I bought 2.88 acres and 12 buildings full of stuff that was collected by a hoarder. It's a former oxen farm. I paid $18,000 for it as is where is. It's going to be paid off next March. I'm going to start a small, hopefully self sufficient farm. So far I have made $7000 selling stuff I've found. Eventually it will pay for itself. I watch you for ideas and the jokes.

For all the newies. Pete is a very smart(I say brilliant), meticulous and highly organized motivated man. With a great wife behind him. His content and information is premo. We're lucky we found him. **Still waiting for clock video Pete??

@be6715

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I'd say she isn't behind him, she is at his side.

@be6715

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@@spacemanbill9501 Troll warning, spacey!

@capescapelandscapeing3342

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Hi i'm 14

It's inspiring to know not every farmer on KZread got started in their mid twenties/early thirties. Thank you :)

@daletalkington9743

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I really like the channel thank you

One of the reasons I really enjoy your channel is the fact you are well spoken. You dont blather on like an undereducated "hick" or try to get more views by doing over the top content. You just talk normally, softly and wisely. Ill keep watching as i enjoy this sort of stuff I hope it keeps coming for many years.

@Mel-pb4nn

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Yes. I'm so glad he doesn't pulling stunts or acting silly just for views. His day to day life is much more entertaining and educational to boot

16 - Did I miss one? Auburn 0:02 Cal State? 0:18 Cecil College 0:38 Boise State 1:19 Ohio State 2:12 Univ of Iowa 3:52 Oregon 6:14 Texas 7:38 Huntington 13:22 Michigan 14:33 OU Sooners 18:01 UC Irvine 19:50 Unv di Bologna 22:10 FL Gators 22:54 Michigan State 24:15 Michigan 25:12

@mllee2008

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Lol I was just coming to comment on the shirts!! 😀

@tpfastback

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@@mllee2008 ha! Me too! I’m thinking the shirts was his joke for this vid. 😂

@David7pm

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WOW, nice job David! :)

@dnorthup65

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@@David7pm too much time on my hands... :)

@Cookiegrabber-

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Just finished watching, and I was going to go back through, and tally up the shirts!

You my friend are what I call a true down to earth American. You are the poster boy for what a man can do if he puts in the hard work and uses his brain. May all your dreams come to floriation.

@klazyy641

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Hmmmm, there's a new word for me: floriation. Gotta look that one up and, maybe, add it to my vocabulary. 🙂

@dannywilsher4165

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@@klazyy641 I think the intended word was fruition... FRUITION | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary the state of having successfully completed an activity or plan: The governor plans to use his considerable influence to bring the museum to fruition.

@klazyy641

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@@dannywilsher4165 I knew that---was just trying to lessen the onus of spelling it wrong

@dannywilsher4165

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@@klazyy641 Got-it!

Outstanding in your field...farmer. Your choice to leave the corporate job for “Just a few acres”, prob extended your life and enhanced your happiness. Blessings Pete 👍🇺🇸🚜...

I'm trying to get into the small farming world in Ontario Canada. Your video's have always given me a lot information on what avenues to go after, and order of operation. Thank you for always making these great video's! I just bought a bush hog 2 week's ago, and a 4 furrow plow, to start working my land. Need to make some pasture. Then id like to start making some hay, sell it locally. Then with the food taken care of, start getting livestock. You and your family have been an inspiration to my family and I. So from the bottom of my heart, Thank you Pete!

Practical business advice and instruction done extremely well. As a teacher, you are a natural. 👍🏻👍🏻 I was reminded of one of the scenes from the 1939 movie, The Wizard of Oz: The horse of a different color. I was pleasantly amused at the multiple shirt changes. 😁😎. My wife and I always look forward to your videos.

Not everyone is going to be a farmer, but everyone is able to learn from a farmer. Learning is important, for everyone, as is farming.

My grandmother grew up in western PA and said “kerflewy” when things went awry. Thanks for the memory and your story. You are a wise & funny guy. Blessings to the homestead.

I Love your videos good job Pete

HI Pete, I've been a subscriber from almost the beginning. I'm always looking forward to the next video. You make working on your equipment look easy. My question is , did it take longer to fix the 756 or to change your T-shirts. Ha Ha . Keep the videos coming. Thank you and good luck.

@choirmom78

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🤣😂🤣😂

@brendadecker8812

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Go green go white.

That was great Pete. We who watch you regularly are fortunate to have you share so much of your farm life with us. I think you would have been a great chool or college teacher as your verbal style is so easy to follow and you keep us interested. I thank you always for your time and "lessons" Jim Robinson

@bradhornbrook8472

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So humble, I have fallen asleep twice listening to Pete tell his story. The man definitely has natural talent of story telling.

Pete, I can't say enough how I enjoy all your videos. Thanks for being out there and doing what you do.

Pete I just wanted to take a moment and tell you how much my wife and I enjoy your channel. We normally watch our favorite KZread channels on our smart tv, which means we can not comment directly from our recliners. You provide content that is both philosophical and DIY driven, both entertaining. I was raised on a farm and determined early in life I did not want to be a farmer. Perhaps that was my motivation to go to law school and practice law these past 45 years. In 2001 we bought a farm and though I am still fully engaged in my law practice, I find myself enjoying the different type of work that farming brings each day. I congratulate you on how you built a sustainable and profitable small farm. We have 121 acres, 75 are tillable and the rest in woods, creeks, and infrastructure. We let someone else crop the farm on shares, which allows me the freedom to play "farmer" as my energy and time permit. I also enjoy your wardrobe changes. I didn't count the number of different university t-shirts you wore on this one but it may be a new personal best. I haven't seen a Vanderbilt shirt yet. Let me know if you have one. Have a great day and thanks again for an enjoyable channel.

I spent my first 9 years on a farm so now at 77 years old I really enjoy and appreciate your channel . Thank you very much for all your work and sharing life.

I grew up on a farm in Kansas in the 50s and my father made a decent living on 180 acres with pigs and chickens on the side and wheat for the main crop. One of my first cousins is still farming and farms 6 to 8 Thousand acres and spent half $1 million on a new combine. This is how much farming has changed and the scale of a farm you need to make a good living

Great video Pete I no where your coming from I was self employed contractor for over 40yrs. Started with 1,000. In the bank the rest is history put away for retirement, and paid self employment taxes etc. And now I get a decent s.s . Check each month .

Pete you bring ALOT of wisdom to KZread. Your values and beliefs remind me of my Grandfather. Thanks for sharing 🙏

My great uncle is turning 81 and he's still working at the same place he has for 63 years

I started my family's own ag business 2 years ago. Since 2020 when we hatched a little bit of stuff (quail and some ducks) my dad did all the advertising and I did all the dirty work since then we expanded from 20 quail,a few layers and 2 ducks to 7 ducks, 12 laying hens, lots of meat birds for our own consumption and lots of quail. We also upgraded from a small styraphom and plastic incubator to our 1056 chicken egg incubator and hatcher. It wasn't too profitable till I took over advertising (took over since february) and currently at $900 profit for a hobby (as a sidenote I'm only 16). I'm now gonna try to make my uncles farm profitable (if he keeps it) and I'm currently waiting for farm prices to crash for my parents to buy a farm. After my week of forced vacation I plan on testing hemp bedding vs shavings bedding vs straw/hay

Loved this video, Pete! And the number of different shirts you wore was probably almost as much work as fixing the tractor! I stopped counting-LOL! Having changed jobs/careers myself, I absolutely agree that the experience of the first job really sets the tone for the energy and commitment that's required for the second. A supportive spouse is huge, too! Your channel is one of the brightest spots on KZread, Pete! Thank you!

@dnorthup65

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17 I think :)

@bellonamars2541

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I counted 13 shirts. He is sweating quite a bit, but he is also messing with us.

@dnorthup65

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I have too much time on my hands. 16 shirts Auburn 0:02 Cal State? 0:18 Cecil College 0:38 Boise State 1:19 Ohio State 2:12 Univ of Iowa 3:52 Oregon 6:14 Texas 7:38 Huntington 13:22 Michigan 14:33 OU Sooners 18:01 UC Irvine 19:50 Unv di Bologna 22:10 FL Gators 22:54 Michigan State 24:15 Michigan 25:12

@cathyfail2354

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@@dnorthup65 Great job, I missed a few.

Hey Pete - absolutely a home run video! Love'd the way you carried on working on the tractor while telling us how you got started. You and I are pretty much the same age (1967) and I worked the majority of my life in the Investment field - currently working in Insolvency but I can tell you that if I could have taken those steps you did - I too would be farming today (and a side kick of carpentry) though I would likely be doing more of a chicken / egg and veggie production. I truly admire your skill sets and the quality of your videos are pretty much professional quality. Your wife is a sweet lady and if I were closer I would purposely drive to the farmers market and tell you what a wonderful contribution you have made to those who are likely considering making a career in the farming sector - I can't think of another KZreadr who just speaks the way life is - the up's and down's - I always smile when I see a new Just A Few Acres Farm being posted. God Bless.

I have people on a regular basis asking me for my beef and chicken. Unfortunately, I’m a disabled veteran and while my heart is in it, my body won’t allow it. I had dreams to do what you do, but I’ve resigned myself to being happy with a small handful of sheep, cattle and poultry. Keep up the great work Pete. You’ve always got a smile and a positive attitude that keeps me poking along.

The change also fuels your overall health. If you're happy/active, that's richer than being miserable/sluggish and having more money than you know what to do with. You couldn't have a better business partner either. And, it's nice knowing you're making dad proud too.

Absolutely in a league of your own. So inspirational to even a South African city dweller like myself. Always enjoy your highly informative content and unique presentation.👏👏👏

Pete: Loved the "We don't need no stinkin' --etc. " quote. You belie a hipness absent from your normal discourse! You and Hillary deserve all the kudos you receive!

Pete, I've been watching you for a little over a year now and for years I have wanted to get into farming. For a little while I was unsure of how I would get there but with videos like these ones that you post you have helped me put the pieces together. Right now I'm a young plumber about to get married. It won't be long now and we will be starting up our farm part time. Alot of that is thanks to you. From up here in Ontario, Thanks

You should send this video to every member of Congress, most have no idea what a small business is and what it takes to be successful!

It’s always nice to reflect Pete. Thank you for being so thoughtful and caring. Farming is hard work and takes someone with the right attitude towards the natural course of life. You are a model farmer!

Even as a child (who unfortunately grew up in the city) I was fascinated by agriculture. When we went on "farm vacations", I was always in the barn, in the pasture or in the field, helping out wherever I could and was allowed to. However, my increasingly strong desire to become a farmer ultimately failed because of my comparatively high demands on the character of a potential husband. I met my husband, who also did not come from farming, at the age of 19 while I was working as an operating room nurse in Vienna, where he was studying at the time. After the birth of our first child, I stayed at home out of conviction. Due to my husband's work, we were forced to be apart for a long time and have a "weekend relationship." At some point, we were finally reunited as a family, albeit in a different state. As much as my husband liked his new job there, I became increasingly unhappy, the proverbial ceiling fell on my head. Not because I was a mom, a threesome, kids and a housewife at the time, but much more because I couldn't connect for an entire decade. At some point my husband also became seriously ill, which took a lot out of all of us, but luckily turned out well. After about seven years, together with my first born daughter, I created a poster with the pros and cons of changing residence to "convince" my husband. I felt that he would at least resist and rather refuse, since he really liked his job, to which he could walk, and he wanted to buy the apartment he had at the time after ten years. Since I met my husband, we actually both wanted to return to his home (state). But unfortunately, he couldn't find a job there after graduation, and so began our years-long and rocky journey across the states. Throughout the years, I never gave up on the dream of owning a small farm. In the end, our search took four years, and with a lot of luck, we finally found our little paradise! Today we live on our farm with our four children, two cats and a dog. In the beginning, we found fields full of knee-high weeds. Neighbors helped us clear the whole area with a tractor and level the fields. The whole family then sowed pasture grass by hand, and we first mowed it with a brush cutter. We are gradually acquiring the machines and everything else that is needed, as soon as the money is there. No one could have foreseen that we would find ourselves in an economic crisis now, of all times. As time went on, I noticed more and more parallels with your life. In our case, however, the driving force was me, who desperately wanted a farm and didn't think my husband would ever find so much joy in one. Thanks to the platform MyHeritage, to my complete surprise, I "got" a large family in Sweden, did not know that my uncle's first child lived there. I was born on February 6 and was 37 years old the day you hung up your job. We bought our farm almost three years ago when we were both also in our mid-forties. By local standards we own a small farm and in the future we want cows (original Braunvieh), pigs (Berkshire and/or Mangalica), chickens (a native old breed, not hybrids), a pair of geese, a pair of ducks and maybe sheep, but only on a small scale and for self-sufficiency, because in our country the conditions for commercial farming are anything but "attractive." The big agricultural economists of Europe are promoted and the small farmers are driven to the wall with sometimes completely nonsensical regulations. A farmer friend of mine, also an academic career changer, sells beef from her farm and could produce much more of it (high demand), but it wouldn't be worth it because of taxes and requirements and she would have less on her bottom line despite the extra effort. Many farmers prefer to lease land rather than buy it because it is cheaper. In my childhood, farmers with 25 cattle, 20 pigs and a few chickens could still live off their farm alone, but those days are unfortunately long gone.

I'm an old retired guy, Pete, but listening to your business development insight gets me excited. Fortunately, I can discern reality from fantasy. Great video, my friend. Thank you.

Very clever to keep us watching and learning by mixing it at the same time!!! Looove watching you and family and animals. From England x

Hi Pete! Ii'm from Sunny South Africa! I just want to thank you for the very informative tips on farming and especially the series ofvtips on how to make farming sustainable and enjoyable! I am extremely impressed with the way you and Hillary are co-farming as equal partners! That's one of the most beautiful thing to see a husband and wife do together! I know this is very, very, very hard work, and therefore I want to wish you all possible success! George Mc Donald, Stellenbocsh, South Africa

This man is an overflow of intelligence. Growing chicken, pig, cattle, repairing farm equipment, still have brain power left to do KZread. After a few episodes, I begin to suspect Pete was not just a farmer. Farming is hard work. I bet Pete can still do architecture and make a lot more money. Corporate America doesn’t need people with high intelligence, it just needs people who can get along.

This is what America is completely all about. Reminds me of what Jefferson, Washington and Madison were all about.

Hi Pete, I enjoyed the video very much, I went through a similar process of change as you did. When we left the family farm when i was younger, my Grandfather asked me what I wanted to do if I did not take over the farm. I told him that I wanted to farm and as we went through the years, I decided to become a Funeral Director instead. I have been in Funeral Service for more than 40yrs to the day, but I still Farm as well. Like my Grandfather told me on that cold rainy day in 1972, Farmer or Funeral Director I will always be planting some thing. Keep up the good work, and the videos.

Pete, I loved this video. By the way, I bought your book, "One Year and a Day on Just a Few Acres" over the internet from a thrift store in CA (I live in PA). I loved every minute that I spent reading it at the beach during our summer vacation. Do you and Hilary take your family on vacations? If so, do you get someone to cover your farm duties while you are gone? The farmer I worked for in the '80s and -90s never took his family on vacations, instead he would do fun things on the farm for his family, like providing a bushel of Maryland steamed crabs for a front yard party. And the kids all rode horses that he let them buy at auction. So I'm sure they all had great memories that weren't necessarily spending a week at a beach renting someone else's house...

This was awesome! Thank you!

You bring back memories of the Home Improvement show with Tim Allen always wearing all the different collage shirts . 😁 Love it .

Loved all of it!

Enjoyed your journey- thank you !

At least 6 jerseys into the video, and you have that tractor on the road! Great job. I thoroughly enjoyed hearing yours and Hillary's trip to the farm. Very interesting h ow you both grew. Thank you so much for sharing. I am so pleased to hear that you both are where you want to be in life....The sacrifices were definitely worth it. Take care, and God Bless. Bev in Maine

This was great! Thanks!

thanks for sharing Pete, love the content.

Another great video Pete, thanks. Have a good day!

Very motivating!!

Thank you for the video.

Jamaica 🇯🇲 here your family beginning is very inspiring to me I am a grandmother and I have a small business for my home and I started very small and now it’s growing with God’s grace I always watch you at home and at the market and I love your jokes I wish you every success in all you and your family do

just love your videos !!! keep them coming, so inspiring

thanks Pete very informative, look forward to your next video

Great video, as always!! 🚜💕

Thank you Pete! 😊

Thanks Pete 😍

Inspiring as usual. Thanks Pete

Another awesome video!! Thank you!!

Another excellent video Pete!

Thanks for sharing

Nice hearing you explain everything. Thanks

Great video thanks for sharing.

Enjoyed both! Thanks

Love your videos pete!

Great video

Great video. Thanks

Thanks for sharing! Very interesting!

Thanks for the video, always enjoy watching!

Great job Pete, always enjoy your videos.

Love your videos.

Thank you for sharing your stories , love them !! Watching every video from Holland ;-)

Thank you Pete!

Great video !!!!

Another great video! Love your work and IH tractors.

Great advice, and great story! Thanks!

Great episode!

Great video, thanks for posting it.

Sage advice! Well done video. Thanks for sharing…

Love your videos Pete !

This is a great video!

Thanks Pete, great video.

Very interesting. Thank You

Fantastic video, as usual, Pete!

I loved this talk and tinker session

Thank you for sharing your interesting farming journey Pete!

Thank you Pete for another informative and interesting VIdeo/

Pete, great video, thanks for sharing!

Always fascinating and a pleasure…thanks!!

Very informative. Thanks👍🏽🙂🙃

I love your videos. Great way to help clear the mind and something nice to listen to on lunch!

Loved this video - the combo approach...unique as it was interesting - thx Farmer Pete!

Brilliant video. Thanks for sharing.

Pete! Your experiences are a blessing not only for your family, but for the whole.The uplift-ment alone is worth the watch! Keep on keeping on!! And thank you from Georgia!

Great Video!

Glad to see a new video , me and my kids been waiting .

Thank you for sharing. Keep up with your farm.

Another awesome video - thanks Pete and family :)

Great information ❤️

An interesting story. Thanks.

Wow, just wow, Pete. You are truly inspiring!

Thank you Pete.