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it's Thursday and I'm back here with you

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I'm flying solo, folks.

You know what time it is.

William can't be here tonight and I don't

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it's cool to have guests on here,

especially the ones that we've had lately.

Actually, you know,

all of them have just been absolutely

fantastic,

dropping excellent stuff out there.

But tonight I'm riding solo.

William can't be here.

He's up to something else right now.

I want to give a hat tip to

everybody that's out there.

Andy and Nancy always, as you know,

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And that's really saying something because

I can't even tell you how many people,

when they find out my former career as

an electrician,

they're a little reluctant about sending

electronics to me.

Folks,

you have no idea the things that have

never, ever seen the light of day.

And I had a garage full of them.

I mean,

some of this stuff was so doggone useless,

I had to throw it away,

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y'all.

So I highly endorse the stuff they sell.

And I've tested a lot of it.

They have never sent me junk.

So go over there.

Like I said,

we don't get anything for it out of

the show.

It's just, you know what?

They're an awesome company.

And how many times have I talked about

other awesome companies on here without

any thought of rewards?

So folks, that's what it is.

So Wellbots,

I'll probably try and circle back around

and cover that later on.

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

the farm news, check this out.

Y'all Michelle went back East.

Uh,

New York is where she's from upstate New

York.

And, um,

she drove back there to go see our

niece graduate.

Congratulations, Jalen, by the way.

Um,

On the way back, every single time, y'all,

okay, check this out.

I got a lead foot.

Nobody's going to deny that.

I almost never get pulled over.

And when I do,

I would say it's about a ninety percent

of the.

Now, I hope I'm not jinxing myself here,

but ninety to ninety five percent of the

time,

I would say I usually get out with

a with a warning.

And the reason why,

I don't make any excuses,

especially if I knew I was out of

order.

But I will say that if I make

those cops laugh, when I usually do,

when they come up there,

like the one time is like, hey,

why were you going so fast?

And I said, honestly,

I thought I was going to get away

with it.

He busts out laughing.

Came back with a warning.

And then I said something similar like

that to all the other people out there.

I mean,

there's no sense in fighting these guys.

But anyway,

every single time Michelle comes back from

New York,

when she goes back there to visit family,

she gets pulled over in Virginia,

not New York, even though New York,

Massachusetts,

I've never been pulled over there.

And I've, you know,

they got every other sign on the road

is don't do this.

Don't do that.

But again,

Virginia, of all places.

So check this out.

It's not that she just got pulled over,

y'all.

You're not even going to believe what I'm

going to tell you right now.

Maybe actually some of you will.

Now,

it's not uncommon for me to get a

ticket.

Whenever I got to go to places like

Dallas or Houston or anything like that,

I just want to get out of there

as quick as I can.

So sometimes I accidentally,

and I mean accidentally,

get on a turnpike.

Next thing you know,

I'm getting a bill in the mail.

Well, check this out.

That wasn't the case going here.

She got a violation by a modified flock

camera saying, dig this.

And I wrote it down.

It's not a moving violation.

It's a civil violation.

Yeah, I said it right.

Not a moving violation,

but a civil violation.

And they send this picture of the truck.

that Michelle was allegedly driving.

I don't see her in it.

Anyway, she was allegedly driving it.

It's like these stoplight cameras that

they had in Kansas City.

If you ever went in to fight it,

they would always drop the case because

they knew it was a violation of your

Fourth Amendment.

Folks, this is what it's come to now.

So anyway, it's not a moving violation,

not a civil violation,

and apparently she blew by a work zone.

Okay, where's the cop?

This is how we're doing it now?

Do you know how many people are probably

getting tickets,

almost certainly getting tickets this way,

and they're just paying the money instead

of fighting this thing?

I don't care what we got to do.

Ain't paying this money.

I mean,

you could send my mail to the county

jail.

I know it's a hundred bucks, but hey,

a hundred bucks ain't nothing to sneeze at

where I come from.

And we work hard for a hundred bucks.

And I know all of you do too

as well.

So we ain't paying it.

And if it comes down to, you know,

not being able to drive, I mean,

Michelle would drive around the whole

state of Oklahoma.

I'm dead serious.

Um,

might just have to find ways around

Virginia as well.

This is, this is getting ridiculous y'all.

I mean,

this is absolutely positively getting

ridiculous.

So anyway,

that's one of those freedom things I

wanted to kick out there.

If anybody else has had, you know,

similar situations, you know,

tell me in the chat.

Um,

So I'll just jump on other things.

So water your compost, folks.

That's another one I got on the list.

It's one of those things to do,

especially when you got five thousand

things going on at the same time.

Let's say you went and you watched our

video or maybe you watch William's video

on how to make compost.

Let's say it's really,

really awesome bio complete compost.

Even you can ruin it all just by

letting it dry out.

Folks, you don't want to do that.

That's exactly why I tell everybody water

your compost.

And I try to do it, you know,

weekly or, you know,

bi-monthly or something like that.

So I want to make sure you,

but when you do it,

here's one of the ways I do it.

If you have, I got three,

let me see, one, two.

Yeah,

I got three different compost piles going

right now.

One of them is an older, mature compost.

The other one is probably bio complete and

the other one not so much.

And when I say not so much,

it's just going to need more time.

And plus,

it doesn't help that I put a dead

lamb in there.

So that's got to break down.

And every time I put blood in a

pile, urine in a pile,

any of that stuff,

it's always going to be improved.

But here's a couple of tricks that you

might employ when it comes to your compost

pile.

Yeah,

you can go out there and put water

on it.

By the way, if you do use water,

don't use chlorinated or fluoridated

water.

Best way in the world to kill all

the microbes in there, so don't do that.

If you've got to use that kind of

water, set it out for a while,

let it off gas,

hit it with a little bit of fulvic

acid, fulvic slash humic acid.

You can buy that stuff in a lot

of...

In a lot of, not hardware stores.

Well,

they might have them in hardware stores,

but you can find them in a lot

of places.

Anyway, let it sit with that.

It'll wipe all that stuff out.

But yeah,

don't use chlorinated or fluoridated

water, number one.

And number two,

here's another little trick you can do.

Every time I water that stuff,

remember I told you I got one pile

that is off and running.

I can go ahead and take that,

fill up a couple of five-gallon buckets

for the other two piles that aren't quite

ready yet.

And I can make an extract.

I've shown you how to do that.

We've got videos on it.

So I'm using a four hundred micron bag,

stick a handful of compost down in there,

squeeze it through the bag,

let all that stuff be in an aqueous,

take all those microorganisms and I can

put them in an aqueous form,

meaning that it's suspended in water.

And then when I use that water over

my compost that isn't quite ready yet,

guess what?

It's just a matter of time.

It's going to be squared away.

So that's one trick.

And then if you don't have any that's

already squared away, use soil saviors.

Good night.

Absolutely, positively use soil saviors.

So there's a couple of hacks you can

do.

Instead of just using regular water,

which you can do,

you can go ahead and fortify it even

more by using those methods.

So absolutely, positively.

All right, here's some other farm news.

It may not seem like a big deal

to a lot of y'all,

but see this water bottle I'm holding?

Now, for those that can't see it,

it's glass.

every time you typically see me drinking

water it's out of a stainless steel jug

i know other people are going to say

no duh but i'm here to tell you

y'all here's how we process the water we

drink

get it from the well.

Now that well could very well be

compromised ever since that hurricane.

That's a whole nother podcast altogether.

Anyway, take that water and I distill it.

When it's done distilling, I structure it.

When I'm done structuring it,

I hit it with minerals and then I

magnetize it on the Magnetico sleeping pad

that I got under our bed.

So do all that stuff.

And then I was turning around,

filling up my stainless steel jug and

Which, you know, seems all right.

But taste that water in the stainless

steel.

And then I took the same water and

put it in glass,

which Michelle has been doing forever in a

day.

She's been telling me about it and finally

decided to take her advice.

And I'm like, okay,

this tastes a hundred and eighty degrees

different.

This doesn't even taste like the same

water.

It tastes perfect.

Absolutely perfect.

So that's what I've switched over to right

now.

Not saying that I won't,

there may be times where it just makes

sense to go ahead and bring that,

but every possible chance I can,

I got a mountain Valley spring water,

which by the way,

if you ever got to buy some,

it's probably some of the best stuff out

there.

And then of course I drink Grohlsteiner,

which I was drinking by the way,

y'all don't do a podcast with a live

guest while drinking carbonated

Grohlsteiner, which I did last night.

Bad idea because I'm having to burp.

You know,

good thing I got this cough button here,

man,

because it would have been a weird

podcast.

I was sounding like Booger out of Revenge

of the Nerds a couple of times there

with some of these burps that were coming

out of me.

But thank God I got a button where

I can mute a lot of that stuff.

So...

There's a lesson right there.

But anyway,

I'm drinking out of glass and you might

want to consider it.

All right,

here's some other things I got going on.

I can't believe I haven't mentioned this

before.

Okay, I got these potatoes out back.

I know a lot of people have already

gotten their potatoes.

Remember, we're at three thousand feet.

Remember,

for every thousand feet you go up in

elevation,

you essentially gain a zone north or a

latitude north rather.

Anyway,

that's something to consider when you're

growing in the kind of environments we

are.

Well, anyway, my potatoes are ready.

They've probably been ready for a couple

of weeks.

So I'm about to pull them out.

But here's what I want to really

communicate right now.

Remember that clandestine garden idea that

I talked about a while ago?

If you don't know about it,

go back and watch that video where I'm

growing the microgreens in there with the

carrots.

I'm growing the microgreens in there with

the potatoes.

Well,

when the microgreens kind of went back a

little bit,

Michelle had a bunch of leftover basil.

She started them from seeds,

and she filled up all the space down

there she possibly could.

Why?

Because, folks, I could eat my weight off.

in the pesto that she makes folks anybody

that tries it feels like it is earth

changing world changing universe changing

if you're if you're me and you got

to have the fresh basil and it's only

going to be more therapeutic if you grew

up where you are so we got tons

and tons and tons of basil out there

so much so that i've even freeze-dried a

lot of it for the winter all right

so let me get back to the potatoes

Once some of those,

the cover crop went back, you know,

I cut,

I chopped and dropped a lot of it.

Adam's family values.

I'll get to that in a second.

Yeah.

And thank you for putting it in capital

letters, by the way.

Here's what I did.

When I cut that stuff back,

I took those starts that Michelle had of

basil and I stuck them in the rows

in between all of the garlic out there.

Folks,

I got basil coming out of my eyeballs

out there.

But this is exactly what I'm talking

about, folks.

I don't know why anybody else hasn't done

this before,

where you're growing the interstitial

spots with things that are not going to

interfere with the things you got growing

in the other place.

Why can't you do this?

Like Eric Sider was talking about,

Eric saw what I did.

He did it in his worm bin.

Everybody needs to check out that video.

And then Eric's also saying,

why couldn't you do this nonstop?

Because the microgreens, number one,

even in,

I know I talk about this all the

time, but we got new people.

So I'm going to talk about this.

Even if you're growing microgreens in that

neutral medium,

they're still powerful in terms of what

they bring to the table.

But imagine how powerful they are when

you're using them in between the rows of

everything you grow out there.

So instead of buying salad in the store,

buy a crap load of micro green seeds,

which is probably a couple of visits

buying salad at the store.

You're getting stuff that is

I mean,

nutrient rich on a level that I can't

even begin to describe.

So anyway, do that.

But back to the basil.

Sorry, I keep getting sidetracked.

So I put the basil out there.

Didn't really know for sure what would

happen, but folks,

it's time to take it all up right

now.

So in this harvest of potatoes,

and I'm hopefully going to shoot that

video...

Ain't going to be tomorrow because we're

going to go.

Yeah,

we got some things that we got to

do around here.

But I'm thinking on Sunday,

I'll probably get that video done talking

about the harvest that we're going to do

where we're getting the potatoes out of

the ground and the basil at the same

time.

Okay.

At the same time,

why couldn't you have done?

Why couldn't I have done dill out there?

I actually did in other beds.

I could have done dill.

What goes better with potatoes than dill?

I mean, pull that up, make so much,

you know, get so much of it.

One is not interfering with the other.

I could have put a ton of dill

out there.

I've just done a,

I did a handful of it because I

grew up from seed.

And it was more of an experiment,

but I wish now that I'd done more

because I got dill out there.

I got basil out there.

And there's so many different ways you can

go about it, folks.

But look, to my knowledge,

I haven't seen anybody doing this type of

stuff.

I'm sure somebody has.

I'm not the first to come up with

it.

I just haven't ever seen any videos on

anybody doing this.

And why can't you?

So you could be sitting here growing

microgreens all through the growing

season, not just in the cold months,

and not using up electricity in your

house, which, by the way,

if they're outside,

they're getting a full spectrum of

sunlight.

That means everything.

I know you can grow microgreens on a

grow light in your bedroom, but why?

Why do that?

I can see where some people might be

tempted to do it in the winter.

Okay, but it ain't winter.

Why not do it outside?

Grow that stuff.

Go out there with a pair of scissors.

Go look at what microgreens cost and look

what the seeds are, you know,

what they cost you.

You can be growing this stuff and saving

yourself a pile of money and getting

yourself all kinds of nutrition out there.

So don't want to beat that dead horse

anymore.

But yeah, that is a good,

good method that I've come up with and

it's working like nobody's business.

Okay, thoughts on uranium glass.

You know,

I know Matt from Cultivate Elevate.

He's a buddy of mine.

And in fact,

I sent him some honey and some bee

pollen out there for him to take it

for a test drive.

He's a big believer of it.

And honestly,

I had on Hakeem from Above Phone.

And when we were off air,

he was showing me his version of it.

They were selling this stuff all over the

place years and years ago.

I don't know,

maybe at eighty to one hundred years ago,

everybody had these things.

I haven't personally looked into them to

any kind of great detail,

but Matt's information is usually spot on

in so many different ways.

I would definitely love to examine it.

I'm going to need a little more

confirmation.

I'm going to have to go look into

it for myself.

But really,

I haven't done anything in that regard.

Yeah,

let me know if you know anything because

I would like to know.

Homestead twins in the house.

Man, think about you guys.

Every single time we go to the farmer's

market and Michelle has that bag that you

made for her.

I meant to tell you guys that weeks

ago.

That is by far, I mean,

women carry purses.

She's carrying the bag you guys made.

That is the coolest.

I mean,

that thing is the best flipping bag ever.

I know she's wishing she was in here

right now.

um yeah that is some good stuff right

there no diarrhea salad okay yeah i

definitely wouldn't want to eat that um i

don't know what uh mountainside with ken

and amy are talking about there but yeah

apparently diarrhea salad is on some

people's menu it ain't on mine i'm not

quite sure what they're talking about but

maybe they'll they'll tighten it up there

all right so um

Got all the blueberries down there.

Okay, cool.

So our blueberries down in the food forest

and in the orchard,

probably three and four years old.

Man,

they have produced abundantly this year.

I mean, absolutely abundantly.

And I'll tell you another thing.

I know a lot of people complain about,

you know,

birds and stuff getting their blueberries.

Well,

we've used a lot of our blueberries as

something of an understory,

which isn't really recommended in most

places.

Blueberries typically light open sun and

it was a complete accident.

So all the blueberries that were treated

as more of an understory and were covered

by, let's say, a nitrogen fixer,

they did great.

All the other ones that were in the

open, they still did great.

But I think there's so much out there

in this food forest that the birds that

would ordinarily mess with them, you know,

we save a little bit back,

ten percent for nature.

But yeah,

we we absolutely had a great blueberry

harvest, but I don't think it's enough.

So we're probably going to have to go

out there to.

Um, our blueberry farm lady out there,

Janet at cloud nine farms.

And, uh, she's absolutely fantastic.

Maybe pick up some other things that she

may have out there, but yeah, Janet,

we'll go out there, you know,

at some point in time,

go pick some blueberries and that'll fill

up.

That's the cool thing.

Y'all,

when you know a lot of other farmers

out there,

maybe you didn't get enough of a PR

of a particular thing.

Well,

We're still eating the blueberries that we

got from her last year.

So I don't know that we have to,

but man, it's just a wonderful,

wonderful time.

Also got all the peaches out there.

We had a little bit of a problem

on some of these peaches that have never

produced before.

Let me tell you what I did.

Well,

let me tell you what I didn't do.

So we had a fair amount of coddling

moth problem down there.

Remember, it's not the tree.

It's not the genetics.

It's your soil.

So I have been a little bit lax

in these areas by the driveway.

So all the ones that had, you know,

marginal soil out there, guess what?

I got fruit that got screwed with.

Now, I could have done a whole lot,

a whole lot with some of the fungal

issues that were out there if I would

have gotten ahead of things and took some

of that raw milk.

I've just been so darn busy.

I didn't do it.

If I took raw milk like I did

on that peach tree that gave me four

pounds last year and I mix it,

take the cream off.

You want to make ice cream out of

that.

OK,

you don't want to put it through your

pump spray, but take that raw milk.

Mix it fifty-fifty with purified water.

Remember, no junk in it.

Distilled water for the most part.

Mix that fifty-fifty.

Put it in your pump sprayer and go

out there and spray everything.

Spray all the leaves.

Spray all the fruit as it's coming up.

You want to do it on a full

sun day.

Okay?

You don't want that stuff sitting there.

So you want to make sure it's really

sunny.

Spray every side of that leaf.

Spray everything you can.

And all your fungal issues,

bacterial issues even, will go away.

That's a trick I learned from my man,

Stefan Subkoviak.

you know, Mr.

Permaculture Orchard himself.

So that's one of the cool things that

I've gotten from him.

Had I done that,

I would have had a much, much better,

maybe a bumper crop, honestly.

But I didn't do it.

And we got some peaches off these trees,

just not...

Not as many as I would have preferred.

And so I was, you know,

that's one of those areas where I kicked

myself.

Now I'll get to the point ultimately where

I build the soil up around there that

my tree has everything it needs.

So how will I do that?

Put down a new mulch ring.

I'll put down card.

Well, I'll put down my compost,

put down the cardboard and cover it up

with about a foot of mulch.

Okay.

And if your soil is alive,

it won't be there forever.

So you got to do that a couple

of times.

But like I said,

we've been going at a hundred miles an

hour.

So that's one thing.

That's another little trick we can drop

right in here.

All right.

And so finally,

a little bit off the beaten path,

I try to finish up my little segment

here with something that might be,

I don't know,

something you might want to be concerned

about and you should.

I know a lot of people aren't talking

about it,

but the geopolitical stuff over there,

particularly in the Middle East,

is blowing up again in a big, big,

big way, in a much bigger way.

I mean, good night.

We have musings from the administration

talking about using tactical nukes over

there.

Are you kidding me?

Imagine a Pandora's box that's going to

open.

Folks,

I'm not saying this to be freaking you

out.

I'm just telling you because a lot of

you may not know it.

And also,

if you want to keep up on it,

here's what I've done.

Here's a little hack I do where I

can stay informed,

but not be consumed by it.

So I'm really careful about what I'm

putting in my head these days.

And the Bible talks an awful lot about

that sort of thing.

So I'm trying to be as cautious and

careful as I can.

But I do this show.

And also, you know what?

If I'm going to be a sheepdog,

I want to know what my flock may

be up against.

So I got to have one foot in

there, but I don't stay consumed by it.

Certainly not.

If I'm not really, really careful,

I can be.

So I make sure I titrate the amount

of bad information I get.

And I've talked about it before.

I've talked about it before that one of

the best ways in doing that is that

for every, let's say one hour podcast,

which I'm listening to it on double speed,

try to try to overlay that with the

audio Bible or like I've done where I've

taken the audio Bible and I overlaid it.

I had to do it myself.

I still want to find a way to

do this and be able to get it

out to other people where I've overlaid it

with self edgy tones.

Um,

It is one of the most soothing things,

folks.

You have anxiety issues.

You have any kind of issues out there.

That's one of the things I do.

And I did it actually today.

I'm starting to feel my temperature rise a

little bit.

And I said, okay,

let me lay on this pulse electric magnetic

field mat.

I would lay out in the grass,

but Michelle just cut it out front with

a weed eater,

so I didn't want to be covered in

grass.

So I laid up on this mat,

and it's where I do some of my

memorization sometimes,

but also it's where I got the audio

Bible overlaid with Self-Edgeo Tones.

And I wish I could tell you the

name of the website.

Whole Tones.

W-H-O-L-E.

Whole Tones is where you can find this

stuff.

Done in...

The kind of frequencies like four thirty

two,

it's a bunch of different frequencies they

use,

but they're all within the self-edged

frequencies.

So I've overlaid that with the audio Bible

read by Max McLean.

And that's what I do to kind of

I mean, I guess, well,

I sure hope I King Saul.

But honestly,

it has that same effect on me,

I suppose, that, you know,

King David had when he was playing for

Saul.

But anyway,

that's a little hack you can do out

there.

One of the little things I got to

do is figure out how to do all

of the Old Testament that way.

Not the Old Testament,

but the Book of Psalm.

That's where I have it going right now.

Anyway, if you want to stay,

if you want to use one of the

hacks I do, I go to X, okay?

And I only check out really three people

when it comes to geopolitical stuff.

And that's Matt Bracken, former Navy SEAL,

Michael Yan, former Green Beret, and then,

of course, Colonel Douglas McGregor.

If you just check out three of those

guys and just look at their daily posts,

you'll get a real feel for the bottom

as to what's happening.

So anyway,

I couldn't recommend that enough.

And that's about where I leave it.

I listen to a podcast.

And if they start talking about things

that I already know, I zip past it.

I go to the things that are relevant

to me.

So that's exactly how I'm trying to

maintain my sanity in this world.

All right.

So let me tell you what's going on

this weekend.

KSL, Kentucky Sustainable Living.

They got their festival this weekend.

That's going to be in Bowling Green,

Kentucky.

And anybody there,

William's going to be teaching there,

so you might want to go check that

out.

My man Darren from Hacks for the

Homestead, he's going to be there.

Going to be a lot of other people

there, folks.

I know for some weird reason,

a lot of people are not going to

these homestead festivals when you really

ought to be.

I don't understand that.

And don't understand why anybody wouldn't

be going to these if you're in any

kind of close proximity.

Number one,

you'll go there and find out that you've

got a mutual assistance group that is in

close proximity to you.

And you're going to find out that it

just feels good being in a room with

other people.

Other people you can relate to, you know,

because a lot of other people out there

think people like us are weirdos.

So anyway,

that's going to be this weekend and it's

going to be an air conditioned venue.

So you might even check it out for

that.

All right.

Also, the following weekend,

July twenty four through the twenty six

mountain readiness is going to be in Swan

Lake, Montana.

I'd go up there for no other reason.

If I could get away, y'all, believe me,

I'd be on the first thing smoking out

there.

I still haven't seen that country.

Man, I want to see it so bad.

And you're going to be close to the

Glacier National Park,

all these other things up there that I

really want to go check out.

Man, I wish I could be there.

But anyway, if you can,

it's going to be at Swan Lake, Montana.

Go check out Mountain Readiness.

Also, EMF Rocks.

I got one of those bags right here

on the grounding pad.

that my feet are on right now.

If I'm going to be in here around

all this EMF, y'all,

I'm G'd up from the feet up.

You know what time I'm talking about.

EMF rocks, ten percent off with that.

And then Redemption Shield,

where I get my grounding mats and stuff

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you get ten percent off with promo code

PERMA on both of those.

And like I said, I use them together.

I got that mat going out of this

window, which y'all can't see.

It's going out this window out to its

independent ground,

which you do not plug them into the

wall, folks.

Yeah, let me just cover that real quick.

I'll cover a couple of questions.

Do not plug your grounding mats into the

wall.

Let me say that one more time.

Do not plug them into the wall.

You have a whole lot of dirty electricity

out there, y'all,

and you are being part of it.

I don't care how well you think you

attenuate it.

It ain't good enough.

You need your independent ground going out

a window, through the floor.

I don't care how you get out there.

Put those things, get them off.

There is too much dirty electricity on

these power lines.

And with all these...

You could use a capacitor bank and clean

all these up,

but the powers that shouldn't be don't

care about you.

So you don't need to know what a

capacitor bank is.

Yeah, there are ways to clean it up,

but it's a zero-sum game because as you

clean up the dirty power,

you increase the RF through that device.

Yeah, won't go through all that.

I will say, though,

best thing you can do with a grounding

mat,

make sure it's independently grounded,

and they sell those rods where you can

stuff them like a one-foot rod.

You can get it into the ground.

Or if you're clever, you know,

you can find, you know, someplace that's,

you know,

put it on an eight-foot grounding rod if

you have to.

That's going to be the best anyway.

So go check them out.

Soil saviors, finally,

for the people that want to know about

that,

we've got that in the link down below,

or you can go to the website at

Permapastures Farm.

All right,

so let's go to the good news here.

All right.

So check this one out.

They just found,

now you're going to be thinking,

why is he even covering this?

They got a mysterious new monkey species.

Dig this with orange lips and a pig

like snort found in the Congo rainforest.

Maybe they'd have found it a little bit

sooner.

Had we not been starting wars in the

Congo since JFK got assassinated.

Trust me.

Y'all want to hear the history on that

one.

Boy,

I could blow your minds on what happened

there.

Um,

Yeah, Lumumba,

the whole nine yards and what our

government did over there.

Anyway, Congo has been a mess,

even though they are probably – they got

the biggest – they got more minerals and

everything else over there,

and we intentionally,

and the other powers that shouldn't be,

intentionally keep them in a lifelong

civil war,

even though it could be one incredible

place.

In fact, about a year or two ago,

I was tapped by this –

Aid agency wanted me to start Chicken

Tractor on steroids over there in the

Congo.

they were talking about guaranteeing my

safety i'm like nah you ain't guaranteeing

nobody's safety over there right now um

anyway i was reaching out to some of

my special forces buddies to see if we

could you know work something out just

didn't make sense and honestly i didn't

feel the lord calling me to do it

so every time i don't obey i got

problems and i certainly don't want my

head removed because i didn't obey back to

this monkey and i ain't talking about

michelle obama

Yeah, I actually said it.

I think everybody's actually seen that

meme out there where she's got her teeth

showing in a whole lot.

I swear she looks like the monkey in

this video.

I'm dead serious.

That was the first thing that popped into

my head.

And anyway, mysterious new monkey.

So it's there in the Congo and they

just found this species.

Folks,

the reason I'm saying this is good news

is how many undiscovered things are right

around the bend.

I could swear, man,

I don't know if I discovered it,

but I know I remember when I was

in Kuwait,

I was laying in the sand and there

was this little reptile on all four legs.

Weirdest thing I ever seen in my life.

And back then there were no camera phones

and stuff like that.

He stood on all four legs.

And I remember being in a prone position

out there.

I'm in there with this guy named Gino.

we're taking off our kevlar hats i mean

you're doing anything to try to pass the

time you're sweating like a runaway slave

out there in the sun no cover no

nothing and we're covering this thing up

with sand and it would be on top

of the sand every time we'd cover it

up started with a handful then we're

taking our kevlar's just dumping it on

this little creature and i was like man

this is the craziest thing i've ever seen

in my life we tried to capture it

but it wasn't happening me and gino both

thought man did we just discover something

here

And how many other things?

I mean,

we're talking about going to space, man.

We don't even know what's in the oceans.

And here it is right here in the

Congo.

They discover a Michelle Obama type

monkey.

I don't know what else to call this

thing.

They discover this thing.

And here it is.

It's on the radar.

This giant animal that looks like,

I can't, Opaku,

I can't remember what it was.

It wasn't, you know,

long ago that they discovered that over in

Africa.

many other things out there i mean yeah

i'm gonna go a little on the wild

side here you know bigfoot you know what

is that so many people have seen it

people that i don't believe are lying

about it now what did they see that

they see some cryptid from the you know

is it some nephilim creature i don't know

is it some ape out there some skunk

ape i don't know all i know is

that

When you find things like this,

I wonder how many children out there are

reinvigorated to think, you know what,

man,

there are still things on this earth to

be found, things to be discovered.

I mean, right now, folks,

I'm dead serious.

I'm going to go on a little bit

of a tangent here,

as I'm known to do.

steamboat arabia i remember when i was in

college i was finishing up college when i

was in kansas city and um i didn't

live in kansas city we lived on the

outskirts of it anyway there's a place

called the steamboat arabia museum there

was a family over there called the holly

family that back in the eighties they went

down there and they found one of the

steamboats that was alongside the missouri

river now that river has changed over the

years took different courses

And they pulled up a steamboat called the

Steamboat Arabia, I think.

And then, of course,

the moment they picked it up,

the state wanted to go in there like

a Snoop Dogg song and take half their

proceeds.

So they said, OK, forget about all that.

We'll just make a museum.

So it's a privately funded and owned

museum.

If you're ever in Kansas City,

you really ought to check it out in

the River Arts District.

Anyway.

I remember.

When I was going through a course in

college,

it was like history of Kansas City museums

or something like that.

I thought it was going to be a

blow off elective.

But since I'm in the history, I thought,

okay, I'll check this out.

One of the best courses I ever took

in college.

And anyway, I remember Greg Hawley.

He's since passed on right now.

He's one of the Hawley people or the

Hawley family that actually brought this

thing up.

He's doing the class.

And I made sure I positioned myself to

be the last person leaving because I

wanted to ask him something.

I went up to him and I said,

Greg,

man, I just saw a book in your,

I saw a book over there in your

library where you have GPS coordinates of

every single ship alongside that river.

Yeah,

I know Uncle Sam wants to take fifty

percent of it,

but you said there's still ships down

there worth over a billion dollars.

And folks, that was years ago.

I mean, it must have been twenty years.

I don't know how long,

but it was a long ago when I

had this conversation.

And it was a billion bucks then.

They had ships filled with pre-Civil War

armaments.

I mean, absolute history right there.

I said,

how come you have never been back?

He paused for a moment,

got a little bit closer,

almost uncomfortably,

looked me dead in my eyes,

and he said,

I got a question for you.

How come you haven't been after it?

Folks, I'm not going to lie.

That has troubled me from that day until

this day.

Every single time I come across a story

like this,

I'm sorry to get a little bit emotional

or choked up,

but

I made a lot of mistakes in my

life.

And I've since,

since I've gotten past those things,

those problems, those issues,

those things laid onto me as a kid,

I said, I will never.

And there's a quote from one of my

favorite Louis L'Amour books in there,

the Corsair, I will call him.

He says a quote in there that I've

never forgotten.

He says,

I will owe no debt to my destiny.

That's one of those debts y'all that I

still have yet to pay.

It's one of those things.

I mean,

I know people right now in this audience

that if I said, hey, y'all,

let's go after this ship.

And you know what?

We'll take a fair piece of it.

We'll put it in a museum.

We'll take another fair piece.

We'll keep it.

And then we'll sell some stuff off to

pay for the expedition and maybe put a

little money in our pockets.

That thing was worth a billion bucks then.

What do you think it's worth now?

And it's not like the Atocha in the

Atlantic.

We know exactly where all these ships are.

And to my knowledge,

nobody's ever been back.

Yeah,

Uncle Sam's going to steal fifty percent

of it,

but I might be able to make do

on half a half a billion dollars and

all the people that work with me.

So anyway,

me as a fifty five year old man

and I'm sitting here thinking, man.

I love to go after one of these

things.

Maybe I need to find a way to

get this done and maybe get a gang

of people out there to get it done

because the Holly family did it back in

the eighties with very few resources.

And I'm wondering, man.

What would it be like to go over

there and make a deal with one of

these farmers where it's in a farm field

now and go pick one of these up?

I mean, treasure hunting.

Is that any different than this story that

I'm talking about here?

I don't think it is.

And I think there's a whole lot of

people in the sound of my voice right

now that somewhere along the way,

I think so many of us have just,

we forgot that wonder,

that childlike wonder that we had as a

kid.

Now, I have rediscovered it in many ways,

farming.

But there are those other Indiana Jones

moments that all of us,

I think so many of us,

wish that we had.

And this is one of those for me.

So maybe if this earth keeps moving and

doing, well, I think it's stationary.

But anyway,

if the things keep going the way they

are,

I think maybe I might just say forget

it and go out to Missouri or Kansas,

wherever these things are located right

now,

and go dig up one of those ships.

Anyway,

holler if you hear me in the chat.

Anyway, yeah, another one here.

Let's see here.

U.S.

troops.

I spent maybe a little too much time

on that,

but I think there's a whole lot of

people are giving me a virtual amen

because I think so many of us just

lost that childlike wonder.

Anyway, here's another good news story.

U.S.

troops to leave Iraq by the end of

September,

ending in a three-year deployment.

Okay, on the face of it,

that seems like really good news, right?

Or are they going to be repositioned to

go over to Iran?

Don't put it past them, y'all.

But right now,

I'm going to chalk that up as good

news,

but I think that's just a rope-a-dope.

And then finally, this last one here,

ancient kitchen remedy proven to

neutralize deadly pathogens.

I guess I better be careful about that

talking about.

Okay, in a nutshell,

what they're doing is basically saying you

got ginger, great for everything.

You got garlic, great for everything.

Y'all, I eat probably...

maybe four massive cloves of garlic every

single day.

I do it for a whole variety of

reasons.

In fact,

I just got finished eating brisket before

I came in here to this studio.

I had brisket and potatoes,

and I crushed up, you know,

fifteen minutes prior,

I crushed up some garlic,

put it through the garlic press, and,

you know,

I'll just mix it into whatever I'm eating,

and it's just a fact of business.

But anyway,

they're talking about in this article that

if you can combine the two,

Good night, heavens to Murgatroyd.

You got yourself something there.

So that's good news as well.

All right,

so let me just cover some of these

questions right quick.

How do you keep Japanese beetles from

eating your peaches?

I'm using the very same thing I talked

about.

You have,

like when I had Jack Spierko on the

other day,

He was talking about the bricks reading in

his garden.

The higher the sugar content or the bricks

reading in what you're growing out there,

it will basically make your garden

impervious to pests.

Remember,

you don't have a Japanese beetle problem.

You got a lack of good soil problem.

That's what you got there.

I don't have a codling moth problem.

I got a lack of good soil problem.

That's exactly where it is.

Now,

it doesn't hurt when you have codling moth

traps out there like Stefan Subkoviak has.

Really easy to make.

Go check out his permaculture orchard

video.

Go check out any video the man's ever

made.

And he talks about how he goes about

doing that.

So yeah, remember,

you got to reposition the way you think

about it in permaculture.

You don't have a beetle problem.

You got a lack of vitality in your

soil.

That's really what your number one problem

is.

Oh, Ken and Amy, okay, salad issue.

The outbreak of diarrhea from the

parasites is surging.

Yeah, folks, if you only knew,

if a lot of people only knew the

extent to,

if you knew how your food got to

you,

I mean, good night.

If you knew that most of that salad

came up out of Mexico or California,

which may not even be in your zip

code, you wouldn't buy it.

Or maybe you would.

Or if you know that they're out there

defecating in the fields where they're

picking, if you knew about that stuff,

you might think twice about it.

So, yeah, be careful about that.

I'm glad you pointed that out.

Hey, everyone, hit that like button.

Thank you so much, Nancy.

Let's see if we got any folks.

If I'm missing you,

it's because you didn't put it in capital

letters.

That's the only way I can read it

with these birth control glasses.

So, yeah, Christy's saying raw.

Yeah, that's how I eat that garlic.

I eat it raw.

Or one thing you could do also is

you can crush it up.

I love the taste of garlic.

It doesn't really bother me.

Man, I just crush it up.

And if it's a problem for you,

I just stick it in my mouth.

You can do it, you know,

crush up some ginger as well.

Just swallow it all.

Man, I eat for performance these days.

That's how a playa rolls.

All right,

so we got no more questions here.

I'm going to go to my man,

Eric Sider,

and take a drink of this water in

a bottle.

Hey,

Eric Sider here with your PimpCast tip of

the day.

Today's tip is the system worth saving.

My friend and colleague Matthew Trum was

recently hit with some terrible news

regarding the school food forest he set up

over ten years ago.

The maintenance department put in a

request to redo the lawn that has become

a muddy mess because they screwed it up

the first time around,

which has triggered an audit by the State

Board of Architects.

They want to rip out the whole food

forest because it is in violation of their

idiotic regulations.

As far as I can tell,

The State Board of Architects' main

purpose is determining the most unlikely

chance of harm or liability and using that

to base their regulations on.

It is certainly nothing that is best for

people or the ecosystem.

So here is the dilemma.

Do we try and work within the system,

potentially creating an approved school

food forest design for all of California?

Or say,

go F yourself and start a war of

public opinion?

Both require significant time and energy,

distracting from getting on with the work

that needs to be done.

Now,

I almost always lean towards asking for

forgiveness rather than permission.

But Bill Mollison also said,

the more regulations you have,

the better the design.

My main reason for considering working

within the system is, unfortunately,

that's where most of the financial capital

is.

And we must create paid livelihoods out of

all this work of regenerating the

ecosystem,

or it just is not going to happen.

Relying on volunteers is not only

unrealistic,

but it doesn't pass an energy audit

anyway.

I don't know what the answer is.

Maybe all of the above.

But another quote from Bill about creating

an alternative system is that you must get

the second hamster wheel up and running

before you jump across.

You can find me on YouTube and Instagram

at Eric Sider.

If you're in need of permaculture

t-shirts,

the official pimp gear of this pimp cast,

or remote permaculture consultation and

design, head over to ericsider.com.

And for more information on my

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head over to permaculturefairoaks.org.

That's my dog right there.

I mean, yeah,

it's an easy dilemma for me to be

in my little seat over here to say

what I would do.

I would tend to want to fight.

I mean,

that's exactly the way I'd roll with it.

Or like Eric said,

you can work within the nasty confines.

I mean, I would rather...

Anything I can do to put a nasty

view on government these days, man,

I'm going to do it,

especially if I can do it through this

platform or like that old boy that was

up in Virginia, as a matter of fact,

where they were going to come in there

and take his pigs.

There was such a stink raised about that

where all of us were going to descend

on the, what was it, the county seat?

I can't remember the county building.

Yeah, it was up there in Virginia.

All of us were threatening to go up

there, and they said, okay, yeah,

case dismissed.

And it was going to be a gang

of us up there.

So, Eric, if there's anything I can do,

if you all decide to fight it,

let me know.

Let's see if we can mobilize some people

all throughout this country to help in any

way they can.

Man, I hate the government, y'all.

I hate it with a passion.

Founding fathers are rolling over in their

graves right now.

All right,

so got one here seeking to find.

Yeah, he says,

count me in for the ship hunt.

I've been a listener for years,

so if you're going to go for it,

I'll get it done.

It'll get done.

Yeah.

Wow.

What a suitable name for, you know,

potential treasure hunt.

Like I said, y'all,

I will owe no debt to my destiny.

Even if I just got to find some

financial backers that would be willing to

do this.

I don't know that I could fund it

myself.

But if for no other reason, man,

you talk about an adventure.

I think that would be an absolute

adventure.

So anyway, yeah,

we'll maybe revisit that also.

Donna, Ray, boy,

you always got some good stuff here.

Talking about the bones of the fallen

giants.

I don't know what conversation I missed

here.

And they created a dinosaur narrative,

yeah, to create the fossil fuel shortage.

I've talked about this before.

If you go listen to Colonel Fletcher

Prouty,

One of the sharpest guys out there in

history.

He's passed on now.

He was the guy that Mr.

X in the movie JFK was modeled behind.

Wicked smart guy.

And he was in the know of so

many things.

You ought to hear,

if you get a chance,

go to his YouTube video about fossil fuel

and what it is really and how the

whole...

The whole narrative is garbage from start

to finish.

Oil is abiotic.

It didn't come from any fossils.

And it's been well known for a long

time.

In fact, the Nazis knew it.

And they tried to make it known to

the rest of the world, but everybody else,

this is how they keep us on the

chain.

All right,

before I go hot and popping on this,

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So go check it out.

All right.

Let's see if we got some other questions

in here.

No.

So I'm going to go hot and heavy

on it.

So why,

why permaculture is more than gardening?

Folks,

I can't even begin to talk about why

this is so important.

I remember, in fact,

I was on the phone earlier with a

friend of mine just briefly,

and I remember it was his wife that

I first heard say,

and I've since heard it since,

that we were designing a property that

they had.

And she says,

let's put the permaculture over there.

Okay, Justin,

that statement tells me that you don't

really understand how permaculture works.

It's a design system.

It's about creating a resilient,

interconnected system rather than

individual plants or anything like that.

Give you a case in point.

We may talk about a peach tree out

there, but really,

if you look at it within the whole

permaculture design system,

That peach tree, first of all,

we've talked about zoning so many times on

this show.

I quit talking about it because we've done

so many shows about it.

Why?

Because zoning is one of those things that

seems to be universal in terms of the

mistakes that people make.

They just put this over here,

put this over there,

but they don't think about the

interactions that all these things need to

have.

So going back to the peach tree,

what's around that peach tree is a guild.

And it's a collection of other plants that

not only support that peach tree,

but in a perfect world,

that peach tree is supporting those

plants.

So in my particular food forest or

orchard, let's call it a peach guild.

So we got a peach tree in the

center.

Now,

got seven layers of a forest this peach

is mature enough that i'm using something

vining let's say um like you know climbing

yam i can put that in there at

the base of this tree use a tree

as a substrate for it to grow okay

so i got my vine layer okay around

that peach i got daffodils it's going to

help keep away some of the pests that

are underground and above ground and if

planted between there is going to be

garlic

Okay, I use it every day.

Why wouldn't I do that?

Plus,

it's really medicinal for all the other

things that are going out there.

Okay, you know,

let's talk about our herbs.

We got rosemary, thyme,

and oregano around every single tree,

not only for our pollinators,

but also for us.

I harvest it every single day.

And it goes into the bone broth and

my salad every single day.

There's not a day I don't do it.

Well,

I might forget every once in a while

if I have other obligations that day.

Also, you know, maybe six, seven,

maybe eight feet away from that tree in

opposite corners are going to be

blueberries.

Why wouldn't I?

It's part of the layers.

And then on the catty corner,

if I got space to do it,

catty corner from that is going to be

a nitrogen fixing shrub that also produces

food.

Maybe Siberian pea shrub.

It could be something that your animals

eat.

It doesn't even matter.

But all these things are not done in

isolation.

And then think about it.

It is zoned along zone two,

which is along my driveway,

which is a pretty long driveway,

but I can interact as often as I

need to.

I can harvest from it right there from

taking two steps away from my truck.

I can go out there and harvest.

I can maintenance.

I can do whatever I need to prune.

I can put it right there in the

truck.

It's all designed in such a way in

which it all makes sense in terms of

how I'm doing it.

So as far as that bigger permaculture

design,

it's all part of a bigger cog on

the wheel.

So it's a design system.

It's about, like I said,

it's about creating interconnectedness and

efficiency.

That's why I have the shirt.

Eric made it for me.

where it says something along the line of

you know addicted to simplicity or

elegance that's what it says addicted to

elegance i felt the need to create that

shirt because so many people are addicted

to unnecessary complexity and i see it in

so many designs because you think it's

going to be avant-garde or you want to

do something weird or you think it might

make you famous they're out here doing

ridiculous designs and i hate to say it

that way

That are poorly thought out in terms of

management and in terms of how it fits

into a larger thing.

That's exactly why you need to hire,

if you don't know what you're doing or

you need to think about these things in

a more dispassionate way,

hire a designer like William or Eric to

come out there and look at your stuff

because you may be too close to it.

And then on that point,

it also starts with observation.

Bill Mollison,

the creator of permaculture,

Eric talked about him in his spot a

moment ago.

And Jeff Lawton,

they also talk about the importance of

observing.

Before you put shovel to anything,

you need to spend time observing where

does the waterfall?

Where do I have frost pockets?

Where do I see the sunlight?

got to understand the land the lay of

the land you got to understand where the

water goes you got to understand what the

wildlife corridors are you got to

understand all that stuff before you go

designing anything out on that property

and you got to if you don't do

that folks that's where you have some

major major problems where you wind up

putting a swale where there never should

have been one swales for the most part

don't make sense where i live in western

north carolina which is a temperate

rainforest

They don't make sense.

Certainly not in the terrain I'm in.

Now,

there are places where it does make sense,

and I might go ahead and put a

swale or two in there.

Just more as a demonstration purpose than

anything else.

But by and large,

you got to take the right dog to

the hunt,

and it all begins with observation.

Here's another one that I am big on,

and let me take a drink here.

All right.

So this is a big one, y'all.

Enormous and I don't think people think

about it enough everything needs to have

multiple functions.

I mean multiple functions so Okay,

take for example a Tree it's going to

provide shade obviously It's going to

provide a habitat not only for birds But

everything else is going to provide mulch

when the time is right and erosion control

all at the same time in addition to

all that is

Depending on the tree,

if it's a nitrogen fixture,

when I prune it,

who do you think is going to get

all that stuff?

The sheep that are right alongside there,

they will absolutely positively strip it.

And if it's situated in a certain way,

it makes it ten times easier.

Honestly,

anything I prune that gets thrown over to

the sheep,

they will sit there and take all the

leaves off of it,

which is a benefit to them.

But they're also getting shade out of the

deal as well.

That could be for your chickens or

whatever else.

So everything needs to have multiple

purposes.

I don't care what that thing is.

It needs to have multiple.

That's why I used to love Alton Brown's

show.

Goody so much.

I love that show.

William loved it.

I mean, you know, when he was,

when he was little,

Because not just all the gadgets and stuff

is where he was using multiple,

he was using the calendar for ten

different things.

And so you need to think about it

that same way when it comes to your,

your permaculture systems out there.

Here's another big one here.

And we're kind of known for it is

that everything's, you know,

when I say everything,

I'm talking about your waste, waste.

It should be viewed as a resource.

It shouldn't be waste.

Even in the best permaculture system,

even the stuff coming out of your body.

Folks, I try not to waste my urine.

I collect it all.

The stuff that comes out the other end,

could it be made into something?

Absolutely.

It could be human ore.

That requires a redesign of the house that

I bought that was already here.

So not going to do that.

But why are we flushing really,

really good water?

Then let's say it was used in the

sink.

Let's say it was used in the tub.

Let's say it was used in your kitchen.

Why is all that water going into the

same place that the toilet water goes?

Couldn't that water be reused several

times?

I dare say it could,

just like an earthship design,

where that water is used four times from

the time it's collected before it goes

out.

I mean, why not do that?

We are absolutely wasteful on so many

different ways.

I'm talking leaves.

Everybody's putting them out on the curb.

That's a waste system to them.

But for me, that's compost.

Food scraps,

people are throwing it in the trash.

Why?

I mean,

rainwater is coming off the side of the

house.

I know a guy just got time in

prison.

I want to say it was in one

of the western,

northwestern states for collecting

rainwater.

In most places, a lot of places,

you can still do that.

And in fact,

you can still do it if you're a

little sneaky about it like I would tend

to be.

But anyway, use all of those things.

The chicken tractor on steroids,

what do you think that is?

That is absolutely using a waste stream

that would ordinarily end up in a

landfill.

These are organic,

good wastes that I'm repurposing to fatten

up pigs and chickens.

So much so that all of the layers

and all of the meat birds we've raised

is a hundred percent free.

And our pigs turned out to be twenty

one cents a pound by using these methods.

So, yeah,

you don't have to pay a fortune out

here.

You just got to use some of the

dogs we've taken to the hunt before.

And just remember, nature is a teacher.

So you want to go out there to

forests, wetlands,

natural ecosystems that are out there.

We call them zone five in permaculture.

No matter where you are,

you want to leave a little bit of

it wild or you want to find your

way and escape into the wild,

not only to escape a lot of the

EMF out there,

but also to go into nature and say,

look,

I want to see how you're doing it.

And then I want to copy it on

my own place.

That's a really good way to go about

it.

So just remember also, people,

you and me and everybody else is also

part of that ecosystem,

despite a lot of these weirdos out here

saying that we ought to drop our

population because we are overpopulated.

Folks,

I think somebody did the math on it

a little while.

I think the entire population of the world

could fit into Jacksonville, Florida.

I mean, yeah, that's, you know,

eight billion,

depending on whether or not you believe

their numbers.

No, it's not any of that.

It's just we kind of write ourselves out

of the system.

We shouldn't be doing that.

We're part of it.

I mean,

permaculture includes designing your

homes,

how those homes interact with your

landscape around there, the communities,

the daily routes that you have out there.

We are part of all of this.

So you got to write yourself into it.

Let's say your driveway,

from your driveway to your house.

Maybe you want to put an herb garden

in there because you use it every day.

And then as you're getting off work,

you're going inside, okay,

maybe you want to pick some rosemary.

Maybe you got some thyme, some oregano,

some sage, whatever's out there.

But it's on your way,

so it forces you to interact with it.

Why?

Because you're part of it.

You're part of that all together.

And it also emphasizes resilience.

in a way that I can't even begin

to imagine, y'all, that I...

You don't need to be perfect.

You just need to be resilient.

That's what permaculture is especially

good at.

We plan for mega disasters.

We plan for all these things that are

baked into the landscape as we work

through it.

So...

At the end of the day, folks,

this is why I wanted to get back

to a little bit of, you know,

here as of late,

we haven't really talked a whole lot about

permaculture specifically,

but I wanted to get back to talking

about that because people think that it's

just an isolated thing,

that it's in your garden.

No, it's in your house.

Folks,

permaculture is in my business design,

okay?

If I was talking to Jack Spierko,

he'd probably echo the fact that I treat

the way we make money

in our family,

as I would a permaculture system,

just like I've taught you before,

that you don't just want one cultivar of,

let's say,

an apple or peach or pear or whatever

else.

Because let's say you have a disaster come

up.

Well, you're screwed.

You don't get peaches that year.

You don't get pears.

You don't get apples.

You don't get anything that year.

But if I pick a mid,

early and late of everything,

I always got to harvest no matter what

goes down.

Well,

do you think it might be wise to

run your businesses that way?

Because that's exactly the way we do it

here.

We have multiple streams of income.

None of them are, you know,

we're not the Rockefellers by any means,

but we live such a low consumption

lifestyle that we can live on any one

of those incomes.

You see what I'm saying?

That's the kind of resilience that

permaculture makes in our business

decisions and how you organize your house.

how you do everything.

So yeah,

even in the way you conduct business.

So let's say I have a low consumption.

I hate to say low consumption lifestyle

because it makes people think that it's

not a rich lifestyle.

I don't agree with that at all.

I have a richer lifestyle than most

billionaires out there.

And I think a lot of you do

too as well.

I know one billionaire and I know several

millionaires.

And in every single case and every metric

I'm aware of,

i live a much richer life than any

of them in fact i would say all

of them combined except for the

billionaire you know he actually he's got

his stuff together i'd say the

millionaires are the ones who are you know

out of whack that are definitely got their

stuff out of whack multi-millionaires and

stuff like that but the point being is

that in our business construct it's set up

just like a permaculture system

You don't overspend.

You don't overharvest.

You don't take all the money.

You got maybe six sources of income,

but you don't spend all of it.

I mean,

all the money that we put out there

to rescue kids caught up in child sex

trafficking,

where do you think that money comes from?

I mean...

A lot of the other things that we

do that we don't talk about because Jesus

said, you know, that's your reward.

I'm just using that as an example.

So if I got all my basic needs

met, which I do,

and the Lord has provided and he continues

to provide for me abundantly in a way

that I can't even begin to describe.

The most important things in my life,

I used to think differently when I was

much younger.

And then after chasing that rat race like

so many other people out there,

I realized, you know what?

Ain't none of this stuff making me happy.

I'm making a pile of money.

So as Michelle, we're doing great.

Got all the trappings that everybody says

you should have and then got rid of

all of it because it is all vanity.

It really is.

So that's why I say I live a

richer lifestyle.

I walk around naked half the day because

I can here in my isolation.

I can go out here, pick fruit,

pick vegetables,

grow things that I couldn't even hope to

buy.

I grow animals that you can't hope to

buy in a store.

You can't even find it at most farmer's

markets, not even here in Asheville.

And I got a family that,

the fact that I'm able to work with

my wife all day long, y'all,

do you know how rich that is?

I really want you to think about this.

Most of us go away to a job

that we may not love.

Maybe you like it.

But most of us go to a job

and they pay you enough to keep you

from quitting and you do enough to keep

from getting fired in most cases.

Been there, done that,

just like so many out there.

But you go away to this job and

you give total strangers the best you have

to offer from the time you woke up

and then the time it took you to

get to work, you do your job,

you come home and you're wiped out.

Even if it was an office job,

you're probably even more wiped out.

And then guess who gets what's left over?

The people you love most.

So do you think it's a benefit and

a blessing to me to be able to

work with my wife every day?

Well,

she might have different thoughts about

that sometimes.

But by and large,

to be able to wake up with my

wife, to work with her, you know,

nine times out of ten,

we're not necessarily,

we work together doing the chores in the

morning and then we kind of split up

and then divide and conquer on the things

every day.

But I'm giving her the best I got.

I'm not going away to a work, giving,

you know, working, you know,

i'm corporate sharecropping or whatever

the case may be and then i come

home and give my family what's left i'm

not doing that yeah i think that's far

richer than all the people that i know

that are out there chasing that brass ring

and i don't care if we were in

a one-room shack and it asked me how

i know because we did that that's how

we started

There was three adults and three dogs

living in three hundred square feet for a

long, long time.

Long time.

And I was perfectly content.

Perfectly happy.

And, you know,

still happy with what I have right now.

Like they say, if you're not happy,

but it's all designed around that

permaculture principle,

which to a certain extent goes right back,

like Paul said, be content in all things.

And that's what I've learned to do,

or at least I'm learning to do.

It's still a work in progress.

But coming full circle with this whole

thing, y'all,

it is absolutely positively a profound

value to model everything you have.

If you're looking for a model to create,

I talked about it like the other day

with Spearco.

Just take a hobby.

I've talked about so many things out

there,

million-dollar ideas that somebody could

run with.

If you had a little bit,

let's say you don't have that knowledge,

go out there and get it.

I never digged up a freaking ship before,

but neither did the Hawley family.

They didn't do that before.

They went out there,

just got together with the family,

and dug this thing up.

There's a whole lot of things that I

never did.

Nobody's ever done until you get out there

and do it.

And if it means,

if you're just sick and tired of this

nine to five, pray to the good Lord.

But at the same time,

I would also look at some permaculture

solutions because they're out there.

It's why you can be,

you can't give from an empty well.

But if I have these multiple streams of

income and I need this little bit to

be able to put the bread on my

table to handle what,

that means I got so much else.

that I can give,

whether it's in the products we give away,

or whether it's in the time we're able

to devote to somebody that might need the

help.

I mean, you know,

capital comes in many forms.

But honestly,

this is why I wanted to talk about

permaculture today, because it's more,

everybody seems to think that it's in

gardening.

It is not.

It's in every part of your life,

especially if you use it in the best

ways.

All right,

let's see if we get any more questions

over here because I don't believe we do.

And I want to thank everybody for the

kind words, Linda, Donna,

and all the others out there.

I'm just being the quintessential me.

I'm really trying to be more and more

of that every day.

And like I said,

through that book of James,

I'm trying to also speak less curses in

the world if you know what I'm talking

about.

You know, you got so much in,

like we were talking last night,

life and death in the tongue.

And I'm trying to not dance around the

problems,

but at the same time talk about the

solutions and the things, the struggles,

the problems that I'm having along the way

because it might be a blessing to you

to know that you're not the only one

out there.

There's so many of us.

That's what's so beautiful about going to

a lot of these festivals like I was

talking about,

Kentucky Sustainable Living.

If you've never been to these things,

folks,

it's going to blow your mind how many

people you relate with that you've never

met before.

You're probably going to find out that

you're within an hour of somebody you

didn't even know was right next to you

when you feel isolated.

Same thing when you go to the Mountain

Readiness Festival next week.

You'll go all the way over there,

and you'll probably find somebody that's

probably an hour away from you here.

It's crazy.

It happens every single time I go

somewhere and I travel.

But look, y'all,

I know we live in crazy times,

but we've got to stay rooted.

Most importantly, I mean,

if ever there was a time you were

to get closer to the Lord, I mean,

it is now.

I can't even begin to tell you, folks,

things are on such shaky ground right now,

but you don't have to be fearful,

especially when you know Jesus did it all

right there at the cross.

So I want to thank everybody for checking

us out.

I want to thank you for all your

support, all the love,

everything you give to us out there,

y'all.

Until next time, stay alert, stay alive.

We've got the answers.

All we need to do.

Listen to the earth.

They've got us.

See you next time.