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Oh, yeah,
it's Thursday and I'm back here with you
this time.
I'm flying solo, folks.
You know what time it is.
William can't be here tonight and I don't
have a guest because, you know,
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,
here as always.
Hey, hey, Alabama.
That's what I'm talking about.
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I don't get anything for it,
but Wellbots has been very,
very good to this show,
and they've allowed me to test a lot
of their equipment.
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,
but not Wellbots.
Man, I ain't kidding you all.
They got the cream of the crop over
there, and they got a deal.
And check this out.
Elliott over at Wellbots has decided to
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So you better hop on it.
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And folks,
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I'm talking everything from EcoFlow,
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and some of this stuff is more than
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Like I said, Wellbots doesn't sell junk,
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
like that,
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,
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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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Um,
tonight they kept it on just a little
bit longer to be able to get this
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So, um, yeah,
they wanted to make sure everybody in this
audience had it.
So after tonight, you know,
the deal's off.
And like I said,
this stuff is already seriously
discounted.
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.