Category: Self Sufficiency

Home Vegetable Gardens: Grow Your Own Food

March 2, 2023
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If you think the only place to get vegetables is at the grocery store, prepare to be amazed and on the way to some degree of self-sufficiency. In the wartime years of the 1940s, many people started “Victory Gardens” as a way to grow their own vegetables. The concept faded as grocery stores popped up…

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This Gardener Wants to Teach the World How to Grow Healthy, Bountiful Food

August 24, 2022
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In 1976, gardener Jim Kennard discovered the Mittleider gardening method, and was blown away by the bountiful fruits and vegetables he reaped that year. His harvest was far more abundant than any of his previous crops. When he retired from a successful career as a CPA, he decided to help create and become the pro-bono…

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Arkansas Couple Confront Food Shortages, Inflation by Growing Own Food, Starting Off-Grid Homestead

August 3, 2022
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Mad Max never seemed so near at hand. With ballooning inflation and looming food shortages, people are facing potentially hazardous futures. “Experts” and world leaders are calling it a “transition.” Into what, they don’t say, but it looks bad. Like many even-keeled Americans, though, Becky and Cam Porter from northwest Arkansas are transitioning on their…

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