Offset your carbon footprint on Wren: www.wren.co/start/mossybottom The first 100 people who sign up will have 10 extra trees planted in their name!

@jkernssr

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Parsnip?

@nwoslothbite3077

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Are you aware that carbon dioxide is the gas of life, its what plants breath. Carbon credits are a scam to control people.

@sunmoonstars3879

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I’m all for tree planting but not to ‘offset carbon’. Carbon = life on earth The current zero carbon (and now carbon dioxide) ideology is going to lead to millions starving, freezing and ultimately dying. Ultimately WE are the carbon ‘they’ wish to eliminate.

@shadowbandedfortruthspreading

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Are you a bit simple, you really need to STOP taking the money from WREN, its dirty evil money. Your vid is on living off grid 🤑🤑💸 you need to look at the WEF agenda buddy cos your pushing the "carbon credit, social credit system" their agenda Do your research mate, because the people pushing the social credit carbon footprint calculator crud, want to remove ALL habitation from the country side, to re wild it, look it up, you doughnut, you are hastening your own demise, ignorance is NO excuse, they want no humans living off grid!!! They want no one in the country side at all, they want you to OWN NOTHING AND BE HAPPY, that means YOU too. They want to own it all, including your land, and all the land around you. They call them selves the Global stakeholders, and will lease you back every thing, include the clothes you wear, and they pay hundreds of thousands of pounds per year, to be a member of the club of slave masters.

In my experience living off grid from many years, a reliable long term water supply trumps all other considerations. Soil fertility and growing season can be improved by various techniques. Cheap land without water is just cheap land.

@Berkeloid0

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This is very true. Here in Australia we have a lot of land that doesn't have much water, and from time to time someone buys it intending to live off-grid, but without doing enough research first they quickly find that trucking in water for growing crops is prohibitively expensive and inevitably they give up after a while and then struggle to sell the land. You can certainly improve your water situation with things like permaculture, but you still need a decent amount of rainfall for that to work, and when there is no rain for years at a time even permaculture can struggle unless you are prepared to wait multiple decades to accumulate enough stored water.

@kathleensanderson3082

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I totally agree. We lived for about fifteen years in the high desert of Eastern Oregon. Land can be purchased very inexpensively, but many of the people we knew there were hauling their water because they couldn't afford the extremely deep wells that were required (we had a good well, but we were fairly close to a river). And my brother and his wife have moved from Arizona to our place in Kentucky because we have reliable water, and they didn't. You can live without a lot of things, but water isn't one of them.

@jksatte

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Where do you live? I would am such a pansy. I can't imagine living without AC. Silly I know, I just love my creature comforts. I still want to prepare so that if I ever have to depart I have some idea of where I should go.

@kathleensanderson3082

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@@jksatte If you were asking me, we are in south-central Kentucky. My house doesn't have AC, and we manage well enough, though in the summer, we tend to get our outside stuff done early in the day. The humidity can be more of an issue here, as we have problems with things getting moldy or corroding. But we can grow almost anything here other than tropical stuff.

@jksatte

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@@kathleensanderson3082 Yes, I was asking you. Thanks for responding. I live in FL and it's pretty much the same though I bet your soil is better. We have sand here. I still grow but my soil is not dark yet.

I had a very nice 20 acre property on top of a modest hill in Eastern Oklahoma, very beautiful country. I started planting trees, clearing certain sections, and I even built a pond. The dream was to be self sufficient. But I sold it because the neighbors were always shooting guns around dusk. It was kind of scary, because ... well I've been around guns all my life, and I know most guns by the sound, and the sounds I was hearing were ... much more powerful. I wonder if they had 50 caliber weapons ? and were shooting for target practice. This is very common in that area. The other problem was the drugs. Many heroin and meth addicts in that back country. Drugs and Guns ... yeah, no thanks. So I sold that property and moved on. I too though about water, climate, hardiness ... but I didn't think about the neighbors. You might add that to the list.

In Ireland what I've found is that shelter is invaluable... an exposed garden is subject to so much more stress than a sheltered one. Less sun from tree shade is more than compensated by the reduced wind effect.

@MossyBottom

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Absolutely. I learnt that lesson too!

Glad to see you back Daniel

I'm from Spain, and been thinking about moving to Costa Verde to start a self-sufficient homestead because of language, the fact that is not far from where I live and especially because I've always found that region so beautiful. The fact that you point it out as one of the best places to live off-grid in Europe fills me with hope!

Good to see that Mossy Bottom survived the wet and windy weather over the last couple of months

Great to see you back -missed your vlogs.

I was starting to worry about you. I’m glad to see you’re back don’t be gone so long.

It's very good to see you again! So happy to see things going and growing so abundantly there at Mossy Bottom. Your videos are certainly worth waiting for.

Awh, seeing the notification that there is a new post from you made my day! I am looking forward to my comfort go to moment on this rainy miserable day in Canada! What a treat!

Hey again Daniel . Raining like Devon where i now live in my shepherd's hut off grid (dream of 12 years of mine ) 🙂 Loving Ur laughing ducks in the background 😂

The cost of land makes Portugal one of the more attractive options, as does its proximity to the UK. The weather is more amenable for homesteading, and much cheaper, anywhere from Lisbon to the north, to which the growing number of British KZreadrs can attest. Cheers!

I love Ireland but chose to relocate to Bulgaria for the climate. You can grow everything there in abundance.

Your videos are like a cozy bowl of stew by a fire, all warm and reassuring. Sad about the calendars but I totally understand. I think printing them out would be great!! especially for us over here in the usa

How about having a Mossy Bottom app? It serves as a calendar, a photo collage, your voice over, and your agricultural log.

Irish farmer to his wife - ‘I think that Englishman has been playing with our donkeys again’. Wife - ‘to be sure but he’s a single man let him be’

@nullset560

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lol

For your calendars, you could set up a Amazon business account and have them all shipped to a fulfillment centre and have them delivery them

@Col_D

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@@theclumsyprepper True. But if he's looking for an easier and cheaper way to get his product out there worldwide, there's not much better than Amazon.

So glad to see you we love what you tell us about Ireland 🇮🇪 We still love Ireland 🇮🇪.We just love the craic and the weather really in our minds that is the place to be .We’re glad that we will see you before Christmas 🎄.GodBless and Good Luck.We just love Mossey and all the animals.🇮🇪⛄️☮️☮️🎅🎅🎄🎄🎄🤶🤶🤶⛄️⛄️⛄️

Good to see you again, Daniel. Your garden looks absolutely amazing!

Really appreciate the way how you promote your sponsors, Daniel. Not rattling off to get done with it, rather seriously and convincingly. I did check out Wren, and you are so spot on in everything you said! Thank you, and .... wishing you to enjoy many more of these mega harvests🙂

@rosemaryspencer1501

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Amen.

Here in the USA, I only buy and eat Irish butter because the year-round lush green grass produces an Omega-3 rich butterfat. If a homesteader eats dairy and eggs along with the fresh green produce from the garden, things get a lot easier in many marginal climates. In many "maritime" climates like yours the land prices are too high because of human overpopulation. Which brings up the paradox of a homesteader needing to have a market to sell to, while not being burdened with prohibitive debt to purchase a house and land.

@Tamar-sz8ox

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Yep same here, Americans love ❤️their “ shamrock ☘️ butter “ 😂

Informative! I lived in Dublin for a few years (I'm Canadian) and don't remember ever seeing snow other than in the mountains. I quite like the Irish climate. Miss Ireland, will be looking to move back in the future.

I was wondering when will be seeing you again! Always a pleasure watching your videos. 👍😊

The ducks laughed through most of what Daniel had to say and Moss was looking around like”who is my human talking to ?”😂

The subtropics of northern NSW are an amazing place to grow - as long as you're within about 50kms of the coast. Here in Adelaide it's very dry in the summer and a 45ºC day can fry a lot of plants. I use shade cloths and tree shade to protect my veg. And I have many water tanks ;)

To live off grid in Nagaland is the best ❤ You can live off grid but when you feel like you need help and support all the community will help you with everything they have. But you still can have your own space and isolation. Though you know the community has got your back as a family. It's just how it works 😊 I am planning to live off grid as well and I don't know how to start, living everything behind, your job, your city life etc. But I am hoping for the best. 😊

Yay for Jean de Florette! I taught that film, along with Manon des Sources probably 25 times over the years and kids loved them. Thanks for reminding us of it!

Mobile, Alabama Zone 8B is an awesome place with being the rainiest city in USA contiguous states. Mild winters like Ireland and long hot summers. Our worst issue is the heat in summers 98-100F with the 100% humidity with Downey Mildew and other fungus and bugs.

It’s so good to see you, Daniel! I enjoy listening to your pearls of wisdom❤️

I think my ideal would be either Ireland or the Spanish coast or the lost coast in northern California. I couldn't be in a more different climate here in eastern Washington. Very hot, very dry summers. (Hotter and dryer with climate change) and we drop down to zone 5 temps in winter.

@palace927

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We love the Humboldt County area.

How beautiful the color of your soil! Wonderful to see you reaping the rewards of all of your hard work. Hoping for good weather for the upcoming December vlog!

Just last night I was looking to see if I missed any of your videos. Glad you're back!

Forgive me for posting another comment, but I was worried about you and I've been asking that no harm had happened to you. I hope for you that every day you gain more followers and thus help you to continue with the channel and live on the ranch and have the sustainable life that I also really want.🙏🙌☺️

You have such a lovely and bountiful smallholding. Congratulations! All your hard hard work and thoughtful husbandry has been amply rewarded.

Texas weather was brutal over the spring and summer, 6 months with no rain and over 100 F. Not conducive to gardening. Next summer, I will put up a lot of shade cloth and pray for rain. It would be a dream to be able to grow what you do.

@margietucker1719

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Texas here, too. For our brutal summers, think okra, and peppers.

So glad to see you! Me and my wife were worried. We love your videos very interesting!!!!

Well done as always! 👏👏👏

It’s very comforting to see you are well and still doing what you do thank you 😊

Great to see you back, we have really missed you, we were worried you had given up 😢

Your fresh energy and sense of humor are truly delightful ! I always enjoy our visits.

Always a joy watching your videos

I imagine the Azores would be a brilliant place to grow food. Mild winters, warm and rainy summers.

Great vid,glad to see you back.

welcome back Daniel, I was missing you a lot even though I found your channel a few days ago, I had already seen that it had been a while since you posted videos, I loved your channel and I admire you a lot. don't be discouraged many love your content, I'm rooting for you sincerely. from a Brazilian follower of yours.🤗🥰😘

Live (and do permaculture) in Portugal, lived several years in jorth spain, and visited ireland several times... and agree with you 100%. North of the peninsula iberica close to the ocean is probably the best equilibrium. But, as you said, every place have + and - and the best one is just the one one feels home.

I am so pleased to see you back

Nice to see you back, Daniel. I live in Windermere, Florida zone 9b USA 🇺🇸 (Central Florida) I'm growing tomatoes, Spinach, Mustard Greens, Onions and Carrots

In recent years, life has been good here in the Netherlands. Summers are very warm, spring starts early, autumns are mild and winter starts later and later. Water enough.

@Concojone5

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Water is becoming a real problem, at least here in Belgium but the Netherlands have to be the same.

Your giant plant is a fodder beet or mangel-wurzel, depending on where you grow it :)I grow them for my rabbits. I've started a smallholding in northern Germany last year. It was a very dry summer, and I hope that was a one off, because there wasn't much growing... I do dream of a climate that would let me grow things in winter. We've had several weeks frosts to -8°C already and our less than 10h daylight window begins in october and lasts untill late february. I sometimes watch all the australian permies with their bananas , mangoes, avos and papayas telling me that a food forest grows within a few years... well, no mate, it doesn't if you only have decent daylight for half the year ;-) still, I'm content with my climate since it allows me some down time in winter.

@SgtSnausages

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Im finishing my first year of Rabbit here next month eith the goal of no purchased food by year 3. Tell us more about these for feed. What percentage of their food is root crop like this ...

@cygnusatratus

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@@SgtSnausages well, it really depends on what else is around for the rabbits. Mine (6 does and a buck) always have access to good hay and organic pellets in breeding season (I have them in a colony setup, so breeding is mainly in spring before the heat of summer and then autumn, before the good food is all gone) year round they get a big pile of whatever I get out of the garden. In winter that's mainly cabbage leaves, fooder beets, chards, carrot and parsnip tops and the occasional apple. I guess I could raise them without bought inputs, but then I'd have to sacrifice garden space for more fooder crops and also deal with a decrease in productivity. So for now I'm happy with buying organic pellets for them. hope that helps!

@greencloud2225

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@@SgtSnausages I think they would be too sweet for the main food for rabbits, unless you are fattening them for meat. 75% of a rabbits diet should be leafy greens or hay. Commercial pellets are mainly alfalfa, a compressed "green" I grow fodder willow, tagastaste, and cut long grass, dandelions, and garden greens for my rabbits. In winter I feed hay and buy pellets if I can't find enough I don't feed root crops to them except for a few garden scraps.

I am on the southern part of zone 5, growing cold weather crops, cabbage, lettuce, Brussel sprouts, is a little challenging as it sometimes goes from really cold to hot, but overall we do ok.

Delighted to see an upload!

Your mention of growing degree units spurred me to look up ours in Kentucky -- I was shocked to find that ours are over 4,000, compared to your 600! When I was small, we lived in Alaska, in the Interior south of Fairbanks. Very cold long winters and short summers, but we were still able to grow quite a bit, even without a greenhouse. Now they've developed a number of better-adapted varieties that what we had access to back then, and gardeners in that area can grow almost anything that can be grown in the northern states or southern Canada.

Good to see you, Daniel. Enjoyed how you moved around and filmed all across your property for this one.

Thank you you are doing great job sticking with weather bless you

so much to the point of my current choice dear. appreciate your timely and deep insights. true!😊

Been a while! Thanks for returning

Bergstrasse in south HESSEN, Germany.. we grow a lot outdoors, have generally warmer. summers than other regions and less snow. The peak summer temperatures and lack of early summer rain has been problems lately.

Great to see you doing well

So glad you are back! missed your videos!!!

Great to see you!

Absolutely fascinating! I garden (and raise most of my own food) in the high desert plains of Arizona. We have a whopping great 190 day growing season (a conservative estimate based on last recorded frost date in spring to earliest recorded frost date in fall). We frequently enjoy 200+ days growing season. At an altitude of 5,400 feet (over a mile high - 1645 meters) our summers while hot, never exceed 90 degrees F (32 degrees C) and the winter gets down to -15 pretty regularly in the dead of night, but warms up during our sunny days. We only get about 15" to 16" of rain, and use many ancient irrigation techniques to keep crops growing. Olla pots, sunken beds (the water lingers in the depressions) heavy mulching, digging swales and berms to capture winter rains so it soaks in an hydrates the soil, and using shade trees and shade cloth to protect the plants from sunburn. Yes, indeed, it is so bright and sunny here that vegetables - even heat-loving peppers and squash - can get sunburned if they are not given protection. The UV index in Sligo is 5 to 8. The UV index of Miami Florida is 6 to 9. The UV index in the Sedona desert is 9 to 10 🤯. This was a truly delightful and informative glimpse into a completely different ecology and set of gardening challenges. Thanks! And, keep up the good work.

Much appreciated. These videos are an inspiration.

Thank you for all your good sense.

Happy you are back.

Great to see you back! You had us worried for a moment..

Good to see you and thank you so much really miss your calendar hopefully next year

Daniel . Great to hear from you !

Interesting topic which I’ve also thought about myself. I had the same conclusion as for the ideal place, on paper, being northern Spain. Recently I’ve been thinking about micro climates. For instance in places with lots of elevation changes, maybe you could be able to adjust the overall equation by going a bit higher. Geopolitics also come to play because places like the northern coast or Turkey could be nice but then issues in governance create the kind of instability that removes it from the competition.

Loved watching your dog behind you herding the donkeys while you were doing you advertising spiel. He got them together in the paddock then came up to the rise to keep watch, but was looking to you for acknowledgement of his good work 😊

A great analysis. WRT can one grow food, I think the best thing is to look around at what nature is growing. If there's a wide variety of fairly large plant species, the challenge is to find what food producing plants need similar conditions. Take Calgary for instance, it has warm summers but nature only produces grasses and a few wildflowers. Where I live, there's few traditional farm crops developed to grow here but, there's an abundance of wild plant growth from ground covers to 18m+ trees. If one want's to be food self-sufficient, the key is, not if you can grow what you currently eat but, can you grow enough variety to have a well-rounded diet? Then pick from those options to make a diet you like. The farm lands of calgary don't offer a well-rounded diet.

Wood grown mushrooms info: I just watched your 12 principles of PC & have grown shiitake in logs. Sought your most recent post in hopes you'll see this. My understanding is the mushroom grows through the sapwood (sugary layer under the bark) until it is all occupied at which point they fruit to spore and thus travel to new logs. Fruiting requires the right moisture and temperatures depending on variety and partial sunlight. The logs should be newly cut from live trees but not plugged until they are at least a week old so that fungal resistance of live tree abates. Don't give up on your logs yet. I've used both solid wood plugs and gel plugs both from commercial sources. Both worked (but i did have a problem with woodpeckers pecking out the gel ones). I got a lot of yield from a huge oak stump that was cut due to damage high in the tree. Also you have to watch logs in the woods closely because wildlife loves to eat shiitake including squirrels and turtles. Best wishes.

I'm so happy to see you Daniel.. Was worried sick 😔.. Glad you are OK 💃💃💃💃💃

Talk about a face only a mother could love. Not to mention the beautiful singing voices. You sound so affectionate of them, there must be some charm.

I'm an Aussie, from Melbourne Australia, and would LOVE to live in Ireland, Northern Ireland, or Scotland. I LOATHE the summer heat here and since 2020 I now have a medical condition where heat/overheating can be dangerous for me. I would love to live off grid but I would think relying on Solar in countries that don't generally get a lot of sun, can be difficult.

I was, in fact, wondering where you were! This was a great vid -- such a cogent explanation of climate needs for self-sufficiency. Interspersed with harvesting veg and feeding the pigs and getting chewed by the donkeys -- what fun.

Gosh we've missed the mossy!! Great to see your back and we'll 👍

Hi from the center zone of Spain. I came across your channel a few days ago maybe because of my searches and I have to say it is very interesting and meets my demands, learning better English and knowing better Ireland. It is curious that my father who was born in a humble peasant family and when we was grown enough and could chose by his own quitted the harsh land life although he had to come back on his late 15 working years before retiring. During that time me and my siblings have to lend a hand to help with the family economy. And you have chosen this Life and enjoy it escorted by your animal family. You are a Brave man indeed. You have other worthy skills anyway despite being an introvert like you said. You are a well broadcaster ( very talkative with a clear mind). I wonder if you sell your extra crops to your neighbours or make any kind of food exchange. Thanks for your teaching. Salud and take care!

Good to see you back Daniel and Mossy! Hope you still have your partner to help you with things, and to enjoy the company of? We have had frosts, and snow is expected around midday today, here in Devon, England. Blessings to you. xxx

Gosh I'm glad to see you! Totally understand about the calendars, but as I was expecting you to post soon to mention them, I was really worried not to see you for a while. Now I'm reassured - you look safe and healthy, aside from that Giant Banana Slug Pretending To Be A Root Veg, which you keep carrying around! ;-) Your topic this time is one I've been thinking about too - you've made me take a more positive view of my own zone and climate peculiarities, and (most importantly) reminded me that much of the fun is in the problem-solving.

You got me laughing when you said at the end to the pigs...'I think that's a yes'

Northeast NSW, without question.

Good to see you.

Thanks so much for this episode. I found it really interesting as I interpet your advice for New Zealand conditions. Take care, Carla

I love your analogies too!

Hello Daniel, this is a very informative video. Full of self-sufficiency information. Thank you for your time effort in creating it. Looking forward to seeing more of your videos in the future.

great video ! Thank you for the input

Thank you, I’ve learned so much!

We are planning on Northern Italy near France as we have family there and have support. The healthcare is generally good and the culture and weather is right up our alley. We plan on tentatively creating a hybrid partially off-grid system. When you mentioned Canada I found that interesting as it is so diverse across the board. Nova Scotia, Vancouver Island, the Niagara area, Interior BC, etc. are amazing and have much milder winters than people think.

I’ve lived in Canada, NB for four years or so now, half of that time out in the boonies working in gardens and small scale farms. Lately we’ve been having some strange weather- droughts in the summer and a prolonged Autumn- but so far I have found it suitable for gardening and keeping small animals. I really want to get a goat or two- both because I can’t digest cow’s milk very well and because they keep brush and weeds down so well! The biggest problem out here is the rocky soil- there’s barely any topsoil anywhere, much less nice, rich, moist soil like I was used to in BC. Nothing a few years of manure, compost, and cover crops can’t fix, but still a bother when you’re first starting out.

Great vid! P.S. I love your analogy’s too

We might be able to team up in some way and help you with your calendar for next year. Due to our size our shipping costs are going to be a lot less than yours so that might help. Also if you are interested i have a pallet of two of waste wood that you might like FOC to help with your building projects. You just need a decent trailer. Anyway drop me a line if any of the above is of any interest. Niall Quickcrop

An occasional but very happy visitor to delightful infotainment. We are Blessed ☝️❤️🌍

We lived in Calgary for many years and had a very successful backyard garden, It was a great place to grow food but watering was very important. We have recently moved to a remote 25 acre property in Newfoundland where we are building an off grid home and starting our shift into a permaculture lifestyle….Thank you for sharing your experience, it’s such important work and has great value to people who are moving from larger urban areas to rural areas…keep up the great work 🌱

@Liammulli

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Wouldn't grow much in the winter there though?

@cassell1540

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@@Liammulli No, we definitely get winter here and you can’t grow anything outside during the winter but we are building a passive solar green house partly under ground so we will be able to grow in winter as well

There's another category of locale that can be very good for growing a wide variety of annuals and perennials. That would be mountain valleys in the tropics. For example - Vilcabamba Ecuador.

Merry Christmas!

I'm just south of Calgary, Alberta and had to smile at your temperature graph. I know the graph is an average, but it has been in the -30s for several days here, with windchills in the -40s and I would LOVE a balmy -11C right now!! We're going to have a dramatic rise in temperature in a couple of days though. yay! Happy Holidays!

Thank you for all the presentations you have done. Loved all of them!

Happy to see you 🤓

Sell the calendar as a downloadable PDF. People can print at home or order from any nearby online print on demand site.