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Watch the official trailer for “Three Sixty Five – A Year Long Journey Of Self-Reliance”. This Netflix-style documentary tells the story of Chris and Stef, a couple who challenged themselves to live off the land, only eating what they caught, grew, harvested, or raised, for 365 consecutive days. The full documentary will be released in…
Can we survive like our grandfathers did? Come along for a day of Primitive Camp with Steve Ricker-Director of Interpretation of The Overmountain Victory Trail Association & more! We look forward to more times like this with Mr. Steve & more! OVTA HERE: https://www.ovta.org Thanks for watching & be sure to SUBSCRIBE! xo Thumbnail pic…
We spent 21 days eating only what we could grow on our self-sufficient property and this is the story about how it went. Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/selfsufficientme (the top tier $25 AU enables mentoring from yours truly via an exclusive VIP email where I will answer your questions etc ASAP). Using the links below…
Spending the next 21 days only eating the food that we can grow on our own property. This video is the trailer for the main presentation which will premier here on YouTube at 18th July 2020 at 8 PM (AEST). I will also be showing snippets and detailing my (and also Nina’s) journey throughout this…
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In this video, I give my opinion on how growing your own food such as fruit and vegetables in the backyard or even a balcony can help in a pandemic. The interview with Creator Generation mentioned in the video is: https://youtu.be/eMh9JqqG5bo Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/selfsufficientme Using the links below also helps support my channel:…
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This week I am harvesting my cherries and pruning the tree. Some of the cherries will be used for jams to last us the year and maybe some juice. The rest will be used to distill Schnapps. Not necessarily for drinking. I am not big on drinking but I do find the quality of alcohol…
Video on the work at home will come later but for now I am resuming work at the property away from home
Made some modifications to my greenhouse to stop it collapsing under rain. Have harvested the last of our apples and preparing to make apple sauce, apple butter, jelly and dehydrating.
Day 14 was here and it’s time to think outside the box! You may not have access to many meats or protein sources from your farm! Therefore, be willing to think about different alternatives that store well. Remember, these are things to simply pull you through a crisis. Enjoy & thanks for watching! xo Like,…
Work has prevented me from getting very far along this year. Gotta get that corrected.
Many challenges over the past year. Still working to reorganize. Gardening is one that will absolutely not be dropped. Trying a bit of early seed stating to see if it will overcome one of the problems I’ve had in past years.
Shot this video a week ago. We are now getting some much needed rain and it is coming down nice and easy. Has been going on for more than 24 hours now. Should soak in well and has already filled our empty rain barrels. Has cooled us off as well. A big relief after almost…
Explore the forest and learn to identify edible wild plants and mushrooms with naturalist, herbalist and storyteller, Doug Elliott along with mushroom expert Ken Crouse of Peaceful Valley Farm. Doug shares songs, folklore and old mountain wisdom of native plant uses as well as handed down humorous tales. Ken Crouse is a mycologist who expertly…
Got the manure. More than I expected at one time but less than I will need. No worries, I’m acquainted with the factory owner.
Beginning a series of video on the mentality and attitudes of the self sufficient life based on my own personal experiences and observations over the years.
Showing just part of what I accomplished this day. A few other things were worked on as well but this was all that could be finished to a satisfactory point.
Couldn’t do any overnight camping due to back injury but did follow a stream up a valley for a day hike.
can someone tell me what mushroom this is?
She’s a bit shy on camera. She was quite adamant concerning her choice off camera. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiFYXz-VSUQ http://www.youtube.com/user/TheSgtFruitcake
tying the poncho hood off to use as a shelter.
Hope someone can help. I have only recently begun to rebuild my plant knowledge after many years of not being involved. I don’t have resource books yet and not sure where to start. Thanks to Roosevelt at http://www.youtube.com/user/MiWilderness I believe we have an ID. The root stock is edible and has medicinal uses. Another source…
Thanks to http://www.youtube.com/user/Reallybigmonkey1 for giving my daughter the inspiration to beg me to make a tent. I’ve been wanting to do a series on quick poncho hootch configurations and thought that it would be nice to start out with a vid of my daughter making her first attempt.
