WEBVTT 00:00:01.279 --> 00:00:03.312 Hey everybody, Rob Greenfield here. 00:00:03.312 --> 00:00:05.401 Today, I'm going to talk to you about 00:00:05.401 --> 00:00:07.157 the survival garden. 00:00:07.157 --> 00:00:09.340 What I mean by that is a garden 00:00:09.340 --> 00:00:11.104 where you don't have to go to the 00:00:11.104 --> 00:00:12.970 grocery stores or the restaurants, and 00:00:12.970 --> 00:00:14.965 you can live off of this. It can 00:00:14.965 --> 00:00:16.562 produce your calories. 00:00:16.562 --> 00:00:18.443 It can produce your nutrients. 00:00:18.446 --> 00:00:20.837 At the very least, it can get you 00:00:20.837 --> 00:00:22.957 through weeks or months 00:00:22.957 --> 00:00:25.238 of not having to go to the grocery store, 00:00:25.238 --> 00:00:28.090 so this is the survival garden. 00:00:35.909 --> 00:00:37.847 Okay, so why would I be the one 00:00:37.847 --> 00:00:39.140 to talk to you about the 00:00:39.140 --> 00:00:40.194 the survival garden? 00:00:40.194 --> 00:00:43.430 Well, I recently finished a year-long 00:00:43.430 --> 00:00:45.121 project of growing and foraging 00:00:45.121 --> 00:00:46.673 100% of my food. 00:00:46.784 --> 00:00:49.717 So, for one year, every single thing 00:00:49.717 --> 00:00:52.361 that I ate either came from my 00:00:52.361 --> 00:00:55.570 gardens or that I foraged from the wild. 00:00:55.570 --> 00:00:57.578 Down to the salt, the oil, all 00:00:57.578 --> 00:00:59.358 my calories, my nutrients, 00:00:59.365 --> 00:01:00.970 my protein, my fat. 00:01:00.970 --> 00:01:02.343 You name it. 00:01:02.343 --> 00:01:04.331 So I have quite a bit of experience 00:01:04.331 --> 00:01:06.659 and this survival garden that I'm 00:01:06.670 --> 00:01:08.837 going to be talking about today is 00:01:08.837 --> 00:01:11.114 specifically going to be for where I did 00:01:11.114 --> 00:01:13.677 this project, which is central Florida. 00:01:13.677 --> 00:01:15.721 This survival garden is more 00:01:15.721 --> 00:01:17.424 for a warmer climate, but 00:01:17.424 --> 00:01:19.339 there's a lot that you'll be able 00:01:19.339 --> 00:01:20.807 to learn from this video, 00:01:20.807 --> 00:01:22.076 no matter where you are, 00:01:22.076 --> 00:01:24.725 and, most importantly, wherever you are, 00:01:24.725 --> 00:01:27.937 you can grow an incredible amount of food. 00:01:27.937 --> 00:01:30.393 It's just a matter of adapting to 00:01:30.393 --> 00:01:32.300 the correct plants that are 00:01:32.300 --> 00:01:34.321 designed to not just survive, 00:01:34.321 --> 00:01:36.462 but thrive in your area. 00:01:37.050 --> 00:01:38.973 So, I'm going to start off 00:01:38.973 --> 00:01:40.570 right away with calories. 00:01:40.570 --> 00:01:43.768 #1, I'm going to share sweet potatoes. 00:01:43.768 --> 00:01:47.356 Sweet potatoes are a truly amazing crop. 00:01:47.356 --> 00:01:49.301 A lot of us know sweet potatoes 00:01:49.301 --> 00:01:53.049 for the potato itself, but what a lot of 00:01:53.049 --> 00:01:54.705 people don't realize 00:01:54.705 --> 00:01:57.484 is that the greens are edible as well. 00:01:57.484 --> 00:02:00.069 Between the nutritious greens 00:02:00.069 --> 00:02:02.650 and the calorie-dense tubers, 00:02:02.650 --> 00:02:05.370 they're one of the most important 00:02:05.370 --> 00:02:07.259 crops that can be grown as far as 00:02:07.259 --> 00:02:08.856 putting out an incredible amount 00:02:08.856 --> 00:02:11.127 of calories and nutrients. 00:02:11.127 --> 00:02:14.206 I probably grew 600 pounds of 00:02:14.206 --> 00:02:16.550 sweet potatoes in my year 00:02:16.550 --> 00:02:18.444 of growing and foraging all my food. 00:02:18.444 --> 00:02:20.674 I'm just blown away at how much 00:02:20.674 --> 00:02:21.940 you can grow. 00:02:21.940 --> 00:02:23.592 Now, a lot of people imagine these 00:02:23.592 --> 00:02:25.924 little orange ones at the grocery store, 00:02:25.924 --> 00:02:28.710 but they come in all shapes and sizes. 00:02:28.710 --> 00:02:30.296 I've seen sweet potatoes that are 00:02:30.296 --> 00:02:32.627 up to 13 pounds 00:02:32.627 --> 00:02:34.411 and I've been blown away 00:02:34.411 --> 00:02:35.656 at how much sweet potatoes 00:02:35.656 --> 00:02:36.895 you can grow in a 00:02:36.895 --> 00:02:38.526 relatively small amount of space. 00:02:38.526 --> 00:02:40.431 In a standard front yard, 00:02:40.431 --> 00:02:42.308 it's possible to grow 00:02:42.308 --> 00:02:43.972 all of your calories. 00:02:43.972 --> 00:02:45.265 Let me say that again. 00:02:45.265 --> 00:02:46.485 It is possible, 00:02:46.485 --> 00:02:48.348 in a standard front yard, 00:02:48.348 --> 00:02:50.501 to grow all the calories you need 00:02:50.501 --> 00:02:52.526 you need with different tuber crops. 00:02:52.526 --> 00:02:54.443 So, the second one 00:02:54.443 --> 00:02:56.109 that I'm going to talk about 00:02:56.109 --> 00:02:59.056 is called cassava or yuca. 00:02:59.056 --> 00:03:01.304 For those of you who still haven't 00:03:01.304 --> 00:03:02.967 heard either of those words, 00:03:02.967 --> 00:03:05.644 it is what tapioca is made out of. 00:03:05.644 --> 00:03:08.564 This is the true survival food. 00:03:08.564 --> 00:03:10.467 Over a billion people around the world 00:03:10.467 --> 00:03:13.299 depend on it for their very survival. 00:03:13.299 --> 00:03:16.277 It's twice as calorie-dense 00:03:16.277 --> 00:03:18.046 as sweet potatoes, 00:03:18.046 --> 00:03:20.801 at about 700 calories per pound, 00:03:20.801 --> 00:03:22.480 is what I've read, 00:03:22.480 --> 00:03:25.219 So, it is truly, truly calorie-dense. 00:03:25.219 --> 00:03:26.913 A couple of pounds of this per day 00:03:26.913 --> 00:03:29.010 meets your calorie needs. 00:03:29.010 --> 00:03:31.582 That said, it doesn't have a lot of 00:03:31.582 --> 00:03:33.340 nutrients, but we'll get into the 00:03:33.340 --> 00:03:35.176 nutrient crops soon. 00:03:35.176 --> 00:03:38.940 So, the beautiful thing about cassava 00:03:38.940 --> 00:03:41.711 is you literally just take a stick of it, 00:03:41.711 --> 00:03:43.649 a branch, you take that branch, 00:03:43.649 --> 00:03:45.675 you stick it into the ground, 00:03:45.675 --> 00:03:48.066 come back 12 months later and you've got 00:03:48.066 --> 00:03:51.796 yourself a whole cassava tree or bush 00:03:51.796 --> 00:03:53.358 or whatever you want to call it, 00:03:53.358 --> 00:03:55.389 with the tuber under the ground. 00:03:55.389 --> 00:03:57.956 You don't plant it like a potato. 00:03:57.956 --> 00:04:01.450 You plant it with a little cutting, 00:04:01.450 --> 00:04:04.308 basically, and you can actually 00:04:04.308 --> 00:04:05.605 eat the leaves as well. 00:04:05.605 --> 00:04:09.633 Now, cassava, or yuca, has cyanide in it, 00:04:09.633 --> 00:04:11.924 but a lot of foods have cyanide in it and 00:04:11.924 --> 00:04:13.695 it's just a matter of cooking it 00:04:13.695 --> 00:04:14.931 the right way. 00:04:14.931 --> 00:04:17.177 Again, a billion people live on this 00:04:17.177 --> 00:04:18.452 around the world. 00:04:18.452 --> 00:04:20.064 You just have to cook it. 00:04:20.064 --> 00:04:22.000 So, that's yuca, or cassava. 00:04:22.000 --> 00:04:25.842 One plant can put out 10, 20 pounds 00:04:25.842 --> 00:04:28.097 of tubers from one plant. 00:04:28.097 --> 00:04:30.850 The average one that I've gotten 00:04:30.850 --> 00:04:32.581 in central Florida is probably 00:04:32.581 --> 00:04:35.066 around 5-10 pounds of tubers. 00:04:35.066 --> 00:04:37.976 So, that is cassava or yuca. 00:04:37.976 --> 00:04:39.101 That's #2. 00:04:39.101 --> 00:04:42.748 #3 is another really great tuber, 00:04:42.748 --> 00:04:45.257 another calorie-dense crop, 00:04:45.257 --> 00:04:47.485 and that is yams. 00:04:47.485 --> 00:04:49.533 The genus and species that I've 00:04:49.533 --> 00:04:53.465 worked with is Dioscorea alata, 00:04:53.465 --> 00:04:55.541 if that's how you pronounce it. 00:04:55.541 --> 00:04:57.719 In Florida, this has actually 00:04:57.719 --> 00:04:59.725 become invasive. It has made 00:04:59.725 --> 00:05:01.757 it out of cultivation. 00:05:01.757 --> 00:05:04.355 I believe it's originally from Asia, 00:05:04.355 --> 00:05:06.560 possibly Africa too, 00:05:06.560 --> 00:05:08.673 and it's a commonly grown crop 00:05:08.673 --> 00:05:10.662 for many people around the world. 00:05:10.662 --> 00:05:13.688 Now, when I say yam, a lot of people 00:05:13.688 --> 00:05:18.391 think of the orange ones 00:05:18.391 --> 00:05:20.784 that you get at the grocery store, 00:05:20.784 --> 00:05:22.761 which we call sweet potatoes and yams, 00:05:22.761 --> 00:05:24.745 interchangeably. No. 00:05:24.745 --> 00:05:26.930 A yam, the largest one that I've ever 00:05:26.930 --> 00:05:29.966 harvested was 150 pounds! 00:05:29.966 --> 00:05:34.602 Imagine, I weigh about 150, 155 pounds. 00:05:34.602 --> 00:05:36.697 The one I harvested, the biggest one 00:05:36.697 --> 00:05:40.751 was 157 pounds, so the size of me. 00:05:40.751 --> 00:05:42.365 They get massive. 00:05:42.365 --> 00:05:43.596 An average one might be 00:05:43.596 --> 00:05:47.777 10, 20, 30 pounds is not abnormal. 00:05:47.777 --> 00:05:49.639 And the beautiful thing about all 00:05:49.639 --> 00:05:52.200 three of these first crops is that, 00:05:52.200 --> 00:05:55.391 most of them, you can largely set them 00:05:55.391 --> 00:05:56.701 and forget them, 00:05:56.701 --> 00:05:59.854 especially yuca or cassava. 00:05:59.854 --> 00:06:01.912 Those are drought-tolerant. 00:06:01.912 --> 00:06:04.458 They don't need a lot of nutrients 00:06:04.458 --> 00:06:06.089 and 12 months later, you come back 00:06:06.089 --> 00:06:09.197 and you can have a whole survival garden. 00:06:09.197 --> 00:06:12.814 You can do your fence around your property 00:06:12.814 --> 00:06:16.780 all with yuca and yams, and just have 00:06:16.780 --> 00:06:23.168 a living fence of serious calories 00:06:23.168 --> 00:06:24.523 to be able to come back to 00:06:24.523 --> 00:06:25.733 when it's needed 00:06:25.733 --> 00:06:27.885 or just when it's desired. 00:06:27.885 --> 00:06:31.330 But, back to the big yam, the average one, 00:06:31.330 --> 00:06:33.476 10, 20, 30 pounds, they're delicious. 00:06:33.476 --> 00:06:36.489 I actually prefer them over potatoes and 00:06:36.489 --> 00:06:41.092 they are a vining species, 00:06:41.092 --> 00:06:45.314 not an edible leaf, unlike the 00:06:45.314 --> 00:06:47.661 yuca and the sweet potato. 00:06:47.661 --> 00:06:49.880 Both of those have edible leaves, 00:06:49.880 --> 00:06:52.076 but this is just another 00:06:52.076 --> 00:06:54.115 beautiful calorie crop. 00:06:54.115 --> 00:06:55.409 Now, another calorie crop 00:06:55.409 --> 00:06:57.859 that I want to mention is potatoes. 00:06:57.859 --> 00:06:59.556 The crops that I'm talking about 00:06:59.556 --> 00:07:01.073 are a little bit more for 00:07:01.073 --> 00:07:03.677 the warmer climates, although 00:07:03.677 --> 00:07:05.323 sweet potato is something that's 00:07:05.323 --> 00:07:08.699 grown throughout, but potatoes 00:07:08.699 --> 00:07:10.899 are a standard that can be grown 00:07:10.899 --> 00:07:12.910 all across many climates. 00:07:12.910 --> 00:07:14.578 It's not one that I have a lot of 00:07:14.578 --> 00:07:16.543 experience with. I have grown it 00:07:16.543 --> 00:07:19.788 in Florida, but that is a really wonderful 00:07:19.788 --> 00:07:22.077 crop that you can grow in huge volumes 00:07:22.077 --> 00:07:23.602 as your calories. 00:07:23.602 --> 00:07:25.591 So, those are four calorie crops. 00:07:25.591 --> 00:07:27.409 The next one I want to get into is, 00:07:27.409 --> 00:07:29.152 indeed, a calorie, but it's also 00:07:29.152 --> 00:07:31.564 a delicious fruit and a favorite food 00:07:31.564 --> 00:07:33.303 of many people around the world, 00:07:33.303 --> 00:07:35.327 and that is bananas, and I'm also 00:07:35.327 --> 00:07:37.388 going to talk about plantains. 00:07:37.388 --> 00:07:40.418 Bananas are a true survival food. 00:07:40.418 --> 00:07:41.811 You can take one -- 00:07:41.811 --> 00:07:45.072 bananas, by the way, you don't 00:07:45.072 --> 00:07:46.388 plant them from seeds. 00:07:46.388 --> 00:07:47.849 You plant them from a pup, 00:07:47.849 --> 00:07:49.505 which is basically a small plant. 00:07:49.505 --> 00:07:51.884 How bananas work is they send up 00:07:51.884 --> 00:07:55.407 babies or pups, little shoots 00:07:55.407 --> 00:07:59.079 out the sides. If there's 00:07:59.079 --> 00:08:01.282 a huge stand of bananas, you can just 00:08:01.282 --> 00:08:02.641 dig one of those up with 00:08:02.641 --> 00:08:05.347 part of the corm, plant it, 00:08:05.347 --> 00:08:07.910 and in a few years' time, 00:08:07.910 --> 00:08:09.988 you can have a whole stand of bananas. 00:08:09.997 --> 00:08:12.558 So, bananas in central Florida, 00:08:12.558 --> 00:08:14.525 where I did my year, for example, 00:08:14.525 --> 00:08:16.294 within about 12 months, 00:08:16.294 --> 00:08:17.833 they can be starting to produce. 00:08:17.833 --> 00:08:19.498 Within a few years, you can be 00:08:19.498 --> 00:08:21.216 talking about huge quantities 00:08:21.216 --> 00:08:23.074 of bananas and plantains. 00:08:23.074 --> 00:08:26.254 Now, bananas can be eaten green, 00:08:26.254 --> 00:08:29.074 fried, for example, 00:08:29.074 --> 00:08:31.510 or you can wait until they're ripe 00:08:31.510 --> 00:08:32.576 and you can eat them 00:08:32.576 --> 00:08:34.122 as a delicious banana. 00:08:34.122 --> 00:08:37.107 You can also actually dehydrate the skin 00:08:37.107 --> 00:08:38.963 and the banana, whole, 00:08:38.963 --> 00:08:43.126 dehydrate it and then blend it 00:08:43.126 --> 00:08:44.641 to make a flour. 00:08:44.641 --> 00:08:46.274 Then, of course, plantains 00:08:46.274 --> 00:08:48.627 are a staple of many, many, many 00:08:48.627 --> 00:08:50.409 people all over the world. 00:08:50.409 --> 00:08:52.925 Those can be eaten ripe, 00:08:52.925 --> 00:08:56.656 as a delicious sweeter flavor, 00:08:56.656 --> 00:08:58.560 or they can be eaten savory, 00:08:58.560 --> 00:09:00.707 when they are still green. 00:09:00.707 --> 00:09:02.287 So, that is the banana. 00:09:02.287 --> 00:09:05.158 You can grow hundreds 00:09:05.158 --> 00:09:06.883 and hundreds of pounds of bananas. 00:09:06.883 --> 00:09:08.538 You can start it with something 00:09:08.538 --> 00:09:10.387 that you can get for $10 or $20, 00:09:10.387 --> 00:09:12.044 or for free. 00:09:12.044 --> 00:09:13.958 The next one that I want to 00:09:13.958 --> 00:09:15.696 go into is papaya. 00:09:15.696 --> 00:09:18.456 Papaya is extremely versatile. 00:09:18.456 --> 00:09:20.736 Papaya is a tree, 00:09:20.736 --> 00:09:22.505 but it's not your typical tree. 00:09:22.505 --> 00:09:24.124 They will last, generally, about 00:09:24.124 --> 00:09:26.681 maximum seven years. 00:09:26.681 --> 00:09:29.262 3-5 years might be pretty normal. 00:09:29.262 --> 00:09:31.631 They're a very soft tree. 00:09:31.631 --> 00:09:33.261 You can basically push them over. 00:09:33.261 --> 00:09:35.504 You can cut down the papaya tree 00:09:35.504 --> 00:09:40.232 just with one swipe of a machete, 00:09:40.232 --> 00:09:43.351 but the fruit is a beautiful fruit 00:09:43.351 --> 00:09:44.870 and it's very versatile. 00:09:44.870 --> 00:09:46.175 So, of course, you can wait 00:09:46.175 --> 00:09:49.416 until it's ripe and then it's 00:09:49.416 --> 00:09:51.868 a nice, sweet orange, 00:09:51.868 --> 00:09:53.724 or you can eat it 00:09:53.724 --> 00:09:55.123 while it's green, 00:09:55.123 --> 00:09:56.776 more as a vegetable. 00:09:56.776 --> 00:09:59.022 I make sort of like a sauerkraut 00:09:59.022 --> 00:10:01.094 with it, a papaya kraut 00:10:01.094 --> 00:10:02.753 by fermenting it. 00:10:02.753 --> 00:10:04.614 Then, people all over the world 00:10:04.614 --> 00:10:06.219 use it green, as a vegetable, 00:10:06.219 --> 00:10:10.766 whether pickled or sauteed or raw. 00:10:10.766 --> 00:10:12.892 What's commonly known is 00:10:12.892 --> 00:10:16.168 Thai green papaya salad, for example. 00:10:16.168 --> 00:10:19.467 I love to make a coconut curry 00:10:19.467 --> 00:10:21.750 out of my green papayas. 00:10:21.750 --> 00:10:24.770 If you're dealing with wasps, 00:10:24.770 --> 00:10:28.165 a pest that often comes for the papayas, 00:10:28.165 --> 00:10:30.402 then the best thing to do is not wait 00:10:30.402 --> 00:10:32.513 for them to get ripe and eat them green. 00:10:32.513 --> 00:10:34.602 So, this is a great staple crop, 00:10:34.602 --> 00:10:35.975 not as calorie-dense as the 00:10:35.975 --> 00:10:38.182 earlier calories I mentioned, 00:10:38.182 --> 00:10:42.021 but very filling and very much 00:10:42.021 --> 00:10:43.586 has calories to it. 00:10:43.586 --> 00:10:45.306 Now, in a colder climate, 00:10:45.306 --> 00:10:46.635 something that actually 00:10:46.635 --> 00:10:49.259 somewhat resembles, in my mind, 00:10:49.259 --> 00:10:51.645 the papaya is the zucchini. 00:10:51.645 --> 00:10:54.948 Zucchini, in a colder climate, 00:10:54.948 --> 00:10:57.322 is a true survival crop. 00:10:57.322 --> 00:10:58.998 I hear stories all the time about 00:10:58.998 --> 00:11:00.081 people saying that, 00:11:00.081 --> 00:11:01.557 in the northern climates, 00:11:01.557 --> 00:11:03.647 they have so many zucchinis 00:11:03.647 --> 00:11:05.085 that they have to put them on 00:11:05.085 --> 00:11:06.422 their neighbors' doors 00:11:06.422 --> 00:11:07.790 to try to get rid of them, 00:11:07.790 --> 00:11:09.494 but their neighbors hide from them 00:11:09.494 --> 00:11:10.918 because they don't want them 00:11:10.918 --> 00:11:12.591 because they have so many. 00:11:12.591 --> 00:11:16.479 The reason it reminds me of papaya 00:11:16.479 --> 00:11:18.796 is because they can grow very large 00:11:18.796 --> 00:11:21.001 and in extreme abundance, and 00:11:21.001 --> 00:11:24.862 they can be cooked in a similar manner, 00:11:24.862 --> 00:11:26.461 and they don't, again, have 00:11:26.461 --> 00:11:28.845 an incredible amount of calories, 00:11:28.845 --> 00:11:30.428 but they have a large amount 00:11:30.428 --> 00:11:31.888 of sustenance and can 00:11:31.888 --> 00:11:33.195 really fill you up. 00:11:33.195 --> 00:11:35.016 So, that's the papaya and, 00:11:35.016 --> 00:11:37.332 for some people, the zucchini. 00:11:37.332 --> 00:11:40.458 Speaking of zucchini, what I have 00:11:40.458 --> 00:11:42.465 to mention for the survival garden 00:11:42.465 --> 00:11:45.218 that I'm talking about is a 00:11:45.218 --> 00:11:48.513 heat-loving, heat-tolerant squash. 00:11:48.513 --> 00:11:51.534 For me, that is the Seminole pumpkin. 00:11:51.534 --> 00:11:53.753 It's amazing what you can do 00:11:53.753 --> 00:11:55.128 with one seed. 00:11:55.128 --> 00:11:57.103 Most people, with their pumpkins 00:11:57.103 --> 00:11:58.834 and with their squash, when they 00:11:58.834 --> 00:12:00.289 buy them at the grocery store, 00:12:00.289 --> 00:12:01.249 what do they do? 00:12:01.249 --> 00:12:02.908 They take those seeds out and they 00:12:02.908 --> 00:12:04.222 throw them in the garbage. 00:12:04.222 --> 00:12:05.425 At the very least, you 00:12:05.425 --> 00:12:07.078 could compost them, but what 00:12:07.078 --> 00:12:08.752 you can actually do is plant them 00:12:08.752 --> 00:12:09.992 especially if they're a 00:12:09.992 --> 00:12:11.072 local variety. 00:12:11.072 --> 00:12:13.113 When I had dinner with a friend, 00:12:13.113 --> 00:12:17.554 I took home the pumpkin seeds 00:12:17.554 --> 00:12:19.077 from Seminole pumpkins. 00:12:19.077 --> 00:12:20.606 From two pumpkins, 00:12:20.606 --> 00:12:22.175 the seeds of that turned into 00:12:22.175 --> 00:12:24.325 hundreds of pumpkins, 00:12:24.325 --> 00:12:26.684 many, many, many meals to come. 00:12:26.684 --> 00:12:28.326 The Seminole pumpkin is 00:12:28.326 --> 00:12:30.668 my favorite pumpkin, personally, 00:12:30.668 --> 00:12:31.807 my favorite squash. 00:12:31.807 --> 00:12:33.855 Wherever you are, your survival garden 00:12:33.855 --> 00:12:37.550 can definitely include squashes. 00:12:37.550 --> 00:12:39.744 The next thing that I want to move on to 00:12:39.744 --> 00:12:42.856 is talking about a little bit of protein. 00:12:42.856 --> 00:12:45.013 For me, one of my favorite sources 00:12:45.013 --> 00:12:47.383 in the garden is pigeon pea. 00:12:47.383 --> 00:12:50.542 Now, pigeon pea is a perennial crop. 00:12:50.542 --> 00:12:53.231 It's not a bean that has to be planted 00:12:53.231 --> 00:12:56.941 year after year. It's actually 00:12:56.941 --> 00:12:59.421 a tree that will continue to put out 00:12:59.421 --> 00:13:02.382 pigeon peas and sometimes 00:13:02.382 --> 00:13:04.986 multiple times per year and 00:13:04.986 --> 00:13:06.823 even throughout the year. 00:13:06.823 --> 00:13:08.796 They're a truly delicious -- 00:13:08.796 --> 00:13:10.996 they're called gandules. 00:13:10.996 --> 00:13:12.727 They're very popular in Puerto Rico 00:13:12.727 --> 00:13:14.734 and other parts of the Caribbean, 00:13:14.734 --> 00:13:17.209 other parts of Latin America as well. 00:13:17.209 --> 00:13:19.656 They are truly, truly delicious. 00:13:19.656 --> 00:13:23.636 I have eaten a large amount of them 00:13:23.636 --> 00:13:25.407 and have never once got 00:13:25.407 --> 00:13:26.825 sick from them at all. 00:13:26.825 --> 00:13:28.673 In fact, my friend and I actually even 00:13:28.673 --> 00:13:30.488 made tempe from them. 00:13:30.488 --> 00:13:32.013 So, there's a lot that can be 00:13:32.013 --> 00:13:34.709 done with them. 00:13:34.709 --> 00:13:36.655 So, that is pigeon peas and, 00:13:36.655 --> 00:13:38.469 along those lines, the next one 00:13:38.469 --> 00:13:41.272 I want to talk about is ground cover 00:13:41.272 --> 00:13:43.429 beans or peas. 00:13:43.429 --> 00:13:44.927 For me, my favorite one 00:13:44.927 --> 00:13:46.190 is the southern peas. 00:13:46.190 --> 00:13:47.538 Now, there are many types of 00:13:47.538 --> 00:13:48.561 southern peas. You've 00:13:48.561 --> 00:13:49.668 probably heard of 00:13:49.668 --> 00:13:51.263 black-eyed peas, for example. 00:13:51.263 --> 00:13:53.310 There's many different types of these 00:13:53.310 --> 00:13:55.181 and I don't know the names of 00:13:55.181 --> 00:13:56.385 all of them, but 00:13:56.385 --> 00:13:58.498 we're talking about spreading the seed 00:13:58.498 --> 00:14:00.531 on the ground. 00:14:00.531 --> 00:14:02.507 It creates a wonderful ground cover 00:14:02.507 --> 00:14:04.369 and it produces a lot of 00:14:04.369 --> 00:14:05.373 healthy food. 00:14:05.373 --> 00:14:06.922 It can also be used 00:14:06.922 --> 00:14:08.993 as a cover crop 00:14:08.993 --> 00:14:10.738 and as a nitrogen fixer to 00:14:10.738 --> 00:14:13.216 add nitrogen to your garden. 00:14:13.216 --> 00:14:15.936 Now, these can be eaten fresh or they 00:14:15.936 --> 00:14:18.986 can be left to dry on the vines, 00:14:18.986 --> 00:14:20.686 harvested once they're dry, 00:14:20.686 --> 00:14:22.249 and they can be stored. 00:14:22.249 --> 00:14:24.667 The same goes for the pigeon peas as well. 00:14:24.667 --> 00:14:26.637 So, talking about survival, 00:14:26.637 --> 00:14:29.188 these are foods that, when dried, 00:14:29.188 --> 00:14:31.919 you can have these lasting in your pantry 00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:34.670 for years. That's an important part 00:14:34.670 --> 00:14:35.992 about this, storage. 00:14:35.992 --> 00:14:39.050 Now, in the warmer climates, 00:14:39.050 --> 00:14:40.330 like Florida, for example, 00:14:40.330 --> 00:14:42.609 you can grow food year-round. 00:14:42.609 --> 00:14:44.313 In the northern climates, 00:14:44.313 --> 00:14:46.045 the key to success with 00:14:46.045 --> 00:14:49.114 the survival garden is producing 00:14:49.114 --> 00:14:50.849 as much food as you can 00:14:50.849 --> 00:14:53.457 during that window of time that you have 00:14:53.457 --> 00:14:56.215 and then preserving it for the fall. 00:14:56.215 --> 00:14:57.945 Now, for all the people out there 00:14:57.945 --> 00:14:59.721 who are saying, "Oh, you can only 00:14:59.721 --> 00:15:01.196 do this in Florida," 00:15:01.196 --> 00:15:05.137 I have to say, the most extreme abundance 00:15:05.137 --> 00:15:06.602 that I've ever seen 00:15:06.602 --> 00:15:09.343 was in the fall in places like 00:15:09.343 --> 00:15:11.613 northern Wisconsin, where I'm from. 00:15:11.613 --> 00:15:14.676 The abundance of nuts and different 00:15:14.676 --> 00:15:16.763 fruits, like apples and plums 00:15:16.763 --> 00:15:18.455 and pears and berries, 00:15:18.455 --> 00:15:21.484 is incredible -- so much more 00:15:21.484 --> 00:15:23.945 than I've ever seen in 00:15:23.945 --> 00:15:25.376 some warmer climates, 00:15:25.376 --> 00:15:26.696 so you just have to work 00:15:26.696 --> 00:15:28.461 with your area. 00:15:28.461 --> 00:15:31.008 So, those are a few examples 00:15:31.008 --> 00:15:34.397 of protein. We've covered calories. 00:15:34.397 --> 00:15:37.254 We've covered some protein. 00:15:37.254 --> 00:15:38.965 Now, I want to get into some of 00:15:38.965 --> 00:15:41.690 the very nutrient-dense foods. 00:15:41.690 --> 00:15:43.930 The really good news is that 00:15:43.930 --> 00:15:46.306 a lot of these nutrient-dense foods, 00:15:46.306 --> 00:15:49.512 whether you want to be self-sufficient 00:15:49.512 --> 00:15:52.204 and being able to exist without 00:15:52.204 --> 00:15:54.598 a grocery store or restaurant at all, 00:15:54.598 --> 00:15:56.656 these nutrient-dense foods 00:15:56.656 --> 00:15:58.534 are a no-brainer for everyone 00:15:58.534 --> 00:16:00.693 because they take very little work. 00:16:00.693 --> 00:16:03.026 They can save a lot of money. 00:16:03.026 --> 00:16:04.778 They're some of the healthiest foods 00:16:04.778 --> 00:16:06.920 out there that you can eat and, 00:16:06.920 --> 00:16:08.441 environmentally, they're one of 00:16:08.441 --> 00:16:10.412 the most logical things to grow at home 00:16:10.412 --> 00:16:12.597 because shipping greens is one of the 00:16:12.597 --> 00:16:16.021 least efficient things that we can ship. 00:16:16.021 --> 00:16:17.527 So, I'm going to talk about 00:16:17.527 --> 00:16:20.382 perennial greens and the first one 00:16:20.382 --> 00:16:21.774 that I'm going to talk about 00:16:21.774 --> 00:16:23.789 is moringa. Now, moringa is 00:16:23.789 --> 00:16:25.547 also called the vitamin tree 00:16:25.547 --> 00:16:27.725 or the tree of life, and it is 00:16:27.725 --> 00:16:29.492 truly the tree of life. 00:16:29.492 --> 00:16:31.274 it's one of the most nutrient-dense 00:16:31.274 --> 00:16:32.643 plants on Earth. 00:16:32.643 --> 00:16:36.355 Supposedly, it's about 20% protein 00:16:36.355 --> 00:16:38.373 by weight, as well, so a lot of 00:16:38.373 --> 00:16:41.693 greens and vegetables actually 00:16:41.693 --> 00:16:43.538 do have a lot of protein in them 00:16:43.538 --> 00:16:45.384 as well. 00:16:45.384 --> 00:16:46.626 Moringa is a perennial. 00:16:46.626 --> 00:16:49.042 You can start it either from seed or 00:16:49.042 --> 00:16:50.857 you can take a cutting, stick it in 00:16:50.857 --> 00:16:53.746 the ground and have a moringa tree. 00:16:53.746 --> 00:16:56.976 You can make a wall around your 00:16:56.976 --> 00:16:58.824 property with moringa. 00:16:58.824 --> 00:17:00.549 You can dry moringa leaves, 00:17:00.549 --> 00:17:02.011 turn it into a powder, and 00:17:02.011 --> 00:17:04.520 you have your own multivitamin 00:17:04.520 --> 00:17:05.909 that you can travel with, and 00:17:05.909 --> 00:17:08.151 it's also a really great crop 00:17:08.151 --> 00:17:10.173 that you can trade. 00:17:10.173 --> 00:17:11.657 You can trade others this 00:17:11.657 --> 00:17:13.856 nutrient-dense powder that you make 00:17:13.856 --> 00:17:15.660 for other things that you need, 00:17:15.660 --> 00:17:17.342 or you can actually make a little 00:17:17.342 --> 00:17:19.306 business out of it and sell it. 00:17:19.306 --> 00:17:21.760 The next green that I want to talk about 00:17:21.760 --> 00:17:22.819 is katuk. 00:17:22.819 --> 00:17:25.048 Katuk is another perennial green. 00:17:25.048 --> 00:17:27.403 By perennial, what I mean is you plant it 00:17:27.403 --> 00:17:29.725 and it produces year after year 00:17:29.725 --> 00:17:31.240 after year. 00:17:31.240 --> 00:17:32.913 Up in a northern climate, 00:17:32.913 --> 00:17:34.792 a beautiful perennial is rhubarb. 00:17:34.792 --> 00:17:37.026 An average rhubarb plant can last 00:17:37.026 --> 00:17:38.910 for 25 years! 00:17:38.910 --> 00:17:41.066 Imagine you plant it and 25 years, 00:17:41.066 --> 00:17:43.930 every spring, it just keeps coming back. 00:17:43.930 --> 00:17:45.922 Annuals, you plant once 00:17:45.922 --> 00:17:47.937 (for example, carrots) 00:17:47.937 --> 00:17:49.804 and when you pull it, you eat it, 00:17:49.804 --> 00:17:51.380 and it's dead. 00:17:51.380 --> 00:17:53.450 Then, in between perennials and annuals is 00:17:53.450 --> 00:17:55.372 self-seeding annuals. 00:17:55.372 --> 00:17:57.288 These are ones that you let go to seed 00:17:57.288 --> 00:17:58.948 and they keep spreading their seed 00:17:58.948 --> 00:18:00.439 and they keep coming back. 00:18:00.439 --> 00:18:01.882 Once you've got them going, 00:18:01.882 --> 00:18:03.010 you've got them going. 00:18:03.010 --> 00:18:04.593 So, in the survival garden, 00:18:04.593 --> 00:18:06.157 I highly recommend working with 00:18:06.157 --> 00:18:09.056 perennials and self-seeding annuals 00:18:09.056 --> 00:18:10.799 as much as possible. 00:18:10.799 --> 00:18:13.724 So, I mentioned katuk and the next one 00:18:13.724 --> 00:18:16.676 that I want to talk about is chaya. 00:18:16.676 --> 00:18:18.850 Chaya is an ancient food. 00:18:18.850 --> 00:18:21.281 It's been eaten for thousands of years. 00:18:21.281 --> 00:18:24.480 I don't remember if it's the Mayans 00:18:24.480 --> 00:18:27.097 or the Aztecs, or possibly both, 00:18:27.097 --> 00:18:29.933 that have had it as a staple part 00:18:29.933 --> 00:18:31.043 of their diet. 00:18:31.043 --> 00:18:34.771 It is also called tree spinach. 00:18:34.771 --> 00:18:37.257 Very calorie-dense. 00:18:37.257 --> 00:18:39.193 This one also has to be cooked because 00:18:39.193 --> 00:18:40.918 it has cyanide in it, just like 00:18:40.918 --> 00:18:43.314 I mentioned with the cassava or 00:18:43.314 --> 00:18:45.013 the yuca, but again, it's just 00:18:45.013 --> 00:18:47.879 a matter of preparing food right. 00:18:47.879 --> 00:18:50.340 All things have to be prepared right, 00:18:50.340 --> 00:18:52.107 whether it's coffee or chocolate 00:18:52.107 --> 00:18:54.282 or the way you're producing your 00:18:54.282 --> 00:18:56.997 beverages, like beer and wine. 00:18:56.997 --> 00:18:58.888 Once you start to connect with 00:18:58.888 --> 00:19:01.654 your food, you see there is a process, 00:19:01.654 --> 00:19:03.458 a way of doing things. 00:19:03.458 --> 00:19:05.700 But chaya is a beautiful one. 00:19:05.700 --> 00:19:07.465 This is one where you can literally 00:19:07.465 --> 00:19:09.219 just take a stick of it, 00:19:09.219 --> 00:19:10.997 put it in the ground and, 00:19:10.997 --> 00:19:13.735 after you have a few trees of chaya, 00:19:13.735 --> 00:19:15.913 you can be spreading chaya to your 00:19:15.913 --> 00:19:18.477 entire neighborhood. 00:19:18.477 --> 00:19:20.664 Another one that's very drought-tolerant-- 00:19:20.664 --> 00:19:23.826 With the survival garden, the key is 00:19:23.826 --> 00:19:25.847 planting things that are 00:19:25.847 --> 00:19:28.943 very tough, that don't need to be 00:19:28.943 --> 00:19:30.482 consistently watered, 00:19:30.482 --> 00:19:32.418 that don't need a lot of nutrients, 00:19:32.418 --> 00:19:34.613 that don't have too many pests, 00:19:34.613 --> 00:19:37.171 and all of these things apply, generally, 00:19:37.171 --> 00:19:39.765 to perennials over annuals. 00:19:39.765 --> 00:19:41.693 So, the survival garden is one that 00:19:41.693 --> 00:19:43.328 you can walk away from and, 00:19:43.328 --> 00:19:45.384 three months later, you come back 00:19:45.384 --> 00:19:47.333 and your food isn't gone; 00:19:47.333 --> 00:19:50.142 you have more food than when you left. 00:19:50.142 --> 00:19:52.621 So, that is chaya. 00:19:52.621 --> 00:19:54.793 The next thing I want to get into 00:19:54.793 --> 00:19:56.613 is another green and that is 00:19:56.613 --> 00:19:58.525 perennial spinaches. 00:19:58.525 --> 00:20:00.360 So, there are all sorts of 00:20:00.360 --> 00:20:01.694 perennial spinaches. 00:20:01.694 --> 00:20:03.124 There's Brazilian spinach and 00:20:03.124 --> 00:20:04.411 New Zealand spinach, 00:20:04.411 --> 00:20:07.445 Okinawa spinach, longevity spinach, 00:20:07.445 --> 00:20:09.232 just to name a few. 00:20:09.232 --> 00:20:11.793 Malabar spinach is another one. 00:20:11.793 --> 00:20:13.939 There's probably a good dozen or so that 00:20:13.939 --> 00:20:17.030 are grown in the area where I have done 00:20:17.030 --> 00:20:18.745 most of my growing. 00:20:18.745 --> 00:20:20.769 Again, these are perennials that you can 00:20:20.769 --> 00:20:22.318 plant once and they can keep on 00:20:22.318 --> 00:20:23.800 coming back and coming back. 00:20:23.800 --> 00:20:26.767 So, with those perennial spinaches 00:20:26.767 --> 00:20:31.531 and the chaya, the cassava leaves, 00:20:31.531 --> 00:20:33.665 the katuk, and the moringa, 00:20:33.665 --> 00:20:36.428 that right there is quite a bit 00:20:36.428 --> 00:20:38.582 of diversity in itself. 00:20:38.582 --> 00:20:40.846 So, there is a saying and that is, 00:20:40.846 --> 00:20:42.633 "Let thy food be they medicine 00:20:42.633 --> 00:20:45.319 and let thy medicine be thy food." 00:20:45.319 --> 00:20:46.974 Now, in 2020, that is, 00:20:46.974 --> 00:20:48.802 "Let your food be your medicine 00:20:48.802 --> 00:20:50.749 and let your medicine be your food." 00:20:50.749 --> 00:20:52.359 Pretty basic. 00:20:52.359 --> 00:20:54.037 Now, the beautiful thing is that, 00:20:54.037 --> 00:20:56.868 yes, our food is our medicine, 00:20:56.868 --> 00:20:59.682 but there are some especially 00:20:59.682 --> 00:21:02.149 medicinal plants that we can grow 00:21:02.149 --> 00:21:04.298 to really give ourselves 00:21:04.298 --> 00:21:07.600 that important immune boost and to really 00:21:07.600 --> 00:21:09.750 just take care of ourselves. 00:21:09.750 --> 00:21:11.784 I'm talking about holistic medicine, 00:21:11.784 --> 00:21:14.067 holistic healthcare, taking into 00:21:14.067 --> 00:21:16.697 account everything that we're doing -- 00:21:16.697 --> 00:21:19.558 our food, our water, the way we move 00:21:19.558 --> 00:21:21.646 our body, the way we live our lives, 00:21:21.646 --> 00:21:23.508 but we can grow 00:21:23.508 --> 00:21:25.142 a lot of our own medicine. 00:21:25.142 --> 00:21:27.275 The #1 that I recommend in 00:21:27.275 --> 00:21:30.113 this survival garden is turmeric 00:21:30.113 --> 00:21:31.759 and ginger. 00:21:31.759 --> 00:21:33.733 Turmeric, you take those little rhizomes, 00:21:33.733 --> 00:21:35.415 you stick them in the ground, and 00:21:35.415 --> 00:21:37.425 7-9 months later, you'll have 00:21:37.425 --> 00:21:38.868 a lot more turmeric. 00:21:38.868 --> 00:21:40.231 Most of my friends' gardens, 00:21:40.231 --> 00:21:41.571 who have turmeric, 00:21:41.571 --> 00:21:42.932 they have more than they 00:21:42.932 --> 00:21:44.267 can deal with. 00:21:44.267 --> 00:21:46.815 Ginger takes a little bit longer. 00:21:46.815 --> 00:21:48.676 It takes more like, I think, about 00:21:48.676 --> 00:21:50.178 a year and a half. 00:21:50.178 --> 00:21:52.446 I've successfully grown ginger, 00:21:52.446 --> 00:21:54.671 but it takes longer to get it 00:21:54.671 --> 00:21:58.516 to be a large amount and to get a lot 00:21:58.516 --> 00:22:02.070 to harvest, but very, very easy to grow. 00:22:02.070 --> 00:22:05.238 So, turmeric and ginger, very easy to grow 00:22:05.238 --> 00:22:09.379 and very, very important medicines. 00:22:09.379 --> 00:22:11.214 There are many different medicines. 00:22:11.214 --> 00:22:13.295 One that I recommend growing 00:22:13.295 --> 00:22:16.163 is elderberry. Along with honey 00:22:16.163 --> 00:22:18.048 that you can get from your bees, 00:22:18.048 --> 00:22:20.017 you can make elderberry syrup and this is 00:22:20.017 --> 00:22:21.691 one of the most incredible 00:22:21.691 --> 00:22:23.446 natural medicines 00:22:23.446 --> 00:22:26.217 that prevents cold and flu. 00:22:26.217 --> 00:22:28.338 I like to take a spoonful of 00:22:28.338 --> 00:22:30.048 my elderberry syrup 00:22:30.048 --> 00:22:31.410 every single day. 00:22:31.410 --> 00:22:33.082 It's one of my favorite things and 00:22:33.082 --> 00:22:35.184 it's also an extremely delicious treat. 00:22:35.184 --> 00:22:37.909 So, I've covered calories, 00:22:37.909 --> 00:22:39.850 I've covered some protein, 00:22:39.850 --> 00:22:42.268 and I've covered greens as nutrients. 00:22:42.268 --> 00:22:43.900 Those three things right there 00:22:43.900 --> 00:22:47.444 can take care of a massive, massive 00:22:47.444 --> 00:22:50.892 amount of your entire needs. 00:22:50.892 --> 00:22:54.857 You could probably live just off of that, 00:22:54.857 --> 00:22:56.654 but there's no need to because 00:22:56.654 --> 00:22:58.438 there's such an abundance 00:22:58.438 --> 00:22:59.639 of other foods. 00:22:59.639 --> 00:23:01.371 I'm going to name a few other things 00:23:01.371 --> 00:23:03.263 right now that are really easy 00:23:03.263 --> 00:23:04.826 and important to have as a part 00:23:04.826 --> 00:23:05.991 of this garden. 00:23:05.991 --> 00:23:07.572 That would be peppers. 00:23:07.572 --> 00:23:08.807 I grew serrano peppers, 00:23:08.807 --> 00:23:10.087 starting from one seed 00:23:10.087 --> 00:23:11.962 from a pepper from my friend's garden. 00:23:11.962 --> 00:23:13.681 I, for a year and a half, had 00:23:13.681 --> 00:23:15.781 a serrano pepper plant that put out 00:23:15.781 --> 00:23:18.111 well over 1,000 peppers. 00:23:18.111 --> 00:23:20.055 Wherever you are, there are peppers 00:23:20.055 --> 00:23:23.112 that will survive and thrive. 00:23:23.112 --> 00:23:26.377 Peppers are a great part of any garden. 00:23:26.377 --> 00:23:28.019 Then, herbs. 00:23:28.019 --> 00:23:31.203 Herbs add flavor to your food. 00:23:31.203 --> 00:23:33.811 Living off of your garden does not 00:23:33.811 --> 00:23:36.587 in any way mean not eating delicious, 00:23:36.587 --> 00:23:38.604 delicious food. In fact, it's often 00:23:38.604 --> 00:23:41.038 far more delicious. 00:23:41.038 --> 00:23:44.258 Some of the absolute survival herbs 00:23:44.258 --> 00:23:47.023 that I've grown would be Cuban oregano. 00:23:47.023 --> 00:23:49.175 Grows like crazy. 00:23:49.175 --> 00:23:51.166 It's a huge oregano leaf. 00:23:51.166 --> 00:23:53.195 Then, there's lots of other ones. 00:23:53.195 --> 00:23:56.563 African blue basil grows into shrubs, 00:23:56.563 --> 00:23:58.956 brings in an incredible amount of 00:23:58.956 --> 00:24:00.790 bees and pollinators. 00:24:00.790 --> 00:24:02.783 So important to have different plants 00:24:02.783 --> 00:24:04.654 that can bring pollinators into 00:24:04.654 --> 00:24:07.083 your garden and herbs are 00:24:07.083 --> 00:24:09.354 one of the easiest things to grow. 00:24:09.354 --> 00:24:12.221 You have cilantro and basil and dill, 00:24:12.221 --> 00:24:14.323 just to name a few. 00:24:14.323 --> 00:24:16.860 Herbs are a very easy beginner plant too. 00:24:16.860 --> 00:24:18.845 If you're just getting started, herbs are 00:24:18.845 --> 00:24:20.731 a really great place to start. 00:24:20.731 --> 00:24:22.427 I'm going to mention just two more, 00:24:22.427 --> 00:24:23.935 even though there are so many 00:24:23.935 --> 00:24:25.227 more plants that I would 00:24:25.227 --> 00:24:26.444 love to talk about, but 00:24:26.444 --> 00:24:27.745 a truly amazing one 00:24:27.745 --> 00:24:29.489 is daikon radish. 00:24:29.489 --> 00:24:31.263 We're talking about a radish that can 00:24:31.263 --> 00:24:33.204 get this big, that can become 00:24:33.204 --> 00:24:34.918 self-seeding, that's coming back, 00:24:34.918 --> 00:24:37.013 that creates a great ground cover, 00:24:37.013 --> 00:24:38.788 that can be chop and dropped, 00:24:38.788 --> 00:24:41.544 and you can ferment this 00:24:41.544 --> 00:24:46.916 and make a wonderful radish kraut 00:24:46.916 --> 00:24:49.048 or mix it in with your different krauts. 00:24:49.048 --> 00:24:53.768 It's delicious, it adds a lot of value 00:24:53.768 --> 00:24:55.768 to meals, and you can produce 00:24:55.768 --> 00:24:58.252 incredible quantities with it. 00:24:58.252 --> 00:24:59.906 That's the daikon radish. 00:24:59.906 --> 00:25:02.464 Wherever you are, radishes can be a 00:25:02.464 --> 00:25:04.468 part of your game and radishes 00:25:04.468 --> 00:25:06.370 are one of the fastest foods to grow. 00:25:06.370 --> 00:25:08.163 You can get them in about 30 days. 00:25:08.163 --> 00:25:10.156 Now, a garden could be complete 00:25:10.156 --> 00:25:12.321 without tomatoes, but tomatoes 00:25:12.321 --> 00:25:15.538 add such an incredible value to life. 00:25:15.538 --> 00:25:17.934 Where I did my survival garden, 00:25:17.934 --> 00:25:20.352 that would be the Everglades tomato. 00:25:20.352 --> 00:25:22.829 In really hot climates, it's often the 00:25:22.829 --> 00:25:24.353 very small tomatoes that you 00:25:24.353 --> 00:25:25.985 want to work with, 00:25:25.985 --> 00:25:27.373 not the really big ones, 00:25:27.373 --> 00:25:28.672 but in northern climates, 00:25:28.672 --> 00:25:30.452 you can produce so much tomatoes that 00:25:30.452 --> 00:25:33.149 you could not possibly eat them. 00:25:33.149 --> 00:25:35.649 So, tomatoes are just a beautiful, 00:25:35.649 --> 00:25:37.615 beautiful thing to have 00:25:37.615 --> 00:25:38.918 in the garden. 00:25:38.918 --> 00:25:40.731 Then, one last thing that I'm 00:25:40.731 --> 00:25:43.329 going to mention is garlic or onions 00:25:43.329 --> 00:25:45.236 really add an incredible 00:25:45.236 --> 00:25:46.731 amount of flavor. 00:25:46.731 --> 00:25:48.522 Garlic is also a great antimicrobial 00:25:48.522 --> 00:25:51.181 and antibacterial, a really important one 00:25:51.181 --> 00:25:53.234 for fighting off sicknesses. 00:25:53.234 --> 00:25:55.158 In central Florida, my big ones 00:25:55.158 --> 00:25:57.828 would be garlic chives and then 00:25:57.828 --> 00:25:59.632 society garlic. 00:25:59.632 --> 00:26:01.229 These are perennials 00:26:01.229 --> 00:26:02.546 that do really well. 00:26:02.546 --> 00:26:03.925 I also grew garlic. 00:26:03.925 --> 00:26:05.978 That's harder in the southern climates, 00:26:05.978 --> 00:26:07.726 but I did it successfully, 00:26:07.726 --> 00:26:09.295 but in the northern climates, 00:26:09.295 --> 00:26:12.211 garlic is an easy one. 00:26:12.211 --> 00:26:14.997 So, that is my survival garden. 00:26:14.997 --> 00:26:17.928 I've covered your calories, your protein, 00:26:17.928 --> 00:26:19.847 your greens. 00:26:19.847 --> 00:26:21.632 There are more things than that; 00:26:21.632 --> 00:26:24.448 however, if you have just this going 00:26:24.448 --> 00:26:26.133 and you work with the perennials 00:26:26.133 --> 00:26:28.008 over the annuals, we're talking about 00:26:28.008 --> 00:26:30.894 almost never having to take a trip 00:26:30.894 --> 00:26:32.660 to the grocery store. 00:26:32.660 --> 00:26:36.533 This is my tips, especially focused on 00:26:36.533 --> 00:26:38.433 a warmer climate. 00:26:38.433 --> 00:26:41.360 In future videos, I will have some 00:26:41.360 --> 00:26:43.896 that are specifically focused on 00:26:43.896 --> 00:26:45.576 colder climates, so make sure 00:26:45.576 --> 00:26:47.045 you come back and 00:26:47.045 --> 00:26:48.510 tune in for that. 00:26:48.510 --> 00:26:51.089 If you got a lot out of this video and 00:26:51.089 --> 00:26:52.828 you found it to be really useful, 00:26:52.828 --> 00:26:54.626 then definitely I encourage you to 00:26:54.626 --> 00:26:56.211 subscribe to this channel. 00:26:56.211 --> 00:26:57.963 If you have questions or comments, 00:26:57.963 --> 00:26:59.552 put them below. 00:26:59.552 --> 00:27:01.358 Hit that Like button to make this 00:27:01.358 --> 00:27:03.247 get out into the world so people can see 00:27:03.247 --> 00:27:07.131 that it is possible to live without 00:27:07.131 --> 00:27:09.060 grocery stores and without 00:27:09.060 --> 00:27:11.193 restaurants, and live in a way where 00:27:11.193 --> 00:27:13.411 we are working with the Earth, 00:27:13.411 --> 00:27:15.208 rather than against it and 00:27:15.208 --> 00:27:17.961 where we can live happily and healthfully 00:27:17.961 --> 00:27:20.677 with food sovereignty 00:27:20.677 --> 00:27:22.341 right in our own communities. 00:27:22.341 --> 00:27:23.875 Love you all very much. 00:27:23.875 --> 00:27:28.208 See you soon.