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re: Society breaks down and you have to make it in a subsistence agriculture situation
Posted on 5/7/20 at 10:32 am to MSUmtowndawg
Posted on 5/7/20 at 10:32 am to MSUmtowndawg
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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.
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.
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Posted on 5/7/20 at 10:37 am to baldona
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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.
This is part of permaculture. There are baws out there growing all their food, and then some, on a quarter acre.
But it requires quite a bit of learning how to do so. It's not your typical gardening/farming.
Posted on 5/7/20 at 10:38 am to baldona
We ate other things but could survive as the OP indicated. We would split a steer, hog, and lambs from 4H too. That would need to be accounted for in the OP. My uncle had blueberries, watermelons, and muscadines so I guess I should have included that.
So we could have survived on just the garden but yes we ate more and one would certainly need more for a complete diet
So we could have survived on just the garden but yes we ate more and one would certainly need more for a complete diet
This post was edited on 5/7/20 at 10:41 am
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