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Sept. 30, 2021 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
12:28
CRITICAL SKILLS: How to grow a massive amount of food without electricity or soil
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I want to post this podcast separately about the Food Rising grow box system for producing food.
And by the way, you can make your own grow boxes.
I did a Situation Update podcast a couple days ago where I was talking about this, and I made reference to the Kratky paper.
That's K-R-A-T-K-Y, Kratky.
And his paper out of Hawaii...
Talked about the suspended net pot non-circulating hydroponic food production technology.
I think his paper was from about 2010 or so.
And the earlier, I think a lot of his sources came out of Taiwan, by the way, for this system.
The reason I'm mentioning all this now is because I had mentioned it in the situation update and I had told people, you know, check out my videos about all this on foodrising.org.
And then it turns out all those videos had been Banned by YouTube and Vimeo, and we had not yet reposted them.
So what we've done since then is we've reposted all those videos.
So now if you go to foodrising.org, you should be able to see the videos where I'm showing you those food grow systems.
But the reason this is critical for survival and prepping is because this is a, I call it a grid down grow system, really.
You can grow food without electricity.
There's no circulating pumps.
It's a hydroponic kind of system, but there's no circulating pumps and there's no air bubblers.
Literally nothing that you plug in unless you want to have artificial lights, in which case you're just plugging in your lights.
But if you've got sunlight or a greenhouse or something like that, then you don't even need lights, right?
Because you're just using the sun.
So this system for food production works when the power grid goes down.
And I was so impressed by this technology that it inspired me to develop what became the Food Rising Mini Farm Grow Box, which by the way is not for sale because we're out of stock.
And we're going to be out of stock probably through this entire pandemic because we have to For us to make those units, and by the way, you can make them yourself, okay?
So don't get distracted by this.
But for us to make them, we have a CNC machine that has to be run by an operator that drills out the holes in the lids in a very precise way so it looks neat, you know, it's very accurate and so on.
But you can just take a hole saw.
With a drill.
You can just drill out holes yourself in the lid of any kind of bin that you have, and that will work.
So that's really what I'm trying to get across to people right now is to say, hey, you don't need to buy a grow system.
You can just build one with a bin.
And a lid and a couple of net pots and some clay pellets.
And this system works.
It works.
It works.
I have grown so much food with this system over the last five or six years.
You'd be astonished.
At one point I was growing a lot of lettuce and I'm picking it back up again.
And I'm growing lettuce and kale.
I'm growing peppers.
Tomatoes, not just green peppers, but also you can grow like jalapeno peppers and red hot chili peppers and all kinds of stuff.
You can grow herbs like cilantro and basil, oregano, all kinds of things in this system.
And the good news is that when the power grid goes down and you lose electricity, this system doesn't kill all your plants.
Unlike typical hydroponic systems or aeroponic or NFT systems or deepwater cultivation or aquaponic systems, which use fish water, all those systems, when you suffer a power outage, you get total crop failure.
That's the drawback.
And if you don't have backup generators and alarms and all that stuff, on some of those systems, like aeroponic systems, you can lose all your crops in just a few hours.
Or in aquaponic systems, you can lose all your fish in a few hours if the oxygen bubbler stops in the fish tank.
They'll just die of asphyxiation.
So this deep water, non-circulating hydroponic system, that's the Kratky method, you could say, this system is impervious to a grid down situation.
It's also perfect for third world countries that don't even have electricity.
You can grow food without soil, without weeding.
You can grow it at waist height.
You can put these bins on the top of benches or tables or shelves or what have you, and you can grow loads and loads of food very easily without electricity.
All you need is nutrients.
And the nutrients are very simple.
You need calcium and magnesium and potassium and there are mixtures you can buy out there.
You can get calcium nitrate and I think magnesium sulfate and different forms of potassium or you can just buy standard hydroponic solutions that often come in an A bottle and a B bottle.
And you just mix them up according to those instructions.
And there's cheap ways to buy bulk minerals that are in a solid form, like powders or flakes.
And that's actually the most cost-effective way to do this, by the way.
And you mix those up.
You can have your own hydroponic nutrient solutions.
And if you think about it, when you're buying these nutrients, you are, in effect, sitting on food potential.
So you combine the nutrients with water and sunlight and seeds and you get food after, you know, 60 to 120 days, depending on what you're growing.
But stored fertilizer is food potential.
It's kind of like food in the bank, in my view.
So add this to the list of things that would be smart to store, things that are barterable, things that are worth a lot, assets, things that even things you could do as a side business.
During the collapse, you could grow food.
Turns out everybody needs to eat.
What do you know?
Everybody has demand for food, so it's universal.
And as the grocery store supply lines are collapsing, you're going to find lots of opportunities for being able to barter.
All you got to do is plan ahead, grow your crops, have water, have sunlight, have your food grow systems already built, you know, your bins, your non-circulating hydroponics.
Have your seeds, you're ready to go.
You can barter for anything with food.
You can trade your lettuce for bullets.
You can trade lettuce for, I don't know, bacon.
Wild boar bacon.
You can trade lettuce and greens.
And think about the herbs that you can trade, the medicinal herbs that you can grow.
The oregano, basil, cilantro, rosemary, thyme, all that stuff.
It all has medicinal value.
And herbalists will want that for medicine.
And then you can add alcohol to it and you can make a tincture.
You can make a medicinal extract.
This can be your whole side business just to get you through the collapse.
You can grow food and grow medicine and package medicine with alcohol into tinctures.
It's so many things that you can do with this.
All you got to do is plan ahead.
So the Kratky method is what I want to encourage you to use.
I'm setting up right now.
I'm building up some indoor shelving systems to hold a bunch more of these bins.
And I'm actually, in my case, I'm buying some grow lights because I want to do this in a controlled indoor environment.
So I don't have to deal with all the bugs.
Normally you grow this stuff outdoors, the bugs will attack it, and then you've got to deal with spraying it with neem oil and all kinds of natural insecticides and so on.
That's a pain.
So I'm going to grow this indoors year-round in a controlled environment.
I'm just going to consume electricity to do that.
So I'm out there buying these new, awesome, highly efficient grow lights that I think are mostly sold to the You know, the hemp and cannabis industries, fine with me.
I'll take advantage of their technology to grow food, right?
So grow lights that are highly efficient, nutrient solutions, bins, non-circulating hydroponic, Kratky method.
Learn this stuff, folks.
This is life-saving information.
When you're starving, you're going to really wish that you had this know-how, and it doesn't take much to get into it.
It's easier than driving a car.
If you can drive a car, you can learn this system.
And it's dirt cheap, too.
You know, I spent $1,000.
Actually, it was like $1,100 or $1,200 on a kind of a fancy grow tower system.
Actually, by the time I added the LED lights to it, it was more like $1,350.
And, you know, it's got typical hydroponic circulating pumps.
It's a grow tower, so it makes great use of space.
So it's good for, you know, a room where you don't have tons of space.
It has its place, but man, it's complicated.
It's way more complicated than it should be.
And there's too many moving parts.
You know, all the pipes have to connect correctly.
It has to drain correctly.
You got to check the water bucket at the bottom.
So you've got to get down really low and check that.
And you've got to run all the pipes into the bucket reservoir.
And you've got to make sure the pump's working.
You've got to have the pump timer.
And the timer's got to work.
And you've got to have the light timer and everything.
It's just way too complicated as far as I'm concerned.
I just want something simple.
So, you know, if you miss a day, everything doesn't die.
So, on the non-circulating hydroponic system that I'm talking about, the Kratky system, the food rising system, all you got to do is check it every day or two and add water.
Well, technically, add nutrient solution.
You're going to end up with about three inches of water in the bottom of your bin.
Just keep it at three inches.
Your root mass is going to be healthy.
It's going to reach all the way from the suspended net pots all the way down through the air to the water at the bottom.
You've got to have some roots suspended in air, some roots in your nutrient solution.
And that's it.
You just add water.
And, well, I'm sorry, nutrient solution, and you just watch your food grow, and then you just harvest and enjoy.
It's the simplest system in the world.
I don't know why everybody's not using this system.
I see all these videos on YouTube of hydroponic systems and NFT systems and ebb and flow systems and aeroponic systems.
It's like, man, what is this, an exercise and how to make things more complex than they need to be?
I want a food system that's just like...
Stone cold simple.
Like brain dead simple.
That's resilient.
That works when things fail.
Right?
And that's the Kratky system, folks.
So check it out.
Check out my website, foodrising.org.
Don't try to buy the system from us because we don't have any.
For the reasons I already mentioned.
But you can make your own.
And that's what I'm encouraging you to do.
Make your own system.
And then stock up on seeds and nutrients.
And...
Just practice this.
Get the skills.
Start growing your food.
With the food prices, where they're going, this is going to save you a fortune anyway.
Just financially speaking, going to save you a fortune.
So I'll try to bring you some more videos when my system is up and really abundant, okay?
But until then, just do your own research and learn this system.
It's going to save your life, I'm telling you.
This is the tech.
Well, the low tech for getting this done.
All right, thank you for listening.
Mike Adams here at the Health Ranger, naturalnews.com.
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