good morning everyone this is tony from her homestead skills uh and actually i believe
it's early afternoon i have oh put another load of potatoes in my dehydrator i'm keeping that
tool running constantly these days which is not a bad thing
eventually i think i want to do some carrots and onions in the dehydrator as well
but at this moment i'm focusing on potatoes and eggs and okay i guess one of the first things i'd
like to say is welcome to all the new subscribers i really appreciate you coming on board and
looking at what my channel has to offer and i want to apologize for not responding to each and every
comment that all of you have posted but sometimes it just gets away from me you know the odd
video just seems to attract a lot of posts and i encourage you to keep doing that and
perhaps even responding to each other when you can be of help to somebody else um there are
times where i just cannot respond to every post and there's just so much else to do but i try
and i definitely read every single one of them so i have a very good understanding of what people
are saying and i listen to you and i believe we've had a very very very good response to
the last video that i put out well not the last one the one before that in response to the
warning from the farmer i that lady was extremely articulate in her post to me she had what i
considered was something very valuable to say and i felt that it was worth a video and apparently
a lot of you thought so as well it's been tremendous amount of response a lot of people have
suggested that they had no idea that now they have a better understanding and that's what this is
all about you know hopefully we can all learn from each other understand each other's roles
and positions and i believe there was even a the wife of a trucker who posted something where she
explained how difficult it was for her husband to continue in his chosen profession because
it was just getting far too costly to run his rig and that a lot of truckers are going through that
and get giving up their trucks and getting out of the business and all these things
people do need to hear or at least understand that these things are occurring because it affects all
of us now i'm happy to say that most probably 99.9 percent of the responses almost all of them were
fairly positive and supportive to that video and i would i didn't have any um totally nasty response
which is really nice i mean we get the occasional one every one of us do there were a few that were
one lady suggested to me that i
should she she didn't appreciate well she appreciated the fact that this was perhaps my
opinion but that perhaps i shouldn't post these things because i didn't um yeah she didn't feel
that i had offered any solutions to the problems that were being uh posted and i thought well
i have to disagree with that as far as i am able from my position my whole channel is a solution to
some of these problems that some of these people are facing
it's true that i'm not a farmer and i don't live on a piece of land and therefore cannot um
keep chickens and goats and pigs and steer and have no understanding i have an understanding but
i have no experience in dealing with these issues on a first hand basis i certainly do understand
where the farmers are coming from but i believe that my channel does offer solutions for everyone
you know it certainly doesn't offer solutions for every scenario no because i'm not faced
with every scenario but from someone who um as i said does not live on a piece of land
i offer every possible solution that i can come up with on how to uh store and prepare foods and
make foods from scratch so i do offer solutions and i would have to suggest to this person that
she looked at one video and she didn't like what she heard and decided that it was all negative
i didn't see any negativity there but tui she has a right to her opinion
another person another individual told me oh just get some chickens and stop the doom and gloom
and i thought well i would get some chickens if i could but not all of us are allowed to
keep chickens where we live so yeah more power to him if he's allowed to keep chickens great
good for him i guess he can get all the eggs he wants i guess today i want to ask a question
is it dooming gloom or is it fair warning
and the reason i ask that question is because there are
a few of us i guess on youtube these days posting warnings about stocking up on food and that the
times ahead just don't look very good and perhaps that we should start looking after ourselves and
our families in whatever manner we can to lessen the pain of what we see in our immediate future
and there are those that view that as doom and gloom and we should just shut up and ignore it and
it'll go away and there are a lot of us i guess very like-minded individuals who think that we
should be doing whatever we can to alleviate what we see as a lot of pain ahead so i will continue
to make posts on preserving food and i mean there's only so many canning videos on making
chicken stocks that a person can bear and i made i make chicken stock almost weekly at this point
and how many videos on dehydrating potatoes can one bear just see once again i'm right now
that dehydrator is running non-stop well take one batch off put another badge on
and that's just the way it's gonna go for probably as long as i can and yes at this point i
am buying things from the store because that's the only place i can get foods
right now so until i've grown some of my own and certainly whatever i grow will not last it's just
supplemental i still have to buy from the stores so as long as the stores continue to have stock
i will continue to replenish what i have and store up a little bit more than
hopefully what i need that way i can share with perhaps children who aren't paying attention
anyway this is tony from her homestead skills and i'd say it's up to each and
every one of us to determine is it doom and gloom or is it fair warning
i hope you enjoyed this video and we'll catch you on the next one