WOMEN'S WEDNESDAY: Survivor Jane & Sara Hathaway Discuss Food Preservation

Welcome back to the Changing Earth Podcast with author Sarah F. Hathaway and co host Chen Gibson, blending survival fiction and fact to bring you entertaining education that will help you dream, survive, and thrive. And now here's your host, Sarah F. Hathaway and Chen Gibson. Hello, and welcome back to the Changing Earth Podcast. This is episode number three hundred and fifty. Hey Chim, what's up? Hey? Jin's up? All right? And we got our special guest today, survivor Jane is in the house. Hi, Jane, how are you doing? Hey, good evening everybody. Oh man, it's so good, so good to hear your voice. I was just like, oh, what a great idea, Jim, because me and Jane could talk like. The whole show and it was just wonderful. Yeah, and then some right. So, how how's uh, how's everything been going? Are you busy? You know what I mean? Super busy? I have. I have really been pumping things up. I mean just like I just I just got that spidey sense that I need to kick it up a notch. Yeah, I hear you. I wonder what would give you that idea? I just I just can't. I'm just I'm so curious. So well, we've actually been reading Little House in the Big Woods. I got Chin on board and got the community involved to read Little House in the Big Woods, which is you know what Little House in the Big Woods, right, like the Laura Ingalls Wilder series. Oh yes, yes, right, So this is. The her like first book from when she was super little. Everyone's like, oh, we're gonna read a book about a little girl and all this. But there is so much survival information packed inside of this book that I'm like, you've got to read it. If you've never read it, you really need to read it. Really good stuff. As far as like wow, yeah, I'm making smokers and just how did they used to do everything? So it's been a it's been a fun project to explore. So in the book, they're on harvest time right now, and I was like, well, if there's somebody that knows about harvest time, it's Survivor Jane. So joh, do I know for everybody. You've been on the show a bunch everything, But go ahead and let's do an intro, you know, let's get everybody coming out to prepper Camp. I got some of my besties coming this year. So it's going to be a ball. Ellen from Australia is gonna be in town. Yeah, it's gonna be great, awesome. Yeah, So go ahead and let you know, let's do the spiel on who is survivor Jane and why is she so epically awesome? You know what I can tell I can tell you the first part the latter part. You know what, Sarah. I'm a former city girl. And when I say city girl, I mean I was at this city as you could get the head was as far into the sand as I could get it. My priorities were shopping, makeup, makeup, shopping flows, handbur handbags, you know, anything and everything girly, anything that shined, you know, I was following it. And then some not good things happened in my life in the city, and you know, I was right smacking the bubble crash or the housing bursting. I was right in the middle of the stock market crashing. And to just put that little cherry on top of all this mess there, I was involved in attempted carjacking. That's kind of like the last straw for me. It took my total happy place and just you know, opened my eyes to how much ugliness, how much much just everything was involved. I mean I literally didn't read newspapers. I didn't listen to the news. I didn't I was just in Lalla Land and I came home. You know, my husband and I talked about it. It's like, I'm losing all my money. Our house is worth nothing. I don't feel safe anymore. And we we did something that some people would say was pretty stupid. And some people are like, wow, you guys are amazing. So jealous. We the money that we had, which was absolutely just minimal, and we ran for the hills. And when I say heills, I mean not high heels either. I mean I am talking. We are up here now. I'm with over one hundred animals, so you know, I'm literally up here at the hills now. So I in the last ten years, maybe twelve years, I don't know who's counting. I have learned learned how to be self sufficient, but I have learned trial by fire. So when people go, oh my gosh, expert survivor, Jane, absolutely absolutely, if you can't be in an expert making mistakes, I am all about it. So that's who. Yeah, the saying the master has made more mistakes than the novice has even tried. Right, Absolutely, that is me. Yeah, that is all of us. I think that is just life. So no, I am I'm kind of jealous. Although we did like an opposite move. We went a little bit, tiny, tiny bit more urban on this house just because we wanted our son to be able to have some friends. We were out in the country for so long, but we'll be back there as soon as he's done with high school. So I'm with you. Yeah. And one of your guys's game plans for money saving, it wasn't about the heating. It wasn't about power because. Everybody's like, oh, I gotta get solar, I gotta get wind da da da da. That's how I'm gonna gate my bells. Great, But your guys's focus was sheerly on food production, which I love as well. Well. You know what if you remember back in the no you didn't, We all read about back in the days, you know, where the first thing that somebody did the people as they were crossing the towards the west, they would actually make a barn first or a storage root seller first before they built the house and they started their food. You know, these days people go I'm not worried about anything. I have a seed bank. Apparently anybody that's had a seed bank has never planted a seed because you know, you've got to use it, you got to plant, you got to start it, because it takes a long time. It takes a good year for things to start getting established. So that's even if you plan, it doesn't mean it's going to. Go exact I was gonna say that same thing. Yeah, And like the regional change for us, we grew great, big, huge, beautiful gardens for years and then we changed climates and oh man, it just kicked us back on our heels. We had to learn, you know, just different times of the seasons when we're planning and things like that. And we're still really adjusting to that curve. So even even somebody's. That's true, I mean, it's not a it's not a one size fit all. I mean I am fortunate enough to I was married to somebody that actually had smarts, you know, and actually understood things and observed the land and watched the weather and watch the you know, and created this concept that's called a food forest. And it literally is a food forest that you don't have to go and do anything but let nature take its course. Now, when he was explaining that to me, I'm thinking, oh my gosh, the guy has gone off the defense. You know me, I know Rose, I mean we all know Rose, and everybody knows you plant a row of lettuce and a row of tomatoes, and a row of potatoes, and a row and row and row. And he's explaining this concept, and I'm thinking we're gonna die. I can no longer go shopping. I'm no longer around people. I'm stuck up here with this old goat. And he's telling me about this forest number one. I don't want to go out in the woods. I don't want to get want to. Build a garden like that. So it took me a while to sit back and understand what it was and watch, because at first all that happened to me was that he came in and took all these pines down and it looked like an explosion had gone off, and he's starting to build berms. It's like, I don't even know what a berm was at the time, And for those that don't know, it's just a bump. It's just a hump, okay, And he's building all of these things in the concept, and I highly suggest anybody that doesn't understand what the heck I'm talking about just look up ricks YouTube channel or his Facebook or whatever. Secret Garden of survival. His book shows the progression of it. Yeah, he's awesome to see the pictures of the book. He was smart enough to do it one step at a time because he thought, you know what, it's hard to explain, but you sure can take pictures and explain it and people can actually see how it's done. So and that video you guys just put out was really really good as well. Oh yeah, yeah, I have to say that the production crew did an excellent job of exactly how we live. Yeah, it's really really good. Thank you. Yeah again, I was like, wow, all right, man, you know I've still got worked out. You know, a girl so much and do so much, Like we still got a long way to go, so but you got to start. So today I'm excited because I get to just pick your brain, which is epically awesome. It won't take long. Uh huh No, I'm definitely coming to your class to heckle you of prepper camp. That's okay, that's all good. So I'm curious because I do know. You know, I've been exploring the concepts of the garden and what you guys are up to you what about grains, like, do you have any plans for what would you do for a bread type substitute if we were collapsing kind of deal. What have you guys thought through on that kind of process. Well, honestly, we do grow wheat, okay, because we have you know, that's what we feed the animals. Thank goodness that Rick and I both have got off of that wheel of the pasta and the flour and the rice and the whatever, so we honestly don't have it in our diet right now. I do have red berries. I do have that I have stocked and stored. I do have white berries so that I can make I can ground it and make it into flour. I do have stored flour. I do have stored. Absolutely, you're awesome donuts. So absolutely I have learned to do anything that we used to eat in the big city. I have learned how to do it now. At first it probably didn't look the same. But you know, honestly, if you can read, I've learned. If you can, if you can follow instructions and do what the book says, you can cook or you can bake. Most people they don't have the patience and so therefore they just want to say, oh, it doesn't matter if I don't put this in, or it doesn't matter if I add this in. It does matter, and so to me, if you buy a cookbook, follow it and learn how to to get a feel for for how things are done. But getting back into the getting back into the rice and grain and weed and what have you. Unfortunately, that's what society is all about. If you look at all recipes that are made are all I was talking to a friend the other night and was telling, uh, I was able to go ahead. I saved my pennies up and I got a freeze dryer. Now that to me is a huge, huge, huge expense, and it's a luxury. But it's also a tool for me right now. But most of the recipes that you look at all have to do with pasta dishes, rice dishes, noodle dishes. You know, how do you freeze dry mac and cheese? You know what? You buy it in a box? Right like that? Also, my problem is is when harvesteme comes, I have got so much that like strawberries, are coming in, and they're they're coming in and coming in and coming in, So I can go ahead and start freeze drying those and I don't have to worry about filling out my freezer full of strawberries because next blueberries are coming down the pike. After the blueberries come, then the raspberries come. And it's like, honestly, this is the time that I start whining, and I'm in therapy for it, but I'm just like, oh, too much. The old goat what he does is he deals with the animals. Me, I deal with the food. Now he'll go out and pick. That's the easy part, right, Yeah. Then all of a sudden he goes here and it's like here, so now I've got strawberries coming in. I got blueberry so all of a sudden, I have to start canning them. I have to start freezing them. I have to start dehydrating them. I have to start thinking, Okay, what is it that I can turn into whatever. We had a bomper crop of pears, you know, I mean pears and pears, not just one kind of pair. No, that would be too easy. No, we got Asian pears and keifer pears, and you know it's like, oh my gosh, So I learned how to make the best pear sauce. And it is to as some people would say, to die for. I'm not going to die for any food. No, no, no, that's a rough sale for me. I had a bad experience par sauce. Yeah, but there I mean to tell you. So, I mean I am learning how as I'm being pushed closer and closer to the fire, I am learning how to turn this food into different things that we would enjoy eating. But unfortunately, people have got to right now, Sierra, They've got to start getting fire under their feet. They really have got to start picking it up, because as you see, as the diesel prices are going, so too are the delivery trucks, and so to are the grocery store shelves, and so too are everything else. I I just cannot stress how much you need to start a garden. You need more feet away. Yeah, the trickle down is going to be It's just going to be massive once this diesel thing gets worse and worse and worse. Yeah, and you know people are going to but wait a minute. All I have is a patio. Well you know what, buy you some little group bags, you know, buy you some little pots. You know, it's all I had. I had a patio at a townhouse. Yeah, we practiced there before we had property, and we just group tomatoes and herbs and lettuce and stuff. And beyond that, beyond that, you know, support your local people who have the property to do it so they can ramp up and ramp up and make more money off of it and make an actual living off of it. Absolutely, And if you think about it, any piece of fruit you get that you know how it was grown, or any piece of vegetable that you get that you know how it was grown. It's not full of GMOs and all kinds of nasty things. For goodness sake, save the seeds. Oh, it tastes so much better. I cannot even stress. If you just save those seeds, dry them and you have started your own little seed bank already that. But regionally too, like if those are the ones that grew in your region, birth seeds are the ones that are genetically going to be better suited. For your region. Correct? Correct? Absolutely? You know when you buy seeds at a store, a big box store, you don't know where those things came from. You have no idea. You don't know if they're going to be receptive to your soil and your climate, your zone. You just have any idea. So to think that you just went to the store and bought a bunch of packets of seeds, like Chin said, there's no guarantee, right, there's no guarantee, and you don't know how long those things have been sitting on the shelf. Well that's what even so Patriots supply had like these long term seed storage containers. So I bought like three because one of them I was going to open up and start planning now to make sure they worked. What's up with these plants? What is this all about? Instead of just oh, I'm just going to put these on the counter and be done with it, you know, Oh I got my seed stores. No, you got to start. You have to start, because it's trial and error, honestly it is. You do not have to be a master gardener. You do not have to be anything but observant. You just have to watch to see, oh, you know what, these are turning a little yellow. They might need a little bit more this, or oh that these are to this or to that they need more sun. And you know it's just observing whatever it is that you're trying to grow and get a feel for what each plant needs. You even inspired me from your video to be more trimmy about things. So now I always have my trimmers with me when I'm out at the garden and I'm taking all the little dead leaves off and trimming this. What because of the fact people don't understand that. But the trees growing, and as it's growing, if it, if a piece is part of it starts to turn brown, energy is still going through to that area, and there's no reason. It's like a dead end. It keeps on hitting, coming back, kitting come in. But if you cut that off, the energy will continue up and out into other branches and leaves. And so I am always given haircuts. I always Yeah, I'm a haircut bucket out there in the greenhouse that I just trim up. All right, So let's do a lightning round. So I want to know your favorite methods of preserving and we're just gonna lightning round it so we can go back, of course, but I thought it'd be fun to do, all right, are you ready? Favorite? Oh my gosh, there's no such thing as favorite, I. Know, but like I had like one or none. That's it, right, Okay. All right, I'll try favorite method of preserving nuts. Nuts go rant it. So that's a tough one, you know. You you really can't preserve nuts too long and short term, so that's a that's a horrible answer. But they go rantsd just like peanut butter, just like anything like that. So I don't know, I would, I don't know. I mean for hazel I mean hazel nuts we had last year. We had an abundance of those, but unfortunately I ate them. So all right, your favorite method of preserving fruit. There's too much too yes, yeah, so it's honestly, it used to be dehydrating. It used to be jellies and jams. But I'm trying to get away from the sugar, so I was really pushing the dehydrating. But now I've got the freeze drying, which is like another form of dehydration but just a little bit long term. So yeah, right now, my favorite toy is going to be the freeze dryer. Uh. I want to come back to that one because I want to talk about the dams for a minute. Okay, yeah, favorite method of preserving vegetables. Usually it's dehydrating making powders, or right now it was dehydrating, and now it's going to be free drilling. I know. Now I'm even more jealous. What about eggs, Yeah, it. Was it was dehydrating with dehydrating eggs. But right now, as we speak, I've probably done twenty dozen of duck and chicken eggs because they're coming in right now, and come winter time, I'm not going to have finny. So it's used. To preserve your eggs by feeding them to the dogs. It still is, yeah, but I mean, honestly, I had so much duck, so many duck eggs, and I can't eat them because I have like a some type allergic reaction to them. So I was giving them to any animal that would eat them. I was hard boiling them and throwing them out to you know, anybody that would eat them. Yes, then it's like, but wait a minute, you know what if times are hard, and if you're watching the price of eggs right now, I'm looking at that because of the way things are, I'm looking at things a whole lot different, not like, hey, there's going to be more coming down the pike. There might not be, you know, So I'm trying to put away as much as I can. What about meat? Yeah, right now, freeze freezing is where I'm at right now. Freezer you know what it's gonna have to be my freeze dryer. Now, could you give Yeah, but that's not long term. I mean that you know, you put that in front of the old goat and it's gone. Yeah, my boys would destroy that. Yeah, so that's not but yet Can I do that? Absolutely? But again, I'm trying to think when you're asking me, I'm trying to think long term. If we vacuum sealed it or it's. The same thing as meat, it's it's got it's got fat in it, and fat does not it's not long term. You know, you'd have to anything you're getting that you're finding while this is that it's long term. It's because it's got preservative, isn't it. I don't have anything that I can add preserves and I don't want that in my food. So, you know, any type of meats like that unless it's low fat or you've trimmed the fat off or cooked the fat off. Salted, Yeah, cooked and salted. And yeah, yeah, absolutely, Because I did canned meat of canned roast of canned but it's a texture thing. And I'll tell you what. When I made hamburger, it tastes it tastes like dog food to me, it honestly did. It was. It was mush. And I'm thinking, I don't know. All these people that going, oh, I love canned meat, It's like, okay, well then maybe you don't have any teeth and so you don't have to chew. I don't know. I agree, I agree. You Sorry those that don't have teeth. It was not personal, Okay, I love that. Okay, back to the jellies and jams. So you don't have like a really good sugar free recipe for it. At this point, it would be all just. You know, I could use I can use honey. I haven't because it takes on that honey taste. So it's kind of like strawberry honey or apple honey or you know. I didn't like it, and to me, I'm the one that has to eat it, and so I make it the way I like it. Now I have gotten away from making jams, and I just I preserve things in a light syrup. Now, okay, as far as fruits go, anything like like my peaches or my pears or anything like that, blueberries, blackberries. I will I'll just do a very very light, light light syrup just so it has a little bit of sweetness to it, opposed to taking a jam that you have to use like seven. Just like, oh my gosh, it's so much sugar. Yeah. So I've gotten away from the so much because we don't eat biscuits, we don't eat bread, we don't eat jam. Then if you're not putting it on a bread product. Well I just we can add it like our or we can add it to like the old goat adds it to sausages and stuff like that. So it just adds a little bit of sweetness to it. But no, honestly, I will be the jam lady if something happened, because I have got jars of jam from well my peach tree. My peach tree is getting ready to come in, and I still have jam from two years ago because last year we had the freeze right right, but I still have jam from like two years ago. So I like, I want to do something different this year. And honestly, that's that's Sarah. That is exactly how I think of things. I go in, I look at what I have, and it's like, you know what, I already have enough strawberry jelly. I already have enough peach jelly already. So I'm gonna go ahead and just can't it. So but I can eat the fruit itself. And like I said, all you have to do is I really really really light syrup with it, almost like you know when you go to a grocery store and you have a choice of the heavy syrup or the light. Mine is even lighter than that. It's just it's just so it's a little bit of sweetness to it. So again, trying to get away from the sugar. Well, the ants found my strawberries, and I have I have a German shepherd who is eight months old and he's the size of a small pony. Oh dear, yeah, and he like he needs his own barn at this point, but he's figured out that, like, the strawberries are pretty darn good, so he goes by the garden. Pops it off. I'm like, yep, no, not any of my strawberries out of here, yady. So how about vinegar? Do you make your own vinegar? I have made my own vinegar out of my muscadine grapes. Okay. In fact, I've got again. I've just have jars and jars of vinegar you know in the pinetry. So I'm good with it, and I only make it when I need it, And right now I'm I'm good. I've got another grape, you know, I've got grape coming down the pike in just a little while, muscadine and scubbernog and concord grape. So I'm going to be good, got you, Yeah, I was. That's where I'm going next, is just because I know that, like vinegar is such a great preservative. Yes, it is. So it's definitely something they have to know how to make yourself. If you can buy it from a store that is needed, you can. Use it for cleaning too, can't you? Yes you can yep. So how about salt? Post collapse salt? What are what are we doing? Well? What Rick and I did when we first moved up here. We bought as natural as we could salt licks, you know when you went to the farm store. Yeah, don't have any men meryalson we bought. In fact, I still have them all wrapped up. Hard to find. Yeah, and I didn't realize that, but I we have like I think we have four or five of them that we have wrapped up really well and off the ground, and I figured if nothing else, I could just chip off what I needed, you know, So that was that was my thought. I did that with pourine. I buy like the tablets for the pool and stuff and then leave that because the liquid is just going to go bad. But those tablets and there's still there's usually like individually wrapped inside of that container. So I mean it's even better, right right, that makes a lot of sense. Well, as long as people realize that light, air and oxygen are oxygen air and light. You know, you want to find a dark space. I mean heat. I knew there was another one heat, you know, so you want to keep a dark cool spot somewhere. You know, if you can keep your food stores and you can keep your things that can deteriorate fast. If you would remember that hard fast rule, you'll be able to be far far better. But some people they leave it out in their garage in the hot sun, and you leave, you know, it's like and then they wonder when they go to get it or use it or whatever. It's like it's either evaporated, it's totally melted, it's gone bad, it's gone rented, it's gone on and on and on, and it's because of those elements. But if you can find a a some type of hedy hole or whatever that is cool and dark, that you know, you're going to be better off as far as some of your all your preps, and you know, whether it's physical or whether it's a food source or tools. Patriots Supply had these great tubs and they fit right under the bed. Oh yeah, yeah, So I've just been you know, oh, what can I put in there? You know? I mean, why not. Use it instead of just in the dust bunnies. I mean, it's like, move out dust. I'm putting these things exactly said. So, yeah, it's a great It was a great tool to use. And if stores right there and you can put whatever in there, you know, you can put jars in there. Speed of jars. Okay, so we had the jar debacle? Was it two years ago? Yes? Yeah, that you have the jar. I won't bring it up here, you know what, you. Know what, I probably will be booed off of here whatever, But I'm a researcher, and I mean I I don't take what somebody says I actually research what I'm doing, and there's there's a product. It's a it's a plastic lid with a band. Uh And I'm trying not to use the name. Anybody that does Canning's going to know exactly what I'm talking about. But it's an alternative to the metal and they are reusable. Well myself sat there and said, wait a minute, if you could use those bands, I'm wondering if you could use them for the metal lids also. So I went ahead an eyewater bath with one of the lids, the metal tin lids and one of those red reusable bands that you can use like ten to twelve times each. And it worked, and I have it sitting up on my counter and I'm just waiting for it to let go or what I did. And I did yes, because I don't want to just say, oh, yes, it's gonna work. So then what I did was I said, hmself, I wonder if I can just order a bag of these red rings. So I went on the line and they were like twenty dollars for one hundred and you can use them each ten times. So I'm thinking twenty dollars you couldn't even buy a little box of the lids, twelve of them for twenty dollars. Come last year, there's a guy. Everybody was buying them, yep. So then I thought, well, I might as well order the wide mouth ones also, And then I thought, for twenty dollars, I might as well order a couple more bags just in case. And so that's what I have as a backup for my backup, for my backup. Now. Would I use them for pressure canning, Probably not. I'll use my good lids and my good jar rings for those. But for water bathing, you know where you're not keeping it in too long. But I mean to tell you that is a tight seal. So that's what I'm doing right now. I've got jars sticking out my ears, but I didn't have the lids gos and that I was kind of nervous about that. It's like, I don't know what in the world because some of the some of the stuff that's out there now it's it's honestly crap. I mean, you might as well put a piece of foil over it. That. Yeah, I mean that's. True, that's true. And then the jars themselves, like it always sucks when you're using your jars, and then you have the one in the group that explodes in the water, you know, because they had a microfracture. You know what, Again, if you realize and this is what you have to realize that it's a science. They tell you that there's a reason why you have to have a warm jar with warm food and warm water and warm utensils. It's because you will get that thermal shock, just like if you pour hot tea and a cold picture, it's gonna bust on you. So if you realize you have to have a quarter inch headspace or a half inch headspace or an inch or whatever, you can't deviate from that. And when you do deviate from that, you're going to have these issues. Now, I've been lucky that I probably in all the years I've been doing this, I have only had one jar that's busted. And it was because I was so dug on paranoid about doing all this that I was like, you know, ain'tal doing Okay, I do this next, next, And I mean I was doing it this turtle way, very slow and methodical. But you can't rush this stuff. You really can't, and and it's too expensive anymore. So I can from the rules too much, is why you know what? Ars the host of the show, w U, Yes. This is horrible to hear. I just did a show on discipline. Things happen, is the honest answer. You know, you can do the best you can, but nature is what it is, and sometimes things don't seal and sometime you have a Well that's true. I was thinking like time, because I also use my jars is like drinking glasses and stuff to you, so you know they get. And I will tell you people don't realize that. You know, you really shouldn't use metal with the jars. You you shouldn't if you're scooping out for apple sauce or whatever and you go to use it again, you can actually be putting micro scratches in the jars and not see with that wicked eye, and then you go to use that. Okay, I don't need it for drinking right now, so I'll go ahead and use it because I need an extra one for my strawberry jam. Not knowing you've got those little micro abrasions in the jar. So it could be something that you didn't do anything at all and it was just. Spoony. Ah, that makes sense too, all right, my jars are becoming much more valuable to me right now, absolutely. Like too much water I need? Like yes, I go all right, So what do we do uh if we can't? Like because my thoughts been okay, When I lived in the small town up in California, the building behind our house was an actual bottle factory, Like they used to make cans and jars right there, the bottles and the jars, and a lot of little communities had their own factories for the cans, for the for jars, and now those are pretty much gone, been replaced by these mega companies. So it's like, when supply goes down, what do we do when we can't get jars? Well, much like we do when we're gonna have to eat people, I guess we're going to have to take their jars too, you know what. That's It's sorry, I love it. That's gonna be a hard one, you know. Oh yeah, it's like, oh we're gonna eat her, We're shoot her. Oh no, I'm much too loud. I'm getting dark tap. You know. That's a really good question, and it's gonna happen, And it's I never thought there would be an issue with I always thought I could get canning jars. I knew they might be a couple dollars more expensive because that's just the way things go. I mean, things just continue to escalate in as far as price throughout this last ten years. But to not be able to get them period, I will say it, it put a little scare in me because I'm thinking, Okay, they always say, no, you can't reuse the canning lids, No you can't do this. I save can't. Yeah, I do too. I am no ever thrown one away unless it was it was damaged, you know, if it's got a band in it, if it's got a or whatever. But I never never thought that I would not be able to get them. I just thought they would be really, really expensive. And that is where I started looking for the alternatives. And when I that's what led me to the reusable ones because I'm thinking, wait a minute, there's got to be an answer. And I will tell you some people did that and unfortunately they were chewed up and down and spit out online. It was like, you know what some people are going to hang on to you can't do this, yeah yet, instead of stepping out or that can't do that and say Okay, if you can't do it, why not. I actually went online and I went to the us DA blah blah blah blah, all these things, and started reading the reports to see what happened and why you can't and what have you. And they make things so cheap now, And that's honestly most the reasonable why you can't do that. If it was twenty years ago, thirty years ago when they were actually making the lids that were solid, the lids that our grandmothers and their grandmother their mothers used to use, they were made a whole lot different. It's almost like driving a nineteen fifty Chevy and a twoenty twenty Chevy. You got plastic versus big heavy metals. It's two different things. Great like gunpowder, yeah yeah yeah. And so well like everything. And I'm thinking that that's the issue. And I'm honestly thinking, you're gonna have to say, Okay, what are you gonna do? How are you going to preserve these? Well, you can do like a lot of people did and put them in their cellars. Thus the freezing drive back right, that was your own alternative. You it was the freeze dryer. Well, I do have a seller. I do have a room seller, you know, and so I can use that, and that's what most of our grandparents use. You could take an old freezer and you can put it down in the ground and you could put your fruits and your vegetables and stuff, and you can extend it. So it's not all about you know. This freeze dryer thing was huge for me. I was saving up for years and years because I was going to get a truck because I figured out, you know what, I think I need a small truck. Well, what happened was as I was saving, then all of a sudden, this pandemic thing came along, and the prices of trucks and I wasn't going to buy a new one. I just wanted used one. But they kept on going up and up and up and up, and finally it's like, Okay, this money's not going to be worth anything if the bank goes down, so I need to put my money into an asset. And so that's where that thought. This was as far as getting a freeze dryer, purely because it's an investment and it's something I can use right now to help me if the grid goes down. At least I'll be further ahead as far as my food preservation, by doing the dehydrator, by doing the canning, and by doing the freeze dryer, and by doing the smoker, and by doing all of these food preservations that I have to do almost all at once during harvest time. Yeah, and at least then you have multiple avenues going and you can get it done quicker than without absolute Yeah, that's really smart. That's really smart. Okay, So dairy is obviously you're the goats and you're making the cheese and everything like that. So can we do a quick cheese lesson quick enough? I think we've done the goats before. We have done easy. You know what I call it moving the milk. You know, I moove the milk. It's like, what am I going to put milk into? Now? Am I going to make cream cheese? Am I going to make mozzarella cheese? Am I going to make a hard cheese where I have to use my cheese press and cheese creake mozzarella cheese? You know? Yeah? I mean those are things that I have to think about. Also, now I've learned that I can actually freeze dry my milk, so I don't have to stress out you know when I can use that powdered milk for the same things, but I didn't. I don't have to do it right this minute. And that's what I have to weigh out. It's like, Okay, I only have so much time in a day. What am I going to do with these foods? And how am I going to move them? So yeah, you know when we were fat and sassy, you know, it was cheesecake all the time, and it was yogurts all the time, and it was uh oh, I don't even know what all I did with cheese cream cheeses and uh, just mozzarella cheese for pizzas all the time. And uh but I'm gonna free I'm gonna make mozzarella cheese and I'm going to go ahead and freeze dry it. So I'll go ahead and have it. It's already going to be made. I don't have to worry about people preserving it, except for I do want to. Try some of that free cheese. I want to try that one. That just sounds I'm looking forward to that. So yeah, I mean that's moving the cheese. You know, That's what I do with the milk. So so I know that both the greenhouse and the outside gardens are. Wait before I even go there, thank you. Vegetables, So vegetables mass quantity. Are those all part of the secret garden as well? Like let me. Explain to those that don't understand, which if the y'all or some of your listeners are like me that don't have a clue about gardening, which I don't, I'll tell you that right now. But I have learned what rick house out in the food forest is called a perennial and what that says, it comes up every year. You don't have to do anything. Once it's planet, it's gonna come back with gusto every year. But what doesn't come back unless it's a pioneer are vegetables. So a cucumber or a watermelon or squash or what are all of things? Now, I will tell you because of the fact that we don't pump it put them in rows, we put them all over the garden. I do have pioneer tomato plants. I do have pioneer cucumbers. I have basil everywhere this year because I let it go to seed, and that's just. I like to do that. I did that this year with my turnips, you know, I went ahead and let them go to seed, and then I just cut them off, cut the seeds. I'm dry in them, and then I'll just have an abundance because we don't eat potato, but we do eat roasted turnips, and that's our that's our alternative to potatoes. And yeah, so that's. What that's what we do. But so a vegetable is an annual and so usually you do have to plant those during you know, right after I don't put anything into the ground until after Mother's Day. I have learned the hard way that you put them in before when all the big box doores have all their nice flowers and whatever out there, and you get that itch that you want to get stuff in the ground, and then a freeze comes and you lose it all. So I have I go ahead and I seed everything in the greenhouse and then I just wait until after Mother's Day and then I start putting them in the ground. So that's that's the difference between a perennial and what Rick says, you plant wants and your harvest for a lifetime. And boy, I'll tell you what it is, a life time, yeah, you know, because it does he brings it, Yeah so much. Yeah, this time coming. Yeah, we already got a two more fruit trees in, one more nut trees going in this year. And then the back, the whole back of the property is going to be the food garden back there. That's awesome. Yeah, already got berries in and yeah yeah, I was like, okay, Brock, we can't do anything with that section of property. So it's getting turned into food. And I won't let him plant like anything. We're like suburban America. You know, we're still in an acre, but you know, we're more suburbia than I've been in a long time. We're out on forty acres before, you know. And you know what people think you need more Sarah. You don't, yep. But I've told him we're not planning anything on this property unless you can eat it. Like, why would we plant anything that you can't eat? If you're going to put in like bushes, put in blueberry bushes so that harvest them, right. Yeah, So yeah, edible landscaping. I don't know why that concept hasn't caught on to like suburban America. I know, I don't understand that either. I don't. And if you had like fruit trees, and stuff. Now you're feeding homeless people. Yeah right, I mean, I don't I don't understand. My sister she moved to North Carolina in a bigger city, and she moved into a housing development and I went over to the house and I looked around and I said, oh, my gosh, these the former owners were preppers, I know, like, how do you know? And it's like they planted peach trees. They have herbs around them, and they have little berries around them, and they have herbs going down the side of the house and they look like little hedges is what they look like to a person that doesn't know. But and you have these homeowner associations that said you can't, you can't have a garden, you can't have a garden, and people get so caught up with this straight rose that they forget A garden is not necessarily straight rows. You can have decorative little containers with doing a vertical garden if you need it to, if you're in a situation, great, yeah, yeah, they're beautiful and you can make them look great. So it's not all it's not like there goes the neighborhood. You know, you can actually be feeding your family, not disrupting the community. And so it's a. Garden disrupting the community. That again I'm just uh. Name, I know, I know. So there was one community back in California that was pretty cool. It was it's called like the Vineyard and the front yards of everybody's front yard was vineyard. And then the neighborhood Harvard, the garb the gardens and all the you know, the grapes, and they had like a wine production building there for the community. And I was like, isn't that the coolest idea. Why don't we have like everybody plants tomatoes and then we have a tomato you know, canning facility right there. Yeah. Absolutely, But you know what, most people though, Sarah, don't even know the next door neighbors. They don't care to know their next door neighbors. They're too busy. They are more self observed. Yeah, everybody drives into the garage and then. Goes into the house, and they're gonna learn really fast. It's gonna be a steep learning curve, you know, it. Is, And it's sad. I'm I am really working on trying to educate my family a little bit at a time, just kind of bringing bringing to their attention more. Have you noticed how much hamburger is now? Have you? Have you noticed how much this? Have you? No? Just you can't get this now, have you noticed? Just trying to because you don't want to nag, nobody wants to behind picked. But if you can just kind of slowly, just just plant those little seeds to their minds that you might not be able to get this next year and they might not be able to. And then keep in mind that seeds don't always grow where they're planted. They don't. That's right, that's true. Absolutely, Yeah, and. We found we found it not all like we have multiple sources for seeds and not every source, you know, it is growing where we're trying to plant. So yeah, you try experiment while you can and find what grows. Yeah, And it's like the Mother's Day plant out here in Texas. Oh man, you've got to be like already in the ground. Way before in Texas region. I know. I was like, oh, because I was. I'm from Michigan. I've always lived in the northern you know. So it's like corn is knee high by fourth of July. You have your garden in by Mother's Day, you know, and coming out here. We planted that and our garden was just toast from the sun. It was like, wow, it's over. You know what, you need to know that we are we live in zones, and so you need to look and see what that means. What zone do you live in? What seeds, what plants, what fruit, what nuts grow in your area. You go to these big box stores and you buy these great trees that have been shipped from California all the way over to here fifteen hundred degrees I mean fifteen hundred miles. They don't grow in this area. The box store does not care if it grows in your back yard or not. They want that thirty bucks and then move on. You know, so people get into that oh I'm going to buy this. No, go to your local nursery, find out what actually grows in the air, and support your community by that way buying from them, because they're the ones that can actually educate you as far or as what will and won't grow. So if somebody is brand new listening to the show, they're like, Okay, I'm gonna get started. I'm going to do something this year towards food preservation because I know I need to because every bit you can do today is going to save you money tomorrow. Where would you suggest they start right now? I highly suggest that you do. As far as just the food stores, I highly suggest you get what your family could use to get you by. And I can't stress getting seeds. I just can't starting them right now. As far as food stores, if you're you know, and I'm not a big rice eater, pasta eater, bean eater, but it could be that that's what you and your family you're gonna end up eating. I have multiple We have fresh food, we have preserved food, we have dehydrated food. We also have food from grocery stores. I will go and I will buy a flat of some type of vegetable or some type of a whatever, and I will put it away. I like to have a variety of anything and everything in my food stores. So if you can buy just an extra can of something each time people say, oh, I don't have the money for that. Yeah, but you'll go and buy a large Grande Moca chocolatey whatever coffee for five ninety nine, or you'll go and buy a Happy Burger for ten dollars, or you'll go and buy whenever for this it's like, you know what, you got to have a preparedness budget. People think about that. You do have to even and if you put five dollars a week away, by the end of the month, you're going to have a nice, you know, little amount that you can go and spend. And you know what, you might not be able to buy the big name brands. And I don't get into that. I don't fall into the advertising of buying the name brands things. Look, oh my gosh, you've changed I have. You know why? I learned one time I bought. I took a can of name brand, and I took a can a store brand, and I sat there and went line by line on the back of the label and I read and it was identical. And then my smart husband said, wife, do you understand this comes from the same factory that you just put a different label on it for the store. It's the same product. Yea. And so once I learned that, then yeah, I kind of got smart that way. So I mean, it's. Shop your sales too. I mean, if you say you spend five bucks this week, spend that five bucks on what's on sale that week. Don't don't say I'm gonna buy beans and if rice is on sale that. Week, and that's restaurant supply stores too. Like the restaurant supply stores really come in handy there. Yeah, as far as that goes, you can get so much. And that's where I got to. I was like, well, shoot, you know, we did a tomato paste one time. It took a whole bushel of tomatoes, it took eleven hours of cooking it down. We got like a flat of pint jars and we're like, uh, we're just gonna go buy like eight flats of it and keep it store back because this was way too much work, you. Know, you know honestly, and that's what people don't want to do. They don't want they don't want to do the work. Yeah, that's the problem. It honestly is a problem. We are a lazy nation. Yes where where I can z nation. We are a self entitled nation. We are a I mean it's it's just I don't know where it came from, but we have gotten so lax because everything is instantaneous now. Yeah, we've never known any different. And the generations now, I mean, you're order it on Amazon, it's there tomorrow. Everything else you just they know no different beyond you know, it's there at your fingertips, and they don't understand that, like very fragile planet we live on beyond what the humans are doing on top of it, and the planet could change instantly on. People and you'd have no idea. It could just screw up all that little thing. And it has it has if you think about it. What look at all the disasters that have happened. Now I want to get back to you know, I keep on saying save seeds, but I'm also saying save seeds if you if you have that tomato plant out there, leave one tomato out there and just let it get big and juicy and ripe, and that will be your designated little tomato seed bank. You will save the seeds from that. Anything that you want to save seeds, you have to let it. How do you save tomato seeds? Because we've done a show on it before and it was very complicated about like, oh, put it in the water and let it fall to the bottom. And then I tried it and it turned into a moldy mass, and I. Was like, oh no, no, no, no, no, you don't have to do anything but scrape them out scrape them out, wash the stuff off of it. You know the gook, I don't know what the yeah, totato goo, yeah, the meato goog. And once you clean that off, put it on a paper towel and let it dry. That's what. Let it totally dry. Oh that's what I thought. Hold it up, put it in an envelope. Put seeds Harvest twenty twenty two. Tomato fat boys, uh, stripe bees or whatever. I don't even get I don't even get into that. I am not tomato. It's a tomato, I like, And I don't know what I think. With cucumbers, they were like, oh, you got to put the seeds or to water and then this. Let me ask you something, Sarah, does nature do that? No? Not really, No, no they don't. So you can watch what nature does. Nature will just get as ripe as it can, and then it starts to deteriorate and just starts to dry on the vine. Sometimes I will literally let some of my peas, some of my mustard, some of my other things, I will let it just totally go to seed or go ahead and dry up on the vines, and then I'll take them and then I just crack it open again, put it in an envelope and label it for what it is. So it's a wind wind, did you it really is? Now? Rick and I have been blessed to have been doing this for a long long time, and so it is kind of. Second nature now. It is second nature now, but it's it is a garden of Eden, you know. I mean, it is like it's hard to describe how abundant it is, but it's amazing. And we don't have to do anything. We don't have to go out and prune, we don't have to go out and cut, we don't have to do anything. We're just letting nature do what it does every year and then we're reaping those benefits. You grow a garden, you got to go out there. People are pulling leaves and their mulching and they're tilling, and yeah, nature doesn't do that. It's so true. That's so true. Well, the nature absolutely pruned the peach tree for us last year though with the cold snap. Yeah, it definitely got pruned. It took off and it was good the tree needed it. Now it's even more bountiful this year. So you know, God knows exactly what he's doing. Absolutely sometime sometime, nature needs to do these things to get it back up, back back into yeah back of course. Yep, alrighty well that's our our hours up. I actually just went ahead and usually I do like the change in Earth news too, but I, uh, maybe it we'll stick around afterwards. But I was having too much fun talking with you, of course, so I was like, hey, whatever, we're just going straight through with Jane. This is awesome. We'll definitely be seeing you this year. Because I was like, I don't care how high gas prices get, we will be there this year. I think everybody needs to be here this year. I just highly suggest that, uh, and please we try to work on a graduating you know scale as far as the ticket prices and you know, try to make it as easy as we can for everybody. So if you could go to the website and grab those tickets up so that you can kind of plan ahead. September and I don't remember exactly, I think it's September twenty sixth through twenty eight. It's like, yeah, yes, September September. Yeah, preppercamp dot com guys just posted it. It's September twenty third, twenty fourth and twenty fifth. Yeah, gotta get hopefully. Yeah, my buddies from Idaho are coming. In to you. That be it just posted the link in the in the live show chat, So I'm gonna go click the. Link preppercamp dot com. H you won't regret it, alrighty, Jane. Well, I'm gonna let you go and then I'm gonna stick around. We'll do some changing Earth news for all the live listeners real quick and then we'll get that taken care of. But as always, great to talk to you. I was just like, oh, I get to pick Jane's brain. Okay, let's do it. Let's do it. I said it's small, so it didn't take long. Listen. Thank you so much for inviting me on. I really appreciate it. And anytime you want to pick my brain, just ask. Or if your your chat room has questions for later on that you want to get back with me, I'd be more than happy to answer them. Awesome. July wait wait wait wait July third, we're doing the bin show for the audio drama. So for you guys who don't know Jane's in the audio drama plays Dolores and Jane, you are more than welcome to come on to the live show. I'll give you details if you're interested in a little bit. But yeah, we just all get together and talk about the show and prepping stuff and you know, typical have fun and and talk survivalism. So that'd be great if you want to come out, would be great. July third, it's a Sunday, Okay. And then have you gotten any further in the series. I know you're so busy, so you probably have no time. No, no, no, I happen. Yeah, I should get you hooked up with the audio books. That'd probably be yeah, probably. Easy that I have to talk to myself so I don't have an through me on my brain for anything else. Well, that's good, that's good. I was just curious if you if you learned where your character is going or not. So that's uh no, I just know that I'm ahead of a brothel. It's like, yeah, and. The medicine lady, I means. Right on. Alrighty, Jane, Well thanks again for coming on. Appreciate it, Thank you, I take my bike all right. Awesome having Jane with us, I love it. Yeah. Yeah, I was so excited to have her. That's why I was like, oh, we should have done Changing Earth News a while ago, but you know what, forget it. I got an extra fifteen minutes. We can hang around, and I just highlighted like the really big stuff. But there was big enough stuff that I think it's worth going through. So if you don't mind, chan, if you don't have to get back out and be the manual labor in the garden, Oh, you're good to go. Then all right, let's go on. All right, hold on one second. All right, it's short intro. We're gonna jump right into the Changing Earth News. So the sun is active. It's been really active, but it's not flaring large today, so that's good. There's a sun spot that's facing us. But we just have eyes on it. Could you know, you never know what's gonna happen. It could be today's cool, tomorrow sucks kind of thing. So we just keep our eyes on that. No corona holes present at this time. Okay, So some big things. On the twelfth of May. The Red River in Minnesota, North Dakota and Manitoba area, they're experiencing the worst flooding that they've had in a decade and it's from the rain, just massive melting ice and This is exactly like one year after they just had this massive drought, you know, so quite a change for them. Thirty nine feet high as flood level, it's at fifty two. It crested at fifty two feet. Yeah, so and it's flat ground, you know, so it just expands out and it cut off roads. It was pretty severe. So that was definitely one that's worth mentioning. These sandstorms have are becoming more and more severe and frequent and crazy in the Middle East and even in Belarus they had a huge dust storm. Two people died in that storm on the twenty second. In the United States, there was also massive thunderstorms that whipped across they call it a director. One hundred mile an hour winds came across Minnesota, South Dakota. One person died in each of those states due to it. There was tornadoes in South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa. So that was a pretty massive storm that came in. So hopefully every body is safe up there, and uh, I'm getting over that. In Peru, there was a five point four earthquake on the twelfth, So because it was some of the sun activity, we did have earthquake warnings and stuff up and it did uptick activity, and that was pretty interesting. There was three hundred and eighty five two point zero earthquakes on the twelfth, and then on the thirteenth there was three hundred and ninety two and the biggest was a five point three in Chin's. Favorite Segway sandwich. Maybe. Yeah, every time I see it, I'm like, oh, gintle up. In China, they had fifty thousand people affected by flooding. The rain began on May eighth, just came down in heavy, heavy amounts, and so this is southeastern China, and they had ninety three one hundred acres plus affected totally destroyed by flooding nine point eight inches they got. The teenth. They also saw explosive activity out of Stromboli in Italy, and then in northern Italy they had this cold and hail that came in. It took out a lot of their agriculture in that region, including like grapevines and things like that. So and those take years to get back online after an abnormal event. Like that, So not good news. I try to highlight like the things that are affecting the agriculture because obviously that's you know what what I've been worried about for a couple of years, even before we went into all this. You got to wonder how much of this is actually just to cover up for what was coming down the pipeline. Anyway, in northern India, there was a massive flooding that started there, and then Vulcan del Fuego also showed explosive activity on that day. So bol Stromboli and Vulcan del Fuego had been kind of idle for a little bit and then they both started exploding on the thirteenth. On the fourteenth, there was four hundred and twenty nine earthquakes that were two point zeroor higher. The biggest was five point one in Indonesia. That area is usually racking and rolling flooding in southern Ghana, and then in southeastern Russia, they've forty eight thousand acres plus have now or are now on fire and fifty eight thousand have burned so far, two thousand people they are homeless. So these wildfires are just still going crazy in eastern Russia. I wonder if they're having the resources to fight the fires where they're out doing other. Things, right, and like how much world support's coming in, because you know, when Australia went, you know, we sent down our planes and all that stuff, and right now with the wars, Yeah, yeah, it's. Not a good situation. Yep. On the fifteenth, there was four hundred and nine earthquakes that were two point zero or higher, the biggest of which was a five point five in Guam, Syria and Iraq on the border there, a powerful sandstorm came in. There was dozens injured, a couple people died. One hundred plus people were admitted for hospital care due to suffocation systems because these dust storms have been so oppressive. The pictures are insane, dude, Like the whole sky just turns red and then like the highways, it's when the aftermath is done. It's like it's like snowstorms right. When, yeah, snow, but it's all sand and like, man, somebody's got to come and clear all that and everything off, right exactly, Like you can't just plow that away. Somebody's gonna have to come in with the bulldozer and plow it away. But you know it's not gonna melt like you say. Yeah. And then in northeastern India there was six people died in landslides up there. The rain's just been bad. The flooding has been horrible up there, so they've been experiencing landslides now that the ground is so soaked with moisture. There's been record high temperatures on the Pakistan India border in March and April. Usually they're high temperatures come in May and June, but March and April have been absolutely just on fire as far as the temperature goes, and there's no water left, so they're in the middle of this huge water crisis. People waiting for hours in line just to get fresh drinking water, which also caused a cholera outbreak in Pakistan because of the water crisis. Literally, birds are dropping out of the air dying from dehydration because they're flying around trying to find water and they can't and so they're just dropping out of the air and dying. And it's pretty severe over there right now, so they could definitely use some prayers. Eastern Russia got hit with unseasonably cold weather, so we go from one extreme to the other. Just the change in earth. You know, she's just gonna keep throwing everything at us. On the sixteenth, there was three hundred and sixty six earthquakes that were two point zur higher, the biggest of which was a five point eight in the Indian Ocean. We saw flooding in Malaysia three hundred homes affected their massive landslides, and then also northern Venezuela, Kuwait finally got hit with the sandstorm that came across from Syria and Iraq and all of their port traffic and their airport traffic had to be suspended because of the sandstorm that came in. In the USA. On the sixteenth, Virginia, Maryland and DC got hit with thunderstorms and hail some are baseball size that came in. So hopefully everybody listening was okay after that event. You know, it can be very regional that when the hail comes in and does but there was some serious damage, you know, when it just hits tatters cars and stuff. One of the house that they showed like the whole front of it just looked like it had been shot with, you know, bullets or something because it was just boom hal all across everything. On the seventeenth, there was three hundred and forty nine earthquakes two point over higher, the biggest which was a five point six in the South China Sea. There was flooding in south eastern Uruguay. This subtropical storm system came in. It killed one person. The sea foam literally just inundated everywhere as well as the flooding. And these are super rare, so they saw one about fifteen years ago, but it never made landfall, so for it to make landfall is really really rare, and a lot of flooding and damage from it. Then it continued on and it hit Brazil, bringing eighty mile an hour winds to southern Brazil. There was a fifty one year old that drowned. Their boat was actually capsized and whatnot. And then. The storm brought in these severely low temperatures. So as soon as the storm moved out, they started getting snow, which is crazy for them right now. And Kazakhstan there was a massive landslide in this residential region, so they've been getting a lot of rain as well, and this huge mountain just let loose into this residential basically, you know, the subdivision. Five homes were just destroyed by this and one person died in that event. And then Thailand and Bangkok they also saw massive monsoons. They're the worst that they've been in a decade, literally five foot high of water. So that's just insane. In Saskatchewan, they are, Yeah, Saskatchewan saw their first tornado of the season. Everything was all good though. Just beautiful you know, pictures and whatnot, always breathtaking to see. And then on the eighteenth there was three hundred and sixty earthquakes that were two point zero or higher, the biggest of which was a five point eight in Alaska. And then the sandstorm hit the United air Arab immigrants. And the like. The tallest building in the world in Dubai was just you just couldn't even see it anymore from the sandstorm coming in. And they are reporting that they're coming more frequently and more intensely, these sandstorms, so of course they blame it on you know, deforestation and diversion of rivers and things like that. You're not keeping the ground as moist, so it's going to kick up more sand into the air. There was flooding in southern India, and then there was a huge thunderstorm and hail event in southern Greece that destroyed a lot of crop land. On the nineteenth there was three hundred and seventy three earthquakes that were two point oho higher, the biggest of which was a six point nine in the Southern Pacific near Australia. The Saharan dust has now kicked off of Africa. It's coming across and it hit the Caribbean and South America on the nineteenth. It should be up to the US Golf this weekend. Usually these events start ramping up in June and subside in August. So you guys saw it last year. It came in honey, guys, right, wasn't it last year? And then a Western Texas is on fire. The Mesquite heat fire in Taylor County has burned ten thousand acres. It's only five percent contained as of the nineteenth and there's already been twenty seven homes destroyed in that event. And southwest or Western Texas is a lot of cotton. They grow a lot of cotton over there. So again we're talking agricultural regions that really we don't need to see them on fire. This year especially, there was flooding in Honduras. The southern capital had mud slides and floods, one hundred plus homes destroyed, and this gigantic sinkhole opened up in the middle of a residential area, threatening to you know, suck the homes into it, which is always a good time. Northern Nicaragua, one person died in the flooding there, and then on the twentieth there was four hundred and sixty six earthquakes that were two point zero or hire, the biggest of which was a five point eight in Chile. There was a solar flare on that day at m class. It released significant radio noise, so they can actually disrupt sensitive equipment like the GPS, the satellite technology, that kind of thing, So that was an eyes on event and not affecting the planetary you know, our planet very much. In New Zealand, there was a super rare tornado eighty six mile an hour winds. Twenty five homes were hitting that event. They do not see tornadoes there, which is really weird. And then there was also a tornado in Gaylord, Michigan, which really doesn't get tornadoes that often as well, and it's weird that they happened on the same day. There was major property damage in that event, and a tornado also hit northwestern Germany on that day. Two people died in that event. And they saw a lot of property damage, so many roofs ripped off of homes and things like that through the community and whatnot. And then Vanachu saw massive flooding. It's a little island out there by the volcano that's out there. Some homes were just completely washed away. So the weird you know, massive flooding events and the wind. I think we're gonna see the uptick of winds on our planet. If you haven't watched the disaster playlist on Suspicious Observers, you guys really need to check that out. But the way we're headed right now, you know, keep in mind, Sarah said, we're going to see an uptick of winds. The planetary winds are going to keep speeding up and speeding up to where we see more of these subtropical storms, cyclones, hurricanes and the you know, tornadoes and just massive wind events happening across the globe. In the last twenty four hours. The biggest earthquake was a six point three in the South Pacific Ocean the last week, and it also tops the month was a six point nine on Macquarie Island, and then the biggest of the year is still the eight point two in Alaska for volcanoes, twenty five volcanoes are actively or are actively erupting right now. That's the same as last week. Sixteen are showing minor activity. That's down two, but they just fell into the unrest category, which is up to to forty. All right, that didn't take too long. Bam, everybody's caught up now, Like I had to share, Like. I just posted a disaster playlist for you, sir. Oh sweet, thank you. Yeah, you guys gotta check that out big time, big time, big time. And if you guys are listening to the show and you're like, where's the live chat the live chat at go over to Prepper broadcasting dot com. That's where you're gonna get hooked up on how to get to the live chat so you can join the show live. And we'd love to have you over there. For we have the experience if you in the chat. Right exactly because you can't see what's going on. And then and Chin's awesome because he's always posting awesome links and fact checking me and keeping me square like Alas does. So I realized I have a lot of Yeah, I realized I have a lot of handlers in my life. I'm like, man, I don't know that crazy geez. So I'm just go go, go, go go everything. Whoa whoa, whoa whoa. Yeah, like rain rooing over there over there, you're gonna shut up the cow pushers. So July July third, we're doing the Binge event. You guys need to get on the live chat before then come over check out PBN. It's a great place to be and we're doing a lot of giveaways on UH on July third, so and I'm definitely giving away a whole book set, which is hing I know so much. Loved everybody though, and just the time for summer exactly exactly. It's gonna keep you busy. So good thing that Jane. It's still a mystery for her because for everybody who does know my. Yeah, everybody who does know my series knows exactly what I'm talking about. And if you don't, well go get caught up. Already. Yeah, and you can get caught up at my website. Become a member, you can go back and do the archives. I've podcasted every single one of my books besides Swinson and my very last book, so you can pretty much get caught up and you learn a ton of information along the way. It was funny listening to James the other night because he was like, oh, the first show sound like I'm like, oh, it's so true, like when you go back. I mean that was like six seven years ago. When I did my fite mid Days, when I used to listen to mill Days. Yeah, so true. Alrighty guys, well we've we've gone way over this show, so I'm gonna have to do some editing. But that is okay because we had a bunch of fun. So yep, for sure. Yeah, great show, good good call. Chan, thanks for wrangling up Jane, making her take a break from her food preservation. She just saw how it was done. Yeah, yeah, all right, guys. Until next time, remember Dream, Survive, Thrive,