Survival Gardening

You might have an invasive, alien killer on your property right now and not even know it. One that attacks under cover of night, slowly destroying the local inhabitants that make life and growth possible. Sound like a bad bit from a cheap novel? I wish it were. I am talking about hammerhead worms. Hammerhead […]

If you’re a prepper, homesteader, or gardener looking to bolster your food security in the event of an emergency, you may want to consider creating an indoor survival garden. Growing indoors allows you and your family to cultivate edible fruit, herbs and veggies year-round, ensuring a supply of nutritious produce no matter what situation arises

Gardening only seems easy if you’ve never done it before. For those who have experience with it, they know good and well how complicated the undertaking can be. There is always more to learn and more to do if you want to ensure that your hard work doesn’t go to waste and that you pull

Gardening is an enjoyable pastime that millions of people partake in, but for preppers, gardening is more than just an enterprise to help you while away spare time and weekends for bragging rights when you produce a few pieces of pristine fruit or veggies. For millennia, large and small scale gardening has been integral to

Growing medicinal herbs indoors not only creates a portable and easily accessible food source, it also allows preppers to cultivate the potent ingredients needed to make healing home remedies. Being able to both prevent and treat illnesses all on your own is definitely essential. Growing your own healing herbs, plants, roots, and trees bolster your

Growing Jerusalem artichokes can keep both your and your survival livestock well fed during a long-term disaster – with barely any manual labor from you required in the process. A single Jerusalem artichoke plant is capable of producing 200 pounds of nutrient-rich tubers that is safe for both humans and livestock to eat. Jerusalem Artichoke

Stockpiling toilet paper as part of your long-term disaster survival plan can be a bit tricky. Toilet paper takes up a whole lot of room to store, and will absorb destructive moisture if there is even a tiny rip in the package. If you put paper to pencil and do a little factoring, the amount

Preppers are prone to stockpiling wheat as part of the family’s food security plan. While doing so is an excellent idea, one day those 5-gallon buckets of wheat might run out. Buying long-term wheat buckets can not only get rather expensive, they take up a lot of storage space. Growing your own wheat, especially red

Starting a portable survival garden should not require spending a few hundred dollars on containers to grow your own groceries. There is most likely a plethora of suitable survival garden containers already lying around your property, “junk” just waiting to be repurposed into something useful once again. But first off, what exactly is a garden

When disaster strikes stores shelves empty fast and you can only stockpile so much in preparation. So if you want to survive long term then these are the top ten vegetables with the highest calorie count that will grow in most places in the US In hard times you need to be sure you are