When my father died it was a real eye opener. I stood, looked around and asked, " is that all there is to life?" Accumulating all this junk? After all the junk was gone I moved into his house and started cleaning up the half acre. I sit here now on his beautiful porch looking out over the land full of food, chickens, wildlife. And I say "this is what life is about." I have to mention, a bird is singing his heart out right now. He's saying thank you for this safe haven where he can raise and feed a family. How cool is that?

I love listening to this man. He talks simply and true.

What a wonderful and honest explanation of farming today. Yes, farmers have become slaves. Self sufficiency is definitely the solution.

The essentials of life. Today, the university of KZfaq with professors like Mr Jon are continually making it possible and accessible for many people to acquire the necessary skills for autonomy . As we learn to share, we help ourselves to become resourceful and responsible for a better world. What a channel !!! We'd ever be grateful.

It is amazing how when you hear the truth you instantly recognize it. This man is showing us how to escape the matrix! Food is life, food is security, farming is freedom.

He speaks reality in behalf of every farmers. My parents are farmers, and I've seen their struggle on planting crops and in the end selling it in a very cheap price that was already set for the market. He is a very big help and a source of knowledge for every farmer to turn their lives around and end these status quo. "Raising true awareness"

Please,Jon,receive my love and respect for this honest talk! More love to you! Kenya .

I start farming just to get enough to eat. Im not conserning about money. As you said shelter food easy life.

my parents consider me Lazy, because i want to farm and enjoy life. They say i must work on the city until I'm old.. my mom ia 43 and she has several hundred thousand dollars of debt.. i don't enjoy that.. 🤔

Tired of city's pollution, diseases, doctors, chemicals drugs, depression

I live in a rural area on half an acre. I have ripped out the grass and started growing my own vegetables. I put a picket fence around the property. I had my husband build me 20 raised beds. I plant enough for us and a few friends.

Absolutely correct. My wife works on a farm with the same concept. Proud of her.

You changed me totally, after seeing your TED talk, started thinking of going back to my village from city. Now found this video and it's like a Guru teaches his deciple. I'm totally planning for simple sustainable life with farming needs to save farmers. Thank you

Tonight Jon taught me a great lesson which I could entrapped myself in farming. It's like he made this video particularly for me or he mentoring me directly.. Thanks Jon.. Stay healthy

The ticket fare that I went to my village every month was sufficient to eat for whole month healthy food... Now I quit my job in Hyderabad to be self employed in my village.. I had to hurt my parents and all my well wishers to do that but I know what I'm doing is right

This man is smart and he certainly knows what he is talking about

My father is a farmer in east Java, what this man said absolutely right. We faced the same problem.

thanks again sir for sharing this video, i'm really inspired of what you are doing. i'm 25yrs. old and stop working and start to live a simple way of living and start my backyard garden.

Thank you for you wisdom and words, i think you have seen the world for how it truly is and not just a lie and a dream that people live you have made it a reality x

This explanation really is worth listening, I feel like you are talking to me.

You are a very smart man. Paul Gaucji proved your theory that conventional farming is a lose lose. Permaculture and diversifying along with holistic approach is the way to go.

thank you sir for these educational video.this help a lot for me when i start to do my little farming someday and to be a self sufficient.

Thank you for making this video, this is the same message I continue to share with my people on our island. You are an awesome inspiration!

This man is so honest and down to earth... I have been wanting to retire and live a simple life with nature. Jon have been very honest about what to expect. I am glad I came across this channel Have subscribe and will follow every of his videos. I hope to meet him one day before I make my final move to live simple life....

I just found your KZfaq channel...What a wonderful channel you have. You are a very wise man and it shows in all of your videos!!! It is a pleasure to watch and learn from you and your views on life. Thank you for all the hard work you do in making these videos. I am 75 years old and I enjoy the lessons you are teaching us all...MAY GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS YOU AND YOURS!!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH MY FRIEND. I live in the USA in the State of Tennessee on a 5 acre homestead in the woodlands. My first name is AL! TAKE CARE!!!

This video showed up to me in my hardest time and I am grateful to listen to this wise man. As the city life getting more depressing and frustrating, I myself not an exception from those who may have dreamed more than once of becoming a farmer to escape the city life. This video has challenged my status quo as a food lover to see farming as a hobby than rather than a career which is not realistic or possible in the modern world.

Incredible wisdom. Food = security. Money ≠ security because sometimes even with money you might not be able to get food

I found this channel today and absolutely loved how simply you explained everything. I want to start farming on side as soon as i get a job. In india, we treat the food as God too because this body is nothing but just heap of food. Being able to eat natural and clean food is the right of every human. But unfortunately due to many reasons today everything contains chemicals, plastic and toxic substances. My culture teaches me to respect food, farming and farmers. The most important aspect of environment as well as farming is soil. Without good soil their is no water, plant and animals .I want to grow food totally naturally and help others to do the same. You are an inspirational person, keep doing the good work. 🙏

Jon is a true thinking farmer. Thanks for sharing your wisdom.

watching from the Philippines, i love your words sir. i salute to you🙂

Wise words from you and that is exactly what I'm going to do. I want to grow enough food for my family to eat and live. We have to change our mind set and live a good lifestyle and not be a slave to the system. I'm making my "Khok Nong Na" now because I believe that in the future there will be food shortages. With the coronavirus you can see how the system breaks down and you cannot even buy toilet paper which was so stupid because everyone was panic buying. Thank you Teacher.

Jon Jandai, you are my brother in heart. This world needs more of you. Be blessed, my brother, and thank you for all you share.

We moved from the city, purchased a 110 acres of beautiful land. Our biggest asset has been utilising permaculture, initially there is a lot of work, but the results are better than any money. We grow our own veg & fruit in abundance, keep livestock, chooks & bees, planted many trees & shrubs, have a flowing creek with minor waterfall, the eco system on our farm is amazing. I would never go back to my stressful career or city life ever, waking up to fresh air, to actually see the sunrise, watch life wake in every corner of the property, listen to birds, pick fresh, healthy garden produce which has never been sprayed & only touched by one pair of hands - yours. The pros so outweigh any of the cons by far, mental & physical health just springs back, where your body & mind, with every pore enjoy & appreciate being alive. Those who are never happy will not be happy anywhere, for those that are fed up with the city slavery & can think rationally, plan & see a future on the land, don't think twice, we absolutely love the freedom this has given us. I can with all honesty say that city life is what drains, suppresses & enslaves you to a life in which making money is a constant must to buy expensive junk. Cycle broken, never been happier

Very good motivation to start the Agreeculture to all people

There are still simple and honest people on earth. I wish I could be one of his friend.

Thank you so much. You are deserve for millions SUBSCRIBED and share. This world is so crazy now.

Thank you so freaking much! You're teachings are the BEST!!!

Love Jon’s video! He is so humble and genuine in sharing his farming skills and experience to novice like me! Thank you Jon, keep up the great job! 🙏🏻

Its good to hear that there are still people who embrace a simple life but happier & healthier than it seems... Your one ofvthe great farmers sir thank you for your wise advice.

I’ve learned a lot from you, you’re open my mind! I’m so grateful to find this channel. Everything I need to learn that I didn’t learn from the school system and my parents.

Rich of happiness ,rich of friends, rich of peacefulness, rich of oxygen, and rich of knowledge. Enlightment

Great video. My father was a very successful cash crop farmer. He loved farming.He also ended up helping alot of people. One thing I always enjoy about our farms is excess of food and fruits. Yet not very big areas are dedicated to this but the manure boosts production so the excess food is given away or sold.But the cash crops have more than adequate returns. Thx again for posting.

I very much appreciate the way you explain how to “re-frame” the large farmer/slave idea to the self-farmer/freeman idea. How very simple it sounds!

By far the best video of yours. You are very right about the system and sustainable farming is the only way ahead. Even in India this is the thought now permeating many people.

I envy the kind of life you are enjoying now Jon. Thank you very much for sharing with us 😊 Jon.

This is the most practical advice I have ever had... Totally geniune wisdom! Thank you so much...

He is inspirational. Now I see farming from another angle and one that speaks truth. Thank you

Very good advice. This is the way God intended life to be!! work enough for your needs and have plenty of time for family and friends and a good life.!! not run off your feet by Greedy pushy corporate muppets. Thank you sir

Such a beautiful and honest insight abt farming. I'm planning to cultivate 1acre land for some extra income along with allied activities. Will surely keep in mind ur advice. Hope I succeed.

Thank you for sharing your experiences, Jon. You will save many people a lot of wasted time. It is practical that we don't endeavor the farming life for the purpose of money, but for the love of farming itself.

You're very wise :) Just found your channel today and what you're saying makes So much sense. All the best to you and your family! Truly inspiring.

wisdom calling Master you are a God send. whenever you add money to farming you cannot get any profit l because when there is a great harvest market is flooded so farmer sell products at a throw away price. self reliant farming is good has no loss or debt and the farmer has more food to feed his family and one keep all profit to oneself

This was so enlightening! I love what you said about energy, the more you put in, the more you get back, whereas with money the more you put in, the more you are a slave to the debt. I feel there may be an equivalent philosophy about music business...

I love this guy . Very wise to talk to people who what to become rich off farming.... I don't not want to become rich , I wish to have the basic things I need and I want to learn build things that are useful .

So insightful. One of my favorite channels now.

Thank you for communicating your great experience and knowledge.

WISDOM. Thank you for your insightful knowledge.

Thank you Mr. Jon my brother is a testimony of what you are driving at. Got to let him watch your lectures for sure. Greetings from Cebu, Philippines.

Thank you!! At least some People know and understand the dynamics of modern agriculture and how it kicks people into work slavery... Permaculture or "traditional" farming is the future (if there will be any left for man)!!!

Well said. Impressed and motivated by your experienced lecture, I say. I subscribed your channel as soon as I saw your "don't buy water any more" chapter. Thank you brother, from another mother, for being an inspiration in my life. ❤️❤️❤️

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and experience, you also have great wisdom. God bless you Sir. You inspire me for farming. I am planning to resign from my call center job, I really love farming! 🙏

Thank you for your wisdom. You always speak on the things in life that people seem to overlook. The real big picture topics.

I love your wisdom. Thank you for sharing it♥♥♥

So true. I live on a housing block and have a ''useless'' 10 sqm, steep plot behind the back of the house. I mulched it and just threw some pumpkin seeds there. In couple of months I harvested over 40 pumpkins. Had to give half away as it is too much for us... It motivated me to start growing lots more stuff and one year later we eat every day from our block. Not self sufficient yet, but another year and it will happen :-)

Always full of wisdom n honesty. Kup khun kah

Thank you Jon! I got great insight on what a real farming & a farmer is & is like! You are right! I'm thinking like you & you 're speaking like I want to speak too!

Will be taking this advice with me out west. Although I'll be farming to feed myself.

Alternative Title: "Professor Jon explains the Labor Theory of Value" :) love your videos!

Thank you Mr Jon this knowledge makes me happy I an taking notes to apply.

Indeed.. Thanks again Sir. You made us wait too long. looking forward to your next video.

Yes indeed John, farming for profit and money is Stupidity but if each one of us does farming as a Great Hobby, it gives us food, happiness, Friends and also some money to keep and buy other things.. Super concept and great thinking John.. thank you very much for your information and sharing your experience genuinely... God bless you and your family and friends....

You are so right, we learned it the hard way. we gave up our rice field (hok rai), the harvested rice did not cover the expenses, it did eat our savings. Thanks for sharing.

True words! I wonder why not more farmers realize that....

Sir Jon..ur an inspiration, rice is very cheap here in the Philippines..what u r saying here in this video s really true.. self reliant farming is really d way..God bless u more

Though many of the people consider you as a farmer , I consider you as the most respectable person. Sir, your honest and true sharing is worth more than educational degrees especially in my state where unemployment rate reached the zenith. . . I'm very sure your valuable sharing might have helped a lot of unemployed youngsters or even olders who came across your videos.... :) Thank you sir for your immense contribution for humanity.:) With respect , from Nagaland. God bless you.

You are very experienced and knowledgeable. My wife is from Khon Kaen and her family is farming people. We have a small village house there and we stay often there. We saw many city people come to the country to try and become a farmer. They would spend alot of money creating their farm, and as you say they never make money and loose their money. We have plan when we retire to stay in that village, the same as we stay when we come visit. Nothing will change. We will just grow what we want to eat and sell or give away excess to family and friends. There will be variety of things we grow; already we have some chickens for eggs, a fish pond for fish, etc. Very similar to what you say in this video. Please continue to make more videos in English. I think you will grow your subscribers and youtube income this way, and appeal to foreigner who love simple country life in your country.

Greetings from Papua New Guinea. I admire your wise advice and sharing your experiences through your channel. Hence, coming from a family with agriculture background when I was young and now spent most of my life working in the city; retired 10 years ago and since then have been going back and forth to my family just doing farming, practicing organic farming (original way of farming) to my nieces, nephews and grand children. You are blessed and you will more blessed; as we all grow through your sharing.

You are right Jon, life is so simple and beautiful.

AFTER 45 YEARS IN UK I AM GOING BACK TO PUNJAB TO DO JUST THAT,IT TOOK ME 3 YEARS TO PLAN AND DECIDE.

“Conventional farming is a system of turning a farmer into a slave if the land.” Very well put my friend. 🙏

I praise GOD for being blessed to come across your channel today and to listen to this video. I thank you Dear Sir for your wisdom kindly shared.

I really needed to hear that as I'm at the beginning of my market garden and it's not that easy to cultivate and be worried about money. That wasn't in my plans but I am one hard wire to a fixed wage and I need to change my mind in order to be in order with nature. Thanks

I came across your video today randomly and I am so amazed by the way you talk about farming...I have recently developed interest for gardening and even I want to do farming on small scale - first to become self-reliant,so pls give us tips where we dont have even land and just balcony space

Thanks Sir!, You have change my mind🙏. Love from Indonesia

I enjoy listening to you and want to follow your advice in running a farm.

Thank you 🙏🏻 you are a excellent teacher

So practical tips for a real needy small farmer to survive safely n healthily..it's a fantastic down to earth talk with logic..hats off..good cammanding realastic voice .in simple words

I like your Life Principle. After i Retire ill be back in my home town and do farming. To live a simple Life in the Farm. For Family Consumption first and when there is a surplus thats the time i sell it to the market. I salute you for a nice and honest idea. GOD bless you!

1:28 Butterflies ♥️ Thank you for sharing your wisdom Jon.

Thank​ you​ so​ much​ 🙏

thank you for sharing your view of an empowered farmer: this idea is a game changer.

There can't be more to the point and clear message. It's inspiring.

I love this. Lowers my blood pressure.

Your smile makes me smile and gives me inspiration to be successful at being self sufficient. Thank you 😊

What a beautiful teacher of his trade

Thanks for sharing your wisdom

Thankyou Sir, so true, I am city lady who dreamt about farming.

Very wise thank you...large garden...great variety...thank you for these videos...yes freedom...food self reliance...is freedom

You are a very WISE small farmer. I love your model!

Words of wisdom... you have a very clear mind. There is a lot of learning just by listening to you :)