| Could you and your family survive off the grid if a | | | | easily. For a crisis garden, you want to get as much |
| disaster struck? If the grocery stores closed, and the | | | | nutrition as you can in as little space as you can. A |
| power went out, would you have enough food to | | | | good selection of seeds for your survival seed kit are |
| get by? You would, if you had a survival seed kit. | | | | onions, cabbage, carrots, tomatoes, radish, peas, corn |
| Keeping a seed bank at home and starting an organic | | | | and beans. |
| survival garden is one way of ensuring that you can | | | | Storing The Seeds. |
| control your own food supply, no matter what is | | | | Keeping your seed bank away from heat and light is |
| going on in the world around you. Here is what you | | | | vital for long-term storage. Storing them in an air-tight |
| need for a good home survival seed kit to start your | | | | environment is another way to extend their shelf life. |
| crisis garden. | | | | You can vacuum-seal your non-hybrid seeds and |
| Non-Hybrid Seeds. | | | | freeze them, or put oxygen absorbers in an airtight |
| Non-hybrid seeds, also called open-pollinated seeds, | | | | container, like a canning jar, and freeze or store in a |
| are original strains of that particular vegetable. They | | | | cool dry, dark place. You can store new seeds this |
| have not been genetically engineered or bred for | | | | way, and also the seeds you harvest from the |
| mass production on the large factory type farms of | | | | mature vegetables in your garden. |
| today. Non-hybrid seeds are just seeds, and they | | | | Of course, once you have a good seed bank you will |
| contain higher levels of nutritional content. | | | | need to have a place to plant them! A good book on |
| Non-hybrid seeds also store very well, and can be | | | | organic gardening will help you figure out how to plan |
| saved and re-planted over and over, ensuring that | | | | and care for your crisis garden using natural methods. |
| you and your family have a perpetual, sustainable | | | | It is best to start at least a small vegetable garden |
| supply of organic vegetables in your garden. Also look | | | | now, before any sort of disaster strikes, so you |
| for heirloom seeds, which are varieties of vegetables | | | | learn how each plant behaves and what it needs, and |
| that are not grown in large-scale agriculture and have | | | | what sort of yields you can expect from your plot. |
| therefore kept their natural nutritional traits. | | | | And even if a disaster never happens, a good |
| Types Of Seeds. | | | | survival seed bank means you will always have a |
| Think about your climate, and what will grow best | | | | ready supply of healthy, organic vegetables at home |
| there. Generally, choose hardy vegetables, like | | | | for you and your family to enjoy season after |
| tomatoes, lettuce, onions and carrots that will grow | | | | season! |