<story><title>How much garden you would need to survive on</title><url>https://lifehacker.com/how-much-garden-you-would-need-to-100-survive-on-1848829190</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>franciscop</author><text>100x100 meters is &lt;i&gt;a lot&lt;/i&gt; of meters to be &amp;quot;garden farming&amp;quot;, it&amp;#x27;s not a hobby anymore but a part-time job.</text></item><item><author>fbdab103</author><text>Not a farmer but, I think potato yields are such that is achievable if you were dedicated to the task.&lt;p&gt;According to[0], a hectare (100m x 100m) should yield 25,000kg in a year. That&amp;#x27;s a whole heck of a lot of potatoes.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;savvycalculator.com&amp;#x2F;potato-yield-calculator&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;savvycalculator.com&amp;#x2F;potato-yield-calculator&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>syntaxing</author><text>I thought about this a lot during the peak of the pandemic. How much would you need to grow to not need to go to the grocery stores. But then I noticed, even for myself, if I eat 1 potato every meal, that’s over 1K potatoes a year. That’s a shit ton of potatoes. Include veggies, fruits, grain for chicken to make eggs, it’s really really tough to survive on your own garden. Makes me really appreciate our current food system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cvoss</author><text>And from thence comes the whole concept of &amp;quot;it&amp;#x27;s my job to produce way more X than I need to survive, and I will trade my surplus X for Y&amp;quot; where Y is something you also need to survive but didn&amp;#x27;t have time to do because of X.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s way more efficient for everybody to divide labor this way than to have each household be its own independent and self-sustaining system.</text></comment>
<story><title>How much garden you would need to survive on</title><url>https://lifehacker.com/how-much-garden-you-would-need-to-100-survive-on-1848829190</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>franciscop</author><text>100x100 meters is &lt;i&gt;a lot&lt;/i&gt; of meters to be &amp;quot;garden farming&amp;quot;, it&amp;#x27;s not a hobby anymore but a part-time job.</text></item><item><author>fbdab103</author><text>Not a farmer but, I think potato yields are such that is achievable if you were dedicated to the task.&lt;p&gt;According to[0], a hectare (100m x 100m) should yield 25,000kg in a year. That&amp;#x27;s a whole heck of a lot of potatoes.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;savvycalculator.com&amp;#x2F;potato-yield-calculator&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;savvycalculator.com&amp;#x2F;potato-yield-calculator&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>syntaxing</author><text>I thought about this a lot during the peak of the pandemic. How much would you need to grow to not need to go to the grocery stores. But then I noticed, even for myself, if I eat 1 potato every meal, that’s over 1K potatoes a year. That’s a shit ton of potatoes. Include veggies, fruits, grain for chicken to make eggs, it’s really really tough to survive on your own garden. Makes me really appreciate our current food system.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fbdab103</author><text>25,000kg (68kg&amp;#x2F;day) is a lot for a human to consume, that was just the scale given in the article.&lt;p&gt;Drop it by 2 orders of magnitude (10mx10m) and you are looking at 250kg &amp;#x2F;year. Which sounds like a reasonable amount both for a large garden and human consumption.</text></comment>