Blueberries are simple to plant around a home and with good care it will produce blueberries for muffins, drying, snacking, ice cream toppings and plenty of other goodies!  Cherry trees can be ornamental and productive and if you don’t have space for trees there also are bush cherries available!  In the right sections, tangerines, lime, lemon and orange trees offer fruit and shade.  Coffee plants can be kept in containers on the corner of decks, and cranberries, currants and a number of other berries can be run along fence lines.  

Ginkgo is a long cultivated nut tree with a peculiar point in a female and male tree is needed to provide nuts.  They grow up to thirty feet high in full sun, and the males might be kept on your street or front yard with the female back further so you can crop the nuts without competition!  

Do you have a sitting area you’d like to make use of?  There is not a better area to use for your survival garden than growing herbs!  Planters can host chocolate mint, lemon mint as well as the commoner spearmint and peppermint – keep them separated as they can be aggressive.Rosemary,thyme, lavender, and lemon grass are all productive plants too.  You can, with a little research, create a tea garden to slurp sweet tea on summer afternoons, or a potpourri/craft garden if that’s an interest for you.  Best of all is a kitchen garden – garlic, basil, savory and a wide range of other plants can be grown in most areas.  You get a year’s worth of landscaping and food.  Plants like rosemary can handle rather a lot of trimming once established and fresh herbs are miles better than the processed ones!  

Intrepid gardeners may try less common plants like josta berry, jujubes and apricots.  If you like nuts, almonds are another possibility for those with extra space.  Have a shady area you want to use?  Get a log implanted with shiitake mushrooms, which can last several years.  This is a great way, if you like mushrooms, to grow your own and use the space that isn’t fully in the sun.  

Strawberries are a conspicuous choice for very little effort.   A flower box with pansies can generate lovely lavender pansy.  Rhubarb is another chance, with rhubarb pie being a favourite of many of us.  

This is just as practical for those in cooler climates as in the seaside sections.  Smaller trees and plants can offer|supply considerable food for a little family as well as dressing up your yard with flowers and perfume – after all flowers are required for fruit!  

Some use vines to cover areas and among the vines that can be used is grapes.  Gourds and other vines may also be ‘trained’ up a trellis.  

A natural offshoot as you start your survival garden with edible food is composting – compost bins do not need to be unsightly!  While many use pallets – which can be ‘dressed up’ with flowers or ‘hidden’ behind bushes – an older trash can works really well also.  An old metal one that will leak is great – put a few holes in it and dress it up with a coat of paint.  You won’t have to pay to have grass and other things hauled off – compost it, turn it back into something helpful for your survival garden!  

The University of Nevada designed, installed and maintained a strip in the city of Reno.  One area was built to attract insects ( which pollinates the landscaping ), but there had been also a salsa garden, salad/herb garden, evergreens, ‘Three Sisters garden’, tomatoes and ground cherries.  This is a great use of space!  

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Two.  Learn how to ‘put up’ food – canning, food dehydrating and other techniques are increasingly easy with modern gadgets designed to preserve food.  It needs a minimal effort – but on a kitchen counter you can dry enough herbs for a year ; you can make real powdered and flaked pepper, garlic and onion.  

Three.  Next survival food storage  secret is if you freeze food, be sure you’ve a means to keep it going in an emergency.  If the electricity goes off you don’t want to lose a year’s supply of food!  Have a generator and fuel, get a propane refrigerator, have some method of keeping that food cold.  Putting food aside is only part of insuring your food supply – storing it safely is the other issue.  

Four.  Be discreet.  Don’t gloat about your food supply and don’t spread the news you have half a year of food in your basement.  If you do, and there’s a crisis, you may be overrun with people who know you have plenty stocked away.  Are you then prepared to defend your food supply?  

Five.  Storage a problem?  Use areas most do not think about.  The pantry is good for many things but if you are putting up many jars of spaghetti sauce, preserves, soups and other sauces you are going to need room.  Have a protected corner of the basement up off the ground ( enough that a wet floor won’t damage the food ).  

Six.  Here is another survival food storage  secret.  Together with your food supply have a means to prepare food including water, grill and gas/wood/charcoal, and so on.  If a tempest knocks an area down for 2-3 weeks be ready to rely on your own resources for those 2-3 weeks.  Have available not only requirement items but a few luxury items also.  These might include a little candy, or cookies or something that just makes things a little more like home.  

Seven.  Don’t forget storing private hygiene items – you can make a ‘composting toilet’ from free plans onlinehaving this available with sawdust or chips, toilet paper and other survival gear can seriously increase the comfort in an emergency.  

Eight.  Do not depend on the govt helping – or on people being friendly.  A disastrous situation such as New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina showed the govt can’t handle it – folks have got to be able to depend on themselves.  Prepare and have plans in place for tornado, fire, emergency evacuation and sheltering in place ( being confined to home ).Remember a train derailment or other issues could change things quickly!Practice that escape.  You have ten minutes- what do you grab?  Hesitating can be deadlyhaving a plan can suggest survival.  

Nine.  Be ready to cook from scratch, make bread and do other talents to get thru if you had to.  If you have the food stocked up it does not do any good if you can not use it.  If you are dependent on mixes make your own mixes in Ziploc bags that seal tightly – label with a marker right on the bag with how much liquid, egg and oil to add.  In a pinch, that bag can be the bowl – simply put wet ingredients in and mix, then tip into a baking pan.  Experiment with your griddle to make things before you have got to.  

Ten.  Having the ability to hunt and fish can imply having a continuing food supply.  Having fishing gear and hunting supplies can suggest the difference between eating or not.  In the depression some spoke of having a little dog that would go through culverts and flush out rabbits while the big dog at the other end dispatched the rabbit as it ran out.  Sporting?  Perhaps notbut if it comes to eating or not, how moral will you be after not eating for 4 days?  

Get prepared now.  Work on getting things growing, on learning the talents you have to to survive.  When the general public food supply is interrupted it’ll be too late.

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