I like the way Justin lets us listen. He seems to sense just when and what questions to ask for the comprehension of his audience. Much appreciated.

So- ORGANICS > PERMACULTURE > DIVERSIFICATION > CO-OPING > PROFIT SHARING. All of this strategy has been around since the 1970s and for some reason, it faded away. Glad to see it is making a comeback! Our 350 acre farm is balanced to take care of us. We are farming the same way our grandparents farmed. No pesticides. Grass-fed beef. Prime hay and sustainable logging. Our farming neighbors buy from us, as we buy from them. They have organic produce/organic eggs/chicken/pork/lamb/honey/ and so on. Life is good in New Hampshire.

I love it this guy is a genius. he's like the farmers special forces

Mark is my hero. I’d love to spend a couple seasons with him to grow and absorb all those nutrients from that amazing mind of his. Dude is RAD

I could listen to this wizard speak for hours. So interesting & practical. Makes perfect sense. He has an amazing amount of wisdom & knowledge acquired throughout his existence. Irish man loves this.

I love this gentleman’s love and pride in his food forest. Truly inspiring.

I’m only 30 minutes into this so far but I’d love to see an aerial view of this farm! 🤞🏼

Stephan would love this he would be feeding the birds in the corner He grows grass and other fruits etc together And runs chickens down his orchard Much love xoxox looks great

Thank you Justin! This was truely amazing. I wish farmers everywhere were listening and HEARing about this method of producing food. Wow! So much to take in and be inspired by.

This was great, my daughter just told me about this guy last week and said I should look him up. I'm slowly implementing a lot of his principles and didn't even know it.

From 2005 to 2019, I used to ride my motorcycle with brothers & friends through this area of Wisconsin & the Root River valley. Beautiful area, great roads to ride.

Thanks Justin for the great content! (As always!) Mark is such a great example of practical permaculture! His book RESTORATION AGRICULTURE is a must read!

The outreach that he mentions at the end! Amazing!

Thank you Justin to present Mark. 🙏 This gentleman is so interresting and passionate with his smart approach to modern permaculture. I learn.

THIS GUY IS REAL...BRILLIANT!! HES SPEAKS FACTS...N WHY GO DISTURB D NATURAL GROWTH??? THANK U JUSTIN FOR THIS MANS EXPERIENCE N FACT FINDING...

What an amazing video! I have been watching Justin for a few years and this has got to be one of my top favs. Thank you so much both Justin and Mark for sharing ALL of this with us.

This is a real treasure of a video...grab a notebook take notes....

I had never heard of Mark. Full of knowledge and wisdom. Thank You. Now I want to see the first one they made.

Wow! That is a lot of information to digest. Extremely interesting! Thank you!

I just love it. As I just turned 60, I thought I would need something where I can spend my time when retired. Therefore I have started planting my (3 acres only) in the same way as Mark, just pop small trees in the gound grassland, here in Demark. It seem to work, but it is always nice to see that it has worked over a longer time period other places with similar climate 🙂 I was looking for some confirmation, that this kind of "wild planting" works. Therefore something like Marks place is just what I was looking for ❤ Thank you, Justin!!!

I love Mark's enthusiasm and his philosophy of low inputs and small but many returns. The contrast between his green oasis and the green desert of his neighbour is striking. He is also very smart in his grasp of economics, I love the story about buying the apple trees.

There’s a great tour of the farm on Kirsten Dirksen’s KZfaq channel as well. Mark is a dynamic figure that needs to get the attention of people looking to make changes for a better future. I need to make the pilgrimage out to his place and take a tour or class.

Thank you so much for bringing us this knowledge. I’m going to use that this year.

Love it! Can’t wait til you get back to vlogs

The pure seeds are important .

Mark is a very smart man, resourceful, and knowledgeable. I have had the opportunity to take many workshops and classes with him and had the opportunity to work for him back in 2015 on a project for Alcoa in Arkansas, I think it was over 1000 acres of land restoration near one of their aluminum manufacturers. It was via RAD and PermaEthos. Great experience and Learning opportunity. Love him and his family.

I love how he had to stop to smell the flowers. I’ve been trying to grow milkweed and cant get it to grow from seed here in west texas

Just the first 30 mins and mins blown already. Thank you for uploading this. I can take my suburb food forest to the next level

Great re upload Don’t think I saw this one before thank you for sharing

This was so informative. I learned a lot just by listening to this video. Thank you for sharing this with us!

Fascinating! I could listen to Mark all day. I love his farming concepts and the idea of all perennials.

Excellent how you give light on other super youtubers !! You are so generous !! Have a good deserved rest with your family ! That gives people the opportunity to follow and suscribe to the tons of you tube families who are sooo active in the three rivers pantry challenge !!! On vous aime de France ! Bénédictions+++!!!

Awesome Mark! Just awesome 👍 Thank you Justin… for filming and sharing.

Brilliant! Thanks for posting! Didn't know how much I didn't realise from the first one..

I'm like in a euphoric coma of delightful mind bursts of visions and ideas and possibilities to love Mother Earth and be blessed in countless freakin ways!!!! It's like at this very moment..where I am..right now..65 yrs old..in this time period..I have a major aahhhaaa moment..because of you..ty..xoxo (I'm soooo overwhelmed with the knowledge that you just shared...my mind is having explosions of answers I've looked for...FOREVER!!! many years...🥴😁..thank you for who you are..God bless your family and way of life..I'll be back...

Love Mark's mindset, He is an absolute genius!!

The trick is to make products that cannot be duplicated by the industrial machine and reflect the unique eco-cultural fingerprint of a discrete Place. So many organic "versions" of non-organic products that are limitations of farmstead products originally. Pizza effect. Add artisans to the site and you have value added. Thank you Mark and Justin for discussing the under-discussed economics of regen/permaculture

This guy's philosophy is exactly what all homesteaders should aim for... for one very simple reason....he grows crops which will require less manual labour as he ages and he lives in knowledge that even if he does not plant a single plant one year- that his land will still produce a tremendous amount of food. This is what long term self sufficiency is all about. Although there are fantastic homesteaders making videos out there... not enough of them emphasize the importance of planting for the long term future rather than just the next year. Too many people concentrate mainly on annual crops- but they will run into trouble if they ever have one single season when they are unable to farm due to illness etc. And if you are thinking about leaving a legacy to your kids- a system like this will be fantastic for the next generation..... I would love to see much many more homesteaders actually implement this guys philosophy into their homesteaders and/or farms

I’m going to listen to this 500 times before I’m through…

Fantastic video! I love Mark's systems and ideas.

Thank you guys for this

One of your best videos

Thank you for not talking and letting the education flow from the expert you visited! I am so proud of you and why I watch your travel to other farm videos. The farm tour and this video AMAZING 👏

Thank you Justin you’re the best! ✅✅✅👏👏👏👍👍👍💯💯💯

i loved this loved this he is interesting , makes sense , and shows a proven on his words he speaks , awesome

Good one. But will need to watch it a couple of times to get all the info rooted.

This is really awesome (except the major overstretch of comparing interns that actively seek out training from farmers to the enslavement of Africans 🙄). But otherwise great discussion!

I am TOTALLY captivated by this video. My sister lives just an hour away. Amazing that the mastodon roamed there and in my area of Texas.

Love the vids man

Woooooow,Justin, YT and Mark....THANK YOU ALL for the opportunity to hear such social and economic sustainability from DOERS. XXXXX

Blessings to all!

Justin Great video., full of priceless knowledge. Thank you Linda from Ct

“Paused” and grabbed note book 📝 😂😂🙏🏼

Damm it! How did he know about our plans? My Canadian platoon is targeting his farm now.

Congrats and blessings!!

VERY informative!!

Thank you Justin!

Man, I really enjoyed this video.

I met a guy in NC who grew endangered trees for the state. Started them from cuttings. He would say... I don't mow around the seedlings because I want the tree to know their "treeness" meaning what it is like to grow as a real tree.

Thanks for a wonderful video! ♡ GOD BLESS you & your family.

I sure hope to afford a property soon!

This is so much information I feel like I should have a paper on the wall acknowledging that I watched the whole thing in one sitting. If we only had real teachers like this. Not in school bring the kids here to learn from him directly.

Yes! Love this.

Justin Rhodes, do you still love this MAN .😢.

925k subs man over night success in 2018 what you had 30k subs great job keep at it in 2 more years you will be at 2 million subs

Wow, just before the Dr pepper remark, I got an add for pepsi soda. I first thought the add was part of the video for some reason.

Amazing!

Amazing

Soooo interesting!

He shouted out the Geology Museum in Madtown! Love

@54:04 to 54:46 😍 Just look at the huge tree they walked right by too busy tackity blabbin'! I'm like, Look at the size of that -- is it an oak? a maple tree? Goodness!! It is quite the Matriarch! Great walk and talk on Mark's place. Thank you.!

Wow nice thinking

fantastic

I love this guy. I'm following your lead.

amazing

It’d be awesome to incorporate that on a regenerative farm that’s livestock heavy. Wonder if Mark let’s visitors come and learn a little??

Wow! I love the speech he makes about the rigged system!! The awakening is in full affect! ❤️🌷🌳🐝🦋🇬🇧

Mark is a genius. Learned so much from this video. Thanks.

This guy is good

Anyone know the natural environment for pear trees? What would they grow well with and what grows well under/around them?

Mark is a fellow wisconsinite!!

Nice

Drone footage would make it extra special...

So you mean you can farm without having to spend every hour of every waking day for the rest of your life working?

So Justin, now that I have seen this video what are you doing or plan to do like his example. Are you planning swales, are you planting fruit and nut trees, cherry trees, black berries and elderberries , etc.?😊😊😊😊😊

I know people here on the shore in Maryland that are being paid by the Govt NOT to plant anything. Some of these people had no intention of farming. One has as little as 15 acres, blows my mind the waste it is paying these people. I live with hundreds of acres of fields of corn and soy behind me and in front. I grow organic, but wonder how organic it is with all these acres being sprayed over summer.

Who doesn't want to hear more from this guy?

Here in Ohio, farms are getting chopped up ,divided and it breaks my heart. If a farmer doesn’t want that to happen, maybe they need to look outside the family. I live on a corner lot in the city of Rittman in Wayne County and have 8 raised beds and I grow a lot of food. Can you imagine ,how much you could grow and help others with the land of a farm and passion for the process. I know it would be so much more work but the passion would push a person to get through and being able to educate and feed others. I grew up on 3 1/2 acres and had animals. Those are found memories. I just don’t get the fast gratification of making money on the division of land and not the generational pass from one to the next. They say close to 85% of our meat is imported. It can be deemed USA ,if,it is cut or ground here in this country. We need to know what is going into these animals that we eat. Watching your show and Jess and Jeremiah’s show, really makes one think of a better way of life, healthy and whole.

Unbelievable, informative, and left me with why why why... I wish I could afford to buy local NWNC 1/4 beef/pork and chicken. My girls are laying hens (comets or Rhodies, not sure), 8yo and going strong.

What hardiness zone is Mark Shepherds farm located in? I am in growing zone 5a which I believe is the same as his and I would like to know what kind of hazelnuts and chestnuts varieites he uses that are not subject to the blight?

Riveting listening

Mr Justin Rhodes you said Joel Salatin is a LUNATIC....LOL....is Mark Sheppard good enough for you LOL even more. I am quitting my job TODAY , Thanks for all the information you and your family bring to us.

I'm trying to find a whole sale fruit trees

I’m a big fan of the systems that people are using. With cover crops or animals keeping the soil covered allowing seed beds to regrow. Has anyone ever recommended burning as a way of starting or maintaining over the years. Or is the burning method outdated?

Wondering what permits chemically contaminated run-off from the neighbor’s property, on to his?

That's what big farms is doing.

Any one have links to how he structured those businesses that made up the farm?

A zombie-proof homestead - awesome!

hello friend, i have question? can you turn off Polish subtitles under the movies? i likes your movies becaues is very interesting. I have trouble understanding sometimes. if that's not a problem, thanks, Greetings from Poland.

The only negative you can come away with is the ground he's on now was commercially farmed ( read that, knee deep in chemicals ) for the 65 years before he moved on it - but it'll be real hard to find any non toxic ground not contaminated by past farming practices