I would love to do covers for you but they are copyrighted so the music you hear is just some bits that I wrote, usually for Damo 🤣 Also in this video I’m saying it’s not currently possible for us, with kids and our distractions, but of course people all over the world do it, it’s very possible for others. Don’t forget to check out Damos shop now stocking 100% pure unadulterated honey if you are Thailand based. Hope you are all well 🙏 🐝 SHAMANS SHED HONEY www.lazada.co.th/shop/shamans-shed/ 🍄 MUSHROOMS: Get 25% Off Fruiting Body Lions Mane, Reishi, Cordyceps & Chaga Mushroom Supplements Here On Lazada: bit.ly/fruitingbody Thanks for liking and subscribing.
If I may say, and I intend this msg to be for the max of your Channel and profit: Ryan, you have a MOST UNIQUE singing voice. It's perfect, but NOT for the song nor tune you used in this vid. 1. The speed of the tune is way too fast for your SPLENDID UNIQUE voice, and WAY TOO INTENSE. Pick a tune with lyrics more reminiscent of past days and years. Your unique voice is perfect for "remembering" past dreams that never came to fruition. Play on it. 2. Only use the piano (or guitar or banjo or harmonica) to play in between your unique voice "crying" the past failed dreams. Your thinking of the past dreams that never unfolded. It's the voice of what could have been, but never was. Perfect for your voice quality. 3. Modify the strength of the lyrics and tune to a softer "remembering" attitude. Your transmitting a feeling of what "could have been" attitude that never developed. You're reminiscing. 4. Result: a softer acceptance of life as it unfolded. It's how life occurs; not in how we dreamed it might be. It's life. And THAT'S the message. Hope you understand my message.I wish you and your family the very best. May God look after you.
Self subsistence is extremely difficult to attain. Many "settlers" and "pioneers" perished as they attempted to survive in the westward development of the North American continent. The beauty of civilization is the relative ease of surviving using civilized societies for supplemental financial survival compared to pioneers and settlers self-sufficient survival is historical. Kudos to you, Ryan and Damos, for your attempts, but allow yourselves the luxuries of using the Thai society to supplement your income and survival. It's OK.
You have an awesome singing voice Ryan! Very raspy! I love it! 😃 Thank You for sharing your music with us, and so much more! We appreciate you for being you, true and real!
Damnnnn Ryan! That is a cracking voice and a great tune! Excellent video mate! Can not wait to see some potential content from you and Otis in the South! Quite different down there. What great experiences he is having at such a young age!
Please don't be so hard to yourself. It takes time and this has been such a great channel to me. Thank you. You will get there just take some time. Viewer from Australia.
Looking good to me. I am 70 years old I can't do a lot of things i did when i was younger but I love watching your videos. and those videos of families sailing around the world. You guys make me feel good and inspire me to try new things; to stay curious and participate in the world. While attending college I lived on a 20-acre apple farm. the owner & her husband cleared the land, built a house and planted the orchard. To make ends meet She worked in town at the hospital 4-days a week and he would take on carpentry jobs and hunt and sell the snake skins and pelts to tourists. Her way of relaxing was baking, reading, or sewing clothes for her husband and 2 children. They were never idle and I never heard them compare or complain. A satisfying life is rarely the easy life with few challenges.
My wife’s family live in rural Thailand, and they are very self-sufficient, but they tend to eat chickens and meat, which forms quite a large part of the diet and of corse eggs and milk from the community village cow 😊
Sending love and ideas from Culebra, Puerto Rico. We are a tiny island with dry season, lots of salt in the air and storm season. I had a hard time starting and creating a garden to feed us with. Very rocky soil, as well! Try spraying your veggies plants with alcohol, or wash off with Dawn soap and water mix. All bugs will leave. But you have to be vigilant about the bugs! Another option would be to build a green house for propagation, that will ensure the seedlings to grow and get strong, before moving to a row in your garden. Don’t give up! We are all with you! Blessings!
Ryan maybe you are missing the point, one individual cannot br self sufficient, but a small community can be. One family is really great with livestock, one family can grow vegetables, one can grow fruits, one can preserve, a family is not judt you, its those who surround you. There is 100%
A team is better than an individual. It’s very tough and you both have done amazingly well. Life is just not that easy…but I totally admire what you are doing.
@@lifeinruralthailand that is what I suggested before, grow a bunch of mushrooms, take them to the market ,find someone with a large selection of the fruits and vegetables you use , then barter/ trade for what you need
What a fantastic ways that you, your loved ones and kids are deciding by taking care of all the animals, fruits that you're also growing on plants in your farm in different ways. Including the ways that your wife & son were cutting bananas, cherries & other are the about the same way that I'm also helping my dad including neighbors too incase any hard situation were getting affected to them while their plants are getting effects, me or my dad will help them to check then helped them to cut by letting them to know the situation about the reason why we're cutting out. What a perfect sound while you're playing piano and using your voice to sing while you're enjoying in your own farm home...
You both work together as a great team, amazing how you grow so much and keep your place in such good shape, but still keep it real for others that rural Thailand is a tough place to make a living off the land.
Yes. You r right. It's Ryan and his wife also the family we tune in to watch. We enjoy watching you tackling daily issues and listening to your wise words Ryan. Long may you continue and prosper.
Ryan, you gave me quite a shock when you started singing! Your singing vioice is nothing like your quiet talking voice, I just wasn't expecting that 🤣😂 Loved your shat together with Otis appearing at the window behind you. Damo is always so optimistic and you are just a perfect match. Thank you for your honesty and integrity. Your channel is, for me, my happy place and I certainly wouldn't want you to change either of your channels fo the sake of making commercial vlogs. You are great the way you are! I loved your slo-mo clips of Troides helena or Common Birdwing butterfly. They are amazing to watch but what yuour clip doesn't show is the size of these beautiful creatures. They seem to be particularly fond of certain species of flower and once they find them they hang around drinking from them until they mate and die. Thanks as always to you and Damo, God bless you all 😀🙏❤
Great stuff Ryan, really enjoyed watching this video as I prepared to go to my job I hate in the rat race in OZ, keep trying and planting and growing and learning. Loved your music ❤
I love your butterfly ! Love your farm, there is nothing boring about it. Could you plant potatoes or sweet potatoes ? Onions and garlic. Eggs from the chickens. Peppers and tomatoes. That will give you wonderful frittatas and omelettes. Is that too western ? Sorry Ryan, what do I know. Love the Tom Waits voice ! 💕🌷
You're making an awesome effort... Leafy greens are the easiest way to get tons of nutrition easy... living off the land gets much easier when you forage for wild weeds and greens.
My son and I have plans to eventually grow 10 percent of our food....and THAT is an ambitious plan for us! We would settle for onions, peppers, lettuce, garlic and tomatoes and call that good enough! Hang in there and know that once your kids are bit older, they'll be able to jump in and assist. Give it seven more years or so hahaha
Great job on the song Ryan, and great job to you and Mo for growing even 20% of your fruit & veg!!! Thats awesome.. especially while raising a family. I wish i had time to grow even 10% of what i need.. awesome job, keep up the great work. Cheers from Canada. Dave
Have you looked at Hydroponics, we have a friend in Samut Prakan who grows lots of chemical free veg's in hydroponics. It grows quickly and he sells lots of stuff. Usually pre-ordered.
Keep it real Ryan thats all i can suggest. Personally i enjoy the farm and family vids best, helps me chill after a busy day at work and reinforces our plans for the new year. Cheers mate.
If you do canning you could be able to preserve more of what you grow, iit wiill allow proiduce to be picked sooner rather than leaving it on the plant until you are ready to use it. Less will be ruined to by bugs.
Life in rural Thailand is beautiful peace and tranquility 🦋 is beautiful and get into being silence and touch on your big self would love to hear you sing let it be namaste
I don't see any butterfly peas, little round Thai eggplant, Basil, Kangkong, bitter melon, Chinese greens, onions, chilis, tomatoes, etc. I've seen many videos of people in Thailand growing lots of food. I have found in Bali since I live by the sea, many things don't like the heat at night. Here if you want to grow brassica's you have to grow up in the mountains. But after some practice I have found that Malabar spinach, sauce like tomatoes, chilis, Chinese greens, Thai basil, lemon basil, red and green Amaranth, dill, make it. I am going to try the butterfly peas, arugula, coriander, Toraja chilis, and a few more. You have to just keep trying. Have you tried Neem oil, dish soap, hydrogen peroxide, baking soda, tea made from garlic and chilis, as a pest deterrent? The better the soil the healthier the plants which make them more resistant to pest and disease. Make compost and put it in your beds to improve your soil. Manure from animals that eat healthy food is good also.
Love when you keep it simple.. thank you.rocking the tunes aswell.. well done..If you come up to Ubon anytime after the 7th of October me the wife and our son will be there at our farm...drop in say hello
Just a point on your growing pumpkin, I lived in Tasmania for 4 years and found that my best pumpkin season was when I moved my chicken coop and planted the seeds there. They virtually jumped out of the ground.
Hi Ryan & Mo, I envy you your dogs life 😂. I'm glad you can see past the demands of the masses. As always I wish you and all of your family well. Continue as you are, doing what suits you and your family.
When I was in Thailand we raised alots of chickens. And my dad would plant lots of vegetables and fruits and sweets potatoes. And the only thing we buy is oil,salt,msg and rice 🌾 we been living like that for 9 years as long as I remember before moving to USA. It was the best thing ever I miss my childhood is just so stressful in USA.
Very dank intro on the piano. But in permaculture they often say the problem is the solution: you have a lot of rain, why not make a rain garden and include bioponics with it. Similar to aquapoincs, you have a number of animals producing manure - that can be added to water that feeds plants to increase the fertility. Use an IBC cut in half as a DWC tank and float a polystyrene raft of plants on top. HTH. Inoculate biochar with the bioponics microbes and that with improve the soil wherever they are spread. Give me a shout if you need more details.
Wow!! I was hoping to hear you preform. I think I have a bit of a crush. I love you and your family. I enjoy your channels on both channels. You both make me hopeful for the younger generation ❤️
@@lifeinruralthailand not to nag, but we Americans would LOVE if you could find us authentic honey and lions mane mushrooms in the US. We deal with such poor quality. I’m kinda counting on you🤣. We have a trust thing😉
I love the song Ryan.. 🎵 haven't been online here much lately so it's nice to jump in and see you all again.. it's tough trying to be totally self sufficient so I totally get it.. just gotta keep on keeping on huh.. much love to you all❤️🦋🥀
Thats shit Hippy, sometimes life is so difficult and full of grief, i'm sure you already know but take time to grieve. Thoughts and prayers from our family with you. ❤
I like the concept of bartering, if you have excess of something, swap it or barter for something you need. From what I have seen in Thailand, they are often swapping or giving fruit, veggies, eggs etc. In the west we don't seem to grow as much and then be in a position to swap or give ..
The former King made a good Program for the poor farmers to survive from their land. Anyway you are doing good. You gave a lot of inspiration to us. We will try it in two Years for retirement. By the way you both are great souls
Are you channeling Satchmo? Alrighty then.555 "It takes a village to raise a child" is an old saying...think it applies to self-sufficiency as well. You would have to convert waste oil to bio-diesel to truly go self sufficient as well and much more solar and battery back up. Never give up is the attitude!
Any reason why you use polly tunnels with some food produce that would help with insects, it’s all about the song = Growing Food Grazer = Regina Koepf.
This would be a good strategy but the local Thais here are very very professional and sell the vegetables often cheaper than production costs, similar with the eggs 🙏
Bananas have been the easist to grow and make money on for me, have aboit 100, also have ducks and planning on getting a machine to chop up the Bananas to feed the ducks will save on feed, the eggs my wife pickles in salt 3×20baht, fish i just keep for future or can sell.
I live in Thailand ..many Thai people are very self-sufficient on their plot of inherited land.. BUT..they don't have much..no phones computers.. little or no electircity..no car..no new clothes...and he frogs bamboo shoots snails and much else
20-30% is better than 0. I think the main thing is you are happy with your life together. Really enjoy your vlogs. Take Care & sending much ❤️love & ✨light. Namaste! 💞💞💞💞 Ps ❤️yr music you remind me alit of Bruce Springsteen!
Great stuff Ryan. Rather than have about 20 different "projects" going for self sufficiency....could you concentrate on 1 or 2 that you are good at....sell the excess in the market, and use profits to buy all the other things. Would you still call that self sufficient? Keep up the videos....Cheers.
I feel ya'! We're up in N.W. just a bit south of Chiang Mai and a LOT of our crops just don't make it. We used to have lots of (the oblong, green) pumpkins just coming up wild, had baskets, so many we'd sell most. Then, they just stopped growing, can't get a vine to mature, insects are a BIG problem. ETC. ETC. Now, the climate is obviously changing, the rains are too hard and wipe out young plants. Best we can do is some odd fruit trees, Those are iffy too.
@@lifeinruralthailand Yeah; sorry, it's harsh. Like others said below 100% sustainable and self reliant is almost impossible, unless you're OK with a VERY limited diet. like, bananas every day for a month.
I would love to do covers for you but they are copyrighted so the music you hear is just some bits that I wrote, usually for Damo 🤣
Also in this video I’m saying it’s not currently possible for us, with kids and our distractions, but of course people all over the world do it, it’s very possible for others. Don’t forget to check out Damos shop now stocking 100% pure unadulterated honey if you are Thailand based. Hope you are all well 🙏
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Looking fwd to the day you and Tis make music together👏🏻👏🏻
me too!@@brendataylor8388
Definitely love the musical aspect of this. More, please.
If I may say, and I intend this msg to be for the max of your Channel and profit:
Ryan, you have a MOST UNIQUE singing voice. It's perfect, but NOT for the song nor tune you used in this vid.
1. The speed of the tune is way too fast for your SPLENDID UNIQUE voice, and WAY TOO INTENSE. Pick a tune with lyrics more reminiscent of past days and years. Your unique voice is perfect for "remembering" past dreams that never came to fruition. Play on it.
2. Only use the piano (or guitar or banjo or harmonica) to play in between your unique voice "crying" the past failed dreams. Your thinking of the past dreams that never unfolded.
It's the voice of what could have been, but never was.
Perfect for your voice quality.
3. Modify the strength of the lyrics and tune to a softer "remembering" attitude. Your transmitting a feeling of what "could have been" attitude that never developed. You're reminiscing.
4. Result: a softer acceptance of life as it unfolded.
It's how life occurs; not in how we dreamed it might be.
It's life. And THAT'S the message.
Hope you understand my message.I wish you and your family the very best. May God look after you.
Self subsistence is extremely difficult to attain. Many "settlers" and "pioneers" perished as they attempted to survive in the westward development of the North American continent. The beauty of civilization is the relative ease of surviving using civilized societies for supplemental financial survival compared to pioneers and settlers self-sufficient survival is historical.
Kudos to you, Ryan and Damos, for your attempts, but allow yourselves the luxuries of using the Thai society to supplement your income and survival. It's OK.
Thank you for sharing your video.💐👍💐👨
A little Joe Cocker vibe happening there!
You have an awesome singing voice Ryan! Very raspy! I love it! 😃
Thank You for sharing your music with us, and so much more!
We appreciate you for being you, true and real!
Thank you Cheryl 🙏🙏
@@lifeinruralthailand You are very welcome! 😃
Didn’t expect the Smokey strong voice. Could comfortably listen to it over a beer or six.😊
Crack it open brother 😁
I’d join you but I was an alcoholic when I used to sing this stuff in my bar 🤣
Damnnnn Ryan! That is a cracking voice and a great tune! Excellent video mate! Can not wait to see some potential content from you and Otis in the South! Quite different down there. What great experiences he is having at such a young age!
Thanks 🙏
Please don't be so hard to yourself. It takes time and this has been such a great channel to me. Thank you. You will get there just take some time. Viewer from Australia.
Appreciate the support and well wishes!
Well said. Rome was not built in a day.
Love the intro...Tom Waits X Joe Cocker! 😂👌🏽
Fantastic vlog I enjoy all the content on the farm and your trips away thank you Ryan and Mo
Thanks Margaret 🙏
Looking good to me. I am 70 years old I can't do a lot of things i did when i was younger but I love watching your videos. and those videos of families sailing around the world. You guys make me feel good and inspire me to try new things; to stay curious and participate in the world.
While attending college I lived on a 20-acre apple farm. the owner & her husband cleared the land, built a house and planted the orchard. To make ends meet She worked in town at the hospital 4-days a week and he would take on carpentry jobs and hunt and sell the snake skins and pelts to tourists. Her way of relaxing was baking, reading, or sewing clothes for her husband and 2 children. They were never idle and I never heard them compare or complain. A satisfying life is rarely the easy life with few challenges.
Cheers Ross 🙏
Fabulous content as always. Stick to what feels right for you and your family. Love your unique voice more music please ❤
Thank you Helen 🙏
Love you guys , make an album , your singing was amazing and touching
Thank you 🙏
Love the musical into. More please. You have mad talent.
Thanks Mike 🙏
My wife’s family live in rural Thailand, and they are very self-sufficient, but they tend to eat chickens and meat, which forms quite a large part of the diet and of corse eggs and milk from the community village cow 😊
Just give us YOU! What ever that is , Your journey! Your family! Love your music and your Joe cocker sound!
Thank you 🙏
Sending love and ideas from Culebra, Puerto Rico. We are a tiny island with dry season, lots of salt in the air and storm season. I had a hard time starting and creating a garden to feed us with. Very rocky soil, as well!
Try spraying your veggies plants with alcohol, or wash off with Dawn soap and water mix. All bugs will leave. But you have to be vigilant about the bugs! Another option would be to build a green house for propagation, that will ensure the seedlings to grow and get strong, before moving to a row in your garden.
Don’t give up! We are all with you!
Blessings!
Lol…showed your video to my youngest son, he said hydroponics, he has tons of bamboo! We love watching your life! We live very isolated too!
Thanks guys!
Ryan maybe you are missing the point, one individual cannot br self sufficient, but a small community can be. One family is really great with livestock, one family can grow vegetables, one can grow fruits, one can preserve, a family is not judt you, its those who surround you. There is 100%
Yes i think thats quite right, i think in this video im just saying i dont think we can with all our other goings on and distractions :)
A team is better than an individual. It’s very tough and you both have done amazingly well. Life is just not that easy…but I totally admire what you are doing.
Thank you 🙏
@@lifeinruralthailand❤
@@lifeinruralthailand that is what I suggested before, grow a bunch of mushrooms, take them to the market ,find someone with a large selection of the fruits and vegetables you use , then barter/ trade for what you need
What a great voice you have Ryan, strong and powerful voice. Didn’t expect that. Love it.
Nice little song for Damo. She's well worth it. Cracking voice you've got Ryan! Totally different to your speaking voice!!
Cheers Matt!
Loved the music Ryan your voice is so different singing
What a fantastic ways that you, your loved ones and kids are deciding by taking care of all the animals, fruits that you're also growing on plants in your farm in different ways. Including the ways that your wife & son were cutting bananas, cherries & other are the about the same way that I'm also helping my dad including neighbors too incase any hard situation were getting affected to them while their plants are getting effects, me or my dad will help them to check then helped them to cut by letting them to know the situation about the reason why we're cutting out. What a perfect sound while you're playing piano and using your voice to sing while you're enjoying in your own farm home...
You both work together as a great team, amazing how you grow so much and keep your place in such good shape, but still keep it real for others that rural Thailand is a tough place to make a living off the land.
Here, here!
Dude, It's you, Damo, Otis, and Hugo, that is why we watch the channel. You don't have to do back flips, we just like you, no matter where you are...
Well said!
Yes. You r right. It's Ryan and his wife also the family we tune in to watch. We enjoy watching you tackling daily issues and listening to your wise words Ryan. Long may you continue and prosper.
I love watching you blog because of the genuineness and sincerity and the true family spirit.
Farm life ❤looks good, Rabbits, cherries, Bananas, it's a lot of hard work but great working with nature🙏👍
Thanks for your content and sharing the reality of rural life. 🙂 from UK
Thanks for coing along for the ride!
Loved the musical interlude.Gre 3:07 at singing voice
Ryan, you gave me quite a shock when you started singing! Your singing vioice is nothing like your quiet talking voice, I just wasn't expecting that 🤣😂 Loved your shat together with Otis appearing at the window behind you. Damo is always so optimistic and you are just a perfect match. Thank you for your honesty and integrity. Your channel is, for me, my happy place and I certainly wouldn't want you to change either of your channels fo the sake of making commercial vlogs. You are great the way you are! I loved your slo-mo clips of Troides helena or Common Birdwing butterfly. They are amazing to watch but what yuour clip doesn't show is the size of these beautiful creatures. They seem to be particularly fond of certain species of flower and once they find them they hang around drinking from them until they mate and die. Thanks as always to you and Damo, God bless you all 😀🙏❤
Love when you add some of your music your very talented
Cheers Brad 🙏
Always interesting and informative and entertaining to watch
Thanks Michael 🙏
Mate, you should make an album. Loving the husky voice!!!
Thank you 🙏
Loved the music
Great stuff Ryan, really enjoyed watching this video as I prepared to go to my job I hate in the rat race in OZ, keep trying and planting and growing and learning. Loved your music ❤
Thank you 🙏
Jazz sesh was awesome!
🙏😁🇹🇭
I enjoy your content wherever you are or whatever you’re doing.❤❤
Thank you, really appreciate this comment :)
Try a greenhouse for food production and vegetable milk
I love your butterfly ! Love your farm, there is nothing boring about it. Could you plant potatoes or sweet potatoes ? Onions and garlic. Eggs from the chickens. Peppers and tomatoes. That will give you wonderful frittatas and omelettes. Is that too western ? Sorry Ryan, what do I know. Love the Tom Waits voice ! 💕🌷
Thank you Yvonne 🙏
Never think it's boring watching you and family blees you all🎉
Cheers Gary 🙏
Great singing jazz man! Thanks for the video 😊
Welcome 🙏
Such a gift to see you guy’s life. Thank you.
So much love .....God Bless watching from South Africa
You're making an awesome effort... Leafy greens are the easiest way to get tons of nutrition easy... living off the land gets much easier when you forage for wild weeds and greens.
Thanks
Thanks Bruce 🙏🙏
My son and I have plans to eventually grow 10 percent of our food....and THAT is an ambitious plan for us!
We would settle for onions, peppers, lettuce, garlic and tomatoes and call that good enough!
Hang in there and know that once your kids are bit older, they'll be able to jump in and assist. Give it seven more years or so hahaha
Best of luck Beverly and good to see you in the comments again 🙏😊🇹🇭
@@lifeinruralthailand I always WATCH, ya know hahaha Just not always commenting, but I will try to share when I can!
10% is a very good starting point.
Hi Ryan im always glad to catch your content 😊
Cheers SteRay 👍🙏
I think the content is varied and interesting… your hitting the vibe in my opinion… stick to what your doing, it’s authentic. 👍
Great job on the song Ryan, and great job to you and Mo for growing even 20% of your fruit & veg!!! Thats awesome.. especially while raising a family. I wish i had time to grow even 10% of what i need..
awesome job, keep up the great work.
Cheers from Canada.
Dave
Thanks Dave - appreciate it 🙏🙏
Dang Ryan, you got the Tom Waits voice! Can anyone else imagine him doing "The Piano's Been Drinking (Not Me)"?
Ryan life is wonderful when your happy and content looking at your life I think its worth so much p🙏 🙏
Cheers Paul 👍🙏
Have you looked at Hydroponics, we have a friend in Samut Prakan who grows lots of chemical free veg's in hydroponics. It grows quickly and he sells lots of stuff. Usually pre-ordered.
Keep it real Ryan thats all i can suggest. Personally i enjoy the farm and family vids best, helps me chill after a busy day at work and reinforces our plans for the new year. Cheers mate.
If you do canning you could be able to preserve more of what you grow, iit wiill allow proiduce to be picked sooner rather than leaving it on the plant until you are ready to use it. Less will be ruined to by bugs.
Thanks for your music bro very cool. Them rabbits look yummy. Lol rabbits and hairs saved Australians during the great depression.
Cheers Jase 👍🙏
Life in rural Thailand is beautiful peace and tranquility 🦋 is beautiful and get into being silence and touch on your big self would love to hear you sing let it be namaste
🙏🙏🙏
Great voice, do not give up on plans.
I don't see any butterfly peas, little round Thai eggplant, Basil, Kangkong, bitter melon, Chinese greens, onions, chilis, tomatoes, etc. I've seen many videos of people in Thailand growing lots of food. I have found in Bali since I live by the sea, many things don't like the heat at night. Here if you want to grow brassica's you have to grow up in the mountains. But after some practice I have found that Malabar spinach, sauce like tomatoes, chilis, Chinese greens, Thai basil, lemon basil, red and green Amaranth, dill, make it. I am going to try the butterfly peas, arugula, coriander, Toraja chilis, and a few more. You have to just keep trying. Have you tried Neem oil, dish soap, hydrogen peroxide, baking soda, tea made from garlic and chilis, as a pest deterrent? The better the soil the healthier the plants which make them more resistant to pest and disease. Make compost and put it in your beds to improve your soil. Manure from animals that eat healthy food is good also.
Love when you keep it simple.. thank you.rocking the tunes aswell.. well done..If you come up to Ubon anytime after the 7th of October me the wife and our son will be there at our farm...drop in say hello
I like your vlogs just the way they are. Damo is so pretty and Otis and Hugo are so cute. Thanks.
Just a point on your growing pumpkin, I lived in Tasmania for 4 years and found that my best pumpkin season was when I moved my chicken coop and planted the seeds there. They virtually jumped out of the ground.
Wow, you really have a great voice!!!!!
Something cool we used to use pumpkins as Dutch ovens for camping. The settlers used to do this all the time crossing America
Dude I’ve listened to this about 10 times today, was. It expecting that voice ! Wow love it
More please
☘️
Glad you liked it 👍🙏
Hi Ryan & Mo, I envy you your dogs life 😂. I'm glad you can see past the demands of the masses. As always I wish you and all of your family well. Continue as you are, doing what suits you and your family.
Beautiful butterfly. Looked like Lantana the plant that it was attracted to. That can be a very hard plant to control.
Hey when are you releasing your album. Sounds 👍
Looking forward to the trip to Phuket.
😁 Otis big adventure 🙏
When I was in Thailand we raised alots of chickens. And my dad would plant lots of vegetables and fruits and sweets potatoes. And the only thing we buy is oil,salt,msg and rice 🌾 we been living like that for 9 years as long as I remember before moving to USA. It was the best thing ever I miss my childhood is just so stressful in USA.
Thats a blessed life I miss it I never even been there! Will u go back I wonder?
Great song
Thanks 🙏🙏
Very dank intro on the piano. But in permaculture they often say the problem is the solution: you have a lot of rain, why not make a rain garden and include bioponics with it. Similar to aquapoincs, you have a number of animals producing manure - that can be added to water that feeds plants to increase the fertility. Use an IBC cut in half as a DWC tank and float a polystyrene raft of plants on top. HTH. Inoculate biochar with the bioponics microbes and that with improve the soil wherever they are spread. Give me a shout if you need more details.
Cool voice….very unique
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Maybe go for off grid as far as utilities ( solar, septic etc.) Let the community help provide food.
Wow!! I was hoping to hear you preform. I think I have a bit of a crush. I love you and your family. I enjoy your channels on both channels. You both make me hopeful for the younger generation ❤️
Sick! Great voice! Love it
Seriously u have an awesome voice
Thank you 🙏
Love you Guys Billy
We DO love the farm Ryan!😂
Thanks Brenda 🙏
@@lifeinruralthailand not to nag, but we Americans would LOVE if you could find us authentic honey and lions mane mushrooms in the US. We deal with such poor quality. I’m kinda counting on you🤣. We have a trust thing😉
I love your channel,
And your honesty is one reason I love it.
You don’t try to be or say something your not.
Cheers guys
I watch your channel just to see you and your family and daily life
Cheers Anthony 🙏
You sound like Tom Waits....love it❤
I love the song Ryan.. 🎵 haven't been online here much lately so it's nice to jump in and see you all again.. it's tough trying to be totally self sufficient so I totally get it.. just gotta keep on keeping on huh.. much love to you all❤️🦋🥀
Thanks Hippy - good to see you back. Everything ok?
@lifeinruralthailand my brother passed away a couple of weeks ago.. been a long fight with cancer.. 50 was too young though.. thanks for asking.. 💜🦋🥀
Thats shit Hippy, sometimes life is so difficult and full of grief, i'm sure you already know but take time to grieve. Thoughts and prayers from our family with you. ❤
@@lifeinruralthailandthanks so much.. big time loves to you all♥️🦋🥀
I like the concept of bartering, if you have excess of something, swap it or barter for something you need. From what I have seen in Thailand, they are often swapping or giving fruit, veggies, eggs etc. In the west we don't seem to grow as much and then be in a position to swap or give
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The former King made a good Program for the poor farmers to survive from their land. Anyway you are doing good. You gave a lot of inspiration to us. We will try it in two Years for retirement. By the way you both are great souls
Thank you 🙏
Are you channeling Satchmo? Alrighty then.555 "It takes a village to raise a child" is an old saying...think it applies to self-sufficiency as well. You would have to convert waste oil to bio-diesel to truly go self sufficient as well and much more solar and battery back up. Never give up is the attitude!
Cheers Rich!
Lucky couple and family
I think you should consider hiring a gardener. Just once a month. Its a small cost to get some professional support for you right now
Any reason why you use polly tunnels with some food produce that would help with insects, it’s all about the song = Growing Food Grazer = Regina Koepf.
Writing a song for damo was so sweet so romantic. I wish that you two will be together forever
excellent music! Would u consider converting to bed n breakfast ?
What would happen if you selected the high value items to grow and sell/swap, or do you already do that?
This would be a good strategy but the local Thais here are very very professional and sell the vegetables often cheaper than production costs, similar with the eggs 🙏
I respect your decision to not use chemicals or pesticides. For a more costistant harvest they might be necceary.
With these green fingers you can grow some o the good stuff for sure
Bananas have been the easist to grow and make money on for me, have aboit 100, also have ducks and planning on getting a machine to chop up the Bananas to feed the ducks will save on feed, the eggs my wife pickles in salt 3×20baht, fish i just keep for future or can sell.
Yes you can survive …. Up the survival mode… I’ve got faith you can do it…
Nice singing!
Good music bra
I live in Thailand ..many Thai people are very self-sufficient on their plot of inherited land.. BUT..they don't have much..no phones computers.. little or no electircity..no car..no new clothes...and he frogs bamboo shoots snails and much else
Yes many Thais in our village do it, I think if we didn’t have kids we would have more time for it 🙏
20-30% is better than 0. I think the main thing is you are happy with your life together. Really enjoy your vlogs. Take Care & sending much ❤️love & ✨light. Namaste! 💞💞💞💞
Ps ❤️yr music you remind me alit of Bruce Springsteen!
Thank you Wendy 🙏
Great stuff Ryan.
Rather than have about 20 different "projects" going for self sufficiency....could you concentrate on 1 or 2 that you are good at....sell the excess in the market, and use profits to buy all the other things. Would you still call that self sufficient?
Keep up the videos....Cheers.
I think if we didn’t have the kids and I didn’t travel we would be able to do. Like you say we now focus on the eggs and main veg 😁
They problem is produces sold in the wet market in Essan are priced cheap and one have to compete with other stores.
Not much profit can be made.
I feel ya'! We're up in N.W. just a bit south of Chiang Mai and a LOT of our crops just don't make it. We used to have lots of (the oblong, green) pumpkins just coming up wild, had baskets, so many we'd sell most. Then, they just stopped growing, can't get a vine to mature, insects are a BIG problem. ETC. ETC. Now, the climate is obviously changing, the rains are too hard and wipe out young plants. Best we can do is some odd fruit trees, Those are iffy too.
Things are definitely changing - it seems more difficult this year
@@lifeinruralthailand Yeah; sorry, it's harsh. Like others said below 100% sustainable and self reliant is almost impossible, unless you're OK with a VERY limited diet. like, bananas every day for a month.
get a poly tunnel maybe better to keep insects away, just a thought, stay safe and best of luck
Thanks - we usually grow in mosquito nets also 🙏🙏