[OKC] Food in Uncertain Times: How to Grow and Store the 5 Crops you Need to Survive

[Shauna Struby]

Food in Uncertain Times: How to Grow and Store the 5 Crops You Need to
Survive            

 

Having food resiliency is as much about learning how to store and use food
properly as it is about growing it. The key is learning interdependence not
independence.        

 

October 21, 2010  

By Makenna Goodman

Alternet.org

 

 

In an age of erratic weather and instability, it's increasingly important to
develop a greater self-reliance when it comes to food. And because of this,
more than ever before, farmers are developing new gardening techniques that
help achieve a greater resilience. Longtime gardener and scientist Carol
Deppe, in her new book The Resilient Gardener: Food Production and
Self-Reliance in Uncertain Times, offers a wealth of unique and expansive
information for serious home gardeners and farmers who are seeking
optimistic advice. Do you want to know more about the five crops you need to
survive through the next thousand years? What about tips for drying summer
squash, for your winter soups? Ever thought of keeping ducks on your land?
Read on.

 

Full article here :::
http://www.alternet.org/story/148562/food_in_uncertain_times%3A_how_to_grow_
and_store_the_5_crops_you_need_to_survive 

 

Shauna Lawyer Struby

imagine, innovate, collaborate, transition

Co-chair, Transition OKC

Past-president, Sustainable OKC

www.goinglocalokc.org <http://www.goinglocalokc.org/> 

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Fresh Greens blog <http://freshgreens.typepad.com/> 

 

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