Food Security: The Best Crops to Grow in an Edible Garden
A practical, self-sufficient survival garden is one of the best friends you can have if and when the next crisis hits hard – where you can still make the “fresh is best” lifestyle a reality even in the event of a collapse.
Container gardens, grow bag gardens, hydroponic kits, pots on a windowsill and window boxes, vertical gardens and many other innovative and sustainable growing techniques are already being used by city dwellers who simply want to grow their food and get the healthiest, highest-quality crops possible because they know exactly how it was grown. They save plenty of money as well. (Related: Survival tips: How to keep food on the table during a GLOBAL FAMINE.)
Here are different types of crops you can consider for your edible garden for self-sufficiency. These plants can be conveniently grown in small areas, side-by-side or among other crops to save space. Some of these don’t require much sunlight to grow and some can be harvested, pickled or preserved or simply dumped into a root cellar or dark closet without processing and left there until you need them. (Related: Prepper pharmacy: 17 Medicinal plants you can grow indoors year-round.)
Potatoes
The potato provides fiber, 45 percent of your daily vitamin C, vitamin B6 and potassium.
You can grow potatoes in growing boxes, pots and containers that are at least 14 inches deep and ideally with a 10-15 gallon capacity that you can place on your balcony or patio. Avoid planting potatoes in containers that are taller than three feet because it will be difficult to water them evenly.
A good storage space that is cool and dry is all you need when you harvest your potatoes – first early potatoes (60-105 days), second early potatoes (95-120 days) and main crop potatoes (125-140 days). Aside from the time they take to mature, main crop potatoes can be stored much longer. No canning, dehydrating or freezing is necessary – only a good storage space.
If you don’t have good storage, learn how to pressure can potatoes for long-term food storage – and it’s not as scary or as intimidating as you think.
Lettuce and other salad greens
Many gardeners will tell you that lettuce is one of the easiest vegetables to grow if you’re starting a balcony or patio garden – taking up little space and you can even grow it among flowers.
Commonly served as the base of green salads (either alone or with other greens, vegetables, meats and cheeses), soups and vegetable curries, lettuce is an excellent source of vitamins A, B9 (folate), C, and K and minerals, such as calcium, magnesium, phosphorous and potassium.
The best lettuce varieties can easily be grown in containers. Lettuce varieties, whose leaves are darker in color, contain more vitamins and minerals than the paler color varieties.
Beans and peas
Legumes like beans and peas are protein foods and two of the easiest starter vegetables to plant and grow with your kids – weather-hardy and fun to pick as their yields are usually pretty substantial.
Garden peas, snap peas and snow peas grow well in containers and can be easily trained to grow vertically once they are a few inches tall and climb trellises in a small balcony garden. Pole beans will also climb up trellises or fences to take advantage of vertical space On the other hand. bush beans tend to be smaller and don’t need trellising.
Watch the following video about “reconnecting with nature through edible gardening and ways to optimize your garden” with Matt Landman.
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15 Perennial herbs to grow in your survival garden.
Home gardening 101: Make the most out of your yard by planning an edible landscape.
Survival gardening: Why you should grow these 7 edible perennials.
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If Americans Just Ate Healthy & Exercised, Then Politicians Wouldn’t be Clamoring About $1,000 Weight Loss Drugs “Bankrupting” Medicare
If the food-industrial complex had not flooded the nation’s food supply with junk, if the government actively encouraged healthy lifestyles, and if efforts to address the obesity crisis didn’t rely solely on ‘miracle weight loss drugs’ pushed by the pharmaceutical industry, then maybe – just maybe – politicians wouldn’t be clamoring on Capitol Hill, or the elderly (somewhat senile) president in the White House, about out-of-control drug prices.
But since common sense has vanished in America and folks have given up on Peloton bikes for $1,000 monthly injections of “Wegovy,” the blockbuster weight loss treatment (also a diabetes drug called “Ozempic”) from Novo Nordisk, then socialists, such as Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), wouldn’t be reviving the discussion about high drug prices.
“Today, a new Yale study found that Ozempic costs less than $5 a month to manufacture. And yet, Novo Nordisk charges Americans nearly $1,000 a month for this drug, while the same exact product can be purchased for just $155 a month in Canada and just $59 in Germany,” Sanders said in a statement.
Sanders cited the study “Estimated Sustainable Cost-Based Prices for Diabetes Medicines,” conducted by researchers at Yale University, King’s College Hospital in London, and the nonprofit Doctors Without Borders. It was published in the journal JAMA Network Open on Wednesday.
In the study, researchers found Novo could produce the blockbuster drug for 89 cents to $4.73 per month, as opposed to the monthly retail price of about $1,349 for Wegovy, a semaglutide injection.
“As Chairman of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP), I am calling on Novo Nordisk to lower the list price of Ozempic — and the related drug Wegovy — in America to no more than what they charge for this drug in Canada,” Sander said.
He added: “The American people are sick and tired of paying, by far, the highest prices in the world for prescription drugs while the pharmaceutical industry enjoys huge profits.”
Sanders warned: “This outrageously high price has the potential to bankrupt Medicare, the American people and our entire health care system.
There is no rational reason, other than greed, for Novo Nordisk to charge Americans nearly $1,000 a month for Ozempic when it costs less than $5 to manufacture it and can be purchased in Germany for just $59. Novo must substantially reduce the price of Ozempic in the US now. pic.twitter.com/rdyF5MCQbX
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) March 27, 2024
Analysts have forecasted that the market for weight-loss drugs could reach at least $100 billion a year by the end of the decade, with the production of Wegovy and Eli Lilly’s Zepbound and Mounjaro. And a decent chunk of the weight loss drugs will likely be covered by Medicare.
“The profit margin is immense” on weight loss drugs like Ozempic, Melissa Barber, a public health economist at Yale and the study’s lead author, told Bloomberg. She added, “There should be a conversation in policy about what is a fair price.”
Rounding back to the intro of this note, Americans should eat better and exercise. Then, we don’t have to rely on the pharmaceutical-industrial complex. What’s odd is the government does not promote ‘common sense’ healthy lifestyles. Why is that? Are their donors pharma companies?
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