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.
When you begin prepping, you soon find out the importance of growing your own food. This alone takes a lifetime to master, and you will never ‘perfect’ this craft. It’s a growing experience just as much as the plants growing in your garden. One technique for growing that a lot of people don’t know about […]
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Ask gardeners about their least favorite gardening activity and they will probably respond with, “Weeding!” As gardeners we would much rather be involved in planting, transplanting, pruning, and harvesting the abundance the garden has produced. From first-hand experience, I can tell you that the fight with weeds doesn’t have to be eternal if you bring
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We’ve got our survival gardens growing, have learned to can and preserve our produce but, there is still another way that we can prep using our gardens. Seed storage is the practice of saving and storing seeds from your vegetables at the end of the growing season. This serves a number of purposes. It allows
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In any long-term disaster event, one of the most important thing is to have a renewable food supply. You can be prepared with stored goods, but ultimately you will need to replace your stockpile. There are a variety of edible and medicinal plants that are easy for even the beginner gardener to grow that can
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One of the most important vegetable crop around the world is the potato. Despite the constant health reminder that potatoes can cause diabetes, weight gain and heart disease, most of us continue to love the processed version of potatoes. French fries, hash browns and mash potatoes equate to comfort food and snacks. However, when ingested
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If you plan to start growing your own food in a backyard garden and at your bug out location, you will be way ahead of many people when the economy collapses and SHTF. We all know growing our own food is a lot of work, but it will be crucial to survival post-disaster. But how
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