When, I first started watching My Self Reliance, my goal was Land. Then my 93 yr old Father said, "Why not start now. " Start small." I thought How? I live in a 55+ community and the people who owned the house before me wanted "no to low" maintenance...so everything is gravel, vapor barrier and plastic. So, I planted 2 small vegetable gardens in horse troughs that I painted light green with teal flowers and the saying, "All is Well with my Soul." Today, I planted tree, tomorrow another tree. Then guess what, One Day at a Time, I am going to remove the gravel, plastic and vapor barriers and let the Land breath. Who knows from here. Maybe if I learn to take care of a small property, God will give me a bigger property. Shawn, my life is changing because of your channel and my Father's encouragement...I am very grateful.

Are you kidding? “We’re not interested in you gardening?” Brother we’re here because we all wish we had it in us one way or another to be living your dream. Of course that includes all aspects of your lifestyle that aid in you making it up there in the great white north successfully. We’re cheering you on regardless, believe me... You’ve got this! ✌🏼🤟🏼🤞🏼

I am 61 years old and I cant travel anymore, your videos are so relaxing AND you give me garden ideas! So thanks, keep em coming!

Your photography, editing, and music are so beautiful, I have to keep reminding myself that your life is not just a dream, it's very hard, steadfast work. Thanks, as always, for your honesty and humility. God bless you and your family. Wow, I didn't know porcupines climb trees! Ours here in Israel stay underground in their holes all day, then waddle around at night, foraging.

Your channel should be required for high school students. It would grow good men and women. thank you

I confess I hit like before I viewed...saving thirty some minutes of escape to the wilderness before I sleep. I really do need a night with pleasant dreams to stay healthy. Thanks Shawn.

I will never complain again about doing work in my 20x20 garden in my backyard.

Before this pandemic, I wasn't planning to put in a garden this year because I was going to be too busy. My priorities changed and now I have put in a decent sized garden to offset my vegetable budget! Keep up the great work sir!

The true fans of this channel enjoy all the tasks you do, thanks for caring. Great work on the garden!!! 😁

Your filming skills are excellent, it's like a movie 😀

This is the kind of "complicated life" I look forward to.. -learning how to grow food, the land I have to work with, figuring out through trial and error what work and what not.. next season, make whatever changes, etc. not the garbage life I've known all my life. I know nothing about building and growing, that's why I watch. Thank you.

I LOVE the peaceful nature scenes at the end of this video! God bless the work of your hands.

I really hope your garden is blooming this year, you truly deserve it! Thank you for sharing your life with us, Shawn!

You appear to have single-handedly made a forest clearing and created a farmstead. Quite remarkable.

I respect what you're doing and the life you've chosen. I wish I had decided to live like that years ago. God keep you and yours.

Enjoy Shawn James, but remember that God provides

Man..never apologize. You're living the dream and sometimes that requires adjustments.

Your work ethic is pretty impressive, Shawn. 👍🙂

Hey shawn, you might want to build a root cellar for your vegetables to store for winter. Great video

Love how you've gone back to your old style of simple editing, focused on the work, with quiet patience.

Definitely still interested. Finally glad to see the garden really take its shape. You have been putting so much hard work into everything and keeping us updated. Thank you.

Shawn i watch you all the time .I did things that your are doing not at your level but pretty good .My wife and i did organic farming and organic gardening was a lot of work but very rewarding . please do me a favor don't let people that have not done it tell you how to do it. Kathy and are 76yrs old and still garden on a smaller scale. we live on 33 acres in the country and have that far away that they do not bother us.please do not give up . I feel your passion . Julien Lamarche

I forget how relaxing watching your videos are, since this pandemic broke up and took all of our attention. Thanks for putting them on youtube, stay safe 🥰

I live in Oregon on 78 acres of forested land. My sister and I have a large garden with 10ft high fencing for deer and in case we get any elk coming in. Twice now we have had cattle that are free range end up in our yard. The fence around the garden and the orchard saved us. We are on our 3rd year of straw bale gardening and the plants do really great. We get 2 seasons out of the bales and when they decompose it is great mulch full of earthworms. The problem here in Oregon is that the farmers have been growing hemp instead of hay and straw so straw bales are harder to find and almost as expensive as hay. We also have a greenhouse attached to the garage with a southern exposure. The heat source are 4 black steel drums filled with water. When sun heats them up they keep the temp at around 50 degrees F. That is with a temp outside of 25-35 F. I keep my geraniums, fuschias, begonias and succulents in there for the winter. We also keep baby chicks in there with heat lamp in galvanized trough until they are old enough for coop. Also keep Meyer lemon and blood orange citrus in there and when they bloom it smells wonderful. (I am looking into a geodesic greenhouse which gives a longer growing season and stands up to snow and wind). Shawn I enjoy your videos so much. When you are canoeing it makes me envious because I have been too busy to get my kayak out on the Rogue river just 6 miles from my house. This summer for sure! Cali is beautiful and such a lucky dog. I can't let my dogs run loose in the woods due to poison oak, rattlesnakes, and a mountain lion hanging around. Oh well.

i like everything u do but i hv to confess, i cant get enough of that dog

it crazy to think that hes living like everybody use to live for thousands of years and now, in 2020 we all watch this for entertainment. I think we humans crave to live like this.

I've studied permaculture for many years now, as a layperson. One thing I've picked up with designing an area, is tying in as many needs as possible, in the one transaction. For example, you need a fence, water collection on site, tool storage and covered areas to store your harvest as it dries - potatoes, onions - maybe even a solar dehydrator, using the sun too. So build long, narrow, utility areas on the highest ground, as part of the fence line. Break up the separate buildings, with your edible, thorny hedgerow. It will create micro-climates for the plants to handle weather extremes better. Eaves of buildings, for example, help ward-off frosts. The narrow, utility shed, for storing hand tools for the garden, will be enclosed. Solar dehydrator will be mostly enclosed too. But your drying racks for potatoes, onions and garlic, will need to be open for ventilation. They will have wire on the side that would be the fence. Roof all the utility buildings, run gutter off them and have rain barrels to collect rainwater. Being on the highest ground, you'll be able to gravity feed water to the vegetables, using a hose. It may not be strong pressure, but still more time efficient and back saving, than carting buckets. So in a nutshell, if you have to spend money on some utility areas, why not make them part of the fencing cost too. If you're spending money on plants for the fence, the utility areas will help nurture them to produce. Especially when more exposed plants may not, during weather extremes. May I also suggest, instead of running your garden row, length-ways down the slope, position them length-ways across the slope. During a rain event, it will stop the water running straight down hill. I've gardened on slopes for over a decade, on scrub land (Australia). If you don't get reliable rainfall, how you design on the slope, will determined how long moisture stays in the ground. I don't know your area though. You may get enough reliable rainfall and a terrible muddy season. So maybe getting water off the slope, as quickly as possible, saves a lot of logistical nightmares. I just know in my part of the world, getting moisture to stay on a slope, which is exposed to the sun, is my logistical nightmare, lol. Anyway, good luck with your garden. I hope it produces well for you.

You have good life. As I sit in my wheelchair. And make so happy you are out city life. Be safe and a great planting

I was raised in the mountains of East Tennessee, some of the hardest land to farm. I helped my dad and uncles “grubbing” new ground like you are doing. In case you’ve never heard the term, Wikipedia = Grubbing or clearing denotes the removal of trees, shrubs, stumps, and rubbish from a site. Unlike you, we did have a team of mules to pull the stumps. I have respect for anyone willing to subject themselves to this type of work, voluntarily.

Shawn, I hope you and others going down that wise self relient path realize that your growing more then just food in your garden, your growing a very interested group of folks just eager to learn and try to be more self reliant yourselves. More and more of us are realizing just how critical this all is to all of our futures. Thanks

Remember to try and order up heirloom varieties of vegetable seeds so that you can eventually save a few plants each year to be your seed producers for the next year. Hybridization has developed better yields and flavor and disease resistance but at a price. You have to buy your seeds from the source. You can save the seeds from heirloom tomatoes and squash and beans and store seed potatoes and the plant that germinates from those seeds is not at risk, (like saving the seeds of a hybrid, ) of reverting back to the characteristics of one or more of the hybridized parent plants.

Im in love with the river The water is so refreshing! I would be okay living there! It’s the CALMNESS that draws me in.

There is probably a deer in the background watching your every move. "Yeah, you dig that garden, city boy. We will see you in a few months.""

no matter what you’re doing my wife and I enjoy watching every single time. We are a married couple in Boston Massachusetts and we’ve been inspired by you to start our own backyard garden. Nothing at all like you but we are motivated to try to be more involved with our own food production. We know it’s on an extremely small scale for us but you are a motivator. Keep doing what you’re doing so many people enjoy and are inspired by you

God I envy you Shawn living the dream while you're young enough to appreciate it. Blessings to you and your family, peace and long life!

I always thought that growing your own food is self reliance at its core. So don’t ever apologize for gardening on this channel. It’s so much more than fishing or canoeing. You are building a lasting home stead for your family and their kids. Not much usable land left. That is truly free and wild. Yet close enough to a town. You have that, a truly special place. If you change directions a million times, it doesn’t matter, just enjoy living free.

I so love watching Cali run about saying "Yep. I own this!" she is such a proud and happy pup.

I watch primarily because you live in such a beautiful place. Living in Hawaii it's ironic I never was much for hanging at the beach, but I could spend all day long in the woods, and have spent many nights as well tent camping. Thanks for sharing it all with us. With much aloha...

I've always thought the only thing missing from your channel was to see you farming to grow your own food. 👍

I recall that back in the 60's - 70's when I lived in Muskoka we used to swim by June 1, sometimes earlier. The weather has cooled over the decades.

I want this life

New Englander here and I say "Stone walls!"

In the river, you can use small portable hydroelectric flow generators, that spin with the flow of water to power water pumps and also have electricity all year round!

Who needs a gym with this kind of workout?

I love that you're adopting multiple ways in being 'Self Reliant'. For me being self reliant is about recognizing the responsibility we have to try to avoid problems before they happen and to learn to overcome challenges when they occur. You start with what you know, then as you go you experience trials and challenges. When you're in a trial period you figure out how to overcome it, sometimes that means asking for help or stopping for a moment to learn something new so you can use it effectively to fix it the first time and avoid it from reoccurring. Self Reliance is a journey, it's not just one Olympic event, it's all of them, at certain times you use different muscles to reach your end goal. That's my two cents anyway, hope that makes sense. Keep up the great work Shawn. It's totally worth it.

Hallo, i am from germany, my english is so bad, sorry. Do you know helen and scott nearing? I love their books. They practiced self-sufficiency in Vermont and later in Maine in the middle of the last century. They harvested in winter vegetabels.

My garden has been set up like that for about 5 years . It works never have to water. Everything grows good.

Cali just has the best life any dog can have . Love it.

Interesting video with an added spectacular ending of sights & sounds. Truly a feast of beauty & serenity, thank you, 💞👵

Moving the workshop close to the cabin is a wise move. I always thought having it so far away was a mistake.

I don’t know if you have any idea how much further ahead you are from everybody on the planet. It’s like watching Noah.

I am using your ideas for my garden beds. Fallen twigs, yard clippings, leaves and layering it all with compost and manure. My neighbors thought I was crazy asking for their bags of yard waste sitting at the road for the city to dispose of. Well two weeks later and I am planting onions and garlic into what would be considered 'black gold'. So many worms!! It's amazing! And I have been taking everything I can find, old fences, left over deck wood, old tires, anything I find on the property to make all the garden projects. THANK YOU for inspiring so many people!!

I have been looking forward to seeing the workshop that you will create. But after seeing the hard work and long hours you have put into creating this forest garden I'm really looking forward to seeing you reap what you sow. Soon you'll be making me hungry again after watching the meals you create. P.S. Thanks for wrapping the show up with a "toss" for Cali! Keep up the good work.

Shawn, I've started cutting out "weed trees" from around my house again, pulling things I don't want out in my first 40 piles of wood chips that have composted enough to start my orchard, and using all that to fill my first couple of super-high (dinner table height) cedar boxes. It's a lot of work but the good news, the Groundhog has not come out and challenged me (lately). My back is sore, my arms ache, my puppy is exhausted from trying to catch rodents who elude him in the woodchip piles, but life is good. A huge hawk is helping patrol the orchard area, and I'm hoping the Bald eagle who sits right behind the house will consider Groundhog for dinner.

I love these videos! My only wish is that there was a voice over option that explains what you're doing and why. For example, when prepping the garden area with rotted logs, I noticed that you stripped the bark off the aspen logs. I'd like to understand for what you'd use the bark, for example. In other words what is the purpose for any given task. I'm not the sharpest tool in the shed, so, I seek to understand. Thank you so much for these videos, stay healthy and happy and safe! Cheers!

I will take enormous pleasure watching you harvest your first tomato. Next I will savor them in my mind when you pop open a jar of them next winter. What a joy to watch you make a garden from raw wilderness. I am awed.

Hi Shawn. We voted this videography no. 1 .. so beautiful. You have entertained us for 3 years and we thznk you, esp. in these times. You are going in the right direction. Amazing how far you have come. Cheers and blessings. P.s. considering some of the rude comments you have gotten, we don’t blame you for keeping your “girls” off camera.. 😁

Shawn, you don't have to be building things to keep me/us interested in your life! What you are doing is the "whole enchillada".. meaning not just building stuff, but using all of the natural resources you have available to sustain you.... nature has provided so many wonderful things for living on and off the land... the water, the river, the waterfalls (harness that water!).. waterwheels, gravity fed cisterns, etc. One suggestion through my own experience, tie white rags (from old torn up bed sheet) on areas of the deer fence, so that the deer, bears, moose will see it and not run right over it! I've had that happen - they just don't see it sometimes. The fluttering rags (12" or so) also work to keep them a little leary of it. A great natural fertilizer for those tomatoes is fish guts and heads... when you catch the fist and clean them, bury all the discards right next to the tomato's roots down at the bottom. It will double the size of your crop! It's pure joy watching you work the land and use the resources you have. Keep on keepin' on! Anything you do is so worth watching.

I also did a little garden and thought it will be just an afternoon of work and in the end it turned out to be a big project, but last week the first vegetables came out and it's such a big satisfaction seeing how everything grows. Thanks Shawn for always inspiring me with your work and your words!

Love your videos Shawn! I'm a gardener myself planting tomatoes, squash and lots of different kinds of sweet and hot peppers. My wife and I live in south Texas where the soil is almost nonexistent. We have built up our raised beds over the years and now have deep, rich soil to plant in. Everything we grow is organic with a large compost pile to keep it nutritious. I enjoyed watching you tend your garden and laughed at how fastidious you are getting even the smallest rocks out. I'm confidant that as the years go by your garden will get richer and more productive. By the way the small rocks seem to grow out of thin air and I still find myself fastidiously removing them every spring... Have a good harvest Shawn!

We gardened like this in the woods at our off grid last season with such great results, we built four new beds in the fall all ready for planting this spring but I'm not sure if I'll be able to this year. This makes me want to be there so bad. Have you considered broadcasting some clover seed on your beds? It's an awesome ground cover, keeps weeds down, provides nitrogen, helps during the times of drought and their flowers attract pollinators. Love that you're using potash! 💖

33 minutes of serenity. Thank you sir.

Hi Shawn, greetings from Germany. I just wanna say thank you for 2,5 years of weekly entertainment, inspiration and some kind of education or learning about self reliance and living in the wild. This is the most valuable channel of all my subscribtions. I hope you and your family will keep on going for several decades. If you will ever plan to offer wild life workshops, courses or guided trips, I will be one of your ifrst customers :)

Hi Shawn , we in the UK are still in lock down , and I’ve just seen a video movie on a man living as an Indiana called Grey Owl ,you live your life very close to what he believed in being at one with with his surroundings and living off the land and only taking what is need to survive, we could all get more out of life ,with the belief that less is more ,looking forward to your next video kind regards Graham . Archibald Stansfeld Belaney (September 18, 1888 - April 13, 1938), commonly known as Grey Owl, was a British-born conservationist, fur trapper, and writer who pretended to be a First Nations person. While he achieved fame as a conservationist during his life, after his death the revelation that he was not Indigenous, along with other autobiographical fabrications, negatively affected his reputation. Belaney rose to prominence as a notable author and lecturer, primarily on environmental issues.[1] In working with the National Parks Branch, Grey Owl became the subject of many films, and was established as the "'caretaker of park animals' at Riding Mountain National Park in Manitoba" in 1931.[2] Together with his numerous articles, books, films and lectures, his views on conservation reached audiences beyond the borders of Canada. His conservation views largely focused on humans' negative impact on nature through their commodification of nature's resources for profits, and a need for humans to develop a respect for the natural world. Take care Graham.🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲

Wow Shawn so beautiful of a Forest Garden ! I can’t tell you how much I love watching you! I know you probably won’t get to this post as you get so many but you have really put a smile in my heart! You and your family are so precious to many people! And then there is Cali!❤️! Thank you! ☀️❤️❤️

Soon the fruits of your labors will be on your cabin table. I love what you've done with the place! 😀

At our cabin we use clear fishing line to protect our garden from deer, bear and rabbits. We even string it above our head to keep the birds out. The animals get spooked when they run into the fishing line that they can not see. It has worked for several years. It takes many rolls of fishing line but will last several years. In the spring we will replace the small areas where limbs and debris sag the line.

Cali has the best life, she is so happy, what a water baby. This channel is my place to go for peace, serenity and natural beauty, like a breath of fresh air! I admire what you have created and continue to build, it really is amazing what your capable of, you truly are an exceptional human being not just in talent but as a person.

Well, from my perspective as a viewer, you have come a long ways. It is really looking like a garden. The transformation is tangible. I tip my hat to you. Nothing like determination, focus, effort and thought to make something happen. Once established it will be a breeze for you to maintain it. Congratulations.

I haven’t watched your video yet but just wanted to tell you how we dealt with a huge deer population in upstate NY. We had a large square foot garden with 4x4’ boxes (about 15 of them) and put 4’ picket fencing around the whole garden (with a gate entrance) and put 8’ T type fencing posts up for our vertical trellises for vining and climbing veggies. We found out inadvertently that it kept the deer from even attempting to jump into the garden because (we believe) they had no place to land as the T posts were close together and scattered all throughout the garden. I guess it was visually discouraging to them. It worked great and we never had any loss of veggies due to deer. We also put poultry wire around the bottom of the pickets to keep out the rabbits. We subsequently moved to Tennessee and this also worked in the same kind of garden here! Hope it works for you if you try it. Pretty inexpensive, especially when compared with losing so much of your precious harvest to indiscriminate eaters!!

I love your way of life and you made the best choise. Cali is cute 😍. The World is sick, that is so sad.I am happy watching you . God bless you and your family.

I love that you incorporated in the garden and sustaining yourself and your family! I think they go hand-in-hand with what you were already doing. Love watching both of your channels.

I see your path as crystal clear, it's needed to survive to grow your own food. Cheers from Sweden a tip you can live off solely and which gives huge harvest is beans, dried beans, water some dried herbs from the garden and a onion and whatever can always make a good soup in desperate times. Stock up on salt as it can be hard to produce from your location, unless you're close to the ocean.

Permaculture is necessary - I'm glad to see it on this channel.

Can't wait to see the longhouse finished

Pouring Rain! Beautiful and Peaceful where you live, and Cali always active, she's so sweet!

Cant wait to see how the garden looks over the next few years

You know, when you paint it's mostly prep and then a little bit of painting. Same with gardening, a lot of prep to start the garden, but then easier each year. You will be glad for the time you spent doing this. Your building up your immune system as well, playing in the dirt.

Amazing job! Amazing dog! You are a true trail blazer. I started using hugelkultur 3 years ago. Really saved the day when we had a drought. Planted berries and fruit trees. They are thriving! Started using Ruth Stout’s method last year. Real game changer! Blessings to you. Cali is the best dog ever! 😊😊😊 You’re really reflective of living a life worth living. Hard work, roots, peaceful with others, kindness and strength.

This is the real life!! Thank you for this great video!! With love from greece!!🇬🇷👍👍👍

After all that back breaking hard work, I hope your garden flourishes! If ALL those onions come up, you’re going to have a million onions!

I was too happy to see that fence being installed. This new direction is going to be truly enjoying for us the viewers.

have you ever thought about making a water tower next to the garden. you could use one of your wooden barrel on a stand, and make a ram pump to fill it from the river. ram pumps are surprisingly powerful water movers. and uses no electricity. but i am sure you already know this. love the videos and your work. you and the misses stay safe out there.

One more thing, you're the only person that actually plays good music, nice peaceful background music, on KZfaq.

The most relaxing video I´ve seen in a long time, thanks Shawn! Been prospecting to buy some acres of land just by watching your channel. But I´ve also realized that alot of work will come with it. I think it will be worth it. Thanks for sharing your videos and your thoughts on building self-reliance. Thumbs up from Sweden!

I am thankful I discovered Emerson and Thoreau in my early 20s. I re-read Walden and the Essay on Self Reliance as an old man and they still rang with wisdom.

You have been working tremendously hard again Shawn. I hope the garden brings all the fruits which your labours deserve. Thanks for posting.

You know I really love the gusto you do everything with . It is to be admired .🤠

With a blessed life like yours, I don't think anything would go wrong with it. So far your hardwork on building everything from scratch has been remarkable and exceptional. But it actually took years to do that and I've been watching that like some of the old subscribers. I feel proud to say that, I dunno why lol. Maybe because lots of people are now looking out for a living like yours, but we can say that it wasn't ready made, and you just didn't accidently found this land. you made everything happen with patience, dedication, tough and hard decisions and single handed hardwork using non-electric tools mostly. I just hope people actually dedicate their life into this if they really think this is what they want. Sure, the nature and the weather makes you think, oh I want that. But this ain't a quitters lifestyle and you'll have to go on and on till the end. You'll actually have to give up city life and that's a huge sacrifice which could end up in a bad way as well. I know I can't give up, hence I'm just a subscriber and a big fan. Shawn inspires me to focus on my own goals in life, given that is now on a halt for the time being. But I won't try to imitate something I know I won't be able to handle that. It's a dream alright, to dwell and enjoy on a picturesque and serene nature, but it takes knowledge, experience and responsibility to take it forward. And ofcourse the Weather which can go from 100 to 0 overnite. Good luck.

Admire what you're doing Shawn. One of the hardest working men I have ever seen. We reap what we sew and I think you should have a bountiful harvest! Best of luck to you and your family. God Bless.

When I was younger I used to watch the Woodright Shop on PBS and the things I seen him do. You're doing a lot of the samethings. Besides living off the grid and being self sustained. You're keeping parts of the past still alive in how you and your family live. I would love to live the way you do. But due my health I wouldn't be able to do it. But I enjoy watching your videos here on KZfaq.

You have worked incredibly hard on this garden project and deserve the great fruits of your labor. Ignore any haters that complain how you use your own land. I would have loved to live your way back when I was younger. Great respect for you and your wife. Enjoy!

Hey Shawn, I cannot imagine it would work twice,, but. To keep the deer from eating everything I had planted, i planted at the end of the rows serrano peppers,, about 3 X hotter than Jalapeno peppers. There are many peppers that are much hotter,, my sister in Oklahoma grew some that would rate a 911 call and a three alarm fire. I planted them toward the end of the rows. Deer must have no sense of humour,, after consuming the pepper plant and peppers,, the deer stomped the pepper into a 6 inch depression in the garden,,, but I never lost anything to the deer again that year. There are available some really good electric fences,,, especially if that is a plastic fence. easy install and just a small battery pack to power it.

I really love watching you put this garden together! You have taught me quite a bit about building a bed. We started several areas of the yard and a small raised garden. We are now setting up micro-greens and indoor system with an old shelf and grow lights to get fresh food year around. Like you are experimenting, this is our year of...we can grow X but we stink at growing Y. I hope to get out my canning equipment and have at least a few jars of pickled radish, salsa and the like. With Covid-19, we are now always looking how we can, even in the suburbs, be more food independent.

Your work ethic is outstanding. At 50 most people would be trying to relax more but you and your family are doing the opposite and that is great. With all that is going on in the world today more people should be putting some serious thought in self reliance. So many can come up with reasons why not because that is the easy way. If they would get out there and put forth the effort it could happen. So many of us want it all right now and aren't willing to put forth that effort. I do love how your garden is turning out. Hope the animals don't eat you up.

defently all apart of it!!! Looking sooo good! First few years i didnt make my feance high enough and the deer kept eating all my tomato plants..

I suggest you put some flagging that waves in the wind every 4 - 5' on the fence about halfway up. This is easily identifiable by all the hooved wildlife so they understand that the fence is there. Oftentimes the black thin mesh can be difficult for them to see. If they inadvertently run into your fence their instinct is to run forward, breaking your fence and trampling the garden. Also the deer here are not deterred by thorns. I've seen them eat rose bushes, thorns and all, no hesitation. May you have great success in your garden!

This is my dream when I reach 50. Having a place where I can relax and enjoy the nature. Having my own farm full of vegetables. 10 years more. Thank you for inspiring me. Regards to your family and stay safe.

I'm loving the entire channel, not just the cabin build. I live in Oklahoma. The wife and I have done gardens and chickens in the past, but now with the pandemic and loosing my job because if it, we divided to jump hard into the garden and chickens. We are still far from being self reliant and without bills and living completely off grid. But we have our dream home in the country outside of a small town, and we don't want to leave it. 1.3 acres at the end of a dead end country road.

Hi again SHAWN A smart path to be on now with the food gardens. Looking forward to seeing how all this will come together. A lovely rain with perfect timing for your new plantings but creating a water system will be really important. I know you'll never be sorry for building a greenhouse which will help produce all kinds of things. So enjoy watching Cali now grown up to her real dog life and how much she's loved the water. She always looks so happy and peaceful being in it. I can only imagine too how happy you are to have winter behind to enjoy all the sites and sounds that come alive again. Thx as always for all you share. Stay safe and healthy Shawn...