The Garden Tayloring Club

The Garden Tayloring Club

Sowing old fashion qualities into modern life

A True Mark of Self Reliance: Keeping A Garden


Having food for your needs and being able to get more food when the supply lines fail is true self reliance. Food is the ultimate currency. It’s hard to find a person that wouldn’t spend their last gold coin on food. Everybody needs it. Because of this, it’s even a main staple of the American economy.


Food’s economic impact has even emboldened some food producers to cut corners knowing that their food products would still sell for a hefty profit. This is why it’s so important to grow some, if not all, of our own food. It saves money. It lets us choose the soil’s mineral levels and thus our food’s nutritional level. We can even avoid pesticide and herbicide residues as we wish.


In addition to gardening, we’ve also learned that man can’t live on plants alone. To do so, without the supplement industry, risks missing out on some important macro minerals, vitamins, amino acids, and fatty acids. As omnivores getting back to nature, we need eat both plants and animals in our diet to get all 90 essential nutrients we need daily in sufficient quantity and balance.


To do this, raising animals should become part of our garden and food supply. We then would have the ability to make sure both our vegetable and meat sources have all 157+ essential nutrients. Herbivores are great at storing up the nutrition they get from plants. This condenses the minerals, vitamins, amino acids, and fatty acids in their bodies as they feed on the mineral rich feed crops we can provide. Isn’t it interesting that a cow can eat grass that we can’t digest and make nutrition dense steak and milk that we can digest.