Learn how to grow your own food supply and be prepared just in case of an emergency with this essential guide by a survival skills expert.

Become more resilient in the face of global crises and prepare yourself for supply chain disruptions by learning to grow your own food. Author Sam Coffman shows you how to select and grow the most valuable crops in the least amount of space, using few or no store-bought amendments. He also shows you how to grow food quickly (in as little as five days) in an emergency situation, choose and plant perennial food plants for longer-term harvest, grow mushrooms, forage from the backyard, and store food for the long term. 

What Does it Mean to Have a “Survival Garden”?
How to Prepare Now for a Future Emergency

Part 1: Meeting Your Immediate Need for Food Chapter 1    The First 5 Days: Sprouts and Microgreens Sprouts
Microgreens
  Chapter 2     What to Grow for Harvest in the First 5 Weeks Top 12 Fast-Growing Plants Ready to Eat within 1 to 2 months
Mushrooms  
Part 2: Creating a Resilient Garden for the Long Haul

Chapter 3    Planning Crops and Irrigation for Your Survival Garden Choosing What to Grow in Your Survival Garden
Planning One or More Seasons Ahead
Water and Irrigation
  Chapter 4     Growing Methods Raised Beds vs. Growing in the Ground
DIY Raised Beds
Water-Conserving Garden Beds
Crop Rotation
Polyculture and Forest Gardening
Chapter 5     Low-Input Ways to Build Soil Fertility Composting
Cover Crops (Green Manure)
Black Soldier Fly Larvae
Animal Manure
Humanure
Chapter 6    Beat ’Em or Eat ’Em: Garden Pests Natural Repellent Methods
Insects as Food  
Part 3: Planning for a Continual Food Supply

Chapter 7    Strategies for Growing a Nonstop Harvest Succession Planting
Planting Crops for Storage
Expanding Your Growing Season
Chapter 8    Creating a Home Seed Bank Selecting Plants for Seed Storage
How to Harvest Seeds
How to Store Seeds  
Part 4: Survival Gardening Strategies for Small Spaces

Chapter 9    Quick Garden Setups for Small Spaces Straw Bales
Potting Soil Bag Gardens
Vertical Gardens
Chapter 10    Guerilla Gardening The Guerilla Gardening Movement
An Urban Food Supply
Chapter 11    Foraging for Wild Foods Where to Forage
What to Forage  
Appendix: Dealing with Hurricanes, Droughts, and Nuclear Disasters 

“As ever, Coffman delivers the goods and the science. His massively important gardening tricks truly yield, and his tips on capturing water, utilizing waste, and raising animals and insects are solid gold.”—Mykel Hawke, Special Forces veteran and survival expert

“Sam Coffman lays out a complete plan for survival gardening, for when the hammer finally drops.”—Roland Welker, 100 Day King, ALONE Season 7 Winner-History Channel

“An outstanding addition to everyone’s prepper library. This book may well turn out to be the most valuable thing you own.”—Kathy Harrison, author of Prepping 101 and Just In Case