The Lord was not mistaken when he put man in the Garden of Eden and he said, 'tend and keep it'.
The divine design of creation is perfect. For all the problems we have, the answer is to return to the Lord and His ways.
The word says covetousness is idolatry. (Colossians 3:5) We don't need the materialism of the world.
Adam and Eve weren't in the Garden of Eden worried about not having a microwave or an iPhone.
With food and clothing, we will be satisfied. (1 Timothy 6:8)
Local production provides for food purity and food security.
...as well as for community autonomy.
All this with delicious, nutritious beauty.
When we 'tend the garden and keep it' as is God's original design for man, food purity, food security, and our sovereignty are provided.
The challenges we face are an opportunity for us to step into being warriors of love, to follow after Christ and to support this most meaningful endeavor.
The stakes couldn't be higher. We should feel encouraged and emboldened.
Even though we're faced with great challenges, we have the Lord. We can trust Him.We have real challenges, but I don't want anybody to feel discouraged. Let's hold on to that.
The Lord took man and put him in the garden of Eden to work and keep it. This is before a word was spoken to man. This is the unspoken gospel.
So many are wondering what's the purpose of life. They're anxious and depressed because they are so far from the natural way.
Many of us are in little cars and cubicles all day.
It's much more natural for us to walk, miles and miles a day, this is just part of the Lord's design.
It's exercise, fresh air, sunshine. We're missing that. His wisdom is perfect.
And the Lord commanded the man saying, of every tree of the garden, you may freely eat, but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, you shall not eat. You shall not eat. So, from the beginning, there was food that we needed to watch for to avoid. We shouldn't be surprised that today, we need to watch what we're eating.
When the Lord made a whip of cords and chased the merchants from the temple, it was said 'Zeal for the Father's house consumed Him.' Friends, that temple was a metaphor for us, we together are to be a temple for the Holy Spirit. Paul's letter says anyone who destroys God's temple will be destroyed. By his stripes we are healed. God cares very much about our health.
There is a very popular herbicide named roundup that is used so much, it averages three pounds per person per year in America to grow our food. The maker has recently agreed to pay $11 billion dollars to farmers to settle cancer suits. But they're still using the food. They're not slowing it down. It's still available at Home Depot next to the kid's drinks.
The Monsanto the former VP of Monsanto runs the FDA. He's in charge. So the corruption is unbelievable and it's just brazen. This herbicide is in up to 95% of our food. It's hard to find anything that it's not in. And it's not just cancers. It's dozens of terrible diseases. It's 99% correlated to things like autism, Alzheimer's, autoimmune diseases, celiac, and obesity.
In the last 7 years, longevity in this country has been trending down. Trending down. In western countries, for the last 100 years, it's always been going up. We're always living longer. We have the technology, we have health care, it shouldn't be going down. So that's food purity. That's the food purity battle we're up against.
Food Security. A lot of us think we might be here on the edge of World War 3 or at least it's never been closer. Jesus said you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled. These things must come to pass. The end is not yet. For nation will rise against nation. The kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines. The very next thing after wars and rumours of wars are famines. Right now, what's going on in the world is going back about a year or two ago, food price have really been going up. A few big countries quit exporting their fertilizer, which is a huge deal. So, this is important. This is our food supply and we had shortages from coronavirus, and the coronavirus is nothing compared to what will come. So, that's how important food security is.
And then sovereignty. Sovereignty. So this is talking about the end times here and talking about that in that day they make the people take the mark of the beast. That no man may buy or sell say that he took the mark. Or the name of the beast or the number of his name. And could hardly imagine how they could put this into place two years ago. You didn't even see it coming. You're like, well, that's 20, 30 years out. Now, it could be like 6 months out, right? Like, they're kind of doing that to in in Canada, right? It's like yeah I was just reading like if you're not jabbed and you're going to a big store like Walmart then you have to be like escorted around the store the whole time.
This is a family in California. They grew 7000 pounds of organic food on a tenth of an acre. It's just amazing what you can do with next to nothing, a tenth of an acre is like, you can do that in a city like on the streets or vertical farming. So, everywhere we can plant paradise. Everywhere, we can plant paradise. Most of your friends would love for you to come over and put some plants in their yard. What I do is talk to friends about this and if they show any interest I bring them plants and if they are into it, I keep bringing them plants and it's just like it's a beautiful thing. So, it's so simple, it's just save the seeds and share them. This is god's economy of abundance. The whole consumer system is built on scarcity. This is abundance. 30 fold, 60 fold, 100 fold.
A food forest really addresses a lot of the world's biggest issues. From food to medicine, to building materials, to fuel it just takes care of everything. It really fosters community. It moderates temperatures. It prevents famines and floods. It prevents droughts. It's actually like when you go and clear cut a forest you can have droughts because now so much moisture is held in in your biomass in your trees and plants. That there's some sort of a relationship there. We can solve all the world's problems in the food forest garden.
Sunday morning. Easter morning. The risen saviour, In his glory, and Mary's there. And Mary she turned around and saw Jesus standing there. But she did not know that it was Jesus. Why didn't she know it was Jesus? What was Jesus doing? Well, Jesus said to her, woman, why are you weeping? Whom are you seeking? Supposing him to be the gardener. She said to him, sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have laid him and I will take him away. She didn't recognize him. He was, he was up to something and she thought he was a gardener. I'm telling you, I don't think that she was ever in such a beautiful garden and the rabbits were there and the birds were singing and the flowers were in all their glory, and Mary's looking at Jesus just restoring creation and being part of that and she doesn't even recognize him. So, let's be mistaken for the gardener, right?
So, I don't have a ton of time to get into the how and everything, but this is this 'Back to Eden' documentary I would highly recommend. This guy's like a really solid Christian brother, and you can find like, this is free on YouTube, you can find this documentary, and he just talks about how woodchips are really helpful for starting a garden, and it, goes back to, like, I think that the tree of life in the garden of Eden, I think that's a type for Christ, if it wasn't for Christ, that tree of life was like, life everlasting. So, it's so does it lord give us life everlasting? And these trees of life I was showing you are the answer for so many of the world's problems.
Even for the soil. Even for fertility. I was talking about how fertility is lacking. It's such an important thing. All of our biomass from our compost and kitchen scraps and brush and so many things that we throw away and we just want to get rid of. So these things that you just put them on the ground. It's just they turn into fertility. And mulch helps in so many ways. Not only given fertility into the soil but it lowers the temperature by, maybe 15, 20 degrees from that soil underneath and that soil isn't cooked and it can really develop and there's a whole ecology of you know, bacteria and fungus down there that that helps the plants take up the nutrients. So, in the wood chips, they suppress the weeds if you're into that. They help moderate the temperatures as far as getting too cold as well. So, and they really help retain moisture. So, you're talking about irrigation. If you get a bunch of wood chips, then, it can really help with that and there's a free way to get a lot of wood chips. So, if you call your tree service companies, they pay like 300 bucks to go dump the wood chips. They'll go cut down a tree and then to move it and to manage it and transport it, they have a chipper and they'll put it in the back. So, if you call them around, they'll be happy to come bring you with chips.
But besides just fruit trees, wow, the animals are so fun. I grew up having birds but I've had chickens recently and wow, they have so much character. They're so fun, and very easy compared to a dog. When Jesus says, is there anyone among you? If your child asks for an egg, he'll give him a scorpion?. When Jesus says that, we can trust the eggs are good for us. He's endorsing that eggs are good there.
Here are some other some fruit trees that are good for the area too. Bananas can fruit the first year. So, a lot of these fruit trees, you think, well, that's 3, 5, 7 years out until harvest. Well, no. All of these are in the first year. So, bananas, the first year, papaya from seed to fruit within nine months and the papaya, what's so great about this? Look at this. It's flowering on top and you're seeing they're smaller on top and then they're getting ripe. So, now you can pick the ripe one off the bottom as a fruit or you can take one of these as a vegetable and its available year round. Super nutritious and the seeds are medicinal. Dragon fruit, by the third year, a little, it's a cactus little cutting can be produced in 300 pounds of fruit a year, every year. It climbs. So, if you have a tree that in your yard that, you know, if it's cool, you got a nice tree, let some dragon fruit climb up it maybe and you got fruits to pick. A little slower but also super productive. Avocados and mangoes.
And here's the moringa tree. These are the seeds I brought here. I want to pass around to share. You mentioned not feeling so great. Mooring seeds, you can take them as a multivitamin so you can you can open up the outside of the of the shell and look inside. Make sure it's nice and white looking like 99% of alarms. Make sure it doesn't look like there's like a little moldy on it or something but nature's multivitamins. I use a crack on my teeth to open it. But it's like it's so nutritious. It's 92 different minerals. All the amino acids, like you can see here. Look at this, three times the potassium of bananas, four times the calcium of milk. These tree grows like a weed. It can grow 30 feet in a year. And it's called the miracle tree. And some cultures, In India they have studies that show cures like 300 diseases. Twice the protein of yogurt, on and on. It's just got everything. More and more vitamin K than kale. I'm eating. It tastes good. And what's cool about Moringa also is super drought tolerant. So, yeah, you can put it somewhere where you don't have irrigation. Once it's gone, it's going to be going and like I said, it grows super-fast and you can eat the leaves, the seeds, the branches, or the flowers and the flowers are really pretty like orchid looking little white flowers. Put them in a salad. Beautiful.
Yuca, I want to show you this one. So, this is just a stem from the yuca plant and you can just cut this and take like two nodes off of this and bury it like a seed and its super hardy and drought tolerant and within 9 months, you have these huge tubers and that's a lot of calories. So, for something that you can just put in your yard and forget about, I just think that's wow. Is that like yam, sweet potatoes, or is that a different type of? So, you could like, it's similar to a potato. So, when you're at, you probably, had yucca fries at some point or cassava chips. It's also known as cassava and they actually make like tapioca pudding from this, they do that. And there it says 800 million people in the world depend on yuca as a primary food staple. So yeah it just grows super well. Like I said it's hardy. Doesn't need great soil. It's drought tolerant. It's not a perennial like everything else I was leaning into is like a perennial that you do once and then you're getting like year after year and then because gardening it is play, it is like watering the flowers and feeding the bunnies. But it is like by the sweat of the brow. So I really love perennials where we're building a like a
legacy rather than just a vegetable garden that we have to do again next year. So this is the one exception of that because it is just so productive. And so easy.
So, wrapping up here. What else can we do besides plant fruit trees to help the cause? Like I said, be a Johnny apple seed or a Jenny mango tree. Compost stuff. I was talking about the fertility. It could be a real big deal. Come in. Kitchen scraps, yard waste, lots and lots of stuff. Can just make a compost pile. Bees, bunnies, bath boxes. These are all going to be a productive enterprise that are fun.
Run for mayor. I started telling everybody, run for mayor because not that anybody needs to be mayor but let's get these ideas out there. Let's like, we need to scale this movement. Like, this stuff is in our blood. It's beautiful. It's delicious. I tell everybody like, you know, you fall in love with it the more you do it but we need to really scale the movement up. You know, we've gone from being like ninety, 98% of us doing this, 100 years ago to now, it's like 2% of us and they're cheating. They're using pesticides, herbicides, and way too relying on them. They're maximizing profits at the expense of our health.
These supply chains are fragile and we, they're not sustainable. That means they're going to break. So, towards food security. We can be producers instead of consumers. We can be create part of the creation rather than destruction.
You ever like, look at these batteries. They say, don't throw them away. Who like takes them to the battery receptable place? Like, I don't know anyone who's ever done that. Shouldn't the companies who sell the batteries, make it easier? We can just turn in the batteries where we buy them. Because that battery chemicals are toxic and can get in aquifer. So, today, they go to the trash dump and now it's in our water. We don't need that, that's crazy.
Community gardens, we can do all these things without running for mayor. What's more important than the health of our loved ones? This is the way of life for exercise, sunshine, fresh air. This fosters community prevents erosion, drought, and mudslides. You get happy, little, happy, little birds and chickens. I tell you, we get to be good shepherds. We get the fellowship of the animals. The divine design, we get to give them names just like Adam and Eve.
So, Amen. Let's do it. Let's plant paradise!
