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>Can A Home Garden Produce Enough Food To Live On? - Mac Slavo - ShtfPlan
Back in 2013 - my first year of retirement - I put my entire summer work into Food Production. It was my experiment to learn if ONE man, working ONLY on a garden (no side jobs) could produce enough food to feed a family of 4.

I was amazed at the amount of food ONE man, working alone on half an acre, can produce. I grew bushels of tomatoes, bushels of bell peppers, bushels of cucumbers, untold pounds of green beans, massive amounts of cabbage, enormous amounts of other vegetables from Celery to Beets to Cantaloupe to watermelons. In general ~ I grew a phenomenal amount of food. I canned 62 quarts of salsa ~ and froze a freezer full of other veggies.

Yes, a home garden CAN produce enough food to live on : but NOT if you have to do ANY other jobs around your house (laundry, shopping, lawn mowing, leaf removing, helping someone move, fixing that roof, changing your car oil, painting the garage, etc-etc). You will only have time for your garden. It's a LOT of work. My advice : don't think totally self-sufficient unless you HAVE to. Think small and get accustomed to growing a variety of foods.

Thank you Mac, for writing this timely (harvest time) article.


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Beginning of the headline :This article was originally published at Tess Pennington’s ReadyNutrition.com Tess is the author of The Prepper’s Blueprint: How To Survive ANY Disaster Have you ever wondered why you should start your own garden when food is readily available at grocery stores?  What about those who would love to be self-sufficient to the point of living off the food they can grow on their own land? The simple answer is yes, this is possible, but it will take hard work and dedication. Most Americans firmly bel... Read More
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