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Well, well, well,

good to be here with y'all on this,

what is it, Thursday?

Every day feels like Monday as of late,

but it's all good.

Glad to be here with all of y'all.

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How you doing, son?

Pretty good.

Yeah, it's funny you bring that up.

It's always capped off at the exact,

almost like within five people of each

other.

Always at the same number almost every

single time.

I don't think I've ever noticed that until

you just said that.

No, they do it.

They do it every single time.

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All right, before I get into it,

I want to remind you once again,

out there at the First Baptist Church of

Marshall, North Carolina,

they're going to have their summer

celebration.

That's going to be June twentieth from ten

a.m.

to one p.m.

So everybody's invited.

And if you're one of those freakazoids

running around Asheville,

they might even chase some of them demons

out of you.

So yeah, everybody's invited.

So go out there, check it out.

I think they're going to have a lot

of giveaways, the whole nine yards.

I'm going to try to make it out

there myself.

All right,

so we'll just jump right into it.

Farm news.

Well, y'all,

despite all the stuff they're doing in

this world, guess what?

We got peaches coming on trees that

haven't had peaches before.

We got blueberries blowing up on places

they haven't been before.

Is it a result of that device out

there?

I can't say for sure,

but I'm seeing things I haven't seen

before.

Pollinators almost to an annoyance running

around this place.

It's pretty darn crazy how much is really

going on.

But anyway, peaches and blueberries,

I imagine we'll be picking these guys here

in about a week or so,

which is pretty darn awesome because up

until now,

we would have to go somewhere else to

get all of our blueberries for the year.

And I don't know that we're going to

produce enough for us.

because we go through them like nothing

you would ever believe.

And so we go down and see Janet

down at Cloud Nine Farm to go pick

up a we can't get here.

So anyway,

it looks like we might be doggone close

to being able to produce all we need.

So some other things I got going on,

folks.

If you're considering this life,

If you can't do the same task every

single day, day in and day out,

please consider something else.

Or maybe another area of this,

because I'm here to tell you this time

of year,

like right now where I'm trying to get

ahead of this silver grass,

I'm on a weed eater every single day.

In fact,

I'm going to jump on it as soon

as I'm done this podcast.

And then there's other things that might

seem monotonous to regular everyday people

out there.

And that's, you know,

moving your animals or, you know,

there are things that are just compulsory

every single day when you do this job.

So you got to consider that if you're

one of the folks that are thinking about,

I don't know, maybe I should,

maybe I shouldn't look if I'm doing

repetitive tasks, get on your nerves.

You might do what I do.

I mean,

it doesn't get on my nerves because I

know what I'm producing when I do it.

So it's always in my head that the

work I'm doing is actually for a greater

result.

So anyway, when I'm out there weed eating,

I got to obviously have some kind of

hearing protection.

So I'm sitting there listening to a

podcast.

You may find another way to occupy your

time when you have to do those kinds

of tasks.

But that's a good way for me to

learn and to educate myself passively.

Maybe I don't catch everything, but,

you know, I catch a lot.

You know, for example,

I'm going through the course of Erwin

LaCour.

He has a website called Breath Hold Work.

And he has,

it's quite an extensive course on how you

can hold your static breath and what it

does for you, the benefits of doing it.

And some claiming among them is Dr.

Jack Cruz claiming that this is by far

the most superior breath work that you can

do out there.

So I'm listening to his courses.

And then of course,

when I'm not on the weed eater,

I go out and do the practical exercises.

So it's things like, yeah,

you could be listening to an audio book.

I mean,

maybe not spend all your time listening to

Joe Rogan or somebody else unless it's,

you know,

maybe it is something you want to do.

But me personally,

I choose to educate myself in something.

I'm a lifelong learner and I'm an

autodidact.

So that's exactly, you know,

what I usually use that time to do

or catch up on things that are going

on in this world.

try not to do too much of that

these days.

I mean, good night, man.

I mean,

every single time you got something going

on.

So other things going on around here,

here's another little hack for you folks.

Um,

Planting comfrey in your bare spots.

I've talked about it before.

Well,

that's one of the things I'm doing right

now.

And some of the areas that are too

steep, because we work in a very,

very steep mountainous environment here,

that's one of the things I'm doing.

That's one of the hacks I'm doing over

there.

It's probably not going to be anything I

go and dig up,

but it's already in the pasture when the

sheep come through,

so you don't have to bring it to

them.

So if you have any bare spots in

your pastures, y'all,

that is an awesome way for your ruminants

or any other thing you may be running

out there.

Chickens will partake.

Believe me,

they will absolutely wipe it out if they

get the opportunity.

So instead of having to bring it to

them, have it in the pasture already.

So if you have any bare spots out

there,

consider breaking up your comfrey and

doing that.

Just put out a video today on how

to split your comfrey or how easy it

is.

And also an update on the chop and

drop that I did last week.

So you can go check that out.

For the people that are wondering, yeah,

we got bone sauce back in stock.

It won't ship.

So if you order,

it won't ship probably until Saturday.

I'm not sure.

But anyway, we got it back in stock.

And so for the people that have been

blowing me up, there you have it.

And people blowing me up about it.

There you go.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So we'll have some more of that.

But folks, I'll be honest with you.

I don't cut corners on this stuff.

I don't water it down like other people

might be doing if anybody's selling it.

And then also I have a proprietary recipe

that I invented.

That, you know, that works.

It works exceedingly well.

And I don't cut corners.

And so if I have to wait a

while before I get it out there, folks,

you know the reasons why.

I'm not going to have my name tied

to some junk that isn't doing what I

say it does or doesn't have the effect

because I wanted to make more money or

whatever.

Folks, have you noticed?

Prices of everything have gone up in this

world, but our bone sauce hasn't.

Comfrey hasn't.

And I'm going to keep it that way

as long as I possibly can.

So we're reading the cost on that,

and it's a pleasure for me to be

able to do it, honestly.

As I say in the video,

I want to make Comfrey so ubiquitous that

it's impossible to sell.

That's exactly what I want to do because

it is that incredibly important.

And then finally, I'll just...

You know,

I'm going to take a modest bow,

I suppose,

on the prospective peace that we

supposedly have in the Middle East.

Now, is that going to last?

Is this another rope-a-dope?

Is this another lie?

I mean,

we've been told we had peace or told

that the war was over, what,

almost fifty times already?

So I'm waiting with bated breath.

I don't know about you, son,

but I'm wondering just how long this is

going to last before they get back at

it.

yeah i don't i don't think it's gonna

last very long um but yeah as far

as my day this morning i harvested about

a bushel of uh onions which was cool

um i went out to the demonstration site

to get a bunch of uh just to

harvest what was ready to be harvested out

there there were a bunch of tomatoes that

were ready paste tomatoes there were a

bunch of onions that were ready i think

i even picked up some potatoes some

peppers some banana peppers and some

cayennes as well a bunch of jalapenos got

those planted

There's going to be a ton of figs

on that tree over at the property this

year.

I'm excited about that.

There's going to be a lot of freaking

lot of figs on there.

And then tomorrow or I guess it's supposed

to come in tonight.

We're supposed to get what?

I guess some storm or something like that.

It's supposed to be a pretty big,

decent-sized storm.

We're supposed to get two inches of rain

tomorrow.

And also today, I did notice that,

what is it, old Texas Coot said,

one-on-one with the heat index of

one-seventeen in central Texas hill

country.

Now, we had a severe heat

warning today here in East Texas but it

felt no different than yesterday I think

the humidity was about the same and the

temperature was about the same so I don't

understand um why there was a warning

today but there wasn't a warning yesterday

and then like usual the uh the sun

that we did get yesterday and today has

always been it's it's always dim even

though you don't see a cloud in front

of the sun it's still dim you don't

get any bright sunny days or anything like

that anymore you just get like dimmed

sun days and uh yeah that's the extent

of our blue sunny days lately um but

yeah that's that's what's going on here i

now i gotta find out or i gotta

figure out what i'm gonna put in all

the empty spots in the garden beds i

might do i might just put in a

cover crop from now or i might try

to fit more tomatoes peppers cucumbers or

maybe even more sweet potatoes if

anybody's selling those still um or i

could also do sweet corn so i got

some options i just gotta figure out which

one i'm going with and fill in the

holes in the gardens now

Man, I'll tell you what, man.

I would, any day of the, man,

you could be having okra coming out of

your eyeballs.

Man, there's nothing I love more.

The most pickled thing in the world I

love more than anything is pickled okra.

I don't even understand.

Honestly, son, in these sandwich shops,

I don't know why they're giving those

regular flaccid

Limp dill pickles, man,

when they could be sitting here giving

out, you know, some I mean, man,

I mean,

pickled okra is the she is knit, man.

I don't know why we don't do pickled

okra instead of pickles, man.

I mean, just like regular pickles.

They're always I don't know.

They're always not good.

But man, pickled okra.

Any day of the week, y'all.

I mean, that is the best way.

Yeah, you know,

you got it in gumbo and stuff like

that and jambalaya.

But outside of that, I mean, fried, yeah,

you can do that too.

And, you know,

depending on what you're frying it in,

you may have some problems.

But, man, pickled okra, man,

is impossible to beat.

I'll take it any day.

Oh, and by the way...

Uh, Nancy,

thank you so much for the endorsement.

Billy's bone sauce is the bomb.

Haven't had a single deer on my property

since I applied it around my garden.

Well, thank you so much for that.

Um, unfortunately that device,

that D P E one hundred X agriculture

X. I mean,

Man, I'm telling you, son,

it's calling in wildlife like nothing I've

ever seen before.

I mean, it is.

And they said this would happen.

So you got to ask you,

you got to pick your poison.

OK,

do I want the do I want chemtrails

neutralized from the sky or am I going

to have to lay out a bunch more

bone sauce because I got a bunch of

deer running around this place?

And like Jack Spierko always says,

you know, if nothing else, man,

you got a deer guard.

You know,

if they're in there wiping you out,

I'll wipe them out.

That's how it goes.

I mean.

You know what's going to happen next,

right?

You guys better turn that fence on around

the beehives because the bears are coming.

Oh, yeah.

I didn't even think about that, man.

Yeah,

it's like I was talking about the lady

at Cloud Nine Farm, Janet.

She always says that there are two type

of beekeepers in North Carolina,

those that have bear problems and those

that don't know it yet.

So, yeah,

we've always had that fence around there.

I think it's time to go ahead and

kind of get that thing up to snuff

again because, son, I ain't kidding.

I'm hearing birds around here I've never

heard before.

I'm seeing pollinators like nothing I've

ever seen before.

And I'm seeing deer like your mom saw

deer in plain sight.

Just walking out, I mean,

doing stuff that they don't typically do,

man.

I mean, it is absolutely crazy.

So you got to pick your poison.

Personally,

I'd rather have to put out a lot

more bone sauce and do a lot of

divergence for the deer than deal with

this junk that's falling from the sky

because it is, in fact, neutralizing it.

So that's a good thing.

Let's see here, son.

I think there was a question in here.

Yeah, it's from Frankie one, two, two.

Does the number of and or does the

number and or diversity of mushrooms

correlate with soil health?

Yeah, it depends on what you don't.

Your mushroom is your fruiting body.

You got mycelium that's going long before

you ever see that mushroom.

OK, so as far as fungi,

it depends on what it looks like under

that microscope.

There are things that William and I are

looking for in Michelle.

We're looking for, you know,

what is a sept?

You know, does that equally spaced septum?

You know, what's its diameter?

I mean, not diameter,

but what is its thickness?

There's a number of other things.

If you have good fungi, yeah.

High diversity.

It's the only place on earth.

I say this all the time, y'all.

It's the only place on earth where DEI

actually works to a point.

And that's in your compost pile and in

your soil.

You want as much diversity as possible.

But if it is not compatible with your

area, believe me,

it's going to be snuffed out.

That's why when you buy compost from a

place that is not in your region, son,

what happens?

What happens?

You bought compost that came from Montana.

Well, if you bought compost,

chances are it's already dead.

But let's say we bought good compost from

Montana and then brought it to Texas.

A lot of those organisms are going to

die just because this isn't the

environment that they're used to.

Now, as far as your mushrooms,

I'm assuming you're seeing them in your

soil.

As long as you're not seeing any like

molds and mildews or like slimy mushrooms.

I mean, not like it's decomposing now.

Now it's slimy.

But I mean,

like this was the original and intentional

state of this mushroom was to be slimy.

Then they're typically going to be pretty

good.

And I would say...

just generally speaking,

I would say it's not bad to see

mushrooms popping up in your soil.

I would say it's typically a good,

especially if you have a diversity of

them,

it's typically a good indicator of

somewhat decent soil.

At least you have a fungal aspect to

your soil.

And I would say that's good considering

most people, I mean,

that's the most common thing that's

missing in people's soils is the fungal

aspect.

And then the predators because the prey,

the proper prey aren't in place.

Yeah, but like William said, I mean,

if you got mushrooms out there,

that's usually a pretty good sign.

You got things breaking down and things

are going to be, remember,

mushrooms don't,

they're not just the mouth of the forest.

It's also the internet of the forest.

And that's what a lot of people don't

talk about.

These mushrooms, I mean, think about this.

This is how crazy,

this is how wonderful the good Lord put

things into action.

Imagine you got a,

let's say it's a bug that's going to

kill oak trees, okay?

And let's say you have an oak grove

over there.

And the trees on the edge,

they already know that they're not going

to make it, let's say.

They will use the mycelial network to tell

the other oaks back in that forest, hey,

I ain't going to make it, fellas.

But these are the antibodies you need to

produce to protect yourself from what's

coming.

That happens.

And they use the mycelial network to do

all this communication.

At least that's what we believe.

So, I mean, anybody to think...

I know there's a lot of opinions out

there,

but anybody that thinks that all of this

just happened in and of itself.

I mean, I find,

I guess you have more faith in me

to think that all of this stuff just

happened,

but I truly believe the good Lord put

it all in the place because you can't

have this level of connectivity between

everything on this planet or on this

earth.

You can't have that without there being a

creator.

So, um,

Yeah, great question.

I mean, way to kick things off.

And by the way, folks,

if you do have a question,

if you would,

put it in all capital letters so I

can see it so we can both see

it.

Yeah,

it says I have twenty different looking

mushrooms.

OK,

you probably got some kicking soil out

there in a good way.

You know, I mean, son,

of all the things you look for in

life in most soils,

what's the one that's hardest to find?

Well, yeah, fungi.

Fungi is the hardest one.

So fungi is the one that comes up

the least.

common, I guess.

Whenever people send in soil samples and

stuff, everybody's lacking fungi,

especially in their garden.

Everybody's lacking fungi.

So generally as a blanket statement,

you can typically assume,

unless they've already done some

remediation or they just started off in a

really good spot,

you can typically assume that they're

going to need to introduce or increase the

fungal content of their soils.

And that's why I love down in my

food forest, y'all.

Every time I go to town,

I pick up maybe thirty or more buckets

of aged wood chips and I put them

out there.

Man,

we will have a kaleidoscope of different

mushrooms coming up.

I mean, stuff I don't...

This isn't my speciality,

so I'm not going to go out there

and eat them.

But you name it,

we got them coming up out of there,

and that's always a great sign.

And, of course,

they're breaking down that wood.

They're doing all kinds of wonderful

things.

Look, folks,

you take one step towards nature,

you're going to get ten of them back

to you.

Closed Circuit says,

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and locking.

Yeah, that's what I'm talking about, man.

That's exactly what I want to hear.

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All right,

so afternoon and evening walks may offer

slighter, greater benefits.

Slightly greater blood pressure benefits,

experts say.

Okay, so I can go through this article,

or I can tell you what Jack Cruz

would tell you,

is that when you see the morning and

the evening sun without glasses, folks,

I can't emphasize that enough,

without glasses.

If you can see morning and evening sun,

it is going to benefit.

And if you can wear as little clothes

as possible, I mean, me and your mom,

every morning out here, you know,

Depending on because the sun rises so far

away, the device I have isn't, you know,

I'm still getting the chemtrail filtered

sun, you know.

But I got on as little clothes as

possible, and I'm standing here facing it,

and I'm reciting my Bible verses at that

time.

That's when I, you know,

really go on my memorization thing while

I'm doing it.

And then also in the evening,

if you can see it set, even better.

So there you have it on that one.

All right, here's another one.

New research suggests vitamin C prevents

brain decline in old age.

Folks, be really, really mindful.

I brought this up because I wanted to

make you aware,

and it was in a podcast.

It may have been with Gary Brekka.

I don't recall where.

But folks,

it knocked my socks off when I found

this out,

that if you're taking supplement vitamin

C, nearly all of it,

Nearly all of it comes from China,

and they can't verify whether or not this

stuff is either vitamin C.

And chances are, what was it,

ninety nine percent of it is coming from

GMO sources.

So you want to be careful about that.

I'm guessing nobody else is really talking

about that.

That's why if you're going to get vitamin

C,

I would go to the Health Ranger and

go check out Mike Adams.

I know they source theirs from England.

But if you can do even better, look,

grow your own.

If you can get it from a natural

source that's local to you,

that's always going to be the best.

So consider that.

That's why I wanted to bring that up.

So, yeah, vitamin C.

I don't know too much of a problem

with that these days.

But anyway, I thought that'd be important.

Go ahead, son.

I don't think most people realize that

that vitamin C and stuff is coming from

waste treatment plants and like.

yeah yeah you got to be careful with

a lot of those supplements and where

they're being sourced from because uh yeah

because of where they're coming from yeah

you have to be really really cautious

about that especially when i've been doing

a deep dive on vitamin c and where

this stuff is sourced oh man forget a

bunch of that man i'm doing whatever i

can to get the vitamin c i need

um through natural sources i mean it's

that time of year also where

You know, like for example,

William was talking about,

he's got a bushel of onions over there.

We didn't grow any this year.

I don't know why, but we didn't.

Or we had, well, that's not entirely true.

We had a few and I ate them

up already,

but we didn't grow nearly enough,

nowhere near enough.

So I got to get them from the

farmer's market.

But even at the farmer's market, folks,

you have got to be very,

very cautious and know the people you're

getting it from.

Because what they would do in Kansas City

at the river market, folks,

get there early enough.

Go to a major farmer's market and tell

me if what I'm telling you is not

true.

They'll go out there.

They'll have it looking all earthy.

It'll be even some Amish-looking folks.

And look at where they're pulling those

vegetables out of.

They're pulling them out of a Del Monte

box, okay?

You show me anybody here in the

continental United States that's growing

tropical fruit.

I mean, outside of Florida.

I mean,

but you're telling me in the middle of

Kansas or Missouri,

they're growing pineapples there?

The Amish are?

Are you kidding me?

Folks,

look closely because I'm telling you,

if it's out of season,

you got to start asking yourself,

hold up a minute.

Because there are so many charlatans right

there at the farmer's market as well.

Good thing, really,

really good thing about Asheville is that,

yeah,

some of these people may be absolutely

crazy.

They'll be the first in line to go

get a jab.

But they would not eat a GMO to

save their lives and they wouldn't sell

one to somebody else either for the most

part.

So just be really,

really cautious even when you're getting

it from the farmer's market.

Speaking of which,

this article kind of pops into it.

Aged garlic extract compound linked to

improved muscle function in animal study.

Early human signal found as well.

So I've been eating with this whole tick

nonsense going on.

I think I mentioned in the last program

that in the army when I was in

jungle school,

they told us to eat match heads.

Well, I don't do that anymore.

But you can get a whole lot of

sulfur from garlic.

And I picked up a bunch from the

farmer's market last week.

In fact,

I think I cleaned the guy out.

He said it just got done curing.

And, folks,

you'll notice a massive difference from

the store-bought garlic that you get even

at the health food store compared to the

stuff that you know was freshly picked.

And that's why, you know,

this garlic is kind of timely for me

to talk about this,

is that you'll notice fresh garlic,

if you haven't grown it yourself, y'all,

You will find out that the stuff you

have at your house,

when you squeeze it or whatever,

there is a ton of water content coming

out of it.

It is totally different

If you're using a garlic press,

you'll notice that it seems like more

water is coming out of this stuff than

anything.

That's how you know it's legit garlic.

That stuff that you're buying in a lot

of these health food stores, it may be,

quote, organic, but, you know,

you've got to be asking yourself how much

life is actually in there.

So, yeah,

we didn't grow a whole lot of garlic

this year, sadly.

Man, that's another thing we slipped on,

garlic and onions.

So if that guy's there this time,

I'm going to clean out what he's got

also.

But, yeah, it was fantastic.

Garlic just got finished curing.

Very, very pungent.

But, yeah, I mean,

it's good to say to go down.

We would have to do an entire hour-long

show just talking about the benefits of

garlic.

But if you're worried about ticks or any

other bloodsuckers out there,

that aren't relatives,

you might want to think about eating large

amounts of garlic like I'm doing.

You can roast it.

Keolic garlic, that Japanese garlic,

that's another way you want to make sure

you're good on your source on that as

well.

I think you can buy that stuff fresh

or fermented.

Um, yeah, the Japanese garlic.

I mean,

I think it might be a little bit

costly, but it's really,

really good for you.

So, so think about that stuff as well.

And then also the added benefit is going

to keep those ticks off of you.

You were going to add something, son.

Yeah.

The Keola garden or garlic.

What's,

is that a different variety of garlic or

is it a different way it's grown or

what's so special about that one?

Oh,

it's basically a Japanese garlic that's

been fermented.

Oh, okay.

So you could do the very same thing

at your house.

You could absolutely ferment your own

garlic,

which I might get a bunch from this

guy, Minta.

I might have to spend all day doing

it.

Because, folks,

that's another thing you'll figure out.

When you buy really,

really good garlic or when you grow it,

The paper on that garlic doesn't come off

easy at all.

You're going to have to work for that.

I mean,

you can crush it with your knife the

whole nine yards,

but still it is very tightly packed in

there.

So it's a lot more difficult to deal

with.

But, yeah,

you can take a bunch of garlic,

stick it in a jar,

and I'm sure you could ferment your own

and probably just turn it into a

superpower.

So, yeah,

so basically it's the Japanese garlic.

Those two doctors I had on a while

back, they both suggested that I eat it,

and I've been –

going like crazy.

I kind of dropped the ball last couple

of days,

but I got to get back on it.

What I would do for a while there

is take a bunch of garlic,

break it down into cloves,

and then go roast it a while,

you know, maybe, uh,

four hundred degrees for about forty,

thirty-five to forty minutes.

Take it out,

and then I would kind of,

it's not as pungent, but then again,

you're not getting as much allicin out of

it either.

So, if you can crush it,

let it sit for about fifteen minutes,

and then eat it,

That's going to be the best way to

go.

All right.

So let's go into my man, Eric Sider.

Hey,

Eric Sider here with your pimpcast tip of

the day.

Today's tip, if we kick up arms,

we've already lost.

On the last tip of the day,

I said we all must decide where we

want to stand our ground and fight,

because there is no avoiding it.

But I didn't say how we must fight.

As satisfying as it would be to blow

these chemtrailing psychos out of the sky,

you'd almost certainly invite a drone

strike on your entire neighborhood.

Don't fool yourself into thinking these

demons won't drop bombs on Americans if it

serves their agendas.

They've been murdering women and children

all around the globe without batting an

eye.

The entire planet will become Gaza if we

let it.

But we must fight strategically while we

still can.

Bill Mollison was a master strategist.

Permaculture is truly a revolution

disguised as gardening,

but only if we take action.

Tag from Life Gun Free has the blueprint.

The federal and most state politics are a

lost cause.

We need to take over every town, city,

and county-level boards and councils we

can.

And they are already trying to take that

out of our hands with these data centers.

There is no sitting on the sidelines

anymore.

Start meeting with your neighbors.

Form a community group or mutual

assistance group.

Get on the board of the HOA.

If we don't create the world we want,

someone else will do it for us.

None of us want to be politicians,

but that is exactly why we must be.

As the permaculture pimp so often quotes

J.R.R.

Tolkien, the most improper job of any man,

even saint, who at any rate,

or at least unwilling to take it on,

is bossing other men.

Not one in a million is fit for

it,

and least of all those who seek the

opportunity.

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that's my dog right there boy he said

it all um you know i'm not i'm

not at all interested in armed rebellion

not at all i would love to have

an intellectual one

but you know,

whether or not the powers that shouldn't

be are going to push this thing to

the point where, look, I said it before,

long story short,

there is no way on earth.

Anybody's ever going to pick up arms.

Nobody's ever going to do anything as long

as they have food, entertainment,

and a reasonable expectation of security,

even if they're barely making it until

people get until it,

that's what they lost in the French

revolution.

That's what they forgot about.

They forgot to feed the people.

And, um,

what happens?

You get a revolution and whether or not

it comes out like the American revolution

is touch and go.

So keep that in mind.

And Eric's also right in so many different

ways.

I mean, where, I mean,

that token quote is probably one of my

favorite quotes of all time.

You know,

the most improper job of any man, I'll,

you know, loosely quote it,

but the most improper job of any man

is bossing other men.

Not one in a million is fit for

it.

And least of all those that seek the

opportunity.

And I think that says it all,

no matter, I mean, folks,

how many of you in the sound of

my voice right now,

you worked with a person,

a guy or a girl or whatever,

the second they put them in charge,

what happened?

They turned into a maniac, a psychopath.

And that's just with just a little bit

of power.

What do you think?

The power of a presidency or whatever the

top leadership position may be in another

country,

what do you think that does to a

person?

Think also,

there was the guy before Vladimir Putin.

I can't think of his name.

It wasn't Gorbachev.

It was the guy after Boris Yeltsin.

I couldn't even believe that he actually

wrote this.

But he said the most intoxicating thing

for most world leaders,

and this is a guy that spoke to

many of them,

was knowing that you could take another

grown man and send him to his death

on your word.

now it could have been misquoted it could

have been misaligned but honestly only a

psychopath would ever think that and

honestly we got no shortage of them right

now so like eric says let's uh let's

not there's another kennedy quote i like i

need to memorize it where those that make

uh peaceful resistance impossible make

armed resistance um inevitable or

something like that anyway we don't want

to get to that but um

Yeah, folks, we got to stand up,

stay alert, stay alive.

You know the deal.

All right, so let's jump right into it.

Son, you were going to say something?

Yeah, we're about to get flagged.

We're about to get monitored.

We're about to get all these things.

These people are like, man,

these pimps are over here plotting

something.

Oh, no, no, no, no.

I hope not.

I mean, I'm absolutely not.

I mean, like Eric says, I mean,

at the end of the day, you take,

you know, you go out there,

you go do something to this person.

First of all, it's immoral.

I wouldn't do that.

I'm all about.

Let me just state this since you brought

that up because somebody might think,

look,

I adhere to the non-aggression principle,

meaning don't start no SH and there won't

be no IT.

I will not initiate the violence,

but if you want to bring it,

I will do everything to talk you down.

I will do everything I can to avoid

it.

But if it gets to the point where

there is no avoiding it,

then I'll take action.

But like I said,

non-aggression doesn't mean non-violent.

There is a difference.

Non-violent people are going to be like

the Martin Luther King types where no

matter what happens, you don't respond.

That's not me.

If you endanger myself or my family,

my life, or anything like that, well,

I'm going to respond to protect myself.

And I think any reasonable person would do

the same thing.

But there is a movement out there of

people, guys in particular,

That are like, oh, well, you know,

I met three of them in my life

that were like, even I'm like, okay, dude,

if your wife was being raped and you

had a weapon, what would you do?

And this guy, I won't say his name.

He lived in actually two of them that

actually I've known four of them.

Two of them lived in Kansas and said,

well, you know, well, I'm like,

the fact that you even got to think

about that tells me that I probably ought

to part ways.

So anyway.

Yeah.

Yeah,

I've actually met a couple of guys like

that.

Outside of that, they were great guys.

But, man, if that's the way you roll,

bro, I know, you know,

if we were walking down the street and

I get somebody takes a pipe to my

head,

I know you're not going to do anything

to help me.

Yeah,

we're past the point of talking them down.

You already done hit me with that pipe.

Yeah, I mean,

what are we going to do now?

I mean, yeah,

there's no reasoning to a person like

that.

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All right,

let's get into the perma of this show.

Um, okay.

The title of it is the most overlooked

food force layer.

I didn't tell William what it was.

He didn't tell me what he thought it

was.

We do that on purpose.

Um, wow, man,

if I wouldn't already into this show, man,

somebody is talking about Mark Passio.

Um, yeah,

I'm a big fan of his work.

Okay.

I'm not going to get sideways.

I'm not going to get sidetracked.

You had to go and do it.

So it's like a Scooby snack to me

when you talk about this stuff.

But anyway,

most overlooked part in a food forest

layer.

Now,

I didn't tell him what I thought it

was.

He didn't tell me what he thought it

was.

And I told him to come up with

a list.

of five things on his end,

I would do the same.

And I'm wondering if we both picked the

same layer.

Here's what happened on my end.

I was like, all right,

I think I know which one dad's going

to pick.

And so I picked what was second on

my list.

And then I was thinking, well,

he might be doing the same thing.

So I'll go back with the original one.

And so I'm thinking now I don't know.

I don't know if we did the same

one or not.

okay i i'll look y'all there are seven

layers of a forest for those that don't

know that there's those that are tuning in

you gotta overstory which are your big

trees your understory your smaller trees

you got your shrub layer you got your

vine you got your roots you got your

ground cover and you have your herbaceous

layer that's seven i would say there's

eight when you consider the mycelium now

when you're in places like tropics you're

gonna have more

But we're going to talk about temperate

environments.

And so of those layers,

if you always think about it, son,

most videos about food forests,

what do they always talk about?

They always talk about the overstory or

the understory and maybe the shrubs.

Nobody ever talks about the other things.

So I was like, okay,

I might want to talk about some videos.

I might want to put out some videos

because there's so much food you're

missing out on, folks,

if you're not doing it.

So I'll go ahead and tell you the

one I selected, son,

and that is going to be the ground

cover.

Cool.

We're good.

That was my number two, though.

I almost did that.

I almost did the ground cover.

Okay, I picked mushrooms,

the fungal layer,

which technically isn't part of the

official seven layers of a food forest,

but like Dad was saying,

you don't have a forest without the

mycelial layer,

so it's part of one of the layers.

But I was going back and forth between...

So my number one was mycelial layer,

and the reason I said that it's one

of the most overlooked is because people

don't...

A lot of people just don't get that

far once they get to the point where

they can start once they have started

casting enough shade on the soil.

Most people are busy doing other aspects

with their homestead or their farm or

whatever it may be,

and they don't get to the mushroom part

or the fungal part.

So that's why I was saying it was

the most overlooked.

ground cover was number two for me because

in some settings either people just leave

grass in their food forest or their

orchard or they just cover everything in

wood chips and call it good which is

fine there's nothing wrong with that it's

just there's a whole another layer uh that

it's going to serve the same function as

the wood chips that's going to produce

like an edible food at the same time

or an edible yield at the same time

so i went with mushrooms

I mean,

if you want just grass out there, folks,

there's nothing wrong with that.

You can absolutely do it.

I'm not a big fan,

depending on the environment.

It depends entirely on where I'm putting

this thing.

But if you have a food forest that

has a bunch, a bunch,

a bunch of wood chips out there,

I'm going to give you my first one

right off the bat.

Folks, you can't lose with strawberries.

I mean,

produce fruit and all kinds of runners.

It's going to suppress a lot of the

weeds out there, especially if,

and that's where you got to have a

good fungal layer down there.

You don't have to, but it only helps.

Man,

we had in our food forest out there,

we got a hundred gallons of strawberries,

y'all.

My grandbaby's probably still eating them.

So we freeze dried a bunch of them,

gave some to the ice cream store.

We did a whole bunch out there.

And like William said,

it thrives beneath trees, you know,

and it's going to be one of those

things.

It's going to be a brightness,

a sweetness that's coming up at a time

when everything else is still catching up.

So strawberries are,

Oh, my goodness.

If we didn't harvest a bunch of comfrey

out of there,

we would have strawberries coming out of

our eyeballs.

So that's one of the problems we've also

had is that, yeah, strawberries are great.

They were doing great.

And then, you know,

because we had to meet orders and stuff

like that,

we kind of destroyed a lot of their

habitat down there.

So anyway,

we're getting back on top of that again.

But my number one right off the bat.

for an edible ground cover.

And it doesn't have to be edible

necessarily to you,

but it just needs to be a ground

cover.

All right, that's my number one.

My number one, I guess,

mushroom would be the oyster mushrooms.

The reason I put that number one is

because it's very,

very fast growing of the mushroom

varieties.

It's going to be the ones that like

as soon as you set it up,

you're going to get a pretty quick return

from it.

Now,

I've seen there's a bunch of different

ways to grow these oyster mushrooms.

The most typical way is doing like the

sawdust bag where you sterilize a

mushroom.

like five pound bag or twenty five pound

bag of sawdust and then you inoculate it

with your oyster mushroom spawn and then

you just wait.

That's going to be the most popular way.

But you can also inoculate that same

sawdust and put it into your food force,

into your mulch systems,

into your wood chips, things like that.

If you want to,

you're going to have a lower yield,

but you're going to have a more you're

going to have a higher yield because it's

way more passive than having to build a

whole infrastructure box or a place to put

those sawdust bags.

Granted,

it's still worth doing it if that's what

you want to do and get heavier in

the mushroom production.

But as far as your food forest goes

or your orchard goes,

you can inoculate the wood chips and the

mulch and the sawdust that you're using in

your food forest as a carbon input.

My next one's going to be,

I'm going to say creeping time.

Now,

every single morning when Michelle and I

go out and do the chores,

every single morning as of late,

I go out there,

I pick a bunch of currants because that's

what's ripe right now.

Going to have some berries coming up here,

raspberries and blackberries here before

long.

I see them coming along.

But right now,

I pick a bunch of currants and every

morning I eat a salad.

And I source a lot of most of

what's in there right here on the farm.

So I get those currents.

I also get rosemary, thyme,

and oregano right there from the orchard.

I mean,

it's just right there off the road.

Just put it in a bowl,

take it up with me,

and then I'll take part of it,

and I put it in the bone broth

that Michelle and I drink every single

day,

and I'll take the other part of it,

and I put it in my salad.

But the cool thing about creeping thyme,

because...

you know, regular time, um,

at least the one we got out there.

I mean,

you could almost call some of what I'm

going to be talking about herbaceous

layer,

or it could be considered in the

herbaceous layer, but creeping time, man,

you're going to have,

it's a pollinator magnet.

It's drought tolerant and edible and

medicinal because I'm, like I said,

I'm talking about rosemary,

thyme and oregano,

and I can go on and on about

what you can do.

I mean, you got a sick chicken.

What do you do?

You give them rosemary.

Um,

it's like the universal cure for a

chicken.

Um,

but if you got one,

you might want to think about putting them

in a freezer anyway.

But anyway,

creeping time is going to be my first

one.

My second one.

My second one is going to be wine

cap mushrooms or King's for you,

which apparently is the same,

same mushroom.

That's the issue with common names is that

like one plant will have like five or

one mushroom will have like five different

common names or, uh, the,

there will be shared common names.

So like

you know something like wine cap here

could be something completely different

just one state away but anyway wine cap

uh you can integrate this into your food

forest or your orchard by inoculating the

wood chips beforehand and then applying

them to the surfaces so you can uh

inoculate your like walking paths if you

wanted to you can inoculate your mulch

rings around the specific tree if you

wanted to wherever you wanted to put

hardwood uh hardwood chips uh

it's going to grow wine cap mushrooms.

So just inoculate them first and then put

them where you want them.

And then you're good to go.

And then that's going to last a little

bit.

The thing with the oysters is that you're

going to have to re-inoculate more often.

Wine caps,

you get a little bit longer of a

harvest off of them,

like two to three years off the wood

chips than you would compared to the

oysters.

But with the wine caps,

it's going to take a little bit longer

before you get to a harvest.

So just keep those things in mind.

Yeah, my next one's going to be,

you know,

I wouldn't be the permaculture pimp daddy

if I didn't talk about some kind of

nitrogen fixer down there in the ground

cover.

And I don't mean all of it.

I mean, just part of it.

And I'm going to talk about some clover.

You know, it could be red, white,

whatever clover does well for you.

You want some of that out there because

it's going to help to fix nitrogen down

there.

Plus, you don't want just one thing.

Yeah,

I'm talking about strawberries and

creeping thyme,

but all of them can be there.

They can all exist in exactly the same

place.

I mean,

that's exactly what you see in nature.

There should never be a monocrop of

anything because you never see it.

That's the fastest way to invite disease

in there.

Like Jeff Lawton always says,

you want to keep the insects confused.

You want so much diversity in there that

they're like, okay, man,

I don't know what to do.

I mean,

it's a little more complicated than that,

but you get the point.

Then also,

if you're going to be running livestock

through there, well,

that's a forage for them,

and it's always going to improve soil

structure no matter what.

So think about the nitrogen fixture,

no matter the layer.

I mean,

the overstory now at the mycelial layer –

I don't know that you have a nitrogen

fixing version for that,

but in every other layer you do,

from the overstory all the way down to

the ground cover, every single layer,

in my view,

should have nitrogen fixtures at least

every third tree,

if that's what you're doing.

If I'm putting four bushes around a tree,

two of those are going to be,

let's say, blueberries,

but the other two might be a nitrogen

fixing shrub.

So you want to be thinking about that

in every single layer.

my number three is going to be three

different names same mushroom just depends

on when you harvest it button cremini or

portobello now keep in mind with this this

mushroom it's going to take a little bit

more effort to uh make propagation beds or

make uh i guess like spawn beds um

it requires a little bit more you have

to use chicken manure and i think it's

horse manure and chicken manure

You have to then like age it,

then you have to sterilize it and then

you got to cover it,

like put it in place and then you

got to cover it in like sterilized peat

moss and stuff like that.

So it requires a little bit more.

But the benefit of it is that it's

going to be something that's easily

recognizable to people that you might sell

to.

So like restaurants or farmers markets or

whatever it may be,

people are more likely to buy those types

of mushrooms versus some of the more

exotic or different looking mushrooms that

they're not as used to seeing in the

grocery store.

You can go to any grocery store in

the United States and you'll see some

variety of portobello, cremini,

or what was the other one?

Button mushroom.

Those are the typical white ones that you

see in the blue canister or the blue

little box in the produce section.

Same thing.

They're going to require more effort,

but they're going to be easier to sell

to an un...

uh like an uneducated audience on

mushrooms i guess so like ashville you can

sell whatever mushroom you want to and

it's going to sell there are businesses

that exist in ashville only because they

are in ashville if they were in any

other place they would completely flop and

fail but if you live in a food

city like that then you can get away

with some more diverse mushrooms where i

live i gotta convince people to just even

eat mushrooms so there's that

No, there's a, there's a one guy at,

I want to call it black trumpet, uh,

mushroom place here in Nashville.

They were wiped out with that manufactured

hurricane that came through.

Um, yeah, I,

I go there at least I think once

a week or once every couple of weeks.

And that's another thing.

I'm glad you brought that up, son.

I mean,

I think that's a really good topic.

So here's another little medicinal thing

that I do with my breakfast.

So in addition to that salad,

I always eat maybe a couple of eggs

and, um,

I also, when I'm making these eggs,

I mean,

anybody that knows me knows I'm a Nazi

about how I cook my eggs.

And William's taking his head back there.

I don't play.

They have got to be cooked perfectly.

I don't like no slimy, sloppy eggs.

Yeah, no, that is that.

What's that guy's name?

Jethro something?

He's like, yeah.

I don't know.

I held a butcher knife to this woman's

neck so that I don't like no slimy,

sloppy eggs.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I can't remember that guy's name,

but yeah.

No, okay.

I'm not that bad,

but if I go to a place and

they cook some eggs jacked up, man, folks,

I know that sounds weird.

I'm something, I guess I'm a food snob,

but I know how to cook eggs perfectly,

right?

And when I go to a place and

I know that they just first of all,

if they're powdered eggs or that stuff in

a box, man, get that out of here.

I'm not even going to mess with it.

One thing they like to do in Asheville

is they like to make these quiches or

whatever else.

And I'm not a big fan of those

either.

You know, anyway,

every time I cook my eggs,

one thing I do.

And here's another little added benefit of

what William was talking about before I

get into my next one is I buy

mushroom from that place and I'll buy a

mushroom I've never had before.

Every week I'll try a different mushroom

or whatever.

So I take that mushroom back, saute it,

And according to Paul Stamets,

you don't want to eat any mushrooms raw,

if I remember them correctly.

So I'll take these mushrooms and I'll chop

them up.

I think the last batch,

it may have been turkey tail.

I don't remember what it was.

Anyway,

I'll chop it up and I'll take some

onions, saute that in the pan.

And then, you know,

whenever I make an omelet or whatever,

that's exactly what I'll put in the middle

of there.

along with some local cheese,

which we got from Steve the blacksmith.

His wife hooked us up the other day,

put some of that local cheese in there,

got eggs.

I mean, man,

you got yourself a meal right there.

But anyway,

that's another good way where I take those

local mushrooms that were produced

locally,

and then I consume them every single day,

at least for breakfast.

All right,

my next one on the list is going

to be,

and I kind of spoke about it a

moment ago, but folks,

I'm a big believer of it, oregano.

I can't even tell you how many health

practitioners,

natural health practitioners out there

talk about the benefits of oregano oil.

Well, what do you think I'm getting?

I told you every morning I pick rosemary,

thyme, and oregano every single morning.

I even take the stems of the oregano

when I'm sitting there cooking that bone

broth or at least heating it up on

the stove.

I take the stems.

I took all the leaves off and I

chopped them up along with the rosemary

and the thyme.

And I take the stems and I put

them in that bone broth when I'm boiling

it.

And I'm getting all the essential oils out

of all that stuff.

So that's another awesome ground cover

that you can put out there.

Technically,

would that be in the herbaceous layer?

I don't know.

But the oregano that I'm getting right now

is basically a ground cover.

So it spreads rapidly.

I mean, that's a good thing.

Attracts beneficial insects,

just like all the others out there.

And it produces an abundant biomass.

So, I mean, this thing is,

it's really kind of hard for something to

break through there.

So every single morning,

but also it's a medicinal thing.

It's not just,

you don't necessarily need things that

always stick to your ribs.

You want things that are going to

have a medicinal quality and things that

maybe you don't like them straight up,

but you put them in a salad, man,

you'd be shocked at what I put in

the salad sometimes because I can hide it

in the salad dressing if it's bitter or

if it's a bitter green or something like

that that maybe doesn't taste great by

itself.

Well, you know,

with the kind of dressing I put on

there,

if it's homemade or if I got it

from Bragg's vinegar or whatever the case

may be, it could be one of those.

And you can really hide some bitter stuff

in there that's really, really,

really good for you.

So that's my next one.

Yeah, speaking of oregano,

the baby's been chewing on oregano like

crazy lately.

I just realized how many things she goes

and forages out in the yard.

In the front yard, she's getting the mint.

She's getting the menthol.

We got a mint garden just for her,

a bunch of different types of mint.

We got chocolate mint.

We got regular mint.

We got mountain mint.

We got apple mint.

Didn't even know they had an apple mint.

We got a menthol one.

the menthol is her favorite one because i

think it's the strongest mint flavor and

then in the backyard in emily's little

herb garden she's out there eating

nasturtium she's eating oregano leaves by

themselves which i was watching her

because i was waiting for her reaction

after she put an oregano leaf in there

and she's just chomping away at it saying

spicy like that one was spicy like yeah

I bet.

And then she's eating Moringa leaves every

day and strawberries and pulling tomatoes

off and all that type of stuff.

She's doing all kinds of foraging out

there.

The next one on my list, though,

is Lion's Mane.

Now,

this one is going to be like your...

highest uh this is what you're going to

make the most money off of if i

had to guess just because you're i don't

know how quickly you can produce lion's

mane like over and over and over again

or how many times one bag will produce

a fruiting body over and over again um

but you can charge the highest amount for

this and there's two different categories

of selling lion's mane there's the

culinary lion's mane and then there's the

medicinal lion's mane that you could get

into if you wanted to up to you

either way lion's mane is something that

you can

as well,

and you're going to grow it similarly as

you would oyster mushrooms in the spawn

sawdust bag.

Now, that being said,

I think you can inoculate...

I would assume you can inoculate logs with

lion's mane as well,

considering that's where you're going to

find it in nature.

In nature,

if you're walking through a forest and you

ever see a white beard coming off of

a tree...

That's typically going to be lion's mane.

It kind of looks similar to lion's mane.

Now,

what's really cool about the culinary

aspect of lion's mane is that if you

slice it up into half-inch slices and then

you fry it in a pan with butter,

it tastes like lobster,

which is pretty cool for a mushroom.

So if any of your friends have shellfish

allergies or something like that,

you can offer that as an alternative if

you wanted to.

But yeah, lion's mane.

Now...

As far as putting these together,

this is how I would recommend you put

them together in an orchard or a food

forest or whatever it may be.

Oysters,

you're going to inoculate like sawdust,

and you're using that for quick mushroom

harvest.

You're planning on harvesting these things

pretty quickly in the form of sawdust or

the substrate being sawdust,

and then you apply that around mulch rings

of the tree, whatever you want to do,

or in sawdust bags if you wanted to.

And then wine caps,

those you're going to use to inoculate

your wood chip paths or your mulch rings

around the tree.

And that's going to be a longer term

wait for the fruiting body,

but also longer term production.

Like it's going to produce a lot longer.

And then shiitake,

which is going to take even longer for

you to get to a harvest point,

but it's going to produce far longer than

anything else that I had written down

here.

Now, the last two,

Get the first three squared away first

before getting into the last two because

the last two are going to be a

little bit more complicated.

You're going to learn skills on the first

three that you can apply to your last

two.

And the first three take a little bit

less effort and time that you subtract

from the yield.

So, yeah,

that's how I'd put it all together.

What are your thoughts, Dan?

Yeah,

I think that's a really good strategy.

I guess you ran out of your list,

but I got one more to go.

I did five.

Yeah, I did Oyster, One Cap, Shiitake,

Button, Cremini, Portobello,

and Lion's Mane.

Yeah,

but I think you jumped the gun because

I got one more to go and I

let it off.

So it's all good.

Anyway, that's cool if you did that.

Fight You Naked says, Cherry, Strawberry,

Comfrey, Dill, Clayton.

What?

I'm not sure of the question,

but I thank you for the super chat.

Yeah,

and somebody else had another question

earlier.

Man, there's some really good questions.

Oh, and by the way, folks,

we're trying to switch over to a new

platform where we can take calls,

make this more of a call-in show because,

man, we got some really great advice.

We got some really great comments in here.

Love to be able to get you all

on the podcast.

All right,

so my last one's going to be Creeping

Raspberry.

It's tough.

It's productive.

dense soil coverage.

It could get out of control,

kind of like your strawberries,

but I mean, is that necessarily a problem?

It's going to produce small edible fruits.

It's another little feather you can add

into the cap and then find out whether

or not it works for you.

But there's so many other things out there

that you could look at at a ground

cover.

So like I said,

either it's going to feed you,

it's going to feed the animal,

maybe it feeds the wildlife.

Or maybe it's a medicinal.

So I try to throw a little bit

of everything in there,

including the nitrogen fixer.

So I hope that was a blessing to

you.

And then with that said,

we've got a question here.

Is your new device had an effect on

precipitation?

I don't know,

but the claims are is that you get

stuff that is more akin to natural

precipitation.

And then if it's engineered,

it helps to buffer whatever they did.

So far,

we haven't had anything that has been like

really, really out of whack.

They've been spraying like crazy here.

In fact,

I'm curious of how many of you out

there are still being covered up.

i mean every time i turn around everybody

at least i don't spend as much time

on x as i did before i try

to spend as little as possible they change

the settings and now i get everybody but

the people i actually subscribe to and um

you know it just seems like i think

people are just getting sick and tired of

even saying anything about it they're

they're they're thinking they have no

options the government doesn't care

I mean, yeah, you know,

you're going to stop dropping bombs over

there in the Middle East, allegedly.

How about the bombs that you're dropping

in terms of poison?

You know,

when I smell diesel for no reason, when,

you know, they fly over the sky,

I'm smelling exhaust and diesel.

I'm like, where is this coming from?

I live in the middle of nowhere.

How is that even happening?

But, yeah.

No, anyway,

the device clearly seems to be making some

serious improvements out there.

And it's calling in wildlife.

I'm starting to think they think, okay,

let's go to the epicenter of wherever this

stuff is happening.

And, you know, I guess they found it.

Well, on that note, Dad,

it didn't start raining where you were

until you guys got that device.

You guys were in a severe drought until

you guys got that device.

Now, it could be coincidence, but...

I don't know.

You guys really didn't get much rain

until... I mean, you guys are, what,

like seven inches low for the year or

something like that?

Which is a lot for you guys.

Yeah, it was definitely low.

We live in a temperate rainforest,

so we should be getting rain.

But the games that they're playing these

days, yeah,

they're going to call it a La Nina,

El Nino, whatever the case.

Sounds like something you would order at a

Mexican restaurant.

But the bottom line is...

They are doing things to the degree that,

like you were telling me a moment ago

in a certain place you run,

that almost nobody is aware of it.

Oh, yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

I mean, okay.

No, no, no.

And I think this is important.

The only person who's aware of it and

or cares about it is a seventeen-year-old.

He's the only one.

And now this location the dad is talking

about, there's a seventeen year old,

a couple of twenty year olds,

a couple of thirty year olds,

a couple of forty and then a couple

of fifty year olds.

So there's a kaleidoscope of like age

differences there are generations.

And the only one that even kind of

cares is the seventeen year old,

which I think is pretty telling.

Yeah, it is.

It's a crazy place we're living right now.

Well, folks,

hopefully this list of things will give

you ideas.

And also,

when you're setting up your orchard and

your food forest,

remember there are seven layers for a

reason.

It's going to make your life a whole

lot simpler if you figure it.

Look,

if all you want in that ground cover

is grass, that's fine.

That's absolutely fine.

Now you got to ask yourself, okay,

am I going to go,

am I going to mow this?

Am I going to use animals?

I always prefer to use animals.

I'm not mowing anything if I can help

it and, um,

let them do all the work for you.

You know, um, you know,

and then even I was talking to your

mom, actually, look,

there's this part of the order.

And I was like, Hey,

you think we ought to let them in

there?

She's like, no,

I got comfrey planted over by that edge

of the fence.

I don't want it messed with.

So, I mean,

there are going to be times where it

makes sense to bring in your animals.

At the end of the season,

no matter what,

I always bring them in there.

And I want them to eat up things

and they're going to disrupt things in a

good way.

They might even destroy a few things,

but for the most part,

there's nothing I can't handle in ten

minutes.

So think about all those things and think

about those different layers.

Remember,

there's more than just the overstory,

the understory, and the shrub layer.

And most people kind of jump off after

that.

You can pretty much grow everything you

need around one tree.

Now, I can't say everything you need,

but you can grow a lot of what

you need around one tree using it as

a guild,

what we call in permaculture a guild,

meaning that it's not just one thing.

You want a nitrogen fixer and something

edible at every single layer,

and you're probably going to love what

comes out of it.

All right, son, anything else to add?

Yeah, to answer your question earlier,

I'll fight you naked.

What he's asking is cherry, strawberry,

comfrey, dill, clade, plus what?

He's meaning what else should he add to

the guild?

I would say rosemary and garlic are never

bad things to add to your guild.

Both very low maintenance,

rosemary being drought tolerant,

and everything on the property is going to

benefit from both rosemary and garlic.

Absolutely.

That's right on with that.

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