Grow Your Own Groceries

Turn Your Backyard Into a Self Sufficient Food Production Machine! If you recognize that world is changing radically and that being able to grow your own food is critical to your long-term survival, then you are in the right place. Watching this DVD is the fastest way to learn how to grow food in your backyard or small farm. This video will save you many years of effort; the video is loaded with quality information to get you up to speed as quickly as possible. Not long ago humans fed themselves, provided for their on needs and were largely self sufficient. They knew how to feed themselves, how to take care of animals, what to plant and what to do when something went wrong. Our new DVD, “Food Production Systems for a Backyard or Small Farm” is your guide to recapturing that lost knowledge. This DVD is special because it was created by a family that has actually done it, the things we will teach you to do and more importantly not to do we have already done. We will reveal to you our successes and our failures, some of them very costly to the tune of thousands of dollars so you never have to make them yourself.

Section 1: Overview
Why we began this journey
Soil types and climate of the site

Section 2: Water
Water sources and qualities of water
How much water do you need?
Rain water collection systems
Wells
Ponds

Section 3: Garden
Garden location
Size – how much area do you need?
Bio-Intensive gardening overview
Fertility
Watering the garden
Wind
Sun and shade
Bugs and insects
Vegetable varieties and seed saving
Getting started

Section 4: Rabbits
Housing and protection
Watering systems
Feeding
Breeds
Reproduction
Other resources

Section 5: Home Butchering
Tools
Butchering a rabbit
Tanning hides
Butchering poultry
Other animals

Section 6: Poultry
Chicken breeds
Feeding
Watering
Housing and egg collecting
Predator protection
Getting started

Section 7: Dogs
Why dogs?
Dog training
Feeding
Housing
Size and breeds
Final thoughts

Section 8: Perennials: Orchards, Food Forests, and Edible Landscaping
Locations and micro climates
Watering
Fertility
Using geese for fertility
Tree varieties
Planting and care of trees
Getting started

Section 9: Other Essentials
Calorie crops
Solar food dehydration
Homemade herbicide test
Fire ants
Injuries
Hog panels and tee posts
Water levels and mapping contours
Rocket stove and hay box cooker
In The Wake; a manual for outliving civilization
Propagating leuceana