This guy has it down pat! I started a 6 acre farm back in 1999 but mife wife who is not of this mind set talked me into selling out and moving to Florida. I have been sad every since. She wants to live in the city and I have always been a country boy so even though I have given up my dream to stay married for the last 35 years. Oh Well ! Thanks for the Video!!!
He still needs a B.O.B. Bug Out Bag and lots of weapons along with a trained force of 20 or so solders will to fai
I've always thought of our food animals as just another CHORE, therefore I have no problem eating them. The only farm animal I ever really made friends with was a stupid pig after I saw the movie 'Charlotte's Web' as a kid. It kept getting out and became rather mean, so we ate it too.
WEB: Earth is loaded with room. We could put the world's entire pop. into the U.S. Doing so would make our pop. density 1,531 people per sq. mile. That's a far lower pop. density than what now exists in N.Y. (11,440), L.A. (9,126) and Houston (7,512). The entire U.S. population could move to Texas and each family of four would enjoy 2.9 acres of land. If the entire world's population moved to Texas, California, Colorado and Alaska, each family of four would enjoy nine-tenths of an acre of land.
@LoveTurnshateful, this is great news!! Please tell that to the 200 species that went extinct today. And the 200 tomorrow. Tell them the planet is only for the humans. Hey, where do we grow food, now that we're losing topsoil, draining aquifers, polluting oceans and atmosphere so rapidly on every continent where totalitarian agriculture is operating?
@2bornot2b1984 agreed, no one ever mentioned being a vegetarian as a way of lessening our impact. he could raise nuts or even eat fish would be better than slaughtering and eating something that thought of you as its mother.
@ScopedOUT2 essenes.ca Kill neither men, nor beasts, nor yet the food which goes into your mouth. So eat always from the table of God: the fruits of the trees, the grain and grasses of the field, the milk of beasts, and the honey of bees. Muhammad told them to go and drink camel milk and urine as a medicine. So here we find Muhammad, CHRIST, GOD, PRABHUPADAvani. org ALL drinking, teaching, & marketing RAW MILK & HONEY. SO do you still think your SMARTER THAN them?
@ScopedOUT2 No I did not. saracasm is a difficult thing to distinguish and understand, and in the words of Johny Carson something best left on the comedians stage and even then used carefully. I thought it to be in spite but now that you've clued me in on your clever jest in sarcasm i applaude your joke... the dinosaur part was the funniest.
"livestock animal "friends" do not equate to people friends"
Honestly, I have never said anything to other people about eating meat. I consider it not my right to determine what they will eat
But I was particularly disturbed by the way that sheep was nuzzling up against affectionately, and he was petting the sheep affectionately. But then he is going to eat him
Ok, so livestock animal friends arent people friends. What about dog friends? Should we eat our dog friends?
@2bornot2b1984, Mark replies: "The way I see it if your going to eat, you going to have to kill something be it plant or animal. If you choose to pay someone else to do it for you, that's your choice. But it doesn't change the facts. It just makes them much easier to deny."
This is excellent, i allready have been doing the same things for 5 years now! but im in the point of restoring the 130 year old loghouse first. Great job! love that place.
<--jealous. He did a great job figuring out what works and what doesn't. We do pretty good here in the Arizona desert but we're planning on our retirement back east where we can have our own self sustaining farm.
Thank you for your channel and bring us this information.
Wow I don't understand these comments by some people. Thank you for a nice interview, and thank you for giving of your time and knowledge of trial and error. What you have is a beautiful thing, but i know you already know that. Some of us out here have the desire to do what you are doing but are not able do to other circumstances. Thanks for keeping my dream alive in my heart. Great job.
AWESOME vid, as are all of your videos. The infor. is great!
I haven't checked out food dehydrating, YET. Now I will. I hope the nutrients are preserved, thats the most important to me.
I would do freezing, but, yeah, it would require electricity and not all items are suitable for freezing. And even if you freeze, they can get ruined.
This solar drier is great. I had a garden this year and yeah, it all matures at once. I still have 2 water melon.
I take offense to the theme of this video, PEAK OIL, BULL----- Over population-BULL, glogal warming, PLLLLEEEASE, people that believe all of that bs, NWO manipulation will never survive, they will always fail because of their trust for the SYSTEM, it's just History.
The people who live like this without believing all of the BS, people who live like this to specifically GET OUT OF THE BEASTLIKE SYSTEM will be the survivors!
@tgvas hey, you on the rag or something? Maybe daddy spanked you too hard last night?! You may wanna take it out on people who actually CARE about your daddy issues, LOSER!
The reason we're at "PEAK CONSUMPTION" is because corporate greed makes everything to last a limited time! Therefore they sell more to the same people. Over and over and over ......... again!
If slaughtering your own animals is too much for you, you could have someone do it for you, or...not eat meat at all. I don't think I'd be able to kill a mammal...a chicken maybe but that's it.
Anyone who cannot always do exactly what they want to do can always celebrate the success of others who have met their dreams as fully adventurous as Mark Cooper's self-sufficient small farm.
permaculturists are the lawyers of ecosystems.... they spot a local issue in their microsystem and look to the wild as primary authority to find the law, then retract the law from the wild and perform an Analysis on how to fit it into the design Conclusion (create more edge)
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IRACing is what they call this in law school... LAWYERS OF THE ECOSYSTEM!!!!!
@Andreas748 C'mon man, Jeff Dahmer really?? Jeffrey Dahmer's victims weren't his buddies, they were just random little asian dudes that he would sleep with, then eat.
Animals are property! Never ever give money to Humane Society of the United States, ASPCA, etc.. They use rare cases of poorly kept pets to tug on your heartstrings for money. They then use that money to OUTLAW animal use in any way. It's not only big agriculture that's taking your rights away it is "animal rights" and you are paying them to do it!
Awesome vid. The ending was so perfect; how he said he loves his high-tech technology but this helps him stay grounded. That is exactly how I feel. I think too many people have the idea that people like this want you to abandon everything that makes society what it is in the 21st century. Very well said my friend. I have to say... I am jealous of anyone that has a year-round growing season, that would be a blast.
@peakmoment naa i was just joking :-) everything in the video was good. just that you should prepare more questions that can help the listeners (who are wannabes ) before the interview starts. all else was good.
I appreciate the model of living that we learn about in this video. I personally long for the day when I can produce some of my OWN food, and now be so darn dependent on stores to feed me. Mind you I'm not waging wars against stores and Big Business, I simply desire to experience a little more Self Sufficiency.
Give me Pork Chops or give me death. Global warming suckers. News flash the planets temp goes up and down, its not a static system. The predict temp changes are well within normal pattern changes.
Get the government out of our pockets and more of us can do that. Do it cause its right, not because of the supposed "global warming". Do you know I can't milk 5 cows and sell the milk to you without $100,000 worth of cooling, and pasteurizing (heating) equipment? All our grandparents should be dead already if non-pasteurized milk was so dangerous. I hope to do this with my future farm, but on a little bit larger scale..
@jeffery19677, good luck with your future farm. I hope you consider producing raw milk...which our ancestors thrived on for generations. It's one of my daily staples.
@peakmoment I learned to love raw milk when I was raising baby dairy calves as a hobby. I had a couple of farmers that wouldn't give or sell me milk, but if I STOLE a gallon while he wasn't looking, he wouldn't notice..LOL I am too old to start darying now. I may, in the future, milk a cow just for me. More and more dairies across the country are pasteurizing their own milk and selling it with the cream.. Tastes just as good as raw milk to me.
@jeffery19677 Heating the milk kills potential bacteria. The expensive equipment is for large scale industrial use. It's possible to pasteurize your own milk at home with basic equipment (I use a pressure cooker). Don't get so scared of regulations that you ignore the proper safety such regulations are meant to instill in mass production. Food related illness and disease was a primary cause of child deaths before the pre-modern era.
We ALL agree on the 'peak oil' syndrome, BUT, now that the NASA data recovered and reinterpreted...shows that many 'scientists' have skewed the data for 'man-made' global warming. Seems many of these folks were needing to 'pad their coffers' and pet projects with deceptive data. Keep alert for more.
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This guy is amazing and this is something I'd totally want to do! I wish there were more information on how he got started and how to start one of your own. Great job!!
man that guy is freaking awesome, can't wait to have more projects of my own like that. If only i had the land or space to do so, but i guess i can start small.
great video, very interesting. I would have to agree with Mark about keeping the right mindset about the animals you keep and the slaughter aspect being the worst part of the whole experience. If you want meat on your plate for dinner there isn't any way to avoid killing one of your animals. What was funny was how she was eating everything she could get her hands on. He had some great ideas and I loved how he used goats as land clearers. I'm a little jealous of his lifestyle
Wonderful video! I truly believe that all meat eaters would have a better appreciation for animals and their health if they had "their hand" in the processing of the meat. Much respect.
you don't have to eat animals.. it's really simple. I don't know why people are so addicted to eating meat.. and killing animals it's just not necessary. Grains, tofu, cheese milk, eggs, beans.. etc. nuts.
I didn't go through all of the comments, but a good way to take care of those slugs is put a little beer in an old plastic peanut butter jar and lay it on it's side on the ground. The slugs will crawl in and indulge themselves and not make it out. Hope this helps with the slug problem.
omg everyone shut up, hes the farthest thing from evil, the way we all live even you vegans is killing more animals than he is. I bet he uses every part of that animal including the fur and bones. Outside society kills whole populations of animals just from throwing away plastic and making pollution
I personally couldn't kill my own meat but if that's the case maybe I should be come a vegetarian? It actually befits the self sufficient living to have more energy. Raising animals to eat them requires time and more money. So you will have more energy to focus on your gardening
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This guy is evil, watching him pet that animal and say that he is gonna kill it and eat it later while the poor animal is licking his hand thinking he has his best interest at heart not knowing hes planing to eat him, that is just sick and evil period
@vanityvideo, gosh that means that 99% of our ancestors were evil -- they killed and ate animals. And we're here thanks to them. I know Mark personally. He does love his animals. It isn't easy for him to kill them. I know he does the harvesting, and the eating, with a heart full of gratitude and respect.
@peakmoment i dont care how he does it, its evil, at least if he would not live with the animals that he wants to eat, or not let the animals lick his hand, or maybe have someone else slaughter them, then it might be understandable, but what he is doing is just sick and evil with no conscience, plus he has all that food why does he want to eat his animal friends that he loves, only a sick individual would eat his own friend, u dont kill something you love, instead you sacrifice yourself for them
@vanityvideo how does that make it evil, i think this is the only way to really be a meat eater, its more evil to just overlook the pains and lives of the animals that you eat and not notice tham as living beings, instead this guy takes the RESPONSIBILITY to raise the animals that he eat, in contrast to ppl eating meat who doesnt wanna know about the ugly side of the story, the killing and the slaughtering of said animal. This guy is doing meat eating the only right way...
@peakmoment you don't kill something you love, instead you sacrifice yourself for them, like Jesus Christ did, he didn't kill us while proclaiming he Loves us, he sacrificed himself for us because he Loves us, thats real Love, always remember that and don't get perverted in your mentality thinking killing is loving, you don't kill something you love, it doesn't take a genius to understand that, its simple you, you just have to think with your soul not your mind
@peakmoment Gosh: you're right: our ancestors destroyed their habitat. Now 7 billion humans are destroying natural habitats. Gosh: you mean vegetarians who don't raise animals and don't kill animals are not evil because they don't destroy the world? You mean if our ancestors had been vegetarians the world would not be eating dead flesh right now? Is it okay if I kill you and eat you? You won't mind because you don't think it is evil: right?
If humans would not start eating animals, we'd still be on the level of chimps. Meat allowed our ancestors to evolve higher by indulging in a high concentration source of nutrients.
@peakmoment The excuse that our ancestors did it means nothing to the logical mind. Our ancestors married and had sex with 10 year old girls. Our ancestors killed in the name of their cults. Our ancestors waged war at the drop of a hat. Our ancestors used leeches to treat colds. Our ancestors owned slaves. Our ancestors did many things we wouldnt think of doing today. So why is eating animals given a mulligan? Its your refusal to give up your barbaric addiction to meat.
@MickScarborough You are an omnivore. Your teeth are not flat all the way around for pure plant mastication. They have sharp edges designed for eating meat. And it's not just that; The human body derives major benefit from animal proteins that it does not derive nearly as well from other types of protien. I am not going to sit here and teach biology to some random guy on youtube. Go read..... something. Just READ; I don't care what you read, just freaking educate yourself.
@dracolique Sorry but you are incorrect. The sharp edges are for piercing rind. We share absolutely NONE of the carnivore characteristics. None at all. We are not designed to hunt, our digestive system can not handle flesh and we get sick from disease if its not cooked, an unatural act. We get numerous diseases that are indisputably linked to meat that no carnivore gets. Sorry Skippy but every condition of humanity points to the undeniabvle fact that you are wrong.
@MickScarborough Piercing Rind? REALLY? We are primates. Primates are OMNI-vores, not CARN-Ivores. That means they eat both plants and animals. Look at the diets of ALL other primates; Their diets include meat of many varieties to be found in their natural habitat, and their teeth closely resemble our own. Bears are omnivores too, go look at THEIR teeth. Oh, and of COURSE we get sick when we eat too much meat. Even a bear can get gout and other ailments from too much. All in moderation.
@MickScarborough@MickScarborough I guess that means I won the argument; since our conversation has devolved into you spouting obvious falsehoods interlaced with profanity. Thank you for the opportunity to teach others about our nature, using your ignorance as a stepping stone. Have a good day.
@MickScarborough Yes, a bear has more pronounced incisors and sharper teeth in general than most primates (although the teeth of great apes are quite similar), but that is because they are more specialized toward eating meat than we are. We are more specialized toward plants, but we still have omnivorous characteristics which show that meat SHOULD be part of our diet, if not a very large one. Your large brain was built by animal protein intake,and is, to a large extent, powered by it as well.
@dracolique Wow the illiteracy rate here is amazing. Apes are not meat eaters. They only go there if starving. FACTOID BITCHES! The sharp teeth on apes is not for meat. Its for fruit and defense ONLY. God damn please would someone actually take some mother fucking anthropology classes for once!
@MickScarborough I guess that means I won the argument; since our conversation has devolved into you spouting obvious falsehoods interlaced with profanity. Thank you for the opportunity to teach others about our nature, using your ignorance as a stepping stone. Have a good day.
@MickScarborough Taking into account what I said about animal protein powering your brain... if you do not eat any meat at all, it is no wonder you have a hard time THINKING and drawing meaningful lines between facts.
@MickScarborough and in regards to "illnesses" from meat, if we eat fresh kill, raw meat, we are very likely to be fine. A human would rarely get sick from that
it's uncooked packaged meat that's been sitting around god knows how long that is a problem. Hell, I eat raw beef and Sushi all the time. Now before the rest of you scream "EEWWW, RAW BEEF!", keep in mind that every time you eat a hamburger which is rare, medium rare, or medium, you ARE eating some portion of raw beef in that meal.
@MickScarborough All of my beef comes from a farm owned by my family in east Texas. I wouldn't recommed eating raw meat from most grocery stores... that stuff comes from high-density cattle farms where disease is rampant. That meat falls under the previously mentioned category of "uncooked packaged meat that's been sitting around god knows how long"
@MickScarborough And Mike, if you are talking about things like parasites as being "things that carnivores don't get", I DARE YOU to go find me a parasite-free Lion in the wild. They do not exist. And some parasites can actually be beneficial. Hookworm, for instance, has been show to cure or alleviate allergies in many cases. I am done for now unless you decide to spout more of your nonsense... oh, and please do not call me "Skippy". It is disrespectful.
@vanityvideo I agree: he is disgusting: eating goose eggs. People still do not read history: the cause of overgrazing is the creation of deserts. Goats are the worst: they destroy all he natural habitat, cutting trees off down to the ground. What he does not realize that everything he is doing has been done before. Go to Iraq and Iran and you will see what the fertile crescent has become after 7,000 years of goats.
@vanityvideo It's wiser to let those who kill,and eat meat to do what they do,everyone is doing what he thinks it's ok,and judgeing doesn't help,it just creates tension and even hate.Those who consider eating meat is normal,also consider heart disease and other cause-effect sicknesses normal too.So let's respect everyones free will,and don't mess with other peoples points of view,and level of consciousness.I appreciate this guys work and ambition,even if i don't eat meat.
Hypocrisy at its worst. Nobody who eats animals when they have other options has any right to make a moral judgement about anything, whether it be climate hawks, the government, the Federal Reserve.
@voyagersystem, perhaps if we were truly connected to the web of life, like traditional cultures, we might see that we are all related and eating is a sacred act of relationship. Then we might see that everything we eat is a friend. And we ourselves would become food for them when it is our time.
@peakmoment, I have no desire to be part of any culture that kills and eats their friends. It's easy to adopt this mindset of this being sacred, (whatever that means), when you are the one doing the killing and eating. If you were a sheep you may not agree. Sheep: "Love us. Don't eat us". Thanks for sharing and GOD bless.
@voyagersystem, I understand your feeling. However, you and I are alive now because our ancestors all ate meat and fish. Their sense of the sacred was knowing what we have forgotten: that we too are part of the web of life. We were created to eat others, and to be eaten. And "others" includes plants and animals.
@peakmoment, our common ancestors were created by GOD as sinless beings in an earthly paradise where no life suffered. But we chose to eat from the tree of knowledge that The Devil offered and hence we were seperated from GOD. This is a fallen world of pain and death. I have no interest in killing and eating my friends. Nor do I have interest in barbaric demon worshipping pagan tribes of old. I look to a time where no being suffers and none are murdered, where the lamb lays down with the lion.
Is raising livestock really sustainable? I get that they are eating grass mostly, but wouldn't be much more sustainable, more compassionate and even more independent from the system to use the space for vegetables, grains/legumes and fruit to eat DIRECTLY from the ground? Living on animal products is not the healthiest choice & as Mark says: It is tough, hard to kill your FRIENDS to eat them. It does NOT have to be - you can live on plants! And live better. You will love it. Animals are friends.
@kleinesveilchen, given the poor soil, hillsides and plentiful water for grass, raising animals is the most sustainable and productive food product on this land. Grains and legumes take far more land and human energy for the resulting food value. Animals are an important part of the food nutrient cycle, fertilizing and aerating the land.
In addition, humans cannot thrive on plants alone. Saturated fats from fish and/or animals are necessary for the fat soluble vitamins A, D, E and K.
@peakmoment yah you can't convince vegans that raising animals can be healthy humane can actually good for the evironment..and god knows i have been trying..
@kleinesveilchen I agree for some part with u kleinesveilchen. But Animals are NOT friends as we tend to believe. We as human beings make this believe of asuming that it is so because they be along side for ages. It definitly does not mean, they are friends. Ofcourse your and many others may,can or do believe otherwise, I do respect avery opinion but we need to stay objective in this matter as it is important for our being.
@kleinesveilchen Now for the eating of the 'FRIENDS' and or not eighter plants;
It might be a good idea to have both, greengarden and animals. Remember that living on vegtables only will not be a heatlhy one. We need some sort of 'meat' to stay alive?
@kleinesveilchen I hear ya. It really is admirable to be a vegetarian. I love animals as well but I do eat the occasional steak, burger or fish. I believe in treating animals right so it means not being cruel or barbaric when they are killed for food. And I never believe in killing just for trophy purposes or just out of spite (which we do sometimes to creatures that we consider "pests".) We cannot eat meat all the time and it is unhealthy to do that. I believe we can balance it out.
What he said about horses being pasture pets and useless unless you eat them isn't true. the usefulness of a horse is in its power. If you use a horse for draft power, they are indispensible! Maybe he was just saying that they're of no use to him because he doesn't plow the land...?
What an incredible property/project/endeavour and lifestyle......very complex, well thought out and orchestrated to be self-sustaining for the most part.......just amazing and congrats on a job super well done Mark ! Thanks for sharing this with us. Very inspirational
You could cut out the awful job of "culling" your sheep if you went vegetarian. Perhaps you could get chickens to eat bugs, like the slugs on your mushrooms and depend more on the chicken and goose eggs for food, while adding nut trees and beans for additional protein. You could then save the sheep for wool that can be traded and for their manure, which can be used as fuel and/or fertilizer.
Eggs, nuts and beans are much easier to store and "Process".
Hello Janaia, what an amazing inspirational video this has been. I thank you again. I enjoyed it so much. What I think is really great about the man in the video is his is his reusing of oid unwanted stuff to make amazing usefull things on his home stead. Like the cage for the geese to protect them and the amazing sun drying unit made from bits. I have lots of new ideas for homestead now and am really excited. sue
I would like to have my multiple posts deleted except the most recent one before this one, but there doesn't seem to be a way to delete them, like before. When I posted previously, YouTube kept giving an error message, hence, apparently, the multiposts.
I have an idea that I'm working on and will try to let you know once I get it up and running (1 month or so). Derrick, along with others, is someone I might like to contact regarding it as well.
I'm still trying to get my head wrapped around the complex dynamics and see if it can be structured, perhaps along the lines of the beginnings of agriculture vis-a-vis our hunting/gathering/territorialism/pecking-order/self-interests/etc. aspects, maybe with some chaos theory... (continued)
Wow. He's used a very old term. He called a fungus a "plant" at 21:25. Plants and fungi were not always known to be separate, but everyone nowadays should know that they are. That's not to say that he's generally ignorant- he's obviously pretty knowledgeable.
Wow. He's used a very old term. He called a fungus a "plant" at 21:25. Plants and fungi were not always known to be separate, but everyone nowadays should know that they are. That's not to say that he's generally ignorant- he's obviously pretty knowledgeable.
Sustainable is adapting your environment to produce the lifestyle you want but without massive external inputs and without doing damage to others, even at a distance. Permaculture tries to be a design system rather than a formula so it can address multiple different environments. There may be sustainable cities. If you like cities then your job is to help figure out how to make yours work over the long term. I think we all have figure out how to preserve what we think is important.
I dis-agree with the animals he has on his farmstead. I personaly would never have an animal on my farm that I wouldnt be able to kill. I will not eat any animal that I cant kill. If its to cute to kill its to cute to eat; its a pet.
All animals are far more human than most of us like to admit. But the circle of life does not let most of us live on air. Its a tough awakening to kill an animal, especially you have raised from a baby, but people have been doing it for thousands of years. The honorable thing is to take responsibility for that animal's quality of life. Veganism is very damaging to the environment and there are NO vegan natives.
@coreolis7 I mostly eat fish, chicken and turkey. I am not a vegan. I live in canada so it would be hard to be a vegan anyway. the best thing I think would be raising it from birth you know how it was fed and how it was raised. I just wouldnt be able to kill any animal that I thought was cute. (its a girl thing) I wouldnt have a problem with c
This guy has it down pat! I started a 6 acre farm back in 1999 but mife wife who is not of this mind set talked me into selling out and moving to Florida. I have been sad every since. She wants to live in the city and I have always been a country boy so even though I have given up my dream to stay married for the last 35 years. Oh Well ! Thanks for the Video!!!
He still needs a B.O.B. Bug Out Bag and lots of weapons along with a trained force of 20 or so solders will to fai
Engineer245 1 hour ago
I've always thought of our food animals as just another CHORE, therefore I have no problem eating them. The only farm animal I ever really made friends with was a stupid pig after I saw the movie 'Charlotte's Web' as a kid. It kept getting out and became rather mean, so we ate it too.
Gunzshow55312 6 hours ago
WEB: Earth is loaded with room. We could put the world's entire pop. into the U.S. Doing so would make our pop. density 1,531 people per sq. mile. That's a far lower pop. density than what now exists in N.Y. (11,440), L.A. (9,126) and Houston (7,512). The entire U.S. population could move to Texas and each family of four would enjoy 2.9 acres of land. If the entire world's population moved to Texas, California, Colorado and Alaska, each family of four would enjoy nine-tenths of an acre of land.
LoveTurnshateful 16 hours ago
@LoveTurnshateful, this is great news!! Please tell that to the 200 species that went extinct today. And the 200 tomorrow. Tell them the planet is only for the humans. Hey, where do we grow food, now that we're losing topsoil, draining aquifers, polluting oceans and atmosphere so rapidly on every continent where totalitarian agriculture is operating?
peakmoment 5 hours ago
"Eating your friends"?
All of the serenity that guy was pitching went right out the window when he said that.
2bornot2b1984 1 day ago
@2bornot2b1984 agreed, no one ever mentioned being a vegetarian as a way of lessening our impact. he could raise nuts or even eat fish would be better than slaughtering and eating something that thought of you as its mother.
sensibuddz 5 hours ago
beer for slugs,works great.
1967cbd 1 day ago
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MickScarborough 2 days ago
so like we all get to have acreage and live like hippies to solve the "peak" problem. Good answer for "elites" I guess.
rhinohippo 4 days ago
Dinosaurs went extinct because of Raw Milk.
Big Foot lost his way after drinking Raw Milk, that's why he is spotted periodically down south.
Obama drank Raw Milk and his approval ratings went down.
Raw Milk is the enemy of mankind.
ScopedOUT2 1 week ago
This is really important news. Do you think if I drink Raw Milk that people will stop watching Peak Moment shows?? ~Janaia
peakmoment 6 days ago 2
@ScopedOUT2 essenes.ca Kill neither men, nor beasts, nor yet the food which goes into your mouth. So eat always from the table of God: the fruits of the trees, the grain and grasses of the field, the milk of beasts, and the honey of bees. Muhammad told them to go and drink camel milk and urine as a medicine. So here we find Muhammad, CHRIST, GOD, PRABHUPADAvani. org ALL drinking, teaching, & marketing RAW MILK & HONEY. SO do you still think your SMARTER THAN them?
charukrsnadasa 2 days ago
@charukrsnadasa you do realize I was making a sarcastic joke about raw milk, right?
ScopedOUT2 1 day ago
@ScopedOUT2 No I did not. saracasm is a difficult thing to distinguish and understand, and in the words of Johny Carson something best left on the comedians stage and even then used carefully. I thought it to be in spite but now that you've clued me in on your clever jest in sarcasm i applaude your joke... the dinosaur part was the funniest.
charukrsnadasa 1 day ago
i would like to achieve this level of sustainability,
but how does he make money?
YalkOne 1 week ago
@YalkOne he farts terds and sells them
TheClownCentral 6 days ago
I would like to live like that :D thats for sure.
arthurlafave 1 week ago
Is it better to eat your enemies or misstreat your future dinner? Giving the animals a comfortable life seems the most humane course of action.
Ragwingdriver1 1 week ago
This is very cool. Mark knows his stuff.
NWBushman 1 week ago
thx 4 the video ,,very nice
moecat1000 1 week ago
Yep. The internet - the free internet, that is - and small farming. The sun is shining on this path.
not2tees 1 week ago
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2bornot2b1984 1 week ago
@2bornot2b1984
livestock animal "friends" do not equate to people friends.
Damarcast 1 week ago
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@Damarcast
"livestock animal "friends" do not equate to people friends"
Honestly, I have never said anything to other people about eating meat. I consider it not my right to determine what they will eat
But I was particularly disturbed by the way that sheep was nuzzling up against affectionately, and he was petting the sheep affectionately. But then he is going to eat him
Ok, so livestock animal friends arent people friends. What about dog friends? Should we eat our dog friends?
2bornot2b1984 1 week ago
@2bornot2b1984, Mark replies: "The way I see it if your going to eat, you going to have to kill something be it plant or animal. If you choose to pay someone else to do it for you, that's your choice. But it doesn't change the facts. It just makes them much easier to deny."
peakmoment 2 days ago
This is excellent, i allready have been doing the same things for 5 years now! but im in the point of restoring the 130 year old loghouse first. Great job! love that place.
MysteriousPhilosophy 1 week ago
Yes very nice video... except of about eating you friends :,(
ariostotube 2 weeks ago
Very nice video, thanks for the effort. Ignore the zombies, we still outnumber them.
yeshuason 2 weeks ago
<--jealous. He did a great job figuring out what works and what doesn't. We do pretty good here in the Arizona desert but we're planning on our retirement back east where we can have our own self sustaining farm.
Thank you for your channel and bring us this information.
azromper 2 weeks ago
what kind of "friend" eats his friend?
Barbaragolden 2 weeks ago
.richsoil.com/hugelkultur/ want everyone to see this article<3 Your place looks lovely!!
ASKWildeHilde 2 weeks ago
Great video! Filled with valuable information and ideas and so well presented. Thanks so much
platinumplusenter 2 weeks ago
Wow I don't understand these comments by some people. Thank you for a nice interview, and thank you for giving of your time and knowledge of trial and error. What you have is a beautiful thing, but i know you already know that. Some of us out here have the desire to do what you are doing but are not able do to other circumstances. Thanks for keeping my dream alive in my heart. Great job.
numernine9 3 weeks ago
@leesoarez Learn to spell you illiterate oaf. No one takes you seriously when you cant spell.
MickScarborough 3 weeks ago
Absolutely great ... amazing job ... a very inspiring thing to watch. Thanks
urutuc 3 weeks ago
Thank you so much for this post! This is my life goal! This is all I want for my life! What a beautiful video! Congratz to you and to Mark!
Cheers from Brasil (=
leesoarez 3 weeks ago
Awesome :)
hillsidepoppy 3 weeks ago
do a you tube search : criminalization of organic farming
passinthreu 4 weeks ago
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MickScarborough 1 month ago
Very well done. It's great to see people being living independantly.
Wotchadoinbro 1 month ago
I am surprised that you eat meat. Shame on you!
momheinan 1 month ago
@momheinan Two words for your biggot ass: FUCK YOU!
Now go graze on your front lawn, you ignorant piece of shit!
leesoarez 3 weeks ago
AWESOME vid, as are all of your videos. The infor. is great!
I haven't checked out food dehydrating, YET. Now I will. I hope the nutrients are preserved, thats the most important to me.
I would do freezing, but, yeah, it would require electricity and not all items are suitable for freezing. And even if you freeze, they can get ruined.
This solar drier is great. I had a garden this year and yeah, it all matures at once. I still have 2 water melon.
Thank-you, Thank-you.
Livinggreen100 1 month ago
Great video, and life style. Thanks for sharing it.
wiheedotcom 1 month ago
you say you microwave the dried fruit at times, so is that with the top on or off?
T0mmy1Ear 1 month ago
Geez, you should of ate those blackberries :]
nhrevolutionist 1 month ago
"theres no magic here that ive done" sooo understated. I love this episode, this guy sees things and then reacts. love it. thank you.
StrainsFYI 1 month ago
Is there a part two that shows the barn?
Rocky1765 1 month ago
if you crush and break sea shells and spread a 6"moat around your garden ,its great as sluggs hate the sharp edges and salt in the shells....
HopiTrails1 1 month ago 5
I take offense to the theme of this video, PEAK OIL, BULL----- Over population-BULL, glogal warming, PLLLLEEEASE, people that believe all of that bs, NWO manipulation will never survive, they will always fail because of their trust for the SYSTEM, it's just History.
The people who live like this without believing all of the BS, people who live like this to specifically GET OUT OF THE BEASTLIKE SYSTEM will be the survivors!
tgvas 1 month ago
@tgvas hey, you on the rag or something? Maybe daddy spanked you too hard last night?! You may wanna take it out on people who actually CARE about your daddy issues, LOSER!
leesoarez 3 weeks ago
this is truly an inspiration. this guy has the right idea. how ridiculously awesome is his lifestyle?!
gardengreentheworld 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
This is great!
tdreamgmail 2 months ago
The reason we're at "PEAK CONSUMPTION" is because corporate greed makes everything to last a limited time! Therefore they sell more to the same people. Over and over and over ......... again!
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hortulanus94 2 months ago
If slaughtering your own animals is too much for you, you could have someone do it for you, or...not eat meat at all. I don't think I'd be able to kill a mammal...a chicken maybe but that's it.
H0useMouse 2 months ago
He should check out "dexter" cattle, should suit his small needs
DrChrisBiomed 3 months ago
Anyone who cannot always do exactly what they want to do can always celebrate the success of others who have met their dreams as fully adventurous as Mark Cooper's self-sufficient small farm.
dajames100 3 months ago
Great vid.
aux1z11 3 months ago
yeah... you're eating your friends.. its tough to do but tender in the oven.
nothin wrong with raising your own meat... it is humbling... thx
sustainable2012 3 months ago
permaculturists are the lawyers of ecosystems.... they spot a local issue in their microsystem and look to the wild as primary authority to find the law, then retract the law from the wild and perform an Analysis on how to fit it into the design Conclusion (create more edge)
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Issue
Rule
Anlaysis
Conclusion
IRACing is what they call this in law school... LAWYERS OF THE ECOSYSTEM!!!!!
sustainable2012 3 months ago
He's eating his friends like Jeffrey Dahmer! Why not go deer hunting instead of killing your trusting pets?
Andreas748 3 months ago
@Andreas748 C'mon man, Jeff Dahmer really?? Jeffrey Dahmer's victims weren't his buddies, they were just random little asian dudes that he would sleep with, then eat.
arsdag81 1 month ago
...i'd like to live like that.....
paulpellicci 4 months ago
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Animals are property! Never ever give money to Humane Society of the United States, ASPCA, etc.. They use rare cases of poorly kept pets to tug on your heartstrings for money. They then use that money to OUTLAW animal use in any way. It's not only big agriculture that's taking your rights away it is "animal rights" and you are paying them to do it!
Vote4RonPaulLiberty 4 months ago
Awesome vid. The ending was so perfect; how he said he loves his high-tech technology but this helps him stay grounded. That is exactly how I feel. I think too many people have the idea that people like this want you to abandon everything that makes society what it is in the 21st century. Very well said my friend. I have to say... I am jealous of anyone that has a year-round growing season, that would be a blast.
porkpie420 4 months ago 3
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women just ask stupid questions! and for god's sake stop eating that poor man's dried food!
immak4u 4 months ago
@immak4u, sorry to offend you. Mark is a personal friend, and he offered it to me to try.
peakmoment 4 months ago
@peakmoment naa i was just joking :-) everything in the video was good. just that you should prepare more questions that can help the listeners (who are wannabes ) before the interview starts. all else was good.
immak4u 4 months ago
i like this guy mike cooper. and i wanted to do something like this with 5 acres of land!
immak4u 4 months ago
I appreciate the model of living that we learn about in this video. I personally long for the day when I can produce some of my OWN food, and now be so darn dependent on stores to feed me. Mind you I'm not waging wars against stores and Big Business, I simply desire to experience a little more Self Sufficiency.
waellerbe 4 months ago
Give me Pork Chops or give me death. Global warming suckers. News flash the planets temp goes up and down, its not a static system. The predict temp changes are well within normal pattern changes.
sugershakify 4 months ago 2
anyone else notice? 8:00 he says "i have experimented with just about anything i can get my hands on" as the goat starts nudging his crotch
OrogDeMalfur 4 months ago
Those who deny the proven fact of manmade global warming have zero right to condemn the idiots who deny peak oil. They are both equally stupid.
mphello 5 months ago
Get the government out of our pockets and more of us can do that. Do it cause its right, not because of the supposed "global warming". Do you know I can't milk 5 cows and sell the milk to you without $100,000 worth of cooling, and pasteurizing (heating) equipment? All our grandparents should be dead already if non-pasteurized milk was so dangerous. I hope to do this with my future farm, but on a little bit larger scale..
jeffery19677 5 months ago 15
@jeffery19677, good luck with your future farm. I hope you consider producing raw milk...which our ancestors thrived on for generations. It's one of my daily staples.
peakmoment 5 months ago 12
@peakmoment I learned to love raw milk when I was raising baby dairy calves as a hobby. I had a couple of farmers that wouldn't give or sell me milk, but if I STOLE a gallon while he wasn't looking, he wouldn't notice..LOL I am too old to start darying now. I may, in the future, milk a cow just for me. More and more dairies across the country are pasteurizing their own milk and selling it with the cream.. Tastes just as good as raw milk to me.
jeffery19677 5 months ago
@jeffery19677 Heating the milk kills potential bacteria. The expensive equipment is for large scale industrial use. It's possible to pasteurize your own milk at home with basic equipment (I use a pressure cooker). Don't get so scared of regulations that you ignore the proper safety such regulations are meant to instill in mass production. Food related illness and disease was a primary cause of child deaths before the pre-modern era.
TechnomancerMorhion 2 months ago
@jeffery19677 You are a subversive, daring to sell raw milk is un-American and terroristic! LOL
tgvas 1 month ago
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bigfatcahoonas 6 months ago
We ALL agree on the 'peak oil' syndrome, BUT, now that the NASA data recovered and reinterpreted...shows that many 'scientists' have skewed the data for 'man-made' global warming. Seems many of these folks were needing to 'pad their coffers' and pet projects with deceptive data. Keep alert for more.
novokarpati 6 months ago
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biospharms 6 months ago
This guy is amazing and this is something I'd totally want to do! I wish there were more information on how he got started and how to start one of your own. Great job!!
Gotonytube 6 months ago
man that guy is freaking awesome, can't wait to have more projects of my own like that. If only i had the land or space to do so, but i guess i can start small.
therotaryrocket 6 months ago
ok so where is his pot garden ..i know he's growing weed
Bchris420 6 months ago
@Bchris420, ya struck out. A lot of small farmers grow weed as well (cash crop), but this guy doesn't do weed.
peakmoment 6 months ago
@peakmoment still he lives a nice life ...i know i would have some growing ...
Bchris420 6 months ago
truly fascinating! =D Keep up the good work!
henryzimmer 6 months ago
great video, very interesting. I would have to agree with Mark about keeping the right mindset about the animals you keep and the slaughter aspect being the worst part of the whole experience. If you want meat on your plate for dinner there isn't any way to avoid killing one of your animals. What was funny was how she was eating everything she could get her hands on. He had some great ideas and I loved how he used goats as land clearers. I'm a little jealous of his lifestyle
alderaforall 6 months ago
Wonderful video! I truly believe that all meat eaters would have a better appreciation for animals and their health if they had "their hand" in the processing of the meat. Much respect.
wigwamman1 7 months ago
I had a book titled 5 Acres and Independence. It was a good idea and this is a good refinement of the idea.
hermenutic 7 months ago
@ 7:19, Awwwwww! Baby critters are so precious!
A favorite book of mine: 'Diet for as Small Planet'
I'm not a Vegetarian, 'prolly' should be, but love my steak 'blackened rare'.
I definitely believe mass production of animal protein is wrong-headed and inefficient use of what we've been blessed with.
There is tons of food enough to feed Eath's masses, BUT, socio-political forces will always deny people the right to a full belly.
So sad, but true.
Nice video, TY
Mikdeelo 7 months ago
you don't have to eat animals.. it's really simple. I don't know why people are so addicted to eating meat.. and killing animals it's just not necessary. Grains, tofu, cheese milk, eggs, beans.. etc. nuts.
TheClaudiamilan 7 months ago
I didn't go through all of the comments, but a good way to take care of those slugs is put a little beer in an old plastic peanut butter jar and lay it on it's side on the ground. The slugs will crawl in and indulge themselves and not make it out. Hope this helps with the slug problem.
xmcmannes 7 months ago
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psychomunchkin25 7 months ago
omg everyone shut up, hes the farthest thing from evil, the way we all live even you vegans is killing more animals than he is. I bet he uses every part of that animal including the fur and bones. Outside society kills whole populations of animals just from throwing away plastic and making pollution
psychomunchkin25 7 months ago
@vanityvideo,
For you to call this man evil is a result of our collective disconnection to our food.
You allow someone else to kill the meat you eat. Our ancestors did not. Grow up.
cavemanillustrations 8 months ago
I personally couldn't kill my own meat but if that's the case maybe I should be come a vegetarian? It actually befits the self sufficient living to have more energy. Raising animals to eat them requires time and more money. So you will have more energy to focus on your gardening
anglwatchinme247 8 months ago
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This guy is evil, watching him pet that animal and say that he is gonna kill it and eat it later while the poor animal is licking his hand thinking he has his best interest at heart not knowing hes planing to eat him, that is just sick and evil period
vanityvideo 8 months ago
@vanityvideo, gosh that means that 99% of our ancestors were evil -- they killed and ate animals. And we're here thanks to them. I know Mark personally. He does love his animals. It isn't easy for him to kill them. I know he does the harvesting, and the eating, with a heart full of gratitude and respect.
peakmoment 8 months ago 28
@peakmoment i dont care how he does it, its evil, at least if he would not live with the animals that he wants to eat, or not let the animals lick his hand, or maybe have someone else slaughter them, then it might be understandable, but what he is doing is just sick and evil with no conscience, plus he has all that food why does he want to eat his animal friends that he loves, only a sick individual would eat his own friend, u dont kill something you love, instead you sacrifice yourself for them
vanityvideo 8 months ago
@vanityvideo how does that make it evil, i think this is the only way to really be a meat eater, its more evil to just overlook the pains and lives of the animals that you eat and not notice tham as living beings, instead this guy takes the RESPONSIBILITY to raise the animals that he eat, in contrast to ppl eating meat who doesnt wanna know about the ugly side of the story, the killing and the slaughtering of said animal. This guy is doing meat eating the only right way...
StrainsFYI 1 month ago 7
@peakmoment you don't kill something you love, instead you sacrifice yourself for them, like Jesus Christ did, he didn't kill us while proclaiming he Loves us, he sacrificed himself for us because he Loves us, thats real Love, always remember that and don't get perverted in your mentality thinking killing is loving, you don't kill something you love, it doesn't take a genius to understand that, its simple you, you just have to think with your soul not your mind
vanityvideo 8 months ago
@peakmoment Gosh: you're right: our ancestors destroyed their habitat. Now 7 billion humans are destroying natural habitats. Gosh: you mean vegetarians who don't raise animals and don't kill animals are not evil because they don't destroy the world? You mean if our ancestors had been vegetarians the world would not be eating dead flesh right now? Is it okay if I kill you and eat you? You won't mind because you don't think it is evil: right?
turak0 7 months ago
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If humans would not start eating animals, we'd still be on the level of chimps. Meat allowed our ancestors to evolve higher by indulging in a high concentration source of nutrients.
52111centrumcz 6 months ago
@peakmoment The excuse that our ancestors did it means nothing to the logical mind. Our ancestors married and had sex with 10 year old girls. Our ancestors killed in the name of their cults. Our ancestors waged war at the drop of a hat. Our ancestors used leeches to treat colds. Our ancestors owned slaves. Our ancestors did many things we wouldnt think of doing today. So why is eating animals given a mulligan? Its your refusal to give up your barbaric addiction to meat.
MickScarborough 5 months ago
@MickScarborough You are an omnivore. Your teeth are not flat all the way around for pure plant mastication. They have sharp edges designed for eating meat. And it's not just that; The human body derives major benefit from animal proteins that it does not derive nearly as well from other types of protien. I am not going to sit here and teach biology to some random guy on youtube. Go read..... something. Just READ; I don't care what you read, just freaking educate yourself.
dracolique 2 days ago
@dracolique Sorry but you are incorrect. The sharp edges are for piercing rind. We share absolutely NONE of the carnivore characteristics. None at all. We are not designed to hunt, our digestive system can not handle flesh and we get sick from disease if its not cooked, an unatural act. We get numerous diseases that are indisputably linked to meat that no carnivore gets. Sorry Skippy but every condition of humanity points to the undeniabvle fact that you are wrong.
MickScarborough 2 days ago
@MickScarborough Piercing Rind? REALLY? We are primates. Primates are OMNI-vores, not CARN-Ivores. That means they eat both plants and animals. Look at the diets of ALL other primates; Their diets include meat of many varieties to be found in their natural habitat, and their teeth closely resemble our own. Bears are omnivores too, go look at THEIR teeth. Oh, and of COURSE we get sick when we eat too much meat. Even a bear can get gout and other ailments from too much. All in moderation.
dracolique 2 days ago
@dracolique fucking wrong as shit dude.
MickScarborough 2 days ago
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@MickScarborough @MickScarborough I guess that means I won the argument; since our conversation has devolved into you spouting obvious falsehoods interlaced with profanity. Thank you for the opportunity to teach others about our nature, using your ignorance as a stepping stone. Have a good day.
dracolique 2 days ago
@MickScarborough Yes, a bear has more pronounced incisors and sharper teeth in general than most primates (although the teeth of great apes are quite similar), but that is because they are more specialized toward eating meat than we are. We are more specialized toward plants, but we still have omnivorous characteristics which show that meat SHOULD be part of our diet, if not a very large one. Your large brain was built by animal protein intake,and is, to a large extent, powered by it as well.
dracolique 2 days ago
@dracolique Wow the illiteracy rate here is amazing. Apes are not meat eaters. They only go there if starving. FACTOID BITCHES! The sharp teeth on apes is not for meat. Its for fruit and defense ONLY. God damn please would someone actually take some mother fucking anthropology classes for once!
MickScarborough 2 days ago
@MickScarborough I guess that means I won the argument; since our conversation has devolved into you spouting obvious falsehoods interlaced with profanity. Thank you for the opportunity to teach others about our nature, using your ignorance as a stepping stone. Have a good day.
dracolique 2 days ago
@MickScarborough Taking into account what I said about animal protein powering your brain... if you do not eat any meat at all, it is no wonder you have a hard time THINKING and drawing meaningful lines between facts.
dracolique 2 days ago
@MickScarborough and in regards to "illnesses" from meat, if we eat fresh kill, raw meat, we are very likely to be fine. A human would rarely get sick from that
it's uncooked packaged meat that's been sitting around god knows how long that is a problem. Hell, I eat raw beef and Sushi all the time. Now before the rest of you scream "EEWWW, RAW BEEF!", keep in mind that every time you eat a hamburger which is rare, medium rare, or medium, you ARE eating some portion of raw beef in that meal.
dracolique 2 days ago
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@MickScarborough All of my beef comes from a farm owned by my family in east Texas. I wouldn't recommed eating raw meat from most grocery stores... that stuff comes from high-density cattle farms where disease is rampant. That meat falls under the previously mentioned category of "uncooked packaged meat that's been sitting around god knows how long"
dracolique 2 days ago
@MickScarborough And Mike, if you are talking about things like parasites as being "things that carnivores don't get", I DARE YOU to go find me a parasite-free Lion in the wild. They do not exist. And some parasites can actually be beneficial. Hookworm, for instance, has been show to cure or alleviate allergies in many cases. I am done for now unless you decide to spout more of your nonsense... oh, and please do not call me "Skippy". It is disrespectful.
dracolique 2 days ago
@MickScarborough Mick, sorry... I thought it was Mike for some reason.
dracolique 2 days ago
@vanityvideo I agree: he is disgusting: eating goose eggs. People still do not read history: the cause of overgrazing is the creation of deserts. Goats are the worst: they destroy all he natural habitat, cutting trees off down to the ground. What he does not realize that everything he is doing has been done before. Go to Iraq and Iran and you will see what the fertile crescent has become after 7,000 years of goats.
turak0 7 months ago
@vanityvideo A stable with hundreds/thousands of animals that almost have no place to have a decent walk is much better yes. You are completly right!!
It's so evil that he gives his animals a good and happy life a lot room to move, life and search food.
What meat would you prefer?
jan585 7 months ago
@vanityvideo So would it be okay for him to kill the animals if he hated them ? What you say doesn't make sense ?
JacobReesor 7 months ago
@vanityvideo It's wiser to let those who kill,and eat meat to do what they do,everyone is doing what he thinks it's ok,and judgeing doesn't help,it just creates tension and even hate.Those who consider eating meat is normal,also consider heart disease and other cause-effect sicknesses normal too.So let's respect everyones free will,and don't mess with other peoples points of view,and level of consciousness.I appreciate this guys work and ambition,even if i don't eat meat.
jlasud 7 months ago
@vanityvideo Great comment!
Hypocrisy at its worst. Nobody who eats animals when they have other options has any right to make a moral judgement about anything, whether it be climate hawks, the government, the Federal Reserve.
mphello 5 months ago
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MickScarborough 5 months ago
@vanityvideo AGREED
MickScarborough 5 months ago
Allot of inspiration! Thank You ! Do you have wwoofers come and help with your homestead?
eskadi13 8 months ago
Can I be a co-host? However, I'd be too busy munching away, too... Keep up the great work! :)
MrRobertGulabo 8 months ago in playlist homestead rules!
He surely likes dried food.
yucarocho 8 months ago
AND ALL THIS ON A 4 ACRES FARM? WOW!
ELPISON1000 8 months ago
Don't eat your friends!
voyagersystem 8 months ago
@voyagersystem, perhaps if we were truly connected to the web of life, like traditional cultures, we might see that we are all related and eating is a sacred act of relationship. Then we might see that everything we eat is a friend. And we ourselves would become food for them when it is our time.
peakmoment 8 months ago 11
@peakmoment, I have no desire to be part of any culture that kills and eats their friends. It's easy to adopt this mindset of this being sacred, (whatever that means), when you are the one doing the killing and eating. If you were a sheep you may not agree. Sheep: "Love us. Don't eat us". Thanks for sharing and GOD bless.
voyagersystem 8 months ago
@voyagersystem, I understand your feeling. However, you and I are alive now because our ancestors all ate meat and fish. Their sense of the sacred was knowing what we have forgotten: that we too are part of the web of life. We were created to eat others, and to be eaten. And "others" includes plants and animals.
peakmoment 8 months ago 5
@peakmoment, our common ancestors were created by GOD as sinless beings in an earthly paradise where no life suffered. But we chose to eat from the tree of knowledge that The Devil offered and hence we were seperated from GOD. This is a fallen world of pain and death. I have no interest in killing and eating my friends. Nor do I have interest in barbaric demon worshipping pagan tribes of old. I look to a time where no being suffers and none are murdered, where the lamb lays down with the lion.
voyagersystem 8 months ago
@voyagersystem Great, but next time you're chowing down a burger, remember that cow didn't get ANY love as he walked down the chute into the bullet.
TeamLibertyExpress 7 months ago
@TeamLibertyExpress, GREAT, I AM A VEGAN. NICE TRY, CARNIE.
voyagersystem 7 months ago
Is raising livestock really sustainable? I get that they are eating grass mostly, but wouldn't be much more sustainable, more compassionate and even more independent from the system to use the space for vegetables, grains/legumes and fruit to eat DIRECTLY from the ground? Living on animal products is not the healthiest choice & as Mark says: It is tough, hard to kill your FRIENDS to eat them. It does NOT have to be - you can live on plants! And live better. You will love it. Animals are friends.
kleinesveilchen 9 months ago
@kleinesveilchen, given the poor soil, hillsides and plentiful water for grass, raising animals is the most sustainable and productive food product on this land. Grains and legumes take far more land and human energy for the resulting food value. Animals are an important part of the food nutrient cycle, fertilizing and aerating the land.
In addition, humans cannot thrive on plants alone. Saturated fats from fish and/or animals are necessary for the fat soluble vitamins A, D, E and K.
peakmoment 9 months ago 3
@peakmoment yah you can't convince vegans that raising animals can be healthy humane can actually good for the evironment..and god knows i have been trying..
chiledoug 9 months ago
@kleinesveilchen I agree for some part with u kleinesveilchen. But Animals are NOT friends as we tend to believe. We as human beings make this believe of asuming that it is so because they be along side for ages. It definitly does not mean, they are friends. Ofcourse your and many others may,can or do believe otherwise, I do respect avery opinion but we need to stay objective in this matter as it is important for our being.
michelb08 9 months ago
@kleinesveilchen Now for the eating of the 'FRIENDS' and or not eighter plants;
It might be a good idea to have both, greengarden and animals. Remember that living on vegtables only will not be a heatlhy one. We need some sort of 'meat' to stay alive?
michelb08 9 months ago
@kleinesveilchen I hear ya. It really is admirable to be a vegetarian. I love animals as well but I do eat the occasional steak, burger or fish. I believe in treating animals right so it means not being cruel or barbaric when they are killed for food. And I never believe in killing just for trophy purposes or just out of spite (which we do sometimes to creatures that we consider "pests".) We cannot eat meat all the time and it is unhealthy to do that. I believe we can balance it out.
MrRobertGulabo 8 months ago in playlist homestead rules!
What he said about horses being pasture pets and useless unless you eat them isn't true. the usefulness of a horse is in its power. If you use a horse for draft power, they are indispensible! Maybe he was just saying that they're of no use to him because he doesn't plow the land...?
Nilyentaraka 11 months ago
@Nilyentaraka They are useless to him on only 4 acres.
dracolique 2 days ago
i totally wanna raise geese now
simonkism 1 year ago
Why am I so drawn to this lifestyle? Well, actually I know. :-) GREAT video!
matrixview 1 year ago
Get some wolfhounds to keep the coyotes in check.
Cstrife234 1 year ago
thanks for sharing this, I have a plan in place to shift my way of living as well. It is so nice to see i am not alone in my way of thinking
39chances 1 year ago
It's a pity that your eating your friends. That makes me sad.
yozeroz 1 year ago
@yozeroz Or if you don't eat friend, you die. If you want to be sustainable you need to do what you have to. It's life.
vladabuba 11 months ago
@vladabuba A person does not need to eat meat to live. It's part of life by choice I believe, not necessity.
yozeroz 11 months ago
@yozeroz "believe" being the operative word here.
dracolique 2 days ago
I haven't watched the whole video but he if he has predator problems then all he needs is a large dog or two.
DatDereBlueRidge 1 year ago
i'd like to live like this.
Farfromhere001 1 year ago
That was something nice!
ChuckCh9 1 year ago
this lady is kinda creepin.... it's like "stop eatin' my food lady."
parkerjwill 1 year ago
Hi Mark! What a great place you have. Love all the creative food ideas!
rangersdaughter 1 year ago
This has to be the best peak moment ever! Seriously cool inventiveness, permaculture style
Noz7777 1 year ago
What's great is it sounds like he's been learning as he's going which make it more exciting and stimulating....
MrEnergyCzar 1 year ago
Very inspirational Mark. Thank you.
conquerorofbabylon 1 year ago
GREENPOWERSCIENCE has good videos in this vein.
gigantopithecus01 1 year ago
What an incredible property/project/endeavour and lifestyle......very complex, well thought out and orchestrated to be self-sustaining for the most part.......just amazing and congrats on a job super well done Mark ! Thanks for sharing this with us. Very inspirational
mukwah1111 1 year ago
You could cut out the awful job of "culling" your sheep if you went vegetarian. Perhaps you could get chickens to eat bugs, like the slugs on your mushrooms and depend more on the chicken and goose eggs for food, while adding nut trees and beans for additional protein. You could then save the sheep for wool that can be traded and for their manure, which can be used as fuel and/or fertilizer.
Eggs, nuts and beans are much easier to store and "Process".
HungryHillboy 1 year ago
Hello Janaia, what an amazing inspirational video this has been. I thank you again. I enjoyed it so much. What I think is really great about the man in the video is his is his reusing of oid unwanted stuff to make amazing usefull things on his home stead. Like the cage for the geese to protect them and the amazing sun drying unit made from bits. I have lots of new ideas for homestead now and am really excited. sue
Thekozlowskis 1 year ago
i love what he doing! a true inspiration!
MrGreenbudha 1 year ago
I would like to have my multiple posts deleted except the most recent one before this one, but there doesn't seem to be a way to delete them, like before. When I posted previously, YouTube kept giving an error message, hence, apparently, the multiposts.
Glomerol 1 year ago
@peakmoment:
I have an idea that I'm working on and will try to let you know once I get it up and running (1 month or so). Derrick, along with others, is someone I might like to contact regarding it as well.
I'm still trying to get my head wrapped around the complex dynamics and see if it can be structured, perhaps along the lines of the beginnings of agriculture vis-a-vis our hunting/gathering/territorialism/pecking-order/self-interests/etc. aspects, maybe with some chaos theory... (continued)
Glomerol 1 year ago
She's eating his food. Not cool.
Wow. He's used a very old term. He called a fungus a "plant" at 21:25. Plants and fungi were not always known to be separate, but everyone nowadays should know that they are. That's not to say that he's generally ignorant- he's obviously pretty knowledgeable.
TheLonelyImmortal 1 year ago
She's eating his food. Not cool.
Wow. He's used a very old term. He called a fungus a "plant" at 21:25. Plants and fungi were not always known to be separate, but everyone nowadays should know that they are. That's not to say that he's generally ignorant- he's obviously pretty knowledgeable.
TheLonelyImmortal 1 year ago
@christo930
Sustainable is adapting your environment to produce the lifestyle you want but without massive external inputs and without doing damage to others, even at a distance. Permaculture tries to be a design system rather than a formula so it can address multiple different environments. There may be sustainable cities. If you like cities then your job is to help figure out how to make yours work over the long term. I think we all have figure out how to preserve what we think is important.
coreolis7 1 year ago
I dis-agree with the animals he has on his farmstead. I personaly would never have an animal on my farm that I wouldnt be able to kill. I will not eat any animal that I cant kill. If its to cute to kill its to cute to eat; its a pet.
crewlla 1 year ago
@crewlla
All animals are far more human than most of us like to admit. But the circle of life does not let most of us live on air. Its a tough awakening to kill an animal, especially you have raised from a baby, but people have been doing it for thousands of years. The honorable thing is to take responsibility for that animal's quality of life. Veganism is very damaging to the environment and there are NO vegan natives.
coreolis7 1 year ago
@coreolis7 I mostly eat fish, chicken and turkey. I am not a vegan. I live in canada so it would be hard to be a vegan anyway. the best thing I think would be raising it from birth you know how it was fed and how it was raised. I just wouldnt be able to kill any animal that I thought was cute. (its a girl thing) I wouldnt have a problem with c