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It's the dream of millions of people.

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Complete self sufficiency.

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To grow all of their own food and never

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have to take a trip to the grocery store.

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But for most people, it's just that, a 
dream.

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The ease of our current global, industrial

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food system is just that, too easy.

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Too convenient. Too time saving and too 
alluring.

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I've been exploring food for nearly a 
decade,

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and since the beginning, I've had the 
burning question-

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Could I step outside of the Big Ag system?

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Could I go without grocery stores and 
restaurants?

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Nothing packaged or processed,

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nothing shipped from a far off place.

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Could I grow and forage 100% of my food,

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everything that I ate, for an entire year?

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That's exactly the journey and the quest

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that I decided to set out on

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and now I am here to share the story with 
you.

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(music)

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(music abruptly stops) But one big thing-

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I had very little experience with growing
my own food.

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When I lived in San Diego I did have a

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few raised beds where I grew some greens,

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tomatoes and herbs but as a traveller for

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the last seven or so years, I had never

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really settled in one place long enough to

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grow my own food.

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So, in order to do this I would have to

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settle in one place.

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And that place that I chose is Orlando, 
Florida,

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where I am sitting right now.

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Besides being really fresh to growing my 
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I was also fresh to the scene here in 
Orlando, in Florida.

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And I was giving myself just two years

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here before hitting the road again.

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So I had to get planting as soon as I
landed here.

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But I didn't have a garden, I didn't own

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any land, and I had almost no experience

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with foraging in the state of Florida.

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I chose Florida so that I could grow food
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And I chose Orlando because I had passed

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through here a few times and met a great

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community of permaculturists and people 
who grow their own food.

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Specifically, I chose the community of 
Audubon Park

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because that's where Orlando permaculture

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and my friends at Fleet Farming were based

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and there was already a movement here of

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turning front yards into gardens.

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So I would have the support I needed in 
order to do it here.

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I quickly got to work meeting people in my

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neighborhood and proposing the idea to

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them of turning their front lawns into 
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It really wasn't hard to find takers

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because it was a pretty sweet deal.

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Their boring lawn would be turned into a

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garden, I'd do almost all of the work,

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cover the costs and they could eat all the

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food they liked right from their front 
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In fact, I quickly had a list of lawns

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longer than I could handle.

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The transformation was amazingly quick

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and within just a few months, I was

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growing more food than I could eat,
myself,

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and sharing it with friends in the
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I ended up creating six small plots

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all within easy cycling distance of each 
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I was just figuring out what I was doing
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I went to local meet ups like Orlando 
Permaculture,

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volunteered in the garden with Fleet 
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visited farms, and gardens and nurseries,

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took foraging classes with local foragers,

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like Green Deane, read books by local

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growers, and watched videos online, and 
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For a place to live, I built a simple,

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tiny house homestead in the backyard of a

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community member that I met.

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And in exchange for using their space,

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I turned their monoculture of grass into
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Starting from scratch, it took me ten

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months to be comfortable and ready to
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November 11th, 2018 would be my first 
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It was now time to eat 100% from my

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gardens and food that I would forage.

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Now, when I say 100% I truly mean it.

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No grocery stores or restaurants.

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No drinks at a bar.

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Nothing packaged or processed.

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Nothing shipped long distances.

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No farmer's markets.

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Not even going over to my friend's pantry

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or even going to their gardens or their 
food forests.

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Why not share food from my friends' 
gardens?

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Because I wanted to truly immerse in my
food.

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I wanted to have to have to literally

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figure out how to grow every single food

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or ingredient that I needed or how to 
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Many people know me for my dumpster diving

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to raise awareness about food waste.

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And a lot of people who follow me online

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assumed that I would still be eating from 
dumpsters.

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But, nope! No food from dumpster diving 
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I had already proved to myself that

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I could live off of the waste of our 
globalized food system.

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Now it was time to see if I could step

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away from that completely.

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That included everything that I put in my 
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Even supplements, vitamins and medicines.

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Now, you'd think on day one, that maybe

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I'd have eaten a lot of 100% homegrown and
foraged meals,

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but to be honest, my first meal on day 
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was my first 100% homegrown and foraged 
meal of my entire life.

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It was day one and I was in the deep end.

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But I had laid the foundation that I 
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My gardens, scattered across the

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neighborhood, were full of food

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and I had scouted out food, both in the

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city and the countryside, to forage.

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My supermarket was on nearly every street

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I could walk down and the shelves were 
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Over the last 365 days I grew and

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harvested over 100 different foods from my
gardens

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and foraged over 200 different foods from 
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That's a new species for almost every

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single day of the year.

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I grew a dozen different greens packed 
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Moringa,

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katuk,

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chaya, purslane,

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collards, kale,

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and perennial spinaches, just to name
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I grew sweet potatoes, cassava and yams

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for my main caloric needs.

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Pigeon peas and southern peas for
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Delicious fruits like papayas and bananas.

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Seminole pumpkins, carrots, eggplants,

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just to name a few vegetables.

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And garlic, onion, peppers and many
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to add flavour and nutrition to all of my 
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And I raised bees for honey to satisfy my 
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Which, believe me, I do have quite the 
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All of the bees that I stewarded were

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rescued with my friend, Dennis the bee 
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from locations where people didn't want 
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such as in the side of their homes.

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I harvested giant wild yams from the 
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Picked coconuts to make coconut milk,

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butter and coconut curries.

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Foraged from fruit trees in the wild,

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growing in public parks and in the city,

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with the bounty of fruit falling onto the 
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And, of course, wild bananas, too.

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I caught fish from the oceans, lakes and 
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And even harvested deer that had been hit

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by cars during my visit to Wisconsin.

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I harvested over 20 species of mushrooms 
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Picked nutritious plants that people call 
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that they walk by, unknowingly, or even

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constantly battle with in their yards and 
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My caffeine came from the native Yaupon
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that I made a tea from.

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And I even harvested my own sea salt from

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the ocean by collecting the water, boiling

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it down in a pot, until I was left with

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just the sea salt for my meals.

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I grew and foraged all of my own medicine

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and vitamins, too.

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I grew fresh turmeric and ginger in my 
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Foraged elderberries from the wild.

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I harvested reishi mushrooms and herbal 
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And grew moringa, also known as the

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vitamin tree, to make an easy to travel

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with multi vitamin powder.

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But most importantly, my food was my 
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It's a different way of thinking for most

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people, but even the weeds that grow just

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outside of our doorstep, are some of the

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most nutritionally and medicinally dense 
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For the last year, nature has been my

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garden, my pantry and my pharmacy.

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With the seasons my foods varied greatly.

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I cooked up dozens of different healthy
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Fermented foods, like sauerkraut, with my

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homegrown cabbage and herbs, and fermented

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delicious beverages like honey wine and 
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And whipped up delicious desserts,

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and ate the healthiest food of my entire 
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This was food that I could feel truly good
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It was all local, all natural and all 
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I made it through the entire year without

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using a single pesticide.

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Now sure, I had my problems with pests,

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like when the cucumber worms decided to

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attack my seminole pumpkins.

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But when I was growing over 100 different

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foods, if the pests were attacking 4 or 5

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of them, I still had 95 other foods that
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Just as importantly, though, I chose to

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grow the plants that thrived in this 
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When I started, I didn't walk down the

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aisles of the grocery store and ask which

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foods that I liked the most.

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Instead, I talked to local farmers and

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gardeners and my permaculturist friends

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and asked them what foods grow so

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ridiculously well and so ridiculously

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abundantly that I could hardly screw it 
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And those are the plants that I chose to

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focus on, and that's one of the main

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things that got me through this year.

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This was, without a doubt, one of the most

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challenging things that I've ever done.

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A year is a really long time and I had my

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highs and my lows.

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There were times when I felt my absolute
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and there were times when I just didn't

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know if I could go on.

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Generally, I did get enough food.

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My weight stayed the same about the entire

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time, so I did have enough calories.

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But there were times when I felt like

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I was really deficient, mostly in fat and 
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Those were the times when I found it

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really hard to want to keep going.

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And there was the social aspect.

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I was on my own a lot of the times, not

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able to join other people for their meals

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and sort of isolated. Not being able to go

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to restaurants or eat with friends and 
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Overall, with all the ups and downs, the

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year went about as well as I could have 
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I maintained my body weight throughout

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the year and I never got sick once!

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And I really attribute that to my food

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being my medicine. I think that nature is

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able to provide for our basic needs and 


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I trusted earth. I trusted nature.

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Now, I want to say, though, that this

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project, it wasn't really about my health.

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It wasn't about a diet.

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And I don't believe that this is the diet

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for 7 billion people, I don't actually

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think there is one diet for the 7 billion
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I think we live on a diverse world where

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we have diverse cultures and people need

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to do things in a very different way.

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So I'm not trying to represent a diet for

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everyone or anything like that.

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This was just my own personal quest.

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To see if I could step away from Big Ag.

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Step away from what I see as a broken food
system.

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And, instead, grow and forage 100% of my

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own food for an entire year.

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This project wasn't just about growing and

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foraging all of my own food, though.

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It was about empowering others

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to grow their own food, to take back power

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from Big Ag and, ultimately, to take back

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their health and grow their communities.

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So during this time I started a few

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community initiatives.

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We built 15 gardens for the people,

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planted over 200 community fruit trees,

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and sent out over 5,000 free seed packs

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to help others grow their own organic,
healthy food.

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And I taught dozens of free gardening

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classes, in my gardens, to the people in 
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I'll be honest, though, I do have an 
agenda.

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I want you to question your food.

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Where did it come from? How 
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How did it get to you? And what was

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the impact that it had on the earth,

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other species and the humans that 
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And if you don't like the answers that you
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I want to empower you to change them.

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The good news, though, is that you don't

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have to grow and forage all of your food.

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The solutions are there in your
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You can grow a little bit of your own 
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Maybe an herb garden on your window sill.

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Or some pots of tomatoes and basil on your
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Or a raised bed in your front yard.

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And if you don't have any space, at all,

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you can join a community garden.

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You can source your food locally.

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And purchase from local farmers and
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The farmer's market is a great place to 
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You can buy whole foods and cook more,

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rather than packaged, processed foods that

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leave trash behind.

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And you can work with your 
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make healthy foods for people in need.

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Grow a garden for your elderly neighbor,

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or start a grass roots organization to

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harvest the fruit trees in your community

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to distribute it to others.

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And this doesn't need to be a lonely 
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For most of us, food is at the center of 
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And we can do this, together, in our 
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My year is over but my journey of food 
has just begun.

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A book is in the works and 100% of my

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proceeds will be donated to organizations

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working on the food solutions.

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And I'll be here, online, sharing

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inspiration and education on how you can

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get involved in gaining food freedom.

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My mouth is cold now.

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(Muffled)...my own (laughs) medicine 
and vitamins to...

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(Laughing)

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Alright make note of that (laughing)