A discussion of growing your own food before a food shortage

George Noory and Marjory Wildcraft discuss how and why to grow food for survival. They also get into the possibility of a global food shortage, supply chain issues and China buying grain from the USA.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Now here's a highlight from Coast to Coast AM on iHeartRadio.
Welcome back to Coast to Coast George Nori with you,
Marjorie Wildcraft with us. We're going to take calls with
Marjorie next hour here on Coast to Coast. Marjorie, So
the things we've been talking about, and I'm going to
have you distinguish the difference between growing and providing if

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you have some land and those people who just simply
have an apartment, to see what the difference is. But
are we doing this to save money? Are we doing
this for survival? What's the approach? You're doing this for survival? George. I,
you know, hyperinflation is on our doorstep, and it starts
to have it happens really really quickly. I you know,

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by next year, by absolutely predict by spring of next year,
it's going to become abundantly apparent. And then you will
see the runs on food, just like you'll see the
runs on the bank. There will be runs on the
grocery stores for food. People will start doing panic buying. Uh,
We're there, George, it's happening. Um. You know, China has

(01:04):
brought up a ton of the grain from the United States.
There's there's almost nowhere to get food. The global production
is down, the supply chain is broken. My goodness, this
community to coast community is full of truckers, and I'm
sure that there there's a lot of people who can
call in with information about what they're seeing on the
ground here. But the supply chain has been devastating. I
don't know if you see that the port of Vancouver

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just basically has been completely cut off. And actually Canada
was one of the few exporters of wheat in the world,
and now that's not going to be available. And I'm
not sure what they're going to do with all that
grain because they don't necessarily have the capacity to store it.
We're having stories like that all over the world. And
you know, you're already seeing it. We've all experienced empty

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shells at one point or another. Yeah, and it's it's real,
and and you know, consider that a wake up call.
So I am absolutely an advocate of and enduring inflationary
and then hyperinflationary times. The time to stock up is
before the hyperinflation. Should I just hear a chicken in
the background, Yeah, of course I did, or a rooster

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or something that yes, Well, what happens between the haves
and the have nots, Marjorie? When your neighbors who don't
have food realize you do, are they going to hit
your backyard? What's going to happen? Well, that's where you
really need to start building community. And there is an
incredible strength. Like I live here in a village in

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Puerto Rico. I found out a sixty five percent of
the people are below the poverty line. And I'm working
like crazy with a six acre site at the city
owns to create a massive community garden with like, you know,
four hundred garden plots in it, and I can get
you know, we're getting that. That's moving along very very quickly.

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But and being in a place with cooperation and build
the community. And quite frankly, we're going to need to
do that because our governments are clearly corrupt and falling apart.
They're not going to be here. That's a part of
what is collapsed. All right. So let's take us let's
take a scenario for someone who's got a pretty decent
sized backyard. Tell us, tell us what that person should do, right,

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So I would recommend a three park system, and that
is get some chickens, get some rabbits, and have a
small vegetable garden. One hundred square feet vegetable garden with
one hundred square feet of bedspace will produce all of
the produce that one person needs, and as your skills
and systems develop, you can produce a lot more out
of that. That really only takes up the space of

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like a three car parking spots, and you can do
a lot more. There's certainly some examples of people in
California that are or csa is all around the country
where the family just has a backyard and they're producing
a ton of food that they're selling to other people
as as a side business. And there's a thing I
think it was coined by that guy in um was

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he in La and he started growing food just on
a strip of the meridian and the highway. And you know,
growing your own food is like printing your own money.
And more than ever that is true. We're about to
head into a time period where we don't know what
anything is worth, right, you know, what what is the
value of this, What is the value of that? That's

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part of what happens when you have a currency collapse,
And certainly One of the stories from Weimar, Germany was,
you know, a farmer had really really wanted a grand piano.
Was kind of one of those things. He had a
daughter he wanted to learn to play the piano. He
traded a grand piano from somebody in town for you know,

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a fifty pound sack of potatoes. So that shows you
how hungry and how desperate that you know, the townspeople
were getting u There is a lot that you can
do in town, so don't don't don't let me discus
urgy from that. And actually that's a hugely important component
of going food is everybody growing food somewhere, but we're

(05:08):
going to You're not going to be able to store
enough to get through this. Everybody is going to if
you want to live through this next decade, you're going
to need to be growing food. And how long will
this take? How long does the crises last? Well, you know,
we all know about Event two oh one, which was

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sponsored by Bill Gates that stunningly predicted the pandemic. Right,
they did that in September twenty nineteen, and was talking
about a pandemic in twenty twenty and Lallah, the whole
thing has been rolled out according to script, right, and
now he's investing in vaccines. Interesting timing, isn't it. Yeah,
my god, they're actually supposedly growing plants that will have

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our mRNA vaccine in the plant. So I'm like, oh
my god, if there's ever a reason to avoid the
commercial food supply. So and I used to not pay
that much attention to these scenarios because you know why, right,
But in twenty fifteen, Cargill, which is the largest private
company on planet Earth and pretty much has their finger
in almost every aspect of the food supply, did a

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simulation called the Food Chain Reaction, and interestingly enough, something
that the scenario was this something happened in twenty twenty.
Then there was this whole series of climate problems all
over the globes, such that the global food production was
way down and food prices rose in the you know,
in the year they're after twenty one, basically by about

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forty percent, and then every year thereafter they rose up
by about one hundred percent. Now, they did not um
forecast inflation and hyperinflation into that, but will law I mean,
right now, if you go to the UNFAO numbers, which
is their numbers, they're using for the baseline. On that scenario,
food prices are up forty percent. They're exactly on, and

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something big did happen in twenty two. You know they're
right on. The scenario is unfolding. They're their scenario for that,
which you know, as I said, I'm learning to pay
attention to these scenarios because they're basically telling us what
they're orchestrating was. It was at least a decade. It
went through the entire decade. Food prices went up at
least four hundred percent and stayed there for the entire decade.

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So we're you're not going to be able to store. Absolutely,
go buy as much backup food as you can right now,
but you also need to learn to grow food. It's
essential all right now, the person who owns or is
in a little apartment, what do they do. Well, there's
a lot of things you can do, and you're gonna
be able to produce all No, but are you going

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to be able to produce some things? And is that great? Yes?
So you know there's the classic of sprouts and herbs,
which you can do a sprouts don't even need a
lot of sunshine. Another thing people don't think about is mushrooms.
You can produce mushrooms in an apartment, and you know,
certainly there's a lot of vegans and vegetarians will tell
you how what a great food source that is. There's

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also there's lots of new indoor garden systems that are
coming out with LED light systems or systems that you
can put by a window. Of course, if you've got
a patio or a balcony or rooftop, you got a
lot of options there, and especially going vertical, so things
like you know, cucumbers are squashed, which you can run
up the side of the wall, are an option. Aside

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from a quail, you can actually raise quail inside of
an apartment, and then you've got little quail legs or
even the quail themselves. Your neighbors aren't going to go
nuts on you do the neighbors, and neighbors are going
to be doing the same thing. Georgia. Actually, when I
was in Cuba, there's one woman was she was a

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little embarrassed, admitted, but you know, the plumbing didn't work anymore,
so they turned the bathroom into a pigpen, and they
raised a pig inside an apartment in Cuba. How could
you raise a pig in a full size pig Yeah,
those things huge, Yeah, I know, right. But she would
go to gather stuff from mountain the countryside and bring
it in and feed the pig. And it was a mess.

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She said, it was an absolute It was a pig pen.
But with you know, with the bathroom didn't work because
they didn't have water, they didn't have you know, sewage.
All the city's stuff was no longer functioning. It was
a room that they no longer really could use. So
they raised a pig in it. Anyway, It's yes, it's
gonna get like that, right. Foraging is another thing. Now

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is this your prediction or is this something that you
think is a is a slam dunk deal? This collapsed?
You know this is this is happening, George, This is
no longer this is We're already in it. I mean,
you see the empty card. I hope I can call
you back in the year, Marjorie and go see I
told you so, nothing happened. I don't think you know

(09:46):
it's already happening. You know it's right out there right now.
You just just you could see it, right. We but
we really don't have shortages yet. Not not massive shortages,
not massive shortages, but you seeing. I mean you could
get your bread, you can get your steaks, you can
get your chickens. They talked about a turkey shortage for Thanksgiving,

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but everybody got their turkeys. Yeah, and they've paid how
much more for them? Oh? Yeah? They were expensive? Sure? Yeah, yeah,
I mean that's that's what happens, is it just starts
to get too expensive where you can't afford it at all.
And and and this supplay. The other thing I absolutely
predict this will happen within the next two or three

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months is um the Biden administration is going to act
and act wage and price controls which will absolutely guarantee scarcity. Um.
And of course what will flourish from from underneath that
is going to be all kinds of black markets in
food and other necessities. We're there, George. I look the

(10:48):
supply chains breaking down. The government is printing money like
there's no tomorrow. There's it's you know, absolutely abundant. We're
going to go into inflation, hyperinflation and currency collapse. I
believe that that's happening already. And the global crop production
has been decimated, and in fact, there's a lot of
reports out there that the USDA has been paying farmers

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not to to to to you know, to destroy their crops.
Uh to, They've been paying them to destroy their crops,
which is something they do off and on all the
time anyway. So I don't know how much, but we're there, George,
this is this is happening now and you can see
it in the Grown network. We have a forum thread
called what shortage as are you seeing? And we're up

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to like ten pages of comments of people will just
bizarre things like tombstone. They have gone from three thousand
dollars to sixteen thousand dollars if you can get them,
if you can get them right, you know. So this
is really weird and bizarre. Shortage is happening. And canning

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supplies come and go, you can't get them. Sometimes seeds
at a huge premium, um, you know, garden seeds, all
kinds of food supplies. You know, you may go there
and they may have something it's not the you know,
they don't have the brand you're used to. It's happening, George,
it's happening right now. That's a great time to diet then, right, Well,

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that's the average cube and lost twenty pounds. So yeah,
we're going to America. The whole world is going to
go on a diet. That so fun. Marjorie Wildcraft with us.
Your websites are linked up at Coast to coastdam dot com.
Where do people see your videos? The best place to go.
We're having a webinar. Actually it's happening this Saturday. We're
I'll spend a good length of time condensing twenty years

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of figuring out the fastest, easiest and quickest way is
to take somebody who knows nothing, is older or out
of shape, and get them producing food very very quickly.
And that's a grow your Own Groceries dot com. You
can sign up for that. It's a free webinar. Actually,
I always made all my money as a professional investor,
not a lot from the Grow network. It's more of

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been a passion project for me. So grow your Own
Groceries dot Com and we'll get you started. What We'll
show you how to grow food. We'll show you options
for if you're an apartment, we'll show you options if
you've got a yard. And you know, again, I'm assuming
you know nothing, you're out of shape, you're older. I've
specifically developed all these systems for this scenario. And I've
been doing this for gosh fifteen eighteen years now, figuring

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out what are the fastest and easiest ways to get
people up to speed. And I'm really grateful. I thought
the collapse was going to happen back in the two
thousand and ten and two, you know that whole So
what So what if you're off by another ten years?
What if it happens in two thousand and thirty. I
just don't see it, George, I just don't see it not,

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you know, not only do we have the food chain
reaction scenario, that is, these predictions are highly accurate from
these large global entities. But you're already seeing food inflation.
We know there's hyperinflation coming. The supply chain's broken. Global
food production is down. Even the UN is warning of
a global famine of biblical proportions. You know this is

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not a I'm not not rocked science Here in a
couple of minutes before we have the break and we're
going to take calls with you next hour, Marjorie, tell
me about snake bite. What happened? Oh, I was out
in the garden and I got bit by a copperhead snake.
Oh yeah, you know, it's potentially a fatal bite. And
but we do enough with home medicine, and you know,

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I'm strong enough and healthy enough from eating my own
homegrown food for so long. We treaated it at home,
and it's a little story about how we did it
that teaches people about herbal medicine. Did you cut yourself
and suck the blood out or anything? Ah? No, nothing,
that's nothing that sucks me. I wish we'd done something
like that. We used a technique called poulticing, and because

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of where we lived, we had prickly pair available and
used that poulticing material and just in a couple of
days of poulticing and then doing some internal things with
like ac in asia of garden, like to prevent infection.
You know, I was up and walking around in a
couple of days. And you know, it's really just a
testament to the power of herbal medicine. It also really

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empowers people that growing your own food, getting really healthy
by by what you produce, and then a lot of
the herbs in your yard are really powerful medicines. I
don't expect people to go out and treat a snake
bite as their first thing. But it's just a great
story to highlight what you can do and what you
can achieve. You don't talk too much about growing your

(15:32):
own vegetables. I'll come you know, I do. Oh yeah, yeah,
vegetables are a big component of it. But when you
get down to a like we gotta eat scenario, you know,
and this is a little bit sad for like, I
was a vegan when I started this, but animal products
by and large are the most efficient way to produce healthy,
nutritious calories and especially protein and fat, which is harder

(15:56):
to do. But I'm a huge man of the garden
because you definitely need all those colors and all those
flavonoids and all the unit the fiber as well as
the um diversity. You know, you need a lot of
different sources of food that you're going to be, you know,
gathering food from. So I should have kept by one
hundred and fourteen acre horse farm. Is that's what you're saying? Right?

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Oh my gosh, yes, George, I had no idea. Yeah,
it was in Illinois. Loved it, but uh, just so
you know, I had they had a lot of race
horses that I bred, and they cost a lot of money,
and so I decided I was going to auc shut
off all the horses, and I got some good money
out of that. And then some old farmer came by
and made me an offer for the entire place, and

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I said, God, that's twice what I paid for it.
So I took it. But it would be worth ten
times that today had I held onto it all those
years of those horses fertilizing the fields. I bet the
farmer was looking at that. A lot of vegetables on
one hundred and fourteen acres, you could you could sure
a race? Huh, Oh my gosh. Yeah. Listen to more
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