Permaculture Smackdown 31: Growing Family Food - Part 2
By paul@richsoil.com (paul wheaton)
TL;DR: To ensure food security for your family, focus on calorie-dense staples, efficient growing methods, and thoughtful crop selection beyond just popular vegetables.
- Prioritize calorie-dense crops for sustenance.
- Integrate livestock for symbiotic food production.
- Utilize succession planting for continuous harvests.
- Consider corn's value as a versatile staple.
- Diversify crops to mitigate risks.
Why it matters: Understanding how to efficiently grow and store calorie-dense foods is crucial for family self-sufficiency and resilience against food supply disruptions.
Do this next: Research high-yield, calorie-dense crops suitable for your local climate and soil conditions.
Recommended for: Anyone seriously committed to increasing their family's food self-sufficiency through permaculture principles, including gardeners, homesteaders, and those interested in resilient food systems.
Paul, Liv, Beau and Samantha continue discussing how to grow enough food to feed a family, with a lot of the discussion this time being about corn, or lack thereof, in the discussion thus far, what with it being calorie dense, having a long shelf-life, and being good fodder for cattle Support the podcast on […]