12 Days of Prepper Christmas-Day 6

In a past year, Matt from KY Preppers did a series of posts entitled 12 Days of Prepper Christmas. My thanks to Matt and APN for allowing me to use the title for my own series of posts. I hope that you will find something useful that will make your own Christmas more fun, frugal, and wonderful!!





Hi everyone!! I know I've said this on another post (or two!), but I LOVE today's gift idea! My all-time favorite hobby, the thing I spend sooooo much time doing, the thing that occupies my time and my thoughts almost all-year long is dirt! Well, not dirt exactly, but gardening! Know a newbie who wants to start gardening? You've got someone who will enjoy this simple practical gift!





Find an appropriate container. You can use a large gift bag, a basket, or a flower pot, which would be uber-fun packaging! Find a few simple, but strong garden tools, some peat pots, a few packages of seeds, some potting soil, and a pair of garden gloves. They'll have everything they need to start the gardening season off right!





Well, maybe they won't have everything they need. Gardeners need books! Garden books! And the ones with pictures of beautiful gardens are the best! Any book by John Seymour will be sure to delight and inform. (Many of these books are out-of-print, but will be a fabulous gift if you can find one!) One of my other favorite veggie gardening books is 'Growing Fruit & Vegetables' by Richard Bird. If you're a gardener, I'm sure that you have a favorite garden book or author that would delight a new gardener.





Prep On!

Gen-IL Homesteader




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Gentlemen, start your seeds! (Ladies, too!) and Book recommendation

My green house starter kits cleaned and ready to grow some seeds!

Hi everyone! I can't believe it's March already! Where is time flying to? Of course I hope you know that March is the time to start some of your seeds!! I know some of you in southern IL have probably put some in already. I'm planning on doing some this week. I got all my seed starting equipment cleaned this past weekend, and today I'm going to bring my seed starting mix in and let it warm up. I tell you, I can hardly wait! I am so excited for this year's garden. Hoping and praying that it will be productive beyond my expectations. (Of course, I hope and pray that every year!)

You know one of the great things that happens when you garden? You're learning a new skill, one of the most important skills. Feeding yourself is necessary to living. When you garden, you learn to feed yourself, and you're practicing one of the most important skills there is. Plus, if anything happens to the public food source--think of tomatoes 2 years ago--you've got your own safe, healthy, affordable, tasty food. No need to fret about whether or not your food is safe to eat. You can know for certain that it is!

I love gardening books! They're absolutely delightful reading! One of my favorite gardening authors is John Seymour. He's written a number of wonderful books covering the subject of self-sufficiency. He covers gardening as well as canning, freezing, and drying, fruit growing, animal husbandry (keeping animals for food), greenhouses, managing garden tools, forgotten arts, etc. If you need some gardening help, his books would go a long way to answering questions and providing inspiration. I personally have 'The Self-Sufficient Gardener' and I love the book and the beautiful pictures it contains. If you ever see a John Seymour book at a book sale, it would be a good one to pick up. They're valuable books!

Prep On!
Gen-IL Homesteader