Chickens, Fruit Trees, and Trellises

The Jesse Mecham Show

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Kids & Family, Education

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2020

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

There's something growing at the Mecham household... and it's in the backyard! Jesse confesses he spent a good portion of his paternity leave preparing a garden with a handful of chicks, fruit trees, and a garden full of asparagus, cantaloupes, and other goodies.

As always, while exercising his green thumb Jesse was thinking about budgeting. Immediate gratification is rare in the natural world. Nearly everything worth having takes time, effort, and care to grow and develop. Chicks need to be fed and kept safe and healthy before they can grow into egg-laying hens. Fruit trees take years before they bear their first fruits. Yet these things, once harvested, can be so much more satisfying than, say, a generic carton of eggs at the store.

Budgeting is no exception to the rules of Nature. Good things come to those who wait, and steward their money well. But the good things are worth it.

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0:00.0	Hello, Winebbers. My name is Jesse Meekam, and this is podcast number 329 for
0:09.2	Wineb, where we teach you four rules to help you stop living paycheck to pay check, get out of debt and save more money.
0:15.6	Okay, I'll be honest that I did kind of use my paternity leave for just loads of projects. I think I added more to the
0:27.8	list than I did, but of course during a lot of that time I was thinking about budgeting so while we may now own chickens and while we may have planted a massive asparagus patch and while we may have a trellis that could hold pounds and
0:47.2	pounds of cantalope, yeah, I was still just thinking about budgeting And the idea was partially inspired by the podcast,
0:55.9	I think it was 426, where I talked about the value chain.
0:59.0	Having a fruit tree seemed valuable
1:01.6	versus having cash to buy fruit. Plus, I mean, homegrown fruit, right?
1:08.0	So there's a little bit of this preparedness kind of back to the land feel over here at the meekam household, but for the most
1:16.7	part what I was really landing on was this idea that you're doing something now in order to
1:22.2	have an outsized benefit later on.
1:25.5	So these cute little chicks that frankly after two weeks they are not cute.
1:29.6	They are ugly.
1:31.0	We're feeding them.
1:32.1	We're taking care of them. Make sure they have water. We both a little box for them and eventually we'll get them into a coop that we're going to have to put together and do all that and we're going to be making them really
1:45.2	happy and they'll get to scratch around in the orchard and I'm no chicken expert by any
1:50.5	means so I've probably already said something wrong but the hope is
1:54.2	eventually we'll get some eggs from these happy happy chickens but they those eggs
1:59.4	won't happen for seven months the fruit trees you don't get a harvest for definitely a couple of years.
2:06.0	The asparagus, you don't even think about harvesting for at least two years.
2:10.3	So you're doing all this up-front work to hopefully have what I would call an outsized benefit,
2:15.3	like walking out and snapping off a fresh asparagus spear.
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