- I'm here with my first mentor, Joel Salatin.
I was here when I was 19 years old on his farm,
and now I just bought a piece of land
not too far from him, 96 acres.
He brought all his farm workers, his interns, apprentices.
We just walked this whole piece of land.
It's beautiful here in the Shenandoah Valley.
Trying to find where to put ponds, fences,
corrals, apple trees, and what else?
- Vinyard.
- Vinyard, houses with solar power.
Plant some apple trees, north face is best right?
- North face is best,
because the reason north face is best,
is A, it's cooler, so they don't blossom as early,
so you're not as frost.
Number two, it doesn't change as much
from morning to night during the day.
- What do you think, for a house site?
What do you think is the best facing?
North, south?
- Well, you wanna get solar,
you want it on a southern exposure,
you don't want it tucked under a north if you want solar.
- [Tai] Look at this house spot up here.
It's got a 360 view of the Shenandoah Valley.
That's the Alleghany Mountains
and over here you get the blue ridge parkway way over there.
This is how you do a soil sample.
Hopefully the ground's not too dry.
And you pull it out and take off the top.
- [Woman] I was like, where to Joel go? (chuckles)
- [Tai] Yeah, he could coach, it's nice.
- Look how black that is.
- [Tai] Yeah, look at the top.
- [Joel] Uh huh, look at that.
- [Woman 2] Joel, is it okay
if I invite Rachel tonight to dinner?
- [Tai] We're doing soil probe test.
- Look how dark this is.
I wouldn't like to put that in the bucket.
- [Tai] No don't put that in.
- [Joel] Because I think it'll skew it.
- [Tai] Yeah.
Found a well.
Hey Craig, you wanna go down?
- [Man] Craig got stuck in a elevator in Norway.
He doesn't like small places anymore.
- [Tai] That's probably what runs up to that,
that cow water.
- Yes, yes, I'm sure it is. I'm sure it is.
- [Joel] I can see why they left the ladder
- [Tai] Is that ladder, yeah,
don't put too much pressure.
- [Joel] It just broke.
- [Tai] You broke the ladder.
- [Joel] Okay.
- [Man] It's lookin' (multiple people taking)
- [Joel] There's the pressure gauge.
The pressure gauge is sitting on 60.
- [Tai] 60? - [Joel] 60.
- [Tai] So it is on, the power is on.
- [Joel] No, it's not on.
I think it's just a matter of turning the power on.
- So that spring runs full time? Year round?
- [Man] Mm hmm.
- And then, is that where the house gets water?
- Yes, and here's how that works.
This is the access point for that.
And it's full, if it overflows,
it just trickles out over here down.
The pump is in here.
- [Tai] The log house gets water from a spring
that runs year round.
We found a house spot here.
Protect her from the wind a little bit.
- Right here is a good house spot.
(laughing)
These grubs in the manure patch
like the house spot very much.
- It's a lucky omen. (laughs)
- So we're looking at 50 acres here,
which one thing you wanna look at is the view.
You build a house here, look at the view.
You got the view all the way 360.
(wind noise and crunching) (group talking)
(grass swooshing)
- [Tai] This side I don't think.
- No, not on this side, only out here.
- Where does it go? Do the trees?
That's a good sign.
(thumping)
This is how you get strong the old-fashioned way, on a farm.
Farm guys always strong.
Always look for property you can increase the value.
If you had a house or two here,
you could triple or quadruple the value of this place.
- It seems like a hundred an acre would work.
And that's just commodity. - Yeah.
- That's not doing anything special
for direct marketing or anything.
So a hundred an acre, times six hundred acres,
would be 600,000 dollars. - Yeah.
- That's what I'm saying, it seems realistic.
You just have your capital costs.
You know you're not in Los Angeles anymore
when you're going to a farm store.
They got the ammo here, ready to go.
Craig. (group laughing)
(gentle jazz music)
So here's the home it comes with.
It's a little log house built in the 1830's.
It's a kinda cool, historical place,
and it's got the pond right there.
(gentle jazz music)
(gentle jazz music)
A lot of people have been direct-messaging me,
asking me what they should choose for a career,
how to make more money.
And I'm here, this is actually
96 acres of land I just bought in Virginia.
Long-term real estate investment that I just made.
It's cool, down there it's got a log cabin
from the 1830's on it.
But, here's my answer.
For most people, there's a few exceptions,
I recommend two things.
Number one, create your own business.
Even if it's only part time and you have another career.
Never rely on only one source of income.
It's too dangerous.
Don't put all your eggs in one basket.
(group talking and laughing)
(relaxed jazz music)
Say hello to my little friend.
This is a good hunting area.
Remingtons, right here and ready to go.
And this place had a natural
if you got his bow hunting over there too.
(gentle jazz music)
Number two, take the profits, or some of the profits,
and invest them in real estate.
I've always been part-time real estate investor.
I've never been a full-time
because I've always been doing businesses
that have created the cash flow,
but then you invest in real estate.
Why real estate?
Well, they're not making any more of it,
that's what they say about land and real estate.
So, the demand will go up as the human population goes up.
Second thing is everybody needs a place to stay.
It's the most in-demand business that you can get in.
How you doing? Long time no see.
- Yeah. - How you been?
- [Tai] You got it?
Bean bag toss. (thump)
Oh, you almost got it.
Look at this.
What is that, beef?
(group talking)
How many people do you have here at one time?
- Depending how much we're doing?
(laughing)
- Okay, I've got a story of how much I'm (mumbles).
They built chicken pens up top there,
and there was 30, and just me, and they were made outta oak.
- [Man] They were not made out of.
- They were oak. (laughing)
The nesting boxes were outta oak.
- [Joel] Oh, they mine?
- Yes they were,
and I rebuilt 'em that whole time, remember?
- Tai could bench press 800 pounds at the time.
The older I get, the better I was.
For, you know, many many many years,
we didn't have a four-wheeler, we walked.
- [Tai] When I came here,
you didn't like four-wheelers.
Joel's like, you get more exercise when you walk.
- That's right.
- No horses he said, and no four-wheeler.
- [Joel] No four-wheelers, that's right.
- And then you. - [Woman] We had one.
- No, you didn't have one when I was here,
you got one right after,
but it was only to bring the eggs down.
- I remember we had a four-wheeler when you got here,
because I helped you carry the first case of eggs,
I remember, I sat in the cottage,
and I helped you carry the first case of eggs
down to the walk-in cooler, remember?
And then, I was trying to help and I'm like,
Oh, we're gonna pick it up together.
And we picked up the cardboard case of eggs together
and you know as well as I know, you know as well as I do
when you grab the cardboard box and pull out?
It doesn't work and the first case of eggs
that we moved from the cottage to the walk-in cooler,
like spilled all over the ground
because we tried to pick it up two people.
- [Man] From the four-wheeler. - [Man] Yeah.
- Joel was not happy about that, I remember.
- [Group] Whoo!
- It's somebody birthday.
Years ago when I was here,
I had a plan that I would come back and get a farm.
I remember when I was here,
I would come back and get a farm
in the Shenandoah Valley somewhere near Joel's
and so May third,
what five days ago,
the plan finally came full circle.
The temptation to give up
is greatest right before you're about to succeed.
So whenever you have, a lot people make long-term,
I think it's natural for the human brain
to map out where they wanna be
in one year, 10 years, 20 years.
I guess the first point is, usually it'll come true.
And I think that there's a tendency,
at least with me, maybe not everybody,
to think that somehow if you
make a concrete plan, something specific,
that it won't work out,
or that it'll be much different than you planned.
But I think that you can actually get
somewhat precisely what you planned.
So the second point is, so far in my life,
you can make mistakes right?
And you're gonna have successes,
no one's impervious to that kind of pattern.
The only time I really make a mistake,
when I look back in hindsight,
is where I didn't really just sit down
and think things through.
All of man's problems come from his inability
to sit alone quietly in a room for ten minutes.
Take some time with a chair,
I think a chair for some reason works the best,
or in the shower, this works well,
and then I keep a little note pad right outside the shower.
- [Joel] We have a limited amount of water,
is this for everybody?
(laughing)
- How about this, do it in the bath,
'cause then it's a finite amount of water.
Or this pond right here.
I kind of just let my mind wander
from one place to another without,
a lot of people if you're a practical person,
they say people, divide about half of the population,
is an intuitive person, which is more of a dreamer,
and half the population is what they call sensing,
and sensing people are much more down to earth.
If you happen to be one of those sensing people,
the tendency when you do this process of sitting down
and planning long term and dreaming
is you usually cut yourself off, 'cause you go,
"Oh, that's not realistic."
So if you're that 50 percent,
avoid that tendency and realize,
almost every great thing
that a human has ever accomplished, came, at some point,
they thought about it way ahead of time.
In fact, Elon Musk, he said at 15
he was drawing out this exact plan
to make a car company and a spaceship company and all that.
And Arnold Schwarzenegger,
I was lucky enough to have
about an hour-long talk with him in his kitchen,
and everything he's doing now,
he planned in his teenage years,
to be a governor or some high political party,
he wanted to be the highest paid actor of all time.
And they say he even planned to marry a Kennedy,
when he was a teenager.
So he actually just stuck to it,
and it took a little longer than he thought I think,
but it came to pass.
If you're a person that is real down-to-earth practical,
you'll a lot of times cut yourself off and go,
"Ah, that's too big of a dream."
It's not, dreams aren't too big, for the most part,
they're just, people condense 'em
in too short of a period of time.
You can get big dreams, the bigger the dream,
usually the longer the time it takes.
If you're the person who is an intuitive person,
the other 50 percent of the population,
you'll have a little bit impractical,
you'll go, "In the next 12 months,
"I'm gonna own my own farm and da da da da da."
You have to be a little more practical
and balance yourself out.
But the third one is that,
I don't think you necessarily get better
at doing this the older you get,
so while you're young,
is a great time to lay out
the long term blueprint of your life,
because you get a little more wise when you're older,
but you also get a little more cynical,
so you don't necessarily, when I look back,
versus being a teenager, when I was here, and now,
I think I was just as good back then
at kind of thinking through life.
I was probably a little more naive,
and I have a little more tricks up my sleeve
to accomplish stuff.
So now in society, it's such a long expectation
that you can't really be doing much young,
but I think it's a mistake, I think it's just a, you know,
they say your I.Q. actually peaks at 14 years old
in terms of like your memory and stuff like that.
For everything you'll gain as you age
in terms of wisdom and stuff like that,
you'll also lose stuff.
So seize the day now I guess is what I'm saying.
You really never know how old you are,
you only know your birth certificate age,
because birth certificate age,
you start at zero and if you're 25,
it means it's 25 years from the day.
But, my question is, my grandma's 99,
if she's gonna live, let's say three more years,
and there's a 21 year old out there
that's gonna die this year in a car accident,
who's really older right now?
In some ways, you could say the kid is,
'cause he has less time on earth.
Since you don't know,
you only know your birth certificate age,
you don't know your life expectancy,
you just have to pretend like
you gotta get a lot of stuff done now.
- [Tai] The chickens are about ready to go to bed.
(cheeping)
(man whistling)
So when I lived at Joel's house and farm
for almost a year-and-a-half, this is where I lived.
It was very cold, that's what I remember.
It had no heat, I had to put insulation in.
Actually, the changed it.
This was my nice, large home for two years.
Right here, we had the bed right there,
and there was a bathroom right there.
Well they took the bathroom out,
it had a composting toilet,
so you had a bucket
and you'd have to go underneath the place
and take the bucket and dump it out.
What do you think of that Adrian?
- [Adrian] Um, I couldn't take.
- I had one other guy, we lived together,
there was bunk beds right here,
and there was a bathroom here,
and there was actually, there was no heat.
There was a little space heater; it got cold man.
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