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June 23, 2022 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Marjory Wildcraft and Mike Adams cover how to GROW FOOD when your survival depends on it
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Welcome to the Health Ranger Report on Brighton.tv.
And today we're going to be talking with an expert in growing food.
You know her Marjorie Wildcraft and she has got some amazing stories now about how people who were skeptical of the need to learn how to grow food are suddenly waking up in the midst of food scarcity and food inflation.
That means your investment in learning how to grow food and just putting in the time and the resources, suddenly it pays off better than an investment in the stock market, you know, compared to grocery food prices.
So we're going to talk to Marjorie Wildcraft about all that and also get into How much worse the food scarcity is going to get and also the food inflation.
Where is all of this going and what does it mean for, well, the whole world?
Are people going to be rioting in the streets by the end of the year?
I think so, but we'll ask Marjorie Wildcraft when we return right here on the Health Ranger Report.
Stay with us.
We'll be right back.
All right, welcome back, folks.
Now we're joined by Marjorie Wildcraft with ICanGrowFood.com, an expert, of course, as you know, in food production.
And Marjorie, I want to thank you for the free webinar that you put out there at that website.
I've already had a massive response from people that love your information and how you express the joy of learning how to grow food also in a small amount of space when it really counts.
So thank you for all that you do, Marjorie.
Yeah, thank you.
And, you know, just making it a little bite-sized chunks that are totally doable.
Mike, People, as you know, I've been looking into this, researching and teaching people for almost, I don't know, almost 20 years now, this like, you know, how do you grow food?
When you're in a grid-down situation, you have no experience, maybe you're older, you're out of shape, you don't know anything, but you're seeing the prices going, like the situation we're in right now, right?
Or where we're definitely going to be in six months, you know, where food isn't even available, right?
And so I've been preparing and throughout, and I have built the Grow Network, right, which is actually an incredibly substantial business for the niche business that I'm in.
We are actually one of the largest organizations on earth that does this.
And it's been a combination of a purpose and mission driven, fueled by profit of sales of videos and things like that.
So most of my business life, people are like, oh, that's such a great idea.
And, oh, there's Marjorie.
She's got a nice gardening blog.
I mean, it's always been kind of like that.
Or, oh, that would be fun to do when I retire, you know.
And, you know, I've been putting up with this for years.
They have no idea the amount of business acumen, the training, the structure, the organization, you know, all the things, the product development, the research, everything that goes into building the business that I've built.
And then also, you know, we're not just about a little gardening thing.
We're like about feeding yourself when it really counts, right?
When you're really hungry and you can't buy anything.
And so for most of my...
Really, honestly, to say I've been belittled is accurate, right?
But just in the last two weeks, that has completely changed.
I'm here at a...
Actually, one example.
I'm at a meditation workshop, which, by the way, for what we're about to go into, I highly recommend for everybody...
Start meditating, get back to whatever spiritual connection you have, you know, really start to get connected with your heart and your purpose.
And I live what I talk, and so I'm here, I'm at this meditation workshop, and this woman, and it's a big one, it's like 1,500 people here, this woman comes running up to me and grabs me by the arm and spins me around in the hallway, and she goes...
I know you.
She said, I met you six months ago.
And I said, yeah, yeah, okay.
And she says, I need to know how to grow food.
And you're the woman who teaches people how to grow food.
And I said, absolutely, I can teach you how to grow food.
Just, you know, chill out, you know.
She goes, you may not remember me, she said, but six months ago, we met in a hallway like this and we were chatting about what we did.
And you were saying that you teach people how to grow food.
And I was kind of like, eh, you know, whatever.
She goes, I know that I need to learn how to grow food right now.
And I'm like, yes, you do need to learn how to grow food.
It just clicked with her.
What was the trigger point for her?
She didn't.
And at this point, she was so freaked out.
I'm like, I'm just like, here, go to www.icandgrowfood.com.
And then also in there, I'll have ways you can reach me personally.
You know, like, we will take care of you.
I got into this from being panicked and freaked out.
So I know what you're in.
And I'm going to tell you this is the solution.
But then on the airplane here, so I'm sitting next to this guy, pretty wealthy businessman, a little bit older, the kind of guy who would never think about growing food.
And I'm chatting with him, and I'm explaining to him the stuff that I explained in that webinar of gardens, chickens, rabbits, and all that.
He's like, I could totally do that.
He says, and actually, I really want to do it.
I think I need to do that.
I'm getting responses from people that completely dismissed me before or would have, you know, that they're like, it's palpable.
I could go through dozens more stories like this, but it is palpable that people are waking up.
And in fact...
I don't know when I was on the show with you last, but I've been telling my community for the last year that in the spring or summer of 2022, the official inflation is going to hit about 8.5%.
And that is the threshold.
And we know the official inflation is complete BS, right?
We know that.
But that's just, you know, those are the numbers everybody gets printed.
So it's one we can benchmark.
That that is when it would start to become Super apparent to everybody, and that would begin when, you know, those inflation curves you see for, like, Weimar Germany, it's like do-do-do-do-do, and then you hit this knee, and then it just skyrockets.
At that 8.5% mark, which we are just, we've just crossed, is where it now starts to get.
To where you can't, you know, people start going, oh my god, this is real.
It's not transitory.
It's not going away.
You know, when they realize that all the information from the media has absolutely been incorrect, and they're seeing it.
They're like, I'm going to buy food now.
So there's this rush on food and food supplies.
I saw this big freakout video from a woman.
It's been circulating the last few days.
She was dropping a lot of F-bombs, so we're not going to play it here.
But she had just filled up her car with gas, and she spent $98 at Costco, and she's raving about she's going to have to choose between fuel and food.
And apparently, she's only just now figured this out, which is kind of alarming.
Well, you and I understand what's going on.
I was just talking to a group the other day, and they're like, how do you know what's going to happen?
I'm like, look...
They publish it.
You can figure this out.
It's not that hard.
Right.
Another story.
So I was up in Dallas recently, had dinner with a really good friend.
He's very, very, very wealthy businessman, very connected.
Of course, living in Dallas, you're going to be connected with the oil industry.
And I said, hey, is it true that the U.S. government is paying oil companies to, you know, Basically fill up old wells with concrete, and some of them are old wells that probably should be capped and gotten rid of, but some of them are just not economically viable right now.
He said, yeah, that's right.
He said, that's why there's a concrete shortage.
And I said, there's a concrete shortage?
I didn't even know about the concrete shortage.
He said, yeah, there's a concrete shortage because the government's paying $40,000 per well to all these oil companies, and they're just completely...
We're decimating every single oil well that they have that's not profitable at this point in time, which means that as the price of fuel goes up, supply and demand, then some of these wells that maybe would have only been profitable at 130 a barrel or 140 a barrel or 150 a barrel, they're not going to be online.
Right.
Usually when prices go up, more supply comes online and the prices either stabilize or go down.
Well, they're setting up a situation here Where there's not going to be more supply coming online as the prices go up.
That's what's extraordinary here.
Now, you've seen this coming for a long time.
You've warned about this.
In the last interview that you did, you warned that food prices you thought would double in calendar 2022.
And I would say they're definitely on track to more than double.
And then you thought...
More than double?
Yeah, they'll probably more than double.
I mean, if you take January of this year versus, let's say, January of 23, it's going to be more than double.
But then you're thinking they're going to double again in 2023.
And I think that's on track, too, because you already have the fertilizer outages.
CF Industries just shut down their Cheshire plant in the U.K.
You've got, of course, no exports now from Russia of fertilizer.
And you've got natural gas production or pipeline limitations in Europe, the Nord Stream one and so on.
And then you have a liquefied natural gas facility in Texas that exploded in early June, and that's offline for the rest of the year.
And a refinery that exploded in Philadelphia in 2019 that put them out of business, total bankruptcy.
Isn't it odd all the fires and explosions that just seem to be taking down food and energy?
Yeah, and then you probably have the whole list of all the food processing plants.
Like, you know, I don't know, what is it?
There's 5,000 of them in the U.S. And in a normal year, like pre-2020, maybe two would have a problem.
And then in the last year, what has it been?
Something like 90?
A hundred?
Yeah, it's a hundred plus.
Crazy amount of fires or some weird freak accident or something.
So, yeah, this is really pretty clearly a controlled environment.
There was a food security expert was reporting to the UN, which, you know, Israel, they came out with a headline that globally we only have, this was last month, by the way, we only have a 10-week supply of wheat on the planet.
So everybody's going to go gluten-free.
It's terrible, but, you know.
Well, as I said, pretty soon people will be eating Cricket McNuggets at the fast food drive-thru.
And no joke, the UN is pushing insects and so on as an alternative food source.
You've talked about that from time to time as well.
I've got to say, I'm not a big fan of what the UN is doing, but insects are a food source that's legitimately eaten in a lot of other places, and I'm not exactly thrilled about it, but there is a lot of good protein and fat in there.
And if you get into a real survival situation, Yeah, so no, I'm not excited about cricket.
Well, you know, actually, I'm just going to use this as a motivator for people.
I'll just tell people, look, you should go learn from Marjorie right now, icangrowfood.com, because if you don't, then you can eat crickets instead.
Or nothing.
Or nothing.
Really.
Right.
Or really, really, I mean, really, these shortages, it's just so shocking what is going on and how it's happening.
It really is.
They've just wiped out 10% of the egg-laying chickens in the United States here, and I think they're still going on a rampage with that for some faulty PCR test, and they say, oh my god, this is avian bird flu, and then they just mandate that that farmer has to kill his 20,000, 30,000 birds or whatever.
Millions.
Millions of birds.
And turkeys, too, by the way, have been killed across the U.S. And you're right, they can just claim a PCR test.
But talk to us about where you think this is going.
Let me set the context because there are still, for whatever reason, there are still some people We're good to go.
They can't explain through cause and effect where the food's coming from, but they think by magic it's going to appear on the food shelves.
What would you say to somebody right now who is still skeptical and thinking that, oh, I don't need to learn how to grow food.
That's nonsense.
It's all going to come to us magically.
You know what?
I just actually had a friend, a girlfriend of mine that is in that situation.
She's kind of like, No, it's all great.
I said, listen, let's just go into any store randomly.
And we happen to be near a Walgreens.
So we walk into this Walgreens.
And so let's walk through these aisles.
And like, it's, you know, there's a lot of stuff on the shelves, but there's a whole bunch of shelves that have empty stuff on it.
And I think a lot of people have become, you know, it's like normal now that at least 10 or 20% of the inventory is not there.
I'm like, look, Remember, prior to 2020, remember 2019?
These shelves were not only stocked all the way, there's boxes.
I mean, we have a problem right here.
That would happen to be a drugstore.
I said, I've been going into grocery stores wherever I travel, and I've been doing a lot of travel lately, and I go into them because I want to see, you know?
And it's the same thing.
And then once she saw it, she was like, oh my god, you're right.
And then you start going into almost any store that you can think of, Regardless of what they're selling.
And there are inventory problems.
Now, I saw a really good analysis a little while ago that said that a lot of the retailers, so we're talking like the Target people and the Walmart people and the stuff you buy there, which isn't really at all necessary for anything, really.
But that they overbought on...
In response to, you know, the whole China shutting down thing and that that inventory is now starting to come in and that we may actually see deflation on all of that stuff.
So your towels and pots and pans and, you know, whatever electronic gadgets or whatever that those prices may start dropping.
But food and energy are absolutely We're going to climb and continue to climb because there really is, the food supply system is, and it is at this point, you can't say anything else, but it's intentionally being demolished.
You're correct.
They oversupplied these consumer goods.
Actually, we were sitting on cargo ships for many, many months, and then they finally showed up.
And so there's going to be a lot of sales this summer on appliances and like spatulas from Walmart, things like that.
So, you know, load up on your candles and your spatulas and mixing bowls because that's the last price you're going to see, the last time you're going to see discounted prices.
But you notice that government inflation numbers do not incorporate food, fuel, and housing.
Those are three big things that are not counted as your cost of living, even though everybody needs to eat, everybody needs some fuel, and everybody needs some shelter.
Yeah, it's crazy.
Those are where the prices are going insane.
The average rent is over $2,000 a month now in America, which is insane.
Gasoline is over $5 a gallon on average across America.
And of course, food is just going through the roof, and that's with the scarcity.
The question to you, Marjorie, on this is people used to think of growing food as kind of an expensive hobby.
You could put a lot of money into it to get your really prized zucchini or watermelon or whatever, and you're like, wow, this watermelon cost me $100, but isn't it awesome?
But that is no longer the case.
Now you're growing food and actually saving money compared to what it's costing the grocery store, and that equation is going to get even more dynamic as we move forward.
What do you think about that?
Yeah, well, growing your own food is like printing your own money.
And there are definitely lots of ways to do it that are very cost effective.
And of course, some, you know, some of the upper wealthy, you know, would always do these fancy things and all that.
So you don't need all that stuff.
There are a lot of ways to grow food and just be using scrap materials or things you find, creating your own compost.
Your own compost that you make is going to be infinitely better than anything you buy anyway, because you're going to be putting a whole bunch of different ingredients in there, which will cause a whole bunch of different microorganisms to grow.
And that adds diversity to your soil, which makes your plants stronger.
There is a direct correlation between violence and the price of food, right?
In fact, it's like mathematical models.
They can totally predict where violence is going to break out.
Now, the superficial reason may be because some political guy did something or some black guy shot a white guy or whatever, right?
The superficial reason is irrelevant.
What they predict is based on the price of food I think about half of the world actually lives on less than $2 or $3 a day.
And 90% of that goes to food.
So when food prices doubled, they're hungry.
They get desperate.
They start freaking out.
And yeah, Sri Lanka is breaking down very quickly, and that's going to spread.
And you're right.
We need to look at this on a global scale.
But I've got to give you credit for something.
You know, we talked about When people go to icangrowfood.com and they register there, they get some free reports.
And one of those was, I think, is it 50 Ways to Make Your Own Fertilizer?
Is that the title?
Yes, exactly.
Yeah, well, and you talked about...
Ways to Make Your Fertilizer.
And one of those ways is to collect your own urine and to use the urine in gardening.
And I... I've mentioned this many times to my own listeners because you said that the human body produces just the right amount of urine to fertilize just the right amount of garden food that you need to eat, right?
So it's a naturally balancing system.
Yeah, that comes from Liquid Gold by a woman who is really promoting urine as a fertilizer.
15 years, 20 years ago?
Yeah.
And here's the simple science on that is the air is 70% nitrogen, right?
Or something like that, right?
79, yeah.
Yeah, it's not something that our bodies really need.
We're kind of like oxygen-carbon type people, right?
But we breathe it in, and it goes through our system as a waste product, and it comes out in our urine, as well as our feces, but primarily in our urine.
And depending on how much protein you've eaten, but it's typically about 18% nitrogen in your urine.
And that's highly plant-available nitrogen.
It's not like something you've got to process or anything.
And yeah, just diluting that 10 to 1 and applying it to the soil.
You don't necessarily want to apply it to the leaves.
Right, right.
Put it in the soil.
Yeah.
And especially in the earlier stages.
You know, later on, you might not want to do that.
I had a really good friend of mine.
She grew these amazing garden starts.
And I was always like, Nancy, how did we do that?
And she's like, Do you really want to know?
And I said, yeah, I really want to know.
And she's like, I fertilize with my own urine and it really works, you know?
Well, you probably missed this, but I did a joke, a song based on this called Don't Worry, Pee Happy.
So I sang that for my podcast.
But, you know, since then, I've seen this term now called pee cycling.
And there's an organization called the Rich Earth Institute.
I just saw this in the news the other day.
And they're all about pee cycling, they call it, which you and I would just call peeing in a bucket.
But apparently, they're going to have this whole big thing, and they're going to lease people...
Like porta-potties where they can collect their own urine.
And I'm just thinking, isn't this over-complicating?
Can we just pee in a bucket, add some water, and pour it on the soil?
You don't need a corporation to do this.
You don't need a big non-profit or an NGO. Just pee in a bucket, people!
Oh gosh, it does amaze me how we complicate things because we're modern people and we don't have any common sense anymore.
I know!
It's like this is the simplest thing in the world.
Or if you're a guy, just pee on the soil.
I mean, how hard can it be?
I mean, seriously.
Actually, for you guys, you really should dilute it 10 to 1.
Is that right?
Okay.
Well, a peanut bucket poured on your thing is, is there are so many creative ways to produce.
And, you know, honestly, Mike, this is what all of your ancestors did pretty much other than the last maybe 50 or 100 years.
I mean, this is something that and none of those people, a lot of them couldn't even read and write.
None of them had Google.
And they were able to grow beautiful, delicious, healthy food.
A lot of them hardly ever went to a doctor.
They didn't have cancer and heart disease.
That's right.
This is something you can do.
That's what's extraordinary about what you're saying.
I want to thank you, too.
You're a sponsor of Brighteon, your company, the Food Grow Network.
So I want to thank you for helping to financially support our free speech network.
And a lot of people are benefiting from Your sponsorship, they're learning how to grow food.
You're helping us build new features to spread freedom and liberty and also self-reliance and preparedness.
But what you teach people is about more than food.
It's about a spiritual revival, actually, about when you start to connect with your food and produce what you consume, something changes spiritually.
People, usually people that are, and most people listening now probably are in freak out mode, right?
They're really freaking out.
They can see that this is happening.
They know that they need to get started on doing this.
They're scared.
So I want to let you know, yes, we have figured that out step by step, how to get you started.
But it is so true that I did a series of podcast interviews with Extremely, like, high-level executives.
One guy was a manager of over 2,000 people in a healthcare company.
A couple of others were, like, tech startup companies with $20 million, $25 million a year, you know, budgets.
And, you know, really high-powered people, right?
Vice presidents of big multinationals.
I did this series of interviews with them, and the common denominator was they all grew some of their own food.
Really?
And of course, obviously, these people could buy anything they wanted.
This is not an activity they needed to do.
But every single one of them said they did it.
And first of all, they're very highly productive people.
So even when they're having downtime, which is because, you know, electronics and dirt don't mix, they're out there and it's downtime, they want to be productive.
So growing their own food was a way that they could get downtime and then still be producing something.
And actually, for all of them, they said, this is the most meaningful work I do.
I know I'm running this gigantic company and I'm this big, super important person and I fly in this private jet all the time and I do this, right?
But really, the tomatoes that I grow and the tomato sauce I make or the eggs that I collect for my chickens, and every single one of them said they did it for that, just what you're talking about, the stress relief, but the spiritual connection, the connection back to what it is to be a human being and to actually produce something real and tangible and Right there in your backyard without a whole lot of other inputs.
Stand by, Marjorie.
I'm sorry to interrupt.
We're wrapping up this segment here for Brighteon.tv, but we'll continue this conversation on the spiritual side of growing your own food.
Thank you for watching today on Brighteon.tv.
This interview continues on Brighteon.com on my channel, HR Report.
All right.
Thank you, Marjorie.
Sorry to interrupt there, but now the extended conversation.
No, I feel exactly the same way about this.
So I'm super busy all day long running all kinds of operations and personnel and meetings and, you know, analysis documents and everything.
If I get an hour to just go work on the hydroponic plants that I have, it's a vacation.
It's like the most wonderful time possible.
I'm mixing nutrients and checking the pH, and I'm planting seeds and cleaning out old bins that are done, and I'm harvesting.
And I love the fact I get to harvest all the good leaves from my smoothies, which are right here, right?
So I'm drinking what I'm growing.
And like today, I have beet green leaves, which are not really green.
They're purple, but...
And then whatever I don't eat or drink, I throw it to my goats!
And my goats go to town on that stuff, man!
They just love it!
So it's awesome.
Nothing is wasted.
It's awesome, and I love it.
It's just really enjoyable.
And then the goats are pooping.
Yes.
You're probably collecting that and using that as fertility somewhere else.
Well, I'm not, but I could.
It's clean, pelletized fertilizer.
It's pretty easy to harvest from goats.
Yeah, I think that's part of the magic of it, is you start to really close that loop of the mineral cycling and the whole cycle of life with when you've got a little backyard farm going.
And you're absolutely right.
And you've probably started to notice this.
For us, before we got the whole house built and all that, we were living up in the barn.
You know, we didn't have a television and watching the chickens roost at night was unbelievably engaging, you know, and it was such a basic, simple, wonderful, wholesome thing to do when you've got young kids.
And it was just wonderful.
And then you get these relationships going with the different, you know, livestock or even with plants.
One year I grew a bunch of tobacco.
And I went and prayed by this tobacco every day.
I don't really smoke, but I was going to use the tobacco.
You can use it as a homemade insecticide, but also use it in ceremony to, you know, just work with energetics.
And there was a real magical connection because I was by that plant every day, you know, praying to it or with it.
Wow.
Yeah, so there's so many wonderful...
Oh, in the book, The Growth System, which I wrote, there's some really great stories about Relationships I've had with roosters or rabbits.
It does take a whole other level.
I would say I got into this from being completely freaked out and scared and probably in the situation that most people are in.
By the process of learning to grow food, I will never not do it.
It's just so delightful.
It's so wonderful and it's so rewarding and meaningful.
It does connect you in at these other layers regardless of what your religious...
It will deepen you with your connection.
100%.
And I agree with you.
Plants have their own consciousness.
Plants are conscious, aware, living systems.
And plants communicate with each other.
And that's in mainstream science, by the way.
Oh, I got a great story for you.
So for a couple of years, I lived in Colorado.
I like to live in different areas when I can.
It really broadens, like, what are the challenges?
Like, growing in Colorado is completely different.
We're growing in Central Texas.
I was like, we can't plant lettuce in the summertime?
And they were like, no, no, this is when we do it.
But anyway...
I had a 35-year veteran of growing food in raised beds the way that I do.
Lynn Gillespie is a good friend of mine.
And we built some raised beds in my yard.
And then she also grows in that same system.
She has a small CSA. I signed up for her CSA more to support her than anything.
And I was growing in the exact same system.
She was providing me with the plants and seeds and the fertilizer and everything because she's the expert and I'm basically getting her to coach me in this because I've never grown in that bioregion.
She even brought me this exact same soil she is using.
And I know that this is subjective, and I was growing almost the same thing.
She was growing your broccoli and carrots and squash and, you know, all the stuff, lettuce.
And I swear, and I'm out there every day, and just a little bit with the garden, you're watering or just looking or whatever.
I mean, the garden really doesn't take that long.
But I swear that the broccoli and the vegetables and the things that I grew in my garden, because I had a connection with it, It tasted better than the stuff I was buying from Lynn at her CSA, even though it's the same soil, same plant, same system, everything.
But I had a connection with those plants and with that garden.
And there really is that level of it.
It's astonishing.
Yeah, you're not kidding.
Kind of related to that, there was some recent science that we covered on Natural News that higher levels of CO2 in the available atmosphere causes plants to produce more medicinal nutrients Whether it's nutritious food or herbs, they are more potent when there's more CO2 around because, of course, CO2 is plant nutrition.
And I would imagine a similar thing would be true if they're in the right energetic field or maybe they're away from electropollution or they're feeling a sense of love from someone like you who's taking care of them.
That matters.
Yes, your body has an electromagnetic field.
That's right.
You can measure that even several feet away.
So, yeah, absolutely.
And there's been a lot more work, which I can't wait to start getting back into doing more research and quit running a business.
But, yeah, there's been a lot of really great research on the effect of electromagnetism.
Sound, you know, like the sonic bloom is a whole other thing.
I really want to do some experiments with that.
There's a lot of people who are working with sound.
There's so much more to explore with growing food.
Of course, the soil microbiology, the Cubans, when they went through their collapse, they basically turned a lot of their doctors and microscopes into soil microbiologists.
And those guys have, like, some of the most innovative soil microbiology on the planet.
It was a pretty innovative change they went through there.
But there's so much more that we can do.
And you're absolutely right.
It's at this...
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
And it makes it so exciting.
Like, I can't not imagine ever doing this anymore.
I am so grateful for the emergency that had me say, okay, I've got to grow my own food, because it's been the best thing I've ever done in my life.
A hundred percent.
And don't forget that when you learn how to grow your own food, you automatically know how to grow your own medicine.
So I'm about to plant dandelions in a hydroponic system, which people might think that's crazy.
Like, why can't you just go out and get dandelions?
Well, it's summer in Texas.
There are no dandelions anywhere.
There's like coastal grass that's turned brown.
And that's it.
I don't find any dandelions out there, so I want to grow them.
Why?
Because we want the medicine.
We want the dandelion leaves and the roots and the flowers.
And what you teach people how to grow food is, of course, a universal skill.
You can decide that you want, I don't know, basil herbs for cardiovascular health, or you want to grow something for diabetes prevention or cognitive support.
You'll have the skills in order to do that, and you don't need a prescription.
Absolutely.
And you can be the source of that medicine for your community, which will also, as we know in any crisis, the medical system is always on the verge of collapse if you want to actually go to that system, you know.
So yeah, so absolutely.
That's the other wonderful thing about this is once you start getting, there's so many little side businesses and really the success of any family, any farm, anything is going to be having multiple businesses.
Streams of income.
That is going to absolutely be a survival strategy for your financial future going forward.
And so, you know, maybe those tomatoes that you love that grow well in the summer and, you know, the seeds from that are a whole other small side business.
Or, you know, as you were talking about, medicines, you know, growing those dandelion roots or even just drying them and roasting them and coming up with that coffee substitute that's also good liver tonic, you know.
Right.
There's so many.
I have a friend of mine who I do not recommend anybody raising baby chicks for laying hens, but that's a business he has.
They'll get a box of 100 or 200 chicks and lay them up to laying hen age, and that's like a whole side income for him.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, there's so many opportunities for what you can do.
Well, and then also combining what you grow with wild foods as well.
So, for example, you used to live in Central Texas, and you probably know, I'm sure you know, yopon holly was one of the plants that just takes off everywhere, and that's the only source of caffeine in any indigenous plant in North America, yopon holly.
So you could roast those leaves and make kind of maybe a poor man's coffee, but what if you combined it with some mint coffee?
That you grew or licorice root or something.
You could make some delicious coffee alternatives during a collapse scenario when you can't get Folgers.
When you can't get caffeine, you're going to have people who want caffeine.
Actually, the Yokohan Holly tea by itself, it's just a really vibrant black tea that tastes...
Pretty dang good on its own.
Absolutely.
Yeah, and it's everywhere.
I was just in Texas, actually.
Your place was a couple of weeks ago, a month ago.
And actually, I was just there last week visiting these friends of mine.
Whenever I go out for a run, I love to, just as a hobby, to see what I, in some neighborhood I've never been, and just see what I can find that would be food, right?
And I always end up coming back, and I was running through by this waterway, and there were these mesquite trees, and there was the mesquite beans.
They weren't ready yet.
And I'm like, dang, next month, you know, two months.
You know, here's a ton of food right here.
So there really is quite an abundance when you start to learn more about food.
You know, botany and plants.
And it is something you can do.
When I started out, honestly, everything just looked like a wall of green.
I had no idea what anything looked like.
You know, bell pepper from a what?
You know what?
You know, like, okay, I got a pine tree.
It really is something that you can...
I mean, my background, and we've talked about this before, my background is engineering and then business and finance, right?
There's no...
Agriculture.
Yeah, no.
But you brought that mindset, the solutions-oriented mindset to this, and I love what you just described there.
You're jogging through, looking at food.
I'll just share with you a similar thing.
The mesquite pods, right?
So I bought a mesquite pod grinding machine.
I'm going to grind it up into flour when it's mature here coming up.
I'm going to make mesquite pod tortillas, And then combine it with the wild onions that the hogs eat and then chicken eggs that I have for my chickens.
I'm going to have wild food breakfast burritos.
There you go.
I will tell you the mesquite beans have a very strong taste.
I know.
And you don't want to cut that.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, I'm going to mix it with some wheat flour probably or something.
I got kicked out of the kitchen for, you know, putting like, I forget it was like more than 20% mesquite flour in there.
And the kids were like, No more, Mom.
You can't cook.
Well, yeah.
I didn't want you to eat that anyway.
But the potency of a lot of the wild foods is off the charts, like the wild onions, too.
You can't go overboard with that.
Or wild greens, compared to store-bought iceberg lettuce, it's like apples and oranges.
I mean, there's no comparison.
Really, it's so much more potent and condensed and has so much more nutritional and vibrancy to it.
So yeah, learning wild foods, absolutely.
And then the biggest thing is, you know, if you're used to eating a big plate of something in conventional foods, you know, really when you eat wild foods, you only need a handful of something, right?
And you'll feel sated and you will be getting that nutritional punch and vibrancy punch.
That's true.
That's true.
Yeah, well said.
Okay, someone wanted me to ask you about, this is kind of a little bit of a topic, I don't know if we want to cover it, but they wanted me to ask you, do you think that people around the world are going to turn to cannibalism as things get desperate?
It's kind of a dark topic, I know.
You could just pass on this one if you want.
No, no, no, it's okay.
You know, I've been in the survival preparedness space.
I'm the female leader of the survival preparedness space.
We've had this conversation.
Oh, okay, all right.
And in my opinion, the average American human body is so toxic, I wouldn't touch it.
I'm with you on that, yeah.
There are lots of stories of, you know, when the Soviet Union collapsed in Russia, the meat at the stores that was available was extremely questionable, i.e.
that that may have been going on.
Yeah, you know, If I'm in a plane crash in the Andes and there's no hope of anything, you know, and I absolutely have to survive, would I consider it?
Yeah, probably.
But that's why I like to have chickens and rabbits and gardens and orchards.
I don't have to go there.
Right.
And in that case, you know, I'd be chasing down crickets and grasshoppers with a toothpick before I ended up eating my neighbors, you know?
Yeah.
As I said, the average American human body is unbelievably toxic, right?
You know, it's just...
I'm sure you've seen those tests where they take somebody and 98% of their carbon comes from GMO corn or something.
Yeah, seriously, and the heavy metals too.
And the heavy metals, yeah.
Oh my God, by phosphate.
God knows what else is in people and if they've been vaccinated.
Well, just to give you a hint on that, I have a lab.
We test for heavy metals and I've tested my own hair.
My hair is...
Really clean compared to other people's hair.
They send us samples.
But my hair is dirty compared to wild rabbit hair.
So I've actually taken wild rabbit hair when my dogs caught and killed rabbits in the past.
I clipped off some of the hair, took it to the lab.
So clean!
Way cleaner than my hair!
And I eat almost all organic.
You know, I grew up in Florida, South Florida, and I love going back.
Still have family there.
And the Florida panther is like one of my favorite animals.
It's like this little tiny miniature panther, and it lives mostly in South Florida off the Key Deer, which are these little bitty tiny deer.
It's just so cute, this little ecosystem, right?
And so I was talking to some wildlife biologists for the park system in the southern part, and I said, how's the panther doing?
They said, they're doing fine.
But I'm talking to the...
Because they're eating the key deer that are eating basically grass and forage and stuff like that.
That's in the Everglades, right?
But the Florida panther up in North Florida was doing really, really badly.
Like, they're dying of strange diseases and stuff.
And they're mostly living off of raccoons that are eating garbage.
Oh, wow.
And fish, you know, and whatever, right?
So...
Yeah, so yeah, it really does matter what you eat.
So the rabbits are probably just eating Pretty straightforward.
Certainly on your place, I'm sure.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, because we don't use any pesticides or herbicides at all anywhere, so everything's clean here.
But see, that's another reason not to poison your own farm, folks, because you might have to eat that rabbit one day that's living on your farm, and you don't want to be eating a bunch of glyphosate and atrazine and all that garbage that's left over.
Well, Marjorie, we're just about out of time, so any final thoughts to leave our audience with today?
First of all, it's imperative that you start growing your own food right now.
You are not going to make it through the next decade.
You may not make it through the next year.
If you aren't, you cannot store enough food to get through this crisis.
You need to start growing your own food.
That is imperative.
And the other is, it will be the best thing that you've ever done in your life.
You're going to love it.
And we figured out ways to teach you very simply and easily to empower you, get you up to speed.
Head over to ICanGrowFood.com.
It's a wonderful free webinar.
We'd love to get to know you.
And really, that's what my purpose has been, is to be able to help and assist in this crisis.
Well, thank you so much, Marjorie.
And yeah, once again, folks, go to icangrowfood.com.
You can learn how to do this yourself, and it will be life-changing for the better, and it may also save your life.
So thank you, Marjorie.
It's always a pleasure to be able to talk with you.
Thank you for your inspiration and your stories of how people's lives are being changed by all of this.
Always an honor to speak with you.
Thank you.
Likewise, Mike.
Super appreciate you.
All right.
Thank you so much.
And for those of you watching today, feel free to repost this interview on your own channels or other platforms as well.
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Thank you for watching today.
I'm Mike Adams, the founder of Brighteon.com.
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