Living Off the Land with Rob Greenfield

Wild Ideas Worth Living

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🗓️ 17 June 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Can you imagine eating only what you grow or forage for an entire year? Rob Greenfield is doing just that. He’s living in a tiny house on a plot of land where he’s planted an elaborate garden in the backyard of a neighborhood where he’s also teaching others to garden. Rob goes into detail about his 200 plus days living solely off of food he’s grown or foraged himself. He also shares how you can grow your own food and reduce your environmental footprint by how you eat.

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0:00.0	Could you live entirely off the land and only consume what you grow and forage for the year, Rob Greenfield wanted to find out.
0:16.0	Rob's an activist and adventure who spent the past 219 days building a tiny house and planting a garden and fruit trees and vegetables all around
0:25.1	the neighborhood in Florida to do just that. Now he's spending a whole year
0:29.2	eating only the food he can grow and forage. I'm Shelby Stanger and this is wild ideas worth living.
0:38.4	Before he started doing experiments to show how we can all live a more sustainable style,
0:42.4	Rob was a typical guy.
0:44.3	He was living in San Diego, his goals were to make more money, own awesome fancy stuff.
0:49.3	But then he started watching some documentaries.
0:51.8	He realized many of the things he was doing, like driving his fancy car and eating processed
0:56.4	food.
0:57.5	It was hurting our planet, which he loved so much.
1:00.4	So he decided to make a lifestyle change.
1:03.0	I met Rob a little after this change and we've known each other now for about a decade.
1:07.8	He's had a lot of wild ideas during that time.
1:10.0	I actually wrote one of the first stories about him when he first biked across the country
1:14.4	on a bamboo bike to raise awareness about sustainability by drinking only from natural sources
1:20.0	and creating zero waste along the way. Since then, he's done that trek across the country on a bamboo bike over three times.
1:27.1	He's built and lived in a few tiny houses.
1:29.7	He's taken people around the country dumpster diving,
1:32.8	and he's dove into more than 2,000 dumpsters
1:35.3	across the country to raise awareness about food waste
1:38.3	and to show we throw away perfect food.
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