Field notes
Videos from a working farm.
Short clips. Long form. Build series. Quiet b-roll. Everything we’ve filmed from the pasture, the greenhouse, the nursery, and the dog pile.
Long form
Why SUS Farms.
The whole story, told straight, by the people growing it.
Lambs
Lambs
Spring births, daily updates, the cute and the chaos.
First triplets of the season
Three at once. Mom is unbothered.
Heidi has two black and one white
The most photogenic family on the property.
Lamb sleeping in the hay trough
Bed is where you make it.
Heartface and her mom
Yes, the marking is real. Yes, that is her name.
Lamb standing on his mom
She is allegedly used to it.
Baby lambs — weekly update
Everyone is fine. Everyone is also chaos.
A brown lamb. Suspicious.
The genetics know things we do not.
A lamb that appears to be smiling
Witness for the defense.
Sheep
Sheep
The grown-up flock and the work that keeps them healthy.
Even more black sheep
Statistically improbable. We checked.
Aftermath of treat day
The crime scene is the field.
Reese roping a sheep
Not on her resume yet, but it should be.
Working dogs
Working dogs
Lexi, Bonnie, Bandit, Big Mama, Oreo — doing their jobs.
Lexi teaching Bonnie how to herd
On-the-job training for the next generation.
Bonnie’s first time off leash
Big day. Bigger field.
Fetch. In the road.
The road is empty. The road is always empty.
Food motivated. Very food motivated.
Training is easier this way.
Big Mama, Bandit, and Oreo
Three dogs, one job, occasional cooperation.
Bandit prevents the mucking
He is a guard dog. He guards the chores too.
Bonnie steals from the sheep
Repeat offender. No remorse.
Other animals
Other animals
Horses and the rest of the cast.
Artemis and Apollo
Named hopefully. Behaving accordingly.
Our deaf horse, sunbathing
He cannot hear us. He does not need to.
Wildlife
Wildlife
Hawks, beavers, the neighbors we did not invite.
Hawk hunting over the field
The food chain, in action, mid-afternoon.
Animal care
Animal care
The vet, the shots, the kids learning the job.
The vet, at work
Real medicine for real animals.
Cameron learns to give shots
Generation five learns the hands-on way.
Fruit
Fruit
Berries and stone fruit, on the vine and on the tree.
Three raspberry varieties, side by side
They taste different. We promise.
Nursery
Nursery
What just came in, what we’re fighting off, what’s thriving.
Aphids. On a tree. (We handle it.)
Nursery problem-solving, narrated.
A truckload of plants arrives
Spring stocking. Weeks of unloading.
Nursery update — what just came in
A walk-through of this week’s arrivals.
Greenhouse life
Greenhouse life
A man, a structure, allegedly some salad.
Michael in the greenhouse. Suspicious.
Allegedly growing food. Allegedly.
Drive-by purlin sighting. Suspicious.
A man, a truck, a structural beam.
Just a guy growing a lot of salad
No defense, only lettuce.
River & land
River & land
The Sevier, drought, and what the land is telling us.
Beaver dam and fish, Sevier River
The neighbors, doing their work.
The Sevier River is dry
A snapshot of what drought looks like, day to day.
Drought reveals a river island
Land emerges that hasn’t been seen in years.
Trapped minnows in a low pool
We released them. The river will be back.
Build & expand
Build & expand
Old metal, new plans, future fields.
Forty-year-old metal, still working
Buy nice or buy twice. We bought nice in 1985.
Next year’s expansion, sketched out
Plans on paper. Stakes in the ground.
Commentary
Commentary
A few thoughts, kept short.
On the latest grocery recall
A short note about why we grow our own.
On the dino nuggets recall
Yes that’s real. Yes we have thoughts.
Series
The greenhouse build, in chapters.
From dirt to airflow. The kind of how-to that’s short on theatre and long on wire channels.
Why build a SUS greenhouse?
The case for growing under cover, in plain English.
Easy DIY greenhouse — getting started
Day one of a build anyone can copy.
Connecting the ground posts (1)
Setting the foundation that holds everything up.
Connecting the ground posts (2)
Tying base posts to ground posts the right way.
Spring wire channel to end hoop
The trick that keeps the plastic in place.
Pulling the plastic
Two people, one calm day, no rips.
Fans, vents, and airflow
Ventilation is the difference between alive and crispy.
Easy DIY greenhouse — finishing touches
The last 10% that takes 50% of the time.
Series
Modifying an existing greenhouse.
A retrofit series for old structures that still want to work.
Pt. 1
How to make an old structure earn its keep again.
Pt. 2
How to make an old structure earn its keep again.
Pt. 3
How to make an old structure earn its keep again.
Pt. 4
How to make an old structure earn its keep again.
Pt. 5
How to make an old structure earn its keep again.
Series
The receiving building.
A working building for a working farm.
Pt. 1
A working building for a working farm.
Pt. 2
A working building for a working farm.
Pt. 3
A working building for a working farm.
Origin
LaRene Nursery.
Where the nursery side of the operation got its start.
LaRene Nursery — clip 1
Where the nursery side of the operation got its start.
LaRene Nursery — clip 2
Continuing a tradition that already worked.
Trees
Quiet orchard b-roll.
Apricot, magnolia, nectarine. Just rows of trees, doing their job.
Trees — quiet morning b-roll
Just the orchard, just for a minute.
Trees — afternoon light
When the rows go gold.
Apricot — Harcot
Hardy, reliable, and sweet when ripe.
Magnolia — Leonard Messel
Pink stars in early spring.
Nectarine — Garden Delight
A patio-friendly tree that still produces.
Nectarine — Necta Zee
Compact, sweet, ours to recommend.
Feature
A moon-spotted goat, giving birth.
Four short clips telling one of the things that actually happens here.
Ch. 1 — In labor
A moon-spotted doe, calmly in the early stages.
Ch. 2 — A baby arrives
Birth, told plainly. Nothing graphic, all of it real.
Ch. 3 — First look
A new goat, on its feet within minutes.
Ch. 4 — After-birth care
What happens after — mom, kid, and the team.