Jacob Goes Off Grid Day 160 Part 1

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This is a video from Day 160 of going off-grid. I went 'off grid' six hundred and fifty-six days ago and it has been quite the journey since I got dropped off at this old fallow farm and built (continue to build) all my own infrastructure. I have been video documenting the entire process and have just recently begun publicly sharing some of the videos. I have been sharing the videos privately since I started the entire process which I call Jacob Goes Off Grid In The Woods. 'Day 1' is the morning after I arrived at this little place in the mountains in the 'dead of winter' on January thirteenth of two thousand and seventeen with my dogs, my wits, minimal gear and very little hard currency to work with. Slowly I have done my best to breathe life into a very old farm and give it all my best, 'learning as I go', and documenting the process as best I can. It has been quite the journey so far. @jacobpeacock

In this video I show several black locust saplings that I transplanted and talk about how I dug them up in the new homestead area because they were in the way. I talk about deciding to not just cut them down and instead transplant them as an experiment to see how they will grow if transplanted.

I talk about watering everything that day with water from the IBC tank (intermediate bulk container) up on the hill and how afterwards it also rained. I talk about how everything is probably getting over-watered but how there is not much I can do about it without having a green house.

I talk about working in the new homesteading area and show where I used the weed-eater to make a path through the high grass in the field. I explain how I think that where I made the path is an old road bed because the ground is very firm.

I show where I cleared out more of the brush from the small black locust grove and talk about how thick the vegetation was and slow going it was because it was such a tangle of multi-flora, briers and vines.

I show a small fruit tree that I found while brush clearing and show how I staked it up because it had previously gotten knocked over.

I show a black locust log that I found under the brush and explain how it had the mushrooms on it that cause heart rot.

I talk about my brush pile getting pretty large and explain how when I am disturbing habitat in an area that a brush pile like it gives the snakes (and other small animals) a place to go.

As always this is just a summary of the video's content and not meant to explain everything that I cover in the video.

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