production yield of a victory garden is still vastly smaller than a scaled-up effort. You can't avoid the economies of scale. Europe has long used stacked housi

production yield of a victory garden is still vastly smaller than a scaled-up effort. You can't avoid the economies of scale. Europe has long used stacked housing (people live in 'flats', etc) in place of a discrete hunk of land with their own castle to sit upon. 10 people can work together and use 10 plots of land more efficiently than 10 individuals using 1 plot of land each. We just don't have a land shortage to the point of making availability an issue.