Tag Archives: The Survival Garden

Essential Guide to Self-Sufficient Living: Energy and Water Solutions

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.

Cutting Corners To Thrive This Winter

Preparing for winter involves financial planning for heating costs, updating insurance, adding insulation, storing fuel, and ensuring vehicle readiness. Create a winter emergency bag with warm clothing, food, and water. Always anticipate extreme weather conditions and have necessary supplies at hand, including alternative fuel sources and emergency tools for your vehicle.

Lessons from a Power Outage

The post discusses strategies for living comfortably during an extended power outage, drawing from a past experience of a ten-day outage due to an ice storm. It highlights lighting options like candles, kerosene lanterns, and propane lights, refrigeration solutions, water management, hygiene practices, and laundry tips, emphasizing the importance of preparation and adaptability.

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.”

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.

Get a Victory by Growing a Garden

Back during World War II, both the United States and Great Britain began what they called Victory Gardens. Great Britain had started the idea when the Axis powers began their quest to take over Europe during the late 1930s and early 1940s. As the Nazis rolled over their neighboring countries and swallowed up agricultural landContinue reading “Get a Victory by Growing a Garden”

Seven Ways We are Saving Money and Time in the Garden

My husband and I are streamlining our gardening process with garden beds and saving money where we can.

Are You Growing A Survival Garden?

It’s easy to place blame on someone or something else in regard to the lack of food security in our world. We could blame the government. We can the disease that had us locked up for two years. We can blame the war in Europe. We can blame our president or our economic system. WeContinue reading “Are You Growing A Survival Garden?”

A More Complete Sweet Potato Harvest

Here’s how many people start their own sweet potato slips. They wait until January or February and use this method. It’s how I started and it works, but I’m sharing a better way!