Full vid here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d96We9qZnKy2e4k.html doing this again this year, LMK how I should change the rules now that I have more space!
@amarketing8749 Жыл бұрын
Your Health comes first. Losing 13 lbs. in 30 days is hard on the body. It thinks you are starving and you will put the weight back on likely a lot more, because your body is prepping for being starved again. You don't have to make the challenge harder, it was already too hard. Instead show off the range of meals you can make with the food. So maybe some clips of recipes you liked best. Or even a full video. Maybe collaborate with a local cooking channel or innovative restaurant that could use your exposure. Show the variety you can have in potato dishes. You have chickens, so your ability to barter is greater. Most IMPORTANTLY don't harm yourself for your show. None of your viewers want that.
@EmmaAppleBerry Жыл бұрын
Kinda feel like you should get a certain amount of money like $2 a day (that you can save up and use or use everyday) that can be spent at a farmers market or on things you could never grow yourself. like wheat or rice or hell even cheese or milk. So that youre still eating everything you can grow and youre still buying locally from people who can grow those things (like the eggs). I mean providing one staple grain that you can have unlimited amount of and one animal product that you can also have unlimited amount of like eggs or cheese which are amazing for health and calories and frankly surviving famine foods wouldnt be cheating it would be good for your body and health and also prevent you from having seasonal issues with food like climate weather and dangers like fishing from definitely contaminated water sources etc even if you just buy a set amount of grain or starch and animal product before starting and making it rationed like i get 1 cup of dry rice a day and 2 eggs and 50grams of cheese and you could save those daily rations up if you wanted but you could really and should really work out how much you need as a baseline calories and have at least half your calories be your total daily ration and the other half be garden forage fish or barter. That way even if you dont eat it you have that option in lean times or if your sick or injured whatever AND you wont stress your body. Maybe you could incorporate an intermittent fast into this time or better yet preserve lots of jams chutneys dried fruits hell even meals like MRE type but solely from your garden like beans chilli or such i mean make it realistic. Even pioneers and settlers had rations of basic grains like flour and and sanity keeping coffee or honey. And even when they had big kitchen gardens and fruit trees they still bought canned goods and animal products and little treats and long term grains flours and spices. Maybe you could pair up with a friend or local green grocer or hell a farmers market or something and take scraps or even a resturant and help prevent food waste and really make use of things less eaten like carrot tops or peels for veg stock and other such things that usually get binned or composted and instead eat them use the whole plant.
@Ryanrulesok Жыл бұрын
I think the only challenge should be that you can't eat the same meal every day. That way you get creative without causing too harm to yourself
@redherringbone Жыл бұрын
I saw a recent video of yours saying that you want to limit yourself to what comes strictly off of your property. You're doing a great job Eric (sorry, Kevin. I always do that), but I don't think that's wise right now, IMO. I think your previous rules were quite good, allowing you to barter, forage, and fish. My only critique of that is to go fishing for larger fish, man! WTH?!? You have chickens now, so that's going to help a whole lot. I've only got four chickens, and it takes no time at all to have so many eggs you don't know what to do with. At $7/doz. in value, they're a huge barter item. One last comment, I don't think that I've seen you grow amaranth past the microgreen stage yet. A high protein grain, the leaves are edible and it reseeds like gangbusters. If at all, convince Jacques to do it too. That should be a comedy. #Hunger Games Boys Are you planning on doing it in Vlog form or one video?
@alantrebon2290 Жыл бұрын
I want to do this!!! I've never done this, but I am currently challenging myself to eat I thing from my garden everyday during harvest time and once a week other times.
@Lazymamabear8401 Жыл бұрын
It might be good time to start adding edible fish in your pond if you plan on doing this again 😅
@kennadihenn9073 Жыл бұрын
Yes, tilapia farm!
@joe_schmoe_420 Жыл бұрын
Use the run off to water as its rich in nitrates and will increase yields
@eidelrose Жыл бұрын
@@joe_schmoe_420 please don’t, that causes algal bloom, decreased levels of oxygen, and severe reductions in water quality and in fish and other animal populations.
@trixiebewitched Жыл бұрын
@@eidelrose using pond run off for your plants??? Because that's what he was talking about. The dirty fish water actually makes a wonderful fertilizer for plants hence the "increased yield" they were taking about.
@eidelrose Жыл бұрын
@@trixiebewitched I misread, my bad
@MakelleBell Жыл бұрын
'Surviving off my garden for 30 days' was an eye opener. Thanks for showing us it takes more than you think. Even with him fishing and foraging outside of his garden, he still lost 13 lbs in a month. That's staggering!
@julianputnam8290 Жыл бұрын
He was probably more active as well going out and trying to find food
@hannahwillis9838 Жыл бұрын
Image if he had more land and a community though :)
@ae3qe27u3 Жыл бұрын
@@hannahwillis9838or hens! Or at least knowing someone with hens. An egg is around 70-75 calories. 5 eggs/day would give you around 350 extra calories to work with
@elisabethjones4917 Жыл бұрын
I bet he lost weight because he was eating much healthier including lean protein. I also never heard anything about bread! Very interesting
@juditpapp5665 Жыл бұрын
He could have grown legumes. For protein and calories. He said he had 90 days to prepare. His garden is big enough to grow enough food for 30 days even without fishing and bartering. I guess he needs to forage BC he doesn't really have fruits in his garden. Berries and nuts would be a great help. I don't know if he can grow berries in his zone and nut trees take forever to produce.
@josjos-x5s10 ай бұрын
I think people dont realise how effective farming is on a mass scale rather than an individual. We really should be supporting local farming more for better quality, accessibility and pricing of food.
@AJ-ox8xy9 ай бұрын
That will never happen any time soon. People will only do what they see as beneficial to them. No one wants to pay 50% of their income to a local farm. Not unless they have specific values which push them to do that.
@josjos-x5s9 ай бұрын
@@AJ-ox8xy Thats the problem. You cant count on individuals because its governments and companies that cause these price hikes of ethical and local economy supporting programs by allowing unethical products. Its up to working through the government to get mass beneficial societal change.
@AJ-ox8xy9 ай бұрын
@@josjos-x5s I agree. But traditionally that takes a highly united society that is bound by blood tradition and history. It's not possible right now on any grand scale. I do agree though we need to unite and focus on supporting local agriculture. But that will happen on the small micro scale for now. Good luck 👍.
@josjos-x5s9 ай бұрын
@@AJ-ox8xy I think the problem is that people are too bound by tradition. An unwillingness to share with others outside ones own circle and people still falling for the lies or charisma of higher powers in society that don't have their best interest in mind. In truth social progress has only ever happened through denying higher powers. Even in feudalistic times you weren't guaranteed your own crops. Of course you need a united society but usually progress avoids tradition and the tradition of powers that keep people at bay.
@Lawsolos7 ай бұрын
thats what taxes are for
@marlin3043 Жыл бұрын
Gives you an idea how fast our society will collapse when the food supply stops
@sethmoking Жыл бұрын
Yep!
@LoboRayzor Жыл бұрын
Like any society in the human history
@williamtolbert5473 Жыл бұрын
I'm impressed how well he did. He was smart
@zeenoash.8805 Жыл бұрын
This post reminds of that one time some rich asshole told me that it's fine if farmers stopped their jobs because we got the grocery stores. Like bitch, where did you think those foods in the grocery stores came from??
@giannisparanis3373 Жыл бұрын
@Disabled-Megatron That's why it is important to push for self sufficient communities, not (almost) self sufficient people.
@Lato_s Жыл бұрын
"so anyways i found spawning fish in the middle of the night at 3am-"
@clashoclan3371 Жыл бұрын
The grunions mate on the wet sand
@texasred2702 Жыл бұрын
when I was stationed in San Diego in the 1980s going on a grunion run was a rite of passage. you haven't lived till you've seen a dozen drunk sailors trying to catch fish with their bare hands by the light of the full moon. The experience wasn't complete without an appearance by the Shore Patrol and a call to your Chief. Good times, lol
@PipMane Жыл бұрын
@@texasred2702 thanks for telling the story sir
@nottheone582 Жыл бұрын
@@clashoclan3371 lol imagine you''ve spawned 1000 miles, just about to finally get busy and fulfill your life's purpose, when some random hangry guy grabs you for dinner
@samuraiboi2735 Жыл бұрын
@@nottheone582 hangry guy:dont worry bud you'll spawn back once im down
@ravennasworld Жыл бұрын
This is how you survive in the sims 4 when doing a rags to riches
@MissAriaMarie Жыл бұрын
My Sims first few meals usually are fish on a stick or fried fish😂😂
@bethgerong186 Жыл бұрын
Pov: Your a Stardew Valley Enjoyer
@Bootygrack Жыл бұрын
Dumpster meals are S tier
@artscrafts4685 Жыл бұрын
So true 😂
@mishellesuniverse4620 Жыл бұрын
Exactly what I commented. 🤣
@akitoyaname7897 Жыл бұрын
This really goes to show how far we have come to secure food sources. It really makes me appreciate what we have today and hope the system doesn't fail. You did great, you had a really smart approach!
@raphaelcaceres912926 күн бұрын
The system WILL fail, especially given how fast we burn fossil fuels. Good to know how to grow food
@oggyreidmore9 ай бұрын
"I located a building with lots of food, and after foraging a basket full of supplies, ran out at top speed with minimal interactions with security guards."
@AshRose775 ай бұрын
😂😂😂 comments did not disappoint
@jonangeles5875 Жыл бұрын
Nice! That's a hard pass on the freeway fish for me tho : )
@redherringbone Жыл бұрын
LOL!
@ohnonotagain8935 Жыл бұрын
I think if you brought em in and put in a tank for a couple weeks feeding them out, they'd be a better option, kinda like a grass finish on beef cattle
@xcytd4diys894 Жыл бұрын
@@ohnonotagain8935 exactly! That will clean out their system. I do this with live Crab. I feed them chopped of raw corn kernels. Because corn doesn't digest so when it comes out, it scrapes their intestines, cleaning out their system.
@kra_hme Жыл бұрын
Oo all the plastic they probably ate ewww
@ohnonotagain8935 Жыл бұрын
@@kra_hme just think of all the plastic we eat and don't know it. Plus the new push for cricket flower in a lot of foods as well as commercialized cockroach coffe grounds. I swear KZfaq is having me read labels at the grocery store and garden in my kitchen far more than I ever thought necessary
@hparcturians5373 Жыл бұрын
While looking like an insane person. 😂💀
@StainderFin Жыл бұрын
Lol
@wickedwonderland9831 Жыл бұрын
I had intense "The martian" flashbacks
@Fuzei_Media Жыл бұрын
He may look insane, but they're the ones playing $100 for 5lb of berry's lol
@sarah_noodle Жыл бұрын
Lmao. I feel the same way when I eat blackberries off the bushes around my neighborhood!
@hparcturians5373 Жыл бұрын
@@sarah_noodle that's awesome though lol
@Modeltshinn Жыл бұрын
You’re so awesome!! I remember when I sent you dried lentils that I grew and you sent me seeds and potatoes 💗🥳
@Monkey1640110 ай бұрын
We went from survive off of a garden to going to a random fucking beach on a full moon for fish
@AshRose775 ай бұрын
😂😂😂
@AshRose775 ай бұрын
To be fair he did stay within his own guardrails on the rules 😆
@J-xc4pw27 күн бұрын
He’s in San Diego, if he learned to fish the shoreline he’d had much more access to fish.
@namecomingsoon9517 Жыл бұрын
“Can i survive off of this urban garden” *sells the plants for money and buys McDonalds*
@ZBREAD. Жыл бұрын
Well, he IS surviving off his garden, like Ryan Trahan surviving on one penny challenge
@mrs.jasmine4151 Жыл бұрын
Ahaha 😂
@samuraiboi2735 Жыл бұрын
@@ZBREAD. well except ryan needs to build a garden for 90 days and then sell shit for more pennies
@chasingthelight7139 Жыл бұрын
😆😆😆😆
@mat39 Жыл бұрын
Funny 😐
@Tavio. Жыл бұрын
You could also consider growing cactus. You can eat the young leaves and the prickly pears and it's low maintenance.
@redherringbone Жыл бұрын
You def. need some prickly pears on your property somewhere. They are so tasty!
@MrCrazyeyes07 Жыл бұрын
Don’t they take a long time to grow? Is it worth it? How often can you harvest them?
@hlol1544 Жыл бұрын
Prickly pear grow very fast especially in full sun light and tropical climate
@AnythingButBecky1127 Жыл бұрын
@@redherringbone problem: I live in Ohio
@yoyojoseph Жыл бұрын
@@AnythingButBecky1127 don't quote me on this, but I believe you could grow 'em just fine... I know a lot of people love 'em, but they aren't my cup 'o' tea
@switchofftogettagrip1400 Жыл бұрын
You have my favourite word, BARTER, do it for Everything! Will need to watch all your videos in the coming days.
@theresaschleier-beck88132 ай бұрын
I bartered 2 weeks of pet/house sitting for a 50-gal fish tank and later 1 week for a pair of Doc Martin boots and all the raspberries I wanting for canning. (Late season/ would have gone to waste and got permission to pick) i like bartering, too!
@RenOcean9 ай бұрын
Bro is really living the stardew valley life
@zenz0ha472 Жыл бұрын
Honestly, if I saw someone picking fruits off of a tree at a park, I’d just go join them. If it is edible, don’t waste it. In fact, when you eat the fruits, save all the seeds that you can and grow more!
@OffGridInvestor Жыл бұрын
In my area of my country and even over the border in my sisters area, we have cherry plums coming up everywhere. They're alongside rivers and some of the older people see it as poor people food. You get a cherry pitter and go for your life and boil them up. But most people don't bother. I have numerous plum trees and one is taller than my house. You get sick of eating them but regardless, I have a ton in vacola jars (British thing similar to ball mason but usually far bigger). Between that, the jarred rhubarb and about 11 dozen jarred pickled eggs and a bunch of Jerusalem artichoke, never mind the hidden rice stash, I'll be right for a month.
@gameseeker6307 Жыл бұрын
Unfortunately i dont have the rights to land I live on that allows me to grow trees 🗿
@Mimix-o Жыл бұрын
@@gameseeker6307I’m kinda poor but we own land somewhere by Utah with a house but my sister is acting like a bitch I could grow trees and show you if we do go since my mom decided to listen to my sister
@gameseeker6307 Жыл бұрын
@@Mimix-o i wish I had my own forest 😔👍
@astaridjatmiko8187 Жыл бұрын
That's what we do in Indonesia if we own wide yard. We'll grow our fruit tree.
@hahabrah1409 Жыл бұрын
Bro really earned himself $900 back from groceries 💀💀💀
@BubbaJoe69420 Жыл бұрын
if 1 single person is spending $900 a month on groceries then its no wonder people piss through all their money
@damperemu4445 Жыл бұрын
@@BubbaJoe69420 depends where you live and if you’re doing something like bulking.
@acorneroftheinternet4179 Жыл бұрын
Yeah $900 for a month of groceries is far to much for any single person. That would be $225/week for a four week month. Assuming there are 30 days that month that devides up into $30 every single day. No one should be spending $200 or more every single week on groceries for just one person.
@BubbaJoe69420 Жыл бұрын
@@damperemu4445 no. any single person could live on much less but people r so entitled nowadays that itd be impossible for them to.
@jeremystern1471 Жыл бұрын
@@acorneroftheinternet4179 for 3 of us I lived with a couple that probably spent over a grand a month on food she would make really intricate dinners and they'd be completely different each day so she made a tone of food waist by not using food from a previous meal just buy new vegetables etc. Every couple days because they old ingredients weren't needed for to long and went bad
@kylestanley78437 ай бұрын
This is honestly pretty impressive. You're very resourceful.
@michaelheins9808 Жыл бұрын
My mans didn’t survive off of his urban garden, he survived off of fat reserves 😂
@mindylafler3456 Жыл бұрын
My local middle school has crab apple trees in their parking lot. They may have been considered decorative, but I pick a BUNCH and made over 2 dozen jars of crab apple butter. It's very good!
@OffGridInvestor Жыл бұрын
Around my area and even far further north, we have cherry plums growing all around rivers in public. I have one tree in the front yard taller than my house in red, another one in yellow, a whole ton I have put tree guards round that I don't even look at, and damson plums.
@tamaliaalisjahbana6849 Жыл бұрын
@@OffGridInvestorThose are so delicious. I donot understand how people can leave them uneaten.
@SS-pw8en Жыл бұрын
I bit into a crab apple once and it had a bug in it. 🤢 How do you avoid bugs? 🐛
@mindylafler3456 Жыл бұрын
@@SS-pw8en all fruit can get bugs or worms in them. You have to cut the fruit. All the crabapples I used had been cut in 4ths and I sliced the cores out, as the seeds from any apple are toxic. Also. You cut away any bad portions, holes, bruises...then you can use what's left to process into whatever you are making. Also, worms mean that the fruit wasn't treated with any pesticides. That's a good thing. The stuff from the grocery stores, are treated and have been modified to resist many things that can affect the final fruit. Very few of the apples from our 2 golden delicious trees come off nice. They are all imperfect in some way. We don't use chemicals on them. Still good apples for pies, jellies, butters, and canning...also cut for eating.
@SS-pw8en Жыл бұрын
@@mindylafler3456 Thank you! 🤍
@cheyennebrunner7757 Жыл бұрын
You can use a vertical layering system for your potatoes. Use a post and chain fence for the body in the shape of a cylinder, and layer the potatoes for a better yield per square foot. :) Hope it helps!
@FeralForaging Жыл бұрын
Love this! I live for the weird looks people give me when I’m out foraging. My favorite is when I’m gathering acorns at local parks. 😎
@joycebrewer41509 ай бұрын
Can you bowhunt urban deer? They like acorns too.
@kalebdye43789 ай бұрын
Lol that opium poppy pod at the end 😂 bro be getting a sick nod going.
@leaguefaliure7148 Жыл бұрын
Man lived like a fallout settler without the rad poisoning
@SW-ii5gg Жыл бұрын
Probably got a little from it.
@scrungus483 Жыл бұрын
Oh he definitely got some rads from that fish
@alexbroking9252 Жыл бұрын
This sounds really bad lol But I want to see you design a true garden that will sustain you healthyly lol
@Aceshot86 Жыл бұрын
Dumbshit, the point is it can't be done in URBAN SAN DIEGO
@cnh44319 ай бұрын
With urban gardening, I don't think the goal is to totally replace the food system, but supplement it with healthy, sustainable alternatives where manageable. Market varieties of many crops are bred for what stores and travels well, not what's most delicious or nutrient-dense.
@JaneWirawan Жыл бұрын
Your house is amazing! It definitely stood out from the other houses
@MothaFluffa10 ай бұрын
I'm aware there are tons of people who would perish without a grocery store which doesn't give much hope for survival and shows why that COVID bs happened with people hoarding food all of a sudden. Good on you for doing this and showing that it is not easy to be fulfilled consistently and it also takes work to eat and gather food much more work than taking bags inside from your shopping trip
@misfit7024 Жыл бұрын
This is actually how I lived pretty much all my life. Backyard farming is better that going to the grocery store. Since we were a poor family, I refuse any money given by my parents since my 3 older sibling attend college at that time. I went to my grandparents just so that my parents can focus on my older siblings' financial assistance. My grandfather and I mostly do farming and sell it so that I can support my own financial. I planted mostly green beens and red beens. Red beens are easy to grow since you can make them into baked beens. Sweets peas and greens peas. Good for broth meals and chopsoys. Potatoes and sweet potatoes. Sweets potatoes are easy to grow on hot weather areas. You can cut 2 foot of the end of the long long stem, if you can find it, and replant it. White and yellow corn. I dry the yellow corn utilizing the sun light. To be honest, them heatwaves this year produced more dried yellow corn and dried white corn. Dried white corn is also good because you can make them into porridge. Grind them into crumbles, soak it in water, boil, and they go well with milk and salted crackers. We plant pineapples too. You can grow pineapples in your garden since you cut the top of a store bought pineapple and plant the top of it. You can only harvest 3 times and you must replace the plant. In the green houses, we plant bell peppers, onions, garlic, ginger, carrots, Pechays, cabbage shoots, tomatoes and strawberries. Chickens are easier ro raise than pigs because pigs needs extra work. Chickens are easier because you can just train them to go in their chicken pen. After than, you can just let them loose then call them before sundown. Pigs on the other hand have more luxury because they eat vegetable peels and egg shells. Yes, they eat egg shells. It's a luxury because they eat more natural more nutritious food. Just don't let them near the chickens because they'll slaughter the chickens. Sometimes, they bite my legs so I hit them sometimes. It's self defense, not animal br*utality.....
@matthewwilliams4065 Жыл бұрын
Ma'am!
@lovepeace2373 Жыл бұрын
reading this i missed my days at the farm . ImO this lifestyle is very good. Love it that you are thoughtful of your family. wishing you the best!
@jayoppie3021 Жыл бұрын
I wish this is the lifestyle everyone has. It would be a happy world to live in. 😢
@anna-fleurfarnsworth104 Жыл бұрын
I've learned so much in this one comment. Thanks for writing it!
@gracelewis6071 Жыл бұрын
Beeeeens 😂😅😍
@sevinaroseman5595 Жыл бұрын
It's cool to see your more recent videos and how far you've come, adding chickens, more veggies and citrus to your yard garden. Also interesting to see how your garden is surviving despite local climate challenges like heat and low rainfall.
@runswithraptors9 ай бұрын
Local climate changes=weather 😅
@bittersweetblueberry3517 Жыл бұрын
“Grunions spawn on the beach on a full moon”Sounds like a terraria mechanic.
@jdamoormartinirossi7913 ай бұрын
Epic experiment bro. Bartering for eggs was a stroke of genius. 😂
@citricx6447 Жыл бұрын
my agriculture teacher planted Mulberries around the school for students to eat. they were good at first but we eventually got sick of them
@poisonouspotato1 Жыл бұрын
That's so sad!
@giannisparanis3373 Жыл бұрын
As in actually sick or it just got boring?
@citricx6447 Жыл бұрын
@@giannisparanis3373 got boring
@giannisparanis3373 Жыл бұрын
@@citricx6447 thankfully, lol
@jwhite5396 Жыл бұрын
New students will be able to enjoy them too. It would be great ,if all schools with land start the practice of planting fruit trees and berries.
@thecirclesareround3 ай бұрын
This is so impressive and so revealing about true self sufficiency
@nicolelewonkenobi Жыл бұрын
I had a feeling you lived in San Diego. I do as well, I'm a rare native. Most beautiful city in the US!
@b100dROSE Жыл бұрын
"What's classy if you're rich or trashy if you're poor"
@gujwdhufjijjpo9740 Жыл бұрын
Why care what other people think? If it’s not illegal then do what makes you happy.
@b100dROSE Жыл бұрын
@@gujwdhufjijjpo9740 homeless people literally have to forage like this to survive because they are receiving no community support and get harassed and beaten, meanwhile this dude is doing the same thing for clout but its "different" or "quirky" because he has money
@gujwdhufjijjpo9740 Жыл бұрын
@@b100dROSE - idk about where you live, but here I’ve never heard of a homeless person getting harassed for fishing.
@notjimpickens7928 Жыл бұрын
@@gujwdhufjijjpo9740 it's more of a western countries problem, like America and Canada, because people often look down on the poor or homeless. because "they didn't get a job" or "worked hard enough", meanwhile, the same people preaching this rhetoric are the same reason why houses with 2 bedrooms in the suburbs cost over 500k American, they gouged all the prices as far as they could, and whine when they can't sell their house that was previously 50k in 1990, for 1million in 2020 because "the area is nice". It's basically the difference between Haiti, and the Dominican republic, one side is inherently more wealthy then the others. therefore,despite them being the same race, despite them being all descendants of slaves who didn't wanna be there, the Dominican republics people treat the Haitians incredibly poorly, because "theyre poor" "they don't work hard" "they smell funny so I chase them away" among many other holier then thou sayings. Haiti fought for independence and paid the price by being put into severe debt, that ravaged their side of the island, and the Dominicans stayed under the heel of Europeans, thus, they inevitably benefited when the world decided that colonies weren't very kosher and were given all the stuff left behind by the Europeans, including vast infrastructures and education, all of which, were stripped from Haiti when their rebellion won. This was just a simplified summary, but that should show you just how bad humanity can be, even to our own relatives and friends, the second someone becomes wealthy, 7 out of 10 times, they start to look down on everyone else for being poorer them them.
@magesalmanac6424 Жыл бұрын
“No community support” Rose I don’t know where you’re from, but here in San Diego the majority of homeless people remain on the street because they don’t take advantage of public services. They’d have to give up their drugs in order to be in public housing and most choose the drugs over help. I’ve been here for years, that’s how it is.
@ErisstheGoddessofmanhwas Жыл бұрын
In the '80es my whole family lived from our garden and stables, the whole winter . We hade potatoes, tomatoes, apples, nuts, pears, all kind of berries and we hade animal like pigs ,goats cows and chickens, many chickens. Our garden was big and we prepared from spring till fall to have everything saved for the winter .
@kimcritchfield5796 Жыл бұрын
I’m on 2/3’s acre near Pomona. In SoCal. Just butchered my first pigs!! They grow quick. Loved this!!
@vedantsharma9495 Жыл бұрын
This is the reason why our farmers and agricultural system deserves more appreciation, it's quite easy to nag and complain about every little thing with food in our stomachs, without our food supply, none of the other things matter.
@Chreed96 Жыл бұрын
"Can you survive off an urban garden" "let me eat everything else while I'm at it"
@RichardLeslieWhereat Жыл бұрын
And have a garden bigger than most in the city
@spjr99 Жыл бұрын
Cry about if
@Chreed96 Жыл бұрын
@@spjr99 I'd be worried that guy would try and trade me a sewer fish to lick my tears!
@jmassagetherapist6773 Жыл бұрын
Why are you guys all so salty about this?
@josuepon0318 Жыл бұрын
That’s what I was saying lmao
@aleenaprasannan2146 Жыл бұрын
There are several other easier starch sources- taro, cassava, purple yam, Chinese potato, air potatoe, arrowroot, plantain. Before large agro machinery made growing rice and wheat much less labor intensive, they were a very small portion of carb source in tropics. Most of starch sources were startchy fruits like jackfruit, plantain and breadfruit in summer, then roots and tubers during monsoon, which grew more mass for the area cultivated. Plantains, arrowroot and cassava were also either turned to flour or dried shavings to extend shelf life.
@cryoblast6133 Жыл бұрын
Bro is living like Harvest Moon real life 😎 Glad you pull that off 🎉
@Its_The_Astro9 ай бұрын
Props to this guys showing us the end results and not splitting the video up
@skyty0 Жыл бұрын
"These fish appear on the beach during a full moon" Real life is a video game
@IjeomaThePlantMama Жыл бұрын
I remember this video! Now that you've got Jacques to barter with and much more space, I think it all needs to be 100% off your own property. No fruit foraging or freeway fish 🤣
@eileenwineinger3173 Жыл бұрын
I think foraging is an age old way that people survived and although there's not like orchards of apples around here there's definitely citrus and things you can't pick off trees that nobody picks so why not.
@IjeomaThePlantMama Жыл бұрын
@@eileenwineinger3173 nothing at all wrong with foraging! I just meant in order to make the rules more difficult for the next challenge, now that he has a larger property with his own fruit trees.
@ohnonotagain8935 Жыл бұрын
I think foraging would help put things into your body that it needs that you aren't normally getting. Going more natural to be the most ideal health as we were made
@marketasimkova8040 Жыл бұрын
foraging is a really good way to get fresh and local food too! It's something that's quite common in my country, even if a little changed. In the Czechia it's normal to go mushroom picking (if you know what to look for! especially watch out for poisonous mushrooms and plants) and then we have other things like picking wild blueberries, raspberries and blackberries. Trees such as apple, pear, plum and or cherry trees are planted around the roads and villages. And then there's something we call paběrkování.( I don't think there is a literal translation, because the translator gives me 4 different possible names, and none of them make sense.) It is an activity where people go to fields that have been harvested recently and collect what the machines did not collect. This is a legal activity and you are not paying anyone for it. So you can bring home carrots, radishes, beets, potatoes, corn, etc... Of course, it doesn't look like a bought thing because it was thrown in the field, but it is a good food. And I'll admit that when we walk around the field, sometimes you pick up something before harvest. Young corn is delicious! Of course it won't provide food for people on a daily basis, a lot of this stuff is seasonal. But if you know how to can and dry and freeze, you don't need to buy some things. In general, it is mainly about diversifying the diet during the year, free of charge and healthy. I'm honestly happy that these things stick around because they are really beautiful experiences. Finding blueberries in the woods, ripe and sweet, or just picking up a bunch of carrots from the field. Or stop along the way and enjoy an apple or a plum...
@oececawolf Жыл бұрын
@@marketasimkova8040 Collecting what the harvesters left behind is called gleaning in English
@GalloDeOroFarmsАй бұрын
This is a great idea. Wish more people tried stuff like this
@SoniWyd Жыл бұрын
"Mom why is that man shaking a tree"
@jimjimsauce Жыл бұрын
“i lived off my garden for 30 days!” *finds food everywhere but his garden*
@lizlazz Жыл бұрын
To be fair he said he can only eat things he grows, fish, forage or barter for.
@jimjimsauce Жыл бұрын
@@lizlazz to be fair he shouldn’t have named the short “Surviving off my garden for 30 days” if he was finding nutrients from other sources
@manuelcorrecher1333 Жыл бұрын
And still loses a ton of weight due to lack of nutrients
@jimjimsauce Жыл бұрын
@@manuelcorrecher1333 bro isn’t even surviving 🤣😭😭
@JohnnyYK Жыл бұрын
@@jimjimsauce so he should’ve named it living off of fishing foraging and gardening for 30 days and that would’ve made you happy?
@zedwolf1589 Жыл бұрын
This is very impressive especially without having any grains great job.
@janetwalsh7961 Жыл бұрын
More people need to know how to do this as this is going to be needed when we start to run out of food.
@astestatelement1525 Жыл бұрын
You sound like Malthus
@janetwalsh7961 Жыл бұрын
Not at all people will soon have to secure their food instead of their jewellery.
@kiwimiwi545210 ай бұрын
we have a TON of produce in our garden, at least variety wise. I think I could live off of it for a week maybe, but what I like to do is supplement and save up on a few grocery trips by using my fresh produce. I get to eat my own tomatoes, cucumbers, salad, apples, paprikas, chilis, kiwis, carrots, potatoes, strawberries, blackberries (we're overflowing with these), raspberries, herbs, onions, green beans and lots of grapes! None of these sources would be sufficient enough to get me through a month but combined with our neighbours honeybees & chickens we can switch out a chunk. Love it!
@griffyxd5671 Жыл бұрын
"Can I survive off my urban garden for 30 days but I walk around the city I live in and eat random shit I find"
@WoodzyM9 Жыл бұрын
Foraged
@acorneroftheinternet4179 Жыл бұрын
A person living as independently as possible would need at least ⅓ acre of land dedicated just to farming in order to get by. He obviously doesn't have that kind of space. Keep in mind, he still lived predominantly off his potatoes and never bought so much as a single clove of garlic. The only bought things he had was olive oil for cooking fat and iodized salt. Yeah his title is a tough misleading, but its still impressive as hell he was able to get by as much as he could. His full video goes into far greater depths and I reccomend you watch it
@clockworkcrew8012 Жыл бұрын
@@acorneroftheinternet4179 not even misleading. This is how it was done for millenia. These kids just click a KZfaq video and expect Bear Grylls drink his piss instead of the tap water
@cherylwade264 Жыл бұрын
He proved he could do it. He needs find a few more things to complete his experiment.
@galeparker1067 Жыл бұрын
@@acorneroftheinternet4179 Thanks for mentioning a full video!!! 👃✌️🥰🇨🇦
@spankylmao3762 Жыл бұрын
Love this viral style video. Clearly you put a lot of thought into this. Getting the kids into our lifestyle warms my heart.
@FuelYourPurposeTV11 ай бұрын
Dam bro your a giant 6’4 !!! That definitely made it harder you to survive but props great video you inspired me to start gardening again
@sixwingedbee81 Жыл бұрын
This is why I speak loudly about community and working together to feed each other. Bartering, helping with preserving, and all that is a way to take care of each other. But good on you for giving it a try.
@culdesacgrocerygarden Жыл бұрын
I did this in 2020 and 2021 but no bartering. It was awesome!
@GrowingonVancouverIsland Жыл бұрын
Very impressive challenge and results!!👍👍⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
@jonpendragon2066 Жыл бұрын
Not really challenge was to survive off his garden.. he ate fish and barter items and foraging he might as well went to the store
@theresaschleier-beck88132 ай бұрын
Congratulations! Nice work!
@rosalinerabago63897 ай бұрын
I admire you for your survival skills and especially growing your own food. What your are doing is safer for your health than buying at grocery stores. I’m an islander and I grew up eating farmed vegetables and fruits, we catch our own food from the beaches next to the reefs, we also catch fish, shrimp, and anything that’s edible from the jungles. I really miss that life. There will be a time when we can’t depend on other major farmers to grow food or catch food. But, I do know for sure that you are a survivor.
@improbablya7 Жыл бұрын
i’m obsessed with your channel. Always great advice, i always learn something, and honestly just looking at your beautiful garden homestead makes my day. Even though my progress is going slow, it’s still going!!!
@user-uk1zj6rv1d Жыл бұрын
Sounds more like surviving off of whatever I see in my way
@carrieleeharrington5626 ай бұрын
Much love and respect!!!! ❤️🎉 You did it!!!
@wtskam3053 Жыл бұрын
I like the quick shot of the poppy, like I get it dude, I get it.
@tigerlilly03152012 Жыл бұрын
We need an updated version with the new garden.
@Demdere Жыл бұрын
Definitely loved this experiment. Would love to see what it looks like with your current setup!
@bonnitaclaus228610 ай бұрын
I’ve only had grunions once. The way that they were prepared was wonderful. I would love to have them again…… and again… and again
@ARose.1989 Жыл бұрын
Learning how to forage is very important because lots of plants are edible and even medicinal
@joycebrewer41509 ай бұрын
😮
@DarkHalis9 Жыл бұрын
Eats literally anything but the things he grew in his garden
@YevgeniyShcherbakov Жыл бұрын
Did you see the quality of his crops? It is mediocre. He needs to learn gardening
@macandfries6765 Жыл бұрын
@@YevgeniyShcherbakov or bad years happen.
@YevgeniyShcherbakov Жыл бұрын
@@macandfries6765 Yeah, it happens, but usually affects some crops. I grow stuff. Sometimes when I fail to fertilize or water properly, the yields would tell. But given that there is access to water and fertilizer, the swings in yield should be minimal.
@stevenschnepp576 Жыл бұрын
@@YevgeniyShcherbakov This was a bad year for nightshades in the States. The tomato, potato, and pepper crops were all hit hard.
@krztaz3 Жыл бұрын
That's commitment if you're eating the little bluegills..😂
@caitiekay33062 ай бұрын
I laughed hard at the "insane person" in the park part haha
@caffienatedtactician Жыл бұрын
I'l love to see you optimize your "run" this year based off of what you learned! If you make a planner/list to prepare I'd love to see that as well. Since you have access to feesh grown/wild fruit it might be interesting to try and make vinegar w them, since they'll have wild yeasts on the skin instead of cleaned (somewhat) like a lot of grocery store produce is. I know it's too late now, but if you know someone who grows olives and is willing to trade, it might be neat to make your own olive oil to use in a future challenge!
@christianjensen952 Жыл бұрын
I love that he posts a question, and IMMIDIATELY answers "no" when he presents the rules 🤣
@LilyAurora95 ай бұрын
I’d love to see him try this again with his current setup. With the hens now and more growing overall I think he’d do way better
@anastasiadenisova57672 ай бұрын
My country went through rough times in the nineties, money lost value every day, and for many people vegetable gardens were the only means to keep food on the table for their families. Gardening is definitely one of the most valuable skills to have in life, and it is enjoyable and helps to reconnect with nature.
@misscarmen491 Жыл бұрын
That’s awesome!! I did not think it possible. By incorporating fish and bartering you really developed a sustainable garden.
@thomaswhite3059 Жыл бұрын
Is it sustainable? He lost weight.
@ae3qe27u3 Жыл бұрын
@@thomaswhite3059 if we say 3 lbs water weight and 10 lbs actual loss, 3500 calories/lb of fat gives us a deficit of roughly 1167 calories/day. Since he's 6'4" and 225 lbs, we can put his TDEE (total daily energy expenditure) at roughly 2863 calories/day, assuming light exercise and ~30 years old. Subtracting that out, that means that he ate, on average, around 1696 calories/day, which is sustainable for a 5'3" 140 lb woman. 2000 calories/day is a rough benchmark, and it's too low for many men and too high for many women. Overall, he did get fairly close to his goal, but he didn't account for the number of calories he actually needed.
@JuMiKu Жыл бұрын
@@ae3qe27u3Completely wrong on his exercise. Gardening, foraging and so on takes a lot of energy.
@ae3qe27u3 Жыл бұрын
@@JuMiKu Likely wrong, yes. I wanted to err on the low side, just in case. The total deficit could easily be higher.
@JuMiKu Жыл бұрын
@@ae3qe27u3 Understandable. Upon rereading I came across way more strongly than intended. Sorry!
@swizzleproxi4810 Жыл бұрын
An insite to your fight for survival within seconds...this really needs more credit..truly fascinating what you achieved.
@nawdude4292 Жыл бұрын
Bot
@jerrystandefer9128Ай бұрын
I used to live a half mile mile from there. I miss that neighborhood!
@skankmasta17 ай бұрын
Dang man you gonna get those radio active blue gill powers😂
@D71219ONE Жыл бұрын
The next time you do this, I’d love to see more perennials utilized in your new space, to see if it’s possible in a realistic future situation where we’re on lockdown and we can’t safely leave our property. Also, I feel like sweet potatoes would be an excellent annual option, as you can eat the tubers and vines. True yams would be great for those MASSIVE yields.
@_stupidbro Жыл бұрын
He lost 13 pounds. Even able to leave his property, it's not sustainable
@baronvonwolfin4215 Жыл бұрын
"Can you survive off a urban garden for 30 day" "So I gave myself 90 days prep" Lol
@wendyernstrom8853 Жыл бұрын
Bravo... great post. For sticking to it you made growing food a real event not a picture in a book. What great things to learn. How much did your ideas of what you need to grow change?
@aswalchitra9 ай бұрын
"These weird little fishes called grunions spawn here on full moon" Bro went Pokemon S/V mode
@mishellesuniverse4620 Жыл бұрын
This is the human version of Sims Rags to Riches.
@venusmalloy6134 Жыл бұрын
Now imagine if a third of your city did the same thing...it would be even more challenging.
@octavianicole6958 Жыл бұрын
Or if the city really United an acted as a village to help each other
@bodyofhope Жыл бұрын
@@octavianicole6958 imagine society living in community again, and not being so dam autonomous.
@oi-nf9uz Жыл бұрын
if a third of yall spent the time to make a garden like his maybe you'd have an easier time.
@Mishyou33 Жыл бұрын
I think it would actually be easier... more people to trade with
@gummybearvitamins1211 Жыл бұрын
@D E that sounds like what society already is 😂😂😂
@user-pe6ew1hr7z Жыл бұрын
"potatoes" that little squeak at the end got me
@SonofaB__ssnessowner9 ай бұрын
Man. Imagine doing thay for a year. Hell, a lifetime. We are so blessed to have the food access that we do while also cursed.
@ChaplainDeanna Жыл бұрын
I learned that clover contains protein. Wouldn’t come out of my garden, but you can boil the flowers and use the liquid to replace water in sugar free orange Jello (which keeps for over 10 years). Whipped cream and mandarin oranges makes it awesome.
@seamonkey2010 Жыл бұрын
i remember you doing this. this was great. you should do more like this. like do one for limited garden spaces, trying to find out what % of your diet you can supplement with your garden.
@carolcopley36396 ай бұрын
That looks like fun! Good job
@Jay-lit9 ай бұрын
Can we appreciate he explained the whole challenge without a part two?
@invadingminds Жыл бұрын
I'm already subbed but this is a pretty cool challenge! I can't wait to watch the full video.
@Josef_R Жыл бұрын
This is a rerun from quote a while back. The video is in his channel already.
@SuperLifestream Жыл бұрын
"Can I survive of my garden" "oh yeah i can also go to other places that isn't my garden and get food:
@notmyrealname11 Жыл бұрын
To be fair, things haven't always been that way and it's no guarantee to stay that way. The Great Depression happened and it's possible it could happen again. Better to prepare yourself and not need it than need it and not have it
@suprchrgr70 Жыл бұрын
When you posed the question, my first thought was "potatoes."
@VaChiee Жыл бұрын
bros living life like a video game, I love it!
@naina0750 Жыл бұрын
We need videos like this. ( not someone on tiktok who makes videos like eating only McDonalds for a day )😂
@Ireland_gained_independence Жыл бұрын
Me at the end of the video: "sounds cool." Also me at the end of the video: **Falls over**
@breadman010 ай бұрын
"Fish that spawn in a full moon" bro is literally in a game doings side quests😭💀
@brawlsauce9 ай бұрын
Blud playing stardew irl
@papa_squat Жыл бұрын
This guy: I grew only potatoes so I won't starve The Irish: Good luck with that