of your flowers, pictures of people in your garden with your flowers, and then pictures of people at the weddings with your flowers. Put the pictures of them at their wedding and your flowers up on your Instagram and Facebook. You could just give them the pictures? Or sell little photo packets that they can purchase from you at a reasonable price. Then of course in the future edge out the photographers and do that also!!!!!!
Oh and then just an afterthought. You could also take the older flowers on the farm. Ones that wouldn’t be perfect enough for. You could shred them up. Then turn them into paper products for invitations and events?
I love All Beverly flowers 💐 beautiful beautiful but greens are very important as not All flowers are eatable 🤩🙏🥰Vegetable are a must ❤️Great video Stacy is Great 👍 with the Camera 📸 goats will take care of the weeds for them 😍I think 🤔 their children are sweet too yes love the wood siding make a more efficient home love their upstairs ❤️
I want to know what kind of vegetable are good for arthritis I have it really bad I’ve come off pain killers and but don’t want to go back to them I hate pills please if you and Lacey can help me I would be greatly appreciated
Shalom, Does Ur Area in Virginia get impacted by Cyclonic Activity???....if so, how does d Yurt withstand d raging winds??...Am from Dominica which gets impacted by destructive Hurricanes; My interest in Yurt Living is growing!!!..
I hope they try more mulching for weed control. It will last longer, won't be in the way when it ( the weed cloths) breaks down/trying to replace it, work in the area, and will fee soil life ( more than plastic/fabric mulches, if not quite as good as living plants ). I'm guessing that they know about mulches, and have their reasons, but too often I think people have had mixed experiences with them, and so think they don't work very well, when, IMO as I become more & more experienced w em, they are very effective. U just need to have it deep enough the 1st round or 2, then don't let it go too long ( as weeds start coming up more again) b4 reapplying, tho that may only need to be once a yr. . May need to also use pigs ( or tarps/black plastic maybe.. or other animals ) in the area 1st to root out weed roots/knock everything down then cover quickly b4 they gets their energetic start going strong. Wood chips (after that disturbance & manure), or hay, is what i'd do. Just my 2 cents, I have seen lansdcape fabric not last like it was supposed to, even higher quality ones, & the disappointment, extra work & frustration that brings, and just hate to see it covering up swaths of soil :( . BUT way to go, very, very busy little family, doing great ! Thanks Mike & Lacie & kids !
So what’s up with that shed? Is that just a wood shed insulated with an air conditioning system?. And did they ever say what the coolest temperature they could get it down to?
Kids laughing and playing in the background is not noise to us, but an indication that the children's joy filled needs are being met. Laughter is infectious and gets us chuckling along...
Debt free is so important. Everything keep raising except paychecks. I got to find a way to help bring in money but I can' t work because of health issues. Got to get out of this city. God's blessing to you and yours
Maybe start with an RV. I bought mine off of Facebook Marketplace for $2800 (Florida). It has 2 bedrms. I purchased 5 acres of land and am in the process of clearing it soon. Step by step. Slow and steady is key. You go this!
Mike you must be doin something right because your wife is smiling and beautifying herself and she smiles every time she looks at you man!! you guys are really representing what real couples strive for! common interest an goals- love you guys!! Good on you 5!!
Mike Love that you and your wife are doing these posts together, your wife is awesome and humble just like you. You are very inspirational. Keep it up.
Mike your wife's smile is awesome
Thank you Amanda!~ Lacie
Amanda Chrome - I 2nd that. I keep telling her that too. When she smiles, it's contagious haha.
@@annwithaplan9766 😁😄
It really is! Makes me smile too :)
Are you single
Congrats on 40,000 . One of my favorite homesteaders.
Thank you Milly!!
I can only imagine the hard work, frustrations and anxiety of living the lives you do, but definitely, from the smiles on your faces and those of your children, it is the right life for you all and I can only watch, appreciate, laugh and enjoy your vlogs, wishing I was 40 years younger!
Hey, its so great to see young families living this way and farming. Beautiful flowers and turning it into a business. So wonderful, they didn't quit but pressed on to another ideal. God bless them. Thank you for sharing. I love the hard siding too.
We had a great time with them!
I really enjoyed seeing their property and yurt. I think the wood siding looks beautiful and would look great on yours too. I also love flowers, everything was so pretty. I'm looking forward to the coming year and what all you guys have in store for your homestead 😊❤
WONDERFULL FAMILY,VERY HARD WORKING,OWE NO MAN NOTTHING BUT LOVE.
This is great! Everything is possible. I agree with finding a need and filling it. They're doing it with flowers!! Thank you Lacie and Mike for sharing and featuring them on your channel!
Living peaceful and debt free, in nature can't beat it! Nice garden. Very happy for you guys in Virginia!
My sister called me one day and told me that she put baking soda around her plants and home and it killed off all the weeds for up to 6 months. I have not tried it as yet. But I did get a large bag at Sam's club. So I am going to try it around my fence in the spring after the threat of frost is gone. Take care and God bless you and yours.I really like the comment by the one below me. It just goes to show the love and light of God in your marriage. Keep up your faith in God. That love also shines through your children.
Beautiful flowers and arrangements!
Visits like this emphasizes that you are not the only one in the battle.
Always good to know we aren't alone.
Hi lovely folks. Nice visit with your friends in Va. They have a cool farm/ homestead/Yurt home folks. Thanks for sharing.💓🦃🍂🍂🌾🏵️💖
A wonderful video. The warmth and humanity come through so strongly.
Enjoyed the tour of another yurt. Will look forward to your remodel.
Hope you guys are having a good trip!!
Beautiful farm and family! And those SUNFLOWERS!
Thanks for taking us along for the ride =)
Noriced immediately that these fine people carry their kids about...don't see much of that anymore. Fine presentation. Thanks for sharing!
They are great people!
Thank you for another great inspirational and educational video. All those blooming flowers made that homestead look like an enchanted forest . The children play area was the icing on the cake!
I enjoy all of your videos, I especially enjoy how much you share with us other peoples channels and journeys, you are so beautiful a family. God bless you guys.
Also, looking forward to your Yurt renovation.
Thank you Roger!
When we started out we looked at buying a yurt but the ones we priced were way out of our range. We tried instead to build a round house with straw bale walls and cob thermal mass. Ran out of time before bad weather set in that winter and ended up living in a friend’s 5th wheel instead for a while. In the end, we built a pole barn and later renovated it into our home. Love thinking (& living) outside the box! So cool you call a yurt home!!
I watched when you visited Rosa. Watching this episode, I now understand what you meant by a patio before you put up yurt. Enjoying your family.
Great job y’all thanks for sharing from Louisiana
hi guys. i grew up in whittier, calif. we had a small 2 bedroom home. parents in one and 3 kids in the other. we did have some land. we raised goats, rabbits, and chickens and pets. so my dad built us a room the size of an average bedroom with windows, door etc. he put storage benches in it, a blackboard and bins for our toys. once built we were then no longer allowed to play inside the outside. i lived in what we called our 'play house.' i would get my lunch and eat out there. and sometimes even dinner. i loved it. even during the winters and cold i was out there. it is the fondest memory i have growing up. my dad built us an outdoor fountain made our of boulders like you used to find in mt. parks. ah such memories...
My 97 year old grandmother lives in a yurt
Lovely family and what a great set up. Thank you so much for sharing and special thanks to Shane and Beverly for letting you do it. Grown on!
Loved this video so much, thanks Mike & Lacey 😀❤️
So glad you liked it!
Love the deck on their yurt, really nice.
This is good and so are you. I am getting so motivated by both of you and I’m writing down all of my ideas. God bless you all.
Cool Yurt and nice family. Thanks for taking us on your visit.
They have a great place!
Beautiful video. really enjoyed. It is a great pleasure to see that this city belongs to my favorite country, the USA
I love the joy you bring to sharing these amazing stories. Makes me smile!
That was very interesting. I love seeing different ideas on homesteading. God Bless! Carmen
Thanks for watching!
Love seeing other farms. I love yurts,wouldn't mind living in one.
Thank you so much for the interesting and helpful information. Another cool yurt family!
What a cool farm! I love their entrepreneurial spirit!
It really is a nice place!
Hi guys! Great video. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you!
Truly inspirational, thank you so much for sharing. I can't wait to see the renovations to come on your farm. 🙏💪👍
Great,great,great.keep up the farm and your life. Good going.
She really does have a great Instagram! So cool you guys got to take us on a trip over there. Yheir place is really cool and awesome to see them adapt on their farm plans to keep successful.
Really enjoyed this tour. Happy families enjoying LIFE! That's what it's all about :)
Edit to say, Lacie is glowing and pretty as always. There is just a beam of goodness that comes off her sweet face!
Baker creek heirloom seeds are great seeds too. I also turned a guy on to your channel from Kentucky. Shawnee workshop. Check him out. I think you would all enjoy. I turned him onto your channel
He loves it
That's neat that you were inspired by Beverly and Shane to put the windows and siding in you yurt! It's great when you can get good ideas from other people doing similar things! I sure like all the animals you guys have. And all the gardening you do. You guys have me great ideas to try at my little hobby farm. Thanks!
When looking at rural land, how do you know which zoning restrictions will let you do stuff like yurts and tiny houses, or other cheap housing alternatives?
How do you know which areas you can safely do this?
Or are people just going so far out there, that nobody notices?
When looking at plots of land there's this mess of zoning crap that's hard to navigate. People talk about finding land cheap but not about this part.
Hope someone can comment on this.
I love flowers as well. I grow some flowers but usually give them away for people using the flowers for funerals. I grow vegetables too, but just for home consumption.
I am so glad to see like minded people.
God bless America.
Beautiful young family enjoying life and understanding when challenges are infront of you... one must change gears to reach that next level. Continue on, everything awaits you and your dreams.
The first yurt you showed has to be my favorite
Good evening
Love your Chanel guys. Continue inspiring people to homestead.
That was cool ♥️thank you both.
Thanks for these interviews! Great work.
That was really cool, I live in Virginia also🎈
I know little to nothing about farming, but I have been doing my research and have tried growing different things in a small garden in my backyard. I admire these people who have the spirit and fortitude to live off grid, in yurts or tiny homes, with their own water systems and power and things. This takes hard work but if I could find myself a woman with the same drive and spirit.., I be gone out to become a home stead-er. I have a plan in progress so that I may reach this goal before my time here is up. Takes a lot of hard work and love. I wish all of you the Best.
Love yurts, been thinking about one i have a yurt tent, and i like the wood siding. I use all my weeds for meds and food, most weeds are good for us
Thank you!! Its a process for sure..Even keeping the dream alive inside you!!! XO
Thanks for sharing this channel
They are great!
Maybe placing lot of cardboard in the area they plant n composting on top n fabric n/orheavy mulch on the paths...when the seedlings r big enough they will have strength their roots to go where the grass n weed roots were 😊...it is awesome that way n way easier
MRS. Fit Farmer.is so pretty, one lucky man.
Nice to other homesteads. Hope you get a chance to visit some others soon.
Thank you for the video
You guys are great!
A wonderful episode! 👍🏾👍🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
I like that their Yurt is off the ground and the surrounding deck ...
Nice thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching!
I just realized you guys are super close to me. I have wanted to get some property in WNC & set up a yurt for years!! I have not seen yurts around our area, how does it stand up to winds, hail, our tornadoes & hurricane winds coming inland?
Awesome video, I wish they had a TH-cam channel too
That's beautiful, but I just hope you are all safe from floods. I can see how close you are to the James. I am hoping you are above the flood line. I'm thinking about building my home/yurt, and growing my own food someday.
We really love you fit farmer from Africa
I really wanna live like this I’m from VA so I’m used to the rural areas but I wanna get off grid
Same here but not in virginia taxes
Enjoyed watching.
My new favorite people besides Jason and Lorraine!
Laci, not what you're doing but let us ladies know you are looking great! Mike is a lucky guy.
I continue to enjoy you guys and your babies inn your life journey! Looking forward to more.
Hi...... Mike Dickson and Lacie 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 🎥👍👍👍
This is a fantastic video.
Thank you very much!
Nice episode, Mike and Family
Thank you!
@@MikeTheFitFarmer You're Welcome
Another interesting video..... thank you
Let get the fit framer and family up subscribers. Yes in Jesus name
so far i havent seen any one of the yurts you guys have shown that have GUTTER systems installed---out here where all my water comes from catchment system, gutters are critical---but the upkeep, lemme tell ya... i 100 % recommend water catchment//UV filtration....cant wait for some replies especially about the transition to hard siding---my liner seems to have developed a sloshing sound i havent been able to drain or figure out the exact location of the leak inside the walls---but insde the yurt is dry thank da lorrrrd
Where do you get insurance?
This is so cool! Thank you for sharing. I have a question, how does home insurance work with a yurt? Thanks!
OK so this is what I do. I tell people how to run their businesses LOL. What a great capture recognizing that this is the direction you needed to go. The addition of doing the weddings is amazing. The next thing that I would suggesst that you gravitate to is photography. Pictures of your flowers, pictures of people in your garden with your flowers, and then pictures of people at the weddings with your flowers. Put the pictures of them at their wedding and your flowers up on your Instagram and Facebook. You could just give them the pictures? Or sell little photo packets that they can purchase from you at a reasonable price. Then of course in the future edge out the photographers and do that also!!!!!!
Oh and then just an afterthought. You could also take the older flowers on the farm. Ones that wouldn’t be perfect enough for. You could shred them up. Then turn them into paper products for invitations and events?
Living the dream!!!
Thanks
Cool farm and family
They are a great family!
love it!
My amaranth failed to launch (slugs), hoping to have better luck next year... I wanted Loves Lies to be my center piece.
I want to grow amaranth next year. ~ Lacie
@@MikeTheFitFarmer I look forward to see it in future videos =]
If you grind your amaranth, it makes great flour. I love amaranth flakes cereal.
I've checked out Yurts and domes more likely will make a Roundhouse out of straw.
I love All Beverly flowers 💐 beautiful beautiful but greens are very important as not All flowers are eatable 🤩🙏🥰Vegetable are a must ❤️Great video Stacy is Great 👍 with the Camera 📸 goats will take care of the weeds for them 😍I think 🤔 their children are sweet too yes love the wood siding make a more efficient home love their upstairs ❤️
In East Texas weeds are just horrible but I did go to the weed cloth and that helped a lot but still ugh!. They might want to get a few chickens.
MUCH LOVE TO YOU & YOUR FAMILY ❤😘💋💋
🙏🏻GOD😇BLESS🙏🏻
Thank you Brenda!
I want to know what kind of vegetable are good for arthritis I have it really bad I’ve come off pain killers and but don’t want to go back to them I hate pills please if you and Lacey can help me I would be greatly appreciated
yooo Yurt Lyfe!
i wanna buy some land and build one myself!! off grid life.. solar... gardens..
is it snowing in virginia or ? do unknow anyone doing that in quebec ?
I’ve heard you don’t need permits but if you run electrical/plumbing to it wouldn’t you need permits?
Shalom, Does Ur Area in Virginia get impacted by Cyclonic Activity???....if so, how does d Yurt withstand d raging winds??...Am from Dominica which gets impacted by destructive Hurricanes; My interest in Yurt Living is growing!!!..
Is this near the Richmond area?
I hope they try more mulching for weed control. It will last longer, won't be in the way when it ( the weed cloths) breaks down/trying to replace it, work in the area, and will fee soil life ( more than plastic/fabric mulches, if not quite as good as living plants ). I'm guessing that they know about mulches, and have their reasons, but too often I think people have had mixed experiences with them, and so think they don't work very well, when, IMO as I become more & more experienced w em, they are very effective. U just need to have it deep enough the 1st round or 2, then don't let it go too long ( as weeds start coming up more again) b4 reapplying, tho that may only need to be once a yr. . May need to also use pigs ( or tarps/black plastic maybe.. or other animals ) in the area 1st to root out weed roots/knock everything down then cover quickly b4 they gets their energetic start going strong. Wood chips (after that disturbance & manure), or hay, is what i'd do. Just my 2 cents, I have seen lansdcape fabric not last like it was supposed to, even higher quality ones, & the disappointment, extra work & frustration that brings, and just hate to see it covering up swaths of soil :( . BUT way to go, very, very busy little family, doing great ! Thanks Mike & Lacie & kids !
What county is this in?
So what’s up with that shed? Is that just a wood shed insulated with an air conditioning system?. And did they ever say what the coolest temperature they could get it down to?