Merritt Garden brings back the self-sufficient food-growing methods American families used before the supermarket.
Root cellars. Victory gardens. Backyard chickens. Seed saving. Harvests that last all winter without a freezer.
This is how our grandparents fed a family on a small patch of land — no chemicals, no expensive equipment, no dependence on a store. Every video takes one old method and breaks it into clear, practical steps you can start this weekend.
Here you'll find backyard food forests, perennial vegetables, raised beds and deep-bed growing, composting and soil building, natural pest control, seed saving, food preservation and canning, small livestock, and month-by-month planting guides.
If you want to grow more of your own food and depend on the store a little less, subscribe.
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YouTube doesn't always show every new video to every subscriber. If you'd rather not miss one, subscribe and tap the bell. One old skill a week: hens, gardens, ponds and the pantry.
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Some of you have told me the videos run long. Others want even more detail. Which do you prefer?
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The days are getting shorter and the hens are slowing down. What do you do about it?
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Bare soil over winter washes away and goes hungry. The old fix was to cover it: a fall sowing of rye or clover, or a thick blanket of leaves and straw. Will your beds be covered this winter?
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If you stocked a pond tomorrow, what would you most want on your plate?
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After the ancient pond video, a lot of you asked the same thing: how do I actually build one? That question is now a full video, with the depth, the fish, the order and the real cost. That's how this channel works: you ask, and the best questions become videos.
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I want the next videos to fit the ground you actually have. How much are you working with?
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Did your grandparents keep chickens? Tell me one thing you remember about them in the comments.
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Ducks and a fish pond go together in every old picture. But how many ducks can a small pond really take? Your guess for a quarter-acre pond:
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The leaves are coming down. Our grandparents didn't pay to have them hauled away. To them, leaves were free mulch, free compost and free fertilizer. What happens to yours?
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