 So I want to answer a frequently asked question on this channel a lot of people will see me walking around forests that look like this That is a whole bunch of pines and if you notice the pines are all in a row now I don't know. This seems like a very basic thing. I guess but if you're a city slicker you might not know what this is This isn't some weird Minecraft mod as people often ask me. This is actually just a pine farm Okay, if you actually look at it I mean all these trees were deliberately planted as you can see the forest floor the forest floor if you want to call it a forest is Littered with pine leaves pine needles Basically what happens in most rural areas around here? I mean, this isn't just where I happen to live This is like honestly a lot of places in America probably in other countries as well You just grow pine trees, right? So this is like a crop of basically so the pine trees take around I'll show you I'll show you different life cycles in different stages of development. These are pretty close to being You know, I think they're actually about to be cut pretty soon. They're around 20 years old if you look behind me though If you look behind here These are more recently planted pines now first off there's a bunch of brush here obviously You know it has to be maintained if they're growing pine trees because a bunch of other stuff will grow in here So they'll take tractors through the lanes or whatever and clear them out But these I want to say I mean these used to be big pines that were cut down Maybe five years or so ago and now there are new little pines in there There's so much brush here that you can't really get in there But again, they take tractors through it every once in a while And then over here as I said these I think are just about to be cut But if you look over here, these have just these have just been cut Okay, so it actually smells nice like, you know pine needles or whatever it just smells like, you know Freshly cut pine if you look over there. Yeah, you probably can't see it But there's there's like a logging truck There's like a you know vehicle getting rid of the logs and stuff like that So basically in a lot of rural environment what people will do. It's actually weird Let me just go ahead and say it's weird because you know, I film videos in this area You know, it's like it's weird like when you live around like a big a bunch of trees That have been there for like 20 years and then they get cut and you can like see the highway over there or something like that. It's just weird and That happens like just different every couple of years like a square of them will be cut But yeah, this is how a lot of people make money now If you happen to have if you happen to have several hundred acres or maybe a hundred acres in the country if this is actually a good way to make at least a little bit of passive income in that Let's say you have a hundred 200 acres You can basically just sign up with a company and you don't have to do anything You don't have to do it yourself. They actually do all the work They plant the trees or sometimes different companies will plant the trees But they they maintain the land you don't even have to deal with it and they basically pay you And the price can vary like I think I you know it can vary a lot But from what I've heard like a 20 year cycle Let's say you have between a hundred 200 acres You might end up getting a hundred thousand dollars for the whole thing Which you know might not be that much honestly Well, this is land in the middle of nowhere But you know you're putting to use some of this land if you're putting it to use for like, you know, $5,000 a year That's like not too bad. I mean, that's okay passive income Of course, there are downs like I consider there to be a downside in the sense that Honestly, I find these like a lot of people will say in my videos. Oh, wow That's such a transfixing forest and stuff like that But it honestly is weird when like a lot of the There really are very few natural forests around here because a lot of it is just like these pine farms Pretty close to where I live and this is honestly, this isn't just where I live again This is like something very common in rural America if you want like a more natural Forest you basically have to walk to the river or some place where they happen not to do pine farming or you have to go to You know a hunting ground or something like that But yeah, I think the river is usually the most consistent place because you know, obviously you don't want to You know have your trees get inundated with like the next hurricane or something But yeah, this is a very common thing that people do I don't own any land that well technically I do have some pines on my several acres But they it's weird the trees don't belong to me. They belong to like some relative who I don't never even own the land I think she just planted trees on it or something. It's weird. It's weird how it works out But uh, yeah, so which I think those are going to get cut in a little bit And I'm not I'm not going to like that. I think I sort of like them how they are, but whatever Yeah, so that's pine farming now, you know