Everyday Homesteading A Green Beret's Guide to a REAL Survival Garden (With Sam Coffman)
Nov 1, 2025
In this insightful discussion, Sam Coffman, a former Green Beret and clinical herbalist, shares his expertise on creating a survival garden. He emphasizes the importance of designing gardens that can sustain families in emergencies, focusing on calorie-dense crops and building living soil. Sam also discusses community resilience, advocating for collaboration over self-sufficiency. Listeners will learn about maximizing small spaces, the significance of soil and water, and practical storage methods to ensure food security amidst rising costs.
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Raised On Practical Gardening
- Sam grew up gardening, canning, and learning practical homestead skills from childhood.
- He credits that upbringing for his lifelong work ethic and skills in land stewardship.
Herbs In The Field
- While a Green Beret medic Sam carried his own herbal remedies into the field and used them quietly for teammates.
- His practical herb use on deployments led others to ask him to teach and share those skills.
Practice Before You Rely On Seeds
- Practice gardening now; you need years of iteration before you can rely on it in emergencies.
- Treat seed banks as useless without hands-on experience growing those crops.
