If you’re planting a survival garden this year, this could be one of the most helpful things you do. It’s a well-known fact that America’s soil no longer delivers the nutrients most vegetables need. You can blame modern farming, backyard ...
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The Lowly Garden Superfood You Can Survive On For 6-Plus Months
The lowly potato. This dull tuber seldom ranks high on a list of superfoods. It won’t make headlines as the next “it” food. In fact, the most commonly known fact about potatoes is knowledge of the devastating Irish potato ...
Read More »Cassava: The Drought-Resistant ‘Super Survival’ Plant That Can Feed Everyone
Cassava, or Manihot esculenta, is a root crop grown mainly in the tropical areas of the world. Originating in South America, it is now a staple for many people in African and Asian countries. Florida, with its relatively warm climate, ...
Read More »20 Must-Have Seeds To Store For A Crisis
Having to subsist on a survival garden may seem like a distant reality right now. But whether you would ever have to live on the produce from your own garden is not relevant here. Your investments in the survival garden ...
Read More »Growing An “Off The Grid” Fragrance Garden
We all give thought to the “what if’s” of a disaster, economic collapse, or attack on U.S. soil. We’re stockpiling our food, learning to grow survival gardens, and figuring out ways to provide the essentials for ourselves and our families. ...
Read More »Growing Cold-Hardy Currants
Currants are a fast growing, deciduous shrub, which produce multiple stems that can grow five feet wide and high. Most currants are self fertile, but some cultivars are partially self-sterile, so planting them in twos and threes is a good ...
Read More »Lettuce Has Cousins?
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 ...
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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 ...
Read More »Ideas for Spring Planting
Hey Everybody! Jerry Greenfield here! Hope you’ve all been well since my last article. In this article, I intend to provide some hope for those of you planning on kick-starting your survival garden for springtime. We’re halfway through the cold ...
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