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June 1, 2022 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Marjory Wildcraft shares her 'RED PILL' moment of shock when she realized the food supply would coll
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Welcome to the Health Ranger Report on Brighteon.TV. I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon, and today we're joined by one of my favorite guests, Marjorie Wildcraft.
She is the expert in teaching people how to grow food and how to live sustainably.
I've known Marjorie for many years, visited her farm when she lived in Texas.
She's an extraordinary individual with a wealth of knowledge, and she's here to share it with you so that you can make it through the insane times that are coming.
Her website, or at least one website where you can watch her webinar for free, is called icangrowfood.com.
Just like it sounds, icangrowfood.com.
And the truth is, yes, you can grow food, and you'd better grow food.
We're going to talk about that today with Marjorie Wildcraft.
Our topic is the urgency of the situation, the lateness of the hour.
And yet there's still time to learn how to grow food because it can be simpler than you might imagine.
And Marjorie is the expert in making it simple and effective.
We'll be back with Marjorie Wildcraft.
Stay with us.
All right, welcome back, folks, to the Health Ranger Report on Brighttown.tv.
I'm now joined by Marjorie Wildcraft.
Marjorie, great to have you here in person in the studio.
It's always a pleasure, Mike.
You know, we go back a long time, and you're absolutely right.
Your message has been great for people.
It's helped wake up so many people and so needed.
Well, I was going to say that about you and your messages.
You stole my words.
Okay.
I got to lay out some major kudos for you because you saw this coming way ahead of time and you did it.
I mean, you learned, you taught yourself how to grow food.
I mean, your background is actually in tech and finance, wasn't it?
The first degree is in electrical engineering and then, yeah, I actually was a student of Robert Kiyosaki long before he was famous and he inspired me and I created a whole real estate investment business that was hugely successful.
And then what happened was one day I was volunteering on a program right here in Red Rock, Texas, to get locally grown food from organic farmers into the elementary school, and the shocker was there were not enough local organic farmers.
Incredible.
And Bastrop County, Bastrop's, you know, Texas has some big counties, right?
And we're right next to Austin, which is supposed to be progressive.
Yeah.
And it just, it shook me to the core because I knew there's only, you know, you go into the H-E Beach, huge, right?
This thing is like acres of just food everywhere.
That would all disappear in less than four days.
Yeah, right.
Because the just-in-time system, but you were trying to just supply local fresh, you know, farm fresh produce to one school to...
And you couldn't even find enough farmers locally to do just that.
They were not in the entire county to provide enough vegetables for even one small rural elementary school.
And I was on this volunteer project, and I'll never...
When we realized that, I could not stop shaking.
In fact, I shook all my...
Like, physical, like, my body was completely, you know, the shock of it.
Because I realized what could happen.
You know, here we are in central Texas, and back then...
There's more people now.
Back then it was 20 million people I was surrounded by that would want 60 million meals a day.
And we depend on a just-in-time trucking system and I just had found out there's no plan B because there's no food growing out in the countryside.
Yeah, I just the horror of what could possibly happen.
I saw that the food scarcity red pill moment.
The red pill moment, which happened to me 20 years ago.
But here's the thing is that most people in society today have never come to that point, but they will.
They will.
And they will all of a sudden.
Yes.
Where you had time to spend years learning how to grow food and how to teach people how to grow food.
And you're right.
The first stuff I made was really complicated.
I'm really grateful we've had this long.
Honestly, I thought the 2008-2010 time period was it.
Fortunately, we've had at least another decade to really figure out how to teach people very, very quickly.
Even when they're in a grid-down situation or if they're older, they have no experience, maybe they're out of shape, how can you be producing a lot of really high-quality calories very, very quickly?
Right.
Right.
Also, using relatively low tech.
This is one of the other things I really appreciate about your approach because it's very easy.
You know, I do hydroponic bins, but they don't use pumps specifically because I don't trust pumps.
I don't trust electronics.
And I think you're the same way, but I see a lot of people who get into hydroponics and they over-tech the whole system.
Oh, I've got a pH monitor and an automatic pH monitor.
Adjuster dispenser and I've got a, you know, a temperature monitor and a water pump and flow rate control.
Like, oh, all that stuff's not going to work, probably.
Yeah, you know, I played with aquaponic.
We built several different aquaponic systems and it was fun.
And I think it really does appeal to modern people, especially younger males, because they're familiar with technology.
Yeah.
And they love it, you know, and they get their adrenos to monitor this and that and the other.
But you're right, it's a totally vulnerable environment.
And you have to constantly monitor it.
And it's not a robust system, whereas plants growing in the soil or animals grazing out in the yard, that's a robust system.
Depending on technology, it's a path, but I think it's a dangerous one.
We're talking about supply chain, like chips.
You can't buy a new car now because there aren't chips.
What do you think is going to happen with your aquaponics system when you need a replacement pump?
Exactly.
When the grid goes down, a lot of hydroponics, everything dies.
And in aquaponics, the fish die without the oxygen.
They die pretty quickly because they're kind of tightly packed.
The other thing I saw, it was about a year ago, I was looking at vertical grow towers just to kind of see what was out there.
And I saw this one kind of high-tech vertical tower.
And the big selling point was that it's got a camera pointed at the plants and you can look at the camera on your phone.
And I'm thinking, could you just walk over there and look at the plants?
I mean, do you really need a camera to look at your plants?
Yeah.
There's like a friend of mine who would like, I would go outside and look at the weather, and he would look at the weather on the screen.
He'd go, it looks like it's going to rain.
I'm like, yeah, I knew that.
Yeah, right.
I was just outside.
I was just outside.
I could see the clouds in the west.
Oh my goodness.
I know, right.
Well, we're such a high-tech...
Culture, and yeah.
But what we're headed into, you know, is a time when that stuff fails us, honestly.
Yeah, yeah.
Seriously, yeah.
Like our grid.
Oh, goodness.
Like how ancient is that thing, right?
Well, let's talk about that, actually, because I know you're well aware of this because you stay very well informed.
And by the way, what's the main website where people can get your...
The best place to go is to go to icangrowfood.com.
Sign up for the webinar there.
It's a free webinar.
We'll also send you a bunch of free stuff, like a really funny movie on how to compost things, including your enemies.
Not saying you're going to do that, but just in case.
And then also another free e-book on 50 free fertilizers, how to make your own fertilizers, and then also how to make a free chicken feed.
Because when the grocery store is closed, you're not going to be able to go to the feed store.
Right.
That's going to close, too.
Yeah.
So one of the things that you give away is the book, 50 Ways to Make Free Fertilizer.
This is suddenly very important, again, in our society because, well, people who have been following your work or my work, they already know the trains are forcing cutbacks on fertilizer deliveries.
Companies like CF Industries that provide the majority of fertilizer for North America They are cutting back production.
We have a shortage of natural gas.
We have all the potash and the nitrogen-based fertilizers out of Russia.
Not happening.
Right?
Not happening.
That's like a third of the world's fertilizer supply is not happening.
No big deal.
Just one third of the world.
Yeah.
So fertilizer is drastically in short supply.
I heard that Brazil now they're planting, they're still planting the same number of acres, but they're using 25% less nitrogen fertilizer.
So they're going to have, you know, 25% lower yields and on and on.
So talk to us about fertilizer.
Yeah, so fertilizer is hugely important.
And the cool news, though, is that in your own backyard system, you can produce all you need.
Actually, we'll go there, Mike.
Let's go there.
Your own urine has about 18% nitrogen in it, and it's highly plant-available nitrogen.
And you can dilute that 10 to 1 with water and then apply it to the soil, to the roots.
You don't necessarily want to put it on the plant.
Uh-huh.
And I saw a study a while ago that basically the food plants that you need, you produce enough nitrogen just from your own urine.
So there's tons and tons of really crazy, innovative, simple ways to get free fertilizer that have been done forever.
Like when I was here in Texas, I just had a five-gallon bucket at the back door of the house and just pee in that, cover the lid, and collect enough of it.
And then Mix it in and dilute it and water it.
A very simple system.
Didn't require, you know, a whole governmental just-in-time supply chain.
Didn't require fossil fuels or anything.
So there's a tremendous amount that you can do.
And we need to do it, quite honestly, because if you think about it, what it's doing is the minerals.
All of life is just recycling minerals.
And what we're doing is in our backyard, just making that cycle in our backyard instead of having it go get some of them from Russia and bring them here.
Right, right.
And then also adding some animals to your system magnifies.
Yeah.
And I really appreciate the vegans and the vegetarians because I get what they're trying to do.
They're trying to make a difference.
But honestly, animals are way better ways to create fertility in your backyard system.
They're also the most efficient calorie production.
Yeah, and just for the record, you don't have to eat your animals in order to benefit from animal poo.
You don't have to.
In fact, I do know a lot of vegetarians that do keep rabbits just for it.
But honestly...
So, you know, one of the things, if you go to the webinar, it's a free webinar at icangrowfood.com, and there I've condensed like 20 years of thinking about what is the fastest way to grow a lot of food.
And I'll give you a couple of quick sound bites.
In a garden, saying you've got like one growing season, you can produce about 30,000 to 60,000 calories depending on what you're planting and the density.
And that would be like a 100-square-foot garden.
Wow, that's small.
That's a small space.
I really recommend everybody go small.
Honestly, you can grow all the produce you need in just 100 square feet.
Wow.
That goes against my very nature.
I'm not sure I can do anything small.
I know.
That's the thing.
The megalomaniacal aspects.
You know, like me too.
Lots of food.
The biggest mistake I made was we had acres, right?
And I planted a whole acre and then I had an acre of weeds and frustration.
I'm like, start small, right?
Right.
But I just want to go through some numbers for why animal products are so much better.
So a 100-square-foot garden is going to take about 200 square feet because, you know, you've got to have paths and access.
Right.
Take that same 200 square feet, and you can have a chicken coop, a chicken coop and run, and have six laying hens, and you'll produce about 1,500 eggs a year, and that's going to be about 94,000 calories every year, which is also, you know, we don't really worry about those numbers that much.
I mean, that's not you and I thinking.
Here I'll translate it into something that you can think about.
1,500 eggs is three egg omelets for breakfast every morning with 33 dozen eggs to share, trade, give away, barter.
So basically, with six laying hens in your backyard, you can have breakfast every morning.
Well, but in my farm, first, the rat snake has breakfast every morning.
Yeah, there is that.
He comes in and gets a couple of eggs.
The rat snakes are edible, too, by the way.
I have caught, this year, I've caught four of them, and two of them are very large, because they've been feeding on all my eggs, right?
And I let them go because I'm not currently killing the snakes.
But there's a lot of meat on that snake.
There is a lot of meat on that snake.
But let me go into the third component.
Yes.
And that would be a small rabbitry.
And again, we're talking about only like a 200 square foot footprint.
So we're talking about basically three component system that would fit in three parking spots.
Wow.
And a home rabbitry with one buck and three breeding does, and you'll get about 75 to 85 rabbits a year.
And a rabbit is equivalent to a chicken.
And the calories of that would be about 230,000 calories.
So that's, you know, think about 230,000 calories.
Think about having a rabbit, like a rabbit and a half every week, which also is the protein requirements for a family of four, out of a 200 square foot space versus a garden.
Which you're only going to get 30,000 to 50,000 calories in a 200-square-foot space.
I mean, the efficiency of animals is so much higher and they're actually so much easier to work with and produce than vegetables.
So you've got to have diversity, right?
You've got to have diversity.
You've got to have everything.
But animals are such a much better survival food than plants.
Yeah, I hear you.
I've been thinking about your rabbit hutch idea.
I know, you don't want to kill the bunny.
I don't want to kill the rabbits, but my other question though is, do the rabbits, do you let them out?
Do they run around anywhere?
I do like having rabbit tractors where I let them out and run around in a tractor and then you drag that tractor around and then it's like an automatic weed feed.
They're going to eat the grass and then they're going to poop in the grass.
And a lot of times what I like to do is have the buck You keep the buck and the breeding ones separate.
And then the doe, after she's kindled, which is a fancy name for having a litter of baby rabbits, you know, when the babies are maybe four to six weeks old and they're kind of hopping around and they're weaning, you would put her and those babies in one of these rabbit tractors, which would be maybe like...
I've experimented with sizes and I found a three-foot by six-foot one is really...
It can be made really lightweight so that a woman or a child could pull this easily.
Is it on skids?
You just pull it and drag it?
Yes, or just build the thing and drag it around the ground.
I have some 2x4 fencing lining the bottom so that the grass can come through but the rabbits can't dig out.
Okay.
And they'll start eating that grass, and then they get out and they enjoy it, and they get some time out.
And then when you need to wean the babies, you'll put the mama back in to her breeding cage and finish the babies out on grass.
And really, you could push it.
In eight weeks, they would be ready to harvest.
I tend to procrastinate on butchering.
I don't know why.
No, I do know why.
I don't like it.
But...
So I often let mine go a little bit bigger.
Also, because the bigger they get, the more fat they have on them.
And fat is a very difficult element to grow in a backyard system.
True.
People think about their gardens.
Do you know any vegetables that have fat?
Unless you're going to harvest flax seeds or something.
Yeah.
And I visited Cuba to interview the survivors of the economic collapse they had.
Boy, what a terrible time.
You know, their economy just overnight, 60% dropped.
Lights went out.
The water went out.
The average Cuban lost 20 pounds.
It was just horrible.
And it happened really fast.
And I talked to the survivors there and they were talking about how without fat in your diet, people's skin was just this dry, flaky, all turned white and they looked horrible and they felt terrible and itched.
If you don't have fat, all of your nerves for your brain and all of your nervous system requires fat for the cell linings and for the nerve linings.
And so you just don't function well.
And fat is such a super important component in a diet.
So letting those rabbits get a little fat and getting that fat.
That and the egg yolks also.
Our egg yolks are about 40.
40 or 60% fat?
Yeah.
Super vital nutrient, which you can't get that.
It's a multivitamin from nature.
You can't get that from fruits and vegetables, right?
Right, right.
I just wonder if my dogs, see my dogs stay up all night looking for rabbits.
Oh yeah.
And every once in a while they'll catch one and eat it.
You know, they're going for it.
Sometimes they'll catch baby rabbits that I have around and then I have to rescue the baby rabbits from the dogs, which I've done before too.
Yeah.
My dogs would, like if they got out, the baby rabbits would get out.
And they weren't eating the rabbit.
They were picking it up in their mouths to bring it to me to show me that the rabbit got out.
But the poor little rabbits were so traumatized, they would usually just die from shock.
Can you imagine getting picked up by a dog and moved?
No, I know.
I found baby rabbits that weren't really hurt.
My dogs were just kind of licking them or something.
But it's too much for a rabbit.
They're like, no.
I mean, if something that gigantic picked me up, I think I would probably die of a heart attack, too.
Or if a giant dog licked me.
Oh, my God.
Let's not go there.
No kidding.
Let's talk about chickens, though, for a second.
So I've got backyard chickens, and then chickens produce chicken poop.
And I know a lot of people who use that in the soils as well.
It's maybe not as clean as the pellets from rabbits.
Yeah, let's talk about poop for a minute here.
Yeah, let's do that.
So the difference is the diet.
So chickens are omnivores, and their most natural diet that they love are going to be insects and greens, right?
Now, we feed them grains because it's sheep, and we can get it, and it's available.
But a chicken, they're originally jungle fowl from Southeast Asia, and their preference is insects and greens.
And little...
Salamanders and things.
Oh, yeah.
They love those.
Yeah, they'll eat baby mice.
I mean, they are pretty, they're omnivores.
They are, yeah.
The difference between the poop of an omnivore and an herbivore, because rabbits are pure herbivores, is that the chicken manure is very, very hot.
And so you really are going to want that to compost down a little bit.
Whereas the rabbit manure, they're just little pellets, kind of cute little ones.
Yeah, it's like pre-pollets.
You can just toss that right out into the garden right away.
You don't have to do anything to it.
It's a cooler manure that you can use right away.
And in my setups, I often have the rabbitry right next to the garden.
I mean, even in the garden.
So that way the pellets that fall down, I can just use a pitchfork and not, you know, you want to conserve energy as much as possible.
And if all I have it right there, I can just...
I don't even have to wheelbarrow it.
Set up your systems to be thinking a lot also about ergonomics.
I know you have a sense of humor, so it's okay if I say this.
Anybody who says that Marjorie Wildcraft is shoveling shit, actually, it has happened.
Oh, it's true!
I know people are like, oh my god, you're famous, you wrote this book, and you have millions of followers and whatever, and I'm like, yeah, and I still clean out the chicken coop.
It keeps me on board.
Right there with you, I'm raking out that chicken cage, well, chicken house.
But now let's talk about people who can't have animals.
There's a lot of folks who still live in suburbs and they have HOAs.
Now, those rules may change very quickly, by the way.
We saw that happen actually right here in Austin.
I mean, 20 years ago, if you had chickens in your backyard, you were like ruining all the property values for the whole neighborhood and you were considered bubba.
And now, the city of Austin Wow.
Wow.
And they did a financial study, and they found out that it made sense for all of the people in Austin to have chickens in their backyards.
Wow.
I know, right?
I'm shocked.
Yeah.
They finally realized something.
But I don't think you're going to need to worry about HOA rules very soon here.
Also, usually they don't ever cover rabbits because people don't think about rabbits.
Oh, that's a good point.
Another advantage for the rabbits.
Yeah.
And don't get a rooster.
Right, right, right.
Don't get a rooster.
Don't get four of them for sure.
Right, right, yeah.
Rabbits are pretty quiet.
They are very quiet, yeah.
You know, the other thing you can do is like if you really are worried about and you're a rule abider, which I think is going to be very detrimental for your health and life going forward because rules are about to all change massively.
But quail or ducks or, you know, there's lots of other poultry that produce eggs that are not necessarily written up in HOA agreements.
So, you know.
True.
So how quickly do you think this food crisis is going to hit us?
Very soon, you know, the CEO of the Rockefeller Foundation.
And the Rockefeller Foundation is a big part of the WEF, the World Economic Forum, in the United Nations, and part of the whole group that is actually orchestrating all the events we're going through.
And the CEO has made a very public headline just recently saying that within six months, all hell will break loose.
And that is literally the headline, and it's going to be because of food shortages.
And we are, right now, we're living on the inventory and the pipeline from stuff that was grown or planted or harvested last year.
And as soon as that runs out, you know, we started this with fertilizer.
Fertilizer is not the only problem.
There's a lot of farmers that are like, look, it just doesn't make any financial sense for me to even plant this year.
Right, it doesn't.
So they're not going to do it.
And then, you know, the Ukraine, which is the breadbasket for Europe, They're in the middle of a war.
They're not planting.
At the same time, we just covered this story that in Australia, the avocados are being thrown into landfill by the thousands because the avocado trade group of Australia said it's not worth packaging them and taking them to the market.
We have to support the farmers by destroying the avocados so that avocado prices stay higher.
And I'm thinking, how insane are these people?
Yeah, yeah.
But then again, the Australian leaders were the ones forcing vaccines on everybody, too, kind of like New Zealand.
Australia definitely reverted to a prison colony there, didn't they?
They have, but who comes to the conclusion that destroying food is the way to support farmers?
How does that...
Yeah.
I don't know.
Yeah.
And then, you know, I know you've talked to Christian Westbrook, Ice Age Farmer, and he's been very great about documenting.
It looks like a whole bunch of little isolated events that when you add it all up, there's like this massive destruction of food supply and food supply capacity.
Oh, yeah.
And one of the latest things, I know you covered this, was that they're just massacring vast flocks of chickens.
They are.
Because of like one faulty PCR test.
Yeah.
Oh, we got a positive, they'll say.
We got a positive.
Yeah, just crazy.
So we don't have much time left, but people can learn how to grow food.
I'll give up your website again, icangrowfood.com.
What do you learn there?
Yeah, well, you'll learn that three-component system to be able to produce at least half of your own food in a grid-down situation, assuming that you have no experience, you're older and you're out of shape, right?
And then that system is something that you can readily expand very quickly.
We'll also go into other things.
You'll come away with a very quick plan.
You'll come away with a definite idea of what to start, regardless of where you are on the planet and what season it is.
All right.
Well, thank you.
That's Marjorie Wildcraft, everybody.
Icangrowfood.com.
And thank you for watching and listening today on Brighton.tv.
I'm Mike Adams.
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