Great post! I am in a rural area so I started self-sufficiency when I moved here 19 years ago. I have learned so much and have many skills that I am now doing workshop to try and educate people. I have raised and processed my own meat birds, I know how to dispatch and bone out my own sheep, I have dairy goats and make my own cheese, the goat manure goes on the garden which I grow a variety and as much as possible fruit and vegetables. I preserve my produce by either pressure canning, water bathing. Jams, relishes, dehydrating, vacuum sealing and mylar bag sealing for long term storage, sourdough baking and ferments and the list goes on.
Great work Marty! Please keep encouraging people to become self sufficient from the corpse-orations. My family were Swedish immigrants to Australia in the late 1850's. My father's father was a market gardener in Western Sydney. My father was a market gardener until he accidentally got married. My family are still farmers in the central west of NSW. I live on a quarter acre suburban block in western Sydney with beautiful black loam soils. The same soil the convicts and succeeding generations fed Sydney with. Over the past several years I have realised I am blessed with all the knowledge that has been handed down to me and I thought it was all very normal. My front yard and back yard is exclusively vegetable garden where I pick all year round. It is a lot of work however the bond with the soil, Mother Earth, the seasons makes it all worth while. Not sure if you have covered it before, but it is amasing how much better I feel physically and mentally by eating fresh, organically grown food and with absolutely no chemicals etc. Thanks! :)
Been a gardner my whole life, thanks to my grandparents who had huge gardens in New Zealand from the 1950s when my mother was a child. I've always grown something to eat. 3 mins ago I just harvested 4 Lebanese cucumbers to make a cucumber, ham and Mayo sandwich after dropping this comment. The satisfaction of growing your own food is priceless! And what I love about it is you are always learning it never stops. Hope everyone here has a great day, God bless you all.
If u can't grow your own, support a small farmer who is trying to sell direct to consumer. There are loads of farmers like myself who would love to quit the off farm job to grow full time, but we need more support. ❤
I like your style. You are spot on. I am a fruit grower and the heatwaves last year knocked the growers about. First time ever our crop was destroyed by the events of the extended heatwave. Even the ground water dried up. The wild endangered cockatoos were desperate for food and ate every fruit we were growing and ate everything ripe and unripe. Never happened before. The shopkeeper we sell to said all his growers that he buys from had their veges and fruit crops burn and stop ripening and stop growing because of the heat. The wild birds moved in from inland looking for food.
Recently moved semi rural with the aim of growing more. I've been shopping at the big two for many decades. We pretty much stopped buying steak 10 years ago, just too expensive for a family on a working mans wage. One huge money saving change we have made now is we shop at a butcher with a privately owned fruit market/mini grocery store next door. We always thought that sounded like too much hassle to shop at multiple shops but wow, it is so much better/cheaper! Can now buy a four pack of T bone steak usually around $22-$26 AU. It was about $15 for one steak at the big two! The fruit (much of it sourced locally) is much fresher and usually far cheaper! They sell gourmet icecream there at $3 to $4 a tub ($13 at the big two!) We occasionally go to Aldi to do a bulk buy of T paper, and some processed stuff, but Geez it is definitely cheaper to move away from the big two scammers.
As always, well said Marty. Micro greens was my gateway into gardening. I realised that I could provide a mixed salad for ever dinner. I know you appreciate the power of micro greens. Cost of living in Aus is crazy. That’s why I am so appreciate all the info you share because just getting started can give people a lot of hope for how they can provide for their families. Good on you Marty.
I eat salad every day grow lettuce, tomatoes,cucumbers beetroot, purslane,celery capsicum rocket cabbage and can get most of this year round in Sydney with some fermenting and pickling.
Hi Marty. With the cost of living nowadays. Back 70 years ago no one needed to spend $$ on internet/mobile phone credits which is now basically an essential cost in our lives.
There are a lot of senior farmers around us. The farmers who own the land that we are renting a house on, are generational. The older ones refuse to 'retire' and still work like mad because they don't want their children/grandchildren to be in debt with the land. They are trying to clear the debt with them (they bought this land at the beginning of the year. ((It ajoins their current land. ))For too much, it seems, and things weren't what they were led to believe. Seems the real estate industry where farms are concerned are dodgy as, as well!!)
I stumbled across your vlog and it's been amazing to watch. You hit the nail on the head with walking into a shop and wondering how much you'll get for your money! Keep up the good work!
All countries must be involved in price fixing. USA. It's not a coincidence. One can only hazard a guess why the fear games. I've heard that our central government wants to make US food industry a central government ownership and control. Do you think they want a rebellion? I certainly won't do that.
My great grandad was a market gardener and he raised my Dad (Dad's Mum was a widow). Dad grew up to be a market gardener as well and my goal is to one day produce enough surplus produce, that I can sell it. It's hard because it's semi-arid, the Northern Country of Victoria, but I am gradually learning and beginning to have some success! God Bless You for your videos.
God bless you also, take a look at my bale gardening vids,,maybe useful for your goals in market gardening. It worked for me to sell before when I was supplying shops
Your energy and excitement for growing food is contagious Marty.😁 I'm sure many will be growing food thanks to your passion coming through your videos.
Thanks for talking about this, I am renting and I have a small yard, I had a compacted driveway with rocks too hard to dig in I just kept pilling mulch and compost on top of it and planting into it and hey presto getting great crops, if the landlord wants it to be a driveway again we can take all that lovely stuff off the top and seed it to lawn for him again.
Ageing work forces apply to all industries, trades are also not immune, average age of a brick layer in WA is 59. These guys can't support or find suitable apprentices to pass on skills. Same same.
Great video mate, subbed. I have 6 raised garden beds approx 2.5x1.5m with a growing arch approx 2.5m high in between each bed and have not brought a spud, onions, garlic, corn, carrots, spinaches, pumpkins, broccoli ect. for a few years. Certain out of season types such as capsicum and cucumber etc. is about all we buy in the wintertime. It is amazing how much food you can grow in such small spaces. One thing though I find was the most important for me was learning to progressively plant, and the timing of progressively planting to keep a constant supply and to restock winter stored veggies. I think once you can keep a constant supply going it gives you a great sense of accomplishment knowing you are not reliant on anyone but yourself.
Another great video. I like that you leave the video unedited and leave the pauses etc in, that's when I think and absorb the information. I dislike highly edited videos that are go go go and no time for thinking. I like your style. I think you are a great person. Good job ! Love from outback NSW.
Just sent this to my sister who has been a bean farmer for years. Her and her husband can tell U a few story's They bring their beans to our Three Creeks Farm Stall. Our little Stall helps many farmers and household growers each week Thanks Marty 🌱 Nature's Intentions 🌱 it stARTs in a Garden Awareness is the SEEd Watt 💡else will Bloom from this?
Thanks for sharing your experiences. The time to start home gardening was last year. We have to travel a few miles to farm stands and to get fresh milk and eggs. My town ordinances won't allow chickens on our private property. Super markets are a big thing here. God bless them. We are still learning to grow veggies we haven't succeeded with. Never giving up.
Marty have grown organically in soil over 40 yrs, then last10 yrs in pots. Am now trying hydro as mobility and health not great.At least can still grow plenty in a smaller space and have fresh veges. .With price and taste of shop bought , there is no comparison. Keep inspiring us many thanks
We only started growing our own 4 years ago, in 4 raised orchard-sized crates (we get boggy as we're next to green wedge marshland in Victoria) and now we have the equivalent of 46 raised orchard crates, 7 compost stations, 6 chooks, 1 rooster & a bossy floppy-eared rabbit. I learnt from scratch. There's not been too many disasters thanks to info found online. What we grow is primarily for us, my sons, grandchildren, my parents & spares go to immediate neighbours. I have enough space so that I can let things go to seed & I grow "starts" for neighbours & local friends who don't have time/space I have a few videos that people who are in a similar situation to me can watch. Much respect 🤗🏆👍
Last night I made a pasta. Im a qualified chef. From the garden came cherry tom's, spring onions and basil. From the shop, pasta and bacon. The whole feed cost about $2 for two people. Good food can be made without big slabs of meat. Things like pastas and stir fry's, even pizza is pretty easy to make. A good meal, can also be a cheap meal.
A good adjunct to Marty's veggies is how to prep cook and also freeze which will probably come when I you community is up in the new year. just making a another tub for increased basil to make and resell proper pesto pasta at times cheaper than a rice input also a tasty way to get some carbs into the the bodybeing a chef I take myhat off to you most people do not realise what pressure job it can be a lot burn out thanks to blasted labour hire mobs here for the resources industry as well as my Experience with Gate Gourmet for the airlines and bulk hospital mobs . But boy did I learn heaps . cheers and beers to you when the recipe element comes in lets go hardan dteach these buggers how toavoidthe fast food rubbish that folks become adicted to and drain the bank account on way to rotten health if you are in WA reach out lots happening here right downto local primary school food prep an food safety knowledge
@philcleaver2703 I'm a retired chef. Got too hard, but its a great skill to have now. I enjoy cooking again. I'm a lawnmower now, garden contractor, much better.
Marty is was born in 1951 so that makes me 73 & yes it was a FABULOUS simple life that I grew up in & wish the generations of today could have experienced it. I grow my own food / can produce & make my own pasta & bread & I still work & run my own Business. Cheers Denise at Geebung. V for Victory. 😃😃
A huge problem is because the younger generations don't want to work for a fair few years now therefore they don't know how to work. Remember when we were kids and they told us we would have flying cars by 2000. Well the kids/young generations these days have been told in their minds that the robots will do all of the needed but known as mundane jobs. Just like our flying cars, no flying cars twenty years ago. The same as no robots doing the jobs, as well as they have been brought up believing that these robots will be controlled by remote control/computerised very similar to the video gaming in excess that lots of if not most people of younger generations do as a daily thing with great expertise. Hoping that they all will get jobs that require this type of skill. Sorry if this is a bit offline, I'm not meaning to offend anyone I'm just saying it how i see it. As a former farm hand for many years, I've seen quite a few young people come farming and hate it and quit without even giving it a good Go.
Great video and topic. I've seen first hand the treatment of farmers in Australia and it's real. Grow your own vegies and meat, or find a local farmer to support, you really can't rely on this sick system.
Subscribed. It’s a genuine problem in western developed countries. Ppl can make more $ doing food delivery than farming. Farming is capital intensive and slow to return $
God bless you mate 🙏 I remember 12yrs ago. I was a younger man having beers with a punk with a Mohawk, tattoos and a fork tongue at the pub. And this guy was telling me all sorts of stuff that at the time I thought to myself "dude, your crazy!" He said enough tho to peak my interest. Years later after much research and just basic evidence of the world moving towards the things he told me about. I went from thinking this fellas crazy, to thinking this fella knows whats going on more than all of us. One thing he said was..The big two will buy out or put out of business everyone, using low prices and then, when there was no one else to buy from or to hard to run your own mum an pups food business because it wasn't financial possible in many situations. They would up the price on everything, with their own brands and little to nobody could do anything about it. I thought that guy was crazy but now days I'm just trying to make ends meat. But what was also scary now I think about it is he said they will take our meat away!
We can learn from everyone that's for sure. I think we are okay on the meat front. We just need to support our local butcher when we can. God bless you Revy
Doing org fruits n veggies only it’s cold turkey for bread n butta , and my case, donut king😅 so I’m thinking maybe it’d be wise to learn to bake bread, flour etc stores well.
@ no. The fruit merchants were ripping him off for citrus in Greece. He heard that in Australia you can work in a factory and get paid every fortnight. He came in 1971, rented in hawthorn Melbourne. In 6 months they had all the electrical appliances of the time and had everything they needed.
Marty, you are spot on about aging farmers because of succession issues the kids don't want the hard grind in the majority of bigger farms the other issue is corporatization where contract workers for a season are coming in, and a lot from overseas. For example goats and no shear sheep like those blasted DORPA increase because no shearers . Moving away from that Marty be proud and keep going because you are also teaching altruism, empathy, and compassion with humility and passion. I know you are a churchie whereas I am an Atheist but the world is a better place because you are here with us .
Storing fruit and vegetables to have supply past the growing season of that plant .IV found growing salad greens beetroot and small tomatoes through summer saves a lot on fresh salads also just pick leaves of lettuce extra so can haven't more.over shop pre packed salad cost
Its all well and good to sell produce cheap, but if comertail producers are undercut by to much they end up going broke. Can undercut the supermarkets a bit but the price should be the price
Hi Marty, :) The algorithm kept pushing your video to me, even though I'd only had a passing interest in farming and survival. So as the TH-cam algorithm was so persistent, I decided to check out your video and it was good! :D I don't think I realised that there was a food crisis in this country until you mentioned it and I got a bit scared. I don't think I can solve the problem in any significant way, because I still want to go to Woolworths (sorry) because it's convenient in so many ways. Maybe you can talk me around on that one. And at one stage I wanted to become a farmer, but I don't think my physical strength and mental illnesses will help me with that as well. What I do believe that I can do is write. I'm currently writing a Christian Conservative Children's Series called Humbug Scrub which is set in the Adelaide Hills suburb of Humbug Scrub. City kids, meet up with country kids and they learn farming lessons and Christian lessons. It's still very early days though. But... What if I made a childrens book and young adult book, showing the whole youth market to encourage them to become farmers or even just self-sufficient. Because this is such an important and crucial topic, I'm willing to do this NOW! What I would need to know is the lesson/s that you want to tell the kids and young adults about agribusiness and owning a farm despite the risks etc. What are the things that you need to tell them, to convince them, to persuade them to be farmers? It would really help the story if I knew that. I think all I can come up with at the moment is that farming is a noble goal, but I'm not sure kids care about that. Some kids do obviously worry about the future though and the thought of a food crisis could send them in the right direction. Please help me with this. :) If you want to contact me or know more about the children's series Humbug Scrub, my email address is katherinemaurer@ymail.com God Bless You Marty
@CastellanKat. We don't want to scare the children. But what if mom couldn't go to the store for food............ A few apple seeds can grow a big tree with so many apples we can't count them all. A few tomato seeds will grow enough tomatoes for 30 pizzas.
@@smas3256 Yes, scaring children is not my aim, unless maybe I was making a young adult novel, I guess you could put a bit of fear in there. Thanks smas3256 for giving me a bit of an idea of how to market this idea in a book form. Maybe I need to do a Gruen Transfer challenge on how to get kids to want to farm. 🤔
There is a zucchini farmer in bundaberg. He retired and his kids lease the land so the old dude can retire. Under some convoluted super scheme. So his kids basically got handed the farm. If you are poor and don’t have a farm handed to you, why would you borrow millions to grow undervalued labour intensive food. I grow snake beans. Seed from 1989 from my father in law.
@ he bought the property for 300000 back in the good old days and now worth 5 million. How come older farmers could buy cheap land and not the young generations. Land prices will make sure we have no farmers.
When you talk about re-education you might want to look at doing some yourself I've been a balanced food eater all my life, even been vegan, lots of vegetables, juicing etc week-long fasts and at 57 I've been diagnosed with a bowel disease that they want to cut out of me and pop a poo bag on my stomach. F off. so in my investigations regarding how to heal this because the sick care system here in New Zealand doesn't want to heal it. I've discovered the carnivore diet all I eat is beef lamb bacon butter and eggs and it's healing my gut, it's actually healing way more than my gut but I'll just say it's healing all my symptoms and keeping me out of hospital, so in this process I have realised that all the fruits and vegetables that we have eaten all our lives have only been here for 10,000 years and all were derived from one toxic weed, mankind apparently according to them has been here for 300,000 years so what did we eat before the vegetables..... so vegetables are actually trying to kill us more than the meat is. and the animal products are actually healing us, soooooo enjoy your vegetables and even I have a huge f****** garden that I'm now crying over because it's really for the animals so that I can eat the animals..... but eat yr vegetables and when you're 57 then you get a bowel disease and they want to cut your bowel out... perhaps u will remember me saying this and take a look at it regards to research.
You may already know but apparently Glyphosate is a major Issue in gut and associated Organs according to Steph Senef from mit in USA. The shikimate system is the Avenue. Good Health to you!
Eating carnivore can be part of the healing process, nervous system dysregulation is often a major component. This is one of the reasons why so many are going for a carnivore diet because their gut is so compromised from various stressors that certain components of plants are wreaking havoc in the body. In saying that, I am more mindful of my oxalate consumption after doing research, if you've had a significant mould exposure oxalates can really wreck you.
Sorry in advance for the long rant. On a different subject, i just had six chicks hatch yesterday. And caught another nearly three metre python lining up my little hen. I just got back from releasing it out in the forestry, hungry. Have a great day.
Put some of that wheelie bin cleaner phenyl-whatever it is from Bunnings, around the place. I had plans to pour it into cleaned salsa/ sauce jars with holes in the lids, and dot around the place. Haven't got around to that bit, the stuff stinks so bad and upsets my system I just put the bottles out the back door under the house (stilt house). Haven't seen any snakes around here, although I'm seeing more and more wiggle across the dirt roads nearby. I think just the stench from the bottles is keeping them away.
@andreamaclachlan980 update five minutes later, I'm off to Bunnings tomorrow to get a couple of bottles of that stuff. No longer did I send the last reply comment to you, and all heck broke out in the main coop this time, it is only a small one around four foot but I reckon it stretched to five foot now how hard it was pulling. Crickey, I'm not scared of snakes and I don't really like catching them but I like my chickens more. I learnt quite fast how to catch them from the three times I had to get the snake man out. You learn pretty quickly when it cost $125 each time. This is the smallest one so far and twice as cranky and faster than the few big ones that I've caught in the lady few weeks.
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Great post! I am in a rural area so I started self-sufficiency when I moved here 19 years ago. I have learned so much and have many skills that I am now doing workshop to try and educate people. I have raised and processed my own meat birds, I know how to dispatch and bone out my own sheep, I have dairy goats and make my own cheese, the goat manure goes on the garden which I grow a variety and as much as possible fruit and vegetables. I preserve my produce by either pressure canning, water bathing. Jams, relishes, dehydrating, vacuum sealing and mylar bag sealing for long term storage, sourdough baking and ferments and the list goes on.
Wow you're a master of self sufficiency, thanks for sharing your skills with others!
Great work Marty! Please keep encouraging people to become self sufficient from the corpse-orations. My family were Swedish immigrants to Australia in the late 1850's. My father's father was a market gardener in Western Sydney. My father was a market gardener until he accidentally got married. My family are still farmers in the central west of NSW. I live on a quarter acre suburban block in western Sydney with beautiful black loam soils. The same soil the convicts and succeeding generations fed Sydney with. Over the past several years I have realised I am blessed with all the knowledge that has been handed down to me and I thought it was all very normal. My front yard and back yard is exclusively vegetable garden where I pick all year round. It is a lot of work however the bond with the soil, Mother Earth, the seasons makes it all worth while. Not sure if you have covered it before, but it is amasing how much better I feel physically and mentally by eating fresh, organically grown food and with absolutely no chemicals etc. Thanks! :)
What an awesome story Paul you shared here. I created a video recently about soils which covered the health aspects. Healthy Soil equals healthy you!
100%
Stay safe, but spread the word. Love your work broter
Thanks matey!
Been a gardner my whole life, thanks to my grandparents who had huge gardens in New Zealand from the 1950s when my mother was a child. I've always grown something to eat. 3 mins ago I just harvested 4 Lebanese cucumbers to make a cucumber, ham and Mayo sandwich after dropping this comment. The satisfaction of growing your own food is priceless! And what I love about it is you are always learning it never stops. Hope everyone here has a great day, God bless you all.
Priceless satisfaction, luv it!
Completely agree with all of this and God bless you too! 🙏💕✨
Having worked in a major vegetable processing mob I witnessed the vile manipulation of the big two on its suppliers.
Sad stuff
this past year me and the girlfriend have really gotten into gardening and man is there a lot to learn but its so fun and rewarding!
Very rewarding, no doubt! Thanks for sharing your story
If u can't grow your own, support a small farmer who is trying to sell direct to consumer. There are loads of farmers like myself who would love to quit the off farm job to grow full time, but we need more support. ❤
That is the way to go!
Gardening and growing my own food has been the most rewarding journey so far! I'm obsessed with it! Keep inspiring us all Marty! 😍🙌💚
Thank you! Will do!
I like your style. You are spot on. I am a fruit grower and the heatwaves last year knocked the growers about. First time ever our crop was destroyed by the events of the extended heatwave. Even the ground water dried up. The wild endangered cockatoos were desperate for food and ate every fruit we were growing and ate everything ripe and unripe. Never happened before. The shopkeeper we sell to said all his growers that he buys from had their veges and fruit crops burn and stop ripening and stop growing because of the heat. The wild birds moved in from inland looking for food.
Hope you have a better year this year. Farming is a hard gig so many people have no idea
Praying for a better year for you guys
I've got 2 chooks in the back yard. little stinkers got into my lettuce the other day. but they give me 2 eggs every day.
Well done Aussie 🇦🇺
Cheers
Recently moved semi rural with the aim of growing more. I've been shopping at the big two for many decades. We pretty much stopped buying steak 10 years ago, just too expensive for a family on a working mans wage. One huge money saving change we have made now is we shop at a butcher with a privately owned fruit market/mini grocery store next door. We always thought that sounded like too much hassle to shop at multiple shops but wow, it is so much better/cheaper! Can now buy a four pack of T bone steak usually around $22-$26 AU. It was about $15 for one steak at the big two! The fruit (much of it sourced locally) is much fresher and usually far cheaper! They sell gourmet icecream there at $3 to $4 a tub ($13 at the big two!) We occasionally go to Aldi to do a bulk buy of T paper, and some processed stuff, but Geez it is definitely cheaper to move away from the big two scammers.
We shop around as much as we can too these days
As always, well said Marty. Micro greens was my gateway into gardening. I realised that I could provide a mixed salad for ever dinner. I know you appreciate the power of micro greens.
Cost of living in Aus is crazy. That’s why I am so appreciate all the info you share because just getting started can give people a lot of hope for how they can provide for their families. Good on you Marty.
Thanks AJ, micros are great and a good doorway to getting started as you know
I eat salad every day grow lettuce, tomatoes,cucumbers beetroot, purslane,celery capsicum rocket cabbage and can get most of this year round in Sydney with some fermenting and pickling.
You're a legend, that's great.
Hi Marty. With the cost of living nowadays. Back 70 years ago no one needed to spend $$ on internet/mobile phone credits which is now basically an essential cost in our lives.
It's another bill we have to find $$ for. Growing herbs flowers and veggies in our own homes is the way to flourish 😀
And fruit of course 😀
Changing all the time that's for sure, not as simple as it was
70 years ago the income tax was 3% on one income. Now your paying 18-30% with both people working PLUS gst which was meant to replace income tax.
Yes,all the extra bills to stay "connected",they keep adding more expenses,emergency services levy never existed before..
Retirement Agee is actually 67 years now
Farmers don’t retire they just drop dead
Oh my information is incorrect then
There are a lot of senior farmers around us. The farmers who own the land that we are renting a house on, are generational. The older ones refuse to 'retire' and still work like mad because they don't want their children/grandchildren to be in debt with the land. They are trying to clear the debt with them (they bought this land at the beginning of the year. ((It ajoins their current land. ))For too much, it seems, and things weren't what they were led to believe. Seems the real estate industry where farms are concerned are dodgy as, as well!!)
I stumbled across your vlog and it's been amazing to watch. You hit the nail on the head with walking into a shop and wondering how much you'll get for your money! Keep up the good work!
Cheers,,makes me anxious
All countries must be involved in price fixing. USA. It's not a coincidence. One can only hazard a guess why the fear games. I've heard that our central government wants to make US food industry a central government ownership and control. Do you think they want a rebellion? I certainly won't do that.
I agree with you on the Big 2. I worked most of my life in the fruit industry and have seen the shift on who is controlling who these days.
So sad, and it's still not solved
My great grandad was a market gardener and he raised my Dad (Dad's Mum was a widow). Dad grew up to be a market gardener as well and my goal is to one day produce enough surplus produce, that I can sell it. It's hard because it's semi-arid, the Northern Country of Victoria, but I am gradually learning and beginning to have some success!
God Bless You for your videos.
God bless you also, take a look at my bale gardening vids,,maybe useful for your goals in market gardening. It worked for me to sell before when I was supplying shops
Your energy and excitement for growing food is contagious Marty.😁 I'm sure many will be growing food thanks to your passion coming through your videos.
Thanks mate
Thanks for talking about this, I am renting and I have a small yard, I had a compacted driveway with rocks too hard to dig in I just kept pilling mulch and compost on top of it and planting into it and hey presto getting great crops, if the landlord wants it to be a driveway again we can take all that lovely stuff off the top and seed it to lawn for him again.
Good onya well done
Ageing work forces apply to all industries, trades are also not immune, average age of a brick layer in WA is 59. These guys can't support or find suitable apprentices to pass on skills. Same same.
So true, it's in so many fields
Another very useful video, Marty.
Thanks Dad, just a response to the piece of content I made recently as I know some are still thinking on this subject
Great video mate, subbed. I have 6 raised garden beds approx 2.5x1.5m with a growing arch approx 2.5m high in between each bed and have not brought a spud, onions, garlic, corn, carrots, spinaches, pumpkins, broccoli ect. for a few years. Certain out of season types such as capsicum and cucumber etc. is about all we buy in the wintertime. It is amazing how much food you can grow in such small spaces. One thing though I find was the most important for me was learning to progressively plant, and the timing of progressively planting to keep a constant supply and to restock winter stored veggies. I think once you can keep a constant supply going it gives you a great sense of accomplishment knowing you are not reliant on anyone but yourself.
Thanks for sharing progression planting is important to keep a steady flow of food coming in
Another great video. I like that you leave the video unedited and leave the pauses etc in, that's when I think and absorb the information. I dislike highly edited videos that are go go go and no time for thinking. I like your style. I think you are a great person. Good job ! Love from outback NSW.
Thanks mate, I appreciate it the comment on the vid
Just sent this to my sister who has been a bean farmer for years. Her and her husband can tell U a few story's They bring their beans to our Three Creeks Farm Stall. Our little Stall helps many farmers and household growers each week
Thanks Marty 🌱
Nature's Intentions 🌱
it stARTs in a Garden
Awareness is the SEEd
Watt 💡else will Bloom from this?
Thanks so much for sharing and caring. I just love reading comments like this. Blessings!
Thanks mate.. will do.❤
Cheers mate!
Thanks for sharing your experiences. The time to start home gardening was last year. We have to travel a few miles to farm stands and to get fresh milk and eggs. My town ordinances won't allow chickens on our private property. Super markets are a big thing here. God bless them. We are still learning to grow veggies we haven't succeeded with. Never giving up.
Keep going, you'll get there
Marty have grown organically in soil over 40 yrs, then last10 yrs in pots. Am now trying hydro as mobility and health not great.At least can still grow plenty in a smaller space and have fresh veges. .With price and taste of shop bought , there is no comparison. Keep inspiring us many thanks
Great idea so you can keep on growing and eating fresh
We only started growing our own 4 years ago, in 4 raised orchard-sized crates (we get boggy as we're next to green wedge marshland in Victoria) and now we have the equivalent of 46 raised orchard crates, 7 compost stations, 6 chooks, 1 rooster & a bossy floppy-eared rabbit.
I learnt from scratch. There's not been too many disasters thanks to info found online.
What we grow is primarily for us, my sons, grandchildren, my parents & spares go to immediate neighbours. I have enough space so that I can let things go to seed & I grow "starts" for neighbours & local friends who don't have time/space
I have a few videos that people who are in a similar situation to me can watch.
Much respect 🤗🏆👍
Thanks for sharing Dawn
Last night I made a pasta. Im a qualified chef. From the garden came cherry tom's, spring onions and basil. From the shop, pasta and bacon. The whole feed cost about $2 for two people.
Good food can be made without big slabs of meat. Things like pastas and stir fry's, even pizza is pretty easy to make.
A good meal, can also be a cheap meal.
Shows how cheap it can be done when you combo from the garden. Thanks for sharing and caring!
A good adjunct to Marty's veggies is how to prep cook and also freeze which will probably come when I you community is up in the new year. just making a another tub for increased basil to make and resell proper pesto pasta at times cheaper than a rice input also a tasty way to get some carbs into the the bodybeing a chef I take myhat off to you most people do not realise what pressure job it can be a lot burn out thanks to blasted labour hire mobs here for the resources industry as well as my Experience with Gate Gourmet for the airlines and bulk hospital mobs . But boy did I learn heaps . cheers and beers to you when the recipe element comes in lets go hardan dteach these buggers how toavoidthe fast food rubbish that folks become adicted to and drain the bank account on way to rotten health if you are in WA reach out lots happening here right downto local primary school food prep an food safety knowledge
@philcleaver2703 I'm a retired chef. Got too hard, but its a great skill to have now. I enjoy cooking again. I'm a lawnmower now, garden contractor, much better.
Good stuff. Well said. 😊😊😊
Cheers
Thanks Marty.
Thank you Veronica
Marty is was born in 1951 so that makes me 73 & yes it was a FABULOUS simple life that I grew up in & wish the generations of today could have experienced it. I grow my own food / can produce & make my own pasta & bread & I still work & run my own Business. Cheers Denise at Geebung. V for Victory. 😃😃
Your doing great Denise, still running a biz too is a big feat in itself.
A huge problem is because the younger generations don't want to work for a fair few years now therefore they don't know how to work.
Remember when we were kids and they told us we would have flying cars by 2000. Well the kids/young generations these days have been told in their minds that the robots will do all of the needed but known as mundane jobs. Just like our flying cars, no flying cars twenty years ago. The same as no robots doing the jobs, as well as they have been brought up believing that these robots will be controlled by remote control/computerised very similar to the video gaming in excess that lots of if not most people of younger generations do as a daily thing with great expertise. Hoping that they all will get jobs that require this type of skill. Sorry if this is a bit offline, I'm not meaning to offend anyone I'm just saying it how i see it. As a former farm hand for many years, I've seen quite a few young people come farming and hate it and quit without even giving it a good Go.
It's a huge problem bro no doubt about that
Thank you for another helpful video!
Thanks so much
Another awesome video, thanks again Marty ❤
My pleasure!
Great channel ❤
Appreciate it, thanks so much!
Couldn’t agree more with your take on hydroponics in small urban gardens. It’s working well for me in terms of crops per square metre.
Really glad to hear it's working for you!
My passion fruit harvest last year was a fail with many eaten before they ripened. Surprised by this years harvest - plenty. Wins and losses I guess.
Always wins and losses, hopefully more wins
Great video and topic. I've seen first hand the treatment of farmers in Australia and it's real. Grow your own vegies and meat, or find a local farmer to support, you really can't rely on this sick system.
100% we need to support the farmers as best as we can, even the local butcher
Subscribed.
It’s a genuine problem in western developed countries.
Ppl can make more $ doing food delivery than farming. Farming is capital intensive and slow to return $
God bless you mate 🙏
I remember 12yrs ago. I was a younger man having beers with a punk with a Mohawk, tattoos and a fork tongue at the pub. And this guy was telling me all sorts of stuff that at the time I thought to myself "dude, your crazy!"
He said enough tho to peak my interest. Years later after much research and just basic evidence of the world moving towards the things he told me about. I went from thinking this fellas crazy, to thinking this fella knows whats going on more than all of us. One thing he said was..The big two will buy out or put out of business everyone, using low prices and then, when there was no one else to buy from or to hard to run your own mum an pups food business because it wasn't financial possible in many situations. They would up the price on everything, with their own brands and little to nobody could do anything about it.
I thought that guy was crazy but now days I'm just trying to make ends meat. But what was also scary now I think about it is he said they will take our meat away!
We can learn from everyone that's for sure. I think we are okay on the meat front. We just need to support our local butcher when we can. God bless you Revy
@martysgarden cheers mate.
You have yourself a lovely day.
I hope you are right about our meats. Meat is my favourite part of every meal.
@@revyhavoc1386 yep it will be okay there
Doing org fruits n veggies only it’s cold turkey for bread n butta , and my case, donut king😅 so I’m thinking maybe it’d be wise to learn to bake bread, flour etc stores well.
Ever baked an Aussie Damper so easy
8:00 that’s why my grandfather left Greece 🇬🇷 for Australia 😊in 1971.
Thanks for sharing the story of your grandpa, he came to farm?
@ no. The fruit merchants were ripping him off for citrus in Greece. He heard that in Australia you can work in a factory and get paid every fortnight. He came in 1971, rented in hawthorn Melbourne. In 6 months they had all the electrical appliances of the time and had everything they needed.
He worked at Ford.
As always good onya man
Thanks, appreciate that
Great content and educator. Subscribed!
Appreciate it, thanks
Oh that " middleman" , always the ones driving the Mercs.
yep
Marty, you are spot on about aging farmers because of succession issues the kids don't want the hard grind in the majority of bigger farms the other issue is corporatization where contract workers for a season are coming in, and a lot from overseas. For example goats and no shear sheep like those blasted DORPA increase because no shearers . Moving away from that Marty be proud and keep going because you are also teaching altruism, empathy, and compassion with humility and passion. I know you are a churchie whereas I am an Atheist but the world is a better place because you are here with us .
Thanks Phil, I will keep doing what I am doing for sure! Love ya mate
Storing fruit and vegetables to have supply past the growing season of that plant .IV found growing salad greens beetroot and small tomatoes through summer saves a lot on fresh salads also just pick leaves of lettuce extra so can haven't more.over shop pre packed salad cost
Good on you for being ahead of the game!
Love this and you Marty. Thank you X
Sending the love back to you!
What do you do about the possums? They take everything.
cHILI POWDER
If it eats your food. Eat it. They roast well.
Its all well and good to sell produce cheap, but if comertail producers are undercut by to much they end up going broke. Can undercut the supermarkets a bit but the price should be the price
Yes, it needs to be profitable but not straight out robbery from the buyers
Hi Marty, :)
The algorithm kept pushing your video to me, even though I'd only had a passing interest in farming and survival. So as the TH-cam algorithm was so persistent, I decided to check out your video and it was good! :D
I don't think I realised that there was a food crisis in this country until you mentioned it and I got a bit scared.
I don't think I can solve the problem in any significant way, because I still want to go to Woolworths (sorry) because it's convenient in so many ways. Maybe you can talk me around on that one. And at one stage I wanted to become a farmer, but I don't think my physical strength and mental illnesses will help me with that as well.
What I do believe that I can do is write. I'm currently writing a Christian Conservative Children's Series called Humbug Scrub which is set in the Adelaide Hills suburb of Humbug Scrub. City kids, meet up with country kids and they learn farming lessons and Christian lessons. It's still very early days though.
But...
What if I made a childrens book and young adult book, showing the whole youth market to encourage them to become farmers or even just self-sufficient. Because this is such an important and crucial topic, I'm willing to do this NOW!
What I would need to know is the lesson/s that you want to tell the kids and young adults about agribusiness and owning a farm despite the risks etc. What are the things that you need to tell them, to convince them, to persuade them to be farmers? It would really help the story if I knew that.
I think all I can come up with at the moment is that farming is a noble goal, but I'm not sure kids care about that. Some kids do obviously worry about the future though and the thought of a food crisis could send them in the right direction. Please help me with this. :)
If you want to contact me or know more about the children's series Humbug Scrub, my email address is katherinemaurer@ymail.com
God Bless You Marty
It's a wonderful idea, but right now I am snowed in and cant have no free time sorry
@CastellanKat. We don't want to scare the children. But what if mom couldn't go to the store for food............ A few apple seeds can grow a big tree with so many apples we can't count them all. A few tomato seeds will grow enough tomatoes for 30 pizzas.
@@smas3256 true value
@@smas3256 Yes, scaring children is not my aim, unless maybe I was making a young adult novel, I guess you could put a bit of fear in there.
Thanks smas3256 for giving me a bit of an idea of how to market this idea in a book form. Maybe I need to do a Gruen Transfer challenge on how to get kids to want to farm. 🤔
There is a zucchini farmer in bundaberg. He retired and his kids lease the land so the old dude can retire. Under some convoluted super scheme. So his kids basically got handed the farm. If you are poor and don’t have a farm handed to you, why would you borrow millions to grow undervalued labour intensive food. I grow snake beans. Seed from 1989 from my father in law.
Leasing is a great idea
@ he bought the property for 300000 back in the good old days and now worth 5 million. How come older farmers could buy cheap land and not the young generations. Land prices will make sure we have no farmers.
Wow your beans look great!
Happy with them and more just getting started
When you talk about re-education you might want to look at doing some yourself I've been a balanced food eater all my life, even been vegan, lots of vegetables, juicing etc week-long fasts and at 57 I've been diagnosed with a bowel disease that they want to cut out of me and pop a poo bag on my stomach. F off. so in my investigations regarding how to heal this because the sick care system here in New Zealand doesn't want to heal it. I've discovered the carnivore diet all I eat is beef lamb bacon butter and eggs and it's healing my gut, it's actually healing way more than my gut but I'll just say it's healing all my symptoms and keeping me out of hospital, so in this process I have realised that all the fruits and vegetables that we have eaten all our lives have only been here for 10,000 years and all were derived from one toxic weed, mankind apparently according to them has been here for 300,000 years so what did we eat before the vegetables..... so vegetables are actually trying to kill us more than the meat is. and the animal products are actually healing us, soooooo enjoy your vegetables and even I have a huge f****** garden that I'm now crying over because it's really for the animals so that I can eat the animals..... but eat yr vegetables and when you're 57 then you get a bowel disease and they want to cut your bowel out... perhaps u will remember me saying this and take a look at it regards to research.
Very sorry to hear this, praying it all heals up for you
You may already know but apparently Glyphosate is a major Issue in gut and associated Organs according to Steph Senef from mit in USA. The shikimate system is the Avenue.
Good Health to you!
Eating carnivore can be part of the healing process, nervous system dysregulation is often a major component. This is one of the reasons why so many are going for a carnivore diet because their gut is so compromised from various stressors that certain components of plants are wreaking havoc in the body. In saying that, I am more mindful of my oxalate consumption after doing research, if you've had a significant mould exposure oxalates can really wreck you.
Where can you go to learn how to can, I’ve tried and failed by watching TH-cam I’m in WA? Does anyone know ?
Maybe find an online community in FB
Contact your local CWA. (Country women’s association for those that don’t know) they are a great resource for different types of preserving.
No matter what, we all have to eat so it doesn't matter how you grow the food just grow
Just grow, that's it!
Sorry in advance for the long rant. On a different subject, i just had six chicks hatch yesterday. And caught another nearly three metre python lining up my little hen. I just got back from releasing it out in the forestry, hungry. Have a great day.
Wow, so glad you caught that Python Aaron. We havent had one in our yard yet! Coming though I reckon
Put some of that wheelie bin cleaner phenyl-whatever it is from Bunnings, around the place. I had plans to pour it into cleaned salsa/ sauce jars with holes in the lids, and dot around the place. Haven't got around to that bit, the stuff stinks so bad and upsets my system I just put the bottles out the back door under the house (stilt house). Haven't seen any snakes around here, although I'm seeing more and more wiggle across the dirt roads nearby. I think just the stench from the bottles is keeping them away.
@@andreamaclachlan980 awesome, thank you Andrea for this tip I'll definitely be getting some next time I go shopping, to give this a try.
@andreamaclachlan980 update five minutes later, I'm off to Bunnings tomorrow to get a couple of bottles of that stuff. No longer did I send the last reply comment to you, and all heck broke out in the main coop this time, it is only a small one around four foot but I reckon it stretched to five foot now how hard it was pulling. Crickey, I'm not scared of snakes and I don't really like catching them but I like my chickens more. I learnt quite fast how to catch them from the three times I had to get the snake man out. You learn pretty quickly when it cost $125 each time. This is the smallest one so far and twice as cranky and faster than the few big ones that I've caught in the lady few weeks.
Me thinketh can't under why., everyone with a backyard does raise a few chooks, plant some veggies and........fruit trees!@!?😉😁
Some councils don't allow chooks
@martysgarden
Yes and some only., allow people to get out of their homes only if you wear a mask and inject an......experimental jab!@@!?😉
FOOD SECURITY AT YOUR PLACE
Yeah it’ll come to that soon, I wonder if Yates will go from pesticides to security cameras and alarms?
Its going to get worse before it gets better.
Yer, I think your right because nobody is trying to solve the problem
Marty are you really snowed in or was that a figure of speech? Just checking .... Comments are excellent.
Figure of speech yer. Hoping we arent flooded in this year