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The industrial sized garden production they would need for a backyard garden weed salad, for a family of four everyday for every meal. Would require acres of land, crop rotation, ploughing, and tilling on several acres of land. Hardly a back yard operation. At best you get a couple salads during a brief period in a year.
From Poland to the Congo, people survive on "farmettes" fairly easily most of the time.
Big box restaurants, called "stores" internally, exist to extract as much per table per hour as possible. Massive corporations deliver food, partially prepped to save time. Food is tasteless and full of salt, sugar and junk.
Try Potatoes next. I'm doing it for the first time. I'm getting 5x the seed potatoes I planted by weight.
That’s a really light yield. Either you didn’t cut up your seed potatoes or you didn’t fertilize? Or they really hate your soil.
I do think people can grow worthwhile amounts of food if they have a backyard. Corn, potatoes, beans etc... but they will still need other food sources.
Shaman says
That’s a really light yield. Either you didn’t cut up your seed potatoes or you didn’t fertilize? Or they really hate your soil.
It is - I didn't fertilize and it's mostly random dirt, because I'm a cheapass this year. Also my first time growing them.
AmericanKulak says
Shaman says
That’s a really light yield. Either you didn’t cut up your seed potatoes or you didn’t fertilize? Or they really hate your soil.
It is - I didn't fertilize and it's mostly random dirt, because I'm a cheapass this year. Also my first time growing them.
Try burying food you'd otherwise throw away in the trash in your garden, and BURY it.
You can raise quite a bit of Tilapia with aquaponics, and then filter the fish's water through a hydroponic system to grow veggies which in turn treat the fish water for sending back into the fish barrel.
AmericanKulak says
You can raise quite a bit of Tilapia with aquaponics, and then filter the fish's water through a hydroponic system to grow veggies which in turn treat the fish water for sending back into the fish barrel.
Thanks, that barrel system looks interesting. Now add add Black Soldier Fly larvae to feed that fishes and take care of kitchen scrapes. The larvae will climb a 30 degree gang plank and self feed the fishes...
https://tainofarm.com/aquapoincs-in-the-caribbean/black-soldier-fly/
https://gardenpool.org/beneficial-insects/black-soldier-fly-composter-automatic-chicken-feeder
Try burying food you'd otherwise throw away in the trash in your garden, and BURY it.
Nice, and that's more natural than feeding them soy or corn pellets, and leavings from the veggie garden wouldn't be enough or well balanced...
From experience, chickens are great and very efficient at producing protein in two ways, but someone has to put them in at night or they will get eaten by raccoons, etc.
I heard people pick up roadkill like deer to take it home and bury for fertilizer.
Patrick says
From experience, chickens are great and very efficient at producing protein in two ways, but someone has to put them in at night or they will get eaten by raccoons, etc.
Good point Patrick, as I would keep them within a chicken house and use chicken wire to keep them protected from predators. A chicken lays about 1 egg a day so all you need is about 2 to 3 chickens per person.
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