This channel is gonna be strictly focused on things like this, you know, preparedness related stuff and nothing is gonna change on the channel fundamentally other than that we might not be uploading daily, it might be every second day, but other than that, you know, it’s gonna be business as usual. Now with respect to what I’m up to around the homestead today, oh boy, it’s been a busy day. It’s a war with nature when you’re trying to get set up and this is why I have to encourage people that if you’re planning on going off-grid when it all hits the fan, you know, just be prepared to do a lot of work because it’s the setup.

It’s not so much the maintenance, you know, oftentimes it’s romanticized, you only see the salient points of the day when things are done or things are complete. You see the time-lapse construction process and a lot of people make it look easy, but like today for instance, putting down landscape fabric, trying to get a handle on the weed situation in the orchard, it was just madness. So we’ve decided to get proactive, we got a bunch of mulch, we have a wood shipper and you know mulch really is the way to go I think and so you know if it’s not battle with the grass and the weeds, it’s the bugs, we had invasive species enter into the conversation not too long ago that we were able to bring under control with certain substances not actually pesticides but other substances that I can’t name for reasons I won’t get into but they’re organic substances but there’s just taboos around it and what else have I been up to, you know, just planting trees, we’re in a drought, we’re in a wildfire situation as is and massive wildfires are burning right now throughout northern Saskatchewan, Alberta and Manitoba and it’s been very windy and yesterday was among the smokiest day that I’ve probably seen ever and we’ve had a lot of wildfires every year there’s another major town or iconic tourist attraction that burns down you know there was Lytton BC, there was Fort Mac, there was Jasper, all kinds of towns throughout Saskatchewan, now Candle Lake is under threat which is you know a big resort for a lot of people from Saskatoon so it’s not looking good and it looks as though we might get a little bit of reprieve from the weather in the next couple days and that it’s not going to be that hot but in terms of precipitation it’s going to be scattered and if anything it’s only going to ignite more fires with the lighting strike so you know got to stay prepared and it’s just another aspect of things that we now have to work and you know it’s hard on the eyes, it’s hard on the respiratory system so it just adds another dimension of struggle you know you get broke machines and the water you know the well is pumping out sand and you know there’s always a problem right until you get entirely set up I don’t want to discourage people from the lifestyle but I’ll just say that it’s that setup process that you need to be prepared for a lot of challenges before you get things running like to build this greenhouse was a massive undertaking and it was just a multi-layered multi-staged undertaking which once you have it built and once you’ve invested all the sweat equity things get simpler but there’s still weeds growing in the garden beds right so I got to mulch that and so there’s always you know there’s always something else there’s never you know it’s not just about sunsets and being one with nature if there’s a massive steep adjustment curve that you’re going to have to factor into your preparedness calculations and I think next year will finally be the year where all we have to do is maintenance but for this year it’s been rough and so I would strongly encourage people to just prepare for that you know because I think it’s good to have the confidence to go into something like this you almost have to you have to be dumb in a way you have to be dumb in terms in the sense that you’re overconfident that you’re gonna be able to do anything right because if you don’t have that and if you’re too much of a pragmatist you might be looking at the situation like damn that’s gonna be a lot of work it’s going to be a lot of work but you know if you do it in steps if you do it in stages then it’s achievable but I think that you know having this is my second year out here now and I won’t say it’s getting easier yet but you know there’s misconceptions about off-grid life or homestead life it’s tough like even just the garbage you know you got to do deal with your garbage you think you just take that for granted that the garbage man comes and picks it up you know if there’s a problem with the the geothermal heating system in the winter time you got to deal with that at that moment or else your pipes are gonna start to freeze you know if there is a issue with your well pump or if there is some sort of pest right that is just one thing after another it’s very enjoyable don’t get me wrong I’m not but I’m just trying to make people aware of the struggles of this life so just be prepared for that and you know I would like to say hey do you have any tips and suggestions on what to do but every situation is kind of unique I think just sort of taking it in stride making achievable goals and trying to realize that hey you’re not going to be able to figure it out all at once all in the first year but have a sense of urgency with it because I do think time is of the essence and I don’t think it’s a time to dally and make 10-year plans per se maybe a three-year plan a five-year plan is probably getting straddling the line but yeah so you know it’s great when you can sit at the end of the day and for about half an hour the grass is cut the weeds are pulled the animals are fed everything’s watered but that’s very short-lived anyways if you guys want more information about the World War III updates go and check out the new channel the prepping news channel that’s where you want to go all right but expect a lot of great content here in fact we got a big video coming out tomorrow that I think you will enjoy nobody has ever talked about this particular topic so we’re going to present it in a way that hopefully people can understand the fragility of the supply chain system thanks for watching my friends you take care enjoy the day Canadian prep row
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