Once you’ve picked the best spot for your crisis garden, it’s time to start working out the specifics of how it’s going to look. You should already have an idea of what you’ll grow and in what amounts, so now let’s see how to lay out the available space. Properly laying out the crisis garden […]
How to choose the best location for your crisis garden (site assessment guide)
Picking the right spot for your crisis garden is crucial to successful crop production. If you plan on growing enough food to feed your family, you want to ensure that there’s no room for a mistake that can put your harvest in jeopardy. Garden locations that can’t provide a supply of essential inputs, that are […]
Crisis Gardening: Growing enough food to feed your family
With the current pandemic, the damage to food production and supply chains has already been set in stone. It’s just a matter of time before the full effects of these unfortunate events trickle down to cause a shortage of food in your local area. As a crisis gardener, you want to hedge against this by […]
How to prepare for climate extremes – my site observation method
What now seems normal would have been considered highly abnormal just a few years ago. I live in a continental climate with traditionally cold winters, hot summers and plentiful precipitation that’s equally distributed throughout the year. That probably best describes the weather we used to enjoy. But today the winters are not cold, the summers […]