The Survival Gardener

by David The Good

figs

Food Forest, Fruit trees

How To Tell if a Fig is Ripe: A Picture Guide

There is nothing like a ripe fig. Sweet, honey-like, floral… the flavor is not to be missed. Yet a fig…
Food Forest, Fruit trees

It’s fig season!

The figs are falling off the trees here at Econopocalype Ranch. My trees are now about 4 years old and…
Beans, Berries, Crops, Elderberries, Figs, Fruit trees

Flowing with purple riches

Dave Taylor of Taylor Gardens Nursery gave me a “Texas Everbearing” fig to try out on the homestead. Though it’s…
Citrus, Elderberries, Food Forest, Fruit trees, Grapes, Japanese persimmon, Loquat, Pear

Lots and lots of promise in the food forest

One of the hardest things about planting fruit trees? The wait. The long, long wait. Some trees reward you with…

2026 Reading List

Currently Reading

The Holy Bible (Douay-Rheims translation) by God
Don Quixote by Cervantes

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