And we are live welcome folks to episode 3475 of this survival podcast. It's a Thursday.

Even I've done kind of a lot of, let's say listener feedback and current events issues recently.

I thought I would take this jack only Thursday and dig into a more homesteading,

permaculture topic and something that I think is universally beneficial to anybody that pays

attention to it. Because as I say all the time when I talk about modern survivalism,

you know food is actually way more important than guns. It's not that guns aren't important but

I've only been in a few altercations in my life. I was only ever shot at once in my life and I

I didn't care for it but I've had to eat every day and our ability to eat is directly linked to

fertility. Even those of us who are far more carnivorous in our diet, even those of you like I'm

not full carnivore, I'm more of a kidover. But even those of you who are full on carnivore without

fertility, your animals have nothing to eat. You have no animals to eat. This is key. And for

health of human and animal kind, we also have to have nutrient density in the vegetable matter,

the plant matter that forms the base of everybody's food chain. So whether you're living highly on

a omnivores diet, you're living primarily on a plant-based diet or you're living primarily

on a meat-based diet, your food chain in the end starts out with plant material. But the plant's

food chain, technically your food chain as well, goes way down into what's called soil food web.

And there's a tremendous amount of interaction. There's a whole universe in a couple handfuls

of active, live, stable soil. It's a universe onto itself. Just as much as you can hold in two

hands, the volume of life in there, if you just talk about counting individual bodies of living

things, bacteria, fungi, nematodes, et cetera, is like a world onto itself. And your backyard,

indeed, is like a universe if it's living and thriving the way that it's supposed to.

If we don't have that, then we have a weak link in our food supply system.

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