Update on My Battle Over the Farm Border
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About Gold Shaw Farm: Gold Shaw Farm is more of a farm-in-progress than an honest-to-goodness farm. We dream that someday we can transform our 150+ acre parcel of land into a regenerative and productive homestead and farm.
It is my least favorite day of the year on the farm. Dealing with this specific farm life chore is frustrating but necessary.
Not every task on the property is enjoyable, and today I have to head out to the woods to handle a situation that is quite bothersome. While I appreciate the work we do here, the underlying reasons for this particular job make it a difficult day to get through. I show you the process as I navigate the trees and stone walls to place a trap near the stream.
This is a raw look at the realities of homesteading where things do not always go as planned. Even when the work is frustrating, maintaining our farm management standards remains a priority for the health of the property. I walk you through the steps of my daily routine as I tackle this unpleasant requirement.
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@brucelarrow7897
September 14, 2026 at 12:42 pm
If you have a problem with hound hunters try to find other ways to hunt bear maybe allow for baiting if bear
@VicsYard
September 14, 2026 at 12:42 pm
I’m here again. Great video. I absolutely love getting out to post properties. We pay way too much tax for random people to enjoy your land. Thanks for posting.
@bshea937
September 14, 2026 at 12:42 pm
This is the simplest way to manage hunting access. You start w the premise that private property ( that you usually pay r.e. taxes on ) is PRIVATE PROPERTY.
Thus THE ONLY way that property can be hunted is w approval of the landowner granted b4 the hunting season. Approval needs 2b provable. Landowner could have a prestamped 3×5 index card that could also notate any limitations such as daylight only, not w/i 1000 yards of livestock etc or the state w the hunting license could issue a passport that has pp that can be signed off by individual landowners again w any limitations the choose to impose.
IF the state feels that it can tell you others have rights 2b on that propery UNLESS you the landowner jumps thru 5 separate hoops then you are no longer the beneficial owner of that property and they can not collect taxes from you. I would raise this issue next time state has hearings on hunting private lands.
@jonathanflynn8640
September 14, 2026 at 12:42 pm
I’m for getting rid of all posted land to Hunting, where the appropriate means of hunting can be done safely. If it’s Bear hunting with dogs you don’t like, and the only reason why you post your land, then work to change that with your state legislature. You should know best, this is the process to make the change you really want. Then you can take down all those posted signs and save yourself that additional work. Let’s not insult all the hunters that hunted on that land for centuries before you showed up and decided to take that freedom away. We just had a very wealthy Doctor who lives in another state buy up over 2,000 acres of the largest continuous forest land in our small town. He immediately posted the entire property because he said his wife doesn’t like hunting. His children instead now come up a couple times a year with friends and race 4 wheelers all around the 2,000+ acres harassing every Moose, Deer and Turkey on that land. I give it 10 years and he will propose a housing development or business be built n that property. 10 years the locals could have been enjoying hunting on that land, the same land their great great grandfathers were hunting on. This is typical… wealthy come in buy up all the land and just post it. Let’s find more ways to separate the wealthy from the local folks who keep the town running. On a similar note, how would you like to see every lake get posted by private land owners who own all the land around it and allow no public access to that lake because you don’t like fisherman using artificial lures to catch fish?
@ttttttttp2
September 14, 2026 at 12:42 pm
It seems like they want to punish the average civilian for hunters pleasure. Not everyone is mobile enough to do this and property lines do not change. Striking out the 5 year rule with paint is dissapointing, but can be brought back to the table for reconsiderstion, IF it is pushed for.
Thank you for advocating for your community ❤
@LingLingFromQLD
September 14, 2026 at 12:42 pm
The trees be like: "K, keep me posted."
@jerualem1234
September 14, 2026 at 12:42 pm
What’s up with the rune hat, brother?
@duanedibbley1661
September 14, 2026 at 12:42 pm
There's some big rocks in that wall. Are you sure it wasn't aliens? 🤣
@duanedibbley1661
September 14, 2026 at 12:42 pm
As someone who lives in the western U.S. this seems insane to me. You can't hunt on private land unless you contact and have permission from the land owner.
@Hepad_
September 14, 2026 at 12:42 pm
Are you allowed to shoot the dog if it comes on your land ?
@Secret_Squirrel_Scottishgamer
September 14, 2026 at 12:42 pm
All hunters should be politely asking permission .. at the end of the day hunting can and usually does help farmers keep pests like foxes as well as help certain other animals from eating the crops or animal feed for the farm animals so hunting is usually beneficial to farms.. HOWEVER Hunters who have large egos and walk around like they own the property when they have no permission to be there is down right selfish in my opinion they arent the ones who have to pay money to maintain the farm.
@thegorgon7063
September 14, 2026 at 12:42 pm
As far as these hunters are concerned it's "rights for me but not for thee".
@wyhesggifrid
September 14, 2026 at 12:42 pm
10:11 machete is your friend
@wyhesggifrid
September 14, 2026 at 12:42 pm
6:29 set up camera traps around it next time, lets see what kind of wild life comes for it
@bobsnow4890
September 14, 2026 at 12:42 pm
Ya know what balances deer populations? Bears.
@NewEnglandSportfishing
September 14, 2026 at 12:42 pm
If you don’t like the traditions and constitution of the state you moved to you could just get the fuck out.
@earlrichards7108
September 14, 2026 at 12:42 pm
All private land should be considered posted by definition
@CynthiaNoelTraveler
September 14, 2026 at 12:42 pm
I know it's hated chore, but we love the trek along. Thanks for taking us. RIP Telemachus.
@FuDao888
September 14, 2026 at 12:42 pm
let's get back to 100k/vid
@aburgerabz
September 14, 2026 at 12:42 pm
seems very us americyn, to have to block hunters instead tgey need permit to hunt….
@ginaderosebell3526
September 14, 2026 at 12:42 pm
Maybe the signs are becoming hard to reach because the tree grew taller, taking the sign with the trunk?
@Longlius
September 14, 2026 at 12:42 pm
It's a kind of baffling situation. The law made sense when we were talking about colonial times when this area was fully wooded and 'control' of a parcel of land was a tenuous thing. But it doesn't make much sense in the 21st century.
@RavenSaint1
September 14, 2026 at 12:42 pm
Where I live, you paint your property line with Purple Paint to show your land is not for hunting. If you reach out and touch them with a high speed wireless device, you cannot get in trouble if they are well and truly 20 feet from the property line, inside it. We live about 45 minutes from nearest law enforcement. So, we have to handle things ourselves. We do have the "GPS" and "Road" hunters. Where they will shoot from the road onto people's property. Last year a road hunter shot a kid's pet pig about 5 feet from the kid, kid was 6 years old. I don't know if they ever caught the hunter, but it was so dangerous. Not only did they shoot close to that young kid, the house was behind the pig where the parents and two other kids. One a baby and the other 10yo. The kid was screaming since it scared the heck out by the bang and his pet dropping dead next to him. He was also sprayed by the blood from the pig.
I hope they allow you to get a Purple Paint law.
@MissBetsyluss
September 14, 2026 at 12:42 pm
If you want to live there, maybe you should accept the culture.
Otherwise freaking leave.
Why should a whole culture have to change just for you???
Blessings all
@JawzXlives
September 14, 2026 at 12:42 pm
Yep. The dog boys were cruising up an down my road yesterday while I was moving fence. I'm a native Vermonter, I hunt, and as a sheep farmer I want the deer population controlled. I don't want my property posted, and I don't want to deal with posted properties, but I also don't want dog hunters on my property. I'm not even sure I'm actually against dog hunting on an ethical level, but I don't want those dogs chasing a bear across my land, through my fences, scattering and traumatizing my flock. I have shot, and will again shoot any dogs who mess with my livestock… I keep weighing the anti-social and legal impact of putting up signs that say, not "posted" but "un-leashed dogs will be shot"
@xenaM22
September 14, 2026 at 12:42 pm
I would take this yearly task as a good opportunity to visit and check on the land…see the changes, damages or just beauty of it all… quite meditative on its own too… and above all good exercise, lol
@chadroberts4832
September 14, 2026 at 12:42 pm
4th Generation, there is nothing that infuriates Vermonters more than people purchasing land with a mindset of its "mine" now. The posting laws are purposely setup to encourage landowners to leave raw land open for everyone to enjoy. Hunting, fishing, skiing, snowmobiling ect. You either embrace the community mindset or you don't. Most people that move here don't.
@wannabecraftygrandma
September 14, 2026 at 12:42 pm
The purple paint law is ingenious and should be implemented in every state. Because it is known by most hunters, we may do it even though it's not in our state. For those that really want to uphold the law, they would recognize the paint and stay off. We have had trouble with racoon and coyote hunters year round, then of course deer hunters. None want to ask if they could come on, and others think they just own it.
@taiga738
September 14, 2026 at 12:42 pm
I don't see why you can't leave the sign. The remaining traces of what used to be carry history. Stuff like that gets people teaching eachother about the history of the area and how it got the way it is now, like what you do on your walks.
@skog125
September 14, 2026 at 12:42 pm
I have the same problem with coyote hunters using dogs on my sheep farm in Wisconsin. It's incredibly frustrating. I honestly wouldn't care if they just asked for permission. One time they parked in my driveway blocking access to my own farm. I'm sure the hunters wouldn't be happy if I ran dogs on their property without permission.
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