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Well, well, well, happy Thursday,

everybody.

Oh, yeah.

Just another Thursday in the United States

of amnesia.

You got to love it.

This podcast, as always,

brought to you by the Sovereign Health

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That's going to be October twenty seven

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That's going to be in Harmony,

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And we also have online tickets so you

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You're going to want to check this out

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Barbara O'Neill is going to be.

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So they're kind of unlike a lot of

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This one here isn't going to be having

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These are people talking about things that

may not even be in her wheelhouse at

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Oh, by the way,

here's another little development on the

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T over at Mountain Readiness has his event

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So if you buy a ticket to the

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the um his readiness which is mountain

readiness yeah so you're going to want to

check that out folks there are some fans

like i've said before it's the best

festival most people have never even heard

about sun after having been there what

were your thoughts of it

Oh, I mean,

it really is the best like homesteading

preparedness festival there is.

I mean,

there's just whatever you want to get

into.

There's some sort of expert there in the

full spectrum of preparedness and things

like that.

I mean,

and even the classes afterwards and

beforehand are awesome as well.

Like I did that.

What's it called?

Tactical Rifleman.

And then I also did Troy's Gate.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Those were awesome.

pretty doggone intense,

but I learned more in those two days

and like how to use a weapon than

I have the rest of my life before

that.

So.

Yeah, that's I mean,

it's all coming in one package.

Also,

that's pretty awesome of him to do that

as well,

because we're all going to be basically at

the same doggone giant campground.

And anybody that's thinking we're going to

be out in the rain.

No,

there's a covered area where the main

speaking area is going to be that seats

about five thousand.

A little bit rustic, but hey, man,

that's exactly what we need.

A little more rustic these days, folks.

And maybe we'll come around to some of

that in this podcast.

Hey, Sam, before we kick it off,

I got to tell you what happened earlier.

I went into town I had to go

into Mars Hill and drop off packages for

anybody that ordered comfrey bone sauce or

rice knives or anything like that so

afterwards your mom wanted me to go by

this area at this local college that we

have where there's probably a thousand

cubic yards of aged wood chips so you

know it takes a little bit I'm out

there got my shirt off doing my thing

and um

know i fill up the back of the

truck and then as i'm driving by i'm

thinking okay man i got a little bit

of a headache because i kind of gave

up coffee again which turns out to be

probably a wonderful thing for me

especially if it's not el salvador coffee

anyway as i'm driving back i pull into

this gas station and i'm trying to get

like some decaf i'm not something that has

like a hint of because i had this

little headache and i'm thinking man maybe

it's because of caffeine or whatever so i

get some decaf and

And as I'm going up there to check

out,

there's a guy in front of me and

he has one of these.

What do you call those drinks?

It's like Mike's hard soda or something

like that.

Yeah.

It's an alcoholic drink or whatever.

And he pays for it with a five.

I mean, this dude fit.

If you had to look at the quintessential,

I mean,

straight out of deliverance kind of guy.

This was it, man.

And he was in his mid to late

twenties or whatever.

So he hands the lady a five.

She hands him back his change.

And then he kind of looks back at

me.

He says, you know what?

Why don't you go ahead, buddy?

So I get up there,

pay for my coffee.

And I can see he's wanting to get

back in line.

So I thought he was just being courteous

to let me go ahead.

So I kind of shuffle off to the

side and let him get back in front.

He says, you know what?

Hey,

why don't you go ahead and let me

get a dollar thirty two and let it

out there and pump whatever it was.

And I just I just kind of paused

for a second.

I didn't make a big deal out of

it.

I just paused.

I'm like, hold on.

This kind of demonstrates this is kind of

a microcosm of America prior.

Yeah.

You got the basic stuff.

You got the bare essentials knocked out.

You got five bucks to your name,

and you spend over three bucks of that

five bucks to get yourself a can of

whatever that is,

like Mike's Hard Soda or whatever,

and you're going to use the buck

thirty-two.

So what did he get,

like a quart of gas out of the

deal?

Yeah, he got a handful.

He got a handful of gas.

Yeah.

I don't know how far you plan on

going on a court, bro,

but more power to you.

And I was thinking, good night, man.

This is the absolute positive.

I know people.

I was talking to your Uncle Dion

yesterday,

and we were talking about that story that

he told me of these folks that they

got this trailer.

It's on five acres,

and they don't have septic,

and they don't have a well.

And so what do they do?

Well,

they do what any normal person would do.

They'd take the remainings of the money

they borrowed to get this house put in

place and went off to Branson.

I mean, you know,

it's kind of hard to feel bad for

people that are rolling like that.

But I'm like, okay, bro.

I'm not making a whole lot of judgments

out of you,

but your priorities are clearly

misaligned.

It's even worse with Branson.

It's one thing if they're like, yeah,

we went to Rome and we wanted to

explore some history or something like

that.

No, they went to the low-budget Las Vegas,

Branson.

The place where you go as an entertainer

where, you know,

let's say you're a country music guy.

Well, let's say you sold out arenas.

Then it was, you know, I mean,

let's say it was, you know,

stadiums and arenas, then, you know,

Indian casinos.

And then when you find yourself down here,

you know, in Branson.

Yeah.

You know,

you didn't exactly hit the jackpot on that

one.

Yeah.

So anyway,

I just thought I'd tell that one.

And I was like, okay, well, yeah.

I mean, man,

I've run into this kind of stuff all

the time.

Anyway.

We'll just get him right to the farm

news.

But hey, folks,

I want to tell you about a podcast

out there.

I've kind of briefly talked about it

before.

But I really think, man,

if you're a Bible-believing Christian as I

am, I'm going to tell you,

it can do you more harm than good

when you listen to a bunch of podcasts

that talk about,

from a very secular stance,

everything that's going on in the world.

And it can, it can get too much.

And for me,

knowing that I got to keep one foot

in order to do this podcast and,

you know,

talk about things that are relevant,

I got to kind of pay attention to

what's going on.

But I've kind of redacted myself from a

lot of what's happening out there.

I'll spend maybe a little bit of time

looking into it.

And then I spend the rest of my

time doing something worthwhile.

You know, like, you know,

something in which I can learn something

that's really, really going to benefit me.

But I'm telling you,

if you're a little bit

with a lot of the people out there

and the information they provide.

Look, go check out Dr.

Scott Johnson over at the Contending for

Truth podcast.

Folks, I'm not kidding you.

It is awful.

I mean, your mom's son,

she's absolutely... I turned her on to it.

I don't know why it took so long,

but she ended up getting around to it.

Man, every time I turn around,

she's got that thing playing.

And he gives you a sit-rep of what's

going on from one week to the next.

He doesn't do it two or three times

a week, but he handles...

Honestly,

in terms of the information he provides,

man, I'm telling you what,

he's dropping a month's worth of research

into a two-part podcast that he releases

once a week.

So I just wanted to tell people out

there, I mean, he gave us a pretty,

he's given us quite a few shout outs

over there.

And as I've had

interactions with him through voice

messages and stuff like that man i can

tell this guy is the real deal and

he's he if you want to get a

good solid basis of what's going on out

there go check it out contending for truth

podcast and i think you're going to be

glad you did um all right so i'll

jump into the farm news right now

Well, look, y'all, just keeping it real,

things are kind of getting away from me

on the mountain side of things around

here.

When you're balancing – and look,

it's not just me.

It's everybody in the sound of my voice

right now,

especially if you are running a farm,

running a family,

doing all the things that you need to

do,

some things are probably going to get left

out.

And more than likely, if you're smart,

if you're not like that guy at the

gas station –

The things that you're going to put back

on the shelf is that, you know,

three dollars in change liquor and maybe

put all five bucks into the gas tank.

You know,

you're going to do that sort of thing

if you got some sense out there.

But the same thing kind of happens on

your homestead if you're not careful.

So obviously the family,

you got to look after that.

Your spiritual life,

you got to look after that.

There's a whole lot of things that are

important.

And some of the things that are a

little further down, they're important,

but they're a little further down on the

list.

They kind of get left behind.

So that's where I'm at right now.

It's just that stage.

I'm trying to catch up.

But it's always, not always,

but as of late,

there seems to be a lot of people

kind of pressing me for my time.

And folks,

I'm having to get better and better and

better.

I've never been a guy that was really

good at saying no.

but I'm really starting to get good at

it.

Not that I relish having to tell people,

no, I just don't have the bandwidth.

I can't have you on the podcast.

I can't do this.

I got people blowing me up every other

day.

asking for favors and stuff and you know

i wish them well but hey i mean

there's only there's only twenty four

hours in a day and i got things

i got to do you know people are

hitting me up hey can we stop by

for a visit absolutely not i i don't

have the bandwidth it's got to be very

infrequent people asking hey can we take a

tour absolutely not especially in these

times and folks i'll talk about that

probably in the later podcast all the

reasons why

If you have to be very, very cautious,

especially in these times who you let

through the front door.

There's a really good biblical example.

I want to say it was Hezekiah.

Let the enemy in,

let them see everything they had.

And then, you know, next thing you know,

Didn't work out well for him.

Anyway, things get away from you.

So other things we got going on around

here.

Got this little escape monster,

this little sheep down there that has

figured out how to get up under this

net and get out and go, you know,

get what she wants.

I ain't staying here.

I don't care.

You're not the boss to me.

That's what the sheep is saying.

So I'll tell you what you got to

do in those cases.

You got to put them in a freezer.

Why?

Because it's going to train the rest of

them to start misbehaving saying, oh,

well, she got out.

Okay, I'm going to get out too.

Greg Judy's solution for this is why Greg

has all of his animals,

all of his sheep on one.

I mean, people think it's unreal,

but I saw it with my own two

eyes.

He has them on one strand of wire.

And the reason he's able to do that

is

is because any one of them that get

out more than a couple of times, bam,

they're going to get dealt with right in

front of all the others.

So the rest of them know, you know,

basically that single wire out there is

like mirrored sunglasses and a shotgun on

an inmate.

So that's exactly how you got to roll

with that.

So folks,

don't fall in love with these animals.

If you got one misbehaving,

they gots to go.

They don't necessarily have to go in the

freezer,

but if you leave them there with the

rest of them,

you're going to have a problem.

All right.

Other things I want to give Eric Sider

a shout out.

I mean,

he deserves it as often as I can

give it.

He sent me this picture of how he's

doing his worms and he's taking one half

of his worm bin and he's growing micro

greens in there.

Absolutely fantastic idea.

He said he was inspired by the video

I did where I'm growing micro greens in

between, let's say,

the carrots or anything else I had out

there.

And I'm out there.

Good night, man.

Now the micro greens are big.

Now they're just straight up salad leaves.

But I mean,

that's another awesome way of going about

doing it.

Absolutely.

Instead of having to cover it up with

cardboard.

If you had your worms in a medium

like that where they're covered up by

grass, I mean, good night.

I got to believe that that's even better.

And half of it was done that way

so they can go under the side.

They can go to which side benefits them

most.

So when you have that exchange of a

microgreen over there,

I wonder if it's not going to produce

a much, much,

much better version of a worm,

of a vermicompost.

So I think that was a brilliant idea.

Yeah, it is.

Hey, real quick,

people are wanting to know the name of

that podcast again.

It's Consenting for Truth, right?

Yep, Contending for Truth podcast.

Yep, with Dr. Scott Johnson.

Yeah,

I think so many of you out there

would be so,

so glad you came across it.

I remember Stephanie Mormino,

I know she has a new YouTube channel,

so I don't know what the name of

the new one is.

Stephanie turned me on to this guy about

the time when that manufactured hurricane

hit Western North Carolina.

And I listened to him and I was

like, okay, but man,

I was juggling so many doggone balls,

but I had it.

In my podcast section, then after a while,

I went back and I said,

let me check this guy out.

And boy, I'm telling you what,

he is absolutely fantastic.

You want to check it out.

All right,

so other things we got over here,

which is a crazy blue sky above me

right now.

If you listen to Wednesday and Monday,

you'll know the reasons why.

In addition to that,

I don't think they've been heavily

spraying,

but it's especially blue over my house

with that device.

So that's awesome.

Other things,

your mom is out running the weed eater.

It seems all day today, son.

And well,

she cut one of my grounding wires that's

coming out of one of the rooms up

there.

yeah and then blames me for it like

you know hey okay um all right so

i'm just gonna have blames me for her

cutting it with a weed eater and then

all right look ladies i already know

collectively all of you are saying well at

least she was doing so that's what every

woman says when it breaks something

At least he was doing something.

And then finally, water the compost,

folks.

Stay on top of that.

I know I've reminded you of quite often

on here,

and I got to actually write it in

my notes.

Otherwise, I forget it.

So water your worms, water your compost.

And then finally, y'all,

one little thing I'm working on as of

late is doing a little bit of a

fascia training.

i'll let you know how that goes i'm

like two days into it and um i'll

i will definitely let you guys know what

uh happens on that what's going on in

your world son the faster training isn't

that isn't there a term called the like

semantics or something like that isn't

that the fascia training program is that

the same one you're doing i don't know

about that i mean i don't know if

they call it that i've never heard that

term with respect to fashion maybe it is

i just don't know

Okay.

Yeah,

around here playing catch up just like

everybody else,

especially with the gardens.

The garden at the house,

I finally got whipped into shape.

I got everything pruned,

all the tomatoes pruned,

everything staked,

everything's good to go there.

Got all the empty spaces planted and yeah,

we're growing cucumbers, tomatoes,

I mean everything out there,

sweet potatoes.

And then out at the demonstration site,

I went out there to go maintain it

yesterday and I couldn't get the mower to

start and I've done everything in this

mower to

try to get it started i've changed spark

plugs cleaned out the carburetor all kinds

of stuff air filter all kinds of stuff

and it's still not running for any

extended period of time so i still got

to figure out what's going on with there

or just rent something real quick because

or just hit it with the weed eater

because i've got to get a get control

over the garden out at the demonstration

site um other than that i'm started

reading a book called circadian code have

you read that one yet no

It talks about the circadian rhythm and

good practices.

It's written by a guy named Sachin Panda.

I'm not done with it yet.

I'm in the first third of it still.

It's pretty interesting if anybody's

interested about circadian rhythm and how

you can tap into that or get into

rhythm just for your body to function

better and your systems and all that stuff

to function better.

He starts off in the book saying most

people just need to adjust the last six

hours of their day.

That's where most people...

have a bunch of issues with circadian

health and things like that.

But I'll let you know more as I

get through the book and everything.

Oh,

saga that's been going on in my life.

I started jujitsu last Tuesday at this

place here in New Boston.

And this is my first time in like

two and a half years of doing jujitsu.

And everybody I rolled with that Tuesday,

I told, hey,

this is my first day back in two

and a half years.

And they're all white belts,

except for the guy teaching it.

He's a purple belt,

but everybody else is a white belt,

which is one step below or lower than

it's like your starting belt.

And they were all headhunting that

Tuesday.

They were like, oh, yeah,

this is his first day back.

But this is my opportunity to try to...

to submit a blue belt.

So going in that first day,

I was already accepting like, all right,

I'm not going to overdo it.

I'm not going to go too hard because

I know I'm going to be,

I still got to function the next day.

And I haven't done this in two and

a half years.

So since that, from that Tuesday,

I was all kinds of sore the next

day.

But I had to go out of town

and then had to do a baby shower.

So my next class after that was this

Tuesday just a couple days ago.

And lucky for me,

they were working on takedowns and

stand-up and stuff like that.

So unlike the rest of these guys who

grew up in Texas,

none of them knew how to wrestle.

Nobody's ever wrestled in that room

before.

And I did wrestle.

So I got my payback this past Tuesday.

I took everybody down and immediately

started submitting people.

I was like...

I was so upset about last Tuesday because

it was like just the common courtesy that

you would do.

If somebody came in and they're either

brand new or haven't done it in a

while, the common courtesy is, you know,

take it easy on them.

Let them remember everything that they

knew beforehand.

Nope,

that's not at all what these white belts

did.

And they're all under the age of like

twenty five.

So did they all submit to you that

first time or how did that go?

They didn't submit me the first time.

They were just like trying very, very,

very hard to do a submission.

And then also there's submissions and then

there's things that are just very,

very uncomfortable that you don't really

use as a submission,

like certain neck cranks.

You don't use those as submissions,

but you use it to get the other

person to respond in a way that you

want them to respond.

New under twenty five year old white belts

will try that as a submission and it's

just highly uncomfortable.

That's the most it's going to be.

It's not going to break anything.

It's not going to cut off any kind

of air or blood or anything like that.

It's just highly uncomfortable.

So, yeah.

How does that work out?

Okay,

so you roll in there as a blue

belt.

How do they know you really are?

I mean, do they call to your preview?

They found out this Tuesday.

Oh, okay.

They found out this Tuesday.

No, I mean, anymore,

you can always check on what's called belt

checker.

Uh,

most people sign up for belt checker if

they've done any kind of competitions and

they can see like when you're promoted,

who you're promoted by, um,

like your competition, uh,

records and stuff like that.

So yeah, they can,

they can see all of that if they

wanted to.

I don't know if anybody ever did, but.

Yeah, they found out Tuesday.

I was a blue belt.

Well, there you go, son.

Well, good to get you.

I'm glad to hear you're back in the

saddle.

That's awesome.

All right.

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Billy,

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Believe me,

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So, yeah.

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everywhere folks i william are you guys

still sleeping with those bags uh because

i know we do yeah we've got one

by the baby's bed we got one by

our bed we got one by the wi-fi

router um i've got one here under the

desk um yeah we've got them everywhere

yeah make sure you're turning that router

off at night son

yeah yeah we are and during the day

we use that mesh i don't know if

you've ever promoted that mesh before but

we use that during the day yeah yeah

i need to talk yeah it's been a

while since i've talked about them i'll

make sure i do it the next time

all right y'all and then finally um soil

saviors the link for that is down below

highly recommend it and um man i there's

not a week that goes by where i'm

not putting some out there at least on

the compost at the very least

Um, all right.

So let's just go.

Well, William,

you're not going to realize how timely

what you just said was considering my

first article.

Remember, this is a good news.

We used to be back in the day,

the good news, bad news section.

I've decided to make it all good news.

And this one right here,

I think you might have something to say

about it.

Sean Strickland claims he was banned from

attending UFC white house card.

Um,

Sean Strickland, folks, if you don't know,

he is like the middleweight world champion

in the UFC.

I'm a big fan.

I mean,

I'm not a big fan of Dana White

and a lot of the other people in

the UFC,

but I'm a big fan of mixed martial

arts.

In fact,

it's the only sport I'm a fan of.

I don't watch anything else.

I don't watch pro football, baseball,

none of that stuff because it's all

rigged.

It really, really is.

And the thing about mixed martial arts,

guess what?

You get a couple of losses,

you're going back to the minor.

So there's an incentive for them to not

rig fights.

Not to say that it doesn't happen,

but it's not as often.

Anyway, Sean Strickland, man, he's really,

really blowing up on X right now with

all the stuff he's putting out there about

how he doesn't want to be in a

room with these people.

This guy in particular.

yeah bring it up closer son bring it

up closer hell has no lobbyists oh no

lobbyists and there's a whoa okay there's

a picture of uh the devil along with

uh bb or yeah yeah

If you listen to what Sean Strickland has

said, I mean, good night, man.

This is exactly,

and there's nothing they can do about it.

What are they going to do,

strip him from his title?

Or, you know, what can they possibly do?

This guy's at the top of the heap,

and he's saying a lot of good things.

There's a lot of other fighters out there

saying things that people in the NFL,

I mean, you name it,

every professional sport,

they would never say.

But these guys do, and, you know,

I give them a hat tip for that.

So what do you think about old Sean

Strickland?

Yeah,

you got to be careful with Sean

Strickland, too,

because he just does say some generally

wild stuff.

Not all of it's correct,

but on this token, it probably is correct.

I mean, he yeah,

I remember somebody asked him in an

interview like, hey,

are you going to are you going to

compete at the White House event?

And his response was, no,

why would I perform for a bunch of

pedophiles, basically?

And that's.

I mean, he's not wrong.

Amen to that.

It was during that when people were still

talking about the Epstein list.

It was during that period of time whenever

he was asked about the White House card.

And yeah, it just feels weird, doesn't it?

Like the whole idea of this White House,

like all these guys fighting on the front

lawn.

It just seems odd.

It really doesn't when you stop to think

about Roman history.

When you stop to think about not just

Roman history, but, I mean,

every falling empire.

What did they do?

What did they do as that empire came

to a close?

They increased the number of games,

the bread and circuses.

Actually,

there's three things that's required to

keep a population subjugated.

And thank you very much for the five

bucks.

Brands, you break bread,

I won't fake dead.

Those three things is food.

Now, people say bread and circuses.

That's not all of it.

It's food, entertainment,

and a reasonable expectation of security.

If you don't have all three in a

country, if you got two of the three,

you're real close to having, you know,

you're going to have a civil war or

something like it.

You got to have all three.

Otherwise, the people will stay.

If you keep it that way indefinitely,

they will be fat, dumb, and stupid.

And anyway,

looking at the overlay between Rome and

all the other countries,

empires that have fallen you'll see that

as rome came to a fall i mean

you can even read uh you know gibbon

in the decline and fall of the roman

empire he even cites that um as the

visigoths were attempting to kick in the

doors of rome

All the slaves were gone.

All the patricians had left off to

Constantinople.

They said, yeah,

y'all take care of things.

We'll be back after a while.

So most of the patrician class or the

upper class were already gone to

Constantinople,

and they knew that they did not pay

those northern barbarian hordes.

So the Vistagoths are looking to kick in

Rome,

and the people were so stupid in Rome

at that time.

Dig this.

They had fish jumping out of the river,

and they didn't know how to clean them.

There were no slaves.

They had gladiatorial combat still going

on, and people were starving in the arena.

And then whenever one of the gladiators

was dead in the middle of that Coliseum

floor,

people were yelling down from the stands,

how much for that meat?

Meaning the dead gladiator right there on

that floor.

That's what it came to.

Anyway, here we are.

At the, you know, at the very end,

I believe, I mean, good night,

two hundred fifty years here in the United

States of amnesia.

And it took the Romans almost twenty five

hundred years for them to do what we've

done in two hundred and fifty.

And at this point, you know,

we got gas on the fire.

It's happening.

It's happening.

It's happening.

Anyway, to go back to your point,

I didn't mean to go so far afield.

But the point being, son,

I'm not at all surprised that this is

happening.

I mean,

you got everybody in the Trump orbit

making a fortune right now.

um on war you got and and of

course nobody no nobody seems to care we

got wars here they're dropping bombs

everywhere um

Part of the reason we're doing a lot

of these shows is because it is about

nobody is going to care until the calamity

arrives.

Folks,

the Strait of Hormuz is still shut down.

Now they're talking about shutting down

the Strait of Malacca.

What happens if they shut down the Panama

Canal?

What happens if they shut down the Suez

Canal?

You think all those choke points aren't on

the list for these powers that shouldn't

be?

Folks,

you better get your house in order because

it's about to get real.

Anyway, no, son, I'm not at all shocked.

I really need to do a deep dive

on that, you know, one of these days.

I keep saying I'm going to do that

on World War I, World War II.

I probably ought to do a little history

segment on the Roman Empire and how all

of it overlays into what you're seeing

right now.

This is not new stuff, folks.

This is all, in fact,

I dare say every single bit of it,

just like FDR said,

if it happens in government,

you better believe it was planned that

way.

All right, second good news story.

California,

I can't even believe I'm going to say

this,

but California Assembly passes bill to

phase out PFAS chemicals and pesticides

amid call for broader ban.

So don't usually have a whole lot to

say about legislation in California.

But and, you know,

normally I wouldn't tell somebody how to

run their business.

But remember what I said with Tag from

Life Done Free?

There's something called the tragedy of

the commons,

meaning that if you and I share a

waterway and you live upstream of me,

you're not allowed to poop in the water

or allow your animals to do it.

Me to drink downstream.

But that scenario is a better option, Dad.

We can handle that.

You got a point there.

There's a reason why they call these

forever chemicals.

But with soil savers,

that's not necessarily the case.

But I digress.

Here it is.

Yeah,

I'm totally for something like this

because this is tragedy of the commons.

Whatever you're dropping from the sky

affects me.

What you put on your crops,

whether I'm a farmer or two over,

it affects me.

You know why?

Because it's affecting the water table and

everything else.

So, yeah, way to go, California.

Man,

I would have never in a million years

thought I'd be saying that.

You got anything to say on that, son?

No, good for them.

I mean, as far as the food stuff,

it seems like California,

believe it or not,

is ahead of most other people.

I mean,

they're the ones that at least got the

warnings on the labels or the notification

of bioengineer food and stuff like that.

Like everything else might be screwed up

there,

but they got that part down better than

the rest, I would say.

Yeah,

they may go overboard in some other areas,

but hey, man,

I've got to give them a hat tip

for that one.

All right,

and the final good news story is more

tongue-in-cheek,

if you know what I'm saying.

Senate hearing to examine evidence linking

COVID-Jabs to increased cancer risks.

Hold on.

We just getting around to this.

Hold on.

You're just now having Senate hearings on

this.

There's people dropping like flies every

single day.

I don't think there's a person out there

that doesn't know somebody who is in

either a bad way or who has already

succumbed to this.

Hold on.

The Senate hearing.

They can sit here, okay,

in no time flat,

they can go ahead and get a UFC

lined up at the White House,

or you know what?

We can break bread for a war in

the Middle East to go ahead and genocide

some people,

but we're just now getting around to this.

I mean, man,

did I look like I just stepped out

of the cotton fields?

Okay, I might.

I'm a little bit dark right now,

but I think you get the point.

I mean,

the Senate is just now getting around to

examining this.

How many people have we heard in the

medical community alone saying this was

the worst intervention by government in

history?

But the sin is just now getting around

to it.

Yeah,

this goes right back to that Roman

discussion, son.

Everything I said about ancient Rome,

this is yet another example of it, too.

And just like ancient, well,

if I stay on this,

I'm going to totally screw up the entire

show.

We won't even get to what we're talking

about.

All right, well,

that's good news right there.

All right, with that said, y'all,

we're going to go to my man,

Eric Sider.

Hey,

Eric Sider here with your PimpCast tip of

the day.

Today's tip, stepping over the line.

I remember Jeff Lawton talking about the

moment he decided to step over the line

and pursue permaculture full-time.

He simply said he was bored with being

afraid.

I thought I was ready to finally do

the same many times over the years.

Was it fear, skepticism?

I don't know,

but it took starting a permaculture

community group to finally take that last

step.

Does it mean everything is rainbows and

butterfly kisses?

Absolutely not.

I've put myself in a financial hole

because I'd rather do work that matters

for free than lose my mind doing a

job I hate.

I'm basically just responsible for myself,

so I have that luxury.

But it was a conscious choice to maintain

that freedom.

Everyone has to do what's right for them,

but I will say,

owing money to a bunch of psychopathic

bankers is about as low on my priority

list as it gets.

I don't think we should ever make

decisions out of fear,

but toiling away at a job you hate

so you can pay for a bunch of

crap you don't care about sounds like a

life based in fear.

Like Bill Mollison always said,

first determine how little you need to

earn and then design your life

accordingly.

How much of your necessities are just

distractions and comfort?

How much are you spending to be just

healthy enough to show up every day?

How much are you sacrificing to give your

kids the same toxic life instead of the

life you want?

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That's my dog right there, y'all.

Knocked it out of the park once again.

And I'm glad he brought that up because

one of the things we,

William and I did a father-son podcast

with Stefan Subkoviak and his son as well.

Definitely go check out the Pop Podcast,

Permaculture Orchard Podcast.

Definitely go check that one out as well.

One of the smartest guys I've ever met

in my life.

I mean,

just a genius on so many different levels.

And I feel lucky to call him my

friend and his son as well.

um anyway that was one of the things

we talked about there where i'd encourage

william from when he was very young never

ever ever get into a career for money

never do it been there done that you

know wrote the book on it really in

so many different ways and so have a

number of others because once you do that

it's hard to find yourself a way out

especially when you're into keeping up

with the joneses which of course i've

never been part of

But Eric, I mean, good night.

I don't know what else I could say

to that regarding, you know,

there are so many people making a pile

of money and it ain't making them happy.

I know a lot of them.

And in fact,

they're some of the most miserable people

I know and have more money than they

know what to do with.

And you got a gang of people waiting

around for them to die.

William,

you know some of those people as well.

You met one recently, I think.

Yeah,

I would rather wake up every day dirty.

And as long as I'm not, I mean,

as long as I'm doing what I feel

like the good Lord put me on this

planet to do.

I think I'm going to be content with

that.

And right now it seems to be what

I'm doing right now.

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All right.

Before I get into it, uh,

Brens makes a pretty good, uh,

comment here.

It says,

every party has made a fortune on wars.

Yeah, absolutely.

I,

and please don't think for a minute that

I make a distinction between the Democrats

and Republicans.

Um,

there's not a dime's worth of difference

between either one of them.

And in fact,

I don't even understand why anybody these

days with any sense, uh,

would claim to have an allegiance to

either one of them when it's clearly one

party.

And if you read the work of Carol

Quigley, Bill Clinton's mentor,

he explains to you chapter and verse,

chapter and verse in that book,

how the whole system's designed to create

the illusion of choice.

So no, I'm not picking on Republicans.

I'm not picking on Democrats.

I'm picking on both of them.

You could also just read the Epstein list,

and that shows that there's absolutely no

difference between the two.

Thank you very much, son.

Excellent point.

Excellent point.

All right.

Speaking of, you know,

I brought up a moment ago that we

were, you know, looking like ancient Rome.

In fact, if you haven't read that article,

I suggested a number of times,

go to lewrockwell.com and read Sheparder's

Rome.

And this article was written probably

twenty years ago,

maybe twenty five years ago.

And he laid out point by point how

America mirrored Rome.

And in every single way,

we are doing the very same thing.

So that brings me into our topic tonight.

I've actually got twenty here,

if not more,

of food forest plants that can serve you

for decades, really.

And why am I even bringing this up?

Folks,

I can't even tell you how many times

I don't get

And the only place I've ever lived where

people actually said this was in Texas.

You know,

when you talk about putting fruit trees

near the house, son,

I bet you can fill in the words.

What do they say?

Who's going to pick all the fruit?

Who's going to pick the fruit?

I've only ever heard that in Texas and

Oklahoma,

where people have strict objections to

growing fruit trees near their homes

because they're concerned about who's

going to pick the fruit.

On that note,

I was just at a baby shower,

my brother in law's baby shower.

And he's a he's a pastor at a

huge church in Dallas.

And the head pastor at that church was

at the baby shower as well.

And my brother-in-law introduced me to him

and said, hey, this is William.

He does permaculture.

He has a YouTube channel.

He teaches people how to grow food and

stuff.

And the pastor's response was, huh,

I guess there really is something for

everybody.

And my response was like,

what do you mean, food?

Like, yeah.

He was that disconnected with where food

comes from that he thought this was like

a novel idea of growing your own food.

It was crazy stuff.

That's sadly how most of us think in

the United States of amnesia.

But folks, look,

these supply lines are seriously disrupted

right now.

Yeah, you're feeling it at the gas pump.

And what were the latest numbers?

The Strategic Oil Reserve runs out in,

I want to say, the beginning of July,

somewhere thereabouts.

okay,

what do you think that's going to do

with the pump?

It's going to go through the roof,

not only for us, but airlines,

you name it.

So if you got somewhere you better be,

you might want to consider getting it

done.

Anyway,

This thing is only gonna get worse.

So you better be thinking about ways in

which you can produce food for yourself

and your family, your friends,

even if it's in a clandestine location.

Doesn't even matter folks,

you gotta come up with some ways and

we're trying to give you all the tools

that we can to help with that.

So I wanted to cover like specifically

food forest plants

I don't know if William did it a

different way,

but I tried to come up with it.

I got at least several for every layer

of the food forest, not just the trees,

but every single layer.

You may have done yours differently.

Yeah, I did mine based on climate.

I came up with a different list for

each climate.

Right.

So this is why we break them down,

folks,

where William gives you a perspective.

You're getting it from two different

permaculture designers that haven't

discussed this topic.

We intentionally don't discuss it ahead of

time just so we're not influencing each

other.

So we're individually coming up with our

own list.

And I find out when you do what

William has down and vice versa.

All right.

So for the overstory, remember,

there's seven layers in the forest.

I would argue there's eight.

Places like the tropics where William and

I were a little while ago,

there's actually, I would say, nine.

Anyway,

I'm going to say for that overstory,

which is your tallest trees out there,

man, I can only pick one.

I'm going to say a pecan.

It's a high-value nut crop.

I mean, it lives a long, long time.

Your great grandkids are probably going to

be messing with it.

And it's a valuable shade tree.

Honestly, it's a good,

everything about a pecan,

I just absolutely love.

I love the pecans themselves.

And on the flip side of that,

of the overstory,

since you've done it a little bit

different, I'll tell you my plant,

my other one, believe it or not,

is I'm going to say a black walnut.

Number one is my favorite nut.

Um, it's really,

really good when it comes to wildlife

value.

And it's also really good.

If you know a little bit about survival,

you can take those husks,

put them in a bucket of water,

you know,

squeeze them a little bit and pour it

on the ground.

You have worms jumping up out of the

ground.

Like you've never seen before.

You could also take that same method.

And I would only do this.

It's illegal in most States.

You throw it out there in a body

of water.

If there's any fish in it,

they're going to come floating to the top.

That's illegal everywhere.

Everywhere.

Yeah.

If they're in there,

they're coming to the top, y'all,

because it will stun them.

Well, I did it out there.

Well,

I ain't even going to go and tell

that story.

But anyway, these things work.

So I'm going to say pecan and black

walnut for my overstory.

All right.

So just so you because I had pecans

down as well,

and I put down how much each tree

will produce per mature tree per year.

Pecans will produce fifty to one hundred

pounds of actual food per year.

One mature pecan tree will produce that

much.

So I'll start off with the I guess

since you started with temperate,

let's keep going with temperate.

One of the trees that I put down

was chestnuts,

high fat content they put down.

uh fifty to two hundred pounds of uh

food per year per mature tree which is

quite a bit um now depending on where

that doesn't encompass like all of the

temperate environment and uh if you're

warmer than what chestnuts will allow then

don't worry i got more options for you

here soon but uh high fat content uh

once it's planted there isn't a whole lot

of maintenance involved um harvesting can

be pretty passive or it could be pretty

intensive if you wanted to climb trees or

if you have the equipment to shake trees

Either way,

the food will eventually come down and hit

the ground.

But yeah, my next one was chestnut,

fifty to two hundred pounds per mature

tree per year.

Real quick question from Troy.

Troy Paris.

OK,

because produced jungle alone in soils

deterring guild growth.

Now check this out.

I remember I picked a black walnut as

well.

We know that that, you know,

it's going to inhibit growth theoretically

of everything else around it.

OK.

But when I was at Greg Judy's place,

every black walnut out there absolutely

had no problem growing grass and

everything else around it.

And Greg's response was, when I asked him,

he says, well, nobody told that tree.

It was producing... I mean, theoretically,

walnuts shouldn't be able to have much of

a gild around them,

but I saw differently in other places.

So I got to believe...

There are massive exceptions to that rule

because I saw it with my own two

eyes.

All right, next one I got here,

I'm going to talk about the,

remember you got an overstory,

then an understory, they're smaller trees.

And if I only got it, man,

it's driving me crazy to only pick one.

But if I had to pick just one,

I would say apple.

Why?

Because apples are producing fruit at a

time of year when everything else isn't.

That's what I love so much about apples.

Number one,

it goes great in sweet dishes like an

apple pie or in savory dishes.

There's a whole lot of pork dishes and

chicken dishes,

even beef dishes where they incorporate

apples in there.

So it can work sweet or savory.

But like I said,

it's something fresh at a time of year

where everything's really dying back.

So you got the fruit,

you can make cider, apple cider vinegar,

which is absolutely fantastic.

And then you got so many different

varieties.

So where you want to early, mid,

late of everything.

So yeah, Apple's my next one.

uh my next one since we're still on

temperate is a rhubarb uh that's not a

tree i mean that's a different that's

going to be in your herbaceous layer in

a in a food forest but yeah rhubarb

two to five pounds of food per plant

per year uh that's quite a bit and

if you stack that up which might not

seem like a lot especially compared to the

other trees uh so far it might not

seem like a lot per year but it's

much much smaller which means you can

plant it more frequently

and in those in between spaces between

trees so uh and it's something that i

mean don't base your whole diet off

rhubarb but it's something that can

supplement everything else um so yeah

rhubarb and for you guys in the very

cold environments that's something you

guys should definitely be planting that's

something that can withstand those cold

temperatures

My next one's going to be the shrub

layer.

Remember, overstory, understory, shrub.

Okay,

so anybody that's watched any of our

videos knows that flanked on every

productive tree ideally is going to be a

blueberry.

And then on opposite sides,

I will put a nitrogen-fixing shrub.

Um,

I'm only talking about the ones you can

eat right now, but believe me folks,

for everything I'm talking about,

believe me,

there would be a nitrogen fixing version

of those things as well.

So in like, in terms of my overstory,

you know,

I might want to go with a black

locust or a honey locust.

That's going to be my overstory in the

understory.

It could very well be a, um,

Oh, shoot.

I can't.

False indigo.

It can be something like that.

It can be any number of things.

So in my shrub layer, without a doubt,

if you know me,

I'm without a doubt going to say

blueberries.

Number one,

they're one of the longer-lived berry

producers,

and they're a pollinator magnet, which,

of course, if you do this right,

you're going to have those anyway.

You might even consider elderberry,

but maybe you want to flank it with

a gomi.

Nitrogen-fixing shrub,

depending on whom you ask.

You know,

I ain't real crazy about the fruit on

them, but hey, we got some out here.

But anyway, yeah,

that would be the one I go with.

Blueberries are... Plus, it's a superfood,

man.

Blueberries are absolutely super in so

many different ways.

We got a lot of them down here

being produced right now.

Too bad my grandbaby ain't here to pick

them.

But it's not going to produce near enough.

So we will be going to the blueberry

orchard this year.

My friend Janet...

And we'll be seeing her when blueberry

season finally goes full steam ahead.

All right, son, your next one.

speaking of picking blueberries emily and

the baby are actually going to pick

blueberries tomorrow i'm pretty sure

blueberries and then something else i made

probably strawberries because she wiped

out all the strawberries at the house we

got to wait till like these june bearings

start producing because yeah she's wiped

out all the other ones uh the next

one on my list is actually something that

will work in the tropical temperate or

arid environment there's a variety that'll

work in all three of those environments uh

you can also get it in uh

dwarf, semi-dwarf and full size.

And it's a mulberry.

Um, there's wherever you live,

wherever people live,

there's a variety of mulberry that will

work where you live and fruit where you

live too.

So, uh, mulberries, I mean, depending,

this really depends on the variety of

mulberry you get,

but anywhere between fifty to three

hundred pounds of fruit per mature tree

per year, which is on the higher end,

quite a bit of fruit.

Um,

Yeah, mulberries.

And that's something that everybody,

blanket statement,

I can tell everybody that's listening to

this, you should plant a mulberry.

I couldn't agree more.

I mean, to be honest with you, son,

I'm kind of embarrassed I didn't even

include it on the list.

I mean, mulberries, man,

I was just listening to a show today

where a guy was talking about the

mulberries.

You know, number one,

you're never going to find mulberries in a

grocery store because guess what?

The shelf life ain't that long.

They can't keep them around,

but they are some of the biggest.

That's another superfood out there,

and everything wants to eat them.

Your chickens will definitely wipe them

out.

You can put them over your pond and

feed your fish Bill Mollison style.

Um, also real quick, Pete, Pete,

the squash,

he says our soil is not acidic enough

for blueberries.

Well, Pete,

I got some pretty awesome blueberry bushes

growing right now in soil that is anything

but acidic.

And plus, I mean,

there's a whole lot of things.

Yeah.

If you had a, you know,

a grove of, um,

I don't know, pine trees over there.

You could put a blueberry orchard in

there,

but I'm growing them right next to

alkaline plants that absolutely love it.

And other people like, shoot,

that guy in the Pacific Northwest,

the wood chip guy,

I can't think of his name.

Paul Gauci?

Yeah, Paul Gauci.

He's made that same observation as well,

where he's producing acid-loving and

alkaline-loving species right next to one

another.

And then when you look into the work

of Lane Ingham,

The late Elaine Ingham,

you find out that this pH thing is

really not what everybody says it is.

It could change dramatically within a

micrometer from one spot to the next.

So, yeah,

I wouldn't let that stop you necessarily.

You might be shocked.

All right, so my herbaceous layer.

All right,

so there's no way you would have me

on a podcast and ask me, hey,

what's the number one herb we use?

Okay, how about comfrey?

It's a dynamic accumulator,

chop and drop herb.

pollinator plant.

I mean, bees love it.

In fact, tomorrow,

Michelle and I are going to go out

to that site that we did by the

river,

and we're going to show you how to...

Everybody's asking, how are you doing it?

Well,

I'm going to show you how we chop

and drop right there on the spot while

you grow,

while we situate things the way we do.

You're going to see it with your own

two eyes in that video.

But anyway, comfrey,

William already mentioned rhubarb, I mean,

walking onion,

Those are all great ones there.

But if I had to pick one of

them,

I couldn't grow anything else without a

doubt.

Comfrey far and away.

Oh, yeah, for sure.

The next one on my list will go

towards the tropical because there are

some people like in southern Florida that

might be able to like really southern

Florida that might be able to grow some

of this stuff.

And this is where we get into like

very heavy producers, uh, Jack fruit.

Uh,

that's so dad was talking about the

overstory before the tropics have an extra

layer, uh, for multiple different reasons,

but they have an extra layer because they

have the overstory,

which if you're looking at it from above,

like in a helicopter, you have your,

your carpet, your overstory.

And then you have your super overstory

where you'll see like little islands of

trees that protrude way past the rest of

the canopy.

Um,

This would be in your first overstory

layer, the jackfruit,

but it produces six to eight hundred

pounds per mature tree per year,

which is insane.

What's cool about jackfruit is that you

can eat it two different ways.

You can eat it sweet or you can

eat it savory.

If you harvest it when it's ripe,

it'll be sweet.

If you harvest it before it's ripe,

then you can treat it as a savory.

There's some dishes that I've had before

that was pretty doggone good.

Where they use it as like a meat

replacement whenever they harvest it

before it's ripe.

And it tastes like... I mean,

it has the same texture and consistency as

like pulled pork or pulled chicken.

And you can treat it the same way

and it tastes like whatever you flavor it

like.

It's pretty... Like before it's ripe,

it's pretty...

open to interpretation.

So however you season it is going to

be the way it tastes.

So if you put some barbecue sauce on

it, it tastes pretty close.

Now you know it's not meat,

but it's a pretty close representation.

It would be really good on top of

some meat,

like a good topping for a burger or

something like that.

But yeah, jackfruit.

If you live in tropics or even almost

tropics,

that might be something you check out.

Yeah,

I think you're just going to – I

think I'd take the sweet version of that,

man.

I'm going to eat – I'd prefer the

meat just straight up.

All right,

my next one is going to be the

ground cover.

And right off the bat, folks, I mean,

here's one that I think a lot of

people kind of forget about.

That's strawberries.

I mean,

just in our food forest down there,

we picked a hundred gallons.

Man,

you talk about that was a year and

a half, man.

I mean,

we had strawberries coming out of our

eyeballs,

and we freeze-dried a whole bunch of them,

and I think my grandbaby's probably eating

up almost all of them.

Yeah,

so a hundred gallons of strawberries in

just a small spot, but man,

that could be your living mulch.

I mean,

it's edible fruit right there on the

ground.

I mean,

I was stepping on this stuff just to

get to the other stuff.

You got weed suppression the whole nine

yards.

I mean,

you got other things like creeping time,

clover.

We got all of this stuff down there.

So, yeah,

you're not limited by as much as you

think you might be.

The next one, we'll go to arid now.

Arid slash temperate slash kind of

tropical.

This is kind of one that'll work in

most areas, a fig.

And that'll produce anywhere between fifty

to two hundred,

depending on pounds of food per year,

depending on the type of fig that you

have and kind of the environment that

you're living in.

For example, the temperate figs,

if you go through a heavy winter,

chances are you're probably not going to

be getting that two hundred pounds per

year.

until you hit maybe the fifth or sixth

year of that tree living.

Arid and tropical environments,

you're going to get much higher yields per

fig tree than you would in the temperate

environment because you don't have that.

Unless you have that winter to contend

with in arid environments.

But yeah, figs are amazing.

Figs are one of those fruits that I

didn't like until I tasted it fresh.

And then I was like, oh.

This is because most people experience

with figs is our fig Newtons for the

most part.

And those are garbage.

Those ain't even close.

That could be any random jelly like fruit

thrown in there and it would taste no

different figs.

If you don't like figs and your only

experience is fig Newtons,

go try a fresh fig and it'll definitely

change your mind.

Yeah,

Pete Squatchy was over here saying they

got tons of figs.

Black Mission, Pete's Honey, Tiger,

Brown Turkey.

Yeah, man, I love figs too.

Just not the easiest thing to grow here

in the mountains though.

So I got a few trees out here.

I got a few figs out here.

Right now they seem to be more ornamental

than fruit.

Anyway,

hopefully they'll come around before long.

Now we got a vine layer.

So I know I said, you know,

we do five a beast,

but I got to cover all seven layers

here.

So I'm going to say for the vine

layer, don't forget about grapes.

You know,

I did a short on my Patreon the

other day talking about that very thing,

using a fence line.

Your mom is using the fence right now

to grow trombocinos.

You can be growing grapes out there.

That's what Stefan Subkoviak does up at

the Permaculture Orchard.

I mean,

just bundles and bundles of grapes just

falling off this thing.

He's like, man,

take as many as you want.

They were almost a pest to him.

I mean, so many grapes,

it would blow your mind.

And then, you know,

it's also something when I eat grapes,

it takes me back to when I was

a kid because we would, you know,

we would pick these wild grapes out there

where I grew up in Pennsylvania.

And, you know,

it's just something to me that's very

evocative to a happy time.

And there wasn't a whole lot of those

rolling around.

And then you got other things like hardy

kiwi.

You can be growing yams up some of

your mature trees.

You can be doing that.

I mean, I'm doing it right now.

So yeah, you got your vine layer.

And then let me go ahead and cover

that root layer, son.

So I'm talking about seven layers.

Obviously,

the eighth is going to be the mycelial

layer.

So if you got wood chips everywhere,

it might be a good option for you

to grow some mushrooms.

But the root layer,

I'm going to say Jerusalem artichoke or

ground nut or scarlet.

I mean,

there's so many different ways on the root

layer.

I mean, it's just...

The only limitations on a lot of this

stuff is going to be what you impose

upon yourself.

But think about it.

That's why I came up with one way.

And I'm thinking all seven layers of the

things I would produce that once you get

them in there and are established,

they don't require a whole lot from you.

All right.

I'm going to go ahead and run through

the rest of mine then.

Okay.

So to finish off Tropical, I had Mango,

which I knew was a heavy producer until

we went to El Salvador.

Boy, is that a heavy producer.

And they're producing, it seems like,

all the time.

And each tree has a ton of mangoes.

I mean, that would solve...

a lot of production issues on the farm

another one to finish off tropics uh

cassava which is going to be your root

layer um and cassava is going to be

kind of like comfrey like if you try

to dig up like if you planted comfrey

and it's established and then you try to

dig up comfrey you're still going to have

comfrey left over in that that place where

you transplanted it just because you're

never going to be able to harvest all

of the comfrey same thing with cassava

it's going to come back same thing with

uh climbing yams that dad was talking

about earlier

You're never going to harvest all of it.

And those you can do sweet potatoes and

then you can do climbing yams.

Climbing yams are going to be more your

tropical varieties.

Sweet potatoes are going to be more

temperate varieties.

Climbing yam is also going to be more

perennial as well.

Next one for temperate.

I think, oh,

the only one I left off for temperate

was the pear for obvious reasons.

Pears and apples should be staples in

temperate environments.

Then arid.

So talking about ten plants that will

produce for decades,

the one that will produce probably the

longest is the olive tree,

which are mature depending on the variety.

A mature olive tree will produce thirty to

one hundred pounds of olives per year.

And then we also have pomegranate,

which is fifty to one hundred and fifty

pounds per year.

We also have the date palm,

which that's where.

like dates come from and everything,

a hundred to three hundred pounds per

year,

which I could eat my weight in dates.

I could eat dates every single day.

The baby loves dates, too.

She loves them and she puts a cashew

or I guess I do it,

but she loves it.

I put a cashew in the middle of

the date and

Yeah, that's a fun snack.

And then carob,

which I don't really have a bunch of

experience with.

I'm assuming that's more of a Middle

Eastern thing.

But you can do a lot of different

things with carob.

You can do powder.

You can do syrups, things like that.

But that's a hundred to five hundred

pounds per mature tree per year.

Cool thing about carob is that once it's

planted and I don't even think like

planted well,

it kind of takes off on its own.

It's pretty low maintenance.

Very, very low requirements there.

things like that but that's everything

that i had on my list i don't

think i missed anything

No,

I think that pretty much wraps it up.

I think we've added a few more in

there.

So, yeah,

I guess we could adjust the title of

this podcast,

but I don't think we're going to do

it.

Folks, hopefully that's a blessing to you.

I want to thank everybody for being here

live today.

Lord knows they suppress the living

daylights out of us,

especially as of late with some of the

things we've been talking about and

talking about some of these solutions that

actually work out here.

So, man, anything else to add, son?

No, real quick.

Somebody was asking about Stefan's

podcast.

It's called the Permaculture Orchard

Podcast.

And you can find our interview has not

gone out yet.

The one we did together.

But my interview has gone out already.

And then dad,

he was the first one that they

interviewed, I think.

uh his has gone out as well or

one of the first ones that they

interviewed but um well i was in a

i was the very first interview they ever

did on the permaculture orchard podcast i

mean wow what a what an honor that

was um and it was on site right

up there in the orchard

Which, man, folks,

if you ever get the opportunity,

you definitely want to check this out.

It is a wonder.

He is doing fantastic things up there.

So go definitely check them out.

Check out the podcast.

I want to thank everybody for checking us

out tonight.

Man, I know it's a crazy world,

but take some of this stuff.

Get out there and get it done.

Till next time, stay alert.

We've got the answers,

all we need to do,

listen to the earth,

they've got us moving.

So much wisdom in this song