The point of survival gardening is to have your own ongoing source of food when the canned goods run out and food shortages mean you can't buy food. We're only about two or three generations from many people living on what they grew. My grandparents raised and preserved (smoked) their own meat, raised everything else they ate. Coffee, sugar and salt were probably the only things they had to buy.
You’re not going to have an “on going source of food” in a 1/4 acre plot of residential garden patches is my point. Your crop yields as an amateur in a residential place under the best of circumstances isn't going to be ideal. Besides, vegetables aren’t “survival food”. Meat is. You’re going to be calorie deficient eating out of your garden real quick.
Au contraire. You need to read up on French intensive gardening. And I don't consider myself an amateur by a long shot. Aside from that, by ongoing I mean something past when the severe food shortages hit and stored food is dwindling.
I certainly didn't infer that we're only talking to suburban people with tiny yards. Actually, my point was that if you are just getting around to thinking about a garden to feed you this winter, it's probably too late unless you're in a very warm, frost free zone.
The point of survival gardening is to have your own ongoing source of food when the canned goods run out and food shortages mean you can't buy food. We're only about two or three generations from many people living on what they grew. My grandparents raised and preserved (smoked) their own meat, raised everything else they ate. Coffee, sugar and salt were probably the only things they had to buy.
You’re not going to have an “on going source of food” in a 1/4 acre plot of residential garden patches is my point. Your crop yields as an amateur in a residential place under the best of circumstances isn't going to be ideal. Besides, vegetables aren’t “survival food”. Meat is. You’re going to be calorie deficient eating out of your garden real quick.
Au contraire. You need to read up on French intensive gardening. And I don't consider myself an amateur by a long shot. Aside from that, by ongoing I mean something past when the severe food shortages hit and stored food is dwindling.
I certainly didn't infer that we're only talking to suburban people with tiny yards. Actually, my point was that if you are just getting around to thinking about a garden to feed you this winter, it's probably too late unless you're in a very warm, frost free zone.