More valuable than gold….

➡ Marjorie Wildcraft interviews Lucinda Bailey from Texas Ready Seed Company about the importance of seeds, especially in a time of potential economic instability. They discuss the value of seeds, which were once more valuable than gold, and could become so again. Lucinda explains that her company’s seeds are suitable for growing in all 48 states, and are heirloom seeds, meaning they have been consistently grown for at least 25 generations. She also highlights the difference between heirloom and hybrid seeds, emphasizing the importance of understanding what you’re buying.
➡ The article discusses the importance of seed saving and growing your own food. It highlights the loss of 95% of seed varieties since 1905 and the risks of relying on hybrid seeds, which can be sterile or unpredictable. The authors recommend learning how to save seeds using resources like the book “Seed to Seed” and working with your community to preserve different seed varieties. They emphasize that seed saving is a rewarding skill that can ensure food security and preserve the genetic diversity of plants.
➡ Gardening requires careful management of seeds, light, and humidity. Seeds, like those of herbs and radishes, can produce thousands of new seeds, but their germination rates decrease over time, especially if exposed to sunlight. Storing seeds properly is crucial, with the USDA recommending refrigeration over freezing. It’s also important to provide plants with essential nutrients, including trace elements, for a healthy and abundant harvest.
➡ This text discusses the importance of using perlite in gardening to absorb excess water, the value of trace minerals in soil, and the challenges of creating a compost heap. It also emphasizes the need for self-sufficiency in food production, especially in times of potential economic collapse. The author suggests buying seeds and learning to garden as a way to ensure food security, teach children, and build community. Lastly, the text mentions a seed company that offers customer support for gardening questions.
➡ The speaker encourages listeners to prepare for uncertain times by growing their own food, using heirloom seeds available from TexasReady.net. They highlight the importance of self-sufficiency and leadership in the community, especially in times of crisis. The speaker also appreciates the work of Lucinda, a knowledgeable mentor who offers free guidance and support. Lastly, they mention a special offer on mineral packets, essential for growing food, available on the same website.

Hey, everybody, this is Marjorie Wildcraft, and today I have with me Lucinda Bailey of the Texas Ready Seed Company. I’ve been teasing you about this. I finally got her back on and, you know, it’s, it’s January 2026, and this is normally the time when my seed catalogs get drool all over them because I’m just dreaming about what I would love to grow. I would love to grow probably 100 times more than I ever actually can grow. But I think that’s the nature of plant people. Lucinda, welcome. Welcome to everybody in the community. This is usually, we’re calling it now, off grid with Marjorie Wildcraft.

I like the new name, Marjorie. I think it says a lot. Yeah, I’m shutting down the grow network. It just too big and cumbersome and, But I really love doing these interviews with people and I really like helping people. And I just been getting a kick out of the interaction with the community. So anyway, that your community is very well educated. You have done a good job over the years. Their questions were always pertinent and deep. So I really appreciate that. Good. Yeah. Just for everybody’s identification, Lucinda and then her partner Kirk. I mean, this is it.

That’s them. I think you guys have a few other helpers. You’ve been selling seeds for at least a decade that I know of. Yeah, yeah, we met, we met years and years ago at different prepper festivals and Mother Earth News fairs and all that. You know the circuit. Right. The circus used to exist and does no more. Really? Yeah. There are very few prepper conferences, survival items, and Mother Earth is pretty much declined. So, you know, I, I, I was meeting up with Joel Salatin at an event actually about a year ago, and he says Mother Earth News and he have completely washed their hands of each other.

It’s just been completely bought out by big corporations. And I don’t think any of the, the genuine people have. They, they, they parted ways with me a few years ago also. And I said, well, don’t let the door hit you on the. Anyway, that’s right. So this is really, really important. I want to encourage everybody to get seeds. Now, Lucinda may not agree with this, but I’m watching the price of silver. And I’ve always been telling people when the price of silver starts to break free, then what we will see next is going to be a collapse of the banking system.

And I this morning. How much? 95. Yes. Yeah, it’s 95. I know, right? And this is your sign if you need a flag to know that things are going to deteriorate. And they’ve been, we all know they’ve been deteriorating for years. It’s accelerating now. And silver is your key to know that we will go through bank collapse. And what that means is your credit card won’t work, you won’t be able to Pay rent, your 401k, your IRA, all that stuff is going to be completely gone. You know, and this is going to be global. So, you know, you really need to prepare.

I’ve been working to get, I’ve been getting people to buy precious metals and very selected cryptos. And now we want to talk about getting seeds because right at one point in the American history, pre American Revolution, seeds were more valuable than gold. We could see that again. Marjorie, I think we, I think, wow, that’s, I get it. I totally, totally get it. So, Lucinda, I’ve asked you this before, but we have a lot of people who have joined the community. When you call your company Texas Ready now, does that mean these seeds are only going to be good in Texas or what? What, why, why the name for the company? Well, Texas has a reputation of being, you know, gung ho.

You lived in Texas for a number of years and it’s, we don’t take no for an answer. We just find another way to climb that mountain if we’re shut down on one avenue. And so that gung ho spirit probably is going to serve us well in the coming economy. And so that’s why we picked Texas Ready kind of a, you know, let’s get together, let’s work in community. Texas is a very community minded thing and I know that you’ve been fostering that image as well. So it’s hard work. If it’s got to be done, it’s up to us to get it done.

And so those are some of the considerations that went into that name. But these seeds are going to be useful in, you know, Montana or Florida or, you know, all over. Basically, 48 states is where we’ve had test centers and people that did gardens and found them to work just exactly like we predicted. And we actually picked varieties that would grow in, you know, the 48 states. I used to live in Michigan, so I’m very aware of severe weather and so forth. So yes, we picked watermelons that were not the 40 pound watermelons that are pictured in all the 4th of July movies and things like that, but we picked personal watermelons.

They’re size less than a basketball. And so those will grow in Michigan in their limited time frame of 115 days of growth. Now in the south, we, of course, can grow the 40 pounders, but we didn’t want to put those kind of seeds in and limit it for people in the northern climates. They’ll grow really. The smaller ones actually are more robust, in my experience. You know, they. Right. They’re, they’re, they’re hardier. I mean, Texas is pretty tough on plants, climate, to grow things. Yes, it really is. Yeah. So this will work everywhere. I also, we got.

One of the things that inspired me to actually initiate this, this call with you is, oh, gosh, I can’t remember who it was in the comments. And she was, she’s in France, and unfortunately, you can’t ship to France. And she was compl. She got a seed packet and, you know, it’s one of those big, beautiful, colorful packages, and then there was just hardly any seeds in it. And I said, you know, that’s one reason that I do business with Lucinda and Kurt at Texas Ready. Yeah, I grabbed a couple here just to show people some examples of, like, you guys really, really load these things up.

So, seeds. Yeah, the typical in America tomato seed packet will have 15 to 20 seeds in them. We usually provide 200 to 300 for a family of four. So, yeah, that, that’s the, the difference. It’s, it’s really impressive. I also really appreciated how so. I often like to, to categorize what I’m growing into, whether they’re like, calorie crops or whether they’re more. Everything’s nutritional, of course, but more, you know, garden nutrition crops. So calorie crop. And I loved how you have the beans and the corn and the squash, which are the, you know, you, you want something with some calories and you want something with some starch, some carbohydrates.

Right. And, and of course, you’ve got the lettuce and the tomato and the cucumbers and that kind of stuff, which is I, I think of it more as the colors of the rainbow and the, the variety of nutrition. But, you know, people often, you know, think about just salad for their garden. I’m like, no, no, no, you’re not going to make it on salad. You need, you know, you need calorie crops. That’s exactly right. And our, the beans that we provided also have a lot of protein in them as well, and they were selected for that reason.

And some of the varieties have been useful in the United States for well over a hundred years. Some of them even come from Thomas Jefferson’s test gardens that he did during you know, the early founding of our country. So these have been very proven seeds. They’re not things that have been on the market five, 10 years. No, these are heirloom seeds. At least 25 consistent generations. You plant it today and then what? You get to produce seed for the garden number 2, 3, 4, 5. It should all taste the same. It should all look the same.

And that’s the distinction. If you want to talk to people about the difference between hybrid and, you know, maybe some of the other, you know, open pollinated or heirloom. What. What are some of those distinctions as people are looking at other seeds out there in the world? Right. That’s. There is a seed act that requires seed companies to put hybrid on the packaging. But I tell you, that rule is broken hundreds and hundreds of times. Every time I go to Walmart, Lowe’s, Home Depot and look at their seed racks, I’m stunned with what the poor consumer has to deal.

But seeds come in two big camps. One is the open pollinated, meaning what you plant today and you gather that seed. If you protect the genetics, we’ll go into that in a minute. But garden number two, three, four, all the way to willing your grandchildren your beautiful seed stock. That should all be the same, taste the same, look the same, everything on that plant. Hybrids, on the other hand, combine strengths from a male and strengths from a female flower, merging them together. And while that garden number one is a good situation, I’ve got no argument there.

If we had a perfect economy and you wanted to go rebuy all your seed stock every year, then hybrid is the way to go. However, I think Marjorie and I would both agree we may not have Lowe’s, Home Depot, different seed companies, and so forth. We saw what Covid did to our economy. Many, many companies in the seed world went out of business at that time. And Right now, from 1905 to the present, we have lost 95% of the seed varieties. That’s told in the book Seed to Seed, which we definitely recommend. It’s a seed saving bible.

Yeah, if you let me riff on that. Because I was sure. Shocked me when I first found out about that. And that’s based on a study done by the USDA, and they took seed catalogs from the, you know, 1890s and then compared them with seed catalogs from the 1990s. And it. It’s just astonishing how there’s hardly any. Any of the varieties from 100 years ago are left. And it’s because seed saving requires literally an army. I’m not Sure, I want to use that word, but literally an army of backyard producers to continually grow it and save it and pass it on.

And we’ve all, you know, I think World War II and the victory Gardens was the last big push for anybody growing food in their backyard. I don’t know, there’s been a bit of a resurgence since 2020, but we’ve lost a lot. Anyway, I interrupted you there, but I just wanted to point that out to people that growing your own food and saving your seeds has a much more significant impact than might imagine, other than you just being able to eat during economic collapse. It actually is caring for genetics that were developed and hand curated and created by our great great grandparents.

That’s right. And a lot of these major companies, and I won’t name names, but they go in and buy different companies that are very famous for their heirlooms. And then what they do is they shelve those heirloom varieties and replace it with. With the hybrids because they know have to come back year two because there are three results from the hybrid camp. 50% of the results will be sterile. Sterile like a mule, you know, a horse and a donkey mating together. Or they will revert up the genetic change. So you really don’t know what you’re going to get in taste and in production.

That happens a lot in tomatoes. And then 25% are mutants. You plant a cucumber and many of us have gotten the proverbial gourd that we can carve into a birdhouse. Not very good for food production. So those are the three results. And they’re unpredictable. We don’t know which variety is going to do which of the three, but those are the only results out of a hybrid. So we don’t recommend that as a stable source of your seeds. Now, it. It does take some effort to learn how to seed save. I mean, for sure, the skill set that we as backyard gardeners need is we need to know how to start plants from seed.

The second thing we need to know is how to take those seedlings and transplant them into the garden. And then the third thing is after we’ve harvested, we need to know how to let those plants go to seed while we’re protecting the genetics. Because you can create hybrids in your own backyard inadvertently. And so you are going to need. Who hasn’t done that? Right. Yeah. You’re going to need this book. This is the bible of seed saving upside down. Great. It’s been around 25 years. It has regional tips and Suzanne Ashworth has three master’s degree in agronomy.

She is a person of a definite academic acclaim. Now, I’ve read there’s seven other seed saving books on the market. I’ve read them all. And two of them, three of them I would give to my grandchildren for coloring books. They’re that light. Okay, now this is going to be life and death and we can’t be messing around. And so this reference book is written at a college level. It is a tough read. I had to read it three times before I felt like it got sunk in. But the, the recommendation is if you’re growing, let’s say, tomatoes this year, there’s a whole chapter on the nightshade family.

And so tomatoes being a nightshade, you read that, you see the pictures, you do it. Okay? Now if you can do tomatoes, you can do peppers, you can do other things in your garden, you can do eggplant. So the first families just go and read that one chapter because you want to do tomatoes, but you’re going to get two or three other vegetables that are going to go along with that same set of skills. Now, if you do lettuce, lettuce is going to be very versatile. So you’re going to get maybe 16 or 17 different vegetables that all function the same way as lettuce.

But don’t read the whole book and get overwhelmed. We don’t want that. Just read a family and do that. And now you’ve got that tool in your toolkit. I also really like to emphasize this is the reason we have community. And it’s why I’m always talking about you. Just growing food is not going to be enough. You need your neighbors, the people down the street, because it’s a little bit hard to save seed from everything. And having other people who are saving seeds and who are having some separation and some distance, which is one great way to protect the genetics.

Another way that I like to do it is when you’re saving seed, it’s so prolific. I mean, you. The seeds from one tomato, there’s, I don’t know how many seeds come out of one tomato. I mean, so I like to save it in time. So I’ll get, you know, one. One year I’ll be growing the tomatoes and I’m going to actually intend to save seeds from it. And I won’t need to worry about it for another. If I take care of my seeds, you know, for another, two, three, you know, five years, because I’ve saved that much.

And in those other years, I can be working on other Things that I’m saving the seed for. Those are great tips, Marjorie. And in that book, Seed to Seed, it does tell you the recommended separation distances, which no other book you know has. So some things like beans, you don’t really need to separate a whole, you know, mile or anything like that. Corn, you absolutely need to have a large separation distance because that particular plant is fertilized, pollinated through the wind and wind, as a matter of fact, there is seed from corn stalks from China in the cornfields of Indiana.

So nobody can use the excuse, oh, I’m surrounded by a nice little forest and nobody else gardens around me, that that rationale does not hold up under actual conditions. So, yes, we have to be smart about the seed saving business. Do you want to talk a little bit about in all different. See, I mean, people, we hear the stories of, oh my God, they found some wheat in a tomb in Egypt and they grew it. And I, you know, this is true, they grew it who knows how many thousands of years old that that seed was.

Well, actually proud of it. That’s not the way it normally works. I mean, you got to think about it. Egypt in dark, dry, you know, that’s almost pristine conditions. And then of course, the grains do have some longevity to them. But you want to talk a little bit about some of the expectations of life’s for a viability for seeds that’ll just be couple of the different families. Yeah, that is, that is a great question. And that is one question that I went and consulted the U.S. department of Agriculture Seed Saving Lab, the national lab that’s up in Colorado, the best place in the world for this, this kind of knowledge.

An amazing tour. If you can ever, you know, get that under your on your calendar, Marjorie, it’s, it’s just amazing. But of course, they have nitrogen storage and things like that that are not available to the general consumer. So their seeds are going to store for a lot longer. And in fact, you know, I’ve heard this excuse. Oh, yes, but we have that seed vault in Norway. You know, it’s built into the side of a mountain. Yeah. Well, if your name isn’t Bill Gates or Oprah Winfrey, you are not going to access that particular situation if it all gets to that kind of a point.

You have got to become your own seed bank. And that’s what we’re trying to do. It needs to become a lifestyle. And I know you’ve been on that route for a long time and it isn’t something that’s an easily learned skill, but it’s a very rewarding skill. And so like we’ve, we’ve been saying don’t overburden yourself, learn two or three families and put those tools in your toolkit. So things, lifetimes. Yeah, that’s right. It’s, it’s a life skill. Herbs and that kind of thing tend to be very short lived. Now they do throw off. One little herb plant will throw off 10, 20,000 seeds.

That’s not unheard of. They’re all going to germinate and so germination rates decrease over time. And if they’re in the sun, of course that’s a detriment to them as well. So you have to have humidity control, light control and of course time control. And the time control is up to us. One radish seed will produce 5,000 future radish seeds. So the place of abundance is definitely in the garden. If you have managed the genetics well protected what’s mating with what, then you are going to reap a good reward at the end of the day. So tomato seeds, I mean I have grown out a 14 year tomato seed.

The issue is not that it sprouts because that’s just step one in a 200 mile journey. The issue is, is that going to be a vigorous plant? A whole different issue. The older the seed is, the less vigorous it will be. The older the seed is, the less of them are going to germinate the following year. If you get down to a place where your seed is only germinating 50% unless it’s survival, survival, survival conditions, you need to throw that out and get some freshened seed. And so we generally say, the USDA has said that the seeds in our kit last between three and five years depending with good germination, depending on the species that you know you’re growing out, onions are going to be a little less couple years and then your beans can, you know, be seven or eight years.

So it just depends. But that’s why we recommend that you plant a lot of varieties in your garden and that you’re able to save seed from a lot of the different families. I wanted to ask you a little bit about. So one of the bonuses if you pick up a kit and I love how you package them by the way. I just did a video for everybody on how much I love this thing is so heavy because it’s full of seeds. But you, you ship the kit in an ammo box which is one of the best ways to save seeds because it keeps it dry and, and, and, and dark and, and you gotta Keep in a cool area.

Yeah. And raccoons can’t get in there. And I have lost hundreds of seeds due to these. Even in sturdy plastic Tupperware expensive containers. They ate right through it. And loved my seeds. Never again, I vowed. So this I just remembered and I want to jump back to this for a second regarding seed saving. One year I had this beautiful, beautiful corn that I’d actually gotten from Carol Depp. Depp. Wonderful book. Yeah. And I thought, oh, this is great and I’m going to save all this seed. And I had big bags. It was like this red corn and I put it in the freezer and none of that seed was viable the next year.

And it turns out that do do not put your seeds in the freezer is basically the bottom line that these labs that can store it in below freezing, they have done all kinds of special stuff to dry it or just get the moisture level perfect. I did not. And you know, just tossing it in the freezer, even though I thought it was dry enough, there’s still enough moisture. It costs. It caused the. The seed stays in the kernel part and then when we, we freeze things, the water expands and that crushes, cracks and decreases germination. So you’re absolutely right.

And we’ve heard the stories from Uncle Joe’s garden mythology, you know. Oh, you know, and maybe it worked for some of his stuff, but it doesn’t work for the majority of seeds. It doesn’t work for corn. It doesn’t work for the small lettuces or herbs. It might work for tomato for one year, but that is not a reliable way of saving them. The USDA believes that our refrigerators that temperature range 35 to 45 is the best for seed saving. Now our seeds are professionally handled and they have had the proper moisture removed. I do not buy seeds from little old ladies in tennis shoes over the fence.

Some of the seed companies please do. Okay. I don’t, I’m not going to say which ones but because they aren’t. They aren’t. They haven’t taken the courses. They don’t understand that seed saving is very tricky and you need proper equipment. So I only buy it from. It’s certified seed. And you really need to look for a place that has certified seed. We also give a five year guarantee on our seed, which nobody else does because we want you to succeed. And we know that they’re, you know, if you plant it according to the instructions that we give in, in our training books, of which this is one and the middle course is Another that would be.

Yeah, depending on which kit you get, you include the, the books. Right. Because we want you at all costs to succeed. Marjorie and I are just wanting to recruit a whole army of people that are seed planters, seed harvesters that are making nutrient dense food. And you do that by having your soil properly, properly mineralized. You’ve got these wonderful mineral packets. So I think you should talk about these. And, and if people buy a kit and they add the coupon code grow in there from Grow Network, you’re going to toss one of these in? Absolutely. That’s.

We are. These are $25. Now this will, this, we tried to pack up, package them in logical units. So this is for a family of four for a one year, three cycle, three garden project. Now, three cycles will work in the south, it won’t work in the north. We understand that. So this will extend and last longer. But this is a mix of, of the 17 required elements, these are essential. Every ag school in America teaches this. And. But without the trace elements, you cannot possibly expect an abundant harvest. The plant will just not, you know, make it to harvest like it should.

And the taste will not be as good either. And we can just liken that to the, to, you know, raising up your children. If they don’t have vitamin C, one element that is required by the human body, what happens? They get scurvy. We know this from history. If they don’t have vitamin D, they get what they get rickets. Their bones don’t grow properly. And so the same thing occurs in the garden. So we’ve got to provide at least the 17 essential elements. Now, the problem is, thank you, EPA and a few other of the presidents, they made it so that going off to Ace Hardware, Lowe’s, Home Depot, whatever, it’s hard to find these trace elements.

And you don’t really. They’re trace. You need a minuscule amount of them. So what we’ve done is I went and got a certification, certified crop advisor, etc. So it made it possible and logical to package these in, you know, proper sizing. So a family of four. This should grow 4,400 pounds of food, which is enough if you are a vegan, to support a family of four. So that’s why we did it in this size. Wow. And so these are the trace elements. I just want everybody to be clear that the macro elements you’re still going to need to provide, which would be nitrogen and phosphorus and potassium, which, you know, some good compost manure, your compost pile.

Right, Absolutely. You’re going to still need the bigger bulk elements, but the trace elements, which actually is like the key to really vibrant health. The trace elements. And you’re right, you know, you, you just, you know, you just can’t find this in a more convenient packet. Yeah, $25. You’ll be spending $25 in gas, driving all over, you know, a major city to, to secure these. But the reason that we don’t put the macro elements is right now, those are still available. Lowe’s, Home Depot, any garden store, actually, internationally, you can go and buy. Now, you would take this trace element pack, get two, oh, probably five gallon buckets, and you’re going to put 25 pounds of NPK, nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium in, as well as four pounds of magnesium sulfate, which is the same as Epsom salts.

It’s really not a salt, but just. We’ll get over that. But you can, you can buy that at Lowe’s, Home Depot, grocery stores. You know, any place has medical supplies will have Epsom salts. So those are easily accessible. They’re heavy. I don’t want to charge anybody postage and handling. So you go, you, you know, get those on a local level. And then you put in a half of this packet, 10 ounces worth, and stir it up like you would a brownie. You don’t mix it till you know your arm is sore or anything. And then you just put a lid on it and you’re good to go.

Now, if you happen to live in an area with high humidity, like where Marjorie is presently living and the Gulf coast, where I live, you want to throw in one to two cups of perlite, you can pick that up at Lowe’s or Home Depot, any nursery place, and what that is, it’s going to act like a sponge. It’s going to sop up because if the weather conditions are right, you got your lid on tight, you open it up and you’re going to see an inch of water. If you don’t do this, you’ll see an inch of water.

What has happened? Well, in the Epsom salts, there is a very weak hydrogen atom situation going on, and that will release and it will combine with oxygen and form water. So the perlite is sort of the sponge that takes care of that. Now, if you do get that inch of water because you forgot to put the perlite in, it’s no big deal. Just drain it off. It will not hurt the trace elements. It’ll just, you’re just going to have to break it up with a hammer. And, you know, you don’t want to have to go through that choreography.

So just add the perlite. You’re all good. And we, we have instructions right. Taped right onto the packet. So it’s just a very easy process. There you are. So in addition to stocking up on seeds, you know, go hit up, go hit up the drugstore and pick up some bags of Epsom salts. And I have to say I’m not a big fan of chemical fertilizers, but I, I get it. You know, for npk, you know, actually David the Good and I go back and forth a lot and he’s feeding. I don’t. How many kids does that I have now? A dozen or something like that.

And he’s like, you know, you know, and of course, he does use compost and all other kinds of stuff, but he’s like, look, this works. You know, and if you’re in a. He’s the survival gardener. Right. I totally get it. You know, the thing about making your own compost heap, it is a lot of work to do. And for a family of four, I’ve done the math on this. It would require a high cube shipping container. So that’s nine and a half feet tall, eight foot wide, 40 foot long. Now, that’s not realistic in a situation, you know, quarter acre subdivision lot scenario, which most of my customers, you know, are on.

So unless you have a huge amount of green material, brown material, I mean, just your family’s roughage and waste is not going to be enough to get it done. Plus, you have no idea, one compost heap to another, what the actual chemistry is. It’s a different recipe at the end of that six month period to have it all break down properly. So if you like going to the chiropractor, because you’ve just taken your pitchfork and turned it over five times to aerate it, or if you get lazy like I did, you could set the forest on fire.

I’ve done that twice. Marjorie, I hate to. But these compost heaps are not easy. Okay, so, you know, I, I go and you can get organic. 14. 14, 14. Okay. So. Yeah, yeah. Well, the Mac and some of these other things, you know, if you’re a purist, like that. And, and that’s fine. So. But the trace, the trace minerals, regardless, you need, however you’re going to do, the big macronutrients do them. But the trace minerals are absolutely essential and they’re just not in. There’s very few, very few soils where there actually are trace minerals anymore. So.

Right. Yeah. Yeah. Lucinda, how do so You’ve got the, I’m not sure which one I have. It’s a pretty good size kit. And the, and you sell these. These are@texasready.net they are and we do do, depending. The first question in buying seeds is how many people will I feed? If you’ve got children at college, are they bringing home their boyfriends? Are you going to take care of the elderly couple across the street? Whatever. Now here’s how we figure it. If you’ve got children under 10, they’re a half of an adult eater. If you have an elderly couple, I’m in that category now, I can vouch for it.

You just don’t eat as much. So an elderly couple would equal one adult male eater. So, okay, I’ve got four people, I’ve got college kid come home, you add them all up, that would be who you buy seed for. Okay. Because if you garden for four but you’re going to have 12 people eating out of your backyard, then you all get to starve equally. Sorry about that because that first year you don’t have that volume of seeds that have been thrown off. You know, you’re just, you’re just eating what, what comes out of the Texas Ready Ammo can.

So that’s, that’s the consideration and it’s really better to have extra, you can use it as a barter item if nothing else. If it’s just going to be the four of you and you have a four person kit, you know, if you had a six person kit, you could sell off, you know, 50% of those seeds. So anyway, it’s just, just a way to prepare. I totally, and you started this out talking about how there were situations in history where seeds were more valuable than gold. And I, I, I can completely see how that, that scenario could be unfolding here in the future.

So it’s not a bad investment. If you talk to fema, they’re going to tell you that they are believing that if there is a financial economic collapse, crisis, etc, that 95% of the people will not make it and they will predominantly after 30 days be in starvation mode. Because we know that anybody that’s on life support and those kind of things, perhaps being a diabetic, that’s also going to be very, very difficult. There, there are dry insulins now that, you know, would, should be under consideration if that is something you struggle with. But the problem is that people will be starving.

And so yeah, yeah, yeah, I, I do foresee a bank collapse this year in 2026. And I’m not alone in that. There’s a lot of really good analysis has gone into it. I don’t know. And it’s going to be rough for sure. I don’t know how fast they’re going to come in with their CBDCs or their other solutions or whatever, but it doesn’t matter how it unfolds. The thing is, you really need to be getting off of dependencies of that system and you really need to go off even if what Marjorie and I are talking about doesn’t occur.

What are the downsides to having a production, you know, situation for nutritive, dense produce that’s non GMO and it doesn’t have glyphate and other things that now they’re admitting that these are carcinogenic, etc. Etc. Gee, you know, this has been going on for 30 years. We’ve told you so. But you control the quality of your food by being a backyard homesteader, gardener, whatever. The other thing is the cost. I went in Walmart the other day and I looked at three beets. Those were $4 for three 2 inch beads. Well, that’s less than 5 cents of what it costs you in seed.

So there is value. Also, this is a beautiful way to teach your kids if you’re homeschooling. It’s a beautiful way to develop camaraderie within multi generations and it’s a good communities situation. So there’s. What are the downsides? You had some fun. Yeah, yeah. And you know, and you’re prepared. And I got to tell you, I, I, you know, the more prepared I am, the calmer I am about the future. And you know, there’s just too much going on and it has gone on for far too long. It’s very clear this is not going to be some little gentle collapse when they pull the rug, which if you read the Great Taking or listen to that guy, he’s like, it’s no, it’s intentional.

They’re going to pull the rug because they want to collect up everybody’s assets. But that’s a whole nother conversation. You need to get prepared. I, you know, I bought seeds from a lot of different places and I just gotta say that Lucinda consistently has the best product out there. So her prices are absolutely the best. And she gives you huge quantities of seed and then a lot of other resources with books. And then again, if you use the coupon code grow, she’ll toss in a packet of the minerals. And Kurt asked me to remind everybody that if you use the coffee coupon code Grow.

When you check out, it won’t show up in the checkout, but they’re on the back end when they’re processing orders, all the orders that they see that has that code. Then they. They add the mineral pack to, or an extra mineral pack if you ordered some others. So there’s one other thing that we offer that no other seed company does. If you buy our kit and you’ve got the books and you read the book, but you’re still flummoxed about what’s going on, this isn’t making sense to me. What do I do? I’m standing at Lowe’s. Which product do I get? You pick up the phone and you call me.

And if I’m not teaching, I will answer your call, and in five minutes, I believe we will have an answer for you. If not, I will find you an answer and I will help you through your, your garden hiccup. I will be your mentor, long distance mentor, no charge, because I want you to succeed. And that’s stupendous. I mean, really, what business anymore can you call up and actually talk to a human being, much less somebody as knowledgeable as Lucinda? So you’re absolutely right. That’s an extra benefit. That’s incredible. So. And the website, TexasReady.net is that where people go to pick up the seeds? Absolutely.

Yep. And I really want you, like I’ve been encouraging you to buy silver. I’ve been encouraging you to do this, get prepared, because it’s happening. It’s happening. And if you’ve been watching me, if you’ve been watching this channel, you’re somewhat awake and aware of what’s going on in the world. And we need you. We need you to get through this. We need you to survive this. We need you to be a leader in your neighborhood. Right. And having some basic resources like this are an essential component of being able to fulfill that leadership role which we need you for.

So, Lucinda, I just wanted to say thank you so, so much. I mean, years and years of work and dedication and study and research and, and helping people, you know, it’s a tremendous gift. Well, I appreciate that because you’ve, you’ve been one of my, my, I won’t say idols, but you’ve been one of my heroes for many, many years. And I still use some of your tips on raising rabbits when we did that. So it’s just good to partner up with you. And that. That is true. We, we need more leadership. And people that know how to grow food are definitely going to be in that camp, Absolutely.

We’ve seen it over and over again in economic collapse. The people who are growing backyard farm producers, the lowly gardener that was making minimum wage, they suddenly rise to the top of the socioeconomic. You know, they suddenly become the leaders in the communities. And the doctors and the lawyers sort of just fade off into the distance. Or the Stockbroker. So anyway, TexasReady.net go pick up a seed bank. I would recommend pick up one that’s probably twice as big as you think you need. We’re getting into it and, you know, I honestly don’t know availability. I would definitely have inflation and hyperinflation coming.

We have the banking system. We’ve got. World War III has already started. Who knows, you know, what. What invasion or when that’s actually going to become kinetic on the mainland here in the US and it’s all coming apart, people. This is the apocalypse. And one of the ways to get through it is a really simple and humble activity of backyard food production. And in order to do that, you need seeds. You need heirloom seeds. The hybrid seeds will not work. That’s right. Correction. And pick up the mineral packets because you need to be strong. 20% off if you buy five, which for a family of four, is five years worth of the mineralization that you’ll need to produce 4,400 pounds of food a year.

We give those for the price of four. So for a hundred dollars, you get five years worth for a family of four. Yeah. Wow. And then in addition, that’s in addition to your one freebie. Anyway, so it’ll work. We’ll use the coupon code. Grow. Go to texasready.net Lucinda, thank you so much for your time. I really appreciate the work you’ve been doing and, you know, the fairness and honesty and integrity with which you run your business. And you’re. You’re really a true, you know, patriot for. For the people, for surviving this thing. So thank you. Thank you as well, Marjorie, and for your wonderful audience.

I love them.
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