Store potatoes in a root cellar for emergencies or long term use. How do you store all that amazing produce you grow?Pumpkins, potato, yam, sweet potatoes. Winter crops like turnips and swedes store really well in the right space as well. We have so many choices these days when it comes to building a root cellar, from burying a plastic rubbish bin and covering the top with ... Read More
Growing Potatoes as a survival crop
Growing Potatoes because they are long lasting and require very simple storage is such a basic but vital skill to learn. We are not only facing a time of increasing natural disasters but we are also faced with the dilemma of genetically modified produce. This can't be good. There is no evidence that these mutated crops won't harm us in the long run and once these amazing ... Read More
Survival with weeds, if you know how.
Survival and weeds, what do they have in common? Even if you aren't in an environment where you need to protect yourself physically or caught in a disaster, a simple walk in the forest and lead to the need to know some simple bush medicine, remedies or food.One of the more common weeds you will come across in the bush is stinging nettle. They have a multitude of medicinal ... Read More
High schoolers teach about growing organic, you wont believe how they did it.
A group of High schoolers decide to help teach kids about growing organic food.It is such a sad fact these days that most kids have no idea how their food is grown much less how to do it. Growing organic food is totally foreign. Our health system is falling apart and under too much pressure with more and more people becoming sick from lifestyle related disease. our kids ... Read More