YouTube video update by Richard Perkins covering recent farm activities (turkey slaughtering/processing, fence knotting, pruning and land management) and progress on an upcoming book. The video shows practical clips from the farm and provides publishing details: a 750-page full-color book (mockup), estimated retail ~€75, proposed flat global shipping ~€10, a target package weight under 2 kg, and a planned crowdfunding launch within a week or two.
Questions this video answers
About €75 (not final; depends on printer).
750 pages (full color mockup).
About €10 (flat global shipping planned).
Under 2 kilograms total (packaging included); mockup measured ~1900 grams).
He hopes for delivery by Christmas but says January–February is more likely; campaign to launch within a week or two.
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What's up, YouTube? I've got a quick update of the status of the book once and for all. This will be my last update before launching the crowdsource campaign. And I just wanted to show you some videos we've been busy doing. Fencing around the farm, slaughtering turkeys, packaging, processing them, dealing with little farm designs of different people's projects, coming up with enterprise plans. So a few clips from the last few days. Big birds. Hello. These birds are in remarkably good health. They're over six kilos now. If you see on their comb, then perfect shape. It's Nepalese night. Gustavo, what have you done? Tell us about it. So this is Momos. It's like the Nepali dumplings. They look incredible. It's with turkey, of course. And then this is Dalad. So basically we're going to take all the cutlery and people will have to eat with their hands. Epic eats. Look at that.
Good day. Good day. Welcome to Sweden. Here you have meatballs. Traditional Swedish. The Queen love it, the King love it. Everybody loves it.
Made of horse meat.
Made of horse meat. Of course, we say that it's beef, but it's horse. They have potatoes just because the Irish is here. Special occasion. And then you have cream sauce, lingonberry jam. Straight from the forest.
Hello.
It's perfect. Passion to Clinton Turkeys with far too many people. Showing them how to do it. All the boys can't do it. Carly's done it first time. Ted has done the best one yet. Look at that. Can it focus in. Take some brown. Take it home from 180 degrees that way. Yeah. By the way. Yep. Through 180 degrees. Perfect. Now you should be ready to take the strainer off. So. Yep. So you just have to push it towards you to release this tooth only. And it will stick naturally on that one. You manually pull it. There you go. And then you whack it from that end. There you go. So that knot's holding. And then the 90 degrees, you want to form your handles. This one is going to go down this way, around. This one is going to come around and under here. So you want your handle. A handle. And you want to be doing them at the same time as each other so that you've got equal opposite force on them. So we're fixing up the pig paddock. This is the Larch plantation. Ted has done the best Texan brand so far. So we put him on the spot on camera. Doing the real knot on the fence, so vertical, upright. And then we do a clockwise right around this one over the Top of itself. All about making bends with high tensile, getting the angles right and letting the wire do the work. Vertical wire goes down and under and really nicely pulled back in to form. Good kink. Nicely done then. Hang on. No, no, no. So you're. Yes. Now open them up. And now you cross them over each other, don't you? Nope, not yet. You swap your hands over vertically.
Okay.
Camera ran out, but Ted has nailed it. Texan Brown just finishing the last snap off. We like it. That is a good job. Nice. So Texan Brown. There's another Texan Brown there. Just where we had a pig run through there once. So this fence is fixed. Carly's been doing insulators, just making sure these are all working good. This paddock's done. Just one bit of fencing left to finish the entire farm. It's pruning time for elders. It's a little bit early, but these are for putting grapes on next year. Typically, you would leave 40% of the crown. This is. We're going to be letting a lot.
More light through here.
There's a little grape on the back now. That gives you a sense. But it's quite dark down the end. The trees are much bigger at the other end. There's water coming out the hill. So we're going to motor through here, let a lot of light in. So that's what it looks like up here. Pretty dense. A lot of seed on some of these trees. But we're being pretty brutal now. Alda is a pioneer. It can handle this. Even though it's not winter yet, it's going to be very different. Looks pretty different. It's going to let a lot more light in here that will reflect off this pond onto the vines. Living nitrogen fixed. Centrillis. Love it. So these young trees are a couple of years old. These are four years old now, huh? Yeah, three and a half. What a lot of light. All right, we need longer tools now. Look at the difference that makes. Now we're coming over to this side. Young plants. There's a jungle in here. People there, The bull until lovely September afternoon. Done over there. Don't know if you can see, but it's cleared it out. Eric's got the long saw. Just working to clear a bit of light here. This far end, you see, the canopy is sort of closed, whereas it's quite open there. So we're just trying to really make sure we get light into the end. That's made a huge difference, especially with light reflecting off the pond. If we go up the hill here, Now we tried giving the leaves this tree hay. We're thinking of stacking and drying all this, but it's just a bit unfavorable. They don't love this as food, so we might just let it sit. Cows aren't that excited about it. The bull was interested, but then he stopped eating it straight away. Just look at the difference. Okay, turkeys are being packed.
Right?
Turkey, Turkeys. What's the weights looking like, you guys? Five and a half, eight and a half. Seven and a half. Six to ten kilos.
Yeah.
And the two big boilers, what did they weigh? Five and a half, five and a half kilo boilers. We took them in the end. Turkey's coming out. 6.15. They're looking good. So making up another copy with a hard cover underneath. Let's see what the weight is. If we can have a hard cover on this. Epic. So this is homemade hard copy edition to test if we're going to be able to have a hardcover on here. These color bars are the additions. So introduction, design methodology, implementing scale of permanence, and then enterprises followed by case studies. Now we need it to weigh less than 2 kilos. With the packaging, 1900 grams will just work. Although we might be able to get a lighter cover on here. But that saves nearly €25 of shipping if we go over 2 kilos total with the packaging. So what we've done is just shrunk the print size down 15%, but it's still totally legible and I think I'll be able hopefully to bring you a hardcover copy. Now this is a mock up version, but it's 750 pages and I think possibly by shrinking it down 15%, which doesn't seem to compromise the print, you can read it. Well, you know, everything's looking pretty sweet in here, but it gets it down.
To a weight that we can post.
This, which is really nice. We've got the comparative analysis at the back, so a big change has been putting in the color coding. It's going to help you read this book. And then I've just been making the writing a lot clearer so that you can use the book better. So lots is the same, but lots of little details changing. And we've got one more time to run it past the editor. And I've put a whole other chapter in here that's a surprise.
And I've just been filling in the gaps with imagery and just, you know.
Making sure everything looks. This is a very detailed book with.
A lot of information in.
And so I want you to really.
Get it in top notch condition. So this book is going to be in the region of about €75. Is that good value for money? I think so. I'm really confident. So I think there's thousands of euros of information in this book. Books are really undervalued when you think about it. It's not a lot of money for the amount of information, knowledge and experience compiled into this. So I'm not setting the price for definite until we hear back from the printers. And the real final price will be in the Kickstarter campaign, but it's going to be in the region of that. It's 750 pages in full color in quality paper. It's a lot of graphs and data sheets, spreadsheets for financials, etc. Feed sheets, details to a level that you will not find in any other books out there. And we are going to do something different. We're going to offer a flat shipping rate globally, I think about €10. So it doesn't matter where you are. And the aim is to make things like Amazon etc obsolete. We don't want this to be in the hands of big corporations. We want to continue what we were doing with our last book, which is me personally writing out your order and sending you the book with my own hands. And I really love to do that. I loved it. With our last book I got to read the name of every single person who ever bought our book and I'm touched by that. I love it. I'm not sure how the Kickstarter rewards will go yet. I'm still planning that. But we'll be offering signed editions in the very first instances and it's a way to pre order the book. Now I'm hoping the book will be printed back to us by Christmas, but I can't guarantee that. That really depends on the printer. It takes weeks to get a big run together. It'll certainly be ready Jan Feb, if not. So I'm hoping to get it to you in the middle of the wintertime. That's the aim. So no more about it for now. It's been an absolute labor of love. It's still got to go through one more edit and then I'll be touching it up and getting it to the printer. So next time you hear about it, the campaign will be live and you'll be able to put in for a pre order. So be waiting for that. It'll be within the next week or two. Okay, that's all we've got time for.
Thanks for watching folks.
We'll be updating you soon with news of the book, and we look forward to seeing you in a video soon.
