{"id":42220,"date":"2019-01-02T09:59:50","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T14:59:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42220"},"modified":"2019-01-02T09:59:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T14:59:50","slug":"how-to-build-a-self-sufficient-garden-on-as-little-as-a-quarter-of-an-acre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=42220","title":{"rendered":"How to build a self-sufficient garden on as little as a quarter of an acre"},"content":{"rendered":"
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How to build a self-sufficient garden on as little as a quarter of an acre<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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(Natural News<\/a>) Modern conveniences like countless grocery stores and food delivery services make it seem like the average American family has no use for home gardening. But when SHTF, you could starve if you don\u2019t have access to fresh produce growing in your own garden.\u00a0(h\/t to SHTFPlan.com<\/a>)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Starting a home garden is one of the first steps that you can take to become self-sufficient. Like other aspects of prepping and survival, home gardening<\/a> requires dedication and hard work yet it is also incredibly rewarding.<\/p>\n

With some planning and the use of\u00a0certain techniques and principles, your home garden can provide vegetables for the whole family. You won\u2019t even need that much land since you can make do with as little as a quarter of an acre. This means even preppers who live in the\u00a0suburbs can try their hand at home gardening.<\/p>\n

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Before you start sowing seeds, you must figure out how much food you need and can grow. These two things will depend on various factors, like the climate, garden space, the size of your family, and how much food everyone requires.\u00a0(Related:\u00a0A simple 5-step guide to starting your own vegetable garden<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

Back in the 1970s, research by John Jeavons and the Ecology Action Organization<\/a><\/em>\u00a0determined that\u00a04,000 square feet (or 370 square meters)\u00a0of growing space,\u00a0with\u00a0another 4000 square feet for access paths and storage,\u00a0is enough land area to provide for an individual on a vegetarian diet for one year. This land is enough to cultivate a\u00a0garden plot that\u2019s about 80 feet x 100 feet (24 meters x 30 meters).<\/p>\n

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How to build a self-sufficient garden on as little as a quarter of an acre (Natural News) Modern conveniences like countless grocery stores and food delivery services make it seem like the average American family has no use for home gardening. But when SHTF, you could starve if you don\u2019t have access to fresh produce […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[19591,18481,928,16287,5121,11882,13196,8407,3799,23690,649,4633,650,715,716,23691,766,22104,7373,9808],"class_list":["post-42220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-zoey-sky","tag-clean-food","tag-food-supply","tag-fresh-produce","tag-home-gardening","tag-homestead","tag-homesteading","tag-natural-news","tag-off-grid","tag-organics","tag-preparedness","tag-prepper","tag-prepping","tag-self-reliance","tag-self-sufficiency","tag-self-sustainability","tag-survival","tag-sustainable-living","tag-urban-gardening","tag-vegetables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=42220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42221,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42220\/revisions\/42221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}