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[Music] hey folks this is Josh Downey rich farmer welcome to the farm blog today today we are at Turtle Island we are up here at Eustace Conway's place and we are visiting a fun event called families learning together so I want to take you guys around kind of show you what's going on all sorts of little boost little things little setups here artists and tasks these guys want to be on the video right here what are you guys do tell me what you do like to see bears that are dressed with loved ones clothing than past okay or angel legacy berries that are made to the weight of a baby that was awesome cool check him out all right guys so let's check out the next booth here and what do you make it over here what you got okay nice right from you what's awesome these little boxes are here handmade little boxes for candles as a critter anything you want to put in them yeah that's awesome good stuff let me get over here so let's fellow over here is whittlin with a hatchet seems like a good way to lose a knuckle what you making over here but look at that what do you make it making a spoon out of walnut nice now he's been whittling away at this one about half the mornings there right not too long with other stuff at other places visited all the great vendors and everything awesome awesome so we're up here in Boone North Carolina and families living together and Eustace Conway's Turtle Island so I'm Josh Stoney Ridge farmer at the on YouTube you're gonna go you're gonna be on YouTube here in a little bit awesome awesome whoo so all kinds of in there's all kinds of artists and crafts going on see these guys over here doing some leather work some beadwork just some fun stuff what are you guys doing over here cordage cordage alright this is poplar bark this is y'all come make fishing line out of it think you want it cordage is an integral part of our society and people don't appreciate how much in their lives he's making cordage the old way cordage is cloth cordage is rope cordage --is he's taking natural products and making cords out of it stuff you pulled out of the woods just more stuff you'll see here in Boone North Carolina turtle our again guys this is the annual open house here families learning together at Turtle Island I'm supporting this because it's a nonprofit it's an awesome cause and it's a great place to take your family and show them really really cool stuff what a super cool festival let's go check out some more stuff so you can go ride on a mule pulled wagon I swear it and mules are very friendly they're a little bit sweaty right now cuz they've been working back in here we got some knife sharpening stuff going on all these old buildings very very impressive old buildings you're gonna have to come up here to see these buildings we're actually going to be visiting this place sometime in the next couple of months we're gonna come up here on our own and talk with Eustace walk around the place talk about each building if we possibly can we're gonna spend some time with mr. Conway I can't wait it's gonna be really cool let's go over here and check out some live music just a word a note this is Boone North Carolina this is the mountains of North Carolina and it rains and it gets muddy so if you do decide to come to this event don't come in flip-flops wear some mud boots because it might get muddy and bring some rain gear cause it might get rainy these boys over here and grinning [Music] folks are even people laying around taking naps that's Desiree this is how laid-back it is she's one of the promoters running the show she's running the show beating the ground so much fun stuff going on here guys this is a big pile of coal and that's what they're heating up to heat the metal up to use on the Forge awesome before we leave this building I gotta show you guys look at the craftsmanship here look at these beams unbelievable unbelievable we got to do something like that on our farm we got to get a sawmill got to so we're gonna run out to the sawmill we're gonna get us an interview with Eustace I don't think they're running a sawmill right now we're gonna go out there bro talk to them a little bit get a little bit of footage out there running some chainsaws first time meeting Eustace Conway Josh Draper this is Eustace Conway he's gonna be you we're up here at Turtle Island preserve I guess except that what Carlisle and preserve yeah education center of a different twist old Tommy ways and we're specialized in today and a large gathering the crowds coming in so we're gonna have like 500 people come in and learn traditional ways we're gonna have a lot of demonstrations I'm gonna start teaching a forestry class here in a few minutes just on felling trees and working up trees and the forest economy but there are so many things you can't see it all oh yeah absolutely we've been riding around looking at the buildings walking around I say riding walking around looking at the buildings just now a horse and buggy just went by and we're standing at your sawmill here yeah buddy you're gonna be running a sawmill later today and I might if I get some good recruits so we kind of get all the trees down that we want then we might move into the sawmill and if it rains so hot we've got the lumber shed there we might go over there and even short lumber so we're kind of prepared for whatever comes our way today nice now this is a once a year event that you guys put on it's a fundraiser gotcha and most people don't know that Turtle Island Preserve is a non-profit you guys used to teach young people and older people alike anybody wants to learn yeah anybody wants to learn the old ways have at least attention span this big yeah use a shovel well if you don't know we'll teach you good stuff well thanks usus thanks for having us I appreciate you taking the chance yep that's awesome I look forward to doing more stuff with you it's gonna be cool it's just so hard to describe the special feeling that being at a place like this will give you thanks a lot for watching the vlog today I appreciate you we'll see you next time on the Stoney Ridge farm this is a little bit of a different blog a little bit of fun really enjoying ourselves here just something SuperDuper special check out this swing right here just a good time a good old country time thanks a lot see you next time [Music] guys we actually ran into some fans of the YouTube channel so they're very very quiet so we're gonna end this video with a nice blue yeah let's do one more time ready 1 2 3 wooo it's hard it's hard to describe the special feeling something like this will give you [Music]