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Welcome to Homegrown Foods! Feel free to talk about anything and everything in this section. Hoping everyone has a plentiful garden this year.

Strategies for survival if society collapses. Governments are amassing seed storage areas in case of economic disaster. Could you feed your family from your garden if you *had* to?

Do you have a plan? Where could you go if a disaster struck and you where forced to leave your home? Could you rely on the government for help or do you have preparations in place?

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Choosing seeds for your gardens which produce the desired results. Heritage Brand or Genetically Altered seeds. What seeds and plants do well in your climate?

Organic gardening and farming is the best way to produce pesticide free fruits and vegetables. 100% organic is hard to achieve for large operations but easy for the home gardener.

Plants "with leaves, seeds, or flowers used for flavoring, food, medicine, or perfume" or parts of "such a plant as used in cooking. Culinary herbs, Medicinal herbs and Sacred herbs.

If it is Insects, Rabbits, Deer, Raccoon or the neighbors cats and dogs invading your crops there has to be a way of keeping them out. Do you use sprays, fences etc...

To make plants grow faster, what you need to do is supply the elements that the plants need in readily available forms. That is the goal of fertilizer.

Growing a garden of outdoor plants in containers, typically on a rooftop or a confined city area.

Greenhouses protect crops from too much heat or cold and help to keep out pests. Light and temperature control allows greenhouses to turn inarable land into arable land, thereby improving food production in marginal environments.

Raised bed gardening is a form of gardening in which the soil is formed in wide beds, which can be of any length or shape. The vegetable plants are spaced in geometric patterns.

Plant early Spring and grow late into the Fall. In agriculture and gardening , a cold frame is a transparent roofed enclosure extending a growing season by manipulating the microclimate.

Growing plants using mineral nutrient solutions, in water, without soil. Terrestrial plants may be grown with their roots in the mineral nutrient solution only or in an inert medium, such as perlite, gravel, mineral wool, or coconut husk.