August 16, 2013
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1h 1m
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2013
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Mark Koernke discussed preparedness and self-sufficiency topics including food production, gardening techniques, and food preservation methods. He covered organic gardening practices, composting, raising rabbits and goats, canning and dehydrating foods, and growing heritage seed vegetables like rattlesnake beans and spinach. The show included extended discussion of extending growing seasons using cold frames and mini-greenhouses, seed saving, and maximizing food storage space through drying and preservation techniques.
- gardening
- food preservation
- organic farming
- canning
- dehydrating
- heritage seeds
- composting
- self-sufficiency
- rabbits
- goats
- rattlesnake beans
- spinach
- preparedness
- food storage
- michigan
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The satellites, how they really started off, well, all the communications are by satellite. Internet, cables, and underground wiring. We've got our own kind of ion saucers, pollen angels, aliens, and I know about pine gap. Yeah, yeah, and one of the things that I saw about it was that there's also a stargate there that one of the portals to our Mars colony operational for a long time. There's about 3000 people right now up on Mars. It was at Area 51 out there near Pappas Lake on the extraterrestrial highway back there to speech out there at the little alien restaurant. BBC used to come out and videotape the place, put us all on video. There were speakers out there and it was near Area 51 groomed, groomed like the test site. And we took a 40 minute drive out there. BBC camera man forgot a or terrestrial highway, they renamed it. So it got independence. Then we saw 40 saucers dropping into the hole. Didn't have his camera. He had cell phones. The mist with a flintlock in it. His clothes were torn and dirty as he stood there by my bed. He took off his three-cornered hat and speaking low to him. He fought a revolution to secure our liberty. The shield from tyranny. For future generations, this legacy we gave in this domain always keep. Your parents labored endlessly while your parents were asleep. Your freedom's gone, your courage lost, you're no more than a slave. In this the land of the free, the brave. You buy permits to travel and permits to own a gun. It's the start of business or to build a place for one. On land that you believe you own, you pay a yearly rent. Although you have no voice in saying how the money's spent. Your children must attend a school that doesn't educate. And your Christian values can't You read about the current news in a regulated press. And you pay a tax you do not owe to please the IRS. Your money is no longer made of silver nor gold. You trade your wealth for paper so your life can be controlled. You pay for crimes that make our nation turn from God and shame. You've taken Satan. You've given government control. Who you harm so they could burn down churches and see country put men of God in jail harass your fellow countrymen while corrupted courts prevail. Your public servants don't uphold the solemn oaths they've sworn. And your daughters, visitors, send artillery and guns to foreign shores. And send your sons to slaughter fighting other people's wars. Gain the freedoms for which... or don't you have the courage or the sin with pride? And are there no more values for which you'll fight to save? Institution the supreme law of the land. Preserve our great republic and eat God given right. And pray to God, I awoke he'd vanished in the midst of His words were true. We are free, but we have ourselves to blame. For even now his parents trampled each God-given right. We can tremble too afraid to stand and fight. If he stood by your bedside to dream while you were asleep and wondered what remains of the freedoms he fought to keep, what would be your answer? Talk from the grave. Right here on the micro-effect. No, Mark's voice didn't change. This is life, man, safe. Goodness, the country it seems today. All blacks over the last two weeks. But I would like to open with a prayer this morning, which is quite normal for step up to the plate. Please pray with me. I'd like to do that today. You see family. I want you to watch over Kelly McNeil this morning so that she can come home today as is expected. All her needs are cared for. Thank you, Craig. Amen. Thank you so much for doing that with me this early. I would ask you that you send a get well card. Kelly McNeil, PO Box 164. Cammiye, Idaho, that's K-A-M-I-A-H, Idaho, and the zip code is 83536 August. I'll tell you folks, if you're a little cooler here in Michigan, the sun is bright and shiny. This is supposed to be the dog days of summer. The early signs of fall, it's been much cooler than last year, thank goodness. And definitely wetter. Everything has gone a little crazy last year. trees. Most of the trees in the neighborhood, we are seeing some some rams. So we've been blessed. We've been blessed this year with a really good growing season. Where, man, they were cool themselves so last year. This year they have, my gosh, the true deer, lots of jelly. So, in a cooler weather already, steward and coolness. Long hard winter. Cutting and stacking wood for the McCormick. A little older, so go De Anjo Day! So you know at the end of the week you've got your paycheck and time to pay those bills and you'll know by the end of the day how much you got left over. Another burger or going out to the other station, a chat room. What is it we guys forget? And first day kids, folks, first day kids, make sure you have things that are typically forgotten. You want to make sure that first day, you want to answer them back to, hey, is anybody going to ban David? Even at work I get that. Where's the band-aid? Where's the first-aid kit? I don't know. Typically, it's what you're going to miss. Generally, it's just silly little stuff. We have a triage kit that I keep in the car. There's a little bit of everything in there. There's stuff to do. We've got stuff that's need-based. Car crashes, things of that nature. They come in quite handy. Extra blankets, extra blanket and pillow like a car just in case. On a very bad corner, several accidents, we've had to crash down the corner. You're still going to use a blanket to provide every bit of body warmth that can get it. It's a beautiful morning here in Michigan. Shining, cawling, trying to help. Right now we're looking, might overlook, easy to put canned food on the shelf. You know, just buy extra things. The food storage and proteins, as much as they do. One of the things we're just going to do is to raise rabbits. By itself, it's not a good idea. Your body could, too. A lot of people have looked at the endocarpons, they'll be next. good. Well, the good things. Very tasty. I've fried up very nicely in soy beans. So dried garlic are made into a patty. It's full of stick. A lot of people canning now, you know, because there are some very simple things. Pickles are easy. Jams, jellies are easy. Leave them whole. Things you want, you may want to do is a big one. Sugar you're talking about, that is preservation painting. Sugar is one of those things that is used in ammunition production. You see a shortage. You probably have already noticed your sugar prices. You see more on the retail end, creep up and down. And a lot of people that are concerned. Smithfield, one of the biggest pork product. Smithfield being one of them. Smithfield went to Florida. They want to know where their food is coming from. They want to know what goes. They trust a whole heck of a lot more than they do the people from China. So I don't want foreign countries coming in and no clue how to work here. The all natural. Once to that, getting chocked. If they want to get wild caught, the wild caught fish, the quality issue that the company takes very seriously, they're having to install the fish beyond what the USDA does. And as well, trade off of going, is that you have to be aware that, hey, those things live in the wild too. If they want to take and sear it and try to eat it, they said, get rid of those, go land critters. can you say they have no problem with that and it does no harm to them it's actually you have acres you know having having your own animals is a grow goat goats are great as schlover milks are goats and I have chickens and the milk used to on vacation we got to go over and take care of the critters had a little piggy a little piggy is no longer he's getting quite ready for slaughter litter and fed in and got him taken to them and they'll have they'll probably do the winter from matter of fact, you want to talk about health benefits. Her children, she had a couple kids that were at problems with allergies and crazy things. Crazy in the way because the doctor's had them on four or five different medications. In the summer, it went miserable with after the garden working out and all the parents had to come in and take their clothes off from the washing machine, take a shower. Before they could, since they've gone, children have been out all summer playing. For now, they don't take meds. They don't need them. Enough There's enough in here that has interacted everything. The fact that the goats eat every year allergic to one or another ends the milk. So there's a goody low-dose process. I know it works that way with bee pollen. The bees are around to pick up all the pollen in the area. And if you take a teaspoon a day and with the pepper in it, if you locally honey. Simple change in diet. Little things did it for every little bit you can do. More independent. I know they're trying to legislate people out. You're home-guiding even people. You know, the Monsanto wants control over the seed market. Baker Creek Creek, the heritage seeds are something that you get the packet the season after you pick your... so you have enough whole investment is that one to grow your own. 40 foot long, like carrots, different lettuces, just for a nice touch. It put in sunflowers. Not one thing in that garden. I cannot eat marigolds. It can be made Everything there looks pretty. I've seen a sentence. A regaless. The other thing that we really like to do is take mustard greens and give a little tart. I think that's kind of Ed's favorite. He likes to go out there and pull it and just munch it. I'm hearing the music. We are at the bottom of the hour break. Oh my goodness. Alright. We will be back after a few minutes. from the Michael effect. The Freeze Dry Guy carries a wide variety of meal options that will suit your dietary needs and can be stored for decades. Serving the U.S. Military and the private sector for almost 40 years, find out why the Freeze Dry Guy is the best you can buy. Give him a call at 530-265-8333. That's 530-265-8333. Or visit them online at www.freezedryguy.com. Tell them you heard about it on the micro effect. FEEDDRY GUYS! Rick McMullen here for Life Change P. 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I just before I knew it it was gone But it's a very very wonderful blend you're out there this morning you on the West Coast in the morning what 5 30 a.m Get that first sip of coffee so good. We get the good stuff Traverse City cherry coffee, making an Ioun fudge coffee, and jeez, strawberry shortcake. Yum. Too good. Too good. Make the morning go quick. Free try, guys. There we go. There is another solution for you if you don't want to go to the trouble doing it yourself. They have been a great source. We have used for many, many years. As a matter of fact, I got to go this weekend and rebox up Some of the stuff we've gotten from him years ago into into tote. My basement is a little too damp and the boxes are trying to fall apart there. I need to go in and re-secure storage there. That's after this weekend. Oh boy. So we'll be doing that the other way. The other thing is gardening. I can't stress that enough because you grow your own. It's so much better. Lasagna Gardening, for those of you who haven't gone to that website lasagnagardening.com, it's basically composting. You want to make sure you put good compost in there. You don't want to take something to put in there and go crazy. Some of the climbing vines that have been introduced into this area are just killing off vegetation like crazy. I certainly don't want that taking root in my composting. pile over the winter because they will. So you want to take detrimental things and kind of leave them out with your grass clippings, your vegetables in the kitchen, eggshells, things of that nature can be fairly tossed in there. You might need a little starter to get going with that to kind of let things stuff. This is to get it going. You want that to cook over the winter. But now is the perfect time to get a console's pile going. Helping a gentleman get his own lasagna garden going downtown in Arbor. He actually retired today. Greg, congratulations. 43 years of service. Very nice gentleman. He is a vegetarian. Most of the people that know me know I'm going to die in the world on the board. I eat everything. I love my fruits and vegetables, wouldn't do without them. Certainly, if you cut meat out entirely on my diet, I'd have to do something for me to have to go there. Because I was forced into a meatless diet, trust me. That's something I would not do willingly. I like my meat. Every once in a while, I've got to have something I can sink my teeth into. That's a good thing. Everything in proper portions, and that's the way we need to look at it. But organic gardening is a good thing. It can be done easily. There are pesticides that are out there to that either using bugs to be introduced into your garden that will eat pests from the sides. Again, it's the type of plant that you have that you want to grow. And we've had some really good getting the right mix. If you really want to have a great garden, if you can get manure. I think the best one to, if you can get it, is llama. Llama's digestive system breaks everything down so that the seeds of the plants that they eat sound unlike. You may wind up with a bunch of wheat in the beginning of the year. That's got to be something that is coming over the period, but I use it right away. It has to over a number of years in order for it to be used in the garden. Another thing to keep is if you're doing rabbits, it suggests that women cages and cages have to be cleaned. They need to make sure that you have water for them, water bottles. Probably the best way to go, fill up hole full so that they have water throughout the day. That is critical for any animal that does and rabbits. They need to stay hydrated. But this as well, if you're doing an organic gardening, there's a layer in that. especially during the winter to get it to cook down faster you can cover the garden depending on the size of it with black sheeting so that that cooks down and breaks down into I believe we have a collar. I just had a beak. At any rate that's where things are at and very quickly in the spring by spring you should have some really nice flaming soil some dry at lows they have large bales of dry take it out, spread it and wet it down good. You will have a nice starting your garden. It will do the whole garden and you don't have to worry about weeds that way either. It's very, very nice. It's an easy way to get the garden growing. It makes a really beautiful soil to grow your product. I mean, because you put your seeds in there and what you're growing is going to be on your shelf. And that product growing for your home use. You can eat after in the summer and then the excess goes into jars or cans or dry it. Drying dehydrators are very simple. You can get everything from the Nesco food dehydrators which are very simple. Put them in at night, get up in the morning and pretty much if you're slicing things thin, dry and be done. So easy things to do, say, measured one year how much tomatoes, how many tomatoes I can get in a jar, and how many it would take to can. And I found I could get 13 quarts of tomatoes in a one quart jar by drying. Think about that. I saved how much space on my shelf. And the thing is, once it's dry, the other thing you can do with your dry tomatoes, put it in the blender after the a fine powder, and then you can add it to soup. That's a soup base. You can do that with anything. Well, with your other dried vegetables, put it together and you can make a soup, a vegetable soup base, almost like a vegetable bouillon. And your salt and pepper and other spices that you want. That is yet another garden that I have here. I have a garden just for spices. Goodness, I have my mints, chives. Basil, then you got to put in every year. Enough of it to run out there every year. Last year we put in hypsips, or also known as they are about four foot high this year and we picked up nine different ideas and marks. B production, oh my gosh, it brought in bees from all over the place. They're actually coming out of the back field, the honeybees, or about the same in the morning. They come in and a wave and that's different. sets of bees will come in throughout the day. We were out there yesterday about 132 or so bumblebees. I'd never seen so many bumblebees in one place. There had to be hundreds. And this little block of hyssop. Beautiful. Beautiful purple flowers. And they were just covered in bees. And on the way out they would stop and they were pollinating flowers in my garden. Called rattlesnake beans. It's a pole bean. Very hardy. And trust me, our Billy ghost has been jumping out and eating every week he could. One point is like, okay, Mark, he gets in my garden again, he barbecues. And I mean it. Goat meat is very good if he's ever had giros. And I trust, I have no problem. Gets in my garden again, it will be, he'll be on the fifth. Yeah, he's got some contained now. Really good number of my beans. I would normally have, hey, now, bushels and bushels, it's what I have out there. And I get it. maybe a third and again and they'll keep them, they're done. But they get so big, we found that just regular poles won't do. These things will get six feet high. So we made bean arbors. I was laughing because I would put these things up and I had to put extenders on them. And it's like, I can't, I can't reach that. So making a bean arbor, something so we got it two rows planted and then one side and lay down the other. And if the beans are hanging down, I can just walk through and pick them as the beans hang down underneath. And it's kind of cool. It's really nice. Dean Arbor worked very together this year. This time it's moved on one that really works well. I'm sure of them are access from Billy. Billy the goat. You can see them very easily because he loves to leave. And then he goes out there and he'll leave every leave off the vine. Thinker. They're still going there. they've come back and come producing beans just beautifully. We've got luck out there at this point. I should probably pick more and then they'll make one more time before frost. And then from those we'll take the seeds and I'll have my seeds for next year. I've gotten several people started on these. Zara in her chat room, she had a fence in the city and you've got no sea neighbors. Plant them along the fence line. They will climb up the fence and make a beautiful Gee, you get the goal of having some really great green beans to put on your table. Now these are, they call them rattlesnake beans, they're kind of interesting. They get to be about eight inches in length. You can eat them in a younger state, about what you're used to seeing in green beans, but they have purple stripes. Now those stripes, when you boil them, they'll come off in the water. So they'll look like just regular green beans when you're done. But they look a little funny. Or you can let them mature and get the whole bean inside and shell them and have shelly beans in the store. You have green beans and then have the shell beans also. It's going to be a little tough. If it gets to turning yellow, just save them. Because that's your seed for next. So they get, beans are obviously pretty good. It's that simple. What my mother always did is she'd make one little tripod for climbing beams and that would be for next year. Nobody touches those. You touch them, you're in trouble. And that's what she did for Kentucky Wonder. Kentucky Wonder beams are something that are very good. People all over the nation grow them. They're generally stringless. And it's another heritage heirloom seed that people don't think about it because it's so prevalent. It's out there. It's something that's been across the nation. And everybody does it because it works so very well. It is getting to the end of the growing season, but it's not too late to put things in yet. It's getting cool enough where you can germinate spinach. You can put your second crop of spinach is now. If you miss that window, the spring is 85 degrees, because after 85 degrees, it hits 85 degrees, the spinach seeds will not germinate. They will not germinate and the heat won't happen in order to get them to go. Those are one of the plants that you can get going very, very early in the season or later. We're not getting a lot of 85 degree days now. It's been cooling off here in the north days that are fog. I think the highest we got here in a couple weeks has been 78 degrees. It could be the dog days of summer isn't hot. It's cool enough for those seeds to germinate. So you can put those in now. Depending on what your typical frost date usually goes. Here, we've got about a month. Frosting cabbage is not something that we can grow. It's the spinach, the lettuces, both. You can get them going now. And as long as you keep them, even after frost, carrots and turn to root vegetables, Keep them covered with a good 8, 12 inches of hay straw, things of that nature. Then you're going to keep those where it's covered. It's going to keep the ground warm enough so that it will continue to grow. You're finished with something you can grow again right now and you'll have it ready to pick. And the baby leaf forms and other things that can be done to prolong that. And that is the idea that I got from Birds in Bloom years ago. Ladder hooks. instead of on the side of the building with a 2x4, a sheet of plastic and another 2x4. You can roll that plastic up during the day with the 2x4, put it over that creating a mini greenhouse to heat in, frost off the plant. It's going to give you a good two, three week extension on a small garden. Like what I do here, my greens. It's going to give you that extension and it's going, the more you have, the more you can put away in the freezer or dry it. And yes, you can dry lettuce, you can dry spinach, use it later just by rehydrating. It's a very simple process. What a book to look for is dry it, you'll like it. A book is to dry everything from lettuce. The shelf space will save you. If you can back and seal it, that's better yet. But that's a great way to keep the food production going as long as you possibly can. For those of you that have sunburn, outside of your home and climate. That's a great place to start your plants. Mark did something this year. He experimented with doing five gallon buckets. He didn't like digging sticks. He did a couple of those this year. One died and it still had probably a half dozen potatoes in it. So even for a plant that didn't survive, we still had something come off that enough for dinner one night. This is something that can be done. So many different things. You got it in a five gallon bucket. Oh boy. Oh goodness. These guys have a great... Oh, that's hot. Too many helpers. Train about here. Anyways. Train about here was talking about food production, saving space so that you have room for yet more food production. And you got a 13 to 1 ratio on a high water item like tomatoes that I'm gonna say it, you have that much more space. And I believe we are at the top of the hour. I'm so sorry, I was not here that I could barely give music there, folks. We'll be back with more of the intelligence report and hopefully we'll have you down on Google and shortly. Is your emergency food stashed in the basement? Well, it's down there because everything's going on, but I think we could potentially interrupt our food supply and just starve. You mean we could like go to the grocery and there wouldn't be anything in there? I am. Well, a lot of ways that could happen. And if it does, you know a bunch of people are gonna starve. It's my job to make sure that you don't. Hey, that's why we got food from the freeze-dry guy. It's the best long-term food you can get. If it comes to that, we'll be ready. Thanks, I think. Hi folks, Ronnie McMullen here for Life Change T. I want to share a truth with you. Many people call Life Change T to get help with health issues that are severe and life-threatening. They've seen their doctor and they're now motivated to be proactive in their health. Please listen. Once you are sick, it is a hard climb. Life Change T can help you, but it's a hard climb. Folks, there's an easier way. Tune your body up before you get sick. A drink a day will help keep the doctor away. Cleansing your colon is so crucial to good health.