Completing an Entire Year of 100% Food Self-Sufficiency I Episode 18 

I so wish you had garnered more subscribers to see what you’ve achieved. Admittedly, we don’t all have a small holding to sustain us, but the principles you uphold are so important, especially now, and it would have been great to see more people inspired by what you’ve done. In particular, to accept that eating seasonally and what you can get - such as fried eggs and potatoes for breakfast, rather than demanding avocados purely because you can - is a message that really needs to get through to people. Sad to see the end, but good to think it’s not the end for you.

So sad to be reaching the final episode of this series! I too spent my childhood endlessly turning the pages of John Seymour’s guide to self sufficiency. As a 28 year old in London I still have it open on my coffee table now. So inspiring to see you connected to the land and living well, I hope to do it myself someday. Lots of people seem to say you’re mad for doing this, but I think it’s the most sane thing I’ve seen anyone do in a long time

A very impressive achievement Max. I have avidly followed your highs and lows and learned a great deal about how we should be feeding ourselves instead of relying on imports to survive. The most impressive aspect of it all, is that you do not appear to have lost an ounce of weight. I salute you sir. Fraser

Thank you for this wonderful and enlightening series - we loved it so much we rationed ourselves for the last few episodes. What you did was so important and the messages you gave about eating with the seasons, taking care of animals, enjoying simple quality food, etc gave us even more food for thought. Please don’t stop sharing your wise words - even though your year of self- sufficiency has ended.

Max this series is so different to many other films with similar themes…it’s intelligence and the way that you have educated the viewer makes me even more passionate about being as self sufficient as possible (currently I have an allotment but dream of a small holding). Thank you and Tessa for bring us along on this journey with you. I would love to know what you are doing next, I hope to see more of your work.

One of my fave RU-vid docuseries cant believe its over 😢 What an achievement I hope that there is more to come.

Shame this hasn't reached more people as it is great watching, very inspirational. Would love to see more content for #NoMilkToday2, perhaps an hour episode per month?

Just finished binge watching 21 videos. Completely inspired!

I can't believe it's over!! It has been a most wonderful year sharing your journey, though our passive enjoyment of the story of your 365-day-long life-or-death battle is nothing in comparison. I often think that if each of us truly had to be responsible for feeding ourselves, most of us would surely starve. Yet this is the very source of life, and the pinnacle of achievement if it can be managed. Congratulations, Sir Max! You are an inspiration, a motivator, a thinker, a dreamer and especially a doer. You stared failure in the face and you conquered. You and the demure and productive Brenda have triumphed. What a thrill to see Simon Fairlie! He has long been a scything, haystack-building, Jersey-milking pig-fancying hero of mine. I know you won't stop here, though you may well veer into a future where Bakewell tarts figure more prominently. And why should they not?

Possibly the best channel of the last 12 months. What an awesome tribute to our beloved John Seymour. Thank you so much, Max, for letting us share this wonderful experience with us.

The end made me quite emotional! Thank you Tessa, for all the work you put in to show Max' project to the world. It was truly amazing to follow his journey and getting to know more about real food self sufficiency.

A joyous and thought provoking series. Came directed from the condensed BBC Radio airing and I’m glad I stuck around for the ride . Well done to everyone involved, thank you!

I’ve followed this for the whole year. Hats off to you for finishing and for sharing.

Found this recommended on a upf free group. What a delight. Found your year very inspiring and wish it had been publicised more! I've bingewatched the whole thing while on holiday. Such a delight - well done!

great achievement Max, congratulations and thank you for giving us an insight into your life this last year. Many thanks also to Tessa for filming and producing something so kind on the eye. a brilliant short series

I've just watched the complete series - absolutely loved it. Thank you Max for teaching us so much about self-sufficiency and practical wisdom. You've inspired me to grow more food and get some more chickens...maybe some goats.

I am so glad you are on radio 4 now. I am telling everyone about radio and you tube marvellous SHOUT FROM THE ROOF TOPS PLEASE

Thank you for this last year. Learned so much, though so much in so many directions and loved every minute. Hope to hear more from you. Cheers to Brenda.

Going to really miss the monthly up dates that year seemed to go so fast hope you continue doing something similar with a theme of the small farmer in mind best wishes 👍

One of the best series I watched on youtube! It Felt really honest and so natural. I Wish you will find the right amount of energy to keep battling at least partially. Have a good one and thanks, it has been very inspiring for me.

Your series was suggested to me by a friend and I've binged it! I'm a homesteader/homeschooler/herbalist in West Virginia, US and I love what your experience over the past year has expressed. I'm on a mission to grow and raise as much as I can on our homestead--including herbal medicine. Our homestead is small, but we've surprised ourselves with how much we can produce on it. Poultry, vegetables, fruit, herbs, eggs, oil (just bought a press for making sunflower oil)...and more. God bless and thank you for sharing your journey!

I feel quite bereft now I've watched the last episode! What a wonderful series! I found it having heard Growing Solo on R4 and then Googling Max. In my 20s I was sure I would have a smallholding and read and re-read John Seymour. I finally have one, but with 2 very wet heavy clay acres , 3 horses and a full time job, I have limited myself to a few chickens and ducks and growing a small amount of veg. I've loved experiencing the full self sufficiency experience through Max! Please make some more!

Thanks Max, its been a great year of watching!

A wonderful experience, beautifully documented. A great achievement -hope you are proud!

Have really enjoyed following your journey. Informative, timely, and ever so slightly bonkers. Congratulations on the completion of your project. I've learned a lot from watching you. And it's also been so beautifully filmed.

I really liked this. Hopefully we can see more of you,max!

We loved watching your series! That must have been tough at times. Very inspiring. Lovely videography and music. When is the book coming out???

Congratulations and respect

Great series max thank you

Wonderful series and I thank you for creating "No Milk Today" ! Your series meant a great deal to us because we truly understand the smallholder dilemmas at self-sufficiency. We live on a small homestead and learned long ago that we can't be self-sufficient with our food production. We have been improving our spread for more than 3 decades now, and have built all buildings and fencing on our homestead except for the actual home. We are still at it, 37 years later, and even added 12 large raised beds 2 years ago. We have registered Nubian dairy goats, feeder pigs, meat rabbits, chickens, and a couple of horses. We have built all of our barns, sheds, the rabbitry, the chicken coop, the fencing, the greenhouse, the home's addition, and all of the gardens. And though we are very adept at most every repair at our place (home repair, auto/tractor repairs, etc), we found early on that we could not grow all of the foods needed. We simply don't have enough productive land to raise our own hay, alfalfa, wheat (for our breads), and other fresh or preserved vegetables. And though I make cheeses, we don't make our own rennet, nor do we have the ability to make our own microbial enzymes. We heat and cook with wood, have backups with propane so we can use our own wood from our forest, but we don't grow propane. 😂 I enjoy foraging, so we have a bit of supplemental foods but there is nowhere near the amount of food required to live off of foraged foods (much to the dismay of novice types who claim they will 'live off the land' should a collapse occur). I hope you are able to connect with others in your area so that you can create a barter system that is fair and equitable for all involved. I also hope you will consider a second series -- it's loads of fun watching the 'experiment' you created. God bless...

Congratulations. Self-sufficiency is bloody hard work. Your series of film diaries shows the dreamers amongst us just what is involved in achieving the romantic state of living off the land. To have done it, in essence, alone, is extraordinary. Good on you sir!

Superb, one of the most interesting things on RU-vid. Thanks for sharing and for bringing so many other useful perspectives too. As other have said, such a shame it hasn’t got more attention. Good luck for the next project.

Congratulations on finishing your self-sufficient year! I've enjoyed it so much and although I'm not currently in a position to grow my own food I definitely am keen to try in the future! Like another commenter, I'm really surprised atbd sorry too that your channel didn't have a much wider following but it's inspired those of us who have followed along I'm sure. All the best in your future farming journey and I hope it's not the end of your RU-vid channel 😄

What a wonderful way to round up a spectacular year. Thank you Max for sharing this journey with us.

The algorithm put this lovely little video in my suggestions feed--I know the end already! But now I must go through and watch the rest to see more about this fascinating journey. Love it when the algorithm gets it right! :)

Congrats mate Well done Inspirational

Well done, Max, and thank you again for sharing, as someone who is striving to live self-sufficiently this has been invaluable watching it being done, heres to No Milk Today 2.0 ✊🏻

Hearty congratulations Max! though I never really doubted you would achieve it. I have followed your progress, waiting for each new episode, enjoying the insights, so brief but worthwhile. Thank you for broadcasting the episodes, a really worthwhile exploration

What an amazing video!

Loved it Max. Great series. Something I've dreamed of doing, maybe I will get to try one day to see how I go! Hope you keep making videos, what are you plans from here going forward?

Congratulations on your project. It was great to follow along. Thanks for sharing the ups and downs. Those closing scenes showing the beautiful scenery... wow. I really enjoyed Harry's music so thanks for sharing that too. Great job Max, Tessa, and everyone involved.

Absolutely loved this

Very nice touch to have PJ Harvey instrumental as background music ❤ Fantastic series, well done!!!

Congrats Max, I know you’d do it. Love seeing the boys and Ruby looking so grown up x

No thank-you credit for Brenda?! Well done Max, and thank you for sharing this enlightening and inspiring journey. Given me lots to think about.

From the end sequence, it's plain that one of the things you got along the way was some good friends. No-one is ever truly self-sufficient, and the paradox is that in trying to do things on your own, you gained community.

Very well done guys, much respect!

Inspirational story of self-sufficiency and hope for the future of what could and should be for this country.

Well done Max. What a year,but so interesting to follow.

Max thanks so much we’ve really enjoyed watching your channel. You’ve really made us think what we really want from our small plot,and our direction for being self sufficient. Hope you carry on with the channel. Thanks again

Thankyou Max, we stumbled across one of your videos and then found ourselves watching the entire lot. We are keen grow your own folks since moving from the city. We love the countryside and have so much respect for our local farmers who work tirelessly to feed us. I am disgusted with the way our government (and its opposition) seem to be hell bent on shutting down UK farming, we will do this at our peril. Control the food, Control the people comes to mind.

It's been great following your story. Well done. Very well done.

"peace looks a bit lame" - ill remember that one A lesson that just being and experiencing what is together is in fact enough....

This was so fabulous to watch ❤

It has been a great pleasure and joy to witness your epic journey Max. Thank you for your commitment and so bloody well done you and your family. ❤🎉

ahh sad to have finished the series. I have thoroughly enjoyed watching this thank you for porducing it and for all its nsightfullness, sensitivity and thought provoking content. I live in Bridport not far from sommerset and close to Monkton wyld which features in this episode. I've connected with so much that has been shared, I'd love to say I live by it but I am not there yet! Beautiful and quite emotional to watch..thank you...I am sharing with everyone I know who would love it just as much!! so glad its had radio 4 coverage otherwsie I would not have known about it. PS what is the cafe called in sommerset please?

That was great

I see a package of Maldon salt!

What's next, Max?

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