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March 31, 2025 - Health Ranger - Mike Adams

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Alex and Morgan Mitchell join Mike Adams to talk about Challenges and Strategies in Preparedness

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	Welcome, everybody, to this special interview here in the Brighteon.com studios in Central Texas.
	And we are joined by Alex and Morgan Mitchell, who have a very special new announcement to share with us today.
	They have developed a docuseries course that we're going to be featuring at BrightU.com, and it's called Prepare Tribe, Prepare, Protect, Provide, Prepare Tribe.
	And they developed it specifically to have it streamed at Brighteon University and to address The issues that we care about here in our community.
	So, welcome!
	It's great to see both of you.
	Great to be here.
	Thanks. This is the first time I've ever met you in person, although I've interviewed Alex before remotely.
	But it's great to see you both in person.
	She looks better.
	You both look great.
	You look healthy.
	Thanks. And you look excited to be out of the cold of, what is it, Michigan?
	Yeah, it's good to be here.
	We got five inches of snow yesterday.
	Really? Yeah.
	We're getting ready for a brutal summer here in Texas.
	It's already hot.
	Maybe time for you to come north then.
	Yeah, maybe so.
	Welcome. It's so great what you're doing and we are so thrilled to be able to partner with you to stream your series.
	Let's... Well, I want to talk about what's in the series, but first let's give a little bit of a background.
	You're known for your seed kits and much more.
	So you want to start, Morgan, with just sort of What are you two up to?
	Good question.
	I'll dive in a little bit, and then maybe have Alex give a little history, because it's really cool.
	You have a big part, as she was saying just briefly earlier, Mike.
	So thank you, and thanks for having us.
	Thanks for everything.
	We're thrilled to have you here.
	We've been in the preparedness space for a while, personally.
	So we've been doing homesteading, a lot of stuff you've been doing, chickens, cows, bees, maple syrup.
	All kinds of stuff.
	So we've been cultivating a lot of knowledge firsthand ourselves.
	But ARK, the seed company, came at us, that was 17 years ago now.
	And we've been at that for a while and growing in our knowledge of seeds and gardening.
	But this, a couple years ago, came as a result, really, of something that was a request from you.
	So maybe I'll let Alex take it.
	Really? Yeah, yeah!
	Let's hear it!
	It's a cool story.
	Yeah, I would say...
	Well, maybe we've been partnered now for three or four years, but in the first interview, I remember you, Mike, had asked, have we ever thought about doing, you know, videos or any type of education to help people, even just with gardening or, you know, growing the seeds?
	And anyway, we, I just, I'm like out in the garden.
	I want to do this stuff.
	I don't really want to, you know, make professional videos or anything.
	I kind of drug my feet with it up until about last year.
	And then I thought, let's go ahead.
	We'll do this.
	We'll grow a whole garden and stage it with, you know, from start to finish, basically, of all of the 70 varieties of seeds that we grow and harvest from start to finish.
	To show people all the steps?
	Yeah, the steps.
	Whoa. And through the process, we had a team came alongside of us who are helping us do all the video editing and said, who is your main audience?
	Who are your customers?
	And we just said, well, most people who are trying to be self-sustaining and they're trying to be prepared.
	And they said, why have you thought about trying to reach all the areas of preparedness, not just gardening and seed saving and food preservation?
	So that kind of started us on a journey of preparedness.
	And having community, which actually a lot of people overlook as an asset in preparedness.
	Absolutely. So thank you.
	Yeah, thank you.
	Wow, well I'm glad that we could serve as an inspiration of sorts.
	But it sounds like, so you had this professional crew, then I guess they would have to come back every few weeks and film new segments over time?
	Yeah, they're actually in Austin.
	Yeah. And so we had to come here and do recording in Austin in their studio.
	Really? We did recording on our farm at home and we mixed, you know, sent the videos back and forth.
	And yeah, it took about a year to put it together.
	Wow. Yeah.
	Wow. OK, so this course, again, it's called Prepare Tribe.
	It begins streaming for free on April 5th and it streams for 10 days.
	It's on BrightU.com.
	And as with all our programs there, you can optionally Purchase it and get all the bonus items, which I'll ask you about and they can download it or if they're on a tight budget They can just watch it for free and also during the streaming beginning on April 5th You're offering 50% off the backyard seed kit,
	which we have on our desk here It's the one in the middle there in the pouch the backyard seed kit the golden the golden seed pouch the golden 50% off just between Oh, between March 28th and April 14th.
	Correct. Okay.
	Well, that's generous to offer that.
	Yeah. Well, we want to get seeds into people's hands as quickly as we can right now.
	So great for nutrition.
	Seeds are so amazing.
	I mean, I keep telling people, have you thought about the miracle of seeds where this thing self assembles its own solar collectors, leaves, and then it pulls carbon out of the air and it builds nutrition.
	Yeah. And it doesn't ask you for anything other than just water.
	Yeah. Don't kill me.
	Yeah, right.
	Yeah. Don't let the rabbits eat me, you know, but it's a miracle.
	Yeah, it really is.
	It's an amazing thing.
	I was just actually back there in the green room reading back through Matthew 13. Oh, yeah.
	Listening to your, yeah, previously with Doc.
	And because Jesus said, if you can't understand this parable, The sower and the seed.
	How can you understand any parables?
	Oh, was it the mustard seed parable?
	It was one of those parables about the seed.
	And essentially I was thinking, wow, there's life in the seed.
	So we've been trying to get seeds in everyone's hands that we can right now because we feel it's so important, especially now that it's only 3% of seed in the U.S. is heirloom right now.
	Heritage. Only 3% is heirloom?
	Yeah. So you're talking about 97% is the other seed.
	Like hybrids and GMOs.
	You got it.
	And I don't know, maybe with the new administration, that could change.
	I hope.
	I'm hopeful.
	Yeah, and I know you are.
	But for now, we don't see that number increasing.
	So we've been telling people, too, for a while, maybe the last couple of years, that seeds potentially could be currency.
	Oh, absolutely.
	Given a disruption in how our current economic situation is, who knows what's going to happen?
	But seeds could very quickly become currency.
	So we're trying to get seeds in everyone's hand.
	But even if it's not currency, Growing your own food, eating healthy, nutritious heirloom fruits and vegetables is just a really good way to go.
	Absolutely. Well, thank you both for putting in the time and effort and money to create this.
	I look forward to watching it myself.
	I can't wait for it to start streaming.
	And Alex, how did you find time in between all your growing of everything and saving seeds?
	Now you have to produce videos on top of that.
	How'd you find time?
	Well, the good thing is is because it's our, you know, family-run business and we have four young kids, fifth on the way, and we, you know, we're home a lot and the kids help and we love, you know, when we're out in the garden.
	We're not out in the garden, we're producing videos.
	So, yeah, it's a lot of time management, but it's, you know, what we do full-time.
	So, it's our passion.
	Oh, yeah.
	And really to just help educate more than anything.
	I never thought that AHRQ at the beginning would ever start as a business.
	It was just more out of a passion to help our family, you know, eat healthy and also to help educate people.
	So. Yeah.
	And I love the name AHRQ, Agricultural Resource Kit, I think is what that stands for, right?
	Yeah. A-R-K.
	Double meaning, obviously.
	Yeah. Yeah.
	Yeah. Really good play on words.
	And I don't know if Alex mentioned this last time she was on about where it started, but it actually started from, well, a passion to get seeds into friends and family.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, it was really, I think she had built with a family member 20 kits, or was it 20?
	Yeah. And sold them to not make any money, just to get seeds, heirloom seeds, once we started learning about heirloom seeds, into their hands, and then it kind of took off, like, wow, we should do this for more people than just our friends and family.
	No kidding?
	But another thing that happened was a family member had a dream and in the dream she was like doing a drug deal in the back alley and she was exchanging silver coins for bean seeds.
	And so we were like, wow.
	I've done a podcast just like that, by the way.
	Did you really?
	Yeah, I've talked about seeds as barter.
	Yeah, so she was, it was midnight, she was in a back alley in the hometown that we grew up in, it was actually my sister.
	And so she's exchanging, the guy goes, do you have the seeds?
	And she drops, she didn't know what she had, she drops three bean seeds, like, you know, anyway, he goes, so these will regrow, right?
	And she goes, yeah.
	And so she opens her hand, and he drops three silver coins in her hand.
	Wow. That was the dream.
	So we were like, wow, this there could be something to this.
	Seeds. Will be currency because it's real and it's something that reproduces itself.
	And then when it's heirloom, like all your seeds are, then of course you can, you can harvest the seeds.
	So you can actually, so money does grow on shrubs and bushes.
	Let me give out the, the, where people can find this health rangers store.com slash seeds.
	We'll get you to this page and you can buy their all in one seed kit, which how many, Varieties and seeds are in that kit?
	We try to steer everyone toward that kit, but that's over 50,000.
	50,000 seeds.
	It's 70 varieties.
	It has a medicinal and culinary herb garden right in it.
	It's got everything you could ever imagine.
	There we go.
	Since you brought one, let's just take a look.
	Yeah. Okay.
	We have a camera shot that can capture this.
	You want to walk us through some of these seeds, but I'm just going to put them here.
	Yeah, and maybe even, Alex, do you want to go through some?
	I'll chime in.
	Tell us what this is.
	I'll cut you off like a good husband.
	I see the beans, I see...
	Well, I will share.
	I am partial, obviously, to this kit because we go through and pick out, there's 70 varieties.
	One thing that sets us apart from a lot of other heirloom seed companies is we offer A really high seed count of the vegetables that are high in protein and calories.
	So I will say that to everyone, when you are looking to purchase seeds, there's a lot of seed kits now on the market where the quality of the seeds are really poor and they're not germinating.
	Yes. And I've seen seed kits that are like 100,000 seeds, but 99,000 of them are lettuce.
	Yeah. Good luck surviving on lettuce.
	Yeah, because you can put a thousand of them in a little tiny thing.
	Yeah, and there's zero calories.
	Lettuce has zero.
	Right, right.
	So it's a survival seed, whatever.
	No. You try to live on lettuce for two weeks, see how it goes.
	Yeah, good luck.
	Yeah, so we include actually about five to six different varieties of beans.
	And we just pack them full.
	So I mean, you're getting two to 300 seeds in each bag.
	A lot of them for dried beans.
	There's a green bean in there as well.
	But again, when you get, you know, a bean pack from the store, I mean, you're getting like 25 seeds in there, not 300.
	Right, right.
	So this is for a whole family or even maybe A couple of families.
	Yeah, exactly.
	We have like a visual that...
	Let's see here if I can find...
	Oh, this is the corn.
	One of the corns.
	We have a couple of corns.
	Here's another corn.
	We do a field corn and a sweet corn.
	A lot of people like this analogy or a visual.
	Hold that out a little bit farther if you want to get it on camera.
	There we go.
	Okay. Yeah.
	So here's one of...
	This is our sweet corn.
	Here's our field corn.
	One year we planted...
	Just out in our backfield, we planted all 300 of the sweet corn.
	Really? And when it came time to harvest, we pulled all the stalks out and got all the cobs off, dried all the seeds and shucked them all into this big tarp.
	And just from this pack of seeds, 300 seeds, we got five five-gallon buckets of corn from that pack.
	So it kind of gives And it's always so useful when there are people who are hungry Yes, help them with food, but also help them with seeds so they can grow their own food.
	Teach a man to fish, as they say.
	Absolutely. Right?
	We don't want to create a welfare state.
	We want to have compassion, but also let's teach them how to become more self-sufficient.
	Absolutely. Yeah, and then we also include 16 different herbs, and they're all medicinal, culinary and medicinal.
	We're real big on that, about teaching and educating on how to make your own medicines and tinctures.
	So, in the seed guide, we do, that's also included in the all-in-one tube.
	The seed guide we wrote is, basically gives you a description on how to, from start to finish, on how to do it.
	How to make your own tinctures.
	Oh, wow.
	Every seed.
	Your own salves.
	So, how to use every seed.
	Absolutely. And then it also has a zone in it so you know, if you're in the United States, which zone you're in, so you know your growing season, start to finish, you know when to sow, when to harvest, every type of seed, it's all in there.
	So here's a question for you.
	Do you cover, because you know I'm all about nutrition and nutrition for plants too, and I like to produce plants that are high in minerals, you know, the full spectrum of what's What a plant wants, right?
	Which is more than just the three.
	Sure. So what are you covering in your course about how to feed your plants so they have more zinc and selenium and copper and all the other things that are necessary?
	Oh, that's a good one for Alex too.
	She covered most of that.
	One of our courses is on food, forever food.
	And we actually, I spend quite a bit of time going through a recipe of like soil amendments that we use.
	And have, like, gathered over the years from, like, different neighbor friends, Amish friends, and have put together, again, you can, like, tweak it however you want, but, yeah, the amendments including, like, you know, kelp, green sand, Feather meal, you know, and then there's just like a breakdown of like what's in that, why you want to grow your broccoli with this versus your broccoli with just regular soil.
	So there is a section on that in the Prepare Tribe docuseries.
	Okay. Okay, that's great.
	Yeah. Get a little bit of everything in there.
	So. Yeah.
	So, well, what about food preservation is something else that you cover in the course as well.
	What kind of food preservation methods are you showing or demonstrating?
	We do, I do water bath canning, pressure canning, fermentation, dehydrating, pickling.
	Wow, you're covering it all.
	Trying to get a little bit of everything in there.
	Pick something from the garden and then actually do the whole process.
	Wow. If you're going to pickle peppers, this is how you do it.
	So help walk people through every step.
	Yeah. Well, what would Peter Piper do without pickled peppers?
	He'd be in trouble.
	Yeah. Okay, so again, it's called Prepare Tribe, and it begins streaming April 5th at brightu.com, but you can register.
	Well, I think you can register for it right now, and it's free to watch with registration.
	So, a lot of people who focus on preparedness are former military, and they come in strong with, you know, like a guns and ammo angle.
	That is not what this course is about.
	I'm so glad you brought this up, because I, in jest, I call it bunkers and bullets.
	Yeah, bunkers and bullets.
	Which, by the way, we're not opposed to either of those.
	No! Actually, if you're supposed to build a bunker, do it.
	You do need a stockpile of ammo.
	But, you just had the guys on that went and helped in Asheville.
	Imagine being in Asheville, Let's take this into just practical.
	You've got a huge bunker and you've got a stockpile of bullets and you think you're prepared.
	But people are still starving.
	You're in trouble!
	We have to have a more holistic approach to preparedness and what you brought up.
	I've learned a ton in the last couple years because people watch the Alone series on Netflix or something and think that's preparedness.
	It's actually bushcraft it's called.
	Bushcraft is the ability to Survive and thrive in the wilderness.
	Yeah, that's totally different than preparedness That is and so 80% of Americans and I'm sure you've probably told your audience this Mike But 80% of Americans live in an urban or suburban environment So only 20% even live in rural communities What happens to the 80% they don't they don't need bushcraft skills Like what are they gonna be doing, you know on their roof with a fire?
	I that's I don't see a scenario where that's applicable to them.
	So What we did is we said, you know, what are the things that everyone's going to need to actually be prepared?
	A much more holistic approach to preparedness rather than just bunkers and bullets.
	Right. And that's where we landed on, you know, everyone's going to need community.
	So we go into build your trusted tribe is the first element.
	How do you build community?
	Because a lot of people even they don't even know how to strike up a conversation.
	So where do they start?
	How do they reach out to groups in their community?
	Maybe through Facebook or online network and start building relationships and not isolate, because that's another thing.
	We don't want to see people in a cave or in their bunker and think they're prepared.
	That's not going to serve you well.
	There's neighbors, there's resources around people that are going to help them.
	So, yeah.
	Okay. So let me ask you there on that though.
	The COVID years really divided a lot of people, a lot of families.
	Oh yeah.
	And there's a very real Fear among people who are quote preppers of alerting Neighbors that they're a prepper.
	They're afraid of being mocked which is silly I mean, why shouldn't we be prepared and maybe some of that attitude is changing?
	So what are the strategies that you recommend to connect with like-minded people without?
	Exposing your what you're doing to people who might turn against you.
	Oh good question Well, the first thing I would say is it's all mindset.
	So, what a lot of people don't realize is that 33% of Americans identify as preppers.
	Really? One in three.
	Only 5-7% have basic preparedness supplies right now.
	Meaning a simple water filter and a three-day supply of food So what's happened is a lot of people think that they're preppers now this this is the good news But they're not prepping the preppers in their mind.
	Yeah, like, you know, well, I got an extra box of ammo for my 30-06 So I'm good, you know, I'm a prepper.
	Yeah But the good news there is that to address your question if we know then that 33% of Americans identify as preppers Striking up a simple conversation that doesn't have to be awkward opens It opens the door, if you will. So, hey, do you think it's really, you know, I'm just, now I'm role-playing, talking to a neighbor or family member that you might come across as weird.
	Do you think it's strange with how many cataclysmic events have been transpiring over the last few years?
	Or what do you think about the state of our economy posing a question and pulling out from them what their views are?
	It's a really great way to find out where they are rather than, because you don't want to come across as a tinfoil hat guy.
	You know, you got a tinfoil hat and you're locked in your bunker.
	So I think the first thing is knowing in your mind, there's a lot more people out there that identify as preppers, but really aren't into prepping and maybe they could actually help serve them.
	So if you can identify who those people are, now you can start to help them.
	Right. Okay.
	Let's, let's, let's role play.
	Okay. Okay.
	You be you, I'll be your, your neighbor.
	All right.
	That doesn't like preppers.
	Okay. Hey, Mike!
	Good to see you out mowing your lawn!
	Hey, what do you think?
	With my electric mower to save the sky.
	Okay, I'm glad to see you saving the sky with your electric mower, Mike.
	I love that.
	What do you think about how much the stock market's been going down lately?
	Have you been thinking about what could happen to the economy?
	I think Trump is destroying everything.
	It's all his fault.
	We've got to get rid of him.
	Yeah, Trump.
	Well, you know, I can understand how you'd think that.
	But what about 2008 when the market collapsed and we had someone else in office?
	That was Bush.
	Well, that was actually Obama.
	Now we're really wrong.
	Obama didn't come in till 2009.
	2009 and then pumped up quantitative easing.
	Now we're into economics.
	But I'm going to say as your neighbor, it's all climate change.
	So it's all climate change.
	And you got to stop.
	You got to stop idling your engine in your driveway every morning or I'm going to call the climate cops on you.
	Well, Mike, I'll do my best to cut my engine sooner, but I'm going to start a huge garden out back that needs CO2 from that car.
	So how do you feel about that?
	Oh, good.
	So will you give me some of your food since I'm such a conscientious neighbor?
	I will actually, Mike, but you have to come over and help me in the garden.
	How's that sound?
	Oh, no, I don't do that kind of thing.
	No. Anyway, you get the idea, right?
	So I'm playing a neighbor who doesn't want to participate.
	But you're right.
	Yeah. And so I think when you're building a tribe, when you're building your own community, you have to have discernment.
	You can't just let freelancers come in.
	People have to pull their own weight.
	So that's for you to vet out, but you have to have some type of introductory conversation, you know, like where they're at and then find out, are they going to, well, we're already into, The docu-series we go through, there's a whole section on creating a plan.
	Oh. So, that's a huge part of preparedness.
	Like, what do you want?
	Do you want to prepare for your family?
	Do you want to prepare for 30 people?
	Who do you want in your network, in your community?
	And build towards that.
	So, if you just want to prepare for your family, I wouldn't recommend that.
	And again, because if your only skill set is based on you or your family members, that could be a detriment, not a help.
	And so you want to be thinking larger scale than just you and your family.
	But you need to find out.
	Absolutely. As I'm planning, who is it that I want?
	What are the value systems that they should have to come into community with me?
	We don't want freeloaders and we don't want someone that's all electric.
	Yeah, for sure.
	And also, I'm wondering, Alex, the kind of feedback that you've received over the years, because I've advocated your seed kits for several years and we've had a lot of really happy customers, listeners.
	Get your seed kits.
	And then, over these years, grocery store prices have gone up and up and up.
	How often do you hear from people who say, you know, I'm so glad I learned to grow food because it's actually saving me money?
	Yeah, this is a really good point to bring up, Mike, because since 2020, we have seen an increase in about 5,000%.
	That makes sense.
	They want to take care of their family.
	Self-reliant. Or it's like a fad.
	It's like, oh, it's cool to grow your own food.
	And then I get...
	Talking to these people and have conversations and realize no, it's more than cool It's actually like you're gonna need this at some point to be able to provide food for your family if one the grocery store prices can't continue to Increase or if for some at some point we don't have it,
	you know so yeah, we have I have hundreds and hundreds of conversations with people and I mean A lot of your followers, some other partners that we're involved with, same thing, and really great.
	I mean, it's encouraging to see the major increase of people wanting to be able to take care of themselves.
	Well, it seems to me that what I hear from people is that those who can afford to move out of the city are trying to.
	They are trying.
	And homesteading is the right term for this.
	It is.
	It's not bunkers.
	It's not...
	No. Going off and being Rambo, it's homesteading, which just means really getting off grid so that you could be more self-reliant.
	It doesn't mean that you never go to the grocery store.
	You still do.
	I mean, I go there and buy butter.
	But I don't buy meat from the grocery store.
	I know enough ranchers, I get meat from people I know, right?
	Texas. Yeah.
	And there's also, there's CSAs and there's Saturday food co-ops and things like that where I can get Tons of stuff that we need.
	But yeah, you still go to the grocery store from time to time, but you're just greatly reducing your reliance on the system and becoming more self-reliant in the process.
	Absolutely. Self-reliant, that's the word.
	Self-reliant.
	And the more self-reliant we become, the better off we are financially, the better off we are with our nutrition, our diet, how we feel, the better off we are mentally, because we're feeling better.
	Yeah, that would really be a great word for the docuseries as a whole.
	It's a holistic homesteading approach to preparedness.
	I like that.
	Holistic homesteading.
	Yeah. And you know, right now there's a big debate about the SNAP program in America, which is food stamps.
	Oh yeah.
	And whether or not taxpayer money should be used to subsidize purchases of sodas and junk food.
	And of course, I think that's insane.
	If you're going to get government welfare money, you shouldn't be able to spend that money on things that cause disease.
	Oh yeah.
	Right? But I'm all for giving people like unlimited beans and rice and legumes and food basics.
	Like nobody should starve in America.
	But I don't want to pay for your soda pop.
	You know what I'm saying?
	Yeah. Skittles.
	Yeah. That seems insane.
	But these people, if, if they, What if we gave them garden seeds, you know, and like a community plot?
	Here's 10 by 10 feet.
	You can grow a lot in 10 by 10. So that idea back in our home state of Michigan is exploding in Detroit.
	Is it really?
	There's four different co-ops.
	They're organizational communal co-ops just in the city of Detroit.
	They've leveled whole blocks.
	I'm sure you've seen this.
	This was starting back 15 years ago.
	They leveled whole city blocks, and so now what the city of Detroit's doing is they're hiring these people to take leadership and organization, and they're starting communal gardens.
	I love it.
	Most of them are completely organic.
	They use heirloom seeds.
	It's amazing.
	So we need to see a lot more of that than Skittles and soda, for sure.
	Completely agree.
	You know, food doesn't have to come in a box or in plastic all the time.
	It's supposed to come out of the ground.
	Yeah. Unfortunately, though, even those programs, it's so hard for them to get assistance.
	Isn't that funny?
	They have to get grants, they have to hire teams of people to rather than just get the same SNAP program, if we could allocate some of those funds, that would be ideal.
	Give it to groups like that.
	Well, there's unlimited government money for like vaccine propaganda in movies, but not for teaching people how to grow food.
	One harms, one helps.
	Wow. Okay, so Alex, what other kinds of feedback have you received from people over the years, just from your seed kits and the how-to instructions that you have?
	Yeah, one thing that comes to mind is there's also been a huge increase for Right.
	want to?
	How do I take care of myself better?
	That's how I got into it, you know, growing myself because we started having kids and I was like, I got to be able to feed them food that I know where it comes from.
	And then over the years, just I went to school to be a naturopathic doctor and Just take care of my, again, our kids, but then that grows because, you know, so-and-so hears about so-and-so, oh my gosh, we want to learn, we want to know.
	And yeah, again, that increase of natural medicine that comes from kind of what you were talking about, the nutrition from the vegetables, the medicine that comes from the herbs, huge, huge increase in desire of people wanting to know about that, which again is Also really encouraging, so.
	Well, let me interject because throughout most of human history, at least since agriculture was controlled, when families, when they had a sickness in the family, they would go outside and pick the medicine, the herbs.
	Exactly. And treat the child with what they were growing.
	Or when they were getting ready to make dinner, right, they would go out and pick the dinner.
	Like, that's not That's a good question.
	Probably convenience.
	I'm sure a lot of it is just convenience.
	It takes time and effort and intent and energy to go Grow your own food, and a little bit of knowledge.
	It's easier, I think, for people to just go get it off the shelf and follow the money.
	Follow the money.
	Until recently, growing your own food didn't make a lot of financial sense just from a purely financial perspective, but now it does because of price inflation.
	Yeah, that's true.
	Right? So Mother Nature gives you for free what costs more and more in the grocery store if you try to get it.
	And the grocery store foods, dare I say, Even the fresh produce are a shadow of what you can grill yourself in terms of the nutritional potency, the freshness, and the mineral content, correct?
	Oh yeah.
	Oh yeah.
	Yeah, most grocery stores, you have more nutrients in frozen broccoli than a fresh broccoli head.
	Yeah. You know, because they freeze dry right away.
	But yeah, I would say, huge increase.
	And in the DocuSeries, I go through that and spend a lot of time And even sharing my story about holistic medicine and we do a lot of different tinctures and how to make stuff.
	So, yeah, I would say I think one of the other areas we cover in the DocuSeries as well as really, really important is purifying your own water and knowing how to do that because of the contaminants and everything.
	Yeah. You know, health wise for for people.
	So we spend we spend time doing that as one of the Category so what do you recommend for people to use for irrigation?
	Because of course for a lot of people all they have is city water Which is not the best and then there's well water, which is also very often very heavily contaminated And yeah, you know the alkalinity is too high for plants typically What do you recommend?
	For gardening yeah, if you can if it's at all possible set up a rain catchment system It takes a lot of water.
	It does.
	I mean, that depends largely on where you're at, too.
	True. You know, if you're in the Southwest, you're in Arizona and Phoenix, the range catchment system is you're waiting all year for maybe a month of rain.
	Yeah, that's tough.
	True. So we're from Michigan, so we don't even think that.
	You know, we get rain every other day.
	But that largely depends on where you're at.
	Outside of that, you can use Well water city water you just need to get a really good filtration system on that true I mean you really need to invest in that if you can if you have the money don't recommend like reverse osmosis That's expensive That it there's sort of wastewater that comes out of it There is but it's like anything else the more cost up front it costs a lot on the upside.
	Yeah, but long term It's not as much The other thing I would add, too, is your growing techniques could be different.
	True. So instead of, you know, we're used to, like, we got to run the sprinkler for an hour every day or something like that.
	There's a lot of different growing techniques to be able to, like, hold the water in the ground.
	You know, I've grown some gardens where we've grown huge patches of squashes, like acres of squash, and we never watered it once.
	That's true.
	You know, so I mean, it might have, it might rain once a week or every other week or something.
	But again, it's, you know, you can definitely be able to lay down grass and wood chips and different techniques to be able to hold the water in.
	So, which I've been doing a lot more the last few years.
	So it's a lot less laborsome.
	And then also, you know, expenses for irrigation, water and everything.
	So. Drip irrigation.
	She had me set up drip irrigation for a strawberry patch.
	Yeah. It's great.
	Once it's done, a lot of work up front.
	That's for sure, yeah.
	Well, I'm very fortunate that I have a small pond and I was able to sink a pump, like a well pump, into the pond with a special intake set up to filter it.
	And so I've been watering my orchards with pond water, which is absolutely the best.
	Oh my goodness, the nutrients in there.
	Yeah, because there's fish in there and everything.
	Yeah, you're pumping.
	Yeah, high grade.
	You can do that.
	That's not even water, that's fertilizer.
	Yeah, I know.
	It's like magic, magical liquid, yeah.
	Yeah, real miracle grow.
	Yeah, but that depends on surface runoff, which here in Texas we don't get a lot of rain frequently.
	We get a whole lot of rain all at once.
	And then your pond goes from empty to full, you know.
	But then it can It can almost be empty for two years after that.
	That's the way the rainfall is around here.
	Yeah, but it varies.
	East Texas is a lot more frequent rainfall.
	West Texas is desert.
	You're right, right there, right in the middle.
	We're in the middle here.
	So you can get, you can get desert conditions.
	You can get Houston humidity.
	You can get Gulf weather.
	Now the Gulf of America.
	You can get North weather.
	From all of you.
	When you send the north weather, then it freezes our plants, you know?
	Sorry about that.
	Yeah, we get it all from north, south, east, and west, you know?
	You do, yeah.
	Well, the other thing I'd say about the rain catchment is, I know it's some work, but if you could get like an IBC container, you know, a lot of people think, what is that?
	It's a big plastic container, hundreds of gallons in that thing, and run your gutter right into it, have it elevated, And just put a little ball valve on the thing.
	Just gravity feed, right?
	And you can, it's amazing how much you can accomplish with that.
	So, just to throw that out there.
	Okay, that's great.
	So, a lot of really practical things are part of your docuseries.
	I understand you also have some bonus items and a bonus challenge?
	What is that exactly?
	We do, yeah.
	So, with the docuseries, we also offer the 50% off for the backyard kit.
	The reason why we did that was, that was the hopes that the backyard kit would get everybody their seeds for the spring to start planting.
	And then what a lot of people do, they'll use the backyard kit for their planting and then they'll get an all-in-one tube and they'll use that for like their storage, you know, and keep that because they'll store for 15 years or longer.
	Right. I've still got the ones in the right conditions and they're in the right conditions.
	Yeah, you don't want to have them baked.
	Yeah. Yeah.
	No, and that's for more of the currency or the bartering all of that to have so so our hopes was that was to encourage everyone to get that and then we also are offering our preparedness checklist that Morgan talked a little bit about just to help go through and set a plan for you and your family and your neighbors.
	Personalize. Yeah, it's a three or four page document to help you just kind of get really organized and check off things that you have and things that maybe you still need.
	Get people thinking.
	Yeah. Yeah.
	People thinking, hey, I didn't think about this.
	Oh, it's on there.
	Okay. We offer an ebook, which is very similar to our seed guide, but it has some things added as far as like, you know, food preservation and storage and that kind of stuff.
	The challenge, yeah, it says here you have a hands-on preparedness experience.
	Is this like a video group meeting?
	You got it.
	Go ahead.
	Okay. I didn't know if you want to keep going.
	It's five days and it's a challenge intentionally, so it's not a teaching.
	It's a training, but every single day we put a challenge out there to get people to take action.
	Because our big thing is we don't want another group of people to just Consume and not do anything.
	Right. This isn't an academic exercise.
	Yeah, hear it and then go do something, which is why we call it a challenge.
	So it's five days and we go through everything that I think is important, that we think is important, to get people to think.
	Day one is all mindset.
	So wait, what's one of the challenges, just as an example?
	Okay, so day two, let's say I go through a five-step cycle to success and preparation and they have to go back and at night fill out The preliminary of, okay, preparing, what's your plan?
	Review where you're at.
	Stockpiling, what are you stockpiling for?
	So that night, let's say, they're actually spending a couple hours going through what I went through and saying, okay, these five steps on this cycle, where am I at?
	You know, I'm at zero, I'm at a five, what am I planning for?
	So they're actually writing out their own plan in a concrete way, something practical.
	I see.
	Getting them to do that.
	So a lot of it's very similar to that.
	Getting people to take action.
	Getting people to maybe step out of their comfort zone.
	I also, one of the things we make them do is make a list of people that potentially could be in their community.
	Maybe not, you know, the electric lawnmower neighbor, but...
	We'll call him lawnmower man.
	Maybe not lawnmower man, but the other guy that maybe has an interest and he has a specific skill, might come across as weird.
	You want a hunter, right?
	You want someone in your group that's really good at hunting.
	So we get them to think through that and then write out a list.
	Ah, make it real.
	They're already taking, they're already probably doing way more than they would have just by going through the challenge.
	Get in there, step out and think and then take action.
	So yesterday I ran Peck's irrigation lines to some fig trees.
	Oh. And that's like whenever I get spare time, I'm basically expanding my irrigation network from the pond water.
	Nice! And one of the things that I'm growing, and I'm planting more of these this year, are the loblolly pine trees.
	Tell us more about that.
	Well, loblolly pines are really high in shikimic acid in the pine needles.
	Oh, yeah.
	And of course, they always have vitamin C. The Native Americans used to make pine needle tea.
	And drink it, which is delicious.
	It's delicious.
	And even in our store, we sell a pine needle nasal, I don't think we sell it, I think we have it as a giveaway, but pine needle nasal spray and the shikimic acid, okay?
	The shikimic acid and pine needles, that is the molecule that is used in the number one antiviral prescription medication.
	No kidding.
	That is FDA approved.
	And it's the same molecule that's found in traditional Chinese medicine, which is the Ba Jiao herb, also known as star anise, which halts plagues in the history of Chinese medicine.
	Well, the Native Americans use it also to end disease and to get vitamin C because it's very rich in vitamin C. Are you planting this next to the figs?
	Not right next to the figs.
	Oh, OK.
	But it's in the same irrigation network.
	OK. But I love to plant loblolly pines because I can cut off a bunch of pine needles and I can just boil it on the stove and I can make pine needle tea.
	And it's just beautiful medicine right there.
	Just natural.
	Okay. Yeah, we have those all over where we live.
	Do you?
	Yeah. The only issue is what it will do to the soil long term when you have a bunch of them.
	Okay. Because they're acidic.
	Yeah. The pine needles will make it acidic.
	You have to go back into an area where we're from that's been pine forest for a while and amend the soil.
	But yeah, we have those near us, too.
	Well, I noticed that dewberries like to grow right around the base of these trees, because I think the berries like the more acidic, sandy soils.
	The loblolly pines, which are also called the lost pines of central Texas, because there's a group of them that was cut off from other pine trees.
	Oh, they're called the Lost Pines.
	That's cool.
	Yeah. Anyway, but they love sandy soil.
	Yeah, I bet they do.
	Blueberries like it then.
	And blueberries, yeah.
	I think I could plant like watermelons and things right around them too.
	That would probably go really well.
	But, um, the reason I even mentioned this is because I want to help also inspire our audience that you don't have to like quit your job and change your whole life.
	Like you just find two hours of work.
	On an afternoon, you can do something with that.
	Yes. That can become food.
	Yep. Yeah, and I would say back to the five-day challenge, our goal with that is, because it's one hour, Every night and it's live with us.
	Yeah. Yeah.
	So it's just a question and answers.
	We want it to be interactive with people.
	And what are you doing on your farm?
	Or you don't have land and you don't know where to start.
	Or my all my family members are making fun of me and I don't know what to do.
	Right, right.
	You know, we get that.
	I've seen great balcony gardens, container gardens that are really great.
	Yeah, totally.
	So to encourage people.
	It doesn't matter where you're at.
	Get started.
	Yeah. We just wanted to make it more personal so we can have time with everyone.
	And our goal at the end of the five days is then to be able to offer to anyone who comes, if you want to continue to work with us in coaching and mentorship along the way, that we will offer that as an extension too.
	So when does the five day challenge begin?
	Is it after the finish?
	Streaming? It's April 21st.
	Oh, April 21st.
	Oh, okay.
	So there's time.
	So somebody can watch the whole series, and then they can join the five-day challenge, and can they dialogue with you and ask questions during all that?
	Oh, yeah.
	So we have a time that's Q&A before, because we can't do the whole time Q&A, you know how that goes.
	So Q&A time before, and then also on day two, three, four, day one, people are getting a feel for it.
	They'll say, okay, now I'm writing out specific questions I wanted answers to.
	So we do a Q&A first, and then we cover a core topic, let's say, each time.
	And at the end of it is the challenge, something that someone's going to have to do.
	And we unashamedly say that.
	You're going to have to do stuff.
	Yeah, homework every night.
	It's not just consumption.
	So you're going to actually have to go do something.
	All right.
	Let me ask you this question that I like to ask people who are all about growing food and being self-reliant.
	And the answer that I often get is sweet potatoes.
	So here's the question.
	And I'm curious about your answer.
	What food is the easiest for a beginner to grow that has the most output of calories versus the input of effort?
	And I get sweet potatoes a lot.
	I can see why you'd get that.
	That's a good one for her.
	I wouldn't say sweet potatoes are always the easiest, but I guess that's because, you know, we're from northern Michigan.
	Oh yeah, yeah.
	It depends on where you're at.
	If you're Alaska, Phoenix.
	Yeah, for us, I would say 100% parsnips or rutabaga.
	No kidding?
	Well, I've never heard that answer before.
	Yeah, those are the easiest.
	You don't have to Even weed or do anything.
	Yeah. And as far as, I mean, we also love the taste and stuff, but for calories, really high in calories.
	No kidding.
	So are sweet potatoes, but they're really high in calories.
	Yeah. But I just, that didn't cross my mind.
	Rutabaga's would be calorie rich.
	Yes. Both of them are higher in calories.
	I mean, obviously all the root crops, but yeah, I would say that above sweet potatoes for sure.
	Yeah. And for taste, I mean, We're big fans of Three Sisters.
	I mean, you got corn, squash, and beans for taste.
	I love squash.
	You make gumbo out of all that.
	Yeah, exactly.
	If you have the space, even space, let's say you have a balcony or an apartment, you can actually grow Three Sisters in a little pot.
	Corn stalk, bean, squash out of that.
	They support each other, yeah.
	Yeah, so.
	Okay, what about, I get this question.
	People don't have a hobby tractor.
	They don't have a plow.
	They don't want to plow.
	That's not the deal.
	What can they grow without a lot of farm equipment?
	That's a good question, too.
	That's probably one for her.
	Yeah. You know, we didn't even have any equipment up until a couple of years ago.
	Yeah. And so we grew for the first however many years.
	We only had two and a half acre, you know, at our house.
	Our garden was maybe one acre.
	OK. And everything was raised beds, and we just would go out and work it.
	But I mean, we grew...
	It's a lot of labor.
	We did a 20-person CSA for multiple years in a row.
	I mean, we would do a dozen eggs in there.
	We had so much.
	I've sold at tons of restaurants, farmers markets.
	You can do a ton of work.
	People always think that.
	I need a tiller.
	I need a tractor.
	I mean, you need a couple of shovels and a couple of hoes and some hands.
	And some work ethic.
	Yeah, you know, for sure.
	When you say raise beds, was it just rows of dirt mounds or did you have edges or what did you do?
	We had four by eight beds that were, you know, they had wood board siding.
	You use wood boards, you use railroad ties or what did you use?
	Wood boards.
	Wood boards.
	Yeah, we actually had several, quite a stack given to us that were leftover Amish.
	Yeah. Oh, yeah.
	and I and ran pecks, you know, one inch PVC if you will to strategic spots in the garden and hooked a lineup so you could go to any spot on the garden and hook into that.
	Yeah. And water.
	What did you do for weeds?
	Well, we would say, so we did the method for a few years on the Back to Eden method where it's, you know, the cardboard and the wood chips.
	Yeah. And so it holds the water in, but you don't get a lot of the weeds out coming out.
	The tourist weeds.
	Yeah. I would say that I think over the years, if you learn to stay up on top of it, I always tell the kids, I said, we got about two to three really hard days of weeding.
	And if we stay on top of it at the beginning, then we'll be fine through the rest of the season.
	Right. If you don't.
	So as long as you don't just let it go wild, Yeah, then you're in trouble.
	You're in trouble.
	So for us...
	I've been there.
	Yeah. Life happens.
	I've been there repeatedly.
	Yeah, it's called life.
	Yeah, there's a lot of different techniques, you know, over the years, but I just was thinking about this too.
	We did, in those years with the raised beds, you know, Morgan and my son, they'd go fishing a lot and Bring home like all the guts and the rest of the fish and all that stuff and we just filled these 55-gallon drums of The fish guts and made our own fish emulsion put enzymes and sawdust and stuff in there.
	Yeah, that's great for water the plants and that's another almost as good as a pond Yeah, well, it's a pond.
	It's kind of like that.
	It is.
	All right So the course is called prepare tribe and again, it starts streaming August or I'm sorry April 5th At brightu.com, that's the word bright and then the letter U as in Brighton University, so brightu.com.
	You can watch the entire thing for free or you can optionally purchase the program and download it and watch it on your own schedule and your purchase supports this network as well as your operation and maybe help recoup some of the cost that you put into this.
	We would love that, yeah.
	Absolutely, you put a lot of time and effort into this.
	And then you've also got your seed pack 50% off during the streaming.
	So it's the Backyard Seed Kit is 50% off to our audience only.
	Yes. And that's at healthrangerstore.com slash seeds and we'll have it marked down 50% during those days.
	So that's a great affordable way.
	Okay, next question for you.
	I had a conversation with Zach Voorhees, the Google whistleblower.
	He and I are both into a lot of AI tech.
	And we are both convinced that decentralized AI robots will help with homesteading.
	For weeding, for example.
	So, would you allow a weeding robot on your garden to take over the weeding job?
	Wow. I've never heard this.
	Yeah? I've never been asked that question.
	I mean, my instant answer, anyone that's weeded would say yes.
	Anyone that's been out there weeding.
	A little dog bot.
	It doesn't have to be a humanoid.
	It's not Skynet.
	It's a dog bot.
	Off, yeah.
	With connection, yeah.
	It's got a weed grabber paw.
	Oh, that would be huge.
	I mean, if that was to happen, it would save hours.
	I would be open to it.
	I don't know about her.
	Yeah, this can be controversial.
	People are like, no, no robots!
	You know, down with the Apple watch, down with the...
	I've never thought of it.
	I'm not all...
	I don't wear a bunch of tech either.
	Yeah. I have an analog, see, I have an analog dial watch that apparently makes me look old to have a watch on my wrist.
	Yeah, an old school watch.
	Yeah. But I think it'd be an awesome idea, though.
	I wouldn't want it connected, but it's kind of hard when you've got Now we've got satellites doing connection all over the earth.
	How do you actually truly keep something not connected?
	I would imagine there would be some open source robots that don't have Wi-Fi, don't have GPS, right?
	So did he talk about this?
	Are they doing this?
	Is this a plan to build these robots?
	No, we haven't seen any such robot yet, but we figure it's coming.
	There could be homesteading robots that do chores.
	Yeah, that is like Jetsons, isn't it?
	I mean, why not?
	But the thing is, it has to have plant identification capabilities, so it's not pulling up your crops.
	Your rutabaga.
	Right. So you have to teach it what are weeds, which AI is really good at classification tasks, you know?
	Yeah. And you tell it, you know, the perimeter of your garden, like, stay in this area and go do these things.
	But it could, like, move small rocks.
	It could pick up trash on a farm.
	It could potentially have the ability to double-dig your soil.
	Yeah, it could be a little digger.
	Yeah, you dig up the first foot and a half and you jump to the side, then you re-dig down another foot and a half, you take the topsoil and put it down.
	Boy, oh, that sounds like work.
	It's a ton of work, but I was thinking even for that application, if that robot could handle shovels, I mean, wow.
	I think excavators are probably the right answer on that one.
	But I'm thinking of a smaller space, not like our one acre garden that was raised bed, a scenario like that.
	It's tough to fit an excavator in that size.
	And so you stick the robot out there and they're they're just going to work wonders on your soil.
	I don't know.
	OK, so you're maybe on the homesteading robot, maybe.
	Yeah, I keep it away from the kids.
	OK, so here's what I'm going to do.
	I'm going to buy a robot.
	As soon as there's a robot that does this, I'm going to buy one and we're going to test it in the studio.
	Seriously? Seriously.
	OK. But I will have my AR-15 over here in case it goes sky high.
	I like that idea.
	And I've got like swords and stuff.
	We can defeat the robot if it goes out.
	We need some backup.
	We need somebody on hand that's backup.
	Shut it down!
	Their one job is secure.
	It's attacking the dog.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Okay, but there's a serious note on this, which is that we're about to see, look, Cities are collapsing because they're no longer necessary.
	The original function of a city was to put people within often walking or close distance of their workplace, which is no longer necessary.
	That's totally true.
	Right? So the city as a structure of modern civilization is obsolete.
	Yep. Right?
	So people are moving out of the cities and they're homesteading, which is a good trend of decentralization.
	And they'd love to grow more food except for all the work.
	Right? That's the number one deterrent.
	Yeah. Absolutely.
	But I can see robotics playing a role in assisting people.
	I mean, look, you have automatic dishwasher.
	That's a little robot.
	Yeah. One that doesn't move around unless it's imbalanced.
	But I mean, you have a laundry machine.
	I mean, we use machines.
	So why not have a weeding robot or whatever, you know?
	I just think it's a natural progress.
	I see that.
	That could be huge in suburbs.
	Absolutely. Where someone's got, you know, maybe like we were saying, a half acre in their backyard and they're wanting to take that first step into homesteading.
	They might not be like where we are, where you are, where they have access to 20 or 40 acres or something, but that could be huge.
	Or how about a chicken sentry robot?
	We needed one.
	Yeah, your chickens got just savaged by an eagle, right?
	We might run into problems, though, with a federal department if that robot takes a bald eagle out or something.
	Well, no, but the robot would be purely defensive, like it could wave its arms and make weird noises and flashlights and stuff.
	Just having it out there.
	Yeah, it's like an active scarecrow.
	It would freak the chickens out for a minute, but then it would be great, yeah?
	I think I'd take one if it did the chicken chores.
	Yeah, I can clean out the chicken coop.
	Stanky. You don't have to tell me.
	The couch works.
	I've had plenty of time with a rake and a shovel cleaning out the chicken house.
	Or just collecting eggs that are messy.
	Yeah. Something horrible happened there.
	Like what happened?
	We gotta check on this.
	The water, the chicken waters freeze all the time.
	Oh yeah, you're up north, that's a big deal.
	Well here, like one day I found all my chicken eggs in this one nest.
	We're coated with slobber.
	And I finally figured it out.
	We had a rat snake that wasn't big enough to swallow the egg, but it kept trying the next egg and the next egg.
	And so we had a slobber wash of all the eggs from a baby rat snake.
	Oh, no kidding.
	Yeah. Yeah, we haven't ran into that in Michigan.
	I have a video where I, because I catch these snakes all the time.
	I caught, I mean, there was a snake with a That had just swallowed an egg, right?
	So the egg was right here in its throat.
	And these rat snakes are funny because they're not venomous, right?
	So I filmed it and you grab the tail, you grab the tail and you shake it and it spits up the egg.
	It does.
	And the egg was still good.
	It didn't even break it.
	So it's like a, it's an egg producing snake machine.
	That's great.
	That is so great.
	Don't tell anyone that that was the egg you fed them though.
	No, no, I ate that egg.
	It was perfectly fine.
	Who cares?
	It's been inside a snake, but now we got it back.
	Now we know people can eat that.
	It's an egg ATM.
	Yeah, it is.
	Wind it up.
	You have to crank the tail.
	Yeah. But anyway, I mean, we all have hilarious experiences here.
	But the bottom line is, I really appreciate what you're doing.
	You're teaching people how to be more self-reliant.
	Well, thanks, and and if I could say something to to your audience first of all I want to say and we want to say thank you Mike to you I know we said that at the beginning of show, but just what you've done for us, and it's really Your audience has been huge.
	We've had so many incredible conversations with them salt of the earth people Yeah, I mean it's absolutely amazing people, but really got us to a whole different Group, so we just want to say thank you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	We did get you a little our cat, too Really?
	But we also wanted to say to anyone that's that's listening and maybe maybe they're this is the first time they listen to your show or they're just starting out you can do it.
	You know we didn't start where we're at we started actually our first time gardening was she had a little raised bed in our city we grew up in Traverse City.
	There you go.
	Here we go.
	Got the ARC hat on for you.
	It looks good.
	Yeah, it looks good.
	It works.
	You need to loosen that thing up though.
	But yeah, no, I did.
	I already loosened it.
	I was saying you needed to.
	Yeah, no, I have a big skull.
	Yeah, that's good.
	And high intelligence, right?
	Yeah, it's got to have room for all the all the neurons in there.
	It's a lot functioning.
	A lot firing.
	But anyway, just to say to everyone, if they're starting out, you can do it.
	And don't get overwhelmed by thinking you have to have 20 acres and 10 cows and 100 chickens.
	Start small!
	Start with what you have and grow something.
	Pick a skill in area preparedness.
	It might not be gardening, but maybe you want to learn tinctures, like Alex was referring to.
	Do it for six months and see how it goes and get really good at it.
	You don't have to feel like you have to do everything all at once, but just be encouraged and go for it.
	This is the thing about your seed kits.
	When I look at your seed kits, I want to plant them all, but I know I can't.
	Yeah, that would be a lot.
	That's impossible.
	And so I have to be very, very selective.
	And I have to limit my fun factor here.
	Because like you, I would rather just be growing food all day.
	I mean, it's in my blood.
	It's in my family.
	My grandfather was a farmer.
	He's the one who first taught me how to drive John Deere tractors.
	And he had cattle and everything and sweet.
	And they, they would grow, they had a massive garden and would serve a Thanksgiving dinner of about 50% of food they grew.
	You know?
	Awesome. That's how I grew up.
	It was normal to go pick your dinner.
	Like my grandmother would say, get out there and pick, pick your dinner.
	What are we having for dinner, grandma?
	Whatever you pick.
	Hopefully it tastes good.
	Yeah. Green beans are in season.
	Go get them.
	Yeah. You know?
	It's the way it was.
	Yeah, it's awesome.
	Hopefully we're seeing a trend back to that too, which is great.
	Yeah. It's encouraging.
	A lot of people, like Alex mentioned multiple times, you know, there's a renaissance back to that style of living.
	I think people are burnt out with city living and just burning themselves out.
	Yeah. It doesn't work.
	Living on processed food in a concrete jungle with all the electromagnetic pollution.
	All the stress and traffic.
	Like, that model is done.
	It is.
	I'm saying it's done.
	Anybody who can escape that is...
	I mean, we have migrants in America who are fleeing the cities.
	I mean, they're American migrants getting out to the country.
	They're saying, get us out of here.
	Yeah. This is not how we were meant to exist.
	That's right.
	And they're going to need your seed kits.
	So let me give you, let me give out the web address again.
	It's healthrangerstore.com slash seeds.
	We'll get you to this.
	Well, let me get back to the previous page.
	Here it is.
	You've got the all-in-one seed kit, which has the 50,000 seeds.
	You've got the backyard seed kit, which will be 50% off during the streaming of the Prepare Tribe docuseries.
	And then you've got this seed growing guide.
	And then we do offer one more thing.
	I didn't see it up there, but maybe Alex could mention it.
	Is it on the page further down?
	Maybe go down a little, Mike, see if it's on there.
	I don't think it is.
	We actually offer what's called a Prepper Special.
	We actually designed...
	Oh yeah, I remember that one.
	It's a bigger kit.
	It's your fault!
	It's a multifamily kit.
	So you get five of the all-in-ones.
	I know you guys sell it because we do sell quite a bit.
	I'll check with my team to make sure.
	You get five of the tubes for the price of four.
	So when you have a community or a church or a lot of neighbors and families together, that's a huge savings on that.
	We've seen people also for Christmas They buy the prepper special and then they give one to the family members.
	Oh, that sounds great.
	What a great gift.
	That was based on, I think, one of the first interviews you did with us because...
	Yeah, maybe another idea that you had.
	We gave them, we're like, we should make a special.
	Oh, that's right.
	Yeah. I'm not trying to give you more work to do.
	You've been doing enough already.
	No, it's great.
	OK. Yeah.
	Well, look, the bottom line is it's it's not only the time of the year in The northern hemisphere to grow your own food, but it's the time of your life.
	You know, I mean, it's the cultural time.
	It's the civilization time to become more self-reliant and grow more of your own nutrition.
	And you know, everybody's worried about, well, are we going to have enough reforms in HHS?
	You know, Secretary Kennedy and who's going to run the CDC?
	Who's going to run the FDA?
	You know what?
	I do not concern myself so much.
	I'm like, what am I going to grow?
	What medicine and food can I grow?
	Like, make yourself healthy again.
	I'm not waiting for bureaucrats in Washington to solve my health problems.
	I'm going to plant some food and medicine, man.
	Like, like I said, the pine trees are medicine and vitamin C. It's all around.
	It's all around people.
	Yeah, it is.
	And figs.
	You know why I love fig trees?
	Because they're in the Bible, and they're super easy to grow.
	You almost can't make a mistake on a fig tree.
	And we know God loves them.
	Yeah, that's right.
	It's his candy, because Jesus cursed the tree that didn't give him candy.
	Remember that?
	No, but I...
	So the fig, he went up to the fig tree, and it didn't, wasn't, there was no figs, and he cursed it and said, you're going to be dead, and it died instantly.
	It was one of the miracles.
	Well, I also know that grapes are, you know, the vine, as it's called in the Bible.
	Grapes are like the number one biblical food because of the The PCOs and the grape seeds and the resveratrol and the grape skin.
	And here in Texas, we have wild grapes, which are, there's a couple varieties like muscadine grapes are the highest natural resveratrol content.
	No kidding.
	And we have them all over our ranch.
	They grow wild and the hogs eat them and the deer eat them.
	And that's why they're so healthy.
	Yeah, I bet.
	They're eating resveratrol and proanthocyanidins all day long.
	And we should be taking note.
	Hey, if they like this, maybe we should be consuming this.
	Yeah. Yeah.
	You don't need any pesticides on those grapes because they're so dang acidic that it's hard to eat them.
	But you love those figs.
	Back to those figs.
	I love the figs.
	I love the grapes.
	I love the...
	I mean, my point is, we often as Americans, we want the government to solve Our health problem, our nutrition crisis, when what people should be doing is getting your seeds, growing their own food and medicine, becoming more self-reliant.
	Problem solved.
	We hope so.
	Get going.
	At least get started.
	One thing to add to that, I think, I'm just thinking back as you're talking, Mike, about going through the naturopathic school that I did.
	They taught us, you know, you have allopathic medicine and naturopathic medicine.
	And allopathic is great for emergency services when, you know, you split your arm open and you need it sewed up.
	But they're symptom-based, you know?
	Totally. So if you have diarrhea, here's some Imodium.
	You know, it's just instant, quick fix.
	And a lot of the clients that I've helped over the years, they want the more naturopathic approach.
	They still come in to see me with that idea, like, Give me the supplements.
	I know.
	They have the same mindset.
	This one lady walked in with a whole...
	She had literally a pillowcase full of supplements that she was carrying in, dumped them out on the table, and just told me...
	You know, what do I take?
	What do I not take?
	And I said, well, first, you know, again, it's the same.
	It's the same thing.
	They want to take supplements.
	They want to take medicine.
	I sit down and tell everybody that you've got to start with the foundations, right?
	You've got to start with your sleep, your water, your nutrition, your stress load, you know, exercise, exercise, prayer, like, I mean, all the different things.
	But nutrition is one of the huge aspects of that.
	And you can take control of it.
	You know, and so that's why it's so encouraging.
	I think since I've been doing this 18 years I've seen a huge increase of desire of people wanting to do that.
	Yeah, you know just yeah and Something that I'll observe along those lines is I noticed that people that come from the world of heavy prescription medication usage They're so afraid to take much of something that they'll they'll have like a turmeric tincture and they'll ask me like what's the dosage?
	Is it four drops?
	I'm like Uh, four dropper fulls, maybe get started.
	I mean, I'm drinking it, you know, I mean, this is food.
	These are spices.
	These aren't drugs.
	These aren't prescription medication.
	Stop thinking that everything's toxic, you know?
	But I hear that from people all the time.
	They're so afraid.
	Oh, what if I took too much, you know, cannabinoids?
	No one's ever overdosed.
	No problem.
	What if I ate too much cilantro?
	No problem.
	Put more on your tacos.
	I mean, why are people afraid of food?
	I don't understand.
	It's like all my, you know, the kids, all my friends, their kids, they're, I'm sorry, my kids' friends, they're always, the parents always calling me about the antibiotics for the ear aches and all this.
	And then what do you do?
	And I'm like, well, I gave, I give them mullin, you know, give them mullin for the earache.
	And they're like, that's it?
	You don't do any antibiotic?
	Just give them mullin.
	You know?
	I do, for my animals, I soak, Garlic and coconut oil.
	Right. And MCT oil.
	I make a garlic infusion oil in the ear, fill up the ear, let them shake it out.
	A couple days of that, they're done.
	I know.
	Yeah. I mean, and then people ask, how much garlic should I use?
	I don't know.
	Figure it out.
	Do what makes sense.
	It's a mind shift.
	Yeah. I mean, when we had our first kid, I was like, the first couple times, you know, I was like, oh my gosh, I gotta get her antibiotic.
	You know, this is 18 years ago.
	So we've come a long ways because I'm like, that's actually not helping her for what she needs.
	Treating symptoms.
	Right, right.
	And you are growing medicine.
	You're growing antibiotics when you're growing garlic.
	Right. And all these other herbs.
	Echinacea. Yeah.
	OK, here we are back, back at the store page and we found it.
	Here it is.
	The Prepper, Prepper Special 5 All-in-One Kits.
	There we go.
	Five kits for the price of four.
	That's the Mike Adams special.
	That's the Mike Adams special.
	Mike. Seeds in bulk.
	Yes. That sounds like me.
	We had to create that product back in 2020 when we started working with you, Mike.
	Well, thank you.
	We appreciate all your effort.
	Take advantage of it if you can.
	Yeah, that's awesome.
	Get those gifts.
	I like how they're stored in PVC too.
	And like, this is rodent proof because you've seen this.
	I've heard this from people.
	I've had it myself where I had seed kits.
	And I come back next year, mice have eaten all the good seeds.
	And it's a mess.
	They're gone.
	Yeah, they're gone.
	They're happy.
	Corn's gone.
	Right. Totally.
	Squashed beans are gone.
	I've had that happen.
	Beans are stored somewhere.
	We had a customer email us.
	Their tube went through a house fire.
	The whole thing.
	And they still planted.
	And he thought, no, the seeds are going to grow.
	They grew.
	He planted all of them because he thought none of them were going to grow.
	And everything germinated.
	Wow. Isn't that wild?
	Wow. Now, we don't recommend putting your kit through a housewife.
	No, but I was glad that he said, you know, he emailed us that story because I thought, my gosh, you know, I mean, we're still growing, we're still growing the seeds for 15 plus years later, but that, you know, it's hard to beat.
	Pre-roasted.
	Yeah. Popcorn.
	Non-heirloom, but fully roasted.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Well, that's how you grow a grilled zucchini, actually.
	So, is there anything else you want to add before we wrap this up?
	This has been a delightful conversation.
	Thanks for, you know, joking along with me on some of this stuff.
	Oh, love it.
	I loved the...
	Dialogue, we had the role-playing there.
	We could have taken that even further.
	Oh, I knew exactly who you were, so I knew where you were going.
	I was the male Karen neighbor, actually.
	Our kids call it Ken.
	What do they say?
	Ken and Karen.
	Ken and Karen, yeah, exactly.
	I was the Ken.
	You definitely were.
	We all know one, so we'll just leave it there.
	I saw water running down your driveway.
	Down the curb, I'm gonna call the water police on you.
	I'm calling the HOA.
	I saw cucumbers in your front yard, you know?
	Those should be under wraps.
	There's rodents, who knows?
	No, I would say the only thing, just to wrap up again, is to say thank you to you from us and to just say, if you're out there and you feel overwhelmed and you're listening to us and you think, oh my gosh, these guys have been doing this for so long, don't.
	Everyone starts somewhere.
	But get started.
	You can become self-reliant yourself.
	Preparedness and homesteading are hand-in-hand.
	You can do this.
	But don't wait.
	Don't wait another year.
	Yeah, and I would just add to that is, you know, when we had to start doing these videos last year, I felt like that because I'm not a studio video person, but I had to go outside of my comfort zone and work on doing the videos.
	And you guys will see when you watch the docuseries, it's very raw and it's very real because it's just, we're in our garden.
	That's what we're looking for.
	We're in the kitchen.
	And so we're not some movie star people.
	We're just trying to give you the practical, you know, step-by-step.
	Thanks again Mike.
	Well, thank you both.
	We appreciate you being here.
	Thanks for making the trip.
	Thanks for putting together these seed kits and this docuseries, and we're honored to be the first to stream it with you.
	It's called Prepare Tribe.
	You can sign up at brightu.com.
	Just enter your name and email address there, and you can watch the entire docuseries for free, which begins streaming April 5th, which is a Saturday.
	So book that on your calendar and gain the wisdom from this extraordinary couple.
	That is working with us to get this knowledge out there.
	So thank you both for being here today.
	Yeah, thank you.
	Yeah, thank you.
	Great to have you here.
	Great to be here.
	We love you being here.
	You're welcome back anytime.
	Okay. And we're building another studio that will have a kitchen set.
	Right? Oh boy.
	Yeah. Tinctures?
	Well, we're going to be doing tinctures and sprouting and also blenders.
	Oh! Like smoothie recipes.
	I'm actually going to show people.
	How to open avocados without stabbing yourself.
	Oh, nice.
	Yeah. That's that's a special skill.
	OK, so go safe.
	Yeah. Good, good, good stuff coming.
	Yeah, that's awesome.
	Thank you all for watching today.
	Mike Adams here of Brytian.com.
	Take care.
	It's that time of the year again to grow your own food, because, of course, there's nothing healthier and more nutritious than your own homegrown food.
	And we have partnered again with the Arc Seed Kit company And we carry their product line, which is just an extraordinary product line of heirloom non-GMO, non-hybrid seeds that have very high germination rates.
	We've got them on our website right now, healthrangerstore.com slash seeds.
	And you can get the all-in-one seed kit here, which has about 50,000 seeds.
	I think it's 70 different varieties.
	You can get the backyard seed kit, which is a smaller version of that, or you can get You can get five kits for the price of four and share with your neighbors, friends, or church, or community members with this Prepper Special, which they put together just for us.
	So ARK, A-R-K, stands for Agricultural Resource Kit.
	And if you can show a shot on my desk here, it shows you some of the seeds that are in the kit.
	And this comes in a four-inch PVC So it's rodent-proof and it's sealed from oxygenation.
	And we're talking about high-protein varieties, as you can see there.
	And it's not just a bunch of lettuce seeds, okay?
	We're talking about beans and corn.
	Some of the beans have a couple hundred seeds in there per pack.
	The packs are well-filled.
	Again, it's not just a bunch of lettuce seeds.
	This is actually food that you can live on.
	High-protein varieties.
	For different growing zones, there's a guide that's included with it.
	Different growing zones with instructions and a lot of know-how that goes into this and even the seed selection itself.
	It takes years of experience to know the right combination that just helps a family survive and grow food relatively easily and efficiently.
	So that's what the ARC Seed Kit is all about.
	So again, check it out at healthrangerstore.com Seeds and then also show on on my desk here show what it looks like.
	Yeah, you see there's the four inch tube that it comes in That's for the all-in-one seed kit Very rugged durable and then the backyard seed kit is in the gold pouch there That's more affordable and has a subset of those seeds.
	There's also the seed growing guide there That is available separately, but thank you for supporting us and for supporting the arc seed We're good to go!

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