Josh & Zach Harvey: Homesteading, Low Time Preference & Moving to Portugal
“No one person knows how to make a pencil. No one person has the resources to make a pencil. You need the chainsaws and the fuel and the mining for the metals to make the chainsaws.
It turns out that to actually feed yourself, you don’t need all those different people. All you need is a little bit of grass and a lamb. And the lamb makes more lambs.
With the way we’re doing regenerative agriculture, we don’t use any external inputs. We don’t use herbicides, we don’t use fertiliser. We actually don’t need anything from the outside world.“
Today’s podcast is a conversation I had in Portugal with a couple of Bitcoin OGs by the names of Josh and Zack Harvey.
The two brothers were responsible for creating the first ever prototype bitcoin ATM way back in 2013, an endeavour that has given rise to their market leading company Lamassu, currently supplying Bitcoin ATMs all over the globe.
More recently they have embarked on a inspiring regenerative agriculture project in their adoptive country of Portugal and this conversation helps to reveal some of their motivations and inspirations for not only moving across the world to a foreign country but also for immersing themselves in an experimental farming project. Something that is made all the more unusual by the fact that neither have any previous experience in that field at all.
There’s plenty of advice here if you are thinking about embarking on a food sovereignty project of your own or moving to Portugal which, as you will hear has many benefits for those looking to move countries in search of a better life.
Enjoy the conversation.