Interesting Food/Gardening/foraging/food preservation/DIY Youtube channel

[SilverFly]

Found this Youtube channel playing at a local sushi spot. In a nutshell, this young girl lives on a rural Sichuan farm with her grandma. She (and I'm sure a large/unseen support staff) grow a huge variety of crops and livestock. She also forages for wild foods, firewood, and anything useful. Then cooks incredibly delicious looking, wood-fired dishes. She also builds things like an outdoor oven, fences, rock walls, bamboo furniture, arbors, etc... using available materials with very little, to no purchased hardware. We like it as a relaxing wind-down after a long day at work. DIY'ers be warned!

https://www.youtube.com/@cnliziqi

 

[TicTokCroc]

She's not hard to look at either

 

[SilverFly]

She's not hard to look at either

I'm sure that contributes to her 50M+ viewer base. Fortunately, her smarts and resourcefulness are the true stars of the show.

 

[TicTokCroc]

I'm sure that contributes to her 50M+ viewer base. Fortunately, her smarts and resourcefulness are the true stars of the show.

Yea, I've seen the silk blanket video she did. She is definitely the most professionally done vlog of that style. There's a lot of SE Asian vlogs that are wilderness cooking/survival shelter camping style that are set up like thirst traps so it's hard to sort through and watch without the youtube algorithm screwing you, I can only be slapped so many times

 

[Evan B]

She's not hard to look at either

In all reality, that's likely a huge contributor to the success. She has a full production team and the channel generates a lot of revenue selling merchandise for her brand and all that... which led to a lot of legal battles because she never really saw any of the money.

In any case, it's actually a really, really wholesome channel and great to have on in the background during stuff around the house.

 

[TicTokCroc]

I like this Romanian village grandma cooking channel its oddly relaxing and satisfying.

 

[SilverFly]

Saving old-school, farm knowledge before it evaporates completely is definitely one of the positive (and ironic) benefits of inter-web technology.

 

[SilverFly]

One thing I'm jealous of is having access to giant bamboo. Such an incredibly useful/versatile material (not just for fly rods).

 

[TicTokCroc]

In all reality, that's likely a huge contributor to the success. She has a full production team and the channel generates a lot of revenue selling merchandise for her brand and all that... which led to a lot of legal battles because she never really saw any of the money.

In any case, it's actually a really, really wholesome channel and great to have on in the background during stuff around the house.

It is a great innocent channel. I just get pissed off at YouTubes algorithm. It seems anything more hunting/fishing/sports/outdoors oriented you watch they slip in some thirst traps in the suggestions which really doesn't help when your scrolling on the big screen eating dinner and all of a sudden it's bikini bowfishing, or tits camping in the snow van life hour

 

[Evan B]

It is a great innocent channel. I just get pissed off at YouTubes algorithm. It seems anything more hunting/fishing/sports/outdoors oriented you watch they slip in some thirst traps in the suggestions which really doesn't help when your scrolling on the big screen eating dinner and all of a sudden it's bikini bowfishing, or tits camping in the snow van life hour

Hah, seriously. In all honesty, I consume little to no fishing media. Watching people fish in videos just never did anything for me. So, thankfully, my suggestions are thirst-trap-free. Most mine are cooking/DIY related, which is mostly pretty free of rage-bait for me.

 

[TicTokCroc]

Been watching a lot of arrowhead hunting lately, I'm going to Idaho for Christmas break and have good luck hunting the drawn down reservoirs. Just look and put them back


These rat dogs are fun to watch. They love doing thir job. It's funny how in England they don't have many sporting opportunities for the common folk (kings game) so they make due.

 

[Zak]

Found this Youtube channel playing at a local sushi spot. In a nutshell, this young girl lives on a rural Sichuan farm with her grandma. She (and I'm sure a large/unseen support staff) grow a huge variety of crops and livestock. She also forages for wild foods, firewood, and anything useful. Then cooks incredibly delicious looking, wood-fired dishes. She also builds things like an outdoor oven, fences, rock walls, bamboo furniture, arbors, etc... using available materials with very little, to no purchased hardware. We like it as a relaxing wind-down after a long day at work. DIY'ers be warned!

https://www.youtube.com/@cnliziqi

These videos are great and beautifully done!

 

[Evan B]

Those folks in the midwest dealing with the Asian carp explosion should watch this video

 

[Zak]

I also enjoy this gentleman's unsual cooking videos:

 

[Evan B]

Kind've revisiting the channel a bit here and remembering how much of a bad ass this woman is.

 

[Matt B]

Found this Youtube channel playing at a local sushi spot. In a nutshell, this young girl lives on a rural Sichuan farm with her grandma. She (and I'm sure a large/unseen support staff) grow a huge variety of crops and livestock. She also forages for wild foods, firewood, and anything useful. Then cooks incredibly delicious looking, wood-fired dishes. She also builds things like an outdoor oven, fences, rock walls, bamboo furniture, arbors, etc... using available materials with very little, to no purchased hardware. We like it as a relaxing wind-down after a long day at work. DIY'ers be warned!

https://www.youtube.com/@cnliziqi

The videography is really beautiful, too. The lighting in that last scene of the kitty cat oven vid you posted? <chef’s kiss>

 

[Mark Melton]

This should qualify as foraging and DIY.

 

[Matt B]

This should qualify as foraging and DIY.

If ya like that, you should see the stuff @Wadin' Boot makes!

 

[troutstalker]

I also enjoy this gentleman's unsual cooking videos:

I really like his videos and cooking/food prep areas as well.

 

[Wadin' Boot]

If ya like that, you should see the stuff @Wadin' Boot makes!

You tube has decided i really like "antisocial loner builds an underground shelter out of mud, moss, sticks and rocks to weather out one night of a snow and/or rain storm and eat a meal of boiled stuff cooked over a smoky rock and mud oven" vids