David The Good, Author at The Survival Gardener

Crops, Frost protection, Fruit trees, Papaya

Growing Papaya in North Florida

Growing papaya in North Florida?!? No way! And yet I am, indeed, growing them in North Central Florida. It just…
Reasons To Grow Your Own Food

Why You Should Grow Your Own Food: Reason 2

Because it doesn’t contain heavy metals/industrial waste: http://seattletimes.com/news/special/fear_fields.html Seriously. Are people on crack?
Reviews, Videos

A Back to Eden Review

Since the method keeps coming up, it’s about time to do a Back to Eden review! Enjoy. * * …
Biochar, Composting

Winky and Ricky Make Biochar

In which two crazies have fun burnin’ stuff and all dat as dey make biochar in da yard. I admit,…
Composting, Permaculture

Good “Chop ‘n’ Drop” Video

Amazon.com Widgets
Illegal gardening

Response From the Padin’s – the Helvenston’s Neighbors Who Contacted Code Enforcement

The plot thickens! The following was recently both sent to my e-mail and posted as a comment on a previous…
Foraging, Natives

Eating Beautyberries at Snacky’s

You’ve probably seen these things growing around: That’s the American Beautyberry, also known as Callicarpa americana. For some reason, everyone…
Composting

More on Composting Human Waste

I came across an excellent article on composting human waste. Our use of flush toilets is incredibly wasteful. Ever thought…
Composting

Homemade Composting Toilets

I’ve composted human waste (humanure!) quite successfully before with homemade composting toilets… more on that is in here. But for…
Cassava, Crops, Videos

How To Harvest and Process Cassava

Here’s a new video in which I show you how to harvest and process cassava and do a bad Bob…