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Dialogue: 0,0:00:00.00,0:00:02.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've been exploring food for about a
Dialogue: 0,0:00:02.95,0:00:06.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,decade, since 2011, when I woke up to
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.30,0:00:08.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the globalized, industrialized food system
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.29,0:00:10.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and realized it was basically causing
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.08,0:00:12.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,destruction to everything that I loved.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.13,0:00:14.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,To people, to the planet, to other
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.02,0:00:18.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,species. The thing was I realized it was
Dialogue: 0,0:00:18.48,0:00:20.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just the globalized, industrialized
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.66,0:00:22.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,food system, but I was a part of that.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.83,0:00:25.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything that I was eating was being
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.04,0:00:28.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shipped long distances across the world.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:28.15,0:00:31.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was in packages, in plastic that was
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.12,0:00:32.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,leaving trash behind for future
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.60,0:00:34.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,generations. It was sprayed with
Dialogue: 0,0:00:34.49,0:00:36.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pesticides. it was animals raised in
Dialogue: 0,0:00:36.74,0:00:38.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,horrible conditions. I realized I was a
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.26,0:00:41.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,part of all of that. That was back in
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.84,0:00:44.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,2011. I decided I was going to change
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.70,0:00:47.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my life to eat in a way that didn't
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.10,0:00:49.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,consume the planet, but actually helped
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.78,0:00:54.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the planet. I had a big question from the
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.76,0:00:56.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the very beginning, but it was a far
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.22,0:01:00.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,off question. "Would it be possible to
Dialogue: 0,0:01:00.30,0:01:03.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually step away from this globalized,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:03.20,0:01:05.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,industrialized food system?" "Would it be
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.45,0:01:08.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,possible to step away from big ag and
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.56,0:01:11.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually produce all of my own food?"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.39,0:01:14.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Could I grow and forage one-hundred
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.61,0:01:16.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,percent of my food?" That has been a
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.16,0:01:19.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,question for about eight years now. About
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.44,0:01:21.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two years ago I decided I was actually
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.83,0:01:23.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going to find the answer to that question
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.93,0:01:25.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just by looking at the internet,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.50,0:01:27.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which I did and I could not find anyone
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.53,0:01:29.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doing it . I decided I was going to find
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.37,0:01:31.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the answer by doing it and seeing if it
Dialogue: 0,0:01:31.57,0:01:35.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was possible. Could I grow and forage
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.23,0:01:37.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everything that I eat for an entire year?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.38,0:01:39.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nothing packaged or processed, nothing
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.87,0:01:43.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shipped long distances, no pesticides,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.09,0:01:44.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,literally knowing every ingredient that I
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.87,0:01:47.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,put in my body, including the medicine as
Dialogue: 0,0:01:47.39,0:01:50.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well (my food being my medicine).That is
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.52,0:01:53.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why I ended up in Orlando Florida.That is
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.45,0:01:55.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why I'm here today. I'm standing here
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.74,0:01:58.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I finished the year two days ago.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.34,0:02:01.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Today is the second day after growing and
Dialogue: 0,0:02:01.80,0:02:05.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,foraging one-hundred percent of my food.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:05.59,0:02:09.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(crowd claps and cheers)
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.55,0:02:12.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Proof that it is indeed possible!
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.10,0:02:15.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am the one standing here tonight, but I
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.01,0:02:17.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,am only proof that the community can do
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.02,0:02:18.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this. There is no way that I could have
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.69,0:02:20.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,done this without the people in this
Dialogue: 0,0:02:20.39,0:02:23.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,room. Orlando Permaculture being a big
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.15,0:02:25.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,big part of it. Hundreds of people! It
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.42,0:02:27.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,took hundreds of people to feed me, not
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.30,0:02:30.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by bringing my food to me, or farming it
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.34,0:02:32.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for me, but through the knowledge, the
Dialogue: 0,0:02:32.51,0:02:35.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,education, the spending time with people,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:35.75,0:02:38.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,getting plants from people. The only
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.18,0:02:40.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reason I was able to do this is because
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.10,0:02:45.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the community. Why Orlando? Why did I
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.64,0:02:48.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,choose to live in Orlando? I was passing
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.63,0:02:52.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through here for the first time in 2016.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.29,0:02:54.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was invited to speak connected with
Dialogue: 0,0:02:54.80,0:02:59.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Orlando Permaculture and Fleet Farming.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.64,0:03:01.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My partner at the time, Cheryl and I just
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.97,0:03:05.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,felt welcomed here. We had been travelling
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.25,0:03:08.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all over. We had not felt more welcome
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.15,0:03:10.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than right here. We were telling people
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.100,0:03:12.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we were looking for a spot to
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.82,0:03:14.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,possibly settle down and I had this
Dialogue: 0,0:03:14.56,0:03:17.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,project in mind. People said "Yeah, come
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.11,0:03:22.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here!" We felt very welcomed, but also the
Dialogue: 0,0:03:22.87,0:03:24.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thing that I liked about Orlando is there
Dialogue: 0,0:03:24.47,0:03:28.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a community, but there's a blossoming
Dialogue: 0,0:03:28.23,0:03:30.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,community. I wanted to be in a place where
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.47,0:03:34.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could affect positive change. That did
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.74,0:03:37.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not mean, for me, being in Berkeley
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.14,0:03:38.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,California where there's already a lot
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.81,0:03:41.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of change makers. I could make a
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.72,0:03:43.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,difference, but there is already a lot
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.52,0:03:46.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going on, but not rural Alabama where
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.67,0:03:48.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people would not really listen to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.59,0:03:51.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Central Florida and Orlando is this great
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.32,0:03:54.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,great middle ground right now where there
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.03,0:03:55.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are a lot of people (as you can see in
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.52,0:03:57.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this room) that really care about this.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:57.47,0:04:00.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We all know where we are. We are in
Dialogue: 0,0:04:00.07,0:04:03.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Orlando, one extremely consumer-istic
Dialogue: 0,0:04:03.70,0:04:06.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,city. That was one of the reasons that I
Dialogue: 0,0:04:06.61,0:04:08.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,chose Orlando.I felt it was the right
Dialogue: 0,0:04:08.08,0:04:10.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,place to make a difference. The other
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.07,0:04:12.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,part was the year-round growing season.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:12.69,0:04:14.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought that if I have a chance to do
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.58,0:04:16.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this Orlando is a really good place to
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.81,0:04:19.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,give it my first shot. The reason why I
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.49,0:04:22.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wanted to do it in one of the easier
Dialogue: 0,0:04:22.68,0:04:25.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,places is because going into this, I had
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.92,0:04:29.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,next to no actual growing experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:29.90,0:04:33.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I moved to Orlando, before this I had
Dialogue: 0,0:04:33.51,0:04:35.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only had a couple of small raised beds
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.61,0:04:39.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back in San Diego.I grew a little bit of
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.25,0:04:43.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,greens, some herbs and some tomatoes. I
Dialogue: 0,0:04:43.22,0:04:45.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,looked back at that and all the mistakes
Dialogue: 0,0:04:45.08,0:04:47.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was making were just crazy. There was
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.40,0:04:48.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a tomato hornworm and I thought that it
Dialogue: 0,0:04:48.88,0:04:51.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that it was so cute. I loved it. I let it
Dialogue: 0,0:04:51.50,0:04:55.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eat my tomatoes, my tomato plant. Tonight
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.60,0:04:58.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was going through my old photos to find
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.31,0:05:03.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,photos to show you.This is the small,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.00,0:05:05.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,little greenhouse that I made when I first
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.02,0:05:07.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,got here. I look back and I know how
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.61,0:05:10.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,little I knew then, because there's no
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.92,0:05:14.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sunlight hitting this greenhouse. This is
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.36,0:05:17.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is under a balcony. There's no way those
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.50,0:05:20.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plants would grow. When I moved here I
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.55,0:05:23.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,did not know how much water to put on
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.42,0:05:27.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seeds, I did not know how much sunlight a
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.85,0:05:30.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,garden needed. I was just figuring out all
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.28,0:05:33.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the most basic things. I was trying to
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.28,0:05:39.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do it quickly.My plan was to have six
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.17,0:05:41.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,months of getting here before I started
Dialogue: 0,0:05:41.99,0:05:44.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my year of growing and foraging all of my
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.47,0:05:46.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of my food. I had another big problem,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:46.76,0:05:48.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that was that I did not own any land.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:48.76,0:05:51.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I arrived here not only not knowing how
Dialogue: 0,0:05:51.89,0:05:55.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to grow food, but also not owning any
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.66,0:05:58.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,land, and also not having a lot of
Dialogue: 0,0:05:58.43,0:06:01.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,experience in the state of Florida. I had
Dialogue: 0,0:06:01.08,0:06:03.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had been coming here since I was
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.40,0:06:05.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sixteen, fishing and things like that,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:05.77,0:06:07.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but never had paid attention to the
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.40,0:06:09.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plants. I certainly had never grown any
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.53,0:06:11.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,any food here. I was new to growing, I
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.83,0:06:14.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was especially new to Florida and I
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.78,0:06:16.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I arrived here with just backpack.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.84,0:06:19.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything I owned fit into a backpack
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.56,0:06:21.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I had a few connections. I met Sarah
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.92,0:06:23.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right here at this church at a Fleet
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.93,0:06:27.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Farming dinner when I passed through.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.01,0:06:29.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I got here she was one of the first
Dialogue: 0,0:06:29.50,0:06:30.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people that I talked to. I said "Hey
Dialogue: 0,0:06:30.69,0:06:33.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sarah, what do you think about me staying
Dialogue: 0,0:06:33.04,0:06:34.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in your guest bedroom and turning your
Dialogue: 0,0:06:34.55,0:06:37.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your yard into a garden in exchange?"
Dialogue: 0,0:06:37.17,0:06:39.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is what I did, This is Sarah's front
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.76,0:06:43.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yard two years ago. As you can see,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:43.37,0:06:45.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sarah's yard was grass but she had a
Dialogue: 0,0:06:45.21,0:06:47.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dream. That dream was to turn it into an
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.42,0:06:49.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,abundant garden.This picture was taken
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.76,0:06:53.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about a month ago.Today I actually had a
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.07,0:06:56.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really beautiful experience, I was
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.12,0:06:59.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,standing right about where you see me
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.09,0:07:03.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now. I realized I was way higher up than
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.18,0:07:06.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the land around me. You can see where I
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.12,0:07:07.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,am, and you can see the sidewalk. You can
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.72,0:07:09.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,see there's quite a bit of height there.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.56,0:07:15.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I dug down to see what was below me.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.88,0:07:19.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What it started with was sand. Most of
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.78,0:07:22.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you live around here.You know that we are
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.32,0:07:26.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,basically a former beach, a former ocean
Dialogue: 0,0:07:26.04,0:07:29.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under the water.Starting with sand I had
Dialogue: 0,0:07:29.94,0:07:32.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to turn that into a garden. Two years
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.82,0:07:35.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,later, I started to dig down, today. It
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.44,0:07:39.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was nothing but black loamy soil for
Dialogue: 0,0:07:39.19,0:07:41.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about six to eight inches. The reason I
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.54,0:07:43.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was standing that high is because that is
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.35,0:07:45.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all fertility that was created over the
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.77,0:07:49.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,last two years. I'm going to show you how
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.95,0:07:52.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I managed to turn front yards into
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.25,0:07:54.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gardens as one of the things today. As
Dialogue: 0,0:07:54.99,0:07:58.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,far as preparation, the idea was that I
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.30,0:08:00.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was going to give myself six months to
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.52,0:08:04.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,prepare before I was going to launch into
Dialogue: 0,0:08:04.11,0:08:07.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into growing and foraging all of my food.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:07.09,0:08:09.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reason I was so quick about it was
Dialogue: 0,0:08:09.25,0:08:11.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I've been a travelling person for
Dialogue: 0,0:08:11.44,0:08:15.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really the last, kind of forever. At
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.48,0:08:19.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,least since 2011, I have never stayed in
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.74,0:08:22.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one place where I could really grow food.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:22.100,0:08:24.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was one of the reasons I didn't
Dialogue: 0,0:08:24.64,0:08:26.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,know the answer to that question: "Could
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.25,0:08:28.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I grow and forage all my food?" When I
Dialogue: 0,0:08:28.40,0:08:29.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lived in San Diego I traveled six months
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.99,0:08:32.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,months of the year. Before that I was
Dialogue: 0,0:08:32.15,0:08:35.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,consistently traveling. I did not think I
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.68,0:08:37.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would want to stay here for too long.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.76,0:08:40.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is why I gave myself six months to
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.09,0:08:42.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,prepare, then a year living here. That
Dialogue: 0,0:08:42.95,0:08:44.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would be eighteen months staying put,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.48,0:08:45.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which would be the longest that I had
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.65,0:08:48.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stayed put since I became unable to stay
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.78,0:08:52.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,put, I suppose. I gave myself six months.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:52.14,0:08:55.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I started trying to figure things out.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.60,0:08:57.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I connected with local resources. One of
Dialogue: 0,0:08:57.65,0:08:59.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the first places I came was here to
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.70,0:09:02.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Orlando Permaculture. I started to buy
Dialogue: 0,0:09:02.22,0:09:04.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,local seeds. I searched out local seed
Dialogue: 0,0:09:04.03,0:09:06.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,companies. I search out local nurseries.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.71,0:09:08.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I went to classes like "Foraging with
Dialogue: 0,0:09:08.53,0:09:11.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Green Dean" and Andy Firk. I went to the
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.51,0:09:15.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,local earth skills gathering and any
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.18,0:09:17.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,opportunity I had. I found local books.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:17.66,0:09:20.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I found websites like Eat the Weeds and
Dialogue: 0,0:09:20.70,0:09:24.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Survival Gardener. I tried to soak in as
Dialogue: 0,0:09:24.52,0:09:26.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,much knowledge as I could. It was
Dialogue: 0,0:09:26.07,0:09:28.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,basically my full-time job to try to
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.20,0:09:30.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,figure out how to grow and forage all of
Dialogue: 0,0:09:30.50,0:09:33.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my food. These are some of the beginning
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.07,0:09:35.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plants, getting some trays and starting
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.98,0:09:38.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to plant seeds. I accumulated everything
Dialogue: 0,0:09:38.47,0:09:40.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one little bit at a time. Some of the
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.48,0:09:42.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seeds were brought from companies in
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.90,0:09:44.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,other in other parts of the United States
Dialogue: 0,0:09:44.75,0:09:46.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like Baker's Creek Seed Company, for
Dialogue: 0,0:09:46.87,0:09:48.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for example. Most of it was local. Some
Dialogue: 0,0:09:48.77,0:09:52.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of it was Palmer's dumpster, for example,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.39,0:09:54.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,down the street from here. That is where
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.20,0:09:55.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I got my sweet potato slips to start of
Dialogue: 0,0:09:55.77,0:10:00.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with The six months turned into a little
Dialogue: 0,0:10:00.02,0:10:02.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bit longer. It ended up ten months before
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.61,0:10:05.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I actually decided to get started. "Grow
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.20,0:10:10.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Food Not Lawns," that's probably a saying
Dialogue: 0,0:10:10.86,0:10:13.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that all of you have heard before, but
Dialogue: 0,0:10:13.42,0:10:16.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was really my core to being able to
Dialogue: 0,0:10:16.93,0:10:19.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do this here. Being in the city of
Dialogue: 0,0:10:19.42,0:10:23.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Orlando poses challenges compared to
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.12,0:10:26.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being on say, a farm, having that small
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.12,0:10:28.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,space. What I did was I met people in the
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.69,0:10:31.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,community and just like I did with Sarah,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.12,0:10:37.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I put six plots through out this
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.12,0:10:38.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,neighborhood, the Audubon Park
Dialogue: 0,0:10:38.77,0:10:41.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,neighborhood where I grew my food. I had
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.39,0:10:45.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that spread out in different areas. This
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.20,0:10:48.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was the first garden.This is probably a
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.35,0:10:51.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,month into the project. I can see I was a
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.10,0:10:53.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a little fatter before this year started.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:53.67,0:10:58.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I lost a little bit of weight. The idea of
Dialogue: 0,0:10:58.15,0:11:00.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"growing food not lawns," I like to keep
Dialogue: 0,0:11:00.72,0:11:03.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things pretty simple. I am going share a
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.31,0:11:05.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,little bit about how to turn your yard
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.66,0:11:09.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into a garden. For that there are six
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.25,0:11:15.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,basic ingredients: cardboard, mulch, soil
Dialogue: 0,0:11:15.19,0:11:21.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or compost, water, sun, and plants, the
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.44,0:11:24.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,basics to turning a yard into a garden.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.39,0:11:27.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First, you lay down cardboard. You can
Dialogue: 0,0:11:27.29,0:11:29.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get cardboard for free from dumpsters,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:29.94,0:11:32.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grocery stores, restaurants, and liquor
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.54,0:11:34.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stores If you go to appliance shops that
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.85,0:11:36.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sell things like refrigerators your job
Dialogue: 0,0:11:36.29,0:11:37.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Twill be a lot easier because they have
Dialogue: 0,0:11:37.96,0:11:40.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,huge pieces of cardboard. Take all the
Dialogue: 0,0:11:40.58,0:11:43.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tape off. Take the staples off and lay
Dialogue: 0,0:11:43.08,0:11:45.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that down. The idea of that is to kill
Dialogue: 0,0:11:45.76,0:11:48.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the grass. Every plant needs to
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.01,0:11:50.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,photosynthesize and if it has no sun, it
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.44,0:11:52.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it can't create energy and it will die
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.54,0:11:55.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over time. That cardboard would not stay
Dialogue: 0,0:11:55.24,0:11:57.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not stay put on its own. It is just the
Dialogue: 0,0:11:57.22,0:11:58.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,first ingredient. Over that you lay
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.73,0:12:02.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mulch. You lay about one foot of mulch.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:02.86,0:12:06.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can see the mulch here. One of the
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.25,0:12:08.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,big focuses of this is "How can we
Dialogue: 0,0:12:08.58,0:12:11.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,utilize resources that would otherwise
Dialogue: 0,0:12:11.21,0:12:13.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be completely wasted and do things in a
Dialogue: 0,0:12:13.12,0:12:17.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very inexpensive way?". Mulch is actually
Dialogue: 0,0:12:17.52,0:12:19.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the waste product of tree trimming and
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.35,0:12:23.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tree cutting down companies. A lot of the
Dialogue: 0,0:12:23.28,0:12:24.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the time, they actually take that to
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.45,0:12:25.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the landfill. It is something they have
Dialogue: 0,0:12:25.66,0:12:28.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to deal with. Instead, you can get them
Dialogue: 0,0:12:28.26,0:12:31.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to dump it into your yard. You can do
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.04,0:12:34.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that through websites like getchipdrop.com.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.34,0:12:36.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will have all of the resources listed
Dialogue: 0,0:12:36.98,0:12:38.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at the end. If you see one of those
Dialogue: 0,0:12:38.89,0:12:40.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,companies, you can just walk up to them
Dialogue: 0,0:12:40.93,0:12:42.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in your neighborhood and say, "Hey, do
Dialogue: 0,0:12:42.15,0:12:45.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you want to dump that right on my front
Dialogue: 0,0:12:45.09,0:12:47.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yard?" Cardboard, mulch, the reason that
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.98,0:12:50.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have mulch are many. One, it
Dialogue: 0,0:12:50.86,0:12:52.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,suppresses the grass to turn your yard
Dialogue: 0,0:12:52.46,0:12:55.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into a garden. Mulch holds in moisture.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:55.39,0:12:59.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your lawn, if there is nothing there,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:59.41,0:13:01.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when it rains most of it runs right off
Dialogue: 0,0:13:01.99,0:13:03.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the street. You loose that
Dialogue: 0,0:13:03.85,0:13:06.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,opportunity Mulch holds that in. The
Dialogue: 0,0:13:06.80,0:13:08.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,other thing mulch does is it breaks down
Dialogue: 0,0:13:08.22,0:13:12.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over time into soil. It also creates an
Dialogue: 0,0:13:12.27,0:13:15.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,environment where microorganisms and
Dialogue: 0,0:13:15.10,0:13:17.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fungi, which are very important to
Dialogue: 0,0:13:17.69,0:13:21.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plants. It prevents erosion and holds in
Dialogue: 0,0:13:21.05,0:13:23.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nutrients. It has many, many functions.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:23.33,0:13:27.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The third ingredient is compost, or soil.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:27.92,0:13:29.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you are living in a place like
Dialogue: 0,0:13:29.05,0:13:31.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wisconsin, where I am from, there is a
Dialogue: 0,0:13:31.32,0:13:33.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lot of very rich soil and that might not
Dialogue: 0,0:13:33.49,0:13:35.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be needed. If you have a sandy yard, you
Dialogue: 0,0:13:35.71,0:13:39.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,need to bring in some nutrients. I got
Dialogue: 0,0:13:39.44,0:13:40.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mushroom compost, which is a resource
Dialogue: 0,0:13:40.84,0:13:43.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we are blessed to have in Central
Dialogue: 0,0:13:43.34,0:13:45.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Florida. It is a waste product of the
Dialogue: 0,0:13:45.54,0:13:48.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mushrooms that many of us buy at the
Dialogue: 0,0:13:48.64,0:13:51.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grocery stores. Mushroom compost was my
Dialogue: 0,0:13:51.50,0:13:55.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,growing medium. Then sun, that is freely
Dialogue: 0,0:13:55.21,0:13:56.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,available to us. There is not much we
Dialogue: 0,0:13:56.94,0:13:59.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have to do there. Water. Also something
Dialogue: 0,0:13:59.28,0:14:01.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that can be freely available to us from
Dialogue: 0,0:14:01.07,0:14:03.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the sky. We live in a place where we get
Dialogue: 0,0:14:03.08,0:14:06.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get a good amount of water year-round.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:06.05,0:14:07.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Even our dry time of the year, we still
Dialogue: 0,0:14:07.90,0:14:09.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get about three inches of rain per year.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:09.80,0:14:11.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you are doing rain water harvesting,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:11.41,0:14:14.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can capture a whole lot of that. The
Dialogue: 0,0:14:14.04,0:14:16.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,other ingredients would be plants. You
Dialogue: 0,0:14:16.82,0:14:20.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can start from seeds, cuttings, and
Dialogue: 0,0:14:20.96,0:14:25.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,buying potted plants. There are probably
Dialogue: 0,0:14:25.09,0:14:26.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some other ways to do it. I am still kind
Dialogue: 0,0:14:26.44,0:14:28.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of a rookie. I should say that from the
Dialogue: 0,0:14:28.02,0:14:32.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beginning. That is the basic ingredients
Dialogue: 0,0:14:32.33,0:14:33.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that is what I did to turn the front
Dialogue: 0,0:14:33.49,0:14:35.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yards into gardens. What were the
Dialogue: 0,0:14:35.84,0:14:38.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,guidelines for this project of growing
Dialogue: 0,0:14:38.14,0:14:40.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and foraging all of my food? What that
Dialogue: 0,0:14:40.58,0:14:43.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meant is obviously, no grocery stores, no
Dialogue: 0,0:14:43.42,0:14:47.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,restaurants. That included my medicine,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:47.32,0:14:50.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so, no pharmacy. I had to grow or forage
Dialogue: 0,0:14:50.89,0:14:53.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my own medicines as well. A lot of people
Dialogue: 0,0:14:53.36,0:14:56.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,know me for having done a lot of dumpster
Dialogue: 0,0:14:56.14,0:14:57.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,diving to raise awareness about food
Dialogue: 0,0:14:57.79,0:14:59.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,waste. Some people call that urban
Dialogue: 0,0:14:59.45,0:15:01.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,foraging, but for this project that did
Dialogue: 0,0:15:01.62,0:15:06.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not count as foraging. The idea was, I
Dialogue: 0,0:15:06.22,0:15:07.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had already learned in the past that I
Dialogue: 0,0:15:07.61,0:15:10.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could live solely off food from grocery
Dialogue: 0,0:15:10.06,0:15:12.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,store dumpsters. I wanted to step
Dialogue: 0,0:15:12.85,0:15:14.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,away from big ag and see if I could live
Dialogue: 0,0:15:14.90,0:15:16.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,independently of that, which would not
Dialogue: 0,0:15:16.63,0:15:19.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mean eating those foods from dumpsters.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:19.49,0:15:22.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No dumpster diving. No drinks at a bar.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:22.24,0:15:25.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no eating food from a friend's pantry.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:25.08,0:15:27.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No going to my friends' food forests,
Dialogue: 0,0:15:27.62,0:15:29.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because let's face it, if I ate at the
Dialogue: 0,0:15:29.73,0:15:32.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,food forest life would have been too
Dialogue: 0,0:15:32.99,0:15:35.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,easy. I would not have learned nearly as
Dialogue: 0,0:15:35.41,0:15:37.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,much because this is Orlando Permaculture
Dialogue: 0,0:15:37.05,0:15:39.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is dozens of food forests that I
Dialogue: 0,0:15:39.70,0:15:42.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could visit. No food forests. I literally
Dialogue: 0,0:15:42.96,0:15:45.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had to grow or forage everything for the
Dialogue: 0,0:15:45.23,0:15:49.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,entire year. This picture is on day one.
Dialogue: 0,0:15:49.99,0:15:53.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was November 11, 2018. You would
Dialogue: 0,0:15:53.92,0:15:57.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,think when I finally began that I would
Dialogue: 0,0:15:57.13,0:16:00.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have maybe, eaten quite a few meals that
Dialogue: 0,0:16:00.14,0:16:04.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had completely grow and foraged, but I
Dialogue: 0,0:16:04.50,0:16:06.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had a lot going on. My first meal was the
Dialogue: 0,0:16:06.72,0:16:09.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,first meal that I had ever eating one-
Dialogue: 0,0:16:09.27,0:16:11.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hundred percent grown or foraged. When I
Dialogue: 0,0:16:11.99,0:16:13.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,started on day one, I was definitely in
Dialogue: 0,0:16:13.44,0:16:16.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the deep end. Jumping into the deep
Dialogue: 0,0:16:16.13,0:16:19.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,end. Where did I live during this time?
Dialogue: 0,0:16:19.29,0:16:22.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My goal was originally to live off-grid
Dialogue: 0,0:16:22.98,0:16:24.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the city and do all of this off the
Dialogue: 0,0:16:24.88,0:16:28.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grid as well. Over time, I realized that
Dialogue: 0,0:16:28.90,0:16:30.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,off the grid would have been a whole
Dialogue: 0,0:16:30.19,0:16:32.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,other level of the challenge that I was
Dialogue: 0,0:16:32.43,0:16:34.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not quite able to do. I was not off the
Dialogue: 0,0:16:34.57,0:16:36.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grid, but what I did is I built a tiny
Dialogue: 0,0:16:36.70,0:16:38.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,house homestead. You can see it in the
Dialogue: 0,0:16:38.92,0:16:42.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back yard here. This is the drone shot.
Dialogue: 0,0:16:42.02,0:16:44.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here is another picture of it from closer
Dialogue: 0,0:16:44.77,0:16:47.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,up. The idea was to try to live in a way
Dialogue: 0,0:16:47.87,0:16:49.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where I was living as much as possible
Dialogue: 0,0:16:49.80,0:16:52.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in harmony with the earth, here in the
Dialogue: 0,0:16:52.62,0:16:55.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,city and in a way that caused as little
Dialogue: 0,0:16:55.81,0:16:59.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,harm to the earth. It might not seem like
Dialogue: 0,0:16:59.33,0:17:01.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it in the city of Orlando, but we are
Dialogue: 0,0:17:01.59,0:17:04.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,indeed in a natural environment, of
Dialogue: 0,0:17:04.59,0:17:05.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sorts. Even though there is concrete
Dialogue: 0,0:17:05.98,0:17:08.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around, everywhere is nature. We are
Dialogue: 0,0:17:08.82,0:17:11.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nature. Even being in the city of Orlando
Dialogue: 0,0:17:11.82,0:17:13.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my idea was to be as integrated as
Dialogue: 0,0:17:13.87,0:17:17.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,possible with the elements as I could,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:17.21,0:17:21.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to actually use resources as effectively
Dialogue: 0,0:17:21.32,0:17:23.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as wisely as I could, and improve
Dialogue: 0,0:17:23.82,0:17:26.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the quality of life around me. At this
Dialogue: 0,0:17:26.88,0:17:29.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tiny house, a couple of the key things
Dialogue: 0,0:17:29.06,0:17:32.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for sustainable living: there was a basic
Dialogue: 0,0:17:32.02,0:17:35.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,compost bin, which meant anything like
Dialogue: 0,0:17:35.52,0:17:39.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,food waste, yard waste, paper, cardboard,
Dialogue: 0,0:17:39.46,0:17:41.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all of that stuff could go right into the
Dialogue: 0,0:17:41.12,0:17:43.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,compost to build fertility for my
Dialogue: 0,0:17:43.62,0:17:46.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gardens. There was rainwater harvesting.
Dialogue: 0,0:17:46.10,0:17:48.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My shower was a rainwater harvesting
Dialogue: 0,0:17:48.22,0:17:51.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,system. That water that I used to
Dialogue: 0,0:17:51.53,0:17:52.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shower, after it came off the roof from
Dialogue: 0,0:17:52.73,0:17:56.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rain, after it cleaned me, it went onto
Dialogue: 0,0:17:56.97,0:18:00.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bananas and then could grow bananas. The
Dialogue: 0,0:18:00.15,0:18:02.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,water from my kitchen was also from
Dialogue: 0,0:18:02.57,0:18:04.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rainwater harvesting. After I washed
Dialogue: 0,0:18:04.75,0:18:07.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dishes and washed my hands, that went
Dialogue: 0,0:18:07.46,0:18:09.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,behind the sink. That is called gray
Dialogue: 0,0:18:09.84,0:18:12.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,water. Back there I planted taro and
Dialogue: 0,0:18:12.05,0:18:16.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,turmeric. All of that [water] was also
Dialogue: 0,0:18:16.70,0:18:21.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,used to grow food. The idea of this is to
Dialogue: 0,0:18:21.29,0:18:23.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,keep the water on the land. It is the
Dialogue: 0,0:18:23.51,0:18:26.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,opposite idea of a lot of today's
Dialogue: 0,0:18:26.00,0:18:29.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,society. [If] you look at how the gutters
Dialogue: 0,0:18:29.76,0:18:31.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,any the downspouts are set up, it is to
Dialogue: 0,0:18:31.87,0:18:34.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,send the water off of your property into
Dialogue: 0,0:18:34.96,0:18:37.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the street and then into our storm water
Dialogue: 0,0:18:37.44,0:18:39.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,run-off system. My goal was to try to
Dialogue: 0,0:18:39.82,0:18:42.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,keep as much of that water as possible,
Dialogue: 0,0:18:42.20,0:18:45.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but still let it flow off during
Dialogue: 0,0:18:45.42,0:18:46.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hurricanes. I am not talking about
Dialogue: 0,0:18:46.55,0:18:50.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,holding every ounce. That was the idea
Dialogue: 0,0:18:50.48,0:18:52.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there, as well as fertility. Keeping all
Dialogue: 0,0:18:52.62,0:18:54.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of that fertility on the land. I also
Dialogue: 0,0:18:54.55,0:18:58.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had compost toilet, so I could use that.
Dialogue: 0,0:18:58.19,0:19:03.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Over this year I grew and foraged three-
Dialogue: 0,0:19:03.81,0:19:06.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hundred different foods. I grew one-
Dialogue: 0,0:19:06.92,0:19:09.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hundred different foods in my garden and
Dialogue: 0,0:19:09.45,0:19:12.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two-hundred different foods that I
Dialogue: 0,0:19:12.71,0:19:15.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,foraged. There are three-hundred sixty-
Dialogue: 0,0:19:15.11,0:19:17.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,five days in a year. What that means is
Dialogue: 0,0:19:17.21,0:19:19.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I foraged a new food for almost
Dialogue: 0,0:19:19.31,0:19:22.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every single day of the entire year. That
Dialogue: 0,0:19:22.54,0:19:26.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is quite a bit of diversity. A lot of
Dialogue: 0,0:19:26.03,0:19:30.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people imaging that I would be missing
Dialogue: 0,0:19:30.96,0:19:33.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all of the different tastes and favors,
Dialogue: 0,0:19:33.31,0:19:35.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the reality was that between the
Dialogue: 0,0:19:35.13,0:19:37.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,three-hundred different foods that I
Dialogue: 0,0:19:37.11,0:19:40.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,foraged, there was quite the diversity.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:40.27,0:19:42.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am going to walk you through that.
Dialogue: 0,0:19:42.50,0:19:46.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A large part of tonight's focus is how
Dialogue: 0,0:19:46.17,0:19:49.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can do this. Not necessarily one-
Dialogue: 0,0:19:49.39,0:19:51.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hundred percent, that is obviously really
Dialogue: 0,0:19:51.99,0:19:54.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,extreme and very challenging. How you can
Dialogue: 0,0:19:54.37,0:19:57.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grow and forage, or how you can produce
Dialogue: 0,0:19:57.31,0:19:59.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as much of your food as you would like
Dialogue: 0,0:19:59.95,0:20:01.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to. I am going to go into detail with a
Dialogue: 0,0:20:01.85,0:20:05.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lot of the actual points. One of the
Dialogue: 0,0:20:05.43,0:20:08.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really important ones: so many people
Dialogue: 0,0:20:08.15,0:20:11.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dream of self-sufficiency. It is the
Dialogue: 0,0:20:11.44,0:20:14.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dream of millions of people to grow one-
Dialogue: 0,0:20:14.85,0:20:16.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hundred percent of their food, to live
Dialogue: 0,0:20:16.64,0:20:18.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,off the land, to never have to take a trip
Dialogue: 0,0:20:18.09,0:20:21.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the grocery store. For most of us,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:21.25,0:20:23.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is really just a dream because the
Dialogue: 0,0:20:23.53,0:20:27.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,globalized food system is far too easy,
Dialogue: 0,0:20:27.04,0:20:30.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,far too far-reaching, far too convenient
Dialogue: 0,0:20:30.56,0:20:33.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and alluring. Even the people that are
Dialogue: 0,0:20:33.22,0:20:35.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,largely living off the land, one of the
Dialogue: 0,0:20:35.55,0:20:38.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,biggest challenges is calories, actually
Dialogue: 0,0:20:38.04,0:20:40.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,growing all of your calories. Here in
Dialogue: 0,0:20:40.51,0:20:44.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Florida. we are not in a grain state.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:44.54,0:20:46.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You do not see big fields of wheat and
Dialogue: 0,0:20:46.33,0:20:48.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,corn and things like that out here.
Dialogue: 0,0:20:48.48,0:20:51.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Grains were not going to be the way that
Dialogue: 0,0:20:51.12,0:20:53.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was going feed myself, like billions
Dialogue: 0,0:20:53.25,0:20:56.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of people around the world do. Tubers
Dialogue: 0,0:20:56.38,0:20:58.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are actually what we have going for
Dialogue: 0,0:20:58.30,0:21:00.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ourselves in Central Florida. My first
Dialogue: 0,0:21:00.94,0:21:03.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,calorie crop is sweet potato. That is
Dialogue: 0,0:21:03.04,0:21:05.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what I am holding in my had there. Some
Dialogue: 0,0:21:05.64,0:21:07.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the sweet potatoes were like what you
Dialogue: 0,0:21:07.39,0:21:10.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would see at the store, small ones, but
Dialogue: 0,0:21:10.02,0:21:11.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the biggest sweet potato was over five
Dialogue: 0,0:21:11.63,0:21:14.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pounds. Image if you but a five pound
Dialogue: 0,0:21:14.16,0:21:17.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bag of potatoes, one sweet potato can be
Dialogue: 0,0:21:17.73,0:21:22.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that big or even larger. In a small area,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:22.34,0:21:27.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,definitely smaller than this stage, I
Dialogue: 0,0:21:27.20,0:21:29.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grew about five-hundred pounds of sweet
Dialogue: 0,0:21:29.23,0:21:31.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,potato. It is truly one of the most
Dialogue: 0,0:21:31.94,0:21:35.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,powerful crops we have here in Central
Dialogue: 0,0:21:35.25,0:21:38.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Florida. Not only can you eat the tubers,
Dialogue: 0,0:21:38.65,0:21:40.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the potatoes themselves, but the greens
Dialogue: 0,0:21:40.47,0:21:43.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are also edible. What I was told is that
Dialogue: 0,0:21:43.63,0:21:48.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sweet potatoes are the most useful, as
Dialogue: 0,0:21:48.69,0:21:50.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,far as any crop goes, you can get more
Dialogue: 0,0:21:50.48,0:21:53.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out of that per acre that any other crop
Dialogue: 0,0:21:53.65,0:21:55.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is grown because of the calories
Dialogue: 0,0:21:55.97,0:21:57.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the potato and then the nutrients
Dialogue: 0,0:21:57.67,0:21:59.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the greens. It is really important
Dialogue: 0,0:21:59.85,0:22:01.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to look at all of the elements in the
Dialogue: 0,0:22:01.73,0:22:04.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plant because most people who bought
Dialogue: 0,0:22:04.16,0:22:05.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sweet potatoes at the store have never
Dialogue: 0,0:22:05.87,0:22:08.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eaten a sweet potato green, but it is a
Dialogue: 0,0:22:08.34,0:22:12.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really, really useful resource. Sweet
Dialogue: 0,0:22:12.33,0:22:14.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,potatoes were one of my main crops. Then,
Dialogue: 0,0:22:14.54,0:22:16.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yuca is another one, also called
Dialogue: 0,0:22:16.92,0:22:19.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cassava. Now, what you will see tonight
Dialogue: 0,0:22:19.82,0:22:21.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a lot of the plants that I am going
Dialogue: 0,0:22:21.15,0:22:24.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to show you is that these are plants that
Dialogue: 0,0:22:24.48,0:22:27.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most people in Caribbean cuisines and a
Dialogue: 0,0:22:27.43,0:22:28.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lot of Central and South American
Dialogue: 0,0:22:28.99,0:22:31.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cuisines, these are staple crops to
Dialogue: 0,0:22:31.54,0:22:34.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,them. If you go away from the South into
Dialogue: 0,0:22:34.32,0:22:35.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,much of the United States, these are
Dialogue: 0,0:22:35.76,0:22:38.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,foods that most people have never heard
Dialogue: 0,0:22:38.58,0:22:41.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of. Many of these you will see as
Dialogue: 0,0:22:41.83,0:22:45.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,staples in much of the Caribbean, Central
Dialogue: 0,0:22:45.36,0:22:47.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and South America. Yuca being one of
Dialogue: 0,0:22:47.41,0:22:50.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those, or cassava. I am just going to
Dialogue: 0,0:22:50.38,0:22:52.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,say, it is not 'YUCK-ah.' That is
Dialogue: 0,0:22:52.89,0:22:58.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,y-u-c-c-a. YO"-ka is y-u-c-a. Yucca is a
Dialogue: 0,0:22:58.36,0:23:00.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,desert plant that does not produce big
Dialogue: 0,0:23:00.91,0:23:05.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tubers. Yuca is a plant grows in the semi-
Dialogue: 0,0:23:05.40,0:23:08.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tropics and tropics that produces big
Dialogue: 0,0:23:08.01,0:23:12.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tubers. The nice thing about yuca is you
Dialogue: 0,0:23:12.25,0:23:15.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can plant it along your fence line. All
Dialogue: 0,0:23:15.23,0:23:17.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have to do for yuca is get a cutting,
Dialogue: 0,0:23:17.44,0:23:20.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which is a stick like what I am holing
Dialogue: 0,0:23:20.85,0:23:22.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in my hand there, just a part of the
Dialogue: 0,0:23:22.09,0:23:24.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stick. All around there are just the
Dialogue: 0,0:23:24.41,0:23:26.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,parts that I broke off that grows above
Dialogue: 0,0:23:26.36,0:23:28.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the ground. Any one of those sticks, you
Dialogue: 0,0:23:28.86,0:23:30.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just take that stick and you put it in
Dialogue: 0,0:23:30.36,0:23:32.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the ground. That is going to turn into
Dialogue: 0,0:23:32.47,0:23:34.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,five pounds of yuca, or sometimes even
Dialogue: 0,0:23:34.75,0:23:37.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fifteen pounds of yuca. This is what is
Dialogue: 0,0:23:37.98,0:23:40.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called a 'survival crop.' One billion
Dialogue: 0,0:23:40.27,0:23:42.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people around the world depend on yuca.
Dialogue: 0,0:23:42.100,0:23:45.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reason they depend on it is because
Dialogue: 0,0:23:45.95,0:23:48.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it grows ridiculously easily, takes very
Dialogue: 0,0:23:48.98,0:23:52.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,few nutrients, and does not need much
Dialogue: 0,0:23:52.29,0:23:55.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,water at all. That makes it very much a
Dialogue: 0,0:23:55.23,0:23:57.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,survival crop. The other great thing
Dialogue: 0,0:23:57.23,0:23:58.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about it is that you can leave it as your
Dialogue: 0,0:23:58.67,0:24:01.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,basic calorie bank in the ground. It can
Dialogue: 0,0:24:01.94,0:24:04.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sit there for years. At Peanut Butter
Dialogue: 0,0:24:04.81,0:24:06.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Palace, there is one that was there long
Dialogue: 0,0:24:06.92,0:24:08.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before I got there and it is still there
Dialogue: 0,0:24:08.89,0:24:11.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,today and they can go down and dig that
Dialogue: 0,0:24:11.04,0:24:14.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,food out. It's a survival crop. It is not
Dialogue: 0,0:24:14.10,0:24:16.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the most nutritious. It does not have a
Dialogue: 0,0:24:16.23,0:24:18.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lot of nutrients, but it has calories. It
Dialogue: 0,0:24:18.34,0:24:20.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is twice as calorie dense as sweet
Dialogue: 0,0:24:20.22,0:24:23.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,potato. Very important crop. I got my
Dialogue: 0,0:24:23.63,0:24:26.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nutrients elsewhere. We will go into
Dialogue: 0,0:24:26.60,0:24:28.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that, but calories came from tubers.
Dialogue: 0,0:24:28.94,0:24:34.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another tuber is wild yam, or dioscorea
Dialogue: 0,0:24:34.84,0:24:36.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,alata. I am not sure if I pronounced that
Dialogue: 0,0:24:36.77,0:24:39.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,correctly, but it is an idea. I mostly
Dialogue: 0,0:24:39.50,0:24:41.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,use common names rather than the genus
Dialogue: 0,0:24:41.91,0:24:46.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and species. Wild yam. Winged yam. This
Dialogue: 0,0:24:46.29,0:24:49.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is actually formerly a domesticated yam
Dialogue: 0,0:24:49.32,0:24:51.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that got into the wild. The largest one
Dialogue: 0,0:24:51.78,0:24:54.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I dug up this year was with James
Dialogue: 0,0:24:54.35,0:24:56.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it was one-hundred fifty-seven
Dialogue: 0,0:24:56.70,0:24:58.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pounds. I weigh one-hundred fifty-three
Dialogue: 0,0:24:58.88,0:25:03.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pounds. A yam as heavy as me, and that is
Dialogue: 0,0:25:03.75,0:25:05.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just one yam. Imagine how much food you
Dialogue: 0,0:25:05.43,0:25:07.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can get out of that. That is thirty
Dialogue: 0,0:25:07.19,0:25:10.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,five-pound bags of potatoes for one yam.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:10.40,0:25:16.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We found this wild yam in a reserve about
Dialogue: 0,0:25:16.36,0:25:19.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ten miles west of here. Before I started,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:19.01,0:25:20.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as I was preparing, I actually found a
Dialogue: 0,0:25:20.66,0:25:23.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,amount of it. There might be as much as
Dialogue: 0,0:25:23.40,0:25:25.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one-thousand calories on the Cady Way
Dialogue: 0,0:25:25.60,0:25:28.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Trail right over by the golf course,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:28.34,0:25:31.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,growing right along the golf course. That
Dialogue: 0,0:25:31.12,0:25:33.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was actually on day one. I think one of
Dialogue: 0,0:25:33.26,0:25:35.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my first meals was the wilds yams right
Dialogue: 0,0:25:35.68,0:25:38.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there from the golf course. An amazing
Dialogue: 0,0:25:38.24,0:25:40.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plant. You can also grow it. There are
Dialogue: 0,0:25:40.60,0:25:42.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a lot of people who grow it in Central
Dialogue: 0,0:25:42.73,0:25:45.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Florida. It is great for foraging for
Dialogue: 0,0:25:45.43,0:25:48.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,calories, or growing your own calories.
Dialogue: 0,0:25:48.49,0:25:51.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another really important crop for me this
Dialogue: 0,0:25:51.58,0:25:54.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,year has been papaya. It is absolutely,
Dialogue: 0,0:25:54.30,0:25:55.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for Central Florida, one of the plants
Dialogue: 0,0:25:55.70,0:25:57.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I would recommend the most. You can
Dialogue: 0,0:25:57.47,0:25:59.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eat papaya green. If you have ever had
Dialogue: 0,0:25:59.60,0:26:02.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thai papaya salad, for example, that is
Dialogue: 0,0:26:02.44,0:26:04.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,green papaya. There are so many ways you
Dialogue: 0,0:26:04.68,0:26:06.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can prepare it. You can cut it up like
Dialogue: 0,0:26:06.48,0:26:09.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,potatoes and saute it. You can turn it
Dialogue: 0,0:26:09.00,0:26:11.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into papaya kraut. Ferment it, which I
Dialogue: 0,0:26:11.64,0:26:13.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,am going to talk a little bit about
Dialogue: 0,0:26:13.13,0:26:15.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,later. It is not as dense in calories as
Dialogue: 0,0:26:15.99,0:26:18.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the tubers, but still has quite a few
Dialogue: 0,0:26:18.80,0:26:20.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,calories. As you can see from this one
Dialogue: 0,0:26:20.28,0:26:25.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tree, I had probably five papaya trees
Dialogue: 0,0:26:25.70,0:26:27.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and i never ate five percent of the
Dialogue: 0,0:26:27.90,0:26:31.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,papayas that it put out. Papaya trees are
Dialogue: 0,0:26:31.12,0:26:33.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a really, really worthwhile thing to
Dialogue: 0,0:26:33.68,0:26:36.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grow. Another thing is Seminole pumpkin.
Dialogue: 0,0:26:36.67,0:26:38.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of those pumpkins that you see right
Dialogue: 0,0:26:38.58,0:26:41.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there came from the seeds of two
Dialogue: 0,0:26:41.64,0:26:44.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pumpkins that I had for dinner. Before
Dialogue: 0,0:26:44.30,0:26:45.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this project started, I was down at
Dialogue: 0,0:26:45.49,0:26:48.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sustainable Kashi in Sebastian. We had
Dialogue: 0,0:26:48.66,0:26:51.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Seminole pumpkin and I said "Can I take
Dialogue: 0,0:26:51.88,0:26:54.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these seeds home?". I was just as excited
Dialogue: 0,0:26:54.45,0:26:57.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as could be. I had planted very few
Dialogue: 0,0:26:57.16,0:26:59.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things in my life at that time. That was
Dialogue: 0,0:26:59.33,0:27:01.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before I got started. I took these seeds
Dialogue: 0,0:27:02.08,0:27:05.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,home and was just so excited to plant
Dialogue: 0,0:27:05.15,0:27:10.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,them. Those seeds, from two pumpkins,
Dialogue: 0,0:27:10.28,0:27:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,turned into one-hundred sixty-nine
Dialogue: 0,0:27:12.00,0:27:14.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pumpkins that I grew in two of the front
Dialogue: 0,0:27:14.83,0:27:18.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yards. A beautiful thing about Seminole
Dialogue: 0,0:27:18.01,0:27:21.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pumpkins is they also store. I lived
Dialogue: 0,0:27:21.69,0:27:24.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,basically outside. No air conditioning in
Dialogue: 0,0:27:24.69,0:27:26.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my tiny house. If it was ninety degrees
Dialogue: 0,0:27:26.88,0:27:29.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,outside, it was ninety degrees inside.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:29.13,0:27:31.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They lasted through an entire summer on
Dialogue: 0,0:27:31.21,0:27:33.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my shelves. They are a truly amazing
Dialogue: 0,0:27:33.81,0:27:35.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,crop. Most of you do not have to worry
Dialogue: 0,0:27:35.67,0:27:37.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about that because you have air
Dialogue: 0,0:27:37.11,0:27:38.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,conditioning. I have heard of them
Dialogue: 0,0:27:38.28,0:27:40.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lasting even two years inside. Another
Dialogue: 0,0:27:40.31,0:27:43.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,amazing crop. Similar to butternut squash
Dialogue: 0,0:27:43.78,0:27:44.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a way. It is bright, fleshy, bright
Dialogue: 0,0:27:44.85,0:27:49.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,orange on the inside. That, for me, was a
Dialogue: 0,0:27:49.05,0:27:50.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,big lesson in the power of the seed.
Dialogue: 0,0:27:50.84,0:27:56.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Just think about it. If there are one-
Dialogue: 0,0:27:56.11,0:27:58.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hundred fifty people in this room; there
Dialogue: 0,0:27:58.38,0:28:00.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are about one-hundred fifty seeds in a
Dialogue: 0,0:28:00.49,0:28:02.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pumpkin. If we just had two pumpkins
Dialogue: 0,0:28:02.45,0:28:04.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,between [the people in] this room, each
Dialogue: 0,0:28:04.30,0:28:07.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of us could take home one seed, turn
Dialogue: 0,0:28:07.15,0:28:09.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that into say, ten pumpkins and that
Dialogue: 0,0:28:09.30,0:28:12.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would already be in the tens of thousands
Dialogue: 0,0:28:12.18,0:28:14.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of seeds. you could create food
Dialogue: 0,0:28:14.85,0:28:19.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sovereignty so quickly just with growing
Dialogue: 0,0:28:19.35,0:28:22.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our own seeds. It is truly amazing. If
Dialogue: 0,0:28:22.09,0:28:25.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you order a one-pound bag of kale seeds,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:25.53,0:28:27.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I looked at how many seeds are in there.
Dialogue: 0,0:28:27.81,0:28:30.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is about one-point-five million. One
Dialogue: 0,0:28:30.54,0:28:34.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bag of kale seeds has enough seeds in it
Dialogue: 0,0:28:34.64,0:28:38.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the entire metro Orlando area to have
Dialogue: 0,0:28:38.07,0:28:40.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their own kale. The seed is an extremely,
Dialogue: 0,0:28:40.58,0:28:43.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,extremely powerful thing! Ron Finley, he
Dialogue: 0,0:28:43.71,0:28:47.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,calls himself a gangster gardener out in
Dialogue: 0,0:28:47.93,0:28:49.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,L.A. He is a friend of mine. One of the
Dialogue: 0,0:28:49.58,0:28:51.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things that he has said the most that I
Dialogue: 0,0:28:51.74,0:28:53.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,absolutely love is "Growing your own food
Dialogue: 0,0:28:53.88,0:28:57.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is like printing your own money." It
Dialogue: 0,0:28:57.73,0:29:00.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,truly is. You can literally create
Dialogue: 0,0:29:00.27,0:29:02.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,abundance out of almost nothing. It is
Dialogue: 0,0:29:02.42,0:29:05.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,truly special. Another really important
Dialogue: 0,0:29:05.36,0:29:08.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,crop for this area is bananas. When I
Dialogue: 0,0:29:08.19,0:29:10.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,first got here, for some reason I did not
Dialogue: 0,0:29:10.18,0:29:12.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,believe that bananas would really produce.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:12.52,0:29:14.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I looked around at all of my friends'
Dialogue: 0,0:29:14.22,0:29:17.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,banana plants and I never saw bananas.
Dialogue: 0,0:29:17.06,0:29:20.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought, I see these people growing
Dialogue: 0,0:29:20.22,0:29:22.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,banana plants, but I never actually see
Dialogue: 0,0:29:22.01,0:29:25.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,any bananas. Now, sure enough the banana
Dialogue: 0,0:29:25.64,0:29:27.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stand over at Sarah's has three racks on
Dialogue: 0,0:29:27.86,0:29:30.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it. I just harvested one of the racks. It
Dialogue: 0,0:29:30.71,0:29:33.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,already has two others, and we already
Dialogue: 0,0:29:33.18,0:29:34.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,harvested one, and I am eating fresh
Dialogue: 0,0:29:34.87,0:29:36.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bananas from over at Lisa's house and
Dialogue: 0,0:29:36.38,0:29:39.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fresh bananas from Jen's house. Bananas
Dialogue: 0,0:29:39.61,0:29:42.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really do grow extremely well here. You
Dialogue: 0,0:29:42.59,0:29:46.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can also forage them. Dickson Azalea Park
Dialogue: 0,0:29:46.96,0:29:49.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has been one of my sources for wild
Dialogue: 0,0:29:49.31,0:29:51.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,foraged bananas. I have harvested bananas
Dialogue: 0,0:29:51.06,0:29:53.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there multiple times. Apparently, nobody
Dialogue: 0,0:29:53.21,0:29:54.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,knows the stand is there, because when I
Dialogue: 0,0:29:54.78,0:29:58.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,went aware for the summer there were five
Dialogue: 0,0:29:58.39,0:30:00.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,racks of bananas and I thought, "Surely
Dialogue: 0,0:30:00.66,0:30:02.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,someone is going to harvest these while
Dialogue: 0,0:30:02.30,0:30:04.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am gone." I came back. All five of them
Dialogue: 0,0:30:04.84,0:30:06.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I could tell had rotted and not been
Dialogue: 0,0:30:06.60,0:30:08.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,harvested. If you want wild bananas,
Dialogue: 0,0:30:08.87,0:30:11.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dickson Azalea Park is a great place to
Dialogue: 0,0:30:11.88,0:30:13.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,search it out. I am not going to tell you
Dialogue: 0,0:30:13.11,0:30:14.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,exactly where it is. You will just have
Dialogue: 0,0:30:14.37,0:30:16.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to scout it out. I found wild bananas
Dialogue: 0,0:30:16.64,0:30:18.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,growing within five miles of here in at
Dialogue: 0,0:30:18.50,0:30:20.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,least three difference locations, public
Dialogue: 0,0:30:20.83,0:30:24.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,parks that you can go seek out. Bananas
Dialogue: 0,0:30:24.81,0:30:26.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are a great crop for growing and foraging.
Dialogue: 0,0:30:26.99,0:30:29.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can wait until they are yellow and eat
Dialogue: 0,0:30:29.84,0:30:33.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,them as a delicious fruit. When they are
Dialogue: 0,0:30:33.02,0:30:35.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,green you can fry them and have fried
Dialogue: 0,0:30:35.02,0:30:38.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,green bananas. You can dry and blend the
Dialogue: 0,0:30:38.50,0:30:42.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,entire thing: the peel and the banana
Dialogue: 0,0:30:42.97,0:30:47.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inside to make green banana flour. It is
Dialogue: 0,0:30:47.68,0:30:51.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a really great crop for here. Coconuts
Dialogue: 0,0:30:51.32,0:30:53.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were one of the most important foods for
Dialogue: 0,0:30:53.71,0:30:56.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this year. I shared some of my main ways
Dialogue: 0,0:30:56.25,0:31:01.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of getting calories, which are the energy
Dialogue: 0,0:31:01.17,0:31:03.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of life. Without having enough calories
Dialogue: 0,0:31:03.02,0:31:05.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we slowly would dwindle away. It is one
Dialogue: 0,0:31:05.84,0:31:08.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the most important foundations. We can
Dialogue: 0,0:31:08.27,0:31:10.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be nutrient deficient for quite a while,
Dialogue: 0,0:31:10.93,0:31:12.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but if we do not have enough calories
Dialogue: 0,0:31:12.93,0:31:15.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then we are in more trouble. Calories
Dialogue: 0,0:31:15.23,0:31:17.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were my big focus because I knew I could
Dialogue: 0,0:31:17.69,0:31:20.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,make it through the year not getting
Dialogue: 0,0:31:20.99,0:31:22.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,enough nutrients, but if I did not have
Dialogue: 0,0:31:22.64,0:31:24.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,enough calories I knew I would not be
Dialogue: 0,0:31:24.61,0:31:25.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,able to make it. That is why I started
Dialogue: 0,0:31:25.100,0:31:30.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with calories. Coconuts are an interesting
Dialogue: 0,0:31:30.91,0:31:33.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,crop because they are very high in
Dialogue: 0,0:31:33.87,0:31:36.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,calories. They are also high in fat and
Dialogue: 0,0:31:36.27,0:31:40.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they also have protein. The water inside
Dialogue: 0,0:31:40.34,0:31:42.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of it is high in electrolytes. It is often
Dialogue: 0,0:31:42.99,0:31:45.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called "Nature's Gatorade." The meat
Dialogue: 0,0:31:45.14,0:31:48.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,itself is high in oil and fat. You can
Dialogue: 0,0:31:48.16,0:31:51.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,either dry it and shred it and use it as
Dialogue: 0,0:31:51.97,0:31:53.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,coconut shreds. You can dry it and just
Dialogue: 0,0:31:53.84,0:31:56.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,make chunks and have that as a snack. You
Dialogue: 0,0:31:56.26,0:31:57.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can dry it and blend it and make your own
Dialogue: 0,0:31:57.98,0:32:01.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,coconut butter, or you can dry it and
Dialogue: 0,0:32:01.29,0:32:04.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,press it and make your own coconut oil.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:04.38,0:32:05.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can also make your own coconut milk
Dialogue: 0,0:32:05.82,0:32:08.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just by blending it up straining it. Then
Dialogue: 0,0:32:08.85,0:32:11.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have delicious high-fat coconut milk.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:11.24,0:32:13.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have probably eaten two-hundred coconuts
Dialogue: 0,0:32:13.75,0:32:15.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over the last year. If I did not have the
Dialogue: 0,0:32:15.06,0:32:16.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,coconuts, I do not know if I would have
Dialogue: 0,0:32:16.96,0:32:18.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made it through this year. You cannot
Dialogue: 0,0:32:18.97,0:32:22.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grow coconuts in Orlando, They are more
Dialogue: 0,0:32:22.14,0:32:24.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tropical. You can forage coconuts all
Dialogue: 0,0:32:24.99,0:32:27.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over South Florida. All of these coconuts
Dialogue: 0,0:32:27.23,0:32:29.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are brown are mostly from picking
Dialogue: 0,0:32:29.45,0:32:32.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,up on the ground around coconut trees.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:32.25,0:32:33.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They were growing in public parks. They
Dialogue: 0,0:32:33.69,0:32:35.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are also growing in places like
Dialogue: 0,0:32:35.88,0:32:38.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nurseries, people's backyards, all over
Dialogue: 0,0:32:38.53,0:32:40.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the place. Coconuts were one of my
Dialogue: 0,0:32:40.30,0:32:42.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,absolute most important crops of the
Dialogue: 0,0:32:42.35,0:32:47.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,year. For protein, that was one of the
Dialogue: 0,0:32:47.33,0:32:50.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,biggest challenges of the project. Where
Dialogue: 0,0:32:50.38,0:32:51.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would I get my protein? Probably one of
Dialogue: 0,0:32:51.84,0:32:54.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the most commonly asked questions online.
Dialogue: 0,0:32:54.42,0:32:58.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I grew some of my own protein. These I am
Dialogue: 0,0:32:58.17,0:33:00.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,standing with are called pigeon peas or
Dialogue: 0,0:33:00.39,0:33:04.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gandules. They were one of the most
Dialogue: 0,0:33:04.30,0:33:06.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,important crops of this year. Also very
Dialogue: 0,0:33:06.44,0:33:08.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,much a survival crop. It needs minimal
Dialogue: 0,0:33:08.47,0:33:11.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nutrients, minimal water and it is a very
Dialogue: 0,0:33:11.92,0:33:14.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nutrient dense, calorie dense, protein
Dialogue: 0,0:33:14.75,0:33:18.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dense plant. Behind me is the pigeon pea
Dialogue: 0,0:33:18.15,0:33:20.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tree. You can the flowers there and then
Dialogue: 0,0:33:20.36,0:33:23.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those are dried pigeon peas that you
Dialogue: 0,0:33:23.62,0:33:25.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would use just like you would use
Dialogue: 0,0:33:25.41,0:33:27.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lentils, or black-eyed peas, or any dried
Dialogue: 0,0:33:27.18,0:33:31.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bean. I grew some of my own protein, I
Dialogue: 0,0:33:31.72,0:33:35.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tried growing sunflower seeds for protein
Dialogue: 0,0:33:35.48,0:33:37.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and did not have much success with that
Dialogue: 0,0:33:37.28,0:33:38.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of the squirrels. I grew some
Dialogue: 0,0:33:38.64,0:33:42.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,peanuts, but also did not have a lot of
Dialogue: 0,0:33:42.38,0:33:44.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,success with that. The other crop that I
Dialogue: 0,0:33:44.63,0:33:47.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grew was southern peas. That was another
Dialogue: 0,0:33:47.65,0:33:50.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,crop. It is a ground cover that is really
Dialogue: 0,0:33:50.42,0:33:52.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,helpful in the garden and also a nitrogen
Dialogue: 0,0:33:52.37,0:33:56.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fixer and an important protein source.
Dialogue: 0,0:33:56.38,0:33:58.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Other protein sources: fish was always my
Dialogue: 0,0:33:58.73,0:34:02.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,main plan. If there was one thing I was
Dialogue: 0,0:34:02.28,0:34:04.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,experienced in before this project, it
Dialogue: 0,0:34:04.55,0:34:07.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was fishing. I started fishing when I was
Dialogue: 0,0:34:07.54,0:34:09.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about eight and it has actually been one
Dialogue: 0,0:34:09.75,0:34:11.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of my biggest passions of my life. It is
Dialogue: 0,0:34:11.95,0:34:16.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of my most important ways of
Dialogue: 0,0:34:16.05,0:34:18.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,connecting with the land. I got away from
Dialogue: 0,0:34:18.20,0:34:20.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it for a while because I was vegan for a
Dialogue: 0,0:34:20.39,0:34:23.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while and it just did not sit right with
Dialogue: 0,0:34:23.19,0:34:25.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,me for a period of time. For most of my
Dialogue: 0,0:34:25.71,0:34:27.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,life, I have been fishing. I started
Dialogue: 0,0:34:27.67,0:34:30.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fishing again about three or four years
Dialogue: 0,0:34:30.14,0:34:37.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ago. My main plan for fish was mullet.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:37.14,0:34:39.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Probably most of the people in this room
Dialogue: 0,0:34:39.22,0:34:40.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have not eaten mullet. It is not
Dialogue: 0,0:34:40.94,0:34:43.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,generally a really highly regarded fish.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:43.94,0:34:46.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would say one of the most important
Dialogue: 0,0:34:46.88,0:34:48.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lessons as far as a food lesson that you
Dialogue: 0,0:34:48.69,0:34:50.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could walk away with is that most
Dialogue: 0,0:34:50.30,0:34:52.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everything that is not highly regarded by
Dialogue: 0,0:34:52.67,0:34:56.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,American culture is an amazing food.
Dialogue: 0,0:34:56.01,0:35:01.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For other cultures it is the food of life
Dialogue: 0,0:35:01.10,0:35:04.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if Americans don't like it, generally.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:04.32,0:35:08.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mullet is an amazing fish. It is very
Dialogue: 0,0:35:08.60,0:35:11.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,high in fat, the beneficial fats. It is
Dialogue: 0,0:35:11.28,0:35:13.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very abundant, still in Florida. The
Dialogue: 0,0:35:13.73,0:35:16.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reason I wanted to focus on mullet is
Dialogue: 0,0:35:16.47,0:35:19.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it is very low on the food chain.
Dialogue: 0,0:35:19.02,0:35:21.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It only eats plants, so it does not
Dialogue: 0,0:35:21.06,0:35:26.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bioaccumulate. Bioaccumulation - you have
Dialogue: 0,0:35:26.58,0:35:28.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,probably all heard about how eagles were
Dialogue: 0,0:35:28.34,0:35:30.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,affected by DDT in the past and then
Dialogue: 0,0:35:30.59,0:35:32.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their egg shells crumbled and that made
Dialogue: 0,0:35:32.47,0:35:35.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eagles almost extinct in the United
Dialogue: 0,0:35:35.29,0:35:39.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,States. That was because there was DDT
Dialogue: 0,0:35:39.59,0:35:43.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that built up in the fish and the eagles
Dialogue: 0,0:35:43.45,0:35:45.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eat so many fish that it builds up in the
Dialogue: 0,0:35:45.56,0:35:49.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cycle. Once it gets up to the predator so
Dialogue: 0,0:35:49.97,0:35:52.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,much of it is in them that it can affect
Dialogue: 0,0:35:52.58,0:35:54.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,them greatly. Now, there are a lot of
Dialogue: 0,0:35:54.58,0:35:57.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bioaccumulants. If you are eating game
Dialogue: 0,0:35:57.98,0:36:01.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fish like tuna, for example there is a
Dialogue: 0,0:36:01.48,0:36:04.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lot of accumulation of mercury in that.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:04.62,0:36:07.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The reason I wanted to mostly eat mullet
Dialogue: 0,0:36:07.62,0:36:09.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is because it only eats plants, so it
Dialogue: 0,0:36:09.36,0:36:12.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does not accumulate by eating fish that
Dialogue: 0,0:36:12.19,0:36:14.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eat bigger fish, and bigger fish, and
Dialogue: 0,0:36:14.82,0:36:17.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bigger fish and so on. Mullet was one of
Dialogue: 0,0:36:17.81,0:36:20.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my plans. This is a red fish here. I did
Dialogue: 0,0:36:20.31,0:36:23.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not actually catch enough mullet to have
Dialogue: 0,0:36:23.14,0:36:25.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a really good picture, or never got
Dialogue: 0,0:36:25.87,0:36:27.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around to taking a good one. Mullet were
Dialogue: 0,0:36:27.72,0:36:30.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,harder [to catch] than I expected.
Dialogue: 0,0:36:30.24,0:36:32.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,interestingly enough, fishing was weirdly
Dialogue: 0,0:36:32.56,0:36:35.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the most challenging thing. I could just
Dialogue: 0,0:36:35.35,0:36:40.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,never catch enough fish. I ate squirrel,
Dialogue: 0,0:36:40.59,0:36:42.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but not because I could not have enough
Dialogue: 0,0:36:42.04,0:36:43.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fish, but because squirrels were eating
Dialogue: 0,0:36:43.85,0:36:47.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my sunflowers. A lot of you are new to
Dialogue: 0,0:36:47.80,0:36:50.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,permaculture in this room tonight, but
Dialogue: 0,0:36:50.16,0:36:52.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is one common saying in permaculture
Dialogue: 0,0:36:52.64,0:36:55.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that is "the problem is the solution."
Dialogue: 0,0:36:55.82,0:36:57.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How can you turn the problem into the
Dialogue: 0,0:36:57.59,0:36:59.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,solution? Well, here I was trying to grow
Dialogue: 0,0:36:59.69,0:37:02.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a plant-based protein. They were eating
Dialogue: 0,0:37:02.28,0:37:04.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my plant-based protein, so I ate them
Dialogue: 0,0:37:04.72,0:37:08.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,instead. It definitely caused a little
Dialogue: 0,0:37:08.02,0:37:10.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,controversy. Some people like it, I guess.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:10.33,0:37:12.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I may as well answer the question "How
Dialogue: 0,0:37:12.95,0:37:16.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does it taste?". It just tastes like meat.
Dialogue: 0,0:37:16.59,0:37:18.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It tastes similar to chicken, not too
Dialogue: 0,0:37:18.66,0:37:22.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,different. I only ate about nine
Dialogue: 0,0:37:22.68,0:37:31.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,squirrels, so it was by no means a main
Dialogue: 0,0:37:31.39,0:37:36.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,source of food. The other thing I thought
Dialogue: 0,0:37:36.99,0:37:39.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about hunting was wild boar. They are
Dialogue: 0,0:37:39.46,0:37:40.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,invasive. this is not something that I
Dialogue: 0,0:37:40.89,0:37:42.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,did, so I cannot speak from experience,
Dialogue: 0,0:37:42.74,0:37:44.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are, I think, a couple of million
Dialogue: 0,0:37:44.96,0:37:46.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wild boar in Florida. It is one of the
Dialogue: 0,0:37:46.91,0:37:49.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most sustainable ways to get protein, to
Dialogue: 0,0:37:49.62,0:37:52.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get meat in Florida and other parts of
Dialogue: 0,0:37:52.22,0:37:54.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Southern United States. They are
Dialogue: 0,0:37:54.16,0:37:56.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,highly invasive and they destroy a lot of
Dialogue: 0,0:37:56.12,0:37:58.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the land. They are an amazing resource
Dialogue: 0,0:37:58.96,0:38:01.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we can utilize. I did not end up
Dialogue: 0,0:38:01.07,0:38:03.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,doing that. The reason I did not is
Dialogue: 0,0:38:03.13,0:38:04.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because most people who hunt it, who
Dialogue: 0,0:38:04.64,0:38:07.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,offered to take me out they bait it. My
Dialogue: 0,0:38:07.42,0:38:10.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rule was I could only use food that I
Dialogue: 0,0:38:10.83,0:38:14.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grew to catch other food. I did not have
Dialogue: 0,0:38:14.65,0:38:16.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bait for the pigs and that is why I never
Dialogue: 0,0:38:16.02,0:38:20.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,got around to actually doing that. The
Dialogue: 0,0:38:20.08,0:38:21.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reason I did not raise animals - I'm not
Dialogue: 0,0:38:21.14,0:38:24.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going to get into raising animals today
Dialogue: 0,0:38:24.59,0:38:26.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I did not do that, but chickens,
Dialogue: 0,0:38:26.57,0:38:30.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,quails, rabbits - you can also do
Dialogue: 0,0:38:30.28,0:38:32.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,aquaponics for fish, tilapia is a common
Dialogue: 0,0:38:32.54,0:38:34.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one. There are a lot of ways to raise
Dialogue: 0,0:38:34.71,0:38:38.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,animals. The reason I did not do that is
Dialogue: 0,0:38:38.03,0:38:40.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because, again, I would have to raise all
Dialogue: 0,0:38:40.15,0:38:43.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the food for them. On a small plot, I
Dialogue: 0,0:38:43.95,0:38:48.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,did not have the ability to grow all of
Dialogue: 0,0:38:48.09,0:38:50.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the food for the chickens, or to have any
Dialogue: 0,0:38:50.90,0:38:53.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grass-fed animals or anything like that.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:53.73,0:38:56.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is why raising animals was out.
Dialogue: 0,0:38:56.42,0:38:59.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The other solution is number three, and
Dialogue: 0,0:38:59.83,0:39:02.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is car-killed animals. I have not
Dialogue: 0,0:39:02.54,0:39:06.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really hunted much, so my solution was to
Dialogue: 0,0:39:06.08,0:39:09.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,find animals that had already died. David
Dialogue: 0,0:39:09.82,0:39:14.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I, David Warfel - there he is - he
Dialogue: 0,0:39:14.35,0:39:16.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I went up to Gainesville around New
Dialogue: 0,0:39:16.03,0:39:20.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Year's searching for dome deer. Joe
Dialogue: 0,0:39:20.82,0:39:23.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pierce was going to help us out. We went
Dialogue: 0,0:39:23.40,0:39:27.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,up to his place near Gainesville. We found
Dialogue: 0,0:39:27.45,0:39:33.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two [deer], but they were too old. We
Dialogue: 0,0:39:33.66,0:39:35.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were not able to harvest those. Then, it
Dialogue: 0,0:39:35.77,0:39:37.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,got a little hot. As you can imagine,
Dialogue: 0,0:39:37.69,0:39:40.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when it is ninety degrees by nine in the
Dialogue: 0,0:39:40.47,0:39:42.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,morning in Florida, that is not the best
Dialogue: 0,0:39:42.23,0:39:46.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,time to try to harvest deer. I did not
Dialogue: 0,0:39:46.23,0:39:48.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually harvest and deer in Florida, but
Dialogue: 0,0:39:48.86,0:39:51.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this summer I took a trip to Wisconsin.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:51.18,0:39:54.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I wanted to connect with my homeland.
Dialogue: 0,0:39:54.94,0:39:57.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I felt a strong desire to learn the
Dialogue: 0,0:39:57.79,0:40:00.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plants where I was from. I decided to
Dialogue: 0,0:40:00.54,0:40:04.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,take a trip up there. I will talk a
Dialogue: 0,0:40:04.70,0:40:07.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,little bit more about that at the end.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:07.05,0:40:08.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One of my goals while I was there was to
Dialogue: 0,0:40:08.71,0:40:13.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get a deer. When I got to Wisconsin, I
Dialogue: 0,0:40:13.22,0:40:16.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was really deficient in fat and protein.
Dialogue: 0,0:40:16.82,0:40:20.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was something I was really trying
Dialogue: 0,0:40:20.19,0:40:23.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for and it took me a whole month before I
Dialogue: 0,0:40:23.44,0:40:27.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was able to get one. Towards the end I
Dialogue: 0,0:40:27.46,0:40:30.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,harvested five deer in Wisconsin. That
Dialogue: 0,0:40:30.82,0:40:32.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ended up being one of my main sources of
Dialogue: 0,0:40:32.32,0:40:35.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,food the entire year. It probably made up
Dialogue: 0,0:40:35.49,0:40:38.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ten percent plus of my food for the
Dialogue: 0,0:40:38.43,0:40:42.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,entire year. One of my other main sources
Dialogue: 0,0:40:42.78,0:40:47.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of food was honey. Sugar is really
Dialogue: 0,0:40:47.05,0:40:51.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,important. One of the big challenges this
Dialogue: 0,0:40:51.69,0:40:53.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,year, I thought was going to be
Dialogue: 0,0:40:53.25,0:40:54.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,chocolate. That is actually one of my
Dialogue: 0,0:40:54.62,0:40:57.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,favorite foods in the whole world, dark
Dialogue: 0,0:40:57.68,0:41:00.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,chocolate. My former partner Cheryl used
Dialogue: 0,0:41:00.09,0:41:01.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to call me a chocolate vampire because if
Dialogue: 0,0:41:01.92,0:41:05.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was around me I did bad things. I
Dialogue: 0,0:41:05.20,0:41:07.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would just eat everyone's share of
Dialogue: 0,0:41:07.35,0:41:09.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,chocolate and not be able to resist. I
Dialogue: 0,0:41:09.54,0:41:10.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,loved it! So, that was one of the big
Dialogue: 0,0:41:10.81,0:41:12.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things. Could I get by without chocolate?
Dialogue: 0,0:41:12.80,0:41:17.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The solution was honey. This year I think
Dialogue: 0,0:41:17.88,0:41:21.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I harvested five gallons of honey from my
Dialogue: 0,0:41:21.25,0:41:25.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bees. That is a lot of honey. That is
Dialogue: 0,0:41:25.84,0:41:34.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about, let's see... Anyway, five gallons!
Dialogue: 0,0:41:34.72,0:41:35.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a huge amount of honey. It is one
Dialogue: 0,0:41:35.87,0:41:38.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of those big blue jugs. Honey was a
Dialogue: 0,0:41:38.42,0:41:41.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really important source of calories, of
Dialogue: 0,0:41:41.97,0:41:44.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,enjoyment. It added a lot of value to
Dialogue: 0,0:41:44.46,0:41:46.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,different meals. I fermented with it.
Dialogue: 0,0:41:46.34,0:41:51.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sugar cane is another source of sugar
Dialogue: 0,0:41:51.12,0:41:53.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you can do here. That is something
Dialogue: 0,0:41:53.22,0:41:56.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is actually pretty easy, but it
Dialogue: 0,0:41:56.03,0:41:57.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,takes time. It is just not one of the
Dialogue: 0,0:41:57.90,0:42:00.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things that I ever did. I actually got
Dialogue: 0,0:42:00.63,0:42:03.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a whole bunch of sugarcane cuttings, but
Dialogue: 0,0:42:03.29,0:42:04.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they all rotted and I never got around to
Dialogue: 0,0:42:04.96,0:42:06.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it. It is an important lesson when you
Dialogue: 0,0:42:06.87,0:42:08.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are trying to grow and forage one-hundred
Dialogue: 0,0:42:08.66,0:42:10.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,percent of your food. It is not that
Dialogue: 0,0:42:10.99,0:42:13.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,necessarily any one thing is challenging,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:13.27,0:42:15.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is that trying to do everything is
Dialogue: 0,0:42:15.54,0:42:18.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,challenging. People would often say
Dialogue: 0,0:42:18.33,0:42:19.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well, why don't you just do that!?".
Dialogue: 0,0:42:19.81,0:42:20.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, because I am already working
Dialogue: 0,0:42:20.96,0:42:22.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seventy hours a week on my food, so I
Dialogue: 0,0:42:22.100,0:42:25.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just did not have time to do that. That
Dialogue: 0,0:42:25.58,0:42:26.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is one of the big differences between
Dialogue: 0,0:42:26.100,0:42:28.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shooting for one-hundred percent and say,
Dialogue: 0,0:42:28.97,0:42:30.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eighty percent. It is actually that last
Dialogue: 0,0:42:30.91,0:42:33.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ten to twenty percent, making your own
Dialogue: 0,0:42:33.15,0:42:35.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,oils and the calories and all of that
Dialogue: 0,0:42:35.100,0:42:38.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is one of the most difficult parts.
Dialogue: 0,0:42:38.27,0:42:44.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Salt. Before I started this project I was
Dialogue: 0,0:42:44.11,0:42:46.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually on a train in Germany and I was
Dialogue: 0,0:42:46.72,0:42:48.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just thinking "How the heck am I going to
Dialogue: 0,0:42:48.51,0:42:50.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get salt?". I never had seen anyone
Dialogue: 0,0:42:50.29,0:42:55.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eating salt that they harvested. I had
Dialogue: 0,0:42:55.62,0:42:56.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very little experience with it
Dialogue: 0,0:42:56.94,0:42:59.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whatsoever. There were a couple of
Dialogue: 0,0:42:59.66,0:43:01.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stories I had in mind, one was Gandhi's
Dialogue: 0,0:43:01.90,0:43:04.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,salt match where he walked to the ocean.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:04.19,0:43:06.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He picked up salt from the ocean and that
Dialogue: 0,0:43:06.29,0:43:08.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was his protest against the British.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:08.68,0:43:10.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew that they literally just picked up
Dialogue: 0,0:43:10.41,0:43:12.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,salt. I thought, "Okay, I know it can be
Dialogue: 0,0:43:12.85,0:43:15.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,done". I knew there were the salt flats
Dialogue: 0,0:43:15.19,0:43:19.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in Bolivia, the salt flats of Uyuni.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:19.34,0:43:23.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I knew there were places, but I did not
Dialogue: 0,0:43:23.34,0:43:25.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,think that was in Florida. I was pretty
Dialogue: 0,0:43:25.30,0:43:26.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sure of that. I did not know how the heck
Dialogue: 0,0:43:26.76,0:43:30.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was going to do salt. I was very lost.
Dialogue: 0,0:43:30.72,0:43:35.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did the research and basically, all you
Dialogue: 0,0:43:35.38,0:43:37.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have to do it go to the ocean, scoop up
Dialogue: 0,0:43:37.80,0:43:41.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some salt water, put it in a pot, turn on
Dialogue: 0,0:43:41.53,0:43:44.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your stove. All the water will boil off
Dialogue: 0,0:43:44.39,0:43:45.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then you are left with salt. It is
Dialogue: 0,0:43:45.56,0:43:48.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just as simple as that. Salt water is
Dialogue: 0,0:43:48.74,0:43:51.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about three and a half percent salt by
Dialogue: 0,0:43:51.32,0:43:54.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,volume. A gallon of salt water gives you
Dialogue: 0,0:43:54.19,0:43:58.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about a half-cup of salt. That is a fair
Dialogue: 0,0:43:58.04,0:44:00.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bit of salt. If you go and get five
Dialogue: 0,0:44:00.60,0:44:02.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gallons [of sea water], that could be all
Dialogue: 0,0:44:02.11,0:44:04.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the salt you need for an entire year.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:04.10,0:44:05.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can be producing all of our own salt
Dialogue: 0,0:44:05.72,0:44:09.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really quite easily. The most sustainable
Dialogue: 0,0:44:09.59,0:44:11.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,way to do it is not to put it on your
Dialogue: 0,0:44:11.20,0:44:12.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stove. You can just let that water
Dialogue: 0,0:44:12.68,0:44:15.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,evaporate. Use the sun. Let it evaporate
Dialogue: 0,0:44:15.75,0:44:19.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over time. I would prefer to do that, but
Dialogue: 0,0:44:19.71,0:44:21.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I always just boiled it. Usually I boiled
Dialogue: 0,0:44:21.78,0:44:25.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it on wood, waste wood from the
Dialogue: 0,0:44:25.92,0:44:27.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,neighborhood, like heat-treated pallets
Dialogue: 0,0:44:27.91,0:44:29.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that did not have chemicals in them, or
Dialogue: 0,0:44:29.52,0:44:32.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wood from the trees in my neighborhood.
Dialogue: 0,0:44:32.07,0:44:35.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mushrooms were another really important
Dialogue: 0,0:44:35.08,0:44:37.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,source of food for me. This is Pete
Dialogue: 0,0:44:37.54,0:44:40.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kanaris and I. This is two different
Dialogue: 0,0:44:40.05,0:44:42.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,species, or three different species of
Dialogue: 0,0:44:42.28,0:44:44.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,chanterelle mushrooms. When I started
Dialogue: 0,0:44:44.40,0:44:49.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this, I had maybe foraged mushrooms one
Dialogue: 0,0:44:49.61,0:44:51.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or two times. I would say probably, when
Dialogue: 0,0:44:51.87,0:44:53.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people think about foraging that is one
Dialogue: 0,0:44:53.74,0:44:56.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the things that scares them the most
Dialogue: 0,0:44:56.90,0:44:59.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is mushrooms. There is one way to never
Dialogue: 0,0:44:59.94,0:45:04.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,die or never get sick foraging and that
Dialogue: 0,0:45:04.05,0:45:06.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is, only eat something of you are one-
Dialogue: 0,0:45:06.09,0:45:09.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hundred percent sure what it is. You will
Dialogue: 0,0:45:09.10,0:45:12.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,never have problems foraging if you only
Dialogue: 0,0:45:12.24,0:45:13.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eat things that you are one-hundred
Dialogue: 0,0:45:13.52,0:45:15.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,percent sure what they are. That is the
Dialogue: 0,0:45:15.71,0:45:18.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,number one rule of foraging. One way to
Dialogue: 0,0:45:18.60,0:45:21.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do that is triple confirmation. You don't
Dialogue: 0,0:45:21.54,0:45:23.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,take one person's word. You don't take
Dialogue: 0,0:45:23.85,0:45:26.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from me tonight that chanterelles are
Dialogue: 0,0:45:26.02,0:45:28.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,edible. You first have three different,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:28.75,0:45:31.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,good sources. you can decide whether I am
Dialogue: 0,0:45:31.74,0:45:33.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a good source or not and decide whether
Dialogue: 0,0:45:33.10,0:45:36.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is your first source. Three
Dialogue: 0,0:45:36.08,0:45:39.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,different, good resources before you eat
Dialogue: 0,0:45:39.32,0:45:41.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something from the wild. Triple
Dialogue: 0,0:45:41.42,0:45:44.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,confirmation. I probably foraged about
Dialogue: 0,0:45:44.54,0:45:48.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,twenty species of mushrooms between here
Dialogue: 0,0:45:48.04,0:45:51.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my trip to Wisconsin. In Florida,
Dialogue: 0,0:45:51.92,0:45:54.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,chanterelles are probably one of the more
Dialogue: 0,0:45:54.62,0:45:57.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,abundant and easier. It is one of the
Dialogue: 0,0:45:57.26,0:45:59.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most beginner, easy mushrooms to start
Dialogue: 0,0:45:59.63,0:46:04.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with. I said I was growing and foraging
Dialogue: 0,0:46:04.53,0:46:06.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one-hundred percent of my own food and
Dialogue: 0,0:46:06.16,0:46:08.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that included my own medicine. For the
Dialogue: 0,0:46:08.33,0:46:11.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,last year nature was my garden; it was
Dialogue: 0,0:46:11.08,0:46:14.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my pantry, and it was my pharmacy. If I
Dialogue: 0,0:46:14.55,0:46:18.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,got sick this year, I could not take any
Dialogue: 0,0:46:18.62,0:46:22.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,medicine to get better. that meant first
Dialogue: 0,0:46:22.56,0:46:24.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and foremost, I had to take care of my
Dialogue: 0,0:46:24.06,0:46:27.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,health, preventative health care. Today,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:27.45,0:46:29.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with our modern health insurance it is
Dialogue: 0,0:46:29.98,0:46:31.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something like seventy-five percent of
Dialogue: 0,0:46:31.74,0:46:34.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all of our doctors' visits come down to
Dialogue: 0,0:46:34.37,0:46:37.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what we eat, exercise, basic movement,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:37.73,0:46:41.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our level of stress and anxiety.
Dialogue: 0,0:46:41.45,0:46:43.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Seventy-five percent of our doctors'
Dialogue: 0,0:46:43.44,0:46:45.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,visits can be taken care of through
Dialogue: 0,0:46:45.54,0:46:49.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,preventative health care. Just basic eating
Dialogue: 0,0:46:49.18,0:46:54.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,healthy, moving and living a life that is
Dialogue: 0,0:46:54.07,0:46:57.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not so stressful and anxious. For me,
Dialogue: 0,0:46:57.44,0:46:59.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,food was my medicine and medicine was my
Dialogue: 0,0:46:59.74,0:47:01.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,food. There is really is no clear
Dialogue: 0,0:47:01.62,0:47:05.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,difference between the two. They are all
Dialogue: 0,0:47:05.97,0:47:07.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,working together. Every green that I
Dialogue: 0,0:47:07.87,0:47:12.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ate, every vegetable, every fruit, the
Dialogue: 0,0:47:12.11,0:47:14.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meat that I ate, the fish, it all was my
Dialogue: 0,0:47:14.70,0:47:16.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,medicine. It is just like we need to take
Dialogue: 0,0:47:16.72,0:47:18.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,care of our plants to have healthy
Dialogue: 0,0:47:18.47,0:47:20.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plants. It is the exact same with us. If
Dialogue: 0,0:47:20.69,0:47:22.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we are healthy, we are less likely to get
Dialogue: 0,0:47:22.30,0:47:25.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sick. A couple of my most important
Dialogue: 0,0:47:25.09,0:47:27.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,medicines were elderberry syrup. That
Dialogue: 0,0:47:27.21,0:47:29.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,came from foraging elderberries, which
Dialogue: 0,0:47:29.74,0:47:31.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are an amazingly abundant resource in
Dialogue: 0,0:47:31.74,0:47:34.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Central Florida, combining that with
Dialogue: 0,0:47:34.45,0:47:37.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,honey from my bees to make elderberry
Dialogue: 0,0:47:37.40,0:47:39.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,syrup. I would often put turmeric and
Dialogue: 0,0:47:39.26,0:47:41.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ginger and sometimes fermented garlic in
Dialogue: 0,0:47:41.53,0:47:45.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there. I took a tablespoon of elderberry
Dialogue: 0,0:47:45.25,0:47:47.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,syrup most every day of this entire year.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:47.77,0:47:50.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I prevents cold and flu, or if you get
Dialogue: 0,0:47:50.40,0:47:53.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cold or flu you can use it to reduce it
Dialogue: 0,0:47:53.04,0:47:55.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or take care of it. Fire cider was
Dialogue: 0,0:47:55.97,0:47:57.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,another one of my important medicines.
Dialogue: 0,0:47:57.50,0:48:01.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I made vinegar from fruit, apple cider
Dialogue: 0,0:48:01.60,0:48:02.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,vinegar but you can make it from almost
Dialogue: 0,0:48:02.99,0:48:09.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,any fruit. Then onion, garlic horseradish
Dialogue: 0,0:48:09.95,0:48:14.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and red peppers, serrano peppers and
Dialogue: 0,0:48:14.12,0:48:18.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe another ingredient or two. Ferment
Dialogue: 0,0:48:18.46,0:48:21.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it over a period of a couple of months,
Dialogue: 0,0:48:21.46,0:48:22.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,probably. That was something that I took
Dialogue: 0,0:48:22.77,0:48:25.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most days as well. Fire cider, turmeric.
Dialogue: 0,0:48:25.82,0:48:27.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I grew my own turmeric. That is one of
Dialogue: 0,0:48:27.31,0:48:29.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the easiest crops that you can grow in
Dialogue: 0,0:48:29.14,0:48:32.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,central Florida. It is like ten to twenty-
Dialogue: 0,0:48:32.50,0:48:34.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,five dollars a pound for organic stuff at
Dialogue: 0,0:48:34.76,0:48:36.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the grocery store. It grows amazingly
Dialogue: 0,0:48:36.92,0:48:38.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,easily as well. Just go to the grocery
Dialogue: 0,0:48:38.85,0:48:41.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,store, buy some organic turmeric, put it
Dialogue: 0,0:48:41.48,0:48:42.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the ground and then you never have to
Dialogue: 0,0:48:42.99,0:48:45.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,buy it again. Simple as that. Ideally
Dialogue: 0,0:48:45.56,0:48:47.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can source it locally, but if not
Dialogue: 0,0:48:47.98,0:48:49.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you can literally just get organic stuff
Dialogue: 0,0:48:49.19,0:48:50.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the grocery store and start growing
Dialogue: 0,0:48:50.99,0:48:53.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your own. Garlic, I consider that a
Dialogue: 0,0:48:53.91,0:48:56.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,medicine as well. Reishi mushrooms are
Dialogue: 0,0:48:56.13,0:48:58.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something that I foraged, another
Dialogue: 0,0:48:58.37,0:49:01.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,medicine. Herbal teas, plantago, or
Dialogue: 0,0:49:01.07,0:49:03.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,broadleaf plantain, that to me is a
Dialogue: 0,0:49:03.94,0:49:06.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,medicine that very much calls to me. If I
Dialogue: 0,0:49:06.20,0:49:08.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get stung by my bees, not my bees, I do
Dialogue: 0,0:49:08.90,0:49:10.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not own them, but the bees that I
Dialogue: 0,0:49:10.14,0:49:14.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,steward. If they sting me and I do not
Dialogue: 0,0:49:14.04,0:49:15.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do anything, I swell up big. I should
Dialogue: 0,0:49:15.98,0:49:17.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have put a picture on there, but a lot of
Dialogue: 0,0:49:17.08,0:49:18.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have probably seen my face after
Dialogue: 0,0:49:18.88,0:49:22.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,getting stung. I swell up, but if I take
Dialogue: 0,0:49:22.33,0:49:25.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some honey and dome dried plantago and
Dialogue: 0,0:49:25.04,0:49:26.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I put it on there within about two
Dialogue: 0,0:49:26.38,0:49:29.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,minutes, I generally don't swell at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:29.94,0:49:32.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is a pretty amazing medicine. It grows
Dialogue: 0,0:49:32.48,0:49:34.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,probably in most states of the United
Dialogue: 0,0:49:34.54,0:49:38.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,States. You can forage it or you can grow
Dialogue: 0,0:49:38.24,0:49:41.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it in the garden here in Florida. Food
Dialogue: 0,0:49:41.68,0:49:45.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was my medicine and medicine was my food.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:45.57,0:49:48.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Here I am with Jeff. That was early on
Dialogue: 0,0:49:48.43,0:49:49.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,collecting elderberries. This is out by
Dialogue: 0,0:49:49.92,0:49:51.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Blanchard Park over towards Peanut Butter
Dialogue: 0,0:49:51.90,0:49:55.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Palace. Again, just an amazing resource.
Dialogue: 0,0:49:55.66,0:49:57.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It grows all over and you can grow it in
Dialogue: 0,0:49:57.47,0:50:00.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your garden. Another one of those kind of
Dialogue: 0,0:50:00.23,0:50:02.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,borderline foods or medicine is
Dialogue: 0,0:50:02.62,0:50:04.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fermentation. [It was] one of the most
Dialogue: 0,0:50:04.84,0:50:07.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,important ways for me to stay healthy, to
Dialogue: 0,0:50:07.82,0:50:11.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,increase the nutrients in my diet, and to
Dialogue: 0,0:50:11.30,0:50:15.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have a well-functioning digestive system.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:15.26,0:50:18.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did a lot of wild fermentation. What is
Dialogue: 0,0:50:18.90,0:50:21.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wild fermentation? That is taking the
Dialogue: 0,0:50:21.21,0:50:24.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yeast and the bacteria from the air and
Dialogue: 0,0:50:24.48,0:50:26.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,using that for fermentation. What would
Dialogue: 0,0:50:26.68,0:50:29.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not be wild fermentation would be a
Dialogue: 0,0:50:29.50,0:50:31.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,controlled, sterile environment where you
Dialogue: 0,0:50:31.76,0:50:34.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,buy a specific yeast, like baker's yeast,
Dialogue: 0,0:50:34.73,0:50:37.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you use that to make things bubble or
Dialogue: 0,0:50:37.58,0:50:42.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rise. It that even fermentation? Is that
Dialogue: 0,0:50:42.05,0:50:44.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fermentation? Yeah? So that's
Dialogue: 0,0:50:44.47,0:50:46.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fermentation, but not wild fermentation.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:46.53,0:50:47.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is the way that most of the beers
Dialogue: 0,0:50:47.98,0:50:50.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you buy, for example, are done. Wild
Dialogue: 0,0:50:50.66,0:50:52.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fermentation is literally just the yeast
Dialogue: 0,0:50:52.80,0:50:55.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the bacteria that are in every breath
Dialogue: 0,0:50:55.28,0:50:57.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we take, using that to ferment your food.
Dialogue: 0,0:50:57.92,0:51:01.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All you have to do to attract them is put
Dialogue: 0,0:51:01.07,0:51:03.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,food that they want there that they will
Dialogue: 0,0:51:03.87,0:51:07.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eat. Bacteria and yeast love sugar. It is
Dialogue: 0,0:51:07.23,0:51:12.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on every tiny part of our skin. It is in
Dialogue: 0,0:51:12.55,0:51:13.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every breath we take. Every breath we
Dialogue: 0,0:51:13.90,0:51:17.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,take, we consume yeast and bacteria. Wild
Dialogue: 0,0:51:17.46,0:51:19.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fermentation. Some of the things that I
Dialogue: 0,0:51:19.30,0:51:23.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have here, for example, this is papaya
Dialogue: 0,0:51:23.47,0:51:25.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,kraut. You know sauerkraut, but you can
Dialogue: 0,0:51:25.32,0:51:27.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,use the green papaya to make a delicious
Dialogue: 0,0:51:27.54,0:51:31.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ferment. This is jun. Jun is not gin. It
Dialogue: 0,0:51:31.57,0:51:34.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is like kombucha, except it uses honey
Dialogue: 0,0:51:34.38,0:51:37.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and green tea. You can grow green tea
Dialogue: 0,0:51:37.25,0:51:40.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here as well, or yaupon holly. I will
Dialogue: 0,0:51:40.28,0:51:43.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tell you about that in a bit. Fruit scrap
Dialogue: 0,0:51:43.42,0:51:45.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,vinegar. Most fruits, especially fruits
Dialogue: 0,0:51:45.84,0:51:47.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are high in sugar, you can make
Dialogue: 0,0:51:47.41,0:51:50.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,vinegar from. The rinds of pineapples
Dialogue: 0,0:51:50.34,0:51:52.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have enough juices left on them still
Dialogue: 0,0:51:52.64,0:51:54.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you can make vinegar just from the
Dialogue: 0,0:51:54.15,0:51:57.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,left-over pineapple scraps. Honey wine
Dialogue: 0,0:51:57.59,0:52:00.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and another one is ginger beer or
Dialogue: 0,0:52:00.93,0:52:03.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,turmeric beer. That is not alcohol, even
Dialogue: 0,0:52:03.31,0:52:04.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,though it is called beer, but it is
Dialogue: 0,0:52:04.95,0:52:08.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,another one that I made. These are some
Dialogue: 0,0:52:08.88,0:52:16.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of my sauerkrauts, here. I did not have a
Dialogue: 0,0:52:16.20,0:52:17.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fridge and I did not have air
Dialogue: 0,0:52:17.61,0:52:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,conditioning, so I needed to keep them
Dialogue: 0,0:52:20.00,0:52:22.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cold. What I did was build this little
Dialogue: 0,0:52:22.61,0:52:24.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,underground storage. It was an
Dialogue: 0,0:52:24.78,0:52:26.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,experiment. I did not know if it would
Dialogue: 0,0:52:26.85,0:52:28.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,work. I knew it would at least be a
Dialogue: 0,0:52:28.16,0:52:31.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,little bit better, probably. The idea was
Dialogue: 0,0:52:31.03,0:52:33.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to keep the things cooler because
Dialogue: 0,0:52:33.55,0:52:35.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fermenting is done best in somewhere like
Dialogue: 0,0:52:35.56,0:52:38.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the mid-seventies, not ninety degrees.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:38.51,0:52:40.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is some fermenting that can be done
Dialogue: 0,0:52:40.23,0:52:41.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at that [temperature], but sauerkraut and
Dialogue: 0,0:52:41.82,0:52:43.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thing like that are around seventy
Dialogue: 0,0:52:43.56,0:52:46.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,degrees. Hard to do it the summer, unless
Dialogue: 0,0:52:46.03,0:52:47.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you are in air conditioning. Then it
Dialogue: 0,0:52:47.14,0:52:49.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does not matter. I had to figure out a
Dialogue: 0,0:52:49.22,0:52:50.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,way to keep things a little bit cooler.
Dialogue: 0,0:52:50.88,0:52:53.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My friend Harley built this little
Dialogue: 0,0:52:53.52,0:52:58.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,underground storage container. The idea
Dialogue: 0,0:52:58.42,0:52:59.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was at least maybe I would get an extra
Dialogue: 0,0:52:59.94,0:53:04.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,month of life out of the sauerkraut. It
Dialogue: 0,0:53:04.05,0:53:05.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not like I could go to the store and buy
Dialogue: 0,0:53:05.43,0:53:07.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cabbage and I could not grow cabbage in
Dialogue: 0,0:53:07.15,0:53:09.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the summer. I had to figure out a way to
Dialogue: 0,0:53:09.08,0:53:10.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,make it last. That is how you make it
Dialogue: 0,0:53:10.84,0:53:14.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,last, through sauerkraut. I went away,
Dialogue: 0,0:53:14.68,0:53:15.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like I said, to Wisconsin for three
Dialogue: 0,0:53:15.90,0:53:18.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,months. When I came back, I opened that
Dialogue: 0,0:53:18.97,0:53:20.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thing up and I still had about three or
Dialogue: 0,0:53:20.52,0:53:22.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,four jars of sauerkraut in there. I made
Dialogue: 0,0:53:22.98,0:53:25.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,them three months before I left. This was
Dialogue: 0,0:53:25.26,0:53:27.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,six month old sauerkraut, sitting in the
Dialogue: 0,0:53:27.51,0:53:30.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ground in Florida, about ninety degrees
Dialogue: 0,0:53:30.33,0:53:32.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every day for those six months. When I
Dialogue: 0,0:53:32.91,0:53:35.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,opened that thing I did not know "is this
Dialogue: 0,0:53:35.24,0:53:37.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stuff still going to be good?". I opened
Dialogue: 0,0:53:37.13,0:53:40.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it up. It looked good. I took the cap
Dialogue: 0,0:53:40.06,0:53:42.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,off. It smelled good. I just pulled the
Dialogue: 0,0:53:42.01,0:53:44.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,little top layer off. That is called the
Dialogue: 0,0:53:44.26,0:53:47.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sacrificial leaf that you put on top.
Dialogue: 0,0:53:47.35,0:53:48.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I bit it and it was some of the most
Dialogue: 0,0:53:48.38,0:53:50.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,delicious sauerkraut that I have ever
Dialogue: 0,0:53:50.02,0:53:52.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made. I was a really awesome little
Dialogue: 0,0:53:52.80,0:53:54.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,experience, a little experiment to see
Dialogue: 0,0:53:54.100,0:53:57.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you can do that here even in the
Dialogue: 0,0:53:57.16,0:53:59.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,heat of Florida. If you want to get into
Dialogue: 0,0:53:59.62,0:54:03.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wild fermentation, my favorite is "Wild
Dialogue: 0,0:54:03.36,0:54:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fermentation" Sandor Katz, also called
Dialogue: 0,0:54:06.00,0:54:09.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sandor Kraut. He is also named the Johnny
Dialogue: 0,0:54:09.07,0:54:11.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Appleseed of fermentation by Michael
Dialogue: 0,0:54:11.36,0:54:14.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pollan. Amazing book. Highly recommend
Dialogue: 0,0:54:14.15,0:54:16.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it. You will learn what you need to know
Dialogue: 0,0:54:16.68,0:54:19.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about wild fermentation. A little bit
Dialogue: 0,0:54:19.11,0:54:22.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about fruit foraging - I did not have the
Dialogue: 0,0:54:22.62,0:54:26.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,time to establish fruit trees, Most fruit
Dialogue: 0,0:54:26.95,0:54:30.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trees take a bit of time to produce, a
Dialogue: 0,0:54:30.44,0:54:32.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,couple of years. Avocados, for example,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:32.26,0:54:35.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can take five-plus years. I was not able
Dialogue: 0,0:54:35.39,0:54:38.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to grow most of my fruit. Foraging was my
Dialogue: 0,0:54:38.09,0:54:41.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,key for most of my fruit. I mentioned
Dialogue: 0,0:54:41.33,0:54:43.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I grew papayas and bananas, but
Dialogue: 0,0:54:43.13,0:54:44.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the most part my fruit came from
Dialogue: 0,0:54:44.78,0:54:49.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,foraging. Some of the easiest to forage
Dialogue: 0,0:54:49.20,0:54:53.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and easiest to grow fruits are loquat,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:53.19,0:54:56.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mulberry, Suriname cherry, banana,
Dialogue: 0,0:54:56.62,0:54:57.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,avocado, citrus, which would be
Dialogue: 0,0:54:57.99,0:55:01.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grapefruit, lemon, oranges, passion
Dialogue: 0,0:55:01.93,0:55:03.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fruit, which is not a tree. It is a vine.
Dialogue: 0,0:55:03.73,0:55:06.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I think I missed starfruit. The ones that
Dialogue: 0,0:55:06.28,0:55:12.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I foraged a lot are loquat, mulberry,
Dialogue: 0,0:55:12.11,0:55:14.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,starfruit, Suriname cherry, banana, some
Dialogue: 0,0:55:14.38,0:55:17.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,avocado, citrus, banana, not passion
Dialogue: 0,0:55:17.03,0:55:19.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fruit. I grew that. Those are all also
Dialogue: 0,0:55:19.94,0:55:23.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fairly easy to grow. Except citrus
Dialogue: 0,0:55:23.31,0:55:24.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of citrus greening, but there is
Dialogue: 0,0:55:24.64,0:55:27.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,still a ton of citrus in existence. There
Dialogue: 0,0:55:27.20,0:55:28.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is a lot of it out there, even with that
Dialogue: 0,0:55:28.35,0:55:31.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,disease. Some more abundant foraging that
Dialogue: 0,0:55:31.49,0:55:34.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I experienced were mango, prickly pear
Dialogue: 0,0:55:34.18,0:55:37.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cactus and white sapote were other great
Dialogue: 0,0:55:37.34,0:55:40.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,foraging that I had. A few mentions, as
Dialogue: 0,0:55:40.90,0:55:43.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,far as fruit trees: persimmon, cocoa
Dialogue: 0,0:55:43.69,0:55:46.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plum, Java plum, pond apple, sea grapes
Dialogue: 0,0:55:46.12,0:55:49.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are all fruits that I had pretty good
Dialogue: 0,0:55:49.20,0:55:52.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,success with. There are hundreds of
Dialogue: 0,0:55:52.22,0:55:56.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fruits that grow in Florida. There are
Dialogue: 0,0:55:56.32,0:55:57.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,different fruits that grow in Northern
Dialogue: 0,0:55:57.57,0:55:59.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Florida, Central Florida and South
Dialogue: 0,0:55:59.43,0:56:00.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Florida. We actually have a pretty
Dialogue: 0,0:56:00.93,0:56:04.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,diverse state. Those are just some of the
Dialogue: 0,0:56:04.08,0:56:06.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fruits that I experienced. I went to
Dialogue: 0,0:56:06.56,0:56:09.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,South Florida for my mangoes. This is
Dialogue: 0,0:56:09.51,0:56:12.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about a day of foraging down there for
Dialogue: 0,0:56:12.49,0:56:13.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mangoes. There are so many mangoes that
Dialogue: 0,0:56:13.69,0:56:16.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is a problem. What I would do for
Dialogue: 0,0:56:16.94,0:56:20.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,foraging for fruit is just ride my bike
Dialogue: 0,0:56:20.06,0:56:21.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,around, or be in car depending on the
Dialogue: 0,0:56:21.84,0:56:25.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,situation. If I saw a huge mango tree and
Dialogue: 0,0:56:25.49,0:56:28.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there was fruit falling to the ground and
Dialogue: 0,0:56:28.46,0:56:30.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the road, I would just knock on the door
Dialogue: 0,0:56:30.93,0:56:32.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ask if I could harvest that fruit.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:32.68,0:56:35.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Generally, the answer was yes. Sometimes
Dialogue: 0,0:56:35.40,0:56:37.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was "Absolutely! Please!" This stuff is
Dialogue: 0,0:56:37.72,0:56:39.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rotting on the ground and causing me
Dialogue: 0,0:56:39.68,0:56:42.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trouble, or falling on my car. A lot of
Dialogue: 0,0:56:42.26,0:56:44.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the time, people wanted it to be taken.
Dialogue: 0,0:56:44.12,0:56:48.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Generally, that was the response. That
Dialogue: 0,0:56:48.62,0:56:50.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a form of urban foraging. That was
Dialogue: 0,0:56:50.95,0:56:53.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of the gray areas. A lot of it was
Dialogue: 0,0:56:53.82,0:56:56.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,abandoned lots. There are fruit trees
Dialogue: 0,0:56:56.77,0:56:58.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,growing in abandoned lots, in the
Dialogue: 0,0:56:58.93,0:57:01.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,forests, in public parks, which is all
Dialogue: 0,0:57:01.81,0:57:03.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,clear foraging. The stuff that was
Dialogue: 0,0:57:03.65,0:57:07.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,growing over the street, on someone's
Dialogue: 0,0:57:07.42,0:57:11.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lawn, that was one of my gray areas as to
Dialogue: 0,0:57:11.53,0:57:13.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whether I completely considered that
Dialogue: 0,0:57:13.09,0:57:18.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,foraging. Basically, it is what I
Dialogue: 0,0:57:18.52,0:57:20.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,considered foraging. I tried to stick to
Dialogue: 0,0:57:20.74,0:57:24.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all fruit trees that had pretty much
Dialogue: 0,0:57:24.15,0:57:25.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,naturalized, where nobody was taking care
Dialogue: 0,0:57:25.81,0:57:27.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of them. They were just largely in
Dialogue: 0,0:57:27.76,0:57:30.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,existence, that kind of gray area of
Dialogue: 0,0:57:30.43,0:57:32.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,humanity. Ultimately, that was one of the
Dialogue: 0,0:57:32.94,0:57:38.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,big things for me. This project was about
Dialogue: 0,0:57:38.50,0:57:41.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stepping away from big ag, but it was not
Dialogue: 0,0:57:41.97,0:57:44.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about stepping away from humanity. It was
Dialogue: 0,0:57:44.61,0:57:46.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not about stepping away from other
Dialogue: 0,0:57:46.08,0:57:49.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people. I realized that almost everything
Dialogue: 0,0:57:49.00,0:57:52.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I ate was affected by humans in one
Dialogue: 0,0:57:52.41,0:57:54.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,way or another. Most of the weeds that I
Dialogue: 0,0:57:54.61,0:57:55.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was eating, a lot of them came from
Dialogue: 0,0:57:55.82,0:57:57.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Europe four-hundred years ago from
Dialogue: 0,0:57:57.48,0:57:59.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,humans. That was one of the interesting
Dialogue: 0,0:57:59.34,0:58:03.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lessons. "Wild" and "domesticated," is a
Dialogue: 0,0:58:03.47,0:58:08.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gray area. An important tool for fruit
Dialogue: 0,0:58:08.18,0:58:10.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,foraging is a fruit picker. I bought this
Dialogue: 0,0:58:10.49,0:58:13.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for forty dollars at a hardware store.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:13.36,0:58:16.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That allows you to reach way more fruit,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:16.03,0:58:17.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fruit that often would go to waste
Dialogue: 0,0:58:17.79,0:58:19.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because most people do not have a fruit
Dialogue: 0,0:58:19.34,0:58:21.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,picker. They just pick the lower stuff.
Dialogue: 0,0:58:21.16,0:58:25.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would often pick the higher up stuff
Dialogue: 0,0:58:25.46,0:58:27.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that other people definitely would not
Dialogue: 0,0:58:27.91,0:58:33.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have gotten. My meals were definitely not
Dialogue: 0,0:58:33.44,0:58:35.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bland, occasionally bland, but for the
Dialogue: 0,0:58:35.53,0:58:37.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most part not bland. I grew lots of herbs
Dialogue: 0,0:58:37.58,0:58:39.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and spices. The ones that I am going to
Dialogue: 0,0:58:39.98,0:58:42.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,list here are the ones that I recommend
Dialogue: 0,0:58:42.52,0:58:44.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for Central Florida that do grow well:
Dialogue: 0,0:58:44.91,0:58:48.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,African blue basil, Cuban oregano, holy
Dialogue: 0,0:58:48.24,0:58:52.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,basil, garlic chives, green onion, mint,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:52.01,0:58:55.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rosemary, lemon grass, Italian basil,
Dialogue: 0,0:58:55.45,0:58:58.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thai basil, papalo, which popped up in my
Dialogue: 0,0:58:58.95,0:59:01.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,garden. I had no clue what it was. It was
Dialogue: 0,0:59:01.32,0:59:04.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this mystery, but it was a great herb.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:04.21,0:59:05.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some people consider it close to
Dialogue: 0,0:59:05.69,0:59:10.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cilantro. Cilantro, dill, fennel, thyme,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:10.23,0:59:13.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,oregano, curry leaf tree, garlic, sage,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:13.79,0:59:16.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dill seeds, coriander. the dill seeds are
Dialogue: 0,0:59:16.62,0:59:19.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you let dill go to seed and you get dill
Dialogue: 0,0:59:19.39,0:59:21.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seeds. Coriander is cilantro that goes to
Dialogue: 0,0:59:21.99,0:59:26.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seed. Those are just some of the herbs
Dialogue: 0,0:59:26.73,0:59:29.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and spices that I grew this year. I am
Dialogue: 0,0:59:29.100,0:59:32.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just featuring those as the highlights.
Dialogue: 0,0:59:32.84,0:59:36.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I grew a lot of annual greens. Collards
Dialogue: 0,0:59:36.50,0:59:38.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are my top recommendation as far as
Dialogue: 0,0:59:38.95,0:59:41.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,annual greens. Some of the ones I grew:
Dialogue: 0,0:59:41.32,0:59:43.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,collards, kale arugula, swiss chard,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:43.60,0:59:45.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mustard greens, chicory, lettuce,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:45.23,0:59:47.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cabbage, brassicas (That's the whole
Dialogue: 0,0:59:47.71,0:59:51.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,family of broccoli and kale and collards
Dialogue: 0,0:59:51.79,0:59:54.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and such.), Asian greens bok choy and
Dialogue: 0,0:59:54.39,0:59:57.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tatsoi do really well in this area,
Dialogue: 0,0:59:57.17,1:00:00.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nasturtium and amaranth would be a
Dialogue: 0,1:00:00.28,1:00:02.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bunch of the annual greens that I grew.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:02.54,1:00:04.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I really prefer perennial greens though.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:04.72,1:00:07.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For those of you who do not know what
Dialogue: 0,1:00:07.71,1:00:09.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an annual is, that is a plant that
Dialogue: 0,1:00:09.98,1:00:12.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,generally produces about once and then
Dialogue: 0,1:00:12.37,1:00:15.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dies. A good example of that is a carrot.
Dialogue: 0,1:00:15.27,1:00:16.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you cannot leave a carrot in the ground
Dialogue: 0,1:00:16.87,1:00:19.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for more carrots to come. You have to
Dialogue: 0,1:00:19.74,1:00:21.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pull that carrot up after about ninety
Dialogue: 0,1:00:21.49,1:00:23.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,days and eat that carrot. Otherwise, you
Dialogue: 0,1:00:23.08,1:00:27.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,get no food. Perennials, some of them
Dialogue: 0,1:00:27.31,1:00:29.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can be [producing for] three, four, five
Dialogue: 0,1:00:29.69,1:00:32.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,years. Rhubarb, in the North generally
Dialogue: 0,1:00:32.12,1:00:35.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lasts for twenty-five years. Oak trees
Dialogue: 0,1:00:35.32,1:00:38.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can be hundreds of years old. Those put
Dialogue: 0,1:00:38.04,1:00:43.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out acorns, which are edible. Perennials
Dialogue: 0,1:00:43.10,1:00:45.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can produce for years, decades, or even
Dialogue: 0,1:00:45.62,1:00:48.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over one century. They are much more
Dialogue: 0,1:00:48.60,1:00:51.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,resource efficient. They are more time
Dialogue: 0,1:00:51.36,1:00:55.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,efficient. They consume far fewer
Dialogue: 0,1:00:55.08,1:00:57.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,resources. Generally, they add nutrition
Dialogue: 0,1:00:57.53,1:00:59.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back to the soil. When you take out a
Dialogue: 0,1:00:59.94,1:01:02.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plant from the soil, you are taking out
Dialogue: 0,1:01:02.83,1:01:06.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nutrients. Perennials, by staying there's
Dialogue: 0,1:01:06.79,1:01:10.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,less disruption of the soil. That would
Dialogue: 0,1:01:10.20,1:01:11.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be something that goes hand in hand with
Dialogue: 0,1:01:11.25,1:01:14.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no-till gardening, for example. The
Dialogue: 0,1:01:14.47,1:01:16.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,number one plant that I recommend in
Dialogue: 0,1:01:16.23,1:01:17.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Central Florida, if everybody in this
Dialogue: 0,1:01:17.74,1:01:20.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,room just had one plant, it would be
Dialogue: 0,1:01:20.04,1:01:22.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,moringa. It is also called the vitamin
Dialogue: 0,1:01:22.55,1:01:25.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tree, or the tree of life. It is one of
Dialogue: 0,1:01:25.15,1:01:27.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the most nutrient-dense plants on earth.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:27.12,1:01:29.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another survival plant, it needs almost
Dialogue: 0,1:01:29.70,1:01:31.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no water or irrigation. It needs almost
Dialogue: 0,1:01:31.46,1:01:33.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no nutrients. It is native to India, from
Dialogue: 0,1:01:33.74,1:01:37.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dry part of India. It is one of the most
Dialogue: 0,1:01:37.28,1:01:39.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nutrient-dense plants on Earth. It is
Dialogue: 0,1:01:39.59,1:01:42.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,truly a miracle food. If everyone had one
Dialogue: 0,1:01:42.66,1:01:43.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of those plants, it could change the
Dialogue: 0,1:01:43.82,1:01:47.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,entire state of Florida. Very easy to
Dialogue: 0,1:01:47.24,1:01:48.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grow, you can get it from a cutting,
Dialogue: 0,1:01:48.62,1:01:50.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stick that cutting in the ground or from
Dialogue: 0,1:01:50.36,1:01:54.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seeds. Moringa is my number one
Dialogue: 0,1:01:54.05,1:01:56.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,recommendation. Other ones are katook.
Dialogue: 0,1:01:56.36,1:01:58.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is what you see right here, that I
Dialogue: 0,1:01:58.27,1:02:01.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,am cutting. Chia, that is also considered
Dialogue: 0,1:02:01.49,1:02:03.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a superfood. I has been grown for
Dialogue: 0,1:02:03.20,1:02:05.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thousands of years. It dates back to, I
Dialogue: 0,1:02:05.22,1:02:08.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,think, the Aztecs, the Mayans, in Central
Dialogue: 0,1:02:08.61,1:02:11.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and South America. Sweet potato greens,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:11.48,1:02:14.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as I mentioned before, yuca greens or
Dialogue: 0,1:02:14.32,1:02:16.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cassava, not only does it create a tuber,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:16.26,1:02:18.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but you can also eat the greens. Just
Dialogue: 0,1:02:18.77,1:02:21.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like chia, they are high in cyanide so
Dialogue: 0,1:02:21.05,1:02:24.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they have to be cooked. Do not be scared
Dialogue: 0,1:02:24.04,1:02:25.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by the fact that they have a poison in
Dialogue: 0,1:02:25.84,1:02:28.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,them. A lot of our foods are poisonous
Dialogue: 0,1:02:28.12,1:02:30.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if not prepared correctly, or toxic might
Dialogue: 0,1:02:30.79,1:02:32.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be a better word. They just have to be
Dialogue: 0,1:02:32.87,1:02:35.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,boiled for, depending on who you talk to,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:35.38,1:02:37.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,three to twenty minutes. You can go
Dialogue: 0,1:02:37.84,1:02:41.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,twenty minutes, whatever you want. Yuca
Dialogue: 0,1:02:41.15,1:02:43.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,greens. Other ones, cranberry hibiscus,
Dialogue: 0,1:02:43.21,1:02:47.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,purslane is one of my favorite foods on
Dialogue: 0,1:02:47.09,1:02:51.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Earth. It is very nutrient-dense. It is
Dialogue: 0,1:02:51.04,1:02:52.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually one of the few plants that are
Dialogue: 0,1:02:52.07,1:02:55.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,high in omegas. Garden sorrel, again
Dialogue: 0,1:02:55.31,1:03:00.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plantago, and perennial spinaches. We can
Dialogue: 0,1:03:00.05,1:03:01.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grow a lot of different perennial
Dialogue: 0,1:03:01.21,1:03:03.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spinaches here. To name a few of them:
Dialogue: 0,1:03:03.07,1:03:06.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Okinawa, longevity, Suriname, Malabar,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:06.07,1:03:09.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brazilian. Those are just five of the
Dialogue: 0,1:03:09.08,1:03:10.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,perennial spinaches that we can grow
Dialogue: 0,1:03:10.80,1:03:14.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here. Foraging greens, this is right here
Dialogue: 0,1:03:14.20,1:03:16.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on Bumby. This is a plant that most
Dialogue: 0,1:03:16.46,1:03:19.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people know, Bidens alba, or Spanish
Dialogue: 0,1:03:19.87,1:03:22.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,needle. It is despised by many front lawn
Dialogue: 0,1:03:22.40,1:03:25.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,growers and gardeners as a weed, but it
Dialogue: 0,1:03:25.89,1:03:28.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is actually nutritious and medicinal. It
Dialogue: 0,1:03:28.38,1:03:30.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is one of the most highly regarded
Dialogue: 0,1:03:30.16,1:03:33.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,medicinal plants by a lot of the local
Dialogue: 0,1:03:33.03,1:03:37.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,holistic health practitioners. If you go
Dialogue: 0,1:03:37.23,1:03:38.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the Florida School of Holistic Living,
Dialogue: 0,1:03:38.81,1:03:41.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are always talking about Bidens
Dialogue: 0,1:03:41.50,1:03:44.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,alba. It is an important medicinal, but
Dialogue: 0,1:03:44.43,1:03:46.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is also just a great edible and very
Dialogue: 0,1:03:46.72,1:03:50.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nutritious. This is it right here. It has
Dialogue: 0,1:03:50.19,1:03:53.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these flowers with the yellow in the
Dialogue: 0,1:03:53.07,1:03:55.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,center and the white around it. You can
Dialogue: 0,1:03:55.45,1:03:56.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eat the flowers. They make a nice salad
Dialogue: 0,1:03:56.93,1:03:59.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,garnish, or you can eat the greens. It is
Dialogue: 0,1:03:59.75,1:04:02.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beautiful food and everywhere you go in
Dialogue: 0,1:04:02.22,1:04:06.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the United States, most every you go in
Dialogue: 0,1:04:06.08,1:04:07.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the United States, there are going to be
Dialogue: 0,1:04:07.100,1:04:11.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"weeds" that are edible, nutritious, and
Dialogue: 0,1:04:11.82,1:04:14.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,often medicinal greens. To name some
Dialogue: 0,1:04:14.26,1:04:16.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,other great ones in the area: dollar
Dialogue: 0,1:04:16.38,1:04:19.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,weed is in most of your yards, probably,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:19.56,1:04:22.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gotu kola, it is considered a brain food,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:22.75,1:04:26.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a very important one, bacopa, oxalis,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:26.90,1:04:29.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,purslane. Then there are sea greens like
Dialogue: 0,1:04:29.82,1:04:32.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sea purslane and sea blight. Then
Dialogue: 0,1:04:32.60,1:04:34.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plantago, which might be the third time I
Dialogue: 0,1:04:34.79,1:04:36.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have brought that plant up. I obviously
Dialogue: 0,1:04:36.62,1:04:39.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like it quite a bit. One of the foods
Dialogue: 0,1:04:39.58,1:04:42.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I made was green juice. That was a
Dialogue: 0,1:04:42.58,1:04:45.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,good staple this year. As far as water,
Dialogue: 0,1:04:45.74,1:04:48.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I went into this year my hope was to
Dialogue: 0,1:04:48.24,1:04:51.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,actually get all of my water foraged as
Dialogue: 0,1:04:51.96,1:04:53.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, which meant harvesting rain water.
Dialogue: 0,1:04:53.55,1:04:56.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was something I quickly realized I
Dialogue: 0,1:04:56.41,1:04:57.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was not going to do because I did not
Dialogue: 0,1:04:57.58,1:04:59.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,want to have to carry around gallons of
Dialogue: 0,1:04:59.89,1:05:02.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,water everywhere I went. At my tiny house
Dialogue: 0,1:05:02.72,1:05:04.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I harvested rain water, [and] put it through a
Dialogue: 0,1:05:04.72,1:05:07.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,filter. This is called a Berkey filter,
Dialogue: 0,1:05:07.56,1:05:09.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That purified it and that was my
Dialogue: 0,1:05:09.96,1:05:12.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,drinking water. A majority of my water
Dialogue: 0,1:05:12.38,1:05:15.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this year was foraged water. It was
Dialogue: 0,1:05:15.56,1:05:17.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,drinking water. Wherever I went, if I had
Dialogue: 0,1:05:17.40,1:05:20.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to I drank tap water as well. Some
Dialogue: 0,1:05:20.18,1:05:22.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mentions of other plants, and this is
Dialogue: 0,1:05:22.24,1:05:23.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,getting close to the end of the plant
Dialogue: 0,1:05:23.68,1:05:26.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,section. Other things: carrots, I grew
Dialogue: 0,1:05:26.54,1:05:28.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over sixty pounds of carrots this year.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:28.20,1:05:30.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was an important food source. Beets,
Dialogue: 0,1:05:30.31,1:05:33.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tindora cucumber, which is perennial
Dialogue: 0,1:05:33.43,1:05:35.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cucumber that can grow year-round.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:35.42,1:05:38.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Peppers grow really well in Central
Dialogue: 0,1:05:38.40,1:05:39.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Florida. That is probably one of the
Dialogue: 0,1:05:39.59,1:05:41.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,easiest foods to start with. I grew
Dialogue: 0,1:05:41.44,1:05:43.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,serrano peppers and ghost peppers.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:43.20,1:05:46.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everglades tomatoes, it is hard to grow
Dialogue: 0,1:05:46.33,1:05:48.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,big tomatoes in Central Florida, but
Dialogue: 0,1:05:48.70,1:05:50.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everglades tomatoes grow really well.
Dialogue: 0,1:05:50.54,1:05:53.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Daikon radish is an amazing one. You can
Dialogue: 0,1:05:53.67,1:05:57.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,make ferments from that. Green tea is a
Dialogue: 0,1:05:57.97,1:05:59.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really great one that you can grow here,
Dialogue: 0,1:05:59.62,1:06:01.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but there is something that I prefer that
Dialogue: 0,1:06:01.98,1:06:05.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I will get to in a minute. Roselle, or
Dialogue: 0,1:06:05.04,1:06:08.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jamaican sorrel, amaranth grains as far
Dialogue: 0,1:06:08.44,1:06:09.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as grains, that was the one that I
Dialogue: 0,1:06:09.88,1:06:12.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,experimented with. I did get two pounds
Dialogue: 0,1:06:12.06,1:06:14.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of grains, full of rocks, so it never was
Dialogue: 0,1:06:14.73,1:06:18.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tasty. It was probably worse eating it
Dialogue: 0,1:06:18.75,1:06:22.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than not eating it. Amaranth grains is a
Dialogue: 0,1:06:22.50,1:06:26.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,good potential [crop]. Green beans, yard-
Dialogue: 0,1:06:26.67,1:06:31.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,long beans are a really great food to
Dialogue: 0,1:06:31.48,1:06:33.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grow here. Cucumbers, I did well with
Dialogue: 0,1:06:33.99,1:06:35.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,annual cucumbers, but that one is not
Dialogue: 0,1:06:35.68,1:06:39.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,always easy. Kohlrabi, celery, eggplant
Dialogue: 0,1:06:39.46,1:06:42.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and also just standard, small potatoes
Dialogue: 0,1:06:42.98,1:06:45.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can do well as well. Some other important
Dialogue: 0,1:06:45.99,1:06:48.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mentions for foraging, there are acorns.
Dialogue: 0,1:06:48.42,1:06:53.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For much of humanity many people that
Dialogue: 0,1:06:53.39,1:06:55.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,existed, fifty percent of their calories
Dialogue: 0,1:06:55.68,1:06:58.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,came from acorns. We only exist today as
Dialogue: 0,1:06:58.71,1:07:02.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,humanity, possibly because of the acorn.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:02.00,1:07:04.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We might not exist without the acorn. It
Dialogue: 0,1:07:04.30,1:07:05.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is one of the most important food sources
Dialogue: 0,1:07:05.86,1:07:09.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on Earth. Oak is present, I thing, on
Dialogue: 0,1:07:09.27,1:07:12.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every continent except Antarctica. An
Dialogue: 0,1:07:12.52,1:07:14.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,extremely important food source and can
Dialogue: 0,1:07:14.92,1:07:17.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,still be used today. Here in Central
Dialogue: 0,1:07:17.51,1:07:19.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Florida, you could get most of your
Dialogue: 0,1:07:19.75,1:07:21.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,calories from acorns if you wanted to
Dialogue: 0,1:07:21.66,1:07:23.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,take the time and energy to do that.
Dialogue: 0,1:07:23.89,1:07:27.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hickory nuts are a great nut. You can
Dialogue: 0,1:07:27.64,1:07:30.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,make nut milk. Sam Thayer is one of the
Dialogue: 0,1:07:30.86,1:07:36.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,great foragers. He has got three books
Dialogue: 0,1:07:36.04,1:07:37.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I recommend: "Nature's Garden" is
Dialogue: 0,1:07:37.95,1:07:39.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of them, I cannot think of the name
Dialogue: 0,1:07:39.67,1:07:40.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the other one that I read at the
Dialogue: 0,1:07:40.91,1:07:44.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,moment. What he taught me to do is to
Dialogue: 0,1:07:44.80,1:07:47.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,smash the hickory nuts in the shell
Dialogue: 0,1:07:47.30,1:07:49.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they are like walnuts, but there
Dialogue: 0,1:07:49.42,1:07:51.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is way more shell and not a lot of nut so
Dialogue: 0,1:07:51.95,1:07:54.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it is very tedious to pull out. If you
Dialogue: 0,1:07:54.26,1:07:55.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are trying to grow and forage one-hundred
Dialogue: 0,1:07:55.65,1:07:56.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,percent of your food, you have to learn
Dialogue: 0,1:07:56.99,1:07:59.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to use your time effectively. How you use
Dialogue: 0,1:07:59.68,1:08:01.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your time effectively with hickory nuts
Dialogue: 0,1:08:01.24,1:08:03.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is you smash them up, you throw them in a
Dialogue: 0,1:08:03.94,1:08:06.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pot, you boil them and that makes hickory
Dialogue: 0,1:08:06.74,1:08:09.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nut milk. Then you just strain it out. It
Dialogue: 0,1:08:09.74,1:08:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,takes just minutes to make you own nut
Dialogue: 0,1:08:12.00,1:08:16.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,milk that is great, high in fats and
Dialogue: 0,1:08:16.02,1:08:18.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,delicious. I put honey in it to make it a
Dialogue: 0,1:08:18.71,1:08:22.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really nice drink. Beauty berry is a
Dialogue: 0,1:08:22.92,1:08:25.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,native plant to Florida that grows all
Dialogue: 0,1:08:25.79,1:08:29.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over, great little snack. Smilax, also
Dialogue: 0,1:08:29.36,1:08:32.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,called Nature's asparagus or wild
Dialogue: 0,1:08:32.72,1:08:35.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,asparagus, I think. It is delicious. It
Dialogue: 0,1:08:35.29,1:08:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just grows all over the place. Cattail,
Dialogue: 0,1:08:38.00,1:08:40.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we could talk about cattail for hours.
Dialogue: 0,1:08:40.82,1:08:43.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can do cattail pollen. You can the
Dialogue: 0,1:08:43.10,1:08:46.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,roots, the rhizomes, the shoots. When
Dialogue: 0,1:08:46.60,1:08:48.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the tops are young, you can eat that like
Dialogue: 0,1:08:48.59,1:08:50.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,corn on the cob. You can eat most parts
Dialogue: 0,1:08:50.71,1:08:51.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of that plant at different times of the
Dialogue: 0,1:08:51.94,1:08:55.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,year. Amazing plant. Bitter melon, those
Dialogue: 0,1:08:55.94,1:08:58.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are those weeds you see, those little
Dialogue: 0,1:08:58.27,1:09:00.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,orange melons that grow as weeds in the
Dialogue: 0,1:09:00.33,1:09:03.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,area. According to Green Dean, four of
Dialogue: 0,1:09:03.41,1:09:05.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those little melons a day will give you
Dialogue: 0,1:09:05.72,1:09:07.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all of the lycopene you need. I do not
Dialogue: 0,1:09:07.85,1:09:09.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,know everything about lycopene, but
Dialogue: 0,1:09:09.42,1:09:11.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,apparently it is an important thing. You
Dialogue: 0,1:09:11.50,1:09:12.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do not eat the seed. You just suck the
Dialogue: 0,1:09:12.88,1:09:14.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fruit off of it because the seed is
Dialogue: 0,1:09:14.19,1:09:17.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,toxic. You just suck the fruit right off
Dialogue: 0,1:09:17.85,1:09:20.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of it. That is an amazing "weed" that is
Dialogue: 0,1:09:20.48,1:09:22.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,great. [It] grows right around us.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:22.64,1:09:25.67,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brazilian pepper is an invasive, but it
Dialogue: 0,1:09:25.67,1:09:28.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,makes a red pepper corn that you can use
Dialogue: 0,1:09:28.28,1:09:30.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a pepper substitute. I do not like it.
Dialogue: 0,1:09:30.46,1:09:33.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I used it occasionally, but a lot of
Dialogue: 0,1:09:33.32,1:09:36.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people like it. American nightshade is a
Dialogue: 0,1:09:36.08,1:09:40.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really great forageable. One of the big
Dialogue: 0,1:09:40.33,1:09:42.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,foraging ones for me this year that
Dialogue: 0,1:09:42.06,1:09:43.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really deserves a whole section, but I
Dialogue: 0,1:09:43.85,1:09:45.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,put it in the honorable mentions - that
Dialogue: 0,1:09:45.55,1:09:47.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is yaupon holly. It is North America's
Dialogue: 0,1:09:47.53,1:09:51.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,only native caffeinated plant. It is a
Dialogue: 0,1:09:51.75,1:09:54.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plant with amazing potential. It has the
Dialogue: 0,1:09:54.53,1:09:56.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,same abilities basically, as green tea
Dialogue: 0,1:09:56.43,1:09:59.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(the antioxidants in it). It grows
Dialogue: 0,1:09:59.66,1:10:01.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,natively to Florida. It needs no water
Dialogue: 0,1:10:01.93,1:10:04.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and can be harvested wild or grown on
Dialogue: 0,1:10:04.87,1:10:07.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your property. It is often used as a nice
Dialogue: 0,1:10:07.73,1:10:09.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,landscaping plant. You can forage it all
Dialogue: 0,1:10:09.76,1:10:13.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over the city. It has the same amount of
Dialogue: 0,1:10:13.21,1:10:15.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,caffeine as coffee, and it is related to
Dialogue: 0,1:10:15.13,1:10:17.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yerba matte. It is basically the yerba
Dialogue: 0,1:10:17.25,1:10:21.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,matte of North America. Then, a couple of
Dialogue: 0,1:10:21.04,1:10:23.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,failures that I tried: I mentioned
Dialogue: 0,1:10:23.46,1:10:26.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sunflowers, which turned into squirrels
Dialogue: 0,1:10:26.04,1:10:31.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,magically. Peanuts, and my big goal was
Dialogue: 0,1:10:31.03,1:10:33.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to grow my own peanut butter, make my own
Dialogue: 0,1:10:33.84,1:10:38.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,coconut oil and my honey and spread that
Dialogue: 0,1:10:38.21,1:10:42.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all over a banana. That was my dream of
Dialogue: 0,1:10:42.37,1:10:46.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this year that never came true. I did
Dialogue: 0,1:10:46.73,1:10:49.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grow enough peanuts, but I harvested them
Dialogue: 0,1:10:49.65,1:10:51.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,within the last couple of weeks. I was
Dialogue: 0,1:10:51.25,1:10:55.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just too busy coasting into the finish
Dialogue: 0,1:10:55.08,1:10:58.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,line to try to make the peanut butter. I
Dialogue: 0,1:10:58.17,1:11:00.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,did not get around to it. Peanuts were a
Dialogue: 0,1:11:00.57,1:11:04.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,minor failure. Sugar cane for sugar is a
Dialogue: 0,1:11:04.76,1:11:07.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,great resource that I have not succeeded
Dialogue: 0,1:11:07.40,1:11:10.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at. One of my big failures of the year
Dialogue: 0,1:11:10.88,1:11:15.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was coconut oil. I thought that about six
Dialogue: 0,1:11:15.52,1:11:17.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,coconuts made a pint of coconut oil. I
Dialogue: 0,1:11:17.68,1:11:18.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thought at the beginning that I was going
Dialogue: 0,1:11:18.86,1:11:20.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make a gallon of coconut oil and just
Dialogue: 0,1:11:20.79,1:11:22.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,be coasting through the year with coconut
Dialogue: 0,1:11:22.30,1:11:27.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,oil, all I wanted. I got four ounces of
Dialogue: 0,1:11:27.06,1:11:29.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,coconut oil. I did not have oil this
Dialogue: 0,1:11:29.30,1:11:31.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,whole year, which is definitely one of
Dialogue: 0,1:11:31.40,1:11:35.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the big challenges. You do not realize
Dialogue: 0,1:11:35.68,1:11:37.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until you are trying to grow and forage
Dialogue: 0,1:11:37.52,1:11:40.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,everything all the things that you eat
Dialogue: 0,1:11:40.19,1:11:41.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you do not realize how many
Dialogue: 0,1:11:41.57,1:11:44.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,resources it takes and such. Coconut oil
Dialogue: 0,1:11:44.76,1:11:47.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was my holy grail that I ultimately
Dialogue: 0,1:11:47.46,1:11:49.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,failed at. What I learned is that it is
Dialogue: 0,1:11:49.28,1:11:52.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more like fifteen coconuts to a pint [of
Dialogue: 0,1:11:52.25,1:11:54.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,oil], is what I am told. Instead, I just
Dialogue: 0,1:11:54.06,1:11:56.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,made my coconut milk, my coconut butter,
Dialogue: 0,1:11:56.24,1:11:58.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,my coconut curries. I used a lot of
Dialogue: 0,1:11:58.85,1:12:00.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,coconuts just did not succeed with the
Dialogue: 0,1:12:00.45,1:12:03.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,coconut oil. [I will] show you some of my
Dialogue: 0,1:12:03.60,1:12:05.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,meals. This is my little outdoor kitchen
Dialogue: 0,1:12:05.48,1:12:08.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where I cooked. These are a few meals
Dialogue: 0,1:12:08.55,1:12:12.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here. I did eat very well, very delicious
Dialogue: 0,1:12:12.31,1:12:15.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,foods. Up hear is Seminole pumpkin soup
Dialogue: 0,1:12:15.85,1:12:21.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with a beet and cabbage sauerkraut as a
Dialogue: 0,1:12:21.05,1:12:23.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,garnish. This is pigeon peas with
Dialogue: 0,1:12:23.94,1:12:26.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nasturtium leaves as a garnish and
Dialogue: 0,1:12:26.48,1:12:29.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,greens. This is Seminole pumpkin roasted
Dialogue: 0,1:12:29.53,1:12:33.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inside of a collard wrap. Those were some
Dialogue: 0,1:12:33.68,1:12:35.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of my really nice meals. The little bit
Dialogue: 0,1:12:35.84,1:12:38.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of coconut oil I did have went on to
Dialogue: 0,1:12:38.20,1:12:39.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these collard wraps with the Seminole
Dialogue: 0,1:12:39.46,1:12:40.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pumpkin and that was like, one of the
Dialogue: 0,1:12:40.96,1:12:45.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,best foods of the whole year. So good!
Dialogue: 0,1:12:45.18,1:12:47.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This was a very common meal. I probably
Dialogue: 0,1:12:47.61,1:12:50.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ate six, seven-hundred pounds of sweet
Dialogue: 0,1:12:50.69,1:12:52.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,potatoes this year, quite a bit of sweet
Dialogue: 0,1:12:52.70,1:12:56.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,potato. I did different things with them,
Dialogue: 0,1:12:56.71,1:12:57.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the most common thing was just to
Dialogue: 0,1:12:57.100,1:12:59.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mash them up and make mashed sweet
Dialogue: 0,1:12:59.17,1:13:00.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,potatoes. This is a bowl of mashed sweet
Dialogue: 0,1:13:00.70,1:13:02.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,potatoes with greens and pigeon peas.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:02.97,1:13:08.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You can see behind me Seminole pumpkins
Dialogue: 0,1:13:08.17,1:13:10.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the shelf. That is how I stored them,
Dialogue: 0,1:13:10.32,1:13:12.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just sitting there right on that shelf.
Dialogue: 0,1:13:12.42,1:13:16.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is another common meal, yuca. I just
Dialogue: 0,1:13:16.46,1:13:18.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,boiled the yuca. That was basically how I
Dialogue: 0,1:13:18.73,1:13:20.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,did it. I did not actually have an oven
Dialogue: 0,1:13:20.24,1:13:23.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to bake. That limited me. When I went
Dialogue: 0,1:13:23.73,1:13:25.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over to friends' houses I would often use
Dialogue: 0,1:13:25.13,1:13:28.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their oven. It was really nice. This is
Dialogue: 0,1:13:28.25,1:13:31.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yuca with fish on there. That is mullet,
Dialogue: 0,1:13:31.46,1:13:33.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the white on top. Those are the little
Dialogue: 0,1:13:33.51,1:13:36.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everglades tomatoes. Then that is a
Dialogue: 0,1:13:36.60,1:13:40.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sauerkraut garnish on top. That is just
Dialogue: 0,1:13:40.12,1:13:43.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,an example of a few meals. I probably
Dialogue: 0,1:13:43.06,1:13:46.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really subsisted on a couple of dozen
Dialogue: 0,1:13:46.30,1:13:50.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,different meals, but my food did vary
Dialogue: 0,1:13:50.13,1:13:52.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,drastically throughout the year. As I
Dialogue: 0,1:13:52.94,1:13:54.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mentioned, I did take a trip to
Dialogue: 0,1:13:54.21,1:13:56.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wisconsin. I did not make any videos
Dialogue: 0,1:13:56.88,1:13:58.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while I was gone and people commented on
Dialogue: 0,1:13:58.88,1:14:01.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,YouTube like, "Oh, he went to Wisconsin
Dialogue: 0,1:14:01.13,1:14:04.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ate pizza for the summer!". It was
Dialogue: 0,1:14:04.26,1:14:06.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,harder to be travelling. Imagine, I had
Dialogue: 0,1:14:06.69,1:14:09.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,no garden. I went away for eighty-two
Dialogue: 0,1:14:09.24,1:14:11.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,days, is what it ended up being. I had no
Dialogue: 0,1:14:11.56,1:14:13.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,garden up there. This was a whole new
Dialogue: 0,1:14:13.94,1:14:18.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,challenge, taking it to the road. Before
Dialogue: 0,1:14:18.09,1:14:20.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I left I worked long hours, often until
Dialogue: 0,1:14:20.14,1:14:23.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two in the morning preparing foods. I
Dialogue: 0,1:14:23.92,1:14:28.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was making flours from yuca and yam that
Dialogue: 0,1:14:28.24,1:14:30.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Marabou Thomas taught me to make. I was
Dialogue: 0,1:14:30.47,1:14:32.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,drying coconuts and making coconut
Dialogue: 0,1:14:32.00,1:14:35.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shreds. I was making tons of moringa
Dialogue: 0,1:14:35.15,1:14:38.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,powder. I was dehydrating herbs. I was
Dialogue: 0,1:14:38.35,1:14:40.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,foraging. I dehydrated bananas and
Dialogue: 0,1:14:40.12,1:14:43.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mangoes. I left with one-hundred thousand
Dialogue: 0,1:14:43.20,1:14:46.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,calories, at least. At two-thousand
Dialogue: 0,1:14:46.41,1:14:48.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,calories a day, that is fifty days. I was
Dialogue: 0,1:14:48.47,1:14:50.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,carrying a lot of food. I was carrying a
Dialogue: 0,1:14:50.66,1:14:54.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,couple hundred pounds of food with me.
Dialogue: 0,1:14:54.88,1:14:57.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had a lot of food, but I really was
Dialogue: 0,1:14:57.55,1:14:59.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dependent on foraging. I did a lot of
Dialogue: 0,1:14:59.40,1:15:00.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fishing while I was up there. I mentioned
Dialogue: 0,1:15:00.92,1:15:03.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the deer. While I was in Wisconsin I
Dialogue: 0,1:15:03.09,1:15:08.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,learned and foraged new plants. A lot of
Dialogue: 0,1:15:08.14,1:15:10.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,people up North say "You can only do this
Dialogue: 0,1:15:10.25,1:15:12.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you are in Central Florida." You
Dialogue: 0,1:15:12.38,1:15:14.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are the beneficiaries of that comment. We
Dialogue: 0,1:15:14.32,1:15:16.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are in a great place. Central Florida is
Dialogue: 0,1:15:16.10,1:15:18.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of the best growing climates in the
Dialogue: 0,1:15:18.49,1:15:21.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,United States, I would say. We have this
Dialogue: 0,1:15:21.70,1:15:23.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beautiful thing where we can grow many
Dialogue: 0,1:15:23.08,1:15:25.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plants of the North, but we can [also]
Dialogue: 0,1:15:25.27,1:15:27.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grow many plants of the tropics. We are
Dialogue: 0,1:15:27.02,1:15:29.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a sub-tropical area. We are on this
Dialogue: 0,1:15:29.23,1:15:32.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,border. We are in zone what, ten-A?
Dialogue: 0,1:15:32.35,1:15:35.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nine-B? Nine? See, I am still kind of a
Dialogue: 0,1:15:35.59,1:15:41.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,rooky. So it is nine? Nine-B. Nine-B is
Dialogue: 0,1:15:41.43,1:15:43.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,basically on this edge where we can many
Dialogue: 0,1:15:43.65,1:15:45.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things of the North and we can grow many
Dialogue: 0,1:15:45.08,1:15:47.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things of the South. It is this beautiful
Dialogue: 0,1:15:47.27,1:15:49.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,area where there is an incredible amount
Dialogue: 0,1:15:49.12,1:15:51.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of diversity and abundance. With that
Dialogue: 0,1:15:51.26,1:15:54.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being said, I never felt abundance like I
Dialogue: 0,1:15:54.04,1:15:57.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,felt it up in Wisconsin. It was the most
Dialogue: 0,1:15:57.37,1:16:00.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,abundant place I have ever been on Earth.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:00.30,1:16:01.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I almost did not come back. Actually, a
Dialogue: 0,1:16:01.66,1:16:02.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lot of people thought I was never coming
Dialogue: 0,1:16:02.84,1:16:04.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back, but I had things to take care of.
Dialogue: 0,1:16:04.91,1:16:08.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My trip to Wisconsin was great. I foraged
Dialogue: 0,1:16:08.53,1:16:09.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one-hundred different foods while I was
Dialogue: 0,1:16:09.93,1:16:11.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,up there. Apples were one of the most
Dialogue: 0,1:16:11.82,1:16:15.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,important. I made applesauce. I made so
Dialogue: 0,1:16:15.40,1:16:17.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,much applesauce. In my hometown, off the
Dialogue: 0,1:16:17.99,1:16:19.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,top of my head might now I could name
Dialogue: 0,1:16:19.40,1:16:23.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fifty public apple trees just in that
Dialogue: 0,1:16:23.64,1:16:25.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,area. If you are ever go to Ashland,
Dialogue: 0,1:16:25.50,1:16:27.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wisconsin (That is my hometown.), go and
Dialogue: 0,1:16:27.40,1:16:31.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gorge on apples. I have got to mention
Dialogue: 0,1:16:31.14,1:16:32.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the toilet paper. I grew my own toilet
Dialogue: 0,1:16:32.75,1:16:34.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,paper. I have not bought toilet paper for
Dialogue: 0,1:16:34.40,1:16:40.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over five years. This plant is call
Dialogue: 0,1:16:40.55,1:16:43.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Plectranthus barbatus. That is the genus
Dialogue: 0,1:16:43.91,1:16:45.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and species, also called blue spur
Dialogue: 0,1:16:45.09,1:16:47.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,flower. It grows in zones eight to ten,
Dialogue: 0,1:16:47.61,1:16:50.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so right where we are. This will not grow
Dialogue: 0,1:16:50.62,1:16:52.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the colder climates. Maybe it will as
Dialogue: 0,1:16:52.40,1:16:54.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as annual. This will grow year-round. I
Dialogue: 0,1:16:54.90,1:16:57.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,put two sticks in the ground and I have
Dialogue: 0,1:16:57.49,1:16:59.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,never used more than one percent of my
Dialogue: 0,1:16:59.21,1:17:02.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,toilet paper stock. Just two little
Dialogue: 0,1:17:02.19,1:17:06.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sticks turned into infinite toilet paper
Dialogue: 0,1:17:06.15,1:17:08.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for life. It is the perennial toilet
Dialogue: 0,1:17:08.53,1:17:11.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,paper plant. I am rubbing it on my face
Dialogue: 0,1:17:11.78,1:17:13.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because it is actually softer than
Dialogue: 0,1:17:13.76,1:17:15.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,anything you would buy at the store. It
Dialogue: 0,1:17:15.63,1:17:17.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is in the mint family, so some people
Dialogue: 0,1:17:17.42,1:17:19.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,call me Captain Mint Bottom on YouTube
Dialogue: 0,1:17:19.58,1:17:22.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now because of that. [Audience laughs]
Dialogue: 0,1:17:22.27,1:17:24.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It does not leave a minty smell. Well,
Dialogue: 0,1:17:24.19,1:17:25.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I would not know, I guess. [Audience
Dialogue: 0,1:17:25.96,1:17:27.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,laughs] I cannot speak to that, but I do
Dialogue: 0,1:17:27.52,1:17:29.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not think it does. It produces beautiful
Dialogue: 0,1:17:29.09,1:17:31.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,flowers. Sometimes hummingbirds were
Dialogue: 0,1:17:31.21,1:17:32.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hanging out with my toilet paper, and
Dialogue: 0,1:17:32.78,1:17:36.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bees. It actually makes a tea! You can
Dialogue: 0,1:17:36.27,1:17:38.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eat this toilet paper as well. In Brazil,
Dialogue: 0,1:17:38.73,1:17:41.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know that it is used for upset stomach
Dialogue: 0,1:17:41.64,1:17:43.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and maybe some other things. I have made
Dialogue: 0,1:17:43.50,1:17:45.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tea with it, very bitter. Bitter is
Dialogue: 0,1:17:45.96,1:17:49.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,medicine. We have, in this society, bred
Dialogue: 0,1:17:49.23,1:17:52.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bitterness out of the plants. What we do
Dialogue: 0,1:17:52.26,1:17:54.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we breed bitterness out, we breed
Dialogue: 0,1:17:54.97,1:17:57.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the nutrients out. Lettuce is one of the
Dialogue: 0,1:17:57.13,1:17:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,least nutrient-rich plants that you can
Dialogue: 0,1:17:59.00,1:18:01.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,possibly eat because it has almost no
Dialogue: 0,1:18:01.19,1:18:03.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,flavor. No flavor means very few
Dialogue: 0,1:18:03.92,1:18:06.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nutrients. Keep that in mind. Highly
Dialogue: 0,1:18:06.68,1:18:11.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bitter means generally medicinal. Here is
Dialogue: 0,1:18:11.31,1:18:12.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the toilet paper next to the compost
Dialogue: 0,1:18:12.64,1:18:15.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,toilet. This plant is truly miraculous.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:15.52,1:18:18.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This toilet paper you can actually
Dialogue: 0,1:18:18.04,1:18:20.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,harvest from the plant and it stays soft
Dialogue: 0,1:18:20.32,1:18:22.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for up to a week. Sitting next to the
Dialogue: 0,1:18:22.70,1:18:26.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,toilet for a week, it is still soft. It
Dialogue: 0,1:18:26.70,1:18:29.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is very strong, does not break. On a dewy
Dialogue: 0,1:18:29.72,1:18:31.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,morning, it actually holds the moisture
Dialogue: 0,1:18:31.97,1:18:35.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and turns into a wet wipe. [Audience
Dialogue: 0,1:18:35.24,1:18:38.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,laughs] It is truly a miraculous plant.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:38.24,1:18:41.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For people that live up North, the good
Dialogue: 0,1:18:41.80,1:18:43.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,news is toilet paper grows everywhere.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:43.49,1:18:45.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is lamb's ear up there. Imagine
Dialogue: 0,1:18:45.55,1:18:47.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,wiping your butt with a lamb's ear. I
Dialogue: 0,1:18:47.35,1:18:48.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do not know if any of you guys have done
Dialogue: 0,1:18:48.31,1:18:49.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that, but it probably would feel good.
Dialogue: 0,1:18:49.85,1:18:52.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are nice and soft. [Audience laughs]
Dialogue: 0,1:18:52.62,1:18:53.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They make wool, which could be
Dialogue: 0,1:18:53.65,1:18:56.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,scratchier. Anyway... Everywhere you go,
Dialogue: 0,1:18:56.18,1:18:58.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there is a perennial toilet paper
Dialogue: 0,1:18:58.40,1:19:00.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,growing, but this is the best that I have
Dialogue: 0,1:19:00.40,1:19:03.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seen on Earth. One of the most common
Dialogue: 0,1:19:03.63,1:19:06.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,question is [about] pests. What about
Dialogue: 0,1:19:06.52,1:19:11.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pests? I am very, very proud to say that
Dialogue: 0,1:19:11.16,1:19:13.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the two years here I never applied a
Dialogue: 0,1:19:13.82,1:19:16.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,single pesticide, not even an organic one
Dialogue: 0,1:19:16.05,1:19:22.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like BT or neem. How did I deal with
Dialogue: 0,1:19:22.42,1:19:25.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pests? It is not that I never had pests.
Dialogue: 0,1:19:25.86,1:19:28.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is my Seminole pumpkin. I know
Dialogue: 0,1:19:28.15,1:19:29.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there are probably some beginner
Dialogue: 0,1:19:29.23,1:19:30.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gardeners in the room, but you all
Dialogue: 0,1:19:30.18,1:19:32.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,probably know that is not what plants
Dialogue: 0,1:19:32.45,1:19:34.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are supposed to look like. Towards the
Dialogue: 0,1:19:34.68,1:19:36.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back you can see leaves. All of this was
Dialogue: 0,1:19:36.75,1:19:40.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,leaves, but all of that was eaten by
Dialogue: 0,1:19:40.34,1:19:43.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cucumber worms. There are different names
Dialogue: 0,1:19:43.37,1:19:46.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for them, but they eat squashed,
Dialogue: 0,1:19:46.78,1:19:51.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cucumbers and plants like that. They came
Dialogue: 0,1:19:51.10,1:19:54.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in and just decimated this. I was not
Dialogue: 0,1:19:54.14,1:19:55.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,paying attention and they got so bad that
Dialogue: 0,1:19:55.66,1:19:57.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they actually started to eat many of my
Dialogue: 0,1:19:57.69,1:19:59.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pumpkins, to actually infest the
Dialogue: 0,1:19:59.35,1:20:02.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pumpkins. I definitely dealt with pests
Dialogue: 0,1:20:02.27,1:20:05.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this year. A lot of people say "You can
Dialogue: 0,1:20:05.08,1:20:09.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not grow food in Central Florida.". There
Dialogue: 0,1:20:09.06,1:20:10.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is this idea that a lot of people have
Dialogue: 0,1:20:10.72,1:20:12.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that this is a horrible, horrible place
Dialogue: 0,1:20:12.98,1:20:15.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to grow food. That is just not remotely
Dialogue: 0,1:20:15.60,1:20:17.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the truth at all. What they are doing is
Dialogue: 0,1:20:17.77,1:20:19.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they are trying to grow the wrong food in
Dialogue: 0,1:20:19.92,1:20:24.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the wrong way. When I got here, what I
Dialogue: 0,1:20:24.64,1:20:27.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,did not do was go to the grocery store
Dialogue: 0,1:20:27.09,1:20:28.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and walk down the aisles and say "What do
Dialogue: 0,1:20:28.75,1:20:30.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to eat?". I did not say "I like
Dialogue: 0,1:20:30.72,1:20:31.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,strawberries. I am going to grow
Dialogue: 0,1:20:31.96,1:20:34.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,strawberries.". Instead, I talked to all
Dialogue: 0,1:20:34.45,1:20:36.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the locals. I said "What grows so
Dialogue: 0,1:20:36.29,1:20:40.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ridiculously well and has so few pests
Dialogue: 0,1:20:40.34,1:20:43.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that a fool could not possibly kill it?".
Dialogue: 0,1:20:43.98,1:20:46.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I said, I am going to grow what grows the
Dialogue: 0,1:20:46.71,1:20:50.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,easiest, has the fewest pests and is also
Dialogue: 0,1:20:50.01,1:20:53.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very nutrient-dense, or has a lot of
Dialogue: 0,1:20:53.34,1:20:56.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,calories. That is what is was about. What
Dialogue: 0,1:20:56.57,1:20:59.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has been proven time and time again by
Dialogue: 0,1:20:59.57,1:21:01.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the locals? I did not come here and
Dialogue: 0,1:21:01.50,1:21:03.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reinvent anything. The only reason that I
Dialogue: 0,1:21:03.76,1:21:04.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,am standing here today, after having
Dialogue: 0,1:21:04.90,1:21:06.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grown and foraged one-hundred percent
Dialogue: 0,1:21:06.56,1:21:08.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of my food, is because this is all of the
Dialogue: 0,1:21:08.47,1:21:10.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,knowledge that is in this room already,
Dialogue: 0,1:21:10.94,1:21:12.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and in other people in this community.
Dialogue: 0,1:21:12.81,1:21:14.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All I did was take all that knowledge,
Dialogue: 0,1:21:14.35,1:21:16.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,put it all together into one little
Dialogue: 0,1:21:16.69,1:21:18.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,package to have me standing here at the
Dialogue: 0,1:21:18.54,1:21:21.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,end of this year. As far as pests go, a
Dialogue: 0,1:21:21.27,1:21:23.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,few things, there was one garden that I
Dialogue: 0,1:21:23.61,1:21:27.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,worked with and there was the person in
Dialogue: 0,1:21:27.38,1:21:30.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the garden. I have fifty, sixty, seventy
Dialogue: 0,1:21:30.37,1:21:32.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,different species growing in this garden.
Dialogue: 0,1:21:32.37,1:21:36.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She would always tell me about the one or
Dialogue: 0,1:21:36.53,1:21:39.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,two plants that had pests on them. It
Dialogue: 0,1:21:39.01,1:21:41.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a constant, "The pests are getting
Dialogue: 0,1:21:41.05,1:21:43.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these plants!". What I said was "Oh, we
Dialogue: 0,1:21:43.95,1:21:46.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have sixty-eight other plants that do not
Dialogue: 0,1:21:46.53,1:21:48.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have pests. Let's eat just eat those."
Dialogue: 0,1:21:48.76,1:21:50.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is one of the most important
Dialogue: 0,1:21:50.38,1:21:51.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,elements of [dealing with] pests,
Dialogue: 0,1:21:51.86,1:21:54.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,diversity. If you have one-hundred
Dialogue: 0,1:21:54.16,1:21:56.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,species and the pests are getting ten,
Dialogue: 0,1:21:56.13,1:21:58.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you still have ninety species to eat.
Dialogue: 0,1:21:58.29,1:22:01.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Diversity is key. Monoculture is going to
Dialogue: 0,1:22:01.92,1:22:04.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bring in pests. Polycultures are going to
Dialogue: 0,1:22:04.81,1:22:07.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,reduce pests. Imagine if you have a line
Dialogue: 0,1:22:07.49,1:22:10.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of tomatoes. If you get worms here, they
Dialogue: 0,1:22:10.28,1:22:11.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just walk from tomato plant to tomato
Dialogue: 0,1:22:11.99,1:22:13.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plant to tomato plant. They just eat
Dialogue: 0,1:22:13.70,1:22:15.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,themselves away. If you have a tomato
Dialogue: 0,1:22:15.57,1:22:17.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plant here and on the other side of the
Dialogue: 0,1:22:17.44,1:22:19.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,garden and in between that you have got
Dialogue: 0,1:22:19.39,1:22:21.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,basil and onions and such the pests,
Dialogue: 0,1:22:21.52,1:22:24.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,amazingly, do not get to all of them.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:24.43,1:22:27.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Diversity. Spreading things out.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:27.70,1:22:30.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Intercropping, or polyculture. One
Dialogue: 0,1:22:30.93,1:22:32.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really important thing is that plants
Dialogue: 0,1:22:32.82,1:22:34.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,basically have immune systems. Healthy
Dialogue: 0,1:22:34.100,1:22:38.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plants can defend themselves from pests.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:38.18,1:22:40.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need healthy soil. You need the right
Dialogue: 0,1:22:40.46,1:22:42.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,amount of sun. If a plant does not have
Dialogue: 0,1:22:42.70,1:22:44.72,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,enough sun, if it is in too much shade,
Dialogue: 0,1:22:44.72,1:22:46.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that often is what will bring in the
Dialogue: 0,1:22:46.100,1:22:49.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,pests. Aphids, for example, if you see
Dialogue: 0,1:22:49.56,1:22:51.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,aphids it is not "How do I get rid of
Dialogue: 0,1:22:51.76,1:22:53.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these aphids?". It is "What do I have to
Dialogue: 0,1:22:53.43,1:22:56.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,change foundationally to make healthy
Dialogue: 0,1:22:56.24,1:22:58.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plants so that the aphids are not there.
Dialogue: 0,1:22:58.43,1:23:00.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That means planting the right things,
Dialogue: 0,1:23:00.98,1:23:04.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,planting at the right time of year,
Dialogue: 0,1:23:04.38,1:23:08.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,planting in the right places, using local
Dialogue: 0,1:23:08.22,1:23:09.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,knowledge, doing what has been done for
Dialogue: 0,1:23:09.94,1:23:13.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,decades. There are many ways to get
Dialogue: 0,1:23:13.47,1:23:14.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,local knowledge, which is something I am
Dialogue: 0,1:23:14.92,1:23:18.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,going to get into. A little bit about my
Dialogue: 0,1:23:18.26,1:23:22.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,health, this is me about eight month in
Dialogue: 0,1:23:22.75,1:23:26.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[to the project]. At that point I was not
Dialogue: 0,1:23:26.33,1:23:28.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,catching enough fish. I was feeling
Dialogue: 0,1:23:28.36,1:23:29.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,deficient [in nutrients]. I did not have
Dialogue: 0,1:23:29.97,1:23:31.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,enough fat and I did not have enough
Dialogue: 0,1:23:31.05,1:23:33.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,protein [in my diet]. I am pulling my
Dialogue: 0,1:23:33.13,1:23:35.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cheeks there because I started to feel my
Dialogue: 0,1:23:35.70,1:23:38.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,body and I was like, "Man! I feel like my
Dialogue: 0,1:23:38.36,1:23:41.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,skin is really loose!". I feel like my f
Dialogue: 0,1:23:41.31,1:23:44.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fat is gone. My brain was not functioning
Dialogue: 0,1:23:44.10,1:23:46.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as well. I was worried that I was not
Dialogue: 0,1:23:46.76,1:23:50.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,getting enough fats. There was a rough
Dialogue: 0,1:23:50.27,1:23:52.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,patch this summer. There were a good
Dialogue: 0,1:23:52.90,1:23:54.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,number of times when I definitely thought
Dialogue: 0,1:23:54.34,1:23:57.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about giving up. I definitely want to
Dialogue: 0,1:23:57.05,1:23:59.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,say, this was extremely difficult. It is
Dialogue: 0,1:23:59.28,1:24:01.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a dream because it is very, very
Dialogue: 0,1:24:01.45,1:24:03.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,difficult, not something that is easy to
Dialogue: 0,1:24:03.18,1:24:04.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,attain.. There were definitely many times
Dialogue: 0,1:24:04.76,1:24:06.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I wanted to give up. This was one of
Dialogue: 0,1:24:06.77,1:24:09.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those times. I was feeling very gaunt and
Dialogue: 0,1:24:09.60,1:24:12.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like I was not getting what I needed. I
Dialogue: 0,1:24:12.64,1:24:14.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was pretty confident that it was fat and
Dialogue: 0,1:24:14.54,1:24:17.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was protein. How I got to Wisconsin,
Dialogue: 0,1:24:17.38,1:24:20.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was I caught a ride with Jenn, one of the
Dialogue: 0,1:24:20.12,1:24:23.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Gardens for Single Moms recipients. She
Dialogue: 0,1:24:23.28,1:24:25.17,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,happened to be going to Chicago two days
Dialogue: 0,1:24:25.17,1:24:27.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,before I was trying to go to Chicago, so
Dialogue: 0,1:24:27.27,1:24:29.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I drove up there with her. I stayed at my
Dialogue: 0,1:24:29.70,1:24:32.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,aunt's twenty-third story apartment in
Dialogue: 0,1:24:32.82,1:24:36.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Chicago. Then it only got worse because I
Dialogue: 0,1:24:36.93,1:24:38.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was sitting in a car, sitting in an
Dialogue: 0,1:24:38.60,1:24:41.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,apartment and mostly eating carbs and did
Dialogue: 0,1:24:41.27,1:24:45.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not have the fat. That was a really hard
Dialogue: 0,1:24:45.11,1:24:47.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,time I had my ups and downs, but that is
Dialogue: 0,1:24:47.73,1:24:49.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I caught fish. I had one of my
Dialogue: 0,1:24:49.51,1:24:51.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lowest days, I caught a twenty-pound lake
Dialogue: 0,1:24:51.73,1:24:55.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trout. That would have fed me for three
Dialogue: 0,1:24:55.14,1:24:59.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,weeks, at a pound per day. It is one of
Dialogue: 0,1:24:59.07,1:25:00.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the fattiest fish there is. Basically, it
Dialogue: 0,1:25:00.94,1:25:03.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was exactly what I needed and I put it
Dialogue: 0,1:25:03.91,1:25:05.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back in the water because it was too
Dialogue: 0,1:25:05.53,1:25:08.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,big. At that point, lake trout are all
Dialogue: 0,1:25:08.88,1:25:14.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,female. They are the producers for that
Dialogue: 0,1:25:14.81,1:25:17.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,population. They produce so much. Here I
Dialogue: 0,1:25:17.77,1:25:20.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had exactly what I needed, what I was
Dialogue: 0,1:25:20.13,1:25:22.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,craving, but I could not eat it. I put it
Dialogue: 0,1:25:22.39,1:25:27.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,back in the water. That hurt me for days!
Dialogue: 0,1:25:27.14,1:25:29.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I did rebound. I caught enough fish. I
Dialogue: 0,1:25:29.33,1:25:33.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,got the venison. At the end of my time in
Dialogue: 0,1:25:33.18,1:25:35.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Wisconsin, I actually spoke at UW
Dialogue: 0,1:25:35.59,1:25:37.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lacrosse where I went to college. They
Dialogue: 0,1:25:37.68,1:25:40.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,happened to have a dunk tank where I
Dialogue: 0,1:25:40.37,1:25:41.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could get my body fat composition
Dialogue: 0,1:25:41.85,1:25:43.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[measured]. I got it and it was fifteen
Dialogue: 0,1:25:43.85,1:25:47.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,percent. I had built my fat back up and
Dialogue: 0,1:25:47.07,1:25:50.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I gained it back. Fifteen percent is
Dialogue: 0,1:25:50.37,1:25:53.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,healthy fat, more than I would expect on
Dialogue: 0,1:25:53.40,1:25:56.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,myself and I maintained my weight. I
Dialogue: 0,1:25:56.93,1:25:59.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,started at one-hundred-fifty-three-point
Dialogue: 0,1:25:59.16,1:26:03.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,four pounds and the night before I
Dialogue: 0,1:26:03.94,1:26:06.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,finished, on day one-hundred-sixty-five I
Dialogue: 0,1:26:06.22,1:26:07.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,weighed one-hundred-fifty-five pounds. On
Dialogue: 0,1:26:07.82,1:26:10.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the morning of my first day finishing I
Dialogue: 0,1:26:10.73,1:26:12.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,weighed one-hundred-fifty-two-point-
Dialogue: 0,1:26:12.03,1:26:15.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eight, so point-eight pounds less. It is
Dialogue: 0,1:26:15.07,1:26:16.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,amazing, I have weighed myself a lot.
Dialogue: 0,1:26:16.88,1:26:18.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You start to realize how much your weight
Dialogue: 0,1:26:18.38,1:26:20.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can fluctuate. It fluctuates by about
Dialogue: 0,1:26:20.00,1:26:23.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,seven pounds a day. You can pee out a
Dialogue: 0,1:26:23.31,1:26:25.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gallon of water per day and that this
Dialogue: 0,1:26:25.59,1:26:26.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,eight-point-eight pounds, so you are
Dialogue: 0,1:26:26.86,1:26:29.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,shedding a lot of weight in one day just
Dialogue: 0,1:26:29.02,1:26:33.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through fluids and food. Basically, my
Dialogue: 0,1:26:33.39,1:26:37.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,weight stayed about as steady as I could
Dialogue: 0,1:26:37.13,1:26:39.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,possibly imagine and I did not get sick
Dialogue: 0,1:26:39.75,1:26:43.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,once. I think it is safe to say that I
Dialogue: 0,1:26:43.71,1:26:50.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,did it! [Audience laughs and cheers,
Dialogue: 0,1:26:50.73,1:27:02.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,applauds] I have been doing it for a
Dialogue: 0,1:27:02.98,1:27:05.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,while now. so I am a little nonchalant
Dialogue: 0,1:27:05.82,1:27:07.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about it because it kind of just feels
Dialogue: 0,1:27:07.64,1:27:09.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like, "Yeah, I did it." but it was
Dialogue: 0,1:27:09.50,1:27:14.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something that I had set out to do
Dialogue: 0,1:27:14.49,1:27:19.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,forever. I want to end by sharing a whole
Dialogue: 0,1:27:19.41,1:27:21.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bunch of resources and then we will have
Dialogue: 0,1:27:21.73,1:27:24.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,time for questions. I am going to go
Dialogue: 0,1:27:24.59,1:27:26.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through a bunch of resources. Now, I have
Dialogue: 0,1:27:26.55,1:27:29.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all of this information online at
Dialogue: 0,1:27:29.56,1:27:34.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,robgreenfield.tv/grow. Many of the things
Dialogue: 0,1:27:34.18,1:27:36.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I talked about tonight, but
Dialogue: 0,1:27:36.29,1:27:38.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,certainly all of these resources are
Dialogue: 0,1:27:38.45,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,listed on that page. You do not have to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,cram it all down and this talk is being
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,recorded. Have these cameras been going
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this whole time? Alright, so this talk is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being recorded and will be on my YouTube
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,channel, which is just
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,youtube.com/robgreenfield. You can watch
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this and I will have all of the links in
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the description there. I designed it so
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you don't have to suck all of this
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in in one night. I am going to go through
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,these resources. First, events, classes,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,groups. The most important thing is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,community. As I said, the only reason I
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,am standing here today, period, is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because of community. I could not have
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,done this alone, not even remotely. It is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all through community. The idea of this
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is not that any of us have to grow and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,forage [one-hundred percent] of our own
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,food. we have an amazing community right
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here where we can share. We can trade.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We can ask each other what we need. That
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does not have to stop with just food. If
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you look at this room, we have doctors.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have lawyers. We have teachers. We
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have permaculturists and growers. We have
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,most things in here and we can exchange
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those things and improve our communities
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without having to ship our money to these
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,corporations in far-off places. Starting
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with community, that is where I am going
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to start. Orlando Permaculture, where we
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are standing right now. Definitely my
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,favorite community in Central Florida.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is why I came to Orlando, because of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Orlando Permaculture. Foraging. Green
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dean, one of the greatest foragers in the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,United States. He has got the most-
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,watched foraging YouTube channel. He
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,does classes in Orlando at least once a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,month and all over the state of Florida.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We have an amazing resource in Green
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dean. Andy Firk, another amazing forager.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Definitely, I have to say, my favorite
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,human being that I have met in the state
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of Florida. If you get a chance to hang
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out with Andy Firk and do one of his
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,classes, it is social activism and plants
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all in one. It is amazing. John Martin is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,now an expert mushroom guy, "Fungi John".
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Where is John? I know he is here. There
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is John over there. [Faint applause]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah, we will give him a round of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,applause! [Audience applauds] When I got
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here, John was not teaching classes yet.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is something he started doing within
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the last year. He is one of the mushroom
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,experts of the area. He teaches classes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fungi John. UF IFA IFAs Extension, that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is an amazing resource. I got so much
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through them. They have a master
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,gardening program, which is a great
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,resource. Central Florida Fruit Society,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is where I learned so much of what I
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,needed to know about what fruit trees to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plant for my community fruit trees
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,program. They have monthly meet-ups. Some
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bigger events, there are the Permaculture
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Convergences. There are local ones and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,then there are the state-wide ones. Those
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are an amazing place to meet local
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,permaculturists. Earth skills gatherings
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are truly amazing. I went to that both
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,years I was here, highly recommend it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Florida School of Holistic Living is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all about holistic medicine and holistic
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,health, highly recommend getting involved
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with that. They have the Florida Herbal
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Conference once per year. Sustainable
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Kashi is a place where I have done a lot
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of my learning. They have free
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,permaculture classes on Wednesdays. There
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are lots of events. John just hosted a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mushroom foraging class there a couple
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of weeks back, for example. Lots of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,opportunities there. I have not named all
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of them, but those are some of the
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,amazing resources we have locally. Some
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,online resources, one of my favorites is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Pete Kanaris. I was lucky enough to get
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to spend a lot of my time [with Pete]. He
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is one of the reasons I am still standing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He took me out fishing. He is an amazing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,friend and an amazing resource. His
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,YouTube channel is Green Dreams Florida.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So much knowledge on there. Again, UF
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,IFIS Extension is a great resource. Green
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dean, eattheweeds.com, David The Good:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The Survival Gardener, so much education
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,came from him. Andy Firk, I mentioned
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,him. Again, my website is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,robgreenfield.tv/growflorida, or just
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,/grow. That is just an accumulation of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all of this put into one place for you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Another one is Terry Meer. His [website]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is terrymeer.com/resources. That is a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really great resource guide that puts
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a lot of the events and the groups and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,such. Some nurseries, my favorite
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,probably is HEART, Josh Jamison. He is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of the amazing, solid foundations of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this community. Definitely go take a tour
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there. Their plants are some of the most
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,affordable because their mission is not
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to make money. Their mission is to spread
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plants and plant knowledge. HEART Village
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Nursery. ECHO Global Farm, that is down
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in South Florida. I actually never made
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it there, but it is an amazing resource.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A Natural Farm and Education Center, that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is an amazing resource for fruit trees.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is where I got the majority of my
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fruit trees for this year. South Seminole
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Farms and Nursery, Green's Nursery, Green
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Dreams, Pete Kanaris also has a nursery
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,over by Tampa. You do not have to buy
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plants. The amazing thing about plants is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that they reproduce on their own. Are
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there plants back there right now? Are
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those flowers? We do have a plant raffle
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tonight. Every month there is a plant
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,raffle, right? Every month that you come
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here you can take plants with you. There
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are plant swaps. There are plant raffles.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is about connecting. I have this. you
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have that. You do not have to buy plants.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have enough yuca cuttings for everyone
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this room. Unfortunately, I do not
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have them with me, but that all came from
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a few cuttings in the first place. Simple
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Living Institute, they do plants. Orlando
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Permaculture. Leu Gardens has a plant
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sale. Just meeting permaculturists, talk
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to people. Ask if you can go over to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their garden and share knowledge. They
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,key to a permaculturist's heart is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,helping them. doing work. that is the key
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to any gardener's heart, doing some work
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and helping them. Whatever that is:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,weeding, shoveling, putting down compost.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is usually the labor that is needed
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because gardening takes work. Earn some
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,plants by putting in time at a garden, or
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at a permaculture food forest. Another
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,nursery that I visited is Sow Exotic. That
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was a really great nursery about an hour
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,south of here. Local seeds, when I got
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here I asked around, even Orlando
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Permaculture. I said "Where can I get
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,local seeds?" and they all said, "There
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is no local seed company.". I said "No
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,way! There has got to be a local seed
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,company.". I search it out and I found
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,three local seed companies. There is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Crispy Farms in Apopka. They only have
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about thirty varieties of seeds, but they
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are all great varieties that grow really
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well here. Crispy Farms is an incredible
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,little place to get seeds. Whitwam
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Organics is over in Tampa. Southern
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Heritage Seed Collective, Melissa DeSa is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the seed genius of Central Florida, I
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would say. They are a non-profit. They
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are spreading seeds. They probably have
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fifty, one-hundred different varieties
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and they grow all of them in Gainesville
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for the most part. Not local seeds:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, Johnny's
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Selected Seeds, Seeds Savers Exchange,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds, High Mowing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Seeds and Seeds of Change are all some
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,great places that you can buy online. A
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,couple of local books, my favorites
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,listed here, Robert Boden's "Florida
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fruit and Vegetable Gardening." That is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more annual-based, but reading that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really gives you the basic knowledge you
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,need of understanding Central Florida.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was my holy grail of a book starting
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[out]. If it is not really perennials. It
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is more annuals. Perennials, David The
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Good is a great resource as were his
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,books. [They are] very small books that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have the information you need like,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Create your own Florida Food Forest" and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Totally Crazy Easy Florida Gardening"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the plants that grow ridiculously well
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you cannot kill. Peggy Lantz,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Florida's Edible Wild Plants" is a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,foraging book that I really recommend.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Marabou Thomas has a cookbook. A home
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,garden cuisine toolkit for the sub-
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tropics. Really highly recommend that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,book. It is a beautiful one. James
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Steven's "Vegetable Gardening in Florida."
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Marabou right here! He is not
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here tonight because he is a genius who
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is at home always toiling away. I was
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lucky to get to go over to his house a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,couple of times and he came over to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mine. He taught me about yam flour and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,yuca flour. He is a genius. If you can
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,tap into that knowledge, one way to do
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is through his book. This is him
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,making tortillas without oil from flour
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we made from my garden. That is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,something that he has been perfecting.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I do not know a whole lot of people who
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do [that]. That is an amazing book. His
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Instagram page is a really nice resource
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,too. Some not local books, there are so
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,many books, but I am just naming a few:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Perennial Vegetables" and "Paradise Lot"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by Eric Toensmeier, "Gaia's Garden: A
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Guide to Home Scale Permaculture" are two
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,great permaculture books, just to name a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,couple. I love Michael Pollan. His books
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are some of the foundations to me
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,questioning the globalized food system.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you want to understand even big
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,organic, Michael Pollan's books are
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,fantastic. Sandor Katz, "Wild
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fermentation," that is not just a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,revolution of our food. It is really a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,revolution of our mind. He is an
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,incredible author and person. Some garden
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,resources: I mentioned mulch, you got your
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,local tree companies, and then
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,getchipdrop.com. This is where you get
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the mulch. Compost, you get that from
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Monterey Mushrooms, or you can get it
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from the city. Our yard waste gets turn
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into compost. Oh, and we got the new
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,compost program started by Charlie! You
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can do that was well. Cardboard, again,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grocery, liquor, appliance stores. If you
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,want to do rainwater harvesting, just
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,type "rainwater harvesting" into Craig's
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,List and you will be able to find barrels
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and totes and materials for that. Drip
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,irrigation you can just get at hardware
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stores and online. Those are kind of my
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,main ingredients besides the plants that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mentioned. As far as this project,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,other resources: my YouTube channel is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where I produced a lot of videos about
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this year. If you want to learn more, or
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you want to take tours of my gardens,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spend time virtually in the garden with
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,me, because you will not be able to in
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,real life because I am leaving in a few
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,days. YouTube.com/robgreenfield has these
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,videos. I am putting out a video soon
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that is "How to turn your lawn into a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,garden." A lot of the resources for this
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,project, if you go to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,robgreenfield.tv/foodfreedomfoods, it
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,lists the three-hundred foods that I
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,foraged this year and grown with links to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a lot of them. Slash food freedom meals,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that lists every meal for the last three-
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hundred-sixty-five days and every snack.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Slash food freedom photos is photos of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,many of my meals and my foods where you
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can learn more. Slash food freedom rules
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is all the guidelines behind this year.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Slash food freedom why is why I did this
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and more about that. Lastly, the book!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I do have a book, not out yet. It will
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,some out December of 2020 with New
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Society Publishers. One-hundred percent
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the proceeds of that book [sales] are
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,donated to non-profits that are working
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the food solutions, working to create
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a more sustainable and just food system.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am not out to make money from food at
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all, really. I think food is a basic
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,human right. I want to empower others to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,grow their own food. This book, I think
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it will be maybe the most powerful thing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that I have ever put out. I highly
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,recommend it. I will be on a book tour
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here when that book comes out, end of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,2020 / beginning of 2021. I will be doing
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a talk with that book as well. As far as
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the media behind this, I want to thank
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sierra Ford Photography. My friend Sierra
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ford, she took a lot of these photos as
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well as Danielle Werner at Live Wonderful
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Photography. As far as my videos that you
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have seen over the year, John VonMutius
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Brandon Carey and Paul O'Neill, so I want
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to thank them for that. Most importantly,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to thank the Orlando Permaculture
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,community. I have said it one-hundred
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,times, but all of this is a matter of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,community. It has been incredible to be
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here for the last two years. You made
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Orlando a more than tolerable place, a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,beautiful place to spend the last two
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,years. I could not have done any of this
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without you, so thank you to Orlando
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Permaculture. Thank you to Sarah Robinson
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for always hosting me in her house, in
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her church, wherever! I want to say thank
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you to Lisa Ray who hosted me in her
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,backyard and all of the fun stuff we went
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,through, especially the team at Orlando
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Permaculture: Jeff and David and Kaitlin
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and thank you all for that and the whole
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Orlando Permaculture. To Daniel for all
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of the good times we had together and for
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the great kombucha. The list could
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,absolutely go on. Thank you everyone so
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,much for being a part of this journey.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Audience applauds] So how long was that?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How long was I talking? [Conversation off
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,stage] Almost two hours! [Audience laughs]
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh my gosh! There was a lot of information
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to go through! What time is it?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Conversation off stage] Nine o'clock?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That is the longest talk of all time at
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Orlando Permaculture. I guess we do not
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,really have time for questions then,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right? Ok well, I will be around and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hugs. I love hugs so come give me a hug.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love you all very much. Next up, Jeff
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Trepani! [Audience applauds] Two hours!
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jeff: I want to thank you so much. You
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,have been such a great inspiration,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,motivation for us and helping us to get
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more publicity as well and get more people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,here learning about things. So, I want to
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thank you a lot. I am going to miss you,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,definitely. I am going to be thinking
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about you when I drive by the house and
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the property and everything. It is a great
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,thing having you here.