Sprouts are tasty, nutritious, and versatile, from their familiar use in salads to baking sprouted-grain breads to making excellent quick snacks by the handful. Their virtues were discovered by the Chinese millennia ago and modern [ … ]
There’s a wealth of plants that can be usefully sprouted besides the usual suspects of alfalfa and mung beans. Among others, you can sprout almond, buckwheat, cabbage, chickpeas, clover, fenugreek, flax, millet, oat groats, quinoa, [ … ]
Once you know basic soil types and characteristics, as we’ve outlined in another article, you have several response strategies, and will probably end up using more than one: Harvest what already grows, and expand or [ … ]
Volumes have been written about soil classification and competing systems have been devised for different purposes. The prevailing system in the U.S. includes some 13,000 “series”—roughly comparable to species in biology—grouped into 11 soil orders. [ … ]
It is possible to grow your own food even if you live in an urban space and have no outdoor room to garden. If you have just a bit of space on a balcony or [ … ]
There are many reasons to consider growing your own food. Our current system uses enormous quantities of petrochemicals (which are included in fertilizers and pesticides, meaning we end up eating them) as well as for [ … ]
As more people look towards creating sustainable food solutions, fruit trees are receiving a lot more attention as a cost effective means of optimizing home-garden production. With the capability of yielding hundreds of pounds of [ … ]
The recent recall of a half billion eggs due to a salmonella scare is one more reminder of the need for safe, sustainable food production. It also raises the issue of just how far the [ … ]
If, as part of your emergency preparedness, you have been considering options for creating a long- term, sustainable food source, chicken farming has proven to be one of the best. As an ongoing source of [ … ]
If you’re considering a food garden as part of your long range emergency preparedness plans, the number one piece of advice you need embrace is: “Do your research.” The rules for successful gardening are very [ … ]
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