Grow a Practical Survival Garden Even If You Have Limited Space

Use farm-tested crop choices, planting plans, and garden layouts to produce more staple foods, store your harvest, and become less dependent on an uncertain food supply.

Most Home Gardens Aren’t Built for Real Food Production

If you are not sure how you would feed your family during a prolonged emergency, or you own plenty of gardening books but still do not have a productive garden, you need a practical plan.

A dependable food supply is the foundation of preparedness. The more food we can grow ourselves, the less vulnerable we are to shortages and disruptions.

The good news? A productive survival garden does not have to be complicated. Bootstrap Survival Garden gives you a step-by-step plan to avoid costly mistakes and start growing meaningful quantities of food.

The best time to learn is before you have to.

Bootstrap Survival Garden shows you how to build a practical food garden around staple crops, efficient growing methods, storage, seed saving, and long-term soil fertility.

What's Inside

Here's what you get with Bootstrap Survival Garden:

• 12 important staple crops selected for practical food production
• 10 garden layouts covering approximately 1,000 to 5,000 square feet
• Crop-placement and rotation suggestions
• Seed-starting and planting guidance
• Methods for watering, feeding, weeding, and protecting crops
• Advice on harvesting, storing, and saving crops for replanting

Best for: Beginners, homesteaders, preparedness-minded families, and experienced gardeners who want to grow more useful food.

This Is NOT Another General Gardening Book

Most gardening books teach you how to grow individual vegetables. That is useful, but it does not necessarily tell you how to organize a garden that can produce a meaningful amount of food.

Bootstrap Survival Garden starts with a different question:

What should we grow, where should we grow it, and how should we manage it if dependable food production is the goal?

That means putting more emphasis on productive staple crops, calories, storage, crop rotation, seed saving, and realistic garden layouts.

We are not trying to create the prettiest garden on the street. We are trying to create one that earns its keep.

Bootstrap Survival Garden + Survival Garden Plan Book

• 12 staple crops 
• 10 garden layouts 
• Plans for 1,000–5,000 sq. ft. 
• Beginner friendly

Just $9 — backed by my 10X guarantee

Learn to grow food like you have to... BEFORE you have to.

Stored Food Buys Time. A Garden Builds Capacity.

I've got a year's worth of potatoes in these beds, plus enough to replant

When you are growing food because you have to,  the focus is on calories. 

On our farm, a productive 50-foot potato row has yielded approximately 80–100 pounds.

At roughly 350–400 calories per pound, that represents about 28,000–40,000 food calories.

Of course potatoes alone are not a complete survival diet, but this shows why staple-crop selection matters.

A few carefully chosen crops can contribute far more useful food than a large collection of low-yield novelty crops.

The Y2K Lesson That Changed My Direction

I am not a born gardener. I trained as a computer programmer, built a career, raised a family, and never saw much reason to grow my own food. I liked gardening, but it wasn't 'mission critical'.

Then Y2K came along.

Because I understood both computers and business processes, several federal departments hired me to help create continuity plans in case critical systems failed when the calendar changed to January 1, 2000.

The world did not end. But the work taught me something important: many large organizations were poorly prepared for a widespread emergency.

I decided I did not want to depend entirely on someone else to feed my family.

In June 2000, I used some of my Y2K earnings to buy New Terra Farm. Then Suzie and I began learning, one crop, one mistake, and one season at a time, how to grow a substantial amount of our own food.

Bootstrap Survival Garden contains the practical lessons I wish we had when we started.

Yeah, I learned how to grow stuff

Built From an Award-Winning Farm System - NOT Theory

Suzie grabbed the plaque. I grabbed the cheque!

Away back in 2006 The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture  ran a contest: The Premier's Award for Agri-Food Innovation Excellence.

They were looking for innovative farmers building successful businesses on their property. We wrote up our model for small farm marketing and operations and lo and behold we won!

Nice plaque and a nicer $5000 cheque, helped pay for the new farm truck. There were 255 farms in the contest by the way.

I don't tell you this to brag but to show that the systems we have figured out have practical value in the real world.  This isn’t theory. It’s no-fluff instruction based on years of trial, success, and real income from our farm.

Whether you’re just dreaming or already digging, my Bootstrap Survival Garden  will give you clarity, confidence, and a concrete path forward.

Why You Need 'Bootstrap Survival Garden'

"What do you need to know to grow a productive garden"?

THE WHAT. What are the best vegetables to grow for maximum payback for my time and money? See the Core 4 and Great 8.

And what tools and techniques do I use to make that happen? See Tools and Techniques

THE WHERE. Where do I place my garden in my yard to get optimum growing conditions? Or if optimum conditions don’t exist, how do I create them? See Site and Soil

THE WHEN. When do I start seeds and when can I plant outdoors? See Seed Starting Schedule

THE HOW. How do I start seeds, and transplant them, and care for and protect my plants? See Seed Starting in Chapter III.

Plus:

• Multiple plans to grow a subsistence i.e. survival diet
• How to grow, store, and save your crops for replanting 
• How to make efficient use of time and space
• How this plan fits in with other preps.

And:

All about the Gardener's WWF - Weeding, Watering and Feeding to produce a bountiful harvest.

In short, this book is packed full of extensive practical information on crop choices, tools to use, and growing, harvesting and preserving food and seeds to create your own survival garden.

It's the book I wish I had way back in June 2000 when Suzie and I started this adventure.  

My 10X Guarantee

Put the book to work for a full 12 months.

If you do not believe it delivered at least ten times its $9 price in saved time, avoided mistakes, or practical value, contact me for a refund.

No complicated conditions. I stand behind the book because these are the same principles we have used at New Terra Farm.

Contact me at scott(at)new-terra-natural-food.com and I'll give you your money back.

No questions asked.

Growing + Storing is The Key

Food is fundamental to any survival plan. I'm sure we agree on that.

But is a survival garden necessary? Can't we just store up food to get through a crisis?

Storing food is an excellent idea! New Terra Farm has cold storage for onions, potatoes, carrots, beets and garlic, warmer storage areas for sweet potatoes and winter squash, and about 200 jars of preserves in our pantry, plus 4 freezers full of beef, chicken, turkey and pork. We also have a few 'survival buckets' stashed away.

But being able to produce your own food is critical to long-term survival.

My fall and winter stores. But you gotta grow it before you stow it!

Food Security Starts With a REAL Food Garden

Bootstrap Survival Garden and bonus Plan Book. Only from New Terra Farm

Suzie and I learned how to feed ourselves one step at a time. We started with growing a substantial portion of our own food in our garden.

We wanted to learn how to grow a lot of calories, and provide robust nutrition, in a sustainable and efficient manner.

We put the lessons we learned into Bootstrap Survival Garden.

You might not think you have enough land for a substantial, practical garden. I got you covered! 

I'm including my Survival Garden Plan Book with layouts and plans for gardens from 1,000 to 5,000 square feet. 

Even a modest back yard (or rented plot) can accommodate one of my plans.

BONUS: The Bootstrap Survival Garden Plan Book

I've included 10 garden layouts in different sizes to accommodate your space and your preferences.

Ten ready-to-use layouts

Plans for 1,000–5,000 square feet

Crop placement

Bed organization

Rotation suggestions

Adaptable plans rather than one rigid design

Grow 12 important staple food crops and use crop rotation (explained in the book) to keep the garden producing. Even if you have a limited area (this design fits into as little as 1,000 square feet) this is a good flexible plan to produce a LOT of food, season after season.

This is farm-tested, real-world practical information that you can take and start planning your next season's Survival Garden right away.

I'll Show You How to Apply Advanced Gardening Techniques (with easy to understand - and COPY - examples) 

Learn what the pro's do to ensure a successful crop. If you have always wanted to 'upgrade' your gardening knowledge, here's a chance to learn about:

• crop rotation
• integrated pest management
• companion planting
• using mulch and drip irrigation
• using row cover to protect crops

'Advanced' doesn't mean 'complicated'; we explain each of these work-saving, crop-saving techniques so they are easy to apply to your own survival garden.

OK, You Might be Wondering WHY NOW is the Right Time for a Survival Garden?

Book and Bonus Plans. $9

I've been involved in the local food movement and sustainable community groups for decades, even before we started New Terra Farm.

I firmly believe that hard time are coming, and that one of the best defenses against hard times is knowing how to grow your own food.

I wrote Bootstrap Survival Garden to enable just about anybody to grow a significant portion of their food.

Whether you're an experienced gardener or a complete beginner, "Bootstrap Survival Garden" is an important resource for creating a garden that can help you survive and thrive in tough times.

Get your copy today and start growing your own food for a more secure future. Learn how now, before you have to!

Get Bootstrap Survival Garden and all the bonuses for $27 $17  just $9.