Solo Bear Hunt and Growing Food in the Wilderness

This week on the homestead, I harvest a black bear, plant the vegetable garden and clean out the root cellar, composting the leftover potatoes and carrots. Not included in this video (but will be next week) is significant progress building the chicken coop.
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[@MySelfReliance]

FYI, for those commenting on the why of the bear kill - bear is a important natural, sustainable wild meat and provides more essential fat than any other wild animal. It’s also my favourite meat.

[@elizabethjohnson475]

Well-done, sir Shawn!

[@melissahoffman4687]

Don't worry about those people who make negative comments regarding it. Keep doing what you are doing! :)

[@John-by6jw]

I, for one, wish you would show the whole hunt. We don't need to hide where our food comes from. Not that you're hiding anything in particular. We all know where meat comes from, non hunters need to chill out. Especially if they eat meat.

[@stephenreiner1523]

You do out of necessity not out of frivolity. Why is that so hard to understand? Perhaps they never knew what hunger was?

[@davecervo]

Only bear hunters truly understand

[@DavidWvu]

Never saw carrots stored in a bucket until I saw one of your previous videos. It worked to perfection. I loved the fruit trees in bloom. I loved the footage of the owls.They were beautiful. It looked like the babies were having mice for lunch. I always love seeing Cali too. Congratulations on the bear hunt. It looked like a healthy one.

[@angiekrajewski6419]

On which video for the carrots storage?? Thks

[@patriciahand7557]

Love all the nature sights and sounds..ty.🤗🤗

[@Smalfry47]

The owlets are very cute…… love nature!

[@madamecampsalot6384]

Such an innovative way to handle the cabin shrinking and settling!

[@AuntieDeb71]

That is the most whimsical looking chicken coop I've ever seen - like a gypsy caravan or an elf's house. Love it. When you get grandkids, they will want to evict the chickens and take it over for themselves!

[@BsjjdjxjchBsjjdjxjchxcy]

Bjsss

[@robertswain370]

Yes it's been architectural designed chicken house I hope the chickens appreciate the work gone into it

[@MySelfReliance]

Ha. They can sleep in the loft

[@user-tb1jy7rr9e]

I hope you don’t get eaten by the beast 🎉🎉🎉

[@BsjjdjxjchBsjjdjxjchxcy]

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[@geraldharkness8830]

absolutely stunning shawn!

[@HomeEF]

Aww Cali 🥰 , love the part of the birds and veggie garden , TY

[@williameddy7217]

Congratulations on a successful hunt.

[@andyrichey1192]

I absolutely love how the front of the cabin looks, it was really cool watching you build it. The whole cabin just turned out great dude it was a honor watching you build it here watching 12:35 AM Sunday, May 26.

[@mrglock2313]

Always a good day when a new video drops 😎

[@armidaperez5360]

Bobblehead Homestead had an owl fly into his coop at dusk waiting for chickens to come home 🤣 but he caught him with a net & released him out side.

[@Esoj.]

I had forgotten about the metal beams holding up the cabin’s columns! I feel like this is the first time we’ve seen you loosen them but I’m not sure, pretty good future proofing. Congrats on your successful hunt, have a good weekend and take care!

[@nickivanaltena923]

Wow! You got one!!! Congratulations!

[@rogerp6903]

Thanks for sharing your adventures with us Shawn and what a treat to watch the owls interacting. Loving your music selection during the last segment by the way

[@Veronica-vw]

Congratulations on your hunt. And I enjoy watching your videos

[@Joh750]

golden retriever love carrots. My brother had a golden when he passed away and the dog was tken by his best friend. It still lives almost more than 10 years..

[@booswalia]

Shawn, you're looking great.

[@ieldepiel]

Circle of life ❤

[@robertdonaldson6584]

Hello from the rocky mid-coast of Maine, US. Friday, May 24th, 2024. I am fiddling "Swinging on a Gate" on my Violin.

[@josephsecogesjr]

Congratulations on the bear harvest. Have you ever considered using a kids plastic toboggan to help get your harvests out of the woods? I've hunted miles off the roads and trails, and used them often, they make the task much easier. Thanks for sharing your experiences...

[@sandyjuntunen4088]

He does have something similar, I've seen him use it.

[@167curly]

It is good to see all the snow gone and greenery everywhere.

[@rodneywroten2994]

AWESOME BEAR

[@kellogsnotavailable]

14:35 buckwheat... 14:40 austrian peas... 14:45 canadien rain!

[@christinejohnson2026]

I love that you do what makes you happy and healthy! Good on you Shawn!

[@prebenRiisSrensen]

Yes, lowcarb is the healthy way of living.

[@jackkeeble9272]

Nice thanks for sharing man👍

[@tombirney7276]

Once a tin knocker...ALWAYS a tin knocker! Great vlog! Edits sharper.

[@donaldhofman5257]

Congratulations, that's some great meat!

[@craigfox6870]

Congrats on the bear harvest! It my and my wife's dream do do what you're doing in terms of food. Still a ways out from truly being able to do it though since we rent. But once we retire in 5-6 years it'll be full swing.

[@leekent3325]

Great video ❤ I dry can my potatoes and they are delicious! Just planted mine for another year of food preservation.

[@debbielicis6257]

I’ve been watching you for years & to see you turn your back on stored goods is really disheartening.I’m glad to see you out in the garden though.

[@barbsauve4301]

You have great videos and I never miss one . Very informative. Thank you Shawn 😊

[@intercessoraeuripeapaula5448]

A natureza é uma harmonia, e muito bom! Verduras fresquinhas 🥕🧄🧅🥔 Saúde!🐾🦝🦫🐕🍁🦉🇧🇷

[@valdenirvieira6843]

A natureza deste lugar é exuberante, chegou a hora de fazer a horta novamente, parece que os filhotes de coruja já saíram do ninho, logo estarão caçando sozinhos, cuidado com Calli topar com o urso, não seria nada bom para ela, abraço do Brasil para você e até o próximo vídeo.

[@stephenreiner1523]

How engaging it is to realize that which you have done.

[@fredsoltveit8453]

Love the video but I would have loved to see more of the bearhunt and it seems like you have done a lot to the chickencoop since last video without filming it.Would have loved seeing that part since your hunting and building is what I like the most 😊

[@elizabethjohnson475]

Correct! Like to see more hunt/processing!

[@barbaracarlson1331]

Why are you not eating potatoes or carrots? These are healthy in correct quantities.

[@deekelley891]

He is doing meat based, or carnivore.

[@user-xu2mf1ur8q]

Bro he lives in the wild there’s no farms near him

[@elizabethjohnson475]

Really like the close-ups! Your channel is so well-done! Regards from far north Cali-fornia!

[@CurtDevan]

My Self Reliance one of the best shows from Canada of a family that lost everything and is surviving in the woods of the great outdoors. I would like to see more interaction with his family. The dog is the star.....

[@Michael_Scott_Howard]

Ahoy, new subscriber from south shore of Lake Erie. You make outstanding videos.. Really enjoying them. Many thanks.

[@MrGeroth]

Congrats on the bear hut. The place is looking great.

[@lorettafrancoeur8476]

Congratulations on your hunt. And I enjoy watching your videos.

[@remystraub6990]

merci JAMES

[@kingrafa3938]

Thanks for the video Shawn and Cali!

[@thogren]

Another great video thank you.

[@Robinki-eo7nc]

Love the saying about "harvesting" game. Lol

[@user-dg3iu8fd3h]

Привет Хорошего дня Вам

[@PhuongDuong-pn1or]

A truly peaceful place to live ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@HelloConnect22]

Wise Man ...❤

[@wanderingfore2290]

I'm just here to see the comments. 😮 Hunting is a good thing peeps

[@elizabethjohnson475]

Yes, it is! In the coming difficult times, many are going to be wishing they knew how to!

[@markleasure3243]

Shawn Shawn go ahead and put the potatoes in the ground somewhere and just let them they will grow back year after year. I realize you don’t want to eat them because of your diet intake changes but if times really get hard at least you will have an optional food source.👍

[@elizabethjohnson475]

and are great chicken fodder!

[@verarufino1983]

Simplesmente maravilhoso

[@NarrowPathTraveler]

Beautiful Shawn! :)

[@huntakilla1234]

Glad you got a bear, Shawn

[@Bungwirez]

God bless the Potato

[@elizabethjohnson475]

and crisp, yummy, full of vitamins carrots. But I wish him the best in his new eating!

[@teddys.5023]

That's a good bear! Congrats. Pretty awesome you do it with traditional archery

[@mattswift42]

Is it clear from the video that he used archery? This would be so impressive!

[@bryanvyse3333]

I really wish you’d do a good hunting video for us hunters and how you butcher and deal with the meat. Its too bad others dont understand living off the land and how vital the meat is.

[@5AcresandaMoose]

Where did you get that plaid jacket, Shawn? I hate using camo up here in Alaska, after five years in combat in jungle camo in Central America. Plaid is my favorite for hunting meat for the table. Congrats on that bear-that’s great tablefare! I’m heading out next week into a canyon by the homestead. We always seem a few weeks later than you folks in eastern Canada. Our ADFG office doesn’t even start counting bears until the 15th of May. 😂🐻🐻🐻🐻

[@canadiancabin]

Hey Shawn, Nova Scotia proposed a spring Bear pilot project this year, but based on feedback, unfortunately, it won't be established at this time. Great video..I have been following since the beginning.

[@stephendickinson4647]

NB has a spring bear hunt

[@danielluma2948]

With Predators around I put 2x3x5ft fencing on top of my chicken run along with electric fencing to keep the coyotes and raccoons out

[@JasonMcCann841]

Great bear harvest and the garden is truly amazing. You are dialed in like many wish they could be. “Wilderness icon” and I do not use that term lightly. Amazing.

[@user-fu2fv8ej5n]

Благодарю Шон , за отличьные ролики .

[@ellendelaney8109]

Exactly

[@marygordon3032]

Hey Shawn, great job! 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽🤩🤩🤩💯💯💯

[@shepstrohm]

Congrats!!

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[@lrhogusa]

Gonna kayak tomorrow on Black Creek, Ulster County, NY. I blame you for the inspiration and it's been way too long since last time I went out. I assume you already know how much good kayaking does for our wellbeing

[@jeffradice9994]

The chicken coop is awesome, I can't wait to see the finished product. Congrats on the bear harvest!!

[@straubdavid9]

13:34 .... Scarlet Tanger👍🏻Nice .... I see you got a bear .... bon appetit!🍽 Take care ....🦮🦌🐻🦃

[@CaptainPriceRaps]

Great job on the garden assembly

[@bobbydeysher1220]

hey shawn your weight loss is looking good

[@gordiejones2039]

whatever you are doing to lose weight, you should do the same for Cali !!!! She is getting to heavy.

[@SeanInAlaska]

Congrats in the harvest!!

[@billmitchell7731]

Big👍🏻. Very nice. I love seeing the hunt. Liked the music too👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🙏🏻

[@isrstrategies]

Cook the bear meat well done whole family recently got brain worms from undercooked bear meat

[@Sonjaorleans]

Good for you maybe the worms ate out the meaness in your head

[@concepcionmartinsoler6355]

Osos en primavera?. Despues de la invernada están delgados aún no?. Y otra cosa, es mi opinión vale?; una dieta con tanta carne roja no es buena para la salud; verduras, hortalizas, tuberculos, legumbres y frutas se pueden combinar con algo de carne en guisos y estofados, pero ya no será únicamente carne. Vuelvo a decir que es una opinión. Al ser española y vivir en la costa mediterrane nuestra alimentación incluy carne claro, pero tambien muchas legumbres (proteina vegetal), hortalizas, pescado de mar y fruta muuuucha fruta 😉. Cali sigue siendo un amor ❤.

[@Simon-talks]

he's eating tons of fruits and vegetables, he has an ever expanding garden. And human randomized, clinical controlled trials have now confirmed that eating meat isn't bad for health when part of a balanced diet like his. Prior studies just looked at people buying lots of "fast food" meat and those studies didn't control for other poor lifestyle variables like sugary soft drinks, smoking and lack of exercise....(so those studies saying that meat is bad have now been debunked). Cheers

[@concepcionmartinsoler6355]

En lo de la comida rápida, refrescos etc. etc... tienes toda la razón. Desgraciadamente esa "moda" por decirlo así, se ha exttendido tambien en España; pero los "viejos, viejos" aún seguimos apegados a las viejas costumbres y seguimos las costumbres culinariarias de nuestros antepasados, es decir,: Dieta Mediterranea sin grasas animales y con AOVE de calidad siempre. De todos modos ten en cuenta que sólo he dado mi opinión desde el respeto. No volveré a comentar. Gracias.@@Simon-talks

[@Simon-talks]

Yep, wild meat that is hunted and consumed with a balance diet is perfectly healthy and associated with the longest lifespan. 👍

[@carolineseguin-ro5vt]

Amazing filming of the owl bringing her mouse to her owlets!

[@bennyt.christensen3970]

Love to see Chali "Help you" in the garden area 😉🐕

[@JDMz]

*Cali.

[@rejaneberclaz3331]

Good luck, friend🤗

[@user-kr3ek7rx9m]

잘보고 갑니다.

[@BsjjdjxjchBsjjdjxjchxcy]

Estou te assistindo.❤❤❤

[@user-ri2in9bd4h]

А как дела с вашим старым домом? Почему не показываете?Я из России.С большим удовольствием смотрю ваш канал!!! Снимайте больше.

[@jeanettec6212]

Wow what a bear! The owls are so cute. I know they will try to get the chickens but I know your pen will be so thought out. The red cardinal was pretty too. I sit outside and I have 2 and sometimes 3 cardinals come to watch me and 2 bluejays. They share the same tree and they all take a bird bath on the puddle next to the tree. Its so cute. Take care Shawn!

[@lindapetersen1800]

Shawn get a goose to grow on up with the baby chickens !!! Then when out in the run about to pick at the ground the goose will protect them from Owls & foxes !!! I have seen channels that let their chicken free rage with a goose like that !!! The garden house is also a place for the chickens to be in so they are covered a little bit so no OWLS will get them then !!! Justin Rhodes has a coop that he lets them out of it is in a way nice they the chickens can go under neath it for cover then !!!

[@dgoyk]

Bear hunting with a bow? That’s intense!

[@LiveAlohaOhana]

Nice size bear 🐻 Shawn ! Incredible those potatoes are as crisp as the day you stored them 😋 wondering do you have any problems with snails or slugs eating away at your garden 🤔 That red bird with the owls looks so cool 😎 what is it? Beautiful ❤ have a great weekend and can't wait to see the new chickens in their roost and run 😀 Aloha to Cali and Emely ❤

[@s.t.2130]

The bird is a Scarlet Tanager

[@paulfrizzell31]

👍great video

[@exaltedsawgunner]

Great job Shawn! It cannot be easy to harvest a Bear with a bow.

[@domdom-dr2wx]

Nice😊😊😊

[@EATmySHRTS]

Love to live there

[@tjtran1987]

Nice bear Shawn 👍🏻

[@CyberAtlant]

WOW Bear!!!

[@lindapetersen1800]

SHAWN & OUR CALI !!! How are you doing ??? I see your going for Bear now that is great !!! Planting is hard work for anyone in the World right now !!! Am thinking if you don't use the chicken coop for chickens it would be a grand little work shop for you or your wife or even to store things in it !!!

[@zaraoutdoor]

Nice content ❤

[@mr.english310]

Not sure if you can find these or not, but there's something called PEWS (platoon early warning system) and Maid/Miles (seismic and magnetic activity) that you might be able to set out to warn of people or animals intruding. Maybe Army/Military Supply stores? PEWS at least should be cheap

[@jmalone2758]

Nothing like fresh bear fat for weather proofing the footwear. One thing you're missing in your garden are some of those fairy huts. Take a tree stump and turn it into one of those fairy houses.

[@Legendary-lp5dg]

Have a wonderful and blessed day Shawn, take care 1

[@ReignForesthome]

To bad you didn’t show more of the hunt😮

[@user-ec7xg1qp3k]

Congratulations on your bear hunt! Gotta love a Shawn James hunting video! 🐻

[@MynewTennesseeHome]

Very tidy garden, mine's pretty unruly right now. I can't imagine how hard it is to garden in your location. Good job.

[@murrayandru7527]

Good Job Mr. James ,Thanks for sharing !

[@eternlyblsd]

You were watching the owl 🦉 and it was watching you watching it 😂