The Survival Gardener

by David The Good

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bees

Learning Beekeeping from an Experienced Beekeeper: A Visit with Judson Carden

Yesterday I met the man that harvests the honey my children eat on their daily oatmeal. His name is Judson,…
Chickens

Red Jungle Fowl Living Wild

Clay shared a comment on this post about a neighbor with a wild flock of chickens that lived on its…
Grocery Row Garden

Garden Tour, April 2022

Let’s take a walk through the gardens: The Grocery Row Garden system is so much fun to build and grow…
bees

Building a Langstroth Long Hive

My son CJ and I spent the day building a Langstroth Long hive from plans on Leo Sharashkin’s site. We…
bees

We Got Bees Again

It’s been a long time since I kept bees, but my friend Sam from Scrubland Farmz just hooked me up.…
Landrace Gardening

Landrace Collards

Peter Dilley shares his success in crossing collards in order to create a landrace variety: Creating Landrace Collards Approximately 22…
Encouragement

Resurrection Sunday

Now on the first day of the week, very early in the morning, they, and certain other women with them,…
Crops, Okra

Crossing Okra Varieties in the 2022 Garden

Last year we grew three varieties of okra: Cowhorn, Clemson Spineless and Burgundy. Of these, the Burgundy was the most…
Cassava, Crops

Cassava in the Ground

We had a failure in keeping cassava through the winter. I buried a bunch of stems into a sand hill…
Garden design, No-till

Growing Food in the Mountains

Cindy requests a book on growing food in the mountains: “Florida gardening can’t be any harder than Appalachian gardening. If…
Aminopyralid, Composting, Cows

Avoiding Contaminated Manure

Herbicide contamination in manure has become a huge problem. It’s part of the reason I bought my own cows. You…
Announcements

A Busy Two Days: Updates from the Gardens

Today and yesterday were the top above-ground seed planting days for this month according to the Farmer’s Almanac moon-planting calendar.…