Why I was WRONG about the DUTCH Farmers!

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About Curtis Stone:

Curtis is one of the world’s most highly sought-after small farming educators. His book, The Urban Farmer, offers a new way to think about farming𑁋 one where quality of life and profitability coexist. Today, Curtis spends most of his time building his 40-acre off-grid homestead in British Columbia. He leverages his relationships with other experts to bring diverse content into the homes of gardeners and aspiring small farmers from around the world. Learn more at FromTheField.TV.

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Music and Footage commonly used on this channel:

[roberthaviar]

Curtis Brother,
There is nowhere to hide anymore. Not on the Mountain in BC, not in Costa Rica, not in Russia. We have to draw the line and stop the insanity wherever we are. And we have to do it on all the fronts even infiltrating the politics.
The ultimate frontier is our own mind.
We are the ones that were waiting for.
Self reliance is one of the pillars.
If not, than everything is lost.

[homermtz]

It takes humility, guts, wisdom in recognizing one's own errors, good stuff.

[charlestaylor]

I was taken aback by your initial response to the Farmer's protests. Glad to see once you had additional facts you adjusted your position. There is no need to apologize, being wrong happens. Incorporating new information and changing your position is a practice that needs to be encouraged once again.

[lelandshanks]

As a farmer Curtis you re- evaluated the situation. At least unlike others you admitted it and kudos to you.

[nicholasmacinnis]

Another great conversation Curtis! I've been living in a rural area for 9 years now (wow time flies). Grew up in the suburbs of a college town too. Everyone said "ohh you'll miss the convenience of living in town boy were they wrong lol

[kingdomcome]

Agriculture in the Netherlands 🇳🇱 is a finely tuned machine that took generations to build. In the book "Good to Great" there is an analogy of a flywheel that, when starting to be pushed, starts slowly then when working perfectly is spinning at an unstoppable speed, humming with well manufactured perfection. In the Dutch case, they are the second largest exporting country of agricultural produce in the world after the USA...from a small country the size of Nova Scotia. Now, some ideologues come along and decide they are going to smash the flywheel... I don't think those people even have a clue about all the economic and social ricochets ... in a world that is on the edge of a food crisis (we feel it here in Africa more than you do in Canada).... Not to mention all the peripheral ideologies that the government was grenading at the public, madness running in packs of insanities, enough people threw their hands up and said enough is enough. 😅

[shaktiveda]

Totally agree with everything you're saying here Curtis. Please, do not delete this video, I need to share this conversation with my partner, I have been considering this option myself for quite some time. Thank you!

[lnostdal]

Thank you, this is great to see and hear from you. You just trancended yourself as an individual in his/her story and rose higher. Loving the vids; have been watching for years.

[jeanantuma]

I come from Holland …so I thought you were wrong ..Holland is small .it is the size of Lake Ontario …80 % of Holland is farm land …goes back for generations …they can’t go anywhere!

[curtisscott]

I found that if you are going to draw a line in the sand that it helps to add some Portland cement first. That way it will be more difficult for someone else to move your line.

[CMR]

4:33 - Thank you for observing the differences in geography. I live in Denmark (just bought a minor homestead - yeah!) and have also lived in Canada. Throughout the clown show in 2020-2022 we considered moving to Mexico or Russia (I speak Russian), but we simply couldn't bear the thought of leaving everyone behind nor starting a new life on these terms. I always listen to you and adapt whatever you say to my situation. I appreciate your updates always. Thank you.

[marinesdaughter]

at 51 starting over was difficult. Lost job due to refusal to get jabbed after working thru the so called pandemic, I am still strus

[jpsolar]

thank you so mutch to put into perspective your position about the dutch farmers. it`s a great honor to see and heare people around the world speaking and acting from a realy human stand point of view. all the best for you and your family - greatings from germany

[Brianwns]

When you zoom out and look at history - a lot of these EU villages survived both world wars, hyper inflations and insane governments... They were able to do this because these villages kept everything small and local so they could just barter for each other goods when needing food or something built etc. This is how they survived Weimar. So a lot of these local villages are pretty based. I can see why it would be very hard to break or surrender that.

[CALAISmylove]

Chem trail pilots must have had a holiday yesterday. Clear, beautiful skies on Eastern shore of Maryland!

[stillwatersfarm]

Russia’s like Canada 😂 Yep.😅 Sorry, I couldn’t help myself. 😂 I do get your point about just getting as remote as you can so you are sort of outside government control altogether. If I wanted to go that route, I’d probably head into Mexico myself, and I have thought that through. We are not generational farmers. My family lost their farms a few generations ago. My legacy is skills rather than wealth tied to a particular land. I don’t mind starting over, which we are actually in the process of doing right now in a new state.

[mickeysmith]

Great presentation. I'm becoming self sufficient got chickens and wind and water turbines. A natural spring in the back. Moving away from goods and services provided by big corps.. living in Kentucky

[catw]

Thank you for filming outdoors and allowing my to arm chair travel your beautiful wilderness.

[Buttercookie-hd]

In your course, do you touch on what are the best banks to use for a mortgage. I don't have any experience in buying a house or land. My concern s what banks are switching to CBDCs.

[vasvd]

Regarding the Soviet Union’s ability to round up people in the countryside, they managed to do that quite effectively. They firstly identified the more successful farmers, and labelled them кулак (“kulak” = “wealthy peasant”). The standards for this were completely arbitrary. Sometimes, the farmer who owned two cows was deemed a kulak whereas the one owning just one was not. Kulaks were subject to beatings, confiscation of property, arrest, summary execution - whatever the authorities felt like. This was then followed by the collectivization of the the farms. Farms were merged into huge co-ops which were of course subject to socialist practise: the ones who produced well were not allowed to profit from it. The farmers who were lazy or incompetent had no motivation to do otherwise. The State fixed the prices way too low and the predictable result was mass starvation.

These regulations were aggressively overseen by the NKVD and various other agencies.

Lastly, Stalin in particular used mass deportations to control or dominate rural regions. For instance, he de-Cossackified the Donbas region. There were other western and southern regions in which pretty much every soul was rounded up in cattle cars and shipped east to Siberia, etc. Those regions never recovered their heritage. So while it is more difficult to crush rural populations than urban ones, it is by no means impossible.

Just a warning.