🌱 Growing Food
Stop chasing food every day and turn a patch of ground into food that comes back every year.
Learn your seasons
Watch a full year — frost, rain, heat — so you know when to plant and when to store.
Choose ground and dig garden beds
Find a sunny patch with dark crumbly soil and water close by, then loosen it deep so roots and rain can get in.
Make compost
Pile green stuff, brown stuff, and dung, keep it damp, and let it rot into rich dark food for the soil.
Plant seeds and keep them alive
Sow at the right depth and time, keep weeds out and water in, and guard young plants from hungry animals.
Save seeds for next year
Let your best plants ripen fully, dry their seeds well, and store them cool and dry — that jar is next year's food.
Grow a patch of grain
Sow wheat, barley, or corn thick in a guarded field — the food that stores all through winter.
Harvest, thresh, and store grain
Cut the ripe grain, beat the seeds free, let the wind blow the husks away, and store it dry away from mice.
Grind flour and bake bread
Rub grain between two stones into flour, catch wild yeast in a jar, and bake your first real loaf in the clay oven.