Mosswood Farm Store

I'm going to the Lots of neat, He's posting toilets, bakery, The guy really knows his plants. Excellent teacher, excellent speaker. I'm really, really excited about bringing him on the channel so, hold tight, I got all kinds of exciting stuff for Woop! Isn'this place adorable? Coffee, pastries. Alright, here comes the good stuff. It says closed, I think they open up in T minus five minutes. We're going in. We're here. I parked my truck and I actually delivered Joe some plants. And you can see we've got the Mosswood Farm Store and we brought him some chipotacabas, some cherry the Rio Grande, So those are some of the things he's pushing up here this way. You can see a cute little farm store, great music, organic snacks. I mean, I've seen cyclists pulling up here to get something to eat, locals, great little spot. If you guys are in Mckenoke, you definitely stop in and check them out and, So hold tight. Alright Joe, you not only have a rocking garden out back here and, I mean, what's this thing going on behind us? Tell me what we got. This is my family business Mosswood Farm Store and Bake House here in Mckenope and about 10 years ago, my mother-in-law bought this old 1910 house and we decided to turn it into an eco-friendly general store is the way it started. And we had mostly recycled clothes and seeds and garden tools and things And we slowly morphed into a bakery and now a coffee shop and we still have little elements of all of the original, but mostly what's making us money now is pastries, baked goods, coffee and things So that is the main focus of the store and that is the bread and butter, so to speak. No one intended, but what my passion is the gardening. So we're using this as a platform to create the demonstration site that we're, we posted in the videos. This is my livelihood. My wife runs the store. My mother-in-law owns the store. It's definitely a local family business and we try and inform the community to our passions and to open minds to eco-friendly gardening and living in general. So that's what the whole place is about. Cool. So you go to a farmer's market and you have events here, right? We have events here. The next one I think is going to be coming up in January. We'll be having a homesteading event that will go throughout an entire day. We'll have about nine different workshops, mushroom log inoculation, garden building, composting, survival preparedness, storm evacuation preparedness. We're going to be covering this year because of the recent storms that we've dealt with and things Yeah, I mean we cover everything that we possibly can. And eventually we plan on having a not-for-profit school based here that will be a nature immersion school that will cover permaculture and native plant identification and construction using locally harvested materials. All of those things are in the future for the development of the space and that'll be dubbed the Deep South Folk School when that actually manifests itself eventually. Sweet. But yeah, this has been my life for 10 years and I would never look back. I think I've got an extra 10 or maybe even 15 years on most people that are running the rat race around there doing my own thing back here and taking it easy and at my own pace. Very cool. What farmer's market was at? Gainesville? So we're actually in the middle of possibly not doing that farmer's market anymore. We've changed the setup over there and have thrown some people into a new space that's not getting any business and we're probably not going to continue. Might not work out long term. Yeah, so we're thinking about other farmer's markets and concentration more on what we've got going here and the potential that we have to build something We used to have a farmer's market here and it lasted for a few years and then sort of trickled away but we're trying to reinvigorate that idea more local, Cool. Alright guys, you heard Joe. Get out here, vote with your dollar, support some of this awesome snacks, what he has going on here. Come in, check this place out. He has to be one of the most loving, sharing, knowledgeable guys. Literally I know. He's got a lot to share, a lot of knowledge, very personable. I gotta say Joe, since the first time I met you've been teaching me stuff so check him out. Support his store please. Vote with your dollar. Pound it.