Watch now (61 mins) | Homesteading tips from Ryan Steva, who began his own journey to self-reliance after a health crisis showed him the cracks in the food and medical systems.
Ryan has a good message but I don't agree with him bagging carbs as the problem and showing a photo of some of the best foods you can eat. Sweet potatoes and whole grain bread? I've been eating a starch based diet with fruits and vegetables for over a decade. I quit poisoning myself with alcohol and processed food and have never felt better. I don't get sick anymore.
True, many people in the modern world still do possess an excellent ability to digest high carb diets, and like you, all they have to do is stop eating processed food & etc.: perhaps remove pesticides, alcohol, sugar, etc. from the diet.
I’m not one of those people. But I wish I were!
Big Agra + Big Food + Big Pharma destroyed my intestinal microbiome. I’m limited now to pre-civilized Hunter-Gatherer Man’s innate digestive powers (for a nearly entirely animal foods diet). There are many people in the modern world nowadays, including children, who have lost Farming Man’s *acquired* ability to properly digest agricultural diets (high carb diets), hence a looot of mental & physical health problems nowadays 😡😡😡.
Similar story myself: health crisis (including job loss/ career loss & plenty of health insurance entanglements in my USA) ultimately resolved by a simple but radical dietary change (ultra-low carb dieting), and I became convinced of the dangers (and the lies!) of Big Pharma, Big Food, & Big Agra. I started my first veggie garden in 2009 (organic!), and long story short, I aspire to go pro here in my wife’s native Japan (fringe-rural Tokyo metro region).
That said, in 2014 (ten years ago), I concluded that homesteading & homeschooling was the only path to a middle-class standard of living left remaining to our family (5 kids) in the USA, but instead of ‘heading for the hills,’ I led my family to my wife’s native Japan to take a chance on self-employment. We have a successful pastries & sweets & snacks operation today (no employees).
With ten years of retrospect, I’m happy with how things turned out. My wife’s not cut out for the homesteading & homeschooling lifestyle in the USA. She’s a Big City girl, and a pastry chef, so she made the business happen here 👍🙂 Fair is fair. You gotta know your personal limits culturally & physically.
There’s lots of information online. With these resources & friendly advice from farmers & others “in the community,” I learned veggie gardening & raising chickens. I turned our 8,400 sq. ft. city lot (Tucson) into an “urban mini-farm,” 24 layers in the front yard in a coyote-proof roost of my own design & build 👍🙂
That was “starting small” for me in 2009. By 2014, I was ready to take the Leap of Faith to the homeschooling & homesteading lifestyle.
But like I said, you gotta know your cultural & physical limits. You have to ❤️love❤️ the idea of hard, physical labor 12 hours a day (but really it’s 24/7/365 😂😂😂), and culturally you have to want to live that way, first & foremost rather isolated (geographically isolated).
Ultimately, here in Japan, we don’t need to homeschool (because there’s still value in a gov’t provided education; no need to shield our children from indoctrination), plus health care is zero worry. We pay more at the supermarket for dairy products annually than we do for the national health insurance premiums 😂😂😂 That’s how affordable health insurance is here. And at worst, a month-long hospital stay will cost only US$600 🤣🤣🤣 (six hundred dollars).
Ryan has a good message but I don't agree with him bagging carbs as the problem and showing a photo of some of the best foods you can eat. Sweet potatoes and whole grain bread? I've been eating a starch based diet with fruits and vegetables for over a decade. I quit poisoning myself with alcohol and processed food and have never felt better. I don't get sick anymore.
True, many people in the modern world still do possess an excellent ability to digest high carb diets, and like you, all they have to do is stop eating processed food & etc.: perhaps remove pesticides, alcohol, sugar, etc. from the diet.
I’m not one of those people. But I wish I were!
Big Agra + Big Food + Big Pharma destroyed my intestinal microbiome. I’m limited now to pre-civilized Hunter-Gatherer Man’s innate digestive powers (for a nearly entirely animal foods diet). There are many people in the modern world nowadays, including children, who have lost Farming Man’s *acquired* ability to properly digest agricultural diets (high carb diets), hence a looot of mental & physical health problems nowadays 😡😡😡.
Thanks,
Gerald
Similar story myself: health crisis (including job loss/ career loss & plenty of health insurance entanglements in my USA) ultimately resolved by a simple but radical dietary change (ultra-low carb dieting), and I became convinced of the dangers (and the lies!) of Big Pharma, Big Food, & Big Agra. I started my first veggie garden in 2009 (organic!), and long story short, I aspire to go pro here in my wife’s native Japan (fringe-rural Tokyo metro region).
That said, in 2014 (ten years ago), I concluded that homesteading & homeschooling was the only path to a middle-class standard of living left remaining to our family (5 kids) in the USA, but instead of ‘heading for the hills,’ I led my family to my wife’s native Japan to take a chance on self-employment. We have a successful pastries & sweets & snacks operation today (no employees).
With ten years of retrospect, I’m happy with how things turned out. My wife’s not cut out for the homesteading & homeschooling lifestyle in the USA. She’s a Big City girl, and a pastry chef, so she made the business happen here 👍🙂 Fair is fair. You gotta know your personal limits culturally & physically.
There’s lots of information online. With these resources & friendly advice from farmers & others “in the community,” I learned veggie gardening & raising chickens. I turned our 8,400 sq. ft. city lot (Tucson) into an “urban mini-farm,” 24 layers in the front yard in a coyote-proof roost of my own design & build 👍🙂
That was “starting small” for me in 2009. By 2014, I was ready to take the Leap of Faith to the homeschooling & homesteading lifestyle.
But like I said, you gotta know your cultural & physical limits. You have to ❤️love❤️ the idea of hard, physical labor 12 hours a day (but really it’s 24/7/365 😂😂😂), and culturally you have to want to live that way, first & foremost rather isolated (geographically isolated).
Ultimately, here in Japan, we don’t need to homeschool (because there’s still value in a gov’t provided education; no need to shield our children from indoctrination), plus health care is zero worry. We pay more at the supermarket for dairy products annually than we do for the national health insurance premiums 😂😂😂 That’s how affordable health insurance is here. And at worst, a month-long hospital stay will cost only US$600 🤣🤣🤣 (six hundred dollars).
Oh, the evils of socialized medicine 🤣🤣🤣
Thanks for letting me share my story here 👍🙂
Thanks for sharing this. Watching YouTube now.