Where shall we take the channel?

Hi, I'm Richard and along with my partner Johanna, I own Ridgedale Permaculture up here in Sweden. And we're making videos, creating new pathways for entrepreneurial farmers who want to do things a bit different and want to start up smart, making a good living for themselves whilst regenerating soil and rebuilding habitats and producing epic quality food for local producers. Over the last four years that we've been building up our farm, we've gained a lot of attention globally and I think it's for several reasons. Firstly, we've set up the farm on a shoestring budget and we've spent to purchase and do up this farm. We've spent less than typically people will spend on buying a house here. I think another reason it's really popular is that we're making this work with a three month frost free growing season. We have to produce everything we need in a six month production season. And so really if we can make it here, it makes a really good case for people in more forgiving climates and circumstances. And we've built up the farm really quickly with very diverse enterprises. We do pastured broilers and turkeys and pastured laying hens with beef and dairy cows and sheep in between our keyline silver pasture lanes. And we have forest raised pigs and lots of different stuff going on here. And I think people are really excited to follow us because we're one of very few profitable permaculture farms on the planet. And it's so important to us to share this stuff because ultimately no one's going to go into farming unless they see that they can make a really good quality of life out of it. Very few young people are going into farming today and we need places like this where people can come and learn. We dedicated ourselves to getting more people started and we do that through intensive educational programs that I've been running half my life now, as well as through our book, Making Small Farms Work that's been shipped out to 79 different countries now. And we're getting great feedback from that. People starting up their enterprises and telling us how they've redesigned their farms based on the work we've put out. And we've also been getting a lot of people following us on YouTube and our channel has grown to 20,000 subscribers this year, which is double what we expected. So super grateful for that and really appreciate the feedback. A lot of people telling us it's their favorite farming channel. They're really into the no nonsense sort of diary approach of how we present it. So that brings me to Patreon. I'm very happy continuing our channel as the way it is. As people have been following us know, it's just me whipping out my phone and trying to capture a bit of what goes on on a day to day basis here and share some of our perspective on life and farming and design of properties for the long haul. And a lot of people really appreciate that style. But it's been a little inconsistent this year and what I would like to do through the support of patrons is starting start putting out higher quality material more consistently. And so the way I'd like to run this is that Patreons will have access to videos a week before they go onto YouTube and there I will answer questions. If you've been following us at all, you'll know that I just don't have time to get to all the questions. But I'll make a special effort to answer Patreon's questions in that week before videos go out onto YouTube. You can also direct the channel by suggesting future videos and what you would like to see on the channel. And I'll try and respond to that through the money will go towards supporting me to put more time into this so that I can bring a better quality and better content to you generally. And also if we reach our funding goals, it will allow me to travel and go and meet pioneering farmers locally and further afield to really broaden the scope and information that we're able to bring you. So I'm really excited for the next season. Season five at the farm. Thanks so much for everyone that's been following us and for watching this and look forward to see where this goes together.