Grow your own groceries DVD set- Marjory Wildcraft

[Lowdown3]

Available at www.growyourowngroceries.com

This is a 2 DVD set that also includes a bonus resource CD.

Met Marjory at the Life changes, be ready! Preparedness expo down in Florida. She's a very knowledgeable person.

Her DVD set is great. She talks about, shows and demonstrates how to setup and use the most important (in my opinion) ways to start producing some of your own food.

More so than "store seeds and garden when you need to" type of crap that a lot of books and misc. tell you, Marjory shows you how.

What I liked most was that she was willing to share her FAILURES and how to do things better. I do that a lot with things I talk about myself and I've been told by many that it helps them from making the same mistakes.

As Marjory tells of some of their mistakes we were nodding our heads going "yep, we failed on that also." She raises food in a fairly inhospitable area and proves that it can be done.

There are some great formulas for calculating rain fall for rainwater harvesting that I found particularly useful.

The set covers: water, garden, rabbits, home butchering, poultry, dogs and predator protection, perennials, orchards, food forests and edible landscaping and other essentials. These are just the overview headings. You'll find about 4 hours of useful info in the DVD and the bonus resource CD is very helpful also.

The one thing that might not set well with just a few people- she's in to some Eastern religion. When she butchers the rabbit she hums for just a few seconds and does something with a pinch of herbs or something. I didn't understand and she doesn't explain it nor try to tell you all about it, etc. Hit fast forward till the rabbit is dead and on the table if your so inclined, but don't let that minute of the DVD ruin you on all the good info that's there.

All in all an excellent set and very worthwhile.

Robert Henry

[protus]

on the rabbit. saw some hunters on tv do that to a deer they shot in Bavaria. looked like a spruce or twig of rosemary they placed in the deers mouth and said some words??then tried to explain it to the american hunters....kind of a respect thing for the animal from what i could gather.

thanks for the heads up on the resource...our garden this fall is not producing as well this year. may need to check it out.
thanks for the review!

[610Alpha]

I had purchased this back in 2011 and liked a lot of the material...On her recommendation I bought a book from John Jeavons...she showed some of the contour stuff that is used in Permaculture.

What I am learning about Permaculture is really interesting. Wood Core beds (Hugelkultur), swales, paddock shift for animals, and on and on. Function stacking of systems. Permaculture ties right in with Survivalism. I posted some vids about Geoff Lawton and what he has done in Australia with permaculture. Sepp Holzer has done a lot in Austria with it and Paul Wheaton is starting up in Montana. There are tons of others that are setting up Permaculture farms throughout the world. The more I have learned about it the more I have come to realize it is a part of survivalism. Once a system matures its very hands off from my understanding specifically the food forest part of it zone 4 & 5 I think is what it is called.

My journey into survivalism has been a continuous evolution of learning for me.

[justanothergunnut]

610 im right there with you. Previously I had thought that perma culture was just some hippie tree hugger save the earth garbage. Then after looking into it more I found out just how wrong I was. Especially in areas of limited rain fall. A well planned system would sure take the stress off the water systems around the retreat.

[610Alpha]

610 im right there with you. Previously I had thought that perma culture was just some hippie tree hugger save the earth garbage. Then after looking into it more I found out just how wrong I was.

There is a bit of the hippie tree hugger element involved in permaculture but it is getting more mainstream and less hippie. The poly-culture aspect where they plant things like comfrey to fix nitrogen into the soil next to plants/trees that need nitrogen is great. Having a multitude of varieties instead of monocroping to reduce pests and increase fertility. Wood core beds (hugelkultur), wood pile that is covered by soil completely, and in 3-5 years you won't have to water it. There is an orchard in Quebec with over 100 cultivars of apples that hasn't had organic fertilizer added to it in 5+ years.

Paddock shift for animals, cattle, chickens (http://www.richsoil.com/raising-chickens.jsp), and pigs. Tons of stuff that just is really fascinating and once you have it set up the system just produces.

I heard about this guy Masunobu Fkuoka from Japan, he was in the 95th percentile of rice production using no-till and he also got a crop of barley while the neighboring farms waited to plant again in the spring. I think he wrote a book "1 Straw Revolution".

[justanothergunnut]

this next year im planning on pulling out and replacing a portion of the apple orchard probably 10-15 trees. The orchard is in pretty bad shape and the trees are 50 years old. They still produce well but it is time to thin it and bring in some new blood. I REALLY need to do more looking into setting it up properly for permaculture and implementing it in the new portion of the grove. I just watched the video 610 thanks for posting it.