The Home Food Garden

About

John

Who is this guy and what is he going to write about?
Welcome to my home here in central Indiana. The gardens surround us to the east, the west, the north, and to the south. Let’s take a stroll together.

I am John Perkins. I love to grow things, multiply plants and save old varieties. I like to eat simple foods prepared in my own kitchen, full of flavor and freshness.

I have been gardening for over half a century and I have a B.S. in Gardening. (I actually have a B.S. in Agriculture heavy on propagation and genetic preservation with a helping of post-graduate horticulture production.)

I have worked in the horticulture industry in both a wholesale production greenhouse and a retail garden center. When the economy went south, I decided I needed to grow more of my own food and be prepared to grow all of it and to be able to succeed even if I couldn’t purchase any inputs such as seed or fertilizer.

For many families, gardening is a lost art. You may be two or three generations from gardening or farming. I am here to help you find your way back to your genetic, primitive calling: raising, preserving and preparing your own food.

So here, I will treat gardening, food production and preservation as survival skills. As with all survival skills, they are best learned and practiced before you actually need them. Whether you just love to get your hands dirty, or you want to learn to save your own seed, transition to organic, make sauerkraut or cream cheese, or raise your own chickens, you are invited to visit me in my garden and to chat with me about the things that interest you.

Welcome!

John E. Perkins