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I've gotten massive amounts of food out of small raised beds with nothing more than compost tea and "plant food". Is it really not possible to consistently prod
by peterwwillis 6y ago
I've gotten massive amounts of food out of small raised beds with nothing more than compost tea and "plant food". Is it really not possible to consistently produce good yields from tightly packed beds with crop rotation on a 1 acre plot [without pesticides/herbicides]? I know it wouldn't scale up with typical large-scale farming monocultures, but for a mixed family plot?
Aside: it seems we've long been able to feed the world (in terms of meeting caloric and nutritional needs) based on American farm capacity alone, it's just that nobody wants to pay for it.
- bamboozled 6y agoIn Japan it seems this is how farmers work, on very small lots.
- bregma 6y agoI can get massive harvests of zucchini from two plants but it can't sustain a family for a year. Even more than a couple of weeks and the only thing it would sustain would be a mutiny.