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Curtis is one of the world’s most highly sought-after small farming educators. His book, The Urban Farmer, offers a new way to think about farming𑁋 one where quality of life and profitability coexist. Today, Curtis spends most of his time building his 40-acre off-grid homestead in British Columbia. He leverages his relationships with other experts to bring diverse content into the homes of gardeners and aspiring small farmers from around the world. Learn more at FromTheField.TV.
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42 Comments
People still love YouTubers but now realize what's coming and are spending less time online. Spending more time prepping and getting ready.
I will follow you in other platforms more free. The problem is how much time these alternative platforms will be free. Tyranny and censorship advance fast.
I would love to see you leave YouTube and go somewhere else. A few creators have moved to other platforms but we need a mass exodus from YT so they understand that they are doing is wrong but unfortunately, I don't think we'll see it happen anytime soon.
You Tube has changed for the worse! Censorship is off the chart!
I much prefer you tube and watch all of your videos. You have a unique perspective and I enjoy listening. I do have Rumble and if you were only on that platform I’d go there to listen.
Curtis I receive zero comments on my comments and that is not normal. This has happened just in the last month something has changed and I go outside more and work my land more and I do like your videos and listen to many of them. Great work Curtis.
Curtis loving your riffs. I really enjoy your content. I'm working on going off grid so this is very helpful.
Do you know Mattermost?
Peace with Jesus ❤️
My best guess would be a larger volume of YouTube channels competing for viewers. A person might have twenty one more times the number of channels watching. Only twenty four hours in a day. Btw appreciate your channel. Nice content
Thank you for all that you have contributed to this community over these many years. You have been a wonderful mentor and motivational voice to us all. I have watched you for many years and have gleaned so much from your content. I love how you present from your heart. Whatever you choose to do from here on out just know from our hearts to your's you are supported. I have learned much from you and for that I am so grateful. Thank you.
"Truth is a great niche".. is a great insight to investing right now
I battle with the same dilemma regarding YouTube. I started making a few videos for YT to support my energetic healing practice and am now thinking it's not really worth the effort on the platform. Rumble seems to be where the alternative audience is moving to so I will probably start a channel there. Recently I also noticed Facebook/Instagram has become rather useless as my feeds seem to be getting filled up with ads rather than the people I follow. So if you are not getting likes from your friends, what value is FB giving it's users since that was literally the ONLY benefit for people to share aspects of their lives on FB. They made their product highly addictive and then yanked away the feature which was giving people their dopamine hits. I don't think that was a good long term marketing strategy on their part – talk about shooting themselves in the foot!
Do not despair Mr Stone. It's just another hump on your road. You have to work out the best approach to these challenges. Few years back some YT chann3ls were disappearing instantly without a warning but shad0w bann!ng is probably even more demoralizing to creators. Good that you have your own platform in place.
Reading comments from many platforms is definitely not a way to go. Perhaps you can publish on multiple platforms but steer people to comment in one place. You can expect that at some point the algorithms and shar0w bann!ng won't be enough for them and they will be taking channels down. I think some of the videos of Stacey&Doug are also shad0w ba##ed. I think they shad0w ba# the whole channel or only some of the videos of a particular channel.
At some point I have realized that you are not a Christian but regardless of that you do a great job by repeating the word "Bolsheviks", quite rare these days but very important (if people want to know more can read Solzhenitsyn) but also how to align oneself, remain sane under this barrage of negative information. This is very important and you are correct to make fun of most of the news, ridicule them because most are truly ridiculous.
I would like to see more good content on Rumble. I enjoy that platform. I have been posting less and less on Instagram. I want to connect with like minded people. I don’t really want to waste my free time dealing with people I don’t have much in common with on the internet. Is that so bad? 🤷🏼♀️
Obviously I'm here and not on rumble but the reason is rumble is darn hard to navigate. Yes its a free platform blah blah but evil tube is so easy. I don't know what someone can make another ytube without being so clunky. I'm here for the foreseeable future. I hope you stay too. Just found you this year and trying to get caught up on your wealth of knowledge (mostly on gardening but I like your insights on other stuff too)
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where it says, "to be totally honest (I always am honest) my long term goal is to not even be on the internet…"
Monetize everything with crypto and innovate in that space.
I recommend watching Sean Foo's latest video on the coming digital currency and the implications. (Trials in play as I type). Probably the best analysis on the coming economic and financial impacts that I have seen due to digital control. Touches on many spheres. If you need money, be aware that what is likely coming is going to really shatter or modify the social norms and cultural expectations and challenge the idea of what savings are and how vulnerable you are. Recall the penny auctions in the 30's. People's land was seized and sold because of property tax initiatives. Cash savings are now about to face the same fate as a cryptocurrency. Currency reset and money becomes not very good toilet paper. Coming VERY soon. Bank runs have already started.
Rumble
You tube has become a censored platform, nearly as bad as main stream media. I use it a lot less, bitchute or rumble seems ok still
I am not a youtube content creator, but it would seem to me that picking 2 platforms and sticking with them is the answer. There are so many platforms and they are always changing….but familiarity for the masses is huge…and they all eat up time. It would seem that if the content is good it should be evergreen. To be honest, I may subscribe to a number of creators, but due to their recent content I do not watch near as much…I find it interesting that in recent times the mainstream was touted as spreading non truth's but now those same creators are quoting mainstream to support their messaging under the cloak of truth. I may be wrong, but that's what I have noticed as of late. I get that there is a lot of comments that all take time, and creators always comment how much time they take…..well it would seem to me that perhaps the comments then should then be disabled…as there are a couple ways to look at this, I am not really sure. Looks like you are getting similar weather to us.
Curtis, I really admire you and everything you’ve done. If you leave YouTube or pull back, please let us know what platforms you are moving to. Unfortunately, YouTube is the easiest way for me to find you. The Scriptures, Old and New Testaments speak of a remnant of Saints in the last days who band together as the world falls apart and create a Zion that is protected from much of what the rest of the world experiences. I hate the slavery of the current world powered by money. I look forward to being free of it someday. Until then, please know you are doing a great service to many. You have inspired many new successful gardens and homesteads which already are blessing lives.
My interest in filling your channel is and always has been the gardening. Your take on market gardening is of specific interest. Seed selection, planting guides and tips, harvesting, scheduling and marketing have been my interest. Recently, you off grid homestead content has been fascinating. I tune out when content turns political.
I think you're correct in that Rumble might be your best option. I am on multiple platforms, but at the moment YT is the only one I post content to and because of that it is also the place I go for daily news. However, I'd love to change that as the censorship on channels I watch is becoming more of a problem as the speakers tip toe around words to keep from getting further censored. The other site I use semi-regularly is GAB, and I like that because they are building a comprehensive set of related platforms and supporting an alternative economy, and it is christian-based. If you believe Musk and his thinking regarding videos, increased payment to content providers and more freedoms, Twitter might ultimately get the most views and engagement, but likely the most angered responses so I guess it depends what you want. Yeah, choices….
Unfortunately, I don't have the means to "get outta town." If I could, I'd move to the sticks and get completely off grid. Fortunately, the town I live in in southern Utah is much safer than any of the big cities. We're mostly conservative and pro-gun. I'm a prepper so even though I'm stuck here … I have lots of food, water, and other tools/supplied on hand that will get me through a natural or manmade emergency.
Your "Free Speech" poll didn't include Gab. They have a pretty vibrant video platform and you can't get more "free speech" than Gab. But I did vote for BitChute, for what it's worth.
"Going underground" like Paul Weller.
I am not sure about where u should be, or which is a better platform I just wanted to chime in with a thought about you tube…. think its a mistake to cede territory in a war, just my opinion. A lot of folks are still dead asleep. Deep sleep. Not unarousable though. So your vids on your property, farming and off gridding will attract more folks dropping by….. and as they click you might trip an alarm that wakes them even if just a little at first. I admire you doing what your doing. I heard the call over 20 yrs ago now and had a vision to jump late 2014 and sold it all and dove head first onto raw land broke and unskilled in 2015…. I had zero idea what i was doing but i knew i needed to do it. Back then there werent a lot of off grid folks, werent a lot of how too vids…. wasnt a real community and as far as the truth? If it was there it was buried so deep you had to know exactly where to mine to find it. I think your adding value in a way that goes beyond numbers or views. Your capacity to put yourself out here ripples…. you might not see that effect but it does. What ever you decide I encourage you to keep posting here until they remove you…………
Hey Curtis, I would like to point out something that you probably already know. As soon as the government's mess everything up and they generally go out and look at what they can Harvest for the people who are standing on their own two feet and try to take that. Mostly our government in the USA has been spending money they don't own a work for from the future that is not here yet. That has to come to an end sometime. My father lived through the depression and World War II and I can tell you that it came on rather suddenly and my father believed that World War II was ultimately the solution for the depression that the powers that be came up with. Though I would love to believe that you could be separate and alone while Things Fall Apart, I don't agree with that because unfortunately YouTube and other things have told us there's all kinds of people out there living off grid and the folks in the city when they get hungry those who survive will be coming to the countryside to get food from the people they think that are living in the lap of luxury that is they have food. Unfortunately a more likely will stick together in some of them Mob form and come out to the country to get what they can for free. Back in the Obama recession these talks were going on and I was in a country store and we were blabbing between a couple guys standing of w h o m there were Amish guys saying that they'd be all right if something happened because they could take care of themselves and eat off the land and food like they've been doing for a long time. I kind of removed their attitude by telling them that did they not know that there were multiple shows about the Amish and about how they were peace loving people and didn't have guns and they were just sitting out there with all those cows and food out in the country. I explained to him you are probably one of the first places people are going to go to because television had made some shows on you. I explained how easy pickings it would be because they would be quick to use their guns and they could overwhelm you with their numbers. He didn't seem so sure after that. I think Curtis you will be all right you have goodness in your heart and a smart mind. Too bad you don't have a lot of dead wood and trees around there. It is low Tech but using wood gasification can be very clean burning and yet provide you with fuel to make electricity and heat at the same time. It is always there if you keep getting the growth of plants and everybody seems to think of it as trash but it is in the long run very cheap in producing energy. I never got to the point before I was in your of being able to run an engine on the wood gas and then use the heat in a greenhouse. Oh well somebody else I'm sure will do it good luck on everything you do I appreciate being able to watch your videos. Anyway I feel like we could be good friends from what I know of you and I am very similar to you even though life has been different for me. Take care
You were off my feed for a long time and just realized it when I saw your videos pop up again. I was wondering if Christian, the Ice Age farmer still thinks it’s going to go colder. I really read all his material when your video came out. Is there an update or what is your current thoughts on that?
You asked: I spend more time on youtube than ever before- the political war in mainstream media has driven me away from television.
I enjoy learning interesting topics from channels like yours. You have been a wealth of information.
But, when i see the channel is going to discuss politics or ideology, i move on to the next reel…as it is not valuable to me.
I have stopped watching some of the best prepping channels, because they have dropped the instructional videos and moved on to predicting the end of the world every 15 days for the last 9 months. Cue the fire and hand to face thumbnail…
What you have accomplished on off grid living is amazing, fun to watch and very informative, but not really interested in ideology conversation videos.
I've noticed that Youtube won't recommend your videos on my homepage NEARLY as much as they do with the rest of my subscriptions. They're definitely censoring you to some degree.
Snow looks beautiful, we don’t get enough in the Uk. I’d like to see you still on You Tube, I know we should be using better platforms but it’s the only way to find sleepy people and try help wake them up. I prefer videos less than 30-40 mins, I struggle to find the time to watch the long ones as much I’d like too.
Not adapt to get rid of
hahaha your wife is the commentator hater! She's not wrong, but I very much appreciate what you do and your insights Curtis, and that you're still here reading comments. It's unfortunate that it's just getting harder and less worthwhile, like so many things today, so you do what's best for you.
Maybe your views are down due to people's fatigue of being on or near folks with a conspiracy mindset, the US midterms indicated its a thing, farming videos are more pleasing to watch then a conspiracy narrative 🤙🦘
Odysee , Mister Metokur says literally what ever he wants its a great platform … for now
Largely, I watch YT to support people I'm already supporting elsewhere (e.g., Patreon, FromTheField, and others). I pay for the content on those other sites because they typically offer more and it is a better support mechanism, i.e., more profitable for the content creator. If you quit YT I would just use FTF, no harm, no foul. But, if you continue to use YT I'll watch your videos on YT and monitor FTF for extra content. The way I look at it, you provide highly useful information, I just want you to receive the maximum profit for your effort.
A mass exodus from the lower mainland wouldn't make it past the gridlock at the Port Mann bridge. Best escape route is to abandon the vehicles and walk north up The Sea to Sky… Past Whistler, past Pemberton and into the Interior on the old Cariboo Road. The thing is, though, even if you survive the natural disaster, it's the other survivors who will pose the greatest danger.
Where should you go?
I hear there are many zombies in Portland, Seattle, etc.
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Pray and read the Bible. It’s true Jesus is the truth 🙏