By Lyza Hayn Want to forage for wild food? It’s easy when you live in a wild place. However, those dwelling in more domestic areas face challenges when it comes to plant diversity and availability. The good news is that city slickers don’t have to…
By Daisy Luther How many times have you yelled at your family about leftovers? How many times have you found said leftovers turning into a science project hidden behind the milk? How often do you have to throw away food you simply forgot you bought,…
By Tyler Durden Did you know that over two-thirds of national crops originated from somewhere else? Humans have been selecting and growing crops for specific traits since the origins of agriculture some 10,000 years ago, shaping where and what crops are grown today. However, as…
By Daisy Luther The never-ending debate continues: what is the ideal food for your bug-out bag? Lots of people have lots of different opinions. Some folks fill ‘er up with freeze-dried meals and little stoves. Others stash granola or survival bars. Aden wrote here about…
By Jayne Rising Old-fashioned pest management is yet another topic that is going to prove vital knowledge in the very near future. With supply chain disruptions causing shortages in everything from fertilizer to semiconductors, it’s an easy bet that we’ll be seeing shortages of various…
By Aden Tate Search around on prepping/survival articles long enough and you’ll see all kinds of recommendations for grid down/bug-out food acquisition that are incredibly novel and primitive. There’s nothing intrinsically wrong about that either. However, I do think that one needs to go into…
By Daisy Luther From 1932-1933, a mass genocide took place in Ukraine. Millions of people, including children, were deliberately starved to death by the USSR during the Holodomor event. A state-organized famine was deployed when the Ukrainian people continued to thrive and keep their cultural…
By Neenah Payne Multiple Ways To Handle Food Insecurity Now shows why no one can take food security for granted now and explores several ways to become more secure. My First Indoor Gardening Steps explains that in April, I began by buying five Edible Garden…
By Neenah Payne Food security is not something anyone can take for granted now. Industrial chemical agriculture is destroying our soils and our health. Since it ramped up in the 1970s, we’ve lost one third of the Earth’s topsoil. Allan Savory: How Cows Can Save…
By Rick Marshall Even though we had an awesome garden last year, we still shopped our local farmer’s market to supplement our food supply. No matter how terrific your garden is, sometimes you need a bit more food to feed the family. And, it doesn’t…
By Neenah Payne Dr. George Washington Carver created regenerative agriculture which is key to our survival now. Wikipedia says: “Regenerative agriculture has a long history and can be traced to the agricultural extension work of Dr. George Washington Carver at Tuskegee University in the early part of the 20th century, as…
By Neenah Payne My First Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) Program explains that I joined my co-op’s CSA program in early June after watching Ice Age Farming – “Solutions Watch” with James Corbett in which Christian Westbrook (The Ice Age Farmer) recommends joining a Community Supported…
By Rick Marshall Supply chain issues due to the pandemic reinforced our decision to become more self-reliant and dedicated to garden production. (And less tied to suppliers who are affected by issues that we have no control over.) We slowly changed from casual gardeners interested…
By Neenah Payne My First Indoor Gardening Steps explains that I started growing food in 2015 with an AeroGarden and some sprouts which I documented in my Urban Gardens Revolution site. My next step was to get five Edible Garden herbs from my grocery store:…
By Tyler Durden Beekeeping is an ancient cultural practice that dates back 9,000 years and has recently seen a resurgence in popularity over concerns about biodiversity and food security. Taking a long-term look at beekeeping trends in world regions, however, as Statista’s Katharina Buchholz notes,…
By Neenah Payne Registration is now open for the free Grow System Summit which will be held online May 21-23 starting at 6PM CT. The summit will be hosted by Marjory Wildcraft, Founder of The Grow Network and author of The Grow System Book: The…
By Neenah Payne America talks a lot about “Homeland Security” — but ignores the key role food plays in national security. Food is a national security issue in two ways that are not immediately obvious but which now threaten our survival as a nation in…
By Neenah Payne In 2020, Americans faced empty grocery stores shelves for the first time. Curtis Stone, The Urban Farmer, warns about more food shortages and provides tips on how to grow lots of food on small plots. See his book The Urban Farmer. The…
By Jonathan Latham, Ph.D According to a new peer-reviewed paper, “The Myth of a Food Crisis,” corrupt philanthropic and academic sectors in agriculture and development perpetuate the lie that Big Ag is the only way to feed the world. Sustainable, local, organic food grown on…
By The Ice Age Farmer In the latest blow to global food production, Taiwan is diverting water from rice farms to semiconductor factories to keep the iPhones & car chips flowing. “The Taiwanese public appears to have decided that rice farming is less important, both…
