The average home not even sixty years ago was under 1000 sq feet. Now it’s twice that or more. 50amp service was sufficient before all of our appliances, etc. now people expect a bathroom for every bedroom, huge homes with up to 400 amp service etc. overconsumption has reached a fever pitch! There can not be infinite growth on a finite planet! We live in a home 850 sq feet. Looking forward to transitioning to off grid. Always downsizing our requirements. Good video. You are just saying it like it is.
@@wallpello_1534 history buff here. Plenty of the McMansions that are being built are 400 Amp. Hubby is an electrician and we upgraded the farm to 200 Amp from 50. ESA guy was mentioning how many of the bigger builds were needing 400 for everybody’s wants and toys…Crazy. We have the upgrade for the shop and extra if needed. However we are moving towards heat pump and off grid. It's the sheer size of homes and runaway Consumption we should be concerned with. Nobody can make a 'shack' according to the conservatives work anymore? Geeze. Families were bigger...houses under 1000 Sq ft. Less to heat and cool. Hey in our area most homes didn't even have electricity until late 1950s... can you Imagine? Plenty of folks enjoying a smaller cosy home. Less to look after with a bit of yard.
I've been yammering for years at my little sister to begin to grow her own food. It finally sank in! She said she felt ordered by the Lord to get her act together and begin being more self sufficient. She's building raised beds, getting wood chips, etc. She calls me almost daily to tell what's coming up!
In my case I sussed all this out in the 70s and began to live accordingly, but now I'm aging out of the whole business and will probably not be here in 7 years. Thank you for putting it so well, hope it does some younger folks some good. 🙏
If I had the power to force everyone to watch this video, I would use it! I have two young apple trees planted and another one ordered. Apples store well and we like them. I designed and built our home 50 years ago and a good functioning cold cellar was part of the design. I’m thankful for that insight.
❤️ I created this video in this format, because I wanted to have a video that is the default "send this to my friend who has thier head in the sand" type of video. It took me a while to sketch this one out, because I really wanted to ensure the flow was there made sense, etc. I do hope it came across that way. It ended up longer than I wanted, but this is just such a complex topic... so deep, so interwoven, that it's impossible to cover it in 10 minutes. This one already feels a little bit like drinking from a firehose. I just hope it ended up coming across as I hope it does. Both a wake up call, but equally inspiring action.
I’ve circulated pretty widely already. We can only lead the horse to the water… well done my friend. I still haven’t forgotten about that cold one we loosely planned before covid struck.
Wow you designed your own home 50 years ago!? I am only 26, I have 15 acres and want to grow all my families food but my homestead has a long way to go.
YES!!!!! In 2020, I saw the writing on the proverbial wall…when the world shut down!! While many people were buying TVs and Bags and bags of Toilet Paper, I bought a 1950s home with an acre of land, seeds, trees, and a bread maker. Three years later, I have 8 apple trees, 2 pear trees, 2 plum trees, service berry bushes, gooseberry, blueberry bushes, rhubarb, black and red current bushes, black berry bushes, and perennial herbs. I’m starting to plant nut trees and perennial vegetables…and I’m building a chicken coop for our future egg laying hens. For three years, I’ve been learning about permaculture, and learning about sowing seeds, seed saving; growing veggies, preparing various garden beds, harvesting, learning how to can, and freeze our food; learning the medicinal aspects of various plants; learning how to bake;learning other basic domestic skills….and most importantly, teaching my three young children all that I have learned and continue to learn!! I don’t want to ever again walk into a grocery store and worry about the shelves being bear or not being able to afford food or wonder what’s in my food! Food production today is completely unsustainable and environmentally destructive! We need to relearn the skills that were second nature to our ancestors! And take back that knowledge and keep it out of the hands and control of government and corporations that are ONLY interested in MONEY!! Thank you for this video!!! 🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🌎
And a LOT of people did that! There was a huge uptick in gardening interest on social media. Now imagine how bad it would be if there were food shortages for reasons like drought, gas shortages, wars over water, etc. It's best to start when you don't need it, so you have the skills and infrastructure to support you when you DO need it.
It’s one thing to know all of these things, it’s quite another to have someone give you the whole lay of the land rapid fire. Consider the fire lit and thank you for the nudge one needs to keep going. Maybe off topic, but I don’t think so. You are a parent and so am I. Beyond modelling this kind of lifestyle for our children, how do we prepare them for the realities of the next 10 years and beyond (without scaring the ever-loving shit out of them and crushing their dreams)?
That's a tough one for sure, and it depends on the parenting style, but especially the child. I've raised them their whole lives by telling them the honest truth and trusting they can handle it. My kids are very strong in this way. They know the challenges we face going forward. My oldest is now in grade 11 and is in the crucial years of deciding what he wants to do for his career. He is absolutely empowered to drive change, and wants to get into engineering for that reason. He is more along the lines of space exploration and technology, and wants to one day help establish humanity on Mars and terraform it. I think it does depend on the child. Are they naturally the type to have this burden weigh them down and disempower them? Or are they they type to rigid-up and fight? In the end, I think our jobs as parents isn't to raise children, but rather raise adults. So I always default to preparing them for challenges they will face, and put a priority on brutal honesty, couched in a hope that solutions can be made. Must be made.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I'm a top honors STEM undergrad, half a semester from graduation, a couple semesters of prerequisites from transfer to UW-Madison. I've worked in the private sector as a researcher/writer and no longer view college as a viable plan. I wrote a term paper on how we cannot stop climate failure without removing barriers (people against progress) and aced it, like all the others. Now, family members younger than I refuse to attend college. I no longer have a way to tell them they are likely wasting their time when self-education is superior to college curriculum, and it's a bad investment via interest rates. How do you think we can solve the education crisis required to create competent scientists and engineers while those points remain valid?
Man, or how about just hedonism in general. The whole mindset of "well, we're fked, so let's party". The coal oil and gas lobby interests are putting out that propaganda now and its working. How to fight against that? I don't know, I really don't. Value real skills over paper education. That isn't to say that getting a good education isn't a decent plan, IF it's in a field that will be in demand in the changing times. I certainly wouldn't be paying tuition for a journalism degree right now though. I'd rather take a PDC, a woodworking class, construction skills, and learn some real knowledge that may come in handy one day.
To the hole jobs of the future thing AI is scary as crap. Driving anything can be done better by a computer. Sure ai is even doing new chemicals and metallurgy. Even welding has a robot that can do the inside welds vertical and overhead in ships. So we have alot of jobs on the chopping block.
Takota Cohen, Rob Avis and Michelle Avis' book "building your permaculture property" has some pretty deep and insightful reflections on maintaining positivity through their description of the regenerative paradigm vs the sustainable paradigm. It helped me a lot. Made me realize i didnt have to think of myself as lesser than or detrimental to nature and be angry or fearful of myself and the state of the world, but instead realize that i AM nature in action and i can replace self loathing with reverance for nature and my place in it. They obviously word it a lot better, but i think the main message i try to impart to the kids in my family as they learn the reality of our situation is not shaming ourselves, or putting energy into how we can do less bad but how can we do more good? We are all on our permaculture journeys, not because we want to sustain, but because we realize that we have the power to regenerate. We cant fix all the problems, but we can try our best to make things a little better for ourselves and our neighbours ❤
I really appreciate your science based approach to this. I don't really like "prepper culture" because it tends to be super individualistic and often not based on the inevitable climate struggles- but it's just a fact that we will not be able to continue living like we have been indefinitely. And the more those of us with the resources and land to create permaculture gardens, the less pressure will be on the system to feed us as well as the people who aren't fortunate enough to have that. It's better for everyone. I also believe we need to start thinking of different ways to share resources and goods: Starting tool libraries, giving away seeds and cuttings for free, and my dream would be shifting to a library economy.
The problem with rations is that they often consist of highly processed food products that are shelf stable. They don't do much for our metabolic health. They are extremely expensive, packaging is not often environmentally friendly, and the food gets spoiled by time or incorrect storage methods. Perhaps these food products are useful in an emergency such as an earthquake, but even then, whole foods could be brought in using the army if the political and health biosecurity system would allow it. It's ridiculous that refugee camps can receive food products at great expense but not seeds, gardening tools, place to make compost and live food animals with supporting infrastructure.
Great video as always. I'm reminded of my own country of Denmark, claim to be green this, green that, but we emit 300% more co2 per KWh than France does, due to a lack of nuclear power. The government thinks that setting ambitious goals (that always fail) is the same as actually doing something, and don't get me started on how rapidly our biodiversity and animal populations are decreasing. I especially agree that there won't be a sudden collapse as many predict, but instead food and fuel will rapidly increase in price and take up a large quantity of people's income. From 2020-2023 food prices have increased by 20 -30% where I live, and still haven't gone down yet, fuel prices are still double of what they used to be. Planting a garden so you can grow a large part of your own food is an extremely good investment, and if you have the space, planting trees for firewood. The aim of a garden shouldn't be to be 100% self sufficient for when the apocalypse comes, but to be mostly self sufficient so you're insulated from potentially large increases in prices and potential shortages.
A little self sufficiency and a lot of community will soften any blow that is to come. Make those connections with your neighbors, treat them to a homemade rhubarb pie and offer to help them plant some rhubarb in their own back yard. Little things like that to open channels. Pay attention to who is receptive, cultivate their curiosity and you will grow together. No man is an island.
My family and I have been thinking more and more this way lately. We homeschool, so I've made permaculture a class for the kids so we can develop the skills together. I've been binging Nate Hagans' podcast The Great Simplification. If this message resonates with anyone who hasn't heard of Nate Hagans, you should give it a go. It's scary, but having something beautiful and delicious to work toward as a solution takes the edge off. Thanks for putting all the work into making these videos.
Thanks Megan. Best of luck to you and your family. I wish my parents did this kind of thing with me when I was a kid, I may have found this path sooner. I think you are doing great by you and your family!
I am literally breaking ground on a permaculture orchard next week in zone 5b, eastern Ontario. Starting with a 1.25 acre plot and see how it goes. Once I did the plan I realized the huge amount of food a space that size can give.
🇨🇦 Hi Keith. I got my PDC in 2011. None of my family, friends or coworkers had any idea what I was talking about. Ha ha. So glad to see it becoming more main stream. I like the saying permaculture dispels despair. One very, very important thing is good health. I had everything set up and got a very serious cancer diagnosis. I’ve had complications for five years. I used to have a huge community veggie plot but had to give it up. So sad. I had it for 20 years. Someone benefited from all my hard work. I still have the small home yard. But it was set up as fruit tree guilds. So is now pretty shady to grow most vegetables. But I squeeze them in all over. So take care of your health. Running back and forth for surgeries and appointments is very tiring. This is the first spring I’m feeling a bit more active and can do things. But because it was permacultured things got messy but nothing died. No even me. Ha ha.
What a great outlook you have, no doubt rooted in how centered you have become by living this lifestyle for decades. I wish you all the best in your recovery!
Although I started my garden with your guidance last year, after watching this video I will devote more time to it and will get my relatives to get started on it.
Hi Malik! How is the garden coming along? I'd love to see any pictures this summer if you remember to take some. It was such an honor to work with you. You are such an outstanding person. Namaste, friend.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Salam. Under your guidance, my garden is growing well. will send you photos once there is a bit greener there. My son has fact-checked your presentation and found your whole set of information pretty accurate. Now the rest of the family is getting into thinking mode.
So happy I met an Indonesian coffee farmer last summer who grows in a forest. She got me really interested in permaculture and no matter what happens I doubt the me in 15 years is not gonna be grateful for nuts and fruits. Especially if shit really goes down. I'm poor by my country's standards but lucky to be next to city owned areas that have tremendous potential for food forests. And parts of the area have pretty much no people visiting them.
Hi and thanks for the words. This is a subject i have been thinking about a lot lately and you have put it all into prospective for me in one short video. WE have started our permaculture farm here in Calabogie Ont. About 4 years ago and it is coming along quite well. My wife and I have made this our full time business and we are working hard towards being able to provide food not only for our family but also the community. You have given me a much deeper vision towards the future of the environment and inevitably the economy. Hearing this put into words makes me want to work that much harder to make sure that we succeed with our vision. Thank you.
A couple of things for those just getting started and/or with limited space: if you grow summer prune fruit trees to limit size they'll produce sooner, not as much, but sooner (read Grow A Little Fruit Tree for more information)...and although canning supplies, all of which come from large companies, were unavailable, not ALL seeds & nursery stock was out - only the LARGE companies ran out, small local & regional suppliers still had inventory, so I would encourage everyone to buy from them all the time so they stay in business!
Only the seeds of food that perhaps we don't need to eat ran out. Dandelions (the original wild lettuce) still flowered in the lawns, amaranth and goose foot still grew along train lines, poplars and mulberry still gave leaves. The supermarkets still provided dried beans, pumpkins and coriander for planting... We can plant the stem base of celery, onion and cabbage and still get quite a few leaves out of them. Most of my wild broccoli seeds came out of the budgie seed waste that I planted when cleaning the cage...
A good strategy for limited space and a desire for fruit sooner is to plant fruit trees on dwarfing rootstock. They will yield sooner, but with the trade off that they don't live as long as standard trees.
@@kymeratale Buying a full size tree and pruning aggressively in late spring/early summer will keep the trees small (smaller than dwarf, if you choose), they tend to begin producing in about three years rather than the usual 5-7, and they maintain the vigor & lifespan of the full size tree. My first apple was a semi-dwarf, subsequent trees of all fruit types I've bought larger trees and am keeping them pruned back...although I wouldn't need to, now that I'm older even dwarf trees will live as long as I will.
While I may not agree with everything you are suggesting the government ought to do about the impending crisis, I do agree with you on what we as individuals can do right now about it! Great advice. Seeing you stand out there in the rain talking about it is so encouraging and inspiring. Rain or shine, there is something we can do about it. We are not powerless in all this.
Started this journey a couple years ago. Bought the land and got 11 fruit trees, a large garden and some support perennials into the ground. Getting chickens this week! 9 More fruit trees bought and a few dozen attempted from seed. My hope is to be a resource and an example to those around me how rewarding this lifestyle is. Thanks for the explanation of how bad, why and when things are going to go down hill.
Thank you. For this reminder. Was aware of all this in 2005 thanks to LATOC, ASPO, The Oil Drum, Transition Towns, etc. I have been skill building all this time. The 2008 crisis set me back for close to a decade, but in 2022 I finally got to a financial position to prep a food forest, yet everything is more expensive now. But at least now I know how to raise chickens, to grow & preserve produce, and to teach others. I enjoy practicing these skills. Earth care People care Share the surplus Waste nothing I do not think we have 7 years. Maybe 2 years.
Amazing! Great work! I also agree, I kind of fudged on my estimate of the timeframe because when you tell people who are completely unplugged from all this, that massive changes are coming in less than a decade, they kind of think you are nuts. And really, changes WILL be coming, but it's also unlikely that many of the people who need to act will notice. The worst changes are happening to the most exploited people, and they will get hurt the most. I know so many people who are otherwise very kind and compassionate people, and their stance is something along the lines of "well, it will get a little warmer here so that's not so bad, eh, heheheh". It's so crazy how disillusioned people can be, and insensitive an otherwise kind empathetic person can be for someone's plight, caused by them and their choices, as long as they live in another part of the world. How to fight this, I don't know. This line of thinking is so pervasive, and it's everywhere. In about 100 years, we went from "It's a parent's job to make the world better for their children" to "Stop complaining you stupid kids, I got mine."
I think we also need to learn how to utilize what nature provides in abundance. Learning how to identify, eat/use eat our "weeds". Weeds grow more easily than crop plants because crop plants were selected by humans to grow based on our preferences. Whereas a weed's hardiness comes from the evolutionary need to survive through any climate condition it may encounter. A weed will grow more easily and in larger abundance and provides a wider and higher range of nutritional value than crop plants selected by humans. I'm not saying that we should ignore gardening, but we should keep in mind that we have been provided an alternate food source for centuries that most people have been ignoring.
This is absolutely why I've been transitioning away from annuals and mostly grow native perennials. I'm designing less of a garden here, and more of a forest that I forage from.
I really like your 'It's going to change' series, so start getting ready. The present lack of water in a fifth of Mexico City has really shown that the people with a barrel and a means to move a barrel with a cart or wheel barrow have such an advantage over the families that turn up with large saucepans and buckets when the water tanker is distributing water weekly. Clean water storage is critical. Cleaning contaminated water is also important. Transportation that doesn't require petroleum is helpful. Any third world country shows the value of bikes, carts, barrows for moving people and goods. In times of crisis, employment takes a dive. How many skills or goods can we offer? Can we reduce our cost of living to balance with the income that we can generate when we are with no formal employment. How are we going to feed ourselves and perhaps our animals? It's all a process of trying to prepare. We need lots of ideas, more trust in our communities, sharing of resources, becoming more knowledgeable about options. I'm painfully aware how fragile my situation is. Every system I have set up has numerous weak links..
Well done. I started learning how to grow food 5 years ago. It brings me joy. In Australia’s north I know I can grow sweet potatoes and snake beans in our hottest weather - to date-. Permaculture water designs hopefully will help. Meanwhile my family are enjoying Home grown European style vegetables and my hens eggs. Good luck to all.
You’re on the money. Well done. I started my food forest, again 4 years ago. A fire took the first one out. We also have raised beds, utility chickens that we breed for meat and eggs and utility cattle for meat and milk. We also have a pony that we can drive in cart and ride. I’m legally blind and physically limited and my husband has acquired brain injury and physical limitations. But we are fairly healthy and active due to the hobbie farm and our work as body work therapists and studies, him acupuncture and me naturopath. We have very little money but our life is amazing! All it takes is a dream and then action.
I had gardens in the past. Weeds took over. My neighbor said she wanted to come watch video with us about gardening. It was Paul Gautschi Back To Eden. Love it. That is what I started working on. My husband made me two raised bed. I planted potatoes in old hay we had for years. We all ready had some fruit trees and bought couple more. I want to get more next year before they are about sold out.
Well put together, informative and really unbiased with respect to conserv/lib politics. People are largely blind to these issues. .Started growing my fruit trees a few years ago, have veg beds, and need more fruiting shrubs! These skills should be taught in school.
That asparagus is HUGE! I planted 10 crowns (5 green, 5 purple) a few weeks ago and the spears are starting to show now. I can't wait to taste them. I also planted a few fruit trees. I wish I could have planted more. Hpefully this autumn we will be able to plant more in the garden/food forest loading. I've made some experiments with mushrooms and we have to see if they will yield something or I have to do a better job next time. Take care!💛
I love watching this guy. He's is really knowledgeable. I recently subscribed to this channel and am very glad I have. I've learned a lot, and the information he gives everyone kinda is the missing piece of the puzzle, sort of say. I recommend all kinds of people watch and learn as much as they can from this guy.
Hi, Keith! My English is not that good to understand every single word in this video, but I still got the message and now I'm even more encouraged to start a food forest than before. Thank you for revealing this topic, not only gardening itself.
That's amazing because your written English is better than most native English speakers! Not just this comment, but all your previous ones. I'm glad you enjoyed this one! I needed to end the winter series of videos with a message of hope and action.
As a fellow engineer, I love the way you present this material. You’re covering a ton of ground with deep, yet often hidden connections. Somehow it all hangs together perfectly. Also, you avoid the alarmist politicking, but still arrive at a clear call to action. Bravo. Thank you!
Thank you so kindly. This is all coming from literally hundreds of books, podcasts, studying from experts. I just love this stuff, I binge it on the way to work, for 20 years now. I find the limits of growth so fascinating, because I think its the ONLY thing that matters, and nobody is talking about it. People always just focus on single areas. Climate change. Carbon. Oil. Financial systems. Food. But these things are all interconnected and deeply interwoven. It's impossible to fix climate change for example, without fixing how capitalism serves only GDP, and GDP ignores environmental externalities. It's impossible to fix industrial farming practices, without considering government taxation, subsidies, and funding. It's impossible to prepare for the end of oil, without fixing our centralized food systems. It's impossible to fix overshoot and consumption, without addressing "engineering to failure for max profits". I could go on and on and on, it's literally all a giant mess of spaghetti on a global plate.
One thing that I'd suggest is to try and learn about organics. Not as a political ideology or anything, but as a way of raising food on your own without having to buy the necessary inputs such as fertilizer at a store. With just a little bit of learning and a little bit of work it's very possible to close the loop and stop buying the nutrients needed to continue to produce food year after year and create those inputs all yourself.
I love your perspective Keith. Not only your perspective but how you bring together a number of different sources from the engineer perspective. You are awesome and your videos are amazing. Thank you.
One thing about trees, tho, is that we haven't had a fruit harvest from ours for 4 years now. With the climate instability, the trees bloom too early then blossoms are killed by a late frost, or one year we had two 6-week periods of almost no rain that resulted in the trees dropping their fruit and nuts and no harvest then either. Cane fruits are doing well, I think bushes and brambles might be the way to go. I guess if you want fruit trees, pick ones that bloom late.
Reply mostly for general readers: Do the research and at least attempt to select ones that can, in most years, thrive and produce. If you can afford it buy a close range of trees - a few for more north climate and one or two for south climate; The bulk for your climate as it theoretically is at present. In the mid west US where I live it's hotter and drier now. And just as you mentioned, late freezes are taking out blossoms and fruit embryos more often now than just ten years ago. I've got an oak tree that is never fooled so am learning to harvest acorns for consumption. Apples are pretty dependable too and store for long periods of time. You probably know all this anyway. But it's good to know you're out there and I'm not alone.
I had the same problem with plum trees last year. Every single bloom was frosted. In fact, they're blooming right now and there are 2 consecutive frosty mornings forecast for the end of the week. So they'll be gone again. But 2021, best harvest ever. One plum tree was so laden, I wonder it didn't break. So I view the years of frosted blooms as a bit of a break for them. Let them recharge and hang some strawberries in hanging baskets off the empty limbs. I initially started my food forest with fruit bushes - gooseberries (3 colours), currants (3 colours), raspberries (now in 5 different colours), thornless blackberries, blueberries, honeyberries. These don't seem to be bothered by late frosts. Some of the Blueberries have already bloomed throughout at least 2 or 3 frosty mornings, and not one of the flowers were affected, even if a few leaves fell off.
Seeing plants thwarted by weird weather is rough. Really considering microclimates in your space can help some with the late frost part. Possibly planting in areas that tend to stay colder might delay blooming till a safer time. If you have the space, planting in several different microclimates so that whatever the weather, you hopefully have at least one tree fruit. Obviously that only goes so far, but worth a shot. I think you're right that bushes and brambles are a good way to hedge your bets, if you will.
I think having a wide variety of fruits is key. That way different weather patterns affect different plants differently and some may produce more and some less in any given year.
Thank you so much for this very thorough and informative video. Thank you in particular for mentioning the Global South and the impacts of our extractive economic model on our fellow humans. They are now suffering the worst impacts of climate change and have done the least to deserve it. I have been a climate activist since 2018 and initially thought we could change the system through our efforts. I have since realised that the big corporations are too powerful and both activists and information are being increasingly suppressed and in some cases activists have even been killed. I am still involved in campaigning ( currently to try to stop approval by UK govt of Rosebank oilfield) but I have also moved my focus to trying to prepare my own community for what lies ahead. After a year of doing a weekly climate strike at my local shop, I have now got a group of people together to focus on adapting and mitigating climate change. It is still early days but we are looking at issues such as developing community owned energy projects ( eg hydro in the local river) food growing, a repair cafe, and working with businesses and food producers to support the local economy and food systems. At the moment there are only a few of us, but I am hopeful that once we become more visible others will join. We need to try to build this better world you envisage and strengthen our communities. This will help to mitigate the risk of civil unrest. Thank you again for what you are doing to raise awareness. It is very powerful.
Thank you for this, it's a very clear picture of where we are headed. We are like a bunch of lemmings in a school bus hurtling towards a cliff (mixed my metaphors a bit there), blithely looking out the window enjoying the ride. EVEN if your predictions are overly pessimistic and economic growth will continued relatively unabated for the foreseeable future, I really want to continue downsizing our lifestyle (which is pretty modest anyway) and I want my older kids to watch this video. because this is going to affect them. I am really bad at growing annuals (partly because of our very hot and dry summer climate), I don't think we could ever feed ourselves that way, and I am not sure our 1/4 acre of land is sufficient to sustain our family even if I could grow enough fruit and vegetables. But having settled for a fairly modest lifestyle I think we could weather the coming storms, even as we have so far weathered the huge price increases we have recently seen - when you mostly feed yourself with fruit and veg from the farmer's market and the minimum of industrially-produced products, the blow to your budget is not nearly as great. But your comments about the lack of expertise in renewable energy (e.g. nuclear) got me thinking - do you think that is a viable career path I could suggest to my kids, whether on the engineering side or somewhere else? I think they need to start thinking about the 21st-century economy and what it's going to hold for them, and I feel a lot of the traditional career paths are going to offer less opportunities - I can sense the impending change in my own industry (translation services) with the rise of AI tools...
Absolutely. that's where I'm steering my kids. If there is one educated path worth pursuing, I think its anything that will help develop the future world, where a certification or degree is required. That's not only things like engineering, but also more hands on skills, the skilled labour to do it, welding, pipefitting, electrician, etc.
This makes me think back to my 19 y/o self talking to the Dr I was working for at the time....Sitting across a desk from him, I tell him how I am giving my two weeks notice. I have plans to move into a agricultural commune to learn skills in self-sufficiency. He asks why I would want to quit my job (training as an ophthalmic tech) to go break a sweat every day. I mentioned how I want to be prepared when there is no more food in the grocery stores. He literally laughed at me. He could not imagine a time when you can’t go to the store to get what you need. I didn’t care for the commune so I left after a while....but I dis gather skills and kindled a fire under my butt to be self-reliant in terms of food and energy. This was 12 years ago! Now I have a functional homestead, grow 100% of my own meat, I usually break a sweat every day and have dirt under my nails. I met a wonderful man who has the same goals! Save your seeds folks!
Thank you for this wake-up call. I heard this same message 15 years ago, we haven't really made any progress since then, lately I've been distracted by all the human rights issues, so environmental issues and peak oil kind of fell off my radar, tho it's all intertwined really because the poor and minorities will suffer the most. One thing I've realized since buying the farm is that livestock are not something you can do "self-sufficiently", without oil for fertilizer, gas for tractors, etc. because they all need to eat, and usually it's either grain or hay and hand-harvesting enough hay to feed a single cow through winter is more work than most people would be willing to do.
Have you looked into setting up silvopasture? It's a 10 year investment, but is a good way to at least minimize how many inputs you need. A really good resource on it is obviously Alan Savory, but a younger person actively doing these things is Darby Simpson.
I have way too many chickens and ducks and I agree with you. It’s way more work and resources than most people realize. I do enjoy their company but they are not sustainable, especially in colder climates.
If a half hour every day or two isn't too much check into hair sheep. They can get pretty close to being self sufficiently and even profitably raised with proper management.
I freaking love you for everything you are sharing in this video. We need to change how we operate in the world - away from consuming in a capitalist system, and toward stewarding, nurturing, and producing food, biodiversity, and community. So spot on!
Been a Prepper since 2015. 2019 I purchased my biggest prep yet.. land. I started watching your videos a year ago and am already working towards food security. Because I believe that something will happen such as economic collapse and quite possibly worse than the Great Depression. One of my biggest fears is the talk that the government doesn’t want people living in rural areas.. they want them penned in these 15 minute cities where they can be monitored and controlled. Everything that you’ve worked so hard for to provide for your family will just be confiscated by the government
I'm honestly not afraid of having eminent domain used on my land. I think the walkable cities discussion is valid, and the main goal is to reduce the need for cars, because the government knows that: 1) Oil collapse is here, and imminent 2) Energy infrastructure to support a change to EVs isn't possible in the timeframe needed. So the goal is to create Amsterdam style cities where cars aren't needed. I honestly don't see anything nefarious in this, I think its an important part of the transition. Without it there will be catastrophic collapse. But I don't think anyone will be forced to do anything. I truly don't.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I hope that is true - I know not all can afford it -but if living rural - bikes and horses could be a wonderful alternative to cars ! :)
15 minute cities aren't a prison. They are just a regular city where you can walk to the grocery store within 15 minutes instead of being forced to drive several kilometers to get milk or vegetables. Before the absurd practice modern single use zoning, where we forced everyone who wanted more than 2 bedrooms to live in a suburban wasteland instead of near their job, "15 minute cities" were completely normal and just called cities. Also why wouldn't the government want people living in rural areas? Cities are so much harder to politically (or militarily) dominate than rural areas. Cities were the birthplace of democracy and continue to be bastions of liberty. If you're worried about an authoritarian government, you should be worried they will start trying to encourage people to live in small cities and work camps that can be easily controlled.
I love your video. I disagree with almost all your positions so I think I will watch a couple of more times and then post my reasons and hopefully have a respectful conversation.
On Tesla's 2023 investor day video which is 3 hrs long a lot of information is given about this subject and either you or Elon are wrong because you say the opposite. You should watch it. The part about efficiency improvements by transition to electric indicates less energy will be needed not the doubling every 25 years you speak of.
You Said Capitalism happened to be in charge at the time of oil. I think 100% of Russians 100% of Saudi Arabians 100% of Chinese 100% of Mexicans 100% of Venezuelans (Just the short list) Disagree with you about who was in charge of their oil.
You said The world doesn't care about going green under capitalism. Yet the most capitalistic guy on the planet is in the green industry, EV cars and advancements in battery technology that will make full electric a viable option. His name is Elon Musk.
Peak oil passed in 2019 If Trump wins next election within two year that will not be true. Peak oil is at the moment an issue of policy not resources (politicking).
When the power goes off we won't be able to hear from this speaker. (It's a long walk to Canada to visit.) Better start your food forest now because once you really need it it'll be way too late. Get going fellow earthlings. Cheers
It won't take long. I started mine with the dependable, quick-producing fruit bushes: gooseberries, currants, raspberries, thornless blackberries. This selection propagates so easily (I started propagating from the most vigorous shrubs just 18 months after planting). Now, several years later, I have hundreds in place of the half dozen I started with. The fruit trees, blueberries, honeyberries and those plants that are more challenging to propagate, I acquired very slowly to begin with. But when the pandemic struck, I think that was my 'real' wake-up call, and I knew then I would really have to buckle down and start planting seriously. Over the past 3 years, I have really diversified as well as acquired a good deal more of the usual choices. I'm thinking that it's perfectly possible for the weather to swing to one extreme and then to another from year to year, so if one harvest fails - I can depend on another.
Population numbers are taking a hit since 2021. Working aged people deaths have increased by 40% according to life insurance data and funeral numbers. A 10% increase in deaths would be shocking...40% is a collapse. Even though it would seem logical that world population reduction would lower world energy requirements...there are no easy answers. But lots of food forests would be wonderful and helpful, probably even life-saving.
Thanks once again Keith, now if we can convince everyone of the importance of cutting back on our goods consumption, difficult to do when the politicians are basing their debt recovery through growth in the Gdp, = increase in production of goods.
Speaking of the reusable lids for canning. It seems there's a wide spread belief, in north america, that canning lids are not reusable. If carefully removed, those lids can be used many times over. I have my garden well underway, as you know. I'm collecting canning supplies and working on my preservation skills and cooking from scratch skills.
We’ve reused lids for years. Just inspect for damage. If they don’t seal, stick them in the fridge and use first. I recently watched a video from Italy I believe, where are the women were all gathering around a large communal canning pot, each one or adding their own bottles of preserves to the pot. They didn’t use pressure canners, or stack them up perpendicular or anything. They just piled them in and boiled them. Perhaps the occasional one did break or not seal but they could handle that quite easily. Another interesting thing I just came across was our ability to purchase those quick twist canning lids that have lugs instead of threads. A local store in Sudbury is going to start stocking common sizes to make them economically available.
Is so rewarding to go to your garden and harvest from it,to eat. I started my food forest 12 yesterday ago and now is thriving. Thanks for the advice. I did it for better health and to eat organic food.
Great video! I’m so proud of you and how you’ve turned this new interest in gardening into something that has brought so much purpose to your life, and knowledge and inspiration to so many people around the world. Grandma would have been so happy to see what you’ve accomplished with your gardens. I think so many people feel like they don’t have a green thumb and can’t get started, but they don’t realize that was exactly like you… and look at you now, just 7 years later! So proud of you! ❤
@@maruiacancer a quick summary of the metabolic cancer protocol is learn to fast because cancer cells live off glucose and glutamine. First one month Ramadan dry fasting ( Eating before dawn, nothing in the day, not even water and at dusk a small meal. You can drink during the night) Ramadan dry fasting is the equivalent of three days water only fasting. Eat lots of cancer fighting foods such as cruciferous vegetables, tumeric, ginger, garlic, green tea, blue berries and quite a bit of fat (coconut oil, olive oil, avocado, MTC oil if you don't eat animal foods) because cancer cells can't use ketones. It's desirable to be in ketosis. Then you try five days water and salt only fasting. Then have a month of one meal a day. Now try one month water and salt only fasting. Most cancers cannot survive this total lack of glucose and glutamine. For what ever reason you cannot fast because of being very underweight, extremely weak, old... there is a pulsed drug protocol of blocking insulin with abendazol (antiworm medication) and DON (to block glutamine. You would need to get a MD on board for the medication route. All the best with your journey.
So that comment is gone now, but apparently that person stole the actual other person's account and is now using it to funnel money into a fake foundation. If anyone sees their comment pop back up, please be very careful with clicking links and donating money. When in doubt, donate money to known charities that put the most money possible towards the people who need it, and avoid giving directly to individuals.
I truly appreciate the effort you put into these videos relating to expected changes in climate that will necessitate changes in the way we live. Thanks also for drawing attention to inequities within societies and how actions within a society can negatively impact other parts of the world. From the first video of yours that I watched 2-3 years ago, I knew your style of gardening meshed well with my hopes for my small city lot. Last June my son bought a house with an acre of turf grass on top of hardpan clay. They are letting me take charge of creating a large natural area and a vegetable garden I envision a cohesive permaculture lot including fruits and vegetables as well as native trees, shrubs and plants to support wildlife. I have struggled with with the clay and have the beginnings of a garden. On your advice, I collected mountains of leaves from the neighborhood last fall. I need a plan for the next few years to include retaining rainwater that now runs into a drainage ditch behind their property. I think I need a landscaper to give quotes on creating berms and swales. If you have any suggestions on how to move forward, I would love to hear them. You have done beautiful work to create a bountiful and family-friendly space. This job requires more knowledge than I have gleaned in years of gardening in my small city lot with loose, black soil. Thanks again for all your gardening videos AND for videos sharing your concerns for the entire earth. This video has given me more determination to work effectively in creating a permaculture yard for my son's family. (Sorry this got so long.)
Our property out of the city had two metres of topsoil mined off it for building mudbricks for houses in the area and to use for leveling the surrounding pecan orchards. They then sold off the funny wedge shaped strip hole to ignorant suckers like us with the promise of water and electricity... but then backed out and left us looking at flood irritation over the fence. We were left with machine compacted clay and heavily salted caliche (commonly known as natural cement)...So my methods have been supporting and planting mezquites (so called nitrogen fixers) in rings because their roots can drill down through the clay. Sometimes I sacrifice the mezquites by cutting them of at ground level and covering with cardboard and sawdust before planting a fruit tree such as peach but more often I leave the mezquites until the fruit trees can survive the dogs. I'm constantly making compost with sawdust in the chicken coop and sawdust in a bottomless water tank for treating dog poo and humanure. With this compost I use as a slurry to water the hole when planting fruit trees. Our water from a well is extremely alkaline. Our apple and plum trees tend to become mineral deficient even when applying compost. I am trying to rectify this with foliar spray made from eggshells soaked in vinegar (I use a tsp to a litre of water). We did bring in an excavator to dig two long trenches through the property and I gradually filled them with mezquite branches brought in from the highway, tumble weed, cardboard... I let most of the grass and weeds grow even if they are prickly and poisonous. In a desert environment everything takes a long time and there are many false starts and failures. My biggest helpers have ironically been voles, rats and squirrels. They dig tunnels 40 cms under the surface from tree well to tree well and that helps spread water underground all over the property. The result is that with rhizome grasses, our whole property now looks green. All the best with your clay. Remember that clay is much easier than course sand.
This was concise, direct and straight up brilliant! We’ve been following the channel for a while since, being also in Ontario, so many of your guidelines and climate experiences apply to us as well. But this eye opening presentation was necessarily direct. Keep up the good work, Keith. You’re an inspiration to all of us to try that much harder to make the world, an our own food gardens, a better place.
I like how you're just standing out in the sleet doing a video! I'm hopeful that we can shift. Some of us will be okay, some of us won't. I think it depends on how awake you are. Great information and a good reminder. Thank you! 😊 Sending this video to my husband because he will appreciate this intelligent, fact based video.
I'm year 9 into my farm/garden. I will never lose the knowledge I've gained but my fear is about what kind of losses we could face even as permaculturalists - a bad drought - if there's simply no water what are you going to do? I know the idea is to have a diverse spread of species and something will make it, but it could be dire. Bad winds too, and even tornados seem to be increasing in our area (Ontario), you'd have to be unlucky but it would just take minutes for your trees and years of work to vanish. I guess that's why there needs to be a network of us! It's honestly scary to think about though, we are so vulnerable to the weather. I really appreciate your take and information tho
Yeah, we lost some trees in the recent big wind storms this year and last. Thankfully, because I plant SO densely, we ended up okay. I had neighbours who lost every tree on their property (on my street!). It was so super scary that 7 years of nonstop work could get completely erased in one storm.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy right?? I've never had storm anxiety like I do now that I have so much set up!! I am watching your other videos and seeing your peach trees, curious which varieties you have
I believe you... it's a shame that even the people I know that are willing to entertain the possibility cannot bring themselves to make any move towards being prepared. Head in the sand or living for today? I hate how selfish humanity appears to be. Thank you for your willingness to speak.
In the end, it will only hurt them. If people thought the toilet paper run during covid was bad, they need to understand that this was just a baby test for the disruptions that are coming. And they are inevitable, because our current system ignores the fact that it's literally impossible to sustain. The longer we keep ignoring our collective overshoot, the more rapid the "adjustment" will be. And the people who are unprepared will literally starve. We can fix SO MUCH of what is coming by just getting as much of the food supply decentralized again.
It's kind of scary how Brazile, China, South America etc are lining up to get off the US dollar as global currency. These kind of global divisions are always kind of unsettling to see starting to happen. Reminds people of Axis and Allies being formed.
I watched this video about a month ago, and watched it again today. Interesting for me because of the timing. I am just beginning to build my own "forest". (there is probably a different definition for "forest" living in Denver). Watching this video again has made me realize how important it is for us to be as self sufficient as possible. I have a greater desire to educate myself and your channel/information is the best thing that I have found. Thanks a ton!!, Keith!!
Thanks for supporting the channel Paul! Yes absolutely it's so critically important that we become less reliant on supply chains going forward. Each individually but also as a whole community/society. This is why I made this youtube channel. The less people who become completely desperate when disruptions happen, the less likely we get looting and pillaging when people who aren't prepared start struggling. We have so many people who grow nothing but sod grass useless lawns. If we can convert even just some of that space into hardy food production, then it makes a massive difference when the challenges that face us, come knocking at the door.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy thanks for the feedback and thoughts. I agree with you. I have 2 neighbors that are curious about my plans. I think that they will both eventually want to start on there yards as well. Poco a poco!!
...I started about 2 years ago, and this will be my 3rd season gardening. I've been going Hard at it...dozens of fruit trees, all the standard permaculture edibles, berry's, nuts, chickens, just got quail. I can tell you , as of Now, I don't feel ready, at least not total collapse(what I see coming) ...and "running out" of petro? That's maybe the one thing I hadn't considered!! That makes sense brother. It really does. The bigs would know that, they will want to preserve their lifestyles, and so FAR less consumers would actually be in their interests...
At 67 years of age, I remember when we all grew our own food and nothing came in plastic containers. Keith is right - start now no matter where you live. If you are a city dweller in an apartment building, explore the indoor growing systems now available. Turn your balcony into a garden. If you have land, switch to as many perennial crops as possible and start saving your annual vegetable crop seeds. Live like your grandparents and the world will be a better place. Be responsible for your own future.
Yes and he's either right or he's wrong, one or the other. I don't have a problem growing your own food but if he's right you need rice, beans, eggs, chicken etc. You can't really live off fruit. Also if your neighbors are starving, they are going to be going after your food. Its really a no win situation.
Excellent informative video. We are in 3rd year, I’ve already converted 1 of the 10 acres of my property to grow a food forest and no dig garden. We have about 60 more trees from wiffletree and Treetime coming next week. I told my children that when I’ve finished converting the property to a food forest it will be of tremendous value.
Good Morning Keith! Thank you again for another wise and thoughtful discussion. I agree that we are all on a deadline and need to adapt, plan and learn if we want to thrive. As someone who teaches permaculture food growing I can say with encouraging certainty that there is a mass awakening afoot and you are a driving force in it. Learners are appearing out of nowhere and starting farming co-ops, community groups and food preserving/medicine-making circles to improve our wellness and become more sustainable. It’s mind blowing for homesteaders like us because 5 years ago our work was novelty. Now however, our efforts are proving to be necessary. As municipalities begin to enforce this contraction with restrictive bylaws for homesteaders and our operations we need to get creative and bond with our neighbours. So grateful to have you in this beautiful country of ours and for all you do to encourage (and warn) us all of the changes ahead. ❤
Every single person will understand this at some point. It's important that we get people to understand it while they still have time to get as self sufficient as possible. The more that people are self sufficient, the less of an issue it will be for the people who are truly prepared, in terms of defending against the desperate. Keep up the good work! 👍
Thank you for your time and engineering insights. I've been trying to find ways to upgrade existing tech for the very purpose of adaptation. Where I live in Wisconsin, we are seeing major weather abnormalities, historic flooding, and large 2/3 temperature swings in a day. Gardens suffered heavily last year and we didn't see the worst of it. It's much like the plants have no idea what to do while pests, disease/fungus and climate gets worse.
Great chat, I hope your message spreads.... I know I've been entirely ineffectual in doing so myself.... sigh... That's ok, in the end, I'm good with being the crazy lady who lives of grid.
We really appreciate the time you have taken to put videos like this one out there. We are following your guide and our life has changed. We just recently incorporated wood chips and wine cap pegs thanks to you! Keep spreading this knowledge. You are perpetuating life itself. 👏💫☀️🌎
I live in the US and I believe the right and left are two sides of the same coin. Biden is a typical politician who says what he needs to in order to get elected. Its important to look at politicians history and see if their actions match up to their words. I’m getting older now and most of the things I plant will be for someone else to enjoy and that’s fine with me.
Thank you for your video. Here in UK England is almost impossible to buy a piece of land. I do have an allotment which belongs to the town council, but you never know when they will decide to build houses here as it is a shortage of land. Makes me sad for future generations. Lina
I would love to get rid of all my grass, I hate mowing! I love to garden, been doing it for years, learning more and more watching TH-cam videos, thanks for your videos, just found you, subscripted! I will be binge watching your playlist! Also like learning from offgrid with Doug and Stacy!
good information brother i smell what your cooking. as a minimalist i do what i can to lower all of my utility usage and with my food forest im trying like you to feed my whole family plus. great video
I really appreciate your clear messaging here. This COULD come off as alarmist, and if a viewer interprets Keith unfairly it does. But he is right about the substantial economic change that comes from switching to solar/renewables. It IS necessary, but our economy is NOT designed for it, which means a GENUINE rethink of our energy use systems (aka how the economy and society functions). There is umportant work to be done to make sure the economic transition doesn’t result in mass suffering, and planting a garden is a GREAT way for individuals to lighten the load on systems while also partially protecting themselves.
So I should take a cruise now before I cant anymore? Deal! Thanks for another great video, the tone delivering this was perfect. No fear-mongering just facts.
It’s sad. I’ve already realized it many years ago and the extreme weather and the changes we’ve had since Jan was/is extreme. I’m going back to in ground garden rows for cost savings, ease of irrigation and most needed to install hoops for various covers to get a harvest. There seems to be a huge amount of money spent on gardening these days. Our ancestors would flip if they seen the price tags. We just had over a 50*F temp swing from 90*F to snow. With all the electric I would hope nuclear is not the answer. It doesn’t help when we sell/lease our land to other countries like what AZ is experiencing and they use all our water to grow alfalfa in the desert to take the hay back to their country to feed their beef and now our farmer’s wells are dry. The permafrost is defrosting and that land is totally unusable and I feel a major reason why there is war right now. I see saving seeds from your plants extremely important because crop failures happen and the seed may not be available. Government takes WAY TOO LONG to act and Always have the cart before the horse. I’ve started my orchard and we have chickens after not having them for decades. Providing the weather doesn’t kill the plants we will have food. I need to find better land and more of it as we have inconsiderate neighbors with dirt bikes and a Very Slow to act local gvt. I was coming to the end of the video and you were taking the words from my head. And the fact I’m expanding my garden and was just going to start trying to figure out how to do that. The chickens aren’t big enough to scratch it up just yet. My fairly new lawnmower has the transmission out-not happy as it only had about 135 hours of flat mowing on it. And hope like heck something is done about the noise makers in neighborhood. I can’t take it and wish I had our 80 acres back.
Good one but much of the same thing bouncing around in my head. I dont know if i am right ether. Im bad at telling the future. But you are right i dont think we have enough energy to switch to green energy. The worst part is this cheap energy is supporting most of the population of people. I can see a drop in population jest by default. Now be carful people go nuts when they are pushed into a corner. I have seen it. People beating others jest because they still had a fridge that worked or power still on. Sounds bad. but on the other hand today i played with my kids toled my wife she looks beautiful and i worked hard at the farm. So after the bad times come i will tell my wife she looks beautiful and i will play with my kids. So good bad i will still live my life to the best of my ability and be happy with it.
I had a meeting with my financial advisor yesterday. She spent so much time showing me our financial "plan" and how much money we'll have each year over the next 60 years based on their projections of the stock market. It made me so anxious because I just don't believe that our financial system is going to continue the way it is now that far into the future. Other than building wealth on your land, do you save money for retirement in the banking/stock market system? We're kinda trying to do both... but we don't have that many resources to divide up.
I think of my retirement fund as a long shot. If I'm wrong about how the next 5-15 years will go, and by some miracle the economy and dollar *don't* collapse, my retirement fund will be nice to have; although I'll never get enough in it to actually fully retire on. I contribute minimally, enough to get my employer matched contributions, and otherwise ignore it. I assume it will evaporate like the meaningless numbers it is. On the flip side, the fruit trees and shrubs I plant today will not evaporate, and at $20-$50 a tree are the single best investment I can imagine.
Exactly. Everything is projections based on a constant growth economic model that is pushing up against reality. It's all fake, it is all unsustainable, and we are just now the Roman's partying before collapse. So get ready, plant food, secure energy and water systems and at worst, you will save a ton of money and have a nice retirement.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy The "collapse" of the Roman Empire took hundreds of years and was much more about slow breakdowns in political power structures and bureaucracy than standard of living for the average person. It was more about the difficulty of maintaining such a large empire with significant communication lag and constant pressure for local self determination. The empire started by capturing territory based on superior military organization and infrastructure projects, then installing new leaders loyal to Rome. This was always a losing strategy in the long term because eventually these leaders developed ties to the place they were ruling (family connections, land ownership, etc.) and began to support local self determination. Rome couldn't easily reconquer and replace these local leaders because Rome no longer had a technological/infrastructure advantage after decades of using roman technology in the local area. Basically the same thing happened with the US before it's eventual revolution, which was arguably the start of the collapse of the British Empire as it lost it's colonies. Even though this was a collapse, it took hundreds of years and left the UK as one of the richest nations on the planet. Neither is really what we mean when we're talking about collapse in the modern day. We're usually talking more about rapid economic or political collapses like major financial recessions of violent political revolutions.
Indeed, I used the Roman's just as an example of how great civilizations can collapse through systemic ignorance of their problems. Our situation is more dire, more global, and we will rubber-band harder and faster.
The US Navy is the world's largest trainer of nuclear specialists, they used to train hundreds of nuclear specialists of all sorts every year, now the number is only dozens. I like the idea of putting small nuclear plants in retired coal plants, is that a complete pipe dream? Your economic observations and predicted outcomes are truly frightening, and most likely largely correct.
Hi Keith, I hope this message finds you well. I find you very inspirational. I started viewing your videos a few years ago, and I can say in earnest that they've been instrumental in my journey of acquiring the tools to fight off cynicism and despair. I've continued my studies and today was my first day working in the nuclear industry (it was awesome!), and I can't help but see parallels between your situation and mine. Oh, and I'll be planting fruit trees this summer 🙂. Thank you for caring, thank you for telling the truth, and thank you for acting like the truth is real. Best regards, - Dominique
Thank you Keith for all that you do. I’ve been listening to some of Graeme Sait’s podcasts. The two of you give me hope of this message reaching the masses.
renewables are a pipe dream - the total cost of solar and wind are so high that they make no sense economically on large scale projects - small solar solutions are great (i have one) but on a larger scale they simply can't replace the net energy we get from fossil fuels -the only option is radical re-simplification of society. a future with less energy usage and more localized production of goods and services. this will be painful. collapse now and beat the rush.
This is true for wonderful, but last year solar actually became the single most cost effective energy solution, even beating nuclear. What is more interesting is that when you price in environmental externalities, coal oil and gas heating (yes even natural gas) go from around 4 cents per kWh to around 25 cents per kWh. i.e. the only reason those sources are considered cheap is that we subsidize them at every step of the way, and also don't price in their negative consequences. That would be like nuclear not pricing in decommissioning andnlong term storage of waste fuel, just to make the example clear. But for some reason, coal oil and gas get this free pass to destroy the earth, and this is the only reason they look so economical.
If history has the tendency to repeat itself, long before economic collapse, countries will go to war to secure as much as the dwindling resources as possible. Also, even if we could be self-sufficient, which is impossible on an urban/suburban lot, what will stop others from taking our food? Like you said, everyone should start growing at least some of their food and form relationships with other like-minded people through trade, bartering, exchange of ideas, etc. Thanks for the video. I'm not a "prepper" and I know you're not either, because I believe no individual can prepare for the apocalypse. I can say that growing a food forest/ garden has so many mental and physical health benefits. Like you said, the best time to start is NOW.
This is whynits so important for EVERYONE to get as self sufficient as possible. The less desperate people are, the less likely we will need to defend our land from the unprepared and starving. It's still not going to be enough, not by a long shot, but the more we can do, the less abrupt the change will be.
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The average home not even sixty years ago was under 1000 sq feet. Now it’s twice that or more. 50amp service was sufficient before all of our appliances, etc. now people expect a bathroom for every bedroom, huge homes with up to 400 amp service etc.
overconsumption has reached a fever pitch! There can not be infinite growth on a finite planet!
We live in a home 850 sq feet. Looking forward to transitioning to off grid. Always downsizing our requirements.
Good video. You are just saying it like it is.
This is true but those homes had gas or wood heat, now they have electric heat and most homes are 200 amp not 400. I'm an electrician
@@wallpello_1534 history buff here. Plenty of the McMansions that are being built are 400 Amp.
Hubby is an electrician and we upgraded the farm to 200 Amp from 50. ESA guy was mentioning how many of the bigger builds were needing 400 for everybody’s wants and toys…Crazy.
We have the upgrade for the shop and extra if needed. However we are moving towards heat pump and off grid.
It's the sheer size of homes and runaway Consumption we should be concerned with. Nobody can make a 'shack' according to the conservatives work anymore?
Geeze. Families were bigger...houses under 1000 Sq ft.
Less to heat and cool.
Hey in our area most homes didn't even have electricity until late 1950s... can you Imagine? Plenty of folks enjoying a smaller cosy home. Less to look after with a bit of yard.
I've been yammering for years at my little sister to begin to grow her own food. It finally sank in! She said she felt ordered by the Lord to get her act together and begin being more self sufficient. She's building raised beds, getting wood chips, etc. She calls me almost daily to tell what's coming up!
So fun! It will be so incredibly rewarding to share something so powerful together.
"ordered by the Lord" - not sure about that part, buddy.
Called by the Lord, God of all, master of the universe, is the best reason to do anything! Blessings!
In my case I sussed all this out in the 70s and began to live accordingly, but now I'm aging out of the whole business and will probably not be here in 7 years. Thank you for putting it so well, hope it does some younger folks some good. 🙏
All the best!
You need apprentices my dear to continue your legacy.
If I had the power to force everyone to watch this video, I would use it!
I have two young apple trees planted and another one ordered. Apples store well and we like them. I designed and built our home 50 years ago and a good functioning cold cellar was part of the design. I’m thankful for that insight.
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I created this video in this format, because I wanted to have a video that is the default "send this to my friend who has thier head in the sand" type of video.
It took me a while to sketch this one out, because I really wanted to ensure the flow was there made sense, etc. I do hope it came across that way. It ended up longer than I wanted, but this is just such a complex topic... so deep, so interwoven, that it's impossible to cover it in 10 minutes. This one already feels a little bit like drinking from a firehose.
I just hope it ended up coming across as I hope it does. Both a wake up call, but equally inspiring action.
I’ve circulated pretty widely already. We can only lead the horse to the water… well done my friend. I still haven’t forgotten about that cold one we loosely planned before covid struck.
Plums are smaller, aren't prone to insects or disease and are smaller about 10 feet
Wow you designed your own home 50 years ago!? I am only 26, I have 15 acres and want to grow all my families food but my homestead has a long way to go.
YES!!!!!
In 2020, I saw the writing on the proverbial wall…when the world shut down!! While many people were buying TVs and Bags and bags of Toilet Paper, I bought a 1950s home with an acre of land, seeds, trees, and a bread maker.
Three years later, I have 8 apple trees, 2 pear trees, 2 plum trees, service berry bushes, gooseberry, blueberry bushes, rhubarb, black and red current bushes, black berry bushes, and perennial herbs. I’m starting to plant nut trees and perennial vegetables…and I’m building a chicken coop for our future egg laying hens.
For three years, I’ve been learning about permaculture, and learning about sowing seeds, seed saving; growing veggies, preparing various garden beds, harvesting, learning how to can, and freeze our food; learning the medicinal aspects of various plants; learning how to bake;learning other basic domestic skills….and most importantly, teaching my three young children all that I have learned and continue to learn!!
I don’t want to ever again walk into a grocery store and worry about the shelves being bear or not being able to afford food or wonder what’s in my food!
Food production today is completely unsustainable and environmentally destructive! We need to relearn the skills that were second nature to our ancestors! And take back that knowledge and keep it out of the hands and control of government and corporations that are ONLY interested in MONEY!!
Thank you for this video!!!
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And a LOT of people did that! There was a huge uptick in gardening interest on social media. Now imagine how bad it would be if there were food shortages for reasons like drought, gas shortages, wars over water, etc. It's best to start when you don't need it, so you have the skills and infrastructure to support you when you DO need it.
It’s one thing to know all of these things, it’s quite another to have someone give you the whole lay of the land rapid fire. Consider the fire lit and thank you for the nudge one needs to keep going. Maybe off topic, but I don’t think so. You are a parent and so am I. Beyond modelling this kind of lifestyle for our children, how do we prepare them for the realities of the next 10 years and beyond (without scaring the ever-loving shit out of them and crushing their dreams)?
That's a tough one for sure, and it depends on the parenting style, but especially the child.
I've raised them their whole lives by telling them the honest truth and trusting they can handle it. My kids are very strong in this way. They know the challenges we face going forward. My oldest is now in grade 11 and is in the crucial years of deciding what he wants to do for his career. He is absolutely empowered to drive change, and wants to get into engineering for that reason. He is more along the lines of space exploration and technology, and wants to one day help establish humanity on Mars and terraform it.
I think it does depend on the child. Are they naturally the type to have this burden weigh them down and disempower them? Or are they they type to rigid-up and fight?
In the end, I think our jobs as parents isn't to raise children, but rather raise adults. So I always default to preparing them for challenges they will face, and put a priority on brutal honesty, couched in a hope that solutions can be made. Must be made.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I'm a top honors STEM undergrad, half a semester from graduation, a couple semesters of prerequisites from transfer to UW-Madison.
I've worked in the private sector as a researcher/writer and no longer view college as a viable plan. I wrote a term paper on how we cannot stop climate failure without removing barriers (people against progress) and aced it, like all the others.
Now, family members younger than I refuse to attend college.
I no longer have a way to tell them they are likely wasting their time when self-education is superior to college curriculum, and it's a bad investment via interest rates.
How do you think we can solve the education crisis required to create competent scientists and engineers while those points remain valid?
Man, or how about just hedonism in general. The whole mindset of "well, we're fked, so let's party". The coal oil and gas lobby interests are putting out that propaganda now and its working.
How to fight against that? I don't know, I really don't. Value real skills over paper education. That isn't to say that getting a good education isn't a decent plan, IF it's in a field that will be in demand in the changing times. I certainly wouldn't be paying tuition for a journalism degree right now though. I'd rather take a PDC, a woodworking class, construction skills, and learn some real knowledge that may come in handy one day.
To the hole jobs of the future thing AI is scary as crap. Driving anything can be done better by a computer. Sure ai is even doing new chemicals and metallurgy. Even welding has a robot that can do the inside welds vertical and overhead in ships. So we have alot of jobs on the chopping block.
Takota Cohen, Rob Avis and Michelle Avis' book "building your permaculture property" has some pretty deep and insightful reflections on maintaining positivity through their description of the regenerative paradigm vs the sustainable paradigm. It helped me a lot. Made me realize i didnt have to think of myself as lesser than or detrimental to nature and be angry or fearful of myself and the state of the world, but instead realize that i AM nature in action and i can replace self loathing with reverance for nature and my place in it. They obviously word it a lot better, but i think the main message i try to impart to the kids in my family as they learn the reality of our situation is not shaming ourselves, or putting energy into how we can do less bad but how can we do more good? We are all on our permaculture journeys, not because we want to sustain, but because we realize that we have the power to regenerate. We cant fix all the problems, but we can try our best to make things a little better for ourselves and our neighbours ❤
I really appreciate your science based approach to this. I don't really like "prepper culture" because it tends to be super individualistic and often not based on the inevitable climate struggles- but it's just a fact that we will not be able to continue living like we have been indefinitely. And the more those of us with the resources and land to create permaculture gardens, the less pressure will be on the system to feed us as well as the people who aren't fortunate enough to have that. It's better for everyone. I also believe we need to start thinking of different ways to share resources and goods: Starting tool libraries, giving away seeds and cuttings for free, and my dream would be shifting to a library economy.
The best way to prep is to grow community resilience and social capital, not to isolate with guns and rations.
The problem with rations is that they often consist of highly processed food products that are shelf stable. They don't do much for our metabolic health. They are extremely expensive, packaging is not often environmentally friendly, and the food gets spoiled by time or incorrect storage methods. Perhaps these food products are useful in an emergency such as an earthquake, but even then, whole foods could be brought in using the army if the political and health biosecurity system would allow it. It's ridiculous that refugee camps can receive food products at great expense but not seeds, gardening tools, place to make compost and live food animals with supporting infrastructure.
Great video as always. I'm reminded of my own country of Denmark, claim to be green this, green that, but we emit 300% more co2 per KWh than France does, due to a lack of nuclear power. The government thinks that setting ambitious goals (that always fail) is the same as actually doing something, and don't get me started on how rapidly our biodiversity and animal populations are decreasing.
I especially agree that there won't be a sudden collapse as many predict, but instead food and fuel will rapidly increase in price and take up a large quantity of people's income. From 2020-2023 food prices have increased by 20 -30% where I live, and still haven't gone down yet, fuel prices are still double of what they used to be.
Planting a garden so you can grow a large part of your own food is an extremely good investment, and if you have the space, planting trees for firewood.
The aim of a garden shouldn't be to be 100% self sufficient for when the apocalypse comes, but to be mostly self sufficient so you're insulated from potentially large increases in prices and potential shortages.
Bang on right here!
A little self sufficiency and a lot of community will soften any blow that is to come. Make those connections with your neighbors, treat them to a homemade rhubarb pie and offer to help them plant some rhubarb in their own back yard. Little things like that to open channels. Pay attention to who is receptive, cultivate their curiosity and you will grow together. No man is an island.
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We gotta start building community alliances of gardeners and work together to feed eachother. 💪
My family and I have been thinking more and more this way lately. We homeschool, so I've made permaculture a class for the kids so we can develop the skills together. I've been binging Nate Hagans' podcast The Great Simplification. If this message resonates with anyone who hasn't heard of Nate Hagans, you should give it a go. It's scary, but having something beautiful and delicious to work toward as a solution takes the edge off. Thanks for putting all the work into making these videos.
Thanks Megan. Best of luck to you and your family. I wish my parents did this kind of thing with me when I was a kid, I may have found this path sooner. I think you are doing great by you and your family!
Thanks for this
I am literally breaking ground on a permaculture orchard next week in zone 5b, eastern Ontario. Starting with a 1.25 acre plot and see how it goes. Once I did the plan I realized the huge amount of food a space that size can give.
Good luck!
🇨🇦 Hi Keith. I got my PDC in 2011. None of my family, friends or coworkers had any idea what I was talking about. Ha ha. So glad to see it becoming more main stream. I like the saying permaculture dispels despair. One very, very important thing is good health. I had everything set up and got a very serious cancer diagnosis. I’ve had complications for five years. I used to have a huge community veggie plot but had to give it up. So sad. I had it for 20 years. Someone benefited from all my hard work. I still have the small home yard. But it was set up as fruit tree guilds. So is now pretty shady to grow most vegetables. But I squeeze them in all over. So take care of your health. Running back and forth for surgeries and appointments is very tiring. This is the first spring I’m feeling a bit more active and can do things. But because it was permacultured things got messy but nothing died. No even me. Ha ha.
What a great outlook you have, no doubt rooted in how centered you have become by living this lifestyle for decades. I wish you all the best in your recovery!
Although I started my garden with your guidance last year, after watching this video I will devote more time to it and will get my relatives to get started on it.
Hi Malik! How is the garden coming along? I'd love to see any pictures this summer if you remember to take some. It was such an honor to work with you. You are such an outstanding person. Namaste, friend.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy Salam. Under your guidance, my garden is growing well. will send you photos once there is a bit greener there. My son has fact-checked your presentation and found your whole set of information pretty accurate. Now the rest of the family is getting into thinking mode.
So happy I met an Indonesian coffee farmer last summer who grows in a forest. She got me really interested in permaculture and no matter what happens I doubt the me in 15 years is not gonna be grateful for nuts and fruits. Especially if shit really goes down.
I'm poor by my country's standards but lucky to be next to city owned areas that have tremendous potential for food forests. And parts of the area have pretty much no people visiting them.
Hi and thanks for the words. This is a subject i have been thinking about a lot lately and you have put it all into prospective for me in one short video. WE have started our permaculture farm here in Calabogie Ont. About 4 years ago and it is coming along quite well. My wife and I have made this our full time business and we are working hard towards being able to provide food not only for our family but also the community. You have given me a much deeper vision towards the future of the environment and inevitably the economy. Hearing this put into words makes me want to work that much harder to make sure that we succeed with our vision. Thank you.
Thank you kindly :) Best of luck!
A couple of things for those just getting started and/or with limited space: if you grow summer prune fruit trees to limit size they'll produce sooner, not as much, but sooner (read Grow A Little Fruit Tree for more information)...and although canning supplies, all of which come from large companies, were unavailable, not ALL seeds & nursery stock was out - only the LARGE companies ran out, small local & regional suppliers still had inventory, so I would encourage everyone to buy from them all the time so they stay in business!
Only the seeds of food that perhaps we don't need to eat ran out. Dandelions (the original wild lettuce) still flowered in the lawns, amaranth and goose foot still grew along train lines, poplars and mulberry still gave leaves. The supermarkets still provided dried beans, pumpkins and coriander for planting... We can plant the stem base of celery, onion and cabbage and still get quite a few leaves out of them. Most of my wild broccoli seeds came out of the budgie seed waste that I planted when cleaning the cage...
A good strategy for limited space and a desire for fruit sooner is to plant fruit trees on dwarfing rootstock. They will yield sooner, but with the trade off that they don't live as long as standard trees.
@@kymeratale Buying a full size tree and pruning aggressively in late spring/early summer will keep the trees small (smaller than dwarf, if you choose), they tend to begin producing in about three years rather than the usual 5-7, and they maintain the vigor & lifespan of the full size tree. My first apple was a semi-dwarf, subsequent trees of all fruit types I've bought larger trees and am keeping them pruned back...although I wouldn't need to, now that I'm older even dwarf trees will live as long as I will.
Your passion is absolutely inspiring.
Promote the 3 Bs: bees, birds, and butterflies.
Grow fruit trees.
Cover the earth.
haha, I love it
While I may not agree with everything you are suggesting the government ought to do about the impending crisis, I do agree with you on what we as individuals can do right now about it! Great advice. Seeing you stand out there in the rain talking about it is so encouraging and inspiring. Rain or shine, there is something we can do about it. We are not powerless in all this.
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Started this journey a couple years ago. Bought the land and got 11 fruit trees, a large garden and some support perennials into the ground. Getting chickens this week! 9 More fruit trees bought and a few dozen attempted from seed. My hope is to be a resource and an example to those around me how rewarding this lifestyle is. Thanks for the explanation of how bad, why and when things are going to go down hill.
Thank you. For this reminder. Was aware of all this in 2005 thanks to LATOC, ASPO, The Oil Drum, Transition Towns, etc. I have been skill building all this time.
The 2008 crisis set me back for close to a decade, but in 2022 I finally got to a financial position to prep a food forest, yet everything is more expensive now.
But at least now I know how to raise chickens, to grow & preserve produce, and to teach others. I enjoy practicing these skills.
Earth care
People care
Share the surplus
Waste nothing
I do not think we have 7 years. Maybe 2 years.
Amazing! Great work! I also agree, I kind of fudged on my estimate of the timeframe because when you tell people who are completely unplugged from all this, that massive changes are coming in less than a decade, they kind of think you are nuts. And really, changes WILL be coming, but it's also unlikely that many of the people who need to act will notice. The worst changes are happening to the most exploited people, and they will get hurt the most.
I know so many people who are otherwise very kind and compassionate people, and their stance is something along the lines of "well, it will get a little warmer here so that's not so bad, eh, heheheh". It's so crazy how disillusioned people can be, and insensitive an otherwise kind empathetic person can be for someone's plight, caused by them and their choices, as long as they live in another part of the world.
How to fight this, I don't know. This line of thinking is so pervasive, and it's everywhere.
In about 100 years, we went from "It's a parent's job to make the world better for their children"
to
"Stop complaining you stupid kids, I got mine."
It took courage for you to post this. Thank you and keep fighting the good fight.
I’ve never watched a more important video in my life,thanks dude🤘🌱❤️
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I shared it on my tiktok keep up the knowledge ❤️❤️
I think we also need to learn how to utilize what nature provides in abundance. Learning how to identify, eat/use eat our "weeds". Weeds grow more easily than crop plants because crop plants were selected by humans to grow based on our preferences. Whereas a weed's hardiness comes from the evolutionary need to survive through any climate condition it may encounter. A weed will grow more easily and in larger abundance and provides a wider and higher range of nutritional value than crop plants selected by humans.
I'm not saying that we should ignore gardening, but we should keep in mind that we have been provided an alternate food source for centuries that most people have been ignoring.
This is absolutely why I've been transitioning away from annuals and mostly grow native perennials. I'm designing less of a garden here, and more of a forest that I forage from.
I really like your 'It's going to change' series, so start getting ready. The present lack of water in a fifth of Mexico City has really shown that the people with a barrel and a means to move a barrel with a cart or wheel barrow have such an advantage over the families that turn up with large saucepans and buckets when the water tanker is distributing water weekly. Clean water storage is critical. Cleaning contaminated water is also important. Transportation that doesn't require petroleum is helpful. Any third world country shows the value of bikes, carts, barrows for moving people and goods. In times of crisis, employment takes a dive. How many skills or goods can we offer? Can we reduce our cost of living to balance with the income that we can generate when we are with no formal employment. How are we going to feed ourselves and perhaps our animals? It's all a process of trying to prepare. We need lots of ideas, more trust in our communities, sharing of resources, becoming more knowledgeable about options. I'm painfully aware how fragile my situation is. Every system I have set up has numerous weak links..
Well done. I started learning how to grow food 5 years ago. It brings me joy. In Australia’s north I know I can grow sweet potatoes and snake beans in our hottest weather - to date-. Permaculture water designs hopefully will help. Meanwhile my family are enjoying Home grown European style vegetables and my hens eggs. Good luck to all.
You’re on the money. Well done. I started my food forest, again 4 years ago. A fire took the first one out. We also have raised beds, utility chickens that we breed for meat and eggs and utility cattle for meat and milk. We also have a pony that we can drive in cart and ride. I’m legally blind and physically limited and my husband has acquired brain injury and physical limitations. But we are fairly healthy and active due to the hobbie farm and our work as body work therapists and studies, him acupuncture and me naturopath. We have very little money but our life is amazing! All it takes is a dream and then action.
I had gardens in the past. Weeds took over. My neighbor said she wanted to come watch video with us about gardening. It was Paul Gautschi Back To Eden. Love it. That is what I started working on. My husband made me two raised bed. I planted potatoes in old hay we had for years. We all ready had some fruit trees and bought couple more. I want to get more next year before they are about sold out.
Well put together, informative and really unbiased with respect to conserv/lib politics. People are largely blind to these issues. .Started growing my fruit trees a few years ago, have veg beds, and need more fruiting shrubs! These skills should be taught in school.
That asparagus is HUGE! I planted 10 crowns (5 green, 5 purple) a few weeks ago and the spears are starting to show now. I can't wait to taste them. I also planted a few fruit trees. I wish I could have planted more. Hpefully this autumn we will be able to plant more in the garden/food forest loading. I've made some experiments with mushrooms and we have to see if they will yield something or I have to do a better job next time. Take care!💛
I love watching this guy. He's is really knowledgeable. I recently subscribed to this channel and am very glad I have. I've learned a lot, and the information he gives everyone kinda is the missing piece of the puzzle, sort of say. I recommend all kinds of people watch and learn as much as they can from this guy.
Much love !
Hi, Keith! My English is not that good to understand every single word in this video, but I still got the message and now I'm even more encouraged to start a food forest than before. Thank you for revealing this topic, not only gardening itself.
That's amazing because your written English is better than most native English speakers! Not just this comment, but all your previous ones.
I'm glad you enjoyed this one! I needed to end the winter series of videos with a message of hope and action.
You can turn on subtitles in your language on these YT videos
As a fellow engineer, I love the way you present this material. You’re covering a ton of ground with deep, yet often hidden connections. Somehow it all hangs together perfectly. Also, you avoid the alarmist politicking, but still arrive at a clear call to action. Bravo. Thank you!
Thank you so kindly. This is all coming from literally hundreds of books, podcasts, studying from experts. I just love this stuff, I binge it on the way to work, for 20 years now. I find the limits of growth so fascinating, because I think its the ONLY thing that matters, and nobody is talking about it.
People always just focus on single areas. Climate change. Carbon. Oil. Financial systems. Food. But these things are all interconnected and deeply interwoven. It's impossible to fix climate change for example, without fixing how capitalism serves only GDP, and GDP ignores environmental externalities.
It's impossible to fix industrial farming practices, without considering government taxation, subsidies, and funding.
It's impossible to prepare for the end of oil, without fixing our centralized food systems.
It's impossible to fix overshoot and consumption, without addressing "engineering to failure for max profits".
I could go on and on and on, it's literally all a giant mess of spaghetti on a global plate.
One thing that I'd suggest is to try and learn about organics. Not as a political ideology or anything, but as a way of raising food on your own without having to buy the necessary inputs such as fertilizer at a store. With just a little bit of learning and a little bit of work it's very possible to close the loop and stop buying the nutrients needed to continue to produce food year after year and create those inputs all yourself.
I love your perspective Keith. Not only your perspective but how you bring together a number of different sources from the engineer perspective. You are awesome and your videos are amazing. Thank you.
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One thing about trees, tho, is that we haven't had a fruit harvest from ours for 4 years now. With the climate instability, the trees bloom too early then blossoms are killed by a late frost, or one year we had two 6-week periods of almost no rain that resulted in the trees dropping their fruit and nuts and no harvest then either. Cane fruits are doing well, I think bushes and brambles might be the way to go. I guess if you want fruit trees, pick ones that bloom late.
Reply mostly for general readers: Do the research and at least attempt to select ones that can, in most years, thrive and produce. If you can afford it buy a close range of trees - a few for more north climate and one or two for south climate; The bulk for your climate as it theoretically is at present. In the mid west US where I live it's hotter and drier now. And just as you mentioned, late freezes are taking out blossoms and fruit embryos more often now than just ten years ago. I've got an oak tree that is never fooled so am learning to harvest acorns for consumption. Apples are pretty dependable too and store for long periods of time. You probably know all this anyway. But it's good to know you're out there and I'm not alone.
I had the same problem with plum trees last year. Every single bloom was frosted. In fact, they're blooming right now and there are 2 consecutive frosty mornings forecast for the end of the week. So they'll be gone again.
But 2021, best harvest ever. One plum tree was so laden, I wonder it didn't break. So I view the years of frosted blooms as a bit of a break for them. Let them recharge and hang some strawberries in hanging baskets off the empty limbs.
I initially started my food forest with fruit bushes - gooseberries (3 colours), currants (3 colours), raspberries (now in 5 different colours), thornless blackberries, blueberries, honeyberries.
These don't seem to be bothered by late frosts. Some of the Blueberries have already bloomed throughout at least 2 or 3 frosty mornings, and not one of the flowers were affected, even if a few leaves fell off.
Seeing plants thwarted by weird weather is rough. Really considering microclimates in your space can help some with the late frost part. Possibly planting in areas that tend to stay colder might delay blooming till a safer time. If you have the space, planting in several different microclimates so that whatever the weather, you hopefully have at least one tree fruit. Obviously that only goes so far, but worth a shot. I think you're right that bushes and brambles are a good way to hedge your bets, if you will.
I think having a wide variety of fruits is key. That way different weather patterns affect different plants differently and some may produce more and some less in any given year.
Thank you so much for this very thorough and informative video. Thank you in particular for mentioning the Global South and the impacts of our extractive economic model on our fellow humans. They are now suffering the worst impacts of climate change and have done the least to deserve it.
I have been a climate activist since 2018 and initially thought we could change the system through our efforts. I have since realised that the big corporations are too powerful and both activists and information are being increasingly suppressed and in some cases activists have even been killed. I am still involved in campaigning ( currently to try to stop approval by UK govt of Rosebank oilfield) but I have also moved my focus to trying to prepare my own community for what lies ahead. After a year of doing a weekly climate strike at my local shop, I have now got a group of people together to focus on adapting and mitigating climate change. It is still early days but we are looking at issues such as developing community owned energy projects ( eg hydro in the local river) food growing, a repair cafe, and working with businesses and food producers to support the local economy and food systems. At the moment there are only a few of us, but I am hopeful that once we become more visible others will join. We need to try to build this better world you envisage and strengthen our communities. This will help to mitigate the risk of civil unrest.
Thank you again for what you are doing to raise awareness. It is very powerful.
Thank you so kindly 🙏
Thank you for this, it's a very clear picture of where we are headed. We are like a bunch of lemmings in a school bus hurtling towards a cliff (mixed my metaphors a bit there), blithely looking out the window enjoying the ride. EVEN if your predictions are overly pessimistic and economic growth will continued relatively unabated for the foreseeable future, I really want to continue downsizing our lifestyle (which is pretty modest anyway) and I want my older kids to watch this video. because this is going to affect them. I am really bad at growing annuals (partly because of our very hot and dry summer climate), I don't think we could ever feed ourselves that way, and I am not sure our 1/4 acre of land is sufficient to sustain our family even if I could grow enough fruit and vegetables. But having settled for a fairly modest lifestyle I think we could weather the coming storms, even as we have so far weathered the huge price increases we have recently seen - when you mostly feed yourself with fruit and veg from the farmer's market and the minimum of industrially-produced products, the blow to your budget is not nearly as great. But your comments about the lack of expertise in renewable energy (e.g. nuclear) got me thinking - do you think that is a viable career path I could suggest to my kids, whether on the engineering side or somewhere else? I think they need to start thinking about the 21st-century economy and what it's going to hold for them, and I feel a lot of the traditional career paths are going to offer less opportunities - I can sense the impending change in my own industry (translation services) with the rise of AI tools...
Absolutely. that's where I'm steering my kids. If there is one educated path worth pursuing, I think its anything that will help develop the future world, where a certification or degree is required. That's not only things like engineering, but also more hands on skills, the skilled labour to do it, welding, pipefitting, electrician, etc.
This makes me think back to my 19 y/o self talking to the Dr I was working for at the time....Sitting across a desk from him, I tell him how I am giving my two weeks notice. I have plans to move into a agricultural commune to learn skills in self-sufficiency. He asks why I would want to quit my job (training as an ophthalmic tech) to go break a sweat every day. I mentioned how I want to be prepared when there is no more food in the grocery stores. He literally laughed at me. He could not imagine a time when you can’t go to the store to get what you need. I didn’t care for the commune so I left after a while....but I dis gather skills and kindled a fire under my butt to be self-reliant in terms of food and energy. This was 12 years ago! Now I have a functional homestead, grow 100% of my own meat, I usually break a sweat every day and have dirt under my nails. I met a wonderful man who has the same goals! Save your seeds folks!
Wow I love this so much! I'm so glad you were able to find your passion.
Truth! I started my food forest 2 years ago. I'm planting as much as I can get my hands on. Change of life is coming.
Thank you for this wake-up call. I heard this same message 15 years ago, we haven't really made any progress since then, lately I've been distracted by all the human rights issues, so environmental issues and peak oil kind of fell off my radar, tho it's all intertwined really because the poor and minorities will suffer the most. One thing I've realized since buying the farm is that livestock are not something you can do "self-sufficiently", without oil for fertilizer, gas for tractors, etc. because they all need to eat, and usually it's either grain or hay and hand-harvesting enough hay to feed a single cow through winter is more work than most people would be willing to do.
Have you looked into setting up silvopasture? It's a 10 year investment, but is a good way to at least minimize how many inputs you need. A really good resource on it is obviously Alan Savory, but a younger person actively doing these things is Darby Simpson.
I have way too many chickens and ducks and I agree with you. It’s way more work and resources than most people realize. I do enjoy their company but they are not sustainable, especially in colder climates.
If a half hour every day or two isn't too much check into hair sheep. They can get pretty close to being self sufficiently and even profitably raised with proper management.
I freaking love you for everything you are sharing in this video. We need to change how we operate in the world - away from consuming in a capitalist system, and toward stewarding, nurturing, and producing food, biodiversity, and community. So spot on!
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Been a Prepper since 2015. 2019 I purchased my biggest prep yet.. land. I started watching your videos a year ago and am already working towards food security. Because I believe that something will happen such as economic collapse and quite possibly worse than the Great Depression.
One of my biggest fears is the talk that the government doesn’t want people living in rural areas.. they want them penned in these 15 minute cities where they can be monitored and controlled. Everything that you’ve worked so hard for to provide for your family will just be confiscated by the government
I'm honestly not afraid of having eminent domain used on my land. I think the walkable cities discussion is valid, and the main goal is to reduce the need for cars, because the government knows that:
1) Oil collapse is here, and imminent
2) Energy infrastructure to support a change to EVs isn't possible in the timeframe needed.
So the goal is to create Amsterdam style cities where cars aren't needed.
I honestly don't see anything nefarious in this, I think its an important part of the transition. Without it there will be catastrophic collapse. But I don't think anyone will be forced to do anything. I truly don't.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy I hope that is true - I know not all can afford it -but if living rural - bikes and horses could be a wonderful alternative to cars ! :)
15 minute cities aren't a prison. They are just a regular city where you can walk to the grocery store within 15 minutes instead of being forced to drive several kilometers to get milk or vegetables. Before the absurd practice modern single use zoning, where we forced everyone who wanted more than 2 bedrooms to live in a suburban wasteland instead of near their job, "15 minute cities" were completely normal and just called cities.
Also why wouldn't the government want people living in rural areas? Cities are so much harder to politically (or militarily) dominate than rural areas. Cities were the birthplace of democracy and continue to be bastions of liberty. If you're worried about an authoritarian government, you should be worried they will start trying to encourage people to live in small cities and work camps that can be easily controlled.
I love your video. I disagree with almost all your positions so I think I will watch a couple of more times and then post my reasons and hopefully have a respectful conversation.
I appreciate the maturity in this response :)
On Tesla's 2023 investor day video which is 3 hrs long a lot of information is given about this subject and either you or Elon are wrong because you say the opposite. You should watch it. The part about efficiency improvements by transition to electric indicates less energy will be needed not the doubling every 25 years you speak of.
You Said Capitalism happened to be in charge at the time of oil. I think
100% of Russians
100% of Saudi Arabians
100% of Chinese
100% of Mexicans
100% of Venezuelans
(Just the short list)
Disagree with you about who was in charge of their oil.
You said The world doesn't care about going green under capitalism. Yet the most capitalistic guy on the planet is in the green industry, EV cars and advancements in battery technology that will make full electric a viable option. His name is Elon Musk.
Peak oil passed in 2019
If Trump wins next election within two year that will not be true. Peak oil is at the moment an issue of policy not resources (politicking).
When the power goes off we won't be able to hear from this speaker. (It's a long walk to Canada to visit.) Better start your food forest now because once you really need it it'll be way too late. Get going fellow earthlings. Cheers
Glad I started my food forest 3 years ago haven't gotten much out of it yet except for beauty but it's coming along
It won't take long. I started mine with the dependable, quick-producing fruit bushes: gooseberries, currants, raspberries, thornless blackberries.
This selection propagates so easily (I started propagating from the most vigorous shrubs just 18 months after planting). Now, several years later, I have hundreds in place of the half dozen I started with.
The fruit trees, blueberries, honeyberries and those plants that are more challenging to propagate, I acquired very slowly to begin with. But when the pandemic struck, I think that was my 'real' wake-up call, and I knew then I would really have to buckle down and start planting seriously.
Over the past 3 years, I have really diversified as well as acquired a good deal more of the usual choices. I'm thinking that it's perfectly possible for the weather to swing to one extreme and then to another from year to year, so if one harvest fails - I can depend on another.
Population numbers are taking a hit since 2021. Working aged people deaths have increased by 40% according to life insurance data and funeral numbers. A 10% increase in deaths would be shocking...40% is a collapse. Even though it would seem logical that world population reduction would lower world energy requirements...there are no easy answers. But lots of food forests would be wonderful and helpful, probably even life-saving.
Thanks once again Keith, now if we can convince everyone of the importance of cutting back on our goods consumption, difficult to do when the politicians are basing their debt recovery through growth in the Gdp, = increase in production of goods.
Speaking of the reusable lids for canning. It seems there's a wide spread belief, in north america, that canning lids are not reusable. If carefully removed, those lids can be used many times over.
I have my garden well underway, as you know. I'm collecting canning supplies and working on my preservation skills and cooking from scratch skills.
Interesting. How do you disinfect them? Just regular boiling or steaming?
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy just regular boiling. Same as disinfecting the bottles.
We’ve reused lids for years. Just inspect for damage. If they don’t seal, stick them in the fridge and use first. I recently watched a video from Italy I believe, where are the women were all gathering around a large communal canning pot, each one or adding their own bottles of preserves to the pot. They didn’t use pressure canners, or stack them up perpendicular or anything. They just piled them in and boiled them. Perhaps the occasional one did break or not seal but they could handle that quite easily. Another interesting thing I just came across was our ability to purchase those quick twist canning lids that have lugs instead of threads. A local store in Sudbury is going to start stocking common sizes to make them economically available.
Is so rewarding to go to your garden and harvest from it,to eat. I started my food forest 12 yesterday ago and now is thriving. Thanks for the advice. I did it for better health and to eat organic food.
Great video! I’m so proud of you and how you’ve turned this new interest in gardening into something that has brought so much purpose to your life, and knowledge and inspiration to so many people around the world. Grandma would have been so happy to see what you’ve accomplished with your gardens. I think so many people feel like they don’t have a green thumb and can’t get started, but they don’t realize that was exactly like you… and look at you now, just 7 years later! So proud of you! ❤
I'm sure Keith is proud of you guys as well. Another video of your place would be great.
@My Cancer Journey Really study Thomas Syfreid, Cancer as a metabolic disease. People following his recommendations are having success
@My Cancer Journey th-cam.com/video/GuIk3qR-ws8/w-d-xo.html
@@maruiacancer a quick summary of the metabolic cancer protocol is learn to fast because cancer cells live off glucose and glutamine. First one month Ramadan dry fasting ( Eating before dawn, nothing in the day, not even water and at dusk a small meal. You can drink during the night) Ramadan dry fasting is the equivalent of three days water only fasting. Eat lots of cancer fighting foods such as cruciferous vegetables, tumeric, ginger, garlic, green tea, blue berries and quite a bit of fat (coconut oil, olive oil, avocado, MTC oil if you don't eat animal foods) because cancer cells can't use ketones. It's desirable to be in ketosis. Then you try five days water and salt only fasting. Then have a month of one meal a day. Now try one month water and salt only fasting. Most cancers cannot survive this total lack of glucose and glutamine. For what ever reason you cannot fast because of being very underweight, extremely weak, old... there is a pulsed drug protocol of blocking insulin with abendazol (antiworm medication) and DON (to block glutamine. You would need to get a MD on board for the medication route. All the best with your journey.
So that comment is gone now, but apparently that person stole the actual other person's account and is now using it to funnel money into a fake foundation. If anyone sees their comment pop back up, please be very careful with clicking links and donating money. When in doubt, donate money to known charities that put the most money possible towards the people who need it, and avoid giving directly to individuals.
I truly appreciate the effort you put into these videos relating to expected changes in climate that will necessitate changes in the way we live. Thanks also for drawing attention to inequities within societies and how actions within a society can negatively impact other parts of the world.
From the first video of yours that I watched 2-3 years ago, I knew your style of gardening meshed well with my hopes for my small city lot. Last June my son bought a house with an acre of turf grass on top of hardpan clay. They are letting me take charge of creating a large natural area and a vegetable garden I envision a cohesive permaculture lot including fruits and vegetables as well as native trees, shrubs and plants to support wildlife.
I have struggled with with the clay and have the beginnings of a garden. On your advice, I collected mountains of leaves from the neighborhood last fall. I need a plan for the next few years to include retaining rainwater that now runs into a drainage ditch behind their property. I think I need a landscaper to give quotes on creating berms and swales.
If you have any suggestions on how to move forward, I would love to hear them. You have done beautiful work to create a bountiful and family-friendly space. This job requires more knowledge than I have gleaned in years of gardening in my small city lot with loose, black soil.
Thanks again for all your gardening videos AND for videos sharing your concerns for the entire earth. This video has given me more determination to work effectively in creating a permaculture yard for my son's family. (Sorry this got so long.)
Our property out of the city had two metres of topsoil mined off it for building mudbricks for houses in the area and to use for leveling the surrounding pecan orchards. They then sold off the funny wedge shaped strip hole to ignorant suckers like us with the promise of water and electricity... but then backed out and left us looking at flood irritation over the fence. We were left with machine compacted clay and heavily salted caliche (commonly known as natural cement)...So my methods have been supporting and planting mezquites (so called nitrogen fixers) in rings because their roots can drill down through the clay. Sometimes I sacrifice the mezquites by cutting them of at ground level and covering with cardboard and sawdust before planting a fruit tree such as peach but more often I leave the mezquites until the fruit trees can survive the dogs. I'm constantly making compost with sawdust in the chicken coop and sawdust in a bottomless water tank for treating dog poo and humanure. With this compost I use as a slurry to water the hole when planting fruit trees. Our water from a well is extremely alkaline. Our apple and plum trees tend to become mineral deficient even when applying compost. I am trying to rectify this with foliar spray made from eggshells soaked in vinegar (I use a tsp to a litre of water). We did bring in an excavator to dig two long trenches through the property and I gradually filled them with mezquite branches brought in from the highway, tumble weed, cardboard... I let most of the grass and weeds grow even if they are prickly and poisonous. In a desert environment everything takes a long time and there are many false starts and failures. My biggest helpers have ironically been voles, rats and squirrels. They dig tunnels 40 cms under the surface from tree well to tree well and that helps spread water underground all over the property. The result is that with rhizome grasses, our whole property now looks green. All the best with your clay. Remember that clay is much easier than course sand.
Such a fantastic response Ann!
Just keep planting and keep tapping into any free source of organic matter that you can. Those are the 2 secrets.
This was concise, direct and straight up brilliant!
We’ve been following the channel for a while since, being also in Ontario, so many of your guidelines and climate experiences apply to us as well.
But this eye opening presentation was necessarily direct.
Keep up the good work, Keith.
You’re an inspiration to all of us to try that much harder to make the world, an our own food gardens, a better place.
cheers 🍻
I like how you're just standing out in the sleet doing a video! I'm hopeful that we can shift. Some of us will be okay, some of us won't. I think it depends on how awake you are. Great information and a good reminder. Thank you! 😊 Sending this video to my husband because he will appreciate this intelligent, fact based video.
I appreciate that!
I'm year 9 into my farm/garden. I will never lose the knowledge I've gained but my fear is about what kind of losses we could face even as permaculturalists - a bad drought - if there's simply no water what are you going to do? I know the idea is to have a diverse spread of species and something will make it, but it could be dire. Bad winds too, and even tornados seem to be increasing in our area (Ontario), you'd have to be unlucky but it would just take minutes for your trees and years of work to vanish. I guess that's why there needs to be a network of us! It's honestly scary to think about though, we are so vulnerable to the weather. I really appreciate your take and information tho
Yeah, we lost some trees in the recent big wind storms this year and last. Thankfully, because I plant SO densely, we ended up okay. I had neighbours who lost every tree on their property (on my street!). It was so super scary that 7 years of nonstop work could get completely erased in one storm.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy right?? I've never had storm anxiety like I do now that I have so much set up!! I am watching your other videos and seeing your peach trees, curious which varieties you have
th-cam.com/video/5GrddntX4Jk/w-d-xo.html
I have a video on that!
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy thank you!! Watching all your videos
I believe you... it's a shame that even the people I know that are willing to entertain the possibility cannot bring themselves to make any move towards being prepared. Head in the sand or living for today? I hate how selfish humanity appears to be. Thank you for your willingness to speak.
In the end, it will only hurt them. If people thought the toilet paper run during covid was bad, they need to understand that this was just a baby test for the disruptions that are coming. And they are inevitable, because our current system ignores the fact that it's literally impossible to sustain.
The longer we keep ignoring our collective overshoot, the more rapid the "adjustment" will be. And the people who are unprepared will literally starve.
We can fix SO MUCH of what is coming by just getting as much of the food supply decentralized again.
Interesting times await us 🤔
Couldn't agree more, especially with war against China coming up at any moments, this won't help. We are in a very critical time.
It's kind of scary how Brazile, China, South America etc are lining up to get off the US dollar as global currency. These kind of global divisions are always kind of unsettling to see starting to happen. Reminds people of Axis and Allies being formed.
I watched this video about a month ago, and watched it again today. Interesting for me because of the timing. I am just beginning to build my own "forest". (there is probably a different definition for "forest" living in Denver). Watching this video again has made me realize how important it is for us to be as self sufficient as possible. I have a greater desire to educate myself and your channel/information is the best thing that I have found. Thanks a ton!!, Keith!!
Thanks for supporting the channel Paul! Yes absolutely it's so critically important that we become less reliant on supply chains going forward. Each individually but also as a whole community/society. This is why I made this youtube channel.
The less people who become completely desperate when disruptions happen, the less likely we get looting and pillaging when people who aren't prepared start struggling.
We have so many people who grow nothing but sod grass useless lawns. If we can convert even just some of that space into hardy food production, then it makes a massive difference when the challenges that face us, come knocking at the door.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy thanks for the feedback and thoughts. I agree with you. I have 2 neighbors that are curious about my plans. I think that they will both eventually want to start on there yards as well. Poco a poco!!
Thanks Keith...now I have another reason why I need a greenhouse 😊
LOL high five!
You have a beautiful background with the waterfalls & pond ❤
Thank you
Just got some lawn replacement from your affiliate link 😊 Had to look around at a few videos to find it!
...I started about 2 years ago, and this will be my 3rd season gardening. I've been going Hard at it...dozens of fruit trees, all the standard permaculture edibles, berry's, nuts, chickens, just got quail. I can tell you , as of Now, I don't feel ready, at least not total collapse(what I see coming) ...and "running out" of petro? That's maybe the one thing I hadn't considered!! That makes sense brother. It really does. The bigs would know that, they will want to preserve their lifestyles, and so FAR less consumers would actually be in their interests...
Ok my man ... I'm in, let's go!
I'll be back in 7 years inshallah and I'll tell you about my food forest
Thank you my friend
At 67 years of age, I remember when we all grew our own food and nothing came in plastic containers. Keith is right - start now no matter where you live. If you are a city dweller in an apartment building, explore the indoor growing systems now available. Turn your balcony into a garden. If you have land, switch to as many perennial crops as possible and start saving your annual vegetable crop seeds. Live like your grandparents and the world will be a better place. Be responsible for your own future.
A concise and reasonable explanation of years of eco-economics and the changes that are beginning now. Thank you!
Yes and he's either right or he's wrong, one or the other. I don't have a problem growing your own food but if he's right you need rice, beans, eggs, chicken etc. You can't really live off fruit. Also if your neighbors are starving, they are going to be going after your food. Its really a no win situation.
Excellent informative video. We are in 3rd year, I’ve already converted 1 of the 10 acres of my property to grow a food forest and no dig garden. We have about 60 more trees from wiffletree and Treetime coming next week. I told my children that when I’ve finished converting the property to a food forest it will be of tremendous value.
👍 good luck!
Good Morning Keith! Thank you again for another wise and thoughtful discussion. I agree that we are all on a deadline and need to adapt, plan and learn if we want to thrive. As someone who teaches permaculture food growing I can say with encouraging certainty that there is a mass awakening afoot and you are a driving force in it. Learners are appearing out of nowhere and starting farming co-ops, community groups and food preserving/medicine-making circles to improve our wellness and become more sustainable. It’s mind blowing for homesteaders like us because 5 years ago our work was novelty. Now however, our efforts are proving to be necessary.
As municipalities begin to enforce this contraction with restrictive bylaws for homesteaders and our operations we need to get creative and bond with our neighbours. So grateful to have you in this beautiful country of ours and for all you do to encourage (and warn) us all of the changes ahead. ❤
So much love your way. Thanks for all the work you are doing in the real world!
Thank you. I’m trying to encourage my community with the same message.
Every single person will understand this at some point. It's important that we get people to understand it while they still have time to get as self sufficient as possible. The more that people are self sufficient, the less of an issue it will be for the people who are truly prepared, in terms of defending against the desperate. Keep up the good work! 👍
Thank you soooooooooooo much!
I planted fruit trees last year to start a food forest. This year is the veggie garden. Next year, herbs and berries.
Thank you for your time and engineering insights. I've been trying to find ways to upgrade existing tech for the very purpose of adaptation. Where I live in Wisconsin, we are seeing major weather abnormalities, historic flooding, and large 2/3 temperature swings in a day.
Gardens suffered heavily last year and we didn't see the worst of it. It's much like the plants have no idea what to do while pests, disease/fungus and climate gets worse.
What a BOMBER of a video. This video should have 10 million views.
Great chat, I hope your message spreads.... I know I've been entirely ineffectual in doing so myself.... sigh... That's ok, in the end, I'm good with being the crazy lady who lives of grid.
We really appreciate the time you have taken to put videos like this one out there. We are following your guide and our life has changed. We just recently incorporated wood chips and wine cap pegs thanks to you! Keep spreading this knowledge. You are perpetuating life itself. 👏💫☀️🌎
I am putting in 2 apple trees today and 400 asparagus plants in May❤
Oh wow that's some asparagus! I just put in 100 more myself, because we didn't have nearly enough.
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy How may asparagus per person would you suggest? Most places online say 5-20 per person. What is your take?
Start with 20 per person, save for the winter, give away lots and sell the rest.
Thank you Keith
I live in the US and I believe the right and left are two sides of the same coin. Biden is a typical politician who says what he needs to in order to get elected. Its important to look at politicians history and see if their actions match up to their words. I’m getting older now and most of the things I plant will be for someone else to enjoy and that’s fine with me.
Thank you for your video. Here in UK England is almost impossible to buy a piece of land. I do have an allotment which belongs to the town council, but you never know when they will decide to build houses here as it is a shortage of land. Makes me sad for future generations. Lina
I would love to get rid of all my grass, I hate mowing! I love to garden, been doing it for years, learning more and more watching TH-cam videos, thanks for your videos, just found you, subscripted! I will be binge watching your playlist! Also like learning from offgrid with Doug and Stacy!
Really appreciate your perspective and wisdom.
good information brother i smell what your cooking. as a minimalist i do what i can to lower all of my utility usage and with my food forest im trying like you to feed my whole family plus. great video
Thanks
Thanks Keith! Starting year 3 and still growing on just under 1/4 acre! Hope grows🌳🌿🐝🌼🫐🍓🍇🍎
Great information
Deeply cutting back on the use of energy in human lifestyles would be something to consider along with more sustainable production.
I really appreciate your clear messaging here. This COULD come off as alarmist, and if a viewer interprets Keith unfairly it does. But he is right about the substantial economic change that comes from switching to solar/renewables. It IS necessary, but our economy is NOT designed for it, which means a GENUINE rethink of our energy use systems (aka how the economy and society functions). There is umportant work to be done to make sure the economic transition doesn’t result in mass suffering, and planting a garden is a GREAT way for individuals to lighten the load on systems while also partially protecting themselves.
Thank you!
So I should take a cruise now before I cant anymore? Deal!
Thanks for another great video, the tone delivering this was perfect. No fear-mongering just facts.
It’s sad. I’ve already realized it many years ago and the extreme weather and the changes we’ve had since Jan was/is extreme. I’m going back to in ground garden rows for cost savings, ease of irrigation and most needed to install hoops for various covers to get a harvest. There seems to be a huge amount of money spent on gardening these days. Our ancestors would flip if they seen the price tags.
We just had over a 50*F temp swing from 90*F to snow.
With all the electric I would hope nuclear is not the answer.
It doesn’t help when we sell/lease our land to other countries like what AZ is experiencing and they use all our water to grow alfalfa in the desert to take the hay back to their country to feed their beef and now our farmer’s wells are dry.
The permafrost is defrosting and that land is totally unusable and I feel a major reason why there is war right now.
I see saving seeds from your plants extremely important because crop failures happen and the seed may not be available. Government takes WAY TOO LONG to act and Always have the cart before the horse.
I’ve started my orchard and we have chickens after not having them for decades. Providing the weather doesn’t kill the plants we will have food. I need to find better land and more of it as we have inconsiderate neighbors with dirt bikes and a Very Slow to act local gvt.
I was coming to the end of the video and you were taking the words from my head. And the fact I’m expanding my garden and was just going to start trying to figure out how to do that. The chickens aren’t big enough to scratch it up just yet. My fairly new lawnmower has the transmission out-not happy as it only had about 135 hours of flat mowing on it. And hope like heck something is done about the noise makers in neighborhood. I can’t take it and wish I had our 80 acres back.
Merci from Montreal, Canada.
Good one but much of the same thing bouncing around in my head. I dont know if i am right ether. Im bad at telling the future. But you are right i dont think we have enough energy to switch to green energy. The worst part is this cheap energy is supporting most of the population of people. I can see a drop in population jest by default. Now be carful people go nuts when they are pushed into a corner. I have seen it. People beating others jest because they still had a fridge that worked or power still on.
Sounds bad. but on the other hand today i played with my kids toled my wife she looks beautiful and i worked hard at the farm. So after the bad times come i will tell my wife she looks beautiful and i will play with my kids. So good bad i will still live my life to the best of my ability and be happy with it.
Such a fantastic comment. So grounder and centered, as always Gerry.
I had a meeting with my financial advisor yesterday. She spent so much time showing me our financial "plan" and how much money we'll have each year over the next 60 years based on their projections of the stock market. It made me so anxious because I just don't believe that our financial system is going to continue the way it is now that far into the future. Other than building wealth on your land, do you save money for retirement in the banking/stock market system? We're kinda trying to do both... but we don't have that many resources to divide up.
I think of my retirement fund as a long shot. If I'm wrong about how the next 5-15 years will go, and by some miracle the economy and dollar *don't* collapse, my retirement fund will be nice to have; although I'll never get enough in it to actually fully retire on. I contribute minimally, enough to get my employer matched contributions, and otherwise ignore it. I assume it will evaporate like the meaningless numbers it is.
On the flip side, the fruit trees and shrubs I plant today will not evaporate, and at $20-$50 a tree are the single best investment I can imagine.
Exactly. Everything is projections based on a constant growth economic model that is pushing up against reality. It's all fake, it is all unsustainable, and we are just now the Roman's partying before collapse. So get ready, plant food, secure energy and water systems and at worst, you will save a ton of money and have a nice retirement.
Thank you!
@@CanadianPermacultureLegacy The "collapse" of the Roman Empire took hundreds of years and was much more about slow breakdowns in political power structures and bureaucracy than standard of living for the average person. It was more about the difficulty of maintaining such a large empire with significant communication lag and constant pressure for local self determination. The empire started by capturing territory based on superior military organization and infrastructure projects, then installing new leaders loyal to Rome. This was always a losing strategy in the long term because eventually these leaders developed ties to the place they were ruling (family connections, land ownership, etc.) and began to support local self determination. Rome couldn't easily reconquer and replace these local leaders because Rome no longer had a technological/infrastructure advantage after decades of using roman technology in the local area. Basically the same thing happened with the US before it's eventual revolution, which was arguably the start of the collapse of the British Empire as it lost it's colonies. Even though this was a collapse, it took hundreds of years and left the UK as one of the richest nations on the planet.
Neither is really what we mean when we're talking about collapse in the modern day. We're usually talking more about rapid economic or political collapses like major financial recessions of violent political revolutions.
Indeed, I used the Roman's just as an example of how great civilizations can collapse through systemic ignorance of their problems. Our situation is more dire, more global, and we will rubber-band harder and faster.
The US Navy is the world's largest trainer of nuclear specialists, they used to train hundreds of nuclear specialists of all sorts every year, now the number is only dozens. I like the idea of putting small nuclear plants in retired coal plants, is that a complete pipe dream?
Your economic observations and predicted outcomes are truly frightening, and most likely largely correct.
Fantastic video. Thank you.
Thank you for this informative video, you are right on if only my familie woud listen to this.
Thank you for this video
Hi Keith,
I hope this message finds you well. I find you very inspirational. I started viewing your videos a few years ago, and I can say in earnest that they've been instrumental in my journey of acquiring the tools to fight off cynicism and despair.
I've continued my studies and today was my first day working in the nuclear industry (it was awesome!), and I can't help but see parallels between your situation and mine. Oh, and I'll be planting fruit trees this summer 🙂.
Thank you for caring, thank you for telling the truth, and thank you for acting like the truth is real.
Best regards,
- Dominique
Best of luck in both the food forest and your new career!
Thank you Keith for all that you do. I’ve been listening to some of Graeme Sait’s podcasts. The two of you give me hope of this message reaching the masses.
renewables are a pipe dream - the total cost of solar and wind are so high that they make no sense economically on large scale projects - small solar solutions are great (i have one) but on a larger scale they simply can't replace the net energy we get from fossil fuels -the only option is radical re-simplification of society. a future with less energy usage and more localized production of goods and services. this will be painful. collapse now and beat the rush.
This is true for wonderful, but last year solar actually became the single most cost effective energy solution, even beating nuclear.
What is more interesting is that when you price in environmental externalities, coal oil and gas heating (yes even natural gas) go from around 4 cents per kWh to around 25 cents per kWh. i.e. the only reason those sources are considered cheap is that we subsidize them at every step of the way, and also don't price in their negative consequences. That would be like nuclear not pricing in decommissioning andnlong term storage of waste fuel, just to make the example clear. But for some reason, coal oil and gas get this free pass to destroy the earth, and this is the only reason they look so economical.
If history has the tendency to repeat itself, long before economic collapse, countries will go to war to secure as much as the dwindling resources as possible. Also, even if we could be self-sufficient, which is impossible on an urban/suburban lot, what will stop others from taking our food?
Like you said, everyone should start growing at least some of their food and form relationships with other like-minded people through trade, bartering, exchange of ideas, etc.
Thanks for the video. I'm not a "prepper" and I know you're not either, because I believe no individual can prepare for the apocalypse. I can say that growing a food forest/ garden has so many mental and physical health benefits. Like you said, the best time to start is NOW.
This is whynits so important for EVERYONE to get as self sufficient as possible. The less desperate people are, the less likely we will need to defend our land from the unprepared and starving.
It's still not going to be enough, not by a long shot, but the more we can do, the less abrupt the change will be.