How did my root cellar work 1st full winter?

[@marianfrances4959]

Wow! My father would have bragged about your building, food production and storage! He was born in 1898 snd this is how they lived. Please take that as a serious compliment! 👍😎🇨🇦✌🐾🎖

[@NetTopsey]

I suspect the local food banks might accept potatoes. Worth checking if you haven't yet.

[@betty27246]

Your survival talents and energy is truly amazing. Some people truly love life in the real sense. Be nice to live forever without getting old.

[@peterfardell1564]

I remember watching you building this cellar. I was well impressed mate

[@dannygoin6552]

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👍👍👀👀👀👍☕️☕️☕️🥃🥃🥃🍻🍻🍻❤️🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@ruthkrentz29]

Until your crops for the chickens are ready - look up Jones Organic layer feed. The chickens do really well with it. Grow pumpkins! lol. The seeds are a natural dewormer for both chickens and humans

[@paulward4717]

My family totally agrees with your new animal base diet. We have been regaining our health and repeated the benefits of a meat based diet. Benefits are countless.

[@joelhenderson5404]

Shawn next time your this close to Oklahoma on your vacation in Texas you come up @here and stay at my place. I have RV hookups you can stay as long as your want and I'll show you native Oklahoma. I'd be glad for you to stay and welcome!

[@florentinalily]

Drying the potatoes are really worth while too. You can also make a flour from the potatoes for bread. and make a dried meal for the chickens to include flax oil (flax easy to grow)

[@asciiavatar]

Keeping some potatoes around as a backup/emergency crop is a good idea in the event that the other harvests are lean.

[@rosahabegger7924]

How i Admire your abilities. On construction, hunting, fishing, woodworking, planting, organise, planing, gardening, and more. What you are storing in your rootcellar. Too bad thow not consuming These potatoes. Healthy grown without Pestizides not GMO,s. Who knows What this powderd substances contains. I understand that Canada and the US are using all shorts of cemicals to produce food and meat. I am still concerned that the Companies big pharama thried for years to enter the EU market end they did. Barilla produce their pasta with Canadiean Whaet. GMO. Pure. These Buns, toasts, were making you fat. As you where, cooking on Camping trips where healthy. I wish you all the luck and health you need.

[@Dontbeasheep33]

Mate I know of two friends, one eat anything he wanted (not fast food) but anything & everything & drank alcohol at weekend only, he is as fit as ever in his 60’s, I also know of a old friend who eat 100% clean & healthy never drank alcohol or smoked all his life & died of bowl cancer.

[@flybywire5866]

I am starting to think cancer is a genetic predisposition. Some eat extremely healthy and get sick, others eat what they want, smoke like a chimney, and die of old age.

[@mildredmorine745]

My daughter started feeding her pup raw carrots to chew on he loved carrots. She also fed him some fruits. What a wonderful thing to have a root cellar. I would love to have one. I think that some people are going to go back to the old ways, it is understandable because we don’t know what we’re eating anymore when it’s bought. The prices are insane, outrageous prices. I make everything from scratch. Love your videos, your way of life, living your life. That’s what happiness is, being able to make choices, to choose how you want to live your life. Thanks for sharing, appreciate you.

[@jond747]

Thanks. Lovely to hear that the store is doing what you built it do.

[@deborahfarooq3492]

Great video . Enjoyed it.

[@conniewaite1371]

Place a few apples in with the potatoes,they have an offgass that helps keeps the potatoes lasting longer

[@bobobrien8968]

My daughter started having a few chickens. They’re free range and food scraps. We get eggs from her. They have darker yolks, thicker shells and just taste better.

[@jbthor9032]

Shawn. I've eaten carrots that large size, and I enjoyed them. They're sweeter.

[@piccachoooo]

Don't stop doing what you're doing. Ever.

[@soliel8999]

We have a huge pasture area and have successfully raised chickens with no grain. They were leaner, but we had plenty of eggs and very low amount of bugs in the yard. We did use regular starter grower when we were brooding them though. I was just thinking that in nature, the birds don't get a big pile of grain handed to them every day, so I tried it and it worked. We do have 5 acres of pasture, though and I just let the chickens wander wherever they wanted. We had a good guard dog, so no trouble with them getting picked off. They always stayed relatively (an acre or two) close to the house anyway.

[@overtrist]

How do your chickens manage through the winter?

[@shermdog6969]

He doesn't have any pastors either. Rabbits would be better for him in his location. Way easier than chickens. But you don't get an egg from a rabbit.😊

[@marianfrances4959]

​@@shermdog6969LOL! Just the Easter bunny!

[@tammykennett7388]

What about winter when pasture is under 2ft of snow?

[@elizabethjohnson475]

Agree that free-range is best. Wonder, of course, about predators. Could use a chicken tractor.

[@patriciabeyer8029]

Good morning 🙏. The potatoes yield looks pretty good.

[@marygordon3032]

Thanks so much Shawn because we’re learning a lot of things that we thought we knew! 👏👏👏🤩🤩🤩💯💯💯

[@elizabethjohnson475]

I'm so glad for you that your blood pressure is better, but even 'gladder' I can keep eating carrots & potatoes---the ones I've grown and don't have to feed them to the animals.

[@suehamblin9652]

Agree!

[@frankmccann698]

Hi Shawn, I just want to start by saying I’ve been following you for a long time now and you’ve been a big influence in how I currently live my life. I’m over in Manitoba and started a regenerative farm three years ago. One of my offering are eggs and meat birds that are pasture raised, moved daily to new pasture and we feed homemade milled feed. No corn or say because the price so we substitute with flax and hemp to get the right protein. Have the usual wheat, peas, oats and barley. You can find those organically a lot easier than corn or soy. You can also get the screenings at a lower cost. I’m excited to see more, keep up the great life!

[@dalelittle3889]

I miss your old cabin. Cool, how fast you shifted gears and put up this one. I've been following you forever. You're truly living the dream. Watch Emily's vids too, good kid , you should be proud.

[@mikaelkagero3821]

Carrots are fine to eat even a little for the dog sometimes. Potatoes okey sometimes. But you have your diet. 🙂👍

[@prebenRiisSrensen]

Glad to hear you are going lowcarb.

[@angelacross2216]

Lots of prudent decisions in this video.

[@LiveAlohaOhana]

Hey Shawn ' Aloha . Say I've started juicing utilizing carrots beets fruit ,spinach along with a number of other delicious fruits and vegetables that come available in season here and I've noticed a big difference in energy without the starches . Was thinking those carrots 🥕 would work great for you both also as well with all the fruits ,apples and such . Thanks for the video update and look forward to this weekends show ❤ 🐕 🐻 🍁 🌲

[@barbaralong3693]

Shawn, in this video I really can see how much weight you lost! You're looking really great!

[@GeorgiaWoodsHomesteading]

Sounds like you two are on the same diet as me. Has been great so far for 3 months and counting.

[@susanableton8647]

When we had a house, we had a cold cellar which my then husband refused to "finish" the cellar (some people lay ceramic tile on floor) because he said it would make a difference to the temperature. As he also made wine (without any additives at all) I believe it caused some of our potatoes to get mouldy. We would pick and then store them over the winter. It was a problem though. So happy to hear they all did well.

[@michaelboom7704]

I use a back unheated room for storing some stuff during the winter, seen it get down to 2-4c range which was great. Potatoes in insulated coolers just started sprouting.

[@djmoulton1558]

Just a thought: You could increase insulation to the basement by adding a horizontal door across the top of the stairway.

[@JaiHylRubis]

Very satisfying Shawn, well done. We also have cut down dramatically on spuds, pasta and rice as they turn to sugar and at 63 that is a concern as cancer feeds off sugars. Basically a ketogenic diet and it's grand! Big change from my 20's & 30's being a strict vegan. Blessings from the mountains. You have my e mail, it's on my channel if not ... more Chaga pls! 😃 ☘ 💖🙏🌟

[@stevewilliams6667]

Actually the potato is the most perfect vegetable as it contains all the nutrients needed to sustain life and it stores well.

[@annrhodes3544]

Research turning them into resistant starch.

[@Offgridlee444]

Cool root cellar, I am trying that this year! I can everything about 300+ jars. This will give me a bit of a break from processing my food. Thanks for the information! ❤ our chickens are doing great, a dozen a day! If you were closer I could help you out. Northern Bruce Peninsula here. In the summer they eat greens from the garden. They love broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower leaves. Also I have 20 meat chickens coming in August. Thanks again for your video.

[@Nonecareaboutyourissues]

Animals that can give you a food source without dying is a smart choice, I have 17 chickens and get a reliable 12 per day. Sometimes 16 in the warm months and sometimes as low as 5 in the cold but I also live in the us southeast....

[@judysears6417]

oh that is nicer to be able to see! thank you!!

[@joanntucker2742]

Nice root cellar 👍

[@ronpeted]

Great cellar.

[@Karen-ew9zn]

Look forward to my first harvest !

[@allenenabnit7078]

It’s always good to store more food then you can use so you have a barter Supply to buy the things that you can’t grow or should I say trade no one is completely self-sufficient in all things unless you do without this means you have to grow more than you need trade what you can sell the rest and buy what you need

[@judy8117]

Grow sweet potatoes, purple and orange great for blood pressure, dry them out as chips, when you camp add alittle water smash up stuff your fish wrap and over the fire, yum,alittle vinegar and oil yes cali licking her chops lol🏡🐾🐕💯

[@jackkeeble9272]

Thank you for the update man👍

[@douggibson9084]

I've seen a few black flies last weekend in Southern Ontario. Not biting yet

[@winterhomestead]

Thank you Sir.. This is great information! We are building a root cellar soon

[@maryshyrock1770]

Feed your veggies to the ruminant animals, good clean food for them to make good clean dinner for you. Nice job.

[@remystraub6990]

merci JAMES

[@Karen-ew9zn]

Well done. Congratulations

[@DavidJones-ly9bh]

Great stuff ..thanks for sharing!

[@gerardbechard5881]

Dr Mercola posted an article a few days ago about storing potatoes. Says potatoes should be stored between 50F and 60F. If stored below 50F he says "When potatoes are chilled, an enzyme breaks down the sucrose (aka sugar) they contain and turns it into fructose and glucose, which combines with the amino acid asparagine to form acrylamide, a carcinogenic substance, when heated"

[@truduni2216]

This is really great to share. Showing Others that they can also do it..

[@schrodingerscat7218]

Fermented potatoes make a delicious medicinal beverage, Shawn. Meow.

[@mitzigaynor-rz5zn]

In Australia we call it Vodka.🇦🇺

[@deborahfarooq3492]

I love turkey .

[@HotrodRon74]

in the 80s here in Wv Shawn,,,i been eating potatoes for over 60 years,,meat and potatoes stick to your ribs...haa....i make a pot roast,,potatoes,car,onions,cel,,is all in it...i heard years ago ,if you eat meat all the time,,its no good for you,,,so i eat a lot of chicken,,i eat bacon,,but not a lot of pork..maybe just off the bone ham..my mom use to make the best baked pork chops,,but i only buy them when i really want them..my big thing is a freezer,,i want one,,but i have to get a bigger solar charger,,like you got..im saving for it...well back to work while the sun is shining,,

[@beckyumphrey2626]

Great video as always.

[@MJ-ti6oh]

Love your posts. Thanks.

[@Smog_007]

Yes potatoes have a very high glycemic load. maltodextrin is by far the highest and is found in most grocery items as fillers and preservative. Pay attention and stay active.

[@pammohler3253]

Carrots and other crops you don't eat but grow well, grow for your chickens great organic food production for them.

[@Ineedahobby1]

Great video thanks for the update, out of curiousity why are you eliminating potatoes from your diet?

[@christinasegerberg8686]

Grow the purple potatoes that special Japanese people in the island do, they are very old and healthy with this diet along with sour cucumbers and fish. Or the old Andes Indians purple potato. Totally different than ordinary high starch potato. Or just boil it, cool it and make a vinaigrette dressing to mix it with. That changes the chemical structure in a positive way. Berries ok but other fruit has usually too much suger…

[@rhondaroberts152]

The only potato I eat is the purple with white flesh. So good just wish more stores had it!

[@dedwin8930]

Hey Sean, can you list what you’re eating instead of potatoes and carrots because I thought those are always good for me thank you. Love you channel Dennis.

[@pamelawood5869]

Would you consider a food bank? Those carrots and potatoes would really go a long way for families here in Ontario! Just a thought…

[@ZeeCeeCreations]

Shawn...is it too forward to ask what your diet consists of now? I can't afford to be a patreon and I realize the subject might be for only those viewers...I'm just so curious. And I'm very glad to hear that you will be sharing your potato crop and your carrots....I knew you would never let your hard work and wonderful food go to waste. Thank you

[@dorothyallen3614]

I believe it’s a Keto diet if not mistaken. If you watch Living Traditions Homestead, they’ve totally changed their diet to Keto and have kept medical proof of their body and health care conditions and if you go see their results you’ll be surprised, they had health issues when they started last year, check them out please, impressive results. Be well and safe beautiful people, keep an open mind on new research being discovered.

[@ZeeCeeCreations]

@@dorothyallen3614 Thank you!

[@bobobrien8968]

I’m interested to hear about your decision to change your eating style. I pretty much cut out potatoes and other starchy veggies , etc., a couple years back . A semi keto diet. List 40lbs and maintaining but I didn’t do it for tge weight loss, as I was only a bit overweight. I also cut out pasta, cut back on grains and no seed oils where possible. So, ya, interested to hear your story.

[@danieltporter959]

Glad to see your vids are back to normal speed...

[@andersmartensson1851]

Nästa gång du fäller en älg så flå den , Älg Skinn är riktigt bra .

[@dircegouvea451]

Apaixonada por esses vídeos ❤🥰🙋🎉

[@jeanettec6212]

Hello Shawn. On Those side boards maybe put latches on to swing it down to scoop out into a bucket, for emptying, instead of nails. I knew it all would work out for you. It’s such a nice cellar.

[@elizabethjohnson475]

Great idea.

[@iris1501]

BRAVOOOOO JAMES......BRAVOOOO.....you desirve allllll the blees of GOD

[@jacovanzyl2676]

Consider fermenting the potatoes. 2% salt brine for total weight (including water) with a tablespoon of vinegar (with the live mother) per liter of water. Cut them into French fries or cubes. Keep submerged. Rinse them well after 7 to 14 days. It has a strong smell, but don't let it put you off. Pre cook and freeze. It makes it healthy, and the fermentation lowers the carb content dramatically. Use as normal in baking or frying. It tastes fantastic! Try it. Do some research on fermenting beans, grains, and other high carb and high lectin foods, even nuts. God bless.

[@elizabethjohnson475]

Wow, what a great idea. Thanks for sharing!

[@eastafrica1020]

Sounds like poison to a carnivore.

[@alexanderfahr2658]

Trout fishing season.😁

[@damogranheart5521]

I wonder if you can dry trout?

[@alexanderfahr2658]

@@damogranheart5521 You can preserve and can trout.

[@donaldhofman5257]

I'm working on a smoke house! Dried smoked fish keeps like jerky!

[@poull.sivebaekjensen4058]

Well... You can always sell them or feed your birds, some pigs or cattle. They all love potatoes... Just a thought... 😉🤔

[@ronniebrue7875]

Man I never would have thought you would get on the carnivore kick. I will never be convinced organically grown vegetables are bad for you. Just like people saying not to eat too much fruit because it's loaded with sugars. Anyway, love your channel and the sweet pooch.

[@elizabethjohnson475]

For Shawn and for anyone, time tells.

[@Tracys35thchannel]

The carnivore diet is really hard on your kidneys

[@ram1brn]

he has always been on the on the carnivore kick.

[@Tracys35thchannel]

@@ram1brn However, red meat, high in saturated fat, is also allowed on the diet. Saturated fats can cause inflammation. Additionally, a high-protein diet (such as the carnivore diet) can be harmful to the kidneys-and can even promote gout and kidney stones.

[@patches6903]

Not to mention much higher probability of colon cancer and heart disease. The best diet is plant based with very little, if any, meat, especially red meat. This is the science and has been documented from many studies. Hopefully, the subscribers will not listen to Shawn’s diet advice.

[@pinschrunner]

Always separate the potatoes you knock with the shovel and use them right away or gift them. Now you have mold in your cellar. Make the time to get those out now but best to never store anything moldy with your good produce ever, because you have introduced it into the cellar environment.

[@alxs2666]

I’m afraid mold spores are everywhere in the air, both outside and inside...

[@JaiHylRubis]

Spray with a mist of 60- 1 or 30-1 hydrogen peroxide will kill all mould instantly ... we also use a stronger solution for pests in the garden 15-1 or even 10-1, the plants thrive on it! Lol

[@drott150]

You live in a world where mold is not in the soil and air everywhere? You must live on the moon.

[@annrhodes3544]

@@alxs2666 especially in a new log house which is not even dried out.

[@damogranheart5521]

Good to know. Thanks!😊​@@JaiHylRubis

[@iwishiknew10]

dang the potatos....

[@aliceschmid9697]

How much fish do you all eat?

[@ablubrd]

Canning & freezing foods you may not eat/diet this yr might be best as your diet may change next yr!

[@margaretgood580]

Sad you and your wife are off the potatoes, home grown are the best 🥔 Have you tried growing your own mushrooms..🍄 you can also use mushroom compose in the veggie gardens .. just a thought for you ❤

[@elizabethjohnson475]

He has a video about growing his own mushrooms.

[@lexistapleton687]

Shawn, what is this Life the jungle? Someone is using your videos? Do u know about that????

[@brianbarbe9646]

I am sure Shawn has a plan but I wonder how he is going to get that freezer out of the cellar when it conks out??!!

[@DorisGronewold]

I eat only red potatoes. More natural sugar, but less toxic to one's system. A1 stays at "5".

[@StevenEverett7]

Shawn, are you aware of the KZbin channel that is using your videos and presenting them as his own? He has called it Life in the Jungle. The only difference is that he speeds up the videos to about double speed.

[@elainecrawford6891]

Indiana Jones vibes there at the end of the clip... but I'm sure you've never heard that before. Well done on your second cabin. Beautifully done! ❤

[@davidpatrick1813]

Interesting how we go through life and all along the way we are gunghoe and learn again and gunhoe again. I have a neighbor with a ranch and went to an all (nearly) meat diet and she told me she backed off it it. She is elderly and lets a friend run her cattle... Most things are quality of the food. Others I know get off on light frequencies and almost always faddish ...

[@elizabethjohnson475]

Understandable; live and learn. Did you watch his video about wanting to get off all meds, investigated, and changed food to accomplish that goal.

[@catherinecooper2360]

Shawn, it's wonderful that you have such bounty! Can you give some of it to homeless shelters or pantries, or churches with hungry parishioners?

[@terminalpsychosis8022]

All that starch... even the ones that start to spoil.... That's a ton of medicinal alcohol. I guess google won't let ya show the still. ;-) It's a killer cellar you made. Will hold whatever you want cool and ready for cooking, with some yeast and sugar and a big fan and a radiator and something to catch the juice in...

[@deborahmarlewski6786]

When I have leftover potatoes I cut them up and blanch them. Then I freeze dry them. They are perfect in stews and egg dishes.

[@davevillaire2990]

He's sworn off potatoes. He's into a Keto exclusive diet now.

[@elizabethjohnson475]

I saw a comment that suggested fermenting potatoes, maybe carrots too? Said they lose so many carbs doing so.

[@armandzottola1626]

I have trouble growing grass so your yield leaves me in awe. No real land to work so, no place to learn. City boy! Often regretted.

[@mikepagliei426]

Hey Shawn, maybe I missed it but why is it you and your wife are not going to eat potatoes any longer?

[@drott150]

White potatoes are pure starch. Starch is instantly converted into sugar after you eat it. This causes a big upsurge in blood sugar which in many - if not most aging people - causes weight gain and diabetes. Diabetes is the gateway to high blood pressure, circulatory problems, cardiovascular disease and especially dementia.

[@elizabethjohnson475]

Shawn already did an extensive video about that after their recent vacation in the US.

[@rachelmyers7104]

Maybe can some potatoes for occasional use.

[@eddiep5676]

I’m confused. You’re planting another garden this summer but not eating vegetables, or just not eating potatoes?????????

[@Bless3dUnstress3d]

👋BE BLESSED🤲

[@alfyr.e.meyerakaa.r.e.m.4434]

Carnivore and keto are not only unsutainable long-term, but they're a rich mans diet. Same thing with going totally organic. 98% of the world could never afford your diet, let alone survive without - regrettably - industrial agriculture/factory farms. As for discounting potatoes, North and South American indigenous peoples have survived on them, along with corn/maize for at least a thousand years. Ancient Egyptians had bread and beer. Asians, rice for a couple of millennia. The Irish - potatoes, whiskey and beer... in that order lol. We do live in a world of insects and pests, vermin, blight, fungus and other 'plagues/pestilence that ruin crops. Now you Shawn are at least a 'fun guy'. Still, no matter how well we eat/drink, exercise, think positively, live naturally, we still get sick and eventually, we all die. At 72, I've come to terms with my own and my fiancées mortality - I've suffered from extensive, painful arthritis half of my life, and the missus is a cancer survivor - almost five years. Yet, regardless of our infirmities, we bought a treed one and a quarter acre 'homestead' in a rural village in Quebec, left urban Brampton, and we are flourishing... albeit with some additional pain lol. Got me a new gas powered chainsaw yesterday to cut some serious logs - we had five trees felled last fall. Built an additional three raised garden boxes to our eleven. Got an Aussie Shepherd last fall thats helping to keep us young... and sore lol. So life is good. Everything in moderation my friend.

[@peaksofblue]

Chinese monks practiced grain liberation as a lifestyle, none of this diet stuff is actually new, besides the made up fake ones. they valued the benefits long before most of the expensive meals we have today existed. If you want to argue that eggs are a rich man’s food, well I dont know what to say, because even a kid can learn to look after chickens and avoid the highly priced cartons with so many labels, letters, and acronyms, that are being praised to the high heavens, because rich men arent buying them. The rich men dont need to be told what to eat or how to eat it. Its the poor that are now given the chance to access these rich foods at every corner store. To pretend that it would be foolish to take advantage of this, just because I can technically live off bread and water… well let me put it this way. 50 years ago, was it harder or easier for the average person to access the rich man foods. Fast food is the rich man’s diet, because our healthcare system is counting on us to enjoy it so that we can make them rich when we lose touch with our bodies and start popping pills to compensate. It's not a rich man's game to decide that your health is worth more than just survival. Starch and carbs are the most overinflated, costly foods in the world if you really put some thought into consideration. Plenty accessible, enjoyable, affordable foods dont spike our blood sugar like 98% of commercially popular drinks and snacks do. Its just popular to make it seem like we are somehow victims out here, when we are meanwhile living in the most bountiful era in terms of food availability, ever. Companies are getting rich from using fancy words, ads, and distractions to hawk some utterly laughable products these days. Sure, if we follow their narrative, eating healthy will cost us an arm and a leg, if we are responsible about it. Diets with limited carbs are hard, because they represent natural ways that we acquire food without processing it and adding corn syrup, starch, and everything else designed to distract us from the fact that we are eating a carrot that is sweet, but our bodies can do great without them. What other macronutrient can be trimmed down like that and have such drastic effects? Personally, when my diet is not rich enough in healthy fats… I feel sick. But carbs are addictive and sugar is basically free, because it keeps you coming back for more later rather than nourishing us properly.

[@MichaelJosephJr934]

Do you wish you made the cellar bigger? I wish they built these standard in homes. I could use this for my garden goods.

[@elizabethjohnson475]

And maybe as a result of our times becoming more dire, maybe a grid down situation, or shtf situation, builders will see the need.

[@MichaelJosephJr934]

I certainly would design it in on a new build. I have many cool ideas just not as much money as ideas. LOL.

[@cynthiaweathers6979]

❤start a food closet or donate to families that are struggling. 😊

[@Gordonseries385]

👍

[@adeildealves8798]

Mofo é uma concentração de fungos no proprio alimento. Depois q contamina não tem tratamento que acabe.Caso não tenha sido problemas com a refrigeração, tem que ser estudado, ok. Legumes, tuberculos, principalmente batatas, são prioritarios para presença de fungos! Abraços!

[@SeanInAlaska]

Why would you give up potatoes and carrots?

[@HeyIFoundACamera]

Now you have me curious. Why did you decide to stop eating potatoes and carrots?

[@Zanton1737]

How did you make the door for the cellar?

[@ryowausa5951]

お疲れさま(*^-^)ﾉです ダイエット😰🍠🎃🥔大好き😋 作物に 大豆 お薦めします 枝豆は 美味しいですよ😋是非 畑に植えましょう👍