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But I would like to open with a prayer this morning, which is quite different from our normal lower mass. There are some people we need prayers for. And I ask that you step up to the plate and please pray with me this morning. Your Heavenly Father would like to ask your healing powers. Mark's mom, Juanita Quarantine, has undergone surgery. That is where he's at today, at her side, to be with her. that you watch over the family and that she recovers as to as best she can. You watch over Kelly McNeil this morning, that she can come home today as is expected and the troubles that she has undergone after in Idaho to be with Joe and Kara so that the family, Joe and all their needs are cared for and they recover. Thank you so much listeners for doing that with me this early morning. I would ask you that you send a gate wall card to Kelly McNeil, P.O. Box 164, K.A.I. Idaho, that's K.A.M.I.A.H. Idaho, and the zip code is 83536. Friday, the 16th of August. And 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. And it's more like the early signs of fall. It's been a cooler, much cooler than last year, thank goodness. And definitely wetter summer. Everything has gone a little crazy as far as growth. Good things. After on our trees, What's out most of the trees in the neighborhood? We are seeing some some rapidly thin plants with some glass this year with a really good growing season section on our work. Yeah, they were cooling for for last year this year They produced the math with the June berries. My gosh, the June Berry client could meet a gallon of the guacabilly So the production this year is great this much moisture and coolness now means it's probably a long hard winter So yeah, cutting and stacking wood for the winter and looking at some new solutions as well. The corn burner is getting a little older, so we have that to look at too. It is Friday, it means it's, it's think-go-d-am-o-day. How will you know it's the end of the week, you've had, you've got your paycheck and time to pay those bills and when you know by the end of the day how much you got left over, buying another burger, or going out to see a movie, but get what you can afford to pick up preparation. We had a gentleman last night in the chat room ask about, what is it we guys forget? And first aid kit folks, first aid kits, make sure you have, you know, if you're looking for your pack, things that are typically forgotten. You want to make sure that first aid kit is on you. You don't want to have to run back to, you know, somebody else says, hey, has anybody got a band-aid that even at work I get that a lot. Where's the band-aid? Where's the first aid kit? They typically don't know. Typically it's things that they're not prepared for. Generally it's just silly little stuff. We have a triage kit that I keep in a car, it's three-fold. There's a little bit of everything in there. There's stuff to do, gauze your basics, but there's also, you must have pulling things. plant in things off at need date. Very small, but one of those things that is just really... And crashes, things of that nature, they come in quite handy. Nothing to extra blankets, extra blanket and pillow in the car just in case. You never know when there's... There's like very bad, several accidents we have had to help folks out that have crashed on the corner. Be it, no matter what type of year it is, you're still going to use a blanket to because if they go in shock, they'll need that warmth, every bit of body warmth they can get to like that. As I said, it is a beautiful morning here in Michigan. Sunshine and cowl-ing. We do want everyone's help and prayers, of course, for the McNeil family. Right now we're looking, might overlook and preparing. It's easy to put canned food on the shelf, just buying extra things here and there. I typically will be food storage the Mormons have set up, which is very... they do not cook things as much as they do or plant meat, meat production, if you have chickens or whatever. One of the things we're discussing is easy to do is to raise rabbits in the city and your girl will sustain you. Eating rabbit by itself is not a good idea. A cop will hydrate. You have rights to go with that for properly. to do your bodyhood to get the use out of the protein that is there. People have looked at garbanzo bean mix as a good, a lot of them know it as falafel. It's a good thing. It's very tasty. It fries up very nicely in soy beans, so dried garbanzo beans, and then rehydrated and it's a wonderful, do a pickled eggplant. I believe that's still up somewhere on YouTube. Just to give people show them how a lot of people can eat now. Now because there are some very simple things that can be done. Don't take a lot of time, a lot of equipment to do. It's a good thing. Pickles are easy. Jams, jellies are easy. Tomatoes are easy. Go ahead and leave them whole and boil them. Give them a chance. For a good 10 minutes, you're good to go. So things are, it doesn't take a lot of, oh goodness. Things you want, you may want to do is barter. sugar is the big one. Sugar is going to be huge. I know they're talking about, goodness, sugar production being down here in Michigan this year because across the region, the seeds did not know sugar production will be down. And that is, sugar is necessary in being one, really gotten used to having sugar. The other thing is that sugar is one of those things that is used in ammunition production. If you see a shortage, you probably have already noticed your sugar prices going up. I know we have here, it's gone up about 40 to 60 pound bag. The industry that I'm in is in the food industry. So we see more on the retail end. So we watch those prices creep up and down and where things are going. Smith's Steel, one of the biggest pork product meat producers, and Smith's Steel being one of them. Smith's Steel went to what? $47 million to a Chinese selling want to know where their food is coming from. They want to know what goes into it and they trust the little farmer a whole heck of a lot more than they do the people from China. You know coming in to take over the meat production at Smithfield. A lot of people are concerned. Even my meat cutters are like so in its difference. I don't want China to have seen enough of foreign countries coming in and looking for and they have no clue how things work here. Production has gone, it's more to be all natural. There are pros and cons to that. Some of them are going all natural and if they want to get wild caught, fish seem to be having a problem this year with parasites. It's a quality issue that our company takes very seriously. The fish above and beyond what the USDA does. creating something from that end as well. The trade-off of going wild-caught is that you have to be aware that, hey those things live in the wild too. You have to, this is not something you want to take and just sear it and try to eat it. Something that should not be done. The wild-caught is a trade-off, folks. You know, you either end the things that get rid of those, going to go wild-caught, all natural, frozen or whatever. The organic world talking about land critters where you can farm animals, tackle leaves, great job at deharming the natural and it does no harm to them. It's actually a risk of parasites and goats. If you have an area, having your own animals is a grow goat. Ghosts are great. Actually, there are little piggy goats, there's your lover milks for goats and my eggs are On vacation we got to go over and take care of the critters. And a little piggy is no longer little, he's about ready for slaughter. It's a good thing. They took the runt in and got him taken care of. Fun with them and they'll have ham and bacon and probably do the winner for him. He's no longer a little guy, he's gotten quite big. This is a way to do things. As a matter of fact, if you want to talk about health benefits, doing that yourself For children, we had a couple kids that were asthmatic, they were having problems with allergies and crazy things. Crazy in the way because the doctors had them on four or five different medications to eat outside during the summer. It was quite miserable. After going to the garden, working out in the yard, the parents had to come in, take their clothes off, throw them in the washing machine, go take a shower before they could grease because their allergies were so very bad. Since they've gone to the whole milk, their goats. children have been out all summer playing. That's back to that point where now they don't take meds. They don't need them. There is enough in the milk that is counteracted everything. Be it the fact that the goats eat everything that they're allergic to in one form or another in the milk. So there's a getting low doses of it and helping to that whole process. I know it works that way with bee pollen. The bees go around and pick up all the pollen in the area. And if you take a teaspoon a day, add a newm that are in it. If you're getting low-income honey, well-known bacteria, in just a few weeks, you have an air conditioner running constant in the summer, and then coming in, they're going to react to them and find them in the hospital. Just that simple change in diet, health milk bought over the counter at your local grocery store to whole raw goat's milk for them to get them back to normal. And something every little bit you can do on your own to be more independent so you're not dependent upon your favorite. I know they're trying to legislate people out of doing your home gardening even deeper. You know, Monsanto wants control over the seed market. A really good source here is Baker Creek, Creek The heirloom seeds, the heritage seeds are something that packet you grow at the end of the season after you've picked your crop, save up your seed. So you have enough plant next year and your whole investment is that one packet seed. Apply to grow your own for next year. Garden is just for growing salad. Right by the station. 40 foot long, 3 foot wide. Carrots, different lettuces. Just for a nice touch, you put in marigolds, sunflowers, and that one thing in that garden, I cannot eat. Marigolds can be made into tea, very healthy, and of course for the seeds, either way. They can be picked and be flavored. So everything there is edible, it looks pretty, you know, it's not right now, there is leaf lettuce. And it's like food symptoms. Arugula. The other thing that we really like to do is take mustard seeds I'm going to do a little card. I think I have to add a favorite. I like to go out there and pull out and just munch it. 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So I have a good brew this morning. We have an arbor bird as a coffee roaster. And they put together some really awesome blends. This morning my house smells of strawberries. This is a strawberry blend. They call it strawberry shortcake and oh boy. First time I bought this one, I think Mark got one cut and I got the rest of the cut. It was too good. Before I knew it, it was gone. But it's a very, very wonderful blend. So if you're out there this morning, you on the West Coast, I know it's early 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, Mac and I in fudge coffee and geez, strawberry shortcake. Yum. Too good. Too good. Make the morning go quick. Free strike guys. There we go. There's 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 gotta go This weekend and rebox up some of the stuff we've gotten from them years ago into into tote My basement is a little too damp and the boxes are trying to fall apart there. So I need to go in and Excuse me, re-secure storage there That is set to tap this weekend. Oh boy, so we'll be doing that getting that squared away. The other thing is gardening 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 that is going to take root 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 compost pile over the winter because they will. So you want to take your detrimental things and leave them out with your grass clippings, your vegetables, the kitchen, eggshells, things of that nature can be fennel tops in there. You might need a little starter to get going with that to kind of get it going. You want that to cook over the winter. Perfect time to get a compost pile going and just do it in layers, helping a gentleman get his own lasagna garden going in downtown Ann Arbor. The gentleman I work with actually, he retires today. Greg, congratulations. 43 years of service. He's a very nice gentleman, but he is a vegetarian. 10 houses for any of you. Most of the people that know me know that I'm a guy in the world on the board. I eat everything. I love my fruits and vegetables. I wouldn't do without them. And certainly, it's for me to cut meat out entirely on my diet. So I'd do what I have to do. really dire consequences. Something happened for me to have to go there. So I would have to be forced into a new place. I had trouble saying that something I would not do well in wish. I like my needs. Everyone says I've got to have something I can sink my teeth into. And 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 a lot of answers for some of the pesticides answers to that that can be done either using other bugs to be introduced into your garden that will eat pests, fungicides, Again, it's proper pH in the soil for 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 very digestive system breaks everything down so that the seeds The plants that they eat are totally broken down, unlike which you may wind up with a bunch of weeds in the beginning of the new year. And that's got to be something that is, again, commoners are very, very strong and will cook the roots if you try to use it right away. So it's got to, it has to mature over a number of years in order for it to be used in the garden. And that is another thing to keep. If you're doing rabbits, as I suggested, do them in cages in your garage. There is upkeep to it. Cages have to be cleaned up. They need to make sure that you have water for them. Water bottles are probably the best way to go. Fill up gold for that they have water throughout the day. That is critical for any animals, chickens and rabbits especially. They need to stay hydrated. But their manure used as well, if you're doing an organic gardening, is a layer in that heat compost. I'll put 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's that cook down and break down into, I believe we have a caller. I just had a beak. At any rate, that's where things are at. It goes very quickly. In the spring, by spring, you should have some really nice, black, homey soil. Leaves, layering your leaves, dry peat, which can be purchased at Lowe's. They have large bales of dry. Take it out, spread it out, and then wet it down good. And you will have a nice starting your garden. the whole garden and you don't have to worry about leaves that way either. It's very, very nice. That's an easy way to get the garden growing. But it makes it really beautiful to grow your product. I'm saying 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 that you are growing is for your home use, You can eat up 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 UNESCO, food dehydrators, which are very simple to use. Put them in at night, get up in the morning and pretty much if you're slicing things thin, we'll dry and be done. very, very, very easy thing to do. Also take very little space. We 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 by doing that. And the thing is, Once it's dry, the other thing you can do with your dried tomatoes, put it in the blender after it's dried, make it into a powder, a fine powder, and then you can add it to soup. That's a soup base. Vegetable base that way. You can do that with anything, well, with your other dried vegetables as well. Put it together and you can make a soup, a vegetable soup base, almost like a vegetable bouillon. Just add You're 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. I have basil. Again, basil is an annual. It's something you've got to put in every year. We use enough of it, so yeah. That's something I want out there every year. Last year we put in kisps, or also known as... Oh my God, those things went crazy. They are about 4 foot high this year and we picked up 9 plants. They had a different idea of the mark. Mark some men. Bee production, oh my gosh, it brought in bees from all over the place. They're actually coming out of the back field, the honey bees, or about this time of the morning. They come in and a wave. And then different sets of bees will come in throughout the day. We were out there yesterday about 1.32 o'clock. They have 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 pores in my garden. They have ever-bearing bees called rattlesnake bees. It's a pole bean. Very hardy. And trust me, our Billy Ghost has been jumping out and eating every week he could. And at one point, it was like, okay, Mark, he gets in my garden again eating barbecue. And I mean it. Goat meat is very good if you've ever had keros. Very similar to lamb. And I trust me, I have no problem. He gets in my garden again, it will be, he'll be on the spit. So yeah, he's got them contained now. But yeah, we really did remember my beans. I would normally have had by now bushels and bushels of beans up what I have out there. And it's maybe a third of the beans that I would normally see. Literally, the small row of these beans will produce again and again, and they'll keep producing right up until frost. Once the frost hits them, they're done. But they get so big, we found that just regular poles won't do, these things will get 16 feet high. So we made bean arbors. I was laughing because I would see things up and I had to put extenders on them. And it's like, I can't, I can't reach the high. So it makes me a bean arbor, something so we got it two rows planted and then it grows across one side and partially down the other. And if their beans are hanging down, I can just walk through and pick them. The beans came down underneath and it's kind of cool. It's really nice. The bean arbor worked very well. Put it together this year and the first time it's moved someone that really works when they have no problem taking care of them. Billy. Billy the goat. You can see them very easily because he loves to leave. He goes up here and he'll leave every week off the vine. Thinker. They're very lush. They come back and come back and come back. And producing beans just beautifully. We've got what's left out there at this point. We 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 our chat room from Indiana is throwing these. If you have a fence in the city and you've got no sea neighbors, plant them along your fence line. They will climb up the fence and make a beautiful privacy fence for you. And gee, you get the bulk of having some really great green beans 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. to sing in green beans, but they have purple stripes. Now those stripes, when you boil them, will come off in the water. So they'll look like just regular green beans when you're done. But, you know, 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 know, green beans and then have the shell beans also. because the outer huff is going to be a little tough. And if it gets to where they're turning yellow and starting to shrivel, just save them, because that's your seed for next year. You want to sit on the vine until they get leathery and the beans are obviously put aside. So I pull them off, set them aside, and there's your seed. It's that simple. What my mother always did is she'd make one little tripod. climbing beams and that will be, that's her speed for next year. Nobody touches her. You touch them, you're in trouble. And that's what she did with her for Kentucky wonder. Kentucky wonder, green beams are something that are very good. People all over the nation grow them, very good. They're generally stringless and it's another heritage heirloom speed 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 and put your second crop of spinach in now. If you missed that window, the spring, before it got to be 85 degrees, because after 85 degrees, it hits 85 degrees, the spinach seeds will not germinate. They will not germinate and it won't happen. If, you know, in order to do that, you need to put them in, try 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 if it's been cooling off here in the north. We're looking at days that are 75. I think the highest we got here in the last couple weeks has been 78 degrees. Normally this would be the dog days of summer isn't hot, but we're not seeing that. It's cool enough for those seeds to germinate. So you can put those in now. Get your second cabbage, depending on what your typical frost date usually goes. Here, we've got about a month. So, broccoli and cabbage is not something that we can grow in 30 days. spinach, the lettuces, radishes, you can get them going now. And as long as you keep them, even after frost with carrots and turnips, your root vegetables, keep them covered with a good 8 to 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 they will continue to grow. That's your spinach that's something you can grow again right now and you'll have it ready to pick in the baby leaf form or frosted again. There are some other things that can be done to prolong that and that is an idea that I got from Birds in Blue years ago to take ladder hooks and set it on the side of the building with a 2x4 attached to a sheet of plastic and another 2x4. You can roll that plastic up during the day and then at night pull it up, the second two by four, and put it over that creating a mini greenhouse effect during the night to keep the heat in. It's going to give you a good two, three week extension on a small garden, via flower garden, via, you know, like what I do here with my greens. It's going to give you that extension and it's going to produce food longer. The more you have and the more you can put away, you're in the freezer or dry it and yes you can dry lettuce and you can dry spinach. Then you use it later just by rehydrating. It's a very simple process. What you can look for is dry it, you'll like it. It has how to dry everything from lettuce to your meat. to do to the shelf space. It will save you. It's amazing. But you must keep things dry and if you can back and peel it, that's better yet. But that's a great way to keep that food production going as long as you possibly can. For those of you that have sunroom outside of your home in the climate, that's a great place to start your plants. Now, Mark did something this year. He experimented with doing five gallon buckets. He doesn't like digging potatoes. He did a couple of those this year. One died and he dumped a pot off that and it still had, oh, probably a half dozen potatoes in it. So even for a plant that did not survive, we still had something come off that enough for dinner one night. So, you know, this is something that can be done. So many different things. We got it in a five gallon bucket. My helper. Oh boy. Oh goodness. to survive these days in the morning. But, uh, we'll get up and do that talk. Oh my goodness. Too many helpers. Trina Bot here. Trina Bot here was that, oh, we're talking about food production, saving space, so that you have for yet more food production. And we got a 13 to 1 ratio on a high water item like tomatoes. that's gonna say that you have that much more space. And I believe we are at the coffee hour. I'm so sorry, I did not hear that. I could barely hear music there, folks. We'll be back with more of the intelligence report and hopefully we'll have a sound up with it shortly. Is there an emergency food stash in the basement? Well, it's down there because there are things going on in the world that concern me. And I think could potentially interrupt our food supply. If that happens, I don't want us to 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, a bunch of people are going to starve. It's my job to make sure that...