Archive for ' Gardening'

An aquaponic system can provide a healthy food source, forever! Posted:March 26, 2013 By:thesurvivalmom

An aquaponic system can provide a healthy food source, forever!

This post is sponsored by Endless Food Systems. I visited their company and saw, first hand, their dedication to designing a high-quality aquaponic system and bringing these life-sustaining systems to homes around the country. Many people [...]

7 Things to do right now to get ready for a fabulous summer garden Posted:March 11, 2013 By:thesurvivalmom

7 Things to do right now to get ready for a fabulous summer garden

1.  Improve your soil, if it needs it. Marjory Wildcraft of Grow Your Own Groceries, says that conditioning your soil is one of the first thing any gardener should do. Keep in mind that soil composition [...]

5 Most Nutritious Vegetables for the Home Garden Posted:January 11, 2013 By:thesurvivalmom

5 Most Nutritious Vegetables for the Home Garden

By Marjorie Wildcraft, Grow Your Own Groceries This is the time of year you start getting seed catalogs in the mail. As you start to plan ahead for the spring, Here are five of my personal [...]

Household Items That Can Be Used as Organic Fertilizer Posted:November 06, 2012 By:thesurvivalmom

Household Items That Can Be Used as Organic Fertilizer

Guest post by RamboMoe who blogs at Prepared For That. Your garden may have succumbed to winter temperatures but now is a great time to start a compost pile for next spring and setting aside items [...]

Here’s your Alternatives-to-Wheat checklist Posted:October 17, 2012 By:thesurvivalmom

Here’s your Alternatives-to-Wheat checklist

I know that many of you are trying to avoid wheat in your diet for any number of reasons. Most of the wheat we consume today is not the same wheat that our great-grandparents grew and [...]

Seed saving for beginners (video) Posted:July 06, 2012 By:thesurvivalmom

Seed saving for beginners (video)

Don't miss these related posts: It’s Seed-Shopping Time: A Review of Online Heirloom Seed Sites About those “survival seed banks”… Here’s the skinny on saving seeds How basic can you get? List #1 for beginners 3 [...]

Check out our gardens! Posted:July 03, 2012 By:thesurvivalmom

Check out our gardens!

I asked my Facebook friends to send me photos of their gardens, and here is what I’ve received so far! Send your photos to lisa@ thesurvivalmom.com!  Let me know if you would like me to use [...]

How viable are your stored seeds? Posted:March 22, 2012 By:thesurvivalmom

How viable are your stored seeds?

A lot of us have seed packets left over from years gone by or we’ve saved seeds from our own gardens.  Have you ever wondered if those seeds are viable anymore?  What is their germination rate?  [...]

3 Tips for Getting Started With Food Storage (video) Posted:March 06, 2012 By:thesurvivalmom

3 Tips for Getting Started With Food Storage (video)

Marjory Wildcraft is one of my favorite gardening gurus.  You can learn more about her at Grow Your Own Groceries.  Last month I had a chance to meet up with her, and we recorded this video. [...]

It’s tiiiiime!!!! Start those seeds indoors with toilet paper rolls! Posted:February 14, 2012 By:thesurvivalmom

It’s tiiiiime!!!! Start those seeds indoors with toilet paper rolls!

I love this idea from the GardenGirl, whose videos you can find on YouTube.  Start saving toilet paper tubes, get some potting soil or use what she uses, coco fibers.  Toilet paper rolls are probably the [...]