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April 27, 2023 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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Marjory Wildcraft makes growing food EASY and PRODUCTIVE... for anyone (full interview)
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Welcome to today's interview on Brighteon.com.
I'm Mike Adams from Brighteon, of course, the founder of Brighteon.
And free speech is what we're all about, but also about teaching self-reliance.
And our special guest today is one of my favorite people of all time, Marjorie Wildcraft, who teaches people how to grow food easily, really efficiently in a small amount of space.
And she joins us again.
It's been too long since we've had you on, Marjorie.
Welcome to the show.
It's always great to have you back.
Yeah, thanks for having me back on, Mike.
More than ever, it's vitally important that you start growing your own food.
So we got the solutions.
Well, I completely agree with you.
Let me just give out the website where people can learn more about you while we're talking.
It's icangrowfood.com.
I've even got it up on my screen here.
And people can go there and they can register and get a video?
Or what exactly do they get if they register?
That's a webinar, and in that webinar, I'll teach you a very simple three-part system that everybody needs to start with if you're a beginning food grower.
And this is targeted for people who have no experience.
They're older.
Maybe they're out of shape.
And you will walk away with a plan for how to grow half of your own food in a space about the size of three parking spots.
And no matter where you live, on the, you know, what continent or where you are, you'll know what to do to get started immediately after you finish that webinar.
So you'll have very simple one, two, three steps, be able to produce a lot of calories and a lot of nutrition, even in a grid down situation.
So that's what they'll get from the webinar.
Well, that sounds fantastic.
And I would mention kind of the urgency of the situation because right now, at least in the northern hemisphere, it's a good time to be planting and growing food.
Secondly, we've had other guests on recently, like Patriot Green Products.
Yes, Kevin.
Yeah, Kevin is great, and he gave me some compost to play with.
And I've got some potatoes in there.
And I'm telling you, if you have the right materials, which you also teach compost, I'll ask you that in a second, but if you have the right materials, growing it is so easy, it's almost impossible to fail if you have any clue what you're doing.
But you teach people about all kinds of compost sources too, don't you?
Fertility and continuing the fertility is exactly, that's the most important part of it.
So, you know...
Creating your own fertilizer.
And the cool thing is, is that your own homegrown fertilizers are going to be far superior to anything you can buy, just like your own homegrown food is superior to anything you can buy.
Yeah.
Yeah, well, exactly.
And, you know, Kevin's compost, I don't know if you saw that interview, but it's from the 2011 Lost Pines fires in central Texas.
And then the feds came in and they cleared out all these pine trees.
they mulched them and then that mulch has been composting for what 12 years now and that's the compost that we got it's like totally natural no pesticides you know no heavy metals i mean it's great stuff it's it's beautiful stuff i'm like kevin it's a shame you can't do this like nationwide because you know limited to transport but yeah he has really good stuff And that's a secret to a green thumb.
I've been doing so many podcasts, it's crazy because I think the whole world all of a sudden knows, like, this is it.
This is it, you know?
And they're all like, come on, Marsha, come on.
And like, I've never grown anything and everything dies.
I'm like, look, here's the secret to a green thumb.
It's really good soil, you know, as alive, microbially rich, mineral rich soil.
And you're right, when you get it going, it's easy.
It's really easy.
Yeah, and you know, let's talk about health too, because I hope you don't mind me saying, but every time you come on, you seem to be younger than the time before.
Oh, thank you, yeah.
I don't know.
I mean, no, seriously, you're like five years younger than the last time we had you on.
Is that like, to what do you attribute that to?
I attribute that, yeah, to eating a lot of homegrown food for the past 25 years.
And yeah, I just turned 60, if you can believe it.
So I feel great, man.
I'm training in jiu-jitsu and I'm kicking ass with these younger guys.
It's kind of fun.
That's awesome.
Because you're a hands-on person, so you're out there in the soil with the plants.
Are you raising rabbits right now there?
Yeah.
Not right now.
Yeah, I'm in the middle of a...
I just moved here.
I'm building community, though.
And, you know, barefooting all the time, wildcrafting, working in the community.
Absolutely.
Yeah, and I'm still trying...
I know I'm feeling so vulnerable right now because I don't have the homestead that I want to be in, and I'm still working to find that.
But there's no excuse for not being able to grow food, no matter where you are or what the situation is.
And I'm definitely...
I even was doing guerrilla gardening.
There was a strip of land that the Government ad, and I just started growing food on it.
Like, whatever.
Took a pickaxe out there and had a great garden for a while.
It was great, yeah.
Absolutely.
Well, a lot more people are going to be doing that.
But let me ask you about, you know, there's a lot more awareness all of a sudden about the potential of vaccines in the food supply.
So mRNA in pork products and in cattle, and the Cattlemen's Group put out a statement, or at least one group did, that said there's currently not any mRNA in beef, but they're looking at it.
It might be in beef next week.
Who knows?
But then vegetables, because there are technologies they can use, for example, RNA interference technologies in vegetables.
Have you seen a lot of increase in people's awareness of maybe weird technologies?
Yeah, people are super concerned about that.
Then we also have that, you know, the train crash in Ohio dumping all those dioxins and it's not just in Palestine.
It's throughout Ohio, Pennsylvania, upstate New York and it's mostly taken up in fat which that area is well known for eggs, butter, cheese, meat and the concern about those products and the contamination.
But honestly, Mike, The whole food supply has been toxic for years, if not decades.
It has.
You know, I mean, we've got the GMOs, we've got the pesticides.
I'm glad that people are worried about the mRNA vaccines now, but honestly, there's so much else in there.
We used to say, oh, be a perimeter shopper in the grocery store and you'll be safe.
Now there's like nothing in that store that is really going to be good to give you any nourishment.
Yeah.
Well, yeah, I mean, okay, you mentioned nourishment, but I'm thinking pesticides and the mRNA and all that, but you're also right that a lot of the foods are devoid of real nutrition because they're grown in a very shallow kind of way, right?
Just the NPK to make it green and make it look like a piece of broccoli.
But it doesn't have the same, for example, trace minerals that come out of a local plot that's got better quality soil.
Not to mention the nutritional value of, for example, when you pick something there locally, like when you pick your tomatoes, they're more fully ripened.
Where the grocery store, they're picking tomatoes, they're green, and then they often artificially ripen them with chemicals or what have you.
And it's like, is this really a tomato?
I'm not sure.
When you taste it, you'll know it's not a tomato.
Not if you've eaten any homegrown tomatoes.
Yeah, that's the other thing people are surprised about this.
When you start growing your own food, your taste buds, your body knows that deep mineral content.
And when you're eating food that has that mineral content in it, there's something that comes alive in you.
And the tastes are just spectacular.
Well, yeah, and I was reminded, I was shopping one time and I saw, have you seen where they have a bunch of tomatoes with a piece of vine, and then they call it vine-ripened tomatoes, right?
Come on, that's marketing fraud.
You cut the vine off with the green tomatoes and then you ship that to the grocery store.
Vine ripened is supposed to mean that it's ripened when the vine is still living.
This vine is still in the ground.
In the ground!
Yeah, right, yeah.
Yeah, but they play all these games with us, you know?
Yeah.
Mike, way beyond that, we have a crisis that's happening right now, and I follow quite a few folks on Brighteon, and David Dubine, his channel, Adapt2030, He follows very closely the global agricultural production, and we are in a world of hurt.
And then I know you know lots of other, and yourself also, the financial system.
De-dollarization is happening, and that whole Sandman 2.0, we just don't know, is that going to be days or weeks?
It will certainly be within months that everything just becomes unaffordable because the dollar has lost all of its value.
It's more vitally important.
I'd also like to stress that the early adopters have the advantage.
So you getting going right now and everybody who's listening getting out right now, you can still buy laying hens for like $25 a hen or $30 a hen.
I bought them for less than that in Central Texas.
I paid like $15, I think.
That's fantastic.
You know what?
As this crisis deepens, you know, I don't know if you remember in 2020, laying hens went like to $100.
But as the dollar devaluates, you're not going to be able to buy laying hens.
I love that one meme that was going around where there was this Rhode Island Red sitting on her clutch of eggs.
They were going, she's richer than Elon Musk.
Right, when egg prices were going crazy.
Egg prices were going nuts.
They've settled down a little bit, but they haven't really, you know, that's going to be gone.
I really, you know, so...
Getting started right now, you're going to have an advantage, and you're going to need that advantage.
I also really recommend to people, like right now, this is something you can handle this afternoon, and that is go get some calories.
And I love the Ranger buckets.
I definitely have sent them to my kids.
That's great.
I think people need to target about a million calories per person per year.
And if you're like really on a budget, And you just can't afford anything, go to Costco or Sam's Club, and I just priced this out a few minutes ago before the show.
10 bags of beans, 50-pound bags, and 10 bags of rice, 50-pound bags of rice, that cost you about $750, and that's a million calories.
You know, go do that right now.
Just go buy that right now.
And even if you don't eat, like I don't really eat rice or beans that much, honestly, It's calories.
The calorie is going to be the next unit of currency.
You'll be able to trade that for all kinds of things.
Really important point.
The calorie is the currency.
I think you're absolutely right.
And don't forget to protect those calories too, right?
So if you go get these bags of beans and rice, rodents can get them.
So you need to pack them in five-gallon pails.
Or the best thing that I find, but then again, I have access to these 55-gallon drums Our store operation.
But we get these 55-gallon drums with full-size lids that have a steel band around the top.
And I can just take bags of beans and rice and I can just drop them in this 55-gallon drum.
And then what I've found as a functioning oxygen absorber, have you heard me talk about this?
You can take those hand warmers.
Oh yeah, right, because they use up the oxygen.
They use up the oxygen, yeah.
That's a great idea.
Just take about 10 hand warmers and you pop them in there, close the lid, it's airtight, boom.
The hand warmers eat all the oxygen.
Now you have an oxygen-free, non-oxidative environment for your stored food in a rodent-proof barrel.
Throw some cat litter in there just to absorb any extra moisture.
There you go.
A handful of cat litter, yeah.
I also, another thing I found, if people can't, you know, metal garbage cans with a tight-fitting lid can also work well.
And maybe even sealing it with a bit of a window latex sealer just for a little extra moisture protection.
But that definitely keeps rodents out.
But it's vitally important, as there is a global famine that is being orchestrated.
And I'm deeply concerned.
The SNAP payments, as you're well aware, there was a 15% increase that they did in 2020 for the whole COVID experience.
And then that expired in early March.
So basically the COVID payments or the SNAP payments, which is the welfare food system, They've reduced the payments to people.
But the price of food has gone up way more than 15% in the last three years.
Oh, yeah.
Are you kidding me?
And these people are the people that are on the margin.
I'm actually surprised we haven't seen a lot more violence breaking out.
And this would be real violence, not the violence that's paid for by whoever.
This would be real violence because...
People aren't making it.
They aren't making it.
And I predict that that's going to be breaking out very soon.
The fundamental reason is because they don't have food to eat.
Well, you're not kidding.
Let me give out your website one more time, icangrowfood.com.
Folks, that's where you go and...
You will learn, you'll get the webinar, you'll learn how to grow food very easily, very efficiently.
Marjorie's information has helped thousands, maybe tens of thousands of our viewers learn how to grow and become more self-reliant.
In the meantime, yeah, definitely store some food so that you have kind of a buffer, but stored food can only go so far, right?
Yes.
Absolutely.
But that's something you can handle just in a few hours this afternoon, and I really recommend you do that.
Then the next thing is, and this is what we talk about in depth in the webinar, but I want to give the thumbnail so people have some understanding, and that is a small flock of backyard chickens is what I recommend next, and six laying hens.
A laying hen will lay about 250 eggs in a year, They do need some time off when it's too hot or too cold, and they also need to molt their feathers, so it's not 365 eggs, 250 eggs a year.
But if you think about it, six laying hens, 250 eggs, that's 1,500 eggs a year.
So that means you could have three egg omelets for breakfast every day of the year, plus you'll have 33 dozen eggs to either eat and other things or give away or barter and trade.
You have breakfast handled regularly.
You can pick up six laying hens.
You can build the coupon run.
I've got the plans and what it would look like in the webinar.
You can build that in a couple of weekends.
It wouldn't take long at all.
Go buy the hens.
Go get some food.
You can basically be having egg production within just a few weeks in your backyard, and it's a significant amount of calories.
It's breakfast every day, right?
Yeah, good point.
And if you have extra eggs, like I do, I give my dogs a raw egg every couple of days.
They get a raw egg on top of the other food, and their coats are really thick and shiny.
Where's Rody?
He's around here somewhere.
Oh, I've seen him on some of your shows.
Yeah, he's adorable.
And I do recommend dogs for protection.
And honestly, when I was running the homestead in Texas, we had two dogs.
And I like medium-sized dogs.
I don't want big ones because you have to feed the dog, too.
And I don't like too small.
And I had two medium-sized dogs, so they could handle...
The raccoon or the water, you know, some of the coyotes.
But if a big pack of pigs came up, they weren't going to be able to handle them, but they would bark enough that I'd be out there with a shotgun and then we wouldn't have a pig problem.
We'd actually have a bacon opportunity.
But yeah, you know, I fed my dogs entirely from...
A backyard food production system, and eggs were a part of their diet, as well as entrails from rabbits and other things.
So you can totally feed your dogs.
Did you hear my story about one of my dogs being the bunny gobbler?
No!
Yeah, she's a small dog, and somehow she's an expert at digging up these really small bunnies, the ones that are only like this big.
Oh, the little cottontail.
Yeah, and she'll dig them up and grab them, and the bunny is like sideways in the dog's mouth, and I'll say, Oh, drop it, drop it!
And she goes, Oh!
And just swallows the entire bunny whole.
And so she has the name Bunny Gobbler.
And I've seen her do that now three times.
I'm like, my goodness.
But see, the point of that is, obviously dogs are predators.
And if I can't feed these dogs because of a food scarcity issue, I know they're going to go out and hunt.
They're going to find hogs and rabbits and who knows what.
Yeah, they'll figure it out.
I actually had some really good, I like part Pyrenees dogs because they're bred for hundreds of years to be protectors.
And mine would actually go, like if a bunny got loose, it would go pick the bunny up and gently carry it and bring it back to me.
But unfortunately, the rabbit was so traumatized, even though it wasn't hurt, it was so traumatized by being in a dog's jaw that it often would die just from that.
That's crazy.
So it's unfortunate.
But yeah, the dog's We're always there.
You know, if you have a litter, what they call it, a kindle of baby bunnies, and occasionally one dies because it's just small or born that way, and the dogs were always hanging out there looking for that appetizer, you know.
Yeah, okay, she got one for us.
Okay, wow.
Well, Marjorie, let's move on to some other topics.
Let's talk about seed saving.
So I know you teach this principle, but how critical is this right now, given that we're about to move into a central bank digital currency, you know, Orwellian prison state system, at least that's what all the governments are pushing for.
What if they don't allow you to buy seeds because they control your wallet?
So how critical is it to learn how to save seeds and have a local network for trading seeds?
Yes.
Absolutely.
That's another one of the many, many skills.
In the meantime, just like backup food production, I would buy a bunch of seeds.
And yeah, the seed saving thing is absolutely why you need to build community too, is because you're not going to be able to save all the seeds for all the different things you want to grow.
And you need a network of people doing that.
So I really strongly get involved right now with different master gardener groups or other prepping cells.
Or maybe you and I can do a whole talk on, because I have built self-reliant communities.
Find like my unminded neighbors and build a self-reliant community very quickly.
And maybe we can do a whole other show on that sometime.
But these are vitally, vitally important.
And the knowledge of saving seeds is, and again, this is, I want to remind everybody that you're probably your grandparents, maybe, well, certainly your great-grandparents on back.
They all did this stuff.
A lot of them did not know how to read and they certainly didn't have Google.
And they still did it.
And they still did it.
This stuff is not rocket science.
In fact, I was talking to you earlier.
I really think that this whole, there's a meme or an idea going around the world that growing food is hard work and you're going to become a migrant worker and you're going to slave all day just to get a tomato.
It's totally untrue.
It's a total PSYOP. They don't want you growing food.
I've done a whole series of interviews, like, I don't know, several dozen interviews, very, very high-level people.
So this would be like yourself, like somebody who's running a very big, successful business.
One was a healthcare industry executive with a division of 2,000 people, a couple of tech startups who budget to $25 million, and they're doing some crazy tech startup thing.
They all grew their own food.
They spent anywhere from 30 to 60 minutes a day doing it.
And you know every single one of them said that was the most pleasurable part of their day.
Oh, yeah.
That was the most fulfilling thing that they did.
I feel the same way.
It's like a vacation to be able to work with plants and just moving soil around, planting seeds, watching the sprouts, harvesting the leaves.
I grow stuff for my smoothies and I just stuff it into the smoothies, my green smoothies.
You've seen these.
I don't have to show you.
It's so amazing just to think, wow, Mother Nature provides this for free.
You don't have to pay a royalty.
You don't have to get a prescription.
Sunlight's free.
Rainwater's free.
The dirt is there.
The seeds reproduce for free.
It's like, this is the basis of human civilization right here.
This is it.
It's something we innately want to do.
I had a whole crisis is how I came into doing this.
And I tell you what, I am so grateful...
Every day, when I had this huge wake-up call and said, I've got to grow food, which was not at all a part of my worldview, I love it so much, and it's so wonderful, and just like you're saying, every one of these really high-level, high-tech people, it's amazing, and it's really, really fulfilling.
It's a whole psyop.
It's kind of like the whole COVID experience or the 9-11 thing or all these other big psychological operations that we've been living under for years.
Well, it's the same psyop as medicine.
You know, the psyop is, oh, you can't treat yourself.
You can't prevent disease.
There's nothing you could have done to prevent whatever, cancer, diabetes, heart disease.
Are you kidding me?
That's a giant lie.
There's all kinds of things that you can do.
But it's the same thing with food.
It's medicine.
It's education.
Oh, you can't homeschool your children.
Yes, we can.
People are doing it every day all over the place.
In fact, it's a far superior education.
So I'm glad you brought that up, Marjorie, because...
We can take back our power just by deciding to do so.
You know, we can grow more food.
We can do more home medicine.
We can do home education.
And it's actually better.
The results are better than any centralized system, period.
Absolutely.
And, you know, as I was saying, your own homemade compost is far superior to anything you can buy.
Your own homegrown food is far superior to anything you can buy.
And I definitely want to acknowledge all the local farmers, and you definitely want to support them.
But honestly, your own food is going to be far superior.
And honestly, Mike, I don't think you're going to make it through this decade if you're not growing some of your own food.
I agree.
You're going to need that extra buffer.
But along those lines, let me ask you this.
We have seen now more and more retailers leaving the blue cities because of rampant shoplifting and the unwillingness in those cities to have law enforcement enforce any laws.
So shoplifting is essentially perfectly legal now in California, in Oregon, in Washington state.
People can go and just steal up to $1,000 worth of stuff and walk out.
And, you know, there's video circulating of Target stores with everything locked up behind locked cabinets now.
But retailers are just leaving.
So what happens, Marjorie, when grocery stores, when they're tired of the looting in the meat section, because there's a lot of value there in meat products, and they just say, you know what, we're just not going to operate here.
Just close up shop and leave, and then there's no place to get food.
Locally.
Is that day coming?
That day is absolutely coming.
And as you've pointed out, in a lot of places on the West Coast, especially, that day is already here.
Those people do not have access to food.
But again, with the dollar de-dollarization, it's soon going to be like, even if they have food, are you going to be able to afford it?
You know, $1,000 for a cup of coffee, $10,000 for a pound of meat.
And that has happened over and over and over again historically, so this is not something we're making up.
For example, Weimar Germany At the beginning, I believe it was 1922, a dozen eggs was like three marks.
By the end of that year, it was over a billion marks for a dozen eggs.
You know, it happens really, really quickly.
Like, the main part of the hyperinflation in Weimar Germany was in nine months, was when everything was utterly destroyed.
And now, we live in a world, you know, SVB bank, right?
That run on that bank that Thursday...
In the 10 hours they were open, I think it was $42 billion.
It's like a million dollars a second was withdrawn out of that bank.
So we live in a time when things can happen astronomically.
I'm glad you bring that up because you're speaking about the logarithmic curve response to real-time events.
And as the saying goes, the failure happens slowly at first and then all at once.
And that's describing the logarithmic curve of collapse, frankly.
And you mentioned it with Silicon Valley Bank.
The same thing can happen with currency.
What happens if we wake up one day, Marjorie, and Saudi Arabia They've been doing all kinds of deals with Russia and China and Iran and whoever.
And we wake up one day and a hundred countries just say, guess what?
We don't like the dollar anymore because the U.S. is run by lunatics and they've weaponized the currency and none of us want dollars.
Like, within 12 hours, your grocery prices are going to go 1,000% higher, you know, and with no end in sight when that day comes.
Yes.
And, I mean, that's the whole Sandman 2.0 type conspiracy theory, which now starts to become theory and then eventually seems to come fact.
Yes.
But that's, you know, and we're there.
Saudi Arabia has already publicly announced they want to become a part of BRICS and start selling oil.
I think they already have in all of its U.S. dollars.
Yeah.
I mean, the writing is on the wall.
And even if you're not, okay, I'm not going to do this today, watch the webinar and say, okay, well, I know I'm going to need this much chicken wire and I'm going to need this kind of fencing and I'm going to need these kind of supplies.
Go buy the supplies, even if you're not ready to do the livestock.
In fact, I'm starting to stock up on fencing and nails and all the stuff you need, the waterers and things like that, just because I know...
Beyond my own needs, I'm going to be wanting to help people in my community and my family and the larger, you know, a larger circle.
For all the people, you can't actually have enough food to feed if you can help them get started with, you know, the things that you need.
It's astonishing.
I mean, we all saw this during 2020, you know, how quickly, oh God, those people, you know, how quickly did toilet paper disappear?
You know, like...
It's a terrible thing that people went nuts over toilet paper, but it's a real, like, you've seen how fast things can deteriorate, and we are on that precipice.
We are on that knee where it just starts to go crazy, and it, you know, we're there, and I know you know this, I know everybody watching this knows this, and this crisis Fortunately, there's some action that you can do.
A lot of these things I can't control.
Can I control what Saudi Arabia does or Biden or anything?
I can't handle all those geopolitical things.
But I can grow my own food.
I can buy some seeds.
I can get soil.
I can build raised beds.
I can go get a chicken coop.
I can build some rabbit tractors.
I can start providing for myself that way.
I can start making my own medicine and These are things that I absolutely can do and have control over and will better me in so many other ways that I really want to say to people that, you know, I know I got into this because I was freaked out.
But as you do it, it's so empowering and so enlivening and the spiritual connection is amazing.
You're working with your hands directly with forces of creation and magical things happen.
So I want to It's transformative.
Yeah, it is.
And you bring up something really important I want to mention, but let me give out your website one more time, icangrowfood.com.
That's the site where you can register, you can watch the full webinar.
And again, like Marjorie just said, even if you don't have time to start doing this right now, Watch the webinar and make a list of things you need to acquire so that you have those things.
Now, I want to mention, you know, the supply chain has been very problematic for the last three years.
And a lot of the gardening supplies, garden tools in particular, most of them come out of China.
We might be in a war with China over Taiwan sometime very soon.
We don't know when.
If that happens, there will likely be no more exports out of China for some period of time.
And the other issue is that I've noticed over the years that the garden tools have become cheaper and less reliable, just garbage, that you find at a Walmart, for example, or a Target.
Like, those shovels don't last.
Are you kidding me?
They're thin.
The metal is...
It's not good metal.
It breaks, you know.
You need to get some high-quality garden tools that you only have to buy once for 20 years.
And that requires a little bit of research, and it requires some money.
They're more expensive, but it's a very good investment, in my opinion.
Marjorie?
Or another way to do it that's a little bit more inexpensive, Mike, is to auction.
Auction sales, garage sales.
Absolutely.
There's lots of ways to do this without spending a lot of money.
And even when you go to those garage sales or something, if somebody's got like a jar of screws or nuts or bolts that we all have these jars of stuff that we're in the garage and we're going to get rid of, that's valuable.
That kind of hardware is important and will be useful at some point in time.
So I'm not a hoarder, but it's definitely a time to gather information.
Absolutely.
I saw Garage Sale here in Central Texas just popped in, and they had these slightly rusted chains.
I mean, like big chains that you use to clamp down equipment on a trailer.
And it was like 30-foot chains for five bucks.
Wow.
Yeah.
I'll take them all.
I mean, how many do you have?
I'm never going to get changed for five bucks ever again.
So, yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, you try to get those now at retail and they're like $95.
Yeah.
Yes.
It's insane.
And even at $95, it's cheaper than it's ever going to be going forward.
Right.
I was in Home Depot the other day, and I discovered angle grinders, which are these machines that cut through metal so easily.
I'm like, why didn't I know about this all my life?
And so I was waiting in the aisle there for the Home Depot guy to show me exactly which disc I needed for the thing I was buying.
And while I was there, a couple of guys...
Come cruising by and they're like, the one friend is getting to the other one.
He says, yeah, this is what you need.
And the guy goes, well, that's one.
He says, there's a 10-pack.
And he goes, yeah, yeah, you should get the 10-pack.
He goes, yeah, because it's never going to be cheaper.
And so the guy grabs two 10-packs and I'm thinking, there it is, you know.
Or another story, I was at, I've been doing some Wim Hof stuff and I was at a friend's These are people I just know their acquaintances, and they get a big horse trough, and everybody brings a couple of bags of ice, and then you can sit in the three-minute or ten-minute freezing thing, and it's really good for your immune system.
And I'm like, I'm going to do this while ice is still available.
And I'm listening to them, and they're sitting chatting around the pool, and these are the kind of people that are like, oh, you know, did you go to that concert, and this band is playing tomorrow?
And I'm like, oh, my God, I have nothing to say here.
And I feel so bad because...
I know what's coming, and they clearly don't.
And I can't even broach the subject.
And all these years I've been called such a crazy conspiracy theorist, I don't even want to broach the subject anymore.
But one thing the conversation shifted to that definitely caught my attention was like, hey, have you noticed the price of food going up?
Ha, ha, ha.
And there they're talking about how, you know, a $12 meal at the restaurant is now $20 or that, you know, a pound of beef used to be a couple of dollars and now it's $10.
I mean, it is becoming apparent to your average person who is completely unaware of what's going on.
And that is a sure sign of We're on that curve where it's about to spike up.
We indeed are, and isn't it bizarre that you could be called a conspiracy theorist for simply teaching people the need to grow their own food?
We live in, really, food deserts.
I mean, I remember interviewing you before, you were talking about how you were in Central Texas, you wanted to put together local farms to feed the local schools, and the farms didn't even exist.
They don't.
Yeah, that was the big wake-up call, was I found out there, you know, you're living in the city, you kind of have this idea, oh yeah, the countryside will always be able to get food, and I had found out, no, there's very, very little food out in that countryside, and there's no plan B, you know?
Right.
There's four days' worth in the grocery stores, which we have all seen how quickly that can disappear.
If food travels an average of 1,500 miles via a just-in-time trucking system, And I was living in Central Texas, surrounded by 20 million Americans who are armed, you know, Texans that are armed to the teeth.
And by the end of it, I was armed to the teeth.
Yeah, well, you know, if you live in Texas, you got to be armed to the teeth.
You got to.
It's just, you know, it's just part of the culture.
But I could see the potential for a huge disaster, and it was the wake-up call for me.
And I said, oh, my God, when you say, oh, somebody ought to work on that, you know who it is, right?
Well, let me add this, though, Marjorie.
There's another element to this that a lot of people haven't really considered.
But across mainstream media, You have the electric reliability councils and national organizations and state or western power grid orgs and so on talking about how the power grid will be less and less reliable because coal plants are being shut down.
And there are more electric cars being put on the grid, which puts a huge strain.
The grid's not even designed for that.
And we're going to have rolling blackouts.
And when we have rolling blackouts, and this is my food question to you, Marjorie, when we have rolling blackouts, a grocery store loses its entire frozen food section.
It does, yeah.
And grocery stores don't have giant multi-million dollar generators in the back parking lot.
They don't.
It's not worth the investment.
So after a certain time, I don't know if it's three hours or what, but when the thaw happens, they have to chuck all of it out.
And Marjorie, there was an incident in Austin.
I think it was a Costco.
No, no, wait.
It was an H-E-B, grocery store, where they lost electricity.
It all went bad.
They dumped all the frozen food in dumpsters.
Somebody put on Craigslist, like, free food in the dumpsters behind H-E-B, right?
And there was a crowd.
There was a mob of hundreds of people, and they were fistfighting over the dumpster food in Austin freaking Texas.
That happened.
Wow.
Yes.
You know, I used to have a friend years ago that lived off of dumpster diving in Austin, and he would live in the Green Belts, and then, you know, he'd go to Whole Foods, used to have samples, and he'd get the free thing, and he had a $60 a month subscription to the YMCA so he could shower and stuff.
And he lived extraordinarily well by living off of the dumpsters from the Whole Foods and the other places.
And I said, you know, that's really great, but that's not going to last forever.
Yeah.
And now listening to you, it's not going to last at all.
Yeah, well, you know, I mean, we had such excess and such largesse that people could, who were innovative, completely live off the system, just off the excess, but that's...
Yeah, wow, what a great story.
I totally believe that.
I mean, that's like right here in Texas happening.
So the final question along those lines, Marjorie, is what would you say to the naysayers?
Because I get this sometimes.
I've had this over the years.
Oh, everything's going to be fine.
Nothing's going to go wrong.
It's all good.
Why are you spreading fear?
You know, what would you say now to the naysayers?
Because we're kind of well into the in-your-face phase of the collapse.
What would you say now?
Yeah, well, just, you know, I talk to people like, well, the next time you're at the grocery store and your jaw drops at the price of eggs, come back to me.
I'll show you how to have free breakfast for life, you know.
But we really are getting, I mean, even when I was telling you that story about being by the pool and everybody going, oh, my God, the price of grocery.
I mean, that's what wakes people up is when it suddenly hits their bank account or their ATM.
They can't get cash out of it because their bank just closed.
But it's really the grocery store, the price of food.
I think that's why we're at that point in the curve where it's just about over is because your average person is noticing that, hey, I go spend $100 and I get one little bag, whereas that used to be my week's groceries.
So it really is ridiculous.
We're really there, Mike.
I do want to say I'm very, very hopeful.
It's going to be horrible for a couple of years, maybe more, maybe a decade, because everything is collapsing all at once.
Our financial systems, our food systems, our education systems, our transportation, our communication, everything that you can think of is collapsing.
But it's all based on this crazy, you know, unfair, corrupt system.
So the collapsing is a good thing.
We are going to have to rebuild everything, but there's incredible opportunity there, too.
Yeah, I completely agree with you.
This collapse is, frankly, a necessary step to how we rebuild society in a way where power is distributed to we the people, where people are more self-reliant, and we don't have centrally controlled authorities lording over us and telling us what we can't do.
Like, oh, you're not allowed to milk a cow and share it with your neighbors.
Or trying to program us to believe this or the other.
And to go back to the naysayers, honestly, I hate to be so blunt, but there are going to be a lot of people that just don't make it through this.
They're not prepared.
They don't have enough adaptability to change as the situation demands it.
Well, maybe we could offer them a course in spontaneous cannibalism Oh my God!
No!
You know, for those who didn't prepare, if you don't know how to grow food, if you don't have any food, guess what?
There's this alternative that you might want to look into, spontaneous cannibalism.
Okay, that's a bad joke, obviously.
That's a really bad joke.
Yeah, you know, honestly.
People are going to eat each other, though.
That's my point, because of the desperation.
Maybe.
I don't know.
I've been in survival and preparedness circles for years and everybody goes, Marjorie, would you eat?
I said, you know, the average American is so toxic.
I wouldn't eat.
The average American is...
I mean, there's so many better options like wild hogs or what have you.
Yeah.
But folks, that's a joke, folks, the whole spontaneous cannibalism comment.
People do go insane, though.
They do.
That's the point.
Hunger makes people crazy.
You know, Germany, I'm going to go back to Weimar, Germany again.
And the Germans are, you know, the stout...
Generally, people are good people, and they were really good people, but when they got into that situation where everything was just no longer available at any price, basically, They did.
They would go crazy.
And then they would go out into the countryside and they would just clearly be out of their minds, you know, trying to, you know, pillage from farmers.
And the farmers themselves were like, these people were not, they were not in their right minds.
So we, you know, I genuinely believe that people are fundamentally good.
And if you're in a community where you've been working with people ahead of time, again, we got to come on and do the building community thing.
I believe that there will be enough of that that we're going to do well, but we're going to have some...
There's going to be some bad elements that are going to have to be taken care of.
Yeah, no, people are fundamentally good until they're starving.
And that's just a fact of human history.
I mean, all the special forces people know this.
If you have a population you're trying to deal with and they're all starving to death, it's not going to go well.
But maybe we should have, you know, your website, icangrowfood.com.
I'm going to recommend a new name for you.
Learn how to grow food so you don't have to eatyourneighbor.com.
How about that?
My team is already like, I think I'm about as bad as you are in terms of collecting URLs.
Yeah.
See, and that way, people are like, what do we do now?
Well, guess what?
Here's the answer.
But I do want to mention, we've just launched, by the way, something called Brighteon University.
Which is all educational content that we have a new program each week.
Registration is required.
And I'd like to talk to you after this about some of your educational content.
We would love to stream it on Bright Town University and get more people exposed to it and help promote your world, the Food Grow Network, everything that you're doing.
So let's talk about that.
Yeah, gosh, 15 years of creating content.
I've got a ton for you.
Exactly, you do.
You're like a living encyclopedia of amazing food, grow knowledge.
It's your real treasure.
Oh gosh, thank you, Mike.
I appreciate that.
It's been a passion for a long time.
I knew something like this would happen.
It's not rocket science.
You can just see that we're wired for it.
I'm really grateful we've actually had the last decade that we've had.
Well, this has been amazing.
We'd love to have you back soon, especially as things happen in the food supply, which it's going to get interesting because of the fertilizer shortages and the You know, everything with Russia affecting global fertilizer production, fertilizer shutdowns in Europe, and so on, increased energy prices.
We'll talk about that next time you come back, but I just want to say thank you for joining me today.
It's been a great conversation.
Thank you, Mike.
Thank you.
All right.
Folks, the website is icangrowfood.com.
It's Marjorie Wildcraft's free webinar.
Watch the webinar even if you don't have time to grow food right now.
At least learn what's involved in it or refresh yourself if it's been a while since you grew food and get ready to grow some portion.
Of your own food.
It doesn't have to be 50%.
If you grow 10%, that might be the difference between starving versus living.
So just learn to grow something, and icangrowfood.com is the place to do that.
Thank you for watching today.
Mike Adams here on brighteon.com with Marjorie Wildcraft.
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