Thanks! I've got more videos planned, so stay tuned.

Hopefully by next season Covid will be less of an issue. We did a bunch of visitor sessions in 2021, so we expect to have them in 2022.

At the end of this video I mention the Dancing Rabbit website and our public tours. We are just finishing up public tours for the season, but will start them up again in April. If you are interested in living at Dancing Rabbit, you can look into our visitor program. There are also work exchange opportunities that are advertised on our website.

No one here has ever been bitten by a snake. At least one person claimed to have seen a rattlesnake once, but I've never seen any sign of them and I spend more time out on our land than most people here. We have prairie king snakes, rat snakes, and garter snakes, none of which are venomous or will even try to bite you unless you try to pick them up and aren't careful. Prairie king snakes can actually eat rattlesnakes because they are immune to rattlesnake venom and are constrictors, so they will squeeze other animals to death. As far as I know they don't even bite. So actually snakes are not a problem and are a great asset because they eat pests. Rabbits are the bigger problem. We don't have venomous rabbits here, but they will eat your entire garden. Do you think it's possible that you might have some kind of fear of snakes since you seem worried about them being in a place in a video you watched?

@@HardcoreSustainable No I don't have a fear of snakes. But seeing all the overgrown stuff it was a thought. Like I said I am a Forester, and work outside. I don't think about snakes day to day but it is a concern. I rarely see a rattlesnake around, there usually aren't as big a concern, when your near them they usually let you know. Copperheads are the bigger concern. You probably see them 20:1 to rattlesnakes here. We have eastern kings here, and like you said they eat poisonous ones so I like to see them. We have plenty of black snakes as I call them which I group all of them into often, coach whips, black racer, rat snake...there several species around here, none of which are poisonous and will only bite if cornered or provoked. But anyway I do not have a fear of snakes, I can accomplish all the things I want to do in life along with them, I do respect them and their habitat when around it. I do not think any snake is a bad snake like many people. I like "black snakes" as I call them cause they eat the mice and stuff, and king snakes cause they eat other snakes. I also don't like the rabbits around my garden...spend way to much time fencing them out of it certain years. But as far as snakes I know which ones are poisonous and can identify all three rattle snake species that occur in this state and have seen all in the wild working, also water moccasins, copperheads and coral snakes that occur here. I can tell the poisonous ones from non poisonous pattern snakes like hognose, cornsnake, and banded kings, that many people confuse for poisonous species. Anyway I am glad that no one has problems with snakes there. That's a good thing. Even here people are not bitten all the time by them and many that are are messing with them. I live in a rural area but my friend that lives in the city here has more problem with them than I do, often finding several copperheads a year right next to his house, in the yard, porch and flowerbeds at his house. He even sent me a video of his parents at their house checking their mailbox and a copperhead was inside the box, it had climbed up and gotten into the box. Luckily his dad wasn't bitten but had he opened the box and reached in without looking or noticed it there would be a good chance he would have been bitten. Thanks for the response and good luck gardening this year. Right now I am in the pray for rain mode as we are very dry here now.

@@natevanlandingham1945 fortunately I think we are a bit too far north for copperheads. Sounds like you are in the south. Maybe we can give some of our rain to you. We've had kind of a wet spring, though now we are in an unseasonal heat dome that is setting records across the country. I've never seen it 95 degrees on May 11th. Normally this is around our last frost date. The nights are in the 70s right now. I just hope we don't get a system like this in August because then it'll probably be 120.

@@HardcoreSustainable wow, I don't think we have hit 95 yet. Yes I am in the south, upstate SC to narrow it some. It's been just over 90 several days already but that's not unusual really. And yes I will gladly take some rain. If you asked a month ago I would of gladly give some rain out to the south west cause we were standing in water then. Went from too wet to on the brink of being too dry.

The land is owned by a land trust that we are all members of. We rent "warrens" or lots from the land trust. The land was originally bought by the founders of the village, who set up the land trust.

@@HardcoreSustainable thanks, so it's like a housing coop, you built a house but if you cannot pay the rent of the land lot you lose the house

@@EnergiA854 Yes, there is rent to pay and taxes to the county. But the rent is very low. The entire system of a land trust is set up to make owning a house more affordable because you don't have to pay for the land. I pay about $672 a year to rent about an acre and a half of land. The agricultural land is much cheaper to rent than residential but the residential is really cheap too. Our rent is a penny per sq ft per month. Agricultural land is 100th of a penny per sq ft per month. That works out to be $60/acre per year. The only people that might lose their house are the ones that intentionally stop paying their rent. We have systems set up if people run on hard times and can't pay for a while. They can set up a payment plan.

@@HardcoreSustainable incredible! many thanks! I would make a lot of money With 1 acre food forest. As you live in an agricultural land.. is it residential or agricultural?

@@HardcoreSustainable shame its so difficult for foreigners to stay in America, 90% of such communities are based there.

While I'm a fan of rabbits, if they are eating all of your vegetables that you are trying to live on, and they otherwise have insufficient predators to keep them in check, a dog can be helpful for keeping them either scared off or limit their population.

We create a predator-free habitat for the rabbits in the village and they eat all the food we try to grow. I think we can live together. They can reproduce themselves way faster than I or my dog could possibly impact their population. My dog rarely was able to catch anything. She could only catch baby rabbits and then only rarely. Wild animals are also constantly pursuing rabbits on our land. Most rabbits have developed the skills to escape predators. I eat the rabbits myself. They are the most sustainable source of food for dogs or people because they eat grass and plants that I can't eat and turn them into food I can eat. And they reproduce like rabbits, so they are in never ending supply. It's much better than buying food that is mass produced and shipped across the world. Most people just separate themselves from the reality of their food source. Out of sight, out of mind. Industrial ag destroys the habitat of countless wild species and individuals. Nature is nature. Would you call a predator an "unpeaceful creature"? I'm not saying some pets are not harmful to wildlife, but there are rare species, and then there are other species that are very prolific and thrive in human dominated areas. Rabbits are one of those. I'd encourage more people to eat them.

@@HardcoreSustainable --Rabbits are not fit for human consumption. Anything that has a paw is not fit for humans to eat. This is why we have Covid going around; from people eating things that should not be eaten. If it has a paw it is NOT fit for people to eat. If it is a reptile, it is NOT fit for people to eat. If it is a bird of prey, it is not fit for people to eat. If it is of the waters and does not have BOTH fins and scales, it is not fit for humans to eat. No bugs, except grasshoppers, are fit for people to eat.

@@665Kattt So who is making these rules? You? I wasn't aware there was some law of the universe about what could be eaten by humans or not. You better tell all those humans throughout history that ate all those things for survival or because that was the food that was available to them.

@@HardcoreSustainable it sounds like they may have their own personal religious rules when it comes to eating what consider "unclean". Kyle's house will always be my favorite.