What is the minimum amount of garden space required to sustain one person?
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Permaculture: If you live in the UK a back yard will do. A fifth of a couple's food production can be grown on a couple's balcony of a high rise flat. See Permaculture Mollison 2 http://youtube.com/watch?v=7g2mmqqen08...
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Think about all surfaces, up walls, top of walls, above your head. It depends on what you want to grow too. I would start with fruit and nut trees depending on how much space you have. Then go onto perenials. Do not cause yourself work. Use permaculture methods of raised beds and straw mulching. Which can be seen in the Mollison Youtube clips.
What about keeping a few chickens to naturally keep insects down, fertilize and provide eggs and meat.
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Any perennial that provides food from asparagus to rhubarb from raspberries to herbs. A back suburban back garden should provide loads of space for one person and enough to pass some food on. My advice plant only a few items of each fruit or veg unless you want to spend a lot of time preserving and bottling.
i would recommend at least a quarter of an acre and would plant root veg fruit bushes salads and some herbs remember to add plenty of organic matter into the soil before planting
I was told that in the middle ages one acre was defined as the amount of land one person needed to grow food for themselves. Of course, this was using middle ages agriculture techniques. These days, with permaculture techniques, it would be less than that. But I don't know. Give me half an acre.
If you're going to completely sustain yourself off that land, I'd say one-quarter acre. If you want to plant fruit trees (for apples, pears, peaches, etc) you'll need more space (and patience- they take a while to produce fruit.) In my garden, I planted tomatos, carrots, bell peppers, and lettuce, but you can grow lots of other tasty stuff like onions, garlic, eggplant, etc.
the most intense kind of planting one can do utilising all space
and thinking in cubic terms rather than just horizontally is Permaculture
Everything dpends on your climate
and we can already grow a lot in a back yard
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It doesn't take a lot. I have a 40 foot by 80 foot garden and grow all the vegetables our 2 person family needs. In it, I have 14 kinds of dried beans (great for protein), lots of tomatoes, winter squash, pumpkins, broccoli, cabbage, carrots, parsnips, asparagus, turnips, rutabegas, lettuce, arugula, spinach, mustard greens, sweet corn, lots of potatoes (for starch), summer squash, lots of strawberries, onions, garlic, soybeans, green beans, brussels sprouts. In addition, I have a separate 20 foot by 20 foot plot for field corn that supplies dried corn for grinding into corn meal. The only food I have to buy is wheat, oats, oil, and spices. But I've read that a 50 foot by 50 foot plot of sunflowers would be enough to provide oil for the year, and it wouldn't take much more to grow wheat and oats. And this is in a cold climate in the Northeast US--it should probably take less room with more variety in a warmer climate.
16 square feet. Just about anything and everything.
Depends on what you want to grow and how you want to grow it. Generally though, I would say a 1/8th of an acre give or take.
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