E193: Taking Control Over Your Food Sources and Your Life with Jim Gale

<p>Jim Gale is the Founder and Chief Storyteller of Food Forest Abundance, a global movement that helps people grow their food in their own yard so they become more self-reliant. By implementing sustainable, local agriculture in the form of edible backyard gardens, they help turn consumers into producers.</p> <p>The thread of our whole conversation today is abundance, in that everything stems from abundance and there's enough for all of us. Jim also talks about the power of your mind, breaking from fear and mind control, and taking control over your food source, your health, and your life.</p> <p><strong>Here are some power takeaways from today’s conversation:</strong></p> <ul> <li>What is permaculture?</li> <li>Breaking free from mind control and fear</li> <li>Taking control over your food sources</li> <li>What’s in our food today?</li> <li>Why create a food source for your family</li> <li>Various food forest designs and layouts you can create</li> <li>The food forest landscape blueprint</li> </ul> <p><strong>Episode Highlights:</strong></p> <p><strong>Understanding the World of Permaculture</strong></p> <p>The world as we are living it and treating it is being destroyed. It's unsustainable. Our society is unsustainable and all unsustainable systems fail. Whereas a sustainable system creates more energy than it takes to build and maintain, and that is all regenerative and sustainable.</p> <p>Permaculture is an energy science. It's the sustainable and regenerative use of energy, which is found everywhere. It's a design science where millions of people around the world have collaborated to find out the best way to grow food with the lowest maintenance and the highest yield. And it all starts with design. The food forest landscape blueprint is a 45-page document that lays out all the relevant principles of permaculture and growing food.</p> <p><strong>Taking Control Over Your Food Source and Your Health</strong></p> <p>We can create and control the necessary nutrients, vitamins, and minerals we need as