5 reasons why you’re totally crazy if you aren’t growing your own food
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Welcome to five reasons why you're totally crazy if you aren't growing at least some of your own food.
My name is Mike Adams, the health ranger.
I'm the developer of foodrising.org and the editor of naturalnews.com.
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Now, why are you crazy if you're not growing your own food?
Well, let's start with, number one, food prices are going crazy because of food inflation.
And as a result, growing your own food is now economically more reasonable than ever before.
In fact, if you look at what you're paying at the grocery store, it's probably the highest prices you've ever paid in your lifetime for food.
Ground beef, for example, is at an all-time high.
Milk is expensive.
And have you looked at organic fresh produce lately where an organic red pepper might cost you as much as three or four dollars just for one pepper?
You know, you can grow those for like 10 cents each with very little effort, almost no cost.
Yeah, suddenly the economics make a lot of sense.
Whereas, let's say 15 years ago, food was a lot more affordable.
And it was difficult to grow.
They didn't have the same technologies and so on.
So yeah, it might have made more sense to get all your fresh produce at the grocery store at that time.
But now, just from an economic perspective, you will save money by growing your own food.
Have you priced a basket of organic strawberries lately or organic tomatoes?
When you grow your own food, You are growing actually better than organic produce, so you're getting higher quality food at a lower cost, significantly lower, than what you're paying in the grocery store.
For example, Heads of organic romaine lettuce might cost you anywhere from $2, $3, maybe $4 each.
It varies, right?
But you can grow those for under 10 cents each using the non-electric, non-circulating hydroponic system, which is relatively easy to build or easy to acquire, that you can find at foodrising.org.
So if you're feeding a family...
You could literally save hundreds of dollars a month on food by growing a significant portion of what you would normally buy at the grocery store.
Now, yeah, granted that's going to take some space, that's going to take some time and some effort, but because of these breakthroughs in non-circulating hydroponics, it is now easier than it has ever been to produce food on your own.
You don't have to break your back and do a bunch of hoeing and raking in the soil.
You don't have to do any weeding whatsoever.
There's no soil even involved.
You don't have to have complex pumps and complex electrical systems and complex grow lights.
If you've got sunlight, that's good enough.
You don't even need any electricity for these systems.
And they self-water, so you don't have to check them every day and water them.
I've had systems growing where I would just ignore them for two weeks at a time.
I would come back later and, hey, there's a lot of lettuce ready for me to harvest and make a delicious salad or add to a sandwich or whatever I wanted to do.
These systems produce food when you are away and they don't fail.
Unlike aquaponics and hydroponics, in aquaponics you have to keep your fish alive.
And even though it's a great system when it's working, if you lose electricity, your fish will die of asphyxiation because they're lacking oxygen within minutes.
So you lose everything in just minutes.
But with non-circulating hydroponics, you walk away for days or even weeks sometimes.
You can neglect the plants and come back, and they still produce food for you reliably, even if the power grid fails.
And now food is only going to get more and more expensive because of the weather radicalization we're seeing across our planet.
Look at the droughts in California.
And actually, technically, the radical thing in California is the idea of thinking that California isn't a desert in the first place.
It's radical to be pumping millions of gallons of water a day over a mountain range and into the city of Los Angeles.
It's radical to have golf courses and swimming pools if you're living in the desert.
That's what's radical.
So it's a stupid idea to try to turn a desert into a farmland by pumping groundwater out of the aquifers and destroying your agricultural future.
And that's what's happening in California.
It's just sheer, utter stupidity.
But, as a result, the crops that were once cheap, because California produces about one-third of all the fresh produce in America, well, those prices are skyrocketing.
And it's only going to get worse.
You think about the fresh produce items that you buy at the grocery store, strawberries, peppers, zucchini, tomatoes, cucumbers, whatever.
Most of that stuff is produced in California.
At least a significant portion of it is.
And the water system is catastrophically failing.
And the water is dropping in Lake Mead as well, which feeds some of Southern California.
And the whole system is collapsing.
So it means that Food is going to become more and more expensive, by far.
Sooner or later, you're going to have to figure out how to grow some of your own food, or you'll go bankrupt buying it at the grocery store, or, even worse, you'll have to end up just purchasing garbage, genetically modified, chemically altered, pasteurized junk food, processed food, you know, cheap calories at the grocery store, basically corn.
You're going to end up living on genetically modified corn, like cows do, And that's not a way to live, at least not healthy.
So if you want to be able to even afford food in the future, You need to find ways to start growing some of your own food, and now it's easier than you think.
Let's get to the second reason.
Reason number two is because, well, we sort of touched on this, that the end of cheap water is making food more scarce and more difficult to produce.
And this is especially happening in California, but also in places like Texas and Oklahoma.
The Ogallala water aquifer underneath the breadbasket of America is also disappearing.
We have a short-term thinking agricultural system in America today and actually everywhere around the world because this problem also exists in India and China and other countries.
But we are pumping away our water future in America.
The land is literally sinking underneath our feet in many areas as the aquifers are pumped dry and the land begins to collapse underneath us.
And what's the plan for this, really?
When the water runs out, what's the plan?
Well, there is no plan.
It's just going to revert back to Dust Bowl status.
So all these areas that were producing food that gave you cheap groceries at the grocery store, well, they're going to be producing dust, basically.
And no one is really planning ahead on this, not on any reasonable basis.
Everybody's just doing the same thing with this that they do with the national debt, which is to say, ah, it's somebody else's problem down the road.
Kick that can a little farther down the road and let somebody else deal with it.
That is the philosophy of modern day agriculture, which will end in absolute catastrophe and probably mass food shortages and potentially even mass starvation.
So if you don't want to be part of that, if you'd like to insulate yourself against that, learn to grow some of your own food.
You don't need soil, but you obviously need to live in an area that has something resembling rainfall.
So this is not going to be a good plan in Phoenix, Arizona, for example, or even Los Angeles, for that matter.
You need to live somewhere that you can at least collect enough rainwater to put water into your water-efficient food grow systems, these non-circulating hydroponic systems that you can find at foodrising.org.
We also sell them pre-made if you want at suppliesource.com.
But these use only about 5% of the water of conventional soil agriculture.
So you don't need as much water as you would imagine to grow highly nutritious and cost-effective foods.
And as water is becoming more scarce everywhere, it's a good idea to look into water collection systems anyway.
And then tie those together with efficient food production systems.
Now you have food and water.
You're ahead of the game.
You're ahead of 99.99% of everybody else.
You are now in the.01% of the most prepared people on the planet.
Alright, let's move on to reason number three why you're totally crazy if you aren't growing some of your own food.
And the reason is because the food you grow is far more nutritious and delicious and even medicinal than foods you purchase at the grocery store.
Even when we're talking about fresh produce.
You see, your eyes cannot detect the mineral composition, the phytonutrient composition of fresh produce.
You see a piece of lettuce...
And it looks kind of the same as any other piece of lettuce, but inside that lettuce, the nutritional composition may be wildly different.
And it turns out that most of the commercially produced food is nutritionally deficient because it's grown in soils that are really only treated with three basic minerals, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium.
In PK, you might hear in fertilizers.
These are the three minerals that are put back into soils to grow plants.
But what they're missing is all the trace minerals.
They're missing the molybdenum and even magnesium, by the way.
They're missing all the things, the zinc and the selenium and trace copper, sometimes even magnesium.
They're missing the things that make plants more healthful to consume.
And so when you grow your own plants at home using the proper plant nutrient formulas, which are hydroponic formulas that grow really healthy plants, then you're actually producing medicine in the form of food.
And this is the way it was intended.
You know, you're getting better than organic produce.
And you know what has been sprayed on it or what has not been sprayed on it because you're the one growing it.
Even though it takes very little effort, as we already discussed.
But you can produce better than organic food, and you don't need organic certification to do this yourself, obviously, that is also, by the way, more alive.
And there's not really a lot of focus on this out there, but living foods have more bioenergy.
They're more vibrant.
They have more enzymes intact.
Their phytonutrients are more intact.
The minute you cut a fruit or a vegetable and harvest it, it starts to lose its nutritional potency.
Every minute.
And by the time it gets to the grocery store where you buy it and take it home, it has lost some significant portion of the natural healing enzymes and the proteins and the anti-cancer nutrients that it originally contained when it was harvested.
And don't fall for these stupid grocery store tricks where they say, these are vine-ripened tomatoes.
And they sell you tomatoes that are still attached to a vine, but they cut the vine off the plant.
So then they say that the tomatoes were ripened on the vine, but not attached to the plant?
Give me a break.
Come on.
That's just idiocy.
A vine-ripened tomato means the tomato is attached to the vine.
The vine is attached to the plant, which has its roots.
It's alive, right?
That's what they're trying to imply.
It's just trickery.
You want vine-ripened tomatoes?
Grow your own vine-ripened tomatoes and harvest them and consume them fresh and raw within minutes of harvesting them.
This is what I do now.
And people ask me, how do I stay so healthy?
How do I stay so active?
How do I produce so much creative output?
And really the answer is nutrition.
And I'm growing my own strawberries and tomatoes now.
It's warmed up enough to do that.
And lots and lots of lettuce and various herbs.
And I love to make a salad by going out first to...
The plant grow area, I have a little greenhouse, and I go out and I harvest the lettuce, and then I eat that lettuce within 10 minutes, let's say.
Versus the, I don't know, 30, 40, 72 hours that the lettuce might sit in a grocery store, especially if it's being transported from Mexico or South America or somewhere like that.
And by the time you buy it, it is easily 72 hours old.
So, would you rather eat lettuce that's 10 minutes old or 100 hours old by the time you actually consume it in a salad?
There is a huge nutritional difference.
You are eating, if you're buying food at the grocery store, you are eating shadow food.
It's not all there.
It's just the shadow of what it used to be when it was originally harvested.
And it's no fault of the grocery stores.
They obviously provide a valuable service, but they can't reverse the aging clock on plants.
They don't have time travel machines, right?
The plant gets old the minute you harvest it.
So growing your own fresh produce is the only way to solve this issue and actually give yourself the most nutritious food available anywhere on the planet.
You will eat better than kings.
You will eat better than the wealthiest, global elitist person on the planet because you are growing your own food, harvesting it, and consuming it within minutes.
And that, that is what nature intended.
That is food as medicine.
Alright, the fourth reason why it makes total sense to grow some of your own food is because you will be practicing food self-reliance.
Right now, if you're buying food at a grocery store, then you're depending on that grocery store and you're depending on every system that that grocery store depends on, which basically means just-in-time delivery, long supply lines, transcontinental transportation in some cases, trucking from South America.
What does trucking depend on?
Trucking depends on the highways being usable.
It depends on the supply of rubber to be able to make tires.
It depends on the It depends on many things.
Supply lines are long and complex.
And when they work, they're great.
You walk into the grocery store, it's like magic.
It's like a cornucopia of fresh food everywhere, almost spilling off the shelves the way they stack it up there to make it look so plentiful.
But you know what?
In the back room, they don't have any excess supply.
It doesn't exist anymore.
There's no buffer.
And if the trucks shut down for whatever reason, a natural disaster, a storm, an act of war, power grid failure, financial collapse that pauses financial transactions because of bank holidays, whatever the case may be, suddenly the food disappears from the store shelves and you walk into that store and it's empty.
What are you going to do then?
Well, if you grow some of your own food, obviously you've got food self-reliance, at least some portion of it, and that could be a backup plan, an insurance policy.
Consider it food insurance.
You'd be able to at least partially feed yourself, and especially if you combine that with some food storage, then you'd be able to fully feed yourself and your family, and maybe even some friends and neighbors and other relatives as well.
You'd be able to help a lot of people.
Exercise compassion.
Save some lives.
And save yourself at the same time.
That's a good thing.
The truth is, if you aren't practicing food self-reliance now, you're not going to have it when you need it.
you're going to be, unfortunately, stuck in a government line, like everybody else, begging for food from FEMA.
And even if they do hand you some kind of food, guess what it's going to be?
It's going to be government-purchased toxic food, genetically modified, chemically altered, contaminated food that was purchased on a government contract to some favored corporation that has friends in the White House so that they could sell their food to FEMA.
It's going to be garbage food.
In other words, it's not going to be the food that you really want to nourish you and keep you alive.
So if you really want the kind of food that you can live on, you can prosper on, well, you need to grow it yourself.
Alright, and the last reason why you're totally crazy if you aren't growing some of your own food is because when you grow your own food, it's harder for other people or institutions or governments to control you.
In other words, growing your own food is a sacred expression of personal freedom and liberty.
It's also an act of resistance, if you think about it.
Growing your own food makes you more self-reliant, less dependent on a system that can be easily manipulated and controlled.
A system that has historically been manipulated and controlled for political purposes to control large numbers of people.
In the history of warfare and geopolitical conflict, you have consistently and repeatedly seen food used as a weapon.
In almost every siege in history, even the Alamo or a siege of a European castle back in the 1200s, whatever.
You had food restrictions that were used as a weapon to try to motivate the inhabitants of the castle or the fort or whatever the case may be.
to surrender And in some wars in the past, reportedly, the invading force would salt the soil outside the castle, thereby denying the inhabitants of the region the ability to grow food for several seasons until the salt was washed away by the rain.
So the salting of the earth was an anti-food weapon that was used as a form of political military control over people.
Well, today, food as a weapon is actually much easier for governments to deploy against the people.
All they have to do in many cases now is, for example, stop putting money on the food stamp cards, the so-called EBT cards.
In the United States, there are almost 50 million people now on government food stamp cards.
Yes, it's enormous.
The highest ever in history.
And the government controls money going onto those cards that are used by people to buy food in most cases, but also in some cases, of course, street drugs or whatever else they trade them for.
It's become a barter item in the underground marketplace.
So if the government stops putting money on these cards, either intentionally or inadvertently, because it can't, because the debt has collapsed, for example, the banks are on holiday, we have a cascading global economic financial crisis of some kind that disrupts the food stamp cards, then all of a sudden you've got 50 million people who have no way to get the food that they've come to rely on, and you're going to have social chaos.
Governments can control food distribution and deliveries.
There's really a fantastic description of this in the book 299 Days by Glenn Tate, where he talks about a slow collapse scenario in which the socialist government prioritizes food deliveries to the cities where their people live and restricts where he talks about a slow collapse scenario in which the socialist government prioritizes food deliveries to
To sort of punish country people, so to speak, for having a different political view of the elite socialists who are running the country.
And so the rural dwellers are left to rely on their own food sources, which fortunately most of them have.
Many people have home gardens.
Many people have backyard chickens.
Many people are now exploring these grow boxes and learning how to grow their own food, which will make them, of course, more self-reliant and more free.
And so that's why I've said growing your own food is the greatest act of both love and defiance at the same time.
And it may sound unusual for those two things to go together, but it's love for your health, your body, love for Mother Nature, love for the miracles of the seed, love for all of creation and all that we've been blessed with, the abundance, the sunlight that makes growing food possible, the incredible innovation of nature in just having a seed become a plant and produce its own seeds for the next generation.
So that's the love side of it.
And when you love to grow your own food, it turns out that you love yourself more.
You become a person of stronger integrity, a person who is more spiritually advanced, more in tune with nature and yourself, and a higher power even.
And then there's the defiance side of growing your own food, which you might call resistance as well.
It's a great act of defiance against a destructive Orwellian system of food control and the mass poisoning of the people through a toxic food supply.
So growing your own food, again, is the greatest act of love and defiance, both at the same time.
And by growing your own food, you are expressing both for all the right reasons.
If we are to have any hope as a civilization for the future, we must embrace the love of nature, the love of growing our own food, and also the self-love of feeding ourselves nutritious healing plants that nurture us, that nurture not just our bodies, but also our minds, so that we can learn better, so our children can learn better, we can be more creative, we can be more cognitively intact.
We can learn and we can pass on what we learn to the next generation and thereby advance civilization.
At the same time, we must stand in defiance of those systems of our world that are destroying our health, destroying our agricultural system, poisoning our soils with glyphosate and genetically modified organisms and pesticides and herbicides.
We must stand in defiance against the forces of destruction.
At the same time that we stand for the love of Mother Nature and self-care and food self-reliance.
You can do both of these simultaneously.
In fact, I would say that it requires both of these to happen at the same time.
If you are pursuing the correct outcome in all of this, which should be stronger individuals in society, more self-reliant, more healthful, more knowledgeable, redundant food production systems that are more local rather than centralized and corporate controlled and poisoned by the corporations, we become a stronger world, a stronger and even more diverse nation and a community and a family by growing our own food.
So those are the main reasons why I say you're crazy if you're not growing at least some of your own food.
Do what you can.
You don't have to do all this overnight.
In fact, that's impossible.
But learn a little bit every week.
Maybe every weekend spend some time working on your own food.
Maybe every season expand your home gardening, every spring let's say, to cover more and more production of foods that you no longer have to purchase at the grocery store.
Do this incrementally but steadily.
Be dedicated to it and you will find that it will reward you in ways that you can't even imagine right now.
Spread the word on this too so that others can benefit from all of this knowledge and also this inspiration.
Be an example for others around you.
Grow your own food so that you can show people how it's done.
Have friends and neighbors, family members, or your children or grandchildren come over and see what you're doing so that they can be awakened to this as a possibility.
Hey, you don't have to drive through McDonald's to get food.
You could actually grow it here yourself.
And guess what?
It's vastly superior food.
Show people the example and you will turn them on to this possibility.
Thank you for listening.
My name is Mike Adams, the Health Ranger.
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