These episodes are prime time, cable television quality; You deserve many more views. Thank you for being a youtuber and letting us into your hardworking, humble, heartfelt, honest living.

"The difference between my grandparents and me is that I'm not doing all this out of a need to make a living, but out of a need to enjoy living." How truly profound is that?! I love how so many have come full circle. Many in our generation find a genuine yearning to get back to the land that our forefathers tilled...and I am so thankful that their hard work and perseverance has not been lost! Wonderful video, thank you! *hugs*

I like your sense of humor. You're kind of sparkly in your little smile, twinkling with a sort of inner wit that you know the joke is just in the living of life, and you enjoy it! I like that a lot. Looking forward to seeing all your videos and watching your farm grow for years to come!

This is my new favorite show to learn from, thanks Pa Mac!

The song throughout most of the video is one I made up and called "A New Day". The theme song at the end is an old fiddle tune called "Keep Your Skillet Good & Greasy". Thanks for the compliment and for watchin', ImuluKazuko! Pa Mac

That old homestead must be a snake heaven. Gives me the willies just looking at it. My grandfather and G-grandfather had a muck truck farm near a swamp in Central NY. My uncles used to catch pygmy or Massasauga rattlesnakes and keep them in gallon milk jugs. They are endangered now. One uncle sat on a rockpile in the pasture waiting for my grandfather to finish mowing. He heard a buzzing noise and soon realized he was sitting on a rattlesnake den.

My Grandpa died before I was a year old. As a kid I wandered that big old barn and found so many things of his, the biggest treasure was a flip calendar he made with a piece of wood, some cut paper and two big square nails bent over and through two punch holes in the paper. I read and re-read every entry, some very simple things and some bigger projects but it made me feel like I knew him a little more. From what everyone has told me about him he was a great guy and always had jellybeans in his overall pockets to give to kids and of course himself. :)

I have learned so much from the folks who built all the buildings on the old farm I bought last year.

Thanks Matt! Great to be back! Pa Mac

Dear sir...you, as your grandparents and parents before you, are a great American. Hopefully, more of the younger generation will develop a passion and a work ethic like the previous generations, then, perhaps, not "all is lost."

Love love love the chancel my silent friend

oh, how I wish I could be adopted into a family like this!

Nice to see you honored your grandparents with these videos.

You look like yer grandpa. :) and much respect to you. Im 47 and just about to do what I wanted to do all my life. Basically I guess the word for it today homesteading. The world just tore me apart. Oh well. At least I will die happy.

I loved the video. I am currently rebuilding my families 100 yr. old homestead here in Southwest Louisiana. I have been filming the off and on progress for the last 10 years with the intention of posting my work while I still have a 5 day aweek full time job. I also restore/rebuild what I call Heirlom Farm Equipmant, this is old equipment that our grandparents used to survive on the homestead. draft equip. farm tools, haying equip.etc. Thanks

Ya know I can't even think what it would be if I forgot my papaw cause I'm lucky that he raised me and we were together most of the time we worked together hunted , fished and ate every meal together I remember about everything we did hes been gone a long time but I think of him every day thanks for bringing more memories back to me

Thank you.

Thank you for this video. 10 years ago I was a city boy thrown into the woods and didn't know what to do with myself. If I had known then that gardening was the best act of rebellion a man can do.. well.. I'd have turned this place into one heck of a farm. As it is, after 10 years of bouncing between jobs, ignoring the land, and dreaming of "some day" I have finally come to the realization that is the best quote here. It's the doing, friend, it's the doing.

Excellent intro. Very inspiring! I'll be waiting for more!

I am very proud to subscribe to The Farm Hand's Companion. Truly inspiring

We sure do like your videos. They are great for our homeschool study about farms. We'd love to see more. Then you could compile them into a dvd you can market to educators. You are doing a great job...they are funny, interesting, homey, and reflective of the hard work that goes into a farm. I am hoping they will inspire my kids to chop a few trees down on our land this summer, and to just get it done, and not need to have "just the right tool" to do it. Thanks!

Found thru a post on another Facebook page! Love it!!!

Great videos Pa Mac! I have watched them all and can't wait for the next one.

Hi, Im trying to start the same life as you have done. Im constantly looking for videos with good points of view. I just found this one. I hope the rest are as impressive and attention getting as this one has been. Ill be checking them out in the following days. Thanks for the hard word of putting this video together. Im 53 and just purchased about a year ago, 55 acres to start my new homestead.God willing Im on my way. Just started cutting some trees in Nov to build a log cabin for my family. Life is good. Thanks again for your video.

Wow! I'm so glad to find you! I've been homesteading for about 8 years and creating You tube videos for 5. I'm in NWA, about 30 minutes from Fayetteville. I love your style and the information, awesome!

Great editing! What a nice story and intro to your videos.

Your videos crack me up. Love the music too. Very catchy tunes. Lol

I really enjoy your video posts. Thank you for sharing.

Loving the videos as I enjoyed meeting You & the Family at the Arkansas Homesteading Conference in Rison last April. You're just forever inspiring Pa Mac!

I had a Nanny and Pa. The loves of my life. Farmers. I wanted to be just like them. Never quite made it, but still tryin'. Thankfully, their lives overlapped mine by much longer than 5 years, but that was a lo-o-o-o-ng time ago, and I still miss them.

From fellow Hillbillies beginning a new chapter in the Arkansas Ozarks ourselves, "welcome home!" My bride and I really enjoyed this one and we're looking forward to watching the rest and more to come (hopefully). God bless!

i love each and every episode that you put out

Wow when you lowered that paper my heart about fell out. What a challenge, I'm so glad I found your channel!

Your videos are great and I've watched many of them already, especially since you really make use of the abundance of trees on your land and I've got an over-abundance of trees myself! I just need to work with a steep slope as well. I think of my own grandpa when I watch your stuff. He passed when I was 5 and I only met him once when I was about 2. He too built everything himself and I loved being on the farm he left behind. Unfortunately it's no longer in the family but last I heard it's being well-loved and cared for by a new family. I'm now doing my best to follow in my grandaddy's footsteps and have my own homestead (4 times larger than his was!). I look to the stories of him and the things he left behind for inspiration. I've got one of his hammers, with a handle he made himself. A small cast iron pot-belly stove from his workshop that will never hold fire again but with a wire brush, lots of elbow grease and a coat of paint will look nice in my home. My skills will probably never be equal to his but I'm trying!

If I didn't have a strong attraction to your views and way of life already, Pa Mac, I took a break from reading your book to re-watch the first video you made and found that it was published on the day that Lolo was born. Blessings, Ian.

You, sir, are my hero! Someday soon, I want to hang up my keyboard (for good, this time, I mean it!) and get some acreage, and make it happen. I'm looking forward to perusing more!

So poetic...

Nice story. And I like the music.

It's something to come back to a land where you know someone close down your line built and made or shaped the land before you. I certainly felt something like that after i visited the land my great-great-great grandfather owned. So, so many things you notice and wonder at, then, someone in the family who still remembers will point out a detail and another, or a picture will shed light..that's when it all clicks in and you feel at home. One day, when i'm older, i'll return there and write my own story. :)

This is the best KZfaq channel I've ever seen! Can't wait to watch the rest of the episodes so far

Bravo!

Hey jbertucci! Like my mama always says, "You can do just about anything you set your mind to doin'." Thanks for watchin', Pa Mac

couldn't look away....fascinated by the need to see more....totally inspiring !

I saw this vid pop up again and was happy to watch it one more time. It definitely pushed me back toward center a little bit. Last year I did well in the garden, this year I'm going MUCH bigger! Now to see if you've posted any new video's!

Haha this sounds great! I look forward to seeing where you go with it!

That's so inspirational, i love it. I dream of owning my own piece of land one day.

I love your content for my kids, but man, I can't afford to sit still long enough to read my way through your great stories.

Thank you Sir for sharing your story.

Great video. I will check out more....

I just stumble across your channel while looking for ideas on building pioneer styled pole barns. your workshop build was exactly what I needed to answer a few remaining questions in my mind. then I decided to subscribe and go to the beginning to see where it started... I love this video. It is so familiar sounding. My great granddad farmed eastern NC. Died at around 100 years old when I was 5. I remember him but remember g-granny more. she died when I was in jr. high. My other great grand parents were share croppers and I spent a lot of time with them until they got to old to continue the farm when i was in early high school. both passed shortly thereafter. I am 3 generation away from them with grown children of my own but my wife and I have returned to the dirt and are starting a similar path... grass roots farm on 6 acres to start, but as old school as possible. I want my grandchildren to see hard work, ingenuity, resilience and determination are enough to not only survive but thrive. Living life with purpose and grace as God intends.

i am 17 and this is what I want out of my life :) total self reliance

I love hard work. I could watch it all day. Thank you for giving me something fun to watch. Maybe one day my wife and I will have a little plot of land to leave happy memories for grand kids

Thankyou, great video. It is a shame we are losing the knowledge and skills of the passing generations. They did the hard yards in those days. All the best on your new farm.

ha ha Awesome, loved it!

I enjoyed watching. Thanks for sharing the beautiful story.

I have watch all the videos and has inspired me to move on to more adventures on my own property. Thank You for all the time and Effort on these vids!

Loved this video..............

MARVELOUS! Thanks so much for the GREAT video. It really rings true. Blessings!

“Power and machinery on the farm will make big production possible and solve the so-called ‘farmers’ problem.’ Under these new conditions the pleasure of living in the country will return, and with faster and faster methods of transportation, the improvement of the radio, and the coming of television, the lonesomeness of farm life will disappear and only the pleasurable qualities remain.” Henry Ford, 1928, My Philosophy of Industry and Moving Forward.

Great look back and also a look forward !! Fantastic job ! 👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Heard it said what goes around comes around, I think they meant you reap what you sew? You are doing a great job of sharing your family and history. Thanks you so much ! 👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

this guy is awesome!!! thats a true american living the dream. great inspiration Sir.

Ahhhhhmazing.

We are doing it out of a need to live. My health is so bad, it is hard to find "safe" food that isn't going to tear me up. We are also disabled, and getting healing isn't in the government's agenda. I want to break free! I want to live... We have a VERY small place but out in the country. Hoping we can eck out a way of living that heals us! The only hard part is getting over the fear and the feeling of not being able to do it. Last year we planted a tiny garden that did pretty good for us! This year we accomplished the goal of doubling our garden size and our daughter bought 2 ayrshire/jersey/holstein heifers. Our son bought chickens. The kids were raised in our need for a better life and are homeschooled. They are excellent kids who want to farm and work with their hands to have a better life! My oldest 2 have autism, my son graduated college with 2 degrees with honors, my daughter is taking leather working courses, then we have twin 11 year olds and they are something else!!! We look forward to meeting you one day! We are 6 hours north of ya! Thank you for your wonderful videos!

Very good video

I'm impressed with you brother, I did not mind the reading either. I'm starting a homestead myself. Keep it up!

You crack me up! Farming is so much work- but when you see this new land producing it will all be worth it :) Good work, Little Pa Mac!

Love your video! I live on a mtn in NWA too. I have 10 acres and I've been wanting to homestead but its hard too know where to start. I hope I can learn a thing or two from your video's.

How am I just now finding your channel? Lucky me to have so many videos to watch. Thank you for sharing!

I love it all! Just watched all the episodes. Yearning for the next. Really great stuff! Filled with a lot of "doing" .. Great stuff !!

Thanks much. This is very helpful. Have arched all the episodes. You are a star! We are beginning in may.

What a great video. I can't wait to see more.

I love this!

I like your video Farmer.. I also have rocks, stumps & briars along with two sturdy Farmalls and a dream.. Good luck to you..

sure hope this is a long series , looking forward to it PA Mac........

This I Gota see... Keep up the good work

Thank u sir

Sweet video, and a very interesting series. I LOVE your music composition! Want.

love love this show! watch the whole thing twice! greetings from El Salvador!

As soon as I saw that ground I thought "Arkansas". Good luck and I look forward to more!

nice work !

I really enjoyed that!

Love the videos. Some of the best I have found. Funny, heart-felt, and very entertaining. Getting started myself on my own homestead. Thanks for the inspiration and ideas.

Very nice episodes. My students are learning about Pioneer life, and your show is much appreciated. Well done!

I really enjoy watching your videos and have subscribed, please continue.

Your liven my dream. Thinking of moving back to Arkansas myself.

atta boy. May have to plan a trip up to Arkansas now, much closer than Tenn. I hauled a few rocks on a farm before, don't mind doing it again.

Love this!!! Subbed instantly!

Great video! I admire what you are doing and think this statement of yours is awesome:"The best part of farming is not in the having, but in the doing." That could be applied to other things as well, but you are doing an excellent job of demonstrating how it applies to working the land. Thanks for sharing your vision!

lol awww so adorable! Best video I've seen yet on inspiring me to get to Homesteading! :) Thanks for sharing & inspiring & making me smile and laugh.

this is great!!!! simplicity, human ingenuity, nature, self sufficiency !!! this is what people were born to do!!! not work in cubicles and treadmills and watch your wages get decimated by taxes.

Awe, you got me hooked ...

A lovely story and Inspirational! I'd love to start "From scratch" but I'm in Ireland where land is few and far between and right now i couldn't afford to buy a few acres, But I've always fancied farming and that life! Not for feeding my family...but like you...because I've always liked that way of life! I wish you well in all that you do!

Hey there, Michael! Thanks for your words of improvement on the show. It's almost word for word what my mama said when she first saw it. I'm a little afraid if you heard me talk you'd want me to go pick up the pan-jo (it's not the banjo on that cut; see The Music of Farm Hand's Companion on The FHC Show page on the website) again. I better keep on the way I'm goin! (I hope this doesn't mean you won't subscribe though; my mama did) Have a great day, Michael, and keep watchin'! Sincerely, Pa Mac

Thanks again, ImuluKazuko! Pa Mac

This is excellent - I'm going to repost it to my blog. Great production work. Incidentally, I met you once in passing while setting up an interview at the LWF studio... glad to see you're doing something new and awesome with your time.

this actually made me cry....

Loved your videos! You encouraged me to build my own with what I have!

thank you ,i love this stuff,it,,s what i live for god bless you and yours

I grew up in Arkansas and that definitely looks like Arkansas😂 I’m a subscriber, this is great. Trying out 2.5 acres myself with my wife. We’ll see how it goes.

Nice video brother!