Curtis Stone on Finding The Perfect Homestead Property

[@livingthegreenlife282]

Love this! Two of my fav homesteading dudes. 👍🙂

[@LeahValerie86]

Already living in Arkansas (in an urban area) and looking for our homestead property here. Glad to hear we're already in a good place! This interview was invaluable. Going to look into Curtis' course for sure. Excellent interview, thank you!

[@joellynparks7805]

Looked at properties down there last summer. Promising

[@birgitelisabeth9661]

I have two cats and they are very close to me. They are outside most of the time and have their routine. They don't go to anybody else, not even close. When I put them in carriers and brought them to be neutered they were so scared. One of them broke out of his carrier in the car and came to sit on my lap. He was panting and his heart was racing. I had never seen him like that. I spent time with him, petted him, was calm with him and he calmed down. I was thinking how lucky your animals are that they get shot doing what they love doing. They never experience that stress of being taken away to an unknown place, not knowing what was to come. Yes, you harvest them and you feed your family, Justin, but you do it in the best and kindest way for those animals. They never suffer. God bless you, Justin, and your family.

[@SmithFamilyFarmstead]

My 2 top tier favorite farmers! These 2 have been soo formative in my farming journey. Both of their memberships are full of so much value!!💕💕💕

[@livingthegreenlife282]

Thanks!

[@theJustinRhodesShow]

Appreciate it!

[@RebasRoost]

I'm a Realtor in Wisconsin. Great talking points for folks looking for property - specifically homestead property. Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

[@patriciathomas1502]

Justin, Curtis Stone and you really resemble one another. Uncanny!

[@RachelTribbiani]

Before I looked at the text, I thought Justin was interviewing his brother.

[@vickiehamilton6596]

Covid changed alot of us.Homesteading really took off and us older folks became true hermits.when my brother in law had covid my sister called told us to stay away.id call her weekly to see if she needed anything dropped at her door. If she did i picked it up set it on her porch get in my car call her and left.luckily after a month he turned around and got better.

[@connorprout301]

I have wanted to watch you two talk for 8 years!!

[@theJustinRhodesShow]

I visited his urban farm back in 2017:kzbin.info/www/bejne/oKLQoI2eo9-ZeKMsi=uw23xAanJBV3cmsE

[@GettingGoshen]

Justin KUDDOS to you for providing such valuable information Freely. I have watched Curtis for years before he moved to that area in Canada and as he developed different properties. I actually took my Permaculture course with Bill Mollison and Jeff Lawton in Sebastopol, Calif a 3 week hands on course on a Llama farm. I haven't had the occasion to put everything un the practice yet but THIS is the year. Thank you both❤

[@matprather5833]

Curtis is the reason I started a market garden. Six year now and going on the 7th. I was watching homesteading videos and then stumbled upon his videos and thought I could make money while homesteading.

[@janew5351]

I started with Curtis, the Market Gardener!

[@craigandpaulaswan5088]

We are moving to Flippin Arkansas next week. I'm so excited to get out of Toledo.

[@hilltophomeplace6802]

Went through there a while back. Beautiful area. Best of luck.

[@RachelWardWVan]

I certainly don't agree with some of what Curtis talks about, but you can't deny he is smart and does his homework.

[@shandysgarden]

I love that. I can relate to his beginnings. I'm on a suburban ¼ acre corner. My classroom. "Leveraging my experiential and social capital!"

[@southwestlivingwithval]

It is nice to see you guys together and talking. I first found Curtis and then he led me to Justin. I have been watching you guys from the very beginning.

[@michellegonthier6251]

thanks for bringing this interview. It's really good.

[@joyceswansey8116]

This was and is awesome!

[@Homestead777]

Subbed to both of you...nice to have you both together for this conversation.

[@cyborgbear7269]

The biggest mistake people can make going off grid is not knowing the locals and building a community. At some point you'll need something that you don't have, and the system won't provide if it's down. Bartering is very important. Bring value to the community. Also, I noticed a lot of people stocking up on food, but they don't have an electric-free way of collecting water. Freeze-dried emergency food isn't much good if you don't have water!

[@4evermetalhead79]

Oh wow. Curtis! NOICE! 🔥

[@4evermetalhead79]

Can you do Mark from self sufficient me next? He is from the land down under though, which i guess would be an issue on timing things. 😅

[@Crypto_Catholic_Crow]

Curtis’ thoughts on the trend towards more tyranny and what we had was just a foretaste is something to consider seriously.

[@Pablo19625]

Excellent interview ❤️❤️❤️🙌🙌🙌 Thank you, Signed, Non complier; Health Freedom advocate; Zero vaccine Mama Bear; Anti face diaper wearer; Anti Group Think; Pro Immune System; Anti Vax.❤️❤️❤️🙌🙌🙌

[@conniea9201]

Homesteading fills your soul 😊

[@kimclayton7728]

My son is an avid Hunter. And is interning for a hunting guide. His passion is watching animal’s. It’s not just hunting season. It’s year round. He doesn’t have the same relationship as a farmer but we are eating and elk that he watched eat in alpha fields for days. And he gets excited he knows what our meat ate before it became our meat.

[@stephaniehughes1686]

I just got 10 acres for 100k, with water electric at road in AR

[@Bootman899]

Yeah but you're in AR

[@stephaniehughes1686]

@@Bootman899 there are 6 more 5 acre lots

[@shandysgarden]

I just started watching this video but I'm already tense about the content by the comments. I love Justin and probably 40 other channels. Been to homesteaders of America and met the Rhodes family. I don't have the same beliefs as many. I'm sort of in a league of my own there all by myself, but I try to take what I need and leave things better than I found them. I'm hoping this video helps me because I'm about to pick land and I've been planning for about 5 years!!

[@RachelWardWVan]

I'm in the same boat, and I found real value in this interview in spite of some of Curtis' axes

[@denataylor7377]

Northwest Arkansas is a good area as well. Hills, water, soil, animals are abundant.

[@StephanieMcCamon]

I'm going to move from Louisiana to Arkansas. We're currently looking. But looking in the Oauchita mountain range. The Ozarks are more of a jagged mountain and no back yard area. Only cliff. The Oauchitas are more rolling hill type. But not sure how to check the soil for planting gardens and fruit &nut trees.

[@conniecashion-x5z]

love my home good ole missouri

[@ronaldcummings6337]

The Missouri Ozarks has risen in price crazily

[@jasonandjulie]

The bad thing about wild game in our area is that they are eating off of the GMO crops. It’s no longer a pure food source ☹️

[@Miguel195211]

There is nothing wrong with GMO, but a lot of hysteria by a certain group. GMO foods are as healthful and safe to eat as their non-GMO counterparts.

[@chrystal4roses122]

I like coming here when it's about you and your family

[@cyborgbear7269]

Michigan is one of the most affordable states for land. Mio, MI has one of the biggest and most successful Amish communities in the US. The grow season is small, but if things go down, people around Mio will be ok.

[@freegandavehartman8908]

there is always fresh roadkill for the easy harvest!

[@k.c.8535]

That slither of land in southeast MO is called "The Boot Hill" area.

[@johnmekan6464]

Nope.. In Missouruh.. It's the 'Boot Heel'

[@johnmekan6464]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_Bootheel

[@aquietsojourner4683]

2:54 despite the nature of the relationship varying between cultures, and individuals in their midst, it is all ultimately a relationship with the land. That is what it is to be man. The difference is one's conceptualization of what a garden should be.

[@Crypto_Catholic_Crow]

Crazy that mortgage rates get recasted every 5 years in Canada.

[@AdamA2Z]

Something also to consider when it comes to North east Arkansas, and South east Missouri is the new Madrid fault zone. Also something very useful for information are HAM radios; super useful.

[@celianewman4809]

What in the world is the Madrid fault zone?

[@heathernotzdaniels6350]

​@@celianewman4809 prone to earthquakes.

[@celianewman4809]

The fact some of you are watching homesteading videos and podcasts and still think these guys are paranoid is truly mind blowing to me. I grew up in Cuba and I can tell you that America is not headed in the right direction. Canada is already too far gone.

[@cyborgbear7269]

Exactly. It's mind-blowing how far gone most people are. Thankfully some of us have a local community where we are building a parallel system. No commie covid enforcement, lots of gardening, bartering, and raising livestock. Many blessings to you!

[@wadebacca]

Well, if you heard some of the extreme positions Curtis took during the height of Covid, you’d be wary of him too. He promoted the “liberal leak letter” which was said to have been the plans to revoke private property ownership in Canada, which didn’t happen. But of course no talk of it once it’s clear it was a hoax.

[@Miguel195211]

I too am from Santa Clara, Cuba and now live here in the U.S., but I don’t believe in fear mongering and conspiracy theories.

[@celianewman4809]

@@cyborgbear7269 Would love to know where this community is!

[@cyborgbear7269]

​@@celianewman4809 Mio, MI. It has a huge Amish community, too. Lots of younger people moving to the area to start homesteads and build community. Also, others are ex-Amish and haven't left the area (Yoder and Troyer families)

[@janew5351]

Swedish homestead just settled in AR. On 40 acres.

[@gelwood99]

Curtis is right about the future and what "they" have in store for us pions!

[@StoneKathryn]

It's great to see the "Curtis Stone" story! I remember seeing him in Florida working the urban gardening thing when you visited him during the tour! Wow, 2018 he closed the farm which was perfect that he didn't get as hurt as other farmers that were dependent on selling their crops. I'm so glad he got out of the city then! People were crazy. I had farmer neighbors paranoid about masks! It was crazy. I'm so glad he got a homestead "dream" then! It took us 3 years to find our farm when we were looking and finally found it in 2009. I kept telling my neighbors that masks didn't matter but they didn't believe me. People can be crazy very easily. It's sad to see. I cut off all relationships to all of them! I had arguments with them. They wouldn't listen. I stopped talking. I knew "Dr. Fauci" was full of sh**! I'm so glad Curtis got to the farm he likes the best after 5 "tries." We got our hobby farm in 2009 at $250K for 9.7 acres. Best thing we even did. We are in SE Minnesota, right off the Mississippi River. We are up on a bluff. We love it. It's mostly flat so we can use it when other neighbors have deep ravines on their property. We are close to a highway so we can get out of our place even with bad snow storms. I can free range my chickens because the coyotes can't cross the highway during the day. The chickens go back in the barn at night. Most of my neighbors can't free range their chickens. Most of our barn yard area is tick free. It was bad when we moved there. We only get one or two on us a year now. The grass is so much better than when we got here. Chickens and goats do improve the land. We kept all our trees and we love having trees all over our property. They are mostly deciduous so summers are so much better with tree shade and the minerals they leave on the grass in the Fall. We don't get rid of our leaves. We want them to decay into the soil. I would never visit one of you without your knowledge! That's terrible. I'm so sad to hear that you have both experienced that. Privacy is a need! I appreciate you both sharing with us. So sad people overstep their sense and do that to you! I'm glad Curtis has found a private area for his farm and family! I've seen off grid places selling for 1.6 million here in the Pacific NW. Ouch! We can't do that! We plan on dying on our property too. One of our boys likes "the farm" so we hope he'll let us live somewhere here in our old age and he takes it over. We have a nice barn. The farm house was built in 1925 and we like the natural building materials. It has oak hardwood floors. The floors are level within a 1/4 inch over a 20 by 12 foot area. We saw a bunch of farm houses with huge floor problems. The structure of our farm house is very solid and we have a basement and an attic. We have two wood stoves too that were there when we moved in. We get our wood off our land. We feel very lucky. I feel very "safe" staying on our farm. I'm not going back to the city. The way you are expected to live in the future is already happening here in the Pacific NW. Everyone mostly lives in giant "hives" that have tiny rooms. They have to keep a storage unit to have anything for "leisure." Yards for houses built on top of each other are maybe 5 foot backyards. People are packed in like sardines. We got a place that "makes" sense for permaculture. It even has three outdoor frost free hydrants that were already installed and power to all the buildings already. We have the house, an attached 3 car garage/workshed, a clubhouse to turn into an outdoor kitchen, and a nice barn with stalls and a hay mow. We do everything by hand. We have no tractor and only a walk behind mower for 3 acres of "lawn." We were told by the farmers around us that we would be gone in 3 to 5 years. We are still on our farm. Our realtor worked with us for 3 years and found our place for us! He was wonderful! We were so incredibly lucky then. I'm so glad you're buying your land that has been in the family for so long Justin! Mosquitoes chase us in when the sun goes down during the summer. We are where it gets minus 35F degrees for a week in the winter. It gets to 78F degree dew point too in the summer! We have had over 100F degree change in the weather over the course of a day before. We've had snow on Cinco de Mayo where schools were closed. Also 80F degrees on a day in December. We were lucky our farm house faces south with windows all across that side of the house. Our living room with the Franklin wood stove was there and our kitchen nook is in front of a large 3 section window. The front door is in between those rooms. It works great. We have the Prairie style eaves to shade us in the summer and let the sun in during the winter. The house was foreclosed on. We lucked out. The family before us got a divorce and she couldn't maintain the farm on her own. We have to shovel out to the barn every snowstorm. The animals must get fed and watered! We don't have a back-up generator yet. Yes, things have gotten better every year! Thanks so much for both of you being on KZbin! I always wanted a farm when I was little! I got one at 48 years old. Thanks for this video Justin Rhodes and Curtis Stone!

[@micahtee6541]

From the little bit that I know about native culture, they did believe in land ownership, just not necessarily individual land ownership. Tribes would fight over territory and the winner could displace the loser. It may not have been exactly the same thinking as the European ideas, but they did have a concept of ownership/rights to be on that land. Not trying to criticize...just my thoughts. A great conversation!

[@debbee3319]

Just watched, @Ambition Strikes.... Replacing My OFF-GRID Power System With an E.V. Very interesting.

[@tammysarrazin-ux9tv]

bear meat is awesome if you cook it right hugsss

[@richarddangleson9460]

Please stop coming to TN

[@jimysk8er]

The one thing I hate about hunting is the waste. I see and hear from hunters talk about all these steaks they get etc but what do they do with organs or bones or whatever? I know a lot of times its at the butchers discretion but I feel like it's weird that I don't know a single person that uses bones regularly. I know a bunch who talk about using a pre roast chicken carcass once in a while but nothing consistent with a full carcass per two chicken breasts let alone any thing from other animals. I just think that if you want to use the argument for sustainability you should be able to back up you claim with a low amount of wastage. Who cares if it all goes to dog food, just as long as it doesn't go to landfills.

[@pennywillis8895]

🇦🇺I got a mask cut out the centre then added fine mesh, so I could breathe. I wore it once for a few minutes after that I would get it out when required to hang on my ear. There was no requirement to how it needs to look or what it should be made from.

[@celianewman4809]

Goes to show you that it was all theater.

[@jennifervert2601]

Do you encourage married couples to pursue this if your spouse is only “superficially in” … no skin in the game?

[@Crypto_Catholic_Crow]

I would like others to reply here, I’m interested as well in people’s views here

[@oberlausitzerhaushandwerke2876]

Schade das die Übersetzung nicht Funktioniert!

[@fornost64]

Wenn ich Deutsch lernen kann, dann kannst du auch Englisch lernen!

[@maryabel3176]

Well, why don't you guys show the bad things as well as the ggod things. I think Justin does show to some extent some of the bad stuff.

[@saltytbone]

Folks who brag about not wearing masks years later are every bit as annoying as the folks who got up in peoples faces over not wearing masks back then. It's a good litmus test of who is an absolute slog to be around. "Let me tell you why I'm the smartest man in the room."

[@maryturner3534]

You took it wrong. Curtis just doesn’t want to be forced to do what he doesn’t believe benefits him. You do you.

[@emseashell]

Wearing a mask isn’t supposed to benefit him, it’s to protect others that may be vulnerable to dying, so so selfish to think like that, life is not all about you, it’s about making society work for everyone…..that why this country is Fuc*** . Freedom doesn’t work in a selfish world.

[@Pablo19625]

@@maryturner3534 Precisely. ❤

[@wadebacca]

Hallelujah!

[@RS-zj2sg]

As a dental hygienist, who wears a mask eight hours a day for my own safety, it’s always quite funny when people tell me they don’t wanna wear the mask because they need to breathe😂. However, I don’t agree with forcing people to wear a mask.

[@nicholasgallanis7539]

I started following Curtis in like 2015 & REALLY enjoyed his urban farming videos! Once all of his videos became very political I stopped following. There are plenty of right wing opinionated choices out there, not my thing, I'm much more interested in farming & homesteading!

[@GurvanCustom]

Can't turn a blind eye to the politicians actively destroying everyone's future. But if like most Canadians you lack a spine to stand up to your oppressors, keep at it, be a sheep and keep grazing unaware of the wolf 4 feet from you 😘

[@nicholasgallanis7539]

@@GurvanCustom it's not the wolf who shows aggression with their teeth & growl before they bite that I'm afraid of, they show us who they are before it's too late. The sly fox on the other hand, with their smiling face & quiet demeanor just before they attack are the ones I'm watching out for! Fear mongering is less effective on those who are wise enough to see the forest through the trees.

[@eddiefinlaw8045]

Great another homesteader who calls other people brainwashed for taking a pandemic seriously lol

[@AbandonedMaine]

I made a pointed critique of his radical libertarian paranoia and he basically went into an infantile rage fit. Beware of his viewpoint.

[@murphysmuskets]

lol typical libertarian. Like James Lindsey being told his Libertarian presuppositions rely on Christianity… total meltdown 😂

[@AbandonedMaine]

@@murphysmuskets As far as Menger and Mises and Hayek and those types, since they cite Mandeville and other members of the British Hellfire clubs as the basis of Libertarianism, you can technically say that their outlook is satanic in a way.

[@jakemelinko]

​@@murphysmuskets I'm thankful for differing viewpoints

[@murphysmuskets]

@@AbandonedMaine Oh absolutely! All libertarianism is totally Satanic, being a “non servium” philosophy. But classical Liberalism relies on society being nominally Christian with strict Christian morality, otherwise it devolves into exactly what we have today. This is the Liberal “utopia” of “do what you want” and the Church is so weakened it can no longer hold back the demons.

[@fornost64]

@@murphysmuskets jay dyer vs austin peterson was great

[@shephusted2714]

too much neurosis here and pushing courses - you don't need perfect, you don't need courses, i do think making a road around your property would help with management and you should do more clearing and also some slective cutting but also plant a bunch of trees and do an orchard. family farms and homesteading are not popular and are in fact in a state of major crisis due to prevailing pressures in society - there is not a ton of money there and it takes a ton of work - it ain't for everybody and mostly just for rich folks that can afford the massive overhead - it is for people that really want it, for the vast majority it isn't even an option worth considering, - it can be great but you are also at risk of losing everything very quickly - there is a reason farming is a heavily subsidized industry - some years you may make money other years you may have to rely on govt bailouts and subsidies.

[@theJustinRhodesShow]

I disagree. What is offered in this course is hard earned and invaluable to the customer. If I were to ever be uprooted, I would definitely invest in myself that way.

[@GurvanCustom]

you contradict yourself. If it's so hard then you surely need guidance, to save in learning and expenses at large. You maybe got spoon fed a little too much and lack the traveling experience to understand what skilled people are capable of, so you resort to claiming only money can buy it. You are wrong.

[@Mister_Underhill]

​@@GurvanCustomYou do know that he and his family literaly has travelled the whole country. Every state. Think your bias leaked out there a bit, mate.

[@kodeyack]

I loved most of this interview until Curtis would start throwing out his political views on masks and blaming your liberal politics on the way your country has been heading , omg i almost stopped watching because of this. If not for the fact that it was you Justin i might have. I am Canadian and live in British Columbia but i have Irish roots. My sons wife is from Montana and partial owner as was he until he sold his stake in their very large cattle ranch and moved to Ireland due to the political climate in the US. They bought 150 acres of land there and since 2012 have been raising sheep, cattle, chickens and market farming. My grandsons have decided to stay (they're in their 20's now) and work the ranch/farm and live on the property. They actually watch your show as well as other like minded shows. Laws in Ireland forbid them from feeding table scraps to the chickens but as long as they don't take the veg. scraps into the house they can but no meat scraps. They have a small shed where they prepare veg. before it enters their house then feed the peels cuttings etc.. to the chickens. Their produce and meat is all organic, like you that was a must for them. you and Rebecca keep up the good work. Of course i and the boys have all subscribed to your and your children's pages. We hope that will help them get paid for some of their awesome content as well. Sorry i went on but as i said at the beginning your guest set me off. I wore a mask i do get vaccinated because covid is a real threat to me due to my health and i'm sure almost a Billion people who have died from it would disagree with him. Wearing a mask isn't always about ones self it being a decent human being caring for others not just for a slight inconvenience for a very short time. The only time i wear a mask now though i'm not required to is at the doctors office. Looking forward to some more of the Rhodes Bros air-soft vids and cooking with Lily vids. Watching your channel makes me feel young again. Thanks Justin for the great content.

[@ocimak]

That’s why I stopped watching stones channel bc he espouses that and more ALL through his videos

[@matthewaamot2961]

Imagine living in a country where some stuck up busybody thinks they can stop you feeding table scraps to your chickens 🤣

[@terrybrown9427]

Thanks for putting into words what I was thinking @kodeyack

[@gelwood99]

But you are so wrong! Your health is not anyone's responsibility but yours! I am unvaxed and a woman actually told me I should get sick, infect my family and we should all d I e ! A mask was so ineffective that it is funny, like expecting a chain link fence to keep out a mosquito. It was all about control and not about health! Plain and simple!!!!

[@Pablo19625]

@@matthewaamot2961 And try to coerce the masses into wearing masks, standing 6 feet apart and taking dangerous vaccines 😂😂😂😂