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Grow food the easy way \u2014 no green thumb required<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Learn about survival food plants and\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Growing European vegetables in much of Australia is hard work – especially in warmer areas. You prep the soil, plant the seeds, fight off bugs, and hope the weather doesn\u2019t turn. And even then, you might lose your crop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Survival food plants are different. Most come from tropical or subtropical climates, so they thrive in warm, wet conditions \u2014 just like I get here in the cool subtropics of Maleny. Once they\u2019re established, they\u2019re incredibly low-maintenance. Many are perennial (meaning they keep coming back year after year), and they\u2019ll grow happily with very little water, fertiliser, or fuss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You don\u2019t need to be an expert gardener to succeed with these plants. In fact, the less you fuss over them, the better they do. Some people even say they thrive on neglect!<\/p>\n\n\n\n They\u2019re packed with nutrition too \u2014 most have far more vitamins and minerals than supermarket vegetables. And most are delicious, versatile, and easy to use in everyday meals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On this site, you\u2019ll find:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Advice for beginners<\/strong>, even if you\u2019ve never grown food before A short read explaining what they are and why they should be in everyone’s backyard – whether you’re a green thumb or not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dozens of plants identified with information on how to grow them, how to cook with them, and in many cases alternative uses in the garden and even the medicine cabinet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Grow food the easy way \u2014 no green thumb required Learn about survival food plants and\u2026 Growing European vegetables in much of Australia is hard work – especially in warmer areas. You prep the soil, plant the seeds, fight off bugs, and hope the weather doesn\u2019t turn. And even then, you might lose your crop.… Read More »Home<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":487,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"on","neve_meta_content_width":100,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"on","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalfoodplants.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalfoodplants.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalfoodplants.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalfoodplants.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalfoodplants.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/survivalfoodplants.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609,"href":"https:\/\/survivalfoodplants.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalfoodplants.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/survivalfoodplants.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalfoodplants.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/survivalfoodplants.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
What survival food plants are<\/strong>, and why they\u2019re worth growing
Dozens of plant profiles<\/strong> with growing tips, cooking ideas, and medicinal uses<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/survivalfoodplants.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/the-survival-garden.jpg?resize=400%2C273\")
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