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Silas Mercer Farmstead

@silasmercerfarmstead

Language: EnglishCountry: United States7 years old

  • Persona: Silas Mercer · Homesteader · Senior
  • Sells · $37 guide
  • Homesteading
  • Gardening
  • Perennial plants
  • Medicinal plants
  • Self-sufficiency
  • Off-grid
  • Old-time tricks
  • Livestock feed
Subscribers
54K
Total views
3.41M
Videos
132

Stats updated Stats from YouTube

Growth

Subscribers · daily totals we stored, UTC days

Dotted: 2 days without a fresh subscriber total stored in this range. Left out, not filled in.

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Subscribers per UTC day, last 30 days, newest first
Day (UTC)Subscribers
Oct 14, 202654,000
Oct 13, 202653,800
Oct 12, 202653,700
Oct 11, 202653,600
Oct 10, 202653,400
Oct 9, 202653,300
Oct 8, 202653,300
Oct 7, 2026not available
Oct 6, 2026not available
Oct 5, 202653,000
Oct 4, 202652,900
Oct 3, 202652,800
Oct 2, 202652,600
Oct 1, 202652,500
Sep 30, 202652,200
Sep 29, 202652,100
Sep 28, 202652,000
Sep 27, 202651,800
Sep 26, 202651,600
Sep 25, 202651,400
Sep 24, 202651,200
Sep 23, 202650,800
Sep 22, 202650,600
Sep 21, 202650,300
Sep 20, 202644,500
Sep 19, 202649,500
Sep 18, 202648,700
Sep 17, 202648,500
Sep 16, 202647,800
Sep 15, 202647,600
Sep 14, 202647,300

Top videos

Most viewed

What they sell

From the public store pages the channel links to, checked Oct 13, 2026.

  • Guide

    The Forgotten Frontier Journal

    $37shown against $47

    Labelled a first-edition launch price that the page says ends Sunday night

    • 904 pages
    • 7-day guarantee
    Platform
    Own site (Stripe)
    AI
    AI use not stated
    Store
    silasmercer.shop (opens in a new tab)

    · Evidence: silasmercer.shop

How they sell it

  1. 1Video
  2. 2DescriptionFirst line: 'Save $5,000 A Year By Learning The Forgotten Frontier Skills Of Our Forefathers', with the shop link below
  3. 3Landing pageOwn site (Stripe) · Long sales page for the 904-page Journal: $47 struck through, $37 launch price, 7-day money-back guarantee · silasmercer.shop
  4. 4UpsellOwn site (Stripe) · Order-form add-on: 7 days in the Mercer Ridge Society members' community for $1, then $30 per month unless cancelled
  5. 5CheckoutOwn site (Stripe) · Checkout on the shop's own site via Stripe
  6. 6EmailThe page says the Journal is emailed within 60 seconds
  • Store link in 100% of recent descriptions
  • Link in descriptions since Sep 5, 2026
  • Entry points: the description body

Every recent description opens with 'Save $5,000 A Year By Learning The Forgotten Frontier Skills Of Our Forefathers' and links silasmercer.shop. The shop is one long sales page for The Forgotten Frontier Journal, described as 904 pages and 124 chapters written down from an Appalachian family, at a $37 first-edition price with $47 struck through, a 7-day money-back guarantee and a Stripe checkout on the site itself. The order form carries a box adding a 7-day trial of the Mercer Ridge Society, a private members' community, for $1; the page says the trial activates only if the box remains selected and then renews at $30 per month unless cancelled.

Analysis

Our own reading of the channel’s public titles, descriptions and thumbnails, not data from YouTube.

Persona

Silas Mercer

Homesteader · Senior · Male · Farm fields, vegetable gardens and a red barn on a homestead

Niche

Old-time homestead plants, forgotten remedies and self-reliance tricks

Audience

Gardeners, homesteaders and self-reliance-minded viewers, probably mainly in the US (channel country US; titles mention America and frontier gardens), interested in perennial food, medicinal plants and cheap DIY alternatives (inferred from titles and the about text).

Avatar
  • Realistic avatar
  • A photorealistic senior homesteader with a long grey beard, wide-brimmed brown felt hat, leather vest and cream henley, shown waist-up on a farm or in a garden, holding a plant, root or harvest and talking towards the camera.
Format

A long narrated deep-dive on one overlooked plant, crop or old homestead trick, pitched as better than a common product and as forgotten or suppressed; or a numbered list of such plants or tricks.

Content pillars
  • Overlooked perennial food plants
  • Medicinal plants and old herbal remedies
  • Cheap DIY fertilizers and garden pest control
  • Livestock feed and homestead animals
  • Off-grid water, fuel and beekeeping builds
Title patterns
  • Better Than [familiar food]. [Benefit], [Benefit], Never Needs Replanting
  • Tastes Like [X]. [Benefit]. Why Does Nobody Plant It?
  • More [nutrient] Than [X]. [Benefit]. Why [Was It Erased / Did We Forget It]?
  • The [remedy] You Can Grow for Free. Sold in [year], Gone by [year]. What Happened?
  • [N] Plants Worth More Than Gold That Nobody's [Growing / Planting]
Thumbnails

The persona waist-up on a farm or in a garden, holding or pointing at the plant or product; large white or yellow all-caps captions with a red keyword ('BETTER THAN [X]', 'ILLEGAL'), red arrows, bright saturated skies; sometimes split panels or a labelled diagram.

Their thumbnails, most viewed first

Why it works
  • Two breakout videos at 778,666 and 544,226 views, together about 40% of the channel's 3,307,021 total views
  • Forgotten-or-suppressed angle: 10 of the last 30 titles say a method was erased, buried, forbidden or lost; 5 of the top 10 call it forgotten or overlooked
  • Very high output of long videos: about 14 uploads a week (median gap 0.3 days), usually 28–34 min
  • One homesteader persona in the avatar and all 10 thumbnails, holding the plant next to a short 'BETTER THAN [X]' style caption
  • A lasting-value promise: 4 titles say 'Never Needs Replanting', including a top video at 167,133 views

Where the channel points

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