"Ana" wrote in message
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Hi to everyone,
I am looking for information about self-sufficiency. I have a small
piece of land on the south east of Spain, about 9 acres. It is in a
mountainous area. And I would really appreciate if someone could
recomend me a book or web about gardening and creating a total
self-sufficient farm in this area ( creating energy, animals,
vegetables, grain...). How many people can live of this piece of land?
I've already read most of John Seymour's books but they are not focused
on growing in Spain. I am also looking for some kind of farm school
where I can learn something more than feeding animals or planting seeds
and watering flowers, in any place of Europe.

Anything as general as that is going to be fairly useless. I suggest that
you need detailed help from people who understand the local climate,
diseases, soil, markets, crops......which is more likely to be in spanish
than english.

If anybody feels curious
about the reason of this, have a look www.energycrisis.com. And for
Spanish speakers, www.crisisenergetica.org. Thank you very much. I
really hope you think of this carefully.

If the appeal in the first para is just a little way of publicising the
latest ecodoomstering in the second para, don't bother. The econumpty
'Limits to Growth' published in 1974 iirc told us that we ran out of oil in
1985, gas in 1989, lead in 1983, tin in 1991, and drowned in our own garbage
in 1994. So we're all dead. If any of us weren't dead due to the
happenings in 1985 etc refereed to above, then we froze to death in the
global freezing predicted in the late 1970s. Those who were already dead
got even deader.

Thank you very much. I really hope you think of this carefully.

--
Anton