The Survival Gardener

by David The Good

Preservation

Cooking, Preservation

How to Pickle Radishes with Traditional Live Fermentation

Did you ever harvest a bunch of radishes from your garden and wonder what to do with them all? We…
Food, Foraging, Frugality, Prepping, Preservation, Survival Gardening

Feed a Family of Four for ONE Year for Less than $300

My family would have to more than double this amount, but I did find this preparedness hack to be quite…
Cooking, Crops, Preservation, Pumpkins and squash, Rachel The Good, Videos

When to Harvest a Pumpkin or Winter Squash

I get asked now and again when to harvest pumpkins or how to tell if a squash is ready to…
Beans, Cabbage, Cassava, Corn, Crops, Frost protection, Frugality, ginger, Grains, Homesteading, Malanga, Prepping, Preservation, Sweet potatoes, Turnips

Storing Produce Without a Root Cellar

How do you preserve food in a warm climate without a root cellar? I got this comment recently on the…

2026 Reading List

Currently Reading

The Holy Bible (Douay-Rheims translation) by God

Finished Reading

History of Rome by Michael Grant
Cross Creek by Marjorie Kinnan Rowlings
The Life of Greece by Will Durant
The Annals of Imperial Rome by Tacitus
The Persian Expedition by Xenophon (trans. Rex Warner)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid 1
Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2
Florida Foraging 1 by Billy Bailey
Florida Foraging 2 by Billy Bailey 
Don Quixote by Cervantes
Mao: A Life by Philip Short
Shepherd of the Hills by Harold Bell WrightBuy Then Build by Walker Deibel
High Seas and Hidden Truths by Polly Lockler