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It seems like a simple question, but there are many factors to consider when working out whether you can grow all the fruit, herbs and vegetables your family eats in a year.
In this video, we show how you can work out the amount of fresh food your family consumes, we explain what to consider when deciding which plants you will grow, and we suggest some techniques to help you grow more in the space you have to help meet your required yields.
If you love growing your own food, why not take a look at our online Garden Planner which is available from several major websites and seed suppliers:
http://www.GrowVeg.com
http://gardenplanner.motherearthnews.com
http://gardenplanner.almanac.com
and many more…
wth? 4k square feet for 1 person? i grow in 500 square feet for 2 people, produce enough for 8 months. i came here to find out how to squeeze another 4 months out of it but i guess this video is outdated as hell
or we can starve like feudalism
Yikes. Never be able to get that much land in uk
oh how i wish there were metric conversions on this video..
Fantastic logical info…….let us not forget growing up the sides of our homes and walls
thank you o much for this video .
where do you get a garden planner
Thank you, one of the most useful videos on here!
Where can i get the garden planner, thankyou.
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Thanks for the nice information about planting different kinds of vegetables that will be sustainable to our needed…
MONEY$$$$$ to grow good crops it takes alot of it..
That's a great video! I think it's possible to grow food for two people on under 1000 square meters. What would you say? Considering the use of permaculture and biointensive gardening. There is a good example of the "urban homestead" and others that grow everything for a family of 4 and even in surplus for selling on around 1300 square meters. That's thanks to putting all seeds, veg, fruits very close to each other and using the square foot/ square inch gardening methods.
100% pointless video
good
What are those protective screens hoops @5:31 ?
Is it possible to grow and harvest wheat on your own to make bread too?
we have a circular garden. I'm guessing the garden planner cannot represent that?
This is a very good video aside from the notion that a vegetarian diet is sustainable. What do you plan to fertilize the soil with? The only sustainable way is to have enough land for plants and at LEAST some chicken. Or better yet, some chicken, some rabbits, and maybe a pig, goat or a few sheep, maybe even a cow. That way you'll always have enough fertilizer for your crops as well as for the pasture parts of your farm and that's frankly the only way to sustainable living. Not only that, you can then actually have less growing and more pasture space, because meat and fat is full of vitamins, nutritions and keeps you satiated far longer than any vegetable or fruit could. But that's not all. You can use the hides to make leather, aka clothes, tools, and other things. You can use wool to make clothes as well or feathers to use in your pillows and blankets. You can make butter and cheese from milk. You can actually feed a dog or cat if you have meat around. One pig can feed a family for a whole year and it's a good outlet for kitchen scraps. Eggs are incredibly healthy and the chicken can keep pests at your garden beds at bay. Raising both, plans and animals, is really the only way to be moderately self-sufficient. And btw., if you're planning on having fruit trees, then you don't even need any extra space, you just use the ground below the trees as pasture and for hay making. It's literally how our ancestors did it and they knew bloody well why!
New subscriber here! We are getting ready to clear a space on our land for our garden. This was a great video with awesome tips. Thank you!
Well I've got 14 feet by 20 feet :/ family of 5. So not achievable then lol
4,000 sq ft to sustain one person for a year. Can someone convert that into hectres for me
4,000 sq ft to sustain one person for a year. Can someone convert that into hectres for me
4000? The potato yield per square meter is at 2 kilogram. If you eat 2 kilograms per day then you would need 365 square meters full of potatoes per year with one harvest. 4000 square feet would not be enough for 4 people if you use a lot of light weight crops. If you harvest every 4 months at 2 kilogram per square meter on average, then 3 people could eat 2 kilograms per day from the 365 square meters. However, only about 75% of the crops will yield due to disease, pests and soil problems. Then the 365 square meters would only feed 2, so we would need about 730 square meters or 8000 square feet for 4 people.
This video gets a dislike from me for not using the metric system or not showing the equivalent in the metric system.
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An average of "4000 sf of growing space for one vegetarian in one year plus an additional 4000 sf for access paths and storage" (paraphrased)… I love how specific you got and referenced, and as a vegetarian myself with some land, thank you for sharing this wealth of info!! Cheers!! 😀
What computer program are you using for garden?
A video on proper storage of the harvest would good.