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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
Introduction: What Does It Mean to Have a “Survival Garden”?
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 Crops
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
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
Make Compost
Keep Black Soldier Fly Larvae
Plant Cover Crops
Raise Animals for Food and Manure
Make Humanure
Chapter 6 Beat ’Em or Eat ’Em: Garden Pests
Natural Repellents
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 Store Seeds
Part 4: Survival Gardening Strategies for Small and Urban Spaces Chapter 9 Quick Garden Setups for Small Spaces
Straw Bales
Bag Gardens
Vertical Gardens
Chapter 10 Guerilla Gardening and Foraging
The Guerilla Gardening Movement
Where to Forage
What to Forage
Appendix: Dealing with Hurricanes, Droughts, and Nuclear Disasters
Index
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
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.
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.
