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Edit:

This is not intended as "how to grow all your food you ever need at home".

It merely provides the vegetables.

You still have to get your grains (and therefore the majority of your calories) from somewhere else.

geteilt von: https://lemmy.ca/post/22193783

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[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

You might be able to survive if you grow just potatoes in those 8 beds and feed the 6 laying hens on weeds and scraps from the other plants.

You can also convert 3, the "tea herbs," into more potato beds.

[–] JayTreeman@fedia.io 13 points 5 months ago

Potatoes are great from an energy input position, but if you were doing this without potatoes and your neighbor was doing just potatoes, I think that might be enough for both.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No, you cannot source all of your food that way. Only the vegetables. You still habe to get grains from a machinally-farmed farm. It says so in the description (4).

[–] mosiacmango@lemm.ee 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Im only referring to raw human survivability.

Whether this amount of growing space could produce enough calories per year to keep 1 human at "barely alive or better" caloric input.

In my estimate, you would need to devote most of the land to potatoes, and rely on eggs, rabbit meat and likely some wild foraging for the rest. It probably is feasible if you do the above.