It’s customary when writing these sorts of gardening advice blogs to include your top favorite/most recommended things to grow, so here’s a dozen I’ve chosen after a bit of thought. Some are categories rather than specific things, and I’m definitely not above cheating at making my own list. My criteria…
The following is an excerpt from the in progress guide to raising food in a changing climate and uncertain future. Two of the techniques that most aid in maintaining rich soil in gardens are extremely simple and also probably the most important for microbial life: hugelkultur/core gardening, and deep mulching…
Leftists will often stress that the existence of hunger and starvation isn’t a simple matter of resources not being available, but rather of uneven and unjust distribution. More than enough food is grown for everyone in the world, and that’s typically only counting the output of mass, conventional agriculture. The…
Canning is one of those archetypical homesteading skills that finds itself in the mental picture we all have of the lifestyle. And this isn’t without reason; preserving food in glass jars by way of canning is an extremely useful way to make sure your valuable harvest doesn’t go to waste….
Here’s a quick tip for winter foraging: barberries are edible. Barberry is a short, thorny bush that’s been used to decoration for a long time. That’s the main reason why they’re so widespread and basically invasive. There’s a native variety, but most of what we see is the Japanese barberry…
One of the recent trends in the foodie world (which might have already waned, I never really know) was the use of a confusingly named vegetable: the jerusalem artichoke, aka the sunchoke. The name is entirely misleading, as the plant isn’t in any way an artichoke nor is it from…
When I write about food cultivation that I think will be useful and necessary in our collective future, you’re gonna notice that I don’t talk about “agriculture”, but rather use the terms horticulture and permaculture. I tend towards being particular in my choice of words, and since these terms have…
During the World Wars here in occupied North America, the government encouraged everyday citizens to grow large Victory Gardens to offset/facilitate rationing of food and other goods to funnel towards the war efforts. As leftists building a liberation movement while navigating a future sure to be made tumultuous by climate…
