Initial Garden Assessment & Tool Preparation

hey there folks this is Josh Stoney Ridge farmer welcome back to the farm it's another beautiful day here in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains and we got our second frost of the year last night so the temperatures dropped well below 30 degrees last night and we got frost that means that this mess has got to come down the garden is kaput for the year so I've got a couple friends coming to visit me a couple of other youtubers you're gonna have a good time we'll meet these guys we're gonna put them to work here on the farm I told them if you're gonna come visit we got work to do man so we're gonna have some fun getting the work done playing with some new tools working in the woods working in the garden and having a good time all right whoa [Music] new h-bomb Kaka bars everywhere and it's chilly my nose is running guys I told you we were gonna be using a cool new tool we're gonna be using the big tool rack today to haul around our tools and all of our fence posts and all that stuff so it's gonna be a good time I actually have some shitake mushrooms in here in the shop drying I need a bigger shop look at all that stuff everywhere let's open up those real quick who shiitakes probably good Oh another eight hours of drying to do on those guys and then we can store them indefinitely in jars that's what we do you've got some shiitake mushrooms growing on the other side of the farm when we get a cold snap like this and it's rainy the shiitakes start coming in droves so we've probably picked another five-gallon bucket of shiitake mushrooms enough to last us for the whole year for probably a month here in the garage we finally got it put together it takes about two and a half hours to put together me and miss Estonia rich kind of tag-teamed it this is a tool rack that basically takes your tractor and turns it into a UTV and it's got tons of storage for different types of tools chain saws hammers whatever you want to store on it you can store on it and it's like the bed of a little pickup truck pretty cool we're gonna hook it up to the Massey Ferguson 240 tractor since we don't have the John Deere now this thing's pretty cool it can be an extension of your bed on your UTV in other words I've got a 2-inch receiver I can also hook to the rear of this machine or to the front of this machine it's a really versatile tool it's going to be a good time you'll see it a lot more here on the farm we're gonna be working with big tool rack and hopefully we'll be working with…