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Why do you think it takes that much land to feed an entire (average[1]) family? Besides plants, you could have animals, and get milk and meat from them. Chicke
by vik0 3y ago
Why do you think it takes that much land to feed an entire (average[1]) family?
Besides plants, you could have animals, and get milk and meat from them. Chickens for eggs and meat too.
It doesn't take too much land for it in my opinion. And if you live in a community that does that sort of thing, you could trade meat for tomatoes, and vice versa, or whatever, without relying on megacorps to give you your calories
Localism is the way
[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/183648/average-size-of-households-in-the-us/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/183648/average-size-of-h...
- wrycoder 3y agoYou have to feed the animals, too. Check out the famous book, “Five Acres And Independence”. That was the basic size of a family farm in the USA a hundred years ago.
- sokoloff 3y agoMy gut feeling (before searching) was that it would take around 2 acres to feed a person. Searching for data, it seems like estimates ranged from 1-3 acres per person, meaning that feeding an entire family would quite literally take acres of land.
- vik0 3y agoCan you link your source/s?