all right we're gonna do a little video here and uh moving my rocks here
and i've had some things on my mind let's set this up here so many of you out there have been
talking about not being able to do certain things because you live in the city you can't
really grow your own food or you don't have the advantages of living out on a homestead
like some people do like myself here and i do find myself very fortunate now the thing that i want to
talk about is that people should be stockpiling food and i'm not talking your mres your uh
shtf uh meal plans i'm talking like real actual food that's for a couple reasons one the increase
of uh food prices if the food prices aren't going up the containers are getting smaller
you can see that happening all over the world right now with the food shortages and uh if you're
not aware right now that farmers are being paid are asked to destroy their crops and to be paid
1.5 times what they would be getting paid to destroy their crops and if they don't destroy
their crops they get zero that's happening right now in the states and if you don't think that's
gonna happen up here in canada well i'm sorry i can't really help you on that one but you're
gonna look at what's going on in the world and the economics and uh how things are playing out and
for those people that have their head buried in the sand i i don't know what we could
do for you the supply chain is breaking down the um you can see that with lumber
the guy down here in in the city he says he can't get any lumber here until uh
until august i think he said and this was like two weeks ago and we're just in june right now
so what else is coming up next they got uh cargo ships being diverted in the united states because
they can't get through some canal because it's got some work
so they're getting diverted all the way to i believe nor new orleans so one thing
for people that are in the cities that are saying that they can't do certain things
when i lived back and uh in the city i noticed there was a couple communities out there that had
community gardens and this gives you the ability to grow your own food and not for just yourself
it could be for a group of people and you yourself don't have to have the knowledge on how to do this
you just have to need the drive or the willingness to learn and to do physical
labor and i know that's out of a lot of people's uh vocabulary these days is physical work and uh
that's just because of the technology that we're given these days it's made
our lives easier it's made our lives uh a lot more comfortable
and people have become comfortable not having to do things quick note on that if you think about it
we are the only species on earth that does not live or that cannot really live anymore
in their own natural habitat hence the forest or anywhere outdoors really for that matter
now growing up as a child we had a garden and uh it wasn't because we didn't have
well we didn't have a lot of money but at the same time it was a way that
we were raised to offset food costs and if you can offset food costs
why not why wouldn't you want to do that and a community garden is great to do that and so
we grew potatoes we grew corn corn has gone up i believe 30 percent just this year alone
so what's coming down the pipeline with uh everything that's going around
so offsetting your your uh food prices is going to help you drastically
um save money and beat the inflation prices that are coming up now yes community gardens
take a little bit of organizing to do and uh and uh the setup is the longest
time or the longest uh timeline that'll take you to get things ready but even if you're in the city
these things can happen i've seen them with my own two eyes so i know community gardens happen and
you can make a uh a perpetual cycle around because you're allowed chickens in the city as well
and so uh that it's it's an a very easy way to do and it only takes about 30 minutes a day to take
care of everything once you have everything set up and that if you have a community now you can
designate who's doing what while you're going to work and say someone's retired
they can take care of the garden during the day until you're at home and then you
can go out and water in the evenings because it's usually better to water in the evenings
anyways then you don't want to water in the middle of the day like this
because the water is going to evaporate before it even soaks into the ground
and it's also a great feeling to grow your own food now i've done it in the past and that was
when i was younger about 11 12 years old and i absolutely hated it because i didn't understand it
however now that i'm out here and our greenhouse is starting to produce some salad and
we have our own garlic and our own onions and stuff like that now uh it's really phenomenal
and it's a great feeling to be able to go out there and grab your own food and you know
how it's grown and what's in it and the taste actually is just night and day
some will say yeah but that's hard work well starving's hard work also and
if you don't believe me you should ask someone that came from the uh ussr
and asked them how they'd uh
how it was to feed or to feed their families and not have anything so yeah hard work is something a
part of life and uh if you don't like hard work well then you're gonna starve and you're gonna
really hope that you did that hard work and put an effort just like anything in life you
need to put in that work and if you don't put in the work you're not going to get it
and if everyone's doing it it's not going to be that hard you know if you have a group of people a
community of people that are in there helping you everyone's taking a little bit of this a little
bit of that and helping each other out it's not really that hard sorry just checking on the goats
now in the city you can like uh just to go touch back on something you can
really do a great permaculture cycle in the cities using chickens and rabbits
so what you do is you have the chickens and the rabbits and they're gonna go to the bathroom and
you're going to collect that now you're going to compost their feces and all that stuff
and you're going to eventually put that back into the garden to put nutrients back into the soil
plant your seeds your soil is now enriched with natural um natural fertilizer and you're going
to grow some great crops and when you harvest those crops now you have crops for yourself
and anything else left over you feed back to the rabbits or to the chickens
and with that there it's uh it's a perpetual cycle and it's something that you can
do really easily in the city so this notion of people thinking that
they need a certain setup they need to be in a certain location to get things done
it's wrong i know right now firsthand my mom she's uh she's got a couple gardens going on in the city
and uh at a couple other people's properties and you know like it works it works she doesn't
have the chickens but you know growing your own food till this this day you know it's been like
i don't know 20 years now since we used to have the garden and they're still doing it this day
and my grandmother too she's been doing that too since as long as i can remember
and when you grow your own vegetables and your own food and everything now you get all those macro
nutrients and all and all the nutrients that you need to for your body to grow and and and those
things that you need for your body to move and not to feel sore and it's natural medicine too
and your protein well your protein if you have your chickens or rabbits in these community
gardens well you can rotate them through every year and now you're offsetting your meat costs too
and i'm telling you right now we've had rabbits here for a couple months now and the first litter
is seven and we're gonna wait till they're about five pounds in butcher weight which is only about
three months and i'll have a second batch of rabbits coming in through so if you're thinking
about that in three months i'm going to produce 35 pounds of rabbit meat that's going to be pretty uh
like pretty good savings instead of going to the to the store and it's going to be organic food too
now you're also going to want to plant your root vegetables and that's where you're going to get um
all your calories from your radishes your potatoes your carrots all those all those
things that's where you're gonna get your calories from and you can
and you can can those you can make those things last you need to stockpile food right now
uh because
you know things are going to get pretty uh pretty tied up these days and people
don't even realize it learn about companion planting companion planting is something that i
was never taught and i've been looking in that where one vegetable or or fruit uh
helps another one to grow or one prevents an animal coming around that will kill
us another vegetable plant or something so look into companion planting planting it's
uh it's something that's pretty remarkable and uh something that i even just came across and i've
been uh planting for a number of years so it's something to really look into there's different
ways of of of growing things there's uh you can do hydroponics in the house you could also do uh
you know there's so many ways these days you can do like micro greens even nowadays
with led lighting where it's not going to cost you much power because in the social and social
sociable collapses the best practices are food shelter security and transportation
so if you have food you need shelter if you have shelter you need security
and transportation well that's in my opinion a luxury if you're in a social collab because
you kind of want to stay put and hold down now if you have your head in the gutter and you're
thinking uh yeah yeah andre you're just talking a bunch of uh nonsense here well
and when the time comes i'm just gonna go and take it from those said people who have it stored well
those peop same people that uh have their food stored well guess what
they're called preppers and they're preppers for a reason and if you don't think that the
if if they were smart enough to store food i'm pretty sure that they've been smart enough
to store some sort of protection from people coming to take their food so you might want to
think twice on that one you only got one life now is it worth it to go and take something
because you were too lazy to do something or because you had the mindset that you thought
hey i'm just not wanting to put in the work which a lot of society is like that nowadays especially
now that people are working from home and don't have to do certain things and uh you know it's
one of those things that you really got to keep in mind now because things are going to get
worse before they get better and you can see it coming down the road
well i think i got to go back to moving these rocks here i thought i'd just take
some time out here it's been going on in my head here so
get your food storage ready because i don't want to hear it when shtf does happen
you