Posts Tagged ‘ edible plants ’

Dive into Hydroponics

May 24th, 2012 | By
Dive into Hydroponics

When you grow your own food in an attempt to sever ties with big agriculture and the mega grocery stores that sell their wares, you sometimes have to get a little creative. The traditional way to produce food is to put seeds in the dirt, water them, allow them to get sun, and wait for your food to grow. But, there is another way to go about getting your vegetables: hydroponics. What is hydroponics? Hydroponics is a type of hydroculture. Hydroculture is growing plants without soil. In hydroponics, plants are grown in water with a
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Edible Plants, Part 3: Dangerous Look-Alikes

Dec 31st, 2011 | By
Edible Plants, Part 3: Dangerous Look-Alikes

Please read this series of articles together to make sense of the logic and information contained within it.  The premise article (Part 1) is an important introduction which explains the reasoning for the inclusion of food sources in an extreme survival section.  Ordinarily the most important parts to a survival plan are derived from the
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Edible Plants, Part 1

Dec 10th, 2011 | By
Edible Plants, Part 1

In the wild, the ability to trap, hunt, or fish with the items you have with you is an excellent tool to have in your belt, but in the most extreme situations, by chance or by (inadvertent) choice, you may not have the necessary items with you to make this happen (namely a knife, cord, hooks, fishing line, etc.).   Personally, your choice should never be to be found without a significant amount of survival equipment and knowledge, but it can happen, especially when you are impacted by others in a survival situation. Edible plants exist
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A City Boy’s Guide to Surviving in the Wilderness

Aug 23rd, 2010 | By
A City Boy’s Guide to Surviving in the Wilderness

The wonderful thing about nature is that it provides, in abundance, just about anything we might need to survive. Life in the wilderness is sustainable because, what man or beast uses to survive is replaced by nature’s power of renewal. The wilderness is a
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