November 5, 2024

VIDEO: PANDEMIC How Growing Your Own Food Can Help


In this video, I give my opinion on how growing your own food such as fruit and vegetables in the backyard or even a balcony can help in a pandemic.

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24 thoughts on “VIDEO: PANDEMIC How Growing Your Own Food Can Help

  1. why is he saying "IF a pandemic" clearly COVID was already here, Australia started lockdown 18 March, less than a month after this….I know he probably filmed it a while before publishing but are you ganna aknowledge the elephant in room

  2. I do have lots of dehydrated/freeze-dried foods saved, but we also have a garden with all types of fresh foods and we keep adding to it. Our final goal is to also have a milk cow, some goats, a hog or two, chickens, and rabbits to round out our food. Do you have any experience with growing wheat for flour? My climate is much like yours hot and humid most the year with mild winters. So I love seeing what does well with your garden.

  3. I would absolutely love a video on how you go about prepping foods for different storage methods. I am a newer gardener and we have tomatoes stored in freezer each year and some green beans, but do not have much clue on the other ways to preserve or what that takes. Thanks

  4. I am one of those that started a garden when the shelves were attacked.
    Now, i am one of those able to provide to those that need.
    My husband hunts/fishes and I tend the garden.
    So now we are a more suffiecent community as a whole by exchanging ideas and seeds.

  5. Were a millennial family (21 and 25) with a toddler living in a city and as soon as this pandemic happened we stocked up on flour rice sugar and salt. 4 months later and we've successfully and unsuccessfully grown and harvested different things in a backyard garden. Were moving to a larger space now, starting a larger garden and even have laying hens. This pandemic has really kicked up my desire to become a little more self sufficient! Love your content as always.

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