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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.
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.
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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
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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.
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.
All right, y'all.
Hopefully that was all a blessing to you.
I want to thank everybody for checking us
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