4th DAY OF CHRISTMAS

Hey there, everyone. Sorry, we're a little bit late today, having a little technical difficulties. It is day 4. It's the 4th day of Christmas, guys. There are 12 days. We're welcoming people on while we wait. Tell us where are you from and how cold it is where you are. As I was waiting and getting started— ah, Pleasant Places Farm! Mike is in the house. Welcome, Mike. Good to have, good to have a face to the crowd. I was just looking at the map, exploring it. Rebecca was just looking at the map, exploring it, and, uh, I'm blown away by the amount of people who have joined the free homestead directory. Be listed and be found. Oh cool, Graham is in the house. He's highlighting the, uh, comments. Graham, highlight where everybody's from, especially if they say where they're from and how cold it is. So I want to see that come live. We are live on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube. Just giving people a second. I'm giving away some— what am I giving away today? Oh, chicks! And I have kids bringing me some chicks. So in a few minutes, we're going to have some live chicks in this room. Okay, and we're going to give away $100 worth at McMurray Hatchery, my favorite hatchery. Uh, the folks we use, uh, Graham is highlighting everybody. So I want to say, I was looking at this map and Rebecca and I were texting beforehand and she's so excited, like 3,200 people. Guys, we're getting 1,000 people to sign up every day. If you want to know how to do it, you got to go to abundantpermaculture.com /map, link in bio for Instagram, link in description on YouTube. And that's how you sign up for, uh, to find and find other homesteaders, one or more of these 3,200 people that have already signed up. Guys, I'm looking at the East Coast, we'll show you that in a second, it's flooded. Uh, Rebecca texted me and said, oh, there's somebody interesting in Brevard, they have a country band called Pretty Little Goats, and she sent me a link to their website. We found that these are people we didn't know about before, and now we know about them. Hopefully, hopefully this song is not copyrighted. So, oh, okay, so I'm playing Pretty Little Goats. I found somebody totally cool near us, within an hour of us, probably 45 minutes away. I won't play too much of their song in case it's copyrighted. I don't want to bother them there, but hopefully they're happy I shared their song. Anyway, 55 degrees in Shelby, North Carolina. Thank you, Mike. Okay, so we're giving away chicks. I don't know if Rebecca's watching this, but I should confirm that I am getting chicks. Okay. But anyway, even if you don't win, if you sign up for the directory, you're automatically joining my email list, and that means tomorrow you're going to get an instructional video on how, how to get started with chicks. So everybody's a winner, and the videos are compiling. We've got one on how to set up an electric net since we gave away a net. We've got one on how to prune since we gave away pruners yesterday. We're only getting started with what we're giving away. Let me see if I've got Let me see. Let me pull up the list of all the things I'm giving you guys. You guys want to know this? So you got to get on there. And what happens is I'm picking somebody randomly from the directory. I do a random location selector and I, I'm talking to the computer like you see me down there. I pick a random location selector and we pick the closest person to that area. They get the prize. All right, here we go. We are giving away— today we're giving away $100 worth of, um, chicks to get you started with your flock. Then, uh, yeah, day 4. Okay, so then day 5, we're giving away this really cool, uh Cleaner hose set from Johnny Seeds. You can change out the heads, okay, quick, with, with a push of the button. I love this tool. We have, we have one like it, and it's cool. You can actually hang it on this and attach it to a carabiner, and it can be— you can hook it up to your side so that you have all these different hose, and you don't have to have— this would be 5 different hose, guys, but it's all in one. It's very permaculture. We're going to give away Super Cubes, which is how we freeze our broth and soups and all kinds of other things. Um, we're also giving away a Meadow Creatures broadfork, my favorite hands-down broadfork. You cannot destroy this thing. It's for aerating and hydrating your soil. My Sturdy Brothers apron, guys, apron wearing permaculture chicken ninja master. I'm going to get you one of our brand, a brand new apron. It's over $100. Redmond salt package. That one's going to be a $200 or $300 bag, like 20-pound bag of salt that we use to brine our meats. And then these little sneaky, uh, salt shakers that you can put in your pocket. And then finally, my favorite electrolyte from them. And then big time, big time prize. How about $600 cash and plans to the Chickshaw? So do what you want with the cash, but we'd hope maybe you'd put it towards the build of the Chickshaw. And then finally, one of the biggest ones is the Abundance Plus lifetime membership. Education, inspiration, and community in Abundance Plus. We'll give away these chicks when Lily brings them. She's supposed to be catching them and bringing them. Uh, let's do this. Let's show you what I was seeing. Um, let's, let's, let's look up, uh, let's share my screen. Please, Matt. Okay. You got my screen sharing? I should probably max this because they're seeing everything, right? And they just want to see the map. Okay, so this is how the map looks. Oh, look, somebody's built. Let's, let's, let's highlight some people here real quick. Okay, so some people— hey, you want a shout out? Sign up. I'm going to refresh this screen and I will shout you out. So abundantpermaculture.com/map. And I will, I will refresh this screen and shout you out. But we got Nick Terrell from Evermore Homestead. He's established in 2022. So he's just getting started. God, family, freedom, family. A4, Seeking More, and we could click on that to find out more. Okay, God, family, country, Alyssa. So, so see, maybe if they were close to each other. I don't know if Cabot and Juliet are close to each other, but they seem to have a lot in common. God, family, land, country. I imagine a lot of you guys have that in common. Looks like we might have had our chicks. Oh, you brought chickens. I was hoping you'd bring those cute little chicks, but we'll do it. We're just going to show you the chicks. Uh, Lily, bring them here. Thank you. We'll just do the big ones. Just hand me one. I thought I said chicks, but here we go. We're going to show some chickens. We're not going to keep them long. This is a live show. I have no idea what they're going to do. But you want some of these? You want some of this? Then sign up for the member— find a— sign up for them, the the directory and you could win by the end of this show. Okay, thank you, Lily. Thank you. That's it. The little chicks would have been a little easier. Oh, bless you, bless you. The chicks would have been easier. Sorry. Okay, thank you.

I tried to catch a chick.

All right. Okay, thank you. All right, so I'm gonna refresh this. Thank you, Lily. You're so very helpful. Here we go. Let's refresh the map. Look at this. Already so many people have signed up since I just spoke that. I like to see pictures, guys. Put pictures. Now notice how everybody's got to connect. Oh, were they— did you switch it to camera when she came? Good job. Matt is on top of it. You got to put at least an email to be able to connect with people, to be able to hit this button. Say I really liked, wanted to do a tour for tour with Jennifer. I wanna go see her place, maybe invite her to come to my place in Lincoln. I could hit that button and find ways to connect, okay? Put pictures, guys. Put pictures as you sign up. If you need to update your profile, You just go to this, sign in and account, and you can update it. Maybe that's why this is a little— maybe I'm not signed in. Yeah, okay, let's do that. Let's log in and maybe there'll be a better experience. Yep, wrong password. Okay, give me a second. Let's try again. I don't know what that could be then. Let me just try one more time. If that doesn't work, we'll just do it unlogged in. Okay, okay. Okay, so we can go in. I think I'm logged in. It's probably the problem because I wouldn't be able to see this if I wasn't. At least the connection. Okay, so we're going to go to— let's go to this. Let's say you're— goodness, do you see this? Okay, I'm blown away by all the people signing up. The more the merrier, guys. Let's get 10,000 people on here. Let's get 1,000 more signed up today and we'll have no problem. I don't know what's going on. It doesn't like it when I share the screen. What?

I'll throw it back up when it clears.

Okay, so while that's clearing, uh, we're looking, we're looking through some tech difficulties. Yeah, so, uh, raising checks, instructional on that tomorrow. Let's, um, what we're going to do here is in a minute when we work out this, I might not just show you that, we'll just cut to the, um, let's find somebody, let's, let's give an award. What we're going to do is randomly select where somebody is. That's what we're gonna do every day for these 12 Days of Christmas. And given— oh, one of those days, where was it— I'm gonna give away, uh, The Rooted Life, 5 copies of that. And Rebecca had this idea, and maybe we'll throw it in there today. We're also going to give away— how about we give one of you $150 to throw a party? Because we want to encourage you guys to connect. I was reminded— I was telling Matt, my tech guy here, Uh, let's just go back to camera while we wait on that, figure that out. Oh, okay. So I don't know if it's on. It's just refresh. There it goes. And there it's working. But, um, I was telling my camera guy or my tech guy, you know, I, Rebecca texted me and said, oh, I hope, I hope some people meet each other. And I said, you know, if somebody meets their spouse because of something I've done for the community, like this community directory, or people have connected in Abundance Plus and our robust platform inside there, that I will come officiate your wedding and film it and be your flower boy, whatever. Okay. The tech guy's going too. So, whatever you want. So whoever meets each other and gets married first, if you want to invite me, I will come and I will serve. Is that right? I will become ordained and marry you if that's what you want me to do. Okay, back to the screen. Yeah, let's, let's try this. Okay, so let's do a random— yeah, back to the screen. Let's give a winner. We're going to give two winners today. Somebody's going to win the $100 from McMurray Hatchery. Thank you, McMurray, for giving that. I did not have to pay for that. They gave that. Let's do a random selection for the United States. Sorry, Africa and Canada. I see we have a lot of people even in those places. South America. It's just going to be cost prohibitive to send some of this stuff, but that doesn't stop you from getting the free stuff via email. So be sure to join the directory. Okay, oh, Rustburg, Virginia. Rustburg, Virginia. Do we have any? So say you're from Rustburg, Virginia and you wanna find some friends. Rustburg, did I spell that right? Oh yeah, sorry. We found out yesterday you can put in text and find out if somebody's got a cow or a cat or a horse or whatever. There we go. It's auto-populated. You know, it's probably gonna be pretty popular in Virginia. What do you think? 20 miles, 25 miles?

Rustburg's probably only 25.

Look at you. Look at this. Look in Rustburg. Oh, there's somebody in Rustburg. There is somebody in Rustburg. Okay, so, but. Point is, if you're in Rustburg, you have 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 people near you that you can contact and say, you want to trade tour for tour? You want to come over for dinner? Start with a servant attitude. So reach out to these people, go to connect. So if you're in Rustburg, go to Beaufort. Hey, don't they look fun? They got the costumes, Deanne, Curtis, you guys look fun. Let's invite them. So you would connect and invite them. Uh-oh, hope I didn't lose my place. You didn't invite them to a tour. Ah, lost it. There's gotta be a better way. Graham, what did I do wrong? Man, okay, what was the city?

Rustburg.

And 25 miles is not far, guys. You could have done 50 miles and it would have been within an hour. Oops.

There's only one person in Rustburg.

Uh, Rustburg.

Oops.

South Africa. Okay. Rustburg.

There it is.

Okay, there we go. And then we did 25 miles. There's got to be— that's kind of— that'd be kind of annoying. No, no, I think they'll pop up.

Then cheat it to the right.

Shouldn't I be able to hover on them and it come up? All right. I think you can hover on them and it come up. Well, let's find out here, okay? Yeah, there it came up. All right. See, now that's better. So you could look at Who's it? Oh, what did I do?

Scroll up.

Oh, okay. Okay, you're learning how to do it as I learn how. Okay, we didn't lose it. Whoops. So we could connect to these people. Is that because there's 2 people there? There's 2 people.

Must be.

Wow. Okay, so reach out to them. Okay, let's go to Rustburg. Okay, now if you've left your number, which she did, I'm gonna give them a call. Okay, I'm gonna give them a call on the speakerphone and congratulate them. I'm a set— Nancy, I'm a 70-year-old grandma blessed with family living next door on the farm. I grow lots of veggies, have chickens for eggs, horses for ornaments, and have been growing and using herbs for 3 decades. Wouldn't you want to reach out and know Nancy? Come on, she's, she's 3 decades an herbalist. Husband, son, and D.L.L. Hunt And I buy from local farms and farmers and markets. So if you're a local farm, you could be selling to her. Okay, I, I like this. I like somebody like this winning. All right, so they have won the $100 gifts, and I'm going to call them right now, put them on speakerphone. I hope Nancy answers. Won't this be fun? So guys, leave your number when you list yourself, and I will call you.

Has been forwarded to voicemail. The person you're trying to reach is not available. At the tone, please repeat.

It went right to it. That means it's off.

Recording. You may hang up.

I'll try again. Hey, Nancy, it's Justin Rhodes, the Crazy Chicken Lady from the YouTube. I just want to say you entered the homestead directory and we are randomly picking people for winning prizes, and you won! You won a $100 gift certificate at McMurray Hatchery. I wish I could have talked to you but— and congratulate you personally, but oh well, here it is on voicemail. Feel free to call if you get this in the next 2 minutes. I will be live for a couple more minutes. So if you get this immediately, call me. Otherwise, I'll have my assistants reach out and we'll get you that $100 gift certificate. Congratulations and thanks for entering the directory. You seem really cool. Hopefully folks will connect with you. Bye. Okay. People are starting to put their numbers in. So let's pick another one. Who's gonna win the party? Somebody wanna win the party? I'll give you $150 cash. Somebody's got to answer the phone. This is a live show. We don't know what could happen. Okay. Napoleon, Ohio. You ready?

Go Ohio! Here we go.

Okay. How did they spell Napoleon? Napoleon. Now I'm exposing my terrible spelling. Oh, wrong, wrong place anyway. There it is. There it is. You wanna try? You think there are a lot? Oh, I know there's a lot of people in Ohio. So we could probably do 25. 25-mile radius. Boom! Uh, if you see Napoleon, let me know. Cause we, uh, there's Napoleon right there, Matt. Oh goodness. It's between these 4. I don't know who's closer. I'm thinking it's this one. I'm thinking it's this one. What do you think, Matt? Boom, boom. Okay. Okay, so say you're here. Well, let's see who that is. Oh, they did leave a number. They did not leave their name. No, they did. Tina. Okay, so let's say you're Tina. I'm gonna call you in a second, Tina. Hopefully you answer. You've won $150. So what I want you to do, Tina, and if it's any of you guys, any of you guys can do this. Tina is going to connect with, and actually you should probably expand it to 1 hour. Should we go ahead and expand it to 1 hour and see how many people we get? Yeah. Okay. So I don't want to clear filter. Maybe this will let us adjust it. No. All right, uh, there it is. It's still in there. Let's go to 50 miles. That means people are within an hour, and guys, in homesteading, that's a neighbor. Okay, we have many friends. Oh my word, are you kidding me? There's dozens. There's dozens of people. Now where's our Tina? So what Tina would do is click on, say this one, Alter Family Farm. Okay, they don't look like psychos. They've left their number, contact, email. They look cool, they've got some kids. Let's connect. So where's the connect? You just hit that connect button. They've also gave their email and phone number. So you could be in charge of contacting all 12, 13, 20 of these people And yeah, just have a party. All right, Tina Burns, hopefully you're in charge of making this party happen because you just won $150. So hopefully you spend it on the— spend it on the party. Okay, this is fun, guys. It's fun being Uncle Justin for Christmas. All right, 1 I'm gonna be so excited if we get her. Yeah, okay, it's ringing.

Hello?

Hey Tina, it's Justin Rhodes. Oh hey, it's Justin Rhodes from the YouTube channel. Okay, you entered to— you entered the Homestead Directory and we're doing a giveaway and you came up. You were randomly selected from our location selector and you win $150. That's my tech guy cheering for you. You win $150 to throw a party.

Yay!

Hey, hey, you sound like a partygoer. This is good. And you are— we are live on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube, but you're doing great. So yeah, yeah, we pull— yep, you pull up my YouTube, you'll see it right now. What'd you say? I'm sorry, if you pull up my YouTube— oh, you've never won? Well, you get a— you get $150 money if you go to that map I know we, we taught you, we did a random selection and we actually generated, uh, where do we generate? Napoleon? No, what do we, what are we on? No, Napoleon, Ohio. And so you came up being the closest Napoleon, Ohio, and there are dozens of people within 50 miles of you. There are 6 within, uh, 25 miles. So we're challenging you. I'm gonna give you $150 to invite all those people within 50 miles. To a party. You do whatever you want with that money. You rent a movie, you buy some popcorn, you get some decorations, whatever you want with that money. Pay a cook to cook them food or pay somebody to clean up the mess, whatever you want to do.

Yay, that's awesome.

So thanks, Tina, for participating.

I'm so excited.

Yeah, I'm excited for you. I'm glad you're excited. And the people in the audience, how's everybody reacting in the audience?

Oh, they love it.

They're all, everybody's—

Oh man, the comments are flying. People are happy. Somebody finally answered the phone, Tina. We've been trying to get a hold of somebody. Yeah, everybody's excited for you.

How crazy is that?

Yeah, it's crazy. So you've never won anything in your life. You deserve it. I feel like you'll actually do this. You'll actually contact the people within 50 miles of you on that map. And have a party.

Well, maybe a barbecue.

Yeah, there you go. So I— you have my number, you have my text number now, so text me when you have that barbecue. We'll stay in touch.

All right, thank you. I enjoy watching you.

Oh good, what do you like about it?

Um, the family involvement, I think, mostly.

Yes, I feel like I get that a lot, and I feel like, uh, people come for the chickens and stay for the family. Would that be right?

Oh yeah, probably. I'm always looking for ways to improve my chickens.

Oh, well, thank you, and thank you for watching.

Well, thank you. Yes, really, I'm surprised. Yeah, that's so awesome.

Yeah, well, thank you. Well, you stay in touch. Text me, text me some pictures of that party. Barbecue. All right, all right, have a good one.

You too, thank you.

All right, bye-bye.

Bye-bye.

Bye-bye. Okay, so we were just live with somebody. They want to— that, that's good. I need to, uh, remember this and so write this down. Okay, Graham, I might have you start doing that as you watch this, if you'll take note of who won so we don't forget and we don't have to go in afterwards. Anyway, okay, uh, it's not too late to enter. We've got 8 more days of this, uh, abundantpermaculture.com/map. Free to enter the map, um, free to get on the directory, and you join my email list. And we're giving out video gifts over these next, uh, few days for Christmas. Guys, it's 12 Days of Christmas. The world says it's over on the 25th. It actually goes until the 6th, if you so— or 5th, if you you celebrate the 12 days. We got more coming. We've got a Johnny Seeds hoe giving away tomorrow. We've got Rooted Life, we've got a Chickshaw, we've got $600 cash money. Maybe we'll do some more parties, maybe we'll, maybe we'll give some more parties. But right now, get on that map, go in there, uh, start contacting people. You want to, uh, if you want to contact a bunch, let's have a party, let's have a get-together, potluck. Have you ever been to a homestead potluck? That's where it's at because people are— they know how to cook, they've grown it, it's a lot of fresh food, it's, it's, it's, it's a good time. So I highly encourage you could get together and do potlucks, uh, tour for tours, all kinds of good stuff. So, um, and I'm sure you guys think butchering buddies, borrow butter, borrow butter, uh, lend somebody your tractor. Maybe you have a tractor and maybe you have something to give. You know, earlier we found that herbalist She has a lot to contribute to the community, I'm sure. So anyway, abundantpermaculture.com/map. This is my Christmas gift to the homestead community. There's no charge, it's totally free. Um, we're working out kinks, uh, on Instagram. I know we had— if you reply with certain comments, it takes you to this signup page. I think you comment with directory. For a moment there, we maxed it out. We have so many people signing up, we maxed out the free the free app, and so we had to upgrade to pro. That means we got 1,000 people just through Instagram. 1,000 people have typed in directory in Instagram. So if you are on Instagram now, I think, give it a moment. Let me see if Heather, Heather might have fixed it. Let's see if Heather's fixed it. Okay, we're upgraded. So you can comment directory now on Instagram, and it'll take you to this page. And you should, uh, well, you type in directory on Instagram and you'll get a message in your messenger on Instagram and it'll be a link to this page. So a lot of people signing up. Let's have 4,000 sign up by tomorrow. Tell your friends, the more the merrier. The prizes are good, but we want people on here because the real prize is you might have came to win the chicks or the, or the Chickshaw, but you're going to go away with friends if we do this right. And this is a gift to y'all and really, you can log in, establish friendships, and it'd be immediate. But these could be lifetime relationships. As I told Matt, spouses could be met for you or for your children. And yeah, I'll go, I'll go, I'll be the videographer, I'll be the officiator, whatever you want. Okay, we'll celebrate the wedding in that way. All right. Master of ceremony. Master of ceremony? Is that what it's called? Okay. Which I guess that means I'll do anything. I'll sweep the floor after it's over. Won't that be fun? Uncle Justin will come to your wedding with the family. All right, because we don't go anywhere without all of each other. So have a good one. See y'all tomorrow.