Farmers Under ATTACK! 5 TIPS to FIGHT Rising COST of FOOD
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- In this video, I give you my opinion on the rising cost of living and how this is affected by the global attack on farmers, and I also give you 5 things/tips you can do at home to help with the rising cost of food.
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G'day Everyone, the rising cost of food and living in general is a worry, but with our shared tips and experience, we'll fight through! Thanks for your ongoing support - you really are a champion gardening/prepping/self-sufficient community here on TH-cam and I always appreciate you even if I can't reply to all your comments. Cheers :)
All good mate! Living in the 600km from Perth to the east, we are pretty much self sufficient. 12 hens, garden with variety of veggies, plus some fruit trees. All in balance.
Greed. Pure and simple. It's the cause of almost all of these issues.
Most animals have it ingrained. It was a useful survival tactic for us in the past, but completely unnecessary in our convenient and bountiful modern world.
Unless governments are willing to put a cap on greed, and factor other such animalistic traits into policies and eventually law, then things will unfortunately only continue to get worse.
Small power in the hands of the many is the way to go.
Stay humble, everyone. Excess will not make you a happier or better person.
Cheers, Mark 👍
The politicians want you to eat bugs and only buy that bug food from govt approved providers. WEF agenda.
Despite being pretty much self sufficient in veg here in France and as a retired UK army chef im able to make something out of nothing, my biggest tip certainly for UK and EU peeps is to watch out for Lidl when they do their 1 euro veg boxes , i cant resist a bargain, my last box had lots of fruit, a ton of garlic, 2 bags of spuds and some broccoli all for a quid, i break each box into 3 , 1 unusable as this is left over produce they cant sell , this gets composted , 2 edible but not by humans, this goes to the chickens and finally 3 , food for humans, my last box gave me a fruit salad plus fruit to eat , a meal using the broccoli and 1 bag of spuds, the other bag was used for making wedges and the left overs from bag 1 i turned into potato salad, finally the garlic i used 3 ways, first to make garlic butter which was sliced and frozen to use as required, second was garlic oil for cooking with and finally i made a ton of garlic bombs, which i just pull from the freezer to add into stews etc ,,,,,,,,,,,,, 😁😁😁, cooking on a budget is a great way to learn new skills including money management , just find the cheap stuff or even better , try growing your own 😇😇🤑🤑
WEFagenda, say no to govt controlled digital money as well.
“Be the reason why someone stops believing in government”. Great to see you being wide awake.
Agree!
We are the government. If you don't like it, vote, and if you are not voting, you are the problem. (Australians have to vote. USA don't)
The guy is a former digger, he should already have a healthy distrust of politicians of all walks
"Government" is not synonymous with "politician." Most governing is done by regular people making below market rate wages, getting no kickbacks, abusing no authority, doing no cronyism and if they weren't doing their jobs and doing them well, the world would be in way more hurt than it currently is. This is a capitalism issue combined with a democracy model where corporations can just literally buy media and political influence.
@@christaylor9095exactly! How is the CEO making 300 times what the guys who actually do the work make?
My tip:don’t be discouraged if you have small space. We live on 480sqm, most of that being a 4br house. I have a beehive, 3 chickens and a garden in planter boxes on the perimeter of the yard. Hubby and I knocked them up free from pallets. We bake our own bread at a fraction of the cost of supermarket loaves. Way less chemicals too! Implement things slowly and perfect them to ease the stress of it all 😊
Thank you! Those are great points.
My yard is about the same but most of my backyard does not get a lot of sun. That being said, I still managed to fit 20 square meters(200ish sqft) in my front yard and have planted fruit trees and bushes on the perimiter of the property ( 6 raspberries, 6 blueberries and 13 fruit trees).
This has kept me and the wife fed for most of the summer barring a few exception. We pulled out around 85 cups of raspeberries, which is a huge saving money wise and they taste much better than store bought.
TLDR: Any garden is better than no garden
Amen!! Me too. Great work guys
@@ugosmith7529 I love that. "Any garden is better than no garden."
I think it's 400sqm for 2024
Hi Mark, I am early retired chemical process engineer (they just shut our refinery down). But more importantly I am passionate orchardist and gardener. Absolute majority of fertilisers through one way or another ends up in oceans. I took as personal project to develop simple back yard scale technology to take nutrients back from the ocean water and use them as garden fertiliser. Now I am in a trial stage. Once successfully finished I will film video and send it to Mark and some other bloggers to share with public. This will be my contribution to sustainability.
Wonderful idea. Best of luck
👌🙏 That sounds brilliant - thank you and please spread the word.
Thank you. Can't wait. 😊 When I was a kid mom would have me go down to the bay to fill up the wagon with seaweed. 😊
I'm assuming that you have a way to safely extract those nutrients out of the salty ocean water. If the soil is salted, vegetation can't thrive, so I hope you took that into account.
Thank you for taking on an excellent project. Good Luck! 🍀🌱
They know exactly what they’re doing. It’s by design. Keep growing, keep sharing, keep a strong community.
100%
Agree
key to survival.
I disagree with half of what you've said... I think THEY have no idea what they're doing.. The rest is just common sense. Me and my neighbours do just that, and we're all good. NZ.
@@ianjohnston7211 you think that they have no idea that they are implementing WEF, WHO and UN policies?
Hello Mark, We love you here in California! Our neighborhood has small back yards. We each can't grow everything, so we got together and decided each of us would grow two things. We picked two vegetables or fruits to grow and we established a "sharing table" where we leave bags of produce for everyone in the group. The plan is working great and we all have plenty of food, even enough to take some to the local food bank. Your growing tips have been really helpful! Thanks for your time and effort to do the videos!!!
That is incredible ! I hope millions of people see this and that many are inspired to do similarly. That's awesome !
That is an impressive effort.
We call this crop swap here in Australia, once a month we bring our excess crops to swap with others in the community, no money is exchanged. This is how we make the corporate food chain irrelevant to us.
G'day Carolynn, what a wonderful system you and your neighbours have set up! A "sharing table" how very cool. Thanks for sharing :)
That's awesome
I‘m a backyard gardener from Germany and totally agree with what you said. Our farmers are doing a fantastic job by standing up for their rights to grow our food! They experience great support throughout our country.
It is like you said Mark, all of us have the obligation to minimize the monopolists‘ power by making us independent from their influence by growing our own food! Keep on going 💪👍
In my travels around the world, I think Germany has been my favourite food. Don't get me wrong, most countries have their unique and delicious cuisine, and I love them all, but Germany has a special and deep food culture that I find tasty and inspiring. So, it's a shame to see farmers treated this way in a country that values food so much. Anyway, it seems like the people of Germany are supportive of the farmers, and hopefully, there will be a good outcome there soon. Cheers :)
@@Selfsufficientme Yes, the people in Germany are very supportive of their farmers and many other professions/vocations have joined in the struggle against the wannabe overlords...
I was googling the German farmer protests the other day and all that was returned was liberal protests against the far right party there....
they are not doing a fantastic job they are loosing their minds even the deutsche baurenverband said these demonstrations aim at the wrong things. it's a complex topic but summary is, supermarkets aimed at buying from bigger farms with lower prices, farmers had to get bigger to survive, farmers were subsidized, small farms were dependent for far to long on this and became to dependent on tax money, while big farms pushed prices down, now they get 1-3% less income through substitution while still making good cash more than most people, so they get angry plus a lot of them are racists idk, i don't support them, and I know no one who does besides uninformed and far right wing supportive people.
@@Selfsufficientme Thank you Mark!
Without our farmers, the whole world stops, it’s just that simple, this a a great video mark.
Yes, people living in cities, especially in units, don't have the option to grow anything/much at all, except for a couple of herbs on a balcony. I was surprised to see just how much farmers are being bullied by their suppliers and retailers. We need to continue to support farmers.
Well that’s what the elite globalist want.
Don’t let anybody ever call you crazy, American here, you ARE 100% correct
Greetings from Ireland. Well done Mark. Irish farmers are under serious threat. In fact, they are a dying breed. Young people dont want to take over farms as the return on investment and labour does not meet the cost of living. Most existing farmers must also work outside the farm just to make ends meet. They are being squeezed out. Farmers the world over need to unite. They need to stand together to force supermarkets to pay them better rates for their produce or form co-op markets. Thank you.
I agree that locally owned co-ops may be the way to sell and perhaps work collegues need to band together to buy in season produce from local farmers to ensure our $$ stays local and we start the push back on conglomerates.
They need yo sell direct to the public thru website and delivering to the towns.
Some do it here in New Zealand. Farm to consumer. No middleman
We need to unite with them.
Of only the farmers could open a market of their own and sell direct....some sort of "farmer's" market.
This has been going on in America for a long time now. The big corporations and government taking over as well. Our country was built by the regular farmers who are unable to keep up now. They are indeed a dying breed.
Mark, if speaking truth courageously & unapologetically as you do - on a channel you’ve worked hard to build - isn’t the highest example of integrity, I don’t know what is. Thank you for everything you do mate. It goes well beyond gardening 🙏🏽
WELL SAID @impactnation-life !
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thank you
@@chicomaki7327
Agree, I sort of expected this from Mark but I never thought he would do a video about
I agree as well, so encouraging to see!
Buy a bag of 16 bean soup. Soak them overnight. Plant them. Whatever makes it will produce in your area. Save those seeds.. and you have beans that will grow in your area. Hope this helps a family.
I did this with black beans last year. Hoping to grow stronger and stronger seeds each year by saving. I just need to get more organized.
@joannekreutzer752 as a Texan I suggest you do so. Much grit 8>
I have never had any success with growing plants from shop bought beans, but it's worth a try.
I do that with shop bought tomatoes though, save the seeds and grow them. So far did very well. Same with F1 hybrid seeds - sure, the offspring might not be true to type, but I get food from those seeds anyway. The cherry tomatoes I get this way are the biggest and sweetest I have ever grown.
Another thing I do is leaving my cabbages in the ground after I harvest the heads.. I just let the plants grow and they keep producing new heads. One of my most successful cabbages is on its third year and going strong.
I'm trying the same with climbing beans this year. I left the plants to do their thing over winter and should find out soon enough if they are going to grow back. Fingers crossed they will, but if they won't I have enough seeds saved to sow them again.
@theclumsyprepper sounds like you're doing a kick A good job. Don't quit ❤️
@@amandamckillip5025 I don't intend to 👍😊.
Glad to see more growers talking about this.. I'm in the uk and they are doing this all over the world.. It is actually terrifying
Growers must sell direct to the public. Cut out the middleman.
Don't be terrified. If anything, be angry. And take action.
@@huwhitecavebeast1972
Theres nothing you can do unless you mean violence, because thats the only way we’re getting out of this mess. You dont overthrow a tyrannical government with policies and words.
@@huwhitecavebeast1972 Yes BUT action means education, so you do not spread emotional BS as video creator did.
I'm in Canada and terrified too hon. Scared to even talk about stuff here but we grow as much as we can in our backyard. We can, make our own butter and cook on wood in our backyard. I understand that now our government is going to go after wood burning pizza ovens and such. Looking forward to elections both here and in the US, and hoping for a change.
Even without you saying it, I always knew you got it 😉. I did 10 years as a correctional officer until they decided they were in charge of my health and what I decide to do with my body. I got chickens, began learning to grow my own food and learned how to be poor but happy. That’s when I found you! Thank you for all your help from the other side of the world! 👍
@@navyvet84 you’re damn right. 😂
Awesome! I love hearing that!! 🎉 But wish others wake up to this massive takeover and quickly! We’ve got this. 🥒🍆🍑
Good on you matey, same with my husband and I. We discovered Mark at the beginning of the plandemic and always knew he was ‘awake’. We watched all his videos and have been growing masses of food ever since. We are trying very hard to become completely self sufficient well before Agenda 30.
Canada here, take everything you said, then add a carbon tax on top of everything. It's suppose to be going up again April 1. People are already struggling to put food on table .... we have 2 million people monthly using food banks already. Not only is that bad enough, there's continous recalls due to Samenella. It's to the point now Canadians are going to have to garden year round to keep good food on the table.
That's why backyards are disappearing in Australia. Only the rich will be able to grow food.
If you ate food today, thank a farmer.
If you can't afford said food, thank a politician.
Hell of a video man. I loved all of it. The same things that's on your mind, is on ours lately. Especially about the WEF clowns.
Really well said mate. Love your work! ❤
Totally love your show too Bryce 👍
I agree !
I applaud your bravery for stepping out of your lane to discuss these important and complex issues. Excellent work!
Yes 100% agree. I know what I’d like to with the pineapple and Klaus.
Not incompetent, deliberate.
I love the fact you highlight issues and also provide solution's.🤝🇬🇧
I now grow all my vegetables. It is hard work. A lot of people who get the idea from TH-cam don't grasp it, stick with it. The process takes a few years to learn.
Most veggies are not good for you due to anti nutrients . Stick to fruit and meat
A few years ago I had a bad experience growing tomatoes in our tiny patio backyard. I didn't bother again - until last year. I bought five varieties and grew them out the front - and we had tomatoes coming out of our ears. I also have blueberries, gooseberries, blackcurrants and strawberries all over. A few potted trees which have varying yields (tons of plums). The front garden wasn't an obvious choice, but it is where the sun hits most of the day. My neighbours could see how much produce I was growing and I even gave a few plants away because I want to encourage them to grow, I got some positive feedback from the stuff they grew. Everyone should try to grow something - I get so much pride going into my garden to collect food I grew. It's just a thrilling thing!
Canadian here. Record profits here too for the grocery stores while Grandma starves in the cold. I just retired and have to cut back. I already grow, can, freeze much of my fruit and veg and now I've changed my shopping and eating. Only shop sales, eat way more beans. Tonight I cooked a couple of pounds of dry mixed beans in my instant pot. I froze them in small bags and now a bean soup or stew is very quick.
Preparing in bulk is a great way to go. I've just recently started to learn how to can and I'm just in love with being able to grab things off the shelf and heat them up for a quick meal.
I love indian and Mexican food, lots if beans and plenty of different flavours with different spices.
Anyone notice that it's the family farmers that are being attacked and not the massive corporate combines?
Exactly. It's about centralizing power and control... just like during lockdowns they closed small businesses but allowed the Walmarts and Costcos to stay open (and Amazon, of course).
It's awful... and they're going to try again. We need to resist.
Yes, it's deliberate.
I agree here in the Southeast of the United States there are almost no family farmers left. My grandfather was a bean and pea farmer before and after WW2 But sold his land to his brother and became a factory worker on the coast. Those blessed enough to have land still often sell it to corporate farmers and it seems the only thing grown now down here is pine trees and soybean.
Thanks from the Netherlands for your video, who controls the food, controls the population.
Support the growth of local farmer co-ops. Farmers take care of us so we need to take care of them. Thank you and be well.
You are EXACTLY RIGHT! Control the food, control the people
Im from California. The attack on farmers and farming is unspeakable. Its a horror story. The goverment has full control of food
In California yes. That’s a lost state. Education system bankrupt in 3 years. Over here in America, farmers are forming coalitions and refusing to sell to blue states and cities. I’m a small SC farmer and I still sell to CA, but at 200% markup. I call it my equity LG tax.
I still remember over a decade ago when CA begin violating the constitution and forbidding state funds to be spent on products from my state because of what we believe and how we vote. Imagine demanding another culture bow down to yours…. You should get out of there asap.
Yes agenda 21/30 in full swing w.e.f hide nothing been on there website for years people laughed at us truth telling people trying to wake up people... arh well safe and effective 👍
@@steeldriver1776they will be coming for you next
@@steeldriver1776 omg. land of the free?
Be careful what you say utube, the USgovt and the 🤡 in d.c. is making sure you aren't heard. Eff Jay bee
Please please PLEASE … rant as much as you want! I’m an American who believes there are so many more conspiracies than we can even imagine. I appreciate your wisdom when pointing out those facts. 🙂
You’re my all time favorite YT gardener and I always look forward to your next video. Keep it up! You’re awesome! ❤️
When everything is the same in the UK, the US, Australia and everywhere, it's no coincidence. Glad to see you're talking about it. I was worried about ya'll over there.
Yes, someone willing to say it as it is. Thank you, Mark. Let's all find and support a local farmer and stick it to the big corporations.
Exactly, support your farmer so much, that he does not need to use subsidised diesel, subsidised fertilizer, subsidized machinery etc.... ( not sarcasm, not criticism, reality check )
So pay significantly more money no thanks.
If you don’t support the farmers, enjoy your fake meat.. and spend much more on vitamins and minerals to try and keep your health. 😂 Either way you pay, I choose to support the farmer NOT big business.
@autohelix you won't be able to buy any real food if we don't. Wake up!
Most local farmers sell there products on the side and deliver most of the time
Some tips I remember from my grandparents, that grew up during the Great Depression. was don't buy things that are disposable. Like paper towels, napkins, cleaning sponges, tear up old t-shirts. You can use them and then wash them. to wash dishes we used old rags or washcloths or cut up an old towel. don't use paper plates or cups. use and wash the ones in your cabinet. Learn to make food instead of premade things in the store. For example, I make pancakes from scratch I have never bought the premade pancake mix. the ones I make taste better, are almost as easy to make and cost less.
Like bread. It costs almost nothing to make but you spend so much money on it every week. And other simple things like tortillas or crumpets.
@@Flipbug_The_Whimsical Also the store breads have way more sugar and salt so that they don't mold before you get a chance to buy or eat it.
Farmers going to Canberra Rally 6th Feb, let's support them
dang, we missed it
Great message. On our way to Canberra to join the protest tomorrow. Get involved people
Hi Mark, the food prices in South Africa has almost doubled in the last 4 years. I started my veggie patch in August 2021, getting a bit more self sufficient.
That is the way to go Etienne. As Mark said, start growing anything, is something. I have a freezer full of greenbeans, sweetcorn and Hubbardsquash and onions to last me months. It is more healthy and tasty than food off the supermarket shelf. More people should start small gardens and i feel strongly that children, especially here in RSA are given the basics of planting and gardening as a subject in school (even have a garden at the schools) to teach kids from a young age how to grow food. Most kids here thinks food comes from the shops
Elke bietjie help, veral in 'n land wat skaars die ligte kan aanhou.
It has more than doubled in the US.
Hi there fellow South African
Because they killed all the white farmers, no?
05:00 same here in Laos. I was expecting a drought from El Niño will affect our rice harvest, almost invested in a irrigation system but finally just planted way more rice than we need in order to compensate. The result luckily was that we hat a mega harvest of 60 sack of rice (not selling only for our own use)
We were keen backyard growers and chicken keepers on the Sunshine Coast before the big global con. A good friend with a cattle property nearby was on the same page invited us to collaborate and move to the farm with her, so now just 1 years later we have 3 households combining our energies to be very close to self sufficient for beef, chicken, eggs, fruit and vegetables. We are also dehydrating, preserving and canning. I cannot begin to thank you enough for everything we have learned from you, I also cannot begin to tell you how much it thrills me to know that you are not only awake to what is happening around the world but that you are speaking out to awake the masses. Screw your WEF we don’t want or need your BS.
👍👍👍💕
Got that right
I've been following you for years. Right around when COVID started punching fear into the old ticker. You're like the awesome uncle that everyone is so stoked to see every thanksgiving. Your demeanor, humility, way of teaching, wisdom and general knowledge is alluring and much appreciated in such a dark world. Thanks for being the Light Uncle Mark! We need this content!
I don't understand that people still think we're talking out of our asses when we talk about the people in power are trying to screw us over.
I'll one up you there that the ones spearheading all of this are j€w1sh, and while people are waking up most still can't or refuse to see it.
Years and years of conditioning 🙏🏼
A worker at one of the local grocery stores that I go to had admitted that one of the items that I liked to buy had gone up over 100% (exaggeration) in cost simply because the grocery store figured they could get away with it and no other reason. The greed of these corporations is tremendous and terrible and something needs to be done about it!
It's so true! They do it because they can and it's disgusting.
Thats shocking
@@veganwinter Price gouging of customers needs to stop, paychecks haven't caught up with inflation for decades and the consistent rising costs of even basic foodstuffs is making it hard for families to put food on the table. Sometimes there's a big difference in price from one store to a next based on what city you're in as well. I don't live in the capital where I am from but I know that if I were to buy a bag of apples here (as an example) vs. a bag of apples in the capital there would be at least a $2 - $3 difference.
The reason that the grocery store gives is that gas and transport cost more to get it from one place to another which I would understand, if the capital wasn't further away from where the produce was being transported from so I know they're full of BS. 😒
@@MizuMing Brick and mortar costs a lot of money, not just gas and transport. Gotta pay the people who work there, too. It's not BS.
@@jamesmcdaniel5094 I don't know, if the people who are working at the grocery stores are telling you that their stores are raising the prices just because they can, then I tend to incline to the side of yes it is BS what they're doing. 🤷
I love this.
I thought you were great before, but now I think you are the most awesome gardener on TH-cam!
Respect from Utah USA. 👍
Thank you Mark! If the whole world became this wide awake, we could take back our health and food in a much shorter time span.
Keep growing what you can and support your neighbors if they endeavor to support their families through farming/homesteading. Every dollar spent at a farm market is one dollar directed towards big companies.
Good day Mark. I'm Anthony from South Africa. Prices of EVERYTHING has gone through the roof. I'm 58 years old, and I remember in the 1960's onwords, everyone had a back-yard garden instead of lawn. It's coming back BIG-TIME. Great cannel. I share with ALL and sundry. Cheers.😎😎😎😎😎
G'day Anthony! Yes, I reckon you are right about the veggie garden making a comeback! Thanks mate and cheers :)
US here - we started out with a small garden, years ago. We've slowly expanded our growing space. Some years are better than others, but just in herbs alone we saved a ton last year. PLUS eating your own herbs and drying some for later is hopefully way healthier than using something out of a bottle or jar.
Absolutely. Herbs are a game changer for everything I cook, benefit for pollinators, and ultimately every aspect of Mother Earth
Potatoes and sweet potatoes are calorie dense and easy.
Hopefully? It is.
I do containers of lettuce, herbs, summer squash, tomatoes, carrots, cucumber, and green beans on my patio. In the winter, I have a pop-up greenhouse to start my seedlings 🌱 I love the convenience, cost saving, and my veggies last so much longer than from the grocery store. Although I could use more room. 😊
AND you know pretty much everything that's in it
I wish farmer's markets were cheaper around me. They are usually 2x-3x more expensive which I just can't justify.
Plus the cost of travelling to them. I have three supermarkets within walking distance.
Bravo!!! So many of of share your concerns! We all, whether we have a TH-cam channel or not, need to continue to speak up! I’m in the USA but absolutely see this is a global issue! We’re all the same……trying to get through the incredible rising prices, trying to take care of our loved ones and praying for the future of our children and grandchildren. Keep speaking out!
I just want to thank you for being an important voice for raising awareness to people that taking control of your own needs is something that you CAN do. If not entirely, then in part. We all benefit when less of us are reliant on forces outside of our control.
We're moving out on to a small farm in the next few weeks... can't wait to have more space to grow more of our own food. We'll be able to have chickens again too!!
Mark, thank you so much for speaking truth, your courage, your integrity, honesty, awareness and your comical side too. Love it! We need you to keep us informed and awake on stories happening worldwide. God bless you always.
❤Canada 🇨🇦
Just saw your piece on Gardening Australia, great segment. Learned many new things about you and your wife and was horrified but thankful you survived such a terrible accident. Hope we continue to see you doing what you do for many years to come.
Grow anything! And eat what you grow. Make your own compost! Save your seeds as far as possible. Saves on costs, healthcare bills and even improves mental health. It might seem expensive to get started, but down the line, it really is priceless.
It doesn’t have to be expensive to get started. I have videos about growing on a very tight budget.
Recycle old materials, use natural materials, people are always looking to give away some seeds/seedlings, seed exchanges can help you get the most variety for a small price.
Most cost invesments in gardening can be replaced by a time and effort investment
Yeah, and how am i supposed to afford land? " not expensive" my ass@@dsgardenadventures
Absolutely. We all seem to think it’s too hard but…. Even I can do it. Haha. Go get growing! 🍠🥕🥬
Good on you Mark for highlighting this and having the balls many others are missing to do so.
Having balls has now been labelled 'toxic male behaviour by the spin masters, who want to insure a protective safe space themselves for the decisions that they have made.
Hello there! Sharing a lesson in our own homestead garden. We started raising worms for their castings. Worm Castings (yes poo) is almost a miracle food for our plants. When experimenting over 2023, the areas we used worm castings and teas, the food production was 3 times higher and growth of the plants was twice as fast, and we had less damaging bugs. Look into it, the effort is well worth it!
Yay! Just watched this video after seeing your section on Gardening Australia.....so happy to know you are onto it with regard to the WEF and the deliberately destructive anti-farmer policies being put in place globally to control us ❤
G'day mark. I personally am going thru this right now. I was a manager till last month at a small organic farm growing mangoes and vegetables here in Israel. Due to the war and costs of everything as well as low prices to sell our produce, the farm had to shut down as it was simply not possible to even break even. The big guys around here can afford to sell their produce at much cheaper prices and we just can't compete! It's good to have people like you who remind us to keep our heads up high and keep fighting for what we believe in. Keep up the good work!
Y'all need to get rid of Bibi... again.
G'day and sorry to hear that the farm you managed couldn't keep going. I'm glad that despite the situation, you are still "getting into it". I hope things improve over there in Israel and people can try and get back to somewhat of a normal life. All the best :)
Loved your Klaus Schwaub impression there Mark. That guy is the definition of a super villain.
Just a heads up, Schwab's son make his daddy seem like a nice guy. Awareness and is our only path,
If the truth were revealed, he would make a Bond super villain look lame in comparison. he and his cronies like Gates etc are pure evil. to them, we are what they actually called 'useless eaters'.
Bizarre how people are always ranting about Klaus Schwab. He never said you'll own nothing and be happy. Nor did the world economic forum.
Hello, Mark I am in the UK, I learned to grow food by volunteering at place called Debdale Park Eco centre, for a few hours a week, you got paid in crops and tea and coffee, and you learned a new skill in a relaxed way, plus something special happens when you get your hands in the soil, and met new people.
Marks starting to go off the deep end. It's like watching Wranglerstar again.
Way to go, Mark. Love you, man.
Thanks for using your platform to express what many of us are concerned about. I do think that Australians need to realise how growing something- anything may make a huge difference to the next couple of years. People forget how long affect takes to come down the pipe line of bad decisions. We haven’t seen the cost yet. Care for our soil, grow what you can and support those who will not only give you a better product but even out the imbalance of commerce. My tips would be to grow what does well in your climate, watch the weather and garden for your self daily and go for bulk foods. We can swap produce or share. When I look out my back fence I see 6 lemon trees, one in each yard. Imagine if each neighbour had a different fruit tree and we all swapped!!! We need to think more communally and reject the division spewing from media.
We in Dalby qld have a weekly swap group, its awesome
Great tips thanks for sharing! Cheers :)
Grow espalier fruit trees from semidwarf stock & keep them small to about 6 ft tall so you easily reach the fruit.
I'm not a professional gardener by any means and I don't have a large block of land. But we sat down 3 or so years ago and thought long and hard about what to grow. The criteria we had was 1. It must be easy to grow/grow in containers 2. It must provide bountiful produce 3. We have to like eating it. 4. It must be easy to preserve. This is the big one. No point getting everything in one go and having no way to preserve. I ended up with 30 strawberry bushes (currently in season 1/2 is being made into jam, 1/2 being frozen along with being eaten fresh) 4 blueberry bushes (freezing/jam/eaten fresh) , 4 pepino dulce (jam/eaten fresh), 2 dwarf lemon (juiced and frozen), 2 dozen ginger plants (dried and ground) 1 dozen kidney beans (dried) and 2 Bird's eye chilies (1/2 are sun dried, 1/2 are frozen we usually make our own chili sauce). I also ended up growing cucumber to pickle, brocolini in particular grew well in containers in the winter months in Aus. We buy cabbage, radish and cauliflower as we don't have space to grow them but we stock up when they're cheap and we make giardiniera, sauerkraut or kimchi. Learning to pickle in itself was a significant saving. Next year, we'll probably not grow beans and grow tomatoes instead to make passata as we use that more often than we eat beans. For our family of 3, we did the maths and for us we basically reduced our bill for fruit and veg by 70%. Plus it's now our hobby so instead of going to the pub or going out and about every week we potter about the backyard instead. We use lawn clippings as mulch, we have setup rainwater collection, we compost everything and buy a small 1kg tub of slow release fertilizer and if necessary a bag or two of potting mix every 6 months so in terms of ongoing cost it's negligible. Rainwater collection was out biggest outlay and that's because we wanted it to be aesthetically pleasing, you could get away with doing it on the cheap with drums/buckets. Other than that and the plants the only real outlay we had was a few square metres of chicken wire to protect the strawberries and blueberries from birds. Very diluted vinegar + a little soap (not dishwashing liquid) is the homebrew pesticide we use, but there's lots of effective recipes out there like neem oil. Mark's channel has helped a lot along with various other channels. Lots of small and big tips and tricks.
Grow sweet potatoes. They are the easiest thing to grow & a good harvest. Many people grow them in containers. And they store good after curing them.
@@FloridaGirl- was a contender, but realistically we know we wouldn't eat it enough to make it worthwhile (criteria 3). We enjoy it occasionally but it's not something we eat often
A ton of great tips here; thank you for taking the time to share! I love the preservation tip (I don't mention that enough), but preserving produce is necessary for food gardeners. Cheers :)
Check out Vasili's online, he sells organic fertilisers rather than the slow release chemicals. He also has a great youtube videos almost on a daily basis.
Between Mark & Vasili, you really can't go wrong.
Nice one, inspiring reading comments like this
*Learn to can, pickle, ferment or preserve anything and everything. If there is a sale on tomatoes, make your own sauce and can it. If you have leftover sauce, can or freeze it. Leftover rice? Freeze it to make fried rice another day
*Also, learn to forage. Find out what edibles grow wild in your area and when they are good for picking. Can or preserve them.
Ask that neighbor with a fruit tree if you can have some of his/her extra fruit. We have wild chard, wild figs, abandoned Quince trees, and much, much more. And we live in a semi desert!!!
*Get a dehydrator. You can find them cheap at second-hand stores.
adding to this, learn to fish and hunt! helps so much
I love your channel and have been very impressed with your basic knowledge and ability to pass on your experience to others. I started my own garden 2 years ago and last year cut my food bill for the year by over 34%. This coming summer in Oklahoma, USA, I am going to buy some chickens and a couple of feeder calves to feed out on my 12 acres of grass. That will add eggs, chicken and beef to our self sufficiency which I estimate will cut our food bill by over 75%. You inspire me and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Ive been making my own sourdough bread for the past 18 months... Im not good at gardening (trying my best but mostly failing) but bread I can do. What costs me $9 at the bakery is 60 cents to make myself, thats a massive saving in my family of 7, we love our daily bread. Took me 6 months of failing before I nailed it but well worth the effort, Highly recomend.
What a fantastic way of still being self sufficient in food production, if not growth.
What a worldwide great tradable/ swap item though ❤
Gongrats! Bet your family loves it!
I have a few apple trees and make sure I use every piece of fruit I can. We put back two cases of apples for fresh eating this year, and only just used the last of them in December. I baked a ton of apple crumbles and froze them. I also grew veggies and froze them for the winter, and put back potatoes we grew. I even baked our jack o lanterns this year and used them to make soup and just today made pumpkin muffins and pumpkin cake with the frozen puree. Its been a long, hard winter here in Edmonton, Canada so small things like this have a huge impact when your pockets are light like they are right now. I have a theory that a lot of the price issues right now are caused by greed. For example, here in Canada, places like Value Village (a thrift store) got rid of change rooms during Covid. McDonalds has recently stopped giving out napkins, and even charges you for bags. Stores have taken away many of the things they used to provide for free. I predicted to my sons then that I thought these companies would not ever bring these things back after Covid, because once they learn they can charge us the same amount for less, they will continue to do so. And look. Thats exactly what they have continued to do. I understand there is inflation, but in the end its all about the bottom line. And you wont ever be able to convince me that McDonalds is hurting. They care more about their bottom line than they do keeping prices fair, obviously.
Opened my eyes! Three years growing vegetables in my backyard garden in Florida in the US. Knowledge is power!
Bang on mate i support you for supporting many of us to understand whats really going on
Some tips from me: 1) learn to preserve. Bottle your fruits when in season and cheap to buy, better still if you can get direct from the farm or grow your own, this also includes pressure canning your summer veg harvests & meat too. 2) buy other staple goods in bulk - flour, salt, sugar, wheat berries, pop corn etc. you save so much and you’re also saving on not needing to drive to the shops as often.
Well said, Mark! We totally agree. Eighteen months ago we planted a couple of fruit trees. First harvest last year provided for us and 6 of our neighbors. Our garden was a failure but we’re better at it this year. BC of garden failure we learned to sprout and grow microgreens! Saves space and our limited resources while providing healthy and abundant salads. At same time we resumed making our own bread. After research on store-bought flour 😢, we also resumed milling our own grains - been 40 years since we did that as a young family. We source all our grains from organic non-GMO farmers. We’ve cut our grocery bill considerably while increasing our nutrition. Every little bit helps. We appreciate your informative Channel, Mark. Thanks so much. Hugs from the Northern Hemisphere ❤
That's impressive. Well done. Hope many follow your examples.
So well said Mark. Good to know where you stand on these important topics. Thanks for being so fair dinkum and saying it like it is.
GOD 🙏 BLESS YOU SIR
From our RURAL Garden in Northern Thailand...
80 % self sufficient now..
YOUR channel is an inspiration...
Thanks for using your platform to raise awareness of this major issue plaguing our world right now. As a citrus grower in the US, these are all issues we have been dealing with and I hope the word gets spread to enough people so we can fix some of these problems.
I live in a small unit and started growing carrots on my window sill.
I figured it was important to just START somewhere.
Thank you Mark. I live in the Uk and I bought 2 click and grow and I am growing my own food. Greens in one Click and Grow, tomatoes and peppers in another. Last summer, the UK was experiencing a shortage of tomatoes in all the local supermarket, which I was shocked, because in my Click and Grow, I had an abudance of tomatoes, plus tomatoes in my Kratky systems, we had them for weeks.
Loved the video Mark. We have been trying to tell our family and friends to shop at independent bakers, butchers, fruit shops and even fuel outlets for years. We have even taken on board a lot of your gardening tips. After reading some of the comments it looks like everyone is in the same boat. Thanks for making us more aware of what is really going on
G'day mate, i want to personally thank you for making this channel, i remember when i started gardening, and i needed help and tips,etc.. and your channel was a big contributer of gardening knowledge and other survival tips. Keep up the Great Work and God bless you for what you've accomplished and keep fighting the good fight! 🙌
Amen!!
Thanks for your support over the years! Cheers :)
Here, here! I've followed you, Mark for 10 years. Order of Australia right here, thanks!😊
One option that exists in a lot of places in the USA, and might elsewhere: Consider buying into a CSA (community-supported agriculture plan). You pay an up-front fee, the farm gives you food every week. It will push you to learn to cook with things you don't normally eat, but you will have an established direct relationship with where your food comes from.
Also, if you just have a balcony or a big window in an apartment, you can still grow stuff there.
Ooops! Grannie Cyndy again....trees. There are also dwarf grapefruit and oranges.
Then in the backyard there are apples, pears, plums, limes and mandarins. Up the hill are lemons, pomegranates, pineapple guava, apricots, peaches, cherries, redcurrants, boysenberries, raspberries, and a mulberry. Everything is underplanted with various vegetables and self seeding annuals like spinach etc. We have a veggie garden and chook yard, all on our little space. We love it.
Thankyou so much for your advice. You are inspirational. I agree with you re other things you mentioned in this video, 100 per cent. 🍊🍅🥜
Farmer here in NJ, yes that’s an oxymoron. I paid $360 a ton for 13-13-13 fertilizer. Fertilizer is now $1100 a ton. Much of this price increase is opportunistic. In addition, we are climbing towards $20 an hour for labor. To attract workers, this translates to $25+ for me because who wants to work hard in the heat when you can stand around in the air conditioning and check your iPhone every 5 min (this is less sarcastic than it sounds). The general population is in for a shock because I think we are just at the beginning of hard times when it comes to food.
The more artificial fertilizer you use, the more you will need year after year because it damages the soil microbiology, along with other chemicals that are used. Find a solution to use animal fertilizer instead (cow, horse manure). Also, polyculture is great for pest control. We need to migrate towards a regenerative agriculture, to rebuild the soil fertility and to be independent from the government. Artificial agriculture is not sustainable.
@@natural.i.s.t.a I have a fruit orchard and need higher potassium and calcium levels than manure can provide. I have used manure heavily on corn land but now I have problems with low soil pH and perennial weeds. In fact, I have weeds I have never seen before forcing me to use herbicides I didn’t want to use. Have you run into these issues on your regenerative farm ?
The manure has to be aged and composted. On top of it you add a layer of mulch (wood chip, saw dust, straw, leaves) which inhibit the growth of unwanted seeds/weeds and it also keeps the soil moist for longer. For example in the orchard I mulch with the fallen leaves and wood chips from the pruned branches. I don't even need extra compost because the leaves turn into the best compost and feed the soil which feeds the tree. It's a natural cycle. For large scale farming there are probably more efficient ways to improve the soil, such as cover cropping. In my opinion even the weeds that grow are good for the soil restoration, but they need to be mowed or grazed instead of burning them with herbicides. There are farms that use geese and ducks as natural pest and weed control and you also get eggs and meat in return. Then you add the eggshels to the compost pile and you have the best source of Calcium. There are many wonderful videos on the subject permaculture, regenerative farming, regenerative agriculture, agroforestry... We need to make a change, little by little.
I've been exploring alternatives to artificially made fertilizers by growing comfrey. Just started with it last year, and began adding leaves to my composter in late summer. Comfrey is an herb in the borage family and supposed to makes excellent green manure, tea for fertilizing, etc from its large leaves. It's perennial, bees love the flowers, and it is so far, easy to grow. Read up on it and maybe give it a try.
Love all the comments from all around the world here… you are all amazing for supporting Self Sufficient Me and our farmers everywhere ..especially those in Australia .. my Dad is 84 and still working on the farm in Victoria where politicians have sent the state into debt.. money in the city but no money for filling potholes out in the country.. it’s been a struggle for decades and we have always lived on the brink of poverty with rising costs for living.. but now we.. the next generation are reaching closer to retirement. I myself grow my own garden and it is saving money but also it is good for my mental health ..like Mark says!! Great tips in this video Mark… thanks for sharing once again. PS: love the punny bits too❣️keep on keeping on!
I'm in a tiny drive through town in central Victoria. The pot holes here in some spots are covering almost the entire lane. The fact it's on a very busy truck route for farmers taking livestock to the sale yards isn't lost on me.
I'm just slowly increasing veggie beds slowly and growing as much as I can.
Hi, Mark i'm backyard gardener from Bulgaria and i realy lile your videos. You are correct! Its really important to keep talking about quality of food and how this change in time, how this effect us. Sadly more and more kids refusing to eat vegetables and fruits and this its dangerous tendency.😢
Thank you for your honesty. I am from the USA and the same thing is happening here. I love your channel and learn a lot from your videos. We are already planning our spring garden. G'day ❤
Even in the city, in a small backyard, it's amazing how many veggies you can grow in your back yard. I helped a friend of mine who is a widow, design a garden where this past summer she was able to grow enough vegetables to supply herself and her son's family for the entire winter and still have a play area for the granddaughter.
Well said Mark!!! Absolutely spot on…..so much 👺 going on . 🙌🏼
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Hello from the USA. I am glad to see that you are telling it like it is keep up the good work I’ve been watching you for years.
Hello Mark,
Greetings from Oregon.
I'm glad 2 C that you know what's going on, without having 2 say 2 much! I ❤ your channel!!! I'm really happy 2 C that you are still fighting the good fight! God bless you and your family!
Hello from the USA! I’m so thankful you made this video ❤ and that someone had the guts to talk about the obvious economic issues and the apparent sinister motives behind the food industry. Big corporations are only looking out for themselves and the sooner we all realize that and make necessary changes to become more self sufficient, the better off we will all be. Governments are getting too big, too powerful and too rich. Growing our own food is a giant step in the right direction. We all need to look out after ourselves and our loved ones because no one else will. Cheers!
For anyone living in colder areas, you can heat a greenhouse to a great extent by filling a barrel of water and getting a barrel heater. Helps to grow food year round and might even be able to run it on solar.
I also heard stone flooring helps.
My heart breaks for our farmers 💔
I am so grateful for them!
My dad was in the army with you! We love your channel. Great content and witty humour
5:00 - THIS is why we almost sold our cows, too! It was a huge gamble to hold onto them, given the months of dry we'd already had. We were buying feed every couple days and thought it was stupid to hold onto them if it were to continue into SUMMER. But low-and-behold, the rain started. We're now looking into getting a 2nd generator ASAP for the floods that could isolate us in a week!
Indgo Jones has a proven track record for long-term weather forecasts. Suggest you google indgo Jones. It's all based on the location of the planets in the solar system, phases of the sun etc.
I used to live in Australia for 25 years and what you are saying is the same what is happening here. Our energy costs are so high, I have to think carefully if I can afford to heat the house. Thank goodness I live in a rural area, so I have relatively inexpensive wood available. We have farmers all around and I know how hard they work! We just had massive protests by farmers - thousands of tractors blocked roads - and most people in Germany are on their side! Cuts in subsidies on diesel fuel (tractors cannot run on solar), too many regulations and not enough money for their produce from supermarkets that make huge profits. Glad I grow my own veggies!
Agree 100% Mark! Definitely suspicious about the rising costs of living as well.
Good job mate! Thank you for bringing attention to these issues and showing us how easy it is to grow our own food.
Seed saving (and sharing) is another thing we all need to do. Companies like Monsanto/Bayer have been trying to control the seed supply for years not just with their patented GMO seeds but by putting farmers out of business because they saved their own seed. Or purposefully cross contaminating organic fields and crops and then suing those farmers for theft. Seriously. That this goes on and the fact that they win in court is criminal. In the U.S. our government is coming after the Amish communities and stopping them from selling their wonderful products outside of their communities. Who is this helping and who is this hurting? It's very clear what the government is up to as these communities are self sufficient and the government wants to stop that kind of behavior. Keep your chin up, keep planting and learning new self sufficient skills! Channels like this one keep me inspired and moving forward, we will all punch through together. Blessings to the worlds farmers.
Monsanto isn't in the vegetable seed market, and very few home farmers are raising rapeseed/canola.
@@teebob21Correct. I used to have access to their seed catalogue up until a couple of years ago. No veg in there. Mainly soy, corn, and wheat.
Why usa gov wont let armish farmers sell their goods? Its beyond logic to me.. and its tyranny
Yes, the most important thing is to save and share real good, not gmo seeds,athervise Monsanto will destroy everything, every normal God given seed
@@lindafogarasi3156 Monsanto never touched your vegetables. Stop living in fear. Your invisible Sky Daddy god has nothing to do with your herb garden or your tomatoes, whether you save seeds or not.
We're in Canada, I can't speak for the farmers but our super markets are monopolized by 3 corporations and the prices are completely out of hand for the consumer. We spent 100$ at the grocery store today and walked out with one resuable bag and 12 cans of soda pop. I remember when 100$ went in the trunk and now it doesn't even activate the seat belt warning on the passenger seat.
and yet canadians will elect trudeaua again (friend of the w,e,f who openely state this is their plan) and prtend politics have nothing to do with the prices and that its just them pesky greedy farmers and grocery stores. hokay thenn
I remember when people put the "$" in front of the number.
@@sweatt4237You've not been to Quebec, then. That's the proper way to write it there.
@@phantomkate6 Ah so they have been doing it wrong since they started using the American dollar, got it. The problem is they are rubbing off on our illiterate gen z Americans who are now doing the same. Language is being destroyed and humanity is getting dumber.
Hello from Texas! Thank you for all the hard work you put into this video. I always enjoy watching your channel. The joy and humor you provide is refreshing and we appreciate you Sir! Enjoy the day and keep growing 😘
This was the best video I’ve seen in ages Mark. I love all your tips and advice and I really love your recognition of the farmers. I started gardening only a few years ago and it’s really since then that my appreciation for their hard work has been off the charts. Thanks for your enthusiasm, you’re a pleasure to watch 👍
We're in NZ. We've been in our property 3 years, and we have been clearing and creating gardenbeds on our steep and rocky section since we moved here. I know, realistically, we wont manage to be completely self-sufficient but I am trying to grow as much of our food as possible. We have planted about 15 fruit trees which hopefully in a couple more years will provide all the fruit we need. I loosely kept note of what we produced last year, and estimated it to be about $1000 if i had needed to purchase that food from the shop.
This year already we have harvested $200 worth of veges (based on what i would pay today, if i were buying it), do hopefully we will grow lots more this year. You are inspiring not only to me but my children. My 12 and 14 year old sons love watching your videos, and have learned so much from you.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and enthusiasm, and thsmknuou for being "awake" and willingbto talk about it.
After WW2, AU farmers received about 45% of the cost of the item on the supermarket shelf. Now it's only about 5%. The introduction of Aldi to the AU market exacerbated this decline in the price at the farm gate.
Thats shocking and immoral.
With this big difference I feel that if farmers would start their own small stores right next to Aldis and other big supermarkets, then those supermarkets would be forced to lower prices.
At least food prices.
If market pays you $1 and sells the item for $20, then just sell it in front of the market for $4 until they drop prices.
They just built an Aldi's in our small rural town... right in front of the farmer's market.
I refuse to shop in that "Eat Ze Bugs" supporting devil store.
@@hubertnnn good idea
@@thesoloveichiks159 I though lemonade stands is a US thing that still exists.
Here in Poland we are running a "US style lemonade stand would break 7 different laws and put you in jail 4 times" meme almost every year.
Just watched Gardening Australia and saw my favourite gardener. Well done Mark, you're a star
Hi Mark, I absolutely love your videos. Do you think you will do the what to plant now series again? I would love to see a month by month break down of what you plant in SE Qld. Despite having lived in qld for most of my life we have struggled with our garden in Brisbane - the plant eating ladybugs, the grasshoppers, and rain/humidity 🤯 have ruined most of what I planted this year but I know it’s probably because the ‘recommended’ times to plant vs reality for our area are so different!!
Thankyou again for your amazing videos on gardening in Australia! 🇦🇺
Great video, Mark.
I left the big smoke about 2 years ago and bought 28 acres in the Mid West NSW. I've started to produce food, I have wild game, and soon will have a vineyard. I'm about to expand one of the dams and plan to stock it with edible fish.
I firmly believe that food is going to be an issue in the not too distant future.
I enjoy your videos and they've been helpful in what I'm doing.
Keep it up.
28 acres - fantastic! All the best in developing your property, mate. It sounds like you're getting into it big time! Cheers :)