I find it quite interesting that you have posted this on Labour Day. What an amazing example of what labour is all about. And not just any labour. This is a labour of love. The level of knowledge and experimentation needed to be this successful is incredible. You continue to blow our minds Shawn.

@kaboom-zf2bl

Жыл бұрын

over the years many of these different things have been suggested ,,, and now he is in a place where he gets to test what he was told and adjust things for what he has what he wants and what he desires .. . I have suggested many things over the years ... some he uses some he adapted and uses ... others he tried ... and they werent right for the location and so on .. and yes some he hasnt done (pole lathe) ... but he definitely has been keeping notes and now he has almost a full year of the first go finished and the various results are giving him plans and ideas for the next run .. you can literally hear his mind working as he talks about what he did and what worked well and what didnt and why he thinks it didnt ... . to me this is what makes the channel awesome ... he is not against failing ... but he does consider everything he can before he tries something

@dsop66

Жыл бұрын

@@kaboom-zf2bl he certainly isn't afraid to try something new that's for sure 😉

@kaboom-zf2bl

Жыл бұрын

@@dsop66 as they say if you never try you will never accomplish anything

@naturelover5606

Жыл бұрын

labor day what is has to o with anything. random date choosed by freemasos

@returntoyehovahthelord6185

Жыл бұрын

I second that. Always amazed at what he does.

I love Cali casually sauntering through the backgrounds, aqdvertising the availability of her toy for throwing! I love her.

Shawn, Just a request. Could you map out your homestead with building locations. I have a hard time visualizing the setup even though you explained it well.

For cauliflower: as soon as it starts to head up, gather the longest leaves together and tie them over the young cauliflower. Otherwise the sun will scald the young produce. Cabbage, brussel sprouts and cauliflower are heavy feeders, side dress twice during the growing season.

@hellencumber562

Жыл бұрын

what is side dress?

Wow Shawn, you guys are going to be quite busy this fall, with all that harvesting and canning, the garden looks very productive. I can`t wait to see some of the processing and canning videos.

@kaboom-zf2bl

Жыл бұрын

yeah I think the kitchen might need to be done before the winter starts so they can get everything saved LOL

Bintje was my Grandfather’s favorite potato to grow here in Sweden. It put a smile on my face when you mentioned it. Congratulations on an amazing garden. A inspiration, as always.

@graceveenema4762

Жыл бұрын

I had a big success with Bintjes in Ottawa, Ontario using Shawn’s straw method.

@ronaldkaipio8324

Жыл бұрын

wow just read this and I'm going to try them

@graceveenema4762

Жыл бұрын

It’s a Dutch potato, Frisian actually, developed by KL de Vries in 1904. (Wikipedia) My father went to great lengths to get these in Ontario from his Dutch farmer clients. It soaks up gravy like you wouldn’t believe.

@OutdoorScandinavia

Жыл бұрын

@@graceveenema4762 Yup, grandpa was all about Swedish meatballs with Bintje, gravy and lingonberries =)

The amount of knowledge that’s stored in you brain is totally amazing, you gardening skills, log building, stick building is out of this world! Thanks for sharing all of it with us! Looking forward to your next video! ✌🏼❤️🙏🏼

My husband and I watch your channels, and I appreciate the way you describe your garden. 😃

The Cali photo-bomb is still epic! Great looking garden, Shawn. Full of sure to be delicious veggies and fruits. 😀🤠👍👍 & 10⭐ rating.

@rojacone

Жыл бұрын

New garden.

@rojacone

Жыл бұрын

Maybe I've missed it but where is this garden ? It doesn't look like your frontier garden at the

@rojacone

Жыл бұрын

I guess how is the new dome garden ? Are you going to get chickens to help with pests ? Anyway thanks for sharing . I look forward to your videos. I love the peace and tranquility . Good karma my friend. 🙂

@OdeeOz

Жыл бұрын

@@rojacone Shawn relocated his home and garden

Impressive garden, just like the hand built log home. The time, energy and thought that goes into this is a dynamic combination of skills.

Shawn you are a modern day Thomas Jefferson, experimenting and trying new things in you r garden :) I commend you on your building, gardening, foraging, hunting and countless other skills that you have!!!! I found your channel by mistake and I play your videos all day at my desk!! You inspire and encourage and I am awed by your tenacity!!! I also am a gardener, make my own soap, detergent, candles and bread to name a few and if i could go off grid as you and your beautiful family have done, i would do so. Thank you so very much for helping me through my days and bless you!!!

Hi Shawn, thanks for your amazing videos, as always! Here's a quick tip I recently got from my grandma regarding preparing potatoes for laying: She told me she always keeps the potaoes with green spots, and other small potatoes, for laying. In fact, she places those at the fresh air, not directly in sunlight, but in half-shade, such that they turn completely green. Then she stocks them for the next year for laying. The green stuff is solanine, which renders them inedible, but at the same time this makes them more robust against all sorts of rodents as well.

@osmia

Жыл бұрын

That's so interesting!

Garden looks great, Shawn. I'm not sure why I thought this garden was on your old property. I'm really looking forward to the video where your family preserves everything. 👍🙂

@joyfox4871

Жыл бұрын

Me too. Check out the latest video on the KZread channel Fy Nyth which is a young lady doing canning and she is very thorough and good at explaining the process. She is on a homestead as well. Similar personality and deliver as Shawn ( which I love).

@BrianthatiscalledBrian

Жыл бұрын

@@joyfox4871 Yes, I watch her channel, too. 😃

@HummingbirdJa

Жыл бұрын

I did too, I thought it was the original area around the root cellar?

As always, I am just amazed at all the projects you've begun and completed and now are repping the harvest of your labors. Your daughter is really a chip-of-the- old-block. She has done so much and has become so capable at all you have taught her, and she seems so happy and willing to continue in this quest for self-reliance living.

This comment is not in any way meant to criticize your gardening skills, which are amazing. Just want to suggest that weed and pest control is vital, as is regular watering. I know you already know that and that both you, your wife, and Emily have been distracted these past years while building your food sources by building sustainable off grid shelters and the other necessary infrastructure. I'm just hoping you and your family are not in any way beating yourselves up for the garden failures you've experienced and realize you are in a part of the world where gardening is very challenging, but that you are in fact making it work, each year/growing season making it work and learning how better to utilize the existing resources available to you. Watching your channel makes me wish I was younger and could tackle a similar project. At one time in my late teens/early twenties, what you are doing now was my dream, and in some ways still is...

Good morning, Shawn! Awesome garden! It's my birthday today! I love watching you work, and you're amazing! I follow you as well as Emily on her channel. I find it peaceful and so relaxing!

@kalinystazvoruna8702

Жыл бұрын

Happy birthday! May you have many more with good health and energy!

@peterx7230

Жыл бұрын

Happy birthday!

@frederickmoller

Жыл бұрын

Happy Birthday!

@bellak1992

Жыл бұрын

Happy birthday!

@rusty8719

Жыл бұрын

Happy and blessed birthday 🎂 .

Shawn, if you ever make a trip down to the Ottawa Valley, we would gladly give you a truck loaf of manure to help your garden.. it's completely organic and makes things grow like the dickens!!

Everything you do is such a testament to your work ethic and life choices for you and your family. Thank you for sharing.

I have to say, Shawn, your "disaster" just might wind up being your crowning jewel when all is said and done. Given the natural limitations you've discussed with soil, sunlight etc I'm rather impressed with the growth and variety. No doubt, your nutrient reinforcement and patience has proven successful. After your home and remaining outbuildings are completed the amount of time and energy you'll have for food production will be almost limitless. A bit envious that all of my food storage is in the form of 30yr buckets- perhaps in a few years as I seek retirement I too can begin gardening here in zone 6b by starting small and learning as I go.

@ajb.822

Жыл бұрын

I encourage you to begin gardening as soon as you can ! To begin building the experience, the learning that only comes by doing :). I super advise learning from Charles Dowding. He has a channel on KZread and has written a couple books, I've read the one on no-dig gardening and it's super helpful, beyond even what's freely available in his vlogs ( I was able to find the book through my local library system, ordered in from a connected library) . Anyways, I have gardened a variety of ways and grew up on a dairy farm, and in my observation and experience, no-dig & no-till IS the way to go, even if it seems difficult at 1st to grow things like potatoes, it's worth it. Just get extra compost and mulch and make hills for root veg the 1st few years ( or grow in pots - they do pretty well in pots, just dry out fast ). Anyways, that's just my recommendation :) !

We live in northern Illinois, South of Chicago. We are experiencing much of what you are describing. Our broccoli was very delayed and never made normal large heads. We didn't use "organic" starter soil but also had very delayed tomatoes that made fruit a month late. This has even been the experience by all the gardeners I know in our area. Amazing with the large distance between us that our gardens are behaving so similar.

@patriciamoses2185

Жыл бұрын

My broccoli was the same way here in Eastern Tennessee

@Rendall81

Жыл бұрын

Fertilize your soil , it'll be fine

My Oh My...what a beautiful garden... plus the greenhouse....wow! and I know the work involved! When things get really bad, you and your family will be well taken care of. Good for you and all your efforts. Every year is a learning experience. You learn what works and what doesn't and make the adjustments for the next year. Good Job!

Oh my that garden is beautiful!! Great fence!! Can't believe it's already been two years since you started over there!!

Your garden and knowledge is extremely impressive! I wish I had the space for a large garden. Burdock root is tasty fried with soya sauce, a bit of sugar and chili flakes. It's supposedly helpful if you have gout. Need to soak the julienned root in water, changing the water several times, though, before cooking. Some people grow it in barrels and break open the barrels when harvesting because the roots on a good plant tend to grow to around 3 feet. My neighbour has 4 pawpaw trees that are about 9 feet tall and he said he really likes them. I think the tree is native to Ontario. He said you need at least 1 male and 1 female tree to produce fruit. My main plants are the Carolina Reaper, tomatoes, and Japanese eggplant, which has a thinner skin. Reapers I freeze and dehydrate (I want to make a sauce one day) and the eggplant I cube, add salt to draw out water, and put it into a contraption from Japan to squeeze out the water. Then I add soya sauce, Japanese hot mustard, and a bit of sugar, then bottle it. It's good as a side dish. Tomatoes I eat fresh off the plant, although this year I plan on dehydrating a bunch then crushing it into a powder. I have not encountered a vegetable or fruit that I didn't like. I'd be in heaven eating the produce from your garden.

Looks great!! Can’t wait to have sizable land and have a large garden like that. Love your garden update videos! Thanks and God bless!

Absolutely astounding to get so much produce from a “rough” planted space. Seems far better than manicured gardens. 👍🏻

I wish your wife would start a channel showing her part to support this way of life. I'd liked to see her make that celery seed. I've gotten my husband watching your channel we enjoy watching them together in the evening

Must be a rewarding feeling to pop open the canned veggies and share them and laughter and a meal with your family at the table in your cabin on a cold winter night beside the warmth of a cozy fire.

Très belle scruture.c'est nickel..j'adore...je mettrais des silhouettes en métal.. animaux, fleurs. Fruits, soleil..personnages..c'est mon côté un peu farfelu!!😁..vous avez des tuteurs en métal !!...un petit paradis pour un jardinier.. beaucoup de travail 💚🍀 vous êtes bien le seul homme, que je connaisse, qui parle autant de ses plantations, ses légumes, ses fruits..et plus..une véritable passion 😁

Shawn, Your garden looks amazing! The fresh produce it's providing is essential for winter consumption! As you finish up your homestead build, you will have more time to tend to your gardens! We are harvesting our gardens too! Yummy stuff! I have been frying zucchini with garlic and parmesan cheese.... delicious! Thank You for your garden tour! Until your next video ~~~Stay safe, healthy and happy! 🍓🍆🥔🥕🌽🌶🫑🥒🥬🧅

These are the best videos that you make when you walk the garden and telling us about your harvest of veggies and how things go.... love it . Thanks Shaun+ Cali. Super!

My goodness, your garden is Huuuggggeee and fantastic. It takes a family to take care of the garden. Really lots of labor and love. Kudos to all your family. Amazing.

Holy 💩, 😱, had no idea your garden had expanded to that size. Amazed at the expanse it's grown to & how good it's doing in the forest. Great job on that. Have a great day 😊.

That is a lot of food you have grown! Very impressive including your knowledge of home gardening!

It would be fun to watch you and your wife putting up these vegetables and freezing them or canning. The wax for the cheese an interesting comment, have no idea what you are doing there! The end results would be interesting to see, for sure.

Looks amazing...never really thought when you started, this fantastic result could be achieved. Great job, Shawn.

@frederickmoller

Жыл бұрын

So true, I wouldn't have believed it either.

Thank you so much Sean for your channel it's so interesting just to see you in the outdoors I wish I was younger or I'd be doing more with gardening again but I did so much in my lifetime. I love seeing Kelly also

Thank you , Shawn . 🐺

What a full garden !!! A bit of everything. I'd be devo that you quit in the parsnips ... I so love them. Awfully expensive at my local shops so I treat myself once a year and make a roast dinner with a whole parsnip included LOL mother used to boil carrots and parsnips and then mash them together ..also most yummy. All in all between yourself, your wife, and Emily I'd say it's been a very busy and productive garden. THANKS for making the time to share in depth about all your gardening practices. Enjoy the water, Cali and your Company. From Australia peace out 🇦🇺🤗💞✝️🙏✌️👍🇨🇦

Garden looks great! Rome wasn't built in a day! Keep up the good work. I love the garden videos.

Beautfiful! You keep saying you dont have time but I think you are doing so much that is incredible. You work truly hard and you can only be admired. Off course your family as well 🙂. You are an inspiration for me for sure but I am sure for many of us following you.

Congratulations, your garden looks simply wonderful. The changes you made and disassembled the Hugo beds, very significant.

@irismarks4637

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much Shawn. Unfortunately I don't have Instagram or Tik Tok. Only Facebook and KZread. I just hope that your message in the comments is real and you really stand behind it. have a great day.

My favorite way to make zucchini is quarter it lengthwise and toss the 4 quarters in olive oil and some herbs of your choosing and throw them into the grill or campfire rack. Works well with asparagus too.

We like mashed potatoes made half and half with turnips and some roasted garlic. Far fewer carbs and taste is wonderful; nobody will touch rutabagas, however. Our favorite greens are mustard greens, hands down--even their perfume when cooking is Heavenly.

You might have had some failures but your garden looks fantastic. The variety of vegetables you grow is amazing and every year you learn more about how to get your plot/soil to produce for you.

Amazing… and what a nice visit!

The hugelkture pile was one of my favorite endeavours on this channel.. A cornucopia of food indeed

THIS GARDEN IS UNBELIEVABLE!!!!

YOU ARE AMAZING, THE DIVERSE SKILLS, THE GARDEN IS JUST BEAUITFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SOME VARIETIES I'V NEVER EVEN HEARD OF. A COMPOST PILE, GARDEN. THAT IS A BLESSING!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANKS, FOR THE GARDEN TOUR, JUST AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!! Do take care. Fl., U.S.A.

I DO remember you starting this garden which we all thought was at your original homestead. I distinctly remember you saying that the area had hardwood trees surrounding it. And that you chose the area because it had a rich leaf mulch area on bedrock. This is where you dug out a root cellar. Whatever. It’s fantastic how the beds have conformed into an excellent growing area.

What a great tour of your garden. Appreciate

I love to see a happy Cali roaming in the background...you have a great family garden. I am also a big fan of Kim Chee.

Absolutely awesome Shawn! I don't know how you do it all, you are amazing and an inspiration. Thanks for posting.

Thanks! I love the garden updates.

Really enjoyed watching your journey over the years Shawn. Keep up the hard work. Appreciate the great content!

Shawn, thank you for the wealth of knowledge and experience in this video!

I enjoy watching your very healthy garden Shawn. You really have a green thumb. Have a wonderful and blessed day. Take care.

Beautiful garden! I love all of the dual purpose plants. Sweet potatoes are my favorite. I eat the potatoes and I use the leaves in salads. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. Wishing you and your family much success!

Yummy tomato and chili 🌶️ cabbage 🥬🍅 beans 🤩 carrots

Jaw dropping. What an amazing garden you've grown. Stunning.

Welcome back to the garden thanks for showing it to us👍🐕WS NC

Really looking forward to the canning and preserving videos! Terrific garden.

Very much enjoyed this vid...thank-you kindly. Your honesty/humilty made the vid a rich watch. Health and God Bless!

Yes you continue to blow ouer minds ... Thanks so mutch!

I love turnip in stew. Cant have without.

Garden looks great!

Amazing vegetable garden James !!!

Wow, I'm blown away, what a fantastic garden you got. All the hours you and your family put in to it are now paying of and you have hopefully enough food for the winter season.

Thanks so much! Slowly but surely I am getting my backyard full of vegetables and herbs! Having a hard time with my soil! But I will get there! Your videos and Roaming wild Rosie inspires me ! God bless you and your family! So grateful !🪴🪴🪴🪴

You are an inspiration!

My friend Shawn, I am very impressed with your garden and to show it on this day shows your hard work and dedication on being self reliant. A labor of love indeed. God bless

Very nice having what you have...most things are popping well...and as you finish the housing it will certainly be way much better, your garden is so well made 💫💯

🌻Amazing! So well done

Happy Labor Day.......Thank you for sharing about what your wife has been doing, I was listening. So good to hear about your family in how they work alongside you in your endeavor. It continues to amaze me at the work you all put into these projects and the amount of study you put into it as well before you start a project........AMAZING.......the growth of your garden as well has taken off as I have been watching from very beginning from seed to harvest.........awesome. Blessings in the fruit of your labor.

Thank you for the wonderful garden tour! Here in zone 9b…. It is a real challenge to have a summer vegetable garden. Our winters are the best growing season!

Enjoyed your garden tour so much and appreciate you sharing your failures along with your successes, that's how gardening goes and nothing is perfect. You have a fantastic garden! It's so rewarding to eat fresh like this several months. We love grocery shopping in our garden.

A LOT A LOT OF WORK and now you recolt the desive of all this huge efort....BIG BRAVO JAMES and EMILY....👏👏👏

Excellent garden tour Shawn thanks 👍👍. Great job Emily.

Amazing garden tour and I don't know how you remember everything like you do but you continue to amaze us,so we will be awaiting harvest time and the finishing of the cabin,thanks and we will be praying for all that's coming up.

Extremely interesting and a real eye opener in what you have been able to achieve with the garden and building your home. You certainly won’t go hungry this year. Well done to you and your family of helpers. Take care, be safe. ❤️ Dorset, UK

Gorgeous garden!

Shawn your garden is unbelievably healthy for its first year. A green thumb for sure to go along with all your other skills.

The gardening videos are my favorite!

Amazing how far the garden has come!

Really good to see some detail of how things are progressing. So glad everything is working out well, I had no doubts it would. :)

What a beautiful garden, Shawn !

Shawn I love watching your videos but I never comment so here I go! Your building planning gardening skills are truly amazing is there anything you cannot do ? I think not and it’s evident from your videos and your amazing photography! If there were more men like you what an amazing world it would be ! Looking forward to your next video !

Impressive garden, Shawn. The fruits of your labor are showing.

🍁The garden looks great Rick from California. Happy 4th of July.🎆

Thanks Shawn for the garden tour. All the best. Peace.

Wow! You truly are the man! Awesome garden!

Hi Shawn, I'm amazed at your vegetable garden 😋 All those wonderful fresh and organic fruits and vegetables WOW 👏 Is there anything you can't turn your hand to? I doubt it. Good on you and your family and thanks for sharing 👍

Great job on the garden. You got an amazing jump on building nutrients and water retention this year. Only going to get better from here. Outstanding

I watched you put the garden in 2 years ago when you said it’s a lot of work and you weren’t sure if you wanted to do it ! Now look at all that work . It’s absolutely beautiful and productive ! Great job to you and your family .

I wish I could get my San Marzano Plants to be as productive as what you call your poor ones! Can't wait to see them in the greenhouse, I hope that tour is coming next. Amazing garden! Also looking forward to seeing the new root cellar under the house. An exciting time to be you! Like Dennis Waitley would say, "The good old days are here and now!" and "Failure is the fertilizer for success!"

What a hard working man you are Shawn. Vast garden plus building the cabin.

I’m so amazed how you are constantly building and working your land and you still have time to go in the water with Cali and help your daughter. There isn’t a lazy bone in your body. Beautiful and plentiful garden you have. Enjoyed the video.

Thanks for your sharing, trellising tomatoes on cattle panels are great!

Waow Shawn, plot of dreams there my man 😍 Credit to the gardeners. All the hours and patience put into this is really paying off now, I know how satisfying that must be and how much potential is still there. Thanks for sharing this with us, incredible work and I love your planting style even if I couldn't do it myself (I like things VERY organised within reason lol). Fantastic stuff. Absolute sea of green and that's from someone living in N.Ireland who's used to it.

In spanisch, me sumo a su gran trabajo, perseverancia y dominio de los problemas para llevar sus plantaciones a buen recabo. Desde el sur de la Patagonia chilena, Calbuco, Gerardo. Muchas gracias señor Shawn, cosquillas para Cali!

Wow what a beautiful garden thanks for sharing this with everyone 👍👌✌🏻🌄