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. 

Introduction: What Does It Mean to Have a “Survival Garden”?

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 Crops 
   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
   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
   Make Compost
   Keep Black Soldier Fly Larvae
   Plant Cover Crops
   Raise Animals for Food and Manure
   Make Humanure

Chapter 6  Beat ’Em or Eat ’Em: Garden Pests
   Natural Repellents
   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 Store Seeds
 
Part 4: Survival Gardening Strategies for Small and Urban Spaces

Chapter 9  Quick Garden Setups for Small Spaces
   Straw Bales
   Bag Gardens
   Vertical Gardens

Chapter 10  Guerilla Gardening and Foraging
   The Guerilla Gardening Movement
   Where to Forage
   What to Forage

Appendix: Dealing with Hurricanes, Droughts, and Nuclear Disasters 
Index

“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

“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

“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