BOOK RESEARCH: What is the minimum size (in acres) for a domestic grow to survive? in a mid-western grow during the 1930's - if that matters
in a mid-western grow during the 1930's - if that matters
The Belangers (Countryside& small stock journal) printed a book some years ago. It be called Five Acres and Independence, I can't put my hand on it just presently.
It detailed a very workable layout to hold on to small stock and gardens and be self sufficient.
Look up a copy of Countryside magazine, excellent resource.
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Very nice, pc! D.B. here, raise beds, containers, "lasgna gardening" small lot and nematodes :(
I was raise on a farm..our extraordinary vegetable area be only 1 acre..this feed us all we needed next canned and froze alot beyond that..in that is a thing call companion planting..look it up on the internet..for example..You can grow corn and when it gets almost 1 foot high..afterwards plant green beans next to respectively stalk..let it start vining up the stalk of the corn..after once up about a foot..you can next plant squash at the base of the two vegetables..squash will consequently cover the ground area not allowing weed to grow around it due to squash is a low ground plant, heavy foilage and blocks the sun out so the weed wont grow..some plants are not compatable with respectively other, so you must plant veggies compatable with one another...
http://attra.ncat.org/attra-pub/complant...
Answers: You would be surprised on how much you can fit contained by a small space!! Much depends on WHAT you are raising or growing and if the space needed to support the family unit or would be a hobby farm. I hold seen a thriving fruit farm on just one acre! Back contained by the 30's they were much better at using space consequently we are today - so I think one acre is valid... HTH
Hmmm.. note sure why i earn a thumbs down on this one... The question be what SIZE was a minimum... not how to do it. After living on 12 acres... I own that information.. but that is not what be asked for...
You utter "family farm", not familial. A family smallholding would grow things to sell on corners or contained by shops. We call them truck farmers very soon. They would have grown things that produce massive quantities within small areas. Depending on how many children they have, they would have grown things resembling chickens (for eggs), beans (on poles), etc. Probably 2 acres would have done them all right for this kind of stuff. No beef, hogs, etc.