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

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

Review Quotes: "Sam Coffman lays out a complete plan for survival gardening, for when the hammer finally drops."-- Roland Welker, 100 Day King, ALONE Season 7 Winner-History Channel Review Quotes:...

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Review Quotes:
"Sam Coffman lays out a complete plan for survival gardening, for when the hammer finally drops."-- Roland Welker, 100 Day King, ALONE Season 7 Winner-History Channel

Review Quotes:
"An outstanding addition to everyone's prepper library. This book may well turn out to be the most valuable thing you own."-- Kathy Harrison, author of Prepping 101 and Just In Case

Review Quotes:
"As ever, Coffman delivers the goods and the science. His massively important gardening tricks truly yield, and his tips on capturing water, utilizing waste, and raising animals and insects are solid gold."-- Mykel Hawke, Special Forces veteran and survival expert

Biographical Note:
Sam Coffman is the author of Herbal Medic and Survival 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.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: What Does It Mean to Have a "Survival Garden"?

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 Crops
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
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
Make Compost
Keep Black Soldier Fly Larvae
Plant Cover Crops
Raise Animals for Food and Manure
Make Humanure
Chapter 6 Beat 'Em or Eat 'Em: Garden Pests
Natural Repellents
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 Store Seeds
Part 4: Survival Gardening Strategies for Small and Urban Spaces

Chapter 9 Quick Garden Setups for Small Spaces
Straw Bales
Bag Gardens
Vertical Gardens
Chapter 10 Guerilla Gardening and Foraging
The Guerilla Gardening Movement
Where to Forage
What to Forage
Appendix: Dealing with Hurricanes, Droughts, and Nuclear Disasters
Index

Publisher Marketing:
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.

Review Citations:

  • Publishers Weekly 11/18/2024 (EAN 9781635866469, Paperback)
  • Library Journal 01/01/2025 pg. 26 (EAN 9781635866469, Paperback)


Author: Coffman, Sam
Publisher: Storey Publishing
Binding: Paperback
Pub Date: 2025-01-14
BISAC: Gardening / Edible & Medicinal / Vegetables|Self-Help / Safety & Security / Survival & Emergency Preparedness|Gardening / Techniques / General
Subjects: Organic gardening|Food security|Urban homesteading|Emergency food supply|Handbooks and manuals
Weight: 0.85 lbs
ISBN: 9781635866469
ASIN: -
SKU: SP-9781635866469

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