The Survival Gardener

by David The Good

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Encouragement, Videos

This is My New Favorite Homesteading Video

If you thought gardening and homesteading channels were all boring shots of pretty cows and raised beds and cute kids,…
Encouragement

This is true

The more I’ve lived in Lower Alabama, the more I get this: We know kids here that butcher, folks that…
Frost protection

This isn’t good…

This weather may end our gardening until spring. It might also end the pastures we over-planted: Looks like the weather…
Garden design, Grocery Row Garden

Maximize the Food Production of Your Orchard, Grocery Row Garden or Food Forest

Get those annuals working! Your orchard trees are long-term investments that may take years to pay off. Planting a mango…
Diet, Foraging, Health

Easy Ways to Incorporate Wild Greens into Your Diet

On Wednesday I wrote about a few of the wild greens you can forage in the South at this time of…
Cows, Pasture

Overplanting the Pasture: An Update!

The large pasture we over-sowed is looking great: We’ve had some consistent rain and it’s really bringing up all the…
Foraging

Foraging Wild Greens in Winter

In the Deep South, winter is an ideal time to forage for edible wild greens. Con you identify these four…
Sugarcane

Planting and Growing Sugarcane in Zone 8, 9, 10 and Beyond

This is my LAST sugarcane video ever! For this year. Sugarcane is easy to grow from zone 8 on through…
Announcements

Sugarcane, a New Lens, De-Junking and More

We got four more rows or sugarcane planted this last week, and that’s IT for planting this year! Except for…
Home design

Fixing an old shed

This shed belongs to some friends. They just bought a house not too far from us, and had a sad…
freedom

On the Hidden Costs of Shortcuts…

Nemo makes a good point in the comments of my recent post: “Nice article David. I agree with all you…
Experiments, Foraging

Growing Smilax on Purpose

We have found a few gigantic smilax roots in our yard at the edge of the area where we’re planting…