Gardening and Eatable Plants

This article from the 39th (May 1976) issue of The Mother Earth News. Last spring, my wife and I were faced with a problem that I suppose most folks run into sooner or later: We wanted a garden—in fact, we desperately needed a garden—but we didn’t have any place to put one. At the time, [...]

Survival Gardening Gardening is hard work, all the bending, stooping, pulling, planting, picking, plucking, composting and other chores can leave you exhausted by the end of the day. In a survival situation, time will be at a minimum and energy should be conserved if possible. Negative gain For example; if you burn 500 calories chasing [...]

For a limited time Gurney’s Seed and Nursery is offering $20 off any $50 order! I ordered two of their golden delicious apple tree’s and the drippin’ honey pear. A healthy fruit tree can supply dozens of bushels of fresh produce to supplement the food supply during hard times, with little effort on your part.

My most recommended book on the subject of survival gardening is – Gardening When It Counts by Steve Soloman. This book instructs the grower in traditional low-input gardening methods that do away with the need for oil dependent equipment and fertilizers.

Gardens Alive is now offering $20 off first time orders of $40 or more go on over and take a look at what they have to offer. Good stuff.

kitchen Gardeners What’s a home garden worth? With the global economy spiraling downward and Mother Nature preparing to reach upward, it’s a good question to ask and a good time to ask it. There isn’t one right answer, of course, but I’ll give you mine: $2149.15. Last year, my wife Jacqueline suggested to me that [...]

Back To Basics Living : Learning from The Past During the 1920′s many people bought into the stock market, being lured in because the stocks kept going up in price, month after month, leading many to believe this would continue on forever.   People put all their trust and money into the stock market, often [...]

Let’s face the facts; no matter how well prepared or how much we have put back against the day of need, our survival foods will eventually be depleted. Storing a years worth of food, keeping it rotated and replaced with fresh stock is difficult enough, trying to lay back sufficient foods to last five years [...]