Hey Morgan I am glad to be back. I have had a long fight with cancer. Your videos and voice have kept me company through the weeks of isolation while recovering!

I am SOOOO glad you didn’t break anything during your visit 😅 Thanks so much for the shoutout and for being such a huge encouragement in both farm and friendship!

Dairy farming as a business is a lifestyle commitment. I have family members who owned a dairy herd. Their lives revolved around their animals and the milking process. In over 30 years, they had one week of vacation per year. And one 4 day holiday weekend. I’m sure not everyone has the same experience, but their investment in time was incredible. They sold their farm and herd at age 64. And spent their remaining years doing all those things they missed because of their farm schedule. If you want to have a large production base, you better be prepared to give up your free time to make it successful.

Morgan, this was great!! You should make this a series!! "Stories from OTHER farms"...the series!!!

As a northerner that went from Minnesota to Mississippi in July, pregnant, I discovered Anne is right about timing your outdoor activities! I would be inside by 8:00am and stayed there until after 6:00pm the rest of the summer and well into fall and then from late March again. I left mid-September the next year and will say that it was the most pleasant winter I have ever spent, it even snowed a dusting the early morning hours while I gave birth! Great content today and a great farmer to meet via you!

I love this Morgan!!! I am stoked to see how other farms differ from yours, but still function for the farmer! I am so lucky to share the planet with all of you. You are wonderful problem solvers and positive peers. Live long!

anne is living the dream, a kickass woodshop AND a farm.

As someone who lives in Washington State, and loves cooler weather, Ann's perspective was fascinating. "Counting down the sunny days you're stuck inside" - I feel that way about autumn.

In the late 1970's BMW had a brochure which empathized that their cars were built from the Driver's Out ! All the controls were in easy reach, all the air vents were in the right place, and so on. I believe that in farming, " 1st. consider yourself " ! What Kind of Climate do you " Like " ! Or are comfortable with. What kind of animals likewise [ as well as to what they would like, and be compatible with ]. The Plants that you would want to grow, and so forth ! Soil, Landscape, Weather & Seasons, scenery and so forth. Civilization; Hospitals, Grocery [ and other ] Stores, travel as in roads, airports excetra ! And of course Dealing w/ the Government as in Taxes, Land Laws and So on ! And if there is anything Else please List it !

I recalled a memory from my childhood. My grandparents had goats, a cow and pigs. The extra milk and the liquid leftover from cheesemaking was given to the pigs. Milk-fed pork is so much tastier than regular pork.

Just gonna like this vid off the cuff before I watch as this man and his animal farm are Going Places. Support all life. 😊

Farming and land management and animal husbandry...who'd a thunk it? it works and different people in different places do it differently, this is such a lovely film once again Morgan, I love it-thanks for being here xxx

Love seeing you guys hanging out! I follow Anne on IG, she seems so sweet and knowledgeable! Glad you guys didn’t injure yourselves too 🤕

I'd choose Vermont over Tennessee every single day. But then I hate heat and humidity. This week in Yorkshire has been vile (26°C and at times 91% humidity. The weather gods are taking the piss in September). Snow, ice, and solid minus degrees Celsius sounds heavenly. I think sheep will fit well with the farm and how you manage it. Good luck deciding on which breed you go for. 😊😂❤😂😊

Thanx, Morgan, for a great lesson on locating a farm/homestead, and pointing out the factors to take into consideration. P.S. Your friend, Anne, is very smart.

Morgan, this was a brilliant video!👍🏽💯 It touched on so many questions I have about how farming differs in different regions. You should DEFINITELY do more of these! Go visit your other friends across the country & film them on their farms.

Great mini class Morgan on do you really want to farm. For Ann that must have been a drastic change weather wise, good on her that she found a way to work around the humidity and the parasites. Hope you have a safe trip home, thanks for taking us along.

I live in Quebec and I am so happy to find and follow you. Because I think the climate here is very close to the climate at your place. I want to have a little piece of land and a few animals, and your videos can be a guideline for me. Hopefully in a few years 🤞 Also, I love these episodes where you visit other wonderful farms with people like the lady in this video who have amazing personalities. ❤

10:15 But you have to excavate the pond first. Otherwise it will end up being a big messy puddle when it rains. Needs to be drained and excavated properly. The you can add your clay and sand.

After looking at climate maps I like the Asheville NC area. Its has moisture year round for growing plants and trees. Its like the farthest south you could go with the least oppressive hot days.

Very enjoyable vid Morgan! Anne is a very gregarious upbeat person, I can't imagine someone not liking her😊 I'm glad homesteading is working out well for her, I'm excited about her future plans for the place and hope we get to see her and Morgan fishing off that dock! You really do know some of the coolest people Morgan 😎

They do make long sleeve shirts that will protect your skin and are cool and comfortable at the same time. The older you get, the more you need shirts like that. Upper level outdoor brands like Columbia Sportswear and Orvis will have such shirts.

Really enjoyed this “field trip!” So many beautiful places in our country!

I watch another channel, NarroWay Homestead. It's off grid (Nate has a ton of solar panels), is a work in progress (there's like a 10 year plan to go from living in an rv w/ an outdoor kitchen and extra fancy outhouse to building an actual house w/ a garage) and has dogs, cats and ducks (and Hank and Peggy, the robot lawnmowers, who have been doing lives that has built an amazing community on tiktok). Nate, the homesteader, is the one doing most of the work, and is the first to admit he gets most of his income from social media, and the merch he sells (hats, coffee, beard care products). He's also really good at explaining what he's doing, why and how. He put a lot of thought into how he was going to do things before he even moved from PA to WV (he chose WV for the cost of land, etc). It also helps he was a general contractor for a while before making the move. If you get a chance to visit, do it. He has a real "🎶 My Buddy Alfred (or maybe Frank)" 🎶 vibe. Just make sure to bring an appropriate gift for our Lord and savior Minion.

Nice video. Cool to see how ppl chose their locations. She was wonderful w/great ideas about pigs and ponds. I never knew how useful pigs could be for landscaping.

FYI, Tennessee is wetter than Vermont, typically getting 10 inches more, on average, then your location in VT. 50" vs 40".

I love all the positivity and smiles!

this was a very interesting video! i am not a farmer and i have no desire to be a farmer/homesteader, but it still gives a lot to chew on in regards to the criteria of where you want to live and why. i've only lived in hot areas my whole life (central valley california and south texas) and i am eager to live in a place that isn't summer 9 months out of the year.

When I visited Vermont, it really felt kindred to rural Michigan. More hills, and colder, (other than our Upper Peninsula) but the forests and the unique small towns with a welcoming spirit made me feel at home. Also like in Michigan, sad abandonment (this was 2011 or so) some from flooding and some from the same economic shifts turning more of America into a Rust Belt. There's a lot of beautiful rolling farmland within an hour of Detroit, Lansing, Grand Rapids, and much more natural beauty in far & near corners of the state. I want to build a farm-to-table inn/restaurant/brewery.

I didn't grow up on a farm. I don't visit farms. I don't wish to farm. Yet, I can't adequately express how fascinating I find this channel. From the day-to-day videos, to these types of theme-based programs, Morgan always entertains while he informs. Anne is a great host in this video. You guys are living your dream (as I am, just not on a farm) and your enthusiasm and hard work is inspirational.

To me farming location is what an individual feels more comfortable when pursuing a homestead.

Glad you visited Anne, I love that lady.

Love it when 2 of my favorite people collaborate!

Love this video! Thanks for sharing another farm and your trip. Bravo 👏 very enjoyable

Nice video. Great idea to go to another region to showcase your points. Really helps to gave a visual as well as a list. I think you do a very good job of showing what small family farming looks like today. I love how she is using her natural geography to mert the farms needs. Working with the land she has is brilliant.

Its great to get different perspectives!

Great to see all the small scale farming interest. Good for the environment and rural communities

I'd do almost anything to live like she does, I hope one day to be able to but it's likely not possible till I'm a lot older so for now I just live vicariously through videos like this.

Love both Anne and you too! I’ve done what I’d call light homesteading (chickens,ducks, goats, and gardening) in various places around the country. Every place has its highs and lows. You could have great soil and climate in parts of CA, but high costs of living and poor water supply. In Colorado now, and we are about your temp in Vermont, but dryer. It’s definitely not completely ideal, especially for gardening, but making the best of it.

I'm glad you're not hurt

I loved this video. It reminded me of the different climates I have lived in. I grew up in near the Oregon coast, cool and very, very wet. Very, very humid, but bearable, because it wasn't hot. We grew all our produce, froze, canned, and dried the bounty to get through the rest of the year. Also, always had a small flock of some sort of poultry, always a milk cow--and a calf for the next year's freezer. Fishing on the weekends provided more protein, plus Dungeness crabs from the nearby deep sea port in those days, and crawdads from our own creek for variety. I then spent 35 years in California, eventually landscaping our house with edible plants: lemons, kumquats, plums, apples, rosemary, potatoes, peas, green beans, boysenberries, blackberries, strawberries, raspberries, lettuce, and on and on. Not a farm, but lots of produce! Then fate landed us in Phoenix. I learned to garden in planters, but the crops were minimal. At first, the freezing winter days killed my attempts with citrus, but climate change has pretty much obliterated that worry in the last 20 years. Very few cold nights, now. It is a land of relentless heat and low humidity, with brief and violent micro bursts to break the long, rainless months, if we are lucky. We live on borrowed water, drawing down our reservoirs and aquifers. This year, with a larger back yard, landscaped with desert soil, which is not soil, dressed with gravel by the previous owner, I decided to build a place to at least grow a few things. I dug deep raised beds trying to grow berries, because I heard it could be done in Phoenix. Along came 6 dry months with a millimeter and a half total of rain, and 31 straight days of high heat, day after day over 110 or even 115, with nights that don't cool below 85 or 90 or even higher. The golden time is the hour or two just after sunrise. But there is hope! I have nearly made it through this brutal summer with 5 surviving cane berry plants, and a pair of Lesser Night Hawks (very wild, but resident in my yard). I can't take credit for the cacti along one edge of my yard. I don't think 5 berry bushes and a pair of night hawks count as a farm! Of course, it is well into September, and it has been bumping along at 111 degrees today. But it's a dry heat: 10% relative humidity. Just don't touch the pavement or the trunk of your car--you can get a wickedly painful burn.

Agree farming in New England even with its challenges surely nourishes the soul. Thank you for sharing & may your bruises from that course gravel be few.

bandanna being a function choice instead of a fashion statement, glad to see that this was pointed out.

Excellent collaboration! Extremely interesting- thank you.

Thank you Morgan - being able to share a sense of the friendships you have formed was lovely. I wonder if camera men and women do that late night thing when they are on a boat hunting a shark and compare war wounds 😂

Kind of like Anne, We moved from the arid part of Washington State to the mountains of Virginia to farm. Weather has a little play on our farm, the rocky ground though is the biggest obstacle. Mountain Farms are a whole different creature.

Morgan, you should consider raising American Bison, they do not need a barn in winter, they will eat grass, brush, tree leaves, bushes as high as they can reach, they are a hardy tolerant animal, typically they need 1 acre each so you can have a large herd and their meat sells at a premium price well over beef cattle.

I live in SW Washington State about half way between California and Canada in the Western part, the rainy part (East of the Cascade Mountains is semi-desert) and I get 42 inches of rain per year, Montpelier Vt gets 48 inches per year, we are not as rainy as people think we are out here, in fact I grew up in SW Oregon where we got just 30 inches per year because the Coast Mountains are higher than in other places down there so we were in a bit of a rain shadow. So Central/Northern Vermont actually get more rain than the average areas of the "rainy" part of the PNW, the thing is we get virtually no rain for months during the Summer and early Fall, it can get bone dry here, so its not just how much rain you get but when you get it that you need to think about regarding agriculture in a region. By the way not sure where she lived in Washington but Seattle has 152 days of Sun per year. Rain shadows are a huge thing in the NW both big ones and small ones, I know places 30 minute drives apart that get 18 inches difference in rainfall.

Amazing video I learnt a lot about pigs thanks 👍

More than three hundred sunny days a year where I am in Arizona. Plenty of power and plenty of vitamin D.

It's a beautiful state Tenn. I looked at it when I was in NC. Almost moved there. Hot as heck in the summer. Getting very expensive to find land. Like NC I got sick of looking at Confederate flags. To conservative. Glad to be here in central NY. Love the change of seasons. Great video.

Great video! And yes Anne you rock that practical bandana ❤

80 degrees F is hot to Morgan. 80 degrees is cool where I live.

Enjoyed this lots!

MORGAN: YOU REALLY DID IT TODAY....YOU HAVE THE ART AND KNOW HOW TO FIND GREAT PEOPLE AND PRESENT "FARM" ISSUES IN AN APPEALING WAY! LOVE YOUR SHOWS! X-BROOKLYN GUY

Speaking as someone that lives in the South, and grew up on a farm I am amazed that you even get out of your house when it is -20 outside.

Great seeing you at the NE Homesteaders Gathering. Leaned a bunch and enjoyed the “talks”

I’ll take COLD! This was Epic. Love me some Vermont!!!! Love, there’s no where ever I want to call home, Farm, and do the things💫

And just FYI I live in the UK and I just last week got a recommendation for Anne whilst I was watching this channel. What I mean to say is the algorithm is like like you guys 😮😊😊😊

Thanks Morgan!🩷

Your diagram about TN vs VT, was confusing like you said, but your glistening face made it simple to see.

What a lovely lady! I subscribed to Anne's channel.

Love the video. Lots of great information. 👏

Thank you for the video Morgan

Anne has a lovely setting and it’s perfect location for her whilst being a VT’er I relate your place however it’s too darn cold so I don’t live there anymore! Great video

This makes me miss the south because it's true! It's so freakin hot in the summer but its always going to be sunny with maybe an hour of storms every day in the summer.

I agree with her, I prefer most of my days be sunny that is why I love Arizona.

I enjoy your visiting other YT farmers episodes, keep them up please!

I am from Iowa and generally, we get 4-6 month winters and normally, it’s anywhere between -15 to -65. It’s all easily changed by the wind since it’s completely flat, allowing the Arctic winds to cut right through.

Morgan I think your fall was fairly graceful.

Oh, MORGAN!! Thank you for introducing me to Ann! She's one to listen to as I prepare for my day. Sign me, Karla Learning Trades

Great video! Very informational!

Yay! My two favourite US farmers in the same vid! Totally stoked.

I would most definitely be on the cold weather. Having family in the south i can't stand the humid heat filled with nasty bugs😂. It is good everyone likes different things

THANKS FOR THIS ANALYSIS !!

This was GREAT!

I couldn’t ever live in the south. I just couldn’t deal with all the heat and humidity. I’m a native Angelina who has lived in So Cal and Chicagoish both twice. They are so very different but each works for me

Great topic, Morgan! I think I met Anne via a youtube she did with an expert showing her how to prune her fruit trees. So much energy she has. Tennessee's great for her. I would be sweating like you were, so Vermont would be my preference. Or Washington state since I'm fine with rainy days. Or maybe I'll stay on my little 5 acres at 7500' in Colorado and just deal with the dryness by inventing a super-dooper water-wise irrigation plan.🤔😊😁🤣 (not).

I think Hawaii is the best place to grow in the USA. I have a Farm on Big Island Hawaii and you can grow all year round and you can grow everything. Hawaii has every Biome on Earth.

This feels like one of those videos where they give a bunch of advice and they're talking about something in this case farms but a lot of the advice can be applied to other things. Like some people prefer certain things over other things and you have to figure out what you prefer and find out how to maximize that. The girl in this video preferred the warmer climate but Morgan prefers the cooler climate and they have to work within their environment's limitations.

Thanks!

Thank goodness nothing hurt but your pride, lol!

Morgan, Head's up! Keep an eye on hurricane Lee! Hard to say where or if it'll make landfall. A couple models look like she may be headed your way. Stay safe! Hugs!❤

Ah damn! Guess I'll have to stick around for another 2 years to see the progress

Thankyou both . I cannt be a farmer but yhis was good . Thankyou .

Layers are ironically very important in the heat. I just watched a vid where some historical sewers did an experiment where they wore Victorian clothes out in the Nevada desert and then compared how they felt wearing modern clothes in the Nevada desert. They found that not only were they cooler (as measured by the thermometer they bought) under the layers, but they also didn't have sweat pooling in uncomfortable places. I thought it was interesting anyway.

Five minutes into the video i know it's Oklahoma mild winters good sun and animals love it plenty of rain to catch , and low property tax what more do you need lol

I grew up on a smallish dairy farm in Maine, milking about 60 head. When I bought our farm, I bought jerseys for the fresh milk and cream and one cow gave us 8 gallons a day. Even with 6 kids, we couldn’t use that much, the pigs didn’t drink it so the dogs and I drank a LOT. Even though Maine has food amnesty, I was afraid to sell milk. I had milking machines here and could milk pretty fast, but there was a sold 45 minutes of cleaning, sanitizing and processing the milk 2x/day. Don’t get me wrong, I love dairy cattle, they’re my favorite livestock, but it’s way too much work.

Morgan - Have you ever visited the Pacific Northwest at length or researched the region? The region - Washington, Oregon and Idaho - has distinct climates, primarily dependent upon where you are in relation to mountain ranges, Puget Sound and the Pacific Ocean. The PNW does not have high precipitation totals. The Seattle area receives an average of 39.34 inches per year. Your state, Vermont, averages 43 inches. However, what the western areas of the PNW have is many overcast days with either no sun or only partial sun from November through April. Also, rain in the Seattle area rarely exceeds 1/2 inch in a 24-hour period. I.e., the Puget Sound region has less rain than Vermont, but it is spread over many more days. Our winter and summer temperatures are mostly moderate: low 40s F in winter and mid-high 70s in summer. NOTE: As the climate changes, Seattle does have more sunny days in the winter because we have fewer misty days, though the average precipitation remains fairly consistent 3-4 overcast/rain then 1-2 sunny or partial sun, no rain. Seattle is now experiencing much higher temperatures on a regular basis in the summer, with the number of days over 80F having significantly increased over the past 10-15 years. In June 2022, the temperature were over 100 F for several days and 108F was the hottest ever recorded. The State of Washington does have a rain forest (precipitation, 140 inches) on the western side of the Olympic Mountains, along the Pacific Coast. The state also has desert and continental climate zones in Eastern Washington (east side of the Cascade Mountains) with an average of 8-14 inches. Oregon is similar to Washington except the western side does have more weather variation (hotter summaries, colder winters and higher humidity) because its coastal mountain range does not protect it. Idaho has a continental climate with four strongly delineated seasons with very cold, snowy winters and hot, dry summers.

How Interesting!

This was actually interesting! I definitely like cold climates. That's a nice farm. Maybe you should get some clay. Btw I'm sorry that you fell.

Wow just in time

that 75-80 degrees in the summer is night time temps here in GA. Winter can drop into the teens but is mostly 30s & 40s

Hey Morgan, wondering if you have ever done a video on farm sitters. I would love to learn more about the ins and outs of what’s required and how to potentially become one as a side gig.

Its a bit of a misnomer that all of the Pacific Northwest is wet. The Cascade Mountain rain shadow makes Eastern Washington hot and dry. If Anne had gone to Eastern Washington, she would have found the perfect weather!

MORGAN! You were serving some real Levar Burton with this “episode”. But you don’t have to take my word for it.

I'm not sure what would be worse.... snowed in or hot and humid. So my wee dogs and I are good in California. ;)

Another aspect to look at is what is your outlet for making money to live on if you don't have an outside 'job'? Will you depend on Ag-Tourism? Will you have a 'farm store' or go to farmer's markets for sales? That will also factor into your location and expenses. How far will people have to travel to come to your farm?

Those cows are gorgeous!

Ann uses the same method I used for gardening here in Indiana, I use to hide the house as soon as noon hit and wouldn't go back outside until the sunset. I would weed the garden either in the early dawn hours or after the sun began to set. This was also only maybe a few weeks out of late summer I'd have to do this or die in the humidity. As a hobby seamstress I started making clothes for these days as well, loose fitting light cotton dresses are great for these days and really help because I don't tolerate the heat well. Even got rejected for blood donation on a really hot day because my pulse was too high from being outside.