"Steve" wrote in message ...
Everything remains very simple to calculate until you bring the goat into
the formula.

Ya. True to a certain extent. The Chinese say they can raise enuf
veggies to feed one person on 1 acre of land. The Chinese diet is
primarily vegetables, with smaller amounts of meat and grain.

These low tech diets supplement the vegetables primarily with pork and
duck as their main type of meat.


While a human can raise his food in a cultivated plot of
ground, livestock require acres of vegitation to survive.. We all think of a
goat or pig thriving on kitchen scraps.
Not nearly enough, especially since
you are going to be only one person and living on a vegetarian diet.

Actually, I believe the best diet in the world is eaten by Asians and
Polynesians. They do raise their own vegetables, the scraps are fed to
pigs. These pigs in turn also get sustainance from the jungles and
riverbanks. When the pigs are of the correct size they're butchered.
Pig scraps in turn get fed to other pigs and poultry.

Most low tech people live in families, tribes, communities. They don't
isolate themselves as westerners do. The very idea of one single
person providing for ALL their own needs would not even compute.

Because of trade, people can have foods of various kinds, so one
person doesn't have to do EVERYTHING. A pig would be chopped up, and
sections traded for other things.

If someone lives in a developed area, they can also take unwanted
animals which they do not have to raise themselves. Or...they can
trade.

You most likely will have to purchase feed for a few chickens

OR the person can trade a chicken dinner, or a few chickens for grain.




to be
productive. Raising grain requires additional land plus equipment and labor
to just raise it for your livestock.

Also, just a question. How will you maintain an internet connection if you
are off the grid??

Steve