The Survival Gardener

by David The Good

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Cooking

Homegrown Food

Since I don’t have any good garden pictures today, and am right near the generational cutoff date between Millenial and…
Encouragement

A Small Garden in Iowa

From the inbox: I found your site while looking for a recipe for smoked pepper hot sauce. Perfect recipe.My husband…
Cassava, Survival Plants

It is theoretically possible…

…to feed a family and raise some meat animals via planting large banks of just a few simple crops. This…
Herbs

Working on the Herb Garden

Our little herb garden just outside of the back door had too much sun and not enough water this summer.…
Cooking

I want to try this

I think this would be possible to do with homemade cassava or even yam flour.
Encouragement

Localizing food production is very possible – but we can change our thinking?

The US has deliberately pushed farms to consolidate into gigantic monstrosities. Meanwhile, the average American now grows nothing edible. And is…
Announcements

It’s about time
Aminopyralid

An overlooked side effect of toxic long-term herbicides…

This is really a good point. We can’t always “reduce, reuse and recycle” because the inputs are so trashed it…
Announcements

Tell me you haven’t watched my channel while claiming you have…

Let’s review some helpful and informative videos. Like this one: And this one: Or this one: Or… Or: Or: Or:…
Announcements

PLANT SALE TOMORROW! New Plants in Stock!

Happy Friday, folks! Tomorrow we’ll be having another plant sale at the friendly little Atmore Flea Market, also known as…
Food Forest

How Long Would it Take for a Food Forest To Produce Enough Food for One Person?

A food forest is a long-term proposition, generally taking a few years to really get kicking. We posted this video…
Experiments, Nitrogen-fixers

Could the “Inga Alley Cropping” method be mimicked with Albizia Julibrissin?

Mike Hands’ method of “Inga Alley Cropping” is a quite successful method of allowing tropical soils to continuously crop without…