"rick etter" wrote in message ...
Here's another site that gives yields in pounds for a given area and number
of plants.

http://www.foodforeveryone.org/garde...s/yields.shtml







Did you take a look at how much time was spent on this project? I
don't doubt it took every minute he admitted to. If you think self
suffiency is for you think about the amount of effort just to grow
enough food to starve.

If you translate this to a real life situation where you have 10 hours
a day worth of other work to do just to survive, its clear that this
type of arrangement is only for desperation mode, and even then you
probably cannot do it alone.