Survival Gardening

Sprouts are tasty, nutritious, and versatile, from their familiar use in salads to baking sprouted-grain breads to making excellent quick snacks by the handful. Their virtues...

There’s a wealth of plants that can be usefully sprouted besides the usual suspects of alfalfa and mung beans. Among others, you can sprout almond, buckwheat,...

Once you know basic soil types and characteristics, as we’ve outlined in another article, you have several response strategies, and will probably end up using more...

Volumes have been written about soil classification and competing systems have been devised for different purposes. The prevailing system in the U.S. includes some 13,000 “series”—roughly...

It is possible to grow your own food even if you live in an urban space and have no outdoor room to garden.  If you have...

There are many reasons to consider growing your own food. Our current system uses enormous quantities of petrochemicals (which are included in fertilizers and pesticides, meaning...

As more people look towards creating sustainable food solutions, fruit trees are receiving a lot more attention as a cost effective means of optimizing home-garden production. ...

The recent recall of a half billion eggs due to a salmonella scare is one more reminder of the need for safe, sustainable food production.  It...

If, as part of your emergency preparedness, you have been considering options for creating a long- term, sustainable food source, chicken farming has proven to be...

If you’re considering a food garden as part of your long range emergency preparedness plans, the number one piece of advice you need embrace is: “Do...