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Self-Sufficiency Acreage Requirement?
"simy1" wrote in message om... "Bob Peterson" wrote in message ... "simy1" wrote in message om... "Bob Peterson" wrote in message ... personally I suspect you can do a lot on 5 good acres with a continuous water source, but I am leery of trusting my life to such a small area. such a small area? In the US we produce easily 2 tons of wheat per acre, which will cover the caloric needs of 7. Given that 90% of the acreage is for feed, we have much less than an acre per person to live on. true, but this is using highly mechanized farming, specialty chemicals, and hybrid seeds. what was being discussed was subsistence farming using all manual labor. a radically different idea. not sure I agree. On 1/6 acre, you can do things manually and organically and still produce 300 kg over one year, and one can certainly use hybrid seeds. As a matter of fact, in the best places we do more like 4 tons per acre, so even if you want to save your own seeds and use older varieties there is room for error. We have been doing tons per acre for a long long time. Also, 300 kg of wheat are, what, 60-70 bucks? I don't see the need to farm five acres in the expectation of losing 97% of the crop. The guy has another job apparently. If one is willing to buy the wheat, why waste time planting a garden? other then for the enjoyment of the fresh veggies. he is in a business where his time spent on such a garden is worth 10 to 100 times the value of the veggies he could grow. |
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