We are facing death all around us here in India. Covid is ravaging us. Your videos are my escape to a different more peaceful world. They keep me sane and give me hope and I dream of the day when all this will stop and life goes back to being what it was. Till then I'll travel with you in your journey. Thank you!

Shawn your work ethic never seems to waiver . You are an inspiration to us all .In the five years I have been following your channel I have never heard you say you are tired You just get on with what has to be done The homestead is making fantastic progress and your family and Cali are all helping you along .Cali is a Star ✨ as she almost knows your next move God Bless and stay safe 🇨🇮

Thank you for continuing to share some ‘basic’ knowledge with your subscribers. Not everyone knows basic water handling skills.

На конец то заговорил, а то сколько лет молчал, год назад попала на твой ролик смотрела с таким интересом, потом пропали твои ролики, а сегодня увидела утром и перерывами целый день смотрю, сколько ты всего сделал, в твоих руках не сила а силища, здоровья всей вашей семье, красивые у тебя дочки.

I really like the cooking area...the process of curing the poles...And you even gave up your cooking secrets on wild meat...😋 Enjoyed seeing the wild life... I found it quiet interesting the way the moose fence is constructed 🤔 Have a great Sunday and see you in your next video 📽️, Shawn 🌻

Thanks for sharing Mr. James may your freezer always be stocked with the game you desire. A skilled hunter knows how to handle his game after the Hunt !!

Well, you know when someone is a real outdoorsman when their little stump table holds a dinner plate and an axe! Not the typical tableware Martha Stewart would prescribe for most folks but very authentic and fitting for self-reliant Shawn.

Commercial meat processors are notorious for letting hair get into the meat when cutting it with a bandsaw. As well, inexperienced people that process their own meat aren’t aware that you have to keep the hair away from the meat at all costs or you’ll have a very strong, pungent, gamey taste in the meat. I have never, and will never take any of my game to a commercial processor. I do it all myself. That ensures that the meat will be hair free and no entrails ever get into the meat I process.

Shawn - you should build a mini diverter canal - run the water through a homemade gravel-charcoal filtering system - store the water in an open air cistern pool - and have 100% pure clean water right by your site.

Looks like such a beautiful piece of heaven you have over there Shawn! Great video!

Thanks Shawn for the trail cam snippet and the bear footage.... love to see wildlife and good for you to know who your neighbors are. “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” . You seem to live that motto, I see evidence of it in each vid. Love seeing how smart you work, a real pleasure.

One of my favorite meals growing up was leg of lamb. I'd come home from school could smell it roasting. I knew we were in for a great meal that night. As such, game meat has a great taste I prefer.

I’m glad you addressed the water Hand pumps go down as far as you need it to. Looking out for your wife. She is precious.

A bear, oh, great!....be careful and watch your surroundings!....God be with you and keep you safe!...i saw on another one video your geodesic dome being completed....love watching your channel

Homestead shelter, amidst the woods, looks to be a great place to hang out for some outdoor activity and cooking.

Good Morning Shawn and Cali.

Sean I just want to tell you how much what you've done has meant to me in the last months of being shut in with serious illness. Your life has been a great inspiration of survival to me. I have always wanted a life and home like you've achieved but likely will not live long enough or healthy enough to do it. My respect for the hard work it takes to accomplish what you did and what you learned. I could not stop watching. You got me through the hardest two years of my life. I feel I finally achieved a log cabin outdoor life through watching your adventure, courage and amazing accomplishments and learning. You and your family are AMAZING! I'm sorry to see you leave the cabin but I guess you had a good reason. I will miss your daily videos. I hope you keep us informed over what you do next. I especially loved it when you brought your wife and family into all you had put together for your own self reliance with them in mind and how you brought in her desk be and storage hope chest and seeing you and the girls enjoying Thanksgiving. They must be so proud of the Dad they have and the husband you are. You're a true inspiration and man who is the most powerful voice of God to me. When our founders came we never realized what it took to begin life on the frontier. I lived with a Canadian family once and fell in love with Canada through Heartland,thru my friends from Saskatchewan, Vancouver and Abbotsford and my daughter's marriage near the border of WA. My best wishes to you and your wife and family. I loved the long house and haven't watched the green house yet. Take care and never forget your adventures gave me hope. I'm losing everything, my health is very fragile and I face homelessness. I could never do ...no wait, know one knows what they can do til they do and YOU DID IT so I can do what I must do now to survive cancer and my own change of life. You taught me in these weeks of watching, there's a wonderful world out there and none knows what they can do until they try. From start to finish you showed me ANYTHING is possible. I share your sadness and mixed feelings as you walk away. I pray your future be just as rewarding. You will be changed forever by this experience. You have changed my mind about aLOT but I still want to stay in a log cabin....at least once before I die. I want to call it mine even for a day and you let me experience it start to finish as I watched your every pursuit of happiness self reliant. You're admired but All of US out here in You Tube land! Darn, I was going to make blankets and a quilt for you both and now....you're not going to be there. I'll have to draw your cabin and land I guess and see from.old videos if I can create it in colored pencil but it will never replicate the colors of your memories of such an amazing 4 years. Please don't be too sad....it's ok if you are. I am sad too and every moment was and will be a new self reliant you in what ever you do next. Visit the place for us again...I wouldn't challenge you to do it again, you worked SO hard but know you did all you did to save your life....redeem it and live with God, nature beautiful Canadian wilderness and for your family and determination to be the best you ever and you are. By the way my nephew's name is Sean James too. I really appreciated you and your wife for this amazing gift to us of your videos and 4 years of My Self Reliance with pup Cali, the bouy and the cabin homestead, sauna, oven kitchen barbecue, outhouse and greenhouse, gardens, work shed, hunting hut and long house. May more men learn from your amazing resilience to be the best men ever. We love you and your amazing family. A fan from Washington state who now finally experienced log cabin outdoor life through my shut in scope of pandemic hell to your miraculous adventure. I am wish you my Irish blessings of Good luck and the breeze to remind you and the color of your memories paint visions of days remembered fondly in all you did these past four years. Don't go away! Go on Sean, go get all you want out of this life. I will too!

So glad I found your channel. My son told me about you. I truly admire your dedication and skills. Hope you and Cali are doing well. Looking forward to seeing your new cabin . God bless and be safe.

Happy Sunday morning and I hope you have a productive and fulfilling week this week!

It is good that you teach about the water safety and the food safety. I can't tell you how many people I know who got giardia because they cut corners with boiling/filtering/treating the water when camping. If 20 minutes boiling is recommended, they give it 15, and wonder why a month later their liver is acting up.

Wow, great video capture of the bear, things are coming along nicely.

Good morning. ☕☕ You have a nice choice of wildlife around you. Be well.

THANK YOU for marketing those Chagga chunks. We have been enjoying our bag and remembering the silver birch of my childhood.

Enjoy the beautiful weather whilst helping Ben. Wettest May in the UK for Many years, plays havoc on us gardeners... too cold and wet to plant our seedlings , all hardening off ready to go to their new homes...

The trail camera footage is great! The shed with cast iron and tools is homey. There are some people you tactfully thank, and decline their offer of the venison, elk or antelope.

Thank you for sharing your life with us

That site you’re on in this video is fantastic! Love that shed!

Greetings! Thank you for this video. ~ Continuation of a great Sunday.

G’day from Australia, Love your work Thanks for the sanity From a city escapee Living in the Queensland outback. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Glad you are back with a nother video thanking🐕🦌

I've had cherry wood smoked salmon a few times, talk about delicious, you don't even need the Lingonberries! :)

Thank you for sharing with us.

Shawn, thanks for the content, I'm loving the view! 🦌🐻

Thank you , Shawn .

Hi. The video is very interesting, I am also on a journey to live in the forest, camping, hunting, cooking. hope to bring everyone moments of relaxation and entertainment. thank all

I've had great success cooking with all kinds of hard wood. As long as it produces nuts or fruit, good to go. Where we hunt deer there's a creek about same size as yours. After field dressing them we haul them to the creek and let the cold water clean them out . It has worked out well. We usually get at least 3 deer every year between my 2 boys and me. We run out about September. Lots of people have said it taste like lamb. I agree.

enjoy the sweet life in the bush

"Got a couple of people....SQUIRREL!!!"🤣

Mini pavilion , nice useable out door cooking area .

I bought your chaga and tried it a few nights ago. My husband and I both really enjoyed. Thank you!

Thanks for the upload Shawn. Just in time for my Sunday roast too. Thank you👍🇬🇧

Love to see how you can work with the wood, and I learned a lot of things from you... thank you for cheering with os... love from Denmark 🌞 kisses to calli fantastic dog ..🐶

Missed your videos. Thank you for your efforts! 👌😊♥️ Your wife is a lucky woman!

Thank You for the chat. Have a great week.

I’m enjoying the journey. Look forward to the weekend....

Thank you for sharing your amazing journey with us. You're family, and always welcome here at our home. God blessed you with strength and conviction. Continue living well.

How did you learn so much about how to build these things? It is amazing to me. Thank you for sharing your life.

Great job done Shawn.. can't wait really excited too see what you build 'next..👍🐺

Thanks Shawn... Good update...

Another informative video and appreciate the detail. It's so beautiful there! TY for all that you do to produce such quality videos.

Those bad bugs you speak of are coming out here like crazy! Time to gear up!

my great grandfather taught me how to soak deer in vinegar not only to make it safe but to take the gaminess out of it. It helped break the fats and silverskin down as well.

Can't wait to see the planting of the veggie garden!!

LOOKS ANTASTIC .CONGRATULATIONS .

Shawn, your work ethic is rare, you never seem to stop. Most people would come out to the property, pitch a tent and focus on gathering wood and food. Your focus is on the cabin first. it's a joy to watch how much you get done. Just a thought, You could make a lot of money hosting building classes, and maybe getting the outdoor channel or Discovery channel to film the series. I would pay to see that. Would love to see you make it big. Thanks for your time.

By adapting to what is called, life lived in communion with nature is actually the secret of happiness. The value of life is measured in the moments when you feel happiness in your heart. You can build empires if you feel the aroma of every second of life. Congratulations sir. What you have built there is the paradise in your soul exposed to vital things. Congratulations sir.

I just love seeing the wildlife. So nice to be so close to nature. And Cali of course. :)

That place will be wonderful for you after you have planted everything that you need and everything is so perfect you have what you need all around you that is what I like about your new place you are using everything that clean the woods that you have to do some cooking that is not the best but you are making place and keeping the place looking good I can’t wait to see how you will make your cabin this time and you will have something special about it you always do your doing a wonderful job and I’m happy for you take care of you and your family

It's all in how you handle the meat! Well put!

I like the simplicity of the shed, bet it will stand the test of snow and wind

Thank you for the info on the water.

Hopefully the relocated bear isn't hanging around being a nuisance. My Newfie grandmother would always marinade wild meat (mallard, moose, bear, elk, seal flippers, etc) in red wine and salt brine for 24h to reduce the wild taste (i think it purges some of the blood and also increases water retention in the meat jucier).

There are great filters available today Ceramic and charcoal A ceramic would probably be sufficient since there are probably no chemicals just bacteria, and ceramic filters last a lifetime

Your doing an amazing job of building and doing all that you're building/doing at the same time. Stay safe, be careful, take it easy and keep dry.

The homestead property is stunning, beautiful and full of natures life. Thumbs up my northern friend. from Portland, Or. USMC Vet

Our hearts are with you all in India. Keep safe 🇮🇪

A Ram Pump would work there for your gardening.

At 27 secs. the Canadian Shield rock? It's an over-used rather cant expression, but the greenhouse is awesome! It's a life changer as I'm sure you already know (this comment is for others who may not know). And it's not just growing food, although that is certainly BIG. Your greenhouse is so large (thank God!) that you and your family could go there in the depths of winter and use it as a sunroom, a conservatory, even an orangerie!

Great shot of the bear. That's exciting to see. Hope you guys get perfect weather for the greenhouse completion. I'm looking forward to getting into the white mountains for the next few days. Need my nature intake🙂👍. Nothing beats sleeping under the stars far away from civilization. Thanks for sharing as always Shawn. Take care🙏

Thank you Shawn for explaining the water good for those who do not know proper water safety i am looking forward to another 4 yrs or more of following you in my self reliance .

I learn something everytime you post a video Shawn. I anticipate every video and and always excited to guess when you post them so I can be the first one to like the video. Keeps me on my toes!!😋

People who is on water supply sometimes have boil water do to boil advisor, thanks for clearing that up Shawn for those are not leaving the outdoor life. Everthing is looking great can't wait to see cabin build. Take care stay safe god bless

I like this new land and for some reason falling in love with it..I also like the openess of your building structures..so easy to live 'in

Good to see wildlife coming round and investigating what you are up to, as after all it is their property as much as yours. Cheers Shawn and Cali.

I would think about putting a well in your basement before building the rest of the cabin - and yes there are had pumps that will go down to 500 feet such as the LifePump that Design Outreach designed and builds for use to provide water in otherwise inaccessible regions of Africa and South America.

That close to how we did my homestead with solar . I know your having a blast enjoy it and thanks for sharing your videos

Stay safe Cali.💕💕💕

Amazing how you sense movement so far away from you. Your senses are heightened from living in the quiet of the woods.

That is funny! The water in my house comes from our pond. We dug a hole beside the pond And put two well tiles in it. Back filled with sand and gravel.. We pump it to a cistern that feeds our kitchen, bathroom, shower, laundry! We don’t boil it and use it for dishes, washing our fruit and vegetables etc. We brush our teeth with it. We just don’t cook or drink it. We drive 30 mins away for potable water. We have never gotten sick from our system and are going on 30 years.

such a special channel ..... and he is interactive with his audience. sooo much work to share all the projects with us and capture it on video

Great outdoor kitchen!

James thanks for the gamey flavour explanation.

Drinking the chaga as I watch, absolutely delicious! Highly recommend with coffee adds to the flavor. Thank you Shawn, also excellent craftsmanship on the shed looks like a work of art! I am curious will you sometime in the future sell prints of your photos?

wow what a cool bear! wow a buck with antler nubs! wow a fox!.. nope just cali

Just watched your goodby video. So sad. I’m glad though that you have more sunshine here. I lived in Appalachian mts one year after I retired early to be near my one of four daughters, and the sun came up over the mountain to the east at 11 am, and went below the mountain to the west at 3 pm. It was exasperating. I had to drive up to a mountain with the top sliced off for a Walmart, to see a sunset. I like this place you are at way better, for situation, if that’s any condolence. I hope you plant some forsythia and lilacs. Grootenberg roses are really hardy, if I remember correctly. Smaller pink clusters, but hardy. Godspeed.

I am so glad that you take the time to educate people about healthy cooking hygiene ... knowing how you are going to prepare the food means that you might not use the same method in every situation... boiling definitely kills anything harmful.... Thank You for these videos! 🌀♥️🌀

It only takes one experience with "Beaver Fever" to learn how unfiltered/treated water can spoil even a beautiful day. Thanks for your emphasis, Shawn.

Watching from TEXAS, LOVE YOUR VIDEOS. A LARGE PART OF MY FAMILY ARE HUNTERS OF WILD GAME.

Was wondering about water too. I enjoy your videos you really doing a great job. Thanks for sharing. I 😊🙏

I like your daughters show , and yours , always love it.

Really good comments re: handling game. I grew up loving antelope ... until I tried someone's other than my Dad's! He was very careful with the carcase and even carried jugs of water in order to wash out the carcase if needed.

Have you ever considered building an above-ground weir and filling it with crushed limestone and a copper funnel to filter your water? Just an idea. Safe and happy travels!

The cook shed is great! And yes most folks over cook game

Super talented 👍

I always trusted the tablets to clean up water when camping. Ok, let's just name the bear now how about 'Yogi' that's original isn't it? lol

I find it hard to just watch the my self reliance videos on their own. Adding these in for more talking really helps. Have been watching as they release now!!! (I have adhd 😅 as lovely and peaceful as the long videos are sometimes I can't focus)

Fantastic 😊

Handsome fellow, doin his thing❤️

I’m not a hunter. I like to fish. But, I have had delicious venison in the past from friends that have hunt and they all said the same thing you did. The handling of the meat after the kill. I found that most interesting. It made sense. I’m not a fan of wild turkey, but small game fowl I do like. For me it is fishing. Walleye, Pike, Panfish, Catfish, and a favorite Bullhead.

Your lean-to turned out to be fairly handsome. I'd for sure be breaking out a witching wand and get a sand point driven. A good "Witcher" can detect the main underground water course depths.