S4 ● E108 Online Training, Tesla's and Tours...

We're up moving hands and there's frost on the ground. Just a light touch of frost, but that means thermals are coming out soon. First day, it hasn't rained for over two weeks. We got the market garden training on. We had a big farm tour yesterday. I actually spent 10 hours talking very fast yesterday because we had two farm tours back to back with this ag school from near Stockholm and then this group, we got 32 people from all over Europe and Scandinavia particularly and yeah, really excited to get into this training. They've got some help with morning chores and they're going off mushroom foraging. Morning birds. Hello. Good morning, little piglet. So it's a big day. Some of the sheep are leaving and they'll be all off farm by this afternoon. Ben Spice, what have you made? Bit of salad and we've got a pig in the oven for about six hours. I can't take much credit for how awesome this is. That's just forest raised pig cooked slowly. I got to test drive a Tesla at the weekend, which was awesome. So cool. And you know, it's just funny because it's playing into some posts I made recently about why aren't farmers driving Teslas. And you know, it's partly jokey, it's more, you know, I'm not necessarily that interested in having a Tesla but I'm interested in the pattern behind it of why are farmers so often in victimhood and you know, feeling hard done by by the world. It's like until farmers stand up with pride and hold their heads up high and take themselves seriously, why would the rest of the community take them seriously? And therefore that's, you know, it really influences how people relate to food. And so it's something I've been thinking about for months actually. And yeah, it's interesting one but it was really good fun to go in the Tesla. Amazing car. It's amazing that they've been able to create that technology to be such a high performance thing. And either way, you know, it was cool for me and yeah, I enjoyed it very much. Do you feel any like, was there any learning curve to drive in it? It's more just planning on.

Yes, planning the long trips. If we go to Salem, for example, from your shopping, we have to drive past Ka because there is a supercharger so we can charge.

So these are superchargers and it's totally free to charge up?

Yes.

And so you can basically drive for free as long as you can find connection points. But then what happens if you run out? You charge on the mains and it takes a bit longer. Yes.

Now we calculated my tripper so it's. You have to go to Udavala then.

It tells you where to charge up and how long to charge up for. This is cool. So you can actually use it practically in that way. Yes. But they don't make a trailer hitch, do they?

I think the model X has.

Because then you could drive to the UK for free.

Yeah. You can go back and forth between UK and pick up sheep trailers.

Yeah. And are these set up with autonomous driving? Like it's got all this stuff.

It's prepared for it.

But what's the legal thing?

I don't think that's the quality of self driving. Isn't. It's not very quite there yet.

I think so.

I didn't buy the self driving heli autopilot module so but I got to test it for a month and it was when I tried it it all the time said that. That I had to hold the wheel anyway and be prepared. So it didn't.

But is it legal to have it? I mean that must be a legal grade.

I don't think it's there yet to be automated.

Interesting. But that's a software based thing. No. So this car can be upgraded to that?

Yeah, I think so anyway. But that wasn't the way I purchased it. But it will be huge in the future. I think she can drive drop off the children to different activities.

Like your car will then go off from work and go pick someone up who. That's pretty crazy. Change of life.

There is a seminar on YouTube that's called Clean Disruption by a guy called named Tony that talks about four disruption ones. One is electric cars, one is solar cells, one is energy storage and one is self driving cars. And of this will combined disrupt a lot of industries in the near future.

Yeah. Yeah.

So both electric cars and the autonomous cars will lead to much fewer cars in the future.

Yeah. And you reckon the batteries will outlive the car?

Yeah, I think so. It will go down in capacity but you don't need full capacity. Full capacity. If it goes down 20, 30% it's still usable.

Do you feel like it handles really well? Yes. Yeah.

The center of gravity is lower on this than a regular car. So it grips sticks on the road much better.

So you can drive it faster essentially.

And it's a four wheeled L four wheel drive.

Acceleration tests. Nice. It's smoother, isn't it?

Yeah. You don't notice that driver first.

What's that like one up to 120 in every few seconds. Yes. Do you get people trying to race you?

No, not.

Not in Sweden.

Very often.

Feels like you're in a jet plane or something. Nice. Very fancy game changing car. Wonder if you can use it to pull an eggmobile on the. So we're down to three little lambs that we're keeping on the farm for now. All the other sheep are going, so it's a big day for us. We've had these sheep, some of them we've had 30 years now. But it's all in favor of starting a new sheep flock. It's been really great weekend. We've had our no Dig Market Gardening for Professionals intensive and it was a really great course. Actually, I went into it a bit skeptical of whether we wanted to do short trainings because I see that the outcomes I'm looking for is getting people started on the ground. And that's why I've been designing this digital online platform because I can see that longer term mentorship and support for people to design their properties, but also their own enterprises and get feedback and peer support on that. So powerful. But it was really, really nice. It was so nice to have. We had about 32 people coming and a lot more local people coming because they can make it for the weekend. So it's very hard for a lot of Swedish people to make it here as well as other Scandinavians. Often it's both partners are working because of the high cost of living here. And it was great to meet these folks. There's a lot of nice energy came to the farm and it was. It went really good and we had a really nice time and it didn't rain. In fact, it was sunny for two whole days, which for the last two weeks it's just been incredibly wet. So it was incredibly nice weekend and we had a long day today processing chickens and yeah, we've just been reflecting a bit on how we might start to offer some short courses next year to see how it goes. I know some people have written about pastured laying hen training or pastured boiler training and these are things that we can easily fit into a two day training or maybe a three day training and see the entire process and planning and all of that stuff. So that's new for me because I never thought I would say that, but I'm interested to see if we do that. As far as the online training goes, it's a lot of work to do still and I'm just planning a bit of vacation time in sort of November, December time and get away from the farm for a bit. But I'm hoping to get the training up certainly, you know, by the middle of winter and still work on this tiered system. We got so much footage now and some amazing stuff. It's, it's a lot of footage to go through to edit, but there's a lot of information that could, you know, really be of great value to people. Very different to the context of our YouTube videos or whatever, which is just more keeping it, you know, an update. What's going on. This is targeted education that's a lot more intensive, direct, complete, concise, you know, so I'm, you know, I'm excited for that and still working on the best format for doing that. But I think it's going to look like an option to just view all that material very cheaply and, you know, you have it for yourself. And I'm not here to answer questions and probably won't even answer emails and things because I get. I just Woke up to 280 emails from the weekend and it's too much. I can't do it. And I don't think I'm going to be able to have a PA or something like that. So it's about streamlining things. And so what I might do is do people that are on the full training on the online course will be either every two weeks or a month. Whatever is going to be seminars that are through some webinar platform and people who are subscribed to the training. The full training will be able to join the webinar to ask their questions and that will be woven into that week's presentation. And then there will be tasks each week that get uploaded to some shared space on Facebook or, you know, private space for the people on the course who can then offer peer support to each other too, which will be awesome. So that's really cool. And it might be that we're really cutting down the number of people here next year and it's been so much more efficient since we've had less people at the farm and next year it just excites me a lot to be fully on the farm all the time and just working with a very small core team. And it's getting to the end of the season now, so we're starting to really think about the time both Nicholas and Matt are going to be here until December time. And then Matt and I are talking about going on a vacation together just to, you know, take some time out. And yeah, I think there's a lot of planning to do in this early winter period. So we're getting excited about that. But I got to balance all that with putting the online training together. So it's busy times ahead. The season's really drawing down. You know, there's not many animals. The sheep all went to slaughter, which went really well. Pigs are going to slaughter in about a week and maybe a couple of weeks, but the animals are reducing, you know, got last slaughter next week. So it's, the pace is dropping and our energy is dropping because the weather is getting darker. It's dark when I get up for chores now and it's dark early in the evening, hence it's so dark now. So it's, you know, it's not like the season ends and then we've got lots of free time. We're going to have a lot of work to do at the end of season to plan for this big shift in how we change the business. But I'm so excited for it. It's, you know, even being very tired now at the end of the year. We do such long hours in the summer all I do really long hours, like doing all the back end stuff, you know, in the evenings, late at night often. And yeah, that's all going to change. So it's really exciting. And yeah, just wanted to give you a quick update about that because I know a lot of people are asking and I get a lot of emails asking for updates on when the train is coming out. I just don't know it's going to be done as soon as I'm done and there's still a lot of decisions to make. And I will offer, you know, I will obviously update you online on YouTube here, I guess, and on Facebook or whatever, but I can't respond to all those emails. It's just too many emails. And so I'm really shaving down emails that I'm able to respond to and many of them are answered by following us and the information we put out.