I'm so glad to have you watchin'!

Fortners Frontier I sure wish you and your wife the best, Fortners Frontier!

Thank you for watchin', Angela

Keep your videos comin', Englishman! You live and farm in a beautiful spot of the world.

I appreciate that, Real Oz!

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Thank you so much for watchin' and subscribing, Glenn Homestead. Keep up your fine videos as well. (Good mama's are the backbone of the nation and our hope for raising future patriots.)

Eric Newby Those mulchin' machines are real tempting for me! I've got several acres I wouldn't mind seein' one of those forestry mulchin' teams out there chewin' up, but at the moment I've already got a forestry "munching" team working on it (3 goats). Thanks for watchin', Earl!

The trouble I see with just mulching brush into the ground is that it seems like it takes several years before anything you plant, hay for example, will actually grow. My understanding of this is that the soil is too busy breaking down all this new material. I have a good whack of brush to clear and have been pondering the project for a while now. Finally I came upon the "Jean Pain" method which uses all this brush to make a big hot compost pile. It can take a couple of years for the pile to break down and it is an extra step but the way I see it if you strip the brush and pile it you can plant several years earlier. The only thing I haven't really come up with is how best to clear the roots and level the land. Any thoughts you might have on the topic would be most welcome.

Daniel Wilson Thank you, Daniel. I hope you end up doin' great things! Pa Mac

Thank you, Tim

It seems your wish has come true; the majority of stories told nowadays are the things you mentioned. I'm tryin' to bring balance by describing the truly good things that happened. We can't lump all our ancestors together and say they were all this or all that 'cause they were all different people. Thanks for watchin', Pancho Villa; I'm glad you enjoyed the show

Maple, for one, makes good spoons, providing you carve em before they cure up hard.

Hey there, Amanda C, These tools are available at Northern Tool (The Beam Machine, and Granberg's Alaskan Mark III chainsaw mill). Thanks for watchin'!

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Hey Cheryl, You're right about the carbon. I'll never disagree with you that it's good to let things rot, when and if possible; but burnin' brush has benefits, too. Lots of mineral components of the tree are retained in the ashes, and act very similar to lime. And there'll always be plenty of things continuing to grow for carbon. God just built it in that way for us. Plus it's just real fun to burn things some times! Thanks for watchin'!

the problem is keeping it out of the atmosphere. we can't afford fun for some things any more if we want to survive. if you compost you have no need to add lime or any other amendments because your soil will have all it needs to support a healthy natural ecosystem.

Hey again, Cheryl! It really is okay to burn things, Cheryl; you really shouldn't worry about our survival. In fact, I'm burnin' wood almost 24 hours a day in my home right now to keep us all warm...and that for about 4 months of the year. And that's been the history of keepin' warm (not to mention cookin') since Adam discovered fire. If that were enough to end the earth it really would have happened by now. But there's a bigger issue here, and my greater concern is that I do believe you're falling prey to some modern (but false) notions about the earth's "fragility". Fragile it is not. It's a big place with a lot of complex systems. God in His sovereign wisdom created it as such, and even called it good. He's also promised us in His scripture that as long as the earth exists, the seasons will not fail to be (Genesis 8:22-which would argue against a "premature end" to the earth). To take any other view challenges His sovereign role as the Maintainer of the universe. In fact, it was immediately before He made this promise that Noah burnt a huge offering which God not only didn't stop him from burning...but He was pleased by the "sweet savor" of the act (Genesis 8:20-21). Now one day, the earth will end in fire (2 Peter 3:12)-but it won't happen a day before God would have it to, nor a day behind schedule. And rather than bein' a fearful thing, that's a great comfort to all who love the Lord. The earth is NOT our home, but the presence of Christ is-and each of us should be diligent to be "found of Him (Christ) in peace" (a turning to Him in repentance and faith; 2 Peter 3:14). I appreciate your willingness and eagerness to speak out, Cheryl; but make sure your zeal is traveling in truthful directions. I'm confident of your takin' these things to heart and becoming a solid and vocal advocate of the truth! Thank you so much for your comments, and my best to you!

she watches to much tv

lunerwerewolf This is so true. I just read an article called “seeing the garden in the jungle” about exactly what you just said. Quote: More and more, it looks as if the Amazon, like much of the Americas, was a carefully cultivated garden before the Europeans showed up and abused it into a thicketed wilderness. It appears that our idea of wilderness-black forest so dense you can barely walk, where people “take only photographs and leave only footprints”-is a notion burned into our psyches during an anomalous blip: the first two centuries following the Mayflower, in which the gardeners who had tended the Americas for millennia were exterminated, leaving the hemisphere to descend into an neglected tangle of “primeval forest.” It’s likely that this so-called intact forest had never existed before, since humans arrived here as soon as the glaciers receded and began tending the entire landmass with fire and digging stick. The first white explorers describe North America’s forests as open enough to drive wagons through. Two centuries later these agroforests had deteriorated to the black tangles immortalized by Whitman and Thoreau. Wilderness may be merely a European concept imposed on a depopulated and abandoned landscape. The indigenous people of the Americas were master terraformers, using a hard-learned understanding of ecological processes to preserve the fundamental integrity of natural systems while utterly transforming the land into a place where humans belonged and could thrive. They were truly a part of nature, and likely did not make a distinction, as environmentalists do, between land where people belong and land where we do not. I’ll certainly agree that people carrying chainsaws and riding bulldozers don’t belong everywhere. But I’m beginning to think that gardeners, with gentle tools and sensitive spirits, have been and might again be the best planetary land managers the Earth can have. tobyhemenway.com/127-seeing-the-garden-in-the-jungle/

Cope and seethe, indians were living in the stone age while Europeans were on renaisancce.

​@@no8592 Natives and many other Tribal based communities where in the copper age