Phoenix Survival: All Things Gardening

You're listening, can you will pay us back to stability share? Good morning, PBN jafferd here Phoenix Revival. It has been a hot minute. We've had a lot going on with the olders when they had their spring break and then deal them with life on its own on our end. So as you see, I put on a little eyeliner, but I'm still half awake, even though I've been up for several hours. It's funny how that works. Let me, I'm pulling up my Instagram here on my phone so then I can see the chat for those of my Instagram viewers because we are now live on Instagram X and rumble because guess what YouTube has again us? Why they're always pissed about something, always mad about something that we've said that disagreed with their gentle sensibilities, which is kind of entertaining, hey JP, which is kind of entertaining considering the amount of I'm just gonna say it, but crap that is being put on air, and goodness forbid. We say something that we believe is our opinions or our thoughts, and we are the problem. Yeah, So it's interesting how that works. Yes, the truth hurts, as Garden Girls says in Instagram, good night morning everybody. It is interesting to see how one little thing can remove us off of something. But that doesn't stop peb in. We've ran men into mini hurdles throughout the years, and we have been on the air for quite a while. So the fact that hey, good morning, tale TC and nice to see you in here. Hey garden girl, how are you love? It is one of those things where you know what we're gonna keep going. Doesn't matter how hard people try to knock us down. We keep going. So that being said, I wish my actual yard looked as bountiful and beautiful as this garden behind me. Let me just take myself off the screen for a moment so you can see the entire beauty. I mean, that's gorgeous. Now, there are several plants that are missing, in my opinion, but we are on the way to grow in. I have started seed starters. We now are dealing with a ground hog issue. Who is I had plants I had to move out of the rain because they were cement plants and they don't drain. So it's trying to spare those plants and I put them on the porch. Well, I guess the groundhog figured out. I do have a solar powered rodent deterrent that makes a high frequency noise, and it doesn't go near the plants that are on the ground. Little did I realize that putting those plants on the porch would cause a whole new type of issue. They have eaten my holopeno plants down to the stub with a few sprigs left on it. So some of them are trying to come back, all of the leaves off my shar plants, but some tiny ones it couldn't get to which are growing back, and my tomato plants are now nonexistent to stubs. Now, those were pre plants that I had bought just so I could have some some fruit coming about. Our vegetables coming about as my seeds are going, because I do have them in the greenhouse and they are doing them wonderfully, except I am running into some hiccups with certain seeds that I'm like, Okay, it's now time to order additional because those seeds are pretty old. Usually they have a good germination rate, but for whatever reason this year, they're just not sprouting. I am I am also start trying I had mentioned in chat when James was on air that there are certain plants that require stratification or cold stratification before they can sprout. And what that means is that seed has to go through like an extreme cold or a frost situation to be able to then sprout. So because of that, I've seen this method online where people have frozen those seeds and ice cubes and then put those seeds out right about the time the snow is melting and then they sprout from there. So I'm doing two different methods. I'm trying that one and I am trying direct seed. I know could be fruitless in better terms, but you know what, I want to see how it does. So I did right after write about our very last two frosts. Is when I put the ice cubes out, I probably should have had them started sooner. So this is a whole new learning curve for me. But there are certain plants I would love to have this year. Now if they don't succeed, okay, I'm going to lead them in the containers they're in. They may rot, they may not, Oh okay. So garden girl says she has zip lock seeds in the freezer and I did these in the ice so then I can throw them in and then they water. I will have to try that. I do have some seeds from a deer in from Ohio who sent me cherry tomatoes and several other Hey, how are you? Oh we got over on Rumble. Oh sorry, I got distracted by the seats real quick. I've got more seats that I'm putting up. Oh my goodness. Why can't I say your name? He's he's normal. He's our friend from Portugal who's always on Instagram. I'm so sorry. I love my brain completely. I need a nap and I am then up. Yeah, Joe Ray, thank you love Sorry. He's on both channels, He's everywhere. He's both on Rumble and Instagram. And who are listeners who are over on X Good morning? So what is the purpose to the whole garden? Well, as we see the and I've mentioned over the years, the economy is not getting better, and we are finding that food is more expensive, fuels more expensive, cost of living is more expensive, and we are seeing more and more. I feel like over the years it's just gotten to be an even larger amount of recalls on different bacteria or different issues that metal or what have you. In your food. I don't want to have to be terrified to give my children or my family something and find out it could potentially kill them. So because of that, I raise chickens. I have eggs. M Another hiccup on the Phoenix instead is another bird has gone missing out of nowhere, and our eggs were we were getting six, no, eight to fourteen eggs a day. On top of this, we do have to butcher. Oh, thank you, Joe, right, I appreciate you. We do have to butcher several mill roosters, which may be stressing the girls out on over the last four days slowly decline to just four eggs in one day. I did have to put one of my girls down for different reasons. She was sickly. Really wasn't anything I could do for and the best thing I could do was remove her from the flock and keep an eye on the other girls. Now. So that's but she was much older, much much older. So as they get older, they have a harder time with eggs, they have a harder time with their body, and sometimes that happens. The only thing we are looking at is hopefully I'll be able to hatch some more chicks and then we'll have more to add to our flock because as the years go on, you have to be able to feed your family meat, protein, vegetables. That's the goal. So I didn't I mean the detail with the chicken speak, but that is a part of homestead. And as you're going to run into hiccups, you're going to run into issues or health issues. And with older birds sometimes there's just not anything you can do. If she was egg bound, you could soak her, again, that's not a guarantee. We put dietamacious Earth out to prevent and minimize mites as well. As My girls are eaten better than hogs because they get the table scraps and they love it. And I find when I give them specific table scraps, I will wake up to twice as much eggs. So I have upped their extra table scraps hoping that would help. But I know we've got other issues going on with a potential predator getting in towards the coupe. So that's a big one for us, is trying to preserve what we have while adding to it. Now on the garden front, I have I live in an area where it is down to pretty much clay beautiful. Certain plants still grow great. Here. Something eate and I'm pretty sure it was the groundhog ate both of my banana trees that were coming up that were a good almost two feet tall, and I had planted them out in the normal weather and they survived the winter, well, you know, died down to your winter and they were coming back the spring, and the groundhog seems to have eaten the higher thing. All right, jo Rit, I have a great lunch. Thank you for popping in. I appreciate you so much. But yeah, we are dealing with that, which is going to be a bigger concern because of where the garden is going. So the garden I make, and I'm taking all the fell trees. I had a neighbor who donated several trees that they were needed out of their yard that are starting to rot and break down. It is all hardwood, and we've chopped them up into about two foot sized pieces. I want to yeah, about two foot and maybe a little bit bigger. And I am taking those trees. Yes, I do need more comfory. Actually, garden girl, I don't think I ever got comforty from you, but yes I do need Comfrey. Sorry, I'm looking at the chat on my phone down to the right. Oh cee JP, have a good day. Sorry, I'm on late. I will try to fix that. So I'm up earlier. I decided to let the boys sleep in today, so but yes, I do need comfory please. I am all for herbs and plants that can help my family. Bitch, I will get there. The garden is being taking the stumps, turning them vertical from the cut in to cut end, and stacking them and then building it around instead of lighting, instead of taking wood or other material that we just can't afford right now. You know, like I said in the Phoenix Household, we have been thrown some heavy curveballs, and you know what, we're dealing with our losses on our emotional and financial and just mental level. And we're going. We're still going, and you can keep going. So the thing is is I'm taking those I'm building up my garden. I've already laid down a bunch of dietamacious earth to try to kill off some of the bugs and beetles that I know are going to end up getting in there. We do have an Asian needle ant issue here. And now, mind you, if you don't know what they are. Look them up. They're actually pretty far across the United States and people don't realize it. They look like you're a little tiny black ants, except they're a little narrower and when they sting you, it does hurt. But here's the problem. It doesn't just go away. You know, a fire ant sting is persistent. You know a fire ant, Well, this ant sting will hit you off and on throughout a twelve hour period and it comes in waves and it is awful, absolutely awful. And they tell you to be careful because these can trigger anaphylactic reactions and studies. But the thing about the Asian needle ant is they don't nest like your typical ants. They don't make hills, they don't dig and have colonies in the ground. They actually build their colonies amongst the leaf debris and the down logs and trees on the ground. They don't actually have a normal type of colony structure, which makes it more of an issue. Now, we've been fortunate, we've only been hit by these ants a couple times. We try to be very cautious, hence the dietamacious Earth. If anyone has any other recommendation of what to use, that's great. I don't want to put down any poison that could potentially hurt my plants. So if anyone's got some good recommendations for good ant control, please let me know. But right now, I did ditamacious earth everything. I powdered all the logs, and we did run into some that did have the ant colonies in there and killed them off. All of the more rotten debris, the leaves, the old Christmas tree from last year that we cut up and let start to rot. All of that is going to go into the center of the garden and the raised bed itself because we are doing like a type of Hugo culture method, And if you look up Hugo culture, it is your logs and stumps and your debris, your leaf matter, and then you build it up from there. So in this bed it is going to have your tree debris, your leaves, maybe some untreated straw or haybelles that I have planned for, and then I'm going to build up the soil from there so as it breaks down, because those trees are not treated, they are going to rot, they are going to break down. My whole goal long term is to amend and rebuild the soil because it is clay dense where we're at. Maybe put down a little gypsum so it can help break down the clay and then that nutrients can seep into the soil. But the whole point is to build up the soil, so as time goes on, there's left that I have to do, less that I have to do to amend it. So that also runs into companion gardening. Consider the fact that you do have to plan out your gardening. Now I'm not saying that I suggest you should. I've seen plenty people chaos garden and that's great for certain plants, but companion gardening is a real thing and has proven to work. So when you plant tomatoes, tomatoes take nitrogen out of the soil. They usually need calcium too, So you can crumble the extra eggshells that you have from your chickens in there and they will eat it up. But they drain the nitrogen. So do peppers. That's why you don't put certain plants next to each other, because they will drain the nitrogen out of the soil and then starve each other. So beans peas are nitrogen fixers. So, for example, in the last year, I threw out a bunch of oh, buck wheat. There you go. So I threw out a bunch of buckwheat seed, and that is to start helping the soil, which I was able to get a few cherry tomatoes and some jalapenos out of the clay surprisingly enough, and they did well. My bananas were doing great, and so I only had certain plants that didn't take as well. But that's what I do. I throw out some buckwheat, so then it's reamending the soil by adding nitrogen back into it. The buckwheat itself is great for the animals, is great for the people because it is a protein and you can make buckwheat pancakes. Now are we eating it right now? No? I'm using it to also as like a groundcover, even though it gets really really tall. It was nice to be able to know that I was doing something towards the soil, even though I couldn't quite get my garden in at the right time since we did move and then we started our plant in season late. But that's the point. So that's like for me, I have here bikini and garlic and cherry tomatoes and serrano peppers, which these all get planted actually this week or this weekend. I will put them in little start starters and put them in the little greenhouse. I have a tall, thin greenhouse, which is how I was able to save some of my plants that I couldn't put down in the garden. My alderberry is blooming beautifully. My turmeric somehow did not die even though it was still in a pot, and I just covered the top of it and put extra soil over the whole thing, and now it's sprouting beautifully. So we have in a grow and tower lettuces. I'm not saying that you have to put them in lettuces. It's more I mean a growing tower. But it's more convenient for my family because I do keep the growing tower right next to the house, and it's tall enough and an animal hasn't gotten into it, and I can clip off what I need. So our lettuces are personaline. Our spinaches, I throw them all in that. I do have cauliflower and containers in the front because they are slightly cooler weather. I keep them where they stay predominantly in the shade and they get evening sun. And they've actually been doing great and it's different than how I normally grow them. So I'm trying some different things with where I'm at versus what I'm used to, and it's a learning curve. I mean, I've been gardening for years, and by no means do I consider myself a professional, but it is definitely a learning curve, running into trying to figure out which plants are going to be best to prevent certain pest, trying to make sure I don't put my lemon balm or my mint in a specific area because they do typically take over. But I need some of these to help prevent certain pest. So it's figuring out within my means what I can't do so I do. I am trying to start my own sweet potato sprouts. My same friend from Ohio, miss Christine, She's amazing. I'm at the event that's coming up in Ohio. She owns Dell's even if you want to look her up on Facebook. But that event is called the Heartland of Self Reliance Conference, and it is in the Heartland of Amish Country. It is only a two day event Friday and Saturday, and that is because the gentleman who runs the entire thing, mister Jeff Smith, and his beautiful wife, Vivan. They decided that they wanted to honor the fact that the Amish can't be there on Sundays or the Mennonite communities because of their church, and he wants to respect that. I think it's amazing. So if you're in the Ohio area, check it out. They do have tickets pre selling right now, or you can. I believe they will allow to sell tickets at the gate. And then, of course for all my other listeners, we have Prepper Camp in August at Tryon International in North Carolina. I will be there as well. Feel free to check those out please, I would love to see you there. So I'm the crazy textile lady. I will be spinning wool and I will also for Prepper Camp be selling the mesh nodes for chin Our Communications Greer, he teaches meshtastic. Let me see I'm missing something on the chat. Yes, it is like garden Girls, says in the chat on Instagram. It is always a learning curve when you move. I'm still learning six years later, being in Texas from California. Yes, I had a little bit of a change, not too much going from Mississippi to South Carolina. The issue there was. I only had this tiny little two by four raised bed and pots and that's all. I grew everything in. And I didn't get much because I tried to grow too much in one small space. But I was still able to grow something. I was still able to have my chickens. And then I loved it. Oh hi, firewolf ah, he says fire. Well, WiFi sucks there, but I am. I've changed around, going from Arkansas to Mississippi, to South Carolina now to North Carolina, and you know what, I love it here. I love the mountains. But anywhere you go, you're gonna have to deal with some hiccups. And that's just part of it. We have made do. And I'm sure for my listeners who follow my Instagram, it's Phoenix Survivals. It is my emblem. Let's see, let's see if I can make it pop up on here, up in the corner. I don't know which corner I'm going to show in. And it is my my profile picture. Is my emblem, all right, I'm reading my check though. There we go, so my brain stopped temporarily. I love. Yeah, that's a lot. WHOA, I know what I was gonna say. Sorry, y'all, we have made do with what we have. Okay, I have saved up. I bought a short, round, long greenhouse that I put my big molasses containers in. I love growing and molasses containers. It works great for me in Mississippi. I grow my root vegetables in those. Except now I've had to abandon one of my entire containers because there are termites everywhere here and my soil in that one molasses container is infested with ants and termites. Able to save my tumeric from that container and move it to a different container, but that one has been abandoned until I can dump the soil, clean it out, and then figure out what to do. So, if anyone has any recommendations living in the middle of the woods, there are termites everywhere, just in the dirt, so please, by all means, I would love to hear your tips, your tricks, whatever you do to handle some of your pests, because I've never ran into the issue of termites getting into some of my pottets, my pots. The issue we had in Mississippi was potworms, which your tiny little hair like worms. It just means the soils over moistured, and we had really bad beetles hence why I raised in the containers. But now I have to consider the fact of how much I have to watch to try to prevent the ants and the termites from getting into my buckets. The pillbugs, I'm not so worried about. They're everywhere. So are the spiders and the centipedes and the mill of well, actually it's mainly centipedes. And then of course we have red velvet ants and carpetter ants and carpet or beetles, not beetles bees. It's just you know, wherever you go, you have to relearn the environment from what you're used to and it is definitely interesting. So any of you on X, if you're gardeners or you have tips, please throw it into the chat. I would love to know what you do for certain pests. I would love to hear it. We have squashed vine bore. They are terrible, yet so stink bugs are pretty heavy here. The only thing other than that is the mosquitoes. It's not terrible. Oh no, no, that's a lie. The wasp. The wasp everywhere, and no matter how much we've sprayed or treated something, they will come back. And we have some pretty bad wasp and the yellow jackets man, everything out here is trying to eat you, uh squash vine bore. Well, garden girl, what do you do for that? So anywhere your goat you go, you are going to run into these hiccups. And then gardening is literally making constant moves to figure out what's going to work best for you. Now, once you get these plants established, moving them is not ideal and will typically kill the plant because pray. Sorry, garden girl says that they pray for that's how they handle the squash of wine Moore. I'm sorry, you know what, that's fair, very fair. So sorry, I bet tickled me more than it probably shouldn't. Oh, here comes the yacht O. Sorry, but it is one of those Moving a plant or transplant them can be a big shock on them, so you can't just pick them up and keep moving them. So my whole thing is trying to establish my garden or what I'm doing so that I get the best I know. I do know towards the garden area, we do have a mole. So now I'm on the fence of laying down a barrier of some sort. I don't know if I really want to be in that. I don't plan on putting my root vegetables in certain areas if I can help it. So it's still on the fence. I am trying to find a place here locally where I can get molasses containers, because again I do prefer them. I like using them and they've worked great for me over the years. Now that may be different here, but we'll see. It's gonna be interesting to see where things go. Let's see. Yeah, and any of my instagrammers, if you have something that you would like to recommend as far, let me know, so garden says. But really, I'm trying to plant trap plants this year. Need oil thrown everything, Oh meme, oil and throwing everything but the kitchen sink this year, right, No, nim oil is amazing. So I have found that the venus flight trap is native to here. Now what's funny is even though I'm at a higher elevation and i am in western North Carolina, some of these tropical plants actually still do really good right in this area, surprisingly enough, So it's gonna be interesting. I am trying to grow a lime tree because we like our citrus. Again, bananas was my big thing, and now that who was selling bananas last year is not selling bananas this year banana trees that were meant for fruit, and I don't know where to get my banana trees from. And I want legit banana trees that produce fruit. We like our bananas, We like our apples. We like our limes because I need the citrus because I make all of my mayonnaise from scratch, and when I make pajitas or caesadillas, I mean lime juices where it's at. I'm a fan of lime over lemon, not that I don't like lemon, just yeah, it's weird. But I'm trying to stick to heritage or certain certain plants. But at the same time, I live in the Twin for a century, and I am comfortable with everything else that's going on. I like my modern conveniences, I like my modern taste, but I like being able to know what I'm doing. So that being said, up until the last four days, I boiled three dozen a little more than three four dozen eggs. I made a half gallon of pickled eggs. I made a smaller quart of pickled eggs with it because there was so much of it. And then I proceeded to make pickled beets. That's because in our house, I have accessibility to certain certain things, certain foods, and being able to practice my skills is a big deal. And we also have fialans with those skills. So I tried my hand at homemade egg noodles. Now, mind you, I do have a noodle press for my kitchen aid to help be able to roll it and to be able to slice it. But stubborn meat just didn't want to. So what did I do? I tried to roll it out by hand, broke a roller. Maybe because she's older than sin, it snapped. I don't know how that's possible. So I couldn't get it rolled out thin enough. And then I tried to cook it, which was an issue because your noodles do have to be super thin to turn out correctly. Lesson learned, I cut corners and I should have just sucked it up, pulled out the kitchen aid, and continued to roll after my roller broke. A little prideful got and little pride got me there. The Alfredo sauce turned out great, though, I mean it was still edible, it just wasn't enjoyable. Did not make my family eth that I did, and my son enjoyed it. He kept coming over and meat and it just made the noodles way too thick. But that happens. You've got to practice to your skill sets. It's great in theory, but what you have to be able to do it in live application. So another thing is I've been on a huge baking kit. I'm starting my sour dough starter from scratch. I'm making Homie pizza from scratch. The dough, the sauce super easy, super easy. You just have to put a little bit of time, and most of it's just letting it rest. Ah, there we go, firewol said, Grandma always used one in one quarter inch, wouldn't stick, no handles, Yes, and that's what I need. So Firewolf, if you can figure out or someone can figure out where I can get one from, because I've seen other people when they use that, because you have to be able to put force down on it to get it to roll out correctly. Because egg noodles is literally egg flour and maybe just a few tea spoons or tablespoons of water. That I was doing an older recipe and I liked how simple it was and the taste was great. Other than the fact I couldn't get it out thin enough operator error. But I've also tried my hand at pastries. So as we know, I love to bake. I don't eat a lot of sugar actually at all, so we do honey, molasses, maple syrup. But I do keep a fine sugar in the house to make certain sweet treats that I send to work because I do enjoy bacon. And I have tried my hand at croissants, and you know what, it's not so bad. I did end up making them a little dense the first time, and that was because I did not roll and fold enough. So if you don't roll and fold it enough, and that's the time consuming part, is rolling and folding it and let it rest every fifteen to thirty minutes, that is where you get your layering and you're texturing from now. I have made great pastry dough for chicken pop pie with crumbled butter. But I'm trying different methods because I'd like to know what I can and can't do easily, and I enjoy knowing that I'm feeding my family things that I'm making from scratch that my hands did it. Oh okay, yes, farewolf, let me know please or shoot me a message either on here or on Element and we'll talk. I'll be happy to buy one from you so he can lathe. And this man is pricking the jack of all trades. He's amazing. I don't know how to lathe. I love woodworking. I have handwood tools and power tools, but I'm not at that level. So that's amazing. The next thing on our agenda, I'm already pre planning with the season coming up. Poison ivy, poison o, poison sumac, all of these plants, Virginia creeper, they're all sprouting like crazy. That does run into some issues for us because we do have someone in the house who is like deathly allergic to poison ivy. So because of that, I'm pre planning. Because my jewels we'd got tossed out last year at the time of collecting jewels weed, I will chop down a bunch of jewels weed and I am going to render it into oil so then I can put it into a soap so we can have our own jewels weed treatments for poison ivy exposure to try to reduce it. So it is one of those things where we are trying to be pre plan and be proactive because we know there are certain things naturally occurring in the elements that could be a hazard, as well as natural things occurring here that we can use to as a So there are plenty of things around you that are accessible plantain. It's just nature is amazing. So right here in this picture, I hope I'm pointing to the right spot is the It looks like some green tomatoes. But further over are some peppers. So that's a big one in our house. It's trying to grow our peppers. I have some hobanaros, I have some reapers. Why well, I'm Hispanic. And even if I wasn't, I love hot sauce. I love hot food. I love spicy food, and so this year I'm going to cross more than one. I am attempted making my own hot sauce. All right, plan on it, but I want to do the fermented fermentation process for my hot sauce. So let's see it is. I've got a challenge ahead of me and a list of things, but I'm excited. I believe we have poison ities, but I don't seem to get a reaction when I remove it. Maybe it's not them then so garden girl, there are some people who are actually naturally resistant to it, and it could be you're not getting the oils directly on your skin. Well, I'm one of those people who doesn't have a reaction to poison ivy or poison oak, or I didn't. I don't know if I would. Now that can change over the years, just like you can develop an allergy overnight, whether it be a strawberry shrimp, it can occur. I worked for a lawn care lawn and garden and did landscaping, and I could roll around in poison ivy and oak and I would not break out. Not everybody is immune to it, and there are people who have some terrible reactions. So if you have the oil on your skin, you can get it, pass it to someone who is allergic and then they have an issue. Oh sounds like the baby took a fall. Oh okay, he's okay. He just sounds like he tripped on a toy. They are great in Firesider? Wait, staring girl, what is great in Firesider? I'm trying to figure out what's great in Firesider? Oh? Heimis wolf? How are you miss? Fiery? Is what I should call? Business? Knows if you have to put up with firewolf. You have to be fiery. I'm sure, let's see. Oh the peppers. Yes, So firesider is amazing. For those of you who aren't familiar with firesider, it is a tinture of its own or its own type atonic in the sense that it is used to induce warming, which is great for flu season. For those of you who can't or are unable to make firesider, you can always make fire honey, which is great for induce some warmon and you drink it as a tea. Firesider is apple cider. I do add lemons, but lemons, garlic, jalapinos. It is amage page of different things, tumoric, ginger, and these are all things that induce warming and help with inflammation and they just make you feel better. It smells like a foot, but the taste actually isn't bad. I would like to get my kombucha going again, which I need to reach out to Melinda Lee if anyone's heard from her. I've tried to reaching out and miss her dearly. She is amazing. I learned so much from her over the years, but it was her who got me started on kombucha. And people are like Oh, it's disgusting. Yes, store bot kombucha is nasty. If you can find a brand that actually tastes good, let me know. But I stop my kimbucha when it starts to be just acidic enough. It reminds you of apple juice. And then that's when I add in my fruits and let that's it, and then put it in the fridge. So then it's like a fizzy fruit juice. So, but it's good for gut health. You've got to think about the fact that anything that you're doing, how is it going to better your family? So food storage, food preparation, food food production, as well as our medicine, medicine hold on. Ooh, garden girl says here, I shared some firesider with my glass aid who happens to be Indian. She was hilarious and said she now had she had now idea. Oh, she had no idea that you liked spicy. Now she brings me the food. Yeah, I enjoy it. I like spicy. So the fire honey, the fire sid cider, the hot totties, which hot totties are amaz with fire honey in it, are all great for when you're feeling ill or you need a little warming because it induces warming. So what if I said in other shows, is that your immune system suppresses itself when you get cold. When your body temperture hits below a certain amount, or you open to cold, it makes you more susceptible to bacteria and viruses. So with the firesider, fire honey or hot toddies, you are inducing warmon which also triggers and pushes your immune system to be more active. I drink a lot of hot water. Why because I like hot water. I can't do a lot of teas anymore because of my health issues, but I still enjoy tea. I can't do any caffeine whatsoever, unfortunately. But you know what, it's okay, as James says, I'm naturally caffeinated. But I think that's starting to go down, Jay, and so you're gonna have to figure something else out. But it is. If you've ever noticed people get really sick from being in a hospital, not only is it because there's germs and bacteria, but it's also because the temperature they keep the hospital at. Now I understand it has to be kept at a certain temperature because of equipment, but the problem is is that very low temperature lowers your immune system, so that's why you have immunosuppression during the winter months, and that's when most people get sick. Also, on top of that, you do need daily sun exposure, Vitamin D and zinc. Whether you take it and supplement natural D is great for you. But if you're going to take supplements, keep in mind vitamin D and zinc are great for natural antivirals. They boost the immune system. So everything that you're doing, that you're growing, you're producing, is amazing for your body, your family, your mental health, your well being. It's just all the way around ideal. Let's see, I've been on here forty t few minutes now. I had planned on talking even longer, but because we do have plans today, I am going to cut this short. I did mean to be on here much earlier because there was more I wanted to go into on like specific plants. But you know what, that's great for next time. Next weekend, I'll be on the weekend after on. Let me see what the dates are. I don't think I'll be on the weekend of the twenty fifth, twenty sixth. I am traveling my daughters have their first communion, so I won't be on there. I will try to pre record no guarantees again. Yeah, if the Phoenix Household has been having a lot of curveballs and hiccups, and you know what, we're rolling with the punches. We're getting up and we're still going, and there's not much else that can be done, right, And I just realized I forgot to write this down. I shouldn't have looked at this stink. All right, So I appreciate all of you. I hope you all have a great day. In that corner. We do have the QR code for PDN family. If you'd like to become a member or see everything that we offer, feel free to check that out. Join us. We are now currently down off of YouTube, but live on rumble x, Instagram, anywhere you want to hear a stream, we will be on there. 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