Why We Stopped Choosing Crops the Way Most Gardeners Do @TheSeasonalHomestead
Why We Stopped Choosing Crops the Way Most Gardeners Do  @TheSeasonalHomestead
Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago
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Grow a more resilient garden with these 5 reliable crops that provide food, flexibility, and long-term food security. In this video, we're planting sweet potatoes, corn, beans, and other staple crops while sharing how growing food can help your family adapt to changing diets, weather, and economic uncertainty.

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🥣 Chapters -
0:00 Why Build a Resilient Garden?
1:34 Crop 1: Sweet Potatoes & Potatoes
3:31 Planting Sweet Potato Slips: Varieties & Spacing
6:31 Wildgrain
8:12 Consumers vs Producers Lifestyle
8:57 Crop 2: Beans & Cowpeas
10:30 - Planting Dried Beans during Flooding
12:24 Crop 3: Winter Squash (Versatility & Long Storage)
14:06 Crop 4: Corn (Staple Grains & Popcorn)
14:56 Mt. Tambora Climate Anomaly story
15:51 Crop 5: Carrots (Nutrition & Winter Storage)
16:46 How we Harvest and Cure Garlic
18:40 Cute Predators and A Second Succession of Carrots
21:06 Book Recommendation & Next Week's Preview

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Why We Stopped Choosing Crops the Way Most Gardeners Do

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