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Society breaks down and you have to make it in a subsistence agriculture situation
Posted on 5/7/20 at 10:14 am
Posted on 5/7/20 at 10:14 am
What is the minimum amount of acreage you need to make it?
Posted on 5/7/20 at 10:15 am to LSUTigersVCURams
Like, as a household? Just a small family/single household? Less than an acre
Posted on 5/7/20 at 10:16 am to LSUTigersVCURams
One. I'm going to eat a lot of seafood and seaweed.
Posted on 5/7/20 at 10:17 am to LSUTigersVCURams
This is where a bunch of fat guys on .25 acre in the suburbs say they can live off the land in a post apocalyptic world
Posted on 5/7/20 at 10:18 am to LSUTigersVCURams
beef, poultry, swine, or gardening?
Posted on 5/7/20 at 10:18 am to LSUTigersVCURams
1 acre
I have studied this quite thoroughly actually
I have studied this quite thoroughly actually
Posted on 5/7/20 at 10:19 am to LSUTigersVCURams
700 sf for each person
Posted on 5/7/20 at 10:19 am to LSUTigersVCURams
My papaw(and mamaw) had about an acre garden that fed my uncles family(4), my dads family(4 of us) and my aunts family(3) for the year. corn, beans, peas, okra, squash, tomatoes. Everything we needed sides wise.
Posted on 5/7/20 at 10:21 am to LSUTigersVCURams
Having a chicken coop in this scenario would be clutch.
Posted on 5/7/20 at 10:21 am to LSUTigersVCURams
With hunting and fishing I think two acres would do it.
Posted on 5/7/20 at 10:22 am to LSUfanNkaty
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Like, as a household? Just a small family/single household? Less than an acre
Man you better have a green thumb to live off that acreage.
In the old days if someone tried to live off that plot of land they would also be bartering their services to others in exchange for additional food to supplement. IE trade your carpentry work for eggs if you didn’t keep chickens.
If you want to live as an island with 1 acre that would be very difficult.
Posted on 5/7/20 at 10:23 am to tigerinthebueche
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beef, poultry, swine, or gardening?
They have no idea.
Chicken and Irish and red potatoes, two acres.
It won't be fun. But it's doable.
Posted on 5/7/20 at 10:24 am to LSUTigersVCURams
None. I can’t garden for shite. I’m gonna have to forage for nuts and berries.
Posted on 5/7/20 at 10:26 am to LSUTigersVCURams
Everybody saying 1 acre or less is forgetting about the necessity of raising some kind of animals for protein, and the necessity of having a cash crop to sell/trade for things you can't grow or make yourself. Paw Paw and MeeMaw may have had a little garden on the side, but they also had some other source of income. You could get by for a year or two with a big garden. For long term survival you're looking at 40+ acres, and the skill/equipment to scale up a regular farming operation. Almost no one who doesn't farm for a living would know how to do that, and even most farmers would be lost trying to plow with a mule, if they could even find a mule drawn plow and a mule to pull it.
Posted on 5/7/20 at 10:28 am to AndyCBR
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Man you better have a green thumb to live off that acreage.
Nahhh... you don't want to extend past your capabilities. Focus strongly on a decent sized patch and hit it hard. The veggies and fruits will only be 25-50% of my diet anyway. Fish and meat will make up the majority. Just need my greens to add to it.
Posted on 5/7/20 at 10:29 am to Celery
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forage for nuts
I bet you will...
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