Gardening is critical for preppers because it’s a way to have healthy, organic food post-collapse. What’s best is that this food source is regenerative, so you won’t depend on grocery stores (which may be closed after a disaster, anyway).
Survival gardening is similar to traditional gardening, but with a few tweaks.
To get started planning your survival garden, read this 101 guide we put together.
We all throw out so much food that can be converted into black gold every day. From vegetable peels, to eggshells, to fruit that no one wants to eat. Yes, you can add these things to a compost pile, but it will take longer to form, it can get smelly, they can attract insects and …
Vermicomposting – All You Need to Know to Get Started Read More »
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 …
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Amaranth is not a single plant or even technically a spice or grain, like so many folks think, but something every prepper should be growing in their survival garden. Amaranth is a group of 60 distinct varieties of grains that have been used both as food and for their proposed medicinal benefits for nearly 10,000 …
Amaranth – A Superfood Everyone Should Start Stockpiling Read More »
Starting the seeds for you survival garden indoors not only gives you a jump on the growing season, but saves money that can be used for other vital preps, as well. Relying on a garden center or nursery to provide already started plants for your prepper garden could be a recipe for disaster. If the …
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 …
How to Grow and Use Jerusalem Artichokes (Sunchokes) Read More »
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 …
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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 …
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If you’ve been storing and planting seeds for a garden for a few years, you’ve probably at least once, probably early on, learned the lesson of planting or storing seeds incorrectly. The biggest disappointment about storing or planting seeds improperly is that you don’t find out you’ve done it until they don’t produce. This can …
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This week on our homesteading survival retreat was spent with my husband and son-in-law running heavy equipment to improve our ½-mile uphill into the middle of the woods driveway after a winter and spring of historic rains. During this time, I worked on our apothecary patch. Growing your own medicine should be one of the …
