I've got a large "bunch" of seeds but always gathering more. It's almost like an obsession at this point! 😄

Something strange has started going on since 2021. Thus it's high time to learn oneself how to organise as much food in ones own gardens as possible. I don't know how it looks in USA but in Poland for example, the heating fuels (coal, gas, wood) has become even 3x more expensive and there is a problem with availability. All of this makes me feel afraid about near future...

Glad to see you posting, Mark. The most important thing I learned from you is that "roots make soil", been practicing that ever since. Thank you, be well.

Might I also suggest that everyone invest in a grow tent. The larger the better.... Grow indoors to avoid theft by outsiders. 😉👍

Mark - so good to see a new video!!! Thank you for telling things straight and in a balanced manner. I’m not a farmer and we only have a small home garden. The weather impact on our modest garden is evident even though twice the amount of plants from previous seasons were started. I have great concerns for the farmers and consumers across the globe. It seems that next year is going to be the revelation of really tough times to come. I lived in an arid third world country for a year a few decades ago. Water was restricted, sugar, flour, and cooking oils were rationed. Eggs,dairy, and meat were in short supply - in fact, the practice was to have 2 meatless days each week! Only the very wealthy had sufficient food. After we returned to the States I was very conscious of the amount of food and water waste we have here. I love the content of your channel and it is through the shared knowledge that I believe we can grow together and be able to make it through the coming days! Thank you for dedicated efforts! You are appreciated!💕

I learned a lot this year. We had the worst drought ever. My vegetable garden is mulched with grass/weed clippings. I am digging out the paths to raise the beds because it is usually too wet. Then the paths are filled with prunings from trees and bushes and weeds from my and my neighbors gardens. It's a variation of hugelkultur. Seems it helps with dry times as well as wet times. Tomatoes and corn did well. We just got a good rain so I'm putting in cover crops to improve the soil and help absorb and hold water. Some of the garden is still compacted clay. I will increase the mulch of landscaped areas with wood chips and leaves. They got too dry.

Thank you for telling your viewers what’s going on in a calm demeanor. It’s appreciated. In my area (southwest Ohio), peppers are selling for $1.39 a piece. Peaches are $1.00 a piece. I’ve already purchased next spring’s seeds and planted three apple and one Asian pear tree. All grass clippings and leaves go in the garden. We also get wood chips whenever we can for our heavy clay soil. We’ve lived here for four years and our soil is starting to feel like soil instead of brick-hard clay. It’s been a slow process, but seeing the results gives us the encouragement to keep going. Our tomatoes all were plagued with blight, except for the cherry tomatoes. They are prolific! While typing this, I’m watching you harvest potatoes. You’re making me laugh. That root!!!!! As my dad would say…and this is spelled phonetically…hyla digga eedapples. Meaning great big potatoes in Dutch.

I'm right with you Mark, I've already saved and purchased all my seeds for next year. Just waiting for my zucchini and crookneck squash to get old to save those seeds. Wishing you well.

Appreciate your sacrifice as a farmer and teacher to so many!

I like to expand on your advice Mark. Also buy quality gardening tools, and tools you need to process and store your produce. When the supply chain ends, they will be your best friends. OK that rhymes.

I am so thankful for God and Mark. We will be sharing our crop food with our neighbors as they may just have to come help in my little 8th of an acre. My children are now watching you. We are going to really have to learn as much as possible. Thank you again Mark for saving my land. God bless all. 🙌

I dont ever use fertilizer since learning of the soil food web. Cover crops and compost is all I use. Saves $$$ and you are not killing your soil life and my produce is just better

The most important advice I’ve learnt from you Mark is feeding/growing the soil. I have put this into practice the last two years, my harvests have improved and it’s saved me much time and energy. Saving seeds and buying seeds early is great advice. Thank you. From South Australia 🇦🇺

Beautiful tomatoes!! 🥰 I can almost smell the plants...👍

So glad I subscribed to your channel in the past and received this unexpected update. The information is valuable. I see very well what is happening to agriculture, to farmers, and to food plants (especially in our country). Thank you for your timely advice.

Just found your channel subscription added to my list ! 👍💯💖

God bless 🙏🙏🙏

I recently came across your channel and have been binge watching. I have so much to learn! Thank you for sharing your knowledge. 😀

Potatoes used to cost $2.99 for a 5lb bag here in Bergen county, NJ. Now they are $4.99 for 5lbs!! That's more than a 50% increase in price.

I feel absolutely *Horrible* for the farmers --across the planet!

I’m growing those Sungold tomatoes in the ground around my grapes and in pots. They are trailing up a cow panel. The taste is amazing!

Wow! Gorgeous tomatoes in that heat 😍😋. And no watering. 😮 Also when Cov!d hit there was a seed shortage and it was a long wait for some of us to get seeds. I agree, I have been saving seed and will buy seeds this week although I have been looking and some have been sold out. Probably haven't been restocked yet from the growing year, but still probably good to get what you can.

Thanks Mark.

Thank you so much as always❣️I’m looking forward for your future videos!

Great advice as always, Mark!

Thanks for the advice, Mark, it's a good point. I've been putting back some food, but I also grow as much of my own as possible, and hadn't been thinking about how seeds might go up.

It was so dry here that I hand watered each plant with a compost tea mixture. Why water or feed the weeds. It is more work but well worth the effort.

Mark, thanks for the update and I hope you and your son are doing well.

Thank you always

Thank you for your videos, it's nice to see a new one with more great information.

Hey Mark, your warning is as relevant now as when you made the video. I will be sharing this on my twitter account if that's OK?. I'm working my way through most of your videos. Thank you so much for sharing and your enthusiasm.

The leaves also contain HUGE amounts of trace minerals from deep in the ground. The leaf mold is WAY more than a carbon source and sunblock! It has what the plants are missing the most. Sure, the sand silt and clay is there but the minerals in the leaves are readily bioavailable. You don't give that beautiful mulch enough credit lol. Those tomatoes are supercharged !

thank you yet again! I’m continuing to appreciate learning from all your content. Going to try seed saving from my own for the first time this year. And will definitely heed your advice to purchase my seeds that are needed for next year now.

Another gem video Mark. Yes we buy seeds in sale in fall. Yes we sprout and grow store potatoes. Plus we save seed out of those as well as other seeds. My thoughts? Folks get your hands on a good water supply , be it rain water or any source it's the next shrtage.

Thank you thank you!

Thanks Mark for another great video and the advice. You are the second farmer I follow that has advised buying seeds now. I guess I better heed he warnings and get my orders in.

Thank you so much for this video 🙏🏻❤️🙏🏻

Good advice. I was thinking about stockpiling seeds too. I buy a lot of seeds from Baker Creek Heirloom, which is located near me. (I'm in Missouri too.) The Ozarks where Bakers Creek is located had a terrible drought this year w/ temps of 100+ for more than 60 days. I'm guessing there is a good chance a lot of their seed crop was ruined this year. Prices will probably go up and seeds will be hard to come by.

Yes indeed - here in London UK the season has been weird and terrible (and for the 2nd year) - beans simply not setting, squashes only putting out male flowers or none at all, potatoes tiny, root crops not growing at all, grapes feeble. I said very much the same as you to friends: get your seeds and potting compost now, because next spring it's going to be worse than the crazy rush at the start of lockdown. We've just had our first serious, heavy rain since late June here, overnight - hurrah!

It's been an incredibly trying season, I can't imagine dealing with acres. We are very crispy up here in Sussex with almost no rain all summer. Acorns have been falling for weeks. You are spot on with getting next years seeds now. Thanks Mark!

Thank you so much for the wise advice, I didn`t think of that. Will work on buying the seeds.

It's been pretty hot and dry here in southeastern PA too. The weather has taken a toll on my garden, most things are growing slowly. I'm finally starting to get some ripe tomatoes. I've been saving seeds from some crops for the past few years and buying others (carrots, lettuce and spinach). Thanks for the advice on buying seeds now. Glad to see you're hanging in there.

Just a suburban backyard gardener, but this was a rough garden season for me. I expanded my garden and expected to have a great year. But it got unusually hot and dry much sooner than usual (May) and a lot of my spring crops just couldn't handle it. The okra did great, my sweet potatoes are coming along, but anything that needed the temps to be in the 90s or less just struggled.

In Australia we are having the opposite of the northern hemisphere, too much water. Forecast are for another very wet summer . Enough already.

Just found your channel. Love listening to Charles Dowding even though he is in a warmer zone then me. Just a thought for people check out your public libraries to see if they have a seed exchange. We started one in the fall of 2019, this spring we received donations from some seed companies. Trying to only do heirloom open pollinating plants, a few hybrids snuck in. Or perhaps post a seed swap for your area you may be surprised with the people who would show up and the varieties.

Mark, Fantastic Sungold you have! How do you space them per cattle panel? I removed suckers just because I don’t have a strong trellis or space but maybe next year. I tried to grow with least fertilizers but I want to ask you what type of crops would work completely without fertilizers, in your context? Can you grow marketable corn, brassicas, celery, etc. without adding fertilizers? I want to try next year like you, just cover crops over winter, no till and no fertilizers. We’re in the Pacific NW and have zero rainfalls in the summer (plenty other times). What do you do in a drought? Much mulching? I mulched but more slug damage, so worse for me. Take care and warm regards to your family.

Yep already buying seeds and stockpiling. Will buy more. Also buying indoor plant lights, trying hydroponic garden indoors to prevent garden ‘freeloaders’ (eg some insects, possums etc) eating some of my plants, as I don’t like to use pesticides. Can’t really trust the air and rain because of the Chemtrails…you wonder when this madness is going to end, if ever…

Here in Australia food prices have increased dramatically ( lettuce $12ea, red capsicum $14 kilo), but there has been no increase in price to the farmers.

Thank you for covering the food crisis that's going on right now and will only get worse this winter. If you talk to regular people about this and tell them that farmers are warning about this, they think you are a conspiracy theorist. I'm trying to prepare for what's coming and trying to warn other people but most are not willing to listen or care.

Hi Mark. Do you know how to ferment and save tomato seeds? I'm looking for someone to grow some of my varieties for seed production.

Hi Mark. I love your Vedios and content. I also love gardening. Iam surprised to see cherry tomatoes in your field. I would like to have seeds of cherry tomatoes. Is there a possibility? Iam poornakumar from INDIA.

Thank you for sharing this! I'm new to growing crops. I live in Central Oklahoma so the environment is different. Any advice for growing crops in this region as well as what crops are best?

We'll be trading in seeds and copper wire soon enough.

A couple years ago i saw a story of a farmer had to bury tons of potatoes

I have seeds but I never have luck getting them transplanted into garden from seed. Gardening is HARD!

Farming in Vermont. Never farmed before. Got any advice for growing pumpkins next year?

1st...wow

If you don’t have heirloom tomatoes to get seeds to save, go to a farmers market and purchase heirlooms...

Ive been organic gardening for over 30 years. I live in New Zealand. Last year's gardening was bad. This year it's crop fail after crop fail. I grow most plants by seed. Not all the seed is organic. The seed germinates ok, but when I prick them out and repot, they keep dying. It they are so weak, they just stay stunted. The potting mix is just rubbish. I think they are using bark as a base. So I'm not sure if is the seed, potting mix or pollutants in the air. All the hours Ive spent prepping for summer crops has gone to waste. 😢 They've ruined our beautiful planet.

You're confirming what I've been hearing from other youtube channels and iceagefarrmer. Means more coming from you so I will follow your advice. Not sure if we'll even be allowed to water outdoors next year if CA drought continues, that's what concerns me most, not being able to grow my own produce even if I have the seeds. My water bill is so high it's probably cheaper to buy food than grow it.