The Survival Gardener

by David The Good

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Fall gardening

Everything Was Leading Up to This

It’s a little after 7AM as I look out the window into the still-gray morning. I can see the backyard…
Foraging, Mushrooms, Videos

Marvelous Chanterelle Mushrooms

Finding chanterelle mushrooms in the backyard feels like home: At least, it feels like my previous home in N/C Florida,…
Announcements

At Home in the Land of Cotton

We made it. All the way from the sunny island of Grenada, West Indies, to the heart of Dixie. Wait?…
Announcements

Resettling

I just spent a week doing an agricultural consultation for a non-profit in Alabama, but I am now back in…
Announcements

Home!

We are back in Florida. Everything is up in the air now, but I’ll get back to posting soon enough.…
Uncategorized

Getting Closer to Home

I am still in a hotel room by the airport, waiting on a flight. Now, however, my wife, my eldest…
Encouragement

Antifragile Gardening

Gardening as commonly practiced is better than not gardening. Feeding yourself from your backyard is a huge benefit of having…
Encouragement

It’s “Character-Building!”

“It builds character!” Ever heard that before? Coming from a missionary family, I sure did. Difficult events “build character.” But…
Encouragement, Expatriation

Material Goods and Real Wealth

Having moved to a foreign nation, then doing the work to move back to my beloved Florida, I have come…
Announcements

Purgatorio

“Though mine Protestant blood doth chill in mine vessels in earnest contemplation of the Papist heresy of ‘purgatory,’ there doth…
Encouragement

Psalm 37

1 Do not fret because of those who are evil or be envious of those who do wrong; 2 for…
Announcements

Hiatus

I am in the middle of something big right now. Will resume regular posting in two weeks, Lord willing. Stay…