--- product_id: 6819107 title: "Secret Garden of Survival: How to grow a camouflaged food- forest." price: "VT12728" currency: VUV in_stock: true reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.vu/products/6819107-secret-garden-of-survival-how-to-grow-a-camouflaged-food store_origin: VU region: Vanuatu --- # Secret Garden of Survival: How to grow a camouflaged food- forest. **Price:** VT12728 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Secret Garden of Survival: How to grow a camouflaged food- forest. - **How much does it cost?** VT12728 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vu](https://www.desertcart.vu/products/6819107-secret-garden-of-survival-how-to-grow-a-camouflaged-food) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Imagine a food garden that you only have to plant once in your life-time, that takes up very little space, that will provide food for you and your family for the next 30 years; that can grow five times more food per square foot than traditional or commercial gardening; and where you never have to weed, never have to use fertilizers and never have to use pesticide-- ever. All diguised as overgrown underbrush, so nobody knows you have food growing there! This book will show you how to do it in one growing season! Review: This book changed the way I look at food preparedness - “Secret Garden of Survival” by Rick Austin is a book that fits squarely in the ”must have” category for your preparedness library. Like many preppers, I have a ton of books in my library. Personally, I prefer having hardcopies of any I think are particularly useful. In a long term grid-down, having a hardcopy library will be essential. Many preparedness books, while they may be good, can be duplicative. Many essentially rehash the same territory. “Secret Garden of Survival” is one of the books I want to have around both before and after a long term disaster. It stands out for me as one of the books that has critical information that you just cant get elsewhere. I like books that either make me rethink my prepping strategies or teach me better ways of doing things. “Secret Garden of Survival” did both. I’m a novice gardener (to put it generously – if gardening was a martial art, I might say I’m barely a “yellow belt”). I have the typical back yard raised gardens and I mostly buy annuals at Home Depot or a local garden store with everybody else. Some years I’m more successful than others, but I have recognized that my food production capability and skills are areas that need much work. Rick Austin takes you on a detailed tour of how he set up his secret garden of survival. He touches on every aspect, from site selection, construction, grey water systems, permaculture guilds – all the way up to storing and preserving the harvest. This book ties together the entire cycle from concept to canning. This book is both for preppers and those who would like to explore more natural methods of gardening. This book accomplishes what Mr. Austin set out to do: It provides an overview – from start to finish – on concepts that many people are not familiar with. It provides a solution to one of the most important preparedness subjects: food. (In “beans, bullets and bandages” terms, this book covers one third of it.) For many, this book will provide practical and innovative ideas to improve their odds in a survival situation. For many, this book will provide great ideas for having a more natural and productive garden. For many, it will provide both. This book is not intended to be a detailed treatise on every subject and sub-concept involved and it never pretends to be. Its strength is that it gives you a view of the entire food cycle and how to cooperate with nature – rather than trying to outdo her – in order to get better results. The fact that you can do this in a manner not likely to be noticed by others is an important factor for those of us who worry about the security of our food sources from a preparedness perspective. Although the garden Mr. Austin describes and builds is ambitious, he emphasizes that you can start small – with one guild at a time – and improve over time. It does not need to be done all at once. That being said, the book will also enable you to plan your garden so that you start it out right the first time and have the flexibility to expand it in the future. So how has this book changed me? As I look at land for my future homestead, this book has given me a lot of ideas of what to look for. I assure you that when I look at land now, I’ll be thinking about the concepts I learned from Mr. Ausitn’s book and exactly where my secret garden of survival would fit in. I can also start small at my current location to experiment with and benefit from the concepts. I have learned a lot from this book. I highly recommend ”Secret Garden of Survival” by Rick Austin. If you are new to prepping or gardening, this book will put you on the right path. If you are experienced in one or both, it might just change the way you look at your food preps. It is well worth the price. If I lost the copy I have now, I would buy another. Review: I too know a fair bit about gardening however this soil grows rocks and oak trees better than anything else - I can't help but laugh at the negative reviews. First thing I noticed in his video on Natgeo was that he can't be that far from me. Maybe just the other side of the mountain. I too know a fair bit about gardening however this soil grows rocks and oak trees better than anything else. His property seemed so similar. Rick's book isn't really about basic gardening but more focused on companion planting and better organization. What I found out, and I have a lot of elbow grease to go yet, was that he really helps you prep a self sustaining garden. Outstanding book, very informative, it speaks to my experience levels and definitely speaks to the problems I have here. I am now reading his other book on green houses. Just for the sake of his critics, I read the book 3 times. I studied it cover to cover and made notes. I used goggle as he recommends in his book to search out the items he makes reference to. The book could of been a 1000 pages and couldn't have said it better than he did. I think he did very well making his point which is why I purchased his book. Great Job Rick, I have a backhoe on the way to get started. I had given up on all the steep ground. Not now! Thanks ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #869,534 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #284 in Garden Design (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 393 Reviews | ## Images ![Secret Garden of Survival: How to grow a camouflaged food- forest. - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/510-UHiG6ZL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This book changed the way I look at food preparedness *by C***K on January 18, 2014* “Secret Garden of Survival” by Rick Austin is a book that fits squarely in the ”must have” category for your preparedness library. Like many preppers, I have a ton of books in my library. Personally, I prefer having hardcopies of any I think are particularly useful. In a long term grid-down, having a hardcopy library will be essential. Many preparedness books, while they may be good, can be duplicative. Many essentially rehash the same territory. “Secret Garden of Survival” is one of the books I want to have around both before and after a long term disaster. It stands out for me as one of the books that has critical information that you just cant get elsewhere. I like books that either make me rethink my prepping strategies or teach me better ways of doing things. “Secret Garden of Survival” did both. I’m a novice gardener (to put it generously – if gardening was a martial art, I might say I’m barely a “yellow belt”). I have the typical back yard raised gardens and I mostly buy annuals at Home Depot or a local garden store with everybody else. Some years I’m more successful than others, but I have recognized that my food production capability and skills are areas that need much work. Rick Austin takes you on a detailed tour of how he set up his secret garden of survival. He touches on every aspect, from site selection, construction, grey water systems, permaculture guilds – all the way up to storing and preserving the harvest. This book ties together the entire cycle from concept to canning. This book is both for preppers and those who would like to explore more natural methods of gardening. This book accomplishes what Mr. Austin set out to do: It provides an overview – from start to finish – on concepts that many people are not familiar with. It provides a solution to one of the most important preparedness subjects: food. (In “beans, bullets and bandages” terms, this book covers one third of it.) For many, this book will provide practical and innovative ideas to improve their odds in a survival situation. For many, this book will provide great ideas for having a more natural and productive garden. For many, it will provide both. This book is not intended to be a detailed treatise on every subject and sub-concept involved and it never pretends to be. Its strength is that it gives you a view of the entire food cycle and how to cooperate with nature – rather than trying to outdo her – in order to get better results. The fact that you can do this in a manner not likely to be noticed by others is an important factor for those of us who worry about the security of our food sources from a preparedness perspective. Although the garden Mr. Austin describes and builds is ambitious, he emphasizes that you can start small – with one guild at a time – and improve over time. It does not need to be done all at once. That being said, the book will also enable you to plan your garden so that you start it out right the first time and have the flexibility to expand it in the future. So how has this book changed me? As I look at land for my future homestead, this book has given me a lot of ideas of what to look for. I assure you that when I look at land now, I’ll be thinking about the concepts I learned from Mr. Ausitn’s book and exactly where my secret garden of survival would fit in. I can also start small at my current location to experiment with and benefit from the concepts. I have learned a lot from this book. I highly recommend ”Secret Garden of Survival” by Rick Austin. If you are new to prepping or gardening, this book will put you on the right path. If you are experienced in one or both, it might just change the way you look at your food preps. It is well worth the price. If I lost the copy I have now, I would buy another. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I too know a fair bit about gardening however this soil grows rocks and oak trees better than anything else *by B***E on January 30, 2015* I can't help but laugh at the negative reviews. First thing I noticed in his video on Natgeo was that he can't be that far from me. Maybe just the other side of the mountain. I too know a fair bit about gardening however this soil grows rocks and oak trees better than anything else. His property seemed so similar. Rick's book isn't really about basic gardening but more focused on companion planting and better organization. What I found out, and I have a lot of elbow grease to go yet, was that he really helps you prep a self sustaining garden. Outstanding book, very informative, it speaks to my experience levels and definitely speaks to the problems I have here. I am now reading his other book on green houses. Just for the sake of his critics, I read the book 3 times. I studied it cover to cover and made notes. I used goggle as he recommends in his book to search out the items he makes reference to. The book could of been a 1000 pages and couldn't have said it better than he did. I think he did very well making his point which is why I purchased his book. Great Job Rick, I have a backhoe on the way to get started. I had given up on all the steep ground. Not now! Thanks ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Best book ever!!!! *by I***G on March 24, 2024* If you are looking for a book to help you with surviving and living off grid or even just a great book on how to plant a permaculture garden, this is it!!! Mr Austin has numerous YouTube videos on his channel and he shows diagrams and pictures of how to set up a garden that unless you know it’s a garden, you’ll walk right on by. 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