Living Off the Land in Cold Siberia: The Inspiring Story of Homesteader and Farmer Justus Walker

Justus Walker spent time in Russia as a child and it changed his life forever. Now he is homesteading on his own land in the Siberian region of Altai.
He has A crew of local workers and an American wife and children all working together. Justus believes that food is the future of Russia which by his estimation can feed the whole world. He wants to change the perception of farming in Russia from grunt labor to big business.
Did Justus make the right call, would you do the same thing? Let us know in the comments.

[@ThereIsAlwaysaWay2]

This guy is so so so inspiring ... amazing. Viva Russia ♥

[@TimKirbysTravel]

He really is! I'm very proud to call him my friend.

[@vasiliewalker1019]

I thank God for my brother.

[@peaceandlove544]

Wowwww ❤❤❤❤heaven on earth Homesteader farmer...

[@Yosarian22]

Спасибо! Очень рад, что в Россию приезжают такие трудолюбивые и честные люди!

[@TimKirbysTravel]

thank you!

[@xxHANNONxx]

I have to stop watching these videos, or at least go visit Russia. The more I learn about Russia, the more fascinating it becomes.

[@TimKirbysTravel]

It’s a very special place, I wouldn’t trade it for the world ❤️

[@zhili-bili_orki]

Тут классно! Приезжайте к нам! 🤗

[@pantyukovk]

Самолеты вроде пока летают, а жизнь длиньше не становится!

[@joyaku3078]

he is inspiring person 👏🙏👍👏🙏👍👏🙏👍

[@SurvivorNVL]

My wife and I are looking at immigrating sometime in the future, once she gets her second hip replacement and a new kidney. Logistically seems like a nightmare to pursue a relocation while learning the language and needing her constant dialysis, but we yearn everyday to live a normal life in Russia. Somewhere East or North of Moscow. Love your videos!

[@TimKirbysTravel]

Thank you for your kind words and for sharing your story. I hope it works out for you and your wife! Moscow is gradually becoming more English speaking so hopefully you won’t run into any language difficulties.

[@Naprimerishe]

Tim and Justus are great people, it's good to have you here in Russia. The interview, farm tour and video in general were incredible, it deserves much more views

[@TimKirbysTravel]

Thank you, that’s mighty kind of you to say! It’s feedback like this that motivates me to keep doing what I’m doing - showing Russia how it really is. So I’d really appreciate it if you shared this with your friends, this way we can reach even more people ☺️

[@joyaku3078]

The guy is amazing👏🙏👍 he made it within short period of time and he will grow for sure👏🙏👍

[@marias5088]

A new subscriber here. I saw you on Joe's KZbin channel "EXPAT American" today for the first time. We are thinking of moving back to Russia in the next few years. My younger boy is autistic and my biggest worry about moving to Russia has been that he does not speak Russian but if all goes well with your project, he will feel like home in an American village. GOD BLESS YOU for this awesome idea, Tim! My older son, born and raised in the US, is finishing his computer science degree this year. Both of my boys are home educated with a Christian curriculum. I really want to give you a big hug for this great idea! I hope and pray all goes as planned. God is so good! I literally cried today after watching Joe's video. You have no idea how much this means to us. We will be praying about the American village project! I have Sveta's email (Joe's wife) so I will share my excitement with her. Many blessings to you!

[@evaskjerd]

❤️🇷🇺 So nice words❤️

[@TimKirbysTravel]

Thank you for the kind words! I feel your family will fit in very nicely in an American community here in Russia. Best of luck to to you and your boys!

[@marias5088]

​@@TimKirbysTravel I really appreciate your reply, Tim! You did not disclose the exact location, so my husband and I looked up the village Podmoklovo on the map. If you are planning to build around that area, south of the river Oka, please know that you may not be able to have basements there due to flooding. Podmoklovo means "Getting wet" and the map clearly shows a dried up part of the river meaning that the water still accumulates in the spring time and when it rains in those areas. If you are not planning to build close to the river, south of it, or you had that area inspected for possible flooding, please let me know. Is there a way to connect with you via email? If you prefer, I can contact Sveta/Joe to see if they have your email. Thank you in advance!

[@aleksandr6537]

God keep you... And all the best for you! Keep God our Mother Russia!

[@aleksandr6537]

Храни вас Бог...И всего вам самого наилучшего! Храни Бог Россию-Матушку!

[@ЮлияИ.С]

Давай на Урал летом. Много гор, рек, храмов. Добрые люди . Welcome to Russia

[@TimKirbysTravel]

Спасибо за наводку! Урал точно у нас на примете )))

[@naputikvershine]

It's so inspiring to see people coming to my country not vice versa👍

[@TimKirbysTravel]

It’s certainly inspiring and refreshing! Don’t forget to share history with your friends - maybe it’ll inspire others ☺️

[@vonscheer3993]

I think he is doing a great job!

[@TimKirbysTravel]

true!

[@СергейИшмухамедов]

Всегда очень красиво снято и прекрасные пейзажи ! Спасибо всей команде этого канала )

[@TimKirbysTravel]

Спасибо, что нас смотрите! Не забывайте делиться нашими видео с друзьями )))

[@pantyukovk]

​@@TimKirbysTravelпостоянго приходится искать этот канал черег гугл, что б поставить второй лайк. Под русскоязычным видео можно же вставить ссылку на оригинал.

[@tatepasi9519]

What a strong wise hardworking man, I pray you mentor many more God loving men. We need them sooo much .

[@shakermahmud2131]

Mr. Tim Kirby, I like your vlogs. You are such a nice guy. I hope your dream of traveling to absolutely every part of Russia will come true soon.

[@TimKirbysTravel]

Thank you, Mr. Mahmud! With each video I’m getting closer and closer to that goal ☺️

[@RuAlex]

Смотрю Джастаса кучу лет, а только тут увидел многие кадры и рассказы из его жизни...

[@TimKirbysTravel]

Да, мы с ним классно поболтали!

[@annazimmerman69]

Absolutely fabulous....really interesting. We need regular updates from this guy.

[@TimKirbysTravel]

Here you go 😉 youtube.com/@senttosiberia

[@v1ncy_vinny406]

Very optimistic guys. I get here to get inspired when I am feeling down.

[@TimKirbysTravel]

Glad to be of service ☺️

[@pantyukovk]

Такой жизнерадостный, как Джастас может свернуть горы.

[@Dengtree]

I’m looking move to Russia!

[@TimKirbysTravel]

It’s definitely a great place to live ☺️

[@aleksandrpushkin1597]

Thank you Tim! Great video

[@Wild-Siberia]

I wanted to ask that guy a question on how he learned Russian but the video answers the question really fast 😂

[@NoMady688]

18:00 We are on the Earth and as we Wall we may find a mountain, God give us the rope to help But we have to decide to climb. You passed for a lot of things. And you climbed the mountain very well. 😁😁❤❤

[@JamesRobertSmith]

What a great story! The video production and editing is impressive!

[@TimKirbysTravel]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@tvguide4khv]

Thanks for this view of Russia )

[@TimKirbysTravel]

My pleasure 😊

[@ЭкспатАмерикан]

Wow! What an amazing farm.

[@Avangardist]

Thank you for discovering russia

[@TimKirbysTravel]

My pleasure, I hope everyone visits this amazing country one day!

[@ChantelleBotel]

Absolutely love the bunker barn!!

[@miststuckprofounder1421]

Amazing people! The are to be role models 4 all people especially those who live in Russia. My respect 2 Justas, real jack of all trades!

[@lindahliafarm]

This is exactly what we want to do. I love that the regulatory environment is so sane for small farmers. We’d really love to start a farm there.

[@TimKirbysTravel]

Give it a go!

[@Ptyr777]

Thank you for this video. I wish you good luck in the development of the channel, everything was shot very qualitatively, it was nice to watch)

[@TimKirbysTravel]

Thanks! It’s comments like these that keep me want to keep doing what I’m doing ☺️ And please don’t forget to share this video with your friends so my channel can grow faster 🙏🏻

[@almikirby3604]

I am Russia in the New year. very interested in these kind of videos, me and my boyfriend are considering moving to Russia in the new year...

[@TimKirbysTravel]

Welcome to Russia! You’ll love it here.

[@annaalekseenko1562]

Thanks for this inspiring interview! Very motivating!!!

[@TimKirbysTravel]

Thanks a lot! Don’t forget to share it with friends 😉

[@lena49ak66]

Thanks for the video, very interesting!

[@TimKirbysTravel]

Our pleasure :)

[@GudduGuddu-oh6wh]

Man your KZbin channel is awesome keep it up brother 🙏

[@TimKirbysTravel]

Thanks for watching!!!

[@GudduGuddu-oh6wh]

@@TimKirbysTravel I also watch when you playing games 🎮 in Russian speaking KZbin channel

[@FKNomad]

Nice trip, thanks for sharing!

[@TimKirbysTravel]

Thanks for watching! Don’t forget to share this video with your friends 😊

[@joujust3666]

Hi Tim, just heard about the American village project from comments below, if there is anything that I can do it, just message me, please. Thank you!

[@TimKirbysTravel]

Hi there, thank you very much for the offer, but as of today everything is in the government's hands. Until they put all the stamps on the proper documents there isn't much that can be done. :(

[@МаксЛав-е7с]

You can come here without any American village

[@Henryy980]

Great content man

[@TimKirbysTravel]

Much obliged!

[@hex_army]

Great video. I like it.

[@TimKirbysTravel]

Thanks 😊

[@Henryy980]

Can I go and work on his farm??🤷🏽‍♂️

[@TimKirbysTravel]

I’m sure he’d love a helping hand!

[@danilavanila6842]

Guys lets goo lets get some Shares! Super awesome content! Давай Давай

[@TimKirbysTravel]

Thank you, friend! Appreciate the enthusiasm ☺️

[@chandraalapati6557]

This is an amazing video, it is such a shame it got only very viewing. I hope KZbin share this video to many people. How inspirational Justin Walker is! Some of his quotes that really touched me is Russia got biggest black soil, fresh water it should feed whole world, however such a shame it didn't realise it's potential.

[@TimKirbysTravel]

true, his story is very inspiring!

[@yelenashishkina8804]

As soon as Russia starts to live up to its potential it gets sanctions, wars etc. Russia was feeding world in 19-20 century and got wrecked for it. Everyone get jealous of Russia's resources and wants it for themselves. Russian population was reduced to 150mil in a past century. Russia had more was then any other country and most of these devastating wars were defensive wars. "Russians should be reduced to 15 million people serving wells and mines", "It is unfair that all of Siberia and its vast resources belong to Russia" and "Siberia is too big to be owned by one country." This is what some politicians of West say about Russia.

[@okhamradio]

Why so small amount of views?

[@TimKirbysTravel]

We’re working on growing the channel! So we’d really appreciate it if you could share the video with your friends ☺️

[@ekaterinarevenko]

Most of chinese population is concentrated near the sea in warm climate, Russia has extreme climate conditions, so people are making big afford to make it territory populated

[@TimKirbysTravel]

There’s something to do in almost all geographic conditions.

[@ekaterinarevenko]

@@TimKirbysTravel True, but cold places Canada, Greenland, Iceland, Mongolia, Norway and Russia historically has less population, because it is not easy, some countries even pay to attract people to live in extreme weather

[@perisher1976]

@@ekaterinarevenko Stalin created the Gulag for this and sent millions of Russians to it to plant trees and shrubs and plant gardens in the North :)))

[@wetbricksBEATS]

​@@ekaterinarevenkoRussia is Europe's most populous country by far, not a small population, Chinese have billions because of low passionarity as opposed to Russian high passionarity, which means fighting more wars

[@gennadiym461]

Well. He was wrong about the sanctions, and the annoying Russian tv people were right. =) Initially it hurt, but ultimately its a blessing for Russia.

[@okolieugochizobam6522]

A new suscriber here, pls tell me more about russia, im from africa ans i want to immigrate to russia for farming also

[@TimKirbysTravel]

That’s a great idea. Though I don’t have too much insight into starting a farm here, if you check out the other videos on my channel you’ll find out a lot more about life in Russia 😉

[@OMGaNEWBIE]

Does Justus have a YT channel? If yes, what is the name of it, please. And the link if you have it. Thank You.

[@zdarova-privet]

youtube.com/@senttosiberia

[@OMGaNEWBIE]

@@zdarova-privet - Thank you for taking the time to help out. Sadly, none of his videos are in English. He would dramatically increase his subscribers if he would offer a 2nd channel in English too.

[@TimKirbysTravel]

This is Justus Walker's KZbin channel... Like, Share, Subscribe and Enjoy! kzbin.info/door/m7SCpAUHK_9A8XlCQOAehg

[@OMGaNEWBIE]

@@TimKirbysTravel - Thank you for the link, but, sadly none of the videos on his channel are in English.

[@иваниванов-д2я4н]

You can try to use the KZbin's autotranslation subtitles. It helps to understand the general idea of what Justus is saying in his Russian videos. But he speaks way too fast so the autotranslation fails to keep up)

[@MaxCarter8]

gud doc

[@EIDREFer]

Why not make grass fed meat more affordable globally🎉

[@Alexander-Iskander]

Justus, you mentioned three kids. Didn't have four kids? I mean the boy who is your fourth kid?

[@TimKirbysTravel]

The original English language video was released well before the Russian translation, i.e. there was time for him to have more kids between them :)

[@Alexander-Iskander]

@@TimKirbysTravel Thanks, Tim. My question shows that I'm a long-time subscriber of Justus :)

[@mikemikelson8767]

10:45 "Russia is governed directly by The God himself. There is no other way to imagine how this country is still in existence..." Burkhard Christoph Graf von Münnich a German national and fieldmarshal of the Russian Empire. Ofc there are better, more realistic explanations why Russia exists but it's fun to hear such comments from Justus). And civilization is not a "state of mind", it has a distinct meaning. The word itself stems from Latin "civis" which means "townsfolk". What divided civilized tribes from uncivilized ones is an ability to have enough surplus products to build sustainable cities - centers of crafts and trade. Only with cities any civilization can develop and propel itself forward. Our whole species success is undoubtedly based on collective effort and industry, science and culture is created in a big way only in cities. What Justus is talking about are amenities, not civilization.

[@TimKirbysTravel]

Very interesting thoughts, thanks so much for sharing!

[@zhili-bili_orki]

Думаю, что вы не совсем правы, у нас много людей в небольших селеньях, которые что-то придумывают, улучшают. Города хорошо продают.

[@mikemikelson8767]

@@zhili-bili_orki нет, не подумали. Во-первых в исходном тексте присутствуют допущения и оговорки, на них никакого внимания не обращено. Во-вторых ваш ответ - одна "вода", просто мнение без каких-либо рассуждений. "У нас" - у кого? "Много" - сколько в процентах? "В небольших" - насколько? "Что-то придумывают" - что? Но города "припечатали" обывательским "только продают", что очевидно не так - как будто промышленности нет, институты и техникумы с курсами повышения квалификации отсутствуют все заводы переехали в село. В-третьих я говорил о городе как о культурно-историческом и, не побоюсь этого слова, цивилизационном феномене, что от вас, очевидно, ускользнуло. А суть была именно в этом. В современных условиях вы уже вряд ли найдёте так сказать "химически чистую" ситуацию у нас в деревне. Придумавший какую-нибудь приблуду для трактора механизатор окажется учеником техникума, читавшим книги и листавшим Интернет. И всё это - техникум, книги и Интернет - окажутся продуктом городской интеллектуальной культуры. Нет на селе институтов и НИИ, ну нет. А вот их продукты в виде книг, материалов или просто образования, даже передающегося устно от условного дяди Васи, который когда-то где-то учился и теперь может что-то рассказать - могут быть, только их происхождение вы, очевидно, воспринимаете как данность. "- И так, шельма, родит! - говорили они в чаду гордыни."(с) Щедрин. В уме вообще держал больше кочевые культуры, конечно, которые либо оседали либо оказывались неконкурентноспособны, но и так тоже можно.

[@DinaGord]

​@@mikemikelson8767 сколько "воздуха" в таком большом тексте,лекция называется "философия практики в селе"/"практическая философия села"

[@mikemikelson8767]

@@DinaGord тезисно обьясняешь - не понятно. Длинно - тоже не понятно. Кажется, дело не в объёме текста. Давать в Интернете ссылку не пойми на что в виде аргумента - дурной тон. Лень самостоятельно дать тезис - так а мне почему должно быть не пофиг? Так вот - мне пофиг.

[@КлубЙорвикМагнитогорск]

Нет субтитров - нет подписки. А я ведь тебя ещё с "Маяка" помню.

[@TimKirbysTravel]

Привет привет! Тут не титров потому, что это - англоязычная версия программы, чтобы найти те же самые приключения на русском поищите в Ютубе "самый русский американец" и все найдется сразу!

[@vladimirgilev]

Нашёл? kzbin.info/www/bejne/aF7Cmo2npMtrkKc

[@jenyatungus6130]

Автоперевод специально для этого в настройках есть

[@inalinarokov8643]

Ферма Кларксона дома. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y2nXqaGrhredjdE

[@annaalekseenko1562]

this is not a valid comparison. These people with different amounts of money and backgrounds

[@annaalekseenko1562]

Если вы скинули эту ссылку для сравнения, то это сравнение не корректно так как главные герои с разной жизненной историей и достатком

[@pg618]

But it looks like you have decided that the ancient faith of the Russians is off course and that you know better. I would guess you're one of the thousands and thousands of Protestants who say your Bible based but disagrees with all the other Protestants unless you embrace relativism in which case everyone is okay.

[@miraya999]

USA is crap🗑

[@digitalheadchevski2525]

Плохо так говорить. Думаю, что во всех странах есть что-то хорошее.

[@AnthonyZee-g7i]

You may realize but you probably didn’t have asthma as such but “hay fever” I had the same every season

[@ВасилийБалалайкин-о2к]

Русский Алтай это очень красивое место на планете, Россия без ЛГБТ, без фашизма, без феминизма. Россия с Богом!!!

[@amazing_bastard]

что 🤣

[@ДмитрийАвилов-и7ю]

It's all there, but on a smaller scale