I have been a farmhand for around ten years. I have worked with three old blokes that worked as hard as malley bulls, they would work every young guy under the table everyday. Then on the following Monday they just didn't turn up for work for the first day off they have ever had off. Then the next week we were going t another old farmers funeral. We would get a couple of young people to join our farmworkers team and the majority of them would only come for a couple of days then they just simply quit and go back on the dole. I'm also blaming the government for just blatantly handing out money to able bodied young men that should either be made to work or go to the military. No more dole for dole bludgers, get off your asses and get a job. And stop complaining that all the foreigners are taking the jobs. They are not taking the jobs they are just simply applying for the positions that none of the young people want to do. I hope I'm not stepping on anyone's toes or crossing a line. But i have worked pretty much everyday to get what i have achieved in my working life.
This comment just says it all. It speaks truth on what's going on out there. People who have or are working in the industry seeing it happen and unfold around them. Honestly the aging farmer, i real feel for them.
You are so right. Far too many young people and a lot of older ones too, do not know how to work. They have their hand out wanting stuff but not a job. Unfortunately it is in most countries as a form of compassion to help the under -privileged. No welfare or dole for able bodied people. Drug/alcohol abuse is not a illness but a self inflicted condition. A couple of months of treatment then done. I grew up with a farm, it is hard work and far too many people have no idea how how hard it can be to get a crop in and then harvest and get paid. Here in the USA we are having the same problem, my mother who still sorta farms is 89. (with my sister's help) was worried if she could bush hog the pasture next year.
Since they r mucking around with the weather the usual time for harvesting rice is changing overseas so the weather is not a reliable indicator anymore due to some greedy individuals who have a nasty agenda 😔😔
This stuff worries me here in Nz too. It’s why I started a garden, fruit trees, learning to preserve food etc etc 3 years ago. Food security isn’t something the masses seem to talk or think about but it motivates me every single day!
A huge problem is most of the young people these days just want to get a high paying clean easy job so they can just afford to buy the food they want to eat. Without any thoughts of who grows the food. Sooner or later one day all the farmers will be gone, therefore no more food these people like to eat, and no more knowledge of where it comes from. They will soon realise that the computer can't grow potatoes. Happy gardening everyone. 💚🌏🙏🎄
Totally agree but it’s platforms like UA-cam that have severed the connection with food origins and help it remain strong so people believe meat and veg just magically appear on the shelves. If I upload a hunting video or animal processing video, it instantly gets flagged and removed. If monetised, these videos lose monetisation. -Can’t show dogs on a wild pig. -Can’t show a clear accurate dispatch of any animal using a bang stick or knife. -Can’t show the skinning or gutting of animals in case of blood 🩸 Anything in the nature of harvesting your own meat is purposely demonised, even if you have written and verbal warnings of your video content. These large corporations favour the degenerate that’s not interested in your content but instead would just rather dislike and report it. If warnings are followed being verbal and written then the interested people shouldn’t have to suffer from these valuable life skills
We live in coastal rural NSW and have a large covered veg plot in suburbia. Very aware of global inclinations. Rather than encouraging everyone to grow food we are talking with friends (not all of them are awake) about simple trading as not everyone likes gardening but they may trade good for labour or eggs for broccoli. I for one am happy to cook the meals of our friends raise the cattle. We don’t all have to reinvent the wheel. Simple networking does the trick and allows each person to contribute according to their interests and skills. ❤
Even here in the USA the farmers are aging out. The start up costs are insane and so are the taxes. Too hard of work for too little profit. Then you have people who seem to think that your fields are free and open for their use despite being fenced with signs saying otherwise. I can't tell you the number of people who want produce for free.
For sure Megan. Sherly and I have planned in the pipeline some cooking videos from what we are growing here in our garden. Hopefully they will be well received.
I know its not possible for everyone but have atleast one or 2 houses in a street with enough time and space for a flock can produce enough eggs for a decent number of people. Relying on not just yourself but your neighbour when possible can really help. For example i grow some really grate cucumber but dont have enough space for mangoes but my neighbour does so every season i give him some cucumbers in trade for mangoes then i dry some of the mangoes for snacks and i will always save him and his wife some of the dry stuff to enjoy because they dont have the time to make dry magoes. Its a small example of a grate thing to keep in mind
I agree, the people in the farming industry are dying out and not being replaced. However it's not just them, try getting welders or motor mechanics. In this town many of the tradies are my age or already dead.
As usual good onya Marty. Cooking videos are a must if we don't know how to grow food we sure don't know how to cook food, well fresh food that is. Some videos on cooking preparing and preserving what we grow would be very beneficial Mr Marty man. Thanks for looking out for people.
We had a discussion about 'middle age' the other day at church. It was actually my teens saying the average life expectancy (in America especially) is seventy ish, (they know the numbers 😉) which makes 35 'middle age' now. We are going backwards with all this processed food. So, if you are 35, you are middle aged. The farmers are 'old' by current measures. The last few decades have been one of coddling, especially with the rise of the internet. We have homeschooled our many children. Due to frequent moving, growing our own food has been challenging. We are starting to grow now, but live in a challenging environment. Our life has heen real, and with plenty of challenges. Our children have not been coddled, and stand out for it. The young ones still here at home live life with us. They see and hear in real time what is actually happening, and are being a part of the solution. They know that what we are trying to do is so we have food on the table. They see the bare shop shelves every week. They see the rising prices every week. They live in the real world. The next generation can be helped by pulling them out of the indoctrination centres ('schools') and living life together. Learn real life skills, and that work is a thing. Be creative . Save jars and grow food in them. Sell the extras. If we sit back idle, they will, too.
Remember too the fourth commandment KJV. It’s reminding us of Genesis 2:2&3. John 14:15. 1 John 2:3. And Revelation 22:14. Jesus is our example for Biblical rest in this spiritual battle over worship. Jesus said don’t be deceived. And to come out of her My people. Jesus or barrabus. Truth or tradition. Sabbath or sun day. Choose wisely. This is the last test for faithfulness to God in obedience to His Word. Blessings in all Truth.
Marty, this is a top and important video this morning. Obviously, you look at the macro problems and way down the track. Sadly, many of us are so busy doing and surviving within short-term parameters that forward planning gets put on the back burner, which in reality only increases the individual pressures.. I as an individual don't have all the answers. However, feel that collectively many of us here may do without engaging in politics. My takeaway from this morning's video is let us concentrate on eggs For example oz consumed last year 59 million dozen eggs. NOW take it a couple of steps further within our cost of living parameter. . It looks like us eat food. Looking up Steggles balance sheet cost of production just on future food inputs is predicted to rise to an alarming amount. Why? Because many producers of chook food Are bailing out of that crop and into things like Canola, barley, and more profitable crops. My background is in Ag as well as finance, research agriculture, and aviation . Originally just a boy from the bush but multi-degree qualified here and overseas. I always follow the money trail and watch such as venture cap and Banking industry (leaving out politics ). I am driven to suggest we listen to Marty think ahead in the macro sense then within our own pressures of the family job, health, etc get on the bus and start doing rather than saying drill down via Google duck, duck go searches etc then discover what the oz egg poultry industry is facing today. The future is starting to become very interesting in a fiscal and corporate sense. MARTY one heck of a catalyst for people to engage in well bloody done
Wow, yer it's truly eye-opening and so much more coming our way. never thought I would be a reporter, haha, but here we are sharing the truth of what's coming! Thanks for this comment Phil
I’d love to have a farm. But the other problem we also face here in Australia is the cost of land. My dad just sold a farm for over $3M here in FNQ (he was the agent). We do have young people that want to go into agriculture but it’s not affordable at all.
As I grew up on a mixed farm in Alberta, Canada. The problem was as a mixed farm you couldn't travel or go into town for a few hours before you had to return because the farm animals. Not really a life.
Another great video Marty. Scary stuff. I wonder if aggregating micro-farms might fill a gap? So, you give the micro-farm a really good crack, some of your neighbors do too, and you might have twenty people in the suburb doing the same. A Cooperative collects the harvests and gets it to market. Regardless, it looks like doing more to be self-sufficient is going to be a necessary skill.
If I could my husband & I would do work for food & a bed in Asia, just to learn how the rice farming works. It would be a wonderful experience. And to see some of the Philippines
I buy all my honey directly from the bee farmer at the farmers markets so i know its real honey 🍯 There is still lots of bees around where i am but some times i don't see any for weeks and i quite often have to pollinate fruit and veg by hand 😢
One issue, I believe, in regards to getting workers these days is that there a jobs around that pay pretty good money for basic blue collar work and who can afford to live on a minimum wage job in most places these days? I was in a previous workplace the other day and my old boss couldn't get anyone to apply for a job that 20-30 years ago people would likely have been lining up for. I think he was hoping I would be putting my hand up for it in spite of being out of the game for 20+ years and being on the wrong side of 60 yo. In reality I could go and work at one of the local production line jobs for more money and better conditions if I so chose. The world sure has changed and a mate of mine who has to hire for jobs is gobsmacked at the stuff he here's from people who try applying for jobs at the place he works. Our local Supermarket often has job ads up and it seems to always be older people or teenagers who are working there. No surprises as I doubt that you could even pay rent around here on minimum wage for a 40 hour week. Biggest issue for food security here, imo, will be if fuel supplies are interrupted for any length of time. Buying blemish free out of season goods may quickly become just a memory.
if you ever go back to the Philippines, please do a video or 2 on Filipino farming/gardening and food 🙏. Also looking forward to your farm to table videos. Can't wait to see you and your wife cooking up a storm...metaphorically of course... We don't need the heavy rain again.
I will, we shot a worm farming video there and also a Tilapia fishing video a few months back. We have plans for the Philippines and if they come to be I will share them here. Thanks Marty
True eggs have been in short supply here in north qld . My son has chickens but as yet we have not committed as we have been travelling a bit plus cost of set up and then getting feed for them .
Hi Jane, it's very close to a price rise Australia wide. Currently researching more on this topic. Regarding chickens, if you are 50% considering getting some I would do some costings and start researching now. What we are discovering doesn't look good.
Interesting to hear you talk about a possible egg shortage due to the dictates of the big 2 supermarkets. Here in NZ we went through this exact thing a couple of summers ago. Our big 2, Woolworths & Foodstuffs decreed that they would only take free range eggs for selling. The egg producers knew that they weren’t going to take battery produced eggs so most off them had changed their system to caged. Well the big 2 stopped taking the battery eggs as they had said they would but then decided they wouldn’t take caged eggs either so they would only take free range. Guess what, not enough egg producers had gone to the free range system so there was a shortage of eggs. It was very difficult to make pavlovas for Christmas. What annoys me most is that these big 2 are basically limiting the everyday consumers ability to choose what product they want. Yes battery produced eggs are not nice on the hen, but when times are tough eggs can be a cheap source of protein & also can be used to stretch food further. Battery eggs were cheaper than free range & for some people that is a cost that is felt a lot in the back pocket. Now we don’t get a choice to have the cheaper eggs. Anyway just watch the price of eggs sky rocket if Australia doesn’t have enough free range egg suppliers when your big 2 start enforcing their purchasing decisions. Newspaper article if you are interested. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/egg-shortage-supermarket-shelves-bare-as-industry-deals-with-supply-issues/CVTUZD3INFEGTAVPNXXCHV23SQ/
Hi Katrina, thanks for sharing what happened in NZ and your experience with the change. I have another piece of content coming out this morning that supports this. I will check out the article you sent!
I think as people become more aware of the food crisis priorities will change. For example if they are have ANY place at all a yard, a balcony, a window garden they will choose to grow some or as much produce as they can Netflix, time spent on technology is NOT going to fill one's stomach.
What I don't like about food in the supermarket is they don't tell you where it's grown anymore they just say from imported ingredients. And I believe that these organic egg farms just have a little door the chickens can walk through but they don't. I'm not 100% sure on that. Another thing people got to realize is chickens I mainly carnivores. What the chicken eats, is what we're eating. I love to get chickens but my wife hates birds. Cheers Graham
Try finding a machine that can do one of the unwanted jobs then get the other rice farmers to pay for that service? Anything to speed up production. Also a granary to store up for hard times.
Sustainable aggbis to feed the family and community maybe, while the cities consume themselves. Agg requires people get dirty and sweat a little. That will never occur to many. Serious change in systems and culture would be needed to effectively upscale sustainable agg to support society the way we do today. Nice dream but. ❤ Stay frosty
Saving eggs on eggs I buy my eggs from the local egg farm. They are barn layed eggs. Thery sell to the local fruitshops and also sell at the farm. I buy seconds a tray of 30 eggs costs $11. I may have to throw one asway for every two trays. The main reasons they are seconds is their shells are too thin or they are too big to sell. They are good for all things except boile eggs. I do boil them but often the shell wel break and I loose a little of the inside but I don't mind this. If people live in a semi rural area they should look arounf for any farms that sell both to stores and to the public. The stores will not take imperfect products so the farmers are usually happ to sell at the farm for a discount rather than throw them away and get noting for their work. An additional benifit of the trays from thwe egg farm is my worms love the cardboard ond if it is kept moist it goes in no time at all
Farmers are leaving the farm due to debt or no family wanting to continue the battles on the farm to make a modest living. Farmers are price takers not price makers side to supply and demand. Let’s not forget bird flu in Victoria, shortages of eggs. Broad conversation Marty, we can’t do much about that as individuals.
We are heading for a global food shortages alot due to changes in weather. So called Global Warming the UK has been wet for the last 2 years, highest temp this year was 2 days at 27 degrees. Nowt but grey skies and rain for most of the week so it has been a struggle growing veg.
Real estate hyper inflation then the ultra wealthy psychos like the mr gates & other cronies will swoop in & buy up the land,& expect us to eat bugs & lab food.
Sometimes i feel sad for the days when life just seemed simpler. We had problems no doubt, but now it feels like one existential threat after another. Food, cost of living, weather and climate causing destruction on a new level, insurance too expensive, health care too expensive, wars popping up, politics that is at a new level. I live with this inner dread of something big coming.
Many do live in fear for sure, being a Christian I find solitude in the safety of Jesus. His words, never leave you no forsake you are written in the bible
@martysgarden grass is shit. Using that amount of water to get rid of weeds or keep rice warm doesn't seem practical. Should be more of a reliance on legumes. There's an abundance of food, so much so we destroy it, so we can supply a select type of food. Deep rooted buckwheat can fix issues is better than stupid grains
I have been a farmhand for around ten years. I have worked with three old blokes that worked as hard as malley bulls, they would work every young guy under the table everyday. Then on the following Monday they just didn't turn up for work for the first day off they have ever had off. Then the next week we were going t another old farmers funeral. We would get a couple of young people to join our farmworkers team and the majority of them would only come for a couple of days then they just simply quit and go back on the dole. I'm also blaming the government for just blatantly handing out money to able bodied young men that should either be made to work or go to the military. No more dole for dole bludgers, get off your asses and get a job. And stop complaining that all the foreigners are taking the jobs. They are not taking the jobs they are just simply applying for the positions that none of the young people want to do. I hope I'm not stepping on anyone's toes or crossing a line. But i have worked pretty much everyday to get what i have achieved in my working life.
This comment just says it all. It speaks truth on what's going on out there. People who have or are working in the industry seeing it happen and unfold around them. Honestly the aging farmer, i real feel for them.
Won't even catch a bus or train it's uber all the time then Nan can you lend me some money takeaway instead of cooking shameful me me me
like the blackbirding and slaves ... grandfather didn't clear the bush and cut cane
Hard honest work is hard
You are so right. Far too many young people and a lot of older ones too, do not know how to work. They have their hand out wanting stuff but not a job. Unfortunately it is in most countries as a form of compassion to help the under -privileged. No welfare or dole for able bodied people. Drug/alcohol abuse is not a illness but a self inflicted condition. A couple of months of treatment then done. I grew up with a farm, it is hard work and far too many people have no idea how how hard it can be to get a crop in and then harvest and get paid. Here in the USA we are having the same problem, my mother who still sorta farms is 89. (with my sister's help) was worried if she could bush hog the pasture next year.
Since they r mucking around with the weather the usual time for harvesting rice is changing overseas so the weather is not a reliable indicator anymore due to some greedy individuals who have a nasty agenda 😔😔
This weather modification is madness
Self sufficient me is a good you tube guy ...
He is yes, nice man and friend
This stuff worries me here in Nz too. It’s why I started a garden, fruit trees, learning to preserve food etc etc 3 years ago. Food security isn’t something the masses seem to talk or think about but it motivates me every single day!
It's very close, and can happen faster than people realise. Thanks for sharing
A huge problem is most of the young people these days just want to get a high paying clean easy job so they can just afford to buy the food they want to eat. Without any thoughts of who grows the food. Sooner or later one day all the farmers will be gone, therefore no more food these people like to eat, and no more knowledge of where it comes from. They will soon realise that the computer can't grow potatoes. Happy gardening everyone. 💚🌏🙏🎄
So true, a computer can't grow spuds, luv it!
Totally agree but it’s platforms like UA-cam that have severed the connection with food origins and help it remain strong so people believe meat and veg just magically appear on the shelves.
If I upload a hunting video or animal processing video, it instantly gets flagged and removed. If monetised, these videos lose monetisation.
-Can’t show dogs on a wild pig.
-Can’t show a clear accurate dispatch of any animal using a bang stick or knife.
-Can’t show the skinning or gutting of animals in case of blood 🩸
Anything in the nature of harvesting your own meat is purposely demonised, even if you have written and verbal warnings of your video content. These large corporations favour the degenerate that’s not interested in your content but instead would just rather dislike and report it.
If warnings are followed being verbal and written then the interested people shouldn’t have to suffer from these valuable life skills
Without any thought of who grows the food? I'd say without any thought at all. They consume and waste like there's no tomorrow.
There are better days coming for everyone.
Stay blessed 💕
We live in coastal rural NSW and have a large covered veg plot in suburbia. Very aware of global inclinations. Rather than encouraging everyone to grow food we are talking with friends (not all of them are awake) about simple trading as not everyone likes gardening but they may trade good for labour or eggs for broccoli. I for one am happy to cook the meals of our friends raise the cattle. We don’t all have to reinvent the wheel. Simple networking does the trick and allows each person to contribute according to their interests and skills. ❤
Well said Cathy, you make a great point!
Energy pricing are NOT coming down. Fact. Great video.
Thanks, I hope your wrong
You are right Marty, rough times ahead, time to start becoming more self reliant . 🙏🌿
100% take control of our lives ahead. These problems can come very fast and unexpected
@@martysgardenand people don’t want to see it , until it’s too late. Thanks for voicing what people are avoiding talking about
Even here in the USA the farmers are aging out. The start up costs are insane and so are the taxes. Too hard of work for too little profit. Then you have people who seem to think that your fields are free and open for their use despite being fenced with signs saying otherwise. I can't tell you the number of people who want produce for free.
Thanks for sharing Margaret
G'day from Mullumbimby Northern N.S.W Australia!
It's also cooking...and cooking the food you grow... another thing that so many do not know how to do 😢
For sure Megan. Sherly and I have planned in the pipeline some cooking videos from what we are growing here in our garden. Hopefully they will be well received.
Now is the time to learn how to grow good soil to grow in.
The better your soil the better your veggies and fruits.
You are so right, we've been busy building good soil here!
I know its not possible for everyone but have atleast one or 2 houses in a street with enough time and space for a flock can produce enough eggs for a decent number of people. Relying on not just yourself but your neighbour when possible can really help. For example i grow some really grate cucumber but dont have enough space for mangoes but my neighbour does so every season i give him some cucumbers in trade for mangoes then i dry some of the mangoes for snacks and i will always save him and his wife some of the dry stuff to enjoy because they dont have the time to make dry magoes. Its a small example of a grate thing to keep in mind
Awesome example, thanks so much for sharing and caring SaltyFishFrenzy
I agree, the people in the farming industry are dying out and not being replaced. However it's not just them, try getting welders or motor mechanics. In this town many of the tradies are my age or already dead.
True, many industries have a similar unfolding issues. Thanks for sharing here
Any practical trade is struggling to get people interested,
As usual good onya Marty. Cooking videos are a must if we don't know how to grow food we sure don't know how to cook food, well fresh food that is. Some videos on cooking preparing and preserving what we grow would be very beneficial Mr Marty man. Thanks for looking out for people.
We are planning these now Tony, waiting for rain to stop
We had a discussion about 'middle age' the other day at church. It was actually my teens saying the average life expectancy (in America especially) is seventy ish, (they know the numbers 😉) which makes 35 'middle age' now.
We are going backwards with all this processed food. So, if you are 35, you are middle aged. The farmers are 'old' by current measures.
The last few decades have been one of coddling, especially with the rise of the internet.
We have homeschooled our many children. Due to frequent moving, growing our own food has been challenging. We are starting to grow now, but live in a challenging environment. Our life has heen real, and with plenty of challenges. Our children have not been coddled, and stand out for it.
The young ones still here at home live life with us. They see and hear in real time what is actually happening, and are being a part of the solution. They know that what we are trying to do is so we have food on the table. They see the bare shop shelves every week. They see the rising prices every week. They live in the real world.
The next generation can be helped by pulling them out of the indoctrination centres ('schools') and living life together. Learn real life skills, and that work is a thing. Be creative . Save jars and grow food in them. Sell the extras.
If we sit back idle, they will, too.
Remember too the fourth commandment KJV. It’s reminding us of Genesis 2:2&3. John 14:15. 1 John 2:3. And Revelation 22:14. Jesus is our example for Biblical rest in this spiritual battle over worship. Jesus said don’t be deceived. And to come out of her My people. Jesus or barrabus. Truth or tradition. Sabbath or sun day. Choose wisely. This is the last test for faithfulness to God in obedience to His Word. Blessings in all Truth.
Luv this, thanks so much for sharing here!
Save your own seeds from your garden too.
That's very important.
Great message in this video Marty. Food security and supply, along with cost of living is super important.
Thanks BlackWolf, we have another video coming out tomorrow as well that helps unfold what I spoke about today. Stay tuned it will be out tomorrow!
@@martysgarden sounds good Marty. Looking forward to it.
Marty, this is a top and important video this morning. Obviously, you look at the macro problems and way down the track. Sadly, many of us are so busy doing and surviving within short-term parameters that forward planning gets put on the back burner, which in reality only increases the individual pressures.. I as an individual don't have all the answers. However, feel that collectively many of us here may do without engaging in politics. My takeaway from this morning's video is let us concentrate on eggs For example oz consumed last year 59 million dozen eggs. NOW take it a couple of steps further within our cost of living parameter. . It looks like us eat food. Looking up Steggles balance sheet cost of production just on future food inputs is predicted to rise to an alarming amount. Why? Because many producers of chook food Are bailing out of that crop and into things like Canola, barley, and more profitable crops. My background is in Ag as well as finance, research agriculture, and aviation . Originally just a boy from the bush but multi-degree qualified here and overseas. I always follow the money trail and watch such as venture cap and Banking industry (leaving out politics ). I am driven to suggest we listen to Marty think ahead in the macro sense then within our own pressures of the family job, health, etc get on the bus and start doing rather than saying drill down via Google duck, duck go searches etc then discover what the oz egg poultry industry is facing today. The future is starting to become very interesting in a fiscal and corporate sense. MARTY one heck of a catalyst for people to engage in well bloody done
Wow, yer it's truly eye-opening and so much more coming our way. never thought I would be a reporter, haha, but here we are sharing the truth of what's coming! Thanks for this comment Phil
I’d love to have a farm. But the other problem we also face here in Australia is the cost of land. My dad just sold a farm for over $3M here in FNQ (he was the agent). We do have young people that want to go into agriculture but it’s not affordable at all.
Yeah land is so expensive these days. The only way is like a start up and raise capital first for young crew
As I grew up on a mixed farm in Alberta, Canada. The problem was as a mixed farm you couldn't travel or go into town for a few hours before you had to return because the farm animals. Not really a life.
Yes, unless you love that life!
Sadly, happening all over the world. Many of us trying to be self sufficient. Good luck to all.
Thanks mate
You've got some very strong points about the economy Marty, I agree 💯.
All the best into 2025
Another great video Marty. Scary stuff. I wonder if aggregating micro-farms might fill a gap? So, you give the micro-farm a really good crack, some of your neighbors do too, and you might have twenty people in the suburb doing the same. A Cooperative collects the harvests and gets it to market. Regardless, it looks like doing more to be self-sufficient is going to be a necessary skill.
Matt, what your saying is a true solution. People may get pushed to doing just that down the line
“With the changing of seasons it’s getting harder”
Weather manipulation….
Many people say that yes, they are definately up in the skies reeking havoc
Great advice mate
Thanks Andy, have an awesome week mate!
Well said and so on the money! Great abundance 🌎
Cheers
The only 'green' I'm interested in, is the one that looks like the one behind you. Love your garden.❤
Yep, it's very green!
If I could my husband & I would do work for food & a bed in Asia, just to learn how the rice farming works. It would be a wonderful experience. And to see some of the Philippines
It may be something we do one day when we have the finances to set up a farm.
Looking forward to the cooking videos!!❤❤❤
Me too, as soon as Sherly has some free time and the sun is shining we will film them
Has anyone else noticed that honey now tastes and looks like golden syrup? HHHHMMMM!!!!! I haven't seen a bee for a long time now....
Check the labels to avoid sugar used in this mixes..a big company got busted a few years back
I buy all my honey directly from the bee farmer at the farmers markets so i know its real honey 🍯
There is still lots of bees around where i am but some times i don't see any for weeks and i quite often have to pollinate fruit and veg by hand 😢
Simple, if you don’t work you won’t eat.
More so if you dont plant, you dont reap.
Yep
One issue, I believe, in regards to getting workers these days is that there a jobs around that pay pretty good money for basic blue collar work and who can afford to live on a minimum wage job in most places these days?
I was in a previous workplace the other day and my old boss couldn't get anyone to apply for a job that 20-30 years ago people would likely have been lining up for. I think he was hoping I would be putting my hand up for it in spite of being out of the game for 20+ years and being on the wrong side of 60 yo.
In reality I could go and work at one of the local production line jobs for more money and better conditions if I so chose.
The world sure has changed and a mate of mine who has to hire for jobs is gobsmacked at the stuff he here's from people who try applying for jobs at the place he works.
Our local Supermarket often has job ads up and it seems to always be older people or teenagers who are working there.
No surprises as I doubt that you could even pay rent around here on minimum wage for a 40 hour week.
Biggest issue for food security here, imo, will be if fuel supplies are interrupted for any length of time.
Buying blemish free out of season goods may quickly become just a memory.
Actually it's so expensive here in the Byron shire most travel to work here from Tweed heads. Or they live in a van and work hospitality
Well said mate.
Cheers Leon
if you ever go back to the Philippines, please do a video or 2 on Filipino farming/gardening and food 🙏.
Also looking forward to your farm to table videos. Can't wait to see you and your wife cooking up a storm...metaphorically of course... We don't need the heavy rain again.
I will, we shot a worm farming video there and also a Tilapia fishing video a few months back. We have plans for the Philippines and if they come to be I will share them here. Thanks Marty
True eggs have been in short supply here in north qld . My son has chickens but as yet we have not committed as we have been travelling a bit plus cost of set up and then getting feed for them .
Hi Jane, it's very close to a price rise Australia wide. Currently researching more on this topic. Regarding chickens, if you are 50% considering getting some I would do some costings and start researching now. What we are discovering doesn't look good.
Great Video,
Thanks Mate.
The way things are going
it may be more lucrative
to start farming crikets lol.
haha, those darn crickets. Thanks for watching!
@martysgarden 😂 It's a world gone Mad hey.
Keep up the good work mate 👌👌👌
@ will do
I’ve been buying a little extra every fortnight to have back up. Started four years ago
That's smart I like that type of forward thinking!
Interesting to hear you talk about a possible egg shortage due to the dictates of the big 2 supermarkets. Here in NZ we went through this exact thing a couple of summers ago. Our big 2, Woolworths & Foodstuffs decreed that they would only take free range eggs for selling. The egg producers knew that they weren’t going to take battery produced eggs so most off them had changed their system to caged. Well the big 2 stopped taking the battery eggs as they had said they would but then decided they wouldn’t take caged eggs either so they would only take free range. Guess what, not enough egg producers had gone to the free range system so there was a shortage of eggs. It was very difficult to make pavlovas for Christmas. What annoys me most is that these big 2 are basically limiting the everyday consumers ability to choose what product they want. Yes battery produced eggs are not nice on the hen, but when times are tough eggs can be a cheap source of protein & also can be used to stretch food further. Battery eggs were cheaper than free range & for some people that is a cost that is felt a lot in the back pocket. Now we don’t get a choice to have the cheaper eggs. Anyway just watch the price of eggs sky rocket if Australia doesn’t have enough free range egg suppliers when your big 2 start enforcing their purchasing decisions. Newspaper article if you are interested. www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/egg-shortage-supermarket-shelves-bare-as-industry-deals-with-supply-issues/CVTUZD3INFEGTAVPNXXCHV23SQ/
Hi Katrina, thanks for sharing what happened in NZ and your experience with the change. I have another piece of content coming out this morning that supports this. I will check out the article you sent!
I think as people become more aware of the food crisis priorities will change. For example if they are have ANY place at all a yard, a balcony, a window garden they will choose to grow some or as much produce as they can
Netflix, time spent on technology is NOT going to fill one's stomach.
Thanks for sharing Janet, I just closed my Netflix actually
Honestly I think it has a lot to do with how much farmers make.
Pay the farmers more I think you'll get a lot more young people staying on farms.
They do in the states, it's subsidised. Makes other problems but it's a great conversation to have
What I don't like about food in the supermarket is they don't tell you where it's grown anymore they just say from imported ingredients. And I believe that these organic egg farms just have a little door the chickens can walk through but they don't. I'm not 100% sure on that. Another thing people got to realize is chickens I mainly carnivores. What the chicken eats, is what we're eating. I love to get chickens but my wife hates birds. Cheers Graham
Yeah it's a tough one, food labelling is really not good enough. Great point you bring across mate
Growing food is the toughest aspect for me
Yes, that's why we start off small and work out slowly
Try finding a machine that can do one of the unwanted jobs then get the other rice farmers to pay for that service? Anything to speed up production. Also a granary to store up for hard times.
Already got enough machines, but they need people to man them. A bigger granary is also in the making so we can buy and store extra
I've been playing in the dirt most of the day.
Hi Janet,,,awesome wish I could it's raining again
Sustainable aggbis to feed the family and community maybe, while the cities consume themselves.
Agg requires people get dirty and sweat a little. That will never occur to many. Serious change in systems and culture would be needed to effectively upscale sustainable agg to support society the way we do today. Nice dream but. ❤
Stay frosty
Cheers
Saving eggs on eggs I buy my eggs from the local egg farm. They are barn layed eggs. Thery sell to the local fruitshops and also sell at the farm. I buy seconds a tray of 30 eggs costs $11. I may have to throw one asway for every two trays. The main reasons they are seconds is their shells are too thin or they are too big to sell. They are good for all things except boile eggs. I do boil them but often the shell wel break and I loose a little of the inside but I don't mind this. If people live in a semi rural area they should look arounf for any farms that sell both to stores and to the public. The stores will not take imperfect products so the farmers are usually happ to sell at the farm for a discount rather than throw them away and get noting for their work.
An additional benifit of the trays from thwe egg farm is my worms love the cardboard ond if it is kept moist it goes in no time at all
Thanks Terry, great tips here mate!
Farmers are leaving the farm due to debt or no family wanting to continue the battles on the farm to make a modest living.
Farmers are price takers not price makers side to supply and demand.
Let’s not forget bird flu in Victoria, shortages of eggs.
Broad conversation Marty, we can’t do much about that as individuals.
As individuals there isn't much we can do, but take control of growing our own food
We are heading for a global food shortages alot due to changes in weather. So called Global Warming the UK has been wet for the last 2 years, highest temp this year was 2 days at 27 degrees. Nowt but grey skies and rain for most of the week so it has been a struggle growing veg.
The weather is making harder recently
@HobbyRed7 they are trying to flood brisbane again 😳 ua-cam.com/video/oKVEZRCRpwE/v-deo.html
Your wife lives in the Philippines?
Sorry, she is from the Philippines lives with me in Mullumbimby,,my error in the video
Japan is low but South Korea is even lower.
It's frightening, yes?
On Wednesday Jim Charmers will be updating us on the Budget
Cheers
Farms selling for billions in FNQ just can’t afford it 😢
So expensive, wow!
Real estate hyper inflation then the ultra wealthy psychos like the mr gates & other cronies will swoop in & buy up the land,& expect us to eat bugs & lab food.
Sometimes i feel sad for the days when life just seemed simpler. We had problems no doubt, but now it feels like one existential threat after another. Food, cost of living, weather and climate causing destruction on a new level, insurance too expensive, health care too expensive, wars popping up, politics that is at a new level. I live with this inner dread of something big coming.
It wasn't that things were simpler. If you wanted to eat you worked. Many were poor but so was almost everyone else.
Many do live in fear for sure, being a Christian I find solitude in the safety of Jesus. His words, never leave you no forsake you are written in the bible
Rice is so crap for the environment. That said Australian rice is not as bad as the rest. They should stop growing rice and buy Australian.
So they should stop growing rice and let everyone starve around the globe, yeh that makes real sense!
@martysgarden grass is shit. Using that amount of water to get rid of weeds or keep rice warm doesn't seem practical. Should be more of a reliance on legumes. There's an abundance of food, so much so we destroy it, so we can supply a select type of food. Deep rooted buckwheat can fix issues is better than stupid grains
Australian rice is poo
Hi all from Kobble Creek QLD 🦘🌏.. stay strong folks ..the shit is coming down the pipe
Yes, and plan ahead