He Has To Grow Or Forage Everything He Eats For 1 Year!

[Music] you believe Rob is eating out of these two front yards and that's it and Plus foraging and harvesting some fish this place is pretty unbelievable not to mention he lives in a hundred square foot tiny house in the backyard so check that thing out come on in this is the homestead this is where I spend hours upon hours upon hours in the kitchen processing food it's the good life here the simple life I don't have a single bill debt credit card it's a hundred square feet ten feet by 10 feet it was definitely small but my last tiny house was 50 square feet so this is substantially bigger and the reason I need the size is really for the food I mean this place primarily exists as a place to store my food you know like for example this shelf is one two three four five five shelves of food two shelves of possessions which is pretty standard so this is the honey from my bees I harvested 75 pounds last fall so that was pretty successful I also do be rescue with my friend Dennis the bee guy so when bees are gonna be a bees are you know they make a swarm and then they go to someone's house or garage or something like that where they don't want them that some people call and get them rescued instead of exterminated and this honey is actually from rescues so that's pretty amazing when sometimes the bee hives that we rescue have a ton of honey and I get the take a bunch of it home and then these this is all the honey from my my colonies ooh this is great right here this has been a blessing Sapodilla oh I found a well my friend showed it to me a Sapodilla tree down in West Palm in a public park old tree maybe it's huge 50 hundred year old tree I don't know so I've been eating Sapodilla which has been great had like a 20-foot extension pole de with a fruit tree picker star fruit that I harvested from a tree two days ago then like lemons I grow a lot of daikon radish yes the passion fruit I planted a passion fruit I got about eighty last year from it and it's just just starting to push out another new crop this year you inspect a couple hundred this year huh I'd be wonderful yeah this is not food this is coconut oil as only the body oil with me know it's from the side of the road I found it uh I found a jar of it so so as you can see I don't have cooking coconut oil I don't actually have any oil so far I've basically failed at oil I've made this much coconut oil about four ounces but I have a bunch of coconuts and hopefully on this round I'll do all right I have this this was my attempt at making coconut oil but I dried the coconuts out too much yeah but now I have it as a it's a nice snack anyway and the oils still in there so cool this is great stuff here's my pension visa I just showed in the front yard and these are southern keys so those are my two form two major sources of plant-based protein fish is my main source of protein and then I just realized in this video I'm probably always eating and then lots of different things that drive lemongrass green onion garlic this is my team extra bitches yup on holiday reishi mushroom lemongrass holy basil and mint this is my salt from the ocean so I just boiled salt water and one of the challenges I run into is the moisture just keeps going in there and clumping it up on Peters head rice well they do in the restaurant yeah that'd be risky though because then what if acts and they ate a great he didn't grow the rice yeah here's tumeric I've had really good success with tumeric which has been really nice yeah try dried peppers so a little sample of what's going on here nice over here on the other side this where all the knowledge comes from oh yeah this has been a great book for me as far as the annuals go Robert Boden's Florida fruit and vegetable gardening just just like they this is the big thing just this little table that tells you what time of year to plant you know how far apart director transplant this this is the type of stuff for me when I first got started that just having this little table was a lifesaver so this is fermentation so I make John which is that kombucha except it's honey and good tea instead of sugar and then this is honey wine my last batch of honey wine was amazing this patch not going too good I think I accidentally got some of the June Scobee into my honey wine because it keeps producing a scoby Oh vinegars mango vinegar this is mango harvested down in Fort Lauderdale from abandoned Lots mostly fire cider I'm making ginger beer and turmeric beer and then of course the Seminole pumpkins these have been amazing I got 170 Seminole pumpkins last summer and just planted a few for this year so those have been good they're staple of like the freezer right here it was a freezer hiding in here yeah this is a deep chest freezer this is plant taco as I said I also grow my own medicine if I get stung my my bees and I put fun taco on along with honey within the first two minutes or so hardly any swelling if I don't I just blowed up this is so this is a great medicine to be able to grow here's my freezer I've got star fruit in here stop it yeah [Applause] my original intentions was to be off grid and have solder but and that's the way my last tiny house was but I just decided that for this year with growing and forging 100% of my food being off-grid was just a step that I couldn't take it because I just I can't risk a fail freezer failing and we do get periods of three days of clouds and so I need a pretty big you know battery bank and I'm only here for two years and I'm only using about ten dollars with them electricity per month so it just you know this only uses about three dollars of electricity per month so you know I really thought it over and I just thought well I think the best scenario is just plugging in I just have an extension cord and not being off the grid my idea would be off the grid but for this project I run my you know vitamix and the dehydrator and stuff like that so a really a light charge your phone one freezer that's about it computer okay computer and since the electricity is here I do find myself using it more of that I did get a dehydrator I'd like to do a Solar dehydrator only but when you have a ton of you know fruit fruit takes longer to dehydrate I can't really risk things going mouldy so oh you know speaking of food preserving that I just made this this you're the first to see this that's my little version of a root cellar so it stays substantially cooler down here here's some sauerkraut and fermented daikon radish so I just built this I'm just working on it I can see there's a little moisture in here but that's one of my you know my challenges is it's so hot here in the summer so that's the blessing of living up north this food preservation is easy up north down here food preservation is a struggle and that's one of the reasons that this project is really hard down here is because up there you you get you know apples in the fall and you can heart you can harvest and store hundreds upon two apples and not have to worry about storing them you know root cellars are easy or basements and such but here try storing 300 pounds of apple without an air-conditioned house so that's really the that's one of the reasons that this project is so hard is because it's extremely time consuming because I'm kind of always harvesting in small quantities and preserving in smaller quantities rather than you know these bulk harvests that would be much more time efficient so that's that's something that I need to work on but you know I'm pretty excited about that thing at the same time it's you know it can be also just a little stressful of how busy it is I mean the number of hours I spend just processing food oh man the squirrels what's the heck this is this was Iike the devil this is all TP plant the plectranthus barbatus yeah yeah and I had that all in there to make cuttings and the squirrels are always messing with my stuff but that's fine they come into my house and so this is the kitchen my water that I drink is rainwater comes from the roof right here the roof is metal rather than asphalt and these are food grade barrels so it's good for rainwater I just pour that into the Berkey and out comes nice pure drinking water I would say I wasted water except that did it all I did was slowed the rainwater from the sky to this point since this is all just rainwater the sink is just a gravity-fed system from the sparrow rainwater and then it just goes down the drain up this tube and then right now I'm growing taro back here so the taro is coming up pretty nicely I'm not sure this is my first time growing taro I'm not sure if it'll you know produce much but overall it's looking pretty good right now just washing the hands up and right now I have the propane stove hooked up so this is just a standard propane cook stove but I also have a methane bio digester so this when I turn it on house methane come out of it and I'll show you if we walk over here this is the methane as if I were digester so you put food waste in this is water and food waste and then it produces a gas and you can see it's full right now so this is about up to three hours of cooking time worth of gas that's in here right now and it goes through that yellow tube which I have buried and then it's methane so you cook with methane and I have a separate stove that one is the propane stove and I switch it out with the with the the biogas so from and then back here the byproduct of it is a is a great tree fertilizer yeah like nice little I guess you could it's not would you call that compost tea hmm it's some kind of effluent yeah yeah liquid fertilizer so that's a nice little benefit of it right over here is the compost then the system I set up is putting it right in between my bananas just you know have those nutrients go to the bananas I pick up I pick up leaves from the neighbor's yard and use my carbon source so I haven't produced a lot of soil just because I'm here a short period so mushroom compost has been my real fertility but definitely making sure that nope you know of course 100% of my food waste is turned into soil nothing goes to the landfill over here coconuts these are definitely one of my main forms of sustenance I've got ones for water but the main thing is the ones far for oil so how you know it's it's brown my ideal is they're brown and they still have some color though like this is good you know you still have some color and there's and not rough and then you shake it that's a perfect coconut right there in fact nature's bottled water and yeah I want to make coconut curry for you and I Oh green papaya coconut curry is one of my favorite meals so this spike I found in the backyard it's not specifically designed for coconuts but it works pretty good first piece of the hardest seems like you've got a little bit of going work out harvesting your own food too mom I definitely have you had a sprouted coconut yet rum yeah I've got some slow ones I got a sick not my favorite I like a good just solid white just be for sprouting stage so coconuts are a bit of work but I think one coconut like this might have something around 1,500 calories inside I I got to do the math but coconuts are definitely work but they are also you know coconuts are survival food you can so then I just use my knife I don't have a machete all right use that go around like that got your coconut water and your beautiful white coconut that's a perfect oil coconut so it takes about six coconuts to produce a pint so this is about three four ounces of coconut oil which is you know just oil wise that's 500 calories in itself so these are pretty pretty great foods I can make coconut milk I like to make golden milk with tumeric and coconut milk and honey coconut oil mmm one piece sure it's been stuff I don't know I kind of consider a coconut like the comparison to getting a deer like the sustenance wise if I was up north I'd get a deer down here poke it up there are deer down here too but it was just a bit of a comparison in my mind yeah got the solar out in here oh cool but cooking as well I haven't used that as much as I'd like to but now that it's gonna be summer I'm gonna start to use it more and then back here this is Oh more food contemporary storage I don't this is not my ideal way of storing but sweet potatoes this is the kind that I grew 400 pounds of they put these big mammoth ones out but then I also grow some purple ones and here's daikon radish this is the yam dye escorial Atta I've eaten a lot of a lot of sweet potato a lot of yuca minimal yam I would prefer sweet potato on and then while we're here here's the toilet the closed-loop composting toilet system I mentioned the toilet paper plant this is plectranthus barbatus okay and up north they have lambsquarters your lamps are lamb's ear and this is like I mean it's just the softest thing it's just for dick I mean it's ridiculously soft and nice like - yeah okay so it's in the mint family yeah so it's got a great smell and actually one thing I discovered on a very dewy morning you know these were really moist and they they're hairy so they hold in the moisture so that actually a perfect natural wet wipe as well oh so pretty special pee goes in here it's diluted about 10:00 to 1:00 and then that can be used on plants mostly like shrub things like my Chaya or pigeon pea or papaya and things like that poop goes into this one and then that has sawdust used as the carbon source and then that has to be composted for a year that's called humanure and then that can be used on fruit trees I mean it can feasibly be used on low things like kale as well but generally it's used on things where the food doesn't actually come in contact with it so that's the compost closed-loop composting toilet system and then a shower so this is the rain water tower and the idea of this is this you know basically a closed-loop shower as well water comes from the roof I have a five-gallon bucket that I just usually I would get all those leaves out of there first before you field about yeah and then just but leaves don't harm me and then I just dump the water over my head I haven't gotten around to making like an overhead solar shower yet but this works great and I plan through the banana here but that banana didn't come out but my plan is to have some big nice bananas here removing plans yeah so yeah that's pretty much that's largely the place you want to maybe make make some lunch and sit down like MTV Cribs Rob Greenfield edition right here I love it cool man let's do that I don't think that when I was a kid and I was watching cribs I would have been too stoked on this I was more into the big places with the cars for sure [Music] this is the coconut that I just cut open and just put some water in there and I'm gonna blend it up to make coconut mouth before the curry [Music] [Music] this is a produce bag can use nut milk bags I made a green juice this morning so there's still some green juice pulp on there but that's fine and then just pour the coconut in there strain it I also threw a there some tumeric in there oh boy haha and then you've got nice so this is the same way that I would make golden milk as well but this is the face for the curry oh dang I feel most of the tumeric in there even more grinding yeah I usually will go through and do a second round now okay just to get the most of my weight had more water and blend again yeah some things are precious and limited enough that you have to go through twice other things are so abundant like my greens are so abundant and I'm just adding the nutrients right back to the garden that I don't double blend there's gonna be lunch or dinner both both you're gone for the day I don't know let's see here I don't know it might I'm gonna cook some sweet potatoes as well I do I do try ideally to make a few meals at once just to make this whole thing manageable it's really helps to make like ideally I cook all my yuca for the day okay or sweet potato for the day all right taste that definitely one of the difficulties are cooking outside of the wind is the wind I could build a little frame around this but there's so many things I want to do isn't like I want to I want a rocket stove I want a Solar dehydrator it's just list goes on the list goes on and that's why if I was staying here for 10 years of me easier because I'd be building up a little bit at a time but it's different since I'm only staying for two years you know what I'm gonna put my time into all right so this is lunch and dinner in the pot I've got coconut milk and lemongrass already going with turmeric blended in there and then the other ingredients are gonna be green papaya I already peeled that some cut-up Seminole pumpkin that I have stored in the freezer and then I've got pepper garlic chive there's the tumeric rosemary garlic as well African blue basil standard basil Italian basil and there's lemongrass I've got salt from the ocean and oh collar does the greens I would usually use like bok choy but I don't have that right now and then I'm gonna cook some sweet potatoes separately and lay this over the sweet potatoes so yeah this is definitely lunch and dinner and enough for for you to try out on the meals as well that's exciting bro all right so or time to chop the green papaya cooking from you know crap like a hundred percent scratch from the garden or forest is in itself you know a lot of work that's that's one of the big challenges of this project is just the amount of time that goes into cooking and that's the area where I need to improve getting better at preparing more food at once but it's difficult because I'm I'd like to eat as fresh as possible at the same time my cutting board is split in half so I'm using uh actually this is a third of a cutting bud I think the human and outdoors always having it wet [Music] all right dinner is served for Pete and I we've got sweet potatoes which are just one of my favorite things I really never get tired of those and I'll use that as a base and then throw the the curry right over the top of that and this is a nice like semi-tropical meal here it's got a combination of stuff that you can grow up north and stuff that grows down here in Central Florida and even some stuff down from South Florida so a lot to take away from this so it has been awesome spending the day with all of you and I'm super thankful for Pete for coming out we are gonna have ourselves to dinner now but today's just a 139 of this year so if you're inspired and you're learning from this then I would say you know join me on my youtube channel and Instagram where I'll be sharing this journey for another one 200 some 200 no less than 200 days was still quite a bit to come so yeah dinner time right on man all right guys I hope you enjoyed Rob's epic story I think it's quite inspiring to see what he's been doing over here the fact that he's been feeding himself out of this urban front yard I mean that's kind of unheard of it's not very common to say the least and he's not a farmer he doesn't have experience doing this so I got some hot food waiting for me I'm gonna go enjoy that if you all enjoyed this video be sure to pound that like button if you haven't subscribed yet be sure to subscribe also and most importantly pounder [Music] you [Music]

Channel: Pete Kanaris GreenDreamsFL

Views: 1,148,364

Rating: 4.8852577 out of 5

Keywords: Gardening, farming, landscaping, planting, organic food, ecology, sustainability, growing food, self-sufficiency, growing vegetables, growing fruits, market farming, organic gardening, organic farming, permaculture, food forest

Id: KdNan4akhgo

Length: 28min 16sec (1696 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 10 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/YOUREABOT]

careful with that coconut spike man little close to ur man parts

[u/canichangemyname28]

In that climate he's pretty well off, but in a winter season he would be dead with that little food

[u/DopaMonkey]

This would be a very fulfilling hobby.

Part 1 he shows his growing land : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xB7UK7yuW5g

Truly the best thing I've seen in a while, this has convinced me (vegetarian) to at least grow my own greens and herbs.