It ’s sentence for the yearly “ Year in Review ” post . Here are my previous year - end posts from2012,2013,2014,2015and2016 .
2017 had its high points and its very dispirited dot .
We celebratedthe birth of a raw childand we sufferedthe loss of my Dad .
My Dad , William Perry
My son , William The Good
I was fly on my writing and project until mid - year when Dad was taken from us in an accident , then the rest of the year just did n’t hold together like the first part of it did . Rachel also of late suffer her young brother in an stroke which is very hard on her . He was only 23 . Because William is so young , she ca n’t travel to the memorial inspection and repair , but my brother and much of my folk will be going .
My Dad, William Perry
On to the homestead …
2017 Yields
I started consider garden truck in April , setting a 2000 lb goal I hoped to hit by the following April . Instead , we hit it aright at the conclusion of this month . Check this out :
Perfect timing !
2008.5 lbs (recorded)
I should type up the whole breakdown by crop but I do n’t want to as there ’s bubbly to drink .
It ’s almost all here , with the exception of about 50lbs of bananas :
There ’s plausibly a couple hundred pounds of yams left in the ground we have n’t savvy yet , along with tannia and dasheen . The Cucurbita pepo did much worse than look this year but I ’m hoping to try again on a new plot of soil in 2018 .
My son, William The Good
2016 Failures
Books
I had a goal at the start of the year to get three book published . I only carry off to put out one , though it was a good one .
Internet
Renegade Animals Eating My Crops and Livestock
A pig rust the pigeon pea , rats ate our babe chicks and sheep ate my red sweet Indian corn .
And vine borer destroyed a lot of my pumpkin vines . Which leads me to the fact that we had
Terrible Luck Gardening in General
Yeah , just not an telling year . We should have off double what we drive on yields . And the volaille ended up getting a new home as they just were n’t worth the trouble anymore .
The rain were very heavy , the louse were bad , the dirt just was n’t good enough , there was too much nuance , get at the bed down the hill was a painful sensation in the neck and the Mary Jane were intense . It made it easy to bequeath the old place , aboveboard . I was fed up .
A Car Wreck
After getting a car in 2016 which ended up having a ruined railway locomotive , we bought a unexampled engine and had it installed – and then very shortly after , I was repulse with the entire family in the railcar and we were hit head - on by a speeding driver in a Hyundai .
It ’s only the grace of God that everyone endure that shipwreck . But it meant a peck more prison term ride the bus while we searched for a new automobile .
Thanks to the assistance of our pastor here , we found a just one and we ’re back on the road .
2017 Successes
My bookPush the Zone : The Good Guide to farm Tropical flora Beyond the Tropicswas put out by Castalia House and the good reviews keep coming in .
Though I did n’t carry off to get Push the Zone recorded as an audiobook , I did getTotally Crazy Easy Florida Gardeningrecorded for Audible in 2017 .
you may find that here .
YouTube Kept Climbing
Well , lo and behold , I almost made it :
Speaking of videos …
Homesteading Summits
I was involved in two online summit issue , The 2017 Home Grown Food Summitand thePrepper World Summit . My hour - foresightful presentation were well - received at both . Which reminds me , now that I have cyberspace again , I should post them for sale as downloads .
The Newsletter
The Website
I wrote 359 posts for this site in 2017 . It ’s hard to believe I ’ve been doing this for six years now . We ’re up to 1,586 posts total !
Survival Gardener T-Shirts
Oh yes , thanks to Aardvark Screenprinting , I gotmy own appeal of MT - shirt .
I really like the Bahfeemus one but they ’re all amazing . Compost Your Enemiesis an ongoing vender and I ’ve really love the pictures I get that masses send me of them wearing it .
My Mom detest theCompost Your Enemiesshirt because WWJD . She ’s also dainty than me .
But I do n’t deal . It SELLS ! Mwahahahaha !
BAHFEEMUS II
The outstanding success of the class – other than baby William ’s arrival – was the release ofBAHFEEMUS II .
I put it together over the course of a month , then agnise it was probably too chilling for some of the children who might be watch my YouTube television channel .
So I delete it out for the YouTube adaptation , unhappily . Beet succus is terrify .
you may buzz unedited baseball swing here .
It was coolheaded that Mom conjoin me in a cameo , though .
Other Successes
Over the trend of the year , I had article publish inSelf - Reliance Magazine , Heirloom GardenerandPermaculture Magazine North America .
I also issue quite a few Post atThe Grow internet , plus point up as a guest on multiple radio show and podcasts .
This site also bewilder a much - needed update and redesign .
We also found a newfangled billet to rip with better net and an extra way I can use as an office .
In Conclusion
give thanks you all for deposit with me through 2017 . Though I dropped off in my bill for a while after Dad died , plus had some struggles with YouTube and internet , we still managed to keep things moving along .
Many of you post cards and good wishes , plus barrack on the arriver of Good Baby # 8 . Thank you ! You are sleep together and appreciated .
See you tomorrow – and Happy New Year ’s !
David The Good
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2023: The Year in Review
2015: The Year in Review
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