The Survival Gardener

by David The Good

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Announcements, Aquaponics

Sayonara Aquaponics

Gary Donaldson found something of value in my ill-fated criticism of aquaponics: “I wrote the Urban Aquaponics Manual back in…
Announcements, Books

Announcing TURNED EARTH: The World’s FIRST Gardening Thriller

TURNED EARTH: A Jack Broccoli Novel, is now available on Amazon. I am so happy to see this novel come…
Announcements

“Get Grafting!” airs today at The Home Medicine Summit

Among other presentations, including a few on gardening: You can sign up here to watch today’s presentations for free.
Announcements

Revamping the site

As you can tell, I’m in the middle of a site redesign. I’m trying to freshen up the design of…
Expatriation

Why did I leave?

John Whitehead says it well: “Overregulation is just the other side of the coin to overcriminalization, that phenomenon in…
Announcements

Bits and Pieces

This morning I’m headed to the beach to gather bags of seaweed so I can use it as green layers…
Health

Go Ahead and Enjoy That Saturated Fat (and skip the seed oils)

P.D. Mangan has the lowdown: “Dietary guidelines called for using seed (vegetable) oils in cooking and dressing food. They…
Jokes

Hehheh

Good grandmother! (For those of you that don’t get it, COD is “Call of Duty.”)
Announcements

Almost here

I sent Turned Earth: A Jack Broccoli Novel to the proofreader over the weekend. Should be out in kindle version…
Expatriation

This is how I like to buy meat

55lbs of goat, fresh from the farmer. He was still butchering when I arrived to pick it up. Grass-fed, locally…
Books

The Wild Side of Amazon

I spent some time this afternoon browsing for interesting books and checking out cover art on Amazon. I write fiction…
Videos, Yams

Tipi Yam Trellis

Mart Hale sent me a video this morning where Pete Kanaris shows off his yam trellis: He’s got the pretty…