1975: "Crank Peasant" JOHN SEYMOUR on SELF-SUFFICIENCY | Living on the Land

1975: "Crank Peasant" JOHN SEYMOUR on SELF-SUFFICIENCY | Living on the Land | BBC Archive

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Author John Seymour, a self-professed “crank peasant”, has been self-sufficient since the mid-1950s. It wasn’t deliberate - he just bought a cow, and things snowballed. But he’s still seen as a trailblazer for the self-reliance movement.
With a bit of everything on his farm - crops, pigs, hens, ponies, a horse, a herd of cows and a batch of home-made beer - he reflects on the ups and downs of his simple, if demanding, life.
Clip taken from Living on the Land: Self-Sufficiency at Fachongle Isaf, originally broadcast on BBC One, Friday 5 September, 1975.
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@fidelcatsro6948 11 ай бұрын

Wow the man lived another 29 yrs after this interview, died at age 90!

@andydixon2980 11 ай бұрын

I was going to guess they lived long lives. Plenty of fresh air, beer, and exercise.

@JJONNYREPP 2 күн бұрын

1975: "Crank Peasant" JOHN SEYMOUR on SELF-SUFFICIENCY | Living on the Land | BBC Archive 0816am 22.8.24 wow. cool. mr good and his wife arguing with his well to do neighbours. peasant farming? ummmmmmmmmm..... divested of the cruddy overlord and his desire to reintroduce serfdom?

@JohnDoe-yr4wc 11 ай бұрын

Seems a good life to me.

@fidelcatsro6948 11 ай бұрын

Closest you can get to Utopia!

@hoilst265 11 ай бұрын

His books are glorious. Helpful, but with a loving dose of romance and some fantastic illustrations.

@jq8974 11 ай бұрын

Will check them out - thanks!

@xanmontes8715 11 ай бұрын

My mom gifted me her signed copy :)

@pauldurkee4764 7 ай бұрын

Dogs looks up to you, cat's looks down at you, and pig's treat you as equals.

@jq8974 11 ай бұрын

Wonderful. Love that they broke into a gospel song over their beer 🍺!

@mwmingram 23 күн бұрын

Wonderful.

@lifeafterdev 11 ай бұрын

Amazing. BBC used to be a great source of quality.

@hoboheathen8926 10 ай бұрын

used to be , past tense.Before they wore their loyalties or lack of so blatantly.

@JJONNYREPP 2 күн бұрын

1975: "Crank Peasant" JOHN SEYMOUR on SELF-SUFFICIENCY | Living on the Land | BBC Archive 0820am 22.8.24 this dude wouldn't acknowledge your allergies, then?

@xanmontes8715 11 ай бұрын

My great grandparents were very self-sufficient! I wish it was feasible to go back to that life.

@patrickcleburneuczjsxpmp9558 5 ай бұрын

Why isn't it feasible? Isn't Seymour proof of the extent to which it is possible?

@xanmontes8715 5 ай бұрын

@@patrickcleburneuczjsxpmp9558 perhaps it is, but it is costly to start where I live. Farm life is becoming a very unappealing prospect in my region, everyone wants to live in the city.

@patrickcleburneuczjsxpmp9558 5 ай бұрын

@@xanmontes8715 Yeah, but historically people have commonly had to move to more affordable areas (e.g. moving west across America) to be able to afford land, too, and I'd guess Seymour moved to the property in this video from another area for the same reason. That's especially true when, like you say, large percentages of the population have congregated around a limited number of large cities.

@xanmontes8715 5 ай бұрын

@@patrickcleburneuczjsxpmp9558 I suppose I could move into the farm house my great grandparents lived in but it is 250 years old and the winters are not kins.

@griersson 11 ай бұрын

The dog's smile at the end!

@andydixon2980 11 ай бұрын

Would trade places with this man any day.

@bid84 11 ай бұрын

He’s dead so probably not a fair trade

@ekurisona663 11 ай бұрын

the wicker man was a documentary

@ComplexMotivations 11 ай бұрын

That dog really hated that song

@unwaw 11 ай бұрын

Amazing 😊

@TinLeadHammer 11 ай бұрын

Small fields? I don't know what would be a large field then.

@xanmontes8715 11 ай бұрын

Around 2 achres. According to his book :)

@charliedoherty5965 23 күн бұрын

Maybe around 4 or 5 acers..

@NoosaHeads 11 ай бұрын

1914-2004. Born into a well-to-do family.

@heraldeventsandfilms5970 11 ай бұрын

Says a mouth-beathing, burger-chomping see you enn tee.

@anonanon7497 11 ай бұрын

@@heraldeventsandfilms5970 Why the aggression? Is it not possible you have mistaken his comment for something it isn't? I had read it as a compliment on pursuing a simple life when a much more luxurious life would have been available, rather than a class division.

@stevenmcdermott6565 11 ай бұрын

@@anonanon7497think it was a nod to the comedy “the good life” 🤔 🤷‍♂️

@theautumnalcyclist7629 11 ай бұрын

So this documentary should have been called Sally Seymour on Self-sufficiency

@anonanon7497 11 ай бұрын

It may well have been, if she had written the book. Making a to-do out of nothing...

@JJONNYREPP 2 күн бұрын

"the awful boredom"? as evinced by on-line gamers who then end up "rioting" without any idea as to why....

@mid-walesrover681 9 ай бұрын

We can't all be peasant farmers (there is not enough land to go round) but we could all live a simpler life, grow some veg in our gardens, waste less, fly less, make do and mend, which I think was Seymour's message.

@patrickcleburneuczjsxpmp9558 5 ай бұрын

And there aren't enough resources for everyone to live the modern American/British life either. But for every youngish person in the US/UK/etc. that has had an experience of the lifestyle Seymour lived enough to spark a desire to live that lifestyle and has a philosophical commitment to back it up and isn't physically handicapped and isn't already a debt slave and isn't already married to someone unwilling to make the move with him, there is land for a small homestead for every such person.

@johncarter2741 11 ай бұрын

I like the idea. I think in 2023 in uk too much red tape

@Vinesy68 11 ай бұрын

The dog had the right idea. Nah mate not for me that beer or singing 😅

@b_ks 3 ай бұрын

Pooch is not a fan.

@ObeseCaligula 11 ай бұрын

🐖

@DaraM73 11 ай бұрын

So this film should’ve been about the wife.

@nickhendy4301 11 ай бұрын

It says so, listen better! I reckon if she had written the book he would have been pleased, sounds more open minded and foresightful than men back then. Perhaps she was the obedient wife you imply or perhaps just happy and content. Basically the man is a talis(person) for a simpler life many people want. Very glad the short film clearly puts Sally at the heart, indirectly highlighting that even simplicity costs money to start.

@anonanon7497 11 ай бұрын

Neither would have managed without eachother, such is the reality of the world and I'm sure they would have both said so. The modern, political, division between the two sexes is unhelpful, unnatural and only to the benefit of those at the top.