30+ Survival Foods to Grow to Live on Your Garden (in Florida)
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- Through my year of growing and foraging 100% of my food and 5+ years of visiting and meeting with dozens of gardeners and permaculturalists across the state of Florida, I have created a grouping of 30 of the easiest and most abundant foods to grow in Florida.
This grouping of plants is ideal for laying the foundation for a food forest or creating The Survival Garden. We’re talking about growing a lot of food, with the least work, so you can truly break free from the grocery store!
Our mission is to assist people in attaining Food Freedom - breaking free from the global, industrial food system and growing their own food! We do this by providing the Food Forest Starter Bundle on a suggested donation basis. This bundle includes 30 of the easiest to grow, most productive foods in Florida.
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Chapters of this Video:
00:36 - Yuca
01:54 - Katuk
02:59 - Mulberry (dwarf ever-bearing variety)
03:42 - Mulberry (native variety)
04:32 - Sweet potato
06:12 - Longevity spinach
06:23 - Okinawa spinach
07:17 - Rosemary
08:04 - Southern pea / Seminole pea / Cow pea
09:13 - Cuban oregano
10:00 - African blue basil
10:42 - Seminole pumpkin
11:49 - Pigeon pea / gandules
12:49 - Galangal ginger
13:19 - Nopal cactus
13:55 - Chaya
14:42 - Papaya
15:43 - Turmeric
16:46 - Everglades tomato
17:54 - Tithonia (Bolivian sunflower / Mexican sunflower)
19:00 - Lemongrass
19:40 - Sorrel / Roselle
20:39 - Luffa
21:33 - Bidens alba
22:36 - Elderberry
23:45 - Moringa
24:56 - East African kale / Ethiopian kale / Amara
25:36 - Molokhia / Egyptian spinach
26:37 - Hopi red dye amaranth
27:34 - Daikon radish
28:37 - Toilet Paper Plant/ Blue spur flower / Plectranthus barbatus
29:10 - Surinam cherry
29:39 - Honorable Mentions (not included in bundle)
29:48 - Banana
29:57 - Jamaican cherry
30:02 - Sugar cane
30:06 - Taro
30:12 - Yaupon holly
30:26 - Surinam spinach
Edited by: Pachamama Media
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Very convincing as soon as he said Cassava at the start of the video. The 4 children who survived 40 days after the plane crash on the Amazon mostly relied on Cassava flour they had! Apparently it's a very important survival food.
Wow! That's great to know. Thank you!
Not everyone lives in Florida
@@ellisprescott1415 I know but most live in similar weather
Cassava and sweet potatoes are the survival food during Japanese occupation in Asia.
This video has absolutely blown my mind! Almost half of your featured plants are growing in my surroundings (in the Philippines), of which either I thought had no use, or had no clear idea how to use or eat them. I was in my garden just yesterday, chopping down lots of bidens alba, thinking they were just weeds. I was so wrong! I can't wait to go back into my garden and find the survivors and say sorry lol.
In Jamaica 🇯🇲 we call pigeon peas, 'gungo peas' 😁. It is indeed one of our staple peas that we enjoy cooked in rice with coconut milk and seasoned with scallions, thyme, pimento seed, and a scotch bonnet pepper 😋
Pimento seeds?
Thank you for sharing about gungo peas with me Dear Friend!
How do you start the plants?
@@odaliabalbi5541 pigeon peas are like chickpeas I think????? Garbanzo beans??? Great blessings everyone everywhere.
@@gogogardener peas or beans are direct sown here (northern NY USA) presoaking makes them sprout faster but peas might fall apart if not very careful. Many blessings everyone.
You're able to be one in perfect harmony with this beautiful garden, I mean You give voice to all these green plants 😊
The first youtuber that has pronounced it properly, Yu-kah and not yuck-a. Amazing video, gonna try planting some here in Malaysia!
We here in the tropics need more gardening videos. Thank you from central Florida ❤
I love learning about all the different edible stuff that can go in a food forest!
OMG that is heaven on earth.Unfortunately in can’t grow all of tropical fruits and vegetables that you have in Europe. I miss having papaya, banana, jackfruit, mango, cassava , moringa tree and many more in my garden😢
The channel Arktopia shows how he is growing tropical food in snowy Canada using solar greenhouse. Not easy or cheap I imagine lol! Pretty impressive to follow him and see him do it though! I live in hot weather too but not as humid so we could do sugar cane but would have to really add a lot of water bc it is sooo dry in SoCal. People do manage papaya and mango and other tropicals here though!
I feel like you should do this video for each area of the us to help people
Wow once again proving Rob that we can all get off the shopping trolley system of waste. We cant rely on governments but it is just crazy that we are not educated to know this-why and earth is food traveling hundreds of miles, arriving in cellophane packets when we could all be eating really fresh free produce!! Super fan of your educational blogs-thank you so much!
Saying so is easy, start a community garden. Grand Blessings everyone.
We were taught to be dependent not to be survivalist or thriving. Because they want to control us.
Hey brother. It's been a while since I've last seen one of your videos. What a beautiful life you live. I love that you strive to do better and learn each day. Love you!
Excellent information!!
With the coming food shortages and crisis this information is FAR MORE THAN JUST HELPFUL!! THANK YOU!!
get growing peeps
I am so proud of myself .. I am growing 20 out of the 30 he mentioned in this video. I also have beauty berries, mangos, avocados, guava, blueberries, 4 types of bananas & plantains, yam , etc etc 😅so happy.
Robin, your enthusiasm and knowledge are phenomenal! So inspirational. Thank you so much.
Can eat daikon radish leaves too! Great in a stir-fry
I'm so grateful to have found this video and your channel! I have such limited space, but have just started growing rosemary, everglade tomatoes, dandelions, and lamsquarter spinach. Can't wait to plant some of the incredible plants you've described here! Thank you!
Thanks for a great video. l am from Florida but now in Mexico. Tropical high desert so same things grow here. Had a permaculture food forest in my back yard in Miami. l would add 2 others to your list. My favorite green, Malabar spinach (a vine) and Florida native Soapberry tree. You pay a lot of money for those and they are better than detergents.
I sent my payment in for the food forest starter, can't wait to get started!
what is the suggested price?
amazing tropical and subtropical fruits and veggies
Okinawa spinach is one of my favorites. Very easy to grow and propagate. Stick a cutting in the ground and you got a new plant.
One other good thing about rosemary is that you can use it around the garden as a pest deterrent.
Amazing guide to survival gardening. I'm going to try a number of these this fall.
Love these but I wish you would make more versatile content on this topic for more regions all over but nonetheless thank you for this information GOD BLESS! Peaceful growing and abundant harvest be to all! One love
Thanks so much. I've been following you for a few years but my being a senior citizen has led to much local resistance. The HOA generally restricts us growing things beyond the pattern book.. Neighbors argue it's easier just to go to the grocery store. I'm still going to try small and get motivated. This video encouraged me to get outside more often.
mix flowers in with your vegetables! helps with pollination.
It's not right that they try to restrict you from growing food! I am always shocked to remember that this is a thing in the US, as I am from Australia. It's easier to go to the grocery store if you ignore the environmental, physical and mental health benefits to growing your own food. Good luck with your garden and I hope you find a way despite these unfair restrictions!
@oakleys I get told the same things!! Many blessings everyone.
Current Florida law gives property owners the right to grow vegetables in their front yard or any part of their yard. HOA's cannot forbid.
Plant ornamental corn and ornamental peppers! To start weakening their stand. Also sorrel is good for greens and very beautiful. Also a perennial. Micro tomatoes are less than 12 inches high and can sit on a porch step. No body can tell us we can't have a potted plant outside, especially when it's tiny and beautiful. Lol. Parsley or other herbs are as pretty as any flower and edible. Also lots and lots of edible flowers. Many blessings everyone everywhere.
Also,Thank you Robin so much for inspiring and teaching us how to grow food. My granddaughter and I want to grow and share, with others. Keep up the good work, you and your organization are a tremendous blessing.
From Mauritius 🇲🇺. Keep it up.
I’m here in central Florida and have some in my possession for when we move into our house🙏🏽 Keep up the great work folks!
I grew up eating this food including the young seed pod. It’s great with the leaves sautéed together.
Just discovered your Channel Robin. Really dig your Enthusiasm and Knowledge of Edible Plants! Also the World Really needs all these Videos you make now so people can live Healthier lives!! Good job bro!!
It was so nice to see you back in Florida, Robin
Rob all the things you know are actually know in the Philippines we used to planted our own foods😊
You are an awesome human being. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge, I love the way you are so natural and did your research to teach others the good news you test from your own experience.
Thank you so much for all this information. I was going to write down all the plants to buy then somehow. Im glad I waited to the end . Im going to read every line on the description and I will order “
“the bon-del ASAP”! Thank you.
Hello Dear Friend!
You can learn about the Food Forest Starter Bundle and place an order on the website:
robingreenfield.org/foodforest
Health and happiness to you,
Robin
Thanks so much for sharing this. I absolutely love the content given. I’m excitedly looking forward to getting my mine to start. Pammie from Chicago Illinois 🎉
The lizard was a paid actor
Yay top 7 comments and top 20 likes. Love this channel. Best to you and your family.
thank u robin!! i started planting veges and fruits and herbs i have 8 plants lready and i do composting too for soil!
I recently relocated to Europe from Canada and love what you , glad I found your videos I am searching for someone in the Algarve to connect with that does what you do. You can't probably ship to Europe will see what I can find here to start my food forest Thank you
I would love love love if you could do this for more northern regions (I’m in Ontario)
Same, which part of Ontario?
You probably want someone who lives there to do that. Floridians don't necessarily understand northern climates and northerners certainly don't understand the climates of the American Deep South (let alone FL) or the Southwest either. Yankee riffraff moves south and try to recreate England, failing miserably. I would look at regional foraging books to expand your list of "stealth edibles," but there is *a lot* written about conventional, cold climate, vegetable and fruit cultivation. That would be most English language gardening channels.
Beautiful!!!
Can’t wait to get going.
This is an awesome resource 👏🏼👏🏼
This Seed sharing is very important today. I hope there will be thousands involve in every country. AURAPHIL thanks for sharing. GOD bless!
I live backed to a canal. I love Spanish needle. It's my chickens primary forage.
Awesome Video Tutorial!!!👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾🪶🪶🪶
Thanks, my friend. God bless you . 2023 24 October
Thank you so much for all the information! :)
Yuca is the plants we always have in borneo.. We cook the leaves stir fried or curry, and then the roots to make cakes, boiled, steam or fermented.. Same goes to sweet potatoes.. The leaves are my favorites
Thank you so much for this wonderful video🤍
This awesome video - very direct and informative!! Thanks!!
Didn't realize there is a spineless variety of Nopales.... wow! Definitely planting this...
I'm happy to see kales, sweet potatoes, cassava, the toilet paper plant, and many more familiar plants that we use in East Africa, Kenya.Thank you.
I wish this worked in zone 7b
Peagon pea is staple in India
You are still barefoot walking. That’s nice.
That's rather stupid in Florida, frankly. It is the right climate for hookworms even if they originated west of the Mississippi, and most of Florida is awash in fire ants. Stand still and foraging ants WILL sting you.
I support you 🧑🌾
This is awesome. Thank you.
Are you ever going to do a similar list for other areas of the country? Many blessings everyone.
Yeah. I’m zone 7b. Just outside of many of these. 😢
I'm in 5b Ontario!, how would i adapt this list?
@@janew5351 I would definitely see what temperature zone you are in for starters. We have zoned in America with our first and last start dates. Look for what you can plant and when I’m your zone. For sure you could use a similar zone if the frost first and last normal dates are similar from some zone in the US. Might have to back up a week or two for that zone unless your close.
@@Grayson4life I'm fairly certain these growing zones are for US and Canada. Blessings everyone
@@janew5351 there are some survival foods listed for lower zones. Let me look them up. Brb.
amazing list here nice work
this was awesome!!!
incredible anthology. thankyou
I have been watching TH-cam to get an idea how to start, your survival foods and the bundle leap will help so much in my journey, knowledge and growth.. this front property I have needs to be used as a resource, I will be watching again and again.
Your greens looked so delicious 😋
Amazing, this concept can be used in any tropical areas.
This is an awesome video. Thank you so much! I recognized my oregano in here (in Nayarit, Mexico), or a very close cousin more round leaved).
I was surprised your list didn't include purslane, as it is so edible and common, but maybe not so much in Florida?
I found and identified a soft edible thistle here, very wonderful and mild, like soft lettuce.
But, you made my day with the Cuban Oregano. I love it more than regular oregano.
Thank you for great video..wish you success and be healthy always
Wait, must pause so I can go Subscribe... Okay done.
Amazing video with tons of useful content! Thank you for sharing with us :D
Such a good list❤
Very awesome info, thanks bro!
Excellent video! ❤
Have you tried Asian Water Spinach and Malabar Spinach?, both can grow in Fl. weather.
Water spinach (Ipomoea [sp?] aquatica) is *illegal* in the state of Florida because it is seen as a looming aquatic weed. After water hyacinths, the state is paranoid about that. Malabar spinach is good, if you like it and are willing to trellis it.
Great vid! Thank you
ThankYOU
WOW you made my shopping to set up my 5 Acres so easy, thank you for this wonderful video and all the information you provided.
This is amazing 👏👏👏
Thank you so much for this very informative video! I live in a condo but would love to find a space to grow all this wonderful food!
Ask town/city for space. Or start community garden. I had only to ask and had wheelchair accessible garden in less than a year. Many blessings everyone.
Amazing garden tips💚👌
Excellent.
Dandelion
Ora pro nobis
Llanten
Hello from Trinidad. Great video bro. Great mission. Top marks. A÷÷
You hero
Grande
Moringa pods can be eaten like a veggie when they're green/young. I like them best, added to soups or stews.
I love your videos, it inspires me to grow more food. I grow sweet potato in the summer for it's greens only, since summer here in Portland Oregon doesnt last long.
Ty!
Would love to see the equivalent for western Washington. Annuals in an urban lot have not priven to be time or cost effective but i would love to get edible perennials and self seeders adapted to our special climate where plants do well in spring and soils dry up by early July and all the way through sept right when you are trying to get annuals maturing
Asparagus, dandelion, fiddlehead ferns, purslane, sunchokes, apples, pears, berries, rhubarb,
Thanks
Sweet potato leaves is good to make sallad, with lemon ,ginger onion and tomatoeL bland it first
Hi this is wicked ....thankyou thankyou...somehow need find easy to grow plants for uk ....but anything is possible !!!! Thankyou for the inspiration !!!!
I want pigeon peas! Some bugs or worms ate my garden this year.
Sweet potatoes leaves, moringa trees, shitake mushrooms, oyster mushrooms, white button mushrooms (grow fast) Look out ciku fruit rees (brown fruits)
I live in Southern Canada and rosemary is so wonderful to smell and eat
🎉 inspiring vegetables ❤living
You can make cassava cake or pudding, too. Very delicious. Yes, we survived on cassava when we were little back in the Philippines.
Listening from Oregon.
Grandma use to have those tomato by tne kitchen side they are so flavourful
I wish someone would do a video like this for middle America, like Tennessee.
This is excellent, thank you.. I really have to reappraise our own garden because it's quite unruly so I lose track of what's here, and when people ask if we have a food forest here I mumble, uncertain.. Listening to this and reading your list reassured me that even if it's all over the place and sometimes forgotten in the busy times it's actually really there, growing, offering, recycling itself.. We have a survival. garden/food forest already growing.. I just may need to toe new species in between existing plants and expand it's usefulness :)
Love the info. Just to clarify though, the first photo for yaupon holly is nandina.
I can grow a lot of stuff but not rosemary. Haven't figured her out yet.
Rosemary needs very dry soil, plant in a hill of well drained soil even adding rocks if needed
@@rowenamarie1394 I appreciate your tips 🌱💚
Try growing rosemary in pots first❤
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Watching from Zone 3 Canada, some of these make me very jealous 😢
Hello... happy watching from Borneo Sabah, daun katuk or pucuk manis cannot be eaten raw.
God I wish someone in Australia would do this!!!!!