Could you feed your family if the grocery store shelves were empty? Do you know how to grow a garden that you could depend on for survival? Growing your own food has carried families through hard times for generations. During WWII, 20 million Victory Gardens produced 40% of the vegetables consumed in the United States. But most people today have lost the skill of growing their own food and could not survive if food supplies were disrupted. If you are a gardener growing in the deep sunny south you may have noticed something. Most gardening books are written by northern gardeners who have never had to deal with bermuda grass, fire ants, red clay soil, or 100% humidity. This may be due in part to the fact that southerners rarely get snowed in, so they don't write as many gardening books. But the Deep South can also be one of the most rewarding places to grow if you work with the region's abundant rainfall, long growing season, and regionally adapted crops. Southern gardening veterans Noah Sanders and David the Good team up to share what they have learned from decades of growing food in the Deep South.

You will learn how to grow in red clay, combat weeds, select and care for varieties suited for the south, make compost, and focus on the skills that will free you from the fertilizer, chemical, and seed companies! Noah and David provide you with detailed crop information, tool lists, planting calendars, and garden plans to help you get started, no matter your experience level. Noah gardens in the temperate Alabama foothills of the Appalachians while David grows near the Alabama coast - between them, they've got the Deep South covered. They don't always agree on everything, but they offer you the information you need to "garden like y'all's life depends on it!".