The irony, you stole the honey from the bees and sold it, you then replaced the honey with a sugar syrup replacement, and then accuse bees of stealing the food replacement for killing the bees. Be honest fella, you stealing their honey (food) is the reason they died.
You are making uneducated assumptions that are very very wrong. The 2 hives that died off (one being a wild swarm that came on its own accord, the other was a split by us from the main hive to increase bee population in a dwindling world) no honey was taken at all from them by us. we also dont believe in robbing honey for ourselves and then replacing it with syrup, we added syrup to try and replace what the wasps and other bees took from them to keep them alive, we are unlike other beekeepers, something we never ever do is replace human stolen honey with syrup ! . we love nature and try our hardest to make it thrive better because of the destruction that everyone else is doing. we are trying to build a sustainable life here in harmony with nature. working together not against it ! . Only 2 jars of honey was taken from the large main hive which was surplus at the beginning of last year due to the amount of bee friendly plants we have planted, a huge hive that a normal bee keeper could of got over 30 ! Do your use reusable energy ? how big is your carbon footprint ?, are you living sustainable ? how many trees have you planted ? are you working hard to improve nature with all your spare money ? do you use chemical free products only in your home, you could be a bigger part of the problem than you think, just being vegan does not solve insect and animal welfare, its a very bigger picture than that to take care of their welfare and the planet that they live so all can thrive in harmony. Even your toothpaste could be damaging the planet if it has palm oil or Sodium Lauryl Sulfate in. we use clay based natural paste here for that reason along with all other natural chemical free products. we have also planted over 300 trees with more to come. Any way your watching the wrong channel here. why upset yourself for no reason ?
Hi simon. Although it’s only a small channel I think it is one of the most authentic honest and fun channels in this space. You could learn a lot from this chap and his family. . I wonder if you are commenting from your own ‘self sufficient small holding’’ perhaps you are but if not. I would recommend following the. Example of ‘escaping the matrix’
@@DJ-uk5mm "that told 'em!". I responded to this guys comment (don't know his name) on several occasions, my response refuted his comment and disappeared each time. I see you had no youtube errors with your comments........ That's hardly being authentic and honest.
CANOPY !! NOT CAPONPY !! I failed English at school, how the hell did i get the spelling that wrong, too late now. Thanks to all new and old subscribers. A late video, we have had plenty of work due to a few things going wrong, one being our bathrooms wet room floor failing and causing damp, the caravan holiday let has been keeping us on our toes as well, so so close to finishing. thanks for all your kind comments, keep safe and well, take good care.
Hello, sorry for a late reply, we have been very busy here, thanks for taking the time to comment and watch this channel, thanks for your kind words, keep safe and well, take care
Hey Gary, it's nice that you share this part with people. The truth is many of us want to try it for ourselves but the the money or lack of scares us. You give people insight and with some hard work and "not" putting all our eggs in one basket, we can do if! All my best to you and yours, Amy
Hello Amy, thanks for your kind words. Yes the money part even scared me when we was starting to think about homesteading, but it can be done, it does work out fine in a modern world. I think the biggest thing to remember is convenience/time saving equipment comes at a high price, if you go back to basic living then it works well. Less costs and less things to go wrong that is expensive to repair or replace, but i would never ditch that washing machine ! ha ha , The dishwasher broke down here the other week and we have now decided to go back to hand washing for ever, less cost less agro ! good luck Amy, take care, keep safe and well
well another open and honest video of you and your wife sharing your knowlede .i for 1 love your videos and updates .lets hope you get plenty of holliday people booking your caravan and please keep up with what u do best keeping us entertained and showing what goes on on a small holding .take care
Hello Paul, its good to hear from you, hope your keeping well, sorry for a late reply we have been very busy again. you tube always takes a back seat im afraid, thanks for your kind words, we have no plan just yet to stop making videos, it will also be easier for us to make videos when the bloody weather is not so awful ! thanks and take good care
Hello, hope all is well at your end. TH-cam makes it all very addictive for people to make videos, what with all the goals, likes and money they set ! at this moment in time we are quite desperate for the money as we really want to now get fully set up here quick. Its been going on far too long as its coming up to 7 years living here. We still have not even fully renovated our cottage. Once we are set up cash will no longer be as high on the list, (close to the bottom) one of the main reason for living this life style. I hate Money ! it has ruined the planet with greed ! thanks and take good care, hold on to your wigs and keep safe in the wind coming your way ! 70mph ! i have heard.
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD you should be proud of how far you’ve come so far, nearly there 🍻 I know what you mean about TH-cam, I started with my channel last year, mainly for something to do while the world is in this strange state. 😅
Hello, when you realise you can fend for yourself without relying on others many worries disappear in life and you feel more free. Being frugal is also a very very important part. keep up the great work at your end. Thanks, keep safe and well
Happy Saturday always look forward to your videos, another great video. Can't wait to hear when your taking bookings, look forward to coming down and seeing it for real. Stay safe xxxx
happy Saturday to you, hope your keeping well. Sorry its taken a week to reply, we have been very busy and TH-cam does take the back seat first. The van will be ready from the 12 of April, we will put the video out about the van/hire and then take bookings through a Facebook page with a calendar on there with available dates. Thanks for all your kind words, keep safe and well, take care
Lots of chuckles in your video again Gary. Great fun, love your lifestyle. Have you thought of an overnight park-up for a campervan? Could be a seasonal source of income there? Take care 👍🏻😃
Hello, i would love to do that but it would have to be in-between caravan rentals as we dont want to block in or upset them with no privacy. I wish i had more land ! but the caravan rental seems to be a hit, i have got over 20 people waiting to book. we will see how it goes. Thanks Trev and Sue, keep safe and well, April the 12th hurry up !!!! say hello to Pepsi and Shirley for me. sorry for a late reply, just finished fitting a new shower. Take care
Another great video Gary! Such a shame about the bees, hopefully all goes well this year! 🙏 Hope to see you soon, that caravan is looking amazing! Take care!
Hello, hope all is well at your end, as you might have heard the holiday let restrictions will be lifted on 12th April, so you can come anytime after that for a week or short break what ever you prefer for a test run, just give me a date so i can put that in the calendar, at last its going to happen ! ha ha, i just need the bloody chicken lockdown to be over now because there is a run built next to the van so people can have free fresh eggs in the morning. I will definitely not be doing the crazy covid vaccine passport thing thats being talked about for the van ! ha ha its all getting a bit silly now ! , We have brought an enclosed shower pod for the shower hut which will arrive this week, that should only take a day to fit, i decided with a lpg gas water heater to give unlimited hot water for the shower. This has been already been fitted. In the future i will build a bio gas generator to power it (free gas from animal/kitchen waste) but for now it will use gas bottles to get it up and running quick. We also need to put up privacy fencing which will take just a couple of days, so we are ahead of the game. You can leave a private message or reply here for the date ( any date any time whatever is easy for you ) take good care Jordan and Becky, keep safe and well.
great video. i have a kitchen garden smallholding plus i also do my traditional crafts and crafts as well as photography art illustration which is supported by my rag and salvage business I am doing this solely on my own with some help when my older children are home. Everything I produce or make or both I sell over half and keep 1/4 back for myself. Bee's are a great adventure which I have 5 hives for last 2 years which I make soap and some other products with like shampoo and creams. Wishing you all the best of luck and keep up with the good work
Hello Ivy Julie Harvey, wow ! thanks for this comment, i enjoy reading how others are living the good life. You are one big step ahead of me in the bees ! im hoping to do the same in the future, im gutted i lost them 2 hives, we left them two hive alone for the year so they could become large strong hives, the damn wasps and other bees just would not leave them hives alone ! i spent many hours trying to swat the wasps away but not the bees ! we will try again to increase the bee population. This year we will be a planting of even more bee friendly plants and masses of lavender everywhere to help them. Your doing a great job there, do you have a selling site or ebay ? if so what is it ? thanks again for this comment. keep safe and well, take good care
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD Last year I was given notice during the heat wave that land been sold and rented contract has come to the end I still have the holding for now until autumn praying for rented land come forward or something. I and children in rented place not coping with grid bills and 4 walls in town/city we rather be out about. The notice came during lockdown and has been hard. Watching your videos brought a smile to our faces and look forward to see the next video. We see alot of abandoned farms and land as we travelled but alot of farmers say future use or it is all ours I said it does not belong to you it belongs to nature and god create the land for us to look after it and nature it. What you know you just a girl and single mum gypo being racist. I polite said by looking at the soil organic rich soil as not been farmed for over 30 years here you have a good harvest and animals will fatten well with this good pasture and to high standard. If work with no chemicals and by hand you will keep the land to high quality and of good standard. the youngish farmer looked stomped as not ever use hand tools just machine got huffy and we left. The farmer with him said pop next door so we did and he gave us his 9 acre field where we stayed and lived and worked the land until last year still working the land but things happen for reason and why we do not know. We will be travelling again and help more farmers and holders with knowledge I learnt as child from when I lived and worked on family holdings farm equine kitchen gardens and also what I gained as adult. edible flowers taste great with salad and desserts if looking for more ideas. keep up with the good work take care all all the best xx
Hello Simon, ha ha, i love my welder, it has fixed so many things and I have only had it for a year, it only cost £70 from amazon and has already paid for itself in jobs fixed. thanks Simon, sorry for a late reply, always busy here. Take care
Great to see you diversifying and not putting all your eggs in one basket. I always watch, like and try to comment also to help your youtube algorythims. Some on youtube also make a little extra by having patreon or selling t-shirts and mugs etc. I think your caravan will be booked out too once you can take bookings. If I still lived in the UK I would come for sure. Much blessings :)
Hi this is Vicky, I have been drafted in to help answer some messages as Gary is finding in more and more difficult to keep up with them and does not want to miss any. We have seen more people moving over to patreon and mugs but at the moment it not a way we want to go, mainly as we do not have time and we want people to be able to view for free. The caravan is so close to being finished and should be done just in time for 12 April when we can open the doors. we are both really looking forward to starting that adventure.
Another inspirational video complete with blooper reel at the end "Helloeeeewww" :D thank you for sharing this deeper insight on small hold earning hopefully we'll get ours in a few years time!
Hello, its good to hear from you, hope your keeping well, grrr i do hate money ! it does rule the bloody world ! and sadly its needed in great amounts to set up a smallholding. You will make perfect smallholders when you get your patch, but your already doing a great job urban holding which is where we started out at. Keep up the great work ! I'm waiting for your next vid for answers ! cheers and take good care
Great, informative, honest video as usual. It brightens my day when I see you've added a video. Keep up the good work and I'll keep watching and letting the adverts play to add to your revenue. Take care
Hello Dilly, thanks for your kind words, so sorry for a very late reply, yes we have been busy ! ha ha so nothing changes there ! thanks for letting the adverts roll but please don't punish yourself watching them trying to sell drivel in them dreadful adverts ! we still earn revenue for a skipped advert but not as much for a full one, so thankyou, but its not all about the money, im very happy being poorer ! it makes self sufficiency more of necessity rather than a hobby. Sadly the money is needed though to help set up fully and i do not want to work for someone else in the 9 to 5 system ! ha ha i hated that ! thanks Dilly hope your keeping well, say hello to Mum for me and take good care
Brilliant as usual Gary. Always love watching your videos. They are so inspiring and your presentation is so funny and right up my street. Cheers, take care 👍
Hello, sorry for a late reply, the days seem to be too short to fit everything in ! i hope your keeping safe and well, thanks for all your kind words. take care
Hello Andy, always good to hear from you, we are all good here apart from being run off our feet, wet room floor failed, damp rising up the walls, I'm fitting a new walk in shower tray and doing away with the wet room, MOT on cars with fixes to do, shower hut for holiday let still in progress and we are haemorrhaging money, ha ha normal life really. I'm also just about to put my tiny plastic car up for sale, had it for 12 years now, but will only get about £150 ish for it. We are Ebay selling like crazy to make ends meet, and we have run out of cut wood, so soon as the wind calms down im out cutting. Hope you and your family are keeping well, how's home schooling been for you ? have they drove you mad, ha ha James has been a bit of a pest to get him to do his school work. thanks Andy, keep safe and well.
Hello, sorry for the very late reply, wow you have already been there. When we start doing this i know where to go for handy tips ! hope your keeping well and not finding this weather too awful, i am finding the weather awful ! ha ha bloody too cold and windy ! Thanks for popping by, keep safe and well
Great informative video there Gary and its a great shame we can’t exist without money. I always watch Ben Fogles New Lives in the Wild on Tuesday evening. Many of the people featured are trying to live off grid but like you say it’s very hard without cash. Cheers Mike 👍🍺🥦🥦🥦
Hello Mike yes i love that program, how lovely it would be to live super remote ! i would love to do that but it would not be fair on the wife of kids. Im up for real basic living surrounded by nature. Food, warmth, comfort and shelter is all that is needed and watching nature becomes you TV and not forgetting a good library of books of course, yours being in the comedy section ! sheer bliss ! thanks Mike take good care. keep safe and well.
I love your videos, this was really helpful. You said you make about 70-80 quid a month from TH-cam, I was wondering if you could tell me how to earn that if I ever made a channel. Is it ads? Also I just want to say you have really inspired me to try and 'escape the matrix'. I've always felt society how it is today is not how it should be. The government does not care about people or the environment, they care about the dosh. I always wanted a way out of it but because they teach you in school from an early age that this is just the way life goes. A 9-5, big house etc I never knew there was another way. I know some people are happy with that life but it's just not how I want to be living. I watch a lot of Ben fogle and have thought about living on/off grid. (Couldn't quite sacrifice the Internet). Your success with your small holding and how happy your family also is there has really made me think about doing something similar. I'm still only young, I'm almost 20 and I know a lot of people my age probably wouldn't even consider living that lifestyle. But I've grown up with very supportive and wise parents, they're thinking of escaping the matrix for their retirement. My mum loves your videos too, she's from London so she relates to your sense of humour. Thank you for sharing your wisdom, hopefully it will open some other people's eyes too or just give them something to think about. Like you I'm all about positivity and love what you do here. Hopefully I'll figure out what kind of on/off grid life I want to live. I know it wouldn't be all plain sailing but I think the freedom, self achievement and doing good for the planet would be worth it.
Hello Hannah, wow a lovely comment to read. To earn money on TH-cam you have to have more than 1000 subscribers and 4000 viewing hours in a rolling year, then if your videos are appropriate they put adverts on them, you receive a cut of the adverts, so the income comes from companies trying to sell their unwanted crap ! if your a mass consumer you will by into their crap ! if not you can earn money from them ha ha perfect ! Im very glad you want to live like this at such a young age, my only regret in life is i started too late, my energy is running lower now that im nearly half a century old this year. As for on or off grid the best way to be free is off grid, within the next few years we should be disconnected from mains water as we have a water well here, but because we sell electric back to the grid we are connected for electric. Less bills means your less of a slave to the system. I also feel that the governments will tax any carbon emitting energy sold very heavily soon, so if you are green and use very little energy, which this life style does, you have future proofed yourself from them taking money. Remember you can never be truly free from them, but this life gives you a greater distance from them, but you can ignore and not rely on them which helps ! ha ha, yes the governments are leading us to destruction at the moment and i dont want to be a part of that. Thanks so much for your comment, say hello to mum and dad for me, thank Mum for me for watching, good luck , be free and take good care. My comment is bigger than yours !! nicky nicky nah nah !
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD Thank you so much for replying! I'm in amazement. Hahaha I didn't even realise how long my comment was. Your tips are really appreciated, mum is over the moon that you mentioned her. You and your family take care too and all the best of luck with your smallholding evolving even more!
Great use of your land and resources. It is a shame we are slaves to money. Have you heard of Mark Boyle? He went moneyless for a few years and uses very little now. He was on Ben Fogle new lives in the wild about a month ago. His book ' the moneyless man' was an eye opener. Take care all of you!
Hello Dave, yes i did see that episode, i always watch Ben Fogle religiously, if i remember him right he was an amazing Irish bloke, very calm and knowable mind set of how corrupt the world has become, he was poor in the money world but rich in wood ! a perfect life ! that was a good episode. I would like to escape a lot further than what we are but it would not be fair on the wife and kids. im ready to disappear into the complete middle of nowhere with no trace found ! ha ha shear bliss ! thanks Dave take good care
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD that's the episode Gary. Agree with you. It is hard to take things so far with kids and the wife. It's all about compromise. Would love to do the same. I'd be happy with a really simple life. I am trying to go that way as much as I possibly can. All the best buddy.
Thank you I always wondered how you made this work Of course when you get old enough you can use your state pension for the extras assuming you keep it going that long
Hello Michael, my work place pension which is with the Ford motor company can be taken early at just 55 years old ( 23 years service there) , only 5 years to go, it will be a highly reduced rate though but we will need very little money when we are fully set up here to live super self sufficient. I still pay national insurance and keep that up to date in full, but to be honest i have written the state pension off as the governments keep changing the age of that. thanks for your comment, take good care.
Hello Gary/all, Love your videos so sorry for the bees. We have finally done it, sold up and moved to west Wales to live in a similar way, early days and lots to fix in the old house and very very old shoe makers cottage (1744) but we will get there, just about to uplaod a video if anyones interested in having a look, all comments and advice gratefully received.
Hello again, its great to hear from you, wow amazing, you have done it, congratulations and a shoe makers cottage ! cant wait to have a look. Dont find yourself in a rush to fix it up, we are coming up to 7 years here now and only just coming to the last of the renovations for total completion. Also like us you might find many old objects over the years whilst digging or even hidden in the loft or under the floor boards, we have found many little things over the year to the point where we are soon to mount a deep frame picture display on the wall, cartwheel penny 1797 under the floor boards, buttons loom weights and all sorts in the garden) but no dead cats up chimneys have been found !! ha ha. I went to a web site where cottage finds were talked about (cannot remember the name) but one person found a pigs heart up the chimney in a very old jar ! this was to do with the old superstitions they had back then. Good luck on the renovations, remember to use old fashion lime mortar/plaster for repairs to walls if thats what it originally was, modern cements can cause damp trouble in historic building, along with modern plaster as well. i use a very good company called Conserv ---> www.lime-mortars.co.uk/about . they are a helpful and fast delivery service. Lime mortar is very nice to work with easier than modern cement for the DIYer . Thanks for letting us know, i will be waiting for the video. take good care (your cottage might even come with ghosts ! ha ha )
Nice informative video Gary. Sorry to hear about the bee hive losses, a bit sad, but you might catch another swarm come summer (when it arrives). Any chance of you sending a link to your ebay shop? NO i'm not after that bloody Bing box set lol.. Glad your all fairing well and again thanks for providing some fun videos in these dark times. Take care all.
Hello Barry, Its good to hear from you, sorry for a late reply, ha ha actually to our surprise the Bing box set sold for an amazing £1.80, our Ebay page can be seen here in this link -- www.ebay.co.uk/usr/thegaffer500. Im determined to fix the bee problem and increase the bee population in this area. We are also mass planting lavender this year to help out for there food. thanks Barry for your kind words, keep safe and well, take care
Hi Gary and all the family, is your caravan going to be available again this summer please? We have an Aunty who lives in Framlingham and were thinking to stay when we visit her next time if possible please?
Hello Tara, im afraid our caravan is no longer available as my daughter who is now 17 has moved into it, she wanted independence , she also has a job to help live independent. Sorry Tara, keep safe and well. thanks.
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD Thank you very much, that sounds like a great adventure for your daughter, they grow up so fast , she must be having a lovely time and you know exactly where she is 👍👍👍 take care all 😊
Could you do a video on caring for chickens? I just got my first coop and could do with lots of tips, I heard that you can creocote the outside to protect wood and prevent red mites, wondering what you do :)
Hello Lucy, the dreaded red mite !!! impossible to eradicate without using really harsh nasty top grade chemicals or burning the hut down. They do say old style creosote does help prevent them but thats also nasty stuff. Im a bit of a chemical free nut here ! perches hanging from chains from the ceiling with Vaseline on the chains can work very well because the mites struggle to get to the birds to drink their blood of a night. no blood, no life cycle of the mite. Luckily we have no red mite here at all, if we did i would rehouse the birds in a new hut far away and leave the old hut empty for well over a year or burn it. Also a good dust bathing area for the birds keep mites at bay, a large tray of wood ash is said to be really good but my chickens just have access to very dusty dirt. I used to have red mite in my old chicken hut where we used to live, they came from next doors chickens into mine ! it was a nightmare ! They would hide in all the nooks and crannies and the blood suckers would come out at night, we use to spray vinegar everywhere , blow torch the corners of the hut and perches and we even used a chemical pyrethrum smoke bomb as a last resort and put mite powered on the chickens but still they came back ! we moved here with our chickens and they did not follow the chickens here, they only go onto the birds at night to feed then leave them to hide in the hut. I will put a quick video up soon about chickens. Thanks for your question, keep safe and well, take care
Hi Garry .I have just found your channel .its great thanks. You say you have a 3kwt solar panels is that ok for you or do you wish you had bigger .Cheers 👍
Hello Ian, thanks for popping by, The solar was enough in the past but now i have an electric car i could now do with more, 6 kw or double the amount would be perfect, perhaps a future project. thanks and take good care, good luck with the energy crisis at your end. Super frugal is now needed to help save !
Hello Jane, yes its sad about the bees, but it takes a lot to kick me down ! constant challenges to keep me busy, i dont like sitting down much anyway and at least the shower job in in the warmth ! ha ha, i will have it finished by the end of the week. I dont like to put the bad stuff on this channel but dont like to give the impression that im ass hole lucky either ! thanks Jane Keep safe and well.
where exactly are you actually located? itd be nice to be able and pop by and buy an aloe you have there, that lovely plant caught my eye! id rather support people like you than big shops like tescos, despite struggling myself during covid, i still prefer helping smaller businesses and more local people
Hello, we are in east Suffolk, if you private message us on facebook ,Escaping the matrix for good , the same name, we would be happy for you to visit, or we could even post them to you. Hopefully you are not too far away, we also make sure we are the cheapest in the area. I don't know if you noticed but the aloe plants were just £2 each. Its a lovely area here to visit and people often come to see the forest. When spring is here with warmer weather the stall will have plenty of plants, from herbs to veg plants and lots of Aloe Vera. Way way cheaper than any garden centre. Thanks and take good care. We also love to support small family run places as well.
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD Damn, thats unfortunately rather far from Cheshire east, nevertheless i hope to one day pop by when my partner and I are going to the south! wont be for a while unfortunately with covid and all. take care too
Morning Gaz and Co. Good on you for being foster parents, I spent 6 years in foster care with the same family after three years in a orphanage, great people. Smart move not putting all your eggs in one basket, sorry for the pun, honey and garlic are good sellers I bet and the salvager idea will make for great viewing, start with the boat. Little feedback mate, try to put your ads between points rather than right in the middle of a yarn. You lose continuity as a viewer. Cheers guys.
Hello Moose, wow your really do have a lot of experiencing in life, it does explain why you are a wise man of the world. I make sure i check the box when uploading recent videos with " "no adverts in mid roll " , i find it very annoying as well, i have no idea why TH-cam has done this, they also pick where the adverts rudely interrupt. Was it in mid roll of this video ? I know some of my older videos are like this. Sorry for a late reply we have been very busy here. I hope your keeping fit and well, thanks Moose take care
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD Morning mucker. Yes, sadly they did but hey ho, no dramas. Just YT being lazy I guess. All good here mucker, off to Tasmania Tuesday for a week. Looking forward to it.
Sorry you will never have a large one, very brave to come out on TH-cam and say that though, Well done. ….. Oh Wait ….. Smallholding you say, I do hope you are not fixating on this size thing Hope you are all well and staying clear of the masses. LOL
Blah ha ha, brilliant one Dave , always enjoy a good laugh ! im going to use the American term of homestead instead ! hope your keeping well. Although I understand times are getting you down a little, sorry to hear that, keep that goal in mind that lockdown is so close to be over for good and the Karen's can not interfere as much in things that should have no concern, its becoming a very common thing around here as well. Busy bodies with bees in there bonnets ! Freedom to roam in your van away from the twits will soon be here ! ha ha, keep safe and well Dave, take care. 5 likes on your comment ! it was a belter !
Hello Bossk, my raised beds are made from plastic by a company called link-a-bord who specialise in raised beds, ive had them for about 10 years now and they are still going strong. I try to keep my veg totally chemical free, but i do have one bed with a treated wooden edging. i would recommend the link-a-bord or untreated wood as im a chemical free believer. Thanks for popping by, keep safe and well.
Hello, its lovely to hear from you, hope your keeping well, its starting to get exciting ! growing season nearly here ! its been a long winter and im fed up with it now ! thanks Kat, happy growing, keep safe and well, take care
Hello, hope your keeping well, if i had loads of land i would open up one of those commune things where a group of people try and live of the land, each person brings different skills. you would be there in making/repairing cloths and making resin pyramids for spiritual and ornamental purposes, ha ha we can only dream ! stay safe and blessing sent, take care
@@theindigotraveller most definitely, the normal people drive me mad ! ha ha the reason for living here was to get away from them bloody mass consuming, button pushing government loving zombies. ha ha
You and your family are an inspiration Gary. (We are wannabe smallholders). I'd gladly pay a lot extra for your honey (compared to the supermarket shite), and I'm sure a lot of your viewers would too, so maybe put links here to your eBay site once you're ready. Take care.
Hello, thanks for your kind words, i hope all is well at your end. Although we should have 6 hives we will not be robbing the hive and selling loads of honey, just taking a little surplus, im hoping for only about 20 jars per year and also selling bees wax product as well to help, we also would like to make hives and queen them for sale in the future as our mission is to increase the bee population for the need of the planet. I will start putting an Ebay link in our description box on the videos. Thanks and take good care ( www.ebay.co.uk/usr/thegaffer500 )
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD you are a good man, and I respect you even more in hearing that you're only taking the surplus honey. Thank you so much for your response. Take care.
Hellloooooo! People are nosey, I would never even think to ask someone how they earn a living! I don't really talk about my income, it isn't anyones business. I too have various incomes, art, books etc, it is always a good idea to have your fingers in many pies. I remember when you sold Sophie way back when, now it seems you have sold James?
blah ha ha, Sadly Sophie as you know is now a teenager who thinks her parents are embarrassing interfering old nagging people. James is having less hormone problems and still loves being on the videos, but certain subjects are just not for him, he enjoys acting stupid and making people laugh and does not want to stop doing the channel, also his school friends think he is great fun in the videos and would love to be in his position to have a channel, i give James some of the youtube money for his great help , he love that side of it as well as he is saving up his money for a large computer monitor for his bedroom. He enjoys online gaming with his friends. thanks Bry, keep safe and well, take care
I thought exactly the same Bry. But having said that I would never ask, I'm glad Gary shared the information with us. Many of his "fingers in pies" I would do too if I was fortunate enough to have a smallholding and some I do already; I haven't sold any of my children though - yet!
Hello, we are in Suffolk, we moved here from Essex nearly 7 years ago. my wife does not wear white stilettoes and we are not orange with fake tan ! but that stereo type is very very true for Essex. ha ha, thanks for popping by, take care
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD Cheers for the reply mate, we are moving from the US to Yorkshire to start a Farmstead, love your videos, good info and humor!
@@KoaCharvel Hello again, you might be a little confused about the white stilettoes and fake tan as your from America, Essex ( south east of UK) has a reputation across the whole country for these stereo types but it is a true fact in some areas ! ha ha, As we used to live there we saw it on a day to day basis ! the fake tan is normally orange in colour and looks awful ! but they still put it on. The girls wore white stilettoes and the boys drove around in done up cheaper cars to look flash, i was one of them Essex boys when i was young ! im not proud ! I will tell you this joke , you might not want to hear it but here goes ! How does an Essex girls turn the lights back on after sex, she opens the car door. i hope that gives you a good insight of what parts of Essex was like. Good luck on your move, Yorkshire is a great place for homesteading. take care
I love your chnnel And I wou;d like to follow in your footsteps. I’d recommend that you buy some Bitcoin it’s easy to do and over the next 5 years you’ll be really glad you did ( if you are not sure just look at the value now compared to 1 2 3 4 or 5 years ago ) there are lots of exchanges now so it’s really easy I can post a recommendation if you like keep up the vids. I always watch through to end and watch all the ads so you get the most income from your commissions ! 😀
Hello, Hope your keeping well. we are eventually coming away from the need of lots of cash as we get more self sufficient and i must admit the bitcoin confuses the hell out of me ! I also prefer cash in hand as there is no trace of that. Thank you so so much for watching the ads, but please you dont have to put yourself through the drivel they pump out ! trying to sell crap thats not needed ! but thanks and that does help increase the revenue generated. A skipped advert earns less, thanks so much for your comment, sorry for a late reply, always busy here and TH-cam takes the back seat. Keep safe and well take good care
Hi If you want to send me a message on the Facebook page (escaping the Matrix for good on Facebook) I can send you some for a lot cheaper the they sell on Ebay, i Have seen some on there that are very over priced. We will can call in a subscriber discount. We have the Indian Game birds that are a great meat bird but also lay a lot of eggs. And are some of the best mums I have ever known if you want them to hatch chicks. Vicky (the wife that has been drafted in to help with the messages!))
Hello Perry, i like your thinking and this how i would like it to be, i would love to live such a basic life in nature that money would be of little importance. This would be too rough and tough on the wife and kids ! ha ha but im up for it. If i did live on a tiny amount of money the only spanner in the works would be the council tax if i was in a registered property. Im sure i could live totally off the fat of the land if it was just me, as long as i had all the tools, the ones that cost nothing to run, i would also need my own forest for wood as well to help heat and cook, A fresh stream for water, but owning all this comes back to money !!! grrrrr its hard to get away from it ! Very hard work though to live like this. The trap of having money is the convenience it brings. The good news is once we are fully set up very little money will be needed here. Thanks Perry take care
The irony, you stole the honey from the bees and sold it, you then replaced the honey with a sugar syrup replacement, and then accuse bees of stealing the food replacement for killing the bees. Be honest fella, you stealing their honey (food) is the reason they died.
You are making uneducated assumptions that are very very wrong. The 2 hives that died off (one being a wild swarm that came on its own accord, the other was a split by us from the main hive to increase bee population in a dwindling world) no honey was taken at all from them by us. we also dont believe in robbing honey for ourselves and then replacing it with syrup, we added syrup to try and replace what the wasps and other bees took from them to keep them alive, we are unlike other beekeepers, something we never ever do is replace human stolen honey with syrup ! . we love nature and try our hardest to make it thrive better because of the destruction that everyone else is doing. we are trying to build a sustainable life here in harmony with nature. working together not against it ! . Only 2 jars of honey was taken from the large main hive which was surplus at the beginning of last year due to the amount of bee friendly plants we have planted, a huge hive that a normal bee keeper could of got over 30 ! Do your use reusable energy ? how big is your carbon footprint ?, are you living sustainable ? how many trees have you planted ? are you working hard to improve nature with all your spare money ? do you use chemical free products only in your home, you could be a bigger part of the problem than you think, just being vegan does not solve insect and animal welfare, its a very bigger picture than that to take care of their welfare and the planet that they live so all can thrive in harmony. Even your toothpaste could be damaging the planet if it has palm oil or Sodium Lauryl Sulfate in. we use clay based natural paste here for that reason along with all other natural chemical free products. we have also planted over 300 trees with more to come. Any way your watching the wrong channel here. why upset yourself for no reason ?
i have also pinned your comment to the top for all to read, take care
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD that told ‘em!
Hi simon. Although it’s only a small channel I think it is one of the most authentic honest and fun channels in this space. You could learn a lot from this chap and his family. . I wonder if you are commenting from your own ‘self sufficient small holding’’ perhaps you are but if not. I would recommend following the. Example of ‘escaping the matrix’
@@DJ-uk5mm "that told 'em!". I responded to this guys comment (don't know his name) on several occasions, my response refuted his comment and disappeared each time. I see you had no youtube errors with your comments........ That's hardly being authentic and honest.
CANOPY !! NOT CAPONPY !! I failed English at school, how the hell did i get the spelling that wrong, too late now. Thanks to all new and old subscribers. A late video, we have had plenty of work due to a few things going wrong, one being our bathrooms wet room floor failing and causing damp, the caravan holiday let has been keeping us on our toes as well, so so close to finishing. thanks for all your kind comments, keep safe and well, take good care.
We always stop whatever we're doing to watch your videos and always get a great morale boost. Keep them coming.
Hello, sorry for a late reply, we have been very busy here, thanks for taking the time to comment and watch this channel, thanks for your kind words, keep safe and well, take care
Hey Gary, it's nice that you share this part with people. The truth is many of us want to try it for ourselves but the the money or lack of scares us. You give people insight and with some hard work and "not" putting all our eggs in one basket, we can do if! All my best to you and yours, Amy
Hello Amy, thanks for your kind words. Yes the money part even scared me when we was starting to think about homesteading, but it can be done, it does work out fine in a modern world. I think the biggest thing to remember is convenience/time saving equipment comes at a high price, if you go back to basic living then it works well. Less costs and less things to go wrong that is expensive to repair or replace, but i would never ditch that washing machine ! ha ha , The dishwasher broke down here the other week and we have now decided to go back to hand washing for ever, less cost less agro ! good luck Amy, take care, keep safe and well
well another open and honest video of you and your wife sharing your knowlede .i for 1 love your videos and updates .lets hope you get plenty of holliday people booking your caravan and please keep up with what u do best keeping us entertained and showing what goes on on a small holding .take care
Hello Paul, its good to hear from you, hope your keeping well, sorry for a late reply we have been very busy again. you tube always takes a back seat im afraid, thanks for your kind words, we have no plan just yet to stop making videos, it will also be easier for us to make videos when the bloody weather is not so awful ! thanks and take good care
Another great video, cheers 🍻
Good to hear you’re making a few quid from TH-cam, should keep you motivated to keep us entertained 😁
Hello, hope all is well at your end. TH-cam makes it all very addictive for people to make videos, what with all the goals, likes and money they set ! at this moment in time we are quite desperate for the money as we really want to now get fully set up here quick. Its been going on far too long as its coming up to 7 years living here. We still have not even fully renovated our cottage. Once we are set up cash will no longer be as high on the list, (close to the bottom) one of the main reason for living this life style. I hate Money ! it has ruined the planet with greed ! thanks and take good care, hold on to your wigs and keep safe in the wind coming your way ! 70mph ! i have heard.
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD you should be proud of how far you’ve come so far, nearly there 🍻
I know what you mean about TH-cam, I started with my channel last year, mainly for something to do while the world is in this strange state. 😅
Thanks Gary learning a lot from your videos…it’s all about being self reliant
Hello, when you realise you can fend for yourself without relying on others many worries disappear in life and you feel more free. Being frugal is also a very very important part. keep up the great work at your end. Thanks, keep safe and well
Happy Saturday always look forward to your videos, another great video. Can't wait to hear when your taking bookings, look forward to coming down and seeing it for real. Stay safe xxxx
happy Saturday to you, hope your keeping well. Sorry its taken a week to reply, we have been very busy and TH-cam does take the back seat first. The van will be ready from the 12 of April, we will put the video out about the van/hire and then take bookings through a Facebook page with a calendar on there with available dates. Thanks for all your kind words, keep safe and well, take care
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD can't wait look forward to meeting you guys in person in the not so distant future. Stay safe xx
Lots of chuckles in your video again Gary. Great fun, love your lifestyle. Have you thought of an overnight park-up for a campervan? Could be a seasonal source of income there? Take care 👍🏻😃
That's a good idea!
Hello, i would love to do that but it would have to be in-between caravan rentals as we dont want to block in or upset them with no privacy. I wish i had more land ! but the caravan rental seems to be a hit, i have got over 20 people waiting to book. we will see how it goes. Thanks Trev and Sue, keep safe and well, April the 12th hurry up !!!! say hello to Pepsi and Shirley for me. sorry for a late reply, just finished fitting a new shower. Take care
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD Brilliant news Gary, keep up the good work my friend 😃👏👏
Another great video Gary! Such a shame about the bees, hopefully all goes well this year! 🙏 Hope to see you soon, that caravan is looking amazing! Take care!
Hello, hope all is well at your end, as you might have heard the holiday let restrictions will be lifted on 12th April, so you can come anytime after that for a week or short break what ever you prefer for a test run, just give me a date so i can put that in the calendar, at last its going to happen ! ha ha, i just need the bloody chicken lockdown to be over now because there is a run built next to the van so people can have free fresh eggs in the morning. I will definitely not be doing the crazy covid vaccine passport thing thats being talked about for the van ! ha ha its all getting a bit silly now ! , We have brought an enclosed shower pod for the shower hut which will arrive this week, that should only take a day to fit, i decided with a lpg gas water heater to give unlimited hot water for the shower. This has been already been fitted. In the future i will build a bio gas generator to power it (free gas from animal/kitchen waste) but for now it will use gas bottles to get it up and running quick. We also need to put up privacy fencing which will take just a couple of days, so we are ahead of the game. You can leave a private message or reply here for the date ( any date any time whatever is easy for you ) take good care Jordan and Becky, keep safe and well.
great video. i have a kitchen garden smallholding plus i also do my traditional crafts and crafts as well as photography art illustration which is supported by my rag and salvage business I am doing this solely on my own with some help when my older children are home. Everything I produce or make or both I sell over half and keep 1/4 back for myself. Bee's are a great adventure which I have 5 hives for last 2 years which I make soap and some other products with like shampoo and creams. Wishing you all the best of luck and keep up with the good work
Hello Ivy Julie Harvey, wow ! thanks for this comment, i enjoy reading how others are living the good life. You are one big step ahead of me in the bees ! im hoping to do the same in the future, im gutted i lost them 2 hives, we left them two hive alone for the year so they could become large strong hives, the damn wasps and other bees just would not leave them hives alone ! i spent many hours trying to swat the wasps away but not the bees ! we will try again to increase the bee population. This year we will be a planting of even more bee friendly plants and masses of lavender everywhere to help them. Your doing a great job there, do you have a selling site or ebay ? if so what is it ? thanks again for this comment. keep safe and well, take good care
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD Last year I was given notice during the heat wave that land been sold and rented contract has come to the end I still have the holding for now until autumn praying for rented land come forward or something. I and children in rented place not coping with grid bills and 4 walls in town/city we rather be out about. The notice came during lockdown and has been hard. Watching your videos brought a smile to our faces and look forward to see the next video. We see alot of abandoned farms and land as we travelled but alot of farmers say future use or it is all ours I said it does not belong to you it belongs to nature and god create the land for us to look after it and nature it. What you know you just a girl and single mum gypo being racist. I polite said by looking at the soil organic rich soil as not been farmed for over 30 years here you have a good harvest and animals will fatten well with this good pasture and to high standard. If work with no chemicals and by hand you will keep the land to high quality and of good standard. the youngish farmer looked stomped as not ever use hand tools just machine got huffy and we left. The farmer with him said pop next door so we did and he gave us his 9 acre field where we stayed and lived and worked the land until last year still working the land but things happen for reason and why we do not know. We will be travelling again and help more farmers and holders with knowledge I learnt as child from when I lived and worked on family holdings farm equine kitchen gardens and also what I gained as adult. edible flowers taste great with salad and desserts if looking for more ideas. keep up with the good work take care all all the best xx
I love your shows, keep them coming you’re living a good life. I’m so jealous keep it up you’re a good man make life where you want it to be
Hello, thanks so much for your kind words. keep safe and well.
Got to respect a man who owns a welder!
Hello Simon, ha ha, i love my welder, it has fixed so many things and I have only had it for a year, it only cost £70 from amazon and has already paid for itself in jobs fixed. thanks Simon, sorry for a late reply, always busy here. Take care
Great to see you diversifying and not putting all your eggs in one basket. I always watch, like and try to comment also to help your youtube algorythims. Some on youtube also make a little extra by having patreon or selling t-shirts and mugs etc. I think your caravan will be booked out too once you can take bookings. If I still lived in the UK I would come for sure. Much blessings :)
Hi
this is Vicky, I have been drafted in to help answer some messages as Gary is finding in more and more difficult to keep up with them and does not want to miss any.
We have seen more people moving over to patreon and mugs but at the moment it not a way we want to go, mainly as we do not have time and we want people to be able to view for free.
The caravan is so close to being finished and should be done just in time for 12 April when we can open the doors. we are both really looking forward to starting that adventure.
Another inspirational video complete with blooper reel at the end "Helloeeeewww" :D thank you for sharing this deeper insight on small hold earning hopefully we'll get ours in a few years time!
Hello, its good to hear from you, hope your keeping well, grrr i do hate money ! it does rule the bloody world ! and sadly its needed in great amounts to set up a smallholding. You will make perfect smallholders when you get your patch, but your already doing a great job urban holding which is where we started out at. Keep up the great work ! I'm waiting for your next vid for answers ! cheers and take good care
Great, informative, honest video as usual. It brightens my day when I see you've added a video. Keep up the good work and I'll keep watching and letting the adverts play to add to your revenue. Take care
Hello Dilly, thanks for your kind words, so sorry for a very late reply, yes we have been busy ! ha ha so nothing changes there ! thanks for letting the adverts roll but please don't punish yourself watching them trying to sell drivel in them dreadful adverts ! we still earn revenue for a skipped advert but not as much for a full one, so thankyou, but its not all about the money, im very happy being poorer ! it makes self sufficiency more of necessity rather than a hobby. Sadly the money is needed though to help set up fully and i do not want to work for someone else in the 9 to 5 system ! ha ha i hated that ! thanks Dilly hope your keeping well, say hello to Mum for me and take good care
Brilliant as usual Gary. Always love watching your videos. They are so inspiring and your presentation is so funny and right up my street. Cheers, take care 👍
Hello, sorry for a late reply, the days seem to be too short to fit everything in ! i hope your keeping safe and well, thanks for all your kind words. take care
Great vid Gary and Vicky. Hope you’re all keeping well xx
Hello Andy, always good to hear from you, we are all good here apart from being run off our feet, wet room floor failed, damp rising up the walls, I'm fitting a new walk in shower tray and doing away with the wet room, MOT on cars with fixes to do, shower hut for holiday let still in progress and we are haemorrhaging money, ha ha normal life really. I'm also just about to put my tiny plastic car up for sale, had it for 12 years now, but will only get about £150 ish for it. We are Ebay selling like crazy to make ends meet, and we have run out of cut wood, so soon as the wind calms down im out cutting. Hope you and your family are keeping well, how's home schooling been for you ? have they drove you mad, ha ha James has been a bit of a pest to get him to do his school work. thanks Andy, keep safe and well.
Buying at auction and selling on ebay was one of the first things I did after giving up 9-5 working. It worked a treat! Good luck!
Hello, sorry for the very late reply, wow you have already been there. When we start doing this i know where to go for handy tips ! hope your keeping well and not finding this weather too awful, i am finding the weather awful ! ha ha bloody too cold and windy ! Thanks for popping by, keep safe and well
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD For sure I’m full of them...tips that is :)
Great informative video there Gary and its a great shame we can’t exist without money. I always watch Ben Fogles New Lives in the Wild on Tuesday evening. Many of the people featured are trying to live off grid but like you say it’s very hard without cash. Cheers Mike 👍🍺🥦🥦🥦
Hello Mike yes i love that program, how lovely it would be to live super remote ! i would love to do that but it would not be fair on the wife of kids. Im up for real basic living surrounded by nature. Food, warmth, comfort and shelter is all that is needed and watching nature becomes you TV and not forgetting a good library of books of course, yours being in the comedy section ! sheer bliss ! thanks Mike take good care. keep safe and well.
Another good vid mate just watched a few others on geese etc, keem em rollin.
More to come very soon, i have been taking a long break and getting important big jobs done. thanks and take good care
I love your videos, this was really helpful. You said you make about 70-80 quid a month from TH-cam, I was wondering if you could tell me how to earn that if I ever made a channel. Is it ads? Also I just want to say you have really inspired me to try and 'escape the matrix'. I've always felt society how it is today is not how it should be. The government does not care about people or the environment, they care about the dosh. I always wanted a way out of it but because they teach you in school from an early age that this is just the way life goes. A 9-5, big house etc I never knew there was another way. I know some people are happy with that life but it's just not how I want to be living. I watch a lot of Ben fogle and have thought about living on/off grid. (Couldn't quite sacrifice the Internet). Your success with your small holding and how happy your family also is there has really made me think about doing something similar. I'm still only young, I'm almost 20 and I know a lot of people my age probably wouldn't even consider living that lifestyle. But I've grown up with very supportive and wise parents, they're thinking of escaping the matrix for their retirement. My mum loves your videos too, she's from London so she relates to your sense of humour. Thank you for sharing your wisdom, hopefully it will open some other people's eyes too or just give them something to think about. Like you I'm all about positivity and love what you do here. Hopefully I'll figure out what kind of on/off grid life I want to live. I know it wouldn't be all plain sailing but I think the freedom, self achievement and doing good for the planet would be worth it.
Hello Hannah, wow a lovely comment to read. To earn money on TH-cam you have to have more than 1000 subscribers and 4000 viewing hours in a rolling year, then if your videos are appropriate they put adverts on them, you receive a cut of the adverts, so the income comes from companies trying to sell their unwanted crap ! if your a mass consumer you will by into their crap ! if not you can earn money from them ha ha perfect ! Im very glad you want to live like this at such a young age, my only regret in life is i started too late, my energy is running lower now that im nearly half a century old this year. As for on or off grid the best way to be free is off grid, within the next few years we should be disconnected from mains water as we have a water well here, but because we sell electric back to the grid we are connected for electric. Less bills means your less of a slave to the system. I also feel that the governments will tax any carbon emitting energy sold very heavily soon, so if you are green and use very little energy, which this life style does, you have future proofed yourself from them taking money. Remember you can never be truly free from them, but this life gives you a greater distance from them, but you can ignore and not rely on them which helps ! ha ha, yes the governments are leading us to destruction at the moment and i dont want to be a part of that. Thanks so much for your comment, say hello to mum and dad for me, thank Mum for me for watching, good luck , be free and take good care. My comment is bigger than yours !! nicky nicky nah nah !
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Thank you so much for replying! I'm in amazement. Hahaha I didn't even realise how long my comment was. Your tips are really appreciated, mum is over the moon that you mentioned her. You and your family take care too and all the best of luck with your smallholding evolving even more!
Great use of your land and resources. It is a shame we are slaves to money. Have you heard of Mark Boyle? He went moneyless for a few years and uses very little now. He was on Ben Fogle new lives in the wild about a month ago. His book ' the moneyless man' was an eye opener. Take care all of you!
Hello Dave, yes i did see that episode, i always watch Ben Fogle religiously, if i remember him right he was an amazing Irish bloke, very calm and knowable mind set of how corrupt the world has become, he was poor in the money world but rich in wood ! a perfect life ! that was a good episode. I would like to escape a lot further than what we are but it would not be fair on the wife and kids. im ready to disappear into the complete middle of nowhere with no trace found ! ha ha shear bliss ! thanks Dave take good care
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD that's the episode Gary. Agree with you. It is hard to take things so far with kids and the wife. It's all about compromise. Would love to do the same. I'd be happy with a really simple life. I am trying to go that way as much as I possibly can. All the best buddy.
Thank you I always wondered how you made this work
Of course when you get old enough you can use your state pension for the extras assuming you keep it going that long
Hello Michael, my work place pension which is with the Ford motor company can be taken early at just 55 years old ( 23 years service there) , only 5 years to go, it will be a highly reduced rate though but we will need very little money when we are fully set up here to live super self sufficient. I still pay national insurance and keep that up to date in full, but to be honest i have written the state pension off as the governments keep changing the age of that. thanks for your comment, take good care.
Hello Gary/all, Love your videos so sorry for the bees. We have finally done it, sold up and moved to west Wales to live in a similar way, early days and lots to fix in the old house and very very old shoe makers cottage (1744) but we will get there, just about to uplaod a video if anyones interested in having a look, all comments and advice gratefully received.
Hello again, its great to hear from you, wow amazing, you have done it, congratulations and a shoe makers cottage ! cant wait to have a look. Dont find yourself in a rush to fix it up, we are coming up to 7 years here now and only just coming to the last of the renovations for total completion. Also like us you might find many old objects over the years whilst digging or even hidden in the loft or under the floor boards, we have found many little things over the year to the point where we are soon to mount a deep frame picture display on the wall, cartwheel penny 1797 under the floor boards, buttons loom weights and all sorts in the garden) but no dead cats up chimneys have been found !! ha ha. I went to a web site where cottage finds were talked about (cannot remember the name) but one person found a pigs heart up the chimney in a very old jar ! this was to do with the old superstitions they had back then. Good luck on the renovations, remember to use old fashion lime mortar/plaster for repairs to walls if thats what it originally was, modern cements can cause damp trouble in historic building, along with modern plaster as well. i use a very good company called Conserv ---> www.lime-mortars.co.uk/about . they are a helpful and fast delivery service. Lime mortar is very nice to work with easier than modern cement for the DIYer . Thanks for letting us know, i will be waiting for the video. take good care (your cottage might even come with ghosts ! ha ha )
Nice informative video Gary. Sorry to hear about the bee hive losses, a bit sad, but you might catch another swarm come summer (when it arrives). Any chance of you sending a link to your ebay shop? NO i'm not after that bloody Bing box set lol..
Glad your all fairing well and again thanks for providing some fun videos in these dark times. Take care all.
Hello Barry, Its good to hear from you, sorry for a late reply, ha ha actually to our surprise the Bing box set sold for an amazing £1.80, our Ebay page can be seen here in this link -- www.ebay.co.uk/usr/thegaffer500. Im determined to fix the bee problem and increase the bee population in this area. We are also mass planting lavender this year to help out for there food. thanks Barry for your kind words, keep safe and well, take care
Hi Gary and all the family, is your caravan going to be available again this summer please? We have an Aunty who lives in Framlingham and were thinking to stay when we visit her next time if possible please?
Hello Tara, im afraid our caravan is no longer available as my daughter who is now 17 has moved into it, she wanted independence , she also has a job to help live independent. Sorry Tara, keep safe and well. thanks.
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD Thank you very much, that sounds like a great adventure for your daughter, they grow up so fast , she must be having a lovely time and you know exactly where she is 👍👍👍 take care all 😊
Could you do a video on caring for chickens? I just got my first coop and could do with lots of tips, I heard that you can creocote the outside to protect wood and prevent red mites, wondering what you do :)
Hello Lucy, the dreaded red mite !!! impossible to eradicate without using really harsh nasty top grade chemicals or burning the hut down. They do say old style creosote does help prevent them but thats also nasty stuff. Im a bit of a chemical free nut here ! perches hanging from chains from the ceiling with Vaseline on the chains can work very well because the mites struggle to get to the birds to drink their blood of a night. no blood, no life cycle of the mite. Luckily we have no red mite here at all, if we did i would rehouse the birds in a new hut far away and leave the old hut empty for well over a year or burn it. Also a good dust bathing area for the birds keep mites at bay, a large tray of wood ash is said to be really good but my chickens just have access to very dusty dirt. I used to have red mite in my old chicken hut where we used to live, they came from next doors chickens into mine ! it was a nightmare ! They would hide in all the nooks and crannies and the blood suckers would come out at night, we use to spray vinegar everywhere , blow torch the corners of the hut and perches and we even used a chemical pyrethrum smoke bomb as a last resort and put mite powered on the chickens but still they came back ! we moved here with our chickens and they did not follow the chickens here, they only go onto the birds at night to feed then leave them to hide in the hut. I will put a quick video up soon about chickens. Thanks for your question, keep safe and well, take care
Thank you 😊
Hi Garry .I have just found your channel .its great thanks. You say you have a 3kwt solar panels is that ok for you or do you wish you had bigger .Cheers 👍
Hello Ian, thanks for popping by, The solar was enough in the past but now i have an electric car i could now do with more, 6 kw or double the amount would be perfect, perhaps a future project. thanks and take good care, good luck with the energy crisis at your end. Super frugal is now needed to help save !
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD yep I have a power station for charging phone laptop and garden tools cheers
So sad about the bees, and the bathroom floor. Real life..... Take care
Hello Jane, yes its sad about the bees, but it takes a lot to kick me down ! constant challenges to keep me busy, i dont like sitting down much anyway and at least the shower job in in the warmth ! ha ha, i will have it finished by the end of the week. I dont like to put the bad stuff on this channel but dont like to give the impression that im ass hole lucky either ! thanks Jane Keep safe and well.
Beautiful video
Hello, thanks, that's very kind of you, Happy cooking ! you have some great food on your channel, keep safe and well, take care
where exactly are you actually located? itd be nice to be able and pop by and buy an aloe you have there, that lovely plant caught my eye! id rather support people like you than big shops like tescos, despite struggling myself during covid, i still prefer helping smaller businesses and more local people
Hello, we are in east Suffolk, if you private message us on facebook ,Escaping the matrix for good , the same name, we would be happy for you to visit, or we could even post them to you. Hopefully you are not too far away, we also make sure we are the cheapest in the area. I don't know if you noticed but the aloe plants were just £2 each. Its a lovely area here to visit and people often come to see the forest. When spring is here with warmer weather the stall will have plenty of plants, from herbs to veg plants and lots of Aloe Vera. Way way cheaper than any garden centre. Thanks and take good care. We also love to support small family run places as well.
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD Damn, thats unfortunately rather far from Cheshire east, nevertheless i hope to one day pop by when my partner and I are going to the south! wont be for a while unfortunately with covid and all. take care too
Morning Gaz and Co. Good on you for being foster parents, I spent 6 years in foster care with the same family after three years in a orphanage, great people. Smart move not putting all your eggs in one basket, sorry for the pun, honey and garlic are good sellers I bet and the salvager idea will make for great viewing, start with the boat. Little feedback mate, try to put your ads between points rather than right in the middle of a yarn. You lose continuity as a viewer. Cheers guys.
Hello Moose, wow your really do have a lot of experiencing in life, it does explain why you are a wise man of the world. I make sure i check the box when uploading recent videos with " "no adverts in mid roll " , i find it very annoying as well, i have no idea why TH-cam has done this, they also pick where the adverts rudely interrupt. Was it in mid roll of this video ? I know some of my older videos are like this. Sorry for a late reply we have been very busy here. I hope your keeping fit and well, thanks Moose take care
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD Morning mucker. Yes, sadly they did but hey ho, no dramas. Just YT being lazy I guess. All good here mucker, off to Tasmania Tuesday for a week. Looking forward to it.
Sorry you will never have a large one, very brave to come out on TH-cam and say that though, Well done. ….. Oh Wait …..
Smallholding you say, I do hope you are not fixating on this size thing
Hope you are all well and staying clear of the masses. LOL
Blah ha ha, brilliant one Dave , always enjoy a good laugh ! im going to use the American term of homestead instead ! hope your keeping well. Although I understand times are getting you down a little, sorry to hear that, keep that goal in mind that lockdown is so close to be over for good and the Karen's can not interfere as much in things that should have no concern, its becoming a very common thing around here as well. Busy bodies with bees in there bonnets ! Freedom to roam in your van away from the twits will soon be here ! ha ha, keep safe and well Dave, take care. 5 likes on your comment ! it was a belter !
Hey mate, is pressure treated timber safe to use on vegetable raised beds? Or is untreated preferred?
Hello Bossk, my raised beds are made from plastic by a company called link-a-bord who specialise in raised beds, ive had them for about 10 years now and they are still going strong. I try to keep my veg totally chemical free, but i do have one bed with a treated wooden edging. i would recommend the link-a-bord or untreated wood as im a chemical free believer. Thanks for popping by, keep safe and well.
Sod continuity!! Pah ha ha! Very good vid my friend x
Hello, its lovely to hear from you, hope your keeping well, its starting to get exciting ! growing season nearly here ! its been a long winter and im fed up with it now ! thanks Kat, happy growing, keep safe and well, take care
this is a great video. I love how you live, one day I might be doing the same, )
Hello, hope your keeping well, if i had loads of land i would open up one of those commune things where a group of people try and live of the land, each person brings different skills. you would be there in making/repairing cloths and making resin pyramids for spiritual and ornamental purposes, ha ha we can only dream ! stay safe and blessing sent, take care
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD I will do the same when i get my land. It will be a commune of misfits on mine though, i cant deal with normal haha
@@theindigotraveller most definitely, the normal people drive me mad ! ha ha the reason for living here was to get away from them bloody mass consuming, button pushing government loving zombies. ha ha
You and your family are an inspiration Gary. (We are wannabe smallholders).
I'd gladly pay a lot extra for your honey (compared to the supermarket shite), and I'm sure a lot of your viewers would too, so maybe put links here to your eBay site once you're ready.
Take care.
Hello, thanks for your kind words, i hope all is well at your end. Although we should have 6 hives we will not be robbing the hive and selling loads of honey, just taking a little surplus, im hoping for only about 20 jars per year and also selling bees wax product as well to help, we also would like to make hives and queen them for sale in the future as our mission is to increase the bee population for the need of the planet. I will start putting an Ebay link in our description box on the videos. Thanks and take good care ( www.ebay.co.uk/usr/thegaffer500 )
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD you are a good man, and I respect you even more in hearing that you're only taking the surplus honey.
Thank you so much for your response. Take care.
Hellllooooo. Legends 😃
Hello Andrew, change the leg to a bell and you have got it right ! thanks for your kind words, keep safe and well.
Hellloooooo! People are nosey, I would never even think to ask someone how they earn a living! I don't really talk about my income, it isn't anyones business. I too have various incomes, art, books etc, it is always a good idea to have your fingers in many pies. I remember when you sold Sophie way back when, now it seems you have sold James?
blah ha ha, Sadly Sophie as you know is now a teenager who thinks her parents are embarrassing interfering old nagging people. James is having less hormone problems and still loves being on the videos, but certain subjects are just not for him, he enjoys acting stupid and making people laugh and does not want to stop doing the channel, also his school friends think he is great fun in the videos and would love to be in his position to have a channel, i give James some of the youtube money for his great help , he love that side of it as well as he is saving up his money for a large computer monitor for his bedroom. He enjoys online gaming with his friends. thanks Bry, keep safe and well, take care
I thought exactly the same Bry. But having said that I would never ask, I'm glad Gary shared the information with us. Many of his "fingers in pies" I would do too if I was fortunate enough to have a smallholding and some I do already; I haven't sold any of my children though - yet!
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blah ha ha you totally got me there. nice one, keep safe and well
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Hello what a bad spelling mistake ! change the leg to a bell ! cheers and take good care
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Hello Esther, sadly we all need money is this modern world ! thanks for watching, take good care
Whereabouts in the UK are you guys?
Hello, we are in Suffolk, we moved here from Essex nearly 7 years ago. my wife does not wear white stilettoes and we are not orange with fake tan ! but that stereo type is very very true for Essex. ha ha, thanks for popping by, take care
@@ESCAPINGTHEMATRIXFORGOOD Cheers for the reply mate, we are moving from the US to Yorkshire to start a Farmstead, love your videos, good info and humor!
@@KoaCharvel Hello again, you might be a little confused about the white stilettoes and fake tan as your from America, Essex ( south east of UK) has a reputation across the whole country for these stereo types but it is a true fact in some areas ! ha ha, As we used to live there we saw it on a day to day basis ! the fake tan is normally orange in colour and looks awful ! but they still put it on. The girls wore white stilettoes and the boys drove around in done up cheaper cars to look flash, i was one of them Essex boys when i was young ! im not proud ! I will tell you this joke , you might not want to hear it but here goes ! How does an Essex girls turn the lights back on after sex, she opens the car door. i hope that gives you a good insight of what parts of Essex was like. Good luck on your move, Yorkshire is a great place for homesteading. take care
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Hello, thanks for popping by. keep safe and well
I love your chnnel And I wou;d like to follow in your footsteps. I’d recommend that you buy some Bitcoin it’s easy to do and over the next 5 years you’ll be really glad you did ( if you are not sure just look at the value now compared to 1 2 3 4 or 5 years ago ) there are lots of exchanges now so it’s really easy I can post a recommendation if you like keep up the vids. I always watch through to end and watch all the ads so you get the most income from your commissions ! 😀
Hello, Hope your keeping well. we are eventually coming away from the need of lots of cash as we get more self sufficient and i must admit the bitcoin confuses the hell out of me ! I also prefer cash in hand as there is no trace of that. Thank you so so much for watching the ads, but please you dont have to put yourself through the drivel they pump out ! trying to sell crap thats not needed ! but thanks and that does help increase the revenue generated. A skipped advert earns less, thanks so much for your comment, sorry for a late reply, always busy here and TH-cam takes the back seat. Keep safe and well take good care
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Hello, cheers for popping by, hope your keeping well.
Hi, great video as always. What is your eBay acc. Name? Am after some eggs to hatch out for meat birds. Regards Dan
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If you want to send me a message on the Facebook page (escaping the Matrix for good on Facebook) I can send you some for a lot cheaper the they sell on Ebay, i Have seen some on there that are very over priced. We will can call in a subscriber discount.
We have the Indian Game birds that are a great meat bird but also lay a lot of eggs. And are some of the best mums I have ever known if you want them to hatch chicks.
Vicky (the wife that has been drafted in to help with the messages!))
Why do you need money? you cant eat it.
Hello Perry, i like your thinking and this how i would like it to be, i would love to live such a basic life in nature that money would be of little importance. This would be too rough and tough on the wife and kids ! ha ha but im up for it. If i did live on a tiny amount of money the only spanner in the works would be the council tax if i was in a registered property. Im sure i could live totally off the fat of the land if it was just me, as long as i had all the tools, the ones that cost nothing to run, i would also need my own forest for wood as well to help heat and cook, A fresh stream for water, but owning all this comes back to money !!! grrrrr its hard to get away from it ! Very hard work though to live like this. The trap of having money is the convenience it brings. The good news is once we are fully set up very little money will be needed here. Thanks Perry take care