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[include file=get-in-itunes.html] Today was an honor for us to have Marjory Wildcraft (affiliate link – helps to support us) on our show. Marjory is the “go to” person for all things gardening in our opinion. After you listen, comment below and tell us what you think! We discuss the following and so much more: Why it’s important to start growing some of your own food How to compost The importance of chickens How to collect rain water And much more! Practical tips from Marjory Wildcraft on how to grow edible gardens in your own backyard. – Click to tweet this! – Get Notified: [ois skin=”Show Page2″] – Please Subscribe: Subscribe To Our Radio Show For Updates! – Other Shows: [include file=show-links.html] | All Shows With This Guest – Show Date: 9/6/2012 – Show Guest: Marjory Wildcraft – Guest Info: Marjory Wildcraft is the creator of a video tutorial called “Grow Your Own Groceries” with over a quarter of a million copies being used in more than 30 countries around the globe. 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Today is September 6th, 2012 and this is episode #6. You can find that at aklce925vz.wpdns.site/6 and we would really appreciate it if you would click ‘like’ on this page, ‘like’ us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter and all that good stuff. In case you are interested, all the shows are going to be transcribed for you, so any time a guest says something, it’s going to be search-able on our website. If they mention something like a particular product or something like ‘aspirin’ and you want to search for that, any time a guest has spoken the word ‘aspirin’ on our website, you’ll be able to pull that up. So, it will be like an online encyclopedia for you. Just give us about a week for the show to be transcribed . I know a lot of times I listen to podcasts and radio shows while I’m driving or out on a run or something, and to have the show notes on the pages will be really helpful for you. So, anytime a guest mentions a book, or something like that, it’s all going to be in the show notes, so you don’t need to write it down, just visit the show notes. This will be aklce925vz.wpdns.site/6. If you would like to send any questions to the guest, or to me, email them to justin@aklce925vz.wpdns.site or you could call in your questions and we will play your voicemail on the air. It’s (949) 391-7363. I just want to say that this show is brought to you by Kombucha Kamp and that’s run by Hanna Crum, who is an awesome lady out of Los Angeles. She teaches you how to make Kombucha and she sells all the equipment, the scobys and all that good stuff. You can check that out at aklce925vz.wpdns.site/kombuchakamp. Before we introduce our guest today, I want to tell you about our upcoming schedule. Tomorrow we have David Wolfe. Next week, we have Markus Rothkranz, who is a raw food guy. We have Danny Roddy, who is a researcher into things like the endocrine system, stress and hormones. We have Ann Marie Gittleman coming up, as well as Susan Schenck and lots of really good people. We have Dr. Bruce Shelton coming on September 29, and typically we do about three interviews per week. We try to stick to Monday, Wednesday and Friday, so make sure to check out our show page for more information on all of that. Okay, so let’s introduce our guest today. I am really excited. It is Marjory Wildcraft. I will read you a little bit of her bio and we’ll get started: Marjory Wildcraft is the creator of a video called Grow Your Own Groceries, with over 250,000 copies being used in more than 30 countries around the globe. The video series teaches people, with no experience, how to turn their backyards into organic food producing paradise. Marjory’s work is highly endorsed by Mike Adams of the Natural News Program, Alex Jones, the Permaculture Activist and the Weston Price Foundation. Wow Marjory, that is quite a bio. You have sold over 250,000 of your DVDs: MARJORY: There is 250,000, probably more, out there with all of the current sites. There’s a lot, it’s spread around. I put a lot into it. Those videos are not something that was just slapped together and put up on youtube. They are years of research and then very well crafted. I took almost a whole year off, just making that DVD, scripting and rewriting them and shooting them and editing them. It’s a process. JUSTIN: That’s great. You are based out of Texas? MARJORY: Yes, we are outside of Austin, Texas. JUSTIN: So you have pretty moderate temperatures out there for most of the year? MARJORY: Well, Texas is a pretty wild place in terms of climate. Here, in the Austin area, we are at the intersection of five different bio regions, which is great in some ways, but in some ways it’s not. You can get the weather patterns from almost any type of bio region at any time. So we go from extremes of drought and went through a four year period, where we only got about 12-15″ a year, extremes of rain, where we got over 60″ of rain one year. Last year, we had 90 days of over 100 degrees and then cold. It doesn’t happen all the time, but we got down to 9 degrees. You just never know when it’s coming, so Peter Bane, who is the editor of the Permaculture Activist Magazine which is probably the most well established permaculture magazine or outlet the United States and he reviewed the video set that I made. He said ‘you know Marjory, as harsh as it is, you are living in the environment we are all moving to with climate change, so it’s really good you’re doing the work you’re doing’. I said, ‘okay, I think I would like to move somewhere nicer’. JUSTIN: So you have been doing this for how long? MARJORY: A little over a decade now, a little over a decade. JUSTIN: I would imagine that you have everything dialed in, in terms of knowing all the tricks and all the solutions to the most common problems people have. Right? MARJORY: We have a lot figured out. It’s wonderful, you’re dealing with life and living organisms and it’s constantly changing. It’s very delightful in that way, JUSTIN: That’s amazing. What are some of the reasons you think people should start gardening more and start to grow some of their own food. I know a lot of people have different motivations, but what is your main motivation for trying to get the word out to teach people that they should start doing that? MARJORY: You’re right and I do have several motivations. I’ll tell you a story of how I got started. What got me started was that I was volunteering with a group in my community to have local grown vegetables over at the elementary school. It seems like a slam dunk, as one of the people who lived in my county, his name was Steve Bridges and he happened to be the president of the Texas Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association. Steve had this vision and this dream of having fresh produce in all the schools across Texas. I said ‘Steve, I do a lot in my community, let me help you, we’ll get it going even though I’m home-schooling. Let’s do it at this elementary school down the street from me. We’ll get the template figured out and then we’ll replicate it everywhere across Texas’. We were so on it and we had so many really talented and capable people on this project. And it wasn’t until the third meeting that the whole thing fell apart. But up until then, everybody was very excited. The Federal Government had plant money and the State, they wanted healthier kids, they just mandated that no vending machines could be in the schools and they were trying to move toward it. The parents and teachers, they know, there was study after study after study that has shown that when kids eat good healthy food, they are better behaved, they make higher grades and are generally all around much more pleasant to be around. They do better in school and, from my personal experience, they smell better. We were totally on this. We were going to make this happen, but in the third meeting, it all fell apart. We were at the local community center and sitting on those metal folding chairs with a folding table, and we put pen to paper. Between all of us in the group, we practically knew everybody who was growing organically in Texas. We realized there was not enough locally grown food, in the county to provide part of the vegetables for one small elementary school. We were not done, and we realized we would have to draw on a tri-county area to get enough vegetables for part of the need. It then dawned on me, how little locally grown food there is. A lot of people have heard that, especially people who are aware have heard that, that your food travels to you1500 miles, according to research done by the Leopold Center. Absolutely, because there is nothing growing out in the countryside. All the small family farm networks have been completely dismantled. There is no locally grown food and when you combine that with whether there is a lot of people who are aware that there is only about three or fours days we have this just in time delivery system. There is only about three or four days worth of food in grocery stores. When you look at that, I couldn’t stop shaking when it started to dawn on me the possibility of what could happen and how destitute we had become, in terms of all the food supply. I really couldn’t stop shaking for hours. And I’m a big body centered person and when my body is like that, then I know this is, and when you see a problem and you say wow, this is a huge problem, what am I going to do about it. Somebody ought to do something about it, right? Then you go, wait a minute, that might be me. And I really felt that I was the wrong person, because I didn’t know anything about growing food. I had been involved in business and engineering, corporations, running meetings and giving presentations. Every house plant I had died, I mean I had a black thumb. I thought, wow this is universe, you’ve got the wrong person here. God, look I know you’re infinitely alive and all that, but somebody else would be a whole lot better. There are people who have been growing food for 20, 30 and 40 years. JUSTIN: I feel like we all feel like that, right? MARJORY: But, you know, and I really really struggled in the first years, because I had so many failures. It really turned around, with pretty simple principles, and once you start to get that and start really producing and eating really good food, it totally transforms and changes and becomes this wonderful game to play. So, I got started really out of fear and panic, and I tell you, that still moves me. That’s a big motivation. Now that I’ve been at this for so many years, the motivation is my health has so improved and I enjoy it so much. It’s just an incredible lifestyle that I wouldn’t give up, and it’s something that I didn’t realize, that I had been looking for for years and years and years, that really complements something that I had needed and had been missing from my life, you know working with the soil and the joy of eating something that you’ve grown and then saving those seeds and planting that plant again, or planting some plants and there’s some prickly pear plants that somebody gave me. You know, free on CraigsList, so I got a whole bunch of them and planted them around the farm. Just recently I had a big abscessed tooth and used the prickly pear, made a poultice. That plant healed me. Man, you want to talk about a connection with the earth and with that plant. When I go by that plant, we have a relationship that’s really deep. I helped it and encouraged it in it’s life and it helped me and healed me and fed me. That’s the carrot. JUSTIN: Yes, I think the motivation is two-fold. One is, like you were saying, to have the ability to control your own food in case something happens. Like you were saying, some of the motivation for you starting, but then also, someone may not be all that scared of possible grid outages or whatever so they just may want to be able to control their food in terms of nutrition. Just because something is organic, doesn’t mean that it’s watered with good water, right? I mean, there’s still things you can control. MARJORY: In fact, I think you may have seen that study that just came out last week from Stanford University. They were saying that organic foods is really not that much more nutritious than the conventional food. The only thing is that it has less pesticides. I could have told you that a long time ago. I have been eating organically grown food for a long time and it has deteriorated. The point where you can tell where the organic brand was completely usurped was when the USDA got involved in the organic standards, and you could tell, as soon as the government got involved with it, it was no longer going to be a process that people with integrity and fairness and rightness had something to do with it. It has been corrupted and usurped and the Cornucopia Institute is a good watchdog group of the USDA and they’re constantly filing lawsuits because they are allowing chemicals into the organic standard that are in no means in alignment with what the spirit of organic is. You know, the food supply is so corrupt and there is very very little in the grocery store that I feel comfortable eating. Most of it is just outright toxic in one form or another for the human body. Getting a clean food supply, I feel that either you’re making a lot of money and you’re paying farmers that you trust, or you are doing it yourself. And, to be hones with you, doing it yourself is just a measurable pleasurable activity. You get a hose and a backyard and you’re halfway there. JUSTIN: I think people are staring to wake up to this and I think that trusting the government for everything that we trust them for, is not a smart idea in my mind, because God only knows all the ways they lie to us and don’t tell us the truth. Just the other day, I was out at the Farmers Market down the street here, and a lot of the people don’t even want to go for the organ…
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