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We lived 400m2/4300ft2 plot in a workers cottage 20 mins from city center with - 2 dairy goats Aquaponics - plate fish, crayfish, a few other experiential
by aaron695 4y ago
We lived 400m2/4300ft2 plot in a workers cottage 20 mins from city center with -
2 dairy goats
Aquaponics - plate fish, crayfish, a few other experiential food sources snails and fingerlings
Normal garden beds
Bees
Fruit trees
Bamboo hedges for food / thatching
Chickens and ducks with duck pods
Insect farms, again experiential food but also for the poultry
Prep-ing cupboards, sun drying racks, that sort of stuff
Lawn (because you need a good lawn for mental health)
We had a lot of room to continue. For instance we never used the meter space under the house. Solar 20% of roof, but the rest was only used occasionally at parties when you'd grab a ladder and have beers up there. Obviously we used external mass agriculture to feed our animals on a lot that size, but you'll find a lot/most homesteaders do that in some way.
This only answers your title. We did move from this to land, which I no longer consider homesteading even though we now have no municipal water/sewerage and more of the above we are now proportionally less productive work to output.