Well said, I live with anxiety and PTSD and my garden (now due to life changes, my homestead) has always been a place of peace and rejuvenation for me. I have had to separate myself from several channels who previously provided inspiration and encouragement along with wisdom because they have become a source of anxiety. I discovered your channel with your Rain Gutter of Change and greatly appreciate the mindset I see here. Please keep up the positive and encouraging work. Thank you for posting!
Thank you. Working to fix our broken food system, one farm, one community at a time is a goal full of hope and promise. I grow some fruit and vegetables, but not enough, so I support local farmers by buying what I don't grow, or raise, from them. No fear here, just admiration and respect for the farmers I buy from. Cheers!
Well stated. I get frustrated at sensationalism and alarmist tactics. YT creators and media are notorious for that, because it works to generate views. I started my homestead purely for enjoyment. As some of the supply issues have developed, I’ve been thankful for the level of self-sufficiency we have established, but it isn’t going to make or break my family. I am hoping to share content that might inspire folks to try a way of life that is rewarding. Thanks for your thoughts! Good luck keeping that fence clear. 👊👍
I seenit as click bate. If it works for one channel,bother channels try it too The " will it run", "I bought the cheapest x on FBMP or Amazon" " your not gonna believe what X company did to me" its clicks over content.
Thank you for giving voice to inspiration rather than fear. I have also seen this disaster preparedness trend and consider it disturbing. I grow my own food and want to feel some security with it but I know that I will do a better job and have more peace of mind when I approach it from a place of nourishing myself rather than fearing an apocalyptic future. I appreciate you taking the time to voice your thoughts.
I so appreciate this video! I find value in preparedness for our family for things like natural events, unexpected hospital trips, job loss, power outages, broken water pipe in the house. Within a week of thinking about preparedness our area, for the first time ever, had massive wildfires and we had to evacuate for 10 days. Last year a pipe broke and we had to shut off water to the house while we had to fix it. The world isn't ending, but stuff does happen. And having some items available has really brought peace to my family and kept fear at bay while we deal with the situation at hand. There is so much value in hope and there is no hope in fear. The future is bright and we can make it brighter with hope and supporting community and being sustainable together.
Thanks Jack for calling some of this stuff out! It's really been a hard shift lately and it's hard to see some people I enjoy playing on fear for content sake.
Thank you, Jack. I have stopped watching some homesteaders I have followed for a while because they moved to a place of fear rather than a connection to their land, their gardens, their animals. I grew up in a snowy area, so my family was always prepared in the event that a blizzard would cut us off for days or a week. I continue to do that, from habit. It was so helpful when I contracted Covid and couldn't leave my house for several days. Thank you for your well-reasoned approach.
Survival as human beings has always been built around communities rather than individuals. It's going to continue to be true into whatever the future holds. We have some control over how much we are consumers versus producers, but we will always have some needs we cannot fulfill without the help of others. Cooperation is not built on fear.
As always well put Jack. Fear and reaction has its place but living your life based upon it isn’t healthy for yourself or the world you live in. Keep on keeping on sir
Thank you for this video. I want to get into farming and self-sufficiency because I have severe OCD. I inspect every single grape or cherry or strawberry. The smallest blemish and I have to toss it. It's wasteful and debilitating, so I figure learning to grow my own food, seeing the grow cycle, will help alleviate my anxiety around food. So, as someone with severe anxiety, seeing these large homesteading channels and their recent messaging has been alarming. I follow several homesteading/prepping channels. There has been a swift, abrupt change in the tone of several channels. They're not just instilling fear, but there is also a gloating & boastful attitude. I just want to improve my relationship with food.
I agree 100% what you said! About time someone made a video like this. I have unsubscribed to some channels that have changed directs of their channel to fear mongering. Also definitely interested in the conference. I always wanted to go to HOA but it’s during hunting season. The beginning of September works better for us because we’re in between butchering chickens and butchering deer and beef. The NE conference is closer to home as well.
I started my homestead on just shy of 2 acres because of your videos. I agree 100% with what you said. I garden and farm chickens and goats because it brings me and my wife and our little girl joy and I know I’m doing it the way God intended it. I always have friends who say "better get this while you can or stock up in this when you can“ always thinking the worst. I’m doing this because we enjoy it.
Thank you so much for this commentary...much needed! There is much to be concerned about, but the continuous fear porn just paralyzes people and then nothing gets accomplished.
Thank you for saying this. I relate. While I love doomsday scenarios for fun, I moreso love the idea of food supply liberation by growing what I can and trading with community for what I can't. Plus I believe in organic heirloom/heritage foods. Getting out of a fear mindset actually helped me get clear enough to plan and executive a successful garden with plenty of preserves this year. Now, next year I'll add chickens or quail.
So many folks would rather just take the easy route and spread fear, than do the work to fix the system. Good on you for believing in fighting the fight!
Thanks Jack. I am also trying to inspire people on my channel to grow gardens and raise animals, not because there is anything to fear, but because they may enjoy it. I have also noticed the RUclipsrs that are trying to scare people and that is sad.
Agree 100% It's a matter of separating from versus helping better the world. Homesteading is good for the world and society. Prepping is, at best, good for the prepper, society be damned. I might be wrong, something many won't admit, but that's my view of it right now with my fruit and nut trees, chickens, garden, and the sharing of all of it with friends and neighbors.
We bought this cheap fence tester light thing just for that reason. Ours is only to keep Bears out but from inside we can look out and see the blinking green light and we know the fence is still good. Also my girlfriend just called and was very excited that she met you right after I finished your video
Thank you for putting out there a view where the sky isn’t falling 😊yet 😂 but honestly it can consume you. Yes we definitely need to be prepared but I’m keeping an eye on my sky. It’s not falling…be ready but for your sanity enjoy life everyday also 💕☮️
I have very strong political stands but when I click on a homesteading video, I do not want to hear anything regarding politics. Thank you for not pushing any type of views you might have. Keep doing what you do, I enjoy what you have been doing and teaching.
Thank you. Much needed. I was getting angry at some other channels that are fear mongering for clicks. So this definitely made me feel better. Take care!
I use fermented corn as a treat and to get them to root in a area I want them to really pay attention to. My recipe is. 1 5gal bucket, 1/4 fulled with deer corn, full 1/2 to 3/4 of water. Half put the lid on. 2 or 3 days and its ready to go. Keep in minds flys love fermented corn too.
"It's never ending." LOL - so true. But feels so rewarding to have all this. 100% agree w your points. Just yesterday watched Week 7 of Suscovich meat birds and his canoe philosophy actually jives very well with what you say. As with any visual media, fear is an easy marketing tactic if you don't want to spend the time or the thought to develop a deeper 'why.' That then leads to short-termism, drives up prices for the rest of us, and also degrades the value of what we do. Thanks for sharing this. And farm life is imperfect - but it's real. Not all my organic no till veggies and fruits are perfect, free from bugs, or uniformly shaped. But on the whole, they taste better, and I bet they are more nutrient dense, and more bonanfide organic than the so-called organic label items sold in chain stores ...
Great video, I'd like to make a video response and tag your channel in it. I definitely agree with the main message of not doing things from a place of fear but I definitely have a slightly different perspective. I think you'll enjoy it.
Glad you put this out. I am more on the hobby farm side of the equation which is a great place to be. This lifestyle offers a lot of positive gifts as well as a series of skills that will serve me well for the rest of my life.
5 months later and this still holds water👍🏻 I went yesterday to the store to get eggs (our egg layers aren’t laying yet but should by spring). I had to peice together an 18 count of eggs becaue there were 6 cartons left…all had at least 1 busted egg. So I moved some eggs around and made a full 18 count😂😂🤷🏼♂️ my point is there weren’t enough for the 15 people that were in that section if they all needed or wanted eggs and I need my ladies to start laying man!! It cost almost $10 for those 18 egg
I have been a prepper for over 20 years, but I have always made it clear I was a hobby prepper. I live in the tropics in a rainforest on farmland, my father grew bananas and other tropical fruits, so I have a lot of food growing on property, my father also had chickens but kept them wild free ranging without a coop, my father was a homesteader before I knew what a homesteader was, my father isn't around anymore, but now I know why he did what he did, im following his footsteps because I was a homesteader before I was a prepper. Fear has no place in prepping or Homesteading.
I'm a bit older my parents went through the depression and growing up we always were taught to be self sufficient , we too grew chickens for eggs and meat along with a few pigs , steers , with a garden . We also had a pantry room down stairs with stored canned goods , we also kept jugs of water for any emergency that might come . I too have noticed the shift on other sights that have been deleted , I do what I do for myself and family to sustain our needs and be as responsible as needed , good talk !
Exactly!! Grandmother and Father in law went through the Great Depression etc. FiL bartered for hay for our cows/pigs in turn for work on others wells or whatever. My thoughts though are we need to pass this onto our kids otherwise that mindset will be gone 😎
It sure is tough for those of us with primary jobs. For now my farm is an hour away from home and I travel for work. It's a PAIN, but it will be worth it!
100% spot on. I stopped watching the channels that are spreading fear. I can accept a difference in politics or religion. But fear mongering for clicks is just wrong. Yes things are a little difficult now but they have been way worse. Society as we know it is not ending. Growing your own food is a positive on so many levels. I’m not interested in changing it into something anxiety driven.
I get the YT hype of scare tactics that some homesteading channels are trying to monetize on. However, I view homesteading as an alternative to big farming and big government living shifts in society. To me, homesteading is about community and individual freedom to live away from the rat race city lifestyle. Its a skill to have even on a small level just in case society does regress a little during hard times.
Good morning Jack I am pretty new to your channel. I have been looking for fellow Granite staters (603). And I found your channel. You are a very down to earth guy. Common sense family. I have always been around a farm my entire life.. I find it just rewarding to grow your own food. Whether it be crops or livestock. Fear is a emotion that most people have a very hard time comprehending. The way I look at it is I fear my own thoughts and that is something I can do something about. Happiness Comes from within and it is something that you can control. And only you can control that. With that being said keep doing what you are doing and enjoy it. You are sharing your life. Thank you.. Stay safe and always be kind. Go 603
Thank you for saying that it needed to be said I think you said it very eloquently and respectfully. Love the channel! I am in the process of trying to begin looking to move to New Hampshire from Massachusetts I was never meant for Massachusetts I hate Massachusetts I hate the people in Massachusetts and I hate that I live in Massachusetts but this is where I make my money but this is not where my heart lies. Love the contact keep at it
I wouldn't call my self a prepper but I am trying to be more prepared. I have had 30+ years of first aid training. I have been trained a few times in wilderness first aid. I keep good first aid kits at home and in all vehicles. In the last few years we have started stock piling some canned goods. If something is on sale, buy a few extra cans. Our parents did this their entire lives and we are just catching on! We are in our 50s. 2 years ago I built a 4x8 raised bed. We mostly raised tomatoes and peppers. This year I tilled a 12x20 section of our yard to grow green beans. The plants look amazing. We hope to can green beans this year. Are we prepping? Not really. We are trying to have more control over what we eat. We already buy a lamb every year from a neighbor. We buy half a beef from a family member. We buy all of our eggs from a local friend. We are just trying to have more control over where our food comes from.
Absolutely agree! I started watching homesteading videos three years ago when I was laid up with a broken back. The reason I chose it was how positive and upbeat the content was. In the last year, it has slowly become about fear. I simply unfollow those channel. And I've started a small garden!
Well said Jack, I agree with you 100%. FUD isn’t the way to properly motivate anyone properly. Regardless of what the reality is, FUD is more likely to push us to the bad case instead of the good one. Keep up the good work and best of luck with the conference. Wish I was closer to be able to attend.
I think you hit on a very good point and the world sitiuation is not very good. what is so frustrating is to see your own government create policies that have have brougjht us to this this fear and mis-trust. I don't blame the other preppers for keeping us up on the things that are happening because the MSM is not trust worthy at all. I watch many of these prepper channels and take what I can get for what I and my family needs and discern for myself what direction I should take including your channel. Its hard to not get into the politics of everything but when it starts affecting your way of life and what this country was originally founded on you cant just stick your head in the ground either. You do have a good point though because RUclips is full of mis-information channels and its up the the individual to to discern or sort it out God Bless
something that has been happening very silently the past 2 years is many main brand food products have gone genetically modified. I am so thankful many brands have chosen to be part of the non gmo project
@Steven Crow Maybe you should stop watching his videos then. But since you are here now tell us how much more you have going on compared to Jack... How many pigs, chickens, ducks, and turkeys you raising for meat and eggs. How many garden beds you rockin?
I’m happy to never homestead! It is too stressful and I found what works for me. Kudos to you for calling out the hypocritical preppers and homesteaders who don’t really obey God and who try to mandate and shame and judge those who either left off-grid, ex-off-grid’ers, and those who have no interest in either. Find what works for you and hopefully you may accept and/or respect what works for others too! :) God bless.
Thank you. I use to watch a bunch of those now “extreme preppers” channels. It felt wrong going Tom heres how to build a fence to here’s why the government is out to get you.
Well said brother. The word as we see it now is most definitely fear filled. And unfortunately many, not all, channels are taking the advantage of "fear sells" to advance there own well being. I myself have always seem to have to take time to get away from all the nonsense just to keep my own mind in tact lol. We have a family co-op so it's been a troubling factor. The fact that the garden has grown and more animals have been brought in due to allot of this is worrisome. But I am glad you can dictate what you see into peaceful manners. Thank you and keep up the amazing work. Tell your family we say hi from Iowa!
This guy sounds just like Greg from Steven universe. Love what he has to say though! I’m totally about to trauma dump but when he was talking about how we love consistency and we start to lash out when it’s messed up…. I dunno, makes me think about being neglected and left to my own devices as a kid with autism and how i usually just chose to do nothing because I hated doing anything alone. Now, I still do a lot of nothing and I’m irrationally frustrated when I’m interrupted from doing nothing (even when doing nothing is causing depression) and I live with the LOML. They help a lot and it’s getting better. Anyway rant over loved the vid
If things eventually end up that bad in our lifetimes, personally the priority would be the safety of myself and my family and if that means "bugging out," then so be it. No piece of land is worth your safety or life. But that's just my individual opinion in a sea of them. I try to be more in a Thomas Paine state of mind when it comes how I see the world: The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. Keep on keepin' on... in the present moment.
I am a lowercase p prepper rather than an uppercase P Prepper if that makes sense. We have seen empty shelves, shortages, lock downs, etc. I don't think civilization is collapsing, but I do think that the time you could expect to rely on others and be comfortable is coming to an end. We had a four day power outage a few weeks ago. We had heat from the woodstove, a store of water, and food we could cook in the fireplace. Honestly, it felt great to be prepared. I don't think it is necessary to prepare for the end of the world, but I do think that the average person could do to think a bit more about what their survival relies on.
Fear is a great motivator. What difference does it make why we want to grow our own food/ raise livestock? Look at the world around you. There are some good things going on, but overwhelmingly it's MOSTLY ALL BAD. If the facts of reality scare you then that's on you. I think most people just want to live in peace and be left alone, so if everything works out and goes "BACK TO NORMAL" (LOL), then so be it. No harm, no foul. If there are those who do not wish to "live and let live" and insist on bringing violent intentions to a peaceful environment then I say "Live by the sword- die by the sword". Fear can be a very useful emotion when you learn how to live with it in balance.
Fear is actually a terrible motivator. Fear only motivates until the source of the fear is eliminated. If you have not control over the source of the fear, then you’ll live in a constant state of reactivity, being controlled by an outside entity. When you act on your own and not from a place of fear, you’re much more likely to be sustainable in your pursuits. Think of a kid that’s taught to behave by beating beaten (not just the occasional smacked back end), vs a kid that’s been taught via good example. One is much more likely to end up adrift and not in a good place later on life than the other. It was way worse during the Great Depression than it is now. If fear is what gets you motivated, by all means harness that, but it’s not sustainable for you long term, and your long term mental health is going to suffer because of it.
I think it is funny that all the nouveau you tube homesteaders think they are raising their own food and that they will be fine if there is disaster or disruption. I watch several channels and listen to them preach about being prepared. Every single one of them is buying bagged feed for everyone of their animals. If you can't feed your animals as well as your family... YOU ARE NOT PREPARED. unless you are planning to butcher everything and try to preserve it.
Bagged feed loses 75% of its nutritional value within 3 months. It’s susceptible to grain mites, vermin, and other pests. Not to mention that the prospect of defending any number of animals against those who seek to take them is unfeasible. If you’re spending money on stockpiling grain, you’re wasting money.
@@TheMindfulHomestead I agree that is why we grow everything we need to feed our livestock and ourselves. Corn and grains are only raised and harvested commercially once a year so where's the nutrient value there.
@@susanmarsh5648 Well first off grain is harvested all year long. We’re a global economy but even in the United States, we have a 3-4 month window of harvest for most crops. And when those grains are left whole, they last a lot longer than 3 months. And my point about being a sitting duck still stands. You aren’t going to be able to indefinitely defend a whole farm from anyone who wants to take it. So crops, being rooted in the ground and unable to come with you, are a moot point in that case.
The day we turned our live/die lives into meaningless and disrespectful childish games of win/lose and used those games to structure society was when we lost it. We now so fear failure you'd think we would actually die were we to lose. The unknown is beyond such cowards as they cling to what they know is screwing them rather than stand up straight and pull up their pants. The highest potential of the poor people of the win/lose is everyone loses, AKA Hell on Earth. "IF" the poor people of the win/lose had the ability to work together in respect, dignity, and diplomacy for the greater good the highest potential, the win/win, they would be doing so now and they wouldn't be the poor perverted people of the win/lose. You can't fix that kind of brainwashed and it's just a sin how that kind of "grooming" fixes itself, .. the poor children eh? Good luck
The bottom line is that prepping and survivalism is not going to save you if your time is up. Nothing will. I had a friend who was in extremely good shape( former military spec ops) and he was a hunting guide and survival instructor in his retirement. He went for his morning run and was hit by a truck. He was killed. All of his prepping and skills were for not. I am a firefighter and have seen a lot of bad things. I feel like people worry about things that they can't do anything about. People do crazy things out of fear. Trust me. Crazy things. History repeats itself bad will come and so will good. Relax. It's all going to be okay.
And my husband and I have always lived in the country and had animals and a garden. We didn't even know that it was called anything until the middle 2000s when a guy that moved here and told us it was called homesteading. I always thought the homestead act was a throw back to how my great grandparents got this land in the first place during the land rush.
Omg yes. I am really interested in homesteading and prepping. But I am super turned off by the political undercurrents and religious quotes that come with that by so many content creators.
Just subscribed to your channel and purchased some of those garden items you suggested. In listening to this video though you seem to be a tad wishy washy on the issue of being prepared. Perhaps the reason many homesteaders are taking more of a "prepper" view of things is you would have to be a damned fool to not see all that has been and is going on in our Country over the last 2 to 3 years, especially during the last 3 months. And don't for a moment think you or even all of us together are going to change or stop what is going full speed ahead on 30 different fronts all at once - stop drinking the cool -aid. The Supreme Court reversal of Roe by the way merely left the issue to the states where Constitutionally it always belonged to begin with. The next 6 to 9 months is going to be a historical doozy so better buckle up. And there is not anywhere for you to "bug out" to that is going to be any better than where you are right now even though as a food source you are in the most populated county in NH. God Bless:)
@@TheMindfulHomesteadI was speaking of the prophecies and the warnings of the end times and the tribulation to come. The Bible is honestly for Father God in heaven's people, the lost sheep of the house of Israel, of the seed of Isaac. It's a dead letter to everyone else. Thanks for your videos friend, I learn much from you.
First time I’ve watched your channel and I came away feeling hopeful… thank you!
Well said, I live with anxiety and PTSD and my garden (now due to life changes, my homestead) has always been a place of peace and rejuvenation for me. I have had to separate myself from several channels who previously provided inspiration and encouragement along with wisdom because they have become a source of anxiety. I discovered your channel with your Rain Gutter of Change and greatly appreciate the mindset I see here. Please keep up the positive and encouraging work. Thank you for posting!
Thank you. Working to fix our broken food system, one farm, one community at a time is a goal full of hope and promise. I grow some fruit and vegetables, but not enough, so I support local farmers by buying what I don't grow, or raise, from them. No fear here, just admiration and respect for the farmers I buy from. Cheers!
Well stated. I get frustrated at sensationalism and alarmist tactics. YT creators and media are notorious for that, because it works to generate views. I started my homestead purely for enjoyment. As some of the supply issues have developed, I’ve been thankful for the level of self-sufficiency we have established, but it isn’t going to make or break my family. I am hoping to share content that might inspire folks to try a way of life that is rewarding. Thanks for your thoughts! Good luck keeping that fence clear. 👊👍
I seenit as click bate. If it works for one channel,bother channels try it too
The " will it run", "I bought the cheapest x on FBMP or Amazon"
" your not gonna believe what X company did to me" its clicks over content.
This is great! We still homestead because it brings us joy!
Totally agree about those instilling fear instead of encouraging good practices.
Thank you for giving voice to inspiration rather than fear. I have also seen this disaster preparedness trend and consider it disturbing. I grow my own food and want to feel some security with it but I know that I will do a better job and have more peace of mind when I approach it from a place of nourishing myself rather than fearing an apocalyptic future. I appreciate you taking the time to voice your thoughts.
I so appreciate this video! I find value in preparedness for our family for things like natural events, unexpected hospital trips, job loss, power outages, broken water pipe in the house. Within a week of thinking about preparedness our area, for the first time ever, had massive wildfires and we had to evacuate for 10 days. Last year a pipe broke and we had to shut off water to the house while we had to fix it.
The world isn't ending, but stuff does happen. And having some items available has really brought peace to my family and kept fear at bay while we deal with the situation at hand.
There is so much value in hope and there is no hope in fear. The future is bright and we can make it brighter with hope and supporting community and being sustainable together.
Thanks Jack for calling some of this stuff out! It's really been a hard shift lately and it's hard to see some people I enjoy playing on fear for content sake.
Super hard shift
Thank you, Jack. I have stopped watching some homesteaders I have followed for a while because they moved to a place of fear rather than a connection to their land, their gardens, their animals. I grew up in a snowy area, so my family was always prepared in the event that a blizzard would cut us off for days or a week. I continue to do that, from habit. It was so helpful when I contracted Covid and couldn't leave my house for several days. Thank you for your well-reasoned approach.
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Sensationalism generates more views and revenue. Glad you are a voice of reason.
Survival as human beings has always been built around communities rather than individuals. It's going to continue to be true into whatever the future holds. We have some control over how much we are consumers versus producers, but we will always have some needs we cannot fulfill without the help of others. Cooperation is not built on fear.
As always well put Jack. Fear and reaction has its place but living your life based upon it isn’t healthy for yourself or the world you live in. Keep on keeping on sir
Thank you for this video. I want to get into farming and self-sufficiency because I have severe OCD. I inspect every single grape or cherry or strawberry. The smallest blemish and I have to toss it. It's wasteful and debilitating, so I figure learning to grow my own food, seeing the grow cycle, will help alleviate my anxiety around food. So, as someone with severe anxiety, seeing these large homesteading channels and their recent messaging has been alarming. I follow several homesteading/prepping channels. There has been a swift, abrupt change in the tone of several channels. They're not just instilling fear, but there is also a gloating & boastful attitude. I just want to improve my relationship with food.
Turn those blemished berries into preserves.
I agree 100% what you said! About time someone made a video like this. I have unsubscribed to some channels that have changed directs of their channel to fear mongering.
Also definitely interested in the conference. I always wanted to go to HOA but it’s during hunting season. The beginning of September works better for us because we’re in between butchering chickens and butchering deer and beef. The NE conference is closer to home as well.
I started my homestead on just shy of 2 acres because of your videos. I agree 100% with what you said. I garden and farm chickens and goats because it brings me and my wife and our little girl joy and I know I’m doing it the way God intended it. I always have friends who say "better get this while you can or stock up in this when you can“ always thinking the worst. I’m doing this because we enjoy it.
Thank you so much for this commentary...much needed!
There is much to be concerned about, but the continuous fear porn just paralyzes people and then nothing gets accomplished.
Thanks for sharing this. Absolutely nailed it on the head!
Thank you for saying this. I relate. While I love doomsday scenarios for fun, I moreso love the idea of food supply liberation by growing what I can and trading with community for what I can't. Plus I believe in organic heirloom/heritage foods.
Getting out of a fear mindset actually helped me get clear enough to plan and executive a successful garden with plenty of preserves this year. Now, next year I'll add chickens or quail.
So many folks would rather just take the easy route and spread fear, than do the work to fix the system. Good on you for believing in fighting the fight!
Thanks Jack. I am also trying to inspire people on my channel to grow gardens and raise animals, not because there is anything to fear, but because they may enjoy it. I have also noticed the RUclipsrs that are trying to scare people and that is sad.
Agree 100% It's a matter of separating from versus helping better the world. Homesteading is good for the world and society. Prepping is, at best, good for the prepper, society be damned. I might be wrong, something many won't admit, but that's my view of it right now with my fruit and nut trees, chickens, garden, and the sharing of all of it with friends and neighbors.
Excellent. Needed to be said.
I've been researching homesteading and have seen various things. I Googled homesteading NOT prepping and found this video, Thanks.
We bought this cheap fence tester light thing just for that reason. Ours is only to keep Bears out but from inside we can look out and see the blinking green light and we know the fence is still good.
Also my girlfriend just called and was very excited that she met you right after I finished your video
Thank you for putting out there a view where the sky isn’t falling 😊yet 😂 but honestly it can consume you. Yes we definitely need to be prepared but I’m keeping an eye on my sky. It’s not falling…be ready but for your sanity enjoy life everyday also 💕☮️
Absolutely spot on
@@andrewh1737 hey there
@@FORUIDIG how are you doing, where are you from
I have very strong political stands but when I click on a homesteading video, I do not want to hear anything regarding politics. Thank you for not pushing any type of views you might have. Keep doing what you do, I enjoy what you have been doing and teaching.
I appreciate you Sir❤️
Thx for your video and have a super blessed day!
Nailed it.
Thank you. Much needed. I was getting angry at some other channels that are fear mongering for clicks. So this definitely made me feel better. Take care!
I use fermented corn as a treat and to get them to root in a area I want them to really pay attention to.
My recipe is. 1 5gal bucket, 1/4 fulled with deer corn, full 1/2 to 3/4 of water. Half put the lid on. 2 or 3 days and its ready to go. Keep in minds flys love fermented corn too.
Thank you for covering this.
"It's never ending." LOL - so true. But feels so rewarding to have all this. 100% agree w your points. Just yesterday watched Week 7 of Suscovich meat birds and his canoe philosophy actually jives very well with what you say. As with any visual media, fear is an easy marketing tactic if you don't want to spend the time or the thought to develop a deeper 'why.' That then leads to short-termism, drives up prices for the rest of us, and also degrades the value of what we do. Thanks for sharing this. And farm life is imperfect - but it's real. Not all my organic no till veggies and fruits are perfect, free from bugs, or uniformly shaped. But on the whole, they taste better, and I bet they are more nutrient dense, and more bonanfide organic than the so-called organic label items sold in chain stores ...
Loved the lilac jam by the way!
Great message These people make people scared, unfortunately, for both fun and profit.
Well said!
Thanks!
Great video...they are just getting better and better
Great video, I'd like to make a video response and tag your channel in it. I definitely agree with the main message of not doing things from a place of fear but I definitely have a slightly different perspective. I think you'll enjoy it.
Go for it! Would love to hear your perspective.
Glad you put this out. I am more on the hobby farm side of the equation which is a great place to be. This lifestyle offers a lot of positive gifts as well as a series of skills that will serve me well for the rest of my life.
5 months later and this still holds water👍🏻 I went yesterday to the store to get eggs (our egg layers aren’t laying yet but should by spring). I had to peice together an 18 count of eggs becaue there were 6 cartons left…all had at least 1 busted egg. So I moved some eggs around and made a full 18 count😂😂🤷🏼♂️ my point is there weren’t enough for the 15 people that were in that section if they all needed or wanted eggs and I need my ladies to start laying man!! It cost almost $10 for those 18 egg
I really like what you said about consistency. I really need some in my life at the moment
Thank you for this video. Almost exactly my thoughts.
“Prepping” and “Homesteading” have become profitable and fear motivates. 🇺🇸
I have been a prepper for over 20 years, but I have always made it clear I was a hobby prepper. I live in the tropics in a rainforest on farmland, my father grew bananas and other tropical fruits, so I have a lot of food growing on property, my father also had chickens but kept them wild free ranging without a coop, my father was a homesteader before I knew what a homesteader was, my father isn't around anymore, but now I know why he did what he did, im following his footsteps because I was a homesteader before I was a prepper. Fear has no place in prepping or Homesteading.
Here’s a tip; don’t use auto focus and use jump cuts very sparingly!
I'm a bit older my parents went through the depression and growing up we always were taught to be self sufficient , we too grew chickens for eggs and meat along with a few pigs , steers , with a garden . We also had a pantry room down stairs with stored canned goods , we also kept jugs of water for any emergency that might come . I too have noticed the shift on other sights that have been deleted , I do what I do for myself and family to sustain our needs and be as responsible as needed , good talk !
Exactly!! Grandmother and Father in law went through the Great Depression etc. FiL bartered for hay for our cows/pigs in turn for work on others wells or whatever. My thoughts though are we need to pass this onto our kids otherwise that mindset will be gone 😎
It sure is tough for those of us with primary jobs. For now my farm is an hour away from home and I travel for work. It's a PAIN, but it will be worth it!
100% spot on.
I stopped watching the channels that are spreading fear. I can accept a difference in politics or religion. But fear mongering for clicks is just wrong. Yes things are a little difficult now but they have been way worse. Society as we know it is not ending.
Growing your own food is a positive on so many levels. I’m not interested in changing it into something anxiety driven.
I get the YT hype of scare tactics that some homesteading channels are trying to monetize on. However, I view homesteading as an alternative to big farming and big government living shifts in society. To me, homesteading is about community and individual freedom to live away from the rat race city lifestyle. Its a skill to have even on a small level just in case society does regress a little during hard times.
Good morning Jack
I am pretty new to your channel.
I have been looking for fellow Granite staters (603). And I found your channel.
You are a very down to earth guy.
Common sense family.
I have always been around a farm my entire life.. I find it just rewarding to grow your own food.
Whether it be crops or livestock.
Fear is a emotion that most people have a very hard time comprehending. The way I look at it is I fear my own thoughts and that is something I can do something about.
Happiness Comes from within and it is something that you can control. And only you can control that.
With that being said keep doing what you are doing and enjoy it.
You are sharing your life.
Thank you..
Stay safe and always be kind.
Go 603
Thank you for saying that it needed to be said I think you said it very eloquently and respectfully. Love the channel! I am in the process of trying to begin looking to move to New Hampshire from Massachusetts I was never meant for Massachusetts I hate Massachusetts I hate the people in Massachusetts and I hate that I live in Massachusetts but this is where I make my money but this is not where my heart lies. Love the contact keep at it
100% well said.
I wouldn't call my self a prepper but I am trying to be more prepared. I have had 30+ years of first aid training. I have been trained a few times in wilderness first aid. I keep good first aid kits at home and in all vehicles. In the last few years we have started stock piling some canned goods. If something is on sale, buy a few extra cans. Our parents did this their entire lives and we are just catching on! We are in our 50s. 2 years ago I built a 4x8 raised bed. We mostly raised tomatoes and peppers. This year I tilled a 12x20 section of our yard to grow green beans. The plants look amazing. We hope to can green beans this year. Are we prepping? Not really. We are trying to have more control over what we eat. We already buy a lamb every year from a neighbor. We buy half a beef from a family member. We buy all of our eggs from a local friend. We are just trying to have more control over where our food comes from.
Absolutely agree! I started watching homesteading videos three years ago when I was laid up with a broken back. The reason I chose it was how positive and upbeat the content was. In the last year, it has slowly become about fear. I simply unfollow those channel. And I've started a small garden!
Well said Jack, I agree with you 100%. FUD isn’t the way to properly motivate anyone properly. Regardless of what the reality is, FUD is more likely to push us to the bad case instead of the good one.
Keep up the good work and best of luck with the conference. Wish I was closer to be able to attend.
Finding balance.
I think you hit on a very good point and the world sitiuation is not very good. what is so frustrating is to see your own government create policies that have have brougjht us to this this fear and mis-trust. I don't blame the other preppers for keeping us up on the things that are happening because the MSM is not trust worthy at all. I watch many of these prepper channels and take what I can get for what I and my family needs and discern for myself what direction I should take including your channel. Its hard to not get into the politics of everything but when it starts affecting your way of life and what this country was originally founded on you cant just stick your head in the ground either. You do have a good point though because RUclips is full of mis-information channels and its up the the individual to to discern or sort it out God Bless
something that has been happening very silently the past 2 years is many main brand food products have gone genetically modified. I am so thankful many brands have chosen to be part of the non gmo project
The more videos I watch, the more that I see that you're just a hobbiest at best.
The more videos you watch, the less of a hobbyist I become.
@Steven Crow Maybe you should stop watching his videos then.
But since you are here now tell us how much more you have going on compared to Jack... How many pigs, chickens, ducks, and turkeys you raising for meat and eggs. How many garden beds you rockin?
I’m happy to never homestead! It is too stressful and I found what works for me. Kudos to you for calling out the hypocritical preppers and homesteaders who don’t really obey God and who try to mandate and shame and judge those who either left off-grid, ex-off-grid’ers, and those who have no interest in either. Find what works for you and hopefully you may accept and/or respect what works for others too! :) God bless.
Thank you. I use to watch a bunch of those now “extreme preppers” channels. It felt wrong going Tom heres how to build a fence to here’s why the government is out to get you.
Fear is lame.
Solid thoughts man.
Can you hear it popping somewhere? That’s a clue
On the plus side, growing your own food will off set a higher dollar amount with all these higher food costs.
Well said brother. The word as we see it now is most definitely fear filled. And unfortunately many, not all, channels are taking the advantage of "fear sells" to advance there own well being. I myself have always seem to have to take time to get away from all the nonsense just to keep my own mind in tact lol. We have a family co-op so it's been a troubling factor. The fact that the garden has grown and more animals have been brought in due to allot of this is worrisome. But I am glad you can dictate what you see into peaceful manners. Thank you and keep up the amazing work. Tell your family we say hi from Iowa!
I'm sorry I missed the first one, but are you planning one for 2023?
We are! www.newenglandhomesteaders.com
This guy sounds just like Greg from Steven universe. Love what he has to say though! I’m totally about to trauma dump but when he was talking about how we love consistency and we start to lash out when it’s messed up…. I dunno, makes me think about being neglected and left to my own devices as a kid with autism and how i usually just chose to do nothing because I hated doing anything alone. Now, I still do a lot of nothing and I’m irrationally frustrated when I’m interrupted from doing nothing (even when doing nothing is causing depression) and I live with the LOML. They help a lot and it’s getting better. Anyway rant over loved the vid
If things eventually end up that bad in our lifetimes, personally the priority would be the safety of myself and my family and if that means "bugging out," then so be it. No piece of land is worth your safety or life. But that's just my individual opinion in a sea of them. I try to be more in a Thomas Paine state of mind when it comes how I see the world: The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.
Keep on keepin' on... in the present moment.
I am a lowercase p prepper rather than an uppercase P Prepper if that makes sense. We have seen empty shelves, shortages, lock downs, etc. I don't think civilization is collapsing, but I do think that the time you could expect to rely on others and be comfortable is coming to an end.
We had a four day power outage a few weeks ago. We had heat from the woodstove, a store of water, and food we could cook in the fireplace. Honestly, it felt great to be prepared.
I don't think it is necessary to prepare for the end of the world, but I do think that the average person could do to think a bit more about what their survival relies on.
Fear is a great motivator. What difference does it make why we want to grow our own food/ raise livestock? Look at the world around you. There are some good things going on, but overwhelmingly it's MOSTLY ALL BAD. If the facts of reality scare you then that's on you. I think most people just want to live in peace and be left alone, so if everything works out and goes "BACK TO NORMAL" (LOL), then so be it. No harm, no foul. If there are those who do not wish to "live and let live" and insist on bringing violent intentions to a peaceful environment then I say "Live by the sword- die by the sword". Fear can be a very useful emotion when you learn how to live with it in balance.
Fear is actually a terrible motivator. Fear only motivates until the source of the fear is eliminated. If you have not control over the source of the fear, then you’ll live in a constant state of reactivity, being controlled by an outside entity.
When you act on your own and not from a place of fear, you’re much more likely to be sustainable in your pursuits.
Think of a kid that’s taught to behave by beating beaten (not just the occasional smacked back end), vs a kid that’s been taught via good example. One is much more likely to end up adrift and not in a good place later on life than the other.
It was way worse during the Great Depression than it is now. If fear is what gets you motivated, by all means harness that, but it’s not sustainable for you long term, and your long term mental health is going to suffer because of it.
@@TheMindfulHomestead You have strong but misguided convictions. You're young and have lot's of living and learning to do. Good luck to you.
I think you pushed a pig into the fence to see if it was fixed and that’s why it wasn’t on camera - hmmm
Have you ever tried to push a 300lb pig anywhere it didn’t want to go? Nice try though.
I think it is funny that all the nouveau you tube homesteaders think they are raising their own food and that they will be fine if there is disaster or disruption.
I watch several channels and listen to them preach about being prepared. Every single one of them is buying bagged feed for everyone of their animals. If you can't feed your animals as well as your family... YOU ARE NOT PREPARED. unless you are planning to butcher everything and try to preserve it.
Bagged feed loses 75% of its nutritional value within 3 months. It’s susceptible to grain mites, vermin, and other pests. Not to mention that the prospect of defending any number of animals against those who seek to take them is unfeasible.
If you’re spending money on stockpiling grain, you’re wasting money.
@@TheMindfulHomestead I agree that is why we grow everything we need to feed our livestock and ourselves.
Corn and grains are only raised and harvested commercially once a year so where's the nutrient value there.
@@susanmarsh5648 Well first off grain is harvested all year long. We’re a global economy but even in the United States, we have a 3-4 month window of harvest for most crops. And when those grains are left whole, they last a lot longer than 3 months.
And my point about being a sitting duck still stands. You aren’t going to be able to indefinitely defend a whole farm from anyone who wants to take it. So crops, being rooted in the ground and unable to come with you, are a moot point in that case.
The day we turned our live/die lives into meaningless and disrespectful childish games of win/lose and used those games to structure society was when we lost it.
We now so fear failure you'd think we would actually die were we to lose.
The unknown is beyond such cowards as they cling to what they know is screwing them rather than stand up straight and pull up their pants.
The highest potential of the poor people of the win/lose is everyone loses, AKA Hell on Earth.
"IF" the poor people of the win/lose had the ability to work together in respect, dignity, and diplomacy for the greater good the highest potential, the win/win, they would be doing so now and they wouldn't be the poor perverted people of the win/lose.
You can't fix that kind of brainwashed and it's just a sin how that kind of "grooming" fixes itself, .. the poor children eh?
Good luck
I have noticed a correlation between people who believed in religions also following propaganda which proves my point that most religion is propaganda
Any wide stretching movement is fueled by propaganda from modern day liberal “wokism” to religious extremists of all ilks.
The bottom line is that prepping and survivalism is not going to save you if your time is up. Nothing will. I had a friend who was in extremely good shape( former military spec ops) and he was a hunting guide and survival instructor in his retirement. He went for his morning run and was hit by a truck. He was killed. All of his prepping and skills were for not. I am a firefighter and have seen a lot of bad things. I feel like people worry about things that they can't do anything about. People do crazy things out of fear. Trust me. Crazy things. History repeats itself bad will come and so will good. Relax. It's all going to be okay.
And my husband and I have always lived in the country and had animals and a garden. We didn't even know that it was called anything until the middle 2000s when a guy that moved here and told us it was called homesteading. I always thought the homestead act was a throw back to how my great grandparents got this land in the first place during the land rush.
Omg yes. I am really interested in homesteading and prepping. But I am super turned off by the political undercurrents and religious quotes that come with that by so many content creators.
Just subscribed to your channel and purchased some of those garden items you suggested. In listening to this video though you seem to be a tad wishy washy on the issue of being prepared. Perhaps the reason many homesteaders are taking more of a "prepper" view of things is you would have to be a damned fool to not see all that has been and is going on in our Country over the last 2 to 3 years, especially during the last 3 months. And don't for a moment think you or even all of us together are going to change or stop what is going full speed ahead on 30 different fronts all at once - stop drinking the cool -aid. The Supreme Court reversal of Roe by the way merely left the issue to the states where Constitutionally it always belonged to begin with. The next 6 to 9 months is going to be a historical doozy so better buckle up. And there is not anywhere for you to "bug out" to that is going to be any better than where you are right now even though as a food source you are in the most populated county in NH. God Bless:)
I guess you never read the book of revelation , friend
Read it all. Honestly, the Bible was never intended to be read and focused on bit by bit. Revelation matters but so does everything else.
@@TheMindfulHomesteadI was speaking of the prophecies and the warnings of the end times and the tribulation to come. The Bible is honestly for Father God in heaven's people, the lost sheep of the house of Israel, of the seed of Isaac. It's a dead letter to everyone else. Thanks for your videos friend, I learn much from you.