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Jan. 30, 2024 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams
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SEEDS keep you ALIVE: Alex Mitchell from Ark Seeds interviewed by Mike Adams...
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If you're into garden seeds at all, not only to grow them, but also to use them for barter, you're going to love today's interview.
Welcome.
It's brighttown.com.
Mike Adams here.
And our guest today is Alex Mitchell from arcseedkits.com.
And we're announcing a new partnership with Arc Seed Kits.
And we now carry their products at our online store, healthrangerstore.com.
And here to tell us all about it is the founder, Alex Mitchell.
Welcome, Alex.
Great to have you back on.
Thanks, Mike.
So glad, so happy to be with you guys and to see all you guys again.
Yeah, we're happy to have you on here, too.
And for our audience, you were joining us from your greenhouse, and the bandwidth just wasn't working there, so you're now in your living room.
But I can confirm you were in a greenhouse surrounded by plants a few minutes ago.
Yeah.
Yes.
Sorry about that.
I wanted to show all you guys everything we have growing right now.
I know.
That would be really cool.
Maybe we can do that in an upcoming show.
In the meantime, we're really thrilled to be able to partner with you with your seed kits.
They've been very popular among our audience.
Can my producer show on my desk here?
I've got one of your products here, which is the cylinder of seeds.
Yeah, there it is.
And this is, I believe this is called the All-in-One Vegetable Seed Kit.
It's a four-inch PVC, very rugged.
And if you pop off the lid, it's just packed with seeds.
And you have a couple different seed kits.
Can you just describe what kind of collections you put together for people?
Sure.
Yeah, we offer our All-in-One Kit, the tube that you were just showing, that has 50,000 seeds in it.
There's 70 different varieties.
So we have Six or seven different types of beans.
Seven or eight different types of tomatoes.
There's about five different types of squash.
16 different herbs.
Part of those being medicinal herbs to be able to make your own medicine.
We have carrots, cabbage, broccoli, peas.
Let's see.
Onions.
Multiple different types of onions.
So we just want to give a really broad...
Variation in our all-in-one tube.
Basically, that's why it's called the all-in-one kit.
So it's everything that you would want to grow in your vegetable garden in that kit.
The gold bag, we have a smaller size.
It's called our backyard kit.
A little bit smaller seed count and about 6,000 seeds.
We have 20 varieties in that.
So it's made for maybe a smaller size garden or if you live in an apartment, gardening on a patio.
But our real special, most popular option that we offer right now is our Prepper Special.
Ah, here it is.
That was actually designed after doing an interview with you, Mike, back in the spring.
It became very popular.
So this special offers...
Five of the all-in-one tubes for the price of four.
So you're saving about $300 on that one.
So this is for a whole community or you get together with your neighbors or family members and you get five of these tubes.
How many total seeds are in that?
50,000 in one tube.
Oh, wow.
Okay.
So do people...
I'm curious...
I know that many of your customers actively grow many of these seeds, of course, but a lot of others are just vaulting them, I would imagine, in preparedness or barter or growing food after an emergency.
How many of your customers are actually in that mindset, do you think?
Surprisingly, over the years, about 75% of our customers are purchasing and collecting and saving seeds.
For preparing for the future and for having more of an emergency stash of seeds.
We have a smaller amount of our customer base are just looking for new seeds every year to just plant in the garden.
But a majority of our customers and our listeners are interested in the whole process of saving heirloom seeds, growing your seed stock year after year to be able to supply food for you and your family and offer food security for the future.
Now, I actually want to show, we just took the lid off of this ARC seed kit cylinder, and I want to just show some of what's in here.
All different seed packs, instructions, and many, many different packs here, all labeled like, what is this, prizehead leaf lettuce and parsnips and so on, all the way down to...
Chickpeas, garbanzo beans here.
There's a certain amount of corn.
A lot of different beans, vegetables.
I mean, this looks like more than enough to feed a large number of people if you actually grow these.
I mean, even assuming only, dare I say, a 50% germination rate, although I know yours are much higher than that, but even if only half of these germinate, you've got a lot of food.
I mean, this is a lot of seeds here.
Yeah, if you plant all the seeds that are in the tube, it probably would cover about a two to three acre plot of land.
We just never encourage everybody to Plant all the seeds at one time in case one variety gets hit with a certain blight or disease or something and then you have no more of those seeds.
So we just encourage you to, you know, maybe plant half or three quarters of the seed stock that comes in the kit and then learn how to save them every year.
Right.
So these are all heirloom style seeds.
I mean, they're not GMO. You can save seeds generation after generation.
That's a critical philosophy of what you advocate, right?
Yes.
Yeah, it's the easiest way to understand it if you're new to never learning or understanding about garden seeds is there's two types of seeds.
There's hybrid and there's heirloom.
And hybrid seeds are designed to grow really good crop and Stock that one year, but being able to take the seeds out of a hybrid watermelon, let's say, and save those seeds for the next year, it won't guarantee that it's going to grow you a watermelon.
Right.
Whereas the difference is heirloom seeds will reproduce year after year and you can save those seeds from the heirloom watermelon and then save them for the next year and replant them.
All of our varieties as well are over 100 years old.
So they've gone through all the drought and the blight and the disease.
So they're the most hardiest, highest quality non-GMO seeds that you can get.
That's really critical to understand that these seeds are the survivor seeds of multiple generations.
Like you said, some of them 100 years of going through early frosts or different disease or pests or drought, all kinds of things.
These are Mother Nature's miracles.
Exactly, yeah.
And what I love about seeds, I love the miracles of nature and the fact that you put one of these...
And many of these you can grow out of containers.
You can grow them on a balcony.
I've grown many of these things, such as lettuce and kale and so on, out of the non-circulating hydroponic systems, out of the bins.
You don't even need any pumps.
You don't need any electricity, anything, as long as you have sunlight.
But these...
Most of these, I would say, are incredibly easy to grow.
What would your message be to non-gardeners who might feel a little intimidated by all this?
Well, that's a good question, Mike, because I would like to speak with everyone who is listening, who has maybe in the past purchased seeds or you have your own stock of heirloom seeds.
But for those who are listening who are maybe thinking, I... I'm not a gardener.
I've never gardened or I don't have land to garden on.
I would just say two points to you that's important.
One being if the time comes in the future where we do have to be able to grow and rely on our own food, you don't want to get stuck in the middle of that not knowing or just learning at that point.
So it's really important.
Even if you just start with one or two varieties, something small, you don't have to start with 70.
When I first began, I started with five or six, not 70.
So just to encourage you to start small and start practicing right now.
So then when the time comes, you're not stuck learning in the middle of a crisis situation.
So that's the first point that I would say.
And then the second point that I think is important is Even if you have not necessarily known or understood the value of seeds or think, I don't have land, I'll never use them, maybe take a different look at seeds and the importance of them for a trading or a bartering in the future, sort of like gold and silver and ammunition, guns, all of those different things.
Even if maybe you never plant the seed in the ground, but think of it as a source of a savings account per se, that would be important to use to be able to trade.
Because if we do look back in history, and even back to the early 1900s, when there was large communities of actually using seeds to trade for currency, that's how they actually were buying things, that we could see those days in the future.
I think that's a very important point.
In fact, I want to show...
Here I've got a couple of silver coins, one-ounce silver coins on my desk.
And I've been talking about these recently.
These are gold backs.
And these are little note-sized items that have actual gold layered inside the polymer.
And they're really beautiful.
And I don't have gold coins here.
Otherwise, I would show you those.
But...
As much as I'm an advocate of silver and gold and also practical ammunition and so on, the truth is that you can't eat any of that stuff.
You can't eat gold, you can't eat silver, you can't eat lead, or hopefully you're not eating lead if you're on the receiving end of it.
You can't eat that stuff, but your seeds, this is food potential.
I mean, this is, in a sense, more valuable than gold.
When people are starving, they will spend all the silver and all the gold in the world in order to eat.
So food is in a whole different category, and this is like food potential right here.
Add water, soil, and sunlight, and you've got food and time.
So what are your thoughts?
Yeah, you know, what's interesting, I was thinking while you were just talking about this, is probably our largest group of listeners and customers purchasing the seeds in large amounts of quantities are actually doctors,
lawyers, financial advisors, traders, And they're calling, emailing, sending messages saying that they would like multiple amounts of seeds.
They know that it's going to be at the very near future, some sort of savings account or way that currency in order to be able to purchase, you know, trade, borrow.
And so it's when we look at, you know, being...
Diversifying with our assets is something important.
So we're not only focusing on silver or only focusing on ammo, but having a little bit of everything is really important.
But like you said, Mike, when it comes down to it, we need food to survive.
So learning now how to grow.
I thought about this right before we were doing the interview.
And something that we're going through on our farm and with my family is we've always done cows, we've done meat cows, we've done chickens, we've done sheep, llamas, but we've never done milking cows.
And I keep talking to my husband back and forth about making the decision that we need to learn how to do it now so in the future it's not something new that we have to rely on that we've never done.
So it's something new, stepping out, just practicing, even though I can go to the store and buy milk right now, but learning how to do it in case it's something in the future.
So it's the same thing with gardening and growing seeds.
If it's something you've never done, just take the step and try to just practice.
You can't fail.
Just do a few varieties and I completely agree.
I think that's excellent advice.
This is the very reason why over, I don't know, 10, 12 years ago, I decided to start raising backyard chickens for the chicken eggs.
I mean, just like you said, sure, I can go to the grocery store and I can buy eggs, but I want to have the knowledge of how to keep chickens healthy and how to...
Produce eggs on my ranch.
And I've had chickens ever since.
It's kind of like they're just part of the farm now.
I can't really imagine it without them.
But in terms of growing these seeds, I would tell people, yeah, here's some lettuce seeds.
It's almost impossible to do it, to fail at this, if you want to just grow lettuce.
Just have some soil.
You can even use The composting solutions or coconut coir with water and nutrients.
I mean, there's so many ways to do this.
Or you can use suspended net pots, but just plant some lettuce and start growing some baby lettuce leaves Just so that you know how to do it.
And then take those and put them in your regular salads or your smoothies.
I'll blend up kale and lettuce in my smoothies as well because it's got the enzymes, it's got the chlorophyll, it's got all the nutrients.
And this is what a lot of people don't understand.
People think, well, where am I going to get calcium unless I'm drinking milk or eating meat?
Well, actually, there's so much calcium in lettuce that I mean, the top two nutrients that you have to feed plants are calcium and magnesium.
So plants are loaded with calcium and magnesium.
I mean, all of them, without exception.
There's calcium in broccoli.
There's calcium in corn.
You're not going to have a shortage of calcium unless you're just starving to death, and then you have a shortage of everything.
But these plants can provide critical nutrients that you need.
What are your thoughts, Alex?
Yeah, I 100% agree.
I wanted to share a little bit more information too that we do offer.
I think I can maybe hold it up here for you to see, but I did write a seed guide that comes with the all-in-one kit, the tube, and it has all the information inside on every variety of every seed that we include in the kit on how to grow them, how to harvest, how to save your own seeds.
So if you are new to it, or even you are an expert gardener, you may know way more than I do on it.
It will have a lot of information in here as well.
Like Mike was just talking about the different vitamins that are included in the seeds or in the vegetables.
It has a whole description on all of the medicinal herbs that we include.
And when the time comes, how to make your own tinctures and how to make your own salves, echinacea.
And chamomile and all the benefits of what it can do.
So it's all the steps, how you grow it, when to harvest it, when to save the seeds, and then how to make your own medicine from it.
That was actually my next question because off-grid medicine is going to be critical for survival.
And I've shown people things like using an ultrasonic cleaner as an herb extractor, which is the fastest way to get nutrients out of herbs or to make your own healing nutrients or nutrient solutions.
But tell us, because I can't go through all the seeds here, obviously, but in this kit, can you name some of the medicinal plants that are represented by the seeds?
Yeah.
Yep.
So one of them I was just talking about was echinacea.
So again, it will go through every step of how you grow it and then how you save the seeds.
And you can make a tincture, you can make a tea.
Echinacea is known as one of the top medicinal herbs and medicines.
They even use it in hospitals and in doctor's offices for colds, respiratory issues, Chamomile is another one that's used for colds, but also for calming, for stress.
We have St.
John's wort.
That helps with ward off depression.
We have fenugreek, which helps with female hormones, helps with...
Type 2 diabetes.
Yeah, diabetes.
Can help with digestion.
It can help with increased mother's milk supply for nursing.
Those are just a few of them.
But like I said, we have 16 that we offer inside of the kit.
So you're getting the potential to grow medicine as well as food and calories.
What kinds of things do you recommend that people sort of augment this with?
Because you can't, obviously you can't have in the seed kit, you can't put, you know, butter in it.
Lard, you know, things like, and those aren't seeds anyway, but I mean, if you're going to cook with this, what other sort of mainstay ingredients should people also consider storing?
Well, like I said, getting a milking cow.
Yeah.
No, I would, yeah, I mean, if, you know, having your own supply of beef and dairy to add in with the vegetables, whether it's From your own animals or whether you have connections from friends or family or neighbors to be able to get those supplies is, you know, where it's going to be important to add in to supplement with your vegetables.
I will say we did build the all-in-one kit to be a really high protein calorie dense seed varieties.
So One thing that sets us apart from a lot of other seed kits on the market, this is something that's really important, is we include a high number count of a lot of varieties of beans, which are going to give you a lot of protein and calories.
We have a high number of parsnips, carrots, beets, rutabaga, a lot of the high calorie foods.
Whereas there's a lot of seed kits on the market today, That are showing that they have a high seed count, like 50,000 seeds.
But when you look in the fine print, it'll say 40,000 seeds of them are lettuce.
You're not going to survive on lettuce.
You need to have protein.
You need to have high calorie foods.
So that is one major point that sets our seed kits apart.
You will never find another seed kit that offers over a thousand bean seeds.
That is definitely something that...
So again, with supplementing, like you're saying, you're getting your vegetables, but you're also getting fruits.
You're getting high calorie, high dense foods.
Right, right.
That makes a lot of sense.
And thanks for pointing out some of the differences.
And this is why we're really thrilled to partner with your company.
You've already helped thousands of our viewers and listeners with seed kits direct from your website.
And now we have you in our online store, healthrangerstore.com, folks.
So if you want to check these out, we've got the backyard seed kit.
We have the all-in-one vegetable seed kit, which is what...
The cylinder is.
And then we have the preppers special, which is a five pack.
You can get together with some friends and you get five of these packs for the cost of just four.
And that gives you then 250,000 total seeds.
That's correct, right, Alex?
It's 250,000 total in those five, and for many families and many people.
Now, potatoes.
Obviously, there's not potato seeds, so to speak, in here, but I would recommend that people also augment their farming with potatoes because it's such an easy source of calories.
Do you agree with that, or what's your advice on potatoes?
Yeah, I would agree.
Potatoes are so easy to pass down year after year after year.
So if you start with a source from your one year, then save those where you don't actually start from a seed.
I would say another one that'd be important that's medicinal is the garlic clove.
That would be another seed that we can't put in the tube.
But once you have a start of a garlic source, then you can keep it going every year just like you can with potatoes.
I'm trying to think if there's anything else outside of that to...
Well, let me add this comment, and I've mentioned before that good compost, I've called it black gold.
And sort of my advice on this is that when you're making compost yourself, if you've got a yard or maybe a couple of acres, even whatever, if you're making compost, you're making compost.
Food potential.
And, you know, sometimes making good compost can take many years, whatever you're feeding it, kitchen scraps or whatever.
But when you're making good soil, then all these seeds are going to be amplified in their effects.
And I would hate for people to buy the seeds and then end up having no knowledge of what makes good soil and they don't really have anything good to grow it in.
And then the plants do poorly.
So what's your advice on...
On soil prep or nutrient prep for growing productive, abundant plants.
Yeah, this is a good point.
So in our seed guide as well, towards the back, we have a whole recipe for everyone that includes our favorite recipe that we use for our composting and getting our gardens ready for the optimal soil that we love that provides the highest nutrient vegetables that you can grow.
So Mike's right about the importance of the soil is what's going to put the most nutrients into your vegetables and into your plants.
So I always explain it to people that you can have one head of broccoli from the grocery store, and you can have one head of broccoli from your garden, and they can look the same.
But the nutrients, if we were to test them, is going to be completely different when we grow them in the highest...
Yeah, exactly.
And it's the minerals that people get deficient in.
And traditional, you know, large-scale commercial farming removes the minerals over time.
I mean, they only add back N, P, and K, just, you know, basic fertilizer.
Right.
But it's missing the trace minerals.
It's missing the selenium.
It's missing sometimes the copper or the other trace elements that are important for good health.
Zinc, for example.
A lot of plants that come from grocery stores are low in zinc.
And zinc as a nutrient prevents viruses from replicating in your cells.
Exactly.
So you want high zinc plants, and that means you have to think about your soil prep and have good mineral density in your soils And then what about microbiology?
Because we know that good microbes are necessary for the plant's roots to take up those minerals and, you know, convert them into plant forms, really.
What are your thoughts on good soil microbiology?
So one technique that we've used over the years with gardening is a style, maybe some of you guys have heard of it, called Back to Eden Growing Method, where you don't actually disrupt much of the soil and the ground.
So you have, like Mike is explaining, all the microbiology.
You have all the ecosystem underneath the ground that you're not touching or disturbing, and you're basically planting your plants on top.
And you have a lot of less weeding, less watering, and you're not disturbing basically all the work underground that's being done in order to bring the nutrients from the soil into the plants.
So that's a technique.
Not everybody doesn't have to do Back to Eden method.
Sometimes we till certain areas.
Sometimes we Don't even disturb the ground underneath.
It kind of depends on what we're planting and where.
But my overall message would be try to bring as least Yeah.
If you plow up a big area, you're going to spend the rest of your life pulling weeds.
Exactly.
Which you'll be burning all the calories that you're going to get from your plants just pulling weeds.
You have to grow acres of carrots just to have the calories to pull weeds.
That's the other thing that people need to think about is the caloric inputs and outputs of what it takes to grow food.
And the way I've always thought about it is you have certain foods like potatoes, corn, beans, and carrots, these are rich in calories, but they're not necessarily very high in the medicinal nutrients.
So for the medicinal nutrients, that's where you're going to get the lettuces, the greens, the herbs, parsley, kale, all these kinds of things, especially the more pungent, leafy lettuce-type varieties.
That's where you're going to get the most medicine.
But you eat those for nutrients, not for calories.
Like you said, you're not going to live on lettuce.
But you do need nutrients from lettuce, but you're going to get calories from these other crops, the beans, the corn, the potatoes, and maybe cow's milk on top of that.
Maybe butter, which would make a lot of this a lot more delicious, by the way, to have some butter in with it as well.
Does that make sense?
Does that resonate with what you teach as well?
Yes.
We do a lot of connecting exactly what you're saying with what we're growing, connecting it to our health.
That's right.
To bury conscious as far as what we put into our body and the energy that it gives us back.
So we do the exact same thing here and we agree.
Give us some feedback from some of our viewers who have purchased from you over the last couple of years.
What kinds of things do you hear from them?
I have one response I would love to read.
I have actually hundreds and hundreds, but I picked one of my favorite.
This is from maybe back six months ago.
And this was specifically on replying to storage of the seeds.
So we have designed the tubes in a way that will store the seeds for 15 years or longer.
As long as they're stored in a cool, dark, dry place.
But we heard a response from a customer, and forgive me because there's a couple choice words he uses, but it's just his response.
So he said, I felt it necessary to let you all know that one of your all-in-one kids was involved in a fire several years ago.
Hot enough to melt the plastic bags of some of the seeds.
Despite this and another few years with it in storage, my friend gave me the kit to see if anything would grow.
Here I thought there wasn't a chance in hell, but whatever.
Let's see.
I'll be damned if everything I planted sprouted and it grew as healthy as can be.
And since it was a long shot, I planted...
Just about everything that was in there.
So suddenly, I had over 3,000 plants to deal with.
They were so good looking, I had to sell every damn one I couldn't use.
Great product.
Can't wait to try it again without the fire.
That's great.
We get responses like this from people over the years.
We've been in business for 15 years, so I could share so many stories where, you know, the most impactful ones are where people really might make a life change in their eating and their health and they take care of, you know,
stopping eating fast food and stop the diets that they've been on and starting to learn to grow their own food and then eating the nutrient-rich food that's brought so much healing to so many people who have been in poor health.
We have, you know, 70, 80.
I just talked to a lady yesterday on the phone.
Yesterday, she's 90 years old and she's still out on her porch every day growing tomatoes and watermelon.
And the rest of the seeds she gives to her kids and that's what she grows.
So we have such a diverse customer base and listening to stories every day.
So many different examples and such great feedback.
Well, growing your own food can really be transformative, and not just about your health, but also, you know, spiritually.
To be part of the process of producing the food that you consume, which becomes your physical body, and it affects your moods and your mind and all of that, it really is transformative.
But I want to mention something else that I really like what you did about this canister here.
This being rugged, I think it's Schedule 40 PVC with ends on it.
This is rodent proof.
And I gotta tell you, I've had many different seed collections over the years and I've had mice get into some of those seed collections and mice just gobble them up.
But with this, this is most definitely mouse-proof.
I mean, it's even raccoon-proof, I would say.
It took us a little bit of effort to get this lid off.
This is really situated for long-term storage so that you can rely on it.
And even if you don't look at it for five years or more, you're not going to open it up and see that moths have eaten all of it or mice have gotten into all of it.
So have you had feedback confirming that as well?
Yeah, yep.
So, you know, the fire story is just one of many.
We've had stories of, you know, they've gone through a flood and the tube, there's been no water inside of it.
It's been run over by a truck.
All the seeds are fine, not damaged, and they're still growing.
We've even had seeds stored somewhere that's way hotter than normal and they're still germinating.
Stories, you know, people and Out in the desert, Arizona, all over around the world growing, the seeds are still germinating.
And as long as, you know, the optimal storage is in a cool, dark, dry place inside the tube.
So that's going to make them store as long as possible.
But should people avoid freezing them, I would think?
I don't recommend the freezing or the refrigerator because a seed is actually alive and it has a very small percentage of oxygen in order to keep that seed alive.
So if you, you know, some people want to put oxygen absorbers inside or in the freezer and I just don't recommend that because I think it can drastically reduce the longevity of the seeds.
So what temperature is ideal for storage?
You know, it just is anywhere between, you know, in the 50s or 60s, not much higher than like 70 would probably be, you know, where you want to cut it off at.
Okay.
But if people just store them at room temperature, which let's say would be an average of, I don't know, 75 degrees Fahrenheit, it would still have many years of longevity at that temperature?
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, I've done that ourselves.
And the reason I can say 15 plus years is because we've been saving our seeds and growing them for 15 plus years.
So it could be many, many more years than that.
I'm sure you guys have heard of the seeds that were found in the Dead Sea Scrolls and, you know, over about 2,000 years ago and they germinated and grew.
Yeah.
Yeah, that's extraordinary.
But even if you start to lose some germination potential, there are so many seeds that you can just overplant by 20% or something and you'll get what you want.
Exactly.
Right.
Yeah, one example, I think I maybe showed this on the interview before, I can't remember, but this is one of our packs here of our field corn.
And just as an example, kind of as a visual, We planted about three or four years ago, we planted all of these seeds just out back in our farm.
And when it came time to harvest at the end, in the fall, we saved all the corn and we dried them and we rubbed all the little kernels off and everything.
And just this one small bag, we got five, five gallon buckets full of seeds.
To give a visual for people how quick your supply can grow.
So whether you're trying to save seeds for yourself or for your family or your community, or even just to supply corn and grain for your animals, you can increase your supply really quickly.
From learning how to save your own seeds.
Oh, that's a really good point.
Yeah, because I have backyard chickens, like I said, and a lot of people do have animals.
And what if the animal grain supply chain breaks down?
You need to be able to grow locally food for those animals.
So that's a great point.
Not just corn, but a lot of these other foods.
I mean, I'm sure my goats would just love to get into everything.
They want to eat everything anyway.
Yeah.
Well, it's a good reminder that you can, even if you're doing it for trade or for currency, to be able to increase your seed supply really quickly.
Just think how many seeds are in one tomato.
Yeah.
We just don't think of that when we're eating or like in a watermelon or in a cucumber.
You can increase your seeds stock supply really quickly.
Yeah, you could end up, I don't know, in a collapse scenario, you could end up being in the seed production business just growing this heirloom corn, for example, to produce seeds to then barter with other people.
And you can't grow more gold.
You can't grow more silver, obviously, but you can grow more seeds.
It's just time.
And then you can use that to trade with other people.
Exactly.
Mike, I wanted to ask you one thing to share in regards to all the seeds that we've been talking about and the importance of gardening and trying to connect it together with What is going on current events today with the grocery stores and the food increase, the percentages and all of that.
You want to ask for my overview of what the situation is?
Yeah, just making a connection with what is going on as far as just an update of what you're hearing and seeing.
Well, the food supply chain is very fragile, and people are seeing that.
And we keep seeing these fires.
Some of them seem to be sabotage, explosions, targeting food facilities.
Restaurants are having a very difficult time getting the ingredients they need.
I was just talking to a restaurant owner the other day, and he said that sometimes the food distributors that sell to restaurants, they're just out of so many things.
And he said he has to sometimes run to a local grocery store just to pick up some extra ingredient that's missing that the food distributors can't get them, but sometimes the grocery store will have it.
So the supply chain is really strained right now, and I don't think that's going to get any better anytime soon.
And then at the same time, food inflation is so high that growing your own food used to be considered by many to be an expensive hobby where you could just go buy it more cheaply.
That's not necessarily the case today, especially with things like peppers.
Think about green peppers or red peppers.
You know how much those cost in the grocery store?
Or try to buy organic red peppers in the grocery store.
You know, they're like individually shrink-wrapped, almost $5 each some places.
It's crazy.
Okay.
I mean, think about how much money you're growing by planting red peppers and growing them organically.
You're growing, you know, you could be growing $100 worth of peppers right there easily.
So it makes economic sense.
Right.
Yeah, that's...
I'm just seeing on our end, our increase of sales in the last two to three years has gone up 5,000%.
So it's the...
The desire of everyone wanting to learn how to garden more, but also understanding the importance of having your own seeds and not just relying on other people or the restaurants or the grocery stores.
The hybrid seeds that are out there, they're sold at the hardware stores very often.
I think it's kind of a scam in a way because their seeds aren't viable generation after generation, which forces you to go back and keep buying their seeds.
It's like a repeat purchase being forced upon you.
Well, I don't want to grow anything that I can't save the seeds on and perpetuate multiple generations because I don't know what's going to happen in society.
I mean, I want food I can count on.
Not to mention that a lot of the hybrid seeds that are originated with chemicals and pesticides and are started out being grown with everything genetically modified.
So it's never even originally started out with the good genetics at the beginning.
Yeah, that's a really good point.
Absolutely.
All right.
Well, this has been a fascinating discussion, and I'm just thrilled that we're partnering with you because I've been a fan of your products here for a couple of years.
I just want to remind folks they can get your products at healthrangerstore.com.
We have three different products available, including this backyard seed kit.
We have the all-in-one vegetable seed kit, and then the Prepper's special five-pack for the price of four.
Anything else you want to add, Alex, before we wrap this up?
I just want to encourage everyone who's listening, Like I had said before, that if you're an expert gardener and you have gardened your whole life, thank you and continue growing and saving the heirloom seeds.
And if you're new and just to encourage you that just start small and increase little by little and just to Gain a more understanding of the importance of seeds in our future and how valuable they are going to become very soon.
That's right.
This is the sustainability of human civilization we're talking about here and these seeds are miracles from God and Mother Nature and these plants synthesize medicinal molecules for free.
That can help prevent degenerative disease just because of the nature of healing foods and human physiology.
These foods are growing medicines.
That's why the pharmaceutical industry sometimes goes to the plant world and tries to mimic those molecules to make patented drugs.
But you can grow many medicinal phytonutrients essentially for free.
So it's a beautiful thing.
We wouldn't be here without seeds, that's for sure.
Maybe the next interview we can be in the greenhouse or out in the garden actually doing some hands-on Okay, yeah.
If you can get the bandwidth working, I'd love to do that.
I'll still be in the studio here, but maybe I'll film some B-roll of my chickens or something like that.
That'll be milking our cow.
Yeah, I can film my chickens eating these grub worms that we produce, and the chickens go crazy over the worms, let me tell you.
That's pretty wild.
Well, thank you, Alex.
Great to talk with you again.
We're thrilled to partner with you, and thank you for all that you do to help get seeds in the hands of people.
Yeah, thank you so much, Mike, and the Health Ranger store, and Brighteon, and for all the listeners.
All right.
Thank you so much, Alex.
Have a great rest of your day.
We'll talk again soon.
Okay, you too.
Thanks.
All right, and thank you for watching and thank you for your support.
Again, you can get these seeds at healthrangerstore.com.
They are in supply right now.
The shipping is happening right away.
There's not a backlog at the moment, but you can imagine that situation could change based on, you know, food supply panic or whatever happens in the world, oil supply panic, who knows.
Anyway, it's good to have these.
Get yourself a seed vault, essentially.
Get it in your possession.
Have it in your house.
Have it in storage.
Keep it cool and dry.
And you will be sitting on a potential gold mine of food and also seeds for barter.
So add it to your stockpile of whatever else you have.
Gold, silver, ammo, diesel fuel.
I don't know what you have.
Emergency medicine.
Make sure you've got a good supply of garden seeds.
And thank you for your support.
I'm Mike Adams here, the founder of Brighteon.com.
God bless you all.
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