If you are to thrive in troubled times, you are going to have to do as the Amish do and use all of natures resources as they are given. They don't try to force nature into their way of thinking, they bend it to their advantage, While there are several ways of doing this, here is one method that has both in the long run few inputs, a high yield per limited space and no till. It is well worth adding to your knowledge base even if you never do it. As they say even a blind squirrel will sometimes find a nut. This person has found several nuts worth looking at. The real secrets, use of mushrooms to breakdown and make available the wood nutrients and the supplying of trace minerals is not stressed, but the system will not work without them. The following youtube is a little gushy and the woman can get on your nerves with her presentation, but she has some very important information that you are not likely to get from your normal garden supply people. She isn't selling anything in the garden supply field and she has tricks that could either allow you to survive after TSHTF or to transform that small farmed out piece of land into something that will grow food and "gasp" do it cheaply over time. . Here are tips for getting ready for winter and some on seed saving. She has to make a living so there is an ad but it isn't too long. Some might be turned off by how casual she is in her techniques, but she is surrounded by a nice garden and the land away from it doesn't amount to much, Would be a valuable person to have with the group if SHTF and a good person to learn from now,,Tips like composting horse bedding, soaked in urine and horse manure, that she got for free and make good compost and not pay $4 a cubic foot for at LOWE'S for. No, I don't know if she can shoot and pull guard duty. This is backward, but shows how she starts and creates her soil. A couple easy to miss point. The process will not work as well or may not work at all without the mushrooms. They break down the wood in weeks instead of years. It can't be skipped. The second is the mineral supplements. I like granite dust and Azomite myself. Here in New Hampshire the granite and thus the soil is very poor in selenium. Lambs and piglets have to be feed supplements of it if they are eating food produced on the land. No one knows but some studies show that the worse the Altshiemer's, the lower the amount of selenium in the brain. Food produced with the "necessary" supplements for growth don't contain it and over time it is depleted even in organic gardens, The mineral supplements are selected to have the most broad range possible. I also like to at least now in my hydroponics to add seaweed and fish meal fertilizers to just try to maximize the trace minerals in my produce. And now the most important video of them all, One size doesn't fit all and what be good in Tenn in your own woods could be at present illegal in Washington state or in someone eles woods. The first rule in gardening is that it is a moving target with few fixed rules. That is as important of a lesson as any other one and why you have to do it while a mistake won't kill you and your family or put them in a FEMA shelter.
Well, I offered the wife to stop weeding the garden after showing her these videos and her comment was, "...nice try, buddy."
