Survival Gardening: Grow Your Own Food when You Need It the Most

Survival Gardening: Grow Your Own Food when You Need It the Most

by Sam Coffman
Survival Gardening: Grow Your Own Food when You Need It the Most

Survival Gardening: Grow Your Own Food when You Need It the Most

by Sam Coffman

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Overview

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.

Whether we like it or not, the next pandemic—with the same types of supply chain disruptions that came with the last one—is likely to be just around the corner. In addition to stocking up on toilet paper and making sourdough bread, we can all become more resilient in the face of global crises by learning to grow our own food. Author Sam Coffman shows you how to select and grow the most valuable crops—those that offer the most nutrients and the biggest harvest with the least amount of effort, and are the easiest to save seed from—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. 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781635866469
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Publication date: 01/14/2025
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.53(d)

About the Author

Sam Coffman is the author of Herbal Medic 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. 

Table 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 
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