An Illustrated Guide to Growing Food

I've made a lot of progress on the gardening guide. These pages cover the basics. From there, I'll be filling in the fruit and vegetable profiles. They're not done, but I included a few so you see where it's all headed. I'm also going to add another page or two about setting up solar-powered and manual pumps to get water moving through a garden if the existing pressure doesn't do the job. Once that's done, I'm going to slide into more urban gardening methods and strategies.

More than ever, I'm feeling the mental health benefits of focusing on a worthwhile project with meaning and purpose, grounded in reality, but not drowning in the daily noise and emotional turbulence of every outrage. We know what's going on. We know what's at stake. It's the whole reason we're doing this.

That's not to say other endeavors are pointless. Everyone has their place and a job that suis them. This seems to be mine. I like it.

Rain harvesting and gardening were always going to be the hardest, most intensive topics to illustrate, so I wanted to get a jump on them. From a "units of survival" standpoint, they're also the most important.

Here it is so far:

I'm sure quite a few people doubted the viability of this project when it was first announced. With every update, it becomes more real.