Our Kids' First Time Driving a Tractor Did NOT Go As Planned 🚜😳 | Housley Farm Ep. 8

We've been waiting weeks for one permit. One permit. But while we wait, there's still a farm to run. All right, get off. It's time to take Grandpa's tractor to the Housley Farm. So we made it. We made it. It only took us technically... 25 minutes. Yeah, 23 minutes I think. That's right. All right, here we go. We're leaving the safety confines of my parents' house. All right, we're on the road. We made it here safe and sound. Oh, I got dust in my mouth, dust in my eyes. Yes. Getting across the highway was easier than I thought. We were pushing for you. All right, we're good. On the road again. Just can't wait to get on the road again. I'll tell you one thing. Shocks on this thing aren't the most comfortable. So what's crazy about all this is that I remember driving a tractor at 13, 14, and 15 years old and my parents talking to myself. Because after a while, I hadn't listened to every song on my Walkman. Now I'm dating myself. And so I'd wanted to do something different. So I literally talked to myself or sing to myself. Fast forward 35 years. Now I'm doing the same thing. Driving down Oakville Avenue. Oh, in the middle of the Napa Valley. On a hop somewhere. Oh, damn. I got flying. This is definitely a country song. My wife's driving my truck with my kids. I'm driving a green John Deere tractor. Oh, my wife's calling me. I feel like I should be talking like this. I'm going to need you to keep, I'm going to need you to understand I'm talking like this the rest of the way. I need a piece of straw in my mouth. Your tractor's bigger than mine. Hey, your tractor's bigger than mine. We're seeing all kinds of tractors out here today. I gotta find a new song. My pickup man. Got my first car. When I was three, drove a hundred thousand miles. He called my name. Yeah, well, I was like, dang, Tamara's like 19 car lengths ahead of me. You're supposed to be a pilot car, which means you stay close. Now, I didn't realize I was only going like 10, 11 miles per hour. I didn't realize how slow this thing actually is. It's a tractor, not a race car. I know. I just didn't realize. I think John Deere does sponsor a NASCAR. We're not being paid for this, by the way. But this is not a NASCAR. This is a tractor. It is meant to be. On a hot summer night. Oh, you were not going 15 miles per hour. Okay, 10 miles an hour. Fastest thing gonna go. Probably. But you were doing like 30. I kept looking up and I'm like, oh my gosh, Tamara's halfway. I have video to prove it. Okay, but we have work to do, right? Yes. So what do we have to do? Well, people think of Napa, they think, oh, Napa is pristine. Every once in a while, someone be like, oh, you grew up with a vineyard. It's like having a cornfield in your front yard. The vineyard just doesn't grow up and look pretty. You got to weed it. You got to sucker it. You got to till it. You got to mow it. You got to trim it. You got to pick it. Then you got to, at the end of it, you got to take and prune it. Wait, are we doing that today? Not all those things. I did not come prepared for that. No, but I can show you. I'm going to show you the basic things like how to drive a tractor. All right, so let's go. Let's see this. Go to the vineyard first. Get off. So you guys want to try a grape? Three, two, one. Cheers. Grapes are like 17 or 18, so they're much sweeter. Rye got a sour one. You good? Good question. Why is having wine important to our family? Well, first of all, it's part of our farm. So while we're developing this whole project, like the house, we really already have two parts of the farm here, the pond with the fish and the vineyard. So as we add the orchard and the garden and all those things, I mean, this is the farm. It's a working farm. It's a working vineyard. You can't let it sit. So we have to make sure we help this part of the farm develop and get better. And so it's important to us, I mean, because I grew up in it and you've kind of, I don't say accepted you, but you've embraced it. I embraced it because one, I genuinely love wine, but I also got to see the process happen and it gave me so much respect for the farmers and the agriculture lifestyle. It's not easy. And because of that, I really had a different respect for it. And I will say this about the farm life. What is so beautiful is that it's sustainable. So we're not just growing these grapes for ourselves and for the beautiful vision of the landscape of our property. We get to share these grapes. We're going to have olive trees. We'll be able to share those olives. We will have orchard of, we'll have orchard trees of fruit, apples, oranges, peaches, cherries, all of that, where we will be able to sell the jam from that or actually not, yeah, or give away. I wanted, I was telling Adam, I would love to have a place where we can just give this fruit to people where they can just come by and pick it. So that's what's really beautiful and what's important about our land as well. What's really cool about being involved in this is I remember when my parents, they came from nothing and they bought a piece of property and back then there weren't as many vineyards in Napa. There were vineyards, but there weren't as many as there are now. And I remember planning that first vineyard when I was younger than Ariah and then working it when I was eight in age, driving a tractor down the roads at 13 years old, which she'll get to do. And Tamara and I started dating. One of our first dates, she came up here and helped me clean out the tanks to the winery. So she's been around it for the last 21 years since we got together and now our kids are going to live it. So it's pretty cool. The story is kind of going to continue. What I love about the kids actually being here is that again, they will learn that respect for the farmers and the culture of wine before they have their first glass. So it's not something to just, you know, drink, drink. You have to understand that you have to understand the process, understand the passion and the heart behind it and what it plays in the role of food. And it's the backbone of where we live. And so they always say every bottle is a story and every bottle has a story. And this is ours. Who thinks the first person to crash will be? Aiden, raise, you think it's Aiden, raise your hand. Think it's Ariah, raise your hand. If you think it's mommy, raise your hand. Okay. So I know you've driven before at the winery in a smaller John Deere. So it's a little bit different. Okay. So what's good about this is you take your foot off the gas, the tractor stops. So if you get, if you get something happens, you're like, oh my gosh, I see a rabbit, whatever. Foot off the, off the gas, tractor stops. Be very careful and aware of everything around you, right? Cause remember this thing is wide, it swings around. So make sure you really look all directions. Okay. And don't start up until everyone steps away. And then the final thing is, um, obviously we'd normally have ear protection if you were doing this for any length of time, but we're not. But in the future you'll wear either the ear guards or you'll have your AirPods. Okay. Okay. Any questions? Nope. The bucket's fine. The bucket, where it is, go around the tree and come around over here and park right there. We should do kind of that little circle right there. I'll meet you right there. Okay. Oh, everyone get away. Don't hit any cars, dude. Okay. Now put it low, put it low. Oh, not enough power. Hold on. Too much power. Dear Lord. What is he not doing? I know what I'm doing, mom. It's it's too much. Can you show him? Oh my goodness. Don't hit the car. Turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn, turn. All right. What are your thoughts? Um, he almost hit the car there, but I think he's good. What do you think? He's good. You're good. Okay. My turn. This is going to be fun. Why? Oh, I can't watch. Oh my gosh. Really guys. Oh my goodness. Good job, mom. I think I did well, especially my Birkenstacks. Are you surprised? Yeah, that's not proper tractor attire, but you look cute. Thank you. You look like a cute country girl. Okay. Whoa. That was like, what happened? You have to keep the pedal down honey, because the moment you take your foot off, that's when the brakes like really down. Yeah. Yeah. Well, not all the way down. Cause then you'll go straight into there. It's too tight. Forward, forward. All right. Good girl. Straighten up, straighten up. Good. Good job, Araya. Good job. Excellent. So now that was a lot of fun. We all learned how to drive a tractor, but now it's back to work. Watch daddy go. You ever think you'd be riding on a tractor in Napa? Nope. And then I met you. It was really cool to see you do what you do and what you've been doing for years. Tealing. Wow. How do you say that? My country, my country came out. Tealing. Tealing. Tealing. Tealing the ground for the vineyard. Yes. We were tealing. So you guys make sure to let us know what you think of the episode and make sure you subscribe. And what is Aiden and Araya always say? They always say, hit the, whatchamacallit thing? Hit the bell button. Hit the bell button. And have you ever driven a tractor? Tell us in the comments down below. Where are the kids though? Cause normally they're with us. Yeah. Oh, oh geez.