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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 10:24 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 10:29 am to LSUTigersVCURams
40 acres. And you need a mule.
Or so I've been told.
Or so I've been told.
Posted on 5/7/20 at 10:30 am to LSUTigersVCURams
You can grow as much food as you want. It's protecting it that's the real challenge.
Posted on 5/7/20 at 10:34 am to LSUTigersVCURams
I have a ~1000sqft garden and ain't nobody living off this shite, I can tell you that much.
Posted on 5/7/20 at 10:41 am to LSUTigersVCURams
I think I could do it on 1 acre with only chickens as livestock. It'd take some planning and some vertical gardening for some stuff. You could plant corn, peas and squash together. Rotate to turnips and radish in the winter. It would be difficult on only 1 acre, but I think I could do it.
But if society breaks down, guarding all of it will be the biggest challenge.
But if society breaks down, guarding all of it will be the biggest challenge.
Posted on 5/7/20 at 10:50 am to LSUTigersVCURams
Live on an acre with 1000 SQ ft of air conditioned workshop, and another 4000 SQ ft warehouse for our commercial grow. I can shut down a few rooms for food production if needed.
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