Surviving 100% Food Self-Sufficiency in the Hungry Gap | Episode 10

[@aldralee]

I've been binge watching this over the past two days, and I absolutely love this series. I'm on the other side of the pond and so thankful that this is available on KZbin.

[@MaxGrowingSolo]

Good for you. Am thanks so much for commenting. Glad you enjoyed it. Max

[@beesandseeds]

I absolutely love your channel. Keep it up Very inspiring

[@MaxGrowingSolo]

Thank you! Will do!

[@simonkirke9776]

Fantastic videos Max and team, you have a great skill of telling an important story. I'm learning a lot and getting inspired, keep it up!

[@MaxGrowingSolo]

Cheers Simon. Glad yr inspired. Best wishes. Max

[@ashm5206]

The importance of animals in an organic farming system in this part of the world is too often overlooked. A lot of research is either too narrow (excluding consideration to where the fertility for the soil comes from) or is aimed at totally different ecosystems (carbon footprint of soy vs cheese). Hopefully more research will be done to show how sustainable and ecologically friendly animals can be as part of a traditional mixed farming system.

[@yorkshirenome]

So interesting, as are all your other videos! I wish they were getting a wider audience, perhaps as time goes on they will. Although most of us can't hope to replicate what you're doing I think there's little things in each video that we can all apply in our food habits - today's was eating less but better meat, and also that there are small things we can all grow no matter how little space we have - definitely want to try growing sprouting seeds sometime!

[@MaxGrowingSolo]

thanks so much for your encouragement. it really means a lot. best wishes Max

[@oddthreadz2789]

Another brilliant video! I am so glad you talked about ethical farming and the fact that we need animals on the land, they are the heart and sole of the land if they are taken away or left unmanaged the land would just die. As an ethical farmer l know this for a fact, it is something certain members of society really should learn about before spouting out about what they know little of. A wonderful find of potato's, it's amazing what we find when we think all has been cleared good luck with the rest of the project.

[@MaxGrowingSolo]

Thanks so much for your comments. Obviously I agree with you about mixed organic farming. We’ll keep flying the flag. Max

[@rubygray7749]

My favourite channel!! How has this not gone viral by now? I love everything about this. Echoes of John Seymour and my farming grandfather, everything I admire. If Captain Cook had taken supplies of sprouting seeds with him on his epic sea voyages, he would never have lost a man to scurvy. I'm hoping you do a Year 2 version, with adjustments for all the many things you've learned along the way. It would certainly be easy to grow enough pea and radish seeds for sprouting through the year. I've nursed abundant salad crops through -10°C winters in a cold frame lined with mirrors to concentrate the low light levels, and kept above freezing with homemade tallow candles 24/7, which also supply constant CO2, that essential plant food. Eliot Coleman is the guru of winter veg growing. Just add another layer or two of covering. Each layer increases your effective climate zone by 1. A small polytunnel in your greenhouse, with a frost cover laid over crops when the temperatures are desperately low. But adding heat, from burning tallow, or a rocket mass heater that uses windfall sticks for a couple of hours to heat a monolithic mass for a day or 3, is ideal. Wonderful cheese! Every one a distillation of your commitment to this organic, sustainable lifestyle.

[@MaxGrowingSolo]

Thank you so much for following my project and always having encouraging advice and comments. Year 2. Tess and I were talking about this on Friday. What I should have do really is made a film about years 2 rather than year one as I have learnt SO much. . I love Elliot Coleman. Thank goodness he can’t see my polytunnel which I was obliged to turn into a Turkey house before Christmas because of Bird flu. just getting it together now. Thanks again. Max

[@rubygray7749]

@@MaxGrowingSolo Have you seen the #50dollarFebruaryChallenge? It's been running a few years now. Mostly American homesteading KZbinrs commit to spending no more than $50 per couple for the month, living off what they have grown and preserved through the summer. You win!! I haven't seen any of them who make cheese on a grand scale.

[@englishhomestead]

Great video as always. I like thinking about faster crops, growing amaranthus you can have a pysdograin crop which you can cook and eat, but also you can sprout the seeds, you can also eat the leaves on the young plants. Docks make good eating - have you any poking their heads up yet?

[@MaxGrowingSolo]

thanks Kev. Docks and nettles very sparse as so much foliage has been killed by the heavy frosts- some protected under hedgerows but not much. plenty of kale though and chard looks like it might come back. Also - Steve - in the video, reckons hop shoots are really nice to eat. thanks for taking the time. 😀

[@Diniecita]

Glad to see you got some veg! I wondered why you didn’t sprout the pea seeds you planted last month instead. I think it would have been a better use for them.

[@MaxGrowingSolo]

Stop Press. The peas I drilled in guttering have germinated and are growing!! But I might start doing some sprouting peas too. Thanks. Max