The Barracks on Substack

This is The Book of The Barracks, One man's 10 year plan to build a post-climate change, self-sufficient, vegan community, serialised in infinite weekly chapters.

For the longest time, I have been wanting to do much more granular updates of the day-to-day of the barracks. I’ve been hamstrung in this by the constant idea that it should be in video format. And monetised. Which clearly means I should have a YouTube channel. The creatures on my shoulders have been nagging me for years now - I should be a YouTuber.

I dipped my toe into the water, with the One Man Working channel, which was (is) a sort of ASMR / relaxation channel of very long, very boring videos of me doing very long very boring work. I quite liked it. But it’s not going to set the world aflame.

To make an engaging, interesting YouTube channel, I was sure, I needed assistance.

Over the last couple of years, I have been trying to persuade people, from hobbyists to supporters to professional film-makers that it would be a Reall…