In my most recent video entitled “Top 8 survival skills you can easily learn now”, several people pointed out in the comment section that gardening is a waste of time as a prepper. In this video I share my thoughts on why gardening will be a very valuable skill in a true, grid down scenario.
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I had heard that unfortunately your typical prepper is someone who has a gun and ammo with some fancy equipment and maybe some target practice. But they know very little about emergency first aid, food storage, gardening or water procurement. So in the event of a societal collapse, you would have a bunch of guys who are armed to the teeth but have no food or water!
Gardening is very important for survival. You only start gardening after 90% die off or a few months after the grid goes down. Then there is no threat. Stock 3 months of food and gear in 2 locations in case you loose one site to a threat at anytime.
Oh Yah, you sit there on your ass aboard a camo ATV and talk about survival prepping like some awakened wise man. WHAT A FRIGGING JOKE! You have no idea about what is coming and how having a bugout location all neatly ready for the SHTF day isn't going to save you. Thumbs down.
Here's what is coming. World WAR. EMP blasts. Chemical and biological weapon usage. Scorched Earth Policies will be implemented. City infernos and complete destruction. Anything electrical will not work. Gun and ammo confiscation. Privately owned storages of food and medicines confiscated. No running water. No gas. No sewage. Public roads and highways closed and bridges destroyed. This includes rail systems too. Most airports closed and flying severely restricted. Mass executions of looters, thugs, and marauding hordes. Conscription of males and females into federal forces at first – then guerilla armies will form to fight invaders and the government. ALL food warehouses will be immediately seized by the government. All retail food stores will close immediately. So will pharmacies and banks. Money will have no value. If you have gold and silver – you will be asked where you got it and how much more do you have. Sex slavery of females and minors. Treacherous and deadly black marketeering. Warlords. Private property seized. Kangaroo courts. Famine. Plagues. Tuberculosis, Diseases, Out of control Vermin and insects. Rabies. Disentary. Boils. Burns. Snake bites, Rotting Corpses and insane people everywhere. When the USA is destroyed from ocean shore to ocean shore – nothing will be left. Then you plan on Nuclear Winter – possible Super Volcanism – polluted freshwater lakes – dead soil – dead trees – and there will be special forces tasked with nothing else but track down and locate all "prepper communities and individuals and to take them out" and the military is training for that. When SHTF – it will be TEOTWAWKI. There are no plans or contingency preparations for that! It will literally be KYAGB time. So, pass that pot of homemade porky beans, gimme a big fat slice of that Bacon grease fried-Corn Bread, fill up my cup with hot boiled coffee with a double bump of Jack in it, let me sit between the Harmonica player – Fiddler, and Banjoman – and let's sing old-time religion songs like there isn't going to be a tomorrow – cause there ain't.
Gardening is not a waist of time. If the stores don't have food you need to get food somewhere. If I can grow my greens, my starches my fruits. That's a lot. Personally I grow pereniel onions, raspberries, rhubarb, asparagus. Those are things I never need to plant again.
…during the great depression my great grandparents and grandparents (as kids) did not even notice any shortages due to the fact they had a ranch in Montana and farmed, they were completely self sufficient and completely off grid, no electricity whatsoever…amazing what one can do with proper skill sets…
Like this.
Then start making all your own dehydrated and dry canning or vakpaking your (grocery store) meats and vegs/herbs/spices now … then you have the ability to overcome the SHTF mountain that is coming, and be able to live … and have some seeds that you can grow in a lesser demanded timeframe – when you really need to grow foods.
There's a terrible truth most people don't want to accept about grid-down gardening: it's not sufficient for most people, or efficient in the slightest. Most grid-down scenarios people prepare for don't consider how much land you actually need to feed a family, or how much effort it takes. Let alone the fact that most preppers don't have plows or beasts of burden, then buy an acre of land and expect it to feed their entire family. You need the right tools and resources to work the land, and without them a garden's only adequate for supplementing your diet and providing herbal remedies.
I'm a mild prepper, because I'm 75 and my wife and I have medical problems and need meds. As the Patriot nurse says, "All the old people will die quickly." She is correct in that we will need meds, but we can hang on for about a year. For us, gardening is no good. Stored dehydrated food is the choice of old people that what to live a little longer.
Gardening is important but learning how to preserve the food you grow is just as important.
I really like your way of thinking about this. It’s about the knowledge to be self reliant no matter what, not just about what you can stock pile. I like to be able to live as much as I can without relying on anyone but myself.
i think its important to realize that if the shtf everyone would try to garden, even if they didnt know what to do. It would be better to try to grow food than starve.. I have been teaching anyone in my neighborhood that is interested in my garden. so that I know they can grow the basics.
Absolutely amazing place and great advice… we just recently started some vlogs on prepping/ gardening but on a much smaller scale than you have…. im sure there would be many volunteers that would help you there … to spend time in that environment would be a dream.
Not everyone that has a garden is a prepper. I think how you setup everything on your property and in your house is what will either make you a target or not. There's lots of fantasies people have about survival that are not true in how things really happen.
You may wish to check out if you have not already books on Horticulture. There are many good books on the subject.
looking at the world, a fast moving mini ice age would be merciful. truly
Gardening has its drawbacks, but it is a good skill to have in your arsenal, especially indoor or other “stealth” gardening. With regard to other people taking it, I think people would be more likely to take supplies or food stores in a real survival situation, rather than than your beet plants, etc. Also, you can’t live on stored foods forever.
Grow with your neighbors and diversify. We have citrus trees, one neighbor has figs, another has apples and pears. We all share.
you need a garden for food with out gardeners and farmers you would start to death. I grow a garden every year
Gardening skills will be super important at some stage in the future and it takes time to get to know each crop you are growing. They all have their own personalities. Learning these skills now when times are relatively good is a smart choice as it takes time.
The people that make the comment gardens are a waste of time are the same people that wonder what public restroom they should use.
The garden itself is almost incidental. The knowledge and skill set that comes with being able to successfully grow ones own food and medicine is invaluable.
At 8:33, you say that the previous owner neglected the property pretty severely. That statement is so foreign to me because how could someone neglect nature? If he did nothing, then he was preserving the natural condition of the property. That is not neglect. Just because he "neglected" to do what you wanted done with the property, means it's because it was his to do so.
Good morning and be safe to you and your family. Thank you for a very thoughtful video about why we need to raise our own food.
What state are you in? Looks like a nice piece of land.
Gardening is OK. Farming is not. Bigger land bigger target and you get spread thin.
Gardening is a valuable skill in so many ways as you can grow food to eat, herbs for food and medicinal purposes and it's exercise too.
If you cant hunt and garden you are not a prepper.
people suggest owning property for gardening like it's actually possible to own land in the US. You only boundaries you own are the ones you enforce. period.
I would say the value of food production over foraging, scavenging or marauding is the boost in morale and the kind of people you will draw to you socially. A mob or a gang can steal but they will recruit from the impatient and unintelligent