This video outlines my five most important reasons why I believe you should grow your own food and are my main motivating factors for being as self-sufficient as possible on our small acreage homestead. Homesteading, food gardening, and to some extent prepping is something we should all be considering. Thanks for watching! 🙂
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I've studied irradiated foods. There's no way they will harm you. They are treated with gamma rays but they don't become radioactive.
Hi,mark,Thank you very much for sharing your video. I very much agree with you. I always wonder why the fruits and vegetables in the supermarket look beautiful but the taste is not good. Since I started to grow my own vegetables and found the problem, I am not as good as the supermarket. It looks beautiful, but it tastes great because our own garden doesn't use too much chemicals.
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Great video 🙂 I wanna add "psychological benefits" to the list: Studies (and loads of anecdotal evidence) have shown that caring for plants can help fight depression and loneliness.. and just being around plants will reduce stress ^^
When we grow food ourselves it may also add a different perspective on the value of the food – because we put labour into growing it and watched the time it took for it to develop and so on.
I have to tell you….I LOVE your channel, and I appreciate you putting these videos out! I’ve learned (and am learning) so much from you. I used to think I had a black thumb, but now everything grows for me, and some of it even grows really well! I can’t express how much BETTER I feel being able to grow my own food for myself and family.
Radiation destroys the food to the extent that when it is consumed the body doesn’t know how to process it, therefore nutrition is not going to our organs and cells. This applies to ALL food. Throw away your microwave oven!!!
Who else has noticed that over the past four years rockmelon has got less and less taste, with skin that’s thicker and harder. Even around the seeds is tasteless which is where is used to be full of flavour. Sugar or honey added doesn’t cheer it up. I’ve bought my LAST rockmelon. I’m growing my own this year, up a trellis, as last year the slugs and slaters ruined my crop.
Thank you, my father teached me this things when I was a kid. NOw that I am an adult, I REALIZE HE GAVE ME THE BEST ADVICE TO SAVE MONEY, BE HEALTHY AND SURVIVE LIKE A CHAMP!
Mr Self sufficient, fantastic videos my friend…I suspect you and many others have noticed the weather is changing and in my view getting cooler, actually this was the reason I started to garden and take back control of what I have available to eat…"prepping" if you want to call it that but in uncertain times better to be safe than sorry…thank you for your great information…
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My dad was the business owner of a well known logistics company. He would often be around the chemicals used to ‘sterilise’ the fruits and veg. Unfortunately he got incredibly sick with acute myeloid lymphoma and passed 11 years ago. He had long term exposure to extremely high levels. devastating effects for our family even now.
You've inspired me to grow my own this year , quite proud to say I managed to get lemons , pomegranates , mango and avocados to sprout , would love to get my mitts on a bee hive or two , too many veg and fruit to list but everything thing is sprouting like mad 😀 I also live in near the Arctic in Canada 😀
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A lot of the veggies in our area are sprayed with an anti-sprouting agent, ethylene I think, to increase their shelf life. I bought some potatoes to grow in my containers which never sprouted… just rotted. Then I found out about the spray… So I bought some organic ones and that worked out for me.
I agree capitalism and centralising power letting another person run your life is not freedom.Growing your own gives you some freedom.fucker sheemas sake lmao
my problem is the only garden i have is on the front, so by growing my own food literally anyone and everyone on my street or walking or driving down my street can see i'm growing food..
All these videos you make are making more sense with things like corona virus
so relavant now
Mark, you’re a prophet. Thank you for teaching me and so many others to be more self sufficient! It’s vitally important now more than ever.
Good day Mark! I just wrote a ty message to your Channel. My Mark inspired raise bed is under a big mangoe tree with minimal sunlight (in Manila). In one of your videos, you recommend herbs which I just sowed today. What else can I grow in my sunlight limited bed? Stay safe Mate!
Food that has been irradiated is not radioactive.
You need radioactive materials to make something radioactive. Or a supercollider will work too. But there aren't many of those around.
Radiation is a big scare word that people don't understand, radioactive materials are what should concern people, not radiation that has been and gone.
Ignorance of physics is not a good enough excuse for fearmongering, especially when the science has been well understood for nearly a century now.
Awesome video!!
Thanks for the lesson sir !!!
Hi Mark, A lot of folks think its too hard to raise a garden. Well let me tell you a hard fact of life. You get a lot out of gardening. So let's get into it. It has allowed our bank acount to get out of the red and beginning grow a little (Not rich but better than being broke all the time), gardening has added a much more vitamin rich diet than ever before, I have Multiple Sclerosis, I'm 72 and still walking which I contribute to my garden. Just a walk about through the garden every day keeps my legs moving as they should. Also our grocery bill dropped from $4500 a year down to about $500 a year. Our neighbors and friends bennifit from our garden as well. We give over a ton of vegetables away each summer. Example: The first garden we made we had a friend and his wife fostering six grandkids. They were having a food deleima (problem) we took them 4 5-gallon buckets of food each week. They were so grateful to get the food you could almost hear the tears in their voice. This is what raising a garden has done for us. Jessie Arkansas USA
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