“For everything, there is a season and a time for every purpose under heaven: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted.” – Ecclesiastes 3:1-2.
For everything, there is a season, but your growing and harvesting can and should be year-round. Many gardens will be ending soon, hunting season is rolling in, and it’s time to winterize and plan for Spring. If you haven’t brought nature indoors yet, now is the time to start doing so. You could probably get one more late harvest of garlic, turnips, kale, mustard, and some squash before the cold weather sets in, but what then? Have you considered bringing your growing indoors or learning techniques to grow indoors?
Seed saving what you will need for next year’s garden, micro-gardens, micro green sprouting, mushroom starter kits, even grow tents are great ways to keep the freshly grown food flowing through winter. Supplementing your nutrition and stretching your winter supplies are valuable skills to have. Here, I’ll explore just a few winter options that may seem small now but could have a dramatic impact on your life when future disasters strike. These probably won’t sustain you if it was your only means of sustenance and nutrition, but it would definitely increase your odds of survival and add critical minerals to your food inventory. Most importantly, this can be a great opportunity to develop a skill that you can cultivate over time. A few of the approaches we’ll cover I, admittedly, haven’t even learned yet myself, but have them on my to-do list this fall and winter and I plan to share them with the community as I go.
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