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E4: Freedom Farm Academy with Michael Hoffman
About this Episode
Jim and co-host Matthew Britt, with guest Michael Hoffman, co-founder of Food Forest Montana, inspire listeners on learning how to use permaculture principles to create a business and a community.
They teach the same principles shared with major investors, encouraging others to explore:
- Regenerative entrepreneurship
- Inspiring and empowering communities to grow food by putting permaculture nurseries, called Freedom Farm Academies, in every community around the world.
FREEDOM FARM ACADEMY: REGENERATIVE BUILDING AND LIVING
Jim: " How this came about is so relevant. I'm building a fully stacked Food Forest off grid community here in central Florida. And every single person who comes on one of our tours is blown away and becomes an advocate immediately because a Food Forest is the most intense sensory experience. It incorporates all the senses. You walk through and you can feel the vibration. You can taste it, smell it and touch it. This is why bringing these to your community is going to change the world."
–"All paths to lasting freedom must include decentralization of food, water and energy."
SPECIFICATIONS:
–The base layer is a one quarter-acre Food Forest package.
–"Symphony of elements" you can fit into one area…all working well to help you be self-reliant.
–Delivery considerations of supplies.
–Best building methods for geographical areas.
–Utilizing hearty local stock.
–Selling affiliate products/collaborating with people in the market (i.e., rain water experts, solar experts, bridge those connections).
–A farm stand within to sell some local produce.
–Educational component (and to show it's not hard to grow food).
–Beautiful pond.
–Options (chickens, hens, depending on community regulations).
–Greenhouse.
–Annual freedom garden: looking at the year-one strategy of how you can provide for yourself and your family.
–Food fences and herb spirals.
–Compost tea brewer.
–Perennials (demonstrate freedom on the site).
–Homestead elements that maximize abundance, including an apiary for pollinating.
–Storability for food, such as a root cellar.
–The building itself represents the best ecological materials, methods and practices for the region.
–Connecting with Master Gardeners to teach the local community.
THE CAREFUL THOUGHT BEHIND DESIGNS: Stacking functions to create profit for the community
–Fertigation: Fertilizing and irrigating.
–Planting in certain areas to catch an extra layer of nutrients.
–The children's ready-to-eat forage area.
MATTHEW: "Everything about permaculture is thought in that way: How do you stack the functions going on, on your property?"
VALUE:
–How valuable is food?
–How valuable is teaching your children about how to grow food?
–How valuable is it to collect the free energy from the sun?
–How valuable is it to use rainwater to make compost tea?
–Partnering with top marketer, and Emmy-award teams, who understand our freedom-based model and bring these concepts to the world.
–40 permaculture designers in eight different countries to customize based on property and zone.
– Install (140 installers) and education teams sent to each location to train the Freedom Farm Academy operator, who will be certified.
–Projected payoff 4 to 6 years with no growth considered.
COMMEMORATIVE PLAQUES:
MICHAEL: "The Freedom Farm Academy is about building a legacy of freedom. And right now, we're at a tipping point in history. By supporting Freedom Farm Academy you're cementing your name into the right side of history. We know we're going to win this."
MATTHEW: "You will immediately see the health of people in that community improve, the mental health of those people improve and I would bet to say chronic disease go through a bit of a decline as people are getting healthier foods right from Mother Nature, from plant to mouth."
THOSE WITH RESOURCES TO INVEST, or HAVE LAND, are encouraged to reach out to be part of the Freedom Farm Academy legacy.
MATTHEW: "We know as we grow food, and put it back into the hands of the people, it creates freedom that we all deserve. And, abundance is already here. It's just a matter of grasping it."
ABOUT MICHAEL HOFFMAN:
Director of Self-Reliant Living and Community Development, Food Forest Abundance
Co-founder (with his family) of Food Forest Montana
WEBSITE: https://www.foodforestmontana.com
EMAIL: [email protected]
Michael provides emergency preparedness and homestead consultations to the Food Forest Abundance community. His mission is to educate, equip and empower others to become self-reliant.
He started his homesteading journey in the Southwest, and relocated to Montana, seeing it as a better place to raise a family.
Michael and his Food Forest Montana company was founded by this "Family of Three," with a dream to change the world by living more simply, closer to nature, and becoming completely self-sufficient.
He is passionate about growing a food forest as a way to become a part of the solution, rather than being a part of the problem. "It allows you the opportunity to become a producer, instead of just a consumer, to not only provide food for yourself, but to share your abundance with your local community," he shares.
Company Vision:
- For a sustainable, healthy, and abundant society for our grandchildren and beyond.
- Food forests growing in every community.
- Solar on every roof, water catchment, filtering, and storage at every home.
"We believe in sustainable architecture, and making natural wellness products widely available. Food deserts turned to food forests!"
Michael appeared (1/25/22) on The Corbett Report, an independent, listener-supported alternative news source. It was founded by award-winning investigative journalist James Corbett and operates on the principle of open source intelligence and provides podcasts, interviews, articles and videos about breaking news and important issues.
In his interview, Michael talks about the abundance growing right under our feet and how to eat a pine tree: https://www.corbettreport.com/solutionswatch-pinetree/
Food Forest Abundance:
Website: https://foodforestabundance.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/FoodForestAbundance
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/foodforestabundance/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/FFAbundance
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/food-forest-abundance/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIb8p5eWZl8
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