Survival Gardening for Pandemics

20 Must-Have Seeds To Store For A Crisis

Having to subsist on a survival garden may seem like a distant reality right now. But whether you would ever have to live on the produce from your own garden is not relevant here. Your [ … ]

Survival Gardening for Pandemics

Growing An “Off The Grid” Fragrance Garden

We all give thought to the “what if’s” of a disaster, economic collapse, or attack on U.S. soil. We’re stockpiling our food, learning to grow survival gardens, and figuring out ways to provide the essentials [ … ]

Food

Growing Cold-Hardy Currants

Currants are a fast growing, deciduous shrub, which produce multiple stems that can grow five feet wide and high. Most currants are self fertile, but some cultivars are partially self-sterile, so planting them in twos [ … ]

Food

Lettuce Has Cousins?

Folks who prefer scientific lingo put lettuce in the Asteraceae family. As I mentioned in my last column, this giant clan includes hundreds of flowers, numerous weeds, all of your popular lettuces, and a few [ … ]

Food

The Lettuce Family

There must be a ton of movies, books, and plays that rely on the old mistaken identity gimmick to power the plot. You’ve probably seen some where twins are separated at birth and somehow get [ … ]

Food

Ideas for Spring Planting

Hey Everybody!  Jerry Greenfield here!  Hope you’ve all been well since my last article.  In this article, I intend to provide some hope for those of you planning on kick-starting your survival garden for springtime.  [ … ]