#gardening to survive

[cygnetbrown]

Should I Store Food?

A hundred years, even as recently as fifty years, ago, families were storing food to last them through the winter. For centuries, housewives put up food that they grew in gardens that they planted, tended, and harvested. They would raise animals and animal feed to harvest for meat. They milked cows or goats for milk to use to make cottage cheese, sour cream, and various types of cheeses. For…

[cybernetixxx]

[knife-dad]

Here are my garden residents that are named after Queen's Thief characters! The tall one is Irene, followed by Sophos in the middle, and lastly Eugenides II on the right.

I love them very much <3

[granny-core]

I'm so sad my Apricot Meilove rose died, it was such a stunner!

[blue-eli]

Skuld in quantum design :)

[refugedepot]

Before you run those dandelions over with the lawn mower or douse them with weed killer, check this video out. Dandelions have various benefits, edible leaves rich in vitamins, diuretic properties, potential antioxidant effects, and use in herbal medicine. via @bodylovebytal

[16th-of-a-twigg]

I like to think that as a personal project and accompany type of therapy, Peeta starts to plant stuff in Victors Village. Into the bombed soil around 12.

Just the thought of how calming itd be for him to spend his time and energy building, caring and seeing growth in a place that has been destroyed.

That perhaps Katniss eventually sees the impact it is having on Peeta but also the town to see some beauty growing. Rebirth.

That Katniss helps in their personal garden at times. It turns into a dual project. It changes and ages with them. It reflects their moods and mental states. The clippings brought inside the house and placed in vases to bring some nature inside to Katniss on the tough days when she can't seem to get outside of her own head let alone her bed.

Pressing flowers in books for Peeta to use for creative projects. Edible flowers which can be shared with the town on baked goods.

They plant a new, specific tree for each child of theirs that is born. It grows with the child.

Mellark and Everdeen, strive for an ever-green garden.

[country-corner]

Limited Space Back Yard

Whether you live in an old neighborhood that has become crowded with people dividing their lots to put in more homes or a newly constructed neighborhood built with cookie cutter homes on postage stamp lots, you can still put in a garden within that limited space.

You could even go with a vertical garden if the yard is really, really small.

[cygnetbrown]

We Were All Preppers

When I saw the above photograph and the quote that came with it, I knew that I had to write about this. I have followed the prepping ideology for many years and I often see how commercialized the movement has become. podcasts, videos, blogs, and books all seem to try to scare us into believing that SHTF could happen at any moment and that we need to hurry and purchase what they have to sell…

[cybernetixxx]

[coridallasmultipass]

I fucking love snapdragons, man! Natures funky little puppets.

This has been a snapdragon appreciation post.

[coruscqte]

❝ Don't call me when you're lonely, I won't call you right back Beg me when you're broken, knowing I won't fight back 'Cause when you say you love me, you don't mean it like that I sacrifice my heart for this Didn't I, didn't I, didn't I make it obvious? ❞

-- OBVIOUS (fordo)

singing THE breakup song on your discography at an audition for a stupid popular show and THEN singing it to said ex in the audience is crazy work. good thing that rio's just on the other side of normal (definitely). totally a survivor of the teenage codependent relationship.

@infamous-if

[allthingssoulful-garden]

To pick these I have to crouch down under the very thorny hardy lemon or bend over the tayberry-lined garden fence. Either way, it's a painful job. Didn't think it through when I planted them and it shows.

[celestialecho]

🌦️&💤

on childhood best friends.

via ill give you the sun by jandy nelson // via the art of ponyo by hayao miyazaki // jack johnson, we're going to be friends // a message from my childhood best friend // mitski, i guess // via a little life by hanya yanagihara // adventure time, island song (come along with me) // via unknown // abba, chiquitita

[athos-outdoor-prospector]

my little wild garden! 😁👌