This Unique Three Sisters Planting Layout Produces All Of His Food
Channel: Stoned Ape Farmer
Date: 2020-07-07

In today's video I feature my checkerboard three sisters planting layout; an experiment in designing the ultimate survival garden. Using permaculture design principles, I formulated this three sisters bed to survive 3 to 4 months of drought without irrigation, grow all of a person's calories for a year (with the addition of eggs from a dozen chickens), and manage it all in a roughly 500 square footprint. If one of your goals is to grow all of your own food, a bed like this could play a significant role in accomplishing that! If ideal yields are achieved, total calories from the harvest of squash, squash seeds, corn, beans, and eggs should total 730,000 calories, which comes out to 2,000 calories a day. I'll be doing an update as I weigh the yield coming out of this bed and see how close I come to that 730,000 calorie goal. If you would like to see the results, be sure to subscribe!

If you want to know how to grow the rest of your garden without irrigation, check out my previous video on dry gardening: https://youtu.be/ScdRSxPl-j8 

My comment was featured in David The Good's outro song the other day, and it was as hilarious as ever. Check it out (https://youtu.be/9KvpAiBFi8o?t=3262) and let him know that Stoned Ape Farmer sent you.

Have you grown the three sisters before? How did it go?


📄 CONTENTS 📄
0:00 Intro
0:14 Theme
0:27 Checkerboard bed

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