Use buckets, barrels or boxes...fill with at least 8" of garden soil, fix some sort of trellis for vines to grow up...and you have a vertical garden in a tiny space...tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, green beans, peas, - you can have an 8' wall of veggies! Easy on the back too.
I live in the country - no problem with space. But my back loves my wall garden.
And if you do have space, put in berry bushes, plant fruit tress - dwarfs are ideal: they put on fruit much faster, no need for a ladder and only the tree is dwarf. The fruit is full size.
Plant, depending on your climate, in 2 week intervals so that everything doesn't come on at once. I can get in 3 plantings - in Maine. Except for years like last summer with it's never-ending rain. Seed just rotted for first 2 plantings.
I grew up on a farm in the '30-40's. There was always a years supply of food on hand. Gardens, canned goods, barrels in the cellar, fruit trees and bushes, jams, milk and butter in the barn, ditto beef and pork. Chicken and eggs in the coop. Venison in the woods and fish in the waters.
Never in the history of mankind have people been so vulnerable when it comes to food as today. (I have a son who is a long hauler for the largest refrigerated company in the countrty. If you knew how precarious the trucking industry is right now - you would be VERY frightened. I'll give you one clue. Over a half million truckers lost their jobs last year. The media and the gov't is very silent on what is happening across the country.)
Think on that for a bit.
I have my wood stove and kerosene lamps - and my wicks are trimmed. ;o)
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