Carol Robb’s book is a comprehensive guide for creating self-sufficient energy and water systems to prepare families for emergencies. It outlines alternative energy sources like solar and wind, and covers water storage solutions. Additionally, the book addresses off-grid shelter building and sustainable gardening to ensure food security in case of disruptions.
Category Archives: gardening
Should I Store Food?
Traditionally, families preserved food during winters through gardening, animal husbandry, and various preservation methods. Today, these skills are declining, yet interest is reviving among younger generations. Prepping involves storing what you eat and rotating food supplies. Growing your own food can provide security, as emphasized in “The Survival Garden.”
Why Am I Doing This?
The author shares their homesteading journey, teaching their children, and writing to pass down knowledge to future generations. They hope their experiences help others live closer to nature. Concerned about the blog’s impact, they invite feedback and offer homesteading books. Their goal is to leave a legacy and share wisdom from past generations.
Beginning the Fall Garden Indoors Now
This year I have been doing what I can to get as much from a small garden space as possible. To tell you the truth, the reason is we are getting older and don’t have as much energy as we used to even just a few years ago. The old body doesn’t recover as fastContinue reading “Beginning the Fall Garden Indoors Now”
Having Backup
The content discusses creating alternatives for daily necessities in case of unavailability. It highlights using backup security firms for businesses, alternative utility sources like water, electricity, and heating, and finding substitutes for grocery stores. It also mentions alternative personal care and house cleaning products. Additionally, it promotes books on vegetable gardening and alternative living.
Putting Up Corn
Every year, we grow a lot of vegetables in our garden. Some of them we use straight from the garden like lettuce, broccoli, cabbage, radishes, and many herbs. Others we can pick fresh and store them for several months like potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, garlic, and carrots. I usually can other vegetables by themselves orContinue reading “Putting Up Corn”
Fresh New Potato Dishes
This year, our garden is overflowing with potatoes, especially the tiny new potatoes with delicate skins and flaky white centers. We enjoy making green beans and new potatoes, potato salad, oven-fried potatoes, and a breakfast skillet, all using our freshly grown produce. These recipes are flexible and can be adjusted to suit individual tastes.
Enjoy Fresh Green Beans this Week
A year’s worth of snap green beans from two 4×8 beds. Excess canned last year; now growing enough for fresh consumption and to share at the farmers’ market. Recipes for green beans and new potatoes, stir-fried garlic green beans, and rice cooking technique. Author of several vegetable gardening books available on Amazon.
Three Survival Garden Vegetables, This Week’s Garden Focus
The author highlights three essential vegetables for a lasting winter garden: garlic, potatoes, and sweet potatoes. The garlic has been dried for storage, and potato harvesting has yielded 50 pounds of Norland potatoes, with more growing. Additionally, the author is planting sweet potatoes and harvesting other produce, emphasizing the sustainability of their homegrown food.
My Garden Supermarket
The author shares a bountiful harvest from their garden, opting to use fresh produce instead of canning or freezing. They enjoy a variety of homegrown vegetables and plan to use or preserve them efficiently. The post also includes information about the author’s books on gardening. They highlight the benefits of fresh, homegrown vegetables and provide resources for starting a vegetable garden.
The Perpetual Homesteader 