[Armscor38]

I don’t think people realize how big a garden one needs to provide for a family of four until the next harvest. Most everything grown in a garden are low in calories and you’ll have to eat a lot of garden produce in order to survive.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“I don’t think people realize how big a garden one needs to provide for a family of four until the next harvest. Most everything grown in a garden are low in calories and you’ll have to eat a lot of garden produce in order to survive.”

Very astute observation. It CAN be done, but it takes YEARS to establish, a good amount of manpower and a lot of LUCK, weather-wise. Also, it’s more feasible in say, California with something like 350 growing days, versus t hose of us up here on the Frozen Tundra with about 6 months worth of grow-time.

https://www.ruralsprout.com/survival-garden/

People need to have established their ‘Survival Gardens’ LONG before hard times hit, with a few exceptions: Wartime, when Mother Government MANDATED it or the END of a Civil War when Southerners were given 40 acres and a Government-issued Mule. ;)

[Ellendra]

I don’t think people realize how big a garden one needs to provide for a family of four until the next harvest. Most everything grown in a garden are low in calories and you’ll have to eat a lot of garden produce in order to survive.

And the first-time gardeners also might not know how to choose things that will be easy to store. Winter squash, for example, would fit the bill for calories. And if you choose the right variety it can store for months just stacked in a corner. But it has to be the right kind.

[damper99]

Gardening by the immediate gratification generation isn’t going to work out well. They can’t wait 60 minutes let alone 60-90 days required for for most plants’ maturity.