re: Society breaks down and you have to make it in a subsistence agriculture situation

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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.

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Is this literally all they ate? Not that likely but certainly mostly possible.

I'd certainly plant as many trees as possible so you'd have some peaches, blueberries, blackberries, etc. that you had to do almost nothing for every year.