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March 20, 2018 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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The top 10 benefits of living in the country
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I want to talk about the top 10 reasons to move out to the country.
And welcome, this is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, healthrangerreport.com, co-founder of talknetwork.com, editor of naturalnews.com.
And I live in the country and it's very rewarding.
And it also, it gives you life skills that I think you will find to be very important for your own preparedness, survival, and self-reliance, by the way, down the road.
If you want to be, if you want to live in a green way, by the way, you can't really live green in the city.
It's a contradiction.
The city has to import its energy, import its water, import its food, and it exports waste, raw sewage, right?
And emissions and excess heat.
But in the country, you can actually live more green.
You can grow more of your own food.
You can compost.
You can build your own soil.
You can use animals like goats to create compost that feeds your plants that you harvest yourself.
You can't eat more locally than eating out of your own garden.
So anybody who wants to have a so-called green lifestyle needs to seriously look at Living out in the country, living a rural lifestyle.
And it's very interesting to me that in our culture today, living green or living sustainably is usually the domain of people who live in cities.
And they tend to be, you know, sort of more progressive or more liberal or Democrats.
And they want to live a green lifestyle.
You know, we're all running on solar energy and we're recycling our trash.
And, you know...
We support saving the environment and saving the polar ice caps.
We're against climate change and this kind of talk.
And yet, they live in the most unsustainable, non-green environments possible.
A concrete apartment building in the middle of an artificial construct known as a city.
And meanwhile, the real green people, the people who are living sustainably, are then derided as rednecks.
Oh, you country people!
You know, they're derided as often low-IQ people, which is completely false.
They are condemned as people who are not, you know, sophisticated, not advanced, not educated.
They're not at a university.
They're out there on their little tractors.
Well, it turns out that people who own tractors live a more green lifestyle.
And that's the realization here that I want to get to.
You know, compare the way I acquire and produce, let's say, lettuce for juicing or for a smoothie.
I actually blend up lettuce in a smoothie every morning.
I have a smoothie with bananas and avocados, coconut water, and fresh lettuce greens that I grow myself.
So I actually I go to the harvest area where I have the food rising grow boxes that I invented and I harvest the greens fresh that morning and then I put them right into the blender and I blend them up with the other ingredients including some cacao and it is just absolutely delicious.
Whereas someone who lives in a city, well, they have to go down to the grocery store and they have to get lettuce in a plastic bag that has been shipped by a truck for 800 miles, who knows how far.
So you have CO2 emissions, you have fossil fuel consumption, you have road miles on that lettuce that you're buying at the store thinking that you're green when you're actually not.
So that's the first thing, is that it's a great reason to live out in the country, is that you can be more sustainable.
Along those lines is really reason number two.
You can collect your own rainwater.
Have you ever thought about that?
You know, in a city, you have to get water out of the tap, or a fire hydrant if you're desperate, but you don't really have the ability to collect your own rainwater in a city.
And there's not enough roof space, probably, for all the people who need the water.
But out in the country, you can build a barn, for example, very inexpensively.
It can have a lot of square footage of roof space, and it can collect a tremendous amount of water that's more than enough to support you, or you and your spouse, or you and your family, or multiple families.
It's very inexpensive to collect rainwater.
Obviously, depending on where you live, it doesn't necessarily work in the desert of New Mexico or Nevada.
But in places like Texas it does and most areas it does even in California Or most regions of California and certainly in places like Oregon and Washington Idaho and so on you're gonna have Plenty of rainwater to live off of it and you can collect it for free and it's also super super clean It's the cleanest water.
I've tested rainwater by the way in my science lab and it's very very clean And I know some people are concerned about chemtrails or pollution and It turns out that if there's pollution in the air, the first wave of the rain scrubs that right out of the air, and then the ongoing rain is very, very clean.
Much cleaner than what you can get out of a well or out of city water.
So if you want a sustainable water source, you've got to go out to the country.
Now, along those lines then, permaculture.
If you want to practice permaculture, which is, again, sustainable agriculture, far better than commercial agriculture or monoculture, then you need to be out in the country.
And if you're good at permaculture, then you know how to collect rainwater and use it.
You know, you build structures on your land, swells.
So that you are soaking in the water as it's falling rather than allowing the water to run off and be lost.
And by doing this you can absolutely transform your landscape into something that can produce food.
You can have food forests, you can have berries and shrubs, you can have orchards in fact, nut producing trees, fruit producing trees, and of course medicinal types of plants that you can harvest for medicine.
All of this because of the way that you reshape the land in order to capture water instead of losing it.
And this is one of the fundamentals of permaculture.
And you can't do that in a city because you can't reshape the concrete.
You know, they won't let you reshape the sidewalks and build humps in the sidewalks and roads.
The city doesn't like it when you do that.
But out in the country you can do that and you can live a very sustainable lifestyle.
Another great reason to live out in the country is when things go wrong in the cities, and they will, the cities are death traps because of the population density and the combination of lots and lots of people who are living on food stamps who will become completely desperate when they cannot access food and they don't have any survival skills other than robbing everybody else or stealing food or threatening people for food.
When you live out in the country, you have much lower population density and you have neighbors, you tend to, neighbors who are themselves very, very handy, very capable and usually self-reliant.
You ever notice that you don't find a lot of homeless people living in the country?
Why is that? - Because they like to go to the cities where they can get, you know, more handouts from people, more support, soup kitchens and so on in the cities.
People who live in the country tend to take care of themselves.
Otherwise you die from, you know, exposure in the winter, for example.
So country people are very self-reliant, usually.
And culturally speaking, it means that country people make good neighbors because they tend to help each other.
There's a mutual support network that is sort of a social contract out in the country.
Or if your neighbor needs something and you have it, like a piece of equipment or an attachment to your tractor or something, you let them borrow it.
And if you need something, well, you can borrow something from them.
Or if you need an extra hand, you know, a tree fell on your roof or something, they'll come over and help you remove that tree.
And you might help them one day.
This kind of social contract exists in the rural America culture.
And it's a culture of kindness and compassion.
And it's very interesting when you always hear city people who think they're so advanced and so sophisticated and so progressive.
And they'll always say horrible bad things about country people.
When in truth, the city people are the rudest, just the most nasty people by and large.
And the country people are the nicest people.
I mean, if you don't believe me, check it out.
Go to New York City.
See how rude those people are in New York City versus, you know, I don't know, rural Oklahoma.
They're nice folks in rural Oklahoma or, gosh, anywhere, Tennessee, North Carolina, rural Arizona, for that matter, rural Utah.
There's some real nice folks, rural Idaho, very nice folks all over this country who live out in the country because they're used to helping each other.
So that's another great reason.
Here's another reason.
Living in the country is not an easy lifestyle.
It is a lifestyle that demands you to have more physical activity.
It demands that you learn new skills, like how to build a fence that doesn't fall down when the goats keep rubbing up against it.
That's harder than you think.
You'll learn skills about how to take care of animals, how to raise chickens if you want, how to harvest chicken eggs, how to keep your chickens alive, how to treat chicken infections with colloidal silver, for example.
You'll learn skills and you'll be more physical.
You'll move bags of grain, for example.
You'll carry buckets of water.
These are not lowbrow menial tasks.
These are actually character building kinds of activities that also build your muscles and build your activity levels and they make you more robust, more resilient.
They make you a stronger person physically and mentally and in terms of self-discipline.
Living in the country is almost training For Jedis, you know what I mean?
It's kind of like it's a meditative training program for being a better person, for being more spiritually evolved, more aware and awake about the patterns in nature, and more physically capable, more active, more able to be, you know, a real, a powerful person in society.
You don't get that in a lazy, kind of easy, comfortable environment of a city where everything is delivered to you.
You know, one-hour Amazon.com delivery.
Now, prime delivery.
That's a little too easy.
It's easy to get lazy in that kind of a situation.
But if you live out in the country, no, you're not going to get lazy because, oh, look, what happened?
You know, a cow escaped.
We've got to deal with it.
We've got to mend the fence.
Oh, a tree fell down.
We've got to go clear that tree from the road.
Otherwise, we can't get out.
Oh, you know, a vehicle stuck in the mud.
We've got to grab the tractor, get some chains, and pull that vehicle out for the neighbor.
You know, oh, you know, animal got into a fight.
My dog's bleeding because of a raccoon.
You know, bit him across the nose.
We've got to treat the dog.
It is like survival training and adaptability training on steroids, and that's good for you.
It makes you a stronger person.
It gives you more courage.
It gives you more skills.
It gives you more know-how.
You will learn more living on a farm in one year than you ever learned in school, even if you have a PhD.
Trust me.
You will learn more living on a farm than you ever learned in your life.
And you will find it enjoyable and very, very rewarding.
At least, that's been my experience.
It's been very positive.
I love living in the country.
I love becoming a more knowledgeable and more skilled and more adaptable person.
Oh, I've got chickens over here talking to me right now, by the way.
Hey there, chicks.
How you doing?
I guess they like living in the country too.
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