Hey there everyone! I hope Pete's video inspired a whole lot of you to grow more food and to help others to grow some of their own food too! If you got a lot of out this, I invite you to join me over on my UA-cam channel where there are many more great videos on simple and sustainable living! ua-cam.com/users/robgreenfield Stay tuned on Pete's channel for more videos with me to come. Also, if you have questions please ask by responding to this comment and I will answer them for the next week or so.
This whole setup and premise has absolutely blown me away. I love everything you're doing, we lived tiny for 2 years before we moved down here to tampa. We're trying to grow more and are aiming to start a small scale mushroom farm soon. Our passionfruit vines have basically blotted out the sun, and we're excited to see what happens with our moringa. You've definitely inspired me to kick it up a notch and I now have a whole new rabbit hole to go down. I'm definitely going to investigate yucca because we have room for it in the back yard. Thanks to all involved in putting this together!
Rob Greenfield growing more foods for own consumption is way better.a very sustainable living some are dreaming to become rich just to enjoy life but this is more enjoyable and more fun,,in the Philippines i enjoy planting from veg to fruit trees very relaxing i know its a hard work but watching your plants growing is like a therapy to me.
like what? eating indigestible plants? u do know that our body is designed to digest meat right? ive eaten meat since 13april, my body "aka"gut and liver absorbs, 95-99% of all animal products i eat. guess why? our stomach acid is 1,5ph value, a herbivores stomach acid is at 5,9ph(cows,horses,lambs,gorillaz,and so many more...,it takes 4,5ph + atleast to digest plants,so ur liver can absorb it, why do you shit out all the unessecary things? because your body does not need it. ever heard of that before? i take a shit normaly each 7 to 9 days. and it lasts for about 2minutes with 0 effort, and its not loose or to hard. Good luck doin that on plants u shit every 1 or 2 days... we evolved on meat, especially raw and rotten meats... some stlll exists today " fermented surstromming" "high meats" "high organ meats"... eskimoes, massai tribes,senegalesic ppl, dont have heart attacks/strokes/alhzeimers... these are manmade illnesses thats come from manmade foods such as "grain flour" pasta,pizza,bread,potatoes, and plants. 99% of all plants sold in store are grown with antibiotics, which kills ur gut flora.
Surprised he didn’t have a chicken coop. Chickens are a world wide staple for off the grid survival. Anyway I am impressed with how many things he made self sufficient pretty cool
How nice is to see someone as proud, happy and inspired as this bloke, especially in times like these, when millions are feeling alone and empty. I grew up in the country, and there are few things more rewarding as growing your own food.
I appreciate him being ration about the choice for having electricity. I can never understand why some of the off grid people never talk about the cons of actually living off the grid.
@@corbonzo1 depends on what you get i have infinite light during the day and game all night. iv only spent 5k on my solar system... but then again i look for deals i dont just get what sellers on youtube recommend i buy.
@@WhiteGravey I've lived in places that are completely off the grid and have no idea how minimal your power use is but it's not easy. It is expensive, and it's tricky. If you want a modest, modern living amount of electricity, you need to know a decent amount of electrical knowledge, or have a friend who is an electrician. Power inverters, power storage, generators. Light...isn't impressive. Light is the most minimal power demand any house has. A light bulb can be powered by a keychain solar panel. If you expect to run things like freezers...refridgerators, power tools, hot water heaters, basic modern luxuries...you have a lot more difficulty relying on something as on and off as the sunlight. Especially when its night, and you have to then rely on power storage..which becomes an even trickier task. One high powered technology kicking in can shut down your entire system if there's not enough power being generated/stored. We ran hydro-power (which in the Northern winter is a massive pain in the ass and almost always completley obsolete due to freezing) and wind power, and solar. All three, you'd still expect to lose power dozens of times. Fuses blowing, getting rid of sometimes excess electricity becomes an issue too. There's nothing easy about it. Perhaps it's easy if your only energy requirements is powering a 60 watt lightbulb, then yeah. If you're off the grid, you can't rely on one power source. It's nearly impossible to live well under a single power source like the voodoo magic that people think solar panels are. They're not perfect. They are indeed expensive, despite what people like to claim. any solar panel worth installing at a level that produces enough power for a house hold, becomes 10s of thousands of dollars. Solar tracking, the installation, power bank, the extremely expensive large gauge electrical cords, the further away the panel, the price increases exponentially. I dont know why so many people proclaim how "easy" green energy is. If it was easy, we would have given up fossil fuels. But we haven't because its massively easier to burn those or split atoms relative to the massive energy output.
@@cherriemckinstry131 Absolutely, one thing that you don't see very often at least here in the states is a whole food vegan or even one close to it. The artery clogging fats in meats, namely your more red meats not only clog the bodies blood flow but also the brain. Also take CBD as an example, it's non psychoactive yet it has an anxiolytic effect due to its anti inflammatory properties. Turns out just having mild discomfort in the body leads to psychological effects.
@@cherriemckinstry131 You've got that plus the psychoactive properties of compounds found in many types of plants most people in the states aren't exposed to very much if at all. And on TOP of that, living like this man sort of allows this reassurance in the back of your head that says job or not you're gonna be able to take care of yourself and i think that more than any of the other points I made is really what has this guy so happy. Because it's the main thing that causes most people to be unhappy, that 9-5 we think we HAVE to have or we'll die, that place that controls your sleep patterns, your diet, your relationships, your time, and your energy. Maddening I say, friggin maddening
@@PherPhur Yes i think that being a vegetarian or more so is good but what i learned is vegan meant no eggs or milk or anything that comes from animals. I respect that too, but i watched a video wbere someone said they were a vegan but had a hurd of milk cows, i didnt understand that.
I found it adorable when he rubs the leaves on his face😉. In Thailand, we kinda do the same on shucking the coconut on a sharp metal, but it is secured on a firm board and only be done by experts (yes, we have coconut pealing pro). Just be careful with it. Thanks for sharing the experience.
By "experts" you mean regular people who've been doing that for decades? It's how they peel coconuts in regular households for those who harvest coconuts from trees (not stores).
I love this guy, his smile is infectious, his appetite ravenous...all things to share with a needy, angry world...when I was his age I was a disciple of Ewell Gibbons, now I'm a sponge learning from the younger gen and loving it, foraging in my own yard daily...life is good, Florida good...!!!
@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL boss for opening coconut there is a product U can get from Kerala, India, with that Evan a child can open the coconut..U can google it
@@cherriemckinstry131 please watch this UA-cam link video how to open coconut easily with machine from Kerala state, India link is ua-cam.com/video/LqiA-j2qPvw/v-deo.html
Hi Rob, I am from the Philippines.. Land of the coconut. 😊If you want to have coconut oil for cooking, just boil down coconut cream/milk until you see oil floating on top, boil it down some more until only oil is left in the pot. We use this oil for cookinh, body massage and for the hair. 😁
Haha, nice. I was just thinking if i was a woman i would love to marry this guy, seeing all the joy and peace radiating out of him. For sure he would treat me nice and appreciate all the things i give to his life. A nice example of attitude to absorb into your self as a man.
This person is my inspiration, one day, i'd like to live in a village with people like him and find peace and love with all of them though simplicity and nature.
I love the way this was recorded! This was truly an amazing experience being about to see from your point of view, it made me feel so much or closer and invited haha I’m not sure how I could explain it but I’m sure other viewers can agree
Hey Rob, i grew up making coconut oil for my grandma and I to cook with. Those ripe coconuts you have there are perfect for oil. How to make it: blend the coconut meats in a blender with some water. (The less water the better. It will reduce cooking time substantially). After you get the meat blended, give it a good massage to extract all oil from the flesh. Squeeze out the juice and filter it to get coconut milk. Cook up this milk until all water evaporated. Once you cook off all the water, you will be left with golden color coconut oil and some junks of coconut "meats". Filter out the oil, the bypass product is also great tasting. Eat them as snacks, treats, or add some salt and sprinkle on baked pumpkin you have there. I hope you will try this technique and make yourself lots of coconut oil to use year round.
Omg I love this man! We have 10 acres of mostly woods, about 2 acres for home and surroundings, but I cannot get my husband on board to live in a tiny house and off the grid lol. But I love foraging in our woods, teaching my boys and they've loved all the blackberries. Love this so much!!! We are debt free but our house is too big for my liking and want a smaller home and more acreage. Subscribed to both. Looking forward to watching Rob and his lifestyle.
It's a trade off between the north and south. It may be better for storage in the north but you can grow things easier in the south and year round outside. You also don't have to worry about collecting wood and staying warm in the winter. The ideal location would be somewhere right in the middle.
Storage is not really a problem in warmer area. You could always use brining and sun drying method to preserve food. I think the biggest problems are pest and disease. Warmer climate means more nasty things to destroy your crops (and yourself)
You say that until you experience it, those hot summers and cold winters aren't no joke and require some SERIOUS planning. Not to say given the right preparation it isn't more ideal but we are talking lived here for a decade to get familiar with it type planning.
@@Centrioless Yes! This is exactly the issue I'm coming across. SO MANY PESTS in Texas. I'm struggling with tarnished plant bugs, cabbage worms, June bugs, and wireworms.
I was thinking a similar thing - that things grow faster and a lot.more in the tropics so you have more food in the garden all year round but it is easier to store things in the colder are as. I was thinking the amount of food available might even out and be about the same between the two areas, with the tropics being in the garden and the colder areas being in your storage (if you are organised)
@@PherPhur Oh i know, i live as far north as you can go before Canada. The winters are very long and cold. I know how hot it can be in the summers down south as well. That's why i think it would be nice to live somewhere in between. I've been thinking maybe North or South Carolina would be a good place to live. Not too hot, not too cold.
depends on how far away from the hordes his tiny house is. His food is tied to the land there, if the horde is in his back yard he would not be able to last long.
I love how he’s doing this and obviously sharing it on UA-cam. I would love for him to teach in detail his process on everything. I would love to live more like this and I think a lot of this skill has been lost in time. It’s a shame that this isn’t second nature to us anymore.
Reina Natsumi In Stardew valley you do more than just farming. There’s foraging, wine making and other artisan goods. You also have to time when you’re gonna plant because you can’t plant certain crops in different seasons.
It's not as dangerous as it appears to you. It's a blunt spike and it's a common way to open coconuts. I can assure you I know how to use the tool safely and well.
Obviously not since people used to live like this just before the Technology Age hit and people still aren't happy lol. Heck if the government didn't force me to pay taxes on the property that i paid off years ago I'd never work a job again especially since I'm completely off-grid creating my own power and filtering my own water and raising plus growing all my own food.
I agree ☝️ but! It would be such a drastic change in lifestyle. I don’t know if I could make it... I would like grow my own stuff though... have shrimp, fish maybe?
And way hungrier... I think his wonderfully healthy diet lacks some good healthy fats and could possibly do with more protein depending how much fish he manages to eat. How about getting a few chickens and adding eggs to the diet? Maybe a goat for milk, cream and yoghurt? Find an avocado tree somewhere to forage from ;)
It would be nice if people lived like this and I think people would be a lot happier BUT it simply isn't efficient enough to work on a global scale. This sort of thing demands a relatively large amount of land per person which is a problem with more and more people moving to both cities and areas with high population densities.
Sad to say his is not doing anything for planet earth but sustaining himself planet earth needs a much larger scale of this if its going to help her starting from every day people
OMG!!! I can’t believe I watch a living style like this in American from an American. It reminds me of my home country that grew up from. It is amazing! Thank you for sharing!! You are influencer!
It's honestly so interesting and calming to watch foraging videos. When I was a kid I used to pick up edible herbs and leaves, fallen mangoes from my granny's backyard. Ah lost good old days.
Luckily i live in the UK, i really want to have a home stead one day. I would grow loads of potatoes and root veg e.g parsnips, carrots and beets. Its nice and cool from October to March. So storing food in barns or basements would be easy for me. We also have 100s of wild edibles in our large countryside. Game like rabbit, pheasant, pigeons, quail and deer are found in woodlands. I would love to have a small house and barn with 4 acres by the coast to get fish. This video is very inspiring. I would aim to grow 60% of my own food, hunt 20% and forage 20%. We have loads of native nut trees so that would be a good option.
@@swatisri2409 i'm from a tropical country which is one of the biggest coconut producers in the world and that's also how we dehusk and open coconut shells here especially a large numbers of coconuts for export and making different products. it's easier and faster. these western people don't know tropical stuff, so they better shut up.
When I was a kid, my dad had a big account with a business in Michigan. We lived in Indiana. He would bring home bushels of various varieties of apples. We had a root cellar/cold storage room and we would wrap each apple in newspaper and sort them according to variety. We had apples fall through spring. I hated spending hours and hours wrapping apples but, the payoff was incredible! Pies, streusel, apple sauce.....unlimited apples.
Since I can't pay the water distribution, I try to harvest rain water. I just try it for three months. It really helps. The problem is, when summer come, no rain for 4 months.
Pete, this is an all-time great. Rob makes so much sense and makes his life style look easy. I live in a tiny house in Maine during the summer, with the solar panels, rooftop water catchment and composting potty. It's not as easy as it looks. Also the coconuts are pretty scarce. So inspiring!
@@maotse1709 yes,all people can't live this life because they have family do it's so dificult. Me to I have family and live on appart.but WE CAN dream it's free !!! Salam,Peace from algeria
@@maotse1709 yes nothing else, in my contry 1% of people know Rob,so it's dificult tout choise this life. excuse for the comment I 'm not learn english very Well. I know french and arabe only .Generalty I comment what I have on my Heart, Salam,Peace
How long does his food last? He seems like he's got way more than he could eat and he is storing most of it on the shelves. As for his home, I actually envy him. Living simply and not paying for all the stuff we all get caught up in paying for.
@@tektaloy3134 thats what i want to do with a 40 acre farm, but make it into a collective so each person has their own projects but compliments others, so that you may need garden compost but someone with animals may need a few veggies to feed the animals, so cutting costs and waste. Were thinking more of smaller or tiny home living. Thus having more land to do gardening or amimals or fruit.
@@ledomc2007 by having a collective of like minds you can live affordably as well as make a living and keep overhead costs down. No water bill, more solar or even mathane generator to cut costs. Thats the best part.
@@ledomc2007 yes but a conventional home you have to start adding utilities and sewage and water bills and electric..your nack where you started if you dont think frugal or affordably.
Give the dried coconut to someone from Kerala. They will convert it into sweets and savouries. Try elephant foot, bananas, mangoes, custard apple, tamarind, coconuts, ginger, chillies. Grow garden bananas which yield flowers. They convert grey wastewater to oxygenated water. You can use coconut without filtering out the milk too in curries. They have fibre. Try the coconut chutney too. Come to Kerala you will learn about countless coconut food. Grow jackfruit and guavas too.
Of all the videos I've watched on here.. None have moved me in the way this has. Definitely get this guys vibe. His enthusiasm & energy is motivating. Awesome life man!
I've been wanting to do stuff like this for years, including the bathroom compost system, but my family started worrying about me, thought it was crazy. I didn't want them to worry so I stopped.
IF YOU MISSED PART 1, HERE IS THAT LINK - ua-cam.com/video/xB7UK7yuW5g/v-deo.html (We've noticed from some of the comments that maybe you didn't realize this was part 2 of 2)
Pete Kanaris GreenDreamsFL dude coconut oil is super easy to make, grew up making it in the jungles of South America. Coconut is abundant we do not buy oils we make it coconut.
@Jack Snow you could decide to migrate here. Im developing a farm collective, so a person can get a garden plot or quarter acre, or an acre or more if your caring for animals. Since its a live in co.munity, no farm factories, or huge wear house production. People should do that on their own large farm. This is based on food security of organic food and water with affordable living.
Hey man, I live near you. My wife is a president of a nutrition club at a local college, maybe we could do a project together, or could get you to come talk on campus.
What you guys think is nutrients and what your body actually uses as nutrients seems to be miles apart. You look like a cancer patient. Your body is wasting away along with what I suspect was your brain. I hope you get well soon and realise this but I doubt it. Most probable outcome is you weaken your body to a point where you die from malnutrition or organ failure or even some disease that you normally would've fought off.
@@cherriemckinstry131 If you want to spend your hard earned money on medicine that has no proven effect, that's your choice. But it does not mean that it should be promoted by academia. Universities and colleges teach things that can be backed by science. That's the whole point of those institutions. How would you like it if someone taught your kids that a spoonful of arsenic a day is the healthiest thing for you, just because they thought so.
I have everything anyone could want - a mansion, acres of property, a watch for every day of the week, two high-end cars, a big-screen TV in practically every room of the house, a fridge and cabinets full of food, and a closet bigger than this guy's house. However, in many regards, I am almost envious of this man. Kudos to you, bud. More people need to be like you.
I'm trying to live off grid and this video made it much more possible and gave me so many more ideas!! Sadly I don't have the money to get a home like he does but I'm praying to live happy
I have been watching several videos featuring Rob and he truly is an amazing guy with an amazing lifestyle. I have a question though, why doesn't he have chickens for eggs?
I wish he were part of my farm collective project. Im in the Poconos in Pa. And want to make a 40 acre farm into a collective of mini farms with all the things you do plus a pond, chickens and another community garden here got bannanas to grow by cutting back and composting for winter and it worked!
Ducks are fun to raise and one duck egg is the equivalent of 2 chicken eggs Ducks produce more eggs per year than chickens they also continuously produce eggs longer than chickens do Ofc the egg yokes are larger making for a more eggy taste and they contain more whites which is better for baking Id definitely suggest ducks over chickens much easier to raise more of a mess than chickens but thats only because they consume more water (i mean they are waterfowl) so their poop is more messy but unlike chickens you can use duck poop immediately for fertilizer Its easier to introduce more ducks to a pre-existing flock than it is to introduce more chickens to pre-existing chickens They require less in terms of coops our ducks stay in an old shed with a window(ventilation is key with ducks pekins the big white ducks are prone to respiratory issues we own rouens and Khaki Campbells and we found that the pekins experience more respiratory issues than the other breeds we believe its due to their size and how they keep their bills moist so they can breathe our pekins have daily medication for their respiratory systems) but they’re real happy in one big ole shed with raccoon proof locks and nice thick layers of straw on the ground we like layering sand first then throwing straw because it helps soak up excess moisture Ducks are alot of fun we love our quacks
@@amanawolf9166 this is a great opportunity as you have your own land but there is cooperative pieces you benefit from but dont have the tax burden of owning outright, so less overhead. (Even dairy farms are becoming cooperatives sharing milking equipment..land to save money..)You can grow food, or make compost, or raise chickens, but its a permaculture lifestyle so not a factory farm but a lifestyle and more than one way to make income.
Indeed! That usually prevents salt from picking up moisture. But to be honest, that jar of salt in the video seemed so wet that it would require quite a few repeated bags of rice. :) I think he could lose a lot of moisture just by opening it.
If you're looking to make good coconut oil, try sprouted coconut, it has a substantial amount already separated from the sprout on the inside. They are always around here in south Florida.
Part of being self sufficient is not needing medical attention from an outside source. Many others have mentioned the coconut spike, but less of an issue for me. The seperating the coconut from the husk after you halved it is. If you continue to use the spine of the blade on the husk the meat will seperate easily with less chance of a damaged wrist or finger. Thank you for your dedication to your craft and for bringing it to the rest of us.
I thought I was going to have a heart attack watching you peal that coconut! - please don't end up in the ER. As a nurse Ive seen way too many "accidents"
the way he's doing it is wrong it should be one leg in front touching the spike and the other should be at the back so you have a good balance and no tendency of falling forward.
growing food is the most natural thing, no one needs experience.. i think the way he lives, is inspired from Indian traditions. Its amazing what he is doing extraordinary
You've inspired me to be more aware of my food waste and my food intake. I'm sure that makes you happy, it should. You ARE an inspiration to those of us that give a shit.
This is a dream come true. Very inspiring video. I can only thank you for inviting the viewers to see such an ergonomic place. More people should follow your example. Extraordinary work!
My parents did lawn work. They'd dump the debris at this dumping ground. These guys would come in with massive trucks and drop hundreds of coconuts off from working on palms. One day my mom asked if she could take them. They literally filled up the entire bed of my dads work truck with coconuts and brought them to me. They were perfectly fine. Still in the husk. I spent two days debunking them, cracking them, then made coconut oil, cold process. It's so easy. And if you need tons of coconuts I suggest looking for one of those dumping areas where they take plant materials (make sure it's well away from trash obviously). But you can literally load up on as many coconuts as you want. We made a deal with one of the guys who would give them to us for free and I'd use those for coconut water, etc. I literally will never pay for coconut water ever again.
Hey there Max and friends! Here is my UA-cam channel: ua-cam.com/users/robgreenfield Join me over there if you'd like. Health and happiness to you, Rob
Hey there everyone!
I hope Pete's video inspired a whole lot of you to grow more food and to help others to grow some of their own food too!
If you got a lot of out this, I invite you to join me over on my UA-cam channel where there are many more great videos on simple and sustainable living! ua-cam.com/users/robgreenfield
Stay tuned on Pete's channel for more videos with me to come.
Also, if you have questions please ask by responding to this comment and I will answer them for the next week or so.
This whole setup and premise has absolutely blown me away. I love everything you're doing, we lived tiny for 2 years before we moved down here to tampa. We're trying to grow more and are aiming to start a small scale mushroom farm soon. Our passionfruit vines have basically blotted out the sun, and we're excited to see what happens with our moringa. You've definitely inspired me to kick it up a notch and I now have a whole new rabbit hole to go down. I'm definitely going to investigate yucca because we have room for it in the back yard. Thanks to all involved in putting this together!
You really Inspired me Rob.. Someday I will follow your path
The title says he has to but its all just choices
I wish Ohio could grow some of the food Florida can.
Rob Greenfield growing more foods for own consumption is way better.a very sustainable living some are dreaming to become rich just to enjoy life but this is more enjoyable and more fun,,in the Philippines i enjoy planting from veg to fruit trees very relaxing i know its a hard work but watching your plants growing is like a therapy to me.
FLORIDA MAN... finally doesn’t do something crazy, but instead something smart.
"He's obviously not one of ours" ....FLORIDA
I mean this is PRETTY CRAZY, just not in the same manner that we are used to from good ol Florida
@Mimi Sunshine none of that made sense
Wouldn't say smart, but kinda coolish? I guess.
like what? eating indigestible plants?
u do know that our body is designed to digest meat right?
ive eaten meat since 13april, my body "aka"gut and liver absorbs, 95-99% of all animal products i eat.
guess why? our stomach acid is 1,5ph value, a herbivores stomach acid is at 5,9ph(cows,horses,lambs,gorillaz,and so many more...,it takes 4,5ph + atleast to digest plants,so ur liver can absorb it,
why do you shit out all the unessecary things? because your body does not need it. ever heard of that before?
i take a shit normaly each 7 to 9 days. and it lasts for about 2minutes with 0 effort, and its not loose or to hard.
Good luck doin that on plants u shit every 1 or 2 days... we evolved on meat, especially raw and rotten meats...
some stlll exists today " fermented surstromming" "high meats" "high organ meats"...
eskimoes, massai tribes,senegalesic ppl, dont have heart attacks/strokes/alhzeimers... these
are manmade illnesses thats come from manmade foods such as "grain flour" pasta,pizza,bread,potatoes,
and plants. 99% of all plants sold in store are grown with antibiotics, which kills ur gut flora.
This guy looks genuinely happy. You can't say that about many people. More evidence that we don't need material things.
🙌
If you like being poor then just say so.
Yeah, he speaks... how would you put it... "gaily".
@@richardshiflett5181 Why would anyone like being poor?😕
@Susuya Juuzou You're such a downer do you know that?
i frickin love seeing other people do their own thing and get so happy about their own little projects
This was like me showing off my Minecraft world.
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and the weird random youtube recommendation algorithm hits again! not dissapointed tho.
Hahah nice!
Was thinking exactly this. Not disappointed at all!
I just came to the conclusion, that the algorithm isn't weird at all and that it works super well.
great..... now youtube can sense when I'm hugry.
what's left? predict when I'm about to go take a dump?
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Surprised he didn’t have a chicken coop. Chickens are a world wide staple for off the grid survival. Anyway I am impressed with how many things he made self sufficient pretty cool
Unfortunately chickens are corn and soy consuming machines. Because of the feed cost Rob has opted not to have chickens.
Pete Kanaris GreenDreamsFL lol dude you have clearly not seen free range chickens consuming bugs all day. Not to mention any scrap crops he may have
@@Handlemydangle chickens are loud bro.Noise ordinance lol
Qui Tran ah yeah I wish we had that ordinance here, my neighbors dogs will bark at 3 am if a moth flys by
Get quail then. They need smaller area than chickens anyway.
How nice is to see someone as proud, happy and inspired as this bloke, especially in times like these, when millions are feeling alone and empty. I grew up in the country, and there are few things more rewarding as growing your own food.
I appreciate him being ration about the choice for having electricity. I can never understand why some of the off grid people never talk about the cons of actually living off the grid.
They can't talk about the cons, they don't have a phone.
its not 1990... do you have any idea how easy it is to set up a solar system? you can buy 300+ watt panels for 90 dollars now adays.
@@WhiteGravey yeah... panels aren't even the very expensive part. battery storage is
@@corbonzo1 depends on what you get i have infinite light during the day and game all night. iv only spent 5k on my solar system... but then again i look for deals i dont just get what sellers on youtube recommend i buy.
@@WhiteGravey I've lived in places that are completely off the grid and have no idea how minimal your power use is but it's not easy. It is expensive, and it's tricky. If you want a modest, modern living amount of electricity, you need to know a decent amount of electrical knowledge, or have a friend who is an electrician. Power inverters, power storage, generators. Light...isn't impressive. Light is the most minimal power demand any house has. A light bulb can be powered by a keychain solar panel. If you expect to run things like freezers...refridgerators, power tools, hot water heaters, basic modern luxuries...you have a lot more difficulty relying on something as on and off as the sunlight. Especially when its night, and you have to then rely on power storage..which becomes an even trickier task. One high powered technology kicking in can shut down your entire system if there's not enough power being generated/stored.
We ran hydro-power (which in the Northern winter is a massive pain in the ass and almost always completley obsolete due to freezing) and wind power, and solar. All three, you'd still expect to lose power dozens of times. Fuses blowing, getting rid of sometimes excess electricity becomes an issue too.
There's nothing easy about it. Perhaps it's easy if your only energy requirements is powering a 60 watt lightbulb, then yeah.
If you're off the grid, you can't rely on one power source. It's nearly impossible to live well under a single power source like the voodoo magic that people think solar panels are. They're not perfect. They are indeed expensive, despite what people like to claim. any solar panel worth installing at a level that produces enough power for a house hold, becomes 10s of thousands of dollars. Solar tracking, the installation, power bank, the extremely expensive large gauge electrical cords, the further away the panel, the price increases exponentially.
I dont know why so many people proclaim how "easy" green energy is. If it was easy, we would have given up fossil fuels. But we haven't because its massively easier to burn those or split atoms relative to the massive energy output.
"Homemade?"
"Noo it's from the side of the road I found a jar of it"
thats a jar of cum luuuuuul
Total lie
All he had to do was close his eyes and suck it out of a hose.
That counts!
I guess it is still foraging lol
This guy is literally what I wanna be when I grow up
You're amazing Rob....an inspiration indeed....
That's really awesome
To just have a purpose?
@@ShaquilleOatmeal94 we all have a purpose. I just wanna garden and own land
I love this guy. He has really studied and is practicing a way to live off the land.
This guy looks SO happy
Happy and healthy..
@@cherriemckinstry131 Absolutely, one thing that you don't see very often at least here in the states is a whole food vegan or even one close to it. The artery clogging fats in meats, namely your more red meats not only clog the bodies blood flow but also the brain.
Also take CBD as an example, it's non psychoactive yet it has an anxiolytic effect due to its anti inflammatory properties. Turns out just having mild discomfort in the body leads to psychological effects.
@@cherriemckinstry131 You've got that plus the psychoactive properties of compounds found in many types of plants most people in the states aren't exposed to very much if at all.
And on TOP of that, living like this man sort of allows this reassurance in the back of your head that says job or not you're gonna be able to take care of yourself and i think that more than any of the other points I made is really what has this guy so happy. Because it's the main thing that causes most people to be unhappy, that 9-5 we think we HAVE to have or we'll die, that place that controls your sleep patterns, your diet, your relationships, your time, and your energy. Maddening I say, friggin maddening
@@PherPhur Yes i think that being a vegetarian or more so is good but what i learned is vegan meant no eggs or milk or anything that comes from animals. I respect that too, but i watched a video wbere someone said they were a vegan but had a hurd of milk cows, i didnt understand that.
@@PherPhur i agree that we must do what makes us happy and when your helping others its a bonus.
Picks up jar of thick white liquid.
"this is not food"
That's funny af
That was his crack cocaine project. He milks the addicts around 6 in the morning when they're passed out.
Stef what the fuck...
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@@Avslappnandeljud that shit made my day!
Breaking News: Florida man impaled while thrusting coconut into submission.
Please watch my latest cooking video with Rob, he explains how safe this actually is.
dont even talk like that :^(
Breaking News: A Florida UA-camr got eated by a sinkhole.
Titus Wolfe that’s what I was thinking. Look really dangerous
@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL this is way more safer and less physically exhausting ua-cam.com/video/1qpJ5MN_wG0/v-deo.html
I found it adorable when he rubs the leaves on his face😉. In Thailand, we kinda do the same on shucking the coconut on a sharp metal, but it is secured on a firm board and only be done by experts (yes, we have coconut pealing pro). Just be careful with it. Thanks for sharing the experience.
He got so much joy out of those leaves! XD They're so sooooft!!
By "experts" you mean regular people who've been doing that for decades?
It's how they peel coconuts in regular households for those who harvest coconuts from trees (not stores).
I love this guy, his smile is infectious, his appetite ravenous...all things to share with a needy, angry world...when I was his age I was a disciple of Ewell Gibbons, now I'm a sponge learning from the younger gen and loving it, foraging in my own yard daily...life is good, Florida good...!!!
Me too! Keep up the good work 👊
@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL boss for opening coconut there is a product U can get from Kerala, India, with that Evan a child can open the coconut..U can google it
@@thomasranjit7781 thanks for that info..
@@cherriemckinstry131 please watch this UA-cam link video how to open coconut easily with machine from Kerala state, India link is ua-cam.com/video/LqiA-j2qPvw/v-deo.html
Yeah he's probably hungry all the time because he doesn't eat big meals. Just basically snacking all the time.
This guy is ALL over the frugal/freegan/tiny house UA-cam recommended list. Man - you have arrived!! Thank you for your efforts.
Glad to hear he’s getting the coverage he deserves🙌
He sad he eats fish hhrs not Vega. Lol wtf u talking about Ppl
Hi Rob, I am from the Philippines.. Land of the coconut. 😊If you want to have coconut oil for cooking, just boil down coconut cream/milk until you see oil floating on top, boil it down some more until only oil is left in the pot. We use this oil for cookinh, body massage and for the hair. 😁
Soapwort👍 the ultamate soap plant. Boil low in water 1 cup soapwort for 1 to 1 1/2cup water, let sit till cool, strain, and use!
He's going to add Squirrel to his list of protein sources.
Edit: It has been confirmed that Rob does eat the Squirrels
He should since you can hunt them with air rifles in FL. nice quiet and simple and he can add the carcass to the compost pile.
I bet the neighbor hood is missing a few cats as well
Was that squirrel chocolate covered?
And?
uh oh..
He seems like such a happy and appreciative person
This is the kind of guy I want to date/marry. No money no problem...let's live in a tiny house, grow own food. Nicceeee
He'll marry ya if you have a big back yard he can garden on, build a shed and live for free. Maybe he'd even fashion you a vine wedding ring.
That won't be a problem my parents have plenty of empty land. Just he have to travel to Borneo island.
ana lyna Which part of Borneo?
Marry him!
Haha, nice. I was just thinking if i was a woman i would love to marry this guy, seeing all the joy and peace radiating out of him. For sure he would treat me nice and appreciate all the things i give to his life. A nice example of attitude to absorb into your self as a man.
This guy radiates health and contentment. Nice.
Radiating some health and happiness your way Martha!
This person is my inspiration, one day, i'd like to live in a village with people like him and find peace and love with all of them though simplicity and nature.
This guy found peace in simplicity.
I love the way this was recorded! This was truly an amazing experience being about to see from your point of view, it made me feel so much or closer and invited haha I’m not sure how I could explain it but I’m sure other viewers can agree
Thank you! I’ve noticed people either love or hate the film style. Luckily more love than hate :)
Hey Rob, i grew up making coconut oil for my grandma and I to cook with. Those ripe coconuts you have there are perfect for oil. How to make it: blend the coconut meats in a blender with some water. (The less water the better. It will reduce cooking time substantially). After you get the meat blended, give it a good massage to extract all oil from the flesh. Squeeze out the juice and filter it to get coconut milk. Cook up this milk until all water evaporated. Once you cook off all the water, you will be left with golden color coconut oil and some junks of coconut "meats". Filter out the oil, the bypass product is also great tasting. Eat them as snacks, treats, or add some salt and sprinkle on baked pumpkin you have there. I hope you will try this technique and make yourself lots of coconut oil to use year round.
"The squirrels are always messin with my stuff" I couldn't stop laughing. Too good.
That Coco-shucking spike is gonna be how he meets his end!
Morbid, but yes, I was so terrified when he was shucking those coconuts.
lol... exactly what came to mind the instant he started in with it.
I was imagining it piercing his ballsack and cringing
Tetanus shot. I hope he’s updated!! Yikes!
Holy shit
I wanna be as happy as this dude rob
Omg I love this man! We have 10 acres of mostly woods, about 2 acres for home and surroundings, but I cannot get my husband on board to live in a tiny house and off the grid lol. But I love foraging in our woods, teaching my boys and they've loved all the blackberries. Love this so much!!! We are debt free but our house is too big for my liking and want a smaller home and more acreage. Subscribed to both. Looking forward to watching Rob and his lifestyle.
Lol we have 227 acres, I know what you mean 😊
I dont see why a tiny house would be ideal if you have 2 acres of land
Find ways to use the extra space!
It's a trade off between the north and south. It may be better for storage in the north but you can grow things easier in the south and year round outside. You also don't have to worry about collecting wood and staying warm in the winter. The ideal location would be somewhere right in the middle.
Storage is not really a problem in warmer area. You could always use brining and sun drying method to preserve food.
I think the biggest problems are pest and disease. Warmer climate means more nasty things to destroy your crops (and yourself)
You say that until you experience it, those hot summers and cold winters aren't no joke and require some SERIOUS planning. Not to say given the right preparation it isn't more ideal but we are talking lived here for a decade to get familiar with it type planning.
@@Centrioless Yes! This is exactly the issue I'm coming across. SO MANY PESTS in Texas. I'm struggling with tarnished plant bugs, cabbage worms, June bugs, and wireworms.
I was thinking a similar thing - that things grow faster and a lot.more in the tropics so you have more food in the garden all year round but it is easier to store things in the colder are as. I was thinking the amount of food available might even out and be about the same between the two areas, with the tropics being in the garden and the colder areas being in your storage (if you are organised)
@@PherPhur Oh i know, i live as far north as you can go before Canada. The winters are very long and cold. I know how hot it can be in the summers down south as well. That's why i think it would be nice to live somewhere in between. I've been thinking maybe North or South Carolina would be a good place to live. Not too hot, not too cold.
UA-cam recommendation is doing a great job today
Awesome!
Man this guy can live when Zombie Apocalypse occurs haha
depends on how far away from the hordes his tiny house is. His food is tied to the land there, if the horde is in his back yard he would not be able to last long.
I love how he’s doing this and obviously sharing it on UA-cam. I would love for him to teach in detail his process on everything. I would love to live more like this and I think a lot of this skill has been lost in time. It’s a shame that this isn’t second nature to us anymore.
This dude is Stardew Valley irl
Stardew valley's based off of farming, you can't just call everything related to farming/ living off of the land as sdv irl
Reina Natsumi In Stardew valley you do more than just farming. There’s foraging, wine making and other artisan goods. You also have to time when you’re gonna plant because you can’t plant certain crops in different seasons.
He's soo hot
I.love stardewvalley I laugh on switch
lmao shit I literally made this same comment now I have to delete it.
Regarding the rice and the salt, take a small textile bag and fill it with rice. Should do the trick and keep moisture drawn out. :)
New Jay no he just didn’t want to eat it, he can put it in the salt. but if he ate it, i’m guessing he’d be utterly disappointed.
Could use dried peas
Pushing directly down on a spike with a coconut while hovering over it is a mathematical certainty. Please be careful!
Especially when the metal spike is aiming at your groin!!
I was going to say, could use a mallet once it's stuck on it to avoid injury
My bf spent over 15 minutes trying to open one with a knife and hammer😅🤣🤣🤣 if he sees this video he's going to cuss
It's not as dangerous as it appears to you. It's a blunt spike and it's a common way to open coconuts. I can assure you I know how to use the tool safely and well.
@@Robin.Greenfield we know Rob, with your sweet sexy self😍😍😍
"This is fermentation."
A better way over saying, here's my booze.
Imagine if everyone lived like this. People would create hardly any plastic pollution. Also, they would be way more healthier and happier.
Obviously not since people used to live like this just before the Technology Age hit and people still aren't happy lol. Heck if the government didn't force me to pay taxes on the property that i paid off years ago I'd never work a job again especially since I'm completely off-grid creating my own power and filtering my own water and raising plus growing all my own food.
I agree ☝️ but! It would be such a drastic change in lifestyle. I don’t know if I could make it... I would like grow my own stuff though... have shrimp, fish maybe?
And way hungrier... I think his wonderfully healthy diet lacks some good healthy fats and could possibly do with more protein depending how much fish he manages to eat. How about getting a few chickens and adding eggs to the diet? Maybe a goat for milk, cream and yoghurt? Find an avocado tree somewhere to forage from ;)
@@duke7803 provided he manages to extract it with all that chewing :D
It would be nice if people lived like this and I think people would be a lot happier BUT it simply isn't efficient enough to work on a global scale. This sort of thing demands a relatively large amount of land per person which is a problem with more and more people moving to both cities and areas with high population densities.
Such an amazing person! So self-sufficient and very resourceful. I really admire you and all you do to keep the planet Earth green and clean😍
Sad to say his is not doing anything for planet earth but sustaining himself planet earth needs a much larger scale of this if its going to help her starting from every day people
@@newyorkranger169 Earth is more than a rock it harbours life a rock cannot do that
OMG!!! I can’t believe I watch a living style like this in American from an American. It reminds me of my home country that grew up from. It is amazing! Thank you for sharing!! You are influencer!
Wow ...such a beautiful life!!😍 Nice presentation as well not scripted just natural and spontaneous 👌🏽
Thank you! I’ve never scripted a video or taken a second take for that matter.
@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL hahaha sorry this is after 1 month you're most welcome ❤️
26:12 RIP that Piece of papaya that fell to the floor
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Haha 😂 rip to all of them 😂
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What an inspiration in multiple ways.. can't wait to follow his youtube channel.
Awesome!
It's honestly so interesting and calming to watch foraging videos. When I was a kid I used to pick up edible herbs and leaves, fallen mangoes from my granny's backyard. Ah lost good old days.
Luckily i live in the UK, i really want to have a home stead one day.
I would grow loads of potatoes and root veg e.g parsnips, carrots and beets.
Its nice and cool from October to March. So storing food in barns or basements would be easy for me.
We also have 100s of wild edibles in our large countryside. Game like rabbit, pheasant, pigeons, quail and deer are found in woodlands.
I would love to have a small house and barn with 4 acres by the coast to get fish.
This video is very inspiring.
I would aim to grow 60% of my own food, hunt 20% and forage 20%.
We have loads of native nut trees so that would be a good option.
That sounds like a great plan! Good luck with your journey.
Really he is a special person. I was worried about the way he opened the coconut.
Little sketchy! But Rob is a pro now 😉
I’m from south India, and that’s how we’ve been de husking coconuts for ages
@@swatisri2409 i'm from a tropical country which is one of the biggest coconut producers in the world and that's also how we dehusk and open coconut shells here especially a large numbers of coconuts for export and making different products. it's easier and faster. these western people don't know tropical stuff, so they better shut up.
@Alina McPherson a very well put together reply
@Alina McPherson that was a compliment my dude😅
When I was a kid, my dad had a big account with a business in Michigan. We lived in Indiana. He would bring home bushels of various varieties of apples. We had a root cellar/cold storage room and we would wrap each apple in newspaper and sort them according to variety. We had apples fall through spring. I hated spending hours and hours wrapping apples but, the payoff was incredible! Pies, streusel, apple sauce.....unlimited apples.
Wow! Apple heaven 🍎
I normally don't think much of cooking for someone, or someone cooking for me. But i would be so happy to have this guy cook for me.
Amazing!!!! Rob is absolutely crushing it!!!! What an inspiration on many levels. Great stuff to lead by example
Agreed! Thank you 🙏
Since I can't pay the water distribution, I try to harvest rain water. I just try it for three months. It really helps. The problem is, when summer come, no rain for 4 months.
Hey,man i don`t really speak english but you`re doing damn right thing.I like it.
Awesome!
It has been 3 years already? Came back to watch it again. I was a volunteer back then, i was so supprised that we did can learn to grow food.😁
He has such a wonderful spirit. This is very inspirational and humbling in a way. This is definitely on my to do list.
Pete, this is an all-time great. Rob makes so much sense and makes his life style look easy. I live in a tiny house in Maine during the summer, with the solar panels, rooftop water catchment and composting potty. It's not as easy as it looks. Also the coconuts are pretty scarce.
So inspiring!
Hey Sue! Wow sounds like you’re so some cool stuff too. I love Maine! I’ll be visiting Eastport late summer for some film work.
To be honest This is the best UA-cam video I have ever watch so far
Wow!!! Thanks 🙌
I love this guy’s enthusiasm and he seems really happy! Good for him!
Rob is a very nice exemple for me,all the algerian people must see this vidéo,because they have'nt a beautiful life, Salam from algeria
@@maotse1709 yes,all people can't live this life because they have family do it's so dificult. Me to I have family and live on appart.but WE CAN dream it's free !!! Salam,Peace from algeria
@@maotse1709 yes nothing else, in my contry 1% of people know Rob,so it's dificult tout choise this life. excuse for the comment I 'm not learn english very Well. I know french and arabe only .Generalty I comment what I have on my Heart, Salam,Peace
@@maotse1709 ah ! quelle surprise ! Si je savais que tu commentait aussi bien en french , ça aurait été plus clair.merci and where are you from ?
How long does his food last? He seems like he's got way more than he could eat and he is storing most of it on the shelves. As for his home, I actually envy him. Living simply and not paying for all the stuff we all get caught up in paying for.
y, also since the wasnt any way of closing the storage of from sunlight
I think he eats the things on the shelves and the rest goes to the freezer
Well there's a ton of honey. And that doesn't go bad.
I'd of thought he'd can more but itd not for ever just the year, canned food will last years
He gives a lot away. You should watch the 1st video. It’s great, too 😊
My anxiety spiked watching him use that spike to shred the coconut husk. OMG YOUR GONNA SLIP AND FALL ON IT!!!!
I feel that too tho 😂
When he rubs his toilet paper on his face. I lost it laughing. What an adorable human.
I want to know you, sir! Let's be friends!
Rob is awesome! :-)
This guy speaks my language. Awesome.
This is the dream life, to be honest. I'm so jealous of him! Thank you so much for sharing. :)
dont be jealous live your life out and do it yourself but do your research
You can just do this. buy a house in a place like for less than $1000 a month lol
@@tektaloy3134 thats what i want to do with a 40 acre farm, but make it into a collective so each person has their own projects but compliments others, so that you may need garden compost but someone with animals may need a few veggies to feed the animals, so cutting costs and waste. Were thinking more of smaller or tiny home living. Thus having more land to do gardening or amimals or fruit.
@@ledomc2007 by having a collective of like minds you can live affordably as well as make a living and keep overhead costs down. No water bill, more solar or even mathane generator to cut costs. Thats the best part.
@@ledomc2007 yes but a conventional home you have to start adding utilities and sewage and water bills and electric..your nack where you started if you dont think frugal or affordably.
Absolute legend! So honest and real. Definitely inspired.
This man is so precious! Must protect.
Give the dried coconut to someone from Kerala. They will convert it into sweets and savouries.
Try elephant foot, bananas, mangoes, custard apple, tamarind, coconuts, ginger, chillies.
Grow garden bananas which yield flowers. They convert grey wastewater to oxygenated water.
You can use coconut without filtering out the milk too in curries. They have fibre.
Try the coconut chutney too. Come to Kerala you will learn about countless coconut food.
Grow jackfruit and guavas too.
Damn man! That like the pro list .
id like to ask,where is kerala?
@@kraiggali5720 India ^.^
That HomeBioGas thing was awesome. I've never seen that before. Definitely looking it up asap
Yeah, that’s the most amazing thing for me in this video. Never knew you could use the gas. Truly wonderful. It’s a shame our nation isn’t doing this.
We have it on the philippines , it's kind of sandy to eat it.
I can only say , he is such a wonderful man! God bless you!
Of all the videos I've watched on here.. None have moved me in the way this has. Definitely get this guys vibe. His enthusiasm & energy is motivating. Awesome life man!
Awesome Tyson! Robs energy is contagious
Science Officer Rob: "The seeds of the many outweigh the seeds of the few." Thanks, Teach!
Man your living the life I’m super jealous! Your Awesome man!
This is the good life ..all natural food, no waste..the world will sustain us much longer if we have more people like Rob...great concept.
This guys lifestyle is normal in Southeast Asian country.
Even better
Mostly in the rural/province areas.
Philippines
I live in southeast asia. But no i don't live like that. I got all my produce from the grocery store. Impossible to grow my own food here.
Rural and town area of Bangladesh
I've been wanting to do stuff like this for years, including the bathroom compost system, but my family started worrying about me, thought it was crazy. I didn't want them to worry so I stopped.
o0Avalon0o When the currency collapses this guy will be king. Perhaps your fam needs to try some of that good homemade shit.
Get a new family
IF YOU MISSED PART 1, HERE IS THAT LINK - ua-cam.com/video/xB7UK7yuW5g/v-deo.html
(We've noticed from some of the comments that maybe you didn't realize this was part 2 of 2)
Pete Kanaris GreenDreamsFL y
Pete Kanaris GreenDreamsFL dude coconut oil is super easy to make, grew up making it in the jungles of South America. Coconut is abundant we do not buy oils we make it coconut.
Thanks as i love your videos.
Cherrie Mckinstry no problem!
@Jack Snow you could decide to migrate here. Im developing a farm collective, so a person can get a garden plot or quarter acre, or an acre or more if your caring for animals. Since its a live in co.munity, no farm factories, or huge wear house production. People should do that on their own large farm. This is based on food security of organic food and water with affordable living.
*me stuffing my face with junk food wile watching this*
Ah, very interesting
Good to see that someone who can be self sufficient still lives in modern day times normally.
Pretty awesome guy.
Hey man, I live near you. My wife is a president of a nutrition club at a local college, maybe we could do a project together, or could get you to come talk on campus.
@@cherriemckinstry131 Nutrition is important, yes. And separating actual science from pseudoscience is also very important in an academic setting.
What you guys think is nutrients and what your body actually uses as nutrients seems to be miles apart. You look like a cancer patient. Your body is wasting away along with what I suspect was your brain. I hope you get well soon and realise this but I doubt it. Most probable outcome is you weaken your body to a point where you die from malnutrition or organ failure or even some disease that you normally would've fought off.
@@tonizen876 malnutrition? Where?
@nallen100 didn't even know this guy was vegan. His diet is bad for his health but it's his choice.
@@cherriemckinstry131 If you want to spend your hard earned money on medicine that has no proven effect, that's your choice. But it does not mean that it should be promoted by academia. Universities and colleges teach things that can be backed by science. That's the whole point of those institutions.
How would you like it if someone taught your kids that a spoonful of arsenic a day is the healthiest thing for you, just because they thought so.
U got be careful with that spike. Holy crud. Thought I was gunna watch faces of death.
15:15 almost lost a hand there
Yeah he needs to get on mounting that spike somewhere.
I thought his hand was going to go through the spike too!
Crud is not Holy God is Holy
Yea..total dangerous
I have everything anyone could want - a mansion, acres of property, a watch for every day of the week, two high-end cars, a big-screen TV in practically every room of the house, a fridge and cabinets full of food, and a closet bigger than this guy's house. However, in many regards, I am almost envious of this man. Kudos to you, bud. More people need to be like you.
Amen bro! 🙌
I'm trying to live off grid and this video made it much more possible and gave me so many more ideas!! Sadly I don't have the money to get a home like he does but I'm praying to live happy
I have been watching several videos featuring Rob and he truly is an amazing guy with an amazing lifestyle. I have a question though, why doesn't he have chickens for eggs?
He doesn't own the land he is on so i imagine these people living in the houses on the land who do own it don't want to have chickens
I wish he were part of my farm collective project. Im in the Poconos in Pa. And want to make a 40 acre farm into a collective of mini farms with all the things you do plus a pond, chickens and another community garden here got bannanas to grow by cutting back and composting for winter and it worked!
Oh my gosh that sounds amazing
Sounds interesting. Always been interested in genetics and the relationship to various things, including the biological makeup + governing of crops.
Ducks are fun to raise and one duck egg is the equivalent of 2 chicken eggs
Ducks produce more eggs per year than chickens they also continuously produce eggs longer than chickens do
Ofc the egg yokes are larger making for a more eggy taste and they contain more whites which is better for baking
Id definitely suggest ducks over chickens much easier to raise more of a mess than chickens but thats only because they consume more water (i mean they are waterfowl) so their poop is more messy but unlike chickens you can use duck poop immediately for fertilizer
Its easier to introduce more ducks to a pre-existing flock than it is to introduce more chickens to pre-existing chickens
They require less in terms of coops our ducks stay in an old shed with a window(ventilation is key with ducks pekins the big white ducks are prone to respiratory issues we own rouens and Khaki Campbells and we found that the pekins experience more respiratory issues than the other breeds we believe its due to their size and how they keep their bills moist so they can breathe our pekins have daily medication for their respiratory systems) but they’re real happy in one big ole shed with raccoon proof locks and nice thick layers of straw on the ground we like layering sand first then throwing straw because it helps soak up excess moisture
Ducks are alot of fun we love our quacks
@@elisasbroadcast4889 it is and we can grow food to help others too.
@@amanawolf9166 this is a great opportunity as you have your own land but there is cooperative pieces you benefit from but dont have the tax burden of owning outright, so less overhead. (Even dairy farms are becoming cooperatives sharing milking equipment..land to save money..)You can grow food, or make compost, or raise chickens, but its a permaculture lifestyle so not a factory farm but a lifestyle and more than one way to make income.
Omg I love how this guy is living in a all nature space 🥰
people are quick to criticize, but what he's accomplished here is commendable.
For salt moisture put rice inside cheesecloth bag in jar, no risk of eating it.
Indeed! That usually prevents salt from picking up moisture.
But to be honest, that jar of salt in the video seemed so wet that it would require quite a few repeated bags of rice. :)
I think he could lose a lot of moisture just by opening it.
TheBushdoctor68 except he lives in Florida with 95 % humidity.
@@samanthasurovec4639 wow, that's a LOT of humidity. :)
TheBushdoctor68 I was over exaggerating but it is high.😀 I have family down south and hate visiting in the summer!
samantha surovec Orlando has 93% at the moment according to the weather app
If you're looking to make good coconut oil, try sprouted coconut, it has a substantial amount already separated from the sprout on the inside. They are always around here in south Florida.
Or you can put homemade coconut milk in the fridge and collect the solid oil that forms at the top
Part of being self sufficient is not needing medical attention from an outside source. Many others have mentioned the coconut spike, but less of an issue for me. The seperating the coconut from the husk after you halved it is. If you continue to use the spine of the blade on the husk the meat will seperate easily with less chance of a damaged wrist or finger. Thank you for your dedication to your craft and for bringing it to the rest of us.
I thought I was going to have a heart attack watching you peal that coconut! - please don't end up in the ER. As a nurse Ive seen way too many "accidents"
Same! I expected him to ram that spike into his hand any moment.
I done this too at my parent house but I use hammer to knock the coconut down on spike.... just watch out for the fingers though @.@''''
This is how we do it in the Philippines when we make a Copra , not just one but thousand.
the way he's doing it is wrong it should be one leg in front touching the spike and the other should be at the back so you have a good balance and no tendency of falling forward.
growing food is the most natural thing, no one needs experience.. i think the way he lives, is inspired from Indian traditions. Its amazing what he is doing extraordinary
Seriously well said! 🙌
@@PeteKanarisGreenDreamsFL thanks for being a championin this field.
You are a inspiration to us all ! God has blessed you with a outstanding ministry !
paula from wisconsin future homesteader 🙌
Neat! You sound like you have the right idea.
You've inspired me to be more aware of my food waste and my food intake. I'm sure that makes you happy, it should. You ARE an inspiration to those of us that give a shit.
This is a dream come true. Very inspiring video. I can only thank you for inviting the viewers to see such an ergonomic place. More people should follow your example. Extraordinary work!
Thanks Toni! ❤️
His smile is absolutely amazing ! What an amazing soul 💜💜💜💜💜 #goals
These videos remind me of the "73 Questions with Vogue" videos 😂
Clare Myers 🤣🤣🤣
My parents did lawn work. They'd dump the debris at this dumping ground. These guys would come in with massive trucks and drop hundreds of coconuts off from working on palms. One day my mom asked if she could take them. They literally filled up the entire bed of my dads work truck with coconuts and brought them to me. They were perfectly fine. Still in the husk. I spent two days debunking them, cracking them, then made coconut oil, cold process. It's so easy. And if you need tons of coconuts I suggest looking for one of those dumping areas where they take plant materials (make sure it's well away from trash obviously). But you can literally load up on as many coconuts as you want. We made a deal with one of the guys who would give them to us for free and I'd use those for coconut water, etc. I literally will never pay for coconut water ever again.
Beautifully done presentation by both gentlemen. Rob is a likeable personality and a tremendously talented man.
He should mkae his own youtube channel doing daily vlogs or projects of his house.
P.S I would love that!!
Like if u want that too!
He has a you tube channel (I haven't watched it yet)
Hey there Max and friends!
Here is my UA-cam channel: ua-cam.com/users/robgreenfield
Join me over there if you'd like.
Health and happiness to you,
Rob
@@Robin.Greenfield awesome, I was also curious, there's so much to learn from you