My Survival Farm review
A permaculture gardening course for people who want to grow more of their own food
By the RJ Editorial Team. Sales page checked 2026-09-23. Last updated 2026-09-23.
Is it worth it?
Maybe you've been watching the news and doing the maths on how many days of food are actually in the house. Or the grocery bill jumped again and growing your own stopped feeling like a hobby. Either way, a proper vegetable garden sounds like hard work: watering every evening, weeding, a whole season for a few armfuls of veg. My Survival Farm is a permaculture course aimed at that. Permaculture is a real approach with decades behind it. You put plants together so they support each other, build soil instead of digging it over, mulch heavily so it holds water, and lean on perennials so you aren't starting from scratch every spring. Done properly it genuinely does cut the work once it's established. The sales page stretches that a long way. Eight times the yield, no watering at all, food on auto pilot, a garden so cleverly designed that looters walk straight past. Those are the seller's claims and no evidence is offered for them. A productive garden looks like a productive garden. Set the pitch aside and what's underneath is reasonable: a readable, well illustrated introduction to a method that works, written for someone who has never grown anything. What it won't do is feed you next month. Think a season to get started and a few years before fruit trees do anything. Buy it as a gardening course, not as insurance.
Pros
- Permaculture is a genuine, well tested method
- Photos, diagrams and step by step layouts rather than theory
- One off payment, no subscription to cancel
- The skills stay useful even if nothing ever goes wrong
Cons
- Page never states the price, the file format or the refund terms
- Years, not weeks, before a garden like this actually feeds a family
- The hidden from looters angle is sales theatre, not a real feature
- Yields and the no watering claim are asserted, not evidenced
What you get
A digital guide you download after paying (nothing physical is posted, the book image on the page is just a picture). It covers planning and designing the layout, pairing plants that support each other, fruit trees, vegetables and medicinal plants, and building beds that need less watering, digging and weeding once they settle in. Lots of photos, diagrams and step by step instructions.
Before you buy
- Look at your actual space, sunlight and soil first, and whether you own the ground or rent it
- Check the refund window and what happens if you dislike it, shown at checkout rather than on the sales page
- Expect extra offers after you pay, and decide beforehand what you're willing to spend
Who it suits
Someone with a garden or a decent patch of yard who wants to start growing seriously and can accept a slow payoff. Skip it if you want food security this winter or have no land.
