What's growin'?

A garden is a great supplement to your food storage. You can eat out of it all summer, lowering your grocery budget, and if you have an excess you can store your produce to eat all winter long. Check out our gardening series for more information on planting a garden.


Here's my garden. Yes, it's in need of some TLC as well as some heavy weeding. But thanks to all the rain we've been having in the South, its growing really well!




I don't have enough room in my garden (we ripped out part of our lawn to have a garden) for my herbs, so I plant those in pots next to my backdoor (easy access when cooking). I haven't planted them yet, but I had a few volunteers from last year. That's what Mountain Man calls plants that come back on their own. I'm not sure how the oregano jumped pots---it was only in one last year.

I also have chives and thyme in my front yard in a small flower bed. They both give beautiful flowers, and can be used as ornamental as well as useful.

The big purple ones are chives in flower and the smaller ones in the background are thyme in flower. It's purdy!

Here's Hannah's square foot garden

It's so neat and tidy...it really puts mine to shame. Like, my garden is crying: "come weed me! please come weed me!"

What's growing in your gardens this summer?

It's Tuesday!

Every Tuesday, we post specific items you should gather in order to supplement your emergency car kit, your 3-month supply, and your longer-term storage. If you are new to our blog, don't worry! You won't be left behind. Just start up where we are and follow along. You will eventually have everything completed! Once the car kit is complete, we'll be putting together 72-hour kits again (week by week). Once those are done, we'll gather the car kits again. So don't worry, just jump on in and join us where we are today!

We're finishing up the car kits this week! Add a pocket knife to your box, as well as $5-20 cash, whatever you feel comfortable with. You should have a good mix of coins and small bills. CONGRATS if you've been following along with us and have the whole kit done. Next week we'll do a "catch-up" week, so that you can get anything you may have missed, and then we'll be starting the 72-hour kits again after that.

How is your three month supply going? Remember, it's very doable if you make a plan!

How's your longer-term storage coming? I was able to get a bunch of white sugar and flour over the weekend, so that was good. I'm also going to try to get some pasta on sale this week and stock up on that. A lot of it will be stored with my three-month supply, but I'll hopefully have enough extra that it will spill over into my longer-term storage as well.

Also.... our one-year anniversary of the blog is coming up in a few weeks, and we're planning some GREAT giveaways from some awesome companies. We're so excited!

Motivational Monday

Here are a few articles to peruse if you have the inclination.

Family Preparedness

The Security of a Food Supply

If Ye Are Prepared Ye Shall Not Fear