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Can you really run a revolution with a “garden trowel”?  Yes, yes you can!  Today I was going to talk about survival gardening with a container gardening method but got deeply into why we all need to be gardening on some level.

Tune in today to hear…

• More about Stockings for Soldiers, please participate
• How gardening in containers now may make you a better conventional gardener later
• New products coming this weekend from Center Of Mass Products
• Barack Obama’s “The New New Deal” no that isn’t a typo (it’s not even his bill)
• Why we should not root for President Obama to fail
• Why we have the government “we deserve” (we is not necessarily us)
• How The Survival Podcast was conceived
• The inspiration of the Dervaes Family and how it helped make my show what it is today
• How a garden trowel may be a better implement for a revolution then a rifle
• How we have become a net importer of food and dependent on the rest of the world just to eat
• We only need three things to survive, now one is provided by foreign governments
• To change your nation, first change yourself
• More on “it’s for the children” and how gardening is really for the children
• The lesson that food comes from work, effort and the ground
• How growing food and being debt free can change the entire country
• Changing our dependence on the government into independence
• The real reason people came to American in the 1800s
• Now is the time to beat your swords into plowshares
• Sharing is between equals, parasitism is between producers and consumers

Resources for Today’s Show

• Stockings for Soldiers
• Center of Mass Products
• The Dervaes Family Video that inspired me to start The Survival Podcast
• Obamas “New New Deal”