 We are on the road heading three and a half hours upstate to a dairy farm that is for sale. Hopefully there are no sale towers otherwise you guys can watch me freak out again. So this farm is 180 acres. It is an operating dairy farm right now. It is organic certified and it's for sale. You know the property is currently being leased and it is up and running but what I'm more excited about are the two people involved. The real estate agent is actually a former dairy man. He's retired, he's older. I think he's in his late 70s and he was actually interested in consulting with us and helping us along. I mean I don't think there's a better guy to help us to be honest. This guy probably knows more about farming than everyone on YouTube combined and the other guy buys organic beef cattle for a butcher shop. So you know the two people out here that are selling the property and that own the property involved you know couldn't be more crucial to potentially helping us move along with this business. So I'm excited to drive up here today to meet these guys and see what they have to say. I didn't actually sleep at all last night which is one reason I'm not too enthusiastic about doing this drive. I was worried I was gonna be tired but the reason I didn't sleep I think was because I took a probiotic supplement and in hindsight the lactobacillus strains probably gave me an allergic reaction so that's probably why I didn't sleep. So when I woke up I had some supplements, some Nat Glutathione and ubiquitol and I feel like I could run through a wall so I don't think falling asleep is gonna be an issue on this drive. Losing my sanity however might be. I'm trying to stay calm boys. I've missed two exits so far because I've been filming videos in my car. So instead of a nice three and a half hour drive it's looking like it's gonna be four hours so we're gonna stop filming. We're gonna focus on driving because if I miss another exit I might actually lose it. Might actually lose it. Although there were quite a few Wi-Fi towers on the way up here as soon as we got into this specific town I lost cell service and it was kind of ironic because losing cell service was what I wanted but then I couldn't use my cell phone. Thankfully this is like a complete dead zone. This farm is over 200 acres already certified organic. They already have some cattle. They already have so much dairy equipment. This is four hours upstate. Well three and a half hours from me I made a few wrong turns and it took me quite a while to get here. Four and a half hours to actually drive up here. Spent most of the day driving and then when I got up here a couple hours talking to the person that owned the property. A really cool guy talked to the real estate agent a bit but this guy that owns this property also has another farm that's a miler to a way that has much more acreage but that farm is about two million dollars way over our budget except you know in a year or two from now if we really want to grow we can buy that farm as well if we want more acreage. It looks like we have everything we need here to make this work on a small scale. Get you guys dairy, get you guys eggs sooner than later and when we want to scale up and get the full butcher operation out here and get things fully up and running it's looking good. So right now they already have these cows rotation grazing. You guys can see they have the fence that's set up. They have the cows out there. So it looks like they have the cows. What do they have like a one or two acre paddock right now and they just have them graze it all down and they haven't really lined up. That's all they need. All they need is 20 cows to do so on your cows and make it as big as a small scale. Oh how quickly things change. As optimistic as I was that this was not near any Wi-Fi or any cell structures I spoke to the couple inside. Thankfully they showed up while we were looking at the property because you know I took a look inside the dairy barn I took a look around I was like hey this looks pretty good I can definitely make this work although it is kind of dumpy. Really really sweet couple in their early 30s they basically told me look this property is way overpriced for the amount of money you're looking to spend you can get twice as much acreage much nicer facilities something that's really ready and up and running. So she gave me a list of websites that she's been looking at. I actually told her hey listen I'll pay you commission hourly if you want to give me a list of properties that you've been looking at that you have in mind too. So this is definitely not going to be the property I think one because they would probably have to give them a three or four month notice and two I don't think the guys are going to go low enough on this property for me to want to buy it and you know three if I can get a property that's closer to New York City that's higher acres that's a better fit we're going to find out so you know we're getting closer you know as we go on this journey looking through these farms you know we're learning a lot very quickly and I'm looking forward to seeing what properties I'm going to get a hold of within the next week or two and then hopefully we can close in on something before the end of July hypothetically get something that we can move into a lot sooner doesn't have people already living there I mean so that's the update we have more of an idea of what the market's like what is out there what we can actually find logistically I know exactly now what I need to start up the operation how much capital I need how much down payment I need for the initial farm you know what stuff we need to buy so I'm really optimistic you know once I get home I'm gonna I'm gonna look up some properties get a list of stuff see what we can dial in on if you guys you know want to support me of course there there's a stuff all down in the comments below you guys do want to support the farm venture in any capacity whatsoever you guys can go to the website skybluefarm.com and sign up for the newsletter and I'll try to get in I should have an email set up for the site already info at skybluefarm.com the only thing I really wish is that I got started on this a little bit sooner you know I wish I kept looking back in February and March and that I was able to figure things out and really dialing on a property I got another long four-hour drive home so we're gonna head back now overall thoughts on the day you know I'm not really sure how much I actually need these outside people and that I should be able to figure out a lot of this stuff on my own you know and if we get the right property that has a lot of the infrastructure already set up you know we won't have to worry about building too many facilities buying too much outside stuff and the initial operation shouldn't really take more than than one or two people just a quick update on the farm search when I got home I looked up some properties found something that was so perfect I called the real estate agent this morning unfortunately that property might already be sold the seller already accepted an offer I put in a higher offer so we'll see what happens if I can get that property which is a bit closer in Pennsylvania all new facilities new structures high acreage I could not ask for a better property but it's probably sold if we don't get that property which is seemingly perfect this might not actually happen this year because I know a lot of dairy farms are closing I know there's a lot of properties out there and I don't want to spend money on something that has you know facilities that need to be built because then I got to wait for a loan for the money to build the facilities or subpar acreage or land so hopefully things pan out and we do get something good within the next month or two if that doesn't happen though it's not going to happen this year and it might not happen for who knows how much longer I mean guys if I had you know two three million dollars we wouldn't be having this conversation but I only have so much money I can put down on the property and then we have to see if we get a loan if we don't get a loan I have to put myself in a position where I can make it work without the loan and that's why we're being a little specific with the property so just thought I'd give you guys that update you know there are a bunch of other properties that are fairly close to the one that is perfect it's just there further away you know they're four four and a half hours into Pennsylvania into upstate New York and I have a feeling if I get a property that's too far away I'm going to regret it down the line and I'm not gonna want to actually live there myself update number three for you guys as my hair gets crazier and crazier so that property that I just put the offer and on was listed at like 840 the buyer accepted an offer for 740 and I bid at 800 and I told him I would put more cash down so I'll probably know within two or three weeks if that property is definitely sold or not I know I said that there were a couple of properties that are close to this ideal property but are a bit further away I actually just checked on antenna search comm if there were any Wi-Fi or cell towers near those properties and about four out of five of them actually had a new tower built within a mile of the property and you guys have to understand that if you can visibly see one of these new towers you're getting radiated like you're standing next to a microwave that's turned on like you have a cell phone on right next to your head and they can turn the levels up of these towers so there's no compromise on getting a property near these towers near the cell infrastructure so are there you know 10 15 20 properties that I would buy right now yeah if there weren't cell towers nearby and the only two properties that are feasible right now one is like seven hours away and the other one is like it's a bit far away and the facilities aren't ideal I want to be able to get into a place and be producing milk and eggs within two or three months and that's very realistic if I find the right property but again if I don't have the facilities that I need if the property isn't set up I have to wait for a loan which might take two or three or four months then I have to build the structures I need which might take two three or four months and you guys aren't gonna have dairy for six seven eight months a year who knows how long so I might as well wait till next year anyway if I don't find the ideal property right now so if you guys have any ideas let me know if you guys you know want to help support us as I said earlier there's a bunch of stuff down in the description below