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Welcome back to my bi-weekly rant on the ever-popular and increasingly necessary Off the Grid site. I’d like to take a moment to thank Bill, Brian, Jeramy, Hanne, and the rest of the crew here at OTG for creating and ...

Some of you probably looked at the title of today's column and cringed a bit as you remembered those nasty beets you faced in school cafeterias or were served from a can. That's also a shame. Beets got a bad reputation with many people because they've never had them prepared properly. We'll get back to that point in a few moments. As part of my continuing series on vegetable families, I'd like to introduce you to the beet family.

Folks who prefer scientific lingo put lettuce in the Asteraceae family. As I mentioned in my last column, this giant clan includes hundreds of flowers, numerous weeds, all of your popular lettuces, and a few other veggies that you may ...

There must be a ton of movies, books, and plays that rely on the old mistaken identity gimmick to power the plot. You’ve probably seen some where twins are separated at birth and somehow get snarled up in the same ...

Summer has arrived in the Northern Hemisphere. The sultry season brings many gifts to your survival garden; an abundance of nourishing sunshine, refreshing summer showers, hours of evening light to tend your veggies, and the ripening of some of your ...

With a pretty heavy heat spell sapping the energy of a whole lot of folks in the United States, I thought it might be a good idea to kick off today’s column with a song. You know, to try to ...

OK, before we get started on my regularly scheduled column, I’ve got a confession to make – I don’t have all those extra television stations on cable or satellite. Some of my friends and neighbors wonder how I can possibly ...

Thankfully, our street was spared the brunt of the recent storm damage that roared through other sections of the South. Cleanup in our neck of the woods mostly involved picking up scattered small branches and the occasional shingle. Our thoughts ...

Hello everyone! I hope you’ve all been well since my last article.  The last few days were a little frightening for me.  You see, I live in the Raleigh, North Carolina area and we had some very serious storms and ...

Many of us survival gardeners are fortunate enough to have land—land we can plant and not have to worry about space. But, many people interested in survival gardening aren’t so lucky.  They may live in the city, where they have ...