Get to Know Your Land | Live Free or Die: How to Homestead

hello there hello there
hang on the forest garden being cool
homesteaders so when I first came here I
had this idea from looking at pictures
and books of what my homestead was going
to look like pictures that were taken in
very different landscapes than Western
North Carolina and I said well if it
looks this way in the book it should
look this way here right and that’s not
at all the case the land already has
momentum
okay the land already has a direction
that it’s headed in right so you can
learn what the land is up to by just
looking and listening and smelling and
tasting so when I showed up here as I
was clearing I was noticing a lot of
pine trees so from that I figured that
oh then I can grow pine nuts there’s
also American Hazel’s growing here which
don’t make too much food so if you
replace those with European Hazel’s okay
so if you intend on getting some land
and growing some food don’t have an idea
of what the land is supposed to be doing
look at what it is doing and just help
it to do that better
so ask what you can do to help the land
out to do a better job introducing food
instead of demanding that it does
something for you that might