SHTFPreparedness may collect a share of sales or other compensation from the links on this page.
Gardens are responsible for bringing those crunch fresh peas in spring, those ruby red tomatoes in the summer and those delicious round squash in the fall.
If you spend lots of time creating a wonderful gardenscape in the spring you might have even more work to do if we see a collapse in society. A big yard full of food is nothing short of a target when the people are starving and the resources stop flowing. Its a frightening thing but it can happen.
Instead, it might be worth focusing your energy on a hidden survival garden. Sure, you can still have your organized tomato growing a garden but a hidden survival garden could be the answer to your post collapse food needs.
Here are three tips on how you can start down the path of your own hidden survival garden.
Native Plants
One of the first steps in creating a hidden survival garden is to change the focus from traditional gardening plants to native edible plants. You should think less about tomatoes and more about those things that grow naturally in your area.
These native plants can be quite delicious. Things like the pawpaw in the south are hardly known but are actually a tropical fruit producing tree that makes a mango-like fruit that is delicious.
Trees and Ground Cover
On the subject of trees, you might also look higher and lower in terms of what you produce. You see, when creating a garden with permaculture in mind, you are going to want to include trees and ground covers. Things like willow trees can offer up a source of medicine and ground cover like thyme can season food or make oils for healing.
Develop New Tastes
You will make the most of your survival garden if you are willing to develop new tastes for plants you hadn’t traditionally grown or eaten. That is another cornerstone of the hidden survival garden.
