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Anonymous12/16/25, 06:21No.2854027Self-sufficiency
Why is half an acre the absolute minimum land area needed to be self sufficient?
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Anon12/16/25, 13:17No.2854054
you need much more than that to have enough gravity to keep your blood in your legs
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Anon12/16/25, 13:25No.2854057
With clever engineering you can do it with less. Stack your vegetables. Potatoes and beans. If you have free space covered by grass/rush/sedge whatever on your boundary rip it and plant perennials that will spread. Focus on mastering how to grow potatoes.
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Anon12/16/25, 13:38No.2854060
a half acre is very small but you could probably pull it off with the right crops. corn is a terrible crop, i dont even grow it anymore, too many problems with bugs and disease. i grow potatoes, sweet potatoes, winter squash and black eyed peas. sweet potatoes are an ofteen forgotten crop that is easy and give you alot of food, i get a 5 gal bucket of sweet potatoes per plant. chickens are great too, i have 5 hens that basically free range for food and give me 5 eggs a day. its doable on a half acre as ling as you have water a decent soil.
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Anon12/17/25, 16:13No.2854220
Please, if you lack intuition: At least do the math and sum up the caloric value of what you expect to harvest, before you do something idiotic and KYS.
After that you might also wamt to worry about macros and micros.
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Anon12/17/25, 16:56No.2854232
I hope you have a big freezer because none of that shit is going to last long
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Anon12/17/25, 17:42No.2854240
i just started some tomatoes heh. the rest is leftover chili plants from the summer wich are again blooming like crazy.
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Anon12/17/25, 17:46No.2854241
Everything itt is on par with "I survived a year in a Cambodian prison on nothing by rice gruel".
Imagine eating corn, greenbeans and potatoes for every meal.
Yes even breakfast.
And no, you cant have eggs. You dont have enough crops to feed the chickens.
>t. Chicken farmer
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Anon12/23/25, 01:48No.2854981
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Anon12/23/25, 01:58No.2854983
why does every anon here hated the fact that op managed to self sustained enough and only need to buy his own pasta, sugar and cheese?
also its valid to bought them instead of making them yourself because the overhead of it.
for me i barter my rice with my neighbor(80km apart neighbor) honey farm for my sweets
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Anon12/24/25, 07:00No.2855102
Why are glowies shilling half an acre? They used to give out 160 acre homesteads.
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Anon12/24/25, 23:24No.2855167
>cont
Interestingly the Ayam Cemanis are new to the west, the major import for breeding was only in the 90s. Birds used to cost thousands but now chics are 5 bucks.
Theyre so new that a breed standard has not been accepted by the APA (although one is being worked on). That actually makes buying "Ayam Cemanis" a little tricky.
Another weird thing is that the Easter Eggers standard was accepted before Ameraucanas (which is the Easter Egger parent breed).
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Anon12/25/25, 14:42No.2855229
The stuff growing on the land absorbs energy from the sun in order to grow. Half an acre is roughly what you need to match your caloric intake, give or take things like dependent crops and livestock and any family who's helping you work the land.
I'm not sure its totally self-sufficient though. Unless you're fortunate enough to have a stream or a river on your property, you'll rely on water infrastructure at the very least. Add in stuff like electricity, fuel, tools, farming supplies, etc and your "self-sufficiency" quickly becomes an aesthetic rather than a reality. Also your land, especially such a small plot, can fail, and at that point you'll need to rely on stuff other people have produced in order to survive at all.
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Anon12/27/25, 01:50No.2855389
Whats gonna stop me from buying these plots of Hawaiian land under volcanoes up in the mountains on the big island? I see some acre lots full of vegetation for cheap and I cant help but wonder what you could grow? There must be a reason, hawaiin cucked laws? Volcano insurance? Mapped some of the properties and there 30 min from the beach. Realistically whats gonna stop me from loading up a van with my stuff and parking it there while I build a dwelling? I know its technically illegal but do people even care or check on that?
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Anon01/01/26, 01:06No.2855999
What does a Knee Gga do if they find themselves on podzol type soil but have hectares of it?
What to grow and what to do to get things to be productive? Especially if the growing season is short?
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Anon01/04/26, 22:44No.2856448
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Anon01/05/26, 00:51No.2856460
When certain fruits and/or vegetables are grown beside each other, they could improve yield, guard against certain pests or diseases better, or could even result in a hindrance. Example: never grow cabbage next to strawberries. It's quite fascinating.
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Anon01/06/26, 19:30No.2856687
If I wouldnt have seen these in person i would claim this is an AI pic.
There's actually a feral flock in Florida.
Ive thought about releasing a breeding group on my property but thats sone expensive coyote snacks.
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Anon01/12/26, 20:34No.2857405
If anybody remembers my blue Ayam Cemani mix from quite awhile back, here she is today.
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Anon01/17/26, 10:37No.2857940
I have a 1/2 acre garden and I grow a couple different types of berry, some native fruit trees, tomatoes, chillies, all kinds of herbs, and have some bok choy going. I definitely could grow a lot more but most of my garden is lawn and a trampoline for the kids.
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Anon01/21/26, 06:15No.2858361
Is that archway for hobbits?
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Anon01/22/26, 13:15No.2858597
whats an acre and how much is that in real units?
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Anon02/23/26, 03:47No.2861984
you could do it with a lot less if you dont have livestock
you could grow all your own food, including oil, sugar and flour, on a quarter of an acre easy
even in a short season area