Welcome to Our Permaculture Homestead
After 13 years of researching “doomsday preppers” and homesteading for my apocalyptic novel, We Can Save Us All, I realized I had none of the survival skills I’d been writing about. I wanted to change that. Without becoming a total weirdo.
We began preparing our home to survive a grid-down situation, and dove into homesteading projects to inform our new lifestyle.
Here’s what happened next…
Permaculture Homesteading How-Tos and Articles
How to Grow Tomatoes (From Seed and From Starts)
Tomatoes ended up being one of our most successful crops during our first growing season (2020). We spent the early months of the pandemic building raised beds, filling them with our hugelkultur/soil mix, and getting Spring plants in the ground, so with that late start we ended up buying some seedlings or “starts” from some local garden stores. You can plant seeds (see below) but the main reason to use starts is TIME.
