Secret Garden of Survival – How to Grow a Camouflaged Food Forest

Secret Garden of Survival by Rick Austin: A forest garden produces 5x more food per square foot than a traditional garden.
Secret Garden of Survival by Rick Austin: A forest garden produces 5x more food per square foot than a traditional garden.

“Imagine a food garden that you only have to plant once in your life-time, that takes up very little space, that will provide food for the next 30 years; that can grow five times more food per square foot than traditional or commercial gardening; and where you never have to weed, never have to use fertilizers and never have to use pesticide– ever. All disguised as overgrown underbrush, so nobody knows you have food growing there! This book will show you how to do it in one growing season!”

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Love for Life: From Bare Earth to Abundance


Must see video of a super productive, suburban backyard vertical garden made with salvaged materials. Enlarge video to full screen. Get a pen and paper handy to take notes. Pause occasionally to catch details. As you’re watching with gaping mouth, keep in mind the plants are only ten weeks old. Love for Life is trying to encourage people to work together to create similar gardens and unplug from the system. Be sure to catch the song at the end near 46:35.

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