• uphillbothways@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    I’m sorry but this article is ridiculous.

    -Proteins. If you’re going to survive on a garden, you won’t be eating meat.

    Growing lima beans on poles will require about six square feet of garden per person.

    Like for a meal or two. Not for a year. Not to survive on.

    I’ve grown all kinds of things. Worked at community farms. Been hired to grow fruits and veg for other people at their homes as a side thing. Pruned and managed small fruit tree orchards.

    A 2 foot by 3 foot patch of beans takes 60 to 90 days to grow, and that is not going to feed anyone more than once or twice. Whoever wrote this does not know what they are talking about. Like at all.

    • chunkystyles@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      The hard truth that a lot of people are not ready to hear is that complete off the grid survival takes many hands. No one person or anal family can survive alone. I don’t know what the number of people would be, but if have to guess it would be 10-30 minimum.