Hope that your health is improving Shawn - it must be very frustrating and worrying when you know that you have a lot of work today yet you don't feel well enough to do it.
Growing up we had 2 huge gardens equaling a football field in size. My parents were deeply passionate about growing and long term storage. All us 6 kids were involved and although my folks have passed, we all have our own gardens. Thanks Mom and Dad for fostering organic gardening!
I have come to many of the same conclusions about my garden this year. It was fun growing a wide variety of interesting things and things I thought we ought to be eating these last few years, but it's not worth my space, time, or energy. I'm doubling down on carrots, onions, potatoes, drying beans and squash as well as adding to my perennials and medicinal plants. I loved the aerial view of your space! It's going to look amazing all filled in ❤
Hello Shawn and Cali from Australia! I hope you are feeling better, you sound a little croaky! Are you doing some gardening inside the dome this year? We haven't seen anything of it for ages! What happened to the mushroom logs you started at the Maple tree shed you showed ages ago? Did they eventuate into a crop? Here's hoping your garden is wonderfully productive for you this year! I hope Cali is ok, yes something bit her! Give her a hug for me! Take it easy, look after yourself and will see you soon!
Your family has done an amazing job on the garden. Shawn so much work but so worth it. These are my favorite videos. A medicinal garden would be of great benefit, antivirals, antibiotic emergency medicine herbs and flowers.
When one considers how much time and effort you invest into your habitat, even considering your access to modern tools (lumber mill), it’s just amazing how the pioneers did it even if they tended to form small communities to garner support and barter time and goods. An amazing project and thank you for continuing to share your experience with us.
I wish this was longer. I am starting our garden, we got potatoes in have all my seeds germinated. Pumpkins are doing great. I am learning a ton from you.
The most difficult thing about living where Shawn lives is providing enough food, gathered, grown and harvested from wild sources, to provide for a family over the long winter season. After this homestead construction is completed, Shawn will abasically become a hunter/farmer. He has made a good start. His choice of vegetables will continue to change, over time I would include some green beans, lima beans, and other "root stock" vegetables, but the choice is up to him, not me. ;-)
Dear Mr. James, we wanted to take the opportunity to thank you for everything you mean to us. Thanks to you we have found our purpose. We have been following you for five years, and recently decided to sell our house and sell our company. We now live in a campervan and are looking for a property somewhere along the mediterranean coastline to live the rest of our lifes with a small footprint. We have also started filming our lifestyle. You will probably never see our movies, but if you do, you will instantly recognize the sweatshirt I have been wearing for years now :) Take care, and hopefully you will be better soon!
Looks like a great future there. Amazing to see someone with a REAL plan actually executing that plan. Especially with a family to support that plan. More power to you Shawn. Take care of your health. (advice I "should" have followed) Great to see you going strong again.
Working on getting apple trees and cherry trees to help boost be population before berry season. I understand about opening up the forest for berries that grow wild. Gonna plant a brassica food plot mix. The better I make habitat the more animals. If I plant apples and cherries now in a few years when I retire and move up north they will be fruiting.
You appear to be feeling a bit better..? No fun at all. It’s such an exciting time of year for us gardening types. I planted snap peas, shell peas, and radishes yesterday. Lettuce is coming along. Our herbs are going ballistic! Good luck in your growing endeavors, Shawn! 🥬🥦🥒🌶🫑🧅🧄🥕🌽
I love watching and learning how to organically growing food. Store food is more manmade chemicals than it is food now. Our bodies were not created to digest chemicals. I prefer the food the way the Lord created it to be. Thank you for your teachings. God bless you, your family and your gardens.
Thank you for always inspiring! Planting today ! Glad you are feeling better! Thank Emily as well ! God bless you all ! Always stay close to Our Lord ! He is in CHARGE!
I don’t know If you noticed while editing that the left channel of your audio is missing.Thanks for sharing everything you do,and I hope your health gets back to normal soon!👍😃
That`s a lot of beds, very nice, I am in South East Michigan, and I never plant anymore untill Memorial Weekend, last week of May, I learned my lesson from late frost, that stunted the growth of everything I planted, I grow my indeterminate tomatoes and tie them all the way up until they reach the gutter of my house, then I clip them, I use 8 FT steaks and cut all suckers, they grow vertically, nice and neat. Last year I canned 40 QTS, and 15 QTS of hot pepper varieties, heres to a great growing season.
You were the first guy to ever say Biochar to my ears. Thank You for that!🙏 I hope you are utilizing it at the new place. I am way behind your videos and dont want to skip ahead, aside from I had to see this one lol. So I dont know if you mentioned or showed yourself using it here. Knowing the advantage it offers, I know it will give you an edge on surviving adversities.
I mix strawberries in with asparagus and some lettuce behind asparagus. The asparagus helps shade the lettuce to keep from bolting. Watch out for the coming foot of snow.
Your looking much better this week,still a bit croaky though,Cali is looking beautiful too and it’s so nice to see your beautiful wife helping you there too!makes doing the mundane parts like topping up go faster..It’s nice to see the ground again without the snow,it must be nice not to have to trudge through the snow and it must feel a lot warmer too for you as well..Love n Light to you all 🥰
SHAWN & OUR CALI & EMILY !!! Still got it in the vocal chords for you think of you all !!! Cook some of the wild onions for the vocal chords like a tea that will help on out !!!
Very interested Shawn! Your garden get those Springs energies flowing out of winters hibernation. I’m really looking forward to see how your garden grows! Many Blessings and Kind Thanks! DaveyJO in Pennsylvania
Shawn. You and your family have done a great job. It has been slow. But building and rebuilding a sustainable forest , garden in a natural environment is a majestic and significant project. Thank you for sharing your journey with us. Prayers for improving health, continued strength and the ability to make your vision come to pass.
Hope your feeling better . I enjoy watching you gardening last year I planted my first garden it wasn’t a big one but gave me plenty , this year my plan is to do a much larger garden to supply me for over winter . I do canning so it helps me through the winter months . Have a great day . ❤
Bom dia Shawn, estou feliz em saber que ja esta melhor, que Deus continue te abençoando a cada dia que passa, obrigada por nos compartilhar amo seus vídeos.🙏😘
I used to work on a simple three category rotation: root vegetables, brassicas and legumes. It worked but my fertiliser of choice was well-rotted seaweed but I only applied that only to the root crops in their rotation. You have extreme conditions there but you have really built up soil well. The root crops were limited to potatoes, carrot, parsnip, beetroot and turnip. I liked your approach to the lettuce - I too treated that as a 'catch crop' growing between other veg.
Good to see you out. I find the gardening very interesting. Living in town, we have limited space ans sun but do have raised gardens. Anyway, continue to get better. You sound hoarse. I guess today is your visit to the doctor. Good luck.
I am very interested in what you have to say about self sufficient living. It is fascinating and educational and a lot of hard work. Hope you are feeling a bit better although you sounded a bit croaky and nasally. Take care, be safe. ❤ Dorset, UK
Shawn I'm just amazed at your talent . I just wished I had ventured out when I was younger. Now at 80 and the body has taken it's toll all I can do is enjoy what others have created. God bless and keep up the great work, and the sharing. Keep your powder dry.Thank you, an avid follower
Sean I'm all about going into the garden whenever I want and picking whatever I want that's the best part are you going to grow any hot peppers since me and you love spicy pepper sauce
I'm fascinated by your calculations regarding how much crop you need to sustain your caloric intake. Lots of science, math, hard work and blessings to succeed!
A good way to fill your raised beds is to dig out your growing soil and put in wood chips and rotten logs top with field grass and dead fish then put your top soil back in. Hugelkultur style
Got my vegetables planted. My green beans seem to be the only thing sprouting. Then, I see your garden and am blown away. I am so impressed. Hope you are feeling better.
Yes. Really interested! Love the gardening, foraging and hunting videos. Even if the latter is just you cooking it as I can guess you’ve been blessed with a capture. Is the greenhouse full of starts?
Weiterhin gute Besserung, aber es ist schon erfreulich Sie bei der Arbeit zusehen, Gartenarbeit ist super toll, aber auch anstrengend! Schön das die Tochter zuhilfe gekommen ist👍 ,liebe Grüße an Euch und Cali 👍👍👍🐕🐕🐕♥️
If you’d like to have salads when your greens are ready in the spring you can sun dry tomatoes from the prior year. We do greens with sun dried tomatoes and onions cheese. Makes for a pretty good early salad!
Your garden preparation for the next planting ..... & the size ... are impressive. Always intrigued with how you calculate for the yield needed to feed your family. You never seem to move forward on anything without carefully considered preparation & a well thought out plan ..... thank you for the tour. Hope you are feeling better .... Stay safe.
It loos like you and I have something in common, "a love of all things that grow". I wish I had the time and space to do what you are doing. It looks like it will be a beautiful garden this year.
This is so fascinating. My husband and I just moved into the new house we built and we are finally able to build some gardens and grow our own food! Thanks for teaching as you go, look forward to following along as your garden grows. Hope you get feeling better.
I had planted a late bi color oak leaf lettuce that was heat tollerant in a full sun area. It lasted till we got a long period heat wave of 90° + f. I was surprised that it lasted as long as it did and got more leaves than I could eat in a day or two. When I planted the lettuce seeds, I planted them around some dwarf okra starts. The okra plants were a little taller than the lettuce plants, but the okra leaves shaded the lettuce plants so the lettuce wouldn't get sunburned. I waited to water in the evening, but the okra and lettuce I would only give them a thorough ground soaking and not get water on the leaves and okra leaves. I has lettuce for a surprisingly long time that year.
Great video I do very much like the gardening section. I’ve always had a garden, obviously to a smaller scale, but love, freezing, and drying stuff that we can use all through the winter.
You have a fantastic garden there. I wish I had a % of your skills. I can grow food I can cook food but I can't build a cabin like you do. I've been a subscriber to your other channel for a few years but I was dragging my feet getting over to this channel. This channel is probably more for me with the garden
I like how clean everything is around your beds. You have a very beautiful garden space. One last thing I got to ask with all the nut trees that you planted and all the fruit trees have you had any problems with the moose or the deer starting to eat some of those trees.
Thank you for sharing. This was the first year I’ve done a small garden and it’s doing Soso. But I live in a very dry hot area at ARIZONA. So some things did not come up as well as I thought that should like the bush beans didn’t do anything I don’t know the birds got them or they just didn’t make it. I check on them every day and everything was looking good and then that’s all she wrote. The lettuce the potatoes in onions are doing great. Tomatoes did crappy but that’s life in the fast Lane. I think it has a lot to do with something saying it was a beef steak and it was a little bitty tomato.
I know what you were forgetting-- harvesting Maple Syrup. One thing that I would HIGHLY suggest is to raise some bees, you can use their honey-- plus they help pollinate all your fruit trees.
Just a heads up, might want to always check these videos again on headphones. The entire back half of the video on the lav mic is mono-panned full right which makes it pretty challenging to listen to. Excited to see how this garden grows! At some point I want to do something similar (higher beds though my back hurts just looking at those aha).
I'm assuming you got the compost/soil from off the property? If you did, I think this was a good move. It gets you up and running, which is important, given what is going on. Garden looks amazing.
