Start Gardening Differently
Preparedness and self-sufficiency usually turns to food production at some point. Whether we’re old hats or just getting started, there are some set standards
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Prepper advice
A Simple, Homemade Plant Propagation System That Works Fantastic
This page has a lot of photos so give them a chance to load if you have a slow connection. This is worth
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How to Build a Backyard Greenhouse from Scratch
Throughout this web site, and in my book Free Landscape Plants!, I teach you many ways to grow your own landscape plants without
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In Defense of Organic Farming
By now, even the mainstream media widely acknowledges the fertilizer shortage. Between fertilizer shortages, drought, shipping problems, and fuel shortages we face an ugly winter. And naturally, the
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Can’t Find Sugar? Here are Some Alternatives.
Sugar is yet another thing that can be difficult to come by these days. It was rationed during the lockdowns and has risen
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Rolling blackouts to affect over a billion people as energy crisis worsens
Power grids around the globe will be stretched thin as summer begins. There will be less electricity worldwide to meet the soaring demand for
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Connecting the Dots With the Energy Crisis
We all feel more pain at the pump these days. I’ve been fortunate enough to spend my adult life in various oil-producing flyover
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FOOD APOCALYPSE: The world has just 10 weeks’ worth of wheat left
In less than three weeks, wheat could disappear from store shelves, suggested a food insecurity expert to the United Nations. Sara Menker, the CEO
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5 Nutritious, fast-growing vegetables that you need in your home garden
Not all vegetables take several months to mature. Even if you’re not an experienced gardener, there are plenty of vegetables that you can harvest
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Trail Foods from History – Food Preservation Ideas
One of the challenges that regularly comes up when we talk about bug-outs is food for our bug out packs, and even food to
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Prepper Hacks – Jumpstart That Survival Garden
Spring Into Planting (Early & Anywhere) Hopefully we’ve all sited or started making notes of where we want to plant, expand, shore-up and
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BREAD MAKING OPTIONS WHEN YOU HAVE NO YEAST
Much to the dismay of preppers everywhere, yeast does expire. It loses the ability to make bread rise, as it’s a living culture.
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This Week’s Harvest: Strawberries
Strawberry season is in full swing. Now is the time to stock up on those delicious vivid red berries! Some strawberry trivia: Strawberries
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Use This Canning Recipe For An Abundant Harvest Of Carrots
At the end of the summer, sometimes the weather does not always cooperate with us. In fact, sometimes cool weather can come early
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Famine Is Coming. Are City Dwellers Prepared?
We’re seeing some strange things in modern society and all signs point to the fact that famine is coming. Within the US, drought on
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“We’re In A Crisis”: American Farmer Warns Of Impending Food Shortages
NewsNation’s Leland Vittert asked one American farmer: “How close are we to the next food crisis?” The answer: “We are in a crisis right now as far as
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Spring 2022 Press Release: Regenerative Gardening
Regenerative gardening focuses on biodiversity and working with nature to create a balanced habitat of interdependent plants and animals, from the fauna, fungi,
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How To Pressure Can Your Garden Kale
Every year we plant kale in both our greenhouse and our garden. We choose red Russian kale because it is cold hearty and
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Empty shelves reported at grocery stores across the U.S. as supply chain, omicron and weather issues converge
It’s beginning to look a lot like the early days of the pandemic in grocery stores across America, as store shelves are once
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Lessons from History – Victory Garden Advice That Applies To Everything
Looking back at past history, recent and far removed, can help prepare us in all parts of life. In some cases, early conventional
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Planning Your Garden? Read This First.
So you’ve noticed current events in terms of shortages at the grocery store and the many problems plaguing our centralized food system, from fires to food recalls
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How to Make Home Canned Ham
In a totally different stratosphere from Spam, the cans of flaked ham and the big pear-shaped cans of ham that you get from
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Container Gardening: How To Grow Food With Limited Space
Container gardening is ideal for those with little to no garden space. Even if you live in a condo or apartment and are
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23 Things You Can Forage For From April To June
Foraging for your own food or medicine may become a necessity in the coming months unless you want to fork over massive amounts
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