This is *exactly* how I've been dreaming of living! The chickens, the repurposing, the sun cooking, rocket stove, companion planting, no crop rows, growing plants to use as fertilizer (like comfrey, not sure what you were using), pouring the wash water on the plants, eating the amaranth and pepper leaves (I love sweet potato leaves myself), everything was so exactly my dream that I couldn't contain myself while watching! Lol. It's everything I do (without the space) and my friends and neighbors think I'm a nut! So glad to see someone else with an almost identical vision! It was a pleasure to watch your video! Thank you for making it. I am re-inspired!
First time I found your channel! Yay! I am inspired! When my grandson was in second grade, we were deciding on which vegetables to grow in the garden. One, chose moringa. Two, sweet potatoes. Three, zucchini and yellow squash with green beans planted next to them, From there we also chose spinach, peas, cabbage and salad greens, That was the start of our garden. Started a compost pile. Later put a trellis in for grapes, two varieties of pear and two varieties of apples. Then we added the salsa garden, tomatoes, jalapeños, onion, garlic, green peppers, and a mini lime tree in container. We have added so much from there. We made a solar oven to cook in. The first time we used it was for mini Brownie Bites. That was the start of his life long dream. He is 17 now and in culinary school. Cooking garden to home palette pleasers. He has his own herb, & spice garden and mixes his seasonings. He loves fishing and camping so his skills are put to good use around the campfire. He is also a welder and put those skills to good use for outdoor cooking. There are more of us out there so we can't all be crazy as some like to say. I am so happy to have found your channel to share. Hope it grows and the life skills catch on like fire! Thank you!
My wife and I live in an Eastern Shore retirement community and we envy living the way you do. Boy, we sure would like to have a garden of greens/veggies, and fruits. Can't do that here abouts. No sir. Can't even have chickens! Neighbors would freak out! lol Of course, some are freaks anyway, so that's no surprise. We're elderly, so we know ourselves who's going to be neighborly or not. My, oh my, watching this video brought my wife and I back to when we had gardens of our own several decades back, in the many acres of near bottom land, in the Carolina Smokey Mountains, and when we had homes elsewhere too. We combined, have family in almost every State, including Alaska and Hawaii. That's nice and all, but we can't grow things in their world. We don't live with them. Even if we did, I think they wouldn't like it very much. The elderly are simply not wanted nor appreciated much. Not enough to cater to their likes or desires. Keep making videos because you'll never know how much these down to earth, "normal" things are needed for people to see. We need people like you showing how people should be living. Much appreciated.
Excellent lifestyle choices , and healthy diets ,home grown, no chemicals, just Gods gifts, a wonderful way of life you show to all . Thankyou Godbless 🙏
I have a brand new baby tree collard growing right now. It is about four inches high. Only 2 months old. Grew it from direct sowed seeds. Loved seeing how tall it can get in a few years.
Thank you for this very inspiring video ! cooking most of my meals in a fire place in winter, you gave me the idea how to prepare my food without electricity in the summer, though i will have to find out how to make this solar cooker myself :-) Great juicer, also, and your food looks great ! Greetings from Greece
Thanks for tuning in! The solar cooker will cook just as well in the cold of winter as long as there are blue skies and sunshine. The rocket stove works anytime as well. Good luck with building your solar cooker. Cheers!
What a great video. I'm putting together my All Seasons Solar Cooker tonight and I see I'm going to have to go back and refold the scores to give it a more rounded shape that it needs to do the job correctly. You video is very educational for us newbies. Thank you, brother!
I would add a friend to share your abundance with (perhaps the videographer), and maybe some laughter for a sweet. You will outlive all of us! I built my solar oven out of items I had around the house and love it! So easy and incredibly satisfying. I enjoy cooking in the oven and on my barbeque on hot summer days when I hate turning on any appliances that generate heat! Thanks for sharing!
I did this when I was in third grade with nachos and now I'm going to show this to my nephew who will be in second grade this year. If it weren't for your video I may have not even remembered the experience much less have been able to share it with my nephew. Thank you for the time and passion you put into your videos they are very educational and entertaining.
I'm glad you are enjoying the content! It's my theory that when you align your work with your passions, what you do for a living will no longer feel like a job. I hope my videos encourage you to connect more with nature and create more abundance in your life. Thanks for tuning in. Cheers!
How awesome! I have a large garden yet you have more variety of vegetables in your back yard! I'm so challenged. Thanks for sharing and opening my mind on solar cooking as well. Keep posting...
Brillantly done Dan. I kinda cook the same way. My rocket cookstove is done with firebricks and solar cooker is a make-shift from aluminum auto window shades, that works basically the same way. Peace & Blessings
Put rocks, or 1gallon bottles of sand or water in your solar oven during the Winter, Spring, or Fall to heat your home. Bring them in when they are saturated with the maximum temperature of your oven each one or two hours and replace with a new set of bottles or rocks until the sun goes down. Gear up with larger rocks or to 2.5 gallon bottles of sand or water and use several solar ovens during the day for more heat. When the rocks, or 1 gallon or 2.5 gallon bottles reach maximum temperature of your oven and fully saturated with heat bring them into your home. You can heat many rocks, 1 gallon bottles or 2.5 gallon bottles throughout the day to maximum temperatures in most solar ovens when turned every hour toward the sun. Sand seems to work best for me and is less messy but hot water is good too to bath and do dishes. -- J.E. Ante.
I've been wanting to make a cooker, solar dehydrator, and a beeswax melter. We have the sun, but getting to it has been a challenge for a procrastinator such as myself.
I was looking into solar cookers and your video showed up. We use an old Champion juicer, and the electricity to run it is 100% off grid electric. The hand crank juicer looks like a good option if things stop working (they haven't in 12+ years, but...). Being in zone 5a (southern Colorado), I'm looking for a solar cooker/oven design that might work when it gets cold. I grew up in zone 9 (New Orleans), and 8,800 feet and near zero during the day at times in winter is a different thing entirely. I don't want to cook every day with propane, while the wife wants to get more convenient after 12 years up here off grid. I'm probably going to build my solar oven using design elements on different commercial builds. I'm researching solar ovens, and she just bought a telescope, so I'm researching while picking battles. Great video, so thanks!
I just discovered your channel, your videos are so enjoyable to watch. Interesting content, and filmed well. You are giving me so many great ideas for my garden. I'm just beginning the process of getting rid of my lawn via sheet mulching!
You can make your own parabolic solar oven with just a metallic car shade. Just wear sun glasses because the reflective light can actually burn and damage your retina. Good luck.
This was a wonderful video! Thank you so much for sharing it. I take Moringa capsules. I live in Louisiana and I do believe I can get some trees to grow here. Would you happen to know where I can locate some or do I buy seeds in a packet? Thank you ever so much. Blessings
This is how everyone shold be living
This is *exactly* how I've been dreaming of living! The chickens, the repurposing, the sun cooking, rocket stove, companion planting, no crop rows, growing plants to use as fertilizer (like comfrey, not sure what you were using), pouring the wash water on the plants, eating the amaranth and pepper leaves (I love sweet potato leaves myself), everything was so exactly my dream that I couldn't contain myself while watching! Lol. It's everything I do (without the space) and my friends and neighbors think I'm a nut! So glad to see someone else with an almost identical vision! It was a pleasure to watch your video! Thank you for making it. I am re-inspired!
Well stated. I love sweetpotato leaves too..
That was an excellent example of a healthy, appealing, off-the-grid meal. Thanks for sharing!
I totally love the nesting box! Sometime when I get my own house (soon) I will be getting chickens. Great stuff here. Love it!
Yeah! MAMA SITA's Barbeque Marinade....hello from the Phils!
First time I found your channel! Yay! I am inspired! When my grandson was in second grade, we were deciding on which vegetables to grow in the garden. One, chose moringa. Two, sweet potatoes. Three, zucchini and yellow squash with green beans planted next to them, From there we also chose spinach, peas, cabbage and salad greens, That was the start of our garden. Started a compost pile. Later put a trellis in for grapes, two varieties of pear and two varieties of apples. Then we added the salsa garden, tomatoes, jalapeños, onion, garlic, green peppers, and a mini lime tree in container. We have added so much from there. We made a solar oven to cook in. The first time we used it was for mini Brownie Bites. That was the start of his life long dream. He is 17 now and in culinary school. Cooking garden to home palette pleasers. He has his own herb, & spice garden and mixes his seasonings. He loves fishing and camping so his skills are put to good use around the campfire. He is also a welder and put those skills to good use for outdoor cooking. There are more of us out there so we can't all be crazy as some like to say. I am so happy to have found your channel to share. Hope it grows and the life skills catch on like fire! Thank you!
I want to have a garden like yours in the future. Thanks for sharing.
Thank you Elenor! In the words of the great Walt Disney; If you dream it, you can do it!
My wife and I live in an Eastern Shore retirement community and we envy living the way you do. Boy, we sure would like to have a garden of greens/veggies, and fruits. Can't do that here abouts. No sir. Can't even have chickens! Neighbors would freak out! lol Of course, some are freaks anyway, so that's no surprise. We're elderly, so we know ourselves who's going to be neighborly or not. My, oh my, watching this video brought my wife and I back to when we had gardens of our own several decades back, in the many acres of near bottom land, in the Carolina Smokey Mountains, and when we had homes elsewhere too. We combined, have family in almost every State, including Alaska and Hawaii. That's nice and all, but we can't grow things in their world. We don't live with them. Even if we did, I think they wouldn't like it very much. The elderly are simply not wanted nor appreciated much. Not enough to cater to their likes or desires. Keep making videos because you'll never know how much these down to earth, "normal" things are needed for people to see. We need people like you showing how people should be living. Much appreciated.
🙃🙂 well, you can hold the "cheers", 'cause we don't drink. lol Have a great day.
I have to say that was the most enjoyable Video I have ever watched on RUclips !
Nicely done !
Excellent lifestyle choices , and healthy diets ,home grown, no chemicals, just Gods gifts, a wonderful way of life you show to all . Thankyou Godbless 🙏
That is a meal fit for a king! Sitting here salivating, I wish I could sit down with you and enjoy that amazing meal!
Terrific! If only we all did this. Well done.
Thank you Matt! Cheers!
Completely back in time and I even invited myself to dinner made me hungry I'm going to try this dinner outside.Thanks
Dan, I really enjoyed watching how you put together many of the elements of sustainability in a meal. Thank-you for posting!!!
Thank you Bee Awesome! Cheers!
Loved watching you for the first time.
I have a brand new baby tree collard growing right now. It is about four inches high. Only 2 months old. Grew it from direct sowed seeds. Loved seeing how tall it can get in a few years.
Thank you for sharing the black wild rice water 💧measurements. Thank you so much for sharing this 🙏wonderful video
Thank you for this very inspiring video ! cooking most of my meals in a fire place in winter, you gave me the idea how to prepare my food without electricity in the summer, though i will have to find out how to make this solar cooker myself :-) Great juicer, also, and your food looks great ! Greetings from Greece
Thanks for tuning in! The solar cooker will cook just as well in the cold of winter as long as there are blue skies and sunshine. The rocket stove works anytime as well. Good luck with building your solar cooker. Cheers!
What a great video. I'm putting together my All Seasons Solar Cooker tonight and I see I'm going to have to go back and refold the scores to give it a more rounded shape that it needs to do the job correctly. You video is very educational for us newbies. Thank you, brother!
You're kicking ass and taking names! Love the garden and love the look of that grub!
It's so inspiring watching your videos. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Vanture! Cheers!
We didn't know you can eat some of those greens! Looks delish!
Great video on cooking what you grow...love the solar and rocket stove
Thank you! Cheers!
Wow I learned so much in this video! You are such an amazing inspiration!!
What an awesome way to live. 👍
I would add a friend to share your abundance with (perhaps the videographer), and maybe some laughter for a sweet. You will outlive all of us! I built my solar oven out of items I had around the house and love it! So easy and incredibly satisfying. I enjoy cooking in the oven and on my barbeque on hot summer days when I hate turning on any appliances that generate heat! Thanks for sharing!
Then, you are somebody I need to know. I loved your video.
DAN, you are somebody I need to know. I loved your video.
(The auto correction misspelled your name.)
I LOVED THIS VIDEO! Easily one of my favorites. Thanks for sharing. :-)
Thank you for tuning in and for your kind words. Cheers!
Great video,happy to have found your channel. Looking forward to going through the rest of what you are sharing!
Thank you Patricia! Cheers!
I did this when I was in third grade with nachos and now I'm going to show this to my nephew who will be in second grade this year. If it weren't for your video I may have not even remembered the experience much less have been able to share it with my nephew. Thank you for the time and passion you put into your videos they are very educational and entertaining.
just wow
you actually living my dream !!!
You're inspiring me a lot to leave my job and choose ur living style...! :) Great Video! Keep em coming.
I'm glad you are enjoying the content! It's my theory that when you align your work with your passions, what you do for a living will no longer feel like a job. I hope my videos encourage you to connect more with nature and create more abundance in your life. Thanks for tuning in. Cheers!
stayed up late to finish watching your video. I like how you used multiple methods of cooking and eating. Made we want to get more gardening done too.
Thanks for the enhancement of my knowledge!! Bravo!!
woh---- that's look good. made me hungry.
Me too!
Looks awesome
That looked awesome!
Looks delicious
How awesome! I have a large garden yet you have more variety of vegetables in your back yard! I'm so challenged. Thanks for sharing and opening my mind on solar cooking as well. Keep posting...
Awesome video. I enjoyed the Multiple solar cooking methods!
Great way to have a backyard adventure and a party for one.
I personally love my summer life in the backyard.
Brillantly done Dan. I kinda cook the same way. My rocket cookstove is done with firebricks and solar cooker is a make-shift from aluminum auto window shades, that works basically the same way.
Peace & Blessings
Wow there were so many gems in this one video! I got lots of ideas for my garden and im excited to try the solar cooker!
You made that look so easy! 😋
It's easy but time consuming... have to be living in the garden like Dan does to make it look so easy :)
Soooo inspiring!!! Love this way of living 👍🏼🙌🏼💖
I love your lifestyle! Thanks for sharing delicious recipes :)
Thank you kindly!
This was very good information and delightful. Love your garden.
Very nice setup Dan! I hope someday to do the same.
makes my mouth water man thnx for sharing
My pleasure G'Maw! Cheers!
Amazing video and I learned so much!👍😀
You must have a very satisfied life!!!
you won over the system, man. best from greenland.
Thanks for the video. Food looks great!
Your the man Dan. Nice job.
Thanks my idea of a great life!, you have inspired me
Put rocks, or 1gallon bottles of sand or water in your solar oven during
the Winter, Spring, or Fall to heat your home. Bring them in when they
are saturated with the maximum temperature of your oven each one or two
hours and replace with a new set of bottles or rocks until the sun goes
down. Gear up with larger rocks or to 2.5 gallon bottles of sand or
water and use several solar ovens during the day for more heat. When
the rocks, or 1 gallon or 2.5 gallon bottles reach maximum temperature
of your oven and fully saturated with heat bring them into your home.
You can heat many rocks, 1 gallon bottles or 2.5 gallon bottles
throughout the day to maximum temperatures in most solar ovens when
turned every hour toward the sun. Sand seems to work best for me and is
less messy but hot water is good too to bath and do dishes. -- J.E.
Ante.
Looks yummi! But sooo much food, you could eat days and days of that hehe :D
Thank you! It was quite the feast! Cheers!
GREAT video!! I very much enjoyed it! Love your style!
Thank you much! Cheers!
That looks so good and tasty.
awesome. i love your ways of doing things.
such an inspiration. thank you.
I absolutely love your channel!
I've been wanting to make a cooker, solar dehydrator, and a beeswax melter. We have the sun, but getting to it has been a challenge for a procrastinator such as myself.
Wow!😍 You must Feel GREAT! I want to do this also Thank you💞 for Sharing
👏🥰💞
nice job, great juicer
Glorious!
So this is what real food looks like.
Awesomeness!!
Nice, i have to get a juicer like you have there. I think it will see good use since i grow lots of berries and fruit.
Your food looks awesome.
Fabulous eating
Looks very tasty
Such a nice video! I’m thinking of buying this solar cooker so using you as my research!! Thank you for the demonstration!!!
Looks great
Very nice!
Outstanding
very nice meal... yummy
Looks very delicious ☆☆☆☆☆
Fantastic thank you
You're having it up over there! #goals
Thank you sunflower! Cool name! Dan
Excellent.
I was looking into solar cookers and your video showed up. We use an old Champion juicer, and the electricity to run it is 100% off grid electric. The hand crank juicer looks like a good option if things stop working (they haven't in 12+ years, but...). Being in zone 5a (southern Colorado), I'm looking for a solar cooker/oven design that might work when it gets cold. I grew up in zone 9 (New Orleans), and 8,800 feet and near zero during the day at times in winter is a different thing entirely. I don't want to cook every day with propane, while the wife wants to get more convenient after 12 years up here off grid. I'm probably going to build my solar oven using design elements on different commercial builds. I'm researching solar ovens, and she just bought a telescope, so I'm researching while picking battles. Great video, so thanks!
Hi again, just subscribed hoping for that bread video made in the All season🍞🥖🥖
I just discovered your channel, your videos are so enjoyable to watch. Interesting content, and filmed well. You are giving me so many great ideas for my garden. I'm just beginning the process of getting rid of my lawn via sheet mulching!
That's a great video 👍
Yum!!
sir you are good cook bless
I am from India Mumbai. I watched ur vdo. It is vary very nice. I would like to suggest u to make it available in our market .solar shegady.
You can make your own parabolic solar oven with just a metallic car shade. Just wear sun glasses because the reflective light can actually burn and damage your retina. Good luck.
Inspirational video. Good job Dan.
Thanks, very instructive
So awesome!
Yum! On my way.....🤣
Excellent video; very well done. My compliments.
very nice food homemade
Pretty much better than any of those "music videos" they have on here.(youtube)
Incredible...
I loved the manual juicer. by the way, where is Ate Alice?
Mouth watering!
Looks yummy 😋
Awesome video 👌, can you make a bread video next?, that would be great, thank you 😊😊😊
This was a wonderful video! Thank you so much for sharing it. I take Moringa capsules. I live in Louisiana and I do believe I can get some trees to grow here. Would you happen to know where I can locate some or do I buy seeds in a packet? Thank you ever so much. Blessings
AWESOME!!