From Idea to Reality: Starting Your Own Cooperative Farm 

I bet you sleep really well at night. Everytime I spend time working all day in nature I sleep like a baby...

@@ilovemytribe I do sleep well. But I would sleep better if I did not have to worry about the government constantly coming down on farmers. Some politicians tried to ban seed sales in our area and they tried to prohibit gardening inside city limits. My farm is not in the city but if the ban seed sale it will make getting seed to grow difficult that is why in am saving seed but they also want to make saving seed illegal too. Having a lot of people in my area that support my farm helps keep the wolves away. But it is a constant worry.

@@bencowles2105 Wow! I had heard stuff like that about the seeds and gardening but was hoping it was all "conspiracy theories". I can't believe this is really happening. This is such a dark agenda going on with the government. Their trying to take away our right to breathe oxygen freely with the masks, and take away the right to grow food!!! Too much...

@@bencowles2105 - this happened in my area too. freakin' scary when the government thinks they have the right to ban your ability to feed yourself and stay alive... I clearly don't live in the land of the free...ROTFL.

@@ilovemytribe don't know where you are at...but where I am from. Clean, breathable air is a privilege, not a basic human right. I lost family, my home, my rv, and farm - after I dedicated 15 years of my life to my community and building this farm.cuz the toxic air (measuring 300% above the EPA's maximum measure of toxicity indicating it will clearly be lethal to a huge number of people!!!) had me coughing up blood and black crud daily. If I hadnt left I would be dead already.. Approximately 25% of the US population lives in these conditions which includes all of the land of California, Oregon, and Washington and parts of Idaho, Nevada and Arizona. Though folks as far away as New York have been effected. The smoke is full of flame retardent and plastics (microfiber lung liners are us!) and its been raining down, poisoning all the lands, water sources, livestock and growing foods in the region. Its suggested this ecological disaster is a magnitude of 400 times worse than the Chernobyl Nuclear Meltdown as it left a mere 1000 acres poisoned... these fires actually burned 5.8 MILLION acres just last fall and in the process spread toxic microfiber (plastic) everywhere...no end in sight, zero efforts to remediate and remove the poisons.

It worked the the first Morman group in Utah, with the Great Salt Lake as their neighbor.

lol, wut?

Not communism Ed. There is no coercion and nobody is getting a free ride here.

@@offgridcurtisstone Didn't sy it was communism, just why communismwon't work. When the weather gets miserable, the members suddenly get less cooperative, the few die hards get frustrated and everything goes to hell. Just my observations from the last time this was a thing.

Alright, well, I guess that is your experience. Certainly hasn't been ours. All depends on the people you bring in.

We use a green scaffolding mesh for our food plot UNTIL the hedge grows.

berry producing hedges and raised ponds help also.

@@LadyBraveheart2007 Raised Ponds?

@@Nellyontheland would 3000 gallon tall - 3 to 4' holding tank make more sense?

@@Nellyontheland would a 3 foot to 4' tall 3000 gallon trough as sides to your garden make more sense

I'd love to, but I'm not flying into the US to do that. He only does in-person, which is great, but limiting for me at this time.

@@offgridcurtisstone Hi Curtis im curious if you have heard or seen the video from last year sometime where Alberta NDP Elizabeth Notley talks about how rural Alberta will be raising property taxes 200-600 percent because of oil revenues etc being lost. This seems to fall into agenda 2030 etc. What are you thoughts on how to remedy this potential future problem?

Consider mobile container vertical farms. One container can yield twice the acreage. See Kimbal Musk’s efforts in urban Brooklyn or a Japanese firm called Spread. Your acre can be a gold mine. Stay Blessed

@Patrick McGraw I took that picture my friend..

@Patrick McGraw yes really took that photo at our lake cottage, I believe they have a icon if you hover over your own picture and or search how to change your picture in search request..

Depends on zoning in your area

Totally. But it all depends on where you are right.

@@offgridcurtisstone getting out of the cities is the point right? :) But it varies, true

I was thinking the same! Less than $200 a month is a steal!

That's great!

Hey. Another UK 🇬🇧 bod! I'm working in London and commute home to South Wales every week. Without giving too much away, where might you be?

@@Nellyontheland South coast atm. There's a few networks of folks on telegram looking to join forces to get land sorted - some are looking into the OPD planning rules in Wales too.

@@El_CrocThanks for the offer there, I nearly got into OPD a few years ago when it first came out, but after speaking with Tau and a few others there at Lammas, I decided it was going to be too "oppressive" for my liking. The guys behind the new OPD laws were the lucky ones as Lammas was set up on older laws now removed, but OPD as it turns out is very restricted for children wishing to take over later in life so...! We ended up just buying a field or two and moved on to it in the same way Maximus Ironthumper did and shows us on his channel. Email on the way, remove yours now though from above, I've screenshotted it 👍

Also...I brought my BCS on interest free. I'm not affiliated to them but they are very good at what they do. I did it over two years (halfway through) with two attachments but wish I did five attachments instead 🙄 For the record I pay 250 a month. A co-op of five means £50 a month each. And I can do that in veg a month on my own. Throw in two goats (never single) and you have a pint each a day two. They do it every so often so get it before you move or you'll have no address for the check-up. Also, I'm looking to buying a Kubota too. These can also be sort on interest free. You'll need a cab lol.

Go to the iceage farmer's channel. It's there.

Non-believers using deflection as an avoidance strategy.

arrr

Is that a fact? So, no point then. Just sit and wait?

Try to replicate, wherever you are. It doesn't have to be on a grand scale. Just share with you neighbors.

@@alexandriapeters5688 I agree we do that but, I want a place I can get fresh milk.

What part of Eastern NC?

weed is not even worth the price to process it let alone grow it !

I AM AN ANARCHO COMMUNIST ~ Pim *It's complicated* Tool 2021

$2000 a year.

@@offgridcurtisstone even cheaper!

Where are you?

I wish we live there¡ My wife and another couple are looking for someone like you learn about farming. Unfortunately, we live in NWA

Depends on your land size, pasture quality and what you’re growing. Sheep only require pasture and a mineral block if pasture is not high quality. To keep sheep your looking at roughly a half acre per animal if you’re not cell grazing or moving the animals regularly. I advise you move the sheep every six weeks for parasite protection. If your plan is to cell graze then the land per sheep is less, depending on pasture quality, if you get cold winters you’ll need to factor in hay growing for sheep as well. The land requirements per animal will decrease as the pasture improves. Cattle is 2 acres per animal as a feild system, less as cell grazing depending on pasture. They also only require a mineral sup or just salt if pasture is good. Hay needs to also be considered. Chickens are by far the easiest. Chicken tractors are easy to build, they do require a pellet or mineral grain feed though for better results.

Ya, I don't post to RU-vid much anymore.

You would be butt hurt about that too wouldn't you ;)

@@offgridcurtisstone I do get butthurt about smart people like you buying nonsense from charlatans like Tim Pool who thrive by selling panic

Same here, but I don't know that you're smart. It doesn't sound like it if you're saying dumb shit ;)

​That's fine, I don't really need to be smart to know that: Tim Pool constantly talks out of his ass not knowing what he's talking about. He lies about his positions. He often makes radically extreme predictions that are often wrong and the says he actually expected the outcome that happened. To be fair, it seems like most of his content is all stream of consciousness reactionism and it can't be easy to keep track of all the nonsense that pours out of his very round beanied head. Vaush is an liberal grifter posing as a leftist, but he had a pretty good takedown of TimPool. Jose's video essays are pretty damning as well.

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-47a4s0Vx05A.html Here's another example about him spending 25 minutes attacking a socialist magazine cover that he doesn't understand is mocking Joe Biden and the Dem establishment. I believe the term for this is that he "ate the onion"

How else do you think I can afford to take the time to make all the free content that I do?

Not at all. This is all voluntary. No coercion. Big difference if you're talking collectivism, which I am no friend of, you have no choice. Freedom is all about choice.

​@@offgridcurtisstone what you are engaging in IS collectivism. And that´s exactly what the agricultural producers were doing in the 20-30s in the USSR. Uniting in cooperatives. And it was also completely voluntary, there were people (an absolute minority) who wanted to preserve their allotment and stay out of kolhoz, edinolichniki (independents). It was not voluntary in case of kulaks, because they were village parasites exploiting cheap labour, pulling people in debt, selling bread at triple the price during hunger etc.The only difference between capitalist kolhozes and Soviet ones is that the latter ones weren´t slaves to large capital. You can go bankrupt any day if the purchising price on your produce is pushed down by big corporations (because of relative oversupply) and/or the price on raw materials is pushed up. Under socialism, whatever you produce over the amount you sell to the proletarian govt as part of a contract and over the amount you give to MTS (machine tractor stations) which provide you with the latest equipment, whatever you produce over that, you divide with other members of kolhoz according to labour contributed. And then you can sell that on the city market or into consumer cooperative or again to the govt. That´s a pretty strong economic motivation, isn´t it? There were kolhozes that were called "millionaires", they would build whole cities for themselves on those profits. With schools, stadiums, parks, libraries, etc. That´s how socialist kolhozes worked until the counter-revolutionary reforms of the 1950s-60s-70s. But you enjoy getting bankrupted by large capital. You´re already in a kolhoz, the only difference between you and Soviet agricultural producers was that they didn´t have a giant parasite apporiating the result of their labour. And you and other farmers round the world don´t really have a free choice. The choice is between bankruptsy and... creating a cooperative/kolhoz. Freedom is the recognition of necessity (c).

Ok, so cooperation is collectivism. Ok bud.

@@offgridcurtisstone the means of production at your farm are in collective property, right? How is that not collectivism, bud? I don´t know which definition of collectivism you have in mind, probably some rubbish from "wikipedia". I mean the strictly economic term. Collective ownership of the means of production.

@@dodgro8342 No. The property is not collectively owned. I never said anything about that anywhere. We actually lease this land.

Wow!

4 hours as in 4 hours.

Exactly, was it taken down?

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rBwUQlHus7I.html

Farm on contour! Even more appealing visually IMHO

get a life

@@twinprimeable I have one, and I’ll have it for eternity. It’s where you’ll spend it in eternity and with whom is the most important part.

I'm selling one in NY near the NY VT MA border

Hello how are you

I prefer the word "community" mom was a hippie on the late 60s and experienced the commune life... Lets say it didn't benefit the ones closest.. No lone wolf will make it for long.. It will take people with diverse skill sets. Hell Dr's & Dentist's a plus.... Ruptured appendix 😳

Cooperating has nothing to do with communism or communes. That's all that ra ra Murica propaganda talking ;)

@@offgridcurtisstone Thanks for blazing a trail so that others will have a easier time navigating the terrain Curtis... I got your book...😂😂😂

@@offgridcurtisstone Before the United States was first established, we were under land shares and communes. Oh sorry, they called them “colonies” at the time. Forgive me, don’t wanna get any of this American individualism on ya. How’s globalism in Canada workin for ya? What’s the status of those quarantine camps in every province?

If you're trying to beat your chest about what country is better than the other, not playing it. You're just as screwed in the US under globalist shill Biden as we are under globalist shill Trudeau.