Raised beds that I am building to test Perennial Kitchen Garden layouts:
Vego Garden Modular Metal Raised Bed (which I will make 5′ x 3.5′, 17″ tall).
I use this for a perennial kitchen garden – growing herbs to use daily in the kitchen. Just come along and pick what you need for tonight’s dinner.
Meadow Creature Broadfork is my favorite tool for starting new garden beds. I turn over the sod, add a layer of compost, then Milpa, and cover with woodchips.
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Recommendations and Resources:
All of these things we have used and recommend.
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Holistic Homesteading by Roxanne Ahern:
Live Not By Lies – by Rod Dreher.
This book rocked my world in 2020 and 2021, especially Section 2 where the Eastern European Christians who did not go along with the Bolsheviks were pushed to9 the margins of society, and Section 3 about how Christians survived the gulag.
Farm Innovators 4250 Incubator. This is the incubator that I use.
Surviving the Future by David Fleming and Shaun Chamberlin.
The title of this book inspired Thriving the Future Podcast.
Surviving the Future is a more digestible version of Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It, a thick book which deep dives culture, community, debt, growth, de-growth, and assumes our problems can be handled in a Lean manner, all local. Highly recommended, if you are into localism, community, and remarkable Hope, despite an uncertain future.
Cotton Crochet Market Bags – Washable Crochet Grocery Bags – Reusable Crochet Produce Shopping Bags
I use these for storing veggies in the basement, hanging from nails on the rafters.
Wildcrafting Soda and Brews:
The Wildcrafting Brewer: Creating Unique Drinks and Boozy Concoctions from Nature’s Ingredients:
How to Make Vinegar:
American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America. This explains why we have so much divide in this country. It’s been that way since the beginning and these seven cultures took their values West with them.
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