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Michelle is wrapped up in that whoopee
every night.
She hogs it so much that we had
to buy another one just to put on
our bed.
So that's how well these things work,
y'all.
We don't sell junk.
How you doing, son?
Pretty good.
Mom's hogging all the covers again.
Yeah, man.
Well, she takes this blanket, okay?
The one we got the first time was,
oh, it's meant for a, not a twin,
but what's the size right above that?
Full, a full.
Yeah, full size.
So it's not going to fit on our
queen bed.
So anyway,
she just uses it whenever she's sitting on
the couch every night and she'll wrap up
in this thing.
And I'm like, man,
it's hot up because we don't use the
air conditioner unless somebody's here.
So, you know,
here she is wrapped up all hugged up
in this blanket and ain't even trying to
share it.
So anyway, yeah,
we had to wind up getting another one.
So how's everything on your end?
uh everything's pretty good here uh
yesterday or i guess yeah it was yesterday
we started a flea we did a flea
bomb in the house now we use the
product which everybody's going to cringe
when i say it out loud because it's
stuff that depending on how you discuss
this topic or product uh will get you
banned on youtube but i used chlorine
dioxide the pool cleaner to do a it's
okay to say it in this uh category
dad um as long as i don't say
it cures anything which it
you know, it doesn't, uh, the,
we use it for fleas in the house.
And, uh,
so you set up like a bucket,
you put the,
and we reached out to him and find
out exactly how much we needed to use
for the size house and what the problem
we had and stuff like that.
So we're following their instructions, uh,
We put the water in the buckets and
we had a bucket per room and then
we evacuated everybody out of the house.
I put Emily and the baby at a
hotel and then went back and then was
going to pick up the dog.
And after I started the gassing process
and all that.
But as I'm dumping the chlorine dioxide in
the buckets.
I leave the room and then seal the
room.
I have a fan going in there for
circulation.
And then I have a,
I seal the room on the outside.
So that way this concentration is staying
in this room and it's, you know,
just trying to be as effective as
possible.
And I do that for each room.
And then I get to the master bedroom,
which is the largest amount of the stuff
that I've used so far was in the,
the main bedroom.
And as I'm sealing up the door,
a loud boom goes off.
was so loud i thought it came from
like outside and like a something else
happened it didn't even register for a
second that it was the bucket inside the
room and then i like opened the door
real quick just to quickly see and uh
there's just this yellow fog in the room
so that i'm like oh crap
And I just quickly shut the door again.
I forget taping the rest of the house.
I quickly dose the other buckets in the
house.
And then I grabbed Chloe,
locked the back door and then we head
on out of there.
And I call up Emily.
I was like, hey,
is this thing supposed to like blow up?
Is this because I think it just bleached
my perspective at that moment.
It just bleached the entire bedroom.
And you're supposed to keep your drawers
open, all that type of stuff.
And I call her up and say, hey,
is this supposed to blow up?
And she's like, no,
it's supposed to pop a little bit.
And I was like,
that was not a little bit.
So we wait twenty four hours back to
today.
And I'm kind of eager to open up
the house and get it ventilating and then
also check out the master bedroom to see
how much damage was done.
I go in there and it was barely
anything happened.
Like the fleas, I think.
are gone they recommended multiple
applications so we'll see how well it did
um but what i thought was just massive
explosion i'm thinking we're gonna have to
do like an insurance claim like this house
is kind of ruined we're gonna have to
fix stuff up and uh i go back
in there and there's just a couple of
spots of like
dry bleach powder is what it looks like.
Um, on some of the,
like the comforter and then, uh,
Chloe's blanket, our dog,
her blanket was right next to the bucket
or a pillow was right next to the
bucket and,
just had some dry bleach powder there.
But yeah, um,
I thought I was for sure dying for
at least half a second after that boom
went off.
So if anybody's going to, you know,
gas bomb their house to get rid of
odor or fleas or whatever it may be
in their house with a chlorine dioxide,
just know that it will pop and it's
going to be even louder if it's in
a five gallon bucket.
So there's your little PSA and it's going
to foam like crazy.
So just keep all that in mind.
I think it worked pretty well other than
that, though.
Well, it works also in vehicles.
If you have a vehicle that,
let's say you were going to buy it
and you didn't because the person that
bought it smoked like crazy,
it will remove all those old odors from
a vehicle.
In fact,
if I were to get a new vehicle
or something like that,
that new car smell is not wonderful for
you.
So that's another way to get rid of
that as well.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's a really good trick there.
So I'm glad you used it for that
application.
Although there might be other ways in
which you could use it, folks.
You're going to have to look that up.
All right,
so I'll kick this one off on my
end.
All right,
so anybody that's listened to the last
couple of podcasts,
you'll realize the one on Monday and the
one I did yesterday...
We had a lot of weird,
crazy technical issues,
things that just didn't seem to work out,
things that were falling by the wayside.
I'd never experienced anything like that
before.
I got a theory as to why that
happened.
And I think it's the nature.
I think the powers that should not be
in maybe the spiritual realm.
Might have had a hand in some of
that,
because think about what we talked about
on Monday.
If you haven't listened to that,
go back and check it out.
Had Ryan Matta in here,
and we talked about a lot of the
seedy things that are going on with kids.
And he dropped some incredible stats,
and you can verify every single bit of
it.
In fact, folks,
he held back quite a bit.
It's much worse than he talked about.
But anyway,
had issues with him getting on.
And then yesterday had Flat Earth Dave
say,
On here.
And if anybody's listened to an interview
with Flat Earth Dave, I mean, man,
he is Johnny on the spot.
But he and I, for some reason,
could not.
I was having problems on my end.
He was having problems on his end.
In fact,
Ryan had to go to three different browsers
before he could even access the program.
That's how crazy it was.
But also there were people in the chat
and folks,
I'm telling this as a cautionary tale.
Look, when you do this kind of work,
when you bring truth to power,
when you're talking about things that the
powers that shouldn't be don't want you to
talk about,
you better be prayed up from the feet
up.
And that's what I didn't do.
Folks, I didn't do.
I didn't put on that full armor.
And I think we suffered the consequence
because of it,
because there were some other weird things
that happened,
like last night in particular,
where as I'm going through there,
my brain, for some reason,
I know there was a lot of weirdos
in the chat,
people we've never seen before,
and they came out of nowhere.
Well,
it wouldn't shock me if there was a
whole cadre of people out there doing
things that were...
Maybe they were putting hexes on a
brother.
I'm not one hundred percent sure.
No.
But then this morning,
it seemed to follow me.
Michelle and I prayed about it.
And then all of a sudden,
just like that on the spot,
it went away.
So I'm convinced, at least on my end,
that it had to be something spiritual.
So, folks,
what I'm trying to tell you here is.
No matter where you find yourself,
no matter any position,
you better be prayed up from the feet
up, especially these days,
especially when you're talking about
things or you're discussing things.
Because if Dave is so far off the
mark, I mean,
maybe I don't agree with him on
everything,
but if he's so far off the mark,
then why not just let him talk?
If Ryan's so far off the mark,
then why not just let him talk?
Why are you dropping these guys' YouTube
channels and doing all the other seedy
stuff they do?
If they're so far off the mark,
then you would let them speak and let
them show their butts, so to speak.
So anyway, that won't happen again, folks.
um you know at least on my end
i will be prayed up from the feet
up especially when we know that we're
going to be talking about topics because
son even your mom was saying she was
like man it was like you guys were
a little bit disjointed and we were he
was having problems and me mentally man i
never have a problem with uh in the
middle of a conversation especially on a
topic that i know a lot about
And I'm sitting here,
as I'm doing the interview,
my brain just couldn't function.
And I'm stepping all over my words.
I can't pronounce things.
And then, like I said, this morning,
we pray.
I should have caught it then.
But I was reaching over to grab a
machete out of the garage.
You might want to explain that.
Hey, man,
you deal with the spiritual realm any way
you got to.
But anyway.
No,
I was grabbing a machete out of the
garage.
There was a couple of – if you
have a couple of certain things that are
growing out there,
a machete is your best tool,
not a weed eater necessarily or even a
chainsaw.
So I was grabbing it before we were
going out to get chores,
and all of a sudden this wave of
– how do you describe it, man?
I can only describe it as dread, terror.
And remember,
the Lord has not given us a spirit
of fear, but of peace.
And when that happened,
it was right then and there.
It all came together.
I grabbed your mom.
I said, look, stop everything.
We need to pray right now.
And up until that time,
I was filled with this anxiety that I
couldn't explain.
It's happened before and before we knew
precisely how to deal with it.
Then all of a sudden she and I
prayed and bam, it went away instantly.
So thank you, Lord.
So folks,
that's what I wanted to talk about there.
I didn't mean to spend so much time
on it.
So I'll get into other things.
Um, yeah, well,
I guess on the heels of something like
that, everybody, son,
have you noticed everybody's going nuts
over this film?
That's about to come out called disclosure
day.
Yeah.
I just recently heard about it.
You're talking about the one with the
aliens, right?
Yeah.
Yeah,
I just recently heard about that one.
I don't really know what to think of
it.
I haven't really paid much attention to it
at all.
Just because, I don't know,
it's some sort of trap.
Everybody here at least knows that
something ain't legit about this movie.
Just knowing the topic,
knowing that it's hitting the movie
theaters and that everybody's paying
attention to it seems like a trap.
Yeah, that's exactly what Raul,
my friend Raul,
used to be from the Firma Mental podcast.
He's doing his own thing these days.
He brought it up today.
I'd totally forgotten about it.
And I was thinking, okay, man,
you know what?
You got to be really, really cautious.
And there was an interview that I sent
you earlier today, son,
about an insider from Hollywood and the
music industry.
And they embed all this kind of stuff
into every single movie that comes out
right now.
May not be the case if it's a
Christian-based movie house or something
like that.
And he was talking about even your Netflix
subscriptions and a number of other
things.
They embed this stuff in there to get
into your psyche.
And folks,
if you think that doesn't happen, it does.
And so when you go to these things,
you got to be really cautious.
Now,
I feel halfway tempted to go there because
of the nature of the work we do.
So thinking, okay,
in order for me to know what the
enemy's doing,
that's why I listened to half of the
podcasts I listened to today.
So I can kind of get abreast of
what's going on there,
determine my own evaluation of it,
and then maybe report back to you what
my breakdown is.
So that's why I keep, I mean,
there's a lot of other podcasts I listen
to these days that are mostly about health
and how to make that better.
But I do keep one foot at least
in there to find out what's going on.
So my point being,
I don't think it's a coincidence,
and I'm sure you don't and the other
people in this audience don't,
is it seemed like a coincidence that all
of a sudden the Trump administration says,
yeah,
we're going to release all this alien
stuff.
Now you have Disclosure Day coming out.
Folks, let me remind you that Dr.
Carol Rosen,
she was the sidekick or the assistant to
Wernher von Braun.
yeah so right she reports that right
before he died he told her and i
guess she was at his deathbed for the
most part first thing they're going to do
is it's going to be um rogue nations
then it's going to be rogue terrorists
then it's going to be something else and
then the final card that they intend to
play
And Dr.
Rosen came out with this years and years
ago.
By the way, folks,
if you think this just came out yesterday,
she said this years ago.
The last card they play, son,
what's it going to be?
Aliens.
The aliens.
And right before that,
it's going to be the celestial threat,
which they've already kind of brought that
one out.
So when they feel like they've taken this
thing as far as they can go,
that's exactly the last thing they're
going to pull.
And I find it no coincidence that Steven
Spielberg,
likely one of these sleazy creatures,
probably on Epstein's list.
I mean, the guy,
he definitely has some weird stuff going
on in his background and a lot of
reports about things that he's allegedly
done.
Anyway, here he is making this movie.
No doubt, very captivating.
But folks, if you go there,
like I said,
like I began the beginning of this
program,
If you're going in there,
make sure your intentions are right.
Make sure you're prayed up and make sure
you're going in.
I'm not watching it as entertainment.
I watch most things these days.
If I watch anything at all to find
out exactly how,
what is the play they are using?
Because I know that everything they do is
a manufactured lie.
And I mean, in government, I don't care.
Democrat, Republicans,
they're all in it together.
Read the work of Carol Quigley.
You'll know what I'm talking about.
All of these people work together.
So son,
do you have any thoughts on that?
yeah and keep in mind with spielberg his
uh method for coming up with stories or
writing or anything like that it's the
same exact process as like the real mate
real maidens that hitler used where he
gets heavily intoxicated he's talked about
this in interviews uh he gets very very
intoxicated and then he does almost this
autonomic writing um where he's not even
like he isn't consciously coming up with
these stories he just gets
messed up and then starts writing and uh
yeah same thing that hitler used for the
real maidens to get all that technology
it's funny because a whole lot of people
that are working in all kinds of parts
of the entertainment industry whether it
be through music you name it every single
bit of them
go into,
let's call it altered states of
consciousness to get some of these ideas.
In fact, some of the, like, you know,
Eddie Van Halen, you ask him, Hey,
he's asked a number of times in interviews
before he died.
How did you ever come up with that?
And he says, I, you know,
it wasn't through me.
Well,
one thing you know about Eddie is that
my man was messed up from the feet
up all the way around.
And that's where he came up with a
lot of this stuff.
So like William said, in his case,
maybe it's automatic writing or,
For a lot of these other people,
they go into these other realms.
When you change your state of
consciousness,
you're opening yourself up to all kinds of
stuff.
Now,
I'm not saying you can't have a beer
or a couple of beers or whatever the
case being,
but when you get to the point where
you're not in the driver's seat anymore,
that's where a whole lot of things.
Why do you think they call alcohol
spirits, y'all?
Yeah, so that's how that stuff happens.
All right,
so I'm going to leave all that behind
and talk about some of this other farm
news.
I wanted to cover that because it's
important.
And this is the last time you're going
to hear me talk before that movie.
Um, other things we're doing around here.
We got tons of comfrey out there and
we've been planting the daylights out of
the crowns over here.
So folks,
if you take the comfrey that we bought
and you, you dig it up,
you harvest it, put a crown back,
cut up the other crowns, sell them,
plant them elsewhere.
I mean,
there was a reason why that is our
most valuable player here on this farm.
Um,
other things I didn't really get to talk
about it in the depth I'd like to,
but I want to give a hat tip
to, um,
The folks over at Wise Traditions, man,
Alberto and his wife, Annette,
they came by for a brief visit.
They came by on Sunday,
and it was such a joy to be
around some incredible people.
And you talk about how the Lord puts
certain people in your place.
I mean...
I talked about it briefly in the last
time,
but we ran into them at an ice
cream shop about a year ago.
Next thing you know,
they're stopping by for a visit.
And it was a real, real joy.
I mean,
absolutely people that practice what they
preach.
And it is always a joy to be
in the company of those kinds of people.
So that was a real joy.
Other things going on around here.
Yeah,
we got apples coming up in a big,
big way around here.
got some peaches.
Remember folks,
this is why you want early,
mid and late of every single thing you
grow,
especially when it comes to your
perennials.
So we got early, mid and late apples.
So if you get a late or early
frost like we just had,
That peach tree that's outside this
window, I'm looking at it right now,
that peach tree that gave us four hundred
pounds of peaches last year has two of
them on there this year.
Why?
Because of a late frost.
Well, two buds happened to make it,
so that's all I'm getting off that tree.
But because it got mid and late,
those guys are doing just fine.
So think about that when you design your
orchards, your food forest,
all those things.
And then, you know, other things,
you know,
going every time we go to town, man,
we stack functions.
Folks,
you don't just do it in your farm.
You do it with every trip.
What am I talking about?
Every time we drop off packages,
I go to the local college and I
pick up wood chips and I'm putting them.
I'm just redoing everything that we have
out here.
Those aged wood chips, y'all,
they are going to pay dividends in massive
ways.
So think about those other things where
you can stack functions like, okay,
I got to go to town.
What other things can I do at the
same time that are going to benefit me?
So it's also zoning,
if you stop to think about it,
on a macro level.
Yeah, on a macro level.
So if I'm going to the grocery store,
okay,
down the street from there is the post
office.
Got to hit them both.
And then just a little further down the
street are those wood chips.
So why come back empty-handed?
So every single time I go to town,
y'all,
I'm picking up an entire load of wood
chips at the same time.
Putting it in my food forest,
putting it around the country we grow.
We're putting it in so many different
places.
And if you really want to kick it
up, put down some cardboard first.
And then finally,
I want to tell everybody I started a,
I was telling William before we went live
here,
Michelle and I just started the latest
program, physical program.
And folks,
I think you might be blown away by
it.
It's with fascia.
And I talked briefly about it earlier in
the week.
And Michelle and I are about eight days
into it.
So there's a seven-day program,
and it's called the Human Garage.
And then there's also a twenty-eight-day
program.
We start on a twenty-eight-day program
tomorrow.
Folks,
you're going to look at this and think,
okay, man,
this is just a bunch of stretching.
It's really a lot more than that.
I'm talking...
It is a reset in so many different
ways, folks.
We have got to find every healing modality
we can,
everything we can to center ourselves,
be in the moment, not be freaking out.
If you're stressed out,
you might want to look at some of
this stuff.
So, son,
did you have anything more to add?
I know we were talking a moment ago
about your bug bomb,
but anything else going on around there?
yeah real quick talking about the fascia i
remember there was a podcast that mom and
i were listening to on the way back
from i think it was new york when
we were all living in texas at the
time and uh we were in tennessee when
she played this podcast it was uh the
art of manliness podcast i don't know if
they're still around i don't know i don't
know i haven't kept up with that
particular podcast but he had a guest on
talking about the greeks doing that they
called it fascia running um
The first marathon,
the reason the guy was able to run
that far that quickly just on a drop
of a dime is because they were doing
a lot of fascia running and running
through the Greek.
I don't know if you'd call them mountains
or not,
but it's steep over there in certain
spots.
They're able to run through there with
their goats using their fascia without
ever really getting tired.
Also,
whenever you're doing either wrestling or
jiu-jitsu or anything like that,
There's what's called weight strength and
then grappling strength.
You'll get some people in there that can't
bench one-thirty-five for one rep,
but then they're stronger than everybody
else in the gym whenever it comes to
jiu-jitsu and wrestling.
I wonder if they're tapping into
potentially that fascia strength.
I think that's exactly what they're doing.
And they could even tap into it even
a little bit more where it intersects
everything in your body.
And so your mom and I have been
doing these stretches,
me a little bit more.
And man, I'm feeling a big,
big difference, I think, so far.
And she is well,
where she gets a little bit stressed out
about all the things that we have going
on around here.
I'll stop her.
Okay,
we're going to go out here and do
this.
How do you feel?
She's like, yeah, I feel centered again.
So it's not just for that.
If you're dealing with a health ailment
and stuff like that,
go check them out at the human garage.
I'm going to reach out to them and
see if I can't get them on the
program.
But yeah,
I know folks where we juggle a lot
of things,
but if I physically can't do the work,
you know, what good is any of it?
So it was kind of cool to go
into my chiropractor.
I went there on Monday and he was
doing an update on me, you know,
just kind of checking things out.
My Atlas bone had been out and he
worked on me.
I told him about doing this program and
man, he was just, just all giddy.
He's like, dude,
we know absolutely nothing about the
fascist.
So it's so awesome that there's people out
there actually talking about it.
So he wanted the,
he wanted the link so he could check
it out himself.
So anyway,
that'll that'll cover the farm news real
quick let me cover this uh question what
kind of meds are bad in urine to
use in compost uh kyle asked that question
and by the way folks if you have
questions please put them in uh capital
letters so i can actually see them through
these birth control glasses um so anyway
if it comes through your urine
you can always assume that it is an
improved state.
So even if you're taking meds,
and by the way, if you are,
perhaps it might be in your best interest
to figure out how to not take them.
If you are taking those meds,
by the time your body's done with them
and it's going out through your urine,
in fact, Dr. Group covers this in detail,
that it's in a much better form.
so don't let that you know give you
any sense of fear of putting it into
your compost and the best is going to
be you know you and your everybody else
in your family if you can put that
in your compost um you know you don't
want to be getting five gallon buckets of
it but you know periodically you know as
you collect it maybe a gallon at a
time or less depending on the pile every
time you put that in there folks it's
only going to compost it's only going to
make compost that's more designed for you
Yep, sounds a little bit fruity, but hey,
that's what we do.
Anyway,
Stefan Subkowiak seems a little bit blown
away by that someone I told him on
his program.
Yeah, he did,
which that comes out Father's Day,
by the way.
If anybody's interested,
the interview that me and Dad did with
Stefan and his son is going to come
out.
Is it exactly on Father's Day that it's
coming out or after?
I don't know.
I think it's going to come out on
Father's Day.
That's not their normal upload day,
but I think they're making it come out
on Father's Day.
So that'll be fun if anybody's interested
in that.
Go check out Permaculture Orchard Podcast
if you want to hear that interview come
out.
definitely go check them out all right
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you know occasionally right here in the
studio
Depends on what I might be dealing with.
Billy,
one hundred will get you a hundred bucks
off of that.
All right.
Bond charge.
If you're wanting some of these ball and
ball and glasses that William and I have
on, go to bond charge.
We've got a link for it down below.
B-O-N charge.
PERMA will get you, I think,
fifteen percent off at that one.
So anyway,
go check them out if you're wanting some
really, really ballin' blue blockers.
Yeah, say that ten times.
And then finally, Soil Saviors.
We've got a link for that down below
for everybody.
You don't have time to make compost.
You can't get around to it.
Well, that's your next best things.
Link below.
Alright, so, son,
we'll kick off some of the good news
here.
Beyond the cup of coffee.
So, in this article...
they're talking about the science of
morning beverages and brain function.
So instead of doing coffee,
if you're like me,
you have a nasty reaction to coffee.
If you're not drinking it where it's grown
and it,
I can't even tell you what all that
entails.
I just know with me,
if I drink coffee, um,
and I'm not in that environment,
I have reactions.
I have things that aren't pleasant,
believe me.
So they offer some alternatives for all
those out there,
obviously water being one of them.
And every single morning I get up,
I drink a,
I'd say it's sixteen ounces of water with
a half a teaspoon of Dr.
Will's salt in there.
um and see what else i put in
there a little bit of lemon juice that'll
help you get a little bit more hydrated
guarantee if you woke up you are already
dehydrated you lost a lot of water through
the night so that's one i definitely do
here's another one is green tea and matcha
combines the effect of l-theanine
And you can get a sustained focus without
the jitters.
Okay, that might be something.
But I have the MFTR gene problem,
which means I probably shouldn't be
fooling around with green tea,
if I remember that correctly.
Here's another one that never has bothered
me, and that's yerba mate.
you get the caffeine and the theobromine
bromine for you know a smooth energy curve
without the crash i've always done good
with yerba monte i might i might want
to think about that and then hot cocoa
folks not the american way the hot cocoa
like they do it in el salvador where
it's just the cocoa and water and they
steeped it you know that's about it
So you get all the benefits of a
small amount of caffeine,
but you're also getting a whole lot of
really wonderful things that's in that
cocoa.
So,
and you want to make sure you source
that stuff.
I mean,
I hear there's a lot of nasty things
and a lot of cocoa out there.
So you want to make sure you've got
a good source.
And then of course you can do the
high protein smoothies and stuff like
that.
So in fact,
you can even add some of that stuff
to your smoothie if that's the way you
choose to roll.
All right, next one here.
is seven herbal sleep remedies that deepen
restful sleep,
restore nervous system function.
And by the way, y'all,
I was talking about that human garage.
They even have a routine for you to
sleep even better.
And most of their stuff is free.
You can find it.
I mean,
you can go to their YouTube channel and
you're going to find a lot of this
stuff that's free.
I would do that.
Fifteen minute reset.
And, you know,
do that every single day and see how
you feel.
See if it moves the needle a little
bit on you.
So, yeah, seven herbal sleep remedies.
Here's another one because, you know,
so many people are using melatonin,
which you should not be doing.
Um,
you should not be messing with that stuff.
Folks.
It's definitely not longterm.
I knew people that use that stuff every
single night.
So here's some things that you can do.
I mean,
Valerian chamomile and passion flower
increased GABA,
which is going to help you chill.
It adds, has like a sedation effect.
I almost said lavender.
Yeah.
Lavender aromatheria increases slow sleep
wave, slow wave sleep,
whatever that means.
William, you're the sleep guy,
whatever that means.
Lavender sounds like your substitute
teaching in the hood.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Lavender.
Lavender.
Yeah, so here's another one.
Oswaganda lowers cortisol levels to
address stress-related insomnia.
Lemon balm, that's really good.
There's a whole lot of other things these
herbs work for, folks.
You don't need to go to the pharmacist
to get a lot of relief out of
this stuff, folks.
And honestly,
with the way the world's getting right
now,
I know it hasn't really hit the U.S.
yet.
But I'm telling you what,
the Stratiform moose is down,
and they're talking about dropping some of
the other ones.
So you better be holding on to your
hat.
You might want to think about growing some
of this stuff.
So here's another one.
Honey consumption rises as research
suggests the health benefits.
I guess people are just now figuring that
out.
Okay.
So, yeah.
Here's what you want to do.
Look,
I can sit here and tell you this
study.
Here's the bottom line.
Get your honey as local as can be.
If it's pasteurized,
you need to take a tap hammer,
tack hammer,
wrap them in the head a couple of
times and ask them,
why are you pasteurizing honey?
I mean,
that is the dumbest thing I've ever heard
in my life.
People bragging about it.
Oh, we pasteurize our honey.
It was already perfect to begin with.
Here's how we do it right here at
Permapastors Farm.
It comes out of the frame.
Well, it's out of the hive,
comes out of the frame.
I spin the frame in a little hand
crank that I do to this day by
hand.
I got an electric one,
but it doesn't make sense.
Spin it by hand,
collect it at the bottom of the collector,
Only processing we do is that all I
do is strain out the wax and bee
parts that might've gotten in the honey.
And then it comes out the bottom and
then it's ready for consumption.
And of course our bees out here,
unlike everybody else around us,
they get absolutely no help.
They don't get any sugar water.
They don't get anything else.
In fact,
it's getting starting to be that time here
before too long where I'll put the pollen
traps on there and I'll collect all that
pollen out of there.
Something William and I learned from Dr.
Schmidt.
And that is your multivitamin every single
day.
At least for me, it is.
I put it on my salad every single
day.
So I'll put that on the bees.
You know,
right now they're doing their own thing,
but there will come a time later in
the season while I put those pollen traps
on there.
When the bees go through,
the pollen falls off and lands in the
trap.
You leave it on for about a week
at a time.
So it doesn't really weaken your hives at
all.
And then you take it off and then
you collect it.
I freeze dry it and then I use
it all year long.
That's where I get my multivitamins,
folks.
That's how it rolls.
I mean,
they got every single thing in there.
Dr.
Jana Schmidt has done work after work
after work discussing that very thing.
So, yeah, I'll get mine from nature.
But anyway, as far as the honey,
that's all.
And then from there,
it goes in the jar.
Steve the blacksmith, a friend of mine,
he and his wife,
I just dropped off your mom and I
dropped off.
I think it was on.
We went over to visit him on Saturday
and dropped off some honey.
And then in turn,
they got cows and they raise, you know,
cows that don't have any drugs in them.
And these people are very fastidious about
what goes in their bodies.
So it's always cool when they hand us
back a bunch of cheese and milk.
So we're giving them honey.
with bees that don't get any kind of
mite treatment, nothing.
Only mite treatment we have is running our
chickens through there twice,
maybe three times a year.
That's how we look after our bees.
And if the hives aren't strong enough to
ward off any pests, then guess what?
Who needs you anyway?
So yeah,
there's a lot of beekeepers out there.
They're calling their honey this and that,
that and this,
but we don't put anything in it and
we keep only the strong.
So that way we are,
and plus right now, son,
since I put away that weed eater and
I use it very,
very sparingly only on silver grass,
I no longer go out there and chop
off the seed heads.
I don't do any of that stuff.
And the number one reason why is because
the pollinators,
I'm killing their habitat by, you know,
trying to,
but now I'm letting everything go as
natural as it can be.
And now it's coming back.
I mean,
we got pollinators that are blowing this
place up.
There's plenty enough for our bees and
there's plenty enough for all the natural
pollinators out there.
So,
Yeah, sorry,
I didn't mean to spend so much time
on that.
I know I say that often,
but it's what it is,
or as a ghetto philosopher,
yeah real quick the the pasteurization i
wonder if they're because we are aware of
all the the frauds and fakes as far
as honey goes at the supermarket and now
most of it is completely garbage and not
even honey i wonder if they're doing the
pasteurization on some of them because
they're harvesting the frames too early
before they're capped and they still have
that high water content so i wonder if
they're pasteurizing it because it won't
be shelf stable i wonder if that's part
of the reason
That's a good point there, son.
I didn't even think about that.
And then, folks,
here's another thing to consider.
There was even a documentary,
and you can probably still find it on
Netflix,
where they were talking about the bee
industry and how I want to say maybe
ninety percent of the so-called honey in
that store came from a factory in China
where they manufacture it.
It's as fake as a three dollar bill.
It is fake.
It ain't even real honey.
But they put all these labels on there
and you think, look,
unless you know somebody like me or
another beekeeper around you and you're
aware of their methods, folks,
you don't want to get that stuff.
I mean, in fact, son,
they're so good at faking this so-called
wild honey.
that even the professionals have to put it
under a microscope and you better be a
very very good microscope person to know
the difference well your body knows the
difference and so i don't get mixed up
in any of that stuff so um yeah
real quick there's a there's a question
from kai schlott any recommendations as to
where we can get bees to start a
new hive i want bees next year for
honey the best place that i've ever
noticed to get bee equipment be like
anything uh
colonies anything like that is joining
your local beekeepers group there's always
going to be two old timers there two
old men that are retired and they go
and they get bees from businesses that
don't want bees so like you've seen those
bee removal videos that's exactly what
these two old men do every beekeeping
group has them that i've noticed uh and
they have they already have more bees than
what their wife wants anyway so they got
to get these bees and then get rid
of them or give them away
And they probably have more equipment than
they need.
So they're, and anybody who's getting in,
they get excited about anybody getting
into beekeeping.
So that's what I would recommend is go
to a local beekeepers group and you'll
probably get everything you need pretty
quickly.
Every place has them, y'all.
I'm telling you,
it's one of those things where when you
have these people are so passionate about
their bees that they'd love to see other
people get into it.
So no matter where you are in that
spectrum, I'm telling you what,
they will teach you every single thing you
need to know.
Um,
and you're going to see a lot of
conflicting information when it comes to
bees from so many different people.
You know,
you're going to have one expert over here
telling you to do the very opposite of
what this expert,
you're just going to have to find out
what works for you, where you are.
So that's what it, you know,
when it comes down to brass tacks on
these bees, that's really,
really what it comes down to.
is uh finding out what works for you
at the end of the day look we're
not spraying any junk in here if they
get mites it's because the hive wasn't
strong enough to take care of it so
if they get you know those moths that
get in there we get that problem from
time to time okay i guess you weren't
meant to make it that's how it rolls
around here we're not giving you any drugs
because at the end of the day
Really, if we have a robust environment,
I think they ought to do well.
Now, keep in mind,
that's notwithstanding the fact that
they're dropping garbage from the sky.
So I'm curious to see,
now that we have that buster out there
that's knocking out, you know, we had Dr.
Presser on about a week ago talking about,
you know, what this thing does.
I can't wait to see what the production
on the bees is going to look like.
But I will say, folks,
I'm seeing production on trees that have
never had it before.
So I am quite excited.
I'm waiting with bated breath to see
because last time, man,
we give away just about all of the
honey.
I mean, William,
I think we gave you guys one time
five gallons of it.
Yeah, you give Emily most of the money,
honestly.
Yeah, we give away most of the honey,
and it's a good bartering tool,
or it's a good tool like I was
talking about with Steve the blacksmith.
You know, they don't have bees.
We do.
We don't have cows or, you know,
we don't have milk cows.
They do.
So it's a perfect symbiotic relationship
and you can find those around your folks.
So keep, you know,
keep all that stuff in mind.
All right.
With that said,
we're going to go to my man,
Eric Sider.
Hey,
Eric Sider here with your PimpCast tip of
the day.
Today's tip,
all roads lead to permaculture.
Permaculture is really the only game in
town.
There are plenty of techniques for growing
food and plenty of ways to organize a
community,
but there is no other system of design
that puts it all together in a
regenerative way,
one that is universally applicable across
the globe.
None that I know of, anyway.
People love to waste time debating
techniques as if there is one best way
to do anything.
As always, it depends.
Permaculture is not a technique,
despite how often misinformed or
ill-intentioned people online try to make
it so.
It is a strategic system of design based
in ethics that dictate our intentions.
It is very frustrating how little people
value design.
Most people are walking around with
devices in their pockets that had
thousands of hours and millions of dollars
of design and research put into it.
And it's mostly used to distract ourselves
from real life.
Then the same people look at you sideways
when you try and tell them the importance
of designing their property where they
spend most of their lives and where the
easiest place to create health and wealth.
The biggest issue is the people that see
the need or value permaculture tend to not
have the money and resources to implement
it.
And the people with all the money and
resources don't value the system.
But the worse things get out there,
the more people jump on the path to
permaculture.
You can find me on YouTube and Instagram
at Eric Sider.
If you're in need of permaculture
t-shirts,
the official pimp gear of this pimp cast,
or remote permaculture consultation and
design, head over to ericsider.com.
And for more information on my
permaculture community group in the
Sacramento area,
head over to permaculturefairoak.org.
That's my dog right there.
Wow,
hits it out of the park once again.
And also,
it just kind of weaves right into what
we just talked about there.
I mean, sadly, son,
maybe you see it a little bit differently,
but sadly,
I think before a lot of people start
to wake up and smell the corruption,
They're going to have to go through the
crucible of really,
really hard times in this country before
they think, oh, shoot,
where is my food coming from?
Do I have a friend I can go
get, you know, honey from?
Do I have a friend where I can
go get milk from or whatever those cases
may be?
I mean,
there's always going to be that problem.
And sadly,
I think a lot of people are not
going to wake up until the, you know,
till the bullet hits the bone.
Yeah, no, I agree with that.
I don't think there's really going to
be... If you're not awake by now,
I don't think there's going to be another
event that wakes anybody up.
I mean,
having gone through what we just went
through, I mean,
the lies have never been more obvious than
they are right now.
If you haven't... I mean,
I'm not saying it's impossible for anybody
to wake up.
I just don't think any one singular event
is going to wake up the masses.
I think...
Yeah,
I think they're in that delusion at this
point.
Strong delusion, no doubt about that.
Yeah, thanks, Nancy.
Everybody hit that like button if you're
new coming in here.
And no matter what, yeah,
hit the like button.
It lets everybody know at YouTube that
we're live so they can go ahead and
start suppressing us.
So anyway, it might help a little bit.
All right, Nessa's Hemp,
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That's another little sleep hack I got
there is, you know,
if you got a little bit of anxiety
before you go to bed,
take a dropper of that or a half
a dropper, whatever you need.
And, you know,
plus everybody has an endocannabinoid
system.
That's what we learned the last time she
was on the program.
Everybody has one of those and it needs
to be filled up.
And that's one way you can go about
it.
All right.
So let's get into the topic here.
And the reason why I really wanted to
cover this is one of the big responses
I get from so many people is, well,
I don't have,
I can't wait to do that.
when I get land or I don't have
enough land or I can't do that.
I get that so much.
In fact,
in the last video that I put out
talking about how you can, you know,
layer your comfrey out there with your
nitrogen fixtures to do your mulching and
never have to buy mulch ever again.
And by the way,
the people that were wanting to update on
that, don't worry,
I'll give it to you when the time's
right.
And I'll explain exactly, you know,
it's a self-licking ice cream cone.
You never have to go out and get
anything again.
Well,
there were so many people in there saying,
man, I can't wait to get land.
In a lot of videos that I do,
folks, it doesn't matter where you are.
And in fact,
that's why I wanted to cover protein in
particular.
Can you produce all of your protein in
one acre?
Now,
keep in mind that unless you live in
the tropics,
the hardest thing to find in nature is
what, son?
It's going to be fat.
That's right.
So if you're into preparedness and all
that stuff, you know,
it's funny how many other people started
coming out saying it after I kind of
put it in the zeitgeist.
And now a lot, you know,
I don't need credit for it.
I'm just saying I put that out there.
Everybody in the preparedness thing would
talk about, you know, protein carbs,
put back your rice and beans and all
this kind of stuff.
And nobody ever talked about fat.
Now, if you live in the tropics,
that comes relatively easy in the form of
so many things like coconut and avocado,
right?
Easy to come by.
I mean, insanely easy to come by.
But when you're in more temperate
environments, not so much.
Or it's a little bit harder to come
by,
but other things may come a little bit
easier.
So let's just talk about protein in this
part right now.
So let's pretend for a moment you're on
one acre.
And William and I had talked about maybe
doing something like this in a video,
like taking a one-acre spot and then just
let's see how much food we can produce
on this one acre,
maybe put some sort of domicile out there.
And we've talked about it over and over.
Maybe in the future we'll have that
opportunity.
But people think they need less protein
than they really do.
Um, typically, you know,
depending on whom you ask anywhere
between.
Fifty to a hundred grams per day,
or maybe not that much,
or maybe way more than that,
depending on what it is you're trying to
do right off the bat.
I think one of the biggest, I mean,
I got so many things I can go
here.
I don't,
I don't want to kick it off and,
um, wipe out Williams list here,
but thank you.
I'm going to,
I'm going to tell you right now,
if you don't get the bigger version of
the hair sheep.
Believe it or not,
that's one of the most efficient protein
sources in the permaculture system that
you could do on an acre.
Because you're converting,
at the end of the day,
you're converting forage into meat while
building soil fertility.
If you do what Eric talked about, design,
you can do none of what we're talking
about.
I don't even know what's on William's
list.
But I'm telling you, folks,
you can't do any of this if you
have a lousy design.
So that's going to be my first one.
I designed my list.
So where I started off with the smallest
possible space and then worked my way out
from there.
So like this is a small property starting
zone zero.
We'll start inside the house and then
we'll build up to bigger and bigger
systems that will graduate to the outside
of the house.
And the first thing I had on my
list,
which isn't going to be it's not going
to be a staple,
but it's going to be.
Some people take it as a supplement,
but it's going to be spirulina,
which can really just take up.
I mean, if you have an extra room,
you could put like a kiddie pool in
there and then do a large scale size
spirulina thing if you wanted to.
Or if all you have is like space
for a fish tank.
You could do a fish tank in the
living room or any extra room that you
have and grow a complete protein that way.
And a lot of people, again,
a lot of people take that as a
supplement.
A lot of vegans and vegetarians take that
as a supplement as well.
So, yeah, spirulina.
You can be in a studio apartment and
still grow spirulina if you wanted to and
still produce a decent amount of protein.
That's a good one, son.
I'll be honest with you.
It didn't even cross my mind.
But now that you said it, I'm like,
boy, that is actually quite...
And that's just one of many benefits you
get from something like Spirulina.
Next one I'm going to come off is
going to seem like a no-brainer, but...
folks think back to what eric said
regarding design this is so important i'm
gonna say okay you're on that one acre
i talked about sheep okay what should you
have go behind them and by the way
there's so many awesome responses right
here in the chat and we're going to
cover some of those uh amy says bean
sprouts are a complete protein great um
yeah uh one-legged woodworker
Goat, sheep, chickens, yeah,
but let's talk about them in context.
I'm going to talk about chickens and
specifically laying birds.
Okay, we're talking about one acre.
So every time your ruminants go through to
bust up that parasite cycle, now look,
you're not gonna get twenty of them out
there, okay?
But to break up that parasite cycle,
you want something going behind them.
It could be ducks.
I'm gonna talk about chickens because of
the versatility and what they're gonna do
in the soil.
They're gonna scratch,
they're gonna break up,
they're gonna go through that poop.
And they're going to make absolutely sure
that they get any of the larvae.
So we want to try to make their
rotation about three days after the
ruminant went through.
Because by that time,
all the fly larva or anything present is
going to be making itself known.
And the chickens will definitely make them
pay.
They're going to pay the piper for that.
But it has to be done in a
holistic system.
So what holistic system that you could
have?
Let's say you're on...
You're in a stationary spot and it can
be mobile.
And let's say you got layers out there.
What system have you and I both talked
about that would work beautifully for a
bunch of laying birds?
The chicken tractor on steroids.
I mean that,
that is an awesome system that i don't
think enough people really tap into
because you produce all of your like if
you're doing layers you produce all of
your eggs for free all of their chickens
are getting all of their food from the
system itself which needs to be combined
with at least a guard i should say
um so that we have garden waste and
compostable material they you produce a
cubic yard of compost per week if you're
if you have the right sizes and everything
um
I mean, it's just a it's a close.
Once you have a chicken tractor on
steroids and a garden on your property and
you have the numbers all figured out as
far as chickens and how much food you
need and feed requirements in order for
them to lay.
Once you have all that figured out,
it's a closed loop system for your
property.
That means it needs no outside inputs in
order for this system to function and
produce excess,
which is what regenerative is.
But yeah.
Keep in mind that this system,
there's going to be a lot of us
right now that have more time than money.
This system is going to be a little
more time.
You're going to have to invest more time
in it, no doubt about that.
But the rewards, I mean,
the chickens lay more in a system like
that.
They work harder.
They're a little rougher looking,
but they're happy birds,
and they're not just sitting here lounging
around waiting for some pellets to come
out there.
So that's going to be my next one
right there.
The next one I have,
which is going to I'm actually going to
answer a couple of things all at the
same time.
My next one I have is comfrey,
and that can be grown inside the house
again or on the front porch if you
wanted to.
Now, if you Google it,
it'll tell you not to eat comfrey.
I say you're an adult.
You can make your free choices.
They did it for centuries before that
Rockefeller study in the early nineties,
uh, with no, I mean,
there have been no documented illnesses
from comfrey outside of that one
particular study that the Rockefellers did
in the nineties and then figured out a
synthesized active compound in it.
Um, but comfrey.
Uh, it's super high in protein.
It, once you have a plant,
you never have to buy the plant again.
Uh, now Kai, uh,
Kai Schlott asked earlier, um,
first of all,
he was asking if we were related.
Yes, that is my dad.
And it is.
son.
And then also he said earlier that he
bought comfrey from the website that I
recommended.
He bought twenty of them and he planted
twenty of them and they were all doing
wonderful.
That was my dad's website that I
recommended.
Permapasturesfarm.com.
If you want to buy comfrey,
go to dad to get it.
But yeah, comfrey.
Same thing with the spirulina.
If you have an extra room to dedicate,
you could turn that extra room into
somewhat of a controlled greenhouse if you
wanted to.
Open up the windows if you wanted,
but you could grow comfrey in that
greenhouse.
It's a low-growing shrub.
It regrows very,
very quickly as long as the temperature is
appropriate.
I just cut some in the back garden
two weeks ago and mulched the garden with
it,
and
Uh, it's already back.
It doesn't look like I can let other
than like the nubs that you can see
on some of the stocks,
it looks like I never even cut it.
Um, so yeah,
comfrey and also two for one,
not only going to be your food can
also go into your first aid kit as
well.
Uh,
there's a guy at my jujitsu gym who
just broke two ribs.
Um,
Fifty-year-old dude rolling around with a
seventeen-year-old,
and they're both white belts,
so that just spells disaster.
Broke two of his ribs,
and he's putting Comfrey Sav on his ribs
right now.
But he has already said that he's only
done it for four days so far,
and he's already noticed a vast
difference.
He can take a deep breath now,
so that's awesome.
Oh, man, that's good news.
Well,
here's another one I'm going to suggest.
And by the way, man, son,
this is exactly why I would love to
do.
We need to get another carrier.
I would love to do a call in
program for exactly the reasons I'm seeing
right now in the chat.
Man,
there are so many awesome ideas out there.
And, folks,
this program just isn't about us.
It's about being able for us to be
able to learn from you,
and we could do it a whole lot
better if we had a call-in program as
well.
So I think in order to do that,
we're going to have to switch up.
Man,
we've really got to put a little bit
of work into that and find out why,
because this is exactly how cool would
this show be if I said, hey,
every caller –
If you're going to call in,
tell me what yours is and give me
the skinny on it.
We could put out the word ahead of
time.
I mean, we could all learn from that.
They're putting out some really good stuff
that I didn't think about.
So, yeah,
we got to seriously think about doing
that.
All right,
so my next one is going to be
meat birds.
Now, it's not a – okay,
so let's say you got layers out there.
Here's the cool thing about that chicken
tractor on steroids.
It works better the bigger the bird
because the more material that can move,
the ideal bird in that system is not
what you've been told.
It's not one, you know,
they give you all the metrics of what
the ideal bird is.
In a system like the chicken tractor on
steroids, instead of just having a layer,
why not get a dual-use bird?
Why not get a Bressie?
or breasts, however two people choose,
why not get a Bielefelder?
Why not get a, I mean,
there's so many of them out there that
are good meat birds and also good layers.
You could extract the birds from that
system and put some straight up chicken on
the table.
You could also use that system to grow
eggs.
It could all be in the same system
if you so chose,
but we're talking about an acre here.
So let's say you have one area where
you did it exclusively
For your layers and another area where you
did it exclusively for your meat birds,
they will work.
You can put them in the same system
if you want it,
or you could separate the system and it's
going to require a little more work,
but you could do that.
You could absolutely do that or leave
layers in there full time and
Raise up some meat birds when they get
big enough,
then you could transfer them into that
system.
Now, look,
you're going to when you integrate birds,
you got to do it right.
Otherwise,
you're going to have a Brown versus Board
of Education moment in there.
It ain't going to be pretty.
And somebody is going to die.
No doubt about that.
But you could easily take a dual use
bird,
a dual purpose bird and do that very
same.
I'm not a big fan of Cornish crosses,
so I don't raise them.
But yeah, get me a dual purpose bird.
Now we can talk turkey or talk chicken.
So you can use that same exact system
in there.
You could use waste streams from bakeries,
Mexican restaurants, Chipotle.
It doesn't even matter, folks.
I got more food coming in than I
can possibly use.
And then here's the deal.
Like William mentioned a minute ago,
in that system,
you're producing anywhere between one to
three cubic yards of compost per week.
Let's say you got all you need.
Huh?
You think maybe you might be able to
sell that high quality compost?
Maybe you take it,
let it cure a little while.
let it really, you know, be really,
really awesome and all the stuff it needs.
And you might be able to have a
little side hustle on the side there.
So yeah, that's my next one.
The next one that I have, again,
working small and then building our way
out would be Moringa.
This was mentioned actually by someone in
the chat, GDHRT Garden, I think.
Yeah, Moringa.
So this I'm picturing being either grown
like up against the side of your house
like i do here on the south side
of the house or uh on the property's
edge or wherever it may be something
that's not gonna because moringa isn't
gonna take up a bunch of space people
automatically assume because it's a tree
it's gonna take a lot of space not
where you're occupying it takes up a lot
of space above your head depending on
where you live and depending on your
growing season for moringa uh i mean so
for some of you it might make sense
to do just keep moringa in pots because
you're gonna have to move them in and
out during the cold and warm weathers
Uh, but Moringa, uh, there's,
I did a video on how to overwinter
if overwintering has been an issue with
you, um, for you growing Moringa,
but Moringa is super,
super high in protein,
has a bunch of vitamins,
has a bunch of minerals.
I can purify water if you want it
to, uh,
once it's established as drought proof.
I mean,
there's a lot of benefits to Moringa,
everything on the property can eat
Moringa, uh,
I think it's like thirty percent protein
once it's dried.
It's a complete protein as well.
So you're not missing any of those amino
acids.
Yeah, it's amazing.
And it doesn't take up a whole lot
of space,
especially if and that's without even like
training it.
If you trained it,
you could make it take up whatever space
you wanted it to.
And it can act as an overstory.
So if you're where I live here in
Texas, you can use your Moringa.
you know,
composite or polar or composite as you're
going into colder temperatures and then
uncover the mulch as you get into warmer
temperatures.
And then as it grows up,
it's going to provide a canopy for your
animals below it, like chickens,
your smaller animals below it.
Once you start getting into those really,
really hot summer temperatures and it's
going to be just fine during your drop
periods.
So yeah, Moringa,
I can take up as little space or
as much space as you want it to.
Man, when I think of Moringa,
Man,
I know this sounds a little bit out
of whack,
but I guarantee you there's a girl in
the hood named Moringa and Ashwagandha.
Moringa, Ashwagandha, Lavander,
all those names.
It'll be a proud family.
Yeah, it's all there, man.
Real quick,
and we'll cover more of these questions,
but here's one that jumped out,
a question from Amy,
because comfrey has such a deep taproot,
planting in a pot,
does it stun the growth?
Uh, I would say with the pot,
like you just got to water it more.
It's not going to really stunt the growth.
It'll consume that entire pot.
I mean,
most pots that most people are going to
move and pick up and,
and stuff like that.
Like anywhere.
I mean,
if you did a five gallon bucket,
five gallon bucket is going to have
different dimensions than the five gallon
pot.
But if you did a ten gallon pot,
five gallon pot, anything like that,
the country is going to fill that pot.
Now,
I did a consultation for a lady over
in Arkansas who was moving from she moved
from her property in Louisiana,
moved to Arkansas,
and she had all of her trees in
a pot.
Like she was kind of getting ready for
this move to more land and stuff like
that.
So she grew everything in a pot and
she actually did guilds in a pot.
And so she would do.
And she had big like thirty gallon pots.
They needed like equipment to move these
pots.
But she did like an apple tree or
whatever kind of tree.
And then she did four comfrey,
two to four comfrey around that tree in
the pot.
And that whole pot was consumed with just
comfrey.
Like you couldn't see any bare soil.
But keep in mind,
if it's in a pot,
you're going to have to water a lot
more.
It's not going to stop.
Yeah.
Well,
there's also this rumor out there that you
can't plant comfrey too close.
Look, absolute hogwash.
Yeah, that's another story there, Sam.
But I got hit with that one last
week.
Like, oh, the comfrey's too close.
No, it ain't.
It'll do just fine.
Now you go to digging up the roots.
Yeah,
you might have a problem on an application
like that.
And in some ways,
it might actually be preferable.
So, yeah, it's not a problem.
And I've heard that one many times before.
Yeah, Kyle says,
now when I hear Billy talk about William's
mom, I don't feel so uncomfortable.
Thanks for clarifying.
Yep.
All right.
So my next one here, remember, folks,
in permaculture, we stack functions.
We're talking about one acre.
So maybe you don't want to have rabbits
over here, chickens over there.
So you can stack functions.
Let's say you have a little outbuilding.
It's just a little small one there.
And that's where you're going to grow your
chickens.
Let's say you don't want to do the
chicken tractor on steroids.
Let's say you're just going to do a
deep bedding model,
which you can do holistically.
You can absolutely do that holistically.
And I'm going to talk about another animal
in a minute that you wouldn't believe you
could do it with.
Anyway,
let's say you got chickens out there.
You can take a page out of Polyface
and turn it into a racking house,
meaning a cross between a rabbit and a
chicken.
So now all of a sudden you got
rabbits that are above your chickens in
hutches, okay?
That's where they chill.
That's where they like to hang out.
The rabbit poop falls down,
the chickens don't mind,
and it's going to only make better compost
when you finally dig that stuff out of
there.
So the chickens, the rabbits,
they're all occupying the same space.
And like I said, the more manure,
the clean manure you have in there,
the better that compost is going to be,
the better microorganisms you're going to
have in there.
It's only going to work out even better.
If you want to throw some cow poop
in there as well, no problem.
So...
Every once in a while,
you're going to take all that stuff out
of there, and it's – well,
for the most part,
depending on how long you leave it,
it might very well be compost underneath
that top layer.
So anyway,
you're going to have to get in there
every once in a while,
get all that stuff out,
and then you could use it in your
gardens.
But you've got your rabbits above,
and when you talk about rabbits, I mean,
they may be the most land –
Efficient livestock protein source.
I mean,
producing a large amount of meat with a
very small footprint.
And it may be more applicable.
We're talking about an acre,
but you don't need an acre.
You can be doing everything we're talking
about on a half acre or less.
Every single bit of it.
So, yeah, combine some of these things.
I mean, I'm on...
like a third of an acre.
I'm on pretty small acreage,
this house right now.
And everything that we discussed,
except for the sheep,
is doable on this property for sure.
I mean,
I have chickens in the back and that's
not even done efficiently.
Um, but yeah.
And, and if I were to do sheep,
there's a field right across that I'm
with, they just mow.
I'm pretty sure I could convince them to
let me use, uh,
that field for sheep right over there.
Uh, real quick, uh,
G D H R T garden as, uh,
if you have time and it's in alignment
with the show,
could you tell me if duckweed overgrowth
and ponds has a use case?
Uh,
Absolutely.
Duckweed, azolla,
all that green small leaf stuff that grows
on the very, very small leaf stuff.
Some people mistake it as algae growing on
the top of your ponds.
They definitely have a use case.
Again, there's a protein content in them.
I don't know if it's high enough to
add it to the list,
but you could use it for chicken feed.
You could use it to feed if you
had a pond close by and you had
chickens and you're on the small acreage,
you could use the duckweed to feed your
poultry.
Um,
you could use it to feed your rabbits.
Uh,
you could use it as a compost activator.
It's going to be a high nitrogen and
it's going to add a gel component to
your compost.
You could use it as just straight up
chop and drop on your garden if you
wanted to and use it as like a
mulch,
which you're doing two things at the same
time.
You're rehydrating your soils and then
you're also mulching it.
And then you're doing a slow release,
like you're composting in place,
a slow release, fertilizer,
microbial food, all types of stuff.
Um,
So, yeah,
there's a lot of uses for duckweed for
sure.
But the next one on my list is
going to be a squab.
And this is I mean,
you could do anything from just like a
window perch,
like a window type insert thing where you
use your, you know,
your chickens or your squab,
your pigeons mount to that.
And then it's like a chicken coop type
thing.
Mount it out of your window all the
way to like a dedicated coop just right
outside your back door if you wanted to.
But the cool thing with pigeons is like
all you have to do is provide them
a home and they provide everything else
for themselves.
They get their own water.
They build their own nests.
Once they have like a breeding pair,
then they're like mate for life.
Uh, they get their own food.
They get their own food for their young
as well.
Uh,
and if you have like a pair and
you introduce them to a coop and they
take to that coop,
they're going to keep coming back year
after year after year.
And then you can just multiply outward if
you want it to.
And then there's squab.
You're thinking a pigeon ain't much of a
meal.
The, the squab,
which is the teenage pigeon is actually
bigger than his parents at that time.
And then you eat that.
Um, they're ugly things,
so it ain't too difficult to eat them.
They're not cute or anything like that.
You're not thinking, oh,
I can't eat a little baby chicken looking
thing.
Doesn't look like that at all.
You feel like you're putting it out of
its misery whenever you look at that
thing.
So, yeah, squab.
That doesn't take up much space at all.
Here's one right here, folks.
You're going to think I lost my mind,
but I'm telling you, it can be done.
In fact, Jason,
it's so the land recently or not recently,
a couple of years ago, did it.
And, wow,
you can get a whole lot of fat
and get a whole lot of meat,
and that's pigs.
In an area, in a carport – now,
I will qualify this here in a minute
– in a carport –
That's what he had there,
and I want to say it might have
been somewhere in the neighborhood.
The footprint might have been,
I don't know,
maybe sixteen by sixteen somewhere there
about.
But if you were to have an area
about that big that was covered facing to
the south is what I would recommend in
the northern hemisphere.
And the reason why I wouldn't face it
toward the north is that it's just going
to catch a bunch of wind,
but I would face it to the south
because then that way they're not going to
get overheated when the sun rises in the
east, sets in the west.
So, have I lost my mind?
Absolutely not.
And you will never smell them if you
do what I'm telling you.
If you had a couple of pigs,
you could even... Folks, remember,
we're talking an acre.
You could do everything I talked about
here on this one acre easily.
If you had a footprint of a twenty
by twenty,
you might be able to get three or
four pigs up in there.
But you could at least get two.
Now,
depending on the type you get.
And I wouldn't be getting any of these
designer things out there.
I wouldn't be getting a Guinea hog or
anything like that.
Not unless that's what you want, but man,
if you're in it for the meat,
Man,
I don't even want to start thinking about
you could at least get off of each
pig somewhere in the neighborhood of
about, let's say,
let them get up to about three hundred
pounds somewhere thereabouts.
You're getting a hundred pounds of meat
off of each one of them.
And I ain't even counting the fat that
you could render and all the other things.
So anyway, pigs,
you could do everything I just told you
about the chickens.
You can do that with the pigs,
you know, find them.
Or let's say you raised up chickens first.
Here's another little way.
Let's say you had a smaller footprint.
Let's say you raised up a bunch of
meat birds.
They're in a freezer.
You're thinking, okay, man,
I don't want to deal with all that
compost right now.
You know, the deep bedding out there.
Now you run your pigs in there in
the same doggone environment.
And if you have things down there that
are fermenting,
those pigs will tear that place apart
trying to get that corn at the bottom
of there so you can put in some
corn that has now been fermented by the
time those chickens are done.
And it's going to be down there anyway
because if you had feed,
there's going to be some that didn't make
it.
Pigs are going to go down there.
They are going to absolutely turn that
pile like nothing you've ever seen before
just to get a kernel of corn at
the bottom of there that may be
fermenting.
Drives them crazy.
So you could raise them in the very
same deep bedding model that you used on
pigs, on chickens.
You can do it on pigs.
Same exact thing.
So it works well with all omnivores.
You can have them in that area now.
preferably it's always going to be better
if you could have these guys out in
the natural environment,
but it can be done there and, uh,
you know, give them things they can do.
Give them a little ball.
If you have a bigger area, yeah,
you could do it there,
but you want to make sure you keep
down the smell.
So carbon is your best friend in an
area like that.
So you're going to want a good carbon
source, wood chips.
Um, it can be any number of things.
And then ultimately that's going to turn
into compost as well.
That was my last one, son.
if real quick on the wood chip thing
the carbon thing if you've ever looked at
like let's say you chip drop came and
dropped off some wood chips and you're
looking at the pile and you're wondering
hmm i wonder if this is enough wood
chips the answer is always no you never
have enough wood chips the answer is
always going to be no unless you just
literally unless it's cutting off access
if it's cutting off access then it's
you're you're good you have enough
But if it's not cutting off access and
it ain't catching fire and it's not near
a fire source, no,
you do not have enough wood chips.
And then we had a question earlier.
I don't know who asked it,
but they were asking,
is it best for the rabbits to raise
them in a small cage?
It doesn't seem humane.
Believe it or not, some people will say,
I would say if the rabbits can get
on the ground somehow doing like a rabbit
tractor,
that's always going to be a better option
than raising them in the cages.
But some people say the rabbits are
actually happier in a smaller confined
space because they're bottom of the food
chain prey.
And if they're in a big open space,
they're not going to get relaxed.
They're not going to get comfortable
because they're in a big open space and
they're vulnerable.
But if they're in some sort of cage
like that,
they actually feel safer and become a lot
more comfortable.
I did hear about this one lady who
was trying to do like a...
free range rabbitry or whatever.
And she had a lot of open space
for them to run around.
And I think she was intending for them
to graze, but her, uh,
fertility rates went way up once she
started enclosing the rabbits.
Um,
I don't know what that means for the
rabbits, but it just,
I think it shows that they like smaller
confined spaces compared to those big open
spaces.
uh but the next uh if that's the
last one for you then i'll just do
the last ones that i have written down
and keep in mind everything that we've
listed here today could all fit on one
properly designed property like it's not
like you have to pick one or two
from what we've listed and then apply
those to your small property everything
we've listed and more can be done on
a one acre property um next one i
had uh kind of goes hand in hand
sunflowers
uh and legumes you can use they can
occupy the same dog on space they're both
producing protein sunflower the heads of
them the seeds produce a decent amount of
protein uh everything that we've listed so
far will eat sunflower heads as well i
remember being shocked how much uh the
sheep ate on the sunflowers i thought they
were just gonna eat some of the leaves
They left nubs.
I don't know how they got those sunflower
heads,
but they figured it out and they got
nubs.
They left nubs afterwards.
Your chickens will go crazy for them.
Your pigs will go crazy for them.
All of your birds will go crazy for
sunflower seeds.
Get your sunflowers established first and
then grow your legumes at the base of
your sunflowers.
The legumes can climb up your sunflowers,
occupying less total space than if you
were to do a trellis.
Or if you were to do some other
separate system for your legumes.
I say legumes broadly because they're all
generally higher in protein.
And depending on where you live determines
which legume you're going to go with.
And then another one that I had is
quail, which is another small bird that,
I mean...
if you wanted to you could raise inside
your house if you wanted to but that's
going to be funky if you've ever had
a chicken brooder in your house you know
how funky these birds can get even when
you're staying on top of it so quail
if you want to inside the house but
coil for sure outside the house um i
wouldn't say that the most efficient
protein source that you could grow on your
property but they're definitely something
you can supplement your protein with
another one is ducks again
Ducks require more square footage per duck
than chickens do, in my opinion.
Chickens can...
cohabitate with certain systems like lawn
systems,
ducks cohabitate with like forested and
pond systems,
and they will poop on and flatten
everything else.
Uh, and their poop is slippery.
So like, I remember at Jeff Lawton's,
when we're trying to fit in the numbers
on the Muscovy ducks, uh,
we were slipping and sliding all over the
place.
And we just, you,
you have to accept the fact that you
have to take a shower after working with
ducks.
especially if you're trying to catch them
in their pens.
But ducks, they can maintain,
like a lot of people,
let's say they have a small pond.
People will get like in the teens worth
of ducks or twenty ducks thinking it takes
that many ducks to maintain that pond.
Very few ducks are required to maintain a
pond because they do so much damage.
They flatten so much.
They poop on so much.
They do so much damage.
Granted,
they're not tilling things up like
chickens would or scratch things up like
chickens would or even pecking holes in
things like chickens would,
but they will flatten and poop on
everything.
So all that to say is that all
of this needs to be properly designed.
Without proper design,
all of this is going to fail.
These are all just different cogs that you
can put in the wheel of your particular
piece of property.
Man,
I wish we did have a call-in show,
man.
So many good ideas out here in the
chat.
Here's one I didn't know.
Moringa can be used as a microgreen.
I did not know that.
Let's see here.
What else we got here?
My daughter treats it like a microgreen.
Every single day,
she'll grab a couple of leaves.
Now that the trees are outside,
we have to wait until she's outside,
but she'll grab a couple of leaves and
hand a couple to everybody and say,
eat this.
We'll wait there until you do eat it.
How big does comfrey need to be when
first growing before you start taking
leaves to use?
It really doesn't.
I mean,
there's people out there telling you that
it's got to be a certain size or
whatever.
It's never mattered.
I mean, let's say a foot, you know,
when you get some leaves on there,
you know, remember,
we don't want to rape the environment.
You just take what you need and then
leave some back, you know,
so you don't maybe got multiple plants
where you can get those from.
I think we may have gotten through.
Let's see here.
I want rabbits from Manitou.
Yeah, okay.
I think you already covered that one.
Yeah,
we got to see about doing a call-in
show, man, because there are so many.
Okay, here's another one from Amy.
Question,
do sheep require a livestock guardian dog?
Depends on where you are.
Remember, you're on one acre.
Maybe you're surrounded by a bunch of
one-acre places.
I like them for multiple reasons because
those livestock guardian dogs even chase
off birds of prey if you get a
good one.
Milk Boy does that.
If there's any hawks flying over,
believe me,
he's over there yelling at them.
So you can use them for multiple things.
It depends.
That's one of those answers I know nobody
wants to hear, but yes,
it really does depend.
And something that might be
counterproductive to that or
counterintuitive to that would be I would
need a livestock guardian dog more if I
were to graze that pasture right across
the street from me than if I were
in the middle of nowhere because of the
amount of factor in not only your natural
predators and stuff,
but also how many dogs are running loose.
Because if I put sheep in that field
right across me and I don't put a
livestock guardian dog out there,
Those sheep are going to get all kinds
of mess with.
They're going to get pushed out of the
fencing.
They're going to get attacked in certain
cases.
And also,
the livestock guardian dog is going to be
working more here than he would be in
the middle of nowhere.
Keep in mind that they've got a pretty
loud bark.
If you've got a great Pyrenees,
that bark can...
echo for a long, long way.
So if you're in a neighborhood or you
got people close around you,
you're going to be keeping them up at
night because they're going to be hearing
things that may not be an immediate
threat.
They'll hear things in the distance and
they're going to bark and they're going to
react to it.
So just keep that in mind.
All right.
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Man, in this time, in this world,
you wonder why we talk about health so
much on this podcast.
Well,
it's becoming a more and more and more
toxic world.
Things are getting crazier and crazier
every day.
But, man,
it's such a joy to be able to
come on here and talk about some of
the solutions.
All right, y'all.
Until next time, stay alert.
Stay alive.
Thank you.
Listen to the earth, they've got us.
Let's seize the chance.
Watch the world spin.
From the smallest sprout to the harmony
begin.
In the cycle of life,
where the magic's alive.
Turn it to the beat.
Feel the fire inside.
So much wisdom.
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