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The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Apocalypse Grow Audiolog #1

The Beet: A Podcast For Plant Lovers

Epic Gardening

Education, Home & Garden, How To, Leisure

4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2019

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

The first 3 days of the challenge are over, and I suspect they may be the hardest. Find out how I'm doing on my Apocalypse Grow challenge, where I am surviving off of only what I grow, fish, forage, or barter.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

What's going on everyone? Kevin Espiritu here from Epic Gardening. We're doing an

0:05.4

apocalypse grow challenge update. It's June 4th 2019 and this is audio log

0:11.5

number one of the Apocalypse Challenge.

0:15.0

It's been a rough four days, I have to admit.

0:18.1

I don't know who else is out there, who else is still alive out there in the

0:21.3

apocalypse, but if you're listening just

0:24.4

know that it can be a struggle. Day one I decided to fast. I did a water fast

0:31.1

because in the apocalypse we don't have caffeine we don't have

0:35.1

sugar we don't have gluten we don't have a lot of things that I'm accustomed to

0:38.9

eating my body's used to eating so I decided to do a water fast for about 36 hours in order to just get my mind right, give my

0:47.3

digestive system a little bit of a break. Definitely not medical advice for any of you

0:50.8

survivors out there, but you know it really did clear me out. I do feel quite a bit better,

0:58.3

although I did have a headache for different parts of it just because blood sugar dropped so low I think. Now on day two I

1:06.0

created my first meal so I pulled some Norland red potatoes out of the stash I

1:10.3

boiled them I cracked them open and then I roasted them with some rosemary and I also made

1:16.3

my very first trade of the apocalypse. My fellow survivor and friend Stephen Cornette over at Nature's Always Right Farms

1:25.1

had 24 eggs to give to me so I traded him five pounds of potatoes as well as some narrowleaf

1:30.7

milkweed seeds.

1:32.5

We both have surpluses of our respective inputs

1:36.0

or our respective food items,

1:37.8

and so we didn't have a perfect fair value trade,

1:41.4

although I do think that the milkweed seeds for the pollinators

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