The Survival Gardener

by David The Good

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Absorpta est, mors in victoria!
Mulberry

The Best Fruit Tree for A Home Garden

I think it’s… It’s really hard to beat mulberries as a backyard fruit tree. Easy to grow, productive, bears in…
Announcements

This Saturday – Plant Sale at Scrubland Farmz in Ft. McCoy, Florida!

We will have a big plant sale, plus I’ll be talking on my top ten crops for Florida gardeners. It’s…
Apple, Pear

Hard Cider: The Hard Way

I have been reading Uncultivated by New York cider-maker Andy Brennan. His approach to making cider is fascinating. Instead of…
Announcements

Uses for Kudzu

This is a very well-done video on kudzu. If it’s here, might as well use it!
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This Food Forest Video “Changed My Life”

Jay shares a comment on how my video on starting a food forest the easy way changed his life: Hi…
Nectarines, Peaches, Plant propagation, Plums, Trees

I thought this was a peach!

This 3-4 year old seedling is fruiting for the first time. I really thought this was a peach tree, but…
Fertilizing

Synthetic Fertilizer Increases Microbe Populations in Soil

Well, this will ruffle some feathers: Steve Solomon convinced me to give up on the idea of “organic feeding only,”…
Blackberries

Incorporating Blackberries in the Food Forest

I recently got a question in our Skool community about blackberries in a food forest design: I have a couple…
Plums

The Wonderful Native American Plum

Back in August of 2023, I came across my first stand of wild Prunus americana, the American plum. That month…
Chickens

Should We Worry about Bird Flu?

An important new interview with Florida Bullfrog:
Food Forest

It’s Food Forest GO TIME!

As the old saying goes, the first year they sleep; the second, they creep; and the third year, they leap!…