Jim Gale | Food Forest Abundance: Solutions, Visualizing Success, & The 12 Permaculture Principles

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Jim Gale is the incredibly vibrant and positive founder of Food Forest Abundance. We discuss Jim's vision for this company and the possibility of "saving the world" by turning yards into food! We also talk about taking visualization practices to the next level, and watching life in the external fractal expand as we take more responsibility for our life force energy within.

The Plus+ Extension with Jim Gale contains talk about enlightened selfishness, regenerative capitalism, the 12 Permaculture Principles, cryptocurrency, the controlled demolition of the current economy, and much more.

ChaptersInside the full 2h 30m episode26 chapters

0:00Chance welcomes Jim Gale of Food Forest Abundance

7:53Why Jim calls lawns a wasted resource

13:29Could lost species return as land heals?

17:00A wrestling loss and the power of goals

27:05Chance's tree of life visualization practice

31:01A fruit tree community in Costa Rica

35:42Why suffering helps no one, in Jim's view

41:57How Food Forest Abundance got its start

45:02Permaculture principles as a business model

50:52Two working food forests near Jim's home

1:00:19Jim's closing advice on self love and service

1:03:55Back for members: who joined Jim's team

1:05:18A Crocodile Hunter producer and a TV pilot

1:07:54Jim's case for selfishness that serves

1:09:56Chance on being a lantern, not a leaky bucket

1:14:32Permaculture principles as regenerative capitalism

1:18:23Jim's answer to the White Hats question

1:21:01Catch and store energy, then obtain a yield

1:25:11Why Jim refuses business with force advocates

1:34:36Integrate, don't segregate: lessons from the soil

1:41:03Mulch, edges and nitrogen fixers for beginners

1:46:00Could the great reset work in our favor?

1:50:26Growing food in apartments, and for free

1:52:17Jim on a food backed coin and forest financing

1:57:28Jim's pitch to Elon Musk on world hunger

2:03:31Chance's closing thoughts on visualization and food forests

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Permaculture entrepreneur

Jim Gale is the founder of Food Forest Abundance, a company that converts residential yards into productive food-growing systems built on permaculture principles.

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Website foodforestabundance.com