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>Do you even know how to produce food on your land? This isn't as hard as it sounds. The nature is overflowing with edibles of all sorts and we simply have to
by greendestiny_re 9y ago
>Do you even know how to produce food on your land?
This isn't as hard as it sounds. The nature is overflowing with edibles of all sorts and we simply have to cultivate it for a little bit.
Two years ago, my father planted two chokeberry (Aronia prunifolia) shrubs in our backyard. Now those tiny shrubs have grown to 20 times their original size and yielded about 10 pounds of berries.
Two years before that, we planted 8 tiny grapevines and tied them with pieces of string to a nearby metal scaffolding. Today, those vines have wrapped themselves around the front part of the house and provide us with more grapes than the entire family can eat.
Both aronia shrubs and grapevines grow unstoppably, without any human intervention. Now, having them fit for commercial consumption is another thing entirely, and we'd probably have to invest much more money in ensuring larger yields and so on. Right now, I only spray grapes with some copper sulphate though I see it's been infected with grape phylloxera, for which there is no control or cure.
- lmm 9y agoSmall amounts of food are easy, sure. I assumed they were talking about growing enough food to live on exclusively, which is a quite different proposition.