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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

CREATING ABUNDANCE IN YOUR BACKYARD

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, Society & Culture, News

4.93.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Jim Gale is the founder of Food Forest Abundance, a landscape design service that specializes in personal sustainable agriculture gardens. Watch as he helps Del design and plant a “food forest” on the ICAN campus for The Highwire team to have their own low-maintenance, self-sufficient fruit and vegetable garden while helping the planet, and learn how you can build your own ‘food forest’.

Transcript

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0:00.0

This next guest blew my mind. I met him just over a year ago. He came up to me

0:06.1

and I was speaking and you know he wasn't coming from the vaccine thing but we're

0:09.7

all like speaking different things like Dell. I have the solution. The the

0:13.8

solution to our issues is something we can actually do something about. We can

0:18.8

actually grow our own food and it's easier than you think. Well world get ready.

0:24.0

This is Jim Gale. My name is Jim Gale and I was born in St. Paul, Minnesota and I

0:32.9

grew up in love with nature. My favorite show was Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom.

0:39.1

My only magazine subscription ever was Ranger Rick and I had the pictures of

0:44.2

all the animals on the walls and grew up in the mud and in playing with frogs

0:48.4

and snakes every day. I loved my childhood. In fact when I was like seven or

0:53.3

eight I got tagged as Nature Boy by my friends and then after high school I was

1:00.2

a wrestler. I moved to Hawaii, lived there for four years and then I wanted to

1:06.0

see the world. I was bartending and I wanted to do something else with my life.

1:10.2

I was 29 and I wrote my goals for the second time while I was backpacking

1:15.0

around the world and reading books about vision, about inspiration and everything

1:19.6

I could find on the subject of human performance and something magical happened.

1:23.9

I got home and a friend met me and he said hey come work for me three years

1:28.3

later. My company did about $1.3 billion in revenue and I retired. I was 32,

1:34.8

33 years old and I was looking for my next thing so I bought a boat. I lived on

1:39.1

the ocean in the Bahamas for a year and I got bored. I got bored very quickly.

1:43.4

It wasn't inspiring so I moved to Costa Rica and at the same time I had heard

1:48.1

the word permaculture and permaculture stands for permanent culture. It's a

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