I DID IT! For an entire year I grew and foraged 100% of my food. No grocery stores, no restaurants, not even a drink at a bar. Nature has been my garden, my pantry and my pharmacy. Here's the story of my year: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nX4kq4QfYRA.html
Imagine if every house had that much food how health and quality of life would improve everywhere ! Even the poorest people could eat fresh organic plant food instead of cheap, garbage, sugar & chemicals ladden, nutrient deficient white bread & soda ! Way to go Rob, you're a true leader in self- sufficiency !
@@dhkatz_ even in places where you can grow lots of stuff it's tough. as you can see in the video just a few generations of growing things is going to clean out all the nutrients and good things the earth has to offer a garden in an urban setting. the composting f one man might not be enough to keep these gardens well fed with what they need to grow things successfully.
I think one of the reasons this has been hard is because you are doing it alone. In tribal societies different tasks are done by different people who share with each other. You're doing awesome!
@@Robin.Greenfield and yes its WAY more work and effort to do something that you are learning about verses something that has been passed down for generations. Cudos brotha!
Our best way to control the roaches is chickens. They're like potato chips for chickens. Lol. We dont have any in the house and we have a compost pile and gardens, etc. We also have one of those plug in for the outlets that send a current through the electrical wires in the walls. Now, when we have a hard rain, we do see the BIG palmettos or wood roaches, but it is far and few between. Good Luck it is definitely something to get used to here in Florida. (We live outside of Gainesville)
Have you considered getting a couple Hens? The eggs would add protein and the hens would eat pests insects in your garden. Not to mention they would kill your cockroaches. Plus. Some chicken species are pretty smart. They make interesting companions. They wouldn't require a lot of plant feed. I think the benefit would outweigh the cost of keeping two or three hens.
@@JackassBauer1 I don't see why. He isn't eating the chicken. Just the eggs. There are many rescues available. He could easily get a rescue chicken or two from the SPCA.
Inspiring. I subbed. My goal is to supplement 25% of my families food from my backyard. Its still a work in progress in Arizona, but im getting there. Thanks for the inspiring content.
You can tell from the way he talks how passionate he is about what he is doing. The look in his eyes while he's talking about his progress and what he did is priceless!
Your an absolute inspiration. I hope your channel and your message really takes off, people really need to be reminded of our roots and to become closer to mother nature once again, and how easy it can be with a little time and effort! Thank you Rob, love your videos.
I don’t see why no one does this I’m planting my very first garden this year excited to see how much veggies and fruit I get, I’m growing everything from seed and I’m only 16.
BT Trickk I’m 15 and going on my 4th or 5th year of gardening! I recommend planting things like carrots, radish, squashes, and tomatoes! :) they all grow relatively easy.
I feel like this should be one of the subjects in every school. I've never even heard of so many of the plants in your garden and I use to live on a farm.
There is a type of cooling system which might work for you where you use two clay pots, placing a layer of damp sand between the inner and outer pot. The outer pot is not glazed and evaporation keeps the contents of the inner pot cool.
Impressing! Everyone should start growing and foraging his/her own food. It will have a remarkable impact and a lot of the actual problems will shrink. People are getting more familiar with the earth, the plants and the climate again. They will gain respect and love for the planet. They will get more quiet and more responsible and more local.This is the change we all need. I am following your channel around four years now and i am into growing food myself and together with others in the very center of Berlin now for three years.We have learned so much as well and it is just the beginning. Thank you so much for all the inspiration!
Very curious to see what you do after the full year Rob! Not sure if this was described or not in another video. Love following you, aspire to own my own property where I can grow most of my food at home, ideally farmland like how I grew up. Mixed with hunting/fishing I think you have a lot to teach me, my main goal is to never have to go to the grocery store again!
You’re doing amazing. I grow and forage a lot and although it can be hard it is to keep on top of, its so rewarding. Now that things have eased up a bit you can enjoy growing that connection with the food that so many of us have lost. Love to you x
Very impressed that you have made it this far! I’ve been and organic gardener/homesteader for many years now so I definitely respect the amount of work, planning and self restraint this would take. Good luck with the next six months!
Hi Rob, a wonderful drink is call ed a shrub, vinegar, honey and a fruit juice. One part each and then add water to taste. I use 1/3 cup of each in a quart jar and then fill it the rest of the way with water. Good luck with your adventure up north.
Wow, I love the before and after of your main front yard! Well done Rob. What you are doing is really challenging. Enjoy your time up home. You deserve a break! Thank you for sharing.
You are AMAZING. I grew up in Miami, Florida. Cockroaches in Florida are menaces to society. My mom was an immaculate housekeeper, but we had to get our house tented (exterminated) every few years. Lizards, snakes, mosquitoes, giant frogs, etc were all there, too! But so was a giant mango tree and giant avocado tree in our backyard!
isabella valencia I do have a Vegetarian Play List on the Channel and currently looking into possibly bringing vegetarian and pescatarian recipes back. 😊
Man, what you are doing with this experiment is so huge for yourself and for the ones that see what you are doing. It is so inspiring for a lot of people. For me you are a great model and a great man. Thank you!
I am really looking forward to seeing you forage up north. It’s hard to imagine this project working in anything but a tropical climate. I don’t know how successful I would be here in Washington state. Thank you for the update.
Andrew Kirchem I like to see that too. He goes during the best time of year though, I am certain he will be able to forage plenty. Our northern challenge is the short growing season, so root crops and anything that can be stored easily are our friends. He’d most likely have to take up hunting if he tried it year round or start his own livestock
So much to grow and forage. It's a different challenge, but people did it for many years until very recently. And still many people do not 100% but a very large percentage of their food.
Rob Greenfield we have come to expect summer crops year round, that makes us think it can’t be done. Seasonal cooking is a good step to learn what’s available.
You’re doing great for not being from here! Never listen to anyone that says it can’t be grown here! You just have to find the perfect location. Most things that grow up north can be grown here if you give it some shade! Most things aren’t used to major sun! Sometimes you have to be innovative! And I see you are!
All power to you Rob. Thank you for sharing your inspiring journey. Watching your videos has really encouraged me to aim for zero waste and the big goal of growing 50% of my calories by the end of spring, which is less than five months away here in Australia. Run strong.
I just love watching your videos. You inspired me to try a small garden and it is doing great!! I live in a HOA in TN so I am limited in what I can plant and where I plant it. However, we are moving next year and will be in a more rural area and you have given me so many ideas on what I want to grow. I am completely dedicated to growing my own food and hopefully living totally on what I grow!! Thank you so much for what you are doing. It is truly amazing!
This is amazing, Rob! You're inspiring me in many ways. I will be setting up a homestead soon. I've been intensely studying all ways to live free and happy within nature's abundant beauty hehehe
This is seriously should be made compulsory watch to the younger generations. Very inspiring and educational. I was surprised as some of the plants you show are what in my country call 'village food' like tapioca, yam, moringa, sweet shoots etc. And the younger generations hardly consume those now, preferring carrots and other modern or imported veggie instead. Keep up the good work!
By the way, I had no idea there were so many different foods that could be grown and eaten!! And I wish that every community could do what you are doing. This could help feed the homeless population and help reduce hunger in all of our communities.
I see challenges with that idea. First you can’t help those who don’t want to help themselves (homeless). Second, it works for rob because he is just one guy, if you have hundreds or thousands of people trying to do this it’s going to be like locusts eating everything to the bare ground. It becomes a problem of scale. However, people all across the country could use their yards to supplement their food needs and if you have an acre or two be fed off your own land. For society as a whole the issue is how we allocate and value time. If your hourly compensation is higher than the value of the food you grow/harvest/process, then it’s more efficient to do your day job and buy local food. I do not believe that food cost is the problem for most people. Rent/mortgage and transportation often takes up over 2/3 of people’s income, so the bigger problem is housing cost.
@@4philipp ok, so look maybe his tiny house and other low consuming energy. . I made the experience that creating eco communitys , is maybe the best way 2 live! "Life is not a problem to be solved, but a experience to be lived ."Osho
You are a huge inspiration! Thank you so much! I’m from Florida, but I live in Baja Mexico. And I’m going back and I’m coming back with seeds ,for EVERYONE!
I like how you have to grow what works or you will starve! I live just west of you in Clearwater and am trying to learn what works and when. Thanks for your videos and I wish you much success.
At 13:14 the cockroach story: Best thing I've seen all week! Thanks for sharing your project with the world, including these little chewy lumps along the way!
I want to do this. No wait...I'm going to do this!! Adapting to Canada should be interesting....and I don't have a house but we'll see how this goes. Thanks for the inspiration, Rob!
rose kole I am now very interested in how you make coconut oil
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How we do it in Brazil: Make cocount milk, and put in fridge. The fat will separate. Put the fat in a covered inox pan and leave in sun until the oil separates. There will be a fine scum on top which can be skimmed off. We need 1 1/2 days for this in our hot sun. Skim off the scum, then carefully skim off the oil with a spoon. It is a good idea to do a lot of coconuts at a time- 20-30. (We get free fallen coconuts which have no market value.) The fiber left can be used as food, but especially for chickens!)
I have a few things you might want to try. If you're interested, keep reading. Please answer when you've read all this, as I'm looking for feedback to make my ideas more useful for you. You should get a workshop to make you two (or more) stirling engines (alpha stirling engine is simpler), and use a bigger one with a flame to power the smaller one in reverse to have a fire-powered and solar-powered refrigerator. The fridge would work best with a lot insulation, or like a root cellar (even if you have to build it "above ground", by making a shed and covering it with dirt), but it would still be better than nothing, especially if the electric system happens to go down. Also using cheap shiny metal sheets you can have the sunlight be concentrated on something like a pipe connected to the hot side of the stirling engine, to convert sunlight into motion through the stirling engine and the motion into refrigeration through a reverse stirling engine (stirling engine running in reverse, getting motion to move heat). Also, you could make an easy-to-pack frame solar dehydrator which to be set up outside and be quite stable by itself, to be able to dehydrate high amounts of things, and having a small stove (even one made out of dirt and some metal pipes) which takes the exhaust through some heating element (which can be covered by packed dirt for absorbing all that heat and then routing it) through a pipe and gets it outside the dehydrator structure can help you dehydrate food somewhat like smoking would, but without the smoke (which can be released above the dehydrator). Being packable means that you can simply store it most of the time, since you won't use it all the time. For the composting toilet, if you have a special pot for that, you can actually cook (boil) the humanure (pee+poop) for a few hours to get something which can be used without issue for things like onions and potatoes and carrots. Also, for cooking you could also use a "wonder oven", which is basically something which keeps your pot hot so you don't use as much fuel to cook and so you can boil it for like 10-15 minutes and then leave it to cook for hours (up to 18h before it might get bad) without worrying of the food getting burnt or terribly overcooked. Someone mentioned using chicken, in another comment, but I think that enclosed quails or even just (enclosed) crickets (which apparently taste like chicken) could be a nice addition to your diet. Some people prefer to cook the crickets and then grind them into a powder to use as a flower substitute, in order to not see their corpses while they eat them, which would also be a good soup/sauce thickener. For air conditioning, you can look into a solar chimney or updraft tower. It work the best in high-humidity areas, but even without high humidity, you can get passive solar cooking in the summer and passive solar hearing in the winter. For simply testing it out, you could get a 2-3 meters long black/dark pipe and set it vertically in a place where there is lots of sunlight, and connect it's bottom (intake) to the top of the house, ideally on the opposite side of which part of the house usually stays open (i.e. door, window, or maybe even a vent on the opposite wall/corner to the one used for the solar chimney's intake). The coconut husks could be used for making strings and rope, or for making manure. You could make a simple small loom to turn the string into textiles, which can be used as bags, for example, for somewhat protecting your produce from animals. It would be nice to have some shades for the hottest days, or for when you want to nap in the middle of the day. Sewing is more difficult, so it would still need to be done by hand or with a store-bought sewing machine. Ghost peppers could be sold, or you could try putting some in honey, to see what you end up with. You could use social media to sell them locally, to the people interested in buying them in medium-small quantities. I wonder if keeping the ghost pepper in honey for long periods of time makes it less "hot", or how it changes its properties.. By the way, if you want to know more, I can give you a Discord invite, so we can discuss in more length about some things and how you could use them.
Have you considered using a fresnel lens or lenses to concentrate sunlight on the hot side of a Stirling engine, rather than (or in combination with) shiny metal sheets? They work really well at producing heat, especially the larger ones.
@@Andy_Holmes Yes, I considered, but I thought it to be too expensive for the results given. The shiny metal sheets effectively act like a fresnel mirror. And the transparent plastic might lose transparency as it yellows with time, while the metal sheets need a lot less maintenance, and are more easily replaceable than having to order a custom-made fresnel lens. Well, you could make a fresnel lens yourself by cutting a lot of plastic at an angle, but I think that using multiple strips of metal, or even bending metal sheets, would be more efficient. And using multiple strips of metal allows air to pass through, to avoid unnecessary wobble. And it's not that difficult to just use some wood to make a parabolic frame, rather than a square frame, for the parabolic mirrors (if those are used). There are many effective ways to do the same thing, the main differences cost, efficiency, work needed to make them work, and the same things for maintenance and initial investment.
@@SapioiT I was thinking metal sheets would cost more than $10, but guess I don't really know. I am actually subscribed to the solatube channel, they make a professional product which does what you described. ru-vid.com
I love what you're doing, your positive attitude, and your sense of humour even with eating cockroaches. You look extremely healthy and happy. Keep up the wonderful work. Inspiring.
As a renewable energy student entering the work force you are quite the inspiration! Everything you do is right up my alley! Thanks! Hope to meet you one day.
Hey Rob Greenfield, I recently moved to Wisconsin but prior to living in Wisconsin I lived in Florida for 7 years, we grew a ton of exotic fruit trees but I digress. I just wanted to say you should consider growing dandelion, and well dandelion does not really grow well in the hotter climates like Florida but if you can grow it, the plant has a lot of versatility with the leaves tasting alot like spinach when they're young and are packed with potassium, the flowers sort of have a buttery flavor and are full of antioxidants, and finally the roots could be eaten raw but there's something you can do that's pretty awesome with the roots. You can actually roast the roots and powder it up and drink it like a coffee, it has a surprisingly great flavor and it is good for your liver.
Great video. Bit of input: You've got "garlic preserved in honey, so this is a great medicine". It'd be great to know why its a great medicine. Knowing, generally, that honey and garlic (separately) are healthy, and occasionally medicinal, doesn't mean that they are great medicine together. Not wanting to argue, just wanting the rest of the info that goes with that statement...
ive grown up having planted a lot of what i consume daily and its really cool having the contrast of what can grow in Florida's climate compared to here in mid california!! this is super rad
You're doing an awesome job Rob! Thank you for inspiring me in so many ways. I feel you, how hard it is, the way of living you have right now. I salute you. 👊👏👏👏 much ❤️ from Philippines
I love how genuine you are. I would love to do this, but where i live ,is a long winter, and i would probably starve as a vegan.However , I do live in an off grid homestead, and grow as much of the food i can ,with additional foraging . Still a lot to learn, and I am so grateful ,that I found your channel. Great for motivation to keep going:)
With your cassava flour you can make nsima/fufu it’s a Malawian/Kenyan all those countries around there make it. It’s like a super thick polenta that you dip in beans and greens stew. Reallly good had it a lot when I lived in malawi
Sweet potatoes go nuts in Florida! I planted one in my yard near the rear of my property. Well, the second year half my yard was a patch out of control. It was crazy. I never watered it or anything. It propagated itself or with all of the bees which came to my yard. All from a single potato that I planted when it had sprouted to show that nothing should ever go to waste. In spite of the original planting being at the rear of the lot, my neighbors would come knock at my door asking if they could dig some of them up for themselves. Ha! I guess many of them grew up on farms. So, yeah, Florida & sweet potatoes are best buddies. An easy, easy grow & the green part makes good ground cover as well.
I cannot understand why this 'goal' is so 'alien'. While I enjoy watching you accomplish this, I have to wonder and be dismayed about the direction our world is going. I refuse to be 'dependent' on ANYONE outside the 'community' I barter my 'excesses' with. ESPECIALLY Gov't and Corps. JMHO. Best of success son. ~Eli.
I'm glad you're being honest about how tough it is, most videos out there show only the perks of growing your own, living off grid and so on. I am growing my own food too (not 100% yet but it's a start) and it's exhausting.It's well worth it though.
