Cultivating During Wartime: Knowledge and Resilience of the World

Cultivating During Wartime is a survival guide for growing, preserving, and adapting when systems collapse.

This book is not about theory, but about solutions. In a world facing droughts, food shortages, rising conflict, and power outages, the need for resilience is urgent. Drawing from farmers and communities who have lived through crises, from Syrian war zones to African drylands, Indian villages to urban gardens under siege, this guide compiles methods that work.

Inside, you will learn how to:

• Grow food with limited water through drought-resistant crops, smart soil strategies, and careful plant selection.
• Design survival-ready gardens using vertical farming, recycled containers, shaded layouts, and heat-resilient zones.
• Irrigate with minimal resources, from clay pot systems (oyas) to simple aquaponics.
• Meet essential needs: basic nutrition, high-calorie crops, plants for medicine and hygiene (including soap-making).
• Preserve food, seeds, and water with low-tech storage, seed saving, and filtration techniques.
• Process harvests by drying, fermenting, or smoking for long-term use.
• Maintain energy and light off-grid with simple, low-tech systems.
• Build community resilience through mutual aid, bartering, and shared food sovereignty.

This is not just a gardening book, but a survival toolkit. Compiled by Vergers du Monde from real-world experience, it brings together ancestral knowledge and practical strategies to help you prepare.

If you want to grow food and stay ready in uncertain times, this book offers the skills and insights you need.