Covering Backyard Projects related to Food Gardening, Self-Sustainability, Homesteading, and Energy Generation. Investigating leading-edge science, new and new-old ways of thinking about nature, health, farming - including a focus on soil regeneration using no-till farming and permaculture methods. Getting the best out of ourselves and our production by discovering how God designed things to work. Exploring whole body and whole environmental systems and cycles.  Regenerative and Permaculture Methods are used on a variety of scales: from the backyard, to 1, 5, 50, 120 acres, to full sizes farms and ranches.

RESIDENTIAL FOOD GARDENS are know by many names: Kitchen Gardens, Backyard Gardens, Vegetable Gardens, and during World War 2 as Victory Gardens.

The Backyard Project Community Concept

Seeing the need to help more people become self-sufficient, the concept for a Backyard Projects Community began as a way to network people in local communities and regions, building Backyard Communities of Learning, Experimenting, and Expertise Sharing. 

Something Big, Something Small, Something Big

The idea will only be as big or small based upon its actual impact on people's lives. It can be small to an area, but still big to those it impacts. It can also be big and expand to building more communities. This, at its heart, is an idea, a concept, and locally it is one community of the Mississippi Gulf Coast. There is no 'copyright' or 'patient' on building communities. Feel free to do your own thing with or without us - since this is all about helping people DIY: Do It Yourself.  America is Waking Up to the need to become more self-sufficient. We hope to help grow the movement where we can, in ways that we can.

Learn, Do, Grow, Build, Share, Teach, Repeat.

Citizen Dave (Dave Rogers) lives on the Mississippi Gulf Coast, so the first focus of community building is there, but the idea can work anywhere - as it is just basic community building with people who share a common situation and purpose.

Dave works with a small group of conservative Christians, Patriots, and Preppers mostly in the 'The South' (southern United States). Some have backgrounds in academia, some in technology, history, law, politics, and some are just regular folks. To one extent or another, we all live an active lifestyle in preparedness, gardening, self-reliance, homesteading, the outdoors, hunting, fishing, camping and such. Some of us grew up this way, others have done this for decades, and the rest are newer but with enough years that give us all enough valuable and practical experience, we feel, to make a significant contribution to society.

Dave grew up on the Mississippi Gulf Coast fishing, farming, raising chickens, working on cars, homes - in carpentry, electrical - took 3 years of shop classes. He learned from a boy about entrepreneurship, farming, self-sufficiency, common country sense, and how to get things done.

Today, Dave is retired and spends his time serving the community and God. Dave is an explorer, researcher, analyst, writer, and blogger. He's known by many to be a 'Brain,' being gifted in Internet Research, quickly absorbing vast amounts of information, discerning-sorting-evaluating it, organizing it, summarizing it, and teaching and writing about it. Dave has a 'renaissance man' type style of general knowledge in many fields.

As a boy, he did house electrical work, farmed, worked on cars, sold newspapers, and had a bike repair shop for the neighborhood kids out of the family garage. His brothers and dad all had car projects of their own. He learned about fixing cars through helping them when he was young, and later in life he repaired his own.  Self sufficiency, fixing things when they broke, and figuring things out were a part of the standard way of living in his family.

... more about Dave's Childhood  |  more about Dave