Hi again it's Jason from Fraser Valley Rose farm and if you've watched my channel for a while you
know that I lack the discipline to stick firmly to one topic area running a field between specialty
Rose videos General gardening propagation backyard nursery and business farmsteading topics well
where do I get my inspiration for these videos and obviously there's a lot of real life stuck
in there but when I have my spare time when I when I'm looking on YouTube I find some other YouTubers
to be inspirational in these regards so I thought I'd share those guys with you today since you're
kind of interested in the same topics so first on the specialty Rose and I did a video a while
back where I talked about some of my favorite Rose influencers but I missed one because she's rather
brand new her name is Olga Carmody I want to show you the preview of the channel right now I think
she's down I'm going to get the state wrong I think it's Connecticut but anyway beautifully
visual channel to do with a lot of these and David Austin Roses I think particularly beautiful garden
very relaxing and tranquil so I would recommend you check that one out it's still a small Channel
Channel at this point but I think there's probably good things that I I think we can never do with
enough specialty Rose channels so that's my bias on the matter now when I want to dig into General
gardening or Horticulture topics Jim Putnam is my favorite guy Bar None no disrespect to
anybody else he's from the Channel horttube with Jim Putnam what I love about his channel is he
brings a level of professionalism and Industry connectedness that I think is second to none if
you want to know what's the best cultivar of potentilla or purist to put in your garden he
doesn't mind getting his hands dirty and getting right into that topic he does frequent q and A's
I don't know if there's anybody who works quite so hard as Jim Putnam putting out sometimes I see
two to three really solid video topics a week so definitely worth checking out that channel
next up I want to talk about the issue of doing a backyard nursery and you know obviously I do a
number of videos in that topic area where I talk about pricing or how to set up a backyard Nursery
or a plant sale one other guy who's jumped in there as well is a channel called Savvy dirt
farmer which I like a lot you know really shows how to do it from the ground up with not that
much money just in the backyard kind of suburban setting lots of great tips on how to divide plants
and propagate plants and just really how to make a business out of this so a man of my own heart
is what I would say is that trying to make things work on a small scale for average people I think
is a fantastic topic area my plant propagation guy is Mike Kincaid that's the next Channel I wanted
to feature here been watching him for a long time lots of growth in that channel and he's done some
great videos on propagating rhododendrons roses hydrangeas I mean basically you name it if it's
a temperate shrub or perennial he may have tried it tried it out and he has a lot of great tips on
which rooting hormones to use which soil to use growing conditions and everything all all the
little dirty details that sometimes I don't go into in very in a very specific way he doesn't
mind doing full topics on those so I think he's a great service to the plant propagation Community
the fifth and final Channel I want to highlight today is an oldie but a goodie this is the Urban
Farmer Curtis Stone or at least that's the way he used to be known this was that Scrappy guy you'd
see riding his bike around the streets of Kelowna with a little trailer behind him harvesting
solid greens out of other people's yards with permission of course and selling them off to local
restaurants and he was kind of that story of how you could become an Urban Farmer without owning a
whole ton of land yourself and that was a a cool and compelling story so I like to watch that and
of course what he has been what he's exceptional for is he hasn't been afraid to change over time
so he's moved from being the Urban Farmer guy and now he's doing off-grid so he's showing how he's
got a property and how he's setting up uh you know electrical power fresh water growing his own food
and becoming kind of self-sufficient for himself and his family in a world that isn't always the
most stable and so it's kind of a compelling story in a very different way and every step along the
change from being that Urban Farmer guy to being that off-grid guy he's documented that and along
the way he's become kind of a he's created quite a library of topics uh with him and his friends that
he now has on an off-site off YouTube platform site called from thefield.tv I think all of this
is quite inspiring from my point of view both from an ambition point of view and just from a
personal growth point of view when you're willing to change and bring people along the journey with
you now part of being that transparent with his YouTube audience is being that sometimes he's
being very forthcoming about his political views or his views on the world which aren't
exactly mainstream I have to say although I have a lot in common with him in general with being
ethically a Libertarian he goes a little more into detail he has one of those Minds that has to take
things apart and drill down into the details I think so he he's gone into and looked into
the issues around 5G and New World Order and the the pandemic and everything else in a way that's
kind of counterculture and and you know what at first when I saw that I was like well Curtis why
wouldn't you just keep that to yourself I mean isn't it going to turn people off if you see this
but then I'm like well why should he I mean if if he's looking at the world a certain way does that
have to be behind a filter or can he can we just be adults about this and you know expose ourselves
and expose our views to the world and then you know people can agree or disagree and that's
fine I think I'm firmly in that camp now is I can really value the fact that somebody is willing to
grow and change but also be transparent in his views so for that I give him another round of
applause all right that's it for my five choices of YouTube channels that I'm watching these days
and if you have any questions about those please drop them into the comments below the video