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SimPLife: Living Farm - The SeIf-Reliance Cash Crop IdeaBank for Growers John McGuire's Farm - Saipan Raw-n-Ragged Tropical Vids
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Transcript

Looks familiar. Yeah, I used to have one just like it. Those are good. It's my son. So john, you you got a whole bunch of different trees there. You're primarily a perennial farmer, I guess as far as how do we classify if we had to do that?

Are they all local or are they coming from different places? Probably. A lot of my plants are from Thailand, like the seedless was right there. Those two trees. Okay. That's a mountain Apple from Thailand.

You've grown them basically from seed some from seed and some were already, like grafted or putting on potted trees or cuttings, you know things like the dragon fruit was cuttings. You bring that in your luggage or sometimes Yeah, yeah, there we go. Gorilla farming folks. By all means I encourage it. I've done it several times myself I send seeds from LA doc all over the world. So how many species I mean, if you were to give it a wild guess how many species of things do you think you've got out here?

I would guess maybe 50 I mean everything from coffee, mulberry, teak, Dragon, Dragon, dragon fruit. Different types of bananas limes, lemons. Trees, dates. Fantastic. You have a fig somewhere who said, Yeah, I've got a big plant over there, produces out of the pot pious and there's a name you mentioned neem tree neem tree. You know, Noni trees and unone, coconuts, pineapple.

See so many kinds of citrus you know if you're listening to that list, this is this. This is a list of heavy hitters here coming from different different countries but sometimes to get old I don't know, a forced biodiversity to occur in places where you're tired of ordering from somewhere else and paying too high a price for very poor quality. Much Better to bring it here to grow your own supply the highest quality for everybody that has access to your to your produce some of the like our famila tree It was a pink mellow mellow guy earlier this house another farm it's really nice for those trees are down at the bottom. Avocados real easy to grow the years to hear that folks avocado that's the hot number right now hot ticket mangoes. Avocados What else would you recommend is like a huge seller papayas papayas papayas always sell coconuts, coconuts shortcode year to work coconut trees in okay in it sight pan coconut is actually an item Yeah.

When I get coconut some happy camper. I agree I have often sometimes we don't have much choices on our food in it is I'm looking down the lens here in the distance I'm catching just so many different bananas. Do you have any idea how many banana species you've got? Probably around five five bananas. Five different bananas. Yeah.

Two types of type cooking banana, right. Like, like, Are they similar to the Cuban cooking banana or more of an Asian it's probably more of an Asian You can see what happens when you don't plant it just looks like that over there just vines vines covering everything they get grown over Yeah, we can't even can't even see those yeah you know that's that's kind of sad considering what we pay at the stores considering the value and and the quality of what's just growing all around us here being that this is the nature This is the wild of sipan and of every tropical country if you just go out in the in the nature you find so much to eat it's it's just staggering. You wouldn't be able to carry it all out there's no there's no way. Okay, well that's that's gonna wrap it up for us.

Just showing farmer John's farm here inside pan and hopefully this is encouraging to a lot of you you all that have got similar issues. environments even if you don't in you're in a temperate zone, I I heavily encouraged to go ahead and do your guerilla farming Yeah, bring your bring your seeds from wherever you can find them and take those risks take those chances of something not coming up because you could put something in the ground walk away and you know, there's no one's the wiser you can always see if your experiment work later or if it doesn't, and then in four or five years, if you ignore it well enough, you might actually get yourself some fruits. So it's a very little effort with a with a huge payoff is the way the way I see it. So thanks again, john. And we'll sign off here.

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