How much of your own food do you grow and do you want it to be more? It's that time of year when you see articles, podcasts, and posts on social media that say, Grow ALL of Your Own Food. Or maybe they don't go that far and it's: Grow MOST of Your Own Food. In this episode we're going to concentrate on How to Grow More of Your Own Food:
- Self sufficiency vs. Resilience - do you know the difference?
- To grow more of your own food you have to be able to properly store it.
- To grow more of your own food you have to know how to cook it.
- Don't forget perennials! Grow chestnuts and hazelnuts. Chestnuts have been called the "bread tree". Dried chestnuts can be ground into flour. Chestnuts and hazelnuts can be pressed for oil.
- Milpa gardening - 40 seeds all mixed together. Corn, beans, squash as the foundations, with greens, cukes, perennial pollinating flowers. It gives you a harvest through different seasons, covers and regenerates soil, and ends with a dry bean harvest and thatch that you can use a mulch for the winter.
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