I was involved in the infancy of the digital age as we know it back from the 1980's to the early 2000's. It scared the hell out of me in terms of human values so I gave it up and am now a full time outhouse builder. This progressed into antique outhouse repair and restoration (some of which have gone back 300 years.) There are just a few of us that I know of and I have a large back order for new working outhouses. Some shed builders try to modify their structures to resemble old time outhouses but those are rarely properly built for the intended purpose. Surprisingly enough there is still a demand for a real outhouse builder of different types and it brings me a steady income.
I can't imagine there's enough undeveloped land left in America where an outhouse would be legal to have and use, unless they're strictly decorative. Surprising.
@@asmith7876 If you can have a septic tank, you can probably have a pit outhouse provided it meets the min. distance from the well or protected eco systems. But not all outhouses had pits, many had clean out trays accessed by nightsoil men on a regular basis. Nightsoil men sold what they reclaimed to ammo mfgrs, tanneries, bakeries (urine is a yeast enhancer,) cosmetic firms (you can sometimes see urea on shampoo ingrediants,) But I provided scores of folk in all states from ME into NY and the Canadian border to Long Island sound with proper, rustic American privies. which are being used as intended. In fact when I started I thought folk would just want garden sheds that look like KYBOs but it wasn't long before my customers demanded the real thing and that's all I make. I've learned much about this over the years. There is a fella in Tenn. who also makes a right fine product.
I'm really happy to see many people getting back to growing and preserving. With so many out of work, this is a great time to learn something new to a person but very old like gardening, or brewing, carpentry, or wherever your interest takes you.
I used to work as a chimney sweep, in around 2015, some of the rods I used were 100 year old malaca canes! People wear more PPE now and there are some new fancy brushes but even they are barely any different. This trade hasn't changed for hundreds of years.
I worked as a farrier for 20 years you are right new knee , had a bone removed from my hand and spent 4 days in hospital after being kicked in chest. Loved every minute of it. Nothing like helping a lame horse walk well . . My girls traveled with me as I worked, one is a horse breeder the other a horse photographer
Is there not protective gear? It strikes me that hundreds of years ago if I were a farrier and were liable to be in a levy I might already have some mail to wear on my hands and maybe head. But that's me trying to be anthropological!
@@mpj12345 No it’s a good question. I would first say I have been out of that career for some time . Most of the injuries are not of a traumatic in nature but of a cumulative repetitive nature standing in position the human body was designed for. As far a safety wear . When I was shoeing there was a lot of concern that OSHA would get involved and someone who never shod a horse would make rules that would make it impossible to do the job We did a lot to stay safe first was having horse sense and the ability to say No not until you twitch, use stocks,meds or some other way to make the horse behave . Having a good handler . Leaning to work fast so not it be under horse long . Good work habits like setting clinches as you nail. As far as safety gear chaps and some wear steel toe boots . I saw you mention mail for hands although the work looks corse it takes a lot of dexterity and tactile use of hands .Also your working when it’s as cold as a well digger bottom or hotter than hades Even with the safely measure things happen the horse that kicked me in the chest was a good even temper animal but as I was working on a hind foot a horse fly bit him in the flank he was kicking to get it off and got me. Just comes with the job
Awesome! I've always loved horses, but never got to spend much time around them; I was considering becoming a farrier (there's a small school for it near me, I've heard it pays alright, and it'd be a sure way to spend plenty of time with horses) but decided against it because of the physical toll. My family has had very physically tough jobs for a few generations (dairying, beef ranching, and firefighting seem to run in the blood), and I've always felt more suited to something like teaching, really. But if I become unsatisfied in teaching or homesteading, I'm glad to know I could still go learn to be a farrier if I wish. It does sound like such a rewarding line of work, and it is still such an important one!
Dear Jon and Nutmeg Tavern Crew, thank you for having Rory on today. I missed this when it aired. I've said this before, but this was one of the best Live in the Nutmeg Tavern episodes. The conversation with Rory is just what we needed to hear today. I'm buying this book for my 15-year old son, as he decides what he wants to do with his life. Very timely topic! Proud to be a Patreon supporter!!
John is one of those extremely rare, genuinely wholesome and good guys. The man and his channel are a treasure to be cherished. Thank you for doing what you do!
Greatest show yet. As a carpenter, someone that served an apprenticeship, I couldn't agree more with the conclusions your guest drew. Also, as a reader of older texts and ideas, and as a good Catholic boy, I have to say that the ideas presented harken back to"Distributism", an idea about economic reality and responsibility promulgated by Hillaire Belloc and G.K.Chesterton. We've lost so much in our obsession with effeciency.
I served a 5 year apprenticeship. I am in the 33rd year of my trade. I am seeing a lot of changes but working with your hands in the building trades are going to be a stability of life
Home crafts like sewing, mending, alterations, repairs, new clothes, knitting, quilting, When I was in high school during the early to mid 1970s, an entire wing of my high school, perhaps 10 classrooms were dedicated to "home economics". From basic cooking to fashion design/merchandising and everything else in between. Sadly, sometime in the intervening years, that wing now houses student's child daycare. These days its perfectly acceptable for a freshman to enter high school with an infant.
My local tailor, who was part of a cleaner, is closing, and I'll likely be turning to someone who does home sewing. There are very few choices for local tailors.
I've just graduated high school (in 2020...now I'm in a very odd limbo where due to my health/the plague, I can't really go to college or to work, so I'm just at home doing what needs to be done), and for the past three years of it, have been learning how to sew all my own clothes (I'm slowly but steadily working towards making a whole 1840s reproduction wardrobe, because I think it's very nice, sensible, and comfortable; and the menswear is honestly pretty easily adaptable to a more modern look, if need be). Unfortunately, my school did not have home economics classes (my great-grandmother had attended my high school and was very sad to hear of that; the home economics classes were turned into science and culinary classes, with two or three spare rooms used for meetings), but among many of my peers, there was a really keen interest in home sewing! A lot of the time, my manner of dress would spark conversation (because of course high schoolers will be very curious about why their classmate looks like a weird Victorian...a lot of them thought I was Amish at first, which cracks me up because I am very pagan), and after asking about how my clothes work, they'd want to know how I got them, and when told I'd sewn them, my peers often expressed their interest in either learning to sew or increasing their mastery of the skill. In fact, I almost started a textile arts club, but didn't due to lack of time. I think home economics ought to be reintroduced to schools, with a focus not on teaching girls to be housewives, but on teaching teenagers of all genders and backgrounds how to be more self sufficient, because clearly there is an interest and clearly (judging by the frankly terrifying level of consumerism in our society and its effects upon the planet) there is a dire need to get back to basics at some level. Personally, I would love if we could do a bit of a societal overhaul and replace big box stores and malls with home sewing and tailors/seamstresses again, but I know that these days that's not very feasible. Still, though, I think at the very least every individual should have the knowledge and ability to make and mend their own clothes, and then be better able to make the choice either to do so or to have someone else (such as a tailor or friend who likes to sew) make and mend them.
This is so great to watch. I live in Germany und i love to watch this Channel. And the funny thing is we all, or more and more people,in the western world feel that there is something wrong in the way we live. I worked many years in logistic companys, but i never had the feeling tha that was a fulfilling job. Now after an accident and a some years with a depression i wanted to become a carpenter. I want a job where i have this connection... how should i call it with the nature something that is, at least for me a fulfilling job which gives me a fulfilling Life. I will definitely buy this book. Thanks for this video . This Channel really helps me, to made it thru this hard pandemic and lockdown time. Thank you all the great people behind Townsend.
I hope all is well with you Marc.... I think many of us need to make things, useful beautiful things and work with our hands. My crafts definitely help and reward me.
@@sillybeeful Thank you Sarah. Thats great to hear that you like your work. When the times got tough people with good skillz will be very precious. I'm looking forward that the schools here opening soon, that someone like me can go back to school and learn an other job. Anyway i hope that you great peope in the states are doing well and that this damned pandemic will soon come to an end. Kind regards, Marc
Hallo. Das freut mich natürlich, dass du auch nach langen Suchen angekommen bist. Ich finde am Ende muss man halt wirklich etwas finden was einen auch Freude macht, auch wenn man vielleicht nicht so viel verdient. Das mit der Wildnissschule klingt auf jedenfall sehr interessant. Definitiv was besonderes. Und was die blöde Politik betrifft, man hat halt leider oft den Eindruck, die Leute haben das kritische Denken verlernt. Auf jedenfall Alles gute und danke für den Kommentar. :^)
I took out all the non-producing plants out of my yard and replaced them with crop oriented things. Technology has helped me get a self sufficient backyard. Every year I look to refresh myself on how to prune my fruit trees
@@heidimisfeldt5685 turn that dream into reality. Buy that lot you've been by several times. Plant a woodlot, an orchard, a vineyard, a berry patch and plant a garden. Fence it. Move to a tiny house to start. Build a chicken coop. Raise sheep and goats. Give a home to 3 dogs and a couple cats from the shelter. Dig a well. Install septic system. Harvest rainwater, build a greenhouse. Live your dream.
This guy gets it. Outstanding insight into what we have lost in the modern world. Hopefully we can get back to these more stable family/social structures that create happier and healthier communities.
It is desperately needed, now more than ever. The detachment of people from their families and neighbors is disheartening and demoralizing. I am not saying that nobody has good values, but far, far to many have completely lost sight of what's important do to social media and what have you.
@@philiphicks1273 No one said to live in the past, or to revert things back to exactly how they were. We said that modern culture is lacking stability, family values, a connection to other people and our communities. However, as for living in the past, it's important to understand how things were through history so we can take the best, and learn from mistakes. That's more what we're saying.
@@TheSkelzore @philip hicks emphasis at "take the best". It's easy to say the past is flawed and ignore it completely. Not only does that dom us to repeat past mistakes, but it also prevents us from repeating past successes and everything in between (i.e. doing niche things better, more efficient, better in any way etc.)
Only way we're going to see positive change in regard to healthy societies is by more government assistance to their citizens. Whether it's a UBI that allows citizens to pursue careers like these, free healthcare, or free college, etc. The rat race exists because of various inequalities that have been allowed to accumulate by greed and unchecked cronyism. You can't compare our current situation with life hundreds of years ago - that's very unrealistic and illogical. Have to focus on addressing the current day issues that affect millions of average people, and not keep overlooking them because you're afraid of upsetting the status quo.
I trained as a chef/baker in the 70s. I am now retired due to back problems. Now I make hand-made soap and sell at the local farmers market. Bothe trades are surprisingly similar. Both also are on your list of durable trades, I bet. Can't wait to read your book. Thanks for the great video!
There was a great British series called, “Turn Back Time - The High Street,” which was all about trades and shopping from the Victorian Era through to the 1970’s (you can find it on RUclips). It was eye-opening to see the evolution and death of local economies and that it really was caused by the people. Shoppers would say how disappointed they were to see local livelihoods being eroded, and would even chide the supermarket-format businesses, but they continued to vote with their dollar and buy from the cheaper conglomerates. It’s interesting to see the cognitive dissonance that pervades society. People I come across talk about supporting local, but few of them actually do. If you want to see a return to family businesses, then buy from them! (As I’m sure most who watch this channel do, but we are the minority sadly). What a great episode! As always xx
I grew up miles and miles from town on a Ranch in Montana, and as a kid, I read Laura Ingles Wilder's books, (Little house in the big woods, little house on the prairie, Farmer Boy, etc) and felt like my world was closer to theirs, 100 years past, than to the modern towns that were just over the horizon. To this day I feel out of place in towns and cities.
Not much discussion of textiles but there were itinerant weavers who would travel, set up their loom, and do your weaving. It augmented home weaving, everything from clothing, to poke bags, and even fire hose. There are still countries in the world that support their handweavers, Ethiopia, Guatemala and India come to mind. They produce certain specific clothings items that cannot be produced with the same aesthetic as a powerloom. And their people esteem these textiles.
I realized today that I haven’t seen an episode on glassmaking or glassblowing- although it wasn’t a new item, I’d love to know more about the glass trade in the 18th century, the cost of various glass items compared to pottery, or even window glass making. Thanks!
Wow such a great guest to have at the tavern! I grew up with cub scouts and learned wood working when I was 5- 6 years old, and in high school learning to weld and metal fabrication. And I continue to learn CNC machining. But I have recently been learning about permaculture (Geoff Lawton, Bill Mollison) and sustainable agriculture. There is so much potential for us to reconnect with the past ways of living 🙂👍
I grew up in the midwest watching the demise of the small family farm. Agribusiness with it's economy of scale put small dairy operations into the same category as cottage looms. My grandfather in WI milked 60 cows. That states largest dairy operation currently milks over 8,000. Anything under 500 isn't a business anymore, it's a hobby.
@@MrRemakes even easier, keep bees, make mead. I used to live in the middle of a small city (very miserable, I do not recommend it), and took much solace in my friendly bee-keeping neighbours, whose honey I was sometimes gifted. It was very useful for many purposes, and mead was the most delicious one (aside from honey toast)!
Less than halfway through the video and I've already bought 2 copies of the book from Wipf and Stock Publishers. I've been talking about getting out of computer programming for a while, and look forward to ideas of how to do this while moving to something more stable, even if less money. Thanks for putting this up @Townsends
Great show, bought the book for our son this morning due to being recommended by Urban Prepper. We look forward to reading Durable Trades for the sake of our 13 (& future) grandchildren. And since we are a family of carpenters, I could not help notice that the stairway railing needs a woodworker :D +Blessings+
I’m glad to be getting REAL medicine. Like the prescriptions Hippocrates dispensed: Let FOOD be thy medicine. And back then, people had REAL food. Not genetically modified frankenfood.
It sounds crazy but skills of the past and how they work on their basic level is important to know because if anything ever happened to society you'd know how to rebuild society.
To the people of Jon and Jas Townsend, may your crops prosper and your harvest bountiful. Also love your vids since 2017. Can’t sleep without that beautiful fiddle playing
Very nice. Thank you for such an interesting show. I had always enjoyed working with my hands and mind to solve problems (why programming had been appealing). After a short time I left computers and joined the family business of piano servicing (Parks & Sons Piano Service in SC). I find myself wishing I hadn't wasted so much of my time with computers. Now I get to apply problem solving skills and my wood working skills to help restore pianos. My dad started piano servicing back in the 60s and as kids, my brother and I would travel with him to jobs. Now I do both woodworking and refinishing - can be aggravating sometimes, but hey that is the challenge lol.
My city recently made many aspects of homesteading illegal. I had chickens for four years and the neighbors would visit to let their kids pet them and we sold the eggs cheaper than the store. Nobody complained. Then one day we get a notice saying it will be a $400 dollar fine for EVERY DAY until we get rid of them. We can't even grow vegetables. Grass only, by law. This is so sad the rich don't want the poor to be self sufficient.
And you just laid down and took it? Gather up your customers, friends, neighbors and get the word out. Make a huge showing at the city council and call in the media. Push for backyard gardens in low income areas too!
That is so sad. So sorry to hear. God I couldn’t live somewhere that was like that. So thankful I live in Cornwall where we have so many little pockets of chickens and gardeners
Back to basics! I lost that book years ago, have missed it! This was great, going to look for this book for sure. Thanks Townsend's, as usual, have so enjoyed another tavern episode.
I enjoyed this topic. One of the other channels I watch is Alex Steele's. He is a blacksmith and started learning around 11-13 years old. It's amazing to see how he uses more modern tools, but continues to do forge in the old way as well.
Good age to start a manual job. Body is big enough to do some heavy work.Child have out grown that spindles, long and thin body type.There body’s have gain width, for larger( adult )inter organs.
My father was a tradesman's tradesman. He learned to square a building as a teen on a timber frame home. It wasn't screwed or nailed together. It was joined and pegged. Dad could weld, plumb, wire, and anything carpentry related. He even worked as a diesel mechanic for a few years, made his own horse trailer and could do seemingly anything. Unfortunately he moved to the southern US where quality held no place compared to cost. Get it done was the key to the developer making more money quicker. I wish I had a tenth the working knowledge he took to the grave.
This is one of your best programs yet. Would love to see more programs that help make the link between how the past should be informing how we move forward in the future. Thanks.
All of this reminded me of a very sweet Channel on RUclips that goes around Italy and films gannies making pasta by hand to preserve their recipies ^^ (it's called pasta grannies)
As a person in surveying and drafting, the concepts have remained the same but the manner in which it is performed has hugely changed. From pulling on metal measuring tape and using a rod, to lasers and gps. Then creating the final map product, from pen and ink to computer aided drafting programs and printers. Fortunately society will always need our services, no matter the process.
I find the shoemaker interesting, because in germany we have a occupation called "orthopedic shoemaker" they craft shoes a other foot related product for diabetics or people with pain. There are thousands that work as orthopedic shoemakers as part of the medical system
Great video as usual. Much food for thought and a view that I had come to many years ago. But just remember not to throw the baby out with the bath water. In 1790 if you cut yourself, broke a bone, caught smallpox etc then odds on you would die or be severely maimed.
When I get tired if the world and the rest of the internet I love coming home here! Would love to see some more outdoors early history survival (everyday living) daily routines at the cabin! Tks n can't wait to see ya at 1812 this year!
We've a garden and we compost and harvest water (it's still legal here). We even got ahold of an extension agent and identified different indigenous plants, flowers and such. While some do better than others, we have a bountiful harvest and let many go to seed for next year. These videos motivate my family is when our jobs keep us busy, but the garden calls out to us
I've personally been spiritually connected to the 1960's-1980's (I'm 23), however y'all always make the 18th century so much more fun than I remember learning from grade school. Thank y'all so much for what you do. I'm also a cook for a living so that's probably also why I appreciate what you do! Keep it up :) Edit: I know my mom (55 now) remembers HER grandma having her own chickens (def before) the late 70's/ early 80's and definitely killing them getting them butchered properly by her own grandma. Comparing it to how different it is now to MY grandma (dad's mom) today. We buy local for our meat, but we still have no clue who actually does it. Though our Alabama town is small to most, it still is a mystery haha. Really a trade that's gone under radar.
I keep thinking about raising sheep, angora goats, and other fiber bearing animals, spinning, knitting, dyeing and weaving where an entire family can be involved in creating useful items for sale as a family business. That would fall on the artistry side of things.
#1 job through out history that will never go away is the 'Honey Dipper'. That.. will not end until human life is gone. Say what you want.. but it is true.. There is money in scat.
Years ago I was self employed as a farmer, but when the milk price crashed and had to sell, this past year I once again started another business as a Sawyer. My parents family has been farmers for many generations, my stepfather's family has been involved in logging and sawing lumber for generations, originally coming to America before the revolution to cut trees for the sail rigging on the ships.
Wow, this video hit a lot of nails on the head. I'm very young (graduated high school in 2020), and as I approach my entry to the job market (waiting for Ye Olde Plague to calm down first), I've been thinking about what careers might be stable and conducive to an old-fashioned, anti-capitalist/consumerist, d-i-y homebody like myself. Particularly, what would engage my interest in the arts and history, but leave me time for home working? I've been considering teaching, since I've always felt an interest in that career and get along well with children. But I love the idea of being a person of many trades! I don't do well with a one-job lifestyle; I'd ideally be homesteading, spending lots of time sewing (I make basically all of my own clothes and other textiles; I buy antique or historical reproduction things like shoes, buttons, stockings because I can't knit, etc., but I'm working towards wearing 1840s clothing, and make my own shifts, petticoats, dresses, and such. Kits are also very useful for things like bonnets and corsets, and for household goods like towels, handkerchiefs, and hot-pads, they're easily sewn in an afternoon from older rags or cheaper fabrics), learning how to knit/crochet/spin/weave, and keeping up my studies of history, literature, philosophy, music, and drawing/painting. However, ideal is far from realistic, so my main hope is that with teaching, I can give myself the flexibility that I require to keep up those pursuits on weekends and such (I've talked with old teachers about what the workload and work/life balance is like, and I think as long as I keep up my habit of bringing a sewing project everywhere I'll be sitting for a few hours, it can be managed). Wow, that was an essay! Anyways, my point is: this is a philosophy about work that I hope catches on. We have been alienated from our labour for a few centuries now, counting off from the start of the industrial revolution and the changes it has brought; while I think we have gained much, I hope society comes to its senses when it comes to the need for community-focused labour, sustainable working conditions (i.e. workers can actually make a half decent living with a family, the job doesn't harm the environment around them, the job won't disappear as soon as the technology changes a bit, and the work doesn't consume all waking hours of their life), and having a care towards preserving old jobs and ways of life. There is value in change and the future, but I believe we have been prioritizing it overmuch in the past few centuries, and not appreciating the lessons of the past as much as we could.
I'm a master barber but really I'm a great cook. I can sew I can raise children and chickens, rabbit and grow a pretty good garden. My man is an old school pig farmer, cow man. He works at a butcher shop too. We still barter today. It's still here in Rural America . great video
Our family owned farms, but due to the intervention of the modern world it didn't become the family business and my parents sold them because of too many unscrupulous people working in support of non-residential farms. I find it very depressing, but I also would have been unable to actually farm had we the opportunity due to physical disabilities. I am seeking a job in another durable trade, though, teaching.
I'm a retired engineering professor, but I think we badly need a revival in the trades. I bought the Durable Trades book and largely agree with its theme.
the late 1700's were also effected by a climate shift causing farms to fail. And the equipment development that replaced people to make the farms profitable by reducing expenses.
@@suzannehartmann946 that is patently not true. We have different types and a myriad of diseases in our society and in the US 40-60% of the food produced is wasted because of distribution, storage, contamination, bureaucracy issues & changing palates.
Im pulling knowledge from this historical channel. I like the lack of power way of doing things. These things are very stablizing in a situation where disaster might happen. Always a good knowledge.
Earning a lot of money won't make you happy. Being poor really really won't make you happy. I wish someone would have told me I was going to want to make a lot more than I thought I did as a kid. You'll want to support a family. The price of everything always goes up. In the US our government takes a huge chunk in taxes (just add up your property tax, income tax, sales tax and payroll tax. you'll be amazed). Add to that the price of insurance which increases far quicker than the rate of inflation (especially health and home). You might even want to give to charity.
Prices aren’t going up so much as the value of your currency is going down. Takes more dollars to buy the same goods and services because our currency becomes more and more worthless by the day.
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I was involved in the infancy of the digital age as we know it back from the 1980's to the early 2000's. It scared the hell out of me in terms of human values so I gave it up and am now a full time outhouse builder. This progressed into antique outhouse repair and restoration (some of which have gone back 300 years.) There are just a few of us that I know of and I have a large back order for new working outhouses. Some shed builders try to modify their structures to resemble old time outhouses but those are rarely properly built for the intended purpose. Surprisingly enough there is still a demand for a real outhouse builder of different types and it brings me a steady income.
Sounds like you’re deep into your work 😉
that's kinda mindblowing, thanks for sharing that, it's really cool
I can't imagine there's enough undeveloped land left in America where an outhouse would be legal to have and use, unless they're strictly decorative. Surprising.
@@asmith7876 If you can have a septic tank, you can probably have a pit outhouse provided it meets the min. distance from the well or protected eco systems. But not all outhouses had pits, many had clean out trays accessed by nightsoil men on a regular basis. Nightsoil men sold what they reclaimed to ammo mfgrs, tanneries, bakeries (urine is a yeast enhancer,) cosmetic firms (you can sometimes see urea on shampoo ingrediants,) But I provided scores of folk in all states from ME into NY and the Canadian border to Long Island sound with proper, rustic American privies. which are being used as intended. In fact when I started I thought folk would just want garden sheds that look like KYBOs but it wasn't long before my customers demanded the real thing and that's all I make. I've learned much about this over the years. There is a fella in Tenn. who also makes a right fine product.
That is fascinating and makes me happy to hear such old fashioned structures are being kept alive. Thanks for sharing.
I'm really happy to see many people getting back to growing and preserving. With so many out of work, this is a great time to learn something new to a person but very old like gardening, or brewing, carpentry, or wherever your interest takes you.
I used to work as a chimney sweep, in around 2015, some of the rods I used were 100 year old malaca canes! People wear more PPE now and there are some new fancy brushes but even they are barely any different. This trade hasn't changed for hundreds of years.
I worked as a farrier for 20 years you are right new knee , had a bone removed from my hand and spent 4 days in hospital after being kicked in chest. Loved every minute of it. Nothing like helping a lame horse walk well . . My girls traveled with me as I worked, one is a horse breeder the other a horse photographer
Is there not protective gear? It strikes me that hundreds of years ago if I were a farrier and were liable to be in a levy I might already have some mail to wear on my hands and maybe head. But that's me trying to be anthropological!
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No it’s a good question. I would first say I have been out of that career for some time .
Most of the injuries are not of a traumatic in nature but of a cumulative repetitive nature standing in position the human body was designed for.
As far a safety wear . When I was shoeing there was a lot of concern that OSHA would get involved and someone who never shod a horse would make rules that would make it impossible to do the job
We did a lot to stay safe first was having horse sense and the ability to say No not until you twitch, use stocks,meds or some other way to make the horse behave . Having a good handler . Leaning to work fast so not it be under horse long . Good work habits like setting clinches as you nail.
As far as safety gear chaps and some wear steel toe boots .
I saw you mention mail for hands although the work looks corse it takes a lot of dexterity and tactile use of hands .Also your working when it’s as cold as a well digger bottom or hotter than hades
Even with the safely measure things happen the horse that kicked me in the chest was a good even temper animal but as I was working on a hind foot a horse fly bit him in the flank he was kicking to get it off and got me. Just comes with the job
@@rlbennett Very informative!
Awesome! I've always loved horses, but never got to spend much time around them; I was considering becoming a farrier (there's a small school for it near me, I've heard it pays alright, and it'd be a sure way to spend plenty of time with horses) but decided against it because of the physical toll. My family has had very physically tough jobs for a few generations (dairying, beef ranching, and firefighting seem to run in the blood), and I've always felt more suited to something like teaching, really. But if I become unsatisfied in teaching or homesteading, I'm glad to know I could still go learn to be a farrier if I wish. It does sound like such a rewarding line of work, and it is still such an important one!
Curse you, John Townsend! What have you done to me? Last night I cooked a dish of pasta in cream sauce, tasted it, and said aloud, "Needs nutmeg."
Hahahahaha
The Nutmeg’s Curse comes for all sooner or later
As long as it doesn't need more cowbells.
You're evolving...
Into Jon.
Grind it from whole nut not instant ground it taste better that way.
Dear Jon and Nutmeg Tavern Crew, thank you for having Rory on today. I missed this when it aired. I've said this before, but this was one of the best Live in the Nutmeg Tavern episodes. The conversation with Rory is just what we needed to hear today. I'm buying this book for my 15-year old son, as he decides what he wants to do with his life. Very timely topic! Proud to be a Patreon supporter!!
John is one of those extremely rare, genuinely wholesome and good guys. The man and his channel are a treasure to be cherished. Thank you for doing what you do!
Just now getting to watch this...on replay...so sweet! Someone--Jon? says quietly "We love you," at the beginning before he appears on camera.
Ok I'm glad I wasn't hearing things 🤣
It sounded like he was singing it! Right at the beginning. It seems that he is as happy off screen as he is on screen!
A few seconds after that I swear I heard a kiss noise. Maybe he was talking to the nutmeg...
@@moniquem783 LOL 😂
Greatest show yet. As a carpenter, someone that served an apprenticeship, I couldn't agree more with the conclusions your guest drew. Also, as a reader of older texts and ideas, and as a good Catholic boy, I have to say that the ideas presented harken back to"Distributism", an idea about economic reality and responsibility promulgated by Hillaire Belloc and G.K.Chesterton. We've lost so much in our obsession with effeciency.
Check out the channel “The Distributist” if you’re interested in that sort of stuff. I’m Hindu but I’ve found a lot of value from his videos.
I served a 5 year apprenticeship. I am in the 33rd year of my trade. I am seeing a lot of changes but working with your hands in the building trades are going to be a stability of life
Home sewing is growing now too.
Home crafts like sewing, mending, alterations, repairs, new clothes, knitting, quilting,
When I was in high school during the early to mid 1970s, an entire wing of my high school, perhaps 10 classrooms were dedicated to "home economics". From basic cooking to fashion design/merchandising and everything else in between. Sadly, sometime in the intervening years, that wing now houses student's child daycare. These days its perfectly acceptable for a freshman to enter high school with an infant.
As a housewife, this makes me super happy to hear.
My local tailor, who was part of a cleaner, is closing, and I'll likely be turning to someone who does home sewing. There are very few choices for local tailors.
I've just graduated high school (in 2020...now I'm in a very odd limbo where due to my health/the plague, I can't really go to college or to work, so I'm just at home doing what needs to be done), and for the past three years of it, have been learning how to sew all my own clothes (I'm slowly but steadily working towards making a whole 1840s reproduction wardrobe, because I think it's very nice, sensible, and comfortable; and the menswear is honestly pretty easily adaptable to a more modern look, if need be). Unfortunately, my school did not have home economics classes (my great-grandmother had attended my high school and was very sad to hear of that; the home economics classes were turned into science and culinary classes, with two or three spare rooms used for meetings), but among many of my peers, there was a really keen interest in home sewing!
A lot of the time, my manner of dress would spark conversation (because of course high schoolers will be very curious about why their classmate looks like a weird Victorian...a lot of them thought I was Amish at first, which cracks me up because I am very pagan), and after asking about how my clothes work, they'd want to know how I got them, and when told I'd sewn them, my peers often expressed their interest in either learning to sew or increasing their mastery of the skill. In fact, I almost started a textile arts club, but didn't due to lack of time. I think home economics ought to be reintroduced to schools, with a focus not on teaching girls to be housewives, but on teaching teenagers of all genders and backgrounds how to be more self sufficient, because clearly there is an interest and clearly (judging by the frankly terrifying level of consumerism in our society and its effects upon the planet) there is a dire need to get back to basics at some level.
Personally, I would love if we could do a bit of a societal overhaul and replace big box stores and malls with home sewing and tailors/seamstresses again, but I know that these days that's not very feasible. Still, though, I think at the very least every individual should have the knowledge and ability to make and mend their own clothes, and then be better able to make the choice either to do so or to have someone else (such as a tailor or friend who likes to sew) make and mend them.
Yeah my mom makes quilts and blankets and stuff
This is so great to watch. I live in Germany und i love to watch this Channel. And the funny thing is we all, or more and more people,in the western world feel that there is something wrong in the way we live. I worked many years in logistic companys, but i never had the feeling tha that was a fulfilling job. Now after an accident and a some years with a depression i wanted to become a carpenter. I want a job where i have this connection... how should i call it with the nature something that is, at least for me a fulfilling job which gives me a fulfilling Life. I will definitely buy this book. Thanks for this video . This Channel really helps me, to made it thru this hard pandemic and lockdown time. Thank you all the great people behind Townsend.
I hope your path brings you joy
@@morrigansbestcrow Thank you Richard. :^)
I hope all is well with you Marc.... I think many of us need to make things, useful beautiful things and work with our hands. My crafts definitely help and reward me.
@@sillybeeful Thank you Sarah. Thats great to hear that you like your work. When the times got tough people with good skillz will be very precious. I'm looking forward that the schools here opening soon, that someone like me can go back to school and learn an other job. Anyway i hope that you great peope in the states are doing well and that this damned pandemic will soon come to an end. Kind regards, Marc
Hallo. Das freut mich natürlich, dass du auch nach langen Suchen angekommen bist. Ich finde am Ende muss man halt wirklich etwas finden was einen auch Freude macht, auch wenn man vielleicht nicht so viel verdient. Das mit der Wildnissschule klingt auf jedenfall sehr interessant. Definitiv was besonderes. Und was die blöde Politik betrifft, man hat halt leider oft den Eindruck, die Leute haben das kritische Denken verlernt. Auf jedenfall Alles gute und danke für den Kommentar. :^)
Also I have the self sufficient life and the back yard homestead, both of those are AWESOME, very enjoyable.
Also on my wishlist :)
I dream of such a lifestyle in the countryside. Don't know how or when, but I dream of it.
I took out all the non-producing plants out of my yard and replaced them with crop oriented things. Technology has helped me get a self sufficient backyard. Every year I look to refresh myself on how to prune my fruit trees
@@heidimisfeldt5685 turn that dream into reality. Buy that lot you've been by several times. Plant a woodlot, an orchard, a vineyard, a berry patch and plant a garden. Fence it. Move to a tiny house to start. Build a chicken coop. Raise sheep and goats. Give a home to 3 dogs and a couple cats from the shelter. Dig a well. Install septic system. Harvest rainwater, build a greenhouse. Live your dream.
This guy gets it. Outstanding insight into what we have lost in the modern world. Hopefully we can get back to these more stable family/social structures that create happier and healthier communities.
It is desperately needed, now more than ever. The detachment of people from their families and neighbors is disheartening and demoralizing. I am not saying that nobody has good values, but far, far to many have completely lost sight of what's important do to social media and what have you.
There is no future living in the past. Besides, it was only a better time for male freehold land owners.....
@@philiphicks1273 No one said to live in the past, or to revert things back to exactly how they were. We said that modern culture is lacking stability, family values, a connection to other people and our communities. However, as for living in the past, it's important to understand how things were through history so we can take the best, and learn from mistakes. That's more what we're saying.
@@TheSkelzore @philip hicks emphasis at "take the best". It's easy to say the past is flawed and ignore it completely. Not only does that dom us to repeat past mistakes, but it also prevents us from repeating past successes and everything in between (i.e. doing niche things better, more efficient, better in any way etc.)
Only way we're going to see positive change in regard to healthy societies is by more government assistance to their citizens. Whether it's a UBI that allows citizens to pursue careers like these, free healthcare, or free college, etc. The rat race exists because of various inequalities that have been allowed to accumulate by greed and unchecked cronyism. You can't compare our current situation with life hundreds of years ago - that's very unrealistic and illogical. Have to focus on addressing the current day issues that affect millions of average people, and not keep overlooking them because you're afraid of upsetting the status quo.
I remember not too long ago when you crossed 1m and now you’re already at 1.5m subs! What an amazing growth for years of great effort! Love you guys.
2.25 Million, now!
I trained as a chef/baker in the 70s. I am now retired due to back problems. Now I make hand-made soap and sell at the local farmers market. Bothe trades are surprisingly similar. Both also are on your list of durable trades, I bet. Can't wait to read your book. Thanks for the great video!
Land surveyor checking in. We’ve been at this a while.
This was an exceptionally interesting video and topic. I've added Rory's book to my TBR, and I'm excited to dive into it.
There was a great British series called, “Turn Back Time - The High Street,” which was all about trades and shopping from the Victorian Era through to the 1970’s (you can find it on RUclips). It was eye-opening to see the evolution and death of local economies and that it really was caused by the people. Shoppers would say how disappointed they were to see local livelihoods being eroded, and would even chide the supermarket-format businesses, but they continued to vote with their dollar and buy from the cheaper conglomerates. It’s interesting to see the cognitive dissonance that pervades society. People I come across talk about supporting local, but few of them actually do. If you want to see a return to family businesses, then buy from them! (As I’m sure most who watch this channel do, but we are the minority sadly).
What a great episode! As always xx
So appreciate you bringing back lost American crafts and craftsmanship. Gives the next generation a pause to think about the trades again!
Yes barrels like is made [by coopers] at the Stave mill in Lebanon Missouri. It is still going strong!
I grew up miles and miles from town on a Ranch in Montana, and as a kid, I read Laura Ingles Wilder's books, (Little house in the big woods, little house on the prairie, Farmer Boy, etc) and felt like my world was closer to theirs, 100 years past, than to the modern towns that were just over the horizon. To this day I feel out of place in towns and cities.
Not much discussion of textiles but there were itinerant weavers who would travel, set up their loom, and do your weaving. It augmented home weaving, everything from clothing, to poke bags, and even fire hose. There are still countries in the world that support their handweavers, Ethiopia, Guatemala and India come to mind. They produce certain specific clothings items that cannot be produced with the same aesthetic as a powerloom. And their people esteem these textiles.
FYI in the UK 'homesteading' is known as having a 'smallholding'.
thank you for teaching me something with that
That's what that means. Heard it once in a while but never what it is. Thanks
I realized today that I haven’t seen an episode on glassmaking or glassblowing- although it wasn’t a new item, I’d love to know more about the glass trade in the 18th century, the cost of various glass items compared to pottery, or even window glass making. Thanks!
Wow such a great guest to have at the tavern! I grew up with cub scouts and learned wood working when I was 5- 6 years old, and in high school learning to weld and metal fabrication. And I continue to learn CNC machining. But I have recently been learning about permaculture (Geoff Lawton, Bill Mollison) and sustainable agriculture. There is so much potential for us to reconnect with the past ways of living 🙂👍
I grew up in the midwest watching the demise of the small family farm. Agribusiness with it's economy of scale put small dairy operations into the same category as cottage looms. My grandfather in WI milked 60 cows. That states largest dairy operation currently milks over 8,000. Anything under 500 isn't a business anymore, it's a hobby.
Love the new sign!!! This channel is so relaxing and fascinating. Love seeing fellow historical folk live their best lives ✨🖤
This is the kind of thing the internet was destined to create. Franklin would be proud.
Alcohol is a bare necessity.
Brewer is #9 ;)
Brewer here!
@@MrRemakes even easier, keep bees, make mead. I used to live in the middle of a small city (very miserable, I do not recommend it), and took much solace in my friendly bee-keeping neighbours, whose honey I was sometimes gifted. It was very useful for many purposes, and mead was the most delicious one (aside from honey toast)!
I'm just bought the Durable Trades E-book. I just started it and I am already hooked on it. The research and the references are very impressive.
Less than halfway through the video and I've already bought 2 copies of the book from Wipf and Stock Publishers. I've been talking about getting out of computer programming for a while, and look forward to ideas of how to do this while moving to something more stable, even if less money. Thanks for putting this up @Townsends
Great show, bought the book for our son this morning due to being recommended by Urban Prepper. We look forward to reading Durable Trades for the sake of our 13 (& future) grandchildren. And since we are a family of carpenters, I could not help notice that the stairway railing needs a woodworker :D +Blessings+
Long story short: reject technology accept axe
As you type the comments on your smartphone lol
No, thanks. I like my comfortable home and modern medicine.
I’m glad to be getting REAL medicine. Like the prescriptions Hippocrates dispensed:
Let FOOD be thy medicine.
And back then, people had REAL food. Not genetically modified frankenfood.
@@CarolineJoyAmico only biodynamic food Rudolph Steiner system is real ( farmers market maby) and grown indoors food is next ( chemtrails)
@@stephaniewilson3955 if Colonial Americans had modern tech, they'd embrace it too
crime and political families (sometimes/mosttimes the same entity) have been here since time immemorial...
Unexpectedly timely. Love this idea, great research and so many important side topics.
Up in northern Maine they still make barrels to hold potatoes.
It sounds crazy but skills of the past and how they work on their basic level is important to know because if anything ever happened to society you'd know how to rebuild society.
They also teach one to think in longer terms. When you craft things to outlast you, and maybe even your grandchildren, your very perspective shifts.
'Blessed is the land where elders tend to seedlings fruit from whose they will never taste' --- or something along those lines.
To the people of Jon and Jas Townsend, may your crops prosper and your harvest bountiful. Also love your vids since 2017. Can’t sleep without that beautiful fiddle playing
This is a wonderful gift to our county, thank you! 💜🌻🏡🙏
Carpentry and masonry 💪👍
Very nice. Thank you for such an interesting show.
I had always enjoyed working with my hands and mind to solve problems (why programming had been appealing). After a short time I left computers and joined the family business of piano servicing (Parks & Sons Piano Service in SC). I find myself wishing I hadn't wasted so much of my time with computers.
Now I get to apply problem solving skills and my wood working skills to help restore pianos. My dad started piano servicing back in the 60s and as kids, my brother and I would travel with him to jobs.
Now I do both woodworking and refinishing - can be aggravating sometimes, but hey that is the challenge lol.
Thank you, Townsends! Very interesting episode - kept my attention all the way through.
My city recently made many aspects of homesteading illegal.
I had chickens for four years and the neighbors would visit to let their kids pet them and we sold the eggs cheaper than the store.
Nobody complained.
Then one day we get a notice saying it will be a $400 dollar fine for EVERY DAY until we get rid of them.
We can't even grow vegetables.
Grass only, by law.
This is so sad the rich don't want the poor to be self sufficient.
Sorry to hear. That's a big disappointment. What state/municipality is this if you don't mind?
And you just laid down and took it? Gather up your customers, friends, neighbors and get the word out. Make a huge showing at the city council and call in the media. Push for backyard gardens in low income areas too!
That is so sad. So sorry to hear. God I couldn’t live somewhere that was like that. So thankful I live in Cornwall where we have so many little pockets of chickens and gardeners
Back to basics! I lost that book years ago, have missed it! This was great, going to look for this book for sure. Thanks Townsend's, as usual, have so enjoyed another tavern episode.
I am a simple person.
I see Townsends.
I press the thumb pointing up.
I enjoyed this topic. One of the other channels I watch is Alex Steele's. He is a blacksmith and started learning around 11-13 years old. It's amazing to see how he uses more modern tools, but continues to do forge in the old way as well.
Good age to start a manual job. Body is big enough to do some heavy work.Child have out grown that spindles, long and thin body type.There body’s have gain width, for larger( adult )inter organs.
My father was a tradesman's tradesman. He learned to square a building as a teen on a timber frame home. It wasn't screwed or nailed together. It was joined and pegged.
Dad could weld, plumb, wire, and anything carpentry related. He even worked as a diesel mechanic for a few years, made his own horse trailer and could do seemingly anything.
Unfortunately he moved to the southern US where quality held no place compared to cost. Get it done was the key to the developer making more money quicker.
I wish I had a tenth the working knowledge he took to the grave.
This is one of your best programs yet. Would love to see more programs that help make the link between how the past should be informing how we move forward in the future. Thanks.
This was a fascinating discussion! Thanks so much!
We just heard Rory speak at our local homeschool conference. He is an excellent speaker and teacher. Get his book Durable Trades!
We always think of the American Trucker as a huge part of our culture that revolves around a particular proffesion and it's a fairly recent addition.
Love this episode. We have a small homestead where we raise most of our meat and hundreds of quartz of vegetables it is very satisfying.
All of this reminded me of a very sweet Channel on RUclips that goes around Italy and films gannies making pasta by hand to preserve their recipies ^^ (it's called pasta grannies)
Ironically we must use the internet to meet other people that want to trade, build, farm, then get off the internet together
I came for the flavors and aromas.
As a person in surveying and drafting, the concepts have remained the same but the manner in which it is performed has hugely changed. From pulling on metal measuring tape and using a rod, to lasers and gps. Then creating the final map product, from pen and ink to computer aided drafting programs and printers. Fortunately society will always need our services, no matter the process.
Thank you for this fantastic discussion. Rory is able to articulate a feeling that I think many of us that are drawn to your channel experience.
I find the shoemaker interesting, because in germany we have a occupation called "orthopedic shoemaker" they craft shoes a other foot related product for diabetics or people with pain. There are thousands that work as orthopedic shoemakers as part of the medical system
Same here in Sweden.
Very interesting guest and great show. Will definitely purchase the book and check out Rory’s website.
Great video as usual. Much food for thought and a view that I had come to many years ago. But just remember not to throw the baby out with the bath water. In 1790 if you cut yourself, broke a bone, caught smallpox etc then odds on you would die or be severely maimed.
When I get tired if the world and the rest of the internet I love coming home here! Would love to see some more outdoors early history survival (everyday living) daily routines at the cabin! Tks n can't wait to see ya at 1812 this year!
I just watched this and ordered Rory Grove's book for my nephew. It's pretty obvious with the pandemic we need to reevaluate where we are headed.
John looking like a cast character of Gangs of New York: 1776 edition in the thumbnail
We've a garden and we compost and harvest water (it's still legal here). We even got ahold of an extension agent and identified different indigenous plants, flowers and such. While some do better than others, we have a bountiful harvest and let many go to seed for next year. These videos motivate my family is when our jobs keep us busy, but the garden calls out to us
they still have traditional apprentices in India
Thanks for sharing with us Jon.👍👍👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks again. The sound was great Aaron.
Great show and wonderful topic!! I will check out the book.
I've personally been spiritually connected to the 1960's-1980's (I'm 23), however y'all always make the 18th century so much more fun than I remember learning from grade school. Thank y'all so much for what you do. I'm also a cook for a living so that's probably also why I appreciate what you do! Keep it up :)
Edit: I know my mom (55 now) remembers HER grandma having her own chickens (def before) the late 70's/ early 80's and definitely killing them getting them butchered properly by her own grandma. Comparing it to how different it is now to MY grandma (dad's mom) today. We buy local for our meat, but we still have no clue who actually does it. Though our Alabama town is small to most, it still is a mystery haha. Really a trade that's gone under radar.
I keep thinking about raising sheep, angora goats, and other fiber bearing animals, spinning, knitting, dyeing and weaving where an entire family can be involved in creating useful items for sale as a family business. That would fall on the artistry side of things.
Homesteading...anything by Joe Saletin
Joel Salatin?
#1 job through out history that will never go away is the 'Honey Dipper'. That.. will not end until human life is gone. Say what you want.. but it is true.. There is money in scat.
Very interesting video. My ancestors were farmers, tinsmith, wagonmakers, coal miners, blacksmiths, etc. Wish i could talk to them!
This is a great topic! Thanks for an outstanding channel!
Just bought the digital book on Amazon, awesome!!! 💯🌻💜🏡🙏🤗
As a glass blower I'm definitely going to buy this book
Years ago I was self employed as a farmer, but when the milk price crashed and had to sell, this past year I once again started another business as a Sawyer. My parents family has been farmers for many generations, my stepfather's family has been involved in logging and sawing lumber for generations, originally coming to America before the revolution to cut trees for the sail rigging on the ships.
In the time between farming and sawing I spent around 5 years working for a butcher shop.
*when the evildoers purposely crashed the milk price
Wow, this video hit a lot of nails on the head. I'm very young (graduated high school in 2020), and as I approach my entry to the job market (waiting for Ye Olde Plague to calm down first), I've been thinking about what careers might be stable and conducive to an old-fashioned, anti-capitalist/consumerist, d-i-y homebody like myself. Particularly, what would engage my interest in the arts and history, but leave me time for home working? I've been considering teaching, since I've always felt an interest in that career and get along well with children. But I love the idea of being a person of many trades! I don't do well with a one-job lifestyle; I'd ideally be homesteading, spending lots of time sewing (I make basically all of my own clothes and other textiles; I buy antique or historical reproduction things like shoes, buttons, stockings because I can't knit, etc., but I'm working towards wearing 1840s clothing, and make my own shifts, petticoats, dresses, and such. Kits are also very useful for things like bonnets and corsets, and for household goods like towels, handkerchiefs, and hot-pads, they're easily sewn in an afternoon from older rags or cheaper fabrics), learning how to knit/crochet/spin/weave, and keeping up my studies of history, literature, philosophy, music, and drawing/painting. However, ideal is far from realistic, so my main hope is that with teaching, I can give myself the flexibility that I require to keep up those pursuits on weekends and such (I've talked with old teachers about what the workload and work/life balance is like, and I think as long as I keep up my habit of bringing a sewing project everywhere I'll be sitting for a few hours, it can be managed).
Wow, that was an essay! Anyways, my point is: this is a philosophy about work that I hope catches on. We have been alienated from our labour for a few centuries now, counting off from the start of the industrial revolution and the changes it has brought; while I think we have gained much, I hope society comes to its senses when it comes to the need for community-focused labour, sustainable working conditions (i.e. workers can actually make a half decent living with a family, the job doesn't harm the environment around them, the job won't disappear as soon as the technology changes a bit, and the work doesn't consume all waking hours of their life), and having a care towards preserving old jobs and ways of life. There is value in change and the future, but I believe we have been prioritizing it overmuch in the past few centuries, and not appreciating the lessons of the past as much as we could.
I'm a master barber but really I'm a great cook. I can sew I can raise children and chickens, rabbit and grow a pretty good garden. My man is an old school pig farmer, cow man. He works at a butcher shop too. We still barter today. It's still here in
Rural America . great video
Guys get your hammers we gonna beat the dwarves for numba 1 black smiths
Wonderful interview. I agree with Rory's philosophy.
Oh my goodness! Jon has a lovely singing voice. You can hear him right at the beginning before the music.
I feel especially welcomed when I hear "Mmmm, we love you", right off the bat upon starting this video.
I wonder if producing historical youtube videos will stand the test of time... if not, I might need a new industry 😗
We didn't have the break up of the American family back then which is why they made it during tough times - they stuck together.
Our family owned farms, but due to the intervention of the modern world it didn't become the family business and my parents sold them because of too many unscrupulous people working in support of non-residential farms. I find it very depressing, but I also would have been unable to actually farm had we the opportunity due to physical disabilities. I am seeking a job in another durable trade, though, teaching.
Note of interest: Bill gates is the largest owner of farmland in the US
Midwives-I had all 3 of my kids at home almost 40 years ago here in indiana. Lay Midwives were not legal.
“Specialization is for insects” -
I'm a retired engineering professor, but I think we badly need a revival in the trades. I bought the Durable Trades book and largely agree with its theme.
railing missing a spindle!
I also spotted that, and thought he could really do with a woodworker to replace it 😂
I noticed the same thing.
Just got my copy of the book cant wait to read it!
This book was released at exactly the right time.
We work for machines so that we can buy more machines, only to finally realize we aren’t needed anymore because of machines.
Farming? Not if Bill Gates has anything to say about it.
the late 1700's were also effected by a climate shift causing farms to fail. And the equipment development that replaced people to make the farms profitable by reducing expenses.
Also made them more reliable and people in societies with more reliable food systems have less disease.
@@suzannehartmann946 that is patently not true. We have different types and a myriad of diseases in our society and in the US 40-60% of the food produced is wasted because of distribution, storage, contamination, bureaucracy issues & changing palates.
Love it. Just bought the book!
Awesome book. Awesome concept.
Im pulling knowledge from this historical channel. I like the lack of power way of doing things. These things are very stablizing in a situation where disaster might happen. Always a good knowledge.
The guest was fantastic and I really want to read the book
Earning a lot of money won't make you happy. Being poor really really won't make you happy.
I wish someone would have told me I was going to want to make a lot more than I thought I did as a kid.
You'll want to support a family.
The price of everything always goes up.
In the US our government takes a huge chunk in taxes (just add up your property tax, income tax, sales tax and payroll tax. you'll be amazed).
Add to that the price of insurance which increases far quicker than the rate of inflation (especially health and home).
You might even want to give to charity.
Prices aren’t going up so much as the value of your currency is going down. Takes more dollars to buy the same goods and services because our currency becomes more and more worthless by the day.