Get inspired by the 11 fastest-growing fruit trees that can boost your self-sufficient homestead. These prepper garden ideas will help you start gardening for self-sufficiency in no time. Save this pin to your gardening board to create your backyard orchard!

Providing endless harvests and sustainability, perennial vegetables are crops you can plant once and reap the benefits of harvest for years to come. A

You don’t need a huge garden to have a bountiful harvest from your vegetable garden. You just need to focus on planting the right veggies to maximize your garden space. Using high yield vegetables for small gardens will help increase their productivity. Of course, getting the highest yield from your garden isn’t just about picking the right plants. Try to make sure you plan out your garden so plants with similar growing needs are next to each other.

'No Dig’ gardening, the ingenious, increasingly popular method pioneered by Englishman Charles Dowding, lets you make the most of your vegetable garden—without spending all your time weeding.