How Much Garden You Would Need to 100% Survive On
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Could you grow enough food to feed yourself and your family if you wanted to—or needed to?
  • agarorn@feddit.deEnglish
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    9 months ago

    200square feet seems too low. This is only 18.5 m^2. I know that the best fields produce 60t of potatoes per hectar, so this field would give 111kg of potatoes. This is not enough calories for a year.

    And as far as I am aware potatoes are oje of the densest energy source you can grow.

    I find it really unausible that 6 square feet of Lima beans should be enough.

    • Jesus_666@feddit.deEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      In some German villages you can buy old self-sufficient properties. Those were used after the war for families to sustain themselves from what they grew. You see these in sizes from about 1000 to 3000 m² – 10700 to 32200 ft².

      Granted, those were used to feed a large-ish family with 1950s tech and no synthetic fertilizers. Still, it goes to show just got much space you need if you want to be truly self-reliant. 200 ft² is very small and probably makes you heavily dependent on things like commercial fertilizer.