Harvesting and Curing Garlic from My Edible Landscape, Bumper Chicken Garden, What's My Wife Doing?
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Published 2024-07-19
Welcome to our self reliant homestead! Join us, Shawn and D, as we create a resilient, abundant and sustainable ecosystem that feeds our families from the land in Ontario Canada. Using permaculture as our guide, we strive to become independent in water, food, energy and shelter, focused on beauty in form and efficiency in function.
Our Self Reliance is a life of compromise between my two daughters and my wife's preference for culture, comfort and formality, and I, with my love of chaotic and beautiful but challenging and often uncomfortable wilderness living. The resulting homesteads are an eclectic blend of modern with traditional, whimsical with practical, formal with informal, civilized with rustic.
Over the last five years, my wife and I designed and built our dream homesteads from scratch with very little outside help; from undeveloped, declining forest to a comfortable home and cabin with a prolific edible landscape for people and wildlife equally. For many years, we have strived to lessen our burden on others by taking full responsibility for the health and welfare of our immediate family while building a strong community around us, both online and offline. Now that the infrastructure is in place here, we will be spending more time working cooperatively with community members, including extended family, to collectively become more resilient while living a deeply satisfying and meaningful life. Thank you for being part of that!
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All Comments (21)
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i have been following your, My Self Reliance videos for years, since you began building on the other property, your strength an tenacity is indeed noteworthy and a blessing to watch ,, how you started all, over again building bigger and better and keeping up with the times technologies and the demands of our era , keeping your content relevant and current, i have learned so much from you, at so many different levels. Thank you Shawn James , you and your family has been educating and inspiring me for years. Your homestead is growing and developing nicely, and Callie remains a faithful and strong adventurer, . companion. Congratulations. God bless.
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Really hope we get to see more of Mrs. James and her contributions on this channel!
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It is amazing how much you have changed and improved the land since you moved to this property.
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The three of you make some AWESOME VIDEO's .... Take Care , ENJOY ALL !!
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I am genuinely impressed by your dedication and skill in harvesting and curing garlic from your edible landscape, managing a bumper chicken garden, and capturing the essence of what’s happening with your wife. Your hard work and attention to detail reflect a deep passion for your projects and a wonderful ability to share these experiences with others. Your efforts are truly inspiring. And I am Floating Village Life.
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Good to see how well your crops are growing. Good also to see Mrs James making those delicious looking cheeses.
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A great name for this new channel. Looking forward to seeing a variety of self reliance topics from you, your wife and your family.
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Loved it !!!
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Beautiful garden to feed ur body & soul!❤️🫶🏻
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You are amazing at so many things Shawn James !!! Many you tubers that I watch give you shout outs to your channels ! The cinematography of your videos show the forest in its beauty and its abundance. Thank you so much for all you share with us !
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Really do enjoy watching all that you do! Keep them coming!🌸
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Wonderful new channel! Thank you, Shawn!
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The best video ive seen this year on the tube 👍🇬🇧
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I really appreciate the details you provided for food processing and preservation. As well as the multi crop / perma culture gardening methods you use. I'll be on 17 acres of Alberta prairie in September and hope to have a decent garden and some chickens this time next year. Thank you so much for the inspiration!!!!!
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enjoying seeing the healthy growing plants! here its mid winter New Zealand
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I'm already hitting the "Like" button before the video even starts. Thanks for the video, Brother.
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I just subscribed to your new channel. I have been following you for over 6 years now. To me, its like looking forward every week to catching up with a far away relative. Thank you as always for your generosity of sharing your life with all of us on You Tube.
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Garlic is essential for many dishes. Great to have them.
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Your #1and probably oldest fan. Legendary Sir Shawn James. One of God's special gifts to> Mankind & Nature.
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old grandmother in los angeles skies still here appreciating you and yours....
