Grow and Store Food
Food gardens, what to plant each month, and keeping food and water on hand.
A pot of greens on the patio, a raised bed in the yard, a shelf of food you actually eat: each one means fewer trips to the store on the days the store is the last place you want to be.
The guides here start small and stay practical. Grow a few easy, high-yield foods, plant on the Southern California calendar, and keep water and pantry food rotating so nothing goes to waste.
In this topic: 8 one-page guides · 1 article · 1 gear review
Grow guide
Twelve months of vegetables for the coast and inland valleys, from the San Diego County Master Gardener planting guide.
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Grow guide
Saturday for sun, soil and pots. Sunday for planting. After that, a watering habit.
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Skills guide
Gas stove with an electric igniter, electric microwave, no yard, no fireplace. Here is how you eat.
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Skills guide
A gallon per person per day, in an apartment with no garage and no spare closet.
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Supplies guide
Cheap, useful every week, and the first things to run out when stores close.
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Skills guide
Filtering clears it. Disinfecting makes it safe. You usually need both.
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Skills guide
A clarity filter from things already in the house, and the one step people skip.
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Kit guide
Everything a household needs for three days with no help, and nothing it does not.
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Water · $
The first thing to buy. One jug is about two days for a family of four, it stacks in a garage, and it costs less than a takeout dinner.
