2024 is Going to be a Lot Different
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Date: 2023-12-30
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toddritchie9137
My Self Reliance if you want to make great soil the best way is to gather all the leaves in the fall and plow them into the soil you plan crops it. I mean a lot of leaves! You can start gaining 2 - 3 inches of soil that way every 5 - 7 years. And the leaves are full of nutrients that make great soil. Another thing is ever 2 or 3 years depending on your soil put a 1/8 inch to no more than a 1/4 inch of limestone powder over the soil your planting on. Make sure the lime stone (or some crushed rock that has what your garden needs or is missing) has been reduced to powder. It works great on vegetable gardens. Cow/Horse/Pig/Sheep manure you know what to do with that and how much (your good there. To be honest with your poor soil your going to either need to bring good soil in and make raised gardens or your going to need massive amounts of leaves to build good black soil. Wood breaks down to slowly to build the inches of soil you need, but there leaves break down yearly. with in a 10 year period you could build 6 - 8 inches of soil for your garden with leaves. You're going to have to really work to collect the amount of leaves your going to need from your forest land and till them into your garden every fall. Don't let them sit to spring. Oh and bring earth worms in if you can. They make the process go much faster. Your part of Canada probably doesn't have earthworms, the Ice Age scrapped the land to rock and killed all the Earthworms.
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My Self Reliance if you want to make great soil the best way is to gather all the leaves in the fall and plow them into the soil you plan crops it. I mean a lot of leaves! You can start gaining 2 - 3 inches of soil that way every 5 - 7 years. And the leaves are full of nutrients that make great soil. Another thing is ever 2 or 3 years depending on your soil put a 1/8 inch to no more than a 1/4 inch of limestone powder over the soil your planting on. Make sure the lime stone (or some crushed rock that has what your garden needs or is missing) has been reduced to powder. It works great on vegetable gardens. Cow/Horse/Pig/Sheep manure you know what to do with that and how much (your good there. To be honest with your poor soil your going to either need to bring good soil in and make raised gardens or your going to need massive amounts of leaves to build good black soil. Wood breaks down to slowly to build the inches of soil you need, but there leaves break down yearly. with in a 10 year period you could build 6 - 8 inches of soil for your garden with leaves. You're going to have to really work to collect the amount of leaves your going to need from your forest land and till them into your garden every fall. Don't let them sit to spring. Oh and bring earth worms in if you can. They make the process go much faster. Your part of Canada probably doesn't have earthworms, the Ice Age scrapped the land to rock and killed all the Earthworms.
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stevanandrews9210
I have always found your My Self Reliance videos to be informative and instructive - the cabin builds, gardening, hunting and processing, setting up infrastructures etc - and have never considered them romanticised. They show the harsh realities and struggles faced by a man who is working - predominantly on his own - to carve out a homested from raw wilderness land. You have shown how you use your intelligence and simple technologies - I will be stealing your overhead pulley system when I build my cabin - to overcome what would seem to be impossible tasks. And when you explain it all, you do so in a clear and comprehensible manner. I have re-watched many of your videos to learn and fully understand many of the things you show and the knowledge you impart. I will agree that the IDEA of going off to live in the wilderness could be thought of as romantic but the REALITY is that its a ton of hard work, sweat and determination. I applaud your honesty in this video and look forward to seeing what 2024 brings for you. And what you bring to us in 2024.
I send you and your family (and Cali of course) best wishes for a very Happy New Year - from London England.
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I have always found your My Self Reliance videos to be informative and instructive - the cabin builds, gardening, hunting and processing, setting up infrastructures etc - and have never considered them romanticised. They show the harsh realities and struggles faced by a man who is working - predominantly on his own - to carve out a homested from raw wilderness land. You have shown how you use your intelligence and simple technologies - I will be stealing your overhead pulley system when I build my cabin - to overcome what would seem to be impossible tasks. And when you explain it all, you do so in a clear and comprehensible manner. I have re-watched many of your videos to learn and fully understand many of the things you show and the knowledge you impart. I will agree that the IDEA of going off to live in the wilderness could be thought of as romantic but the REALITY is that its a ton of hard work, sweat and determination. I applaud your honesty in this video and look forward to seeing what 2024 brings for you. And what you bring to us in 2024.
I send you and your family (and Cali of course) best wishes for a very Happy New Year - from London England.
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rayyoung7780
Happy New Year Sean and family. I hope you are wrong but suspect that you are probably right about the future. I live in People s Republic of California and I m fed up to my eyeballs with the political climate here but I am self reliant in the old fashioned way ( worked hard, scrimped and saved and have a good retirement. I recognize it could all go away. At age 79 I am experienced at adjusting and making do. If it comes to that we will survive somehow. I feel bad for the millions of my countrymen who are banking on the government helping them when things get tough. They can only print so much money until it all comes apart. As prosperous as we are there are limits and I am afraid it will get much worse before it gets better. As to your videos, I really enjoy what you do and how you do it. I am not at all interested in living like you do but I enjoy watching you do what you do. As I say often I like watching real people doing real things. You are about as real as they come ( hear me say genuine. Thanks for all you do.
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Happy New Year Sean and family. I hope you are wrong but suspect that you are probably right about the future. I live in People s Republic of California and I m fed up to my eyeballs with the political climate here but I am self reliant in the old fashioned way ( worked hard, scrimped and saved and have a good retirement. I recognize it could all go away. At age 79 I am experienced at adjusting and making do. If it comes to that we will survive somehow. I feel bad for the millions of my countrymen who are banking on the government helping them when things get tough. They can only print so much money until it all comes apart. As prosperous as we are there are limits and I am afraid it will get much worse before it gets better. As to your videos, I really enjoy what you do and how you do it. I am not at all interested in living like you do but I enjoy watching you do what you do. As I say often I like watching real people doing real things. You are about as real as they come ( hear me say genuine. Thanks for all you do.
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user-ry1br1zd1l
Hi Shawn. As a young child I loved off grid with my mother. I KNOW how hard it is to subsist in the wild and when I watch what you now call the romanticized version of your life, I can more or less fill in the blanks. But perhaps since I've lived it and understand the hard work involved, I hardly call what you present as romanticized. I know hardship, struggle, depleted energy, and the aches and pains of hard work against Mother Nature, and sometimes I actually pray for your energy and strength. You are the only person that I can really identify with on several fronts, so I thank you for your presentation.
So all I can say is that it has been an amazing journey with you over the last 10 years or so and I applaud you! Watching and loving precious Cali has lightened the load of empathizing with you. I support you in whatever choices you feel necessary to make and will ALWAYS think well of you.
Be well, take care, and know I'm watching for as long as possible.
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Hi Shawn. As a young child I loved off grid with my mother. I KNOW how hard it is to subsist in the wild and when I watch what you now call the romanticized version of your life, I can more or less fill in the blanks. But perhaps since I've lived it and understand the hard work involved, I hardly call what you present as romanticized. I know hardship, struggle, depleted energy, and the aches and pains of hard work against Mother Nature, and sometimes I actually pray for your energy and strength. You are the only person that I can really identify with on several fronts, so I thank you for your presentation.
So all I can say is that it has been an amazing journey with you over the last 10 years or so and I applaud you! Watching and loving precious Cali has lightened the load of empathizing with you. I support you in whatever choices you feel necessary to make and will ALWAYS think well of you.
Be well, take care, and know I'm watching for as long as possible.
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martyevans8162
I hope things are better in Canada than here in America. The things you have said in this episode about increasingly serious, widespread problems ahead resonate very deeply with my own serious concerns about what is happening. I don t see your concerns as pessimism or doomsday but rather, facing a reality that is looking increasingly bleaker. I look around here in America & I see a lot of denial & complacency & dangerously high levels of individual & collective debt as well as government debt; escalating violence, a humanitarian crisis & so much more. & a country in desperate need of a strength in leadership that no longer exists. As I ve said before in the comments. you are. & have been.
way ahead of the tsunami that we are going headfirst into. Thank you for your candor. don t stop.
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I hope things are better in Canada than here in America. The things you have said in this episode about increasingly serious, widespread problems ahead resonate very deeply with my own serious concerns about what is happening. I don t see your concerns as pessimism or doomsday but rather, facing a reality that is looking increasingly bleaker. I look around here in America & I see a lot of denial & complacency & dangerously high levels of individual & collective debt as well as government debt; escalating violence, a humanitarian crisis & so much more. & a country in desperate need of a strength in leadership that no longer exists. As I ve said before in the comments. you are. & have been.
way ahead of the tsunami that we are going headfirst into. Thank you for your candor. don t stop.
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sallyfrenette9643
I've been following since your first year. We have moved off grid and it is hard work but its also freedom. Its been a learning experience and still is but it's been good. We've learned a lot from you and we appreciate that. I don't ever want to go back to suburban life dependent upon the electric company and heating oil companies. We do still use some propane but not very much. I am going to have to start my gardens all over again. that's going to be a lot of work and a challenge since we are in the woods and not on good farming land so I pay close attention to that so I will have to start listening to your podcasts. Best of luck in 2024!
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I've been following since your first year. We have moved off grid and it is hard work but its also freedom. Its been a learning experience and still is but it's been good. We've learned a lot from you and we appreciate that. I don't ever want to go back to suburban life dependent upon the electric company and heating oil companies. We do still use some propane but not very much. I am going to have to start my gardens all over again. that's going to be a lot of work and a challenge since we are in the woods and not on good farming land so I pay close attention to that so I will have to start listening to your podcasts. Best of luck in 2024!
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kated9914
The world does seem stressed on many levels these days, though I don't believe they are more stressed than it was in my parents generation.
My mother was born in a home without electricity or indoor plumbing.
That generation won WWII and the Cold War. They created the United Nations and the World Health Organization.
They cured multiple diseases and saw humans walk on the moon.
They had so much less than us and accomplished more than they could ever have imagined.
I can't look at the accomplishments of the Greatest Generation and not feel optimistic about what we as a society can accomplish now and in the future.
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The world does seem stressed on many levels these days, though I don't believe they are more stressed than it was in my parents generation.
My mother was born in a home without electricity or indoor plumbing.
That generation won WWII and the Cold War. They created the United Nations and the World Health Organization.
They cured multiple diseases and saw humans walk on the moon.
They had so much less than us and accomplished more than they could ever have imagined.
I can't look at the accomplishments of the Greatest Generation and not feel optimistic about what we as a society can accomplish now and in the future.
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DStrayCat69
I've commented several times before. I'm totally behind you on all of this. I'm an old fart in Edmonton and prepping like crazy. If I were around you there, I'd be Panning for Gold in those creeks and streams. Next summer, I'm heading to BC, maybe the Yukon and maybe Alaska looking for Gold and possibly Stake a claim or buy one. Oh! I'll be following you on Rumble. Until now, I didn't know you were there. Anyway, you've got a great head on your shoulders and think you're doing a Great service to people. I'm a pensioner so I doubt if I can support you on Patreon, but I'll try.
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I've commented several times before. I'm totally behind you on all of this. I'm an old fart in Edmonton and prepping like crazy. If I were around you there, I'd be Panning for Gold in those creeks and streams. Next summer, I'm heading to BC, maybe the Yukon and maybe Alaska looking for Gold and possibly Stake a claim or buy one. Oh! I'll be following you on Rumble. Until now, I didn't know you were there. Anyway, you've got a great head on your shoulders and think you're doing a Great service to people. I'm a pensioner so I doubt if I can support you on Patreon, but I'll try.
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metricdeep8856
Question: Does anyone make a chainsaw guide/or some already developed tooling to cut the (random/custom) semi-circular pockets into the bottom side of the cabin wall logs, to fit against the previously set log? It's been shown how to do this manually, but I feel that was a major bottle neck in the build. I am weighing the effort required to do contemporary build or log cabin. These choices are surely location dependent. Cheers and best to all. Happy 2024. (Also. I'm buying the tractor before the build, not after. some say lazy, some say efficient. I accept judgement)
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Question: Does anyone make a chainsaw guide/or some already developed tooling to cut the (random/custom) semi-circular pockets into the bottom side of the cabin wall logs, to fit against the previously set log? It's been shown how to do this manually, but I feel that was a major bottle neck in the build. I am weighing the effort required to do contemporary build or log cabin. These choices are surely location dependent. Cheers and best to all. Happy 2024. (Also. I'm buying the tractor before the build, not after. some say lazy, some say efficient. I accept judgement)
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rajinevin7273
You are an AMAZING teacher whether you are explaining things with words OR when you demonstrate without any words. When you are just filming you working without talking, you definitely are showing us how to. Your relationship with Cali is priceless and adds volumes beyond words. Everthing you have done is worth watching. The integrity you have in your heart pours out to us who watch and THAT is why I watch almost ALL your videos. You are calm, contemplative, move with intention and focus, and intelligent. Your wife is very fortunate!
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You are an AMAZING teacher whether you are explaining things with words OR when you demonstrate without any words. When you are just filming you working without talking, you definitely are showing us how to. Your relationship with Cali is priceless and adds volumes beyond words. Everthing you have done is worth watching. The integrity you have in your heart pours out to us who watch and THAT is why I watch almost ALL your videos. You are calm, contemplative, move with intention and focus, and intelligent. Your wife is very fortunate!
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paulcarlson7984
very few content creators are speaking the truth now, whats coming for society will not be plesant, im grateful that you see the importance of this, we all see the changes coming, but I think most that are living in a city or town still choose to believe there government will rescue them. there's a reason we have gotten here as quick as we have, north America is under attack from with in via our own governments with the guidance of the WEF, only way out is to risk it all and tell the truth of whats actually taking place.
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very few content creators are speaking the truth now, whats coming for society will not be plesant, im grateful that you see the importance of this, we all see the changes coming, but I think most that are living in a city or town still choose to believe there government will rescue them. there's a reason we have gotten here as quick as we have, north America is under attack from with in via our own governments with the guidance of the WEF, only way out is to risk it all and tell the truth of whats actually taking place.
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emilivanov5272
I see prepping as romanticizing of survivalist fantasies. My grandfather was subsistence farmer. His was very bleak existence. He was so poor, that when the communist rus. collaborators came to power, he actually got kind of better, except when he decided to brawl with some local party official, when they were taking his and all other people's livestock.
I do like to watch about your life in forest in Canada, which I see as totally inapplicable to my small European country where I live.
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I see prepping as romanticizing of survivalist fantasies. My grandfather was subsistence farmer. His was very bleak existence. He was so poor, that when the communist rus. collaborators came to power, he actually got kind of better, except when he decided to brawl with some local party official, when they were taking his and all other people's livestock.
I do like to watch about your life in forest in Canada, which I see as totally inapplicable to my small European country where I live.
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LauraoftheShire
Thank you for your honesty. You are only beholden to your own agenda. Do what you love and want to invest energy and time into and let the people come to you. The void will drive your true community to you. The others will replay the content you have already provided and continue to enjoy that even after you have left the room. Lessen your stress because time is short whether that is for the collective or just your own timeline; love the life you live! Be well friend.
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Thank you for your honesty. You are only beholden to your own agenda. Do what you love and want to invest energy and time into and let the people come to you. The void will drive your true community to you. The others will replay the content you have already provided and continue to enjoy that even after you have left the room. Lessen your stress because time is short whether that is for the collective or just your own timeline; love the life you live! Be well friend.
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heatherkennedy9973
i love your videos-- watch them when i can-- i could follow you on rumble but would rather not -- i can not afford to spend money on your patreon as i am retired and live on a very tight budget as i am sure many of the people who watch you are -- so i will watch what you post but if your content becomes unavaiable to me then thank you for the good times and no ill wishes to you and yours! p. s. i am ramping up my garden and learning to can--stocking up my pantry
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i love your videos-- watch them when i can-- i could follow you on rumble but would rather not -- i can not afford to spend money on your patreon as i am retired and live on a very tight budget as i am sure many of the people who watch you are -- so i will watch what you post but if your content becomes unavaiable to me then thank you for the good times and no ill wishes to you and yours! p. s. i am ramping up my garden and learning to can--stocking up my pantry
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jeanblythe1595
I want to live like you do. My health and disability doesn't allow it. Enjoy your choice, and I will follow you here, and on Patreon and any other way. You are needed as a good example, and someone who doesn't talk junk. You have done the research and lived a life so you know what you are talking about. I am grateful to you, even if I can't live anything like your lifestyle. May 2024 be very good for you and your family. You all are always in my prayers.
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I want to live like you do. My health and disability doesn't allow it. Enjoy your choice, and I will follow you here, and on Patreon and any other way. You are needed as a good example, and someone who doesn't talk junk. You have done the research and lived a life so you know what you are talking about. I am grateful to you, even if I can't live anything like your lifestyle. May 2024 be very good for you and your family. You all are always in my prayers.
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shawn_james
You are angry at society. But you are a into a market society. You like to pretend that you
are not about making money from the building. You make your money that way. You go off grid but blame gov't for doing the same You can find your worldviews with the anti-vaxxers etc but you are a contradiction. You want things both ways The crisis in the world is because of many preppers and not from people who chose to engage to help others and build a society.
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You are angry at society. But you are a into a market society. You like to pretend that you
are not about making money from the building. You make your money that way. You go off grid but blame gov't for doing the same You can find your worldviews with the anti-vaxxers etc but you are a contradiction. You want things both ways The crisis in the world is because of many preppers and not from people who chose to engage to help others and build a society.
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bonilsson3161
This with your maple suryp boiling is something I have been thinking about, but I have just been thinking that you have such abundance of firewood so it really didnt matter. But of course when you do it seriously it does, if nothing else it takes more wood off from the wood stash for heating your house, that move make sense, will also save you time when you are in the evaporating and boiling process. Time is always priority.
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This with your maple suryp boiling is something I have been thinking about, but I have just been thinking that you have such abundance of firewood so it really didnt matter. But of course when you do it seriously it does, if nothing else it takes more wood off from the wood stash for heating your house, that move make sense, will also save you time when you are in the evaporating and boiling process. Time is always priority.
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catritz
Bite your tongue Shawn. Predicting _10 years of crisis_, I have tears in my eyes. I'm not sure if you're a praying man, but after your statement, I hope you start. My older brother was a conspiracy theorist and the more catastrophic, the better. Fortunately, he guessed wrong. All I can say is, I really hope you're wrong.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men should do nothing John F. Kennedy
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Bite your tongue Shawn. Predicting _10 years of crisis_, I have tears in my eyes. I'm not sure if you're a praying man, but after your statement, I hope you start. My older brother was a conspiracy theorist and the more catastrophic, the better. Fortunately, he guessed wrong. All I can say is, I really hope you're wrong.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men should do nothing John F. Kennedy
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robmarshall5100
Natural irrigation, everything's gonna rot in the next 5 years. I'm sure that's your horticulturalist. Have told you this so take what you can of the hardwood in the beach. If you've already got spores or fungus or burrows, the ground itself is swamped, most likely the trees in the tree root beds. Are overwhelmed, but then you have natural runner and a natural area and two garden preserves
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Natural irrigation, everything's gonna rot in the next 5 years. I'm sure that's your horticulturalist. Have told you this so take what you can of the hardwood in the beach. If you've already got spores or fungus or burrows, the ground itself is swamped, most likely the trees in the tree root beds. Are overwhelmed, but then you have natural runner and a natural area and two garden preserves
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shawn_james
My buddy and I saw the 2008 thing coming at us like a brick wall. We just weren't sure when it was going to hit. We were following the sub-prime crisis like hawks in 2007.
I'd be curious what conditions you think are going on now that will lead to the same type of debacle. And not just generalities like AI is bad or We're not ready for the next pandemic. And yes, I believe AI is scary AF.
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My buddy and I saw the 2008 thing coming at us like a brick wall. We just weren't sure when it was going to hit. We were following the sub-prime crisis like hawks in 2007.
I'd be curious what conditions you think are going on now that will lead to the same type of debacle. And not just generalities like AI is bad or We're not ready for the next pandemic. And yes, I believe AI is scary AF.
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