Survival Gardening: Grow Your Own Emergency Food Supply, from Seed to Root Cellar [Paperback]

Learn how to grow your own food supply and be prepared just in case of an emergency with this essential guide by a survival skills expert.

Become more resilient in the face of global crises and prepare yourself for supply chain disruptions by learning to grow your own food. Author Sam Coffman shows you how to select and grow the most valuable crops 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. Sam Coffmanis the author ofHerbal MedicandSurvival 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. Introduction: What Does It Mean to Have a “Survival Garden”?

Part 1: Meeting Your Immediate Need for Food
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

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