Look INSIDE a Mennonite Farm - Growing Food Without Electricity

[@NaturesAlwaysRight]

▶ My New Channel - www.youtube.com/@StevenCornettNAR -Videos about Japan coming soon For those asking this is my camera (amzn.to/3M42b37) and mic (amzn.to/3M2F0Ge) set up for this video.

[@johnpollard744]

Pennsylvania Dutch is German not Dutch.

[@Corinna_Schuett_GER]

​@@johnpollard744Such as Mennonites origins are from the Netherlands/Friese, their founder died in Germany though. They name after "Menno Simons" who was an orthodox believer persecuted by Catholicism in the 1500s at the time of European Reformation (Hugenottes, Hussites, Walloons and many others). There's still a basswood tree growing in the place "Mennokate" where he fled and planted it (Wüstenfelde/ Bad Oldesloe).

[@Corinna_Schuett_GER]

Hi Jeremy, THANK YOU for this video, VERY interesting! 👍👍Let me tell you that in case of immune system issues, God has provided with natural means by medicinal mushrooms (mykotherapy) you should have a look into this too. You can avoid mold with them too. Grow them together with your plants on dead wood. Greetings from Germany, MARANATHA Jesus is coming! 🙏❤️

[@DonnaMM6361]

@@Corinna_Schuett_GER Wow! Very nice explanation.

[@pooleyclan1]

@NaturesAlwaysRight Steven, for the Japanese Beetles, I take a quart jar of soapy water and hand pick, as well as using Beneficial Nematodes which are little “soldiers” that March through the soil eating the larvae of Japanese Beetles, fleas, ticks and June Bugs, etc. that overwinter in the soil. The results (no bugs) lasts at least a year. Good stuff! Thank you for your inspiring videos!

[@tinkeringinthailand8147]

Here in Thailand there are so many bugs to deal with compared to more temperate climates. In my first year of growing here, where I tilled the soil and added some 5-5-5 fertiliser, most of what I planted got eaten or sucked dry. The following year I grew with the no dig method (which I was first introduced to by Charles Dowding), and although I still had pest issues, things got much better. I'm now in my 6th year of no dig and I barely have any major issues with pests, where I need to use Neem/peppermint oil. I've have attracted so many beneficial insects and pollinators in my garden. As I keep telling my wife "nature has been doing it's thing for way longer than humans, so follow nature's way". Great video, love it.

[@NaturesAlwaysRight]

That's an amazing success story! Keep it up!

[@caribbeancharmgardening90]

Really!!! I am sooo interested!!! But the pest pressure is so OVERWHELMING here in Trinidad that I gave up….. but your comment has re ignited something in me to try again but to be more patient as it took you 6 years.

[@Dust2LivingSoil]

Chris Trump has made IMPO Indigenous Micro Predatory Organisms for a natural way to fight pest. It’s microbes most likely Trichoderma that you collectin the IMO process from KNF Korean Natural Farming.

[@adyingbreedofman9112]

If you haven't read it, the book One Straw Revolution sounds right up your alley. Highly recommend it.

[@dominique5542]

Woow great! Pest pressure is something in Cameroon! I use neem oil. I don't understand, do you still use neem oil ?

[@mpedals]

living in a small Missouri town, and have amish farms touching me all around me, i love my life and their life and the way we are trying to care for our little section of the earth,,,,,,,,,they are growing ancient grains, and everything they need for every creature on their land. Lots of bartering and helping each other, great video, tks for sharing, that is one giant farm,,,,gorgeous

[@erroneous6947]

Ya, I’m in the Ozarks in a Mennonite built cabin on 7 acres. Good people for the most part.

[@spoolsandbobbins]

Steven, this has got to be one of your best videos yet. We are so amazed by your hard work, sensitivity to people and God’s creation and just how you steward all the gifts Gods has given you. Your generosity in making these videos for us to learn from and your wisdom and knowledge of how to do it all is just wild! God’s abundant blessings be yours. And thank you! Homesteading family in Nova Scotia 🇨🇦

[@NaturesAlwaysRight]

Thank you for the words of encouragement! God bless you too.

[@Strix07024]

My husband and I live in rural southwest Ohio and are devoted organic gardeners. Our neighbors who live on the farm directly behind us are also Old Order Mennonites. They have recently started using regenerative farming techniques as well. Less tilling, less pests and disease, higher yield. We have a great relationship with this family, swapping produce from our land and enjoy seeing what they grow each year. Most of their produce is sold regionally or at local produce auctions. They have a lot of kids and the entire family pitches in from planting to harvest. My husband also installed a martin house pole in our garden last year, though we haven’t had any takers yet. Wonderful, informative video, Steven!

[@danam.8709]

Add a food and water source it worked for me, but I already had them in my area.

[@ElizabethStapleton_Ohio]

I live in rural Southern Ohio too...I live close to the Amish, Mennonites ❤❤

[@darlenebrooks7899]

I would love to purchase food from a farm like this. Just the best quality.

[@JanineMJoi]

This was THE most informative, educational vid we have watched in a year. Thank you So much! Please thank the farmer too.

[@courtneyheron1561]

Fabulous video. Thank you for sharing about this super cool Mennonite Farm. Your knowledge bank sure is growing! Well done!

[@J3nn3mac]

I recently went to a Mennonite greenhouse in middle tn near where I live to buy pepper starts. I asked the Mennonite woman what she recommended to get a good yield, and she replied that she just feeds hers miracle grow. This is when I realized we pay a premium for the beautiful Mennonite produce at their stands, thinking they are organically grown. Sadly their produce is fed with miracle grow and sprinkled with sevin dust and sprayed with chemicals. More incentive to grow for myself. I'm glad to see this family is showing their community a healthier way, hopefully it will spread in the Mennonite communities elsewhere

[@pinam27]

Great vid! I'm in Flint Michigan, I have a small orchard and vineyard over 3 city lots. All no till, got 3 trucks of wood chips 4 years ago, still learning, but my stone fruits are growing ridiculously well. Learned air layer propagation and, so far, 50% success. Also 17 varieties of berries. No till is awesome!🥰

[@KyleSweigard]

Absolutely one of your most informative videos! Keep up the great work!!!

[@JanineMJoi]

I have been trying to understand no til for a long time. You explained it so well for me. Thank you. I didnt understand HOW.

[@robertelliott5644]

This is how ALL OUR FOOD SHOULD BE PRODUCED.

[@ricbroc1860]

If it was, 5 billion people would starve.

[@jamesjonnes]

​@@ricbroc1860No they would not. People would just have to work more and use the land properly instead of wasting nearly all land.

[@DonaldCarpenter-y8r]

Great video!! Even old school traditionalists are learning from nature...the most wise teacher ever.

[@rosenurse7687]

Great presentation! Growing our own food is the way to go!

[@DonnaMM6361]

This is fascinating! This is the first of your videos that I have seen. This farm is beautiful, thank you and thanks to the farmer for allowing you to bring it to us.

[@devinsullivan7233]

All I can say is that regenerative and organic healthy farming practices clearly can be done at scale, and easily feed our entire country. Forget feed the world. We can feed our country the healthiest food possible if WE decide to.

[@KECHUYENDEMKHUYA99]

Truly the best place to live! Your videos tell us so much. So positive! Happy animals, beautiful nature, great new ideas❤❤❤

[@Antony-ng9yj]

I liked this video. I like this story. Good for them - this family adopting better growing and farming practice.

[@Lakemountainview]

I am amazed thank you for showing I have a small homestead this video gives me a good idea of what I can grow in the south.

[@qkranarchist3015]

Since I come from immigrants and lived abroad among indigenous and tribal system cultures who also emigrated around the world, immigrants are just as equally able to show how to live a sustainable life. I'm now a new homesteader and have to do it alone because most of my large, extended family has passed on. I'm deeply grateful for the many immigrants, Amish AND Mennonites who are sharing their ways. We need to build community and appreciate the many people who can teach us; since in like my family we lost all our farming and trades skills in one & a half generations. Just gone and we knew so much.

[@reneespring834]

Weedguard is a commercial mulch paper you can buy online

[@colleen8002]

Great information Steven! Thank you

[@BenG33]

My thought is we should grow more hemp it was the most sustainable rope made to last in the sea. Maybe make a hemp tarp to lay down for weed barrier?? This plastic every where doesn’t need to happen other solutions can be used

[@darlenebrooks7899]

This video was amazing. These farmers' techniques, the productivity, ingenuity, and the beauty of this farm was just so wonderful to see. Ive dreamed of a farm like this! So peaceful. Thank you and the generous farmers who allowed you to film there. Looking forward to more.

[@darlenebrooks7899]

I wish we had farms like this near us. Such a wonderful resource for any community.

[@MennoniteFarmhouse]

I’m a Mennonite farmers wife & Pennsylvania Dutch. I loved this video. I have my own channel on cooking and growing my own food to preserve. We don’t use chemicals in our garden.

[@cynthiabarnard5720]

What Is your channel called if I want to go see it and get ideas. Thanks

[@SouthFloridaSunshine]

@@cynthiabarnard5720She commented with it.

[@seandoherty4236]

@MennoniteFarmhouse

[@MennoniteFarmhouse]

@@cynthiabarnard5720 Mennonite Farmhouse is the name of the channel

[@sweetsuccesstrading5097]

Just Subscribed 👍

[@rhiannaramirez2053]

I was shocked to learn that they were even using chemicals to begin with. I know many people believe Amish or Mennonite grown food is all organic, that they don’t believe in using chemicals, so I was surprised to hear this. Also, the use of plastics. I wish more farmers would move away from that, and it really makes you think more about modern day food consumption and distribution. If everyone would grow their own food, and support more local small farms, perhaps there wouldn’t even be a need to do it on the larger scale that these farms do in order to earn a profit. So much is centered around profit, and the dollar.

[@richardhanes7370]

I have a farm in Ohio and I won't allow any chemicals of any kind near my property. I think we're all being poisoned

[@jessicaayala404]

Not all orders are the same, don’t push them all together under the same umbrella.

[@rrittenhouse]

18:35 I keep seeing the gourd birdhouse thing all around Ohio and I never knew what it was until I saw this! I thought they were lights or something from afar LOL. I saw tons of this over by Plain City, Oh.

[@danielhayes137]

Well done once again mate

[@dianaj3139]

When I lived in Belize, I looked forward to the days when the Mennonites brought food to the village for sale... Very reasonable prices, I recall for $5 getting a huge tray of eggs, Tomatoes, Cabbage, Carrots, onions, Garlic and so much more The best, most delicious food EVER!!! Chemical free of course, nobody was using anything packaged in those days and in that area.

[@ronalddavis5905]

I'm in mid Michigan and have amish all around me and they all use 7 dust, I use liquid 7 on my fruit trees because no matter what you say nothing organic really works like I would like it to. Great video and fun to watch. Remember the chemical make up of NPK in organic and synthetic is 100% the same. I use trifecta fertilizer which is organic and works for me.

[@carlschmitt9562]

Great content and inspirational Thx!

[@blablabla2616]

Thanku really enjoy your down to earth nature in the way you share information 😊

[@emeraldcoastgardensfl7323]

At 13.20, you get a good lay of the land. They might want to consider crossing swales to harvest the rainwater that falls on their land. Another infrastructure change to reduce the need for irrigation.❤️

[@joinmeinthedirt5186]

What a fascinating video, great job and thank you.

[@PeggyRobbins]

Thank you for all the information 😊

[@rdm98607]

Love this video, information. Thanks to all

[@bettinashope9637]

Wow just what I thought 💭 Ty for sharing this video 😮💝🙏😇

[@southofnowhere1859]

Good video and knowledge cover. When you are talking about plastics or tarps. There is a better product to use and for the life of me can't believe the organic community hasn't figured this out. The product is called 610 Terra Tex Woven Wool fabric. It is completely permeable. When the crop is done just remove the plant and you can reuse the fabric. Just fold it up like a blanket. The only draw back is if someone uses it in rows longer than 100 ft.

[@ladyaugust1866]

Thank you for the great video :) Do you know how they make the compost tea?

[@JanineMJoi]

OH MY GOSH! open vase for trees! I understand that! I can do that!

[@melissagoodwin2602]

I'm greatful for this video.

[@DigitalFarmHub]

"Fantastic video! Thanks for sharing the inside look at this amazing Mennonite farm. Your knowledge just keeps expanding-great job!

[@klh2m661]

Excellent informative video. Thank you

[@valeriemacrae8441]

Very good video. Very informative

[@amymartin7508]

Awesome. Thanks for the vid

[@brigid6609]

Thank you so much for sharing this beautiful place. I enjoyed watching this so much! It looks like a fairy tale. And many thanks to the farmers for sharing their farm and knowledge. I wish all farms would work like this. The most I loved seeing the calves with their morhers, it is so heartbreaking to see them separated and in the end how much does a calf drink and can´t that be calculated into the costs of the milk? Happy to see it is possible.❤

[@thomasenchispas1759]

Thank you for the tour!

[@WildBearFoot]

His eyebrows are epic. Guy sensei. And there have been breakthroughs with plant-based, biodegradable, plastics that could someday, hopefully soon, be mass produced in an environmentally, economically, effective way.

[@jdgo3483]

The eyebrows had me from the get go. They are as impressive as the cabbage.

[@darlenefire1260]

As a gardener for many years..timeline to convert to Organic is two to three years. A little research on compatibility and hard work. Its easy. Year one you get a few bugs but I have to say if you have healthy soil not an issue. I seen first hand how natural ways are absolutely devine. Thank you for this video

[@janinedavis3357]

Brilliant!

[@noty6557]

Remarkably well done, very informative 👍 Thank you.

[@pittysbad]

excellent video!!! I was quite surprised to see that they calf share!!

[@tonywilliams6037]

First time I have watched the channel. Very informative and I appreciate the level of detail. These techniques can be replicated according to the climate regime. I’m definitely going to try some of this. I’m based in Portugal, a continent away, but I see so many similarities.

[@elizabethbordeaux2741]

Oh, my goodness! I am so glad I found you. Fabulous information. Thank you so much.

[@mairzydotes3548]

Loved this!

[@DonnaChristineMatthews]

My Great, Great Grandfather was an ordained minister for the United Brethren Mennonite and he started churches for them in many different states including Nebraska and he farmed also. My Great Grandfather joined the Friends church and was a farmer.

[@joebristor7342]

Good job man! Absolutely right on topic!

[@vickiehartless4435]

Congratulations!! I cried...it was beautiful! ❤🎉👶👨‍🍼👩‍🍼🍼👼

[@heathere9240]

Fantastic information!!! Anne of all Trades on KZbin is a wonderful resource; no till. Lazy gardening; fantastic ❤ New subscriber!!! Grateful you came into my feed 🙏🙏🙏

[@Paul-g7e]

I would love to live in Tennessee and look at those real clouds with no lines in the sky. Amazing I wish and I pray every day that engineering will come to an end. Thank God a few states in America have done so.

[@BarbaraShafferIsagenix]

There are lines in the sky here too.

[@patwilliams2161]

Sorry but some days in east TN our skies look like someone playing tic tac toe- its being done everywhere

[@SeekerOfTheTruth00]

FYI, Tennessee skies are still being sprayed like crazy with their poison's on a daily basis. The evil behind the Chemtrails spraying are fined $10,000 dollars a day for doing so. They don't care because it comes off the hard earned back of the tax payers dollar! It's a drop in the bucket to these baster!!!! I'm a Tennessean and I am a witness to the none stop spraying that hasn't stopped and to this day is still going on.

[@wingedinfinity6715]

Why would you think there is a special state that does not get chemtrails ??

[@hefayu1075]

Because TN passed legislation on this. The question is, who will enforce it?

[@stacyrosa6672]

This is fascinating! I've been gradually working into permaculture in my 2 acre woodland property in Northern Michigan. We have several small communities Amish and Mennonite folks in the surrounding areas. They market their harvests, baked and canned goods...it's truly been a wonderful experience getting to know them at our county Farmers Market. Also, your eyebrows are awesome!

[@calebfast8088]

JADAM fertilizer changed my gardening forever. 15/10 recommended!

[@gardensandmore1614]

Something few use is natural Jute, or other natural fiber to make a soil cover/blanket instead of a plastic covering. Part of the reasons are cost and weight. Plastic coverings are lightweight and take up less storage space between seasons. As long as plastic sheets are cheap and easy to buy, until tree resin products can compete, other types of coverings won't be used by farmers and gardeners wanting to save money and cover the soil to make it difficult for grasses and weeds to grow.

[@GiGiGoesShopping]

Fewer pests. If it's a countable thing, it's correct to say fewer. If it's not countable life milk or water it is correct to say less. FYI ✨

[@StephanieJoRountree]

Great video! Thank you for sharing. Have they experimented with electroculture?

[@Crunchyboymama]

Can you please link or share the actual name of the book that you mentioned toward the beginning? I think you said that the dad of the Mennonite family read it.

[@JW-og4bj]

Wow.... I'm impressed. Those are the biggest cabbages I've seen-outside of Alaska. Those rows look like they are about 200 yards long

[@twc9000]

Wow, that was a lot of information. Great video!

[@staceyadams2272]

Throughly enjoyed. Thank you immensely ❤🎉

[@brandynash1409]

I live in Arkansas and we are the largest grower of rice in the country. It’s not that rice has to be flooded. It’s just that it grows in flooded areas well, so why not grow it there when other things won’t grow.

[@sally79il]

Where do you get rice seeds or whatever it is called lol

[@jrpotter9659]

Seed catalog

[@danielturner9832]

​@@sally79il try Great Lakes Staple Seeds for upland rice and all sorts of other grains

[@danielturner9832]

Try Great Lakes Staple Seeds for upland rice and all sorts of other grains and seeds

[@paulcartwright8777]

Brilliant video, very inspiring, thanks for your hard work.

[@donettagreer8289]

Thank you so much for the info😊

[@jmjan2009]

Thank you very educational

[@habaristra6248]

Eastern Tennessee is far from the big city but....growing and selling ORGANIC at a farmer's market or via CSA is always going to be better for the farmer and the consumer.

[@rachelcampbell4737]

New Subscriber here! 🤗 Thank you so much for all this wonderful info! I’ll be binge watching all your other videos for the next few days! 😆

[@ceedee2570]

great information and tour. I believe Pennsylvania Dutch is Pennsylvania Deutsch which is German/German derivative. There are many similarities to Dutch.

[@MennonitePathways]

That's some great technique for farming by Mennonite

[@marvona3531]

Thanks for sharing - great information👍👍👍

[@kimskluckers2951]

Great video. Love their inventions. ❤

[@tamakoa-homestead]

I found this to be highly informative and super interesting. Thank you so very much for managing to get this footage and information. It is really inspiring as this is very much what I am trying to achieve on my piece of land 🙏

[@ellenhudson880]

Use heavy cutting canvas for tarps or overlapping sheets of cardboard.

[@OMORUYIMARGARETOSAIMIAMIOMWAN]

Thanks for this. I once worshipped in Mennonite Church in Nigeria.

[@RonRamsden]

Thank you for this video, As a new small farmer this was very helpful

[@denisemiller4083]

You can get thick paper rolls at Lowe’s store which many painters and contractors lay down on floors to protect from getting damaged during projects.

[@AceLink07]

Definitely an awesome video. What camera and mic were used to capture all these great shots?

[@NaturesAlwaysRight]

Thanks. This camera amzn.to/3M42b37 and this mic amzn.to/3M2F0Ge

[@timothy4weigel]

Awesome video, thanks Steven

[@gardensandmore1614]

Something you might want to ponder and talk about is the fact the plants grown to eat from are not found in nature. The ancient plants were, but they have been changed over time and now cannot exist without human management. They don't tolerate the natural world conditions without human efforts, so what you are trying to do is find a compromise with nature so your food plants will thrive. Of course you know there are all sorts of ways that compromise can be defeated. There are weather issues, bug problems, soil health, planting density, and wild, or tamed critter issues to deal with. If any of these issues, or problems are not managed properly, you will have very little, or nothing to eat from your garden, or farm.

[@nccrchurchunusual]

Grat info! Do you think in florida the sunrays would reflect heat &burn the plants. ?

[@matthewraymondwillis]

This is a very good video. You'll learn a lot regardless of how experienced you are.

[@mathgasm8484]

Mennonite makes some awesome pies from when I was a kid.

[@bossdog1480]

A happy plant is a healthy plant. I feed mine LOTS of organic manure. I find they spend a little longer growing foliage but then go hard on the growing out of the vegetables.

[@reginarenoude1098]

This was interesting. Mennonites where I live more modern .

[@lauramonahan9343]

Yes, we range from old order to very modern

[@DanlowMusic]

I like the way you teach us along the way. #Subscribed

[@kennysilver9769]

The Veggie Boy's you tube channel shows they use biodegradable organic mulch that comes in rolls.

[@anitaditzler-id6bh]

Very educational video! Thank you

[@robertsscott8249]

Excellent video 👍

[@haou132]

Love and blessings +++!!!

[@mariecurran9365]

Ive started to do no till and have noticed a significant positive change as well. I learned this method on back to eden gardening channel. I highly recommend that you watch! Ty for sharing! We can use all the knowledge in self sufficiency . God bless!

[@harmonyteal2212]

Hi from Ohio 🙂 This was an excellent learning video & visual treat!! I respect that they didn't want to be recorded because they honor God's Word. Nice of them to let you share what they're doing & how!! We're All learning, no one knows it all. I really got a kick that they had papaya trees ... they're going tropical 🤣 I subbed your channel, looking forward to more videos like this because we all need to grow our own food as best we can, even patios & balconies allow for container gardens. That's what I'm doing till the Good Lord moves me into the country 🏞 Blessings Everyone ✨️💛✨️

[@vernabryant2894]

I like and respect the Mennonites but I see a lot of negative talk about them because of beliefs.I think these people who talk negative about them should mind their own business.