James's awesome award-winning beard!
Happy Homestead is a great name that encompasses our goals, hobbies, lifestyle and mindset very well. We are by no means experts in any homesteading field, but we enjoy experimenting, making mistakes, learning and exploring what works best for us in our aims to establish a sustainable and easy going life.
However, I have to be honest, when we first started documenting the journey towards a more self-reliant life back in autumn of 2016 I didn’t think anybody would follow us along as we are such a small family with very little to offer when compared to the larger homesteading channels. This is why I am very surprised and deeply humbled to learn that not only we have a small community interested in us, we also have a larger community who warmly welcomed us!
Let me tell you a story: Tom, one of the YouTube homesteaders from the Whistle Thicket channel has decided to hold a beard competition asking the community to nominate and vote for various people cultivating the best “face gardens”. James has been sporting an awesome beard for over two years and has always been known in our local community as “the one with the beard” so it was no surprise to me that he entered this awesome beard competition!
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We didn’t expect much of it though as there are so many formidable beards sported amongst the YouTube homesteaders - just look at Tom himself or Dough (from Off-Grid with Doug and Stacey). Yes, we thought it’d be awesome to get a mention in someone else’s video and whilst James’s beard is indeed the longest on the whole island of Eday we thought there was certainly no chance of actual recognition on the internet - it was just a bit of fun!
A couple of weeks later the results were in and we were stoked to learn that not only James’s awesome beard was mentioned, it actually won an award!
Here is the video set at the exact time of this awesome announcement!
Here is the video set at the exact time of this awesome announcement!
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It was an awesome award titled “Viking’s Beard - The Pride of Orkney” to recognise the longest beard amongst all YouTube homesteaders. The award came with a custom made certificate - how many people can say the have a certified award-winning beard? This was such a proud moment for James and we both felt really honoured. It was definitely a great time to blow the horn of victory and make more blaand and mead!
My award winning Viking beard!
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Orcadian Viking's beard!
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This experience has made us feel that despite the lack of real homesteading skills, we do indeed belong to a very welcoming, loving and friendly community of YouTube homesteaders who are forthcoming in sharing tips, ideas, methods and inspiration with newbies like us. We are so happy to be a part of such a large and knowledgeable family! We would also like to thank Tom for an awesome idea, great execution and most amazing certificate ever!
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