Watching you is so instructive. I learn by watching everything you do. Thanks for teaching this ole 82 year old lady so many exciting things.

I totally forgot about the door and I thought Cali was just sitting there while you were talking. 🤣🤣🤣🤦‍♂️ be well my friend.

The snow is very crunchy. Nice sound as I am in warm place. Glad you can capture the maple syrup. 💖

Hello Shawn, I'm a 24 yr old nursing student from Malaysia who's sitting at home after a full day of abuse from customers at my part-time job. your videos have been the only things giving me relief these few weeks and I'm so glad I get to escape into your peaceful videos during challenging days like this. I appreciate your content so much

Maples have opposite leaves AND opposite branches. That make them easy to identify in the winter. Just a note from your neighborhood botanist in Morgantown, WV.

There's nothing sweeter than fresh Maple Syrup 🍁. Good day Shawn.

Thanks Shawn. Your painting of Cali on the greenhouse door has tricked me 2 time's. I think she's really sitting there. Peace

'' Chaque jour de ta vie, est un feuillet de ton histoire que tu écris.''..Gigi....vous avez une telle connaissance de la nature, des arbres, du processus , de ce qui c'est passé, il y a des millions d'années, de l'érosion, des couches , des sédiments, des lacs ou retenues d'eau..qui ce sont retirés..des conséquences sur la végétation, la faune..chaque fois vous m'épatez!!..vous feriez un très bon professeur 😁

There’s something about the woods that just makes me relax. Even when just listening to your videos. 👍

Your knowledge never fails to amaze me but as you said you learn as you go along. I love maple syrup but didn’t know what went into it’s production❤️ Dorset, UK

Hi Shawn, thanks for the great video as always. Good luck with the maple syrup and sugar. Be well and safe.

Shawn James thank you for sharing your life with us on your fans love to do what you do often times to over look the negative comments i actually enjoy you talking we can all learn about what it is like to live way up in the mountains of Canada thanks for sharing have a great weekend see you next time on your next new episode

my sister doesn't miss a video of you, she loves her dog! a hug here from Rio de Janeiro -Brazil..👍👏

Thanks Shawn, good as always. Looking forward to your uploads every week. Brillant start to the weekend.

I've watched you for years. It needs nice to see you happy again. You were one of my favorite to watch. You are the Gray owl of the present. Keep up the good work.

Shawn, It’s such a delight to watch the progress on your second homestead, you seem to have the energy of a 20 year old! If only more humans had such respect for the globe. I look forward to your videos each week. I call it my “Fix”, so a big thank you, for sharing your life with us. We live in Queensland Australia, your seasons are opposite to ours, nothing looks more appealing than snow in the middle of our summer, we are only just beginning to see the daily temperatures drop below 30 degrees Celsius. Equally fantastic to see Cali doing what dogs should do, rarely or never on a leach, but is attuned to commands. So many valuable lessons in your content and the photography is in many cases better than cinematography produces commercially.

Loved all the information you gave today. Thanks for sharing it with us all Shawn :)

It's wonderful listening to your knowledge of nature and skills. I often learn something and every video is a delight from this side of the workload. God bless your family and kisses to Cali.👵🙏💖🐕

Growing up in a home with three downstairs open fires for heating and an old functioning wood burning stove to back up the AGA and electric/gas stove, we’d harvest branches from our Yew trees to put on/in the fires last thing at night. Marvellous slow burning wood that’d last til morning providing embers to stoke. 🙂

A lot of people in Alaska taps birch trees not to make birch syrup but just to drink as a water. It is supposed to be very beneficial for the body.

Keep up the great work, my friend. I wish I had done what you're doing many years ago. If I had only known that the world was going to get into the shape it's in, I would have done it. We are living in sad times and the future doesn't look good. You have the right idea of going off-grid and building everything you have and growing all of your own food. What kinds of animals have you thought about raising? Chickens would be great for eggs and meat...it may be hard to keep them alive in the coldest of winter, but it's something to think about...maybe a pig or 2 as well. Keep the videos coming...it makes this old man happy!

Lots of work Shawn 👍🏼. Everything looks so nice there and beautiful. Good job on all your hard work. 👍🏼

Awesome door decoration 🐕‍🦺

I've been tapping red maples for years, sugar content is a bit lower and the syrup tends to be more butterscotch flavor than the sugars. Definitely worth your time and even just to supplement the sugar maples. Your property seems to have a lot more sugar maples than mine in eastern Nova Scotia.

Very impressive with all you are getting done, and watching you get that freezer under the cabin-very impressed. Thank you for sharing

You make good clean videos friend thank you . When I was young I spent a lot of time in the woods . After I get A few repairs I hope to get back out in the woulds and hunt some more .

looking around your property identifying the sugar maples is easy, they are the ones with buckets hung on them :-)

Excellent description of your local topography/ plant ecology. It's surprising how deep some trees can root on very thin soils, if the basement rock is deeply fractured

You are better than any professor Who has ever been taught me! Thank you for the education of so many different things! God bless y’all abundantly!

Love Love this informational video Great job Shawn!!!

I really enjoy learning to identify trees. The older I get, the less I seem to know, or maybe remember. Now I have to look up Acorn flour because I avoid wheat and other domestic grains as much as possible.

Enjoy your videos very much, Shaun. Living with nature really is where it’s at. Enjoy.

Hi Shaun I love those little cabins that you build in the forests.They be so cosy and warm especially with wood burner.I have been looking over all your videos,they are lovely when it snows makes it more like Christmas. From Ireland.

Softwoods are great for heating in a rocket mass heater/masonry stove/gasification burner - a lot of energy and high temperatures that charges up the mass.

Love the design of the greenhouse, very spacious! Thanks for bringing us peace of mind!

Thanks for the interesting tree tutorial Shawn. Always a learning experience on your channels. Such a beautiful area that you reside in. Looking forward to your progress.💯❤️👍🏾😀🙋🏽‍♀️✝️🙏🏾🇺🇸

Thank you, Shawn. Good solid stuff. Being able to identify trees in the winter is a handy skill: canopy, bark, buds (which are available on most trees all year round).

Bee keepers give their bees sugar water to help them through the winter but maple syrup might work just as well.

What I love about Shawn James and I hope to learn from, is his ability to stay chill as he performs chores and tasks. I would be like the Tasmanian devil doing this because I would be stressing about needing to finish the cabin! Gah! First clearing snow, now we're going to make Maple Syrup....remember the female Tasmanian Devil on Bugs Bunny? I'm feeling her twitching as I watch this video. Thanks Shawn!

Spring is coming. New life. New projects. New opportunities. Finish the cabin.

My wife and I have been clearing a lot this winter. It's a great way to become more proficient at tree identification! Love learning more about food production from you.

Hello from PEI. Everything is looking great. Thank you for sharing. Have a great weekend. 👍

Always a pleasure learning about different types of trees of from you!

Nice to see you back Shawn!!

Ironwood makes the best handles for axes and pickaxe there is! They are pretty much unbreakable!!! When I was young I wasn't to careful with the handles a broke a few! So dad went out in the woods and found a couple of them and harvested them and let them dry out and made handles out of them! They took all the abuse I gave them and then some!!

This was a great video. Thanks for sharing.

It’s so awesome to see that you have knowledge of all these trees and you know just what you gonna do with them, thanks so much Shawn! ✅✅✅👏👏👏🤩🤩🤩💯💯💯 blessings!

Hi Shawn, it's great to see forward momentum on your new cabin and the greenhouse. I'm amazed at the knowledge you have on so many aspects of living outdoors, building, growing food and on an on. You're an encyclopedia of survival information, amazing. Thanks for the video, my life has been tough lately and I need to imagine I'm up there in the wilderness and not here in concrete hell.

Greetings from Minnesota! Homemade Maple syrup.... there's nothing better! Your tree identification was amazing! We cut, split and burn wood all winter. Nice warm heat! Thank You, Shawn, for another great video! Stay safe, healthy and happy!

I enjoyed the description of the trees.

Thanks shawn for the upload👍🇬🇧

Not a single day that i don't watch this video, every vlog i discovered new things and thats why i keep watching. Greetings from the Philippines, stay safe and God bless!

Great piece Shawn, thanks.

Great seeing those broken windows fixed in the entrance to the Green House. 👍👊🏼️ Stay safe, and productive my friend.

Looks very peaceful......

SHAWN & OUR CALI how are you both doing??? There is a thing to be put into the water to help out with the heating on the water!!! Got a late start on the day !!! Going to get more sap with the temps being this way!!! Acorn flour is great Idea SHAWN and also butter with the nuts I have done this also with acorns for like a peanut butter it is better if you roast the acorns with the shells on them first then cut them open and mash them while still warm !!!

Thank you , Shawn . 🐺

Enjoy the sharing of your knowledge on trees = Gift! Thank you most kindly. Health and God Bless!

As you were talking about removing old or damaged trees I was wondering about the animals that would live in the older trees or ones that have developed hollows. Are there many animals and birds that use hollows in your forest? Here, in may parts of Australia there is now a massive shortage of what are called 'sentinal trees'. Those are generally the tallest, oldest and most gnarlly ones that have developed hollows one way or another. Perhaps they were struck by lightning or ants moved in or branches were blown off leaving a small hole that cockatoos chewed at. Yes they may be not as strong as the younger trees and will eventually fail or moreso what happens with gums is the branches rot and fall off until just the main trunk stands like an old hollow log. It becomes a highrise animal homew ith multiple sleeping sites or nests all the way up. People are making all sorts of fake hollows from small hollow branches or even recycled objects and strapping or screwing them onto younger trees for the animals and birds to live or nest in. In privately owned forests mostly on acreage or what are called lifestyle blocks, the older trees are removed for safety reasons or purely to make the forest(bush) look better with only younger and healthy trees. But the downside is the animals and birds have no homes so the forest is dead with hardly any sound.

HA! I forgot about the Cali portrait on the door, at first I thought I was actually her 🤣

I have mentioned this before, but, I would suggest to have a large "C" shape, planting bed in the center of the the green house. Your tree can have a separate cylinder shape grow box in the center of the "C" as it's own growth bed. The less square corners in the greenhouse, helps for better air flow. It is great to see the work on the green house/cabin, and can see you have the plan.

Shawn, Interesting to listen to you speaking about your immediate environment. Regards Stephen.

Always so interesting great job.

Hi Shawn 👋 appreciate all you do, learn so much from you, always my best my friend, stay safe and take care 🙏 👍

Thanks for info Sean , very interesting today I earn something about maple trees and maple syrup .

Hello Shawn, I have enjoyed your videos, keep up the good work.

Thank you so much for sharing your videos I have learned a lot from you

Nice new Tilley.

Another great video to heal my mind from the current madness going on in the world 🙏

Again, thank you.

I love this channel

Love seeing your trees! Hope you get lots of Maple Sap!

Build a birds nest tree lookout up in the trees as high up as ur comfortable as soon as you get a chance!!!

Great info thanks!

Hi Shawn, good to see the snow retreating, i was amazed at how the warmth that the trees get actual melt the snow around the bottom of the tree. Where i live in Australia is on the west of the country, the biggest bit in terms of state size, we live in a small town or really what you or i would term a village, we have an oak tree there that stzrted life in the very early 1900s, it is so big every one local use to use it as shade to park under, it about thiry foot round on the main trunk and has branches that are as big as a car is in hight and width, they spred out with a radius of about forty foot, it is still growing and i look at it and think how much wood you would get just out of that one tree. The snow has really piled up round the greenhouse and i am surprised that the plasic cover of the greenhouse stands up to the weight of that amount of snow. I saw you were planting either spring onions or chives, very fiddly to handle at that age. There are so many types of trees just in the area you showed clearly some being very young but they will grow. There must be a huge satisfaction in knowing that your work will be around lonb after you have gone and i wonder if those looking on it will be aware of how much hard work went into building it all, rather like things like castles and the like, somebody had to move those stones around for a long time to end up with even the bit we are left looking at, i dare say its a reflection of our age that makes us a lot more aware of such things. Most old places here were built of stone as the termites eat anything that looks like wood, and believe is or not the sun actually rots the woods such as pine here just as if it had been cooked in a microwave and nothing will stop it happening, you can paint it till the cows come home it still gets cooked, the only wood that you could say really lasts is Jarrah, a very hard wood that is a deep red/brown colour it looks very nice when dressed and i have a good few bit of furniture that i have made of it, it needs to be worked on with real sharp tools .that need touching up often so all of my chisels are sharp enought to shave with, same with saws, if there is one thing i am grateful for is the education of how to sharpen saws. I was watching another of your videos where you were mobving a log around at the cabin, and you has like and electric winch shaped rather like the power end of a chain saw, i wondered how long it went on each charge as the last thing you would want is to run out of volts halfway throught a move, as to more power it outputs the longer it takes to charge up. You said that your wife and daughter were there to give a hand and i wondered how she viewed the amount of work so far with the cabin? Well enough from me, all the best as usual john Australia.

Great vlog as always! Nice new hat too. 😉👏

As the old saying goes "you know more than you think you know". Great info, keep on talking, I like to pick up little bits of information from you...

Shawn I hope you and your dog are well. Greetings from Atlanta.

New hat, nice!

Jealous that you have so much hardwood. We have so little here in the PNW. Love your videos. Always learning a ton!

I have a book on winter tree identification. Where the leaf is attached to the tree, it leaves a scar when it falls off. Every tree has a different shaped scar where the leaf was attached. It’s really fascinating. It may be hard to do with the tall trees around you though.

Hello from Moosomin,Saskatchewan great videos thanks for sharing

It is interesting that you have a conifer up there that drops its leaves or nettles. In the southern U.S. we have one also called the Bald Cypress.

interesting - thanks!

I thought Callie was sitting really still for the first 2 minutes... who ever made that sign is an awesome artist!!!

In this country they use Beech wood for wire brush handles. A real hard wood.. Regards and thanks for the info.. Cheers from over the pond in Capr Town in South Africa 🇿🇦

If you could line the walls with stacked containers of water, that might help you stabilize the temperature in the green house...

Hopefully mud season is too bad for you this year. Thanks for the videos today!

I love watching all the great ideas on your channel. Wondering if you could moderate the temperature changes in your greenhouse with double wall construction. By putting the same material on the interior side of the frame it would create an air gap that would slow heat gain and loss for a more even temp. It worked for me with a small plastic hoop structure to extend the season even further. Might be worth researching and considering

New tilley hat ✌️😍

At my old house I had a pretty good piece of land and tons of maple trees, and I always knew which ones were the sugar maples by their fall colors. I didn't tap them, but if I did I probably would go out in the fall and mark them all. Looking back I kind of wish I did tap them

I assume talking about before Polar Vortex. My cold snap runs from Sunday-Tuesday, still calling Spring Snow in April.. Yuck. Great Videos.

It would be nice if they would start making snow shovels out of metal again!!!! The plastic ones are no good!! Lol

If you have acorns , you should try making some for acorn coffee substitute , blended with some roasted chicory . Makes a delicious drink .

Just looking at you and your bit of nature makes me want to move to our bit of land, but we still have to fight to pay for it, august I hope! On my small pension, I am making a dream come to life, but it takes time!

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Shawn, you have the same gardening tool as my husband!

Could you do a video on the different tree species and Identify them in the future? 👍🌲🌳🌿🍁🍂🌺🌰

Hey Shawn, maybe you could guy wire those two sections of that oak at 20 ft up or so, I'm sure it wouldn't mind.

If you girdle that large oak a bit off the ground wouldn't it start to slowly fall apart and then you wouldn't have to worry about it falling all at once on your workshop? Just an option. Maybe you'd prefer to keep it for the acorns and wildlife it attracts, and as you say you shouldn't have to be concerned in your life time.