111 Ngày Tự Trồng Hái Lượm 100 Thức Ăn Sống Tự Chủ Không Cần Siêu Thị

And here is one of my growing beds I have around 50 different types of food crops growing here These are community fruit trees but anyone walking down the street can pick and enjoy the fruit One of the most common questions I get is what cooking oil I use And that's conut oil It's one of my favorite homemade treats So honey is one of my biggest secrets to happiness I have four bee colonies and all of them were rescued from elsewhere Most of the water I drink comes from the rainwater I collect from my own roof right here Hi everyone I'm Rob Greenfield And today is day 111 of my one-year-long project Regarding growing and harvesting 100% of my own food I've completed about one-third of the year's journey So I want to update you and show you what I'm currently working on We'll begin right here at Audubon Park in the first bed I created just a short distance from downtown Orlando I arrived in Orlando in December 2017 with the intention of launching this project with just six months of preparation So I had to get to work right away The place where I'm standing now used to be just an ordinary front yard Old and worn nothing but grass And just a few months later I transformed it into this urban temple garden Since I live a simple life and own no property I don't have private land Instead I grow food in the front yards of people I meet in the community and they can eat as much of it as they want I have six small plots of land in the neighborhood all of my gardens situated within a two-mile radius of each other So I can reach everything by bike and I have a trailer that can handle a load of up to about 136 kg So I can handle most of my gardening needs with it and while getting started I also launched three community initiatives Garden for single mothers Community fruit trees And the free seed initiative My goal is not just to grow my own food And gather whatever food I can My goal is to inspire And help thousands of others To grow at least part of their own food Together with my team we planted 110 community fruit trees and built 5 gardens for single-parent families And sent out 2 000 free seed packets to people across the United States In addition I teach beginner gardening classes Free right here In my garden For everyone in the community All of this takes A great deal of time and energy So I didn't meet the initial six- month timeline instead it took about ten months But in any case starting from zero was the key Just with a backpack learning new friendships and mastering the ability to grow and harvest 100% of your own food in less than a year It still amazes me And when I say 100% I mean it seriously I didn’t go to the grocery store Not a single restaurant Even if you never once stepped into your friend's house to play Or tasted a bite from their kitchen cupboard Or even picked something from their garden You must surely be wondering silently What am I growing What am I eating Well let me show you around this garden for a bit Let me remind you again This is the first garden I ever created Not long ago this was just an empty lawn but now it's filled with countless kinds of food To my right down here we have cabbage— something I'll use to make kimchi To my left This is known as rocket lettuce Here We have a wide variety of leafy greens Such as rocket lettuce To my right is one of my absolute favorites Papaya They're incredibly abundant And I can eat them Both when green and when fully ripe and golden One of my favorite trees right here Called the umbrella tree It's known as the tree of life Or the vitamin tree And only this particular plant If I could recommend just one type of plant for people living in a similar climate It would be the trum ngay If we go a little further we'll find beets and carrots —things that excite me greatly—plus Okinawan spinach And here's water spinach Over there I'm experimenting with growing garlic Behind me are banana trees And this is a really amazing plant I consider it leafy green but in reality it's more purple or reddish—it 's a type of vinegar plant It adds great variety to salads both in flavor and color Another excellent option here is malabar spinach This is a drought-resistant shrub vegetable Harvestable year-round A long-lived vegetable plant With a very distinctive flavor Nearly possessing a certain something I don't know how to describe it anymore —some kind of savory earthy taste or something along those lines And this is one of my favorite sleeping spots I have around 50 different types of food currently being developed here and so far I've eaten approximately 110 different types of food The thing is what I grow is What I harvest A truly important one That I must mention Is the plant that provides my main source of calories I grow cassava also known as yuca along with sweet potatoes and taro so I can scatter them across different plots of land throughout the neighborhood This is the bed area here I have about six of these scattered throughout the neighborhood Another one I really like Is the one out front in the yard The spot where I placed my little house And that's where I'll take you next Welcome to my front yard At my little farmstead To recap about a year ago This was just an ordinary front yard I grow no food at all And this is where I conduct my business transactions To have my little house placed in the backyard One of the things I'm really excited about is the community fruit tree right here to my right—I have a mulberry tree and to my left I have a hawthorn tree These are community fruit trees and anyone walking down the street can pick and enjoy the fruit right here where I'm standing even though the fruits are still unripe But all will be native flowering plants beneficial to local pollinators—butterflies bees and other insects One thing I find particularly fascinating is mung beans—highly productive and an excellent source of plant-based protein I've grown about 90 kilograms of sweet potatoes here in this tiny plot right beside the path This small area is for short-cycle greens I've installed a small drip irrigation system So it's very easy to care for And truly designed with the home gardener in mind Especially when I leave so they have a place that's easy to care for perfect for growing plenty of greens and vegetables It's quite productive actually Here's what you can accomplish with a fairly small space Behind me is a small herb garden It's just a hint of the front yard's charm but now I want to show you the farm and my little house behind it Welcome to my small farm This place exists primarily to meet my food needs And the house itself is about 9 square meters in size It mainly exists for food storage—this is where I keep a large amount of provisions and also where I rest at night And unwind during the day I'll start right here This is one of the most standout things That people always notice I constantly get comments like Show us your pumpkin What are those pumpkins These aren't pumpkins They're called Seminole pumpkins And the best part about them is that they can be stored for over a year even up to two years here in the summer heat without air conditioning These are actually from last summer and they're still firm and perfectly good This is my little fermentation food station It brings me so much joy—flavor and nourishment to my life —the highlight being Sandor Katz's book White Fermentation A fantastic book I highly recommend reading—it contains numerous fermentation recipes for everything I have here including mead and Junkampucha tea White radish fermented Green paya fermented I have various types of vinegar Also available is fermented apple juice One of the most common questions I get is what cooking oil I use and that’s conut oil It's one of my favorite homemade dishes And also my favorite of this year Coconut is truly a blessing And I gather them from the coastal regions of Florida then press them into my own conut oil—a truly essential ingredient along with salt And it also came from the ocean I'm almost out of salt I'm heating a little bit right now over the fire And this is simply boiling salty water Evaporating the water And you'll be left with sea salt Here I have tidal beans The ones I showed you in the front yard I have them in a few spots around the neighborhood They are an excellent source of protein Mung beans can be dried or eaten fresh These are black-eyed peas still in their pods But they're truly wonderful They genuinely add variety to your diet Some of these are grown in the garden And some are from scavenging —this one is scavenging This is reishi mushroom one of the most important herbs I possess Since I grow and harvest 100% of my food including medicine I have to either grow my own remedies or go out to gather them Another type of medicine here is burnt rice which I combine with my own bee pollen to make burnt rice syrup One of the most remarkable natural remedies available to combat colds and flu And coffee came in many people wondered if I got tired of not being able to drink coffee Well the good news for me is that I've never been a coffee addict but I do have something called Cajopon Holly This is the North American version of the J3M decaf tea so it contains in-house coffee with the same coffee level as regular coffee or J3M tea This is the area where I store a lot of fruits like payas These are sweet potatoes I gather them from the wild And I also grow them myself These sweet potatoes are excellent I've probably eaten over a hundred kilograms of sweet potatoes by now This is a tangerine You have long tangerines here I probably kept them for about a month and a half—maybe two months by now—and there's also passionfruit here A canopy of trees stretching over a public park several miles away That's just a glimpse of the fruits I'm growing and harvesting I'll take you to my favorite spot in the house Maybe so And this is the honey area This is truly what helps me relax Many people ask What about chocolate then I don't have chocolate this year because it doesn't grow in Florida and coa doesn't grow there either so that's why Honey is one of the great secrets of my happiness I can say that And this honey comes from my bees I have four hives And all of them were bees rescued from elsewhere I went along with my friend He's a professional live bee hive mover And so far I've collected about 34 kilograms of honey plus a little extra from the rescue missions themselves—this is good enough This is a good one I thought it was full of ants on the outside But no This one's full of ants on the inside I haven't touched this in a while Only ants I'm not hesitant to use it further I can filter them out Either way works But this is actually What you call wild honey This is from rescuing the bee nests above this is dried conut This can be used to make pickled vegetables And it also makes a wonderful snack Preserving food is one of the major challenges in the hot and humid climate of central Florida I decided to be a little kinder to myself and bought a deep freezer here which can store up to 100 kilograms of food at once And in reality it only costs about three dollars in electricity per month making it an extremely energy-efficient way to store food I ferment foods just like I showed you earlier but the issue with fermented foods is It truly doesn't like temperatures between 24 and 26 degrees Celsius so at temperatures reaching 32 degrees Celsius This isn't an ideal place for fermenting food in summer especially when living in a house without air conditioning Temperatures can rise above 32 degrees Celsius Another way to preserve food is by drying it And I have something drying right now Which I’ll show you These are black-eyed peas I let them dry on the vine after harvest And once dry I can store it in a jar and use it for cooking Speaking of cooking the next stop is the kitchen I happen to have a few things drying right now—items I prepared today I have basil mint Scallions and cilantro All of these will go into the food dehydrator This will be perfect for traveling I can actually bring along some dry food when traveling as well as tea and wild herbs—just so you can get a quick look at what I'm eating It might seem a bit crazy at first glance but it's just sweet potato addiction—yams And many types of blended greens mixed in A pretty great meal And I liked it I just really love sweet potatoes And of course it wouldn't be complete without mentioning the water I'm drinking right now—most of it I collect from the roof of my own home right here Growing and harvesting 100% of my food throughout the year doesn't mean I can't drink water from the tap Still I drink water from the tap but most of it comes from my roof and passes through this filter then a few more steps Tastes like fresh crisp drinking water Clean deliciously cold I spend a great deal of time here— in this kitchen in this yard in this house—preparing three meals a day chopping and prepping ingredients Doing time-consuming tasks like making conut oil That's why I spend so much time here One thing that truly pulled me away from this place Gathering wild hawthorns is my favorite pastime and right now there are countless hawthorns ripening—just a few times a month I often go to the sea to fish And that's also when I can harvest saltwater The world is an incredibly rich place If we had the knowledge to see what's growing around us and what we can eat 111 days have passed this year and I feel incredibly healthy but of course I won't lie—there have been many days when I felt down And feeling a bit weary This has been a challenging project And it has taken a great deal of time But it has been absolutely worthwhile And incredibly rewarding So if you've found this video fascinating and are enjoying this journey I'd encourage you to like it subscribe and join the adventure Because I still have about 254 days left To stay here with you Wishing you all a wonderful day If you found this video helpful 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