Connerty Meadows Farm is a small family farm located south of Ottawa, Canada's capital city, near Kemptville, Ontario, Canada. We do a lot of things on our farm from making soap, gardening, animal husbandry, homesteading, raising kids, homeschooling and life in general. We try very hard to make sure our content has some learning features in every video. We also ensure our videos are safe for kids to watch and learn about farm life as well.
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Hi this is so awesome!!! We are currently trying to find a way to get a surge belly milker, but struggling to find one online that isn’t $2000+ Do you know the make/model of your vacuum pump?
I disliked your video because you are ignorant to the haskap berry>>>>>
Hi thank you so much for your video and recipe. Could I ask a question re measurements. Is the milk weights the frozen measurements or before its frozen? 😊
Hello I am from SoCal.. I did not know they eat each other's eggs. Tropical milkweed is most prevalent here and some people have narrowleaf which I find are harder to grow.
Make it happen captain !!
Nice farm. Unless you live over 5 miles from your beehives the bees will always find their way back if they are field bees. If they are worker bees they will find their way back from front of hive. Not a good idea putting boxes flat on ground. you pickup dirt on the edges and also crush bees. Best to put box on it's side. Use a cloth over supers when taking them to the honey house. You are attracting robber bees from other hives including wild hives and may trigger a robbing situation. 😊
God Bless all farmers !
Lol still working on my first cut brake downs . Life
GL you guys got this
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Thanks!!
Good luck 🤞 hope all goes well! Your the salt of this earth respect
Thank you! Just a few more days of no rain then we can bale it up!
Wow! GReat science. Great videography! Wow! Found my first egg yesterday. Thanks
Yeah so happy you found one. Enjoy the experience.
I’m new to soap making. Two batches so far and I’m excited to try pine tar. 6:55 why can’t you just put all of the sodium hydroxide into it? Does the soap smell better than pine tar out of the can?
If you just dump the sodium hydroxide in all at once you will scorch the milk. If you were using water you would pour it all in at once but not for milk. Never all at once. May I also suggest you do a few more batches before pine tar. Pine tar is a very advanced soap to make, a lot can (and usually does) go wrong. If you dont know what to expect or how to correct it you could be in a tight spot. Try to get at least 30-40 batches down before doing pine tar. It is in no way a beginners soap, esp with the addition of goats milk. The smell does eventually mellow out, I find it smells like a campfire by around 8+ weeks
Nice design! Thanks for sharing.
Thank you!
Very interesting! You have it down to a science with all the equipment, pots & tools! It was nice seeing the 2 of you doing this together! Thank you (from New Jersey, USA)!
Thank you. We have been making cheese for 12ish years now together. All things are better together. Some of our pots and supplies are from a restaurant supply store and some are from outlet stores. Some are from cheesemaking supply stores. We’ve just kind of gathered things through the years that work best for us.
Loved the photographs!! Thanks for putting the time that they begin! Would be great if you could do a copy & paste of the photos and put into a separate video 😊
Great idea. I may have to do that some day.
Can you use why from yogurt or only cheese
Any whey will work. I just use it from cheese as it’s what I make the most of
I wonder who was the first person to work this out.
I can’t tell you how many times we have wondered this to. Like do different cheese just come about by someone screwing up another kind of cheese? Seriously it’s fascinating!
Looks great! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks we are getting ripe berries and it’s wonderful!
I am so thrilled to have watched your video. Im going to give this a try
Enjoy! Thanks for watching
Yes the war against the birds! 😂😡
💯 but it looks like I’m winning now!
Make a blueberry pie and put tons of sugar in it to make every one diabetic.
Not enough berries this year to do anything with but eat them fresh. And fresh fruit pies hardly need any sugar by the way.
Where did you buy the large spoon with holes in it?
Cheesmaking supply store. This is the place I purchase all my cheesmaking supplies from and the book I reference to glengarrycheesemaking.on.ca/collections/stainless-steel-tools/products/stainless-steel-cheese-ladle
Hi, thanks for the video, i am new to beekeeping, one winter under my belt. This is the first video i've seen where you put the honey back into the feeder as apposed to leaving a super on for them. Interesting. How much honey did you put in the ensure it lasts them through the winter??
So we start by feeding them one whole feeders worth of honey then move onto sugar water. Whatever is not consumed before it gets cold gets taken back out. They move down into their hive what should last them the winter. You don’t leave liquid on the top for the winter. You put insulation up there. Usually if there a nice day in Feb or March we throw some fondant on just to make sure they have enough resources to get them through that last bit till things start to bloom
I miss having strawberry rhubarb pie. I don't have any growing here
Awww so sorry! See if someone can split a plant for you.
Hi! I am trying this recipe this week.
It’s delicious! ☺️. If you find it to strong just water it down (or ice)
Can you make a video of your electric fence setup?
What part? The electric netting? You purchase it at any local feed store. Then you simply need a solar powered fencer. The one in this video is by Gallagher. There’s a green ground wire and a red live wire. You attach the red wire to the fence. You pound a metal rod or three into the ground and attach the green wire and your turn it on and your done. That’s it. It’s that easy. (For this unit). We do have a few have made units if those are the ones you are inquiring about?
Well this sounds refreshing!! I need to plant some mint this year, I'll remember to contain it 😅
It’s super refreshing. You can even pour it into popsicle molds and make popsicles to be even more refreshing! And yes contain your mint and never let it go to flower 😂
Thank you so much for sharing this!! I can’t wait to get a couple more items, and then give it a try!!
You are very welcome! Any questions feel free to ask!
One of my favorite videos!! So full of great information, thank you!!
We love it to! Such a versatile cheese. Have fun making your own.
Absolutely adorable. I’ve saved some chicken feed bags for this very purpose. Great video. Well done.
Thank you. These are super sturdy and water resistance. We love using them (and making them 😉)
I have no experience with mint but I heard horror stories about Lemon Balm spreading its roots and growing everywhere. I was very careful to keep it contained in a pot. I was never warned that it spreads just as vigorously by seed. I pull up seedlings every time I see them. Now that I am wiser. I NEVER allow the Lemon Balm flower. Every time the plant fills out, I cut it back to almost nothing. I love iced Lemon Balm tea.
Yeah it can be a lot of no fun! I cut the flower off of pretty much everything in the mint family now except the catnip that’s at the barn for the cats. They enjoy it there and the animals keep it mowed down for the most part. My front lawn though has become mint, thankfully I put the animals on the front lawn and they enjoy eating it. But yes lesson learned. Don’t do it! 😂
Fantastic video! Thank you!
Thank you. I hope it was helpful for you.
I loved watching your video this morning. My favorite part was watching your little ones helping.
Thank you for watching.
I grew up with lots of yummy rhubarb in our garden in souther NSW. I love it! Stewed rhubarb and apple with lashings of cream was our favorite way to eat it. I love the idea of making it into a drink! Thank you for sharing this with us.
Thank you. I find at some point you always get sick of eating it so making it into a juice is a great way to enjoy it and enjoy it in the middle of winter. I hope you like the drink as much as I do!
Learned of your channel from the collaboration list @MorethanFarmers
Thanks for joining us. ☺️
How much did this coop build cost?
I’ve answered this question in the comments section for a few others.
I love your t-shirt!!! Do you happen to sell them?
Awww thanks! I got one for me and one for each of my girls from our local Peavy Mart (use to be TSC) here in Canada. But this was about two years ago now. If you were local I would happily suggest someone who could make them for you. maybe looking locally and seeing if there is someone who can make them in your area.
Great information about the scale. Really appreciate you showing the scales and how to use them. So if I have a number in grams like 1530.87g ; do I round it up to 1531 so that I can weigh on the scale? Trying to figure out what I do with the decimal numbers in the recipes?
Yes you would round up. Except if you are weighing lye in soap making then round down
@@connerty_meadows_farm Thank you so much for replying! Can you give an example of rounding down for the Lye?
If your number was 1530.87g then for lye you would just make it 1530g
Loved your model!
Thank you. Simple and strong! ☺️
Thank you for sharing this 😊
You are welcome. I hope it’s helpful for you
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You are welcome
I love monterrey jack cheese!!
Thomas loves it to. I don’t like the heat but it’s fun to make!
thanks for sharing the build.
Thanks for watching, hope you got some ideas
Great video! Thank you! ❤
Thanks for watching. I hope it was helpful
Great video. I'm new to growing potatoes, what is the purpose of the straw? Is it for weed control, or to keep moisture in the mounds, or something else?
Thanks for watching. We use the straw for multiple things. One weed control. Two we are on a well so I have to be mindful of my water usage so the straw helps keep things moist longer. Three as potatoes grow sometimes even though I have mounded up around them they will push up to the surface so the straw helps keep them covered and away from the sun light if potatoes are not covered they will get green sides and those can be dangerous to eat so keeping them covered is a must and the straw really helps with that
Thank you very much for all the useful info and tips . What do you do with so much whey ? I use it to mix bread doughs or mix it with plant irrigation water to combat alkalinity in soil .
We use it for cooking, in the garden, on the compost, for the pigs, ferment our chicken feed with it, in our septic, just to name a few
That granny sewing machine will handle leather. lol Is it a Singer 1591?
Yeah I love her! I will never go back to a "modern" sewing machine. She's a Singer 15-90. Her stand is from a Singer 115 (I have that head tucked away as well). So technically I have two of them. :-)
It's really nice chicken coop
Thank you ☺️. Our chickens quite enjoy it to.
Thank you so much for this video. Love you guys and that you are a team. I will definitely look for more. I’m on my first cheddar while watching this.
You got this! Thanks so much. We do everything together on the farm when we can but sometimes we divide an conquer.