Learning to Plant for more sunlight!

Typically, you will get most sunlight on the (northern hemisphere) south facing slope, or with the clearing to the south.  A post from How To Find North Without a Compass tells us how to find north without a compass and with one.  We can then know what is south most facing.

Exerpt Below:
"Using a GPS:
I really like my Garmin Dakota 20.  This like many GPSs tell you your location, direction of travel, distance traveled, elevation, barometric pressure (for storm watching), and can plot your traveling history, which can be used to get back to where you started.  A lot of them have compasses on them.  These are probably the most precise way to navigate, but come at the disadvantage of all electronics... batteries.  Due to this, you should have many backups for navigation.
A lot of cell phones have them now and can be used as well, although, not quite as accurate as a field GPS.
Using a Compass:
A compass points to Magnetic North, not True North.  And the degree of error between the compass and true North changes based on your location.  One degree of error, could get you almost half a mile, or around 300 meters, off during navigation.  Learning to use a map (which I want to do a video on) will be your biggest advantage when using a compass, because you can determine the direction of travel, based on "map north" and known visual markers.  But if you know your angle of error, you can move the Bezel ring to mark True North on your compass.  Look for my video to come soon on this."

Use Link: How To Find North Without a Compass

Small Square Foot Garden Design for Urbanites

I read an awesome blog that I would recommend to Urbanites about Small Square Foot Garden Design .  Here is a small exerpt of that post.

"A Small Square Foot Garden Design  is typically defined by a 4 foot x 4 foot square that has been seperated into 1 x 1 squares.  This makes a total of 16 squares.  This is  a very methodical approach to companion planting.  Companion planting is planting several different types of plants next to each other that compliment each other in many ways.  They can give soil nutrients that the other needs.   Another reason to square foot garden is the insane amount of produce from one square foot garden.  If you create a matrix of these four foot squares, with a few feet in between, you can have convenient walkways between very efficient beds.
The typical garden begins with a 2x4 or 2x6 square frame, and then using a .5x1 lattice structure (or my favorite: PARACHORD) to seperate each into the 1 sq ft sections.  Each of these can hold a precise amount of a vegetable, depending on the vegetable.  The below photo shows how plants can be placed in the 1 foot square.  Each Big square is 1x1 feet."

Obviously, there is much more to the post, but all you have to do is follow the link.
Small Square Foot Garden Design

How to do Agriculture in Urban Farming

Urbanite or Urban Farming is just one genre of our preparations for self sustainability.  With the growing price and chemicals in food, we have decided to feed ourselves by learning how to do agriculture.  There is much more than what you see here. 

It is important to think of how to provide for your family and I know of a survivalist blog that has all of the information that we need in order to make it through these situations.  ALL of the information on the clever survivalist website is very good for learning self sustainability in different situations.

All of the blogs end up creating a large survival guide full of information showing everyone how to live an abundant life when times are good, or not.  You learn Square Garden Design, on the Guide to Square Foot Gardening Spacing post, How to Store Food Using the Copy Can Method and Grocery Store Food, about backup power, and more to help home life.

There are also wilderness survival tips for parents that love taking their children camping, like finding north without a compass or how to navigate using a compass and map.  I like the posts made in the survivor school series that teach how to make shelters.

So check out the Clever Survivalist Blog Survival Guide and start learning awesome information, and maybe see some awesome photos.