Why is half an acre the absolute minimum land area needed to be self sufficient?
>>2854027you need much more than that to have enough gravity to keep your blood in your legs
With clever engineering you can do it with less. Stack your vegetables. Potatoes and beans. If you have free space covered by grass/rush/sedge whatever on your boundary rip it and plant perennials that will spread. Focus on mastering how to grow potatoes.
>>2854027a half acre is very small but you could probably pull it off with the right crops. corn is a terrible crop, i dont even grow it anymore, too many problems with bugs and disease. i grow potatoes, sweet potatoes, winter squash and black eyed peas. sweet potatoes are an ofteen forgotten crop that is easy and give you alot of food, i get a 5 gal bucket of sweet potatoes per plant. chickens are great too, i have 5 hens that basically free range for food and give me 5 eggs a day. its doable on a half acre as ling as you have water a decent soil.
>>2854057THIS ONE SIMPLE TRICK
>>2854063that doesnt work, they best way ive found to grow potatoes is in regular dirt with a ton of dried leaves, like 50% leaves. the potatoes grow great and the leaves add organic matter to the soil
>>2854063This guy is right>>2854064but I’ve had decent luck in five gallon buckets. Just plant them at the bottom and keep burying them until the bucket is full.
>>2854066i am growing chilis and weed in my living room all year round. would it be crazy retarded to have like 8 of these buckes stand around the other plants and cycle them so i always have some potatoes? you think there is enough light?
>>2854027Please, if you lack intuition: At least do the math and sum up the caloric value of what you expect to harvest, before you do something idiotic and KYS.After that you might also wamt to worry about macros and micros.
>>2854212Not crazy at all. The devils lettuce is how I started. I just grow food to eat now and I got the buckets. I’m lazy and depressed or else I’d have some going right now. I have a dozen five gallon buckets and ideally I would do three at a time every three months and just have perpetual potatoes. Like I said I’m lazy and they’re cheap.
I hope you have a big freezer because none of that shit is going to last long
>>2854223ill try this. cant hurt. ive calculated id need like 50 kg every 3 months. how many buckets do you think that is? i am also thinking to use these potato towers that might be a good idea. this was my first year dabbling with plants and i was very successful with herbs and chilies and tomatoes.
>>2854232ever heard about canning, pickling, drying?
i just started some tomatoes heh. the rest is leftover chili plants from the summer wich are again blooming like crazy.
Everything itt is on par with "I survived a year in a Cambodian prison on nothing by rice gruel".Imagine eating corn, greenbeans and potatoes for every meal.Yes even breakfast.And no, you cant have eggs. You dont have enough crops to feed the chickens.>t. Chicken farmer
>>2854220i grow about 70% of my food, here is what i grow and the total length of the rows>black eyed peas 120ft>potatoes 80ft>green beans 60ft>beats 30ft>carrots 15ft>turnips 15ft>24 tomato plants>14 pepper plants>12 sweet potato slips>10 okra plantsalong with a bunch of cantaloupe, watermelon, greens. i also have chicken, rabbits and pigs. next year i am going to try to grow a patch of wheat and see how that goes.
