What land? Most of us in the city and 'burbs have postage stamp size lots.
I know how to grow tomatoes and cucumbers, but I doubt that we could live for very long on that. :)
You’d be surprised what you could do on a little bit of property.
foxfire the series might also be available at your local library.
the father of my brothers wife has an 8x8 plot as a "front yard" outside of tokyo. he is considered a "farmer." but he does well enough supplanting a portion of his income with fresh vegetables.
There’s a good PBS documentary called 1940’s house - follows a family of 4 as they live through wartime conditions and rationing in London (modern folks with 1940s rules). Amazing how little those folks could live on and did - including victory gardening and an awkward bit when they were told that the rabbits in the backyard hutch weren’t pets.
Most of us in the city and ‘burbs have postage stamp size lots. “
Most of US in the city know where the unarmed commi-liberals live though.
You can grow much more in a small space than you can imagine. Look into container gardening and square foot gardening. Of course some people truly have no space- not even a balcony or patio sized yard- they are out of luck but a lot can be grown in even a small yard with planning.
actually, buying large size cans of crushed tomatoes or other veggies is pretty economical....open the can, use what you want, put the rest in freezer bags for later use.
We waste so much good land. Median strips. Paved parking lots. Lawns with nothing but grass.
There’s a family in Pasadena (the Dervaes family) who grows 60-70% of their own food on 1/10 of an acre.
And there’s all kinds of neat ideas out there in terms of urban homesteading, gardening on rooftops etc. If we had to do it, we could