Thanks for the 'heads up' Marty, most people have no idea how fragile the food supply chain is. We all grew most of our own food in our back yards once and we need to start doing it again. Thanks for the warning!
I have a lot of respect for farmers. A thank you to all farmers for what you do. I try to have a small veg garden, it is not easy. I made plenty of mistakes and invested a lot of money with very little return. If I had to rely on myself for food, I would starve in 2 days. So, I need farmers and not politicians in my life. Take care.
Hey, here in Germany is the same thing. 250 gramms of butter was bevore the big C about one €. Now they want for the same amount 3 €. I'm glad; I have a garden and my freezer is full for the winter. My birthdaypresent, what I got myself was a greenhouse in spring. There are rigth now still salads and vegetables growing. Its a try, because I have no experience with a greenhouse in winter. But I'm 57 years old and still willing to learn! Bleasings from Saxony! May our future be peacefull! 💙💙💙
The battle is real people. Please listen to Marty and get your gardens established as best you can. Also, stock up on long-term storage foods when they're cheap; rice, white flour, sugar, salt, dried beans and lentils etc. We've got to start living like our grandparents did. Grow, preserve, make, save seeds. Learn how now while we've got all the resources.
@bjcdownunder I'm so grateful for the skills my grandparents had and that they were able to hand onto me as I was growing up from preserving, gardening and hand crafts they're all tools and skills that I now apply to my own life as an adult
In 2009 a documentary was released called "Home" that was the first real indication that we were going toward this path of scarcity and the division between rich and poor growing larger, I acted pretty quick leaving my job and extended family in Perth and by 2015 i had purchased 5acres in the southwest of W.A to create a permaculture food forest, fast forward to today 9 years on and it is cranking. I now have about 80 different types of fruit trees with dozens of raised beds, aquaponics and many small soil and worm making systems. I still do my weekly shops at woolies as i can't produce 100% of what my family needs. So glad i made the move when I did. I recommend you find community and start collecting seeds and learn about soil biology and growing your own food NOW.
Im really sad about what is happening in our country. Price of food and cost of living. I remember when i was a child and we had veggie shops, butchers, bakeries and such. All independently owned. Now we have these massive corporations that own everything. Its so depressing, we have no future. 😢
We need to develop skills in preserving food as well. Last week we harvested bananas and we dried a third of them and stored them in Kilner jars, some went in the freezer for smoothies. I buy red cabbage when its cheap and make sauerkraut, purchase fruit when its cheap and make jam and marmalade. I plan on learning what the Americans call canning and preserving more food for the pantry. I guess I'm becoming a prepper.
Great skills to have, and they’re not difficult. Just strictly follow the rules with canning. Be sure to try fermenting too, simple and magic. I grow most of my own food and preserve it in many ways.
The most nutritious healthful way to consume food is in its original live state when it is full of enzymes and ready for harvest in Nature. The more processing you do afterwards, i.e. cooking, canning and fermenting -(where the once live food slowly decays as it dies)- the more nutrition is lost.
Canning bananas is not difficult (mash them like baby food, add a bit of lemon juice to keep them from Browning), but I find making banana juice is my favorite.
I'm with ya mate. Been gardening for years in just a normal back yard. I do think it also important for people to learn how to preserve what they grow. It's a dying skill things like canning, water bathing, simple dehydration methods.
@paulawagstaff686 I highly recommend leek powder and mushroom powder. I dehydrate so much even frozzen peas and corn for long term storage. Grated carrot and parsnip when my garden produces to much. All my leaf greens like kale, spanch, Brussels sprouts leafs mix together as a green powder to add vitamins hidden in food. Onions powdered is great well. I seem to love to powder my dry stuff but also do chuncks for some things.
@paulawagstaff686 and yes travels light. I do lots for my parents who caravan all over. They also love it as at boarders dry stuff is aloud when fresh is taken away in most states
It's all be design. It's deliberate. Major corporations want the full control over food and the best way is to get rid on most farmers. Speaking as a farmer, we are fairly self sufficient. We slaughter all our meat on our property and have a large vegie garden but people in town can't do this. Especially meat which is vital for good health. It needs to go back to community. Locals go to local, individual farms, to get most of their produce and meat but government just doesn't allow that without so much regulation and red tape. But that's how it should be because it's fresh and healthy food compared to large food production. The crap that's in that food is just going to kill you.
If we don't look after our farmers, we will be up sh!t creek without a paddle. Governments have more control over hungry people. Quote "Let's get one thing straight: Hunger is a political condition. Too many people think that our hunger crisis is the result of some kind of scarcity or lack of food - but nothing could be further from the truth. It is the corporate and government control of food systems that are harming the most vulnerable in Australia today.
The majority of what's for sale in supermarkets isn't food. The crisis is that we became reliant on a toxic system that doesn't work and is completely unnecessary. Local food production is absolutely simple, possible, and far better for our health and our financial wellbeing. We do have the power to stop relying on a system that doesn't work.
A big part of the aging of farming is the same as the core problem with housing affordability. Just as a house that was brought to $40K in the 70's is now worth millions today, farm land that went for $35/acre in the 70s is now worth thousands/acre. Gone are the days when a shearer could save his wages, buy some land and start farming.
They need to be teaching gardening and animal husbandry in schools. The kids would be a shit ton less depressed if they connected to nature, and they would learn actual life skills.
I am 52, I have gone through menopause without any symptoms because I eat a high fat diet with lots of animal products such as eggs, butter, cream and meat. You need Fat! Fat builds your hormones.
I went high fat Carnivore 2 years ago at 47 years of age so that I can sail through menopause without an issue. I would only do dairy if I could get raw milk. I am physically and mentally strong and all of my health issues have corrected.
Same! Used to be vegan and an avid vege gardener, but I got really sick. Switching to high fat carnivore has reversed all my diseases. I do have a disaster prep stash of rice, beans and every variety of heritage vege seeds but think that’s all it’s good for; famine food. My first choice for nutrients and health is meat, eggs and butter!
@martysgarden suburban farming like my grand parents did. Dispatching was at sunrise and done quietly, so the neighbours didn't have any reason to have a winge. This video is a good heads up for anyone thinking about the future and being too dependent on big business.
@@WMP-xy5eu One issue I have is wheat prices are pretty high and chooks take a long time to grow to size. I dispatched 13 quail this morning for the freezer, another 50 to go, may incubate more this season. They grow fast and eat a big variety of food so I am moving more resources to them than chooks now.
@samiamnot8906 I agree that the quails are great. My wife hated my old quails, though, because of the noise they made, and chickens were easier for her to get used to. I'll go back into them when an acreage becomes a reality in the future. I have a garden with chickens and honey bees for the moment.
You are right, bury some spuds and sweet potatoes people... Govt in Netherlands banned farmers across whole country growing any winter crops last year.. no cabbages etc. In Germany govt, mandated farmers in the potato growing region only allowed to grow bio fuel crops. Anyone would think the powers that be want to cause a global famine. Heaven knows our Govt loves to tell us what to do and what to think .... sorry about the rant :) (
Robyn, could you share your source(s) of info on the claims you made. I can't find anything about the government mandates in Europe that you mentioned. The thing to remember is that current global climate change - which big fossil fuel corporations have understood, and denied, since the late 1950s - is due to human activities, and the use of nitrogen fertilizers is actually a huge source of greenhouse gas emissions. So the problem isn't what governments are doing, it's that they didn't start making these changes (with farmers' input) 15-20 years ago. The so-called Green Revolution has had huge unintended yet deadly consequences.
Hit the nail on the head Marty!! Food insecurity is VERY real and VERY scary!! We are too complacent, relying on greedy corporations who are running our farmers out of business. Farmers burying their crops rather than give it to the supermarket chains at well below cost is a very real thing too! My grandfather grew up to see WWI, the Great Depression (which hit Australia much harder due to inept government), WWII and he grew the most amazing 'Victory' Garden. He grew 50% to 60% of his fruit and veg needs - organically too. He lived a long, healthy life. Food insecurity can be a tool of government control - cow fart taxes eliminating needed protein, and now the rubbish about home vegetable gardeners contributing to climate change. Now more than ever, we need to grow something and keep that money away from the greedy corporates.
We have something called the death tax here and mid sized farmers want to pass the farm and land to their children but the children can't afford to keep it.
My brother in law was a dairy farmer, like his dad before him. He self deleted over a decade ago with the stresses dairy farmers were (and probably still are) up against.
@martysgarden you can only stay in one town for so long. After about a month or so you start to get fines for sleeping in your car and need to move to a new town. People are horrible when you are in this situation. It makes it impossible to get out of the situation.
It's an essential life skill that we don't have because we've been cooped up living in apartments working in offices. People need to get back to the land, go off grid, grow your own food and form communities. 98% of all products sold in the supermarkets are toxic, including the fruit and vegetables which are sprayed with pesticides. There's only a tiny organic section that is very limited. Time for change - thanks Marty. Subscribed. Living in Brisbane, Australia.
Yes, I agree. We live in middle USA on 25 acres. I have planted over 70 fruit trees and many fruiting bushes, since we bought this home in 2016. The trees started producing fruit this past summer. With that and our garden, we are blessed with an abundance of food.
Great video Marty. Not to mention farmland being sold off for housing estates. Grrr - there is one across the road from us and I saw one in Casino - prime fertile growing land, heaps of irrigation water - now Housing estate. Our governments are so corrupt and greedy they would rather people starve so they can make a buck. We must all look out for ourselves and our loved ones and grow as much as we can and share, Thanks for what you are doingxxx
Thanks for sharing here, good land should be saved for agriculture, We have plenty that can be used for housing in other places. We need houses but there is such a thing called zoning and it needs to be done right
I'm hearing the same from Europe and here in the UK farmers have been warning of a looming food crisis for a couple of years already. It seems that all political parties and all western media are staying silent on this which is very worrying. I've tried to convince friends to stock up at least a year's worth of food but they don't want to believe it's going to happen. I did some research after reading an estimate that Britain is 60% self sufficient in food. It became pretty obvious early on that we are anything but. Given the history of corporations allowing millions to starve to death rather than lose a penny in profit(check out the Irish and Indian famines under British colonial rule. 25 'major' famines during the British Raj alone). With the Clot shot and the destruction of the NHS the cull is well under way and claiming hundreds of thousands of lives, a shock to our food supply chain will be enough to tip millions over the edge. Sadly the British climate and limited access to the land 'Bush tucker' will not be an option for us. 💀☠ WEF
Step number one...get a block of land where your neighbor cnt see what you have or what you are doing in your backyard because..SUPER SPREADER VEGGIE BUG'S-BIRD FLU CLEARLY COMING OUR WAY.
Wow. This timing is AMAZING!! Just this morning my mind was heavy on this very subject. the WHAT IF of it and here comes Marty with this video. Thanks for the confirmation of this idea. I plan to be more serious this year in my gardening efforts.
Local councils have protected the big two for decades. We had a farmer on the edge of the suburbs trying to sell his stuff locally. SHUT DOWN even though people protested. NO COMPETITION FOR THE BIGS.
You only have to look at what they are doing with eggs to know that this is 100% true. Sure, there were some poultry farms whose chooks got destroyed because of bird flu - but the numbers don't add up. Half the time, Woolies is completely out of eggs, and Coles is almost as bad. The free range eggs I used to get at a good price have now doubled in price, most places. Eggs are a key source of protein for many people, especially for those who have to feed hungry growing kids, and they used to be a relatively cheap source of high quality protein too. Now, they are trying to get people to go for manufactured protein, and cheap cereal products - none of them high quality foods. And no good for anyone except the big agribusiness companies...
Knowing the truth behind locally sourced food is also becoming more difficult. Recently I learned that a honey making business on King Island of all places is sourcing more than 60% of its core product from China, but is still selling the honey as premium King Island produce. In that case it’s purely around profit no different to the big two. Food security should be a front of line issue but government is strangely quiet on the subject. The big two are left to do as they please. Love that I have found your channel. Many thanks 🙏
This is why I am always skeptical of locals too. They're just as likely to become scummy if they aren't getting their dollar. Eg; Most of the beef farmers I can order f rom charge over 70% more than the grocery market. I tried explaining to them that if the 1kg of beef mince 85/15 fat costs $12 in the grocery store but they charge me $20 + postage, then I will be forced to buy from the grocery store, regardless of how much the 'farmer' gets ripped off. If I cannot afford your prices I will buy elsewhere, if you think (like the tradies) that you can hike your prices up indefinitely, eg; charge $120 for hanging a door (true story btw) you're dead wrong that there won't be a loss of revenue.
@@Rexhunterj Yeah unfortunately that is the corner we have been pushed in to. I heard some lady complaining about paying $4 for a loaf of bread in the supermarket at the self-checkout. I'm paying $10 a loaf 🤦 For how long I can afford that I do not know.
I totally support backyard vege gardening, however, new housing estates don’t offer very large sized blocks, which doesn’t make backyard gardening very easy. Perhaps local shires should set more areas aside in the planning stage to allow community gardeners to produce locally grown stuff.
We need Australian grown food only.. the top quality stuff.. seasonal.. not the garbage we are paying top prices for while our good stuff goes overseas..we are
Thanks Marty, mate I reckon we're all trying. Unfortunately a lot of people work so many hours. In winter the only time is on the weekends to do some good ole vegie gardening. Yes I agree, the duopoly is making fools of all, including the poor farmer. Cheers mate.
Or you end up with situation like where i live in New Zealand where they want to build houses on prime food producing land, increasing the need to import more food which then pushes the price up and who knows what the quality would be like
The other issue is the cost of farms. If cannot raise a couple of million dollars you do not have the money to buy a farm and keep it going as you start it up. Most people in their 20s or 30s has no chance of raising this sort of capital.
I agree 100%. I grew up on a farm, cropping and sheep, saw all the farms around get sold up, people only had a couple of kids so even less chance of a child taking over. My brother inherited the farm. I'm on 7 acres and try to be self sufficient with food though I have to fine-tune the late winter to late spring period where there is less to harvest. Saving seed is very important because it may happen very quickly that supplies will be stripped bare and seed will be unavailable when people need it. I have found that nurseries haven't been able to source a number of different plants over the past few years; Tamarillo, astringent persimmon, banana feijoa and a number of others and for a while there were no scarlet runner bean seeds available online. I aim to make my property basically a plant ark with at least one of every species I value. I want every plant here to have a use. It's a bit of an obsession but it brings a massive amount of joy. Then I have sheep, chooks, ducks, quail and pigeons as well as rabbits around and the ocean nearby. Thank God 🙂
Marty I live in Geraldton WA (sandy soil and hard water) have tried to grow vegetables that I thought were suitable to my climate, but I am shocked at the continual destruction of my crops by various bugs, viruses and the summer sun...... I hate spraying insecticides on my growing food but it seems inevitable. I have tried many home made sprays but these have to be applied more often etc increasing workload with limited success. Currently I am only having success with heritage tomatoes and spinach in pots and they too need constant attention.
Raised beds and compost!!! It takes a few years to enrich the soil. Grass clippings and leaves, kitchen scrapes too. Ask around or get nosy and look at what other people are growing. Go to the local extension office and take a class.
Great post- we should all be growing something, anything in our spaces/yards. Even if it only a lot of one thing, you can trade your produce and/or preserve it. The greatest feeling is to plant a seed, nurture and watch it, then harvest and enjoy your efforts. Anything I am able to grow is something I don’t have to buy and transport home.
I have two small raised bed gardens that are overflowing with Bean, Tomatoes, Kale, Spinach, celery, lettuce and Coriander. Look up Jadam Korean Organic farming for a simple liquid made from plants- it’s AMAZING!! Loads on RUclips about it- I had to try it to see if it worked- IT DOES!
The supply chain issues heading our way are probably underappreciated by most people. However possibly the number one reason for growing food is because the products we are getting in supermarkets now are mostly barely fit for regular consumption such that increasing numbers of doctors are starting to point the finger there as the causes for obesity and metabolic disorders plaguing society, diabetes etc. The sugar saturation almost everything is just one problem although its a big one. Our commercial systems and governance systems are desperately trying to look away and ignore this, to distract us from an embedded chronic issue in society. By growing your own food you get excercise and mental health benefits from the inherent problem solving (gradening plus kitchen creativity) required besides a natural increase in consumption of whole foods which dramatically addresses the medical issues i raised. Plus pesticide free food can be grown. You can add very high quality protien sources by keeping chickens for eggs and meat. We have some cattle and sheep too and swap food with neighbours.
Exactly mate. My friend just walked from his farm. 30yrs he milked 7 days a week. Went broke. Sold it for pitance. I just a bought 5 acres homestead to provide for myself. Taking my propping to the next level. Meat fruit and veg etc. We all must ramp it up before its too late or we will pay the ultimate price. Right you are education is a must Learn skills now. Knowledge and know how will be the only way to survive what's coming.
@martysgarden it is, unfortunately. Sad thing is so many don't see it and won't while there's food on the shelf still. And we know exactly what will happen once that's gone. As preppers all we can do is keep spreading the word and hope some listen
It's not food being unavailable. It is the reduction of variation in food. Also lack of nutritional value in the food... it will all be vegitable oil, flour and sugar...
Vegetable or seed oil are an industrial lubricant, and terrible for your health and wellness, trust me I have researched as well collect used oil and sell..
i live in NNSW and farmers are selling up because they have white rot in the ground - nothing will grow for about 50 years on these farms - thats why there is a shortage of garlic in our area
We are farmers growing wheat, lentils, barley and until last year, sheep. We have stopped growing lambs because we were sick and tired of being screwed by meat buyers at the livestock markets. We are only one of dozens of farms in our district who have given up on sheep. Im sure this is all being done on purpose.
90% of the produce is chinese farmed at the markets in Queensland :) So they aren't even selling you Australian grub, it's imported chinese garbage at lower prices. The one stall at the market that had Australian grown produce was charging similar to super markets, no point in buying it that way, would rather wait 2-3 years and grow my own.
I'm involved in irrigation, and I'm hearing the same stories. So few people are willing to follow the generational farming business. And the vast majority currently farming are 70+. The government and the big 2 have been screwing farmers for years, and it only gets worse every year. Australia is most definitely in for an ugly collapse in the not too distant future. I don't think many at all actually understand mate, they're heads are in the sand, too many distractions to blind the issues as well.
Throwing out another thought. I wonder how many of us on the other side of the camera would be interested in workshops etc. We have 2.5 acres, I know I would. I don't have any time to do anything with it atm due to helping family, but would definitely love to get this place cranking out some awesome fresh food. If it's something you might consider then let me know.
Farmers are forced into selling to the big 2. We had farmers markets in our area and one had to close down because insurance and government regulations to run them is now so high. Corporations are buying up farming land and employ woofers and “low skilled working immigrants” and treat them poorly wage wise forcing family farmers to do the same to be competitive. We need to support farmers on the ground even if it’s a pick your own produce type of system and force insurance companies to stop scamming or pay insurance for them.
When I was a child, there were fruit trees planted along the railway line for anyone to harvest from. About 20 years ago, probably now the council removed them all as the big 2 were not happy with people accessing free fruit.
@@robertmurray8763 Growing up in the 90s in Melbourne we had an Italian family living next door to us. It was really incredible the amount of food they grew on a 1/4 acre suburban block. Lots of chooks, fun memories there.
lets put the LIBS in power for the next 100 years and from what you are saying all will be fixed ,,Dont sound right when its put that way, What you have failed to see , is the Government is owned,, controlled ,,bought off and is used as a tool ,To think in any other way would be so naïve. Its this division of LIBS or LABOR voting that is 1/2 the trouble, There is a lot more to learn about the corrupt system you and me live in. If you think what I have written is BS ,,,,, the cricket is starting soon Just like a pacifier for a baby ,ps The footy too later
There wouldn't be a problem if people planted a variety of fruiting trees & sow a garden annually. Keep a couple of hens for organic protein. 🍎🍏🍐🍑🍒🍇🍓🥝🥑
yes imagine if everybody just increased their food growing activities by an increment or two. Surpluses would start to appear quickly. Everywhwre you go it'll be, "Hey do you want some bananas, we have way too many", and similar .
100%, the average age of the farmer is something like 65yo. And as you said most of them have no succession plan. Land prices are prohibitive so any young aspiring farmers are priced out of the market. What you’re teaching on here is going to be priceless in years to come.
It’s not always possible to successfully grow your own food at home. Where I live it’s very hot and humid with an extremely wet and hot summer, so bugs, fungal diseases and rot kills pretty much everything you’d like to grow. Winter crops are possible when temps drop to pleasant levels, but that’s only for 4-5 months of the year unfortunately.
Thanks Marty.....ur absolutly right about our food chain...ur also a great help...i have a fairly large veg garden n will have a go with bales It looks to be a good system for growing......thanks again from maryborough qld❤😢
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25 years ago I could drop a seed and a plant would pop up in my garden. Today I can barely keep a plant alive to maturity. Is it the town water? So started using rain water still having issues. What is going on in my soil which also no longer has worms like years ago?? I am on a flight path for commercial flights and helicopter and light plane flights?? Just don’t get it.
Try building a small in ground compost pile covered in mulch and see what worms and soil life comes to it. Be a good test. Also look out for Fungi rising in the carbon
@ I have been dotting my backyard lawn with these compost piles, I will dig and check these for worms. I also have an inground compost pile (matured) for grapefruit seedlings I struck from a farm stay. Getting good showers lately so hope they continue to flourish. I will continue to cut in these compost piles in the lawn as it seems to hold rain water rather than simply running off.
Chemtrails spewing barium strontium aluminium etc. Fluoridated water. Pollinators dying due to all G towers (read The Invisible Rainbow to find out why bees are dying and birds..a d it is NOT what we are told. All planned for us. Famine is coming.
@@An.era.we.will.never.forget Yeah, and if you try planting a lemon tree at a park, it will surely get ripped out by the council. When I lived in the city burbs I just used to ride my bike around and pick lemons off the trees overhanging people's fences (lots of Greeks and Vietnamese in the area). One bloke even had orange trees growing on his nature strip, I knocked on his door to ask if I could grab a few and there was no answer. So I went to the tree to grab a couple and heard this booming voice yelling at me out of a window from the house 😆 He was majorly pissed I had knocked on his door and was taking oranges off what was not even his property.
The Chinese have bought every dairy farm in Tassie and have been buying up farms in Victoria for years. When I used to drive around the rural areas you would see cows and sheep everywhere now they are just empty paddocks.
Without competition the large companies have too much power the problem in australia is the cost of operating a small business is unaffordable 8:18 . Rent legal insurance tax wage heath and safety registrations environmental compliance costs is only the start. No one person can know it all. So now we don't have the corner grocery shop etc. I fear that it is easier for the authorities to only deal with 2 or 3 major players than with many smaller ones easier to control?
Thanks for peppers 🌶 talk Marty. What a great little podcast thingy you're doing. You know mate back in the 80s, long before I moved in to this place, my street won a sustainability award from local council. I only know this as there's a wiery sign hanging on the street sign post. Lol Well, since then, everyone has bulldozed and rebuilt pretty much, and every time some new developments happen they just get rid of the top soil and leave behind cement render, builders rubble and clod. Anywho, I've spent 10 years regenerative soil agroforestry and now produce enough compost to keep my soil thriving and growing and no need to till, in fact it's all no dig. Well, you have to get a trowel in occasionally to pull up a parsnip etc. But the real reason people don't grow healthy food is that they don't really eat real food. And they certainly don't prepare it if they do consume it.....hello fresh, salad in a bag from the supermarket ready to go etc etc. Most people wouldn't know what eating seasonal produce to their local would even look like. And with Christmas eating topsy-turvy and imported foods from anywhere no one has the slightest idea about what you are doing or saying. But I appreciate the fair dinkum when I see it!
Super markets operate on a rather low profit margin. The cost of fuel and the transpiration plus all of the regulations factor in. Shop lifting is a huge problem too. But the farmer needs to organize and make a good living wage too. .Factor in the equipment and land plus weather etc. Then the ignorant will begin to refer to them as the rich farmers. Until some people actually realize just how much work and expense goes into raising food they will blame some one else.
Gday Marty, first time here. Spot on with devaluation etc, great flooding this decade going to push up foodstuffs and it going to be huge impact. I was a 5th generation farmer here in nsw and last of the line got out 20 years ago at the age of 27. Run vac trucks now lot better off
Hi Toby, appreciate you sending me this comment. It helps verify the changes that have already been happening and speeding up. Cheers mate and all the best with the Vac trucks
To save on the price of ingredients .. eg a stirfry... I will use half the amount of the expensive ingredient eg a capsicum and freeze the other half for another dish. I will bulk out the recipe with home grown OR cheaper vegetable such as carrots, onions etc. I grow most of my food but I use this strategy when produce is out of season. ❤
I live out in farming country. I don't farm as such, just a home vegie garden and a couple animals but I watch and hear what my farmer neighbors go through. I've seen them lose entire crops, thousands of acres at a time, from rain. And I don't mean flooding I mean rain. You see the crops growing great, then we get a big rain storm and suddenly everyones crops are dead. Drive the hour to the nearest town and see all the dead paddocks along the way. It's very sad. Even my home garden dies. I call it the poison rain. It leaves big black spots on my trees and shrubs and a fine white grey dust on the leaves. Where is it coming from?
@@danc.5509 if it were regular chemtrails, what they are now calling stratospheric aerosols, it would happen every time it rains. Which it doesn't. So I really don't know. Perhaps they use different aerosols sometimes? I don't know. But it has to come from the sky in some way so my money is on that stratospheric aerosols still.
Farming is so undervalued . Hard work and we are expected to do it for free. Caps should be $10 kg. Cost of growing food is through the roof. It is better if we become house flippers and we will get tax concessions and make more money and be more respected
As the ⚔️Pirate of Permaculture🏴☠️ for over 30years all over the world this was always on the cards, teaching people for 25 years to sustain themselves in every aspect of sustainability in homesteading, having come off over 30,000 hectares of commercial farming techniques I studied my PDC with Bill Mollison at age 16, now 51 and unfuckwithable in every way. I like your effort, but little will save those that cannot sustain themselves, and as for people’s consumption issues, it’s chaos ahead and always was going to be.
@ indeed, globally, it’s so sad populations haven’t remembered how past generations existed, not lost, but forgotten.. Teach the children, cos the adults waking up now aren’t likely to transition easily, but then, nothing good comes easy 😉 Respect to you mate
Most probably Australian farmers will become like Japanese farmers. Micro-farmers who produce high quality crops and sell for the price they want to sell at, at the farmers co-op. My area it is pork, cheese, cabbage, lettuce, apples, walnuts and grapes. And once you’ve had the good stuff you don’t wanna touch the stuff on the supermarket shelves. Unless it is something like bananas. Even the rice is cut, hang to dry for 2 weeks then thrashed. Completely different to mechanical harvested rice. And what the locals don’t eat goes off to the posh restaurants in Tokyo.
We are already in the food crisis. Australians only want to get truth from the mainstream news, that is why nobody is talking about it. However, I do respect others decision for their life. If they don't want to know don't tell them.
Growing your own food would be a great idea if only we could stop the wildlife getting to it first. I only managed to get one apple off an entire mature tree. It's heartbreaking.
Yes it is !!! I have even planted extra so I could get a few apples, pears etc. Some people get mad at me when I get rid of some of the pests. Claiming that there is no where else for them to go. The same people that spray nasty chemicals on their lawns. I do have a very large area for the animal go live on with native fruits and grazing for them.
Biggest problem is there is no money in farming, a lot of farmers run off a loss which is why many farming spouses work off the farm. At least that's what happened with our friends and family who farmed. That's why the kids do not want to farm and in all honesty I can't blame them. All the more reason to grow veggies
@martysgarden the incentive is there for sure. I'm trying to figure out a way to make our boys' lunchbox meals cheaper as most of their food items are snackey and cost so much and now we're caught in this kind of trap of buying the same things over and over despite their price just shooting up....a vid on that is on my list for sure!
@melanieallen8980 I sometimes kind of dissociate at the checkout and don't think about it too much 🫠 otherwise it gets me down like you say. Glad it's not just me!
If you want to learn something interesting go find the story behind Samul Benner a Ohioan farmer who developed a investment cycle based on weather patterns. He noticed that there was years of bad weather where prices of food where high due to poor weather and it followed to the stock market. I have heard that we are in a 40 year wet cycle which will mean more failed crops. At the moment there is a world rice shortage, china's rice crop failed due flooding and was relying on a south American country for their grain, who had a good year and was in silos for storage. These storage silos were on a main river system which was involved in a major flood which damaged that rice. And inflation travels in waves, a wave of low inflation flowed by another cycle of high inflation and we are due for another wave of high inflation.
All four of my grandparents grew up on and worked on farms and not a single one of their offspring or grandchildren still farm. It was all lost and sold in the 1960's or earlier because they didnt have enough land or were killed in farming accidents. Only two of my grandparents siblings farmed for living and even their children didnt take over their farm, one gave it up to drive school buses. The one remaining farming sibling will pass soon and the huge amount of land will be divided up and sold.
who can afford to be a farmer anymore? I have wanted to be a farmer all my life! Cant afford to buy a house! How can I afford to buy a farm! I have all the skills, the experiance and the enthusiasim ... just not the oppertunity or the cash!
All of this is by design and they dont want us eating red meat like our ancestors before us. Has anybody else heard about how livestock will soon be given mrna based jabs??
True! I turned Carnivore 4 months ago because I was sick of being sick! Absolutely every item in the supermarkets,I mean every ,right down to salt has added toxic ingredients. They have been making money making us sick. Giving bs information thru media and doctors etc etc. Carnivore has been sooooo healing!
Nothing new unfortunately. Remember when everyone have a fruit tree and some vegetables growing in the back yard. Now the landscape most people use are ornamental plants only. Quite a shame really. Not to mention how the farmers are growing with such tight profits margins that the only thing there using to grow there crops is lacking most trace minerals and taste. Synthetic, fertilizers, pesticides, insecticides herbicides might be a food shortage. What are we actually eating? Try googling the dirty dozen vegetable list.
@ no problem mate. I’ve already been doing my part for the environment and growing my own fruit and vegetables in many different techniques. Or doing a fantastic job over there mate. Keep up the fantastic work.
Food security. I look at labels and most of our veggies are imported or shipped in from other states. There was an organic carrot recall here for possible salmonella. . Farmers in my state are having fundraisings.
Ex organic veg farmer here. My sweetheart died, 80 years old. 6 children didn't want to live in poverty while sweating work. Sold the farm to the cattleman next door. No more vegies.
I have a lovely vegetable garden. My top tip is to think of it as a flower garden base with vegetables mixed in, always something new sprouting up, something maturing, something going to seed. That way there is flower nectar, food for predator insects that keep the pests under control, ground cover for lizards, greens for the chickens. It’s a different way of providing food for our families, nothing like pulling perfect produce off the shelves…I don’t kid myself that I could grow ALL our food, but I can certainly grow greens, beets, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, tomatoes and a huge variety of herbs I would not be able to afford otherwise.
Herbs....some goes us. Never really cooked with them before because of the price....but now that we grow them there is not a meal or a sandwich that goes without a herb.
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Thanks for the 'heads up' Marty, most people have no idea how fragile the food supply chain is. We all grew most of our own food in our back yards once and we need to start doing it again. Thanks for the warning!
Very welcome. Thanks for watching
I have a lot of respect for farmers. A thank you to all farmers for what you do. I try to have a small veg garden, it is not easy. I made plenty of mistakes and invested a lot of money with very little return. If I had to rely on myself for food, I would starve in 2 days. So, I need farmers and not politicians in my life. Take care.
Farmers markets, farmers markets, farmers markets! Get down and support your local folks!
YES
The answer is .Buy local as much as possible ,and bypass the big dogs.
Bypass is the word!
Hey, here in Germany is the same thing. 250 gramms of butter was bevore the big C about one €. Now they want for the same amount 3 €. I'm glad; I have a garden and my freezer is full for the winter. My birthdaypresent, what I got myself was a greenhouse in spring. There are rigth now still salads and vegetables growing. Its a try, because I have no experience with a greenhouse in winter. But I'm 57 years old and still willing to learn! Bleasings from Saxony! May our future be peacefull! 💙💙💙
G'day mate, what an awesome Birthday present to yourself, top stuff!
The battle is real people. Please listen to Marty and get your gardens established as best you can. Also, stock up on long-term storage foods when they're cheap; rice, white flour, sugar, salt, dried beans and lentils etc. We've got to start living like our grandparents did. Grow, preserve, make, save seeds. Learn how now while we've got all the resources.
Couldn't agree more. Been doing that for years now.
Thanks for sharing and caring. So important to re-educate in this area to make the best changes
@bjcdownunder I'm so grateful for the skills my grandparents had and that they were able to hand onto me as I was growing up from preserving, gardening and hand crafts they're all tools and skills that I now apply to my own life as an adult
@@bjcdownunder Get a head-start...It could save your family and friends.
In 2009 a documentary was released called "Home" that was the first real indication that we were going toward this path of scarcity and the division between rich and poor growing larger, I acted pretty quick leaving my job and extended family in Perth and by 2015 i had purchased 5acres in the southwest of W.A to create a permaculture food forest, fast forward to today 9 years on and it is cranking. I now have about 80 different types of fruit trees with dozens of raised beds, aquaponics and many small soil and worm making systems. I still do my weekly shops at woolies as i can't produce 100% of what my family needs. So glad i made the move when I did. I recommend you find community and start collecting seeds and learn about soil biology and growing your own food NOW.
Well done for thinking forward to protect yourself and your family
Im really sad about what is happening in our country. Price of food and cost of living.
I remember when i was a child and we had veggie shops, butchers, bakeries and such. All independently owned. Now we have these massive corporations that own everything.
Its so depressing, we have no future. 😢
I'M LEAVING TO ASIA
I’m 39 , agree 100%.
It truly sucks how it has come about! This is worth mentioning in a video I believe
I lived in Thailand for 5 years and my wife is Filipina. We have also discussed about starting a farm back there if we can afford to down the line
We need to develop skills in preserving food as well. Last week we harvested bananas and we dried a third of them and stored them in Kilner jars, some went in the freezer for smoothies. I buy red cabbage when its cheap and make sauerkraut, purchase fruit when its cheap and make jam and marmalade. I plan on learning what the Americans call canning and preserving more food for the pantry. I guess I'm becoming a prepper.
Great skills to have, and they’re not difficult. Just strictly follow the rules with canning. Be sure to try fermenting too, simple and magic. I grow most of my own food and preserve it in many ways.
So interesting you say this, many in the comments are saying exactly this too!
The most nutritious healthful way to consume food is in its original live state when it is full of enzymes and ready for harvest in Nature. The more processing you do afterwards, i.e. cooking, canning and fermenting -(where the once live food slowly decays as it dies)- the more nutrition is lost.
Canning bananas is not difficult (mash them like baby food, add a bit of lemon juice to keep them from Browning), but I find making banana juice is my favorite.
@@KathrynCurtissthat sounds wonderful. Would you care to share how you make your banana juice please?
I'm with ya mate. Been gardening for years in just a normal back yard. I do think it also important for people to learn how to preserve what they grow. It's a dying skill things like canning, water bathing, simple dehydration methods.
Luckily with the internet people can get skilled up faster than ever
I am considering dehydrating. Lasts ages, travels if necessary) light.
@paulawagstaff686 I highly recommend leek powder and mushroom powder. I dehydrate so much even frozzen peas and corn for long term storage. Grated carrot and parsnip when my garden produces to much. All my leaf greens like kale, spanch, Brussels sprouts leafs mix together as a green powder to add vitamins hidden in food. Onions powdered is great well. I seem to love to powder my dry stuff but also do chuncks for some things.
@paulawagstaff686 and yes travels light. I do lots for my parents who caravan all over. They also love it as at boarders dry stuff is aloud when fresh is taken away in most states
It's all be design. It's deliberate. Major corporations want the full control over food and the best way is to get rid on most farmers.
Speaking as a farmer, we are fairly self sufficient. We slaughter all our meat on our property and have a large vegie garden but people in town can't do this. Especially meat which is vital for good health.
It needs to go back to community. Locals go to local, individual farms, to get most of their produce and meat but government just doesn't allow that without so much regulation and red tape. But that's how it should be because it's fresh and healthy food compared to large food production. The crap that's in that food is just going to kill you.
WEF, YES? and crap food,,scary
If we don't look after our farmers, we will be up sh!t creek without a paddle. Governments have more control over hungry people. Quote "Let's get one thing straight: Hunger is a political condition. Too many people think that our hunger crisis is the result of some kind of scarcity or lack of food - but nothing could be further from the truth. It is the corporate and government control of food systems that are harming the most vulnerable in Australia today.
Unfortunately 1 million Aussies are going hungry and missing meals as we speak!
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The majority of what's for sale in supermarkets isn't food. The crisis is that we became reliant on a toxic system that doesn't work and is completely unnecessary. Local food production is absolutely simple, possible, and far better for our health and our financial wellbeing. We do have the power to stop relying on a system that doesn't work.
We do yes in many ways, the world is shifting
A big part of the aging of farming is the same as the core problem with housing affordability. Just as a house that was brought to $40K in the 70's is now worth millions today, farm land that went for $35/acre in the 70s is now worth thousands/acre. Gone are the days when a shearer could save his wages, buy some land and start farming.
True, they are gone
They need to be teaching gardening and animal husbandry in schools. The kids would be a shit ton less depressed if they connected to nature, and they would learn actual life skills.
This is ton Smart, its not good for the gouv.
They have Agg classes here in our local school, my daughter enjoyed it
I am 52, I have gone through menopause without any symptoms because I eat a high fat diet with lots of animal products such as eggs, butter, cream and meat. You need Fat! Fat builds your hormones.
Yep, love my organic milk, butter and good fat foods. Feel great when I eat them
Do you sell them ?
I went high fat Carnivore 2 years ago at 47 years of age so that I can sail through menopause without an issue. I would only do dairy if I could get raw milk. I am physically and mentally strong and all of my health issues have corrected.
Same! Used to be vegan and an avid vege gardener, but I got really sick. Switching to high fat carnivore has reversed all my diseases. I do have a disaster prep stash of rice, beans and every variety of heritage vege seeds but think that’s all it’s good for; famine food. My first choice for nutrients and health is meat, eggs and butter!
Good on you for making people more aware and helping us in becoming more self reliant ⭐️🙏
Thank you, so sad what may be coming down the pipeline. It's already bad enough
@@martysgardenyour not wrong, we have to stick together
I'm eating home processed chicken tonight which was culled this morning. Plant a garden and raising your own chickens helps.
Good on ya! Chicken from the backyard is the best.
@martysgarden suburban farming like my grand parents did. Dispatching was at sunrise and done quietly, so the neighbours didn't have any reason to have a winge.
This video is a good heads up for anyone thinking about the future and being too dependent on big business.
@@WMP-xy5eu One issue I have is wheat prices are pretty high and chooks take a long time to grow to size. I dispatched 13 quail this morning for the freezer, another 50 to go, may incubate more this season. They grow fast and eat a big variety of food so I am moving more resources to them than chooks now.
@samiamnot8906 I agree that the quails are great. My wife hated my old quails, though, because of the noise they made, and chickens were easier for her to get used to. I'll go back into them when an acreage becomes a reality in the future. I have a garden with chickens and honey bees for the moment.
@@WMP-xy5eu I would love to get bees :)
I watched Europa: The Last Battle. It is all by design so nothing is a surprise.
Thanks for sharing
Israel first is the policy of all traitirs
You are right, bury some spuds and sweet potatoes people... Govt in Netherlands banned farmers across whole country growing any winter crops last year.. no cabbages etc. In Germany govt, mandated farmers in the potato growing region only allowed to grow bio fuel crops. Anyone would think the powers that be want to cause a global famine. Heaven knows our Govt loves to tell us what to do and what to think .... sorry about the rant :)
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Down right criminal, No worries good rant and should be said
Robyn, could you share your source(s) of info on the claims you made. I can't find anything about the government mandates in Europe that you mentioned.
The thing to remember is that current global climate change - which big fossil fuel corporations have understood, and denied, since the late 1950s - is due to human activities, and the use of nitrogen fertilizers is actually a huge source of greenhouse gas emissions. So the problem isn't what governments are doing, it's that they didn't start making these changes (with farmers' input) 15-20 years ago. The so-called Green Revolution has had huge unintended yet deadly consequences.
@@martysgarden It's only "downright criminal" if it's true. Have you found any sources backing up what she shared? I couldn't.
@@greenhearted8453 Why do you think the dutch farmers have been having huge protests and blocking highways with tractors?
Sadly this is all by design and they don't want us eating well
Hit the nail on the head Marty!! Food insecurity is VERY real and VERY scary!! We are too complacent, relying on greedy corporations who are running our farmers out of business. Farmers burying their crops rather than give it to the supermarket chains at well below cost is a very real thing too! My grandfather grew up to see WWI, the Great Depression (which hit Australia much harder due to inept government), WWII and he grew the most amazing 'Victory' Garden. He grew 50% to 60% of his fruit and veg needs - organically too. He lived a long, healthy life. Food insecurity can be a tool of government control - cow fart taxes eliminating needed protein, and now the rubbish about home vegetable gardeners contributing to climate change. Now more than ever, we need to grow something and keep that money away from the greedy corporates.
Well said Matt,
Suicide & depression is huge for our poor Aussie farmers...They dont get a fare deal from our2 major super markets
We have something called the death tax here and mid sized farmers want to pass the farm and land to their children but the children can't afford to keep it.
So sad for sure. I forgot to mention the debt bubbles
sCARY
My brother in law was a dairy farmer, like his dad before him. He self deleted over a decade ago with the stresses dairy farmers were (and probably still are) up against.
And how do you get land or property to grow food in a country where homes cost over a million dollars? I live in my car. This country is F....d
Leasing small plots or crop sharing. Sorry about your housing situation it's brutal out there the cost of living
It is ludicrous what real estate is. Why would anyone buy land to grow cheap undervalued food.
You could lease a plot in a community garden. I hope you're housing situation improves soon.
@martysgarden you can only stay in one town for so long. After about a month or so you start to get fines for sleeping in your car and need to move to a new town. People are horrible when you are in this situation. It makes it impossible to get out of the situation.
It's an essential life skill that we don't have because we've been cooped up living in apartments working in offices. People need to get back to the land, go off grid, grow your own food and form communities. 98% of all products sold in the supermarkets are toxic, including the fruit and vegetables which are sprayed with pesticides. There's only a tiny organic section that is very limited. Time for change - thanks Marty. Subscribed. Living in Brisbane, Australia.
Thank you, I agree
Yes, I agree. We live in middle USA on 25 acres. I have planted over 70 fruit trees and many fruiting bushes, since we bought this home in 2016. The trees started producing fruit this past summer. With that and our garden, we are blessed with an abundance of food.
Great video Marty. Not to mention farmland being sold off for housing estates. Grrr - there is one across the road from us and I saw one in Casino - prime fertile growing land, heaps of irrigation water - now Housing estate. Our governments are so corrupt and greedy they would rather people starve so they can make a buck. We must all look out for ourselves and our loved ones and grow as much as we can and share, Thanks for what you are doingxxx
Thanks for sharing here, good land should be saved for agriculture, We have plenty that can be used for housing in other places. We need houses but there is such a thing called zoning and it needs to be done right
I'm hearing the same from Europe and here in the UK farmers have been warning of a looming food crisis for a couple of years already. It seems that all political parties and all western media are staying silent on this which is very worrying. I've tried to convince friends to stock up at least a year's worth of food but they don't want to believe it's going to happen. I did some research after reading an estimate that Britain is 60% self sufficient in food. It became pretty obvious early on that we are anything but. Given the history of corporations allowing millions to starve to death rather than lose a penny in profit(check out the Irish and Indian famines under British colonial rule. 25 'major' famines during the British Raj alone). With the Clot shot and the destruction of the NHS the cull is well under way and claiming hundreds of thousands of lives, a shock to our food supply chain will be enough to tip millions over the edge.
Sadly the British climate and limited access to the land 'Bush tucker' will not be an option for us. 💀☠ WEF
You are right the silence is very worrying,, why isn't it being mentioned. The governments lack sympathy maybe?
Step number one...get a block of land where your neighbor cnt see what you have or what you are doing in your backyard because..SUPER SPREADER VEGGIE BUG'S-BIRD FLU CLEARLY COMING OUR WAY.
Hope not
Yes..the next pandemic is almost ready to roll out...
Called prepping, the word used and was laughed about big time majorly for the last five years.
Who's laughing now, right. The forward thinkers are way ahead of what is coming!
Wow. This timing is AMAZING!! Just this morning my mind was heavy on this very subject. the WHAT IF of it and here comes Marty with this video. Thanks for the confirmation of this idea. I plan to be more serious this year in my gardening efforts.
Time to educate and get to growing more
Local councils have protected the big two for decades. We had a farmer on the edge of the suburbs trying to sell his stuff locally. SHUT DOWN even though people protested. NO COMPETITION FOR THE BIGS.
Protected, quite sad
Where was this?
You only have to look at what they are doing with eggs to know that this is 100% true. Sure, there were some poultry farms whose chooks got destroyed because of bird flu - but the numbers don't add up. Half the time, Woolies is completely out of eggs, and Coles is almost as bad. The free range eggs I used to get at a good price have now doubled in price, most places. Eggs are a key source of protein for many people, especially for those who have to feed hungry growing kids, and they used to be a relatively cheap source of high quality protein too.
Now, they are trying to get people to go for manufactured protein, and cheap cereal products - none of them high quality foods. And no good for anyone except the big agribusiness companies...
Yep, that's why I got chooks again and sell what we dont eat cheaply
Knowing the truth behind locally sourced food is also becoming more difficult. Recently I learned that a honey making business on King Island of all places is sourcing more than 60% of its core product from China, but is still selling the honey as premium King Island produce.
In that case it’s purely around profit no different to the big two.
Food security should be a front of line issue but government is strangely quiet on the subject.
The big two are left to do as they please.
Love that I have found your channel.
Many thanks 🙏
What a scam, they should be ashamed
This is why I am always skeptical of locals too. They're just as likely to become scummy if they aren't getting their dollar.
Eg;
Most of the beef farmers I can order f rom charge over 70% more than the grocery market. I tried explaining to them that if the 1kg of beef mince 85/15 fat costs $12 in the grocery store but they charge me $20 + postage, then I will be forced to buy from the grocery store, regardless of how much the 'farmer' gets ripped off.
If I cannot afford your prices I will buy elsewhere, if you think (like the tradies) that you can hike your prices up indefinitely, eg; charge $120 for hanging a door (true story btw) you're dead wrong that there won't be a loss of revenue.
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Yeah unfortunately that is the corner we have been pushed in to. I heard some lady complaining about paying $4 for a loaf of bread in the supermarket at the self-checkout. I'm paying $10 a loaf 🤦 For how long I can afford that I do not know.
I totally support backyard vege gardening, however, new housing estates don’t offer very large sized blocks, which doesn’t make backyard gardening very easy. Perhaps local shires should set more areas aside in the planning stage to allow community gardeners to produce locally grown stuff.
It's a great point you make. I started the Victory garden series for those who want to grow in small spaces and have no ground to dig into
We need Australian grown food only.. the top quality stuff.. seasonal.. not the garbage we are paying top prices for while our good stuff goes overseas..we are
100%
Thanks Marty, mate I reckon we're all trying. Unfortunately a lot of people work so many hours. In winter the only time is on the weekends to do some good ole vegie gardening. Yes I agree, the duopoly is making fools of all, including the poor farmer.
Cheers mate.
Yes, we can only do what we can do, time can be limited and is a great point that wasn't covered. Thanks, mate
Or you end up with situation like where i live in New Zealand where they want to build houses on prime food producing land, increasing the need to import more food which then pushes the price up and who knows what the quality would be like
I believe it's similar there, so sad these current times
The other issue is the cost of farms. If cannot raise a couple of million dollars you do not have the money to buy a farm and keep it going as you start it up. Most people in their 20s or 30s has no chance of raising this sort of capital.
You make a good point, scary thinking who's hands these farms and land may go to
I agree 100%. I grew up on a farm, cropping and sheep, saw all the farms around get sold up, people only had a couple of kids so even less chance of a child taking over. My brother inherited the farm. I'm on 7 acres and try to be self sufficient with food though I have to fine-tune the late winter to late spring period where there is less to harvest. Saving seed is very important because it may happen very quickly that supplies will be stripped bare and seed will be unavailable when people need it. I have found that nurseries haven't been able to source a number of different plants over the past few years; Tamarillo, astringent persimmon, banana feijoa and a number of others and for a while there were no scarlet runner bean seeds available online. I aim to make my property basically a plant ark with at least one of every species I value. I want every plant here to have a use. It's a bit of an obsession but it brings a massive amount of joy. Then I have sheep, chooks, ducks, quail and pigeons as well as rabbits around and the ocean nearby. Thank God 🙂
Wow, this is way cool. Keep saving those seeds they will be needed and very precious
Marty I live in Geraldton WA (sandy soil and hard water) have tried to grow vegetables that I thought were suitable to my climate, but I am shocked at the continual destruction of my crops by various bugs, viruses and the summer sun...... I hate spraying insecticides on my growing food but it seems inevitable. I have tried many home made sprays but these have to be applied more often etc increasing workload with limited success. Currently I am only having success with heritage tomatoes and spinach in pots and they too need constant attention.
I would focus on container gardening and consider worm farming to produce organic nutrients for them.
Gypsum mate!
Raised beds and compost!!! It takes a few years to enrich the soil. Grass clippings and leaves, kitchen scrapes too. Ask around or get nosy and look at what other people are growing. Go to the local extension office and take a class.
Because the Govt is too scared to talk about it . Our Govt is owned by - you know how !
If people can save money by gardening they will be able to divert their money to buying Australian beef and lamb.
Such a great comment, I started doing that just recently
Great post- we should all be growing something, anything in our spaces/yards. Even if it only a lot of one thing, you can trade your produce and/or preserve it. The greatest feeling is to plant a seed, nurture and watch it, then harvest and enjoy your efforts. Anything I am able to grow is something I don’t have to buy and transport home.
For sure, a new culture into growing your own is developing
I have two small raised bed gardens that are overflowing with Bean, Tomatoes, Kale, Spinach, celery, lettuce and Coriander.
Look up Jadam Korean Organic farming for a simple liquid made from plants- it’s AMAZING!! Loads on RUclips about it- I had to try it to see if it worked- IT DOES!
It's great stuff
The supply chain issues heading our way are probably underappreciated by most people.
However possibly the number one reason for growing food is because the products we are getting in supermarkets now are mostly barely fit for regular consumption such that increasing numbers of doctors are starting to point the finger there as the causes for obesity and metabolic disorders plaguing society, diabetes etc. The sugar saturation almost everything is just one problem although its a big one. Our commercial systems and governance systems are desperately trying to look away and ignore this, to distract us from an embedded chronic issue in society. By growing your own food you get excercise and mental health benefits from the inherent problem solving (gradening plus kitchen creativity) required besides a natural increase in consumption of whole foods which dramatically addresses the medical issues i raised. Plus pesticide free food can be grown. You can add very high quality protien sources by keeping chickens for eggs and meat. We have some cattle and sheep too and swap food with neighbours.
You make some really good solid points here Lachlan
Exactly mate. My friend just walked from his farm. 30yrs he milked 7 days a week. Went broke. Sold it for pitance.
I just a bought 5 acres homestead to provide for myself. Taking my propping to the next level. Meat fruit and veg etc.
We all must ramp it up before its too late or we will pay the ultimate price.
Right you are education is a must
Learn skills now.
Knowledge and know how will be the only way to survive what's coming.
I wish we were wrong but it's getting closer every day
@martysgarden it is, unfortunately. Sad thing is so many don't see it and won't while there's food on the shelf still. And we know exactly what will happen once that's gone.
As preppers all we can do is keep spreading the word and hope some listen
It's not food being unavailable. It is the reduction of variation in food. Also lack of nutritional value in the food... it will all be vegitable oil, flour and sugar...
What's the difference?
Flour is still good.
I see your point.
Your on the money there and I probably need to talk about this more in the near future
Some of the products are highly processed these days
Vegetable or seed oil are an industrial lubricant, and terrible for your health and wellness, trust me I have researched as well collect used oil and sell..
i live in NNSW and farmers are selling up because they have white rot in the ground - nothing will grow for about 50 years on these farms - thats why there is a shortage of garlic in our area
Hey Amanda. Couple of questions. What causes white rot? And how wide spread is it?
So sad to hear that
We are farmers growing wheat, lentils, barley and until last year, sheep. We have stopped growing lambs because we were sick and tired of being screwed by meat buyers at the livestock markets. We are only one of dozens of farms in our district who have given up on sheep. Im sure this is all being done on purpose.
Don’t give up go direct. Like we did. If you have good product do it your self
As the livestock market buyers become more monopolized they can force down the price for your sheep?
So sorry to hear that, but I appreciate you sharing your story here
Yet the price of meat for consumers is astronomical.
This is so sad. Could you partner with a local home kill business and sell direct to public so you see the profit and not the big companies?
Chinese peaches, honey etc in Aussie shops now check the labels!
Chinese peaches geez
Yep, I read every label. Woolies now selling Tomato passata from China. I was like "wtf"..check the labels guys.
Also tinned beetroot and bottled asparagus. A lot of Halloween lollies were also made in China.
We export 80% of the food we produce. 10% goes to landfills. We consume 10%.
Far out!
There is plenty of food at the Farmers Markets, screw the supermarkets. Also, products do not go up in cost, money goes down in value.
Yep, you are right!
90% of the produce is chinese farmed at the markets in Queensland :) So they aren't even selling you Australian grub, it's imported chinese garbage at lower prices.
The one stall at the market that had Australian grown produce was charging similar to super markets, no point in buying it that way, would rather wait 2-3 years and grow my own.
I'm involved in irrigation, and I'm hearing the same stories.
So few people are willing to follow the generational farming business.
And the vast majority currently farming are 70+.
The government and the big 2 have been screwing farmers for years, and it only gets worse every year.
Australia is most definitely in for an ugly collapse in the not too distant future.
I don't think many at all actually understand mate, they're heads are in the sand, too many distractions to blind the issues as well.
Throwing out another thought.
I wonder how many of us on the other side of the camera would be interested in workshops etc.
We have 2.5 acres, I know I would.
I don't have any time to do anything with it atm due to helping family, but would definitely love to get this place cranking out some awesome fresh food.
If it's something you might consider then let me know.
So true, we are continually distracted or want to no know
If I have time it's something that I may do
Where are you located?
keep going some real advice is needed thanks
Thanks, will do my best
I’ve started taking my garden seriously this year.
Good news, baby steps each day and it comes together quicker than you think
Grow your own, and avoid the rush!
Farmers are
forced into selling to the big 2. We had farmers markets in our area and one had to close down because insurance and government regulations to run them is now so high.
Corporations are buying up farming land and employ woofers and “low skilled working immigrants” and treat them poorly wage wise forcing family farmers to do the same to be competitive.
We need to support farmers on the ground even if it’s a pick your own produce type of system and force insurance companies to stop scamming or pay insurance for them.
We don't need to import any food in Australia
we also don't need to import any more people
We should never need to
Once, most people grew their own fruit and vegetables!
That they did!
And had chickens. Would often swap produce with neighbours.
When I was a child, there were fruit trees planted along the railway line for anyone to harvest from. About 20 years ago, probably now the council removed them all as the big 2 were not happy with people accessing free fruit.
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Growing up in the 90s in Melbourne we had an Italian family living next door to us. It was really incredible the amount of food they grew on a 1/4 acre suburban block. Lots of chooks, fun memories there.
Voting Labor out would be a good start.
disagree. Won't change a thing.
It’s the system we live in. Govern,ents and politicians are just puppets.
You just put some fire on a hay stack there haha
lets put the LIBS in power for the next 100 years and from what you are saying all will be fixed ,,Dont sound right when its put that way, What you have failed to see , is the Government is owned,, controlled ,,bought off and is used as a tool ,To think in any other way would be so naïve. Its this division of LIBS or LABOR voting that is 1/2 the trouble, There is a lot more to learn about the corrupt system you and me live in. If you think what I have written is BS ,,,,, the cricket is starting soon Just like a pacifier for a baby ,ps The footy too later
There wouldn't be a problem if people planted a variety of fruiting trees & sow a garden annually. Keep a couple of hens for organic protein. 🍎🍏🍐🍑🍒🍇🍓🥝🥑
Comes down to space and being very creative in small suburban landscapes
yes imagine if everybody just increased their food growing activities by an increment or two. Surpluses would start to appear quickly. Everywhwre you go it'll be, "Hey do you want some bananas, we have way too many", and similar .
100%, the average age of the farmer is something like 65yo. And as you said most of them have no succession plan. Land prices are prohibitive so any young aspiring farmers are priced out of the market. What you’re teaching on here is going to be priceless in years to come.
Priceless for sure
It’s not always possible to successfully grow your own food at home. Where I live it’s very hot and humid with an extremely wet and hot summer, so bugs, fungal diseases and rot kills pretty much everything you’d like to grow. Winter crops are possible when temps drop to pleasant levels, but that’s only for 4-5 months of the year unfortunately.
Where do you live?
@ In a currently wet and soggy area of North Queensland
@@lolcatz88 Gotcha. I’m in West Aussie where we have the opposite. Limited rainfall in winter then flash drought scenario around now
Raised beds and lots of trial and error. I wish you luck.
Asian crops will grow as my wifes family does that in the Philippines,,grow what they grow and you will have food. Snake beans are a good start
Thanks Marty.....ur absolutly right about our food chain...ur also a great help...i have a fairly large veg garden n will have a go with bales
It looks to be a good system for growing......thanks again from maryborough qld❤😢
Thanks for watching and commenting here. I hope I am wrong and farmers have some incentive to keep on growing and stay profitable.
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25 years ago I could drop a seed and a plant would pop up in my garden. Today I can barely keep a plant alive to maturity. Is it the town water? So started using rain water still having issues. What is going on in my soil which also no longer has worms like years ago?? I am on a flight path for commercial flights and helicopter and light plane flights?? Just don’t get it.
Try building a small in ground compost pile covered in mulch and see what worms and soil life comes to it. Be a good test. Also look out for Fungi rising in the carbon
@ I have been dotting my backyard lawn with these compost piles, I will dig and check these for worms. I also have an inground compost pile (matured) for grapefruit seedlings I struck from a farm stay. Getting good showers lately so hope they continue to flourish. I will continue to cut in these compost piles in the lawn as it seems to hold rain water rather than simply running off.
Chemtrails spewing barium strontium aluminium etc. Fluoridated water. Pollinators dying due to all G towers (read The Invisible Rainbow to find out why bees are dying and birds..a d it is NOT what we are told. All planned for us. Famine is coming.
nematodes? Phosphate deficiency?
Try bio char, I have had huge improvement since using
We’ll stand up help the farmer stop wind turbines and solar panels , rare mineral mining from China. Australia has lost food bowl.
Wind turbines, gee I despise those things
$1.60 for one lemon here in WA. Not a kilo, each!
Yep, that's what is happening. Thanks for sharing with me here,
4 dollars for 4 mushrooms the other day
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Yeah, and if you try planting a lemon tree at a park, it will surely get ripped out by the council. When I lived in the city burbs I just used to ride my bike around and pick lemons off the trees overhanging people's fences (lots of Greeks and Vietnamese in the area). One bloke even had orange trees growing on his nature strip, I knocked on his door to ask if I could grab a few and there was no answer. So I went to the tree to grab a couple and heard this booming voice yelling at me out of a window from the house 😆 He was majorly pissed I had knocked on his door and was taking oranges off what was not even his property.
The Chinese have bought every dairy farm in Tassie and have been buying up farms in Victoria for years. When I used to drive around the rural areas you would see cows and sheep everywhere now they are just empty paddocks.
Why is this allowed, I still dont understand it
That’s terrible
@@martysgardengoogle the UN 2030!policies
Without competition the large companies have too much power the problem in australia is the cost of operating a small business is unaffordable 8:18 . Rent legal insurance tax wage heath and safety registrations environmental compliance costs is only the start.
No one person can know it all. So now we don't have the corner grocery shop etc.
I fear that it is easier for the authorities to only deal with 2 or 3 major players than with many smaller ones easier to control?
Control, good point. We stuffed up with our monopoly policies
Thanks for peppers 🌶 talk Marty. What a great little podcast thingy you're doing. You know mate back in the 80s, long before I moved in to this place, my street won a sustainability award from local council. I only know this as there's a wiery sign hanging on the street sign post. Lol
Well, since then, everyone has bulldozed and rebuilt pretty much, and every time some new developments happen they just get rid of the top soil and leave behind cement render, builders rubble and clod.
Anywho, I've spent 10 years regenerative soil agroforestry and now produce enough compost to keep my soil thriving and growing and no need to till, in fact it's all no dig. Well, you have to get a trowel in occasionally to pull up a parsnip etc.
But the real reason people don't grow healthy food is that they don't really eat real food. And they certainly don't prepare it if they do consume it.....hello fresh, salad in a bag from the supermarket ready to go etc etc.
Most people wouldn't know what eating seasonal produce to their local would even look like.
And with Christmas eating topsy-turvy and imported foods from anywhere no one has the slightest idea about what you are doing or saying.
But I appreciate the fair dinkum when I see it!
Sad that greed smashed down the culture of that street
The food you grow yourself also tastes better and you know it's free of toxins and as fresh as possible.
100%
Large supermarkets are the problem as they rip off the farmers that's why a lot of farmers are selling their products online like online butchers
So good if they can take to the market and sell in other ways such as online
Super markets operate on a rather low profit margin. The cost of fuel and the transpiration plus all of the regulations factor in. Shop lifting is a huge problem too. But the farmer needs to organize and make a good living wage too. .Factor in the equipment and land plus weather etc. Then the ignorant will begin to refer to them as the rich farmers. Until some people actually realize just how much work and expense goes into raising food they will blame some one else.
Gday Marty, first time here. Spot on with devaluation etc, great flooding this decade going to push up foodstuffs and it going to be huge impact. I was a 5th generation farmer here in nsw and last of the line got out 20 years ago at the age of 27. Run vac trucks now lot better off
Hi Toby, appreciate you sending me this comment. It helps verify the changes that have already been happening and speeding up. Cheers mate and all the best with the Vac trucks
To save on the price of ingredients .. eg a stirfry... I will use half the amount of the expensive ingredient eg a capsicum and freeze the other half for another dish. I will bulk out the recipe with home grown OR cheaper vegetable such as carrots, onions etc. I grow most of my food but I use this strategy when produce is out of season. ❤
Thanks for sharing your strategy, it helps others who read the comments to make good choices
We all pitch our tents in the paddock behind Marty’s place.
Sounds like a great idea until the Bulls come over from the next paddock haha, they are huge!
I live out in farming country. I don't farm as such, just a home vegie garden and a couple animals but I watch and hear what my farmer neighbors go through. I've seen them lose entire crops, thousands of acres at a time, from rain. And I don't mean flooding I mean rain. You see the crops growing great, then we get a big rain storm and suddenly everyones crops are dead. Drive the hour to the nearest town and see all the dead paddocks along the way. It's very sad. Even my home garden dies. I call it the poison rain. It leaves big black spots on my trees and shrubs and a fine white grey dust on the leaves. Where is it coming from?
That's really sad. Thanks for sharing your story with us here
Chemtrails?
What area are you in? @pranicmegan
@@KerriEverlasting About 100kms west of Quirindi. Out toward the Pilliga.
@@danc.5509 if it were regular chemtrails, what they are now calling stratospheric aerosols, it would happen every time it rains. Which it doesn't. So I really don't know. Perhaps they use different aerosols sometimes? I don't know. But it has to come from the sky in some way so my money is on that stratospheric aerosols still.
Farming is so undervalued . Hard work and we are expected to do it for free. Caps should be $10 kg. Cost of growing food is through the roof. It is better if we become house flippers and we will get tax concessions and make more money and be more respected
hmmm what's it all coming to,,,wow
As the ⚔️Pirate of Permaculture🏴☠️ for over 30years all over the world this was always on the cards, teaching people for 25 years to sustain themselves in every aspect of sustainability in homesteading, having come off over 30,000 hectares of commercial farming techniques I studied my PDC with Bill Mollison at age 16, now 51 and unfuckwithable in every way.
I like your effort, but little will save those that cannot sustain themselves, and as for people’s consumption issues, it’s chaos ahead and always was going to be.
Thanks for sharing, rough ride ahead for many
@ indeed, globally, it’s so sad populations haven’t remembered how past generations existed, not lost, but forgotten..
Teach the children, cos the adults waking up now aren’t likely to transition easily, but then, nothing good comes easy 😉
Respect to you mate
I'm growing a garden
Really happy
Wonderful news
Most probably Australian farmers will become like Japanese farmers. Micro-farmers who produce high quality crops and sell for the price they want to sell at, at the farmers co-op.
My area it is pork, cheese, cabbage, lettuce, apples, walnuts and grapes. And once you’ve had the good stuff you don’t wanna touch the stuff on the supermarket shelves. Unless it is something like bananas.
Even the rice is cut, hang to dry for 2 weeks then thrashed. Completely different to mechanical harvested rice. And what the locals don’t eat goes off to the posh restaurants in Tokyo.
That's gold. I wonder how may will take that position down the line. I ate the rice my wifes family in the Philippines grew and it awesome!
We are already in the food crisis. Australians only want to get truth from the mainstream news, that is why nobody is talking about it. However, I do respect others decision for their life. If they don't want to know don't tell them.
Yes, so true if they don't want to know that's their choice
Growing your own food would be a great idea if only we could stop the wildlife getting to it first. I only managed to get one apple off an entire mature tree. It's heartbreaking.
Yes it is !!! I have even planted extra so I could get a few apples, pears etc. Some people get mad at me when I get rid of some of the pests. Claiming that there is no where else for them to go. The same people that spray nasty chemicals on their lawns. I do have a very large area for the animal go live on with native fruits and grazing for them.
sorry to hear that
Biggest problem is there is no money in farming, a lot of farmers run off a loss which is why many farming spouses work off the farm.
At least that's what happened with our friends and family who farmed.
That's why the kids do not want to farm and in all honesty I can't blame them.
All the more reason to grow veggies
That's a very common story of others in the family needing to take on a job outside of the farm
That is/was my family in the USA. The family farm is now just a hobby, with taxes being taken.
Every time I go through the Woolies checkout I feel a bit tense in a way that I never used to 😅...keep up the message Marty, thanks for what you do
me too..I get depressed after food shopping now because of the rediculous prices..
So true I feel the same way,,makes for a good video idea!
@martysgarden the incentive is there for sure. I'm trying to figure out a way to make our boys' lunchbox meals cheaper as most of their food items are snackey and cost so much and now we're caught in this kind of trap of buying the same things over and over despite their price just shooting up....a vid on that is on my list for sure!
@melanieallen8980 I sometimes kind of dissociate at the checkout and don't think about it too much 🫠 otherwise it gets me down like you say. Glad it's not just me!
Having started my garden 4 years ago I am doing quite well being self sufficient and I only spend money on carb and if I want some meat.
So good James, doing much the same here now
@@martysgarden I could produce my own meat too and I did once but I can't bring myself to kill my own chickens anymore haha.
@@jameslin1478 I get it, i cant either
important discussion, thanks
Thanks for watching
Thanks for your video Marty. Keep them coming. You are definitely inspiring me!!
Thanks for watching and commenting, we need to keep the conversation going.
If you want to learn something interesting go find the story behind Samul Benner a Ohioan farmer who developed a investment cycle based on weather patterns. He noticed that there was years of bad weather where prices of food where high due to poor weather and it followed to the stock market. I have heard that we are in a 40 year wet cycle which will mean more failed crops. At the moment there is a world rice shortage, china's rice crop failed due flooding and was relying on a south
American country for their grain, who had a good year and was in silos for storage. These storage silos were on a main river system which was involved in a major flood which damaged that rice. And inflation travels in waves, a wave of low inflation flowed by another cycle of high inflation and we are due for another wave of high inflation.
Thanks for sharing and caring
All four of my grandparents grew up on and worked on farms and not a single one of their offspring or grandchildren still farm. It was all lost and sold in the 1960's or earlier because they didnt have enough land or were killed in farming accidents. Only two of my grandparents siblings farmed for living and even their children didnt take over their farm, one gave it up to drive school buses. The one remaining farming sibling will pass soon and the huge amount of land will be divided up and sold.
Thanks for sharing your family story here with us all
who can afford to be a farmer anymore?
I have wanted to be a farmer all my life!
Cant afford to buy a house!
How can I afford to buy a farm!
I have all the skills, the experiance and the enthusiasim ... just not the oppertunity or the cash!
You can easily get work on most farms
Find someone looking to retire on the farm they grew up on and own, form a co-op of some kind. Help teach others.
Farms go to their children or, are sold.
Apply to work farms during harvest & acquire skills.
You could be a farm manager.
All of this is by design and they dont want us eating red meat like our ancestors before us. Has anybody else heard about how livestock will soon be given mrna based jabs??
Never heard about it before
@@martysgarden
Apparently it’s a vaccine developed to reduce their methane emissions.
And more poison for our bodies
True! I turned Carnivore 4 months ago because I was sick of being sick! Absolutely every item in the supermarkets,I mean every ,right down to salt has added toxic ingredients. They have been making money making us sick. Giving bs information thru media and doctors etc etc. Carnivore has been sooooo healing!
Yep, our dog has a raw diet, she's nearly 9, a German shepherd and oh so healthy.
Nothing new unfortunately. Remember when everyone have a fruit tree and some vegetables growing in the back yard. Now the landscape most people use are ornamental plants only. Quite a shame really. Not to mention how the farmers are growing with such tight profits margins that the only thing there using to grow there crops is lacking most trace minerals and taste. Synthetic, fertilizers, pesticides, insecticides herbicides might be a food shortage. What are we actually eating?
Try googling the dirty dozen vegetable list.
Thanks for sharing, you make a great point!
@ no problem mate. I’ve already been doing my part for the environment and growing my own fruit and vegetables in many different techniques. Or doing a fantastic job over there mate. Keep up the fantastic work.
My dream is to own small piece of land and be as self sufficient as possible. I have already started a suburban garden.
Stick with your dream and your hands in the dirt
Price gouging is a national pastime with coles and woolies,and the other two.
Yes and people are stressed at the check out
Food security. I look at labels and most of our veggies are imported or shipped in from other states. There was an organic carrot recall here for possible salmonella. . Farmers in my state are having fundraisings.
Thanks for sharing on this subject
Ex organic veg farmer here. My sweetheart died, 80 years old. 6 children didn't want to live in poverty while sweating work. Sold the farm to the cattleman next door. No more vegies.
Thanks for sharing here, means a lot
Spot on!
Thanks
I have a lovely vegetable garden. My top tip is to think of it as a flower garden base with vegetables mixed in, always something new sprouting up, something maturing, something going to seed. That way there is flower nectar, food for predator insects that keep the pests under control, ground cover for lizards, greens for the chickens. It’s a different way of providing food for our families, nothing like pulling perfect produce off the shelves…I don’t kid myself that I could grow ALL our food, but I can certainly grow greens, beets, sweet potatoes, pumpkins, tomatoes and a huge variety of herbs I would not be able to afford otherwise.
How do u overcome insects & the white butterfly?
Herbs....some goes us. Never really cooked with them before because of the price....but now that we grow them there is not a meal or a sandwich that goes without a herb.
I love hearing stories like this, thanks for sharing!
Companion planting and netting for new gardens
Nice
... read packing of frozen fruit and veges. Most not grown in Aust.
Sad
Just encourage them
Cheers