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It takes minimum 1 acre of land to feed an adult. Small gardens make sense for things that are needlessly expensive, like mint, basil, etc... If you have a ba

• PeterisP 7y ago
  If you're hungry, you plant dense staple crops - an acre can yield something like 10 tons of potatoes (or carrots or pumpkins) - if you're not selling produce, then even planting 0.1-0.2 acres of potatoes means you'd have more potatoes than your family needs (because you eat lots of other things). It also takes a lot of labor if you don't have specialized machinery and will take a lot of space in the basement, but it will keep you from starving even from quite small plots of land. A fruit tree is great, but the proper time to plant one is ten years ago.
• asdkjh345fd 7y ago
  >It takes minimum 1 acre of land to feed an adult No it doesn't. Potatoes are 15 million calories an acre at the low end of yields. That's enough to feed 20 people. At the high end you get twice that. How much land it takes to feed a person is entirely dependant on what that person wants to eat. I grow a balanced diet of meat, dairy, eggs, grains, potatoes, fruits and vegetables for five people on two acres, and I'm not using all that space and I choose to grow low efficiency things like berries because we like them.