Hey guys, Shepard 1000 here. It's a little windy. I'll put my wireless mic on later Show you what we're gonna do, but this is kind of cool first. I wanted to show you this tomatoes It's February 5th And they're still blue pretty cool With a couple red peppers back there I didn't get in time the frost got them Pretty cool. That's what we're gonna do We're gonna camp out back here tonight in the hammock It wasn't supposed to rain until tomorrow, but now it's calling for rain. I got a couple items here. I want to try out I'm gonna try this out and we're gonna talk a little bit about about this thing here and or fire starting implements and I'm gonna try this out The machete because I'm gonna chop some of this stuff out of here Now I was gonna came out last night, but it's supposed to be real cold and monkey was kind of hinting around she didn't want me Out in that kind of cold.  I'm gonna put the tarp Down and back there. I'll kind of block the sides off. I'm gonna put a chair in there so we can So we can Cook our supper tonight. So let me get you on the stand And we'll go ahead and run a ridge line. I'll show you what I'm using and all that so hang tight guys Okay, guys, so we're going like again. Sorry about the wind What we're gonna do Let's get this open up First thing we're going to check out some machete Because we need a machete Okay, so let's go ahead and open this up This is this is just a cheap Walmart thing Think it's like 30 bucks Walmart Who is it? Those are trail Again when you don't have the money to buy good stuff You know, but there's we're gonna be trying that out and we'll do some talking about emergency fire start starting and stuff like that Get this out of here always put these things on here. It is oiled Don't know if you saw that but had a little oil. So there's there's some oil It's pretty sharp Now sometimes steel different steel will not hold up as good as other steel. So it has a sheet it has a sheet for the kind of like a moron knife has a sheet for the knife for the the machete and The little axe there. We also got We've got paracord We've got paracord on this handle here and paracord on this handle here. We're not gonna be using that Okay, because I'm gonna be using something Something a little different now you can put Put your ferro rod in here, but it feels kind of loose. So I'm not gonna do that. Who goes in this one? Yes, it's kind of loose. I'm not gonna put that in there. I don't want to lose it comes with a knife sharpener. I Don't know if that'll go in there, but anyway Couple carabiners flashlights. Let's come with the batteries. I Don't see any but Knife sharpener can probably go in here There's where the knife goes. Let's go ahead and put this in the sheet I was gonna wait till we was actually out camping to do this, but you know, I didn't so I figure We're in the backyard. There's a couple perks about that But you know, I mean who cares who cares where you're at Don't let somebody tell you all that ain't camping because it is Okay Now that feels good All right, so that's nice Let's go ahead and put the sheath on this And we're not going to use paracord because I'm just going to use this cheap stuff Dollar Tree a buck yellow blue red, and I think black, but they were out of the black But so I got this one. I'm gonna cut it because I don't like to cut my paracord Unless I really had to and then I would but okay, so and again you can This is this is kind of weird how it goes like that Because your belt's like that, right? That would mean that this Goes like that, but if you got that on your belt, it's going to be like this. I don't like that.  It should be It should be long ways like that Unless this is to hook on to one of these. I don't know But this also has a snap Snap here that goes around the handle And it's got a place for a lanyard you can put a lanyard in it, which I will do later I'll probably use some of this stuff because the knife has it and the the The hatchet has it But these snaps they're always a pain at first but once you use them a couple times, okay. Yeah, I don't know I don't know why that's like that Your belt don't run that way your belt runs around that way that doesn't make sense Um That's kind of stupid. It's not a big axe. This is a small little I mean in a pinch and of course it's got your If I'm out in the woods, I don't know what I would need those for little wrenches But you never know Okay, so I'm going to get you spun around here and we're going to try the hatchet out. Okay now I said hatchet didn't I we're going to try the machete out It feels kind of I like the handle though. It's not plastic. It's like rubberized. I do like that. It's comfortable Um, I just don't know what kind of steel they used And I like I said better steel is going to hold an edge longer You know, it's not going to doll as quick, but hey, it's ozark trail You know, you get what you can afford, right? So Cut some of these lines out of the way here. We've got a big one here Whoa that went on All right Not hurting the tree guys In fact, these lines helping the tree these lines will kill these trees after a while uh See I got one that's dead right over here. It looks like it's alive, but The vines kind of got it So I'm too bad. It's not real heavy Which I guess if your backpacking is good, but you've got less weight to You know, so you've got your proves and cons I'm just going to move this one Out of the way here and help Everybody hit the same spot More than one that'll work you they're not real sharp out of the box. It's not a cheap one Uh, I think I think with a good sharpening it would help now I'm gonna go over here This one here I'm gonna have to go over here and cut Get it out of the way. I could just wrap around the tree. I'm not sure I think let me get that taken care of There's no necks Stevie necks All right, so I'm not sure How well this would cut But I'm sure it'd be better than nothing like I always say So I'm gonna go ahead and get those moved out of the way Then I'll kick you back on and we'll run a ridgeline across here hang tight We'll get that Excuse me. We'll get that done together All right guys, so I thought I'd get this out and check it out the batteries are in it And this is adjustable You got um, it's it's a zoom it zooms in and out. We'll check this later tonight So that zooms it in and this zooms it out And to cover up the the back the batteries It's one of these red things you're supposed to be able to put over that if you need help, but They're junk. They never work, right? But and it's got this so that's kind of cool, you know, so Like I said, we'll check this out later All right, we'll check this out tonight but first Let's go ahead and let's run a ridgeline up here These are going to come into play a little bit later Okay I'm going to bring you over here All right, let me I'm going to shut you off and I'll turn you back on when I get a better angle for you Okay, guys. So right here's the hammock All right I'm just going to go just right right about where these are the straps for the hammock And I'm going to go straight across And that'll be my ridgeline. I don't want to go too high, but I don't want to go too low. Okay, so I will be cutting this. I'm not sure how many feet it is And I don't know how long it'll last but it's 40 feet 12 millimeter. Okay Which is Or 12 meter whatever 12 m.  You're out of dollar. Okay, so Let's go ahead And I'm not going to tie these fancy knots You know, I'm not a sailor I don't I don't know a lot of great knots but um I'm just going to tie a slip knot on this one Or I think it's called a square knot See it doesn't matter.  I'm going to go around the opposite side of the tree This is going to be our ridge line And I'm going to double it up the most I can I'm going to double up this ridge line Now I'm going to bring it around this side of the tree There we go. There's 40 feet right there pretty much I got more of this stuff But I think three um, I'm going to get some more because I really I really like for In case you have to cut it now I want to Bring these in like this Bring it back around Do this again and tie that like that That's not going anywhere Now Use our knife nice Also when you cut this stuff, it's just an island type thing When you cut this stuff and take your lighter See this end? See that? I didn't do that. That's from the factory. That's what they do It just runs through a machine that has a fire going You just melt that over Try not to burn yourself And that keeps it from fraying. I'm going to do the same thing on this end Just like that No biggie And now I'm going to go down here on the other end here Grab these two Just like that And as tight as you can There you go There's our ridge line It's a little higher over there than it is here But it'll be all right Because if it rains, it'll help shed some rain Okay So now I'm going to get my tarp This tarp came from one of the tents I had set up out here Because the tent got ripped so I saved the bottom part It was in good good condition So what I'm going to do Shoot, I forgot my stakes I may have to go in and get my stakes Let me move this stuff I'll be back with you When I get ready to throw this tarp on here Okay, hang tight Okay, now we're going to put our tarp over To get it unrolled I'll show you what I'm going to do I'm going to bring this over here against these trees My way of thinking is I can lower this down If it gets too cold tonight Okay, so I've got some Stakes here I'm going to go in and eat here I got Four of these So There should be four things on the bottom Back there on that side Which I'm going to stretch it out Put these into the ground I don't know if my hatchet has a hammer handle on the end of it It doesn't look like it Okay, so I don't like that Can't really Can't really hammer with that It's too It's too thin So That's all right So I'm going to take these around back And I'm going to step these into the ground And all I'm going to do is just pull that back And I'm just going to Stretch it out and peg these in I'll show you when it's all done It's real self-explanatory All right, now I'll show you What I'm going to do here I'm going to take one of my poles Take it in here Like this This is going to go Like that It's going to stick in the ground I got some guy wires right here That I'm also going to Stick it down My guy wires will hold this on Because the guy wires will go on top of that So there you kind of get an idea Of what I'm going for Now I'll probably raise this up a little bit more But I do want to slant this way So if it does come up with good rain It'll shed some water instead of making a bowl So let me get the guy lines on here And get this tweaked and I'll show you what I did Okay guys, so here's our Here's our little awning Or can up here or whatever I don't have it real high I don't need it real high I'm going to be sitting down here in a chair Right back here Cooking and stuff I'm just going to use my stove And this is what I did here on the ends Pegged it down This is stuck in the ground pretty solid I brought this around a little bit And I use this thing here Because I can just pull this off And slide this down If I need more of an angle These things guys on these These are supposed to be long A lot of people don't realize that but The reason why they're so long See there's one over here on the other side too A lot of people cut some off Uses them for other things Which is fine if you need it But what they're for Is these are drip lines That's why I left this kind of long Is when water if it rains Water's going to run down this tree All right So when it does And it starts running down here Water will take the path of least resistance It'll come down here on this And run down there Now you might get a little bit but And I know this works As I've had these before Now this one's perfect It'll run around this yellow stuff Probably even before it gets to that This one See because you don't want it running down your ridge line So what I could do If it looks like it's going to rain What I can do Is put another one on there But for now what I'm going to do Just stick that in there like that Okay Water comes down here Hits that Drips off That way it's not dripping off here In your outer point That's what I did in the back A couple pieces of wood I don't know if I'm going to have a fire tonight Probably not I'm just going to break a couple pieces of A couple chicken thighs out I'm going to rake this out a little bit more And move this out away I'll just cut that off Rake this out real good And I'm going to put my chair probably right back in here And you can also put your pack or whatever back in there And we'll sit there I don't know I may just put my chair right here And put my stove right there I'm not going to use the wood stove I don't think it's going to get that hot tonight I'm just going to use my Coleman gas stove And I'm going to have the lantern out here So if it gets cold I have that silver thing over there That tarp I can box this thing in Or come around there Maybe depending on which way the wind's blowing I can box this in And turn my Coleman lantern on That'll give me plenty of heat in here And like I said if I have to I can drop this front down And make it kind of like a tent This is not a winter shelter guys But I'd say it's a 50-55 degree Shelter If you've got a good bag I've got a 50-degree bag Because you know we're in Florida That's Fahrenheit We're in Florida so I don't need a sub zero bag So I should be all right That's why I didn't want it too high In case I did have to try to make some heat in here All right guys So there we're kind of set up Now I'm going to go ahead and move this Take this stuff in the house I may Yeah we're going to go ahead and try this striker out Down here Later on And we're going to try our light out tonight So there we go There's our little home for the night So if somebody has a tent like this That They lost the poles The tent poles in the days That's not all you know The poles cost more if you can find them Than the whole damn tent So don't throw it away I mean if you have to You can actually you know Use cut off tree branches and stuff and hang it But something like this That's pretty big tarp I noticed down the bottom there was a hole A little tiny hole or two So I don't I didn't see any up here at the top So we should be good I've got more of these These poles So if I have to I can put I can put one right here You know I don't see any holes in In this part There might be one right there Above my head I don't know But if it starts leaking That's what I'll do I'll just raise this up and then it'll And I can put a piece of tape over that Or something It's no big deal It's not supposed to rain real hard till tomorrow So And Sunday Before the game so But I don't keep up on the game anymore So All right guys So there it is So I think what I'm going to do Is I'm going to go in I'm going to start there supper They're having chicken So I'm just going to swipe two pieces of that And I'll bring it out and cook it on the stove for you So I'm going to go get my stove And my little table and I'm going to put a chair in here And I'll be back with you when I get that all done Okay guys This is the ferro rod You know ferro rod They say there's better ones than others But But this is is If I can get you to focus here This is your flint Right here And we're going to want to scrape some of that off That coating That protective coating I'm going to use the back of my knife There we go All right and then I'll be using See This has got serrated See it's serrated there I'm probably Yeah I guess it's not going to work that way There we go I'll use this right here That right there That way it's not on the blade I know I used blade in one of my other videos But that was just an old knife Don't worry about it You know what I mean So All right guys So let's see It's just a piece of flint Is all that is in there So let's get this down in here And I want to talk some more about this here In just a minute As far as survival goes Okay There it is Now the If you notice the title The title is that Semi solo That's because monkey is going to come out And visit me after a bit So She's not home yet But um Anyway So There's that Let me get you raised up here And let's talk about this survival stuff here For a second Okay Now That's going to be getting hot real quick Let's get you in here Oh Okay Now My take on it All right Survival All these Preppers and survivalists and all these guys Now I'm not cutting them down Before my haters start It's not what I'm doing They have their views Their opinions I have my views and my opinion Now You can carry this You got a knife right Make a spark Well Or You can carry this Survival What are you going to want? You know You have nothing Survival situation You come across Somebody's old packs been there for a while All right You really need to use stuff in there All right You got one of these One of these If you check it It works What are you going to use? Especially in survival These things you can buy like four for a dollar I would recommend getting a You know like the big payout for payout for a good lighter A couple good lighters But I mean This is fun I do it all the time You guys see me I always use one of these A spark Like you'll see guys carry this little kit You know it's got their char cloth It's got their flint It's got their striker to strike the flint And you know I'm cancer that big around right That thick You got to make the char cloth Buy one of these Stick it in your pocket Man buy a couple You know stick in your pocket Whatever In your pack Just use a lighter Now like I said I use this for fun But have I ever had to resort to my lighter?  It sparks You have a spark You have an ignition system You know it may take you a little longer to But you know let's use our brains guys Let's quit teaching these folks That you have to use this and save this Save it for what?  I mean In fact this weighs more than a damn lighter You know And it's a little longer And the handle is every bit of stick Survival gets you lighter All right now I've got my My stove here I've got it filled up I've got my lantern We are going to have the headband lamp out here tonight So I'll probably hang it up here or something I don't think we'll have to close this in We'll just see If we do It's no big deal We'll just close it in If it starts getting cold I'll close it in ahead of time But I got plenty of light Like I said If it gets cold I don't think I'm going to have to bring my stove in I hope not Because I didn't cut up any wood I was going to And I was thinking about setting it here Or over there Probably over there It's more level And you know letting some of the heat come in I don't think I'm going to have to you guys I think with this lantern And my in my gas stove My Coleman stove there I think I think it would really heat this up just fine And it'd be safer really But I don't think we're going to have to So anyway guys I am also cooking their their supper too So I'm going to go in And check it out I think it's ready to be put in the oven Like I said We're going to have chicken out here We're going to have two pieces of chicken And I'll put the rest in the oven for them But we'll cook ours out here Now it's already boiled I usually boil it When I put it in the oven I boil it First That way I got some broth You know in case I'm going to make noodles or something So I think that's what I'm going to do I'm going to have noodles with my chicken And instead of water I'm going to use the broth To make our noodles So I can have chicken noodles Chicken noodle soup kind of Okay So stay tuned for that And I'll be back with you I got some smoke going on in here now I'll be back with you guys in just a second Okay guys Got my stove here Let's get this set up I did put a wall up over there Excuse me Because I had some smoke coming in From that fire So Put my phone over there Let's go ahead and get this set up We're going to cook a We're going to fry up some chicken Come on And Monkeys home So I got them fed Now I filled this up So I'm going to go ahead and pump this up You got to pump it like 50 times So I can't see the screen So I don't know what you guys are looking at Hopefully it's all right So I'm going to go ahead and get this pumped up And I'll be right back with you And we'll start it up Okay Now I got it pumped up And only took like 30 times Because like I said I just filled it up So we're going to light this up And turn this up for a second All right now what I'm going to do is I'm going to always turn this one on Also just for a minute Just make sure all the air is out You don't have to Okay so And put this down Now what I'm going to do Is I've got a couple pieces of chicken here I'm going to fry and cast iron skillet But first I've got I've got these noodles here All right just these things that cost a buck Pretty big bowl Super bowl And what I'm going to do Is also have like I said My chicken is pre-boiled And I've saved some of the chicken broth I'm going to use the chicken broth To put in my soup Okay So instead of just water So we're going to go ahead and heat this up first Now I can turn this one off And while this is cooking We can chat for a minute But uh So yeah now that's blue You turn this back down this knob For this lever here Okay so Bring it up here Let me see something here Real quick Yeah not too bad I got my light My headband light Hanging up over here So I'll tell you what I can do Also this strap Oh I'll shut this light off Hang on a second here I've got plenty of lights This strap That's one of these So you can take the band off And wrap it around something So a little ambiance here I'll kick the big one back on here in a minute Put the circle here Hang on There we go Like it turns you into my head Okay so Now guys Just going to bring that up to a boil And what I'm going to do is I'm going to dump it in to my soup And I'll let that set And while that's setting I will go ahead and fry up my Chicken Like I said When I fry it I usually pre-boil it And I bake theirs I bake theirs in the oven I'm going to fry mine So anyway They're in there eating What I want to talk to you about is That's going to be hot And I didn't bring anything Okay I'll have to get something here in a minute Get that off of there But It's camping out in your backyard You know here's the thing guys Don't feel like it's cheating I've heard I've actually heard YouTubers And if I could remember their names I sure would Say them Because I don't think it's right what they said But what they said was If you're camping in your backyard That's not camping Okay And one of these guys Has a pickup truck With a tent that's up on top Summertime He has an air conditioning One of those portable air conditioners You sit down below and he's got a tube running into it He's got a big-ass buddy here On his tailgate That's where he cooks his food On a gas grill And he's talking about If you're in your backyard camping That's not camping That's cheating Now if anybody's cheating it's him You know And I'm sorry But no I'm not sorry I think it's bullshit that people think If you're in your backyard You're not camping Bullshit You are camping Look at them guys in them Quarter million dollar You know Motor homes and And you know the $20,000 pop-up camp That's camping How do you look at it I mean You know you you point to a place You plug in You got electric and shit Just like we do out here Now I haven't run any electric out here for anything I'm on battery power But if you do who cares Some places you may get electric When you get your campsite And you're tenting So you use electric There's no shame in that If it's there use it There's a lot of people That they can't get out That's starting to boil That they can't get out far Or don't have a place to go But they got a little backyard Pitch a tent back there man There's no shame in that This is where I'm at I'm in my backyard The house is over here about 20 yards Who cares You know So if they tell you that's cheating Don't believe them Now there is a guy called Simon A bloke in the woods Okay check his channel That's pretty good Right now they're in lockdown Or whatever Over where he's at And I don't know if he's in Australia Or what but They're in lockdown So he can't go out to his normal Places that he goes out in the woods So he's been setting up a tent And he's got this cooking tent That he sets up and cooks He's been doing it And he's backyard Cool I don't see a problem with that at all And he tells you As you've seen I'm in my backyard And he explains why But there's nothing wrong with that I got places around here I can go camping But you know to pack everything out And in and just for one night Or I'd rather just do it right here You know I can't do the things I used to be able to do So I'll do it right here Just for an overnighter Yeah I'll do this But I'm not going to carry all this stuff out Into the woods And set it all up And tear it all down next morning Just for a couple of hours Here if I don't get a tour down tomorrow That's fine It's my backyard You know it can stay out for a day or two You know but Because that really bothers me You know because people think I'd love to go camping I've actually talked to real people I'd love to go camping But I don't have a camper Go buy your $50 tent I do feel some rain now Go buy your $50 tent You know Go camping I don't really have a place to go Got a backyard don't you Yeah Got in your backyard Well that's not really camping Yeah yeah it is It's camping It's camping Especially if your kids have never been camping before And they're getting that age To where you want to try to take them out You know five, six years old or whatever But my kids they've always camped since they was babies My youngest one, Bear She's you know We had her out when she was a baby camping But you know not in the winter time But I have had her camping in the winter time When she got a little older But um You know if you're not sure how they're going to react That's the best place to try it out In your backyard You know See if they get scared See if they like the tent Stuff like that Yeah so I do feel a little rain But yeah so this is uh It's starting to heat up pretty good That's just a nose art trail uh coffee Parkulator there I don't know what she gave for 10 bucks 15 bucks 10 or 15 bucks Wasn't very much But it works you know it works You don't need thousands and thousands of dollars Worth of equipment You don't need a big-ass Toilet of four wheel drive That you know with a big tent on top of it And all this stuff that you can get back Through the mud and go Now this is real camping This ain't cheating I ain't camping at home But yeah you got a buddy heater For if it gets cold You got an air conditioner when it's I mean there was one time In fact the last one I seen He was complaining about He couldn't bring his air conditioner And it might get hot Are you serious You know whatever I mean if that suits you that's fine But don't cut down people that camp In their backyard because really What are you doing It's not much different from a house Or a regular camper You got air conditioning You got heat You know he's got power inverter So he runs electric Which there's no shame in that But don't put down people that do it In their backyard Just because you're out in the woods You know You're doing the same damn thing Even worse because you know I'm out here I have no heat I have no air conditioner It got hot today So I need to get a rag So I can get this pot off of here And I'll be right back with you guys Stick around man there's more Okay so this is boiling guys I just wouldn't got me a pair of gloves here Had them sitting right over here From when I was doing the fire Okay boiling nicely I'm just gonna set this down for a minute But as you know I don't drink coffee So I won't be needing it for that And so let's get Let's get our skillet up here And get it hot I did bring out some oil And a fork and a plate Just a plastic plate from the dollar store Now Should have brought a neck This is what I did with my chicken I put it in a baggie with a little bit of flour And some seasoning That way I didn't have to bring a whole bunch of stuff out Gonna be a little bottle of oil here Let that heat up my stove That should help So I'm gonna let that get hot Burnt and warm up a little bit I just got two pieces of chicken so Yeah nice I did bring my lantern out It's hanging up over there So if I need to You know I can put it in here I can block this side off if I have to I just like I said I just blocked that side off Because I had that smoke coming in here Now I never turn that lantern on Leave it there up and get a set of plastic But if I need to heat Right now it's pretty warm out here I don't know what the temperature is But I can check for you Let's see what the temperature is Monkey's going to be coming out after she eats And talks to her mom She'll come out and It's 68 degrees right now February 5th Yeah we had a freeze warning and everything But hell it It was nice out last night I could have camped out last night But uh Don't forget we're going to check this light out I used it to go get my gloves They were sent right over here by the fire pit And I want to tell you what this thing is freaking awesome I like it so I think that's a high That's a low And then you got your strobe If you need to get someone's attention So we'll start it out on low When we check it out We'll do that after we So But yeah it's just Don't let Don't let anybody tell you anything like that guys It's just You know They're the ones that's got thousands and thousands of dollars to play with And you know this guy was young He still lives at home because he's talking about mom and dad You know Going something and He wanted to get out of the house and all this and He's from down here in Florida He goes to places where We're going to go Hopefully Not this summer but at the end of the year Probably like October or something September Maybe even August but August it gets pretty hot So I'm going to take this And I should have let it warm Warm up a little bit more That should be all right Somebody's out front Okay so I did bring I did bring my tongs out Right over here where the wool is Let's see who's See who's at the door We're out front Probably monkey taking Bruno out Let's see it'll give me a snapshot here No I don't see anybody Huh This thing gives me a snapshot I don't see anybody out there Probably somebody walking past I don't see anyone It's the front yard there All right set my phone over here So yeah I mean Yeah it's just um Just have fun guys It don't matter it's like There's a thing guys Should have made that fit a little bit better Or that's more level You know people's all uptight and everything Getting antsy They want to get out and do things and Here that's cooking They want to get out and do things and And I understand it I do too But we all need to do our part Not just keep ourselves safe but To keep everyone around us safe Total strangers But here's the thing People complain because they got to spend A couple weeks in the house or whatever My take on that is What do you think about our troops You know In a muddy ass foxhole for weeks at a time Nobody to talk to no tv no internet And bullets flying over top of their head Anytime they can get boom Their head can get fucking blown off And we're complaining because we have to stand in Air conditioned house a heated house a dry house All the food we want tv internet cell phone And the true heroes The nurses and doctors the true heroes Right Now I'm not saying they're not doing their part They're not doing their job I pray them for that But what about the people behind the scene The true heroes Let's start with monkey she's a cna you know She's got to clean up shit She's got to give baths to the people She's got to travel like today She was an hour and a half away from home That's one way So there's three hours of driving Right there just to build health This person that can't help themselves What about people like that That's good people like me About the mechanic that keeps the doctors and nurses cars on the road So they can go help people What about them guys we don't get no recognition All you hear is the doctors and nurses And first I thought wow that's pretty nice Now I'm getting tired of hearing it Because that's all you hear is how they're saving lives Now monkey Shit She has to have her CPR licensed yet She's got several different kind of licenses And certificates and stuff that she has to have Just go give somebody a bath She had a patient One time that just ended up dying A couple weeks later but just went out on her And she's one hand trying to help this woman Which was a bigger woman Trying to help her And calling 911 trying to tell them how to get to the place Because for some reason they couldn't get GPS'd right It took them 20 I timed it because I was with her but I was outside in the truck Took a took over 25 minutes to get there And monkey's doing the best she can And uh you know she she saved her that night But the woman ended up dying she would have passed away anyhow But the point is is you got to deal with stuff like that You know You have to deal with things like that And and there's no you never And if you have send me a clip or a link To where they're praising the cna's Where they're praising the mechanics The tire guys the oil change people You know we keep them doctors cars going Because you know that doctor ain't out there changing these own tires He's not out there tuning up his car changing his oil Maybe he does change his oil on his 1956 World's Roy's shadow or whatever You know I mean but to actually keep their stuff going The nurse you know the nurses You know who keeps their vehicles going guys like me And and it really kind of hurts me you know And it hurts monkey too to see how these nurses are getting there the unsung heroes What about monkey you know And what about monkey Never for a while the nurses wasn't even going to people's homes The doctors wasn't going to monkey did monkey was there working every day Taking a chance of getting sick herself so somebody don't go around stinking Yeah You know what about the guys taking the chance of getting sick Just so that doctor can go to the patient go to the hospital and help people You know come on let's give credit where credit is due Don't don't just do a couple different people Let's do them all there's cna's in the hospitals But about the cna's at the nursing homes you know the receptionists They got they got to deal with people that come in I have the virus They have to deal with that they have to take their blood pressure they do their vitals They've got a chance of getting sick Let's praise everyone not just the doctors and not just the nurses It's ridiculous you know it's ridiculous But monkey's just like one step away from being a nurse She could have her nurses nurses licenses with no problem Just take the test is all she'd have to do she don't want that You know she likes what she's doing helping people you know And I'm blaming her you know oh this is looking pretty good guys I did turn it down a little bit I'm just really what I'm doing browning it up because pretty much cooked through I didn't cook I didn't cook these all the way through because like I said I was going to put I put theirs in the oven these two I saved out So and I knew I was going to fry them up so I didn't cook them clear through But here's what we're looking at here Like that so what I'm going to do now I'm going to open up my soup bowl here These these things that a lot of people like them I don't I don't like that stuff man It's just there's no flavor to them and they never cook up by the time these get Like the little corn and stuff in there by the time they get cooked your noodles are overcooked So I am going to put Whoa I am going to put my seasoning in Should brought out the trash bag Put my seasoning in here It's good stuff or a buck man they got different kinds they got beef and uh shrimp So I think this cooled down a little bit more or more than what I wanted so I'm going to put this on here I'm going to bring this back up to a boil it may not have been a full boil but it sure looked like it I'm going to start this up out here I'm going to heat this up some more because this is going to be another minute or two I can't turn I can't turn this down well I can turn this one down whoops That figure's doing it. I can turn this one down and leave that one up So I can get my water to boil because I don't want these to dry out Now Put this back on here. There we go So yeah guys just uh, you know Thank the people cashiers, you know at the uh That's a gas station the supermarket, you know what I mean What about them people they do they don't know who's got the virus they don't they don't know any You know, they don't know And people complain I don't want to wear a mask for the 20 minutes that you're going to be in there Even sometimes maybe five or 10 minutes. I don't want to wear a mask that long What about the workers there that have to wear them mask eight hours a day? To keep you safe, you know, oh, and then let's complain Everybody let's just do what we got to do and get over this We would have been over this a long time ago people just do what they need to do. Look at that gravy Wow That's a good gravy there All right, I'm gonna go ahead and let this cook up and uh Get ready to eat once this is ready to put in the soup I'll put it in the soup Oh, it's boiling. Okay. Let's go ahead and this over here.    How are you getting in here right through here?  Oh, yeah Third monkey. Well, you're part of need of it rain Hello Yeah, there's monkey I will give her my chair if she wants it.  I should have brought the stand But There's high There's low And of course, we've got in case you got to do that to somebody's eyes to save yourself But Let me see if I can do this Yeah, it's how big it's getting All right, let's go back in here. Okay Now I'll put you on the stand here and point it that way towards the house Now I'm gonna go ahead and make it bigger Now look how big the beam is That is so cool Uh, let me set this light out up here. Okay But there's Here's how big the beam is There's the truck out there So that's pretty cool Oh, it's even getting bigger. Here we go Now Let's go out back here Yeah, that's That's awesome Not bad for a light that came in a 30 dollar kit with the batteries. So Yeah, there's our fire we started earlier Once again Sign up here in the trees Focus There we go It's amazing. I like it. Awesome Let's go back in the shelter. Okay. Now I had my hammock. I took my hammock down just for a minute because um I let monkey use the chair and I was sitting down here I was sitting down there I'm gonna hang my hammock back up Well, it's actually her hammock That's why I use these. Whoops. Sorry These things There we go. All right, and then I got my little Pouch here and put my phone in I may do some reading a little bit later. So Let me get you set up over here Whoops Yeah Pretty cool little flashlight there. I think so My flashlight down here I brought out a couple in a beers There we go. Now to get up here in the hammock I'll move you guys so that light It's not shining in your face There we go I did raise it up a little bit for me, but I'll have to put it back down for monkey Take my knife off Unless we'll get my phone now And I just felt my pop Okay, put my phone in my little pocket there on the hammock Whoops I got it twisted or something All right So there we go so I'll have to Untwist it. I got twisted. See it's I do have my sleeping bag out here In case I need it This thing don't feel right sometimes It's all twisted It's kind of like I'll show you It shouldn't be like that um Wasn't like that before but I'll fix it and When I get ready to go to sleep I mean all in all it's comfortable if I can figure out why that did that Must have just got twisted I don't know This side's pretty good This end I mean but So all in all That $30 kit right now the only light I'm using is my headlamp light I just got it stuck up in there in our ridgeline uh But that $30 machete and I mean granted guys, yeah, it's cheap.   I'm not going to baton with this knife guys If I do any batoning I'll use my machete, you know Unless it's little little stuff, but that's where a lot of guys break their knives I've seen a lot of youtubers Have these oh, I gave 40 50 bucks for his knife next thing, you know, it's broke or next time they make a video For some reason they got another knife and don't talk about it but You know, you get what you can afford uh Hell when I was started when I started camping I just had an old barlow pocket knife. I started camping at like 12 years old I just had an old barlow pocket knife that my dad gave me and You know, I made it work. I used it as a hatchet. I used it for batoning. I used that thing for everything, man um Yeah, just you know if you have to just start out buying you cheap knives You know and keep them sharpened because they they won't hold an edge I know cheaper knives won't hold an edge and I don't know about this one yet Because I just opened it tonight, but that was my one of my christmas presents that they got me and That kit because I've been wanting it Because I you know, I didn't want to pay $30 for a knife $30 for a machete $15 20 for a cheap hatchet, you know I mean before you know you buy that stuff you got over a hundred bucks in it If you can buy a kit if that's what you can afford buy it You can probably get them cheaper online.  It was our trail It'll work. It'll get you by guys. You don't have to be You know, it's like Here lately, there's you know, everybody's doing the winter storms winter storm camping Well, I can't do that because it's it doesn't snow here but everybody's doing them winter storm campings and and They're trying out these hot tents and and they got the stove. I looked them hot tents up man six seven hundred dollars I Can't afford it.  This was 15 bucks, I think or 10 10 or 15 bucks for the hammock. That's all I got. I mean so You know, let's snap into reality.  They'll help you build one, you know and just uh Let's snap into reality because nine times out of 10 you go to a campground where they're tenting And you look at some of their equipment Ozark trail Coleman, you know Yeah Yeah, I mean their their trucks a 40 50 thousand dollar truck, but they're they're using Coleman stuff. I mean You know igloo coolers and stuff like that. I mean who can afford to go out and buy that expensive cooler?    Some people can only get out to go camping once a year, you know And that's why I was a few years ago. You know, I was just working.  I think we paid up for that one. I think it was 50 or 60 bucks But damn, I mean Seven eight hundred dollars for a tent that you're only going to use during the cold season Because you ain't going to get in that hot tent even without the stove on It's going to be hot inside that tent. It gets hot in the nylon tents. Come on guys I mean, let's get into reality here and stop jerking people's chains and yeah I go to the link to the website will be it. Yeah, and and and they look at it. They're making minimum wage and and they're going Yeah, how am I supposed to afford that? You know, I don't like that. That's why I like showing you just like that one video I did a year or two ago me a monkey We just stretched a rope from one tree to another here in the backyard and You know hung a tarp over it. We made a tent You know, have fun on a budget You know Because if my tent keeps me dry when it's raining I'm good with that. I don't care if it's a thousand dollar tent Or 20 dollar tent if it keeps me dry I'm good with that, you know Just the way it is like sit down under Florida. I don't need a hot tent, you know, and I'm not going to go buy one just to Just to have it and go I got a hot tent because there are some days when you could use a hot tent down here But hell I mean damn That's the case. You know, I just give me a little buddy heater, right?  We have north in Canada I mean You know high on michigan, you're only going to use that tent how often, you know, but it'll last forever Well, so will an eyelond tent if you're only going to use it once or twice a year But like I said, if you don't get out every weekend in the winter time I can't see paying up that kind of money for a tent and a stove and those new stoves Have you seen them?  Yeah, but you're reaching around that hot stove pipe That by the way that just rolls out It's just a little flimsy piece of metal that rolls out And just got a couple pieces wire holding it from unrolling And and it gets red hot and you're trying to reach around there to cook And think about it When you open that door, it's not going past the the air flows not going past the wood And up and out they're saying oh, it's it's real uh um Cheap to run. I mean it doesn't use a lot of wood.    Anyway, I'm rambling. So I'm going to fix this This uh This hammock so I can get more comfortable And I'll kick you guys back on in a minute. I might do some reading on my phone since I you know I'm in the backyard. I got service Maybe watch some youtube videos camping videos and But another one um fun It's called fun in the woods. That's another good channel With Dave Pearson. He's awesome Him and his son go out a lot His son's name is nick This guy's really cool. He's in georgia. He does some cool stuff He don't get to get out a lot and do overnighters, but he will get out and show you tips and tricks and You know stuff like that. Um, now he has a lot of expensive stuff, but Uh, a lot of the stuff he makes like he he Engineers his own like hanging grills and stuff and he uses uh Stainless steel welding rods and he welds that stuff together and and he's not ashamed to tell you Like he'll tell you how this pot here I got You know, I can't tell you where to get one because I got this one at a thrift store, you know And uh, you know for three or four bucks.  And if you comment, he'll comment back to you and he gets a lot of comments But he he doesn't make sure he gets back to everybody. This is very very cool Outdoors McGee He's something that guy there. Love that guy. Yeah, I was we was watching him last night. He was doing a storm a winter storm And uh in his stealth shelter is going to be the last time he's there and it was leaking and stuff, but Uh, yeah, he's he's really fun to watch too. He's he's really cool.  He'll tell you I can't afford it He'll he'll be straight up. I cannot afford it.  It's expensive stuff that Honestly, they wouldn't go out and buy They wouldn't do it They're just, you know, reviewing it because they're like, oh, here's here's free stuff and You know, I mean, it was like one time I got something They wanted me to test something out for them And I could keep it and use it But if they wanted it back, I had to give it back to them.  No, no, we're not, you know, we're not gonna pay you We're gonna pay you by giving you this stuff but If we want that stuff back in a couple of the things they said you can Use and do a review on it But once you do your review and see how you like it, we want you to send that product back With how you like it and they wasn't even gonna pay the shipping back. I said, no, I ain't I ain't this was a couple years ago I ain't doing that.  If you give me something, I'm gonna keep it, you know Somebody give me something if I give somebody something I expect them to keep it It's there or sourd or give it away.  I don't care. It's yours now I'm not going to ask for it back. Say, oh, dude, if I build something which I've got a couple ideas as things I want to build and send to people I don't want it back. I just want them. I wanted, you know, I want them to give me a fair review You know, an honest review, you know And a lot of them and also one of them guys, I think one was a knife That they said It has to be a good review And I'm like, well, then it's not a review.     I haven't had to use I haven't used the hatchet yet, but I've used the knife so far. Knife's okay the uh The machete is okay. Um I won't say it's awesome and But when they give you a sharpening stone that tells you right there that you know, you're going to have to sharpen this thing Because it's not going to hold an edge But that's okay because I got the stone. I have no problem with sharpening stuff, you know Like I've said before I'll say it again. I'll say it a hundred more times. Um A dull knife a dull machete is better than no knife or machete because you can always find a rock to sharpen it on If you can find a rock to dull the damn thing use that rock to sharpen it back up All right, I'm going to try to fix this hammock.  Yeah, brother Ben, it's good to see you back on the damn screen man But like I said before man monkey and I you know, we'll support whatever your decisions are But it was great to see you back. I'm not going to lie.  He's freaking awesome, Ben Good to see you back. Even if that's that's all you upload for a while, man We understand and we support your decision Uh, man, just stay safe, buddy So Just wanted to let everyone know that that he's got one up. Please go check him out. Um Awesome, uh, I still got everything the way it was. So, you know Just great to see him. You know great friend. Good guy So Ben Thanks for sharing that with us, man. Appreciate it I'll be back with you guys in a minute. Okay guys I don't know if you can hear that but it's raining perfectly dry inside here The only thing is this hammock I'm probably not going to be sleeping in it tonight I've tried it both ways And it just it's okay to lay in for a little bit but man once I It's impossible to put a sleeping bag in here Because down here at the bottom your feet keep slipping off I'll mess around roll out of this thing. This ain't a sleeping hammock. That's for sure There's only 15 bucks, but I mean, I can't like my foot right now keep slipping off So what I'm going to do is I'm going to put my sleeping bag down here And I've tried to lay it both ways too and It doesn't make a difference. So I'm going to hang the hammock up And I'll put my sleeping bag down here on the on the floor Because this this just I can't There's just I can't do anything. There's no, I mean Like right right now my left foot is slipping out. I'm not even in my sleeping bag. You can't Yep, see my feet won't even stay in So I'm just going to lay my bed real wild here on the floor And lay it back here in this bottom part and I think it'll be all right. I don't think I'm going to get wet So that's what I'm going to do now Okay guys, so As you can see I'm down here on the floor.  It really sucks I can sit sorry to lay down in take a little break, but if you're going to try to nap in it or sleep in it That is probably Not the hammock for you especially for camping I don't know what the temperature is I don't actually need my sleeping bag Right now I'm six o'clock in morning. I think it's supposed to be 53 But I'll need it a little bit later because right now it's only nine o'clock It's only see I was watching Ben Right now it is only nine. It's 9 17 still 63 degrees with rain Let's click on that. Let's check it out here We got 90% rain at nine o'clock. Of course it's raining 70 at 10 o'clock 60 at 11 o'clock at midnight 50 at 1 a.m 40 percent And then no more rain until Well it goes on up to so it's supposed to get down to 55 tonight. See it six o'clock It's going to be 55. So this sleeping bag is rated at a 50. It's a 50 degree sleeping bag So I think I'll be fine um I did go in the house and get an extra battery for my camera um And I also got This from my phone But I did forget my damn pillow And monkey's got a couple of them homemade pillows, but they're outside and they're soaking wet now Uh, so I'm going to watch some youtube videos and do some reading. We got a pop here Yeah um So Like right now I'm pretty damn warm. I may have to go get me a pillow as long as mr. Snake Doesn't want to come in out of the rain and come in here. I'll be good now I hope I'm not shooting myself in the foot by saying this but You know, I I started camping at like 12 years old Maybe even younger, but I know 12 years old I remember my first actual camping trip out in the wild I was 12 years old and um So I've been camping ever since and I've never You know in a shelter like this.  I know we got we got the rattlesnakes and stuff Hopefully when I'm don't come in here. I thought I seen a drip Nope so I mean if it does it does what do you do right? Never been in that situation So hopefully I'll be all right. I don't have to worry about bears um There may be a couple of um Armadillos, but usually when it's raining they stay in may see a couple armadillos, but they don't bother me I am seeing a drip. I think And I'll have to I'll have to find that to just be Yeah, I see a couple drips here So I'll have to find that drip Before it starts raining too. Yeah, it's definitely Definitely a drip Let me find out where they're coming from. Okay guys, I'm a leak It's leaking at the seam right here. Can you see that? No, that's because I should have turned this the other way Uh, this part should have been down So I kind of put it in upside down. It is too late to change it now And see it's running down here Uh, it's leaking on this seam too.  I gotta go out There Okay guys Still don't have my pillow. I think I got the leak fixed There were several of them as you can see I couldn't find another tarp. So what I did was ran this down the seams Get old Vaseline ran it right down the seams. I think it's fine I've been laying here for about 10 minutes if you can hear still raining So And nothing has come in yet Got my chair right there I lowered the front down a little bit so it's got more of a runoff So it's got more running. It's got some running that way and this way So it takes the load off of this I don't see anything yet, but I'll let you know I think I'm gonna watch a video or do some reading And I'll let you know if it starts leaking again, but that Vaseline works good on tents for Like the seams and stuff and if you have little pinholes Just take some of that Vaseline on your finger if sometimes zippers leak Rub some Vaseline on it plus it it helps the longevity of the zipper too And just one time that's all you need to do and each time you zip it It just goes back in there. So it's pretty cool. I got cobwebs all over me from somewhere Smoke or steam Might be a smoke from that fire. So Anyway It seems to be doing all right now Got a pop can laying over there. I need to move because I hear water dripping on it.  What time is it? It is Maybe what time it is 940 948 Hold the steady 63 degrees. That's from when I went around the front So All right, I got a comment on one of my videos. I'll check that out shortly and um Yeah, so I'll let you know what happens hang tight And of course, you know, I'll say good night before I go to sleep, but that's probably going to be a while but I don't There's no water coming on me now. So I think I got it fixed All right, my glasses are fogging up. That could be an issue All right, I'll be back with you guys hang tight Good morning guys man overslept Big time it is 954 I've been up for a little bit. I just land here listening to the birds Get down to 53 last night man, I was warm this this uh Let's sleep back did did well. It did very well uh Let me see what else Got an exciting happens. I didn't turn you back on Let's watch some youtube till five.  It's supposed to rain all day today. It's supposed to storm today, but it It um hasn't rained yet. Let's see Yeah, it's 58 right now Now it's not calling for any it's scattered Scattered thunderstorms tomorrow But today 80 80 chance of precipitation so Let's get up about 72 so But it was a really good night had a great night Now I'm gonna go in see what monkey's doing And uh Then I'll roll up my bedding and stuff and And then we guys thanks for watching appreciate it Uh everything did well last night the light The light did well Again, that's not broke that comes off so So you can hang it and stuff. That's that's pretty cool. I did not know it did that one. I did the review but again I'm going to house so all monkey's doing Edit this video and get it up for you guys and We'll see you in the next one All right guys, thanks again appreciate it. Shea bearer the myth man legend. Thanks for watching We'll see you guys soon. Bye. Bye guys and take care


Alrighty, we finally have a construction update worth posting. There's a lot to go over. So we'll start off with the main thing. The roller coaster coming to Planet Snoopy next year in 2023. So a lot of you don't know, but back there, there used to be an aquarium, and currently that is what they're digging up. So over the last couple of days, they've been digging up the aquarium and land clearing, removing old water mains, electrical, trees, any sort of debris. It looks like there's a lot of debris back there based off of the drone footage. And it also looks like they're getting ready to clean up the area. We haven't seen full signs, but we're keeping our eyes on this pizza pizza. Right now, those ladders are just for winter fest ignore them. That's not why we're thinking that building, but we're keeping our eyes on pizza pizza through the off season after winter fest. But yeah, lots of work going on, they've ripped up the road or the pathway that went through there. You can see where footings are going to go. It looks like wherever you see those three little orange markers together in a clump is exactly where they're going to go. So it's definitely looking like this thing's going to really take up a very little land of what the old dinosaurs alive used to house. But yet nonetheless, we have been hearing from our rumor mill that the track is actually in that building that you just are looking at right now. So in that building with the construction trailer there, that construction trailer is not linked to the construction site, by the way, but that giant shed is where we're hearing some track is stored. Nonetheless, they also have some bolts or decorations can't quite defer, which is either underneath that picnic pavilion. So it'll be interesting to see that could just be the little candy cane walkthrough maze that they do for winter fest. Supersilker has received a paint job. I don't know why they did it before winter, to be honest. But I do know the parts are coming sometime around April to May are the dates that I've been given for the pieces to arrive and be installed. Obviously take that with a grain of salt. For those of you that don't know, we have said before, but Igloo Village is going to be right behind swings of the century. Cool Yule and Holly Jelly trolley will be over by Sledgehammer and Cyclone and Sledgehammer and Cyclone will be operating based off of the stockholders called today. Cedar Fair is expecting Canada's Wonderland to break 2019 attendance numbers for winter fest. So be prepared for an extremely busy winter fest if you're looking to ride these two rides. Good luck. But nonetheless, I'm super excited for winter fest.  Leviathan was already taken apart. Behemoth was mostly taken apart, as you can see here. So I just thought that was cool to show you guys the shots of that, the trains kind of just being put on their little holders before they get completely taken apart by the maintenance department and re-put back together. That's how they ensure all the parts are there and in working order. It's a really lengthy process and that's why a lot of parks that are open year round either buy four trains or go down to like two or one train operations during their slow periods so they can work on their trains. There's a shipping container stored there. Now I'm not going to get too excited because it could be the shipping container for Vampire Disco. I'm not quite sure. So we're going to just erase that for now. Just ignore that. We don't know what's in there. I'll have to talk to my sources. But over there on a trailer in wood you can tell it looks like the rods, bolts, and stuff for the footings are in those wood containers on the trailer just back there next to the giant present. If you can see that on the drone. So I thought I'd just show you guys that and there's a lot of insulation still back there. So keep your eyes out. It looks like Wonderland might have either a renovation in store or a new building still planned for 2023 that they have not yet announced. Regardless, there is some sort of renovation at minimum coming. I can't see that insulation being for anything else. It could be for the station of the new roller coaster, but it's been sitting there since the construction of the restaurant that just opened. Nothing going on in terms of the flat ride. There are some orange little markers that the drone can see. Can this drone is crazy? Okay, like the fact that I'm able to fly in this little water pond area. Park and get these shots is absolutely insane. Obviously, the construction site is a little harder to see, but Winterfest is well on the way. As you see, there's a yellow crane installing the ice rink and the big two Christmas trees at front gate are ready to install. And Santa sleigh has arrived on top of the front gate. Speaking of front gate, I would definitely keep an eye on front gate over the next two to three years. We are starting to hear rumblings, but as always, take amusement insiders rumblings with a grain of salt until the park makes a full announcement. But nonetheless, I'm really excited for Winterfest. I don't know about you guys. I'm just really excited for Winterfest. And yeah, there was some weird scaffolding over by Leviathan statue. So we'll keep an eye on that. Again, it could just be refurbishment, paint, cleaning or installing some sort of Christmas thing to it. But yeah, I thought that was interesting. Just film that. And I'm going to show you guys Leviathan's trains not on the track and parked right down there. So I thought that was super cool. I got to show you guys some things I haven't been able to show you before with this crazy zoom drone and the fact that we have a park across the highway that we can fly from a different angle is awesome. So we'll be able to watch the construction of this coaster. Anyways, thanks so much for supporting the channel and watching our videos. For those of you who don't know, we have a new newsletter that I will write once a month releasing the first week of every month. So our patreons on Patreon are going to see our first newsletter for November where I'll be leaking what I know about marine land. But yeah, and other stuff as well. So every month I will leak a few things or give a lot of the information I know over to you guys. So definitely check out our Patreon. And thanks so much. We'll have a couple of videos a week or one video a week on the construction as we see fit if there's anything. But our patreons will get photos about two to three times a week if there's something to post. Anyways, thanks so much. Have a good one, guys. Bye.


Over this and the next decade, the world needs to produce more than 40% more food with less land, less water and energy while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Feeding an extra one billion people over the next 15 years and a further one billion by 2050 while already today one billion people in the world go hungry. Among the greatest challenges facing the world today and will most assuredly and relentlessly drive the sustainability agenda, which is the principal focus of this presentation during this and later decades. And it is an agenda that is not allowed to which businesses across the world are not only responding but actually proactively driving it. Unilever as one of the world's largest food manufacturers has recently committed to sourcing all of its agricultural raw materials sustainably by the end of this decade. Walmart has described it as a single biggest business opportunity of the 21st century and the next source of competitive advantage. While the World Economic Forum has concluded that companies that take the lead in sustainability will be market makers rather than market takers. And market makers rather than market takers is what we must also have as our goal as our agri-food sector seeks in this decade to grow output, exploit emerging opportunities and expand exports by 50%. And a green image will be central to achieving that goal. Indeed our customers already recognise our natural advantages. We can point for example to the decision by McDonald's to choose an Irish beef farm as its flagship farm for the whole of Europe. Our open spaces, our green fields, our supportive climate. And yet sustainability becomes more and more defined by how we manage critical resources. Our customers, whether they're retailers, food manufacturers or food service operators have told us clearly in research that being green and natural is no longer sufficient. There are others who claim that space also. We must demonstrate it and prove it as well. And that too was a sentiment emerging from pathways for growth. As David Bell and Mary Shalman asserted the importance of our brand reputation and the need to show what Irish food and drink stands for. And using the working title come see as we're open for inspection. They highlighted how in preparation for living up to that claim Irish food and agriculture companies must take to heart the need for sustainability and transparency in food production. This will be critical to supporting that part of our brand reputation that states we are natural and we can prove it. And there is increasing clarity as well around the methodology that we may employ in order to demonstrate and prove it. Sustainability can be defined as the capacity of this generation to meet the needs of the present without compromising capacity of future generations to meeting theirs. As such it extends across the full lifecycle of the product covering each step of the supply chain and addressing the key areas such as carbon, water, biodiversity. And so over the last 18 months and using the infrastructure we had developed for quality assurance schemes which have 40,000 members right across the country we have begun to integrate the methodology of sustainability into those schemes for the shifting their emphasis towards environmental assurance. And starting with our B scheme last year we started to measure different production systems right across the scheme seeking to identify the strongest performing areas and those with the room for improvement and also seeking to have independent certification and credibility that would build credibility around the schemes and what we are setting out to do for sustainability. And so we chose as our partner the Carbon Trust which is a not-for-profit making organization in the UK that provides advice on carbon, on certification and accreditation. It has an impressive portfolio of clients as we can see here. It has an established track record in the food industry and therefore enjoys the kind of international recognition which we were requiring for our project. The scope of the beef project we decided to begin at the very start of the supply chain focusing at the farming element where 75% of the emissions arise prior to moving along to the processing and packing stages. And walking on the advice of the Carbon Trust we commenced the pilot program last year walking on the detailed, on the taking detailed audits on 200 farms within our beef quality assurance scheme that were representative of all of the production systems across the scheme and in close collaboration with Tagusk we worked to develop a carbon footprint calculation model utilizing data from the live computerized AIM database in respect of each of the individual farms we were auditing as well as capturing major inputs and outputs from each one of those 200 farms. Our progress to date is that the methodology and calculation model were accredited by the Carbon Trust in March. We commenced to roll out the program to all of the 32,000 members of the scheme in May and we have also commenced at the same time to give feedback to the farmers from that time. As we were rolling out the program we are auditing up to 500 farms every week such that by the end of the first 18 month cycle all farms will have been covered by the end of next year. As we undertake those audits our focus is on collecting data on the key measures that will provide us with an indicative performance and allow us to provide an indicative carbon footprint for each one of the individual farms and feedback to participants on how they can improve their performance. This is the first national quality shown scheme of its type anywhere in the world to include environmental sustainability criteria to incorporate an objective assessment of the carbon footprint. Naturally we want to tell our customers of this unfolding story of how Irish beef is evolving and how we can stand behind what sets Irish beef apart. So we are in the process of informing all of our key customers and briefing them and we'll have that completed by September. It will, I believe, demonstrate a lead and proactive approach to the issue of sustainability providing a unique and comprehensive assurance that is not provided by anybody else to our customers. It will serve to consolidate relationships and enhance the macro profile of Irish beef among our portfolio of customers. We will also be, of course, telling them about the next steps in this process how we aim to extend the sustainability program across other areas within the scheme how we intend to go further along the supply chain and also to work on other value chains as well. It is said that as much as 40% or at least 40% of the world's economy is derived from biological resources and as much as 80% of the needs of the world's poor, water, too, is a critical resource. 70% of it is used in agriculture, in irrigation, and the world is facing scarcity. So we are now walking to focus on benchmarking and capturing the performance each and every one of those 32,000 farms to capture their performance in water and biodiversity to develop a framework for incorporating them into the schemes again, as with carbon, focusing on measurement and improvement. Similarly, we are proposing to go beyond the farm gate measurement and performance in processing and packaging just like on farm and we have actually commenced this process on a pilot basis capturing the processing carbon footprint, with the Carbon Trust and with Tagusk, beginning as in the farm model with a sample of processing plants and our time scale for development is to have the model completed by this September with the accreditation to the PES 2050 standard to which we are seeking accreditation for all of our elements of the scheme by the end of this year. At that stage, we will roll it out to every meat plant in our Quality Shown Scheme and provide ongoing feedback to companies on how they can improve their carbon score. We are also in the process of extending this initiative across other sectors of primary agriculture and starting with dairy. The recently announced sustainability program by Glanbia involves Borbia as partners with Glanbia and where we propose to replicate the work undertaken on beef with the farm element again being the initial focus. That work will be considerably facilitated by the fact that 8,000 dairy farms are already members of our beef Quality Shown Scheme and that is nearly half of the total population of dairy farms in the country and therefore they are being audited on an 18-month cycle in respect of their beef enterprise. We've been engaging once again with the Carbon Trust on this project and initially, as in the case of beef, we will undertake a pilot footprint program of detailed audits on 100 farms in order to develop a carbon calculation footprint model suitable to Irish conditions and get its accreditation. Our timescale for the dairy sector is to complete the pilot footprint program by the end of this year with the methodology and model accreditation coming soon afterwards and then making the model available for rollout across the entire dairy sector when providing feedback to participants on an ongoing basis. Equally, we are... the slides have gone a little bit ahead of me. We are commencing work on other product areas including other meats, white meats, grain and heart culture and we are in discussion with potential partners in each of these primary sectors in order to replicate what we've been doing in the beef and have now commenced in the dairy sector. We will commence work in these sectors in the second half of the year, completing the farm element by the early part of next year on the farm gate in the second half of 2012 until every farm and food business that we can reach out to is signed up fully to the sustainability agenda and provide us with a unique and comprehensive advantage in the marketplace. Of course, we have to recognize that our environmental performance will be judged not just on the environmental performance of our farms and factories, but also on the quality of our wider environment. Our air quality is amongst the highest in Europe according to the EPA with whom we are leasing on this project and our water quality is also above average but clearly we cannot take the quality of the wider environment for granted. There is a range of environmental metrics on which we are benchmarked by the European Environmental Agency into which the EPA inputs its data and our positioning on those metrics is clearly going to be fundamental in supporting the reputation of our food and drink industry and any claims we wish to make of it. The sustainability agenda today defines and measures what we stand for and what sets us apart. It is an agenda that is grounded in the reality of the increasing pressures on a world's limited resources and in the marketplace it is driven more by consumer industries than by consumers but we must remember again that 80% of our exports are in fact business to business because you can't taste sustainability and there are other drivers of change in forming consumer choice as I'm sure we'll learn in the next presentation. And therefore, as John Professor John Welch also reminded us recently, we must also bear in mind that a brand reputation and a brand building rests on emotional as well as on functional attributes and connectivity. So earlier this year we set out to identify what those attributes are or might be that might be most appealing about Irish food and drink in the marketplace. Because we need research to find what moves, matters, motivates people, what defines Irishness in the 21st century and what people outside of Ireland might prefer our products to someone else's. The study was extensive. It spanned seven countries from the United States to Europe to China. It covered six phases and commenced at the beginning of the year. It involved several hundreds of hours of discussions with consumers, with food buyers and food journalists as well as online discussion forum. And the overwhelming image of Ireland coming from the research is not surprisingly one of a nation of warm, friendly, welcoming people, a land of green fields and abundance bestowed by nature free from the pollution typically associated with mass production. But people actually have a limited knowledge of Ireland. The research was conducted during a period when Ireland was in the headlines for all of the wrong reasons. Yes, no negative perceptions or feelings were voiced or transferred. There was virtually no mention of the state in which we as a nation find ourselves today. People take a compassionate, supportive view towards Ireland and towards the Irish people and they distinguish, too, between a people and its institutions. The research also revealed that we need to go beyond green and into its heart. Where we will find what the research described as a people longing for a purity lost and for an instance and respite that the notion of green country can offer. And so we need to think about sustainability to make the consumer connection as something that might be embedded in a nation's overall philosophy embraced almost as a national mission connecting and leveraging the relationships between a land and its people. And so we have been working on developing a brand model based on the outputs from that research where that kind of sustainability agenda can support stories and claims about how we as an industry operate about our respect and care for nature about our pride and place and tradition passion for pure ingredients and great food curiosity and creativity. The research is extensive it is still being distilled and evaluated the outputs are being input into the development of a brand framework or a brand model such as in draft form shown in this slide. A brand reputation underpinned by the physical attributes that we've been talking about and the values that can make the consumer connection that can ultimately play a part in building customer loyalty. We've also to bear in mind of course that brand Ireland has many dimensions and so we have been sharing our research and liaising with other outward facing agencies such as Tourism Ireland and the I.D. Ireland with Enterprise Ireland and with Forge Ireland. And while our target audiences may differ and our messages are variously tailored it is the same overall image of Ireland that transcends frames and informs the overall image that we all have to work with. So whatever route we take to choose to develop a brand reputation for Irish food and drink it has to be consistent with that overall image for that overall brand that is Ireland itself so that that overall image and brand itself can also feed into the different individual dimensions. As the world continues to grapple with the challenge of climate change and struggles to keep pace with the growth in global demand this is a time of unparalleled opportunity for our food industry. As David Bell and Mary Shelman of the Harvard Business School wrote last year Ireland is at an enviable starting point in the race to produce exactly the type of food that a growing number of consumers are demanding. We in this country have always believed that being green and natural is fundamental to our brand image. Now we have presented ourselves to the world how the world has seen us and now as being green and natural assumes a new and more powerful relevance we have the opportunity to demonstrate and prove it and in the process become market makers rather than market takers. Pathways for growth is founded under principle of an industry walking together as partners not as competitors an innovation leading to differentiation in the marketplace and on brands built around closing the customer feedback loop. The agenda I have set out today about sustainability and supporting our brand reputation and building a brand image for Irish food and drink can I believe play an integral role in delivering pathways for growth and the progress of our industry. Thank you for your attention.