Thanks. Those leaves I ate appear to be shamrock clover, commonly called three leaf clover. I forgot the names of the other weeds. The important point is to test them all, as some people could be allergic to different plants. I’m real excited about that foot locker. Even though it’s just a box, it has an interesting yet simple design. Looks easy to make, with metal accents for support and decoration. Serval companies produced similar versions of the foot lockers for the war. Mainly quarter inch plywood made into a box. The 60’s era footlockers have no style to them. Started sanding on this one right after the video. Still make replacement parts for them, as they have a big following for collectors and artists that redesign them.

Good point. I lost some of the germinated seeds. Sad part is that my expensive $100 a pound Detroit golden beat seeds did not even look like they sprouted. Maybe it is the wrong time of the year to plant them. Been watering by hand the last two days and the sprouted seedlings are growing. Working on plan B for a new way to put tons of water onto these row crops. Stay tuned.

@@abrevas How deep is the pond?

@, 16 feet original depth 12 years ago. 100 feet diameter at the top when full

@@abrevas I bet you can raise tilapia and sunfish in good amounts. Maybe put an aerator pump.

@@LibertyGarden, Wife was telling me of a friend that is raising about 70 Tilapia in one of those 600 gallon cattle troughs. That’s why I’m encasing that blue water tank with the landscaping bricks. Going to pack the sides of the blue tank with sand and put a screen on top along with a roof to keep the sun and predators out. Future project.

@@Baticol ,USA, Texas

@@LibertyGarden , I am suspecting the automatic draft registration is the result of very few people registering for the draft at 18 years old. Opening the door to allowing alternative lifestyles enlisting may have been the result of very people willing to enlist back in the 1990’s. With a 57% enlistment refusal back in 1972, todays draft enlistment refusal will probably be in the high 90 percentile group. Draft board is sneaky in their assessment of consciousness objectors, if sneaky questions were answered incorrectly, one could become a combat medic, in a combat zone.

@@HuplesCat , there are so many different skill sets required to successfully grow and preserve any significant levels of food. Gonna be serious hard times ahead even for ones that have a plan.

@@danielconsiglio7151 , Do a google search by typing in FORD 801 TUNE UP KIT. The cheapest place is in Amazon.

@@RobPainless , thanks. It is painful, had to go to the two-is-one back up. Got some really cool plans for the old pump. I’ve got to get the seeds planted before the rains come. Once the rains come, the soil has to stay moist for the seeds to sprout. Otherwise everything will die with no water, if it turns out to be only one day of rain.

@@LibertyGarden , I harvested about 150 cloves of garlic earlier in the year and I noticed that they started to sprout early. So I jumped on getting this garden area tilled up last week, hoping to get it all planted, but ran into tractor not running issues. This whole garden could have been tilled and planted in two days, which is good to know. I have the row maker disc, but was not able to use it because of the tractor not running. Still, I was able to get the rows cut and planted. The big plan is to harvest some crops on a weekly basis throughout the year. This is very exciting as it will be possible to bring a solution to food storage.

@@OlKo-hu4oz , Thanks for watching and commenting. Goal for the 2025 growing season is to produce one million calories using the sugar beat.

Most of us will not survive if it happens.

@@LibertyGarden , I’m still running that onions buried in a five gallon bucket experiment. Next week it will be about four weeks. Was digging up onions in this garden area more than a year after the cows broke into it and ate everything. What is nice with the sugar beat is that I planted them first week of October last year and there are still edible roots in the ground.

@@LibertyGarden , I’ve got those sweet potatoes growing. They usually get harvested in November. Need to figure out how to keep about 200 slips ready to plant in April. Not sure how to do that

@@HuplesCat , I was hoping to keep all the cattle out. The cows won’t eat the goat weed and the other weeds. The weeds are spread out all over the land. Wasn’t able to get the tractor running , and I am working on the plan B. Will be in my next video later tonight.

I harvested about 130 pounds by hand. The heaviest beet weighed 9.1 pounds. During those single digit temperatures earlier in the year I harvested all the leaves on some of the plants and the leaves tasted like sugar cubes. The down side was that the plants of the harvested leaves did not die, but the bulbs did not grow. These beets provide about 1,500 calories a pound. And the scrap material from processing can be feed to various livestock. Overall, this is the plant to have in the ground. I did not do much crop maintenance after planting them in October. Looks like the plant to have to produce significant amount of calories. The beet seeds I planted were from 2019 five pound bag.

@@HuplesCat ‘ Thanks. There are various size grates to accomplish other separations, like dust and pollen removal. I was thinking of making a budget single shaker with removable plates to accomplish this, as it would take too long for a group to do all this by hand.

They have a sweet taste to them. I bought some at the Asian supermarket, but they are harvested before the seeds develop. It is a solid performer and make for good obstacle for the wind and sun. I’ve got lots to go around.

Thanks for watching and commenting.

Yes. The onions last about six months after harvest. I chop them up and put them in the freezer. The sugar beets are still going strong. Looks like they may provide food year round.

Yup. It is fortunate that I was unable to create more slips (spuds). I was not expecting it to work.

Dry oats, rice and beans would be the way to go with famine type conditions, along with the B12 vitamin. I have the 25 year dry oat pails and it is surprising how much they settle into the pail. The amount of compaction per pail varies, but the weight between the four gallon pails are the same. There is a lot of wasted space in the four gallon pails. Vacuum sealing may be the way to go with oats. Use a strong flash light or the Sun to see the oat level in the pails. Tried growing the amaranth, and was unsuccessful. I harvest the wild dandelion in the pesticide free back yard garden. I think it was the dandelion that the DNA was taken from and spliced into the DNA of food crops because of its resistance to pesticides. Pesticides that plants are able to absorb without dying. Which we then eat. The two crops that seam to grow year round are the sugar beet and the diakon radish. My survival garden turned into a wild food Forrest plot. Got to make a video on it. I have been spending quite a bit of time researching a hypothesis behind sudden unconscious extreme harmful behavior. Wish I had never started as it takes up much of my spare time.

@@abrevas I hear you. I’m about to start on a World War Two analysis for lessons in world war three. Going on vacation in a few days. Sigh. Self supporting gardens are the way to go

Sure is. We have been getting a lot of rain. The garden is so muddy that working in it is like playing in the mud. I spent the day repairing the gully fence line to open up the back six acres for the cows. These next few months we will be hitting the high 90’s to over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Too hot and humid to get much done. The risk verses reward ratio is too high. So when my wife saw that I drank two gallons of water in five hours, we made plans for tomorrow.

@@abrevas Hit 27C here today. A record. Another record

@@HuplesCat , Temperatures will continue to rise. I think I referenced a science article in one of my videos a while back that addressed this irreversible human caused global warming in this current ice age we are in. I suspect we have reached the tipping point and it is irreversible now. A scientist named Joseph Fourier predicted way back in 1827 that excess C02 in the atmosphere will overheat the planet. We were scheduled to go into a deep freeze by 2030, which is near the end of the eleven year sun spot cycle. I will link the Joseph Fourier article in another reply, as some browsers may block this comment if it has a link in it. George Stewart wrote the book, Earth Abides, back in 1949 and he referenced a lab created virus that wiped out the planet, extinction events, and also climate change. I was able to research the author of Climate Through the Ages and acquired the 1970 book that is an unrevised reprint of the 1949 edition, which is a revised edition of the 1929 edition. George Stewart's writing style in this book was ahead of his time as he put in subtle hints for readers to investigate further. I suspect the human caused climate change was deliberately planned over 120 years ago. Or, miscalculations were done with the Slide Rule. The Global Elites could have prevented the Earths Population which was around 1 Billion back in 1900 from growing to 8.5 Billion today. I suspect the plan way back over 150 years ago may have been to warm up the planet with humans to prevent the deep freeze cycle of this current ICE AGE from wiping out the human race, but the global warming plan backfired. George Stewart, a historian and professor , was way ahead of his time. He even made references to drugs that allowed the human race to multiply exponentially. I started work on collecting all the editions of Earth Abides, along with the books he makes subtle references to.

For those interested in science that predicted how C02 is able to warm the planet back in 1827 check out this science article that will allow for references to further investigate global warming extinction in this current ICE AGE we are in. daily.jstor.org/how-19th-century-scientists-predicted-global-warming/

@@abrevas a Victorian female scientist whose name escapes me linked carbon dioxide directly to atmospheric heating. In the 19th century. It’s science. The big IF is if we runaway and go all Venus like

Sure is. I have been watching many videos on the sugar beet. It is a good crop to have in a real survival scenario. The roots can store for about six months under the right conditions and the leaves are edible. The Detroit Golden Beet has the best flavor, but is expensive. Then there is the Fodder Beet that is used to feed livestock. It can grow to about five pounds and is also used in wild animal food plots. The main idea for the Beets is to ensure they do not get too much water. Beets will become valuable in a real survival scenario. At 1,000 pounds of food per person, per year. Storing food is realistically an activity that few people can accomplish, as it would take a significant amount of storage space to accomplish. A ten person team would require 5 tons of stored food for one year.

Thanks for watching and commenting. Looks like the sugar beet is an easy crop to grow that will provide a significant amount of calories.

It was rough, but many of the grasses went to seed. Had to manually remove them. I cleaned up the area were I will be planting the new red potato slips or spuds. Gonna hit that first thing tomorrow. Totally new way to plant potatoes. World has been lead to believe that a section of seed potato is needed to provide food to the spud roots. All I saw for the last few years of harvesting potatoes is rotten sections of the seed potato. Wasn’t even used up by the new roots. If this works, a seed potatoes can provide three or four times the amount of potato slips. The potato slip sends a root down six or seven inches deep Into the mound to make the potato. The current potato planting theory is that the potato slip needs to be planted deep into the mound. My previous potato video shows that it is not necessary to plant the potato spud deep into the soil. This is an exciting concept for extending the potato planting and harvest almost year round.

Sweet potato’s are warm weather crops. Now is the time to start the slips. I washed these potatoes before planting them to get rid of any sprout inhibitors that may be on them. They may not put up shoots. I’m going to try to get the full warm growing time which is all the way to November. Here is a good article from a popular magazine on how to grow them, the different types of sweet potatoes, and anther issues to look out for while they are growing. Thanks for watching. www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/gardening/a20706654/how-to-grow-sweet-potatoes/#:~:text=Sweet%20potatoes%20mature%20in%2085,they're%20extremely%20frost%20sensitive.

@@abrevas Thx for the link!

The brand is Everwilde . I purchased the bulk seeds on Amazon, but here is the link to their website. www.everwilde.com/

Yup, I saw that three X-class flares hit the earth around the same time frame. Saw your recent video. Hope I don’t lose my crops with these cold fronts coming.

Took me 22 hours to get these onions planted working straight through. The weather is so unpredictable that I couldn’t risk another rainy weekend to stop progress. Took longer than planned. Was almost a full moon, so I had enough moon light to work through the night just planting the 1,500 onions by hand. I switched to the tractor to till the remaining ten rows in the other garden plot before the sun went down. It is faster than the tiller and the ground was slightly muddy. I monitored my body first and foremost. Any indication of thirst, cold toes, or fatigue and it was time to take a break. Woke up at 8AM and finished at 8AM the next morning. Temperature during the morning was coldest at about 46 Fahrenheit. I was not to concerned about predators sneaking up on me as I was inside an enclosed fence area. In the old days the farmers planted during the night. The ground is clear and visible during a clear moon lit night. I suspect most people are not aware of how clear the night is during a full moon. Our eyes have black and white cones for night vision and color cones for daylight vision. Overall it was a fun experience.

Thanks for watching. Selman Waksman found the cure for tuberculosis in the soil. The many types of bacteria living in the compost soil release chemicals to attack each other. It is possible to find good cheap used books on line at a website called thrift books dot com. I was planning on doing another video of what I consider to be the three important discovered drugs that allowed the earths population to go from about 1 billion in 1901 to about 8.6 billion today, in just 125 years. The link to the Dr. Waksman museum is here at sebs.rutgers.edu/waksman-museum/

@@abrevas I would love another video, thank you

At about 1.25 into the video I talk about improvising and the danger of sweating while using cotton in the winter. Over 200 people froze to death in Texas around this time about two or three years ago when the Bidon administration forced Texas to close the coal fired electric generator plants. It is true that if the entire grid goes down during an EMP or CME, 90% percent of the people will die from exposure, especially in the south. People down here wear jackets at 70 degrees Fahrenheit.

@@LibertyGarden while true up here in the real America we use kilometres which are a lot further than fascist British Empire miles 😹

Thanks. I’m looking forward to some. The soil froze shortly after I made the previous video. Them sugar beat roots have a nice sweet taste.

Got to pay attention to them frequencies. I studied them years ago, don’t remember much about them, except to be aware of them. They have those Tibet bowls that vibrate at specific Hz. To aid in mediation. Basically, if the vibrations don’t feel right,..

I finished reading Earth Abides written back in the fifties, or late 40’s. The main character, Ish, had the knowledge to figure out how to get society back after the plague. He chose instead to do nothing because canned food was available in abundance. His entire survival group did nothing to even advance their level of existence. He even had an entire city library available with every subject matter. The group just panicked whenever an issue threading their existence surfaced. I think the book is a good representation of todays society.

Great tip. Thanks.

Thanks. Merry Christmas.

I suspect that also. If they all do not decompose, it will stress the importance of having GMO, or hybrid seeds for SHTF. Some seed manufacturers design their plants to die if their brand of pesticide is not used.

Don’t know how this will turn out. If they all don’t decompose, it will stress the importance of having hybrid, or GMO seeds. Some seed manufacturers design their seeds and plants to die if their brand of pesticide is not used.

Good word, HC!

Thanks. This whole project and how it is turning out seams like a natural progression. The food production area is designed to expand or contract based on drought conditions and water availability, which was learned from last season. The wide grass walking paths will create a source of green manure for the compost pit, which will eventually end up in the row crops. I forgot to put in the video the location and movement of the sun, and how it affects the design. Seams like once one obstacle is discovered and addressed, a new one reveals itself. When it is completed, many will look at it and think it looks nice, not knowing it was all out of necessity. Never thought growing food was so complicated.

.25 will take care of 2 people. Greenbeans, carrots(the trick is to not let them dry out....cardboard perhaps but I use old tin roof slabs from a old shed they have been successful. ❤❤❤

Texas, zone 8b

Very cool. I’m an hour south of Chicago and just retired so looking for a new location to start the second part of my life. I’ve been looking at AL & Nc…. Would you pick TX if you could do it all over again?