Thread: Getting back to living off the land.....

I hate to sound like one of those tossers who starts and then spams a thread with self promotion. but....... I have just started a YouTube channel looking at self sufficiency, gardening, some hunting and fishing, cooking and interviews with interesting people in the rural sector and those living self sufficient lifestyles. I will also be embarking on a weight loss journey and documenting it. The channel will show the successes as well as the failures; warts and all.....

I am a qualified butcher and have worked as a freelance photojournalist since 2006. So there will be butchery tips as well as photography tips if viewers would like them. Anyway; that's the first and only time I'll spam this thread! And of course; feel free to subscribe!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4H...kFDd_koBfOOSdg

Originally Posted by bumblefoot

I hate to sound like one of those tossers who starts and then spams a thread with self promotion. but....... I have just started a YouTube channel looking at self sufficiency, gardening, some hunting and fishing, cooking and interviews with interesting people in the rural sector and those living self sufficient lifestyles. I will also be embarking on a weight loss journey and documenting it. The channel will show the successes as well as the failures; warts and all.....

I am a qualified butcher and have worked as a freelance photojournalist since 2006. So there will be butchery tips as well as photography tips if viewers would like them. Anyway; that's the first and only time I'll spam this thread! And of course; feel free to subscribe!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4H...kFDd_koBfOOSdg

Greetings Bumblefoot,
Ticks all the boxes for me, including the weight loss. My garden looks a bit like yours but without the livestock. There are Californian Quail and Hares though. Must give some of Phil's recipes a go.
Keep it up Grandpamac.

I've only got the 2 pigs to eat the grass at the moment. I dropped all the front perimeter fences to build new sheep-proof ones and a week later broke the ankle. I've only just getting back to getting posts in the ground; but can still only do a few hours work on the ankle per day. I did 4 days hard fencing; digging posts and strainers in, putting up rails and netting; and needed 3 days to recover. It's amazing how much fitness and muscle tone I've lost since doing the ankle. 7-weeks of sitting around and about 8-weeks of being able to do little on it! After the fencing I walked along as though I was the hunchback of Notre Dame impersonating Charlie Chaplin who had just peed his pants!