This blog post discusses the author’s experience dealing with people who challenge the idea of prepping due to religious beliefs. The author draws from historical and biblical examples to argue that taking practical steps for self-sufficiency is consistent with Christian teachings. They emphasize the importance of sharing and giving back, and offer their books as resources for starting a vegetable garden.
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We Were All Preppers
The post discusses the commercialization of the prepping movement and how people used to be more self-sufficient. The author describes their current efforts in gardening, foraging, hunting, raising animals, and learning various skills. Additionally, they have written books on vegetable gardening and other relevant topics to help others learn these skills.
Perennial Vegetables that Come Back Every Year
Every year, millions and probably billions of people around the world go out and build a vegetable garden. They dig. They prepare the soil. They plant seeds and work diligently throughout the summer to get a vegetable crop. In recent years, there has been a movement called permaculture where people take an ideology started byContinue reading “Perennial Vegetables that Come Back Every Year”
How Prepared Were We For Our Most Recent Cold Weather?
Often the best time to evaluate what we need to do to prepare for cold weather occurs after we have just gone through a bout of bitter-cold winter weather. So today, I am going over what we did, how it worked, and what we’d like to do to improve our ability to beat the cold.
Earliest Seed Starting for Home Garden
Onions The first item on my list is onions. We use a lot of onions at our house so I planted them earlier this week. We could buy onions as plants or sets, and we have done this many times in the past. However, this year, I have chosen to plant my onions as seeds.Continue reading “Earliest Seed Starting for Home Garden”
The Lazy Days of Summer
You would think that during this past week I would have been working in the garden, but to tell you the truth, I have been busy doing other things around the farm. One of the things that we did this past week was clean the pantry/garden room in the house. Our trailer has two bedroomsContinue reading “The Lazy Days of Summer”
Canning Filled Month
In my book, The Survival Garden, I share how you can grow vegetables that don’t need to be canned, frozen, or dehydrated. If you’d like to learn more about this book, take a free look inside on Amazon. In my book The Four Season Vegetable Garden, I share the techniques of how to enable usContinue reading “Canning Filled Month”
Finding Food In Places Other Than The Grocery Store (Not charity)
Last week, we discussed how to save food money through gardening. Here’s a link to that blog post. This week I’m sharing some other ways to save on food this year. Foraging All over the countryside, there are different ways that you can forage for various wild foods. Many backyard weeds like lambsquarters, dandelion, mustardContinue reading “Finding Food In Places Other Than The Grocery Store (Not charity)”
The Many Benefits of Kelp
I’m using Kelp in the Garden What most people don’t know is that most poor soils don’t lack specific mineral content. Here’s a case in point. Here on the Ozark Plateau, we are sitting on a bedrock of limestone. Our water is high in calcium deposits and yet, if you ask most people around hereContinue reading “The Many Benefits of Kelp”
When the Weather Doesn’t Cooperate with My Gardening Plans
Tuesday morning started out beautifully. There wasn’t a cloud in the sky and the temperatures were already in the fifties here on Act III Farm. I knew that we were going to get a frost that night, but I didn’t expect to see snow on the ground when I got home from work that night.Continue reading “When the Weather Doesn’t Cooperate with My Gardening Plans”
The Perpetual Homesteader 