I recently read an article that said that food prices would increase 400% between 2020 and 2030.
Holy cow!
This can seem overwhelming and frightening.
Heck, my first thought is, “Crap, I am not prepared for this! I need to do more.“
Truth is, I have been slowly preparing for something like this for quite awhile.
So I can take a deep breath and know that I am doing the best I can and everything is going to be okay.
Most of what I grow are perennial plants that don’t require a lot of input from me. I plant once and I am done.
In this VIDEO, I talk about 5 plants that you can start with that are easy to grow, propagate and are edible. Some of the plants that I talk about might suprise you.
I talk about:
Hostas: The whole plant is edible. The best time of year to eat hostas is the early spring. Selecting shoots that are young tender will make the taste more delicious. The leaves of hostas can be treated like a leafy green or lettuce in recipes.
Day Lilly: DO NOT mix this up with Easter Lilly, which you should only eat if you want to find out if the Resurrection is real. As long as you have correctly identified a plant as a Hemerocallis, you can eat it. The tubers, young shoots, flower buds, and flowers of the common day lilly are all edible.
Fig: Did you know that the leaves of figs are edible? Well, they are. You can make them into a tea, use them as a wrap, roast them into chips, add them to soup. So while you’re waiting for the fruit to ripen, you can use the leaves.
Strawberry: Strawberry plants will regrow up from their roots every year, provided that the roots are healthy and survive winter. Most strawberry plants are cold-hardy over the winter down to Zone 5
Sweet Potato: Sweet potato vine grows as a perennial in U.S. Department of Agriculture plant hardiness zones 9 through 11. If you are in a zone above 9, it doesn’t mean that you can’t grow them, just treat them like an annual.
As you can see, there is more than meets the eye in your backyard garden. Your probably closer than you think to have foods that will sustain you in a crisis.
Would you like to help your family, especially your kids, learn about homesteading and food survival? The next Junior Farmer Class will be held at the end of October. You can join the wait list HERE and get exclusive access to when registration goes out.
