Living like it's 2050: a Transition Farm in North Carolina

[badllc]

Awesome and exciting.

Points to the heart of so many prevailing issues. The answer is us, not which politically corrupt party is in power....

Thanks for the inspiration and practical demonstration of your vision..

[katherinegonzales82]

this looks like a great way for humans to be humans again. healthy and happy and less stressed.

[dasalekhya]

4:00 - farming with Addidas shorts ....hmmm!! interesting!

[MessIahmake]

...envy.

[Ketou]

6:55 That's a mighty nice collection of pet mud daubers up there, nobody working on that is squeamish

[MrPigsticker]

omg i love you!

[manoman0]

very inefficient and backward oriented.

[zellerz1216]

@manoman0

how?

[roymaitland]

Adopt a farmer program like highways but more important!

[zellerz1216]

that girl is so much like me, i admire her, and i love her quote about an animal giving up its life. so wisee

[MrJero85]

Sooooo what about the suburbs? You know where real people live work and play? Also you must look forward not backward to solve things. We can't really all live in this kind of world there are to many of us to feed and cloth. The industial revolution will be though of as the transition years from type 0 to type 1. Also we need to increase our energy not shrink it in any way shape or form.

[gallaco1]

pretty sure those pigs are damaging those roots, the most important roots are near the surface.

[woulfe42]

Greenhouse, really? you guys still believe in that NWO propaganda. Listen i'm all for living this way but, once the government wants to tax me for carbon taxes which is nothing more then us breathing then there's a serious problem. The planet and it's cycle changes from time to time going into periods of hotter then cooling off period. They would want us to believe this is because of us will i don't buy it. Stop feeding into there b.s live like this because you want to and not cause you think

[MickScarborough]

4:39 is a crock. The girl says an animal gives the gift of its life for her food. What a crock of crap that is. No animals gives its life for you. You murder it for your food.

[roshanbaba]

very inspirational.

[FreeportVideos]

Totally agree with this, niftybean.

[PurePower025]

1:10 The Cutest little girl ever in the world...so cute!!

I am happy for this man, he is doing the right thing.

[MillionthUsername]

Enough with the "climate change" nonsense. It's utterly ridiculous at this point. Complete bs. I love ecology, simple living, organic farming, alternative energy, self-sufficiency, etc., but I am absolutely sick of hearing about this completely fabricated "crisis" which was invented by social planners, politicians, and wackos using fake or selective data, absurd projections, and

fear-mongering. It's just another way of controlling people. Don't be so freaking gullible!

[ikambor]

@MillionthUsername I AGREE 100% Peak Oil is also BS pushed by the Oil Companies to keep the supply restricted and keep the price high and restrict competition,,, The Russian blew the lid open that,, also Global warming is a Hoax in order to create a global taxation scheme the data was proven to be fraudulent other than that,, I am totally for living off the grid self sustaining life,, it contributes to peace in the world, we getter better food lots of reasons but not global warming

[Jddogg]

i love this young farmers yup

[mom2brittandjess]

This should go deeper and made into a movie.

[gillotte]

but if you dont actually know how to do the things then please do not try to convince other people this is the way when you cant do it yourself.

[gillotte]

and months and months of building for that little hut? yeah thats not realistic for many people. and how can you talk about organic growing but cant tell a harmful insect from a helpful one? if youre going to try to convince me and probably many others, at least know what youre talking about. and do you actually know how to take care of animals or just pet them? do you know how to milk those goats and help them if they get injured or sick or just call a vet? i like idea of beingmoreearthfriendly

[gillotte]

this is nice but to be honest not realistic. by that i mean this 350 acres can only support a small number of people.maybe if there was more efficient technology it could but i doubt itll be good enough for a long time. and organic sadly is a lie. organic still uses pesticides just its under a certain percent and usually its a more toxic to the earth and humans than modern pesticides. and the cob house. yeah. think some more please as clay isnt found everywhere nor straw.

[xelcarlitoxloco]

"I want that relationship with my food." It made me laugh.

[JustPlainBored00]

wow!! 350 ACRES. thats bigger than my backyard.

[counterclockwise123]

The world is fucked. Things will never be right. Nothing is ever going to change. There is no hope. Just try and enjoy life the best you can. Do your best to live worry free and care free. Don't have kids. Die happy.

[garybsg]

@counterclockwise123 complete bullshit. The standard of living is never been so high in all of human history. Humans have never lived so long or so well. Stop listening to environmentalist, they are fucking liars.

[counterclockwise123]

@garybsg I never said anything about the standard of living.

[garybsg]

@counterclockwise123 listen if you're not measuring better health, better transportation, better housing, better food, etc than what the hell are you measuring? We live better than all our ancestors by about 100 times and they choose to have children. You don't know what you're talking about.

[Bigbody7898]

Preparing for the lifestyle of the Iraqi countryside.. third world America is on they way....

[jaymeez]

Look@the legs & ass on the chick with the shorts... Man if I worked there I'd try to find us some quiet time in the barn together lol....

[vendelavoo]

@JyginsGreenBird; Our so-called "canine teeth" are "canine" in name only. Other plant-eaters (like gorillas, horses, and hippos) have "canines", and chimps, who are almost exclusively vegan, have massive canines compared to ours.

[AbattoirDream]

i can barely understand the girl she sounds like she has lockjaw

[Camb81]

In the southwest we have adobe homes (similar to cob) that are standing and are 200 years old.

[niftybean]

I wanted to like this video, I really did, but the part with the pigs just hurt my heart. Why exactly do you have to kill them and eat them at all? Keep chickens and ducks and eat their unfertilized eggs, that's enough protein. No need to ever have to take your "sweet, sweet" animal friends to the butcher. :'(

[vendelavoo]

@niftybean I completely agree with you. Pork and beef meat is not even good for you, no meat is. "I want to have this relationship with MY food" What the heck?! First of all its not YOURS and it is not FOOD. it is a living being that we call "pig". Got nothing to do with food or humans. Well hopefully they will continue educate them self not just about veggies but also about meat and animals right to live.

[JyginsGreenBird]

@vendelavoo It is a natural occurrence for one animal to eat another. Humans are omnivorous. We were designed to eat both plants and meats. An animal has the right to live, but it also has the right to eat. Are you going to make a lion go veggie? No. Because it is the natural thing to eat others, as it is to be eaten by others.

[vendelavoo]

@JyginsGreenBird Why do you have to involve a lion in this debate? dont really see the point. I have been a vegan for 10 years and I am perfectly healthy, actually a lot more so than my fellow human who is still stuck in the stone age philosophy that we HAVE to eat meat to survive - that is utterly bullshit . So we dont NEED to eat meat unless we want to. As far as I know i dont think lions got that choice.

[JyginsGreenBird]

@vendelavoo A bear then- that is more accurate. Bears are omnivores.

I am certain that a vegan can be perfectly healthy, but I think it is ignorant to say that everyone can and should live that way. We are made to eat meat, so we can eat meat. We have the choice not to eat meat- so then we don't. As a predator, I have the ability to kill and consume another animal, if I choose. This is what is natural. I am not above nature.

[vendelavoo]

@JyginsGreenBird I am sorry but are you calling ME ignorant? I got one thing I would ask you to do before you going around calling people ignorant that is promoting a non killing diet. watch Earthlings.

[vendelavoo]

@JyginsGreenBird And when you say that you are not "above nature" - does this mean that you go out hunting your wild cows with arrows that you made your self? or does this mean that you drive to the supermarket with your polluting car, buy your piece of meat, that is from a "farm" with another 2000 cows cramped in together thats been consuming hormones, drugs and other chemicals and then cook in on your little hob with chips? This is not what nature is and if you think so - you are ignorant!

[vendelavoo]

@JyginsGreenBird Some farmers use tranquillisers to keep animals calm. Others routinely use antibiotics so that their animals do not develop infections. When you eat meat you are, inevitably, eating those drugs. In America, over half of all antibiotics are fed to animals and I don't think it is any coincidence that the percentage of staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin went up from 13% in 1960 to 91% in 1988.

[vendelavoo]

@JyginsGreenBird Some farmers use tranquillisers to keep animals calm. Others routinely use antibiotics so that their animals do not develop infections. When you eat meat you are, inevitably, eating those drugs. In America, over half of all antibiotics are fed to animals and I don't think it is any coincidence that the percentage of staphylococci infections resistant to penicillin went up from 13% in 1960 to 91% in 1988.

[vendelavoo]

@JyginsGreenBird Our early ancestors from at least four million years ago were almost exclusively vegetarian.Our omnivorism means we're capable of eating meat (useful from a survival standpoint if that's all that's available), but our bodies aren't geared for it to be a normal, significant part of our diets.

[vendelavoo]

@JyginsGreenBird We sleep about the same amount of time as other herbivores, and less than carnivores and true omnivores.

The most common cause of choking deaths is eating meat. (source) Real carnivores and omnivores don't have that problem.

[Eshinto]

@vendelavoo but we ain't true herbivores either, our digestion system isn't capable of breaking up leaves etc.

The Choking argument is a bit weak, i think the real reason behind this is most fruits and vegetables contain a bigger amount of water which makes it slide down your throat easier (just a thought, i'm not a doctor/biologist/whatever) and humans are the only beings retarded enough to swallow pieces of food too large to fit down their throat.

[vendelavoo]

@JyginsGreenBird The healthiness of a vegetarian diet is perhaps shown most dramatically by the fact that lifelong vegetarians visit hospitals 22% less often than meat eaters - and for shorter stays! Vegetarians tend to be fitter than meat eaters - as well as healthier - and many of the world's most successful athletes (particularly those who specialise in endurance events) follow a strictly vegetarian diet.

[JyginsGreenBird]

@vendelavoo Health is completely besides the point. I did not mention health. We were made to eat meat. It is natural to eat meat. If we were meant to be completely vegetarian, then we would be herbivores.

[vendelavoo]

@JyginsGreenBird Isnt that to contradict your self a bit there? dont want to talk about the health factor? But still believes that humans are absolutely made to eat meat? Here are some facts that i think that you should take in considerations before you believe everything that your preschool teacher told you;

[vendelavoo]

@JyginsGreenBird I quite often wonder who cares what we're "naturally" supposed to be. When you can live healthy, cruelty free-life while also reducing your environmental impact why not? When you can save lives, why not? If you can learn to control your cravings at first they go away, and now I'm repulsed by the sight of dead animals being marketed as "food" (otherwise referred to as "meat"). A little more empathy would be nice in this world. For our own species, and others.

[vendelavoo]

@JyginsGreenBird The animals most similar to us, the other primates, eat an almost exclusively vegan diet (and their main non-plant food often isn't meat, it's termites).

Our teeth, saliva, stomach acid, and intestines are most similar to other plant-eaters, and dissimilar to carnivores and true omnivores.

Among animals, plant-eaters have the longest lifespans, and humans are certainly in that category (and yes, this was true even before modern medicine).

[Bewarethe1]

yeah sure lets push everyone into the urban areas. Yeah lets make it easier for the government to spread virus's, bacterial infections, and since where on this train of thought, lets make it easier for them to nuke us off the face of the planet. Yeah sounds like rockefellers dream. rofl.

[MrHeadlessmusician]

Wow Margret is brilliant and beautiful.

[BJ219]

How do you find water out there? If some disaster happened and water utilities ceased to exist, what would we do for water?

[TheGreenLeaf92]

@BJ219 cut the pigs / goats with e a knife ( just a lil wound) and drink some of the blood, let it heal, do it all over again

[prnkstr]

Man I want to live somewhere like that...nowhere like that here in Norway though...

[Cynthia713]

Well done! I *love* this video! It's very informative! Keep up the good work! Thanks for sharing! ;-)

[Lee68Perry]

Ah, forgot to mention, along with the pigs and goats, the tille girl is damn cute too. Well, not as much as the spotted swine, but she's got her own childish charm. That thing, that we adults just wish to have, but know that it is long gone.. and it's never coming back.

[Lee68Perry]

I Like your goats. Really!

But you must worry about your kids. I Guarantee you, that they will have hard time living free out, by farming or other peacefull way. That kind of life will be persecuted. It is invitable. And that makes me little sad and much more angry. So don't worry about the green gasses and peak oil which are huge lies, but rather get angry, and teach some anger in the kids along with the love of nature which Im sure they are thought right now.

Btw, I like your pigs too.

[DrLarry2007]

I like the idea of living this way but I would go further and treat my animals more then just food. Grow stuff like hemp,beans and other high protine food so I dont have to kill animals for protine. Chicken eggs and fish are ok from time to time.

[BrandNeilWorld]

Greatest catastrophic period in the history of the Earth? That's a little sensational given past catastrophic periods of the Earth.

[turquoiseting]

Margaret is so cool!

"i would like to be a farmer for the rest of my life"

i really admire her attitude towards her work and way of life, which i find scarce in many people these days, we just don't see or feel the accomplishment of little things we can do any more, moreover, what we can do for other than ourselves. this is inspiring, please keep sharing with us your experiences!

[grail68]

What is the name of the company that makes his turbine? Sounds like Preuven I think, but couldn't find any company called that when searching

[matreyia]

Awww, the pigs are like..."ohh yeah, that's good mud..." heeheee

[chefsessel81]

I don't buy into that climate change / co2 emission crap but still find these projects very interesting from the perspective of living self-sustainable and focussing on the really important things in life. Thanks for sharing the video.

[MatthewCravatt]

I love this video! I hear a lot of people talk about the problem, but here are serious solutions proposed. I'd love for my daughters to spend some quality time with Margret Krome-Lukens. My youngest seems to be a technocrat, which isn't bad in itself, so long as the older ways of thinking are also examined for future living. I feel it's important we down size our lives, and cut back on energy usage. I agree with your approach to living in 2050, and thank you for sharing this video.

[johnsconstruction116]

Those are'nt assigassin bugs. Those are sap-suckers, called sqaush bugs, or "stink-bugs". Organic vegetable oil (olive, canola, safflower, soybean, etc.) combined with soap (Ivory, Dawn, Dove, Palmolive, etc.) emulsifier will get them when they are young and orange colored.

Once they grow into almond/cilantro smelling grey and green shields, it's takes strong poison to kill stink-bugs. Better to rotate crops, and interplant flowers and spicy herbs: basil, marigolds, zinnias, oragano, etc.

[yourboyweezy17]

Wow i live in north carolina and think it would be fun to work there

[Neoswayne]

Wages 100 years ago were like 22 cents...and almost no one had a telephone...I can't imagine 100 years from now!

[Cstrife234]

That's really weird. Bonding with your food. I'd rather just go out and hunt it. I can still have respect for it, but I couldn't kill and eat anything I loved. If it died of old age, sure...I'd eat em.

[ludeluver]

some questions about the cob house. What happens to the structure when it rains, will it absorb water? Internally would there be allot of dust? Ive looked at a few homes like this since seeing this vid first, I noticed someone made a kitchen counter with the same material...what kind of durability does it have, insulation wise is it overly hot and cold? Is there any health issues with maybe dusts or insects? some might be silly questions I know. But it is what came to mind.

[kirstendirksen]

@ludeluver Those are good questions as cob can appear to be not much more than mud. It's actually very durable, both because it's porous and because most cob homes are made with wide enough eves and non-absorbent bases to prevent moisture and rain from eroding. It's not any dustier since the walls are usually plastered similarly to a conventional home. Earth buildings tend to be good insulators against the heat, but not necessarily great in winter (why adobe tends to be in the Southwest).

[ludeluver]

@kirstendirksen Well thank you for replying, and I now see some plaster on that house as I rewatched the vid. I think that what the people there are doing is great. I have 140 acres of land with an active fruit and veggie farm going on it, but I would like to also incorporate some neat cob sheds and so on. Thanks for some of the ideas in this video.

[Cstrife234]

@ludeluver As long as a home has a good hat and a good boot, it will last forever.

[ramsantosjr]

why dont we just blow up this planet and end all the suffering once and for all! lol

[treevvoor]

It's so annoying watching people do great things to improve the planet and then turn around and kill animals. It's such a selfish act. Why do people think they have the right to kill whatever they want? Especially when they have all the resources in the world that make it easy not to. It's ridiculous. It's hard for me to take an environmentalist seriously when I find out they eat meat.

[Natural1971]

@treevvoor And in what way does eating meat detract from environmentalism? How does it adversely effect the environment? Sounds like another case of a vegetarian thinking they know everything and trying to muddy the waters to promote their myopic views. One has not much to with the other. This is more about living off the industrial grid and becoming free of destructive energy production. People are omnivorous by default.

[Biofado]

Excelent



[astraification]

Need to build a shed, wonder if it will take years, just me doing it by myself....

[kirstendirksen]

@astraification Cob building is not fast, but it is something you should be able to do on your own. There are lots of short courses out there you could take to help get a better sense of what it takes. You can also probably recruit some help in building from friends/neighbors as it's kind of a novelty thing, especially activities like stomping cob. I have friends who build a mudbrick home with help from their weekend football team. For my video with them, search "mudbrick" under my videos.

[Rhinoch8]

@kirstendirksen You can just build it favela style using every scrap you can find (believe me there are a lot of "panel" kind of stuff going into trash). I did one in my garden with very misc stuff, and with a coat of colorful paint it really looks great and artistic too! Cardboard, wood, carpets....

[BigTimePride]

I don't buy into climate change and there's a lot of scientists that totally disagree with the theory. Living in PA I can say that we've just seen the worst winter and coldest summers on record for the past 2 consec years. Explain that Al Gore. I don't see any difference now than when I was a kid. If anything, we have colder summers.

[kirstendirksen]

@BigTimePride Setting aside climate change as it seems that people enjoy making this one into an argument, I think there are plenty of arguments for living in a more self-sufficient way, even if it's just to not have to rely on anyone else for your way of life. I could go on (e.g. access to very fresh, quality food; the satisfaction many people feel in just getting their hands dirty; and that feeling of accomplishment with making/growing your own), but hope the videos speak for themselves.

[BigTimePride]

@kirstendirksen I do love your videos and ideas:)

[philhawnnc]

@BigTimePride You just described climate change.

[ValleyOfTomorrow]

@BigTimePride I just wanted to make the point that some scientists believe climate change will be more about instability, ie greater hot/cold fluctuations and vicious storms.. the winter weather you mentioned could be an indication of this..

[vendelavoo]

@BigTimePride I completely agree with you!

[KWaters022]

This is amazing. What an amazing idea.

[Nickodemusodurn]

Peta should take a lesson from the lady discussing the pigs. So true.

[menderfire9]

Nice demonstration! There are so many ways 2 live; it is strange that people would choose 2 live in big houses & become "hot house plants!" I am one old country gal who dumped the big house syndrome in 1979 & have never turned back! I exchanged keeping a show-piece home for a more organic life of innovation, creativity & productivity. I now live in my RV. I have time 2 nurture more people, animals, teach perma-culture, paint, garden, learn web-design,write, make music. In service to humanity!

[WanderingGnome]

You don't need to eat animals to be healthy. In fact - you will be healthier and happier leaving them off of your plate.

[Gunnarsguns]

Section the garden off with fence into 3 parts.Pigs in one,clover in the next and garden in the third. Rotate each year for constant fertility.Let the chickens loose in the garden to eat bugs and slugs.Build a compost trench on the uphill side of the garden and the leachate will constantly fertilize the garden.

[hammerhiker]

Nice start!

[arlingtonguy54]

great video