The Survival Gardener

by David The Good

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Mushrooms

What Makes Mushrooms Good?

Are mushrooms good for your garden? You bet. Fungi in general are very important to soil health. By avoiding tilling,…
Videos

Farmer Dave vs. the Econopocalypse: Episode IV

In which we harvest a ridiculous amount of sweet potatoes, talk a bit about good soil and have more fun…
Crops, Sweet potatoes

Survival Plant Profile: Sweet Potatoes

What makes the sweet potato easy to grow is its incredible vitality and resilience. Those vines ramble and root like…
Berries, Crops

Odd Berry Crops

Plenty of people are interested in planting blueberries, blackberries grapes, strawberries and other small fruit. But what about goumi berries?…
Uncategorized

Talk To Your Kids About Farming

Discovered at permies.com:
hugelkultur

Excellent Experimentation

This fellow is a prime example of how we should approach gardening. Check out his unique growing system and the…
Encouragement, Florida gardening, Frost protection

Florida Gardening in October

Florida gardening in October is in full swing! Fall is in the air, the Christmas displays are pushing out the…
Books, Reviews

Square Foot Gardening – Review

After some time of working with this method, it’s time for a Square Foot Gardening review. There’s a reason this…
Creatures

What Happens When You Add Habitat

You get to watch a snake eating a toad! Snakes and toads are both beneficial, so in this case, the…
Collards, Crops, Survival Plant Profiles

Survival Crop: Collards

If you’re in the south and you’re not growing collards… what’s wrong with you? Collards are an under-appreciated staple of…
Encouragement, Food Forest

A Healthy Mess

This is what a bit of tweaked nature looks like. I do nothing but pull the occasional interloper out of…
Chickens

Raising Chickens Naturally

The following post on raising chickens naturally is from an interchange I had at Vox Day’s blog (while he was…