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"Learn how to grow your own food supply with advice from a survival skills expert. This essential guide includes how to choose and grow the most nutrient-dense crops without store-bought amendments or fertilizers, how to plan for a nonstop supply, how to store food, and how to create your own seed bank"--
List of contents
What Does it Mean to Have a “Survival Garden”?
How to Prepare Now for a Future Emergency
Part 1: Meeting Your Immediate Need for Food
Chapter 1 The First 5 Days: Sprouts and Microgreens
Sprouts
Microgreens
Chapter 2 What to Grow for Harvest in the First 5 Weeks
Top 12 Fast-Growing Plants Ready to Eat within 1 to 2 months
Mushrooms
Part 2: Creating a Resilient Garden for the Long Haul
Chapter 3 Planning Crops and Irrigation for Your Survival Garden
Choosing What to Grow in Your Survival Garden
Planning One or More Seasons Ahead
Water and Irrigation
Chapter 4 Growing Methods
Raised Beds vs. Growing in the Ground
DIY Raised Beds
Water-Conserving Garden Beds
Crop Rotation
Polyculture and Forest Gardening
Chapter 5 Low-Input Ways to Build Soil Fertility
Composting
Cover Crops (Green Manure)
Black Soldier Fly Larvae
Animal Manure
Humanure
Chapter 6 Beat ’Em or Eat ’Em: Garden Pests
Natural Repellent Methods
Insects as Food
Part 3: Planning for a Continual Food Supply
Chapter 7 Strategies for Growing a Nonstop Harvest
Succession Planting
Planting Crops for Storage
Expanding Your Growing Season
Chapter 8 Creating a Home Seed Bank
Selecting Plants for Seed Storage
How to Harvest Seeds
How to Store Seeds
Part 4: Survival Gardening Strategies for Small Spaces
Chapter 9 Quick Garden Setups for Small Spaces
Straw Bales
Potting Soil Bag Gardens
Vertical Gardens
Chapter 10 Guerilla Gardening
The Guerilla Gardening Movement
An Urban Food Supply
Chapter 11 Foraging for Wild Foods
Where to Forage
What to Forage
Appendix: Dealing with Hurricanes, Droughts, and Nuclear Disasters
About the author
Sam Coffman is the author of
Herbal Medic and
Survival Gardening, and has taught survival skills for both urban and primitive situations for more than 25 years, including survival gardening and foraging, wilderness first aid, and post-disaster herbal medicine. He is a registered herbalist (RH) with the American Herbalists Guild, a Wilderness EMT (WEMT), and a Wilderness First Responder instructor, and holds a masters in Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (MSAOM). Coffman is the founder of The Human Path, a preparedness school based in Taos, New Mexico.
Summary
Learn how to grow your own food supply and be prepared just in case of an emergency with this essential guide by a survival skills expert.
Become more resilient in the face of global crises and prepare yourself for supply chain disruptions by learning to grow your own food. Author Sam Coffman shows you how to select and grow the most valuable crops in the least amount of space, using few or no store-bought amendments. He also shows you how to grow food quickly (in as little as five days) in an emergency situation, choose and plant perennial food plants for longer-term harvest, grow mushrooms, forage from the backyard, and store food for the long term.
Foreword
The essential guide to growing food when supply chains are disrupted, including how to choose and grow the most nutrient-dense crops without store-bought amendments or fertilizers, how to plan for a nonstop supply, how to store food, and how to create your own seed bank.
