The Off Grid Guide - Part 3 | Food

Timestamps:
Intro 0:00
0:04 Modern Food Issues
23:23 Permaculture Gardens & Food Forests
33:36 Rotational Grazing Systems
45:41 Chicken & Fowl
57:14 Aquaponics, Bees & Mushrooms
1:10:37 Biochar
1:19:03 Black Soldier Flies & Red Worms
1:29:10 Cooking with Solar & Biogas
1:43:33 Composting & Liquid Fertilizer
1:54:43 Food Waste

References:
Carrots Nutrients:

Small Farmer Regulation:

The USDA Food Pyramid is killing you:

Poisoned Documentary Netflix:

Monsanto Suing Small Farmers:

Chemical farming and loss of human health:

Sources:

Chicken & Fowl Guide:

The Disgusting Truth About Fish And Shrimp From Asian Farms

Honey bees are not in peril. These bees are.

Alo Farms:

Home BioGas:

Gosun:

Build you own Digester:

Build you own Solar Oven:

JADAM:

The Problem of Food Waste

Sustainable Food Systems: Challenges and Solutions 🌮

Our food systems are crucial for survival, but current models have significant flaws. Industrial agriculture produces nutrient-deficient, toxic foods, degrades soil, treats animals and workers poorly, prioritizes profits over health, wastes resources, and is controlled by a few large corporations.

Key Issues in Food Systems:

Toxicity & Disease: Increased use of pesticides and herbicides is linked to health issues like autism and developmental delays. The USDA Food Pyramid, influenced by lobbyists, can increase diabetes risk. Most meat is sourced from CAFOs, which often have poor conditions and health risks.

Food Waste: Globally, 2.5 billion tons of food are wasted annually, enough to feed 2 billion people. This waste could be used for composting, animal feed, or other sustainable practices.

Supply Chain Fragility: Food often travels thousands of miles. COVID-19 exposed these weaknesses, causing shortages and waste due to logistical issues.

Corporate Lobbying: Major companies use lobbying to create regulations that harm small farmers, such as restrictions on raw milk and butchery.

Diminishing Nutrients: Nutrient levels in crops have been declining for decades, making today’s food less nutritious.

Corporate Consolidation: The food industry is dominated by a few companies, reducing consumer choice and increasing prices.

Fake Foods: Mislabeling is common, especially in honey, fish, and olive oil, misleading consumers.

Farmer Challenges: The average farmer is nearing retirement age, and the profession faces high rates of suicide due to financial and social pressures.

Soil Degradation: Intensive farming practices have eroded significant amounts of topsoil, reducing land fertility.

Reliance on Chemicals: Overuse of fertilizers depletes soil and causes harmful runoff, with key resources like phosphorus becoming scarce.

Processed Foods: These contribute to various health problems, including heart disease and cancer.

Health Crisis: The cumulative effect of these issues has led to a rise in chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, and cancer.

Solution: Permaculture 🌱

Permaculture offers a sustainable approach to redesigning agricultural practices. It integrates various elements to create self-sustaining ecosystems that mirror natural processes, emphasizing care for people, communities, and the Earth.

Core Concepts of Permaculture:

[LaineyBug]

Imagine if a factory farm volunteered to run a compost pick up system in the surrounding communities. If they did their own vermiculture, fly larvae and meal worms to feed the process the compost and supplement their rotational pasture grazed livestock. If they did companion crops like 3 sisters. If they did massive rainwater harvesting instead of draining local water. If the used that rainwater for aquaponics fisheries. Used the waste from the fisheries, the livestock manure, green manure from rotated and livestock aerated alalfa and wild prairie pastures, and onsight processed compost to build up nutrient rich topsoil. Imagine if they all planted Rivercane and native wetland vegetation along all waterways to filter out the farm runoff. Imagine if they used their own rainwater grown algae biofuel to run their farm equipment. 🎵🎶Imagine all the farmers...🎵🎶

[LaineyBug]

One of the food issues I wish I could solve would be to create and open source format home biofuel algae bio reactor and vegetable oil reclamation biodiesel refineries. If I was good at designing, I'd make a scalable rainwater tank you could grow algae in, harvest and refine it to make the biofuel, food and bioplastic mediums. I'd also have a scaled down version of a used vegetablen oil refinery, mit could even come with a home spirit distillery to harvest your own methanol byproduct. With these products that I would make easy to operate at a small home level like how Home Biogas sets up all it's systems, people can literally make their own vehicle fuel with as much effort as it takes to complete a daily chore. You even get to make your own alcohol and glycerin that can be used in food preserves and tinctures, even soaps. With the plans being open source, anyone that wants to put in the effort can be independent from fossil fuels for the rest of their lives. Think of how many plastics could be replaced with bioplastics if everyone was making their own base materials. Everyone that didn't want to give up their manly American tough trucks and muscle cars could just switch to their neighbor's fuel instead of the gas station and stick it to the oil companies.

[shawnweaver]

I wish I could like multiple times. This series is incredible!

[Humorous]

This group of people make such enlightening knowledgeable videos. They are extraordinarily entertaining and worth listening to kudos to acorn landlab. Definitely a channel where subscribing to and a channel worth being a member of

[LaineyBug]

The tilling is one of the things that hurt natid bees populations. They livebin hollow reeds, holes in mud and downed trees. My preliminary google search's ai results said studies showed fields 1, 000 to 6, 000 yards from natural areas have the most pollination from native bees. Or you can always build some Native Bee Condos by patches of native plants.

[jimboalogo]

This is amazing. Fantastic job. Chuck chuck!

[childrenofthegoddess]

If you want to start mushroom foraging you can start with polypore mushrooms. Easy to identify and grows on birch trees. Use it dried in a tea for medicinal benefits.

[Angel_]

My husband and I just this year grew our first garden! We ended up with a lot for the first year, and the taste man I am depressed its going into winter here. Everything we grew tasted AMAZING was so juicy and clean tasting. Next year we are canning everything we can, I do not like the taste of grocery store produce now at all you can taste the pesticides/chemicals in everything 😢

[LaineyBug]

Burning methane turns it into C02, like you said. Methane from food and human waste is already part of the carbon cycle. So by capping our methane waste and that of our livestock and using it to burn, you can cut out the burning of propane and natural gas which add to the carbon cycle when hey are burned in addition to swapping out the methane for C02 by burning it instead of letting it offgas in landfills. Which brings you back around to using fuel from algae and used vegetable oil since it's part of the current carbon cycle instead of fossil fuels that add to the carbon cycle. It's sll a circle, man!
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[guymarquardt]

I heard a lot of "I'll put a link down below" and don't see links to any of those things

[jonathanhunt]

8:21 not my beef i buy from a local butcher that buys from local farmers. rural wisconsin is great.

[carlstepanian]

Im so grateful about knowledge sharing. I love learning new stuff everyday and today you are part of it. Thanks so much for your great work!

[alabasterledge]

Raw milk? Really? Even if you buy locally, there are still dangers inherent with drinking unpasteurized milk.

[tylerwhorff]

Organic Farming student here. It's crazy how many conservative ads these videos keep having on them considering the topics of the video are decidedly anticapitalist. I've followed this channel for a long time and am also passionate about sustainability

[Marco-hbpt]

A "healthy small capitalist society" cannot exist because of the inherent dynamics of the capitalist system. It will inevitably "degenerate" into a "hyper-capital world."
Even in its most localized and seemingly benign form, capitalism reward competition, greed, and the relentless pursuit of profit, which inevitably leads to the accumulation of wealth and power in the hands of a privileged minority.
The concentration of wealth and power in the hands of a few is a logical outcome of capitalism’s structural imperatives. As corporate power grows, it increasingly influences state policies, leading to a form of corporate totalitarianism.
Welcome to today world.

[Humorous]

And yes folks what this man is talking about regenerative farms and such your meat and produce from them it will cost more. They are willing to talk to you about it to enlighten you to make you more knowledgeable of it and explain why it cost more money. It doesn't cost them any more money than it does for those other companies to grow their cows it's just that the government doesn't subsidize the person giving you clean me and clean water and clean eggs and clean produce. You're non-existent to a bought and paid off government. But those big huge billion-dollar farms yeah they get billions of dollars in subsidies to help them that's why they can sell crap cheaper than those Farmers near you can. There's your reason number one to buy from them instead of spending $13 on your steak spend the damn 20 on a real estate and by the way that $20 steak will feed more people than that 13.00 steak will because it will be real meat not some falsified chemically induced me