Cultivate Flavor: Growing Ancient Grains in Your Garden

by Grain | May 30, 2025 | Whole grains

Choosing the Right Ancient Grains Understanding Ancient Grains When I first started my journey into cultivating ancient grains, I found myself diving deep into their history and nutritional benefits. Ancient grains, such as quinoa, spelt, and farro, are not only tasty...

The Self-sustaining Plan.

by Grain | Aug 22, 2011 | Emergency Essentials, food crisis, Food Supply, Gardening, Lifestyle, Preparation

What exactly does that look like? Honestly, if anyone tries to tell you how you HAVE to do it, be a tad bit skeptical. In my opinion there is no “one-size-fits-all” plan to being more self sustaining. Sure, some of the components are quit similar and many...

Encouraging preparedness…

by Grain | Apr 13, 2011 | Gardening, Lifestyle, Preparation, Preparation Action Step

Just when we’re feeling overwhelmed with what it is we feel called to do (share preparedness living and encourage others) and we’re struggling with feeling like square pegs in the round holes of society – it’s just like our Father to send an...

Preparation and Food Storage: Home-canning

by Dnurkle | Mar 7, 2011 | Epidemics, food crisis, Food Supply, Long Term Storage, Preparation, Survival, Uncategorized

Canned goods are not just in the commercially canned containers. Not too far in the distant past, most of the preserved foods had little to do with added preservatives, but with canning. The first canning process was developed as a French military discovery by Nicolas...

Preparation Step 11: Food (part one) Grow it!

by Dnurkle | Jun 23, 2009 | Preparation

Before the days of Piggly Wiggly (yes, they were the first self service grocery store), much of the population grew the majority of their own foods. Grapes were not imported from Chili and a tomato was not imported from Mexico. Food grew in back yards or at least in...