Author: David Goodman

I’d venture to say most preppers have squirreled away a few seeds for the future, whether it be one of those apocalyptic sealed cans containing 50,000 varieties of lettuce or just a dozen packets tucked into a cabinet “just in case.” The problem: if things really did collapse, most of us don’t know how to get those seeds to grow into plants that will actually produce honest-to-goodness food for the table. Most folks are still at the “I bought a pepper and it died” phase, not the “I got 100lbs of potatoes from one of my beds last week” stage. … Continue reading →

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High Calories + High Nutrition + Easy to Grow = Smart Survival Gardening It’s time to get serious about survival gardening. Too many of us still grow our gardens like we’re hobbyists. “Mmm… let’s see… I think I’ll plant some jalapeños for salsa, some nice lettuce, and maybe we’ll try peas again…” There are lots of vegetables that are fun to grow—but they’re not the kind of crops that will sustain you through tough times. I believe there are three main considerations you should take into account when planning a survival garden: calories, nutrition and ease of growing. Today I’ll … Continue reading →

As the main growing season winds down and fall gardens are being planted across much of the country, you might think it would be time for me to post on fall gardening. Fall gardens are well-worth doing, but instead of jumping on that train I’m going to focus on what you can do right now that will make your spring gardens better than they’ve ever been. Gardeners, like most people, tend to think of their gardening in terms of one season. When you step back, however, and see how building up your plots and planning ahead will benefit your gardening … Continue reading →

I confess: I am probably a bad neighbor. No, we don’t blare dubstep or dancehall or ghettoslam (or whatever the current sonic terror may be) at 200 decibels… And we don’t burn piles of tires and carpeting in the front yard… And, most certainly, we’re not dumping diesel into the local creek… However, we have – oh, the horror! – utterly given up on maintaining the front lawn on our semi-rural piece of the South; instead, it’s been replaced with a nascent food-generation machine. Out with the lawnmower – in with a food forest. The idea of a “food forest” … Continue reading →

One of the bedrocks of freedom is private property. A great part of private property’s power is that it allows the owner to grow his own food. Over the years the state and its corporate cronies have taken charge of much of the nation’s food supply through regulations, taxes, unfair competition and more. But many of us still own our own land (so much as we can be said to own something that can be taxed away from us) and have the ability to grow much of our own food on a small, decentralized scale, provided we have the skills … Continue reading →