How big a backyard would you need to live off the land

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Not sure how many city folks would want to give up all their creature comforts and go back to the old ways of growing your own food and working from dawn til dusk. Why not convert your backyard into a market garden, start small and see how you like it. Impossible for me to say how feasible all this is, but it is certainly an interesting chart to read.

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12 years ago

In my backyard, there is a piece of land which is actually a marshland. How can i use it to earn money?

Reply to  Greg@buy network
12 years ago

Why don’t you just leave it alone and enjoy it?

Jess
12 years ago

Hmm, minus the animals for me it does not take very much in my little raised bed garden area of our over an acre plot. I have raised beds for square foot gardening that provide me all the veggies and fruit I need for the whole year and I’m able to give stuff away to friends and family. I grow some stuff vertically also, at an area of the fence, that takes up zero space.

Reply to  Jess
12 years ago

I prefer raised bed gardens. You don’t have to lean down so far to weed. 🙂

12 years ago

Sounds really labor intensive–and I like the option of being lazy when I want. Farmer Lawyer is not what anyone will be calling me in the foreseeable future.

12 years ago

Sagathingy: …I pay more over her in England for ‘natural’ foodstuffs….sadly…I am a minority…I will continue to be a minority until I am a majority.

Keep the faith Sagathingy….Keep the faith!

12 years ago

I’m a farmer w/ 100 acres. When I read the headline I thought “2 acres” but I would do it a lot different (and less expensive) than they have it in their diagram. Also, where is this supposed to a model? Florida? Minnesota?

The big problem with getting away from supermarkets is that mega farms of big agribusiness can provide you with a head of brocolli for 99 cents and a loaf of bread for $1 and chicken at .99/lb freshly cooked. If I or one of my small farm buddies does it in a sustainable manner without using chemicals and unnatural ingredients it costs a whole lot more. Most people are completely unwilling to pay the premium price and think we are ripping them off.

Reply to  SagaciousHillbilly
12 years ago

We are surrounded by farms. Unfortunately, during the last five years, I have seen dozens of small farmers put out of business by the big guys. Now instead of a lot of small farms there are just a handful of mega farms, all worked by illegal immigrants.

Admin
12 years ago

Well I think my 8 acres will accommodate me and my 7 dogs, and Julie of course. 🙂

Reply to  Professor Mike
12 years ago

I am low maintenance, after all. 🙂

Thanks love.

Reply to  Greenlight
12 years ago

LOL! Yes you are 🙂

12 years ago

I’d love it!…er…as long as I had enough money to pay someone to run it for me….I’m a lost cause I am…love the principle..hate the idea of back breaking labour … oops…labor…maybe when I was 20 or even 30 I’d do it…now?….no chance…

The spirit is willing the body is semi-dead….

Still…at least I agree with you in principle Holty!…;-)

What a lovely dream….I’ll sleep well tonight…ta Holty…nice post.

BigHarryH
12 years ago

The backyard would have quite an odor, and it wouldn’t be a spring flower smell.

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