Good to see you making videos again! I have the first bunch pretty well memorized from repeated watchings and it's nice to have a new one. Please keep them coming when you can, they're greatly appreciated. I really enjoy both the style and the content. Thanks for your time and efforts.
Wow we waited a long time for this one!!! Glory be!! Sure glad to see that you're producing again. Thanks so much Pa Mac. Keep them coming please. I really appreciate your insight and your humor. Delightful !!!
Like everyone else, waited a long time for another video. Not disappointed, either! Looking forward to more insight and thoughts from you as you continue your adventure/lifestyle on your farm.
I love this series! I too am trying to re-claim the small farm of my childhood. What a ton of work! I consider myself a homesteader and I have been living this weird life for the last 33+ years even though most of the time I was in the middle of a big city. I too have a rich tradition of farmers in the family, although it skipped entirely the two generations just before me. Some of us have always just heard the beat of a different tune ... and my tune has quite a bit of banjo and dulcimer in it. LOL
What I really enjoy about your channel is that it shows all of us the joy from using your own hands making the job of Homesteading, Farming and so forth even better. I'm so happy your channel is on here I as a young farmer look forward to your next video.
Dear Pa Mac, My comments to you are always sincere, but a bit tongue in cheek. I would like to take the time to seriously thank you for the time and effort you put into making these videos. I truly believe that you rank high within the best that TH-cam has to offer. No matter how long the wait for new content, I never get tired of checking for an upload, and you never disappoint. You will go down in TH-cam history my friend. Thanks for all you do. Keep it up. Your old pal, Jerms
Nice to see a new video Pa! I have the same hilly, rocky soil at our land, so I'll be watching to see how you tackle it. Love the videos and watching your great progress.
May you live for many years yet and continue making this series. I want to see the whole farm and cows and crops and everything! :) Really well done! Thank you!
Thanks so much for sharing your videos and family information with us. You’re truly the blessed folks this country was built on. We really appreciate what you are doing to promote taking care of the land and families and becoming communities with decency! !👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
This is my favorite channel! I can't wait to see the new videos. Pa Mac, you do a great job! Thanks for your hard work and effort in making these videos.
I look forward to more of your videos. They are very enjoyable. I learn much from them every time I watch them. Thanks, and glad to see you back. Looking for more future videos.
Folks ought to keep their feet firmly planted in the dirt. Grow things. Enjoy animals, sunshine, and God's good earth. Thanks for the video, sir! The boys are already thrilled at the prospect of watching it tomorrow. Any time we ride in the car, they beg for the laptop so they can turn on an episode of your show. The log chicken coop video is a special favorite; they bob their little heads to the music and daydream about building their own chicken shack. Take care, brother.
Dear friend, thank you so much for making this video. I love the old Scottish-Irish music and all the history you put in. I am envying your land and the endless possibilities you have before you. Good luck and I am feverishly anticipating future videos.
Yea!!! I was pleasantly surprised and excited to find that.......you're back!!!! I enjoyed this latest video as I have all the others. Please keep 'em coming!!! I really enjoy them!!! As a single 50yo woman with 5 acres I am a "young" gardener, homesteader, farmer too!!! Thanks for sharing :)
I've never met you my friend, but I find myself praying for you and your family often. I guess I feel like you are a mentor to me and I value very highly the advise and humble wisdom you provide to me. God bless you brother.
I appreciate that more than you know, motorcyclelad. To have someone taking a piece of their time to pray for you is humbling indeed, to say the least. Thank you, Brother Philippians 3:9
Pa Mac thanks for all the time you put into these videos. I have enjoyed every one! They have taught me many new and old things! What I don't know is where do you find the time to do it all! Please keep making them. Your farmhand at heart Mel
Great fun. I enjoyed your video. I bought a farm in KY. It has been unused for years. We are planting the bottom here and there. It is going to be big fun. Thanks for the inspiration.
Hello Pa Mac, great to see your progress! Don't know how I missed this until today, we have been looking forward to seeing an update from you. We are two years into transforming what used to be a farm many years ago back into a homestead. All that was left was raw land, but some good soil and a spring that runs through it. We planted our first garden just a few years ago, so lots to learn for us folks in our 40's just getting started! Your videos provide us with a lot of laughs and inspiration, thank you
I started watching you're videos when I was around 13 or so (I'm 16 now). I'd say you were a huge inspiration for me to pursue homesteading one day. Since then, I've taught myself basic carpentry, I grow my own garden and have given a hand at chickens and ducks. thank you, very much for these wonderful videos
+bryby216 Well, I really appreciate your watchin' the show over these few years, bryby216! I wish you the best as you continue to know the joys of workin' with your hands and enjoying the fruit of your labors.
I wish that I could share your videos with everyone I know. You have far more going on in your content than I think you yourself even realize. I never thought that a ‘gardening’ video would bring me to tears... But the funny thing is its not just this video, it’s every one you have. It makes me wanna shake people and make them watch and scream, ‘This is what you need to see!’ Many prayers and blessings be poured upon you and your family. I thank you from the depths of my soul for you sharing of your experiences. Please keep them coming. You inspire me secondly only to the Good News. I thank you so much for sharing your insights... And this coming from a practically stay at home dad if two boys with barely enough time to keep the house in order. I have my plans too, and the good Lord willing, I’ll get to teach them what I was taught since my earliest memories. God bless you and yours.
Thank you so much for your kind words, mobilenoble27. I appreciate the encouragement more than you know. (And may God richly bless you and both your sons.)
Glad to see you back again! We're at a similar stage. We just moved onto our farm, got a few goats and a donkey but were too late to get in a spring garden. After closer inspection of our crop area we feel it necessary to make it a little more conducive to sustained gardening so we may not produce too much this year, perhaps a fall garden.
My family enjoys your videos so much!! Please keep making them. Its nice to have clean entertainment!! Many blessings to you. We look forward to the future videos. God has blessed you with many talents!!
Just came in from tilling in the garden and saw this posted up. Great to see you back. I enjoyed the video and hope to see them a little more often but I know it is getting on to the busy time.
Somehow I missed this being posted, so I am glad I checked your channel and found I had missed this episode. Especially since I really enjoyed the whole breaking down the labeling and naming. No matter what name used, you are producing some very appreciated videos that help folks who go by many different labels but in essence are all doing something similar, getting their hands dirty and producing food. For themselves, others, or even commercially. I have seen quite a big resurgence in Back to the Land type homesteading. For many various reasons people are heading back to living and working on land. Building up many different takes on how to homestead, or go off grid, or do organic, or permaculture, or be a prepper. I think it is great. While there was a back to land movement back in the 60-70's it was isolating, but now days most of these folks make sure to have internet. The internet has helped build community of these like minded folks even when they are across the country, or even the world from each other. Knowledge is shared, emotional support is given, advice and suggestion easy to get when you have questions, examples of what works and what doesn't available to research, and so much more. I think this modern back to land movement is going to succeed a lot more than previous one due to this ability to stay connected.
We did truck patch gardening. We called it a truck patch because you grew so much of something that you had to have a truck to haul it out of the garden. We did over an acre of pumpkins, an acre of sweet corn, 2 acres of pop corn, 1/2 acre of white crook neck squash, 1/2 acre of tomatoes. When time to harvest, we actually took our tall sided wagon attached to our tractor and filled it with produce (except tomatoes, which where done by 5 gallon buckets)
I hope you make many more. I have ten apple trees, then added eight blueberries and some other stuff. I planted the apple trees because I was inspired by one of your first videos. Thank you.
Bravo! Bravo! "Knowin' what you're doin', comes before knowin' how you're goin' to do it" Truer words have never been spoken, and it applies to all aspects of life! Welcome back my friend and thanks for another splendid episode of The Farm Hand's Companion! P.S. We LOVE the new music too!
thank you for the new video! I always learn so much from them, and I've even implemented what I've learned. I built my chicken coop and goat shelter based on your log chicken coop. I checked back to re-watch your video on the stone floor (I'm about to start making the stone floor for my Rabbit barn) and there was a new video! I'm excited to see more new videos whenever you post them. thank you.
You toke the making videos to another level and stopped just when youtube make the bigbang and everyone is making videos, (plus making that house is not something that takes 2 weekends...). So nice to have found you here. Keep rocking!
Just found your channel and love, love, love what you do. Gardener? Farmer? Builder? Craftsman? Stonemason? Woodsman? Illustrator? All of the above....you can do anything. Thanks for stimulating some deep thought on this topic.
Thank you for another great video - very thoughtful. As we work to develop our property we too have been faced with a myriad of "definitions", all with good people behind them who have great "systems" that we have thought about copying. What we're starting to learn, however, is to just watch and listen to our land, take the best from the advice of others (and ancestors, as you note), and do the best we can, God willing. Can't wait to see what direction you go!
+John Latham Those are valuable words, John. If yall will "watch and listen to your land, take the best from the advice of others (and ancestors), and do the best you can, God willing"...you'll be doin' what countless other settlers, farmers, and homesteaders have done for ages! My best to you and yours as you work with your hands, Pa Mac
Thanks for the pole barn book and the inspiration. I started my own channel to chronicle my homestead and other projects. I stacked the logs for dryin, next is to mill lumber!
i always enjoy your episodes and am only a backyard gardener growing comfrey, tomatoes, eggplant, dwarf papayas and a few more. i learn watching your show and hope to be in the same situation some day. thanks
Man, i missed you. :D Just the other day i checked your channel thinking TH-cam didn't update. :) Awesome words on the purpose of a new age farmer and you're absolutely right, even here in Europe, a lot of people are going back to their roots so to speak. Which is grand.
I was plum tickled pink to see a new episode of Farm Hand's Companion!! There's just something about your theme/background music that stirs my soul. I can't explain it. It's foot-stompin' good!! And seeing you working your piece of land is inspiring. I just wish I lived in your neck of the woods and could come apprentice with you (although I'd be a somewhat old apprentice). Oh well, I'll take what I can get in your videos. Good day to you, sir and God bless!
On another note, how do you feel about burning wood and spreading the ashes on the soil? Does that help improve the soil? Can it hurt? I thought that may be why you had that fire burning. Nice turnip greens, by the way! We grew some here a few years ago. The greens did good, but the turnips never amounted to much.
+SouthernPitt Hey SouthernPitt, I feel real good about spreading hardwood ashes on the soil. It tends to bring a touch more sweetening to a sour (acidic) dirt. I generally spread em from my fireplace through the winter over the garden and over areas that will soon be gardened or cropped. I do it very sparingly, though; it's not something you want to over-do or it could set things back awhile. Thanks, too, for your kind words about the show, SouthernPitt!
+farmhandscompanion Your show is a great inspiration to me. Thank you for your support! Means a lot, if you ever get to the Dakotas look us up, we have a guesthouse.👍🏻
Brother, Thank You for this channel. I really enjoy your content The Word says acknowledge him in all our ways and it does my heart good that you do that on this videos. I live in eastern Kentucky and we grow lots of crops on hillsides and them rocks are minerals, so be not discouraged. I pray that Yeshua gives you health and many more seasons.
How did it take me so long to see this video. I hate to be presumptive, as that's surely a dangerous thing, but I reckon I saw a hat tip in there good Sir. Enjoyed the video, and your friendship, as always. I shall scold TH-cam for not informing me of this video sooner and then eagerly await the next installment. May your Kolrabi grow well! . . .
+J&J Acres My hat will usually always be tipped toward folks who work as hard as you and your family, Jared. Please keep your valuable videos and books coming!
This took me back to my childhood. Thanks very much. I would love to do this myself, but age and health issues seem to be in the way. I am glad for you to be able to do it though. I enjoy your videos so much.
I'm so happy The Lord has brought your influence into my life. As I move in a similar direction, your example will help to lead me. Thank you for another enjoyable and informative episode. God bless, Pa Mac.
+Lolita's Garden Hey once again, Lolita's Garden folks! I'm thankful to the Lord for you all as well. May God bless your family in all endeavors! Yours, Pa Mac Philippians 3:9
Ah yes, the beautiful Arkansas landscape! Ouachita national Forest? Maybe Winona area? Just discovered your channel by way of pole barn series. Great job! God bless!
Pa Mac , I'd take you as a small holder , not a gardener not as big as a farmer , but a farmer with a small holding . Maybe that fits at the moment . Your information and style of graphics is a pleasure to watch and I look forward to your letters from your lovely place . Great video 👍🇬🇧
Glad your back! Have you ever considered aquaponics? I'd love to see what you could do with that. Blending the traditional lifestyle with some modern methods is what I'm looking to do.
Hi Pa Mac, I am new to your site and I really enjoy the common sense approach that you show in this video. I look forward to watching some more posts :)
I know this show took time but it was perfectly done and very enjoyable. Thanks you.
+PeriodWoodworker
I appreciate that, PeriodWoodworker!
I LOVE this video!! What a great reminder of the past and I loved how you touched on all the different perspectives people have of farming today!
Glad to see you back with some new videos. Always enjoy watching your work
Hooray, a new FHC video!! Really enjoy all of them. I could watch them over and over.
Good to see you making videos again! I have the first bunch pretty well memorized from repeated watchings and it's nice to have a new one. Please keep them coming when you can, they're greatly appreciated. I really enjoy both the style and the content. Thanks for your time and efforts.
Your videos are so good. I love how you link through to the traditional, and don't take your self so seriously. Thanks for all your efforts.
glad your back!!! your videos make a man think about what can be done! you inspire me to work my 8 acres
Wow we waited a long time for this one!!! Glory be!! Sure glad to see that you're producing again. Thanks so much Pa Mac. Keep them coming please. I really appreciate your insight
and your humor. Delightful !!!
+Eric Sumnicht
Will do, Eric; thank you for your encouragement.
And thanks to everyone else for your kind words.
Pa Mac
Like everyone else, waited a long time for another video. Not disappointed, either! Looking forward to more insight and thoughts from you as you continue your adventure/lifestyle on your farm.
I love this series! I too am trying to re-claim the small farm of my childhood. What a ton of work! I consider myself a homesteader and I have been living this weird life for the last 33+ years even though most of the time I was in the middle of a big city. I too have a rich tradition of farmers in the family, although it skipped entirely the two generations just before me. Some of us have always just heard the beat of a different tune ... and my tune has quite a bit of banjo and dulcimer in it. LOL
Your videos are like art work! Very thought provoking. Love them!
Great video, glad to see your back and, thanks for taking the time to make them. I really enjoy them a lot!
Yeah. Got 8 years till my homestead project but I love keeping tabs on yours. Keep it up looks amazing.
Glad to see you are back. We need more videos like yours.
What I really enjoy about your channel is that it shows all of us the joy from using your own hands making the job of Homesteading, Farming and so forth even better. I'm so happy your channel is on here I as a young farmer look forward to your next video.
I appreciate that so much, Sharona, and thanks for watchin'!
Amazing video-as usual. You had me hooked on the polebarn series... so much to learn from your channel! THANK YOU
+HomeSteadHow
I appreciate that HomeSteadHow, and you keep up the good work on your fine videos as well!
Pa Mac
Dear Pa Mac,
My comments to you are always sincere, but a bit tongue in cheek. I would like to take the time to seriously thank you for the time and effort you put into making these videos. I truly believe that you rank high within the best that TH-cam has to offer. No matter how long the wait for new content, I never get tired of checking for an upload, and you never disappoint. You will go down in TH-cam history my friend. Thanks for all you do. Keep it up.
Your old pal,
Jerms
+Jeremy Shock
You're always so kind, Jeremy. I sincerely appreciate your encouragement.
Yours,
Pa Mac
Truck Patch = It took a truck to hall it away. Love your shows but if you can slow down a bit im a slow reader ; )
Nice to see a new video Pa! I have the same hilly, rocky soil at our land, so I'll be watching to see how you tackle it. Love the videos and watching your great progress.
May you live for many years yet and continue making this series. I want to see the whole farm and cows and crops and everything! :)
Really well done! Thank you!
Thanks so much for sharing your videos and family information with us. You’re truly the blessed folks this country was built on. We really appreciate what you are doing to promote taking care of the land and families and becoming communities with decency! !👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
This is my favorite channel! I can't wait to see the new videos. Pa Mac, you do a great job! Thanks for your hard work and effort in making these videos.
+Desert Digger
I appreciate that, Desert Digger, and you're very welcome!
Enjoyed the video! I'm glad to see you posting again, your work has been missed.
I look forward to more of your videos. They are very enjoyable. I learn much from them every time I watch them. Thanks, and glad to see you back. Looking for more future videos.
I'm workin' on 'em, ed! Thanks for the kind words.
Folks ought to keep their feet firmly planted in the dirt. Grow things. Enjoy animals, sunshine, and God's good earth. Thanks for the video, sir! The boys are already thrilled at the prospect of watching it tomorrow. Any time we ride in the car, they beg for the laptop so they can turn on an episode of your show. The log chicken coop video is a special favorite; they bob their little heads to the music and daydream about building their own chicken shack. Take care, brother.
+William Germany
Tell your young men Pa Mac says, "Hey", and to keep on dreamin'!
Been waiting eagerly for these new season videos you've been a inspiration for getting my stuff done around my house
Dear friend, thank you so much for making this video. I love the old Scottish-Irish music and all the history you put in. I am envying your land and the endless possibilities you have before you. Good luck and I am feverishly anticipating future videos.
It's good to see you again. We really enjoyed the new video and are looking forward to the next one.
+Kathleen Bobbitt
Thank you so much, Kathleen! It's always good to hear from you.
And thanks to everyone else for your kind comments.
Pa Mac
binge watched all of your videos on a school night last year. checked back everyday and it finally payed off with a new video
Thanks for the awesome video! It gives me a lot to think about for the property that I have. Hope to see more videos in the near future.
+Steve Crider
My best to you and yours as you prepare to work on your property, Steve!
Pa Mac
Fantastic works of art! Nice work. I always enjoy your episodes.
AWESOME!!! A new Farm Hands Companion video!!! Doing the "Happy Dance"! :D
+MotherOfManyHorses
I appreciate your enthusiasm as always, MotherOfManyHorses!
Yea!!! I was pleasantly surprised and excited to find that.......you're back!!!! I enjoyed this latest video as I have all the others. Please keep 'em coming!!! I really enjoy them!!! As a single 50yo woman with 5 acres I am a "young" gardener, homesteader, farmer too!!! Thanks for sharing :)
Yay! Welcome back Pa Mac! We missed you!
I've never met you my friend, but I find myself praying for you and your family often. I guess I feel like you are a mentor to me and I value very highly the advise and humble wisdom you provide to me.
God bless you brother.
I appreciate that more than you know, motorcyclelad.
To have someone taking a piece of their time to pray for you is humbling indeed, to say the least.
Thank you, Brother
Philippians 3:9
You might have the best channel on youtube Pa Mac. Thanks for making these videos. I really enjoy them. Gives me lots of ideas.
Glad you are back! Another great video!
What an incredible amount of work you put into not only your homestead/farm but also your videos, thank you for sharing your stories!
Thank you for watchin' Heath!
woo hoo! my son and I really enjoy watching your vids, thank you!
+Dave G
Thank you for watchin', Dave.
Tell your son I said "Hey!"
Don't ever change a thing. Your videos are perfect. You're my hero.
+Scott Kline
You got it, Scott.
Thanks for watchin'!
Great to see you had time to make another video! Thanks for sharing with us.
Pa Mac thanks for all the time you put into these videos. I have enjoyed every one! They have taught me many new and old things! What I don't know is where do you find the time to do it all! Please keep making them.
Your farmhand at heart Mel
Great fun. I enjoyed your video. I bought a farm in KY. It has been unused for years. We are planting the bottom here and there. It is going to be big fun. Thanks for the inspiration.
+Frank B
My best wishes to you as you work your KY farm!
Yes, Mac. Good to see you again, I missed you.
I just spent my Saturday morning burning through your whole channel. Fantastic videos. Thank you for making this city man jealous :)
+russtuff
I appreciate you spendin' your time watchin', russtuff!
Rare to see a new video....but like always...a masterpiece of art.....very wistful....
Hello Pa Mac, great to see your progress! Don't know how I missed this until today, we have been looking forward to seeing an update from you. We are two years into transforming what used to be a farm many years ago back into a homestead. All that was left was raw land, but some good soil and a spring that runs through it. We planted our first garden just a few years ago, so lots to learn for us folks in our 40's just getting started! Your videos provide us with a lot of laughs and inspiration, thank you
My best to you as you get things goin' on your homestead!
Take care, and thanks for watchin'!
I started watching you're videos when I was around 13 or so (I'm 16 now). I'd say you were a huge inspiration for me to pursue homesteading one day. Since then, I've taught myself basic carpentry, I grow my own garden and have given a hand at chickens and ducks. thank you, very much for these wonderful videos
your videos*
+bryby216
Well, I really appreciate your watchin' the show over these few years, bryby216!
I wish you the best as you continue to know the joys of workin' with your hands and enjoying the fruit of your labors.
I wish that I could share your videos with everyone I know. You have far more going on in your content than I think you yourself even realize. I never thought that a ‘gardening’ video would bring me to tears... But the funny thing is its not just this video, it’s every one you have. It makes me wanna shake people and make them watch and scream, ‘This is what you need to see!’ Many prayers and blessings be poured upon you and your family. I thank you from the depths of my soul for you sharing of your experiences. Please keep them coming. You inspire me secondly only to the Good News. I thank you so much for sharing your insights... And this coming from a practically stay at home dad if two boys with barely enough time to keep the house in order. I have my plans too, and the good Lord willing, I’ll get to teach them what I was taught since my earliest memories. God bless you and yours.
Thank you so much for your kind words, mobilenoble27. I appreciate the encouragement more than you know.
(And may God richly bless you and both your sons.)
I always enjoy your videos. great job. look forward to the next one. Mark
nice to see you again....
Glad to see you back again! We're at a similar stage. We just moved onto our farm, got a few goats and a donkey but were too late to get in a spring garden. After closer inspection of our crop area we feel it necessary to make it a little more conducive to sustained gardening so we may not produce too much this year, perhaps a fall garden.
I was waiting for the return of FHC and here it is. Thanks Pa Mac !!!! I can't believe it !!!
+Cassian YHVH
Thank you as always for your kind comment, Cassian!
My family enjoys your videos so much!! Please keep making them. Its nice to have clean entertainment!! Many blessings to you. We look forward to the future videos. God has blessed you with many talents!!
+cheebo98
Thank you, cheebo98. I'm so happy your whole family is watchin'!
Just came in from tilling in the garden and saw this posted up. Great to see you back. I enjoyed the video and hope to see them a little more often but I know it is getting on to the busy time.
Great video, nice to see you back, looking forward to the next one.
Somehow I missed this being posted, so I am glad I checked your channel and found I had missed this episode.
Especially since I really enjoyed the whole breaking down the labeling and naming.
No matter what name used, you are producing some very appreciated videos that help folks who go by many different labels but in essence are all doing something similar, getting their hands dirty and producing food. For themselves, others, or even commercially.
I have seen quite a big resurgence in Back to the Land type homesteading. For many various reasons people are heading back to living and working on land. Building up many different takes on how to homestead, or go off grid, or do organic, or permaculture, or be a prepper. I think it is great. While there was a back to land movement back in the 60-70's it was isolating, but now days most of these folks make sure to have internet. The internet has helped build community of these like minded folks even when they are across the country, or even the world from each other. Knowledge is shared, emotional support is given, advice and suggestion easy to get when you have questions, examples of what works and what doesn't available to research, and so much more. I think this modern back to land movement is going to succeed a lot more than previous one due to this ability to stay connected.
Good to see you back!
We did truck patch gardening. We called it a truck patch because you grew so much of something that you had to have a truck to haul it out of the garden. We did over an acre of pumpkins, an acre of sweet corn, 2 acres of pop corn, 1/2 acre of white crook neck squash, 1/2 acre of tomatoes. When time to harvest, we actually took our tall sided wagon attached to our tractor and filled it with produce (except tomatoes, which where done by 5 gallon buckets)
I am sooo glad you made another video some of the best down to earth videos ever
I hope you make many more. I have ten apple trees, then added eight blueberries and some other stuff. I planted the apple trees because I was inspired by one of your first videos. Thank you.
Fantastic video. you have been blessed with a great talent. Thanks!
Bravo! Bravo!
"Knowin' what you're doin', comes before knowin' how you're goin' to do it"
Truer words have never been spoken, and it applies to all aspects of life! Welcome back my friend and thanks for another splendid episode of The Farm Hand's Companion! P.S. We LOVE the new music too!
thank you for the new video! I always learn so much from them, and I've even implemented what I've learned. I built my chicken coop and goat shelter based on your log chicken coop. I checked back to re-watch your video on the stone floor (I'm about to start making the stone floor for my Rabbit barn) and there was a new video! I'm excited to see more new videos whenever you post them. thank you.
You bet, Azaora Azaora!
My best to you as you keep on buildin' and farmin'
Pa Mac
Great stuff pa Mac. Glad you found the time to make another video.
You have just revitalized me to make a bigger garden then what I currently have. Thank you.
You toke the making videos to another level and stopped just when youtube make the bigbang and everyone is making videos, (plus making that house is not something that takes 2 weekends...). So nice to have found you here. Keep rocking!
FINALLY!!!! Was beginning to think you fell in a hole. Thanks so much for posting again mate missed your vids and your great tunes.
+powderedtoast man
Thank you so much, powderedtoast man
Very interesting! I'm glad to see a new video from you -- I love them all!
Just found your channel and love, love, love what you do. Gardener? Farmer? Builder? Craftsman? Stonemason? Woodsman? Illustrator? All of the above....you can do anything. Thanks for stimulating some deep thought on this topic.
Thank you, Barbara; and thanks so much for watchin'
Thank you for another great video - very thoughtful. As we work to develop our property we too have been faced with a myriad of "definitions", all with good people behind them who have great "systems" that we have thought about copying. What we're starting to learn, however, is to just watch and listen to our land, take the best from the advice of others (and ancestors, as you note), and do the best we can, God willing.
Can't wait to see what direction you go!
+John Latham
Those are valuable words, John.
If yall will "watch and listen to your land, take the best from the advice of others (and ancestors), and do the best you can, God willing"...you'll be doin' what countless other settlers, farmers, and homesteaders have done for ages!
My best to you and yours as you work with your hands,
Pa Mac
Good to see you back on TH-cam, have been suffering withdrawals over the last several months!
You really do a fine job!! Brings back many good memories. :)
Thanks for the pole barn book and the inspiration. I started my own channel to chronicle my homestead and other projects. I stacked the logs for dryin, next is to mill lumber!
+Homestead Pilgrim
Keep up the good work with your videos, Homestead Pilgrim!
Thanks for watchin'!
The show is back!!! Thanks Pa-Mac!
A great video, and great questions brought up. May you be blessed on your land!
+Marqueta Graham p.s. My daughter wants to know the names of the music playing during your video?
i always enjoy your episodes and am only a backyard gardener growing comfrey, tomatoes, eggplant, dwarf papayas and a few more. i learn watching your show and hope to be in the same situation some day. thanks
Glad to see the new video. Can't wait for more.
I can't believe any one would give you a thumb down. love your stuff and glad you are putting some more stuff together.
Man, i missed you. :D Just the other day i checked your channel thinking TH-cam didn't update. :)
Awesome words on the purpose of a new age farmer and you're absolutely right, even here in Europe, a lot of people are going back to their roots so to speak. Which is grand.
+aserta
It sure is grand, aserta! Thanks for watchin'
welcome back! glad you're making videos again and I look forward to seeing what you do this year!
+Lane Votapka
I appreciate that, Lane.
Thanks for watchin'!
+farmhandscompanion looking forward to the next one!!
so nice to see you again. great choice on the raucous fiddle music in the middle
I was plum tickled pink to see a new episode of Farm Hand's Companion!! There's just something about your theme/background music that stirs my soul. I can't explain it. It's foot-stompin' good!! And seeing you working your piece of land is inspiring. I just wish I lived in your neck of the woods and could come apprentice with you (although I'd be a somewhat old apprentice). Oh well, I'll take what I can get in your videos. Good day to you, sir and God bless!
On another note, how do you feel about burning wood and spreading the ashes on the soil? Does that help improve the soil? Can it hurt? I thought that may be why you had that fire burning. Nice turnip greens, by the way! We grew some here a few years ago. The greens did good, but the turnips never amounted to much.
+SouthernPitt
Hey SouthernPitt,
I feel real good about spreading hardwood ashes on the soil. It tends to bring a touch more sweetening to a sour (acidic) dirt. I generally spread em from my fireplace through the winter over the garden and over areas that will soon be gardened or cropped. I do it very sparingly, though; it's not something you want to over-do or it could set things back awhile.
Thanks, too, for your kind words about the show, SouthernPitt!
One of my favorite channels.
We love your show!! Good clean family fun!👍🏻
+Back to the Basics 101
Thank you for watchin' and commentin', Back to the Basics 101!
(And keep up the good work with your videos)
+farmhandscompanion
Your show is a great inspiration to me. Thank you for your support! Means a lot, if you ever get to the Dakotas look us up, we have a guesthouse.👍🏻
Brother,
Thank You for this channel. I really enjoy your content The Word says acknowledge him in all our ways and it does my heart good that you do that on this videos. I live in eastern Kentucky and we grow lots of crops on hillsides and them rocks are minerals, so be not discouraged.
I pray that Yeshua gives you health and many more seasons.
How did it take me so long to see this video. I hate to be presumptive, as that's surely a dangerous thing, but I reckon I saw a hat tip in there good Sir.
Enjoyed the video, and your friendship, as always. I shall scold TH-cam for not informing me of this video sooner and then eagerly await the next installment. May your Kolrabi grow well! . . .
+J&J Acres
My hat will usually always be tipped toward folks who work as hard as you and your family, Jared. Please keep your valuable videos and books coming!
+farmhandscompanion i have leared alot from your videoes keep them up
Love your channel, especially the music! Glad to see more videos! Hope all has been well
I appreciate that, Matthew; thank you for watchin'
Just when I think its time to stop checking the channel. Along comes another enjoyable episode.
Welcome back, great video as always, love the celtic theme....:)
This took me back to my childhood. Thanks very much. I would love to do this myself, but age and health issues seem to be in the way. I am glad for you to be able to do it though. I enjoy your videos so much.
I appreciate that, Larry! Thanks so much for watchin'.
Love it! Glad to see your back Pa Mac
you were missed. glad to see things coming along out there.
interestingly complied, thank you for an entertaining presentation.
Great Video! Am glad to see you back too. I still want to see how you make/made the wooden hay rake.
Thank You
I'm so happy The Lord has brought your influence into my life. As I move in a similar direction, your example will help to lead me. Thank you for another enjoyable and informative episode. God bless, Pa Mac.
+Lolita's Garden
Hey once again, Lolita's Garden folks!
I'm thankful to the Lord for you all as well. May God bless your family in all endeavors!
Yours,
Pa Mac
Philippians 3:9
Ah yes, the beautiful Arkansas landscape! Ouachita national Forest? Maybe Winona area? Just discovered your channel by way of pole barn series. Great job! God bless!
Pa Mac , I'd take you as a small holder , not a gardener not as big as a farmer , but a farmer with a small holding . Maybe that fits at the moment . Your information and style of graphics is a pleasure to watch and I look forward to your letters from your lovely place . Great video 👍🇬🇧
I live in Va. and I am using your plan for a pole barn. Thanks for the simple layout.
Glad your back!
Have you ever considered aquaponics? I'd love to see what you could do with that. Blending the traditional lifestyle with some modern methods is what I'm looking to do.
Hi Pa Mac, I am new to your site and I really enjoy the common sense approach that you show in this video. I look forward to watching some more posts :)
+Self Contained Lifestyle
Thank you so much for watchin', Self Contained Lifestyle; and keep up the good work on your videos!
thanks a lot. Please subscribe if will :)