Have you ever heard of a weed garden? NO NOT THAT ONE! A weed garden is a survival garden that you can grow out in the open and almost nobody but a trained or experienced gardener will recognize they are looking at food.
Pictured here is one of my instructional examples of how to grow food that most people wont recognize.
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We have the very delicious Raapi (an edible relative of Broccoli, cultivated for the large lush leaves instead of the flowerettes.)
Also, we have Mogri, the edible and amazingly tasty seed pods of the white icicle radish. There are many kinds of radish that can be cultivated in this way.
By placing uncommon food plants together and allowing them to grow alongside crab grass, yellow foxtail and other easily identified common weeds you can use the camouflage of ignorance to hide a living food cache in almost any easily accessed and easily ignored bit of fairly decent soil.
Selecting plants that either survive the winter or continually re-seed themselves can assure that your cache lasts over time. Allowing you to come back every year. Coming back after dark to gather and eat as you go.
Having a weed garden is the same concept as memorizing where wild edibles grow naturally, except you are the person that made them grow there.
Berry bushes go great with rhubarb and nobody ever gives a second glance to dandelion greens, wood sorrel, and chicory. Most people ignore them entirely. But in a survival situation where you have to be on the move, going from place to place, knowing where you will find a few quiet hidden meal can be a real lifesaver.
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