So you have had it with the rising cost of vegetables at the grocery store and have decided that you will now feed your family with the family garden. Over the years, many people have made such a choice and through poor luck, bad weather or bad planning never achieved the results they desired and just gave up after a season or two. That doesn’t need to be the case and with a bit of planning and some seasoning, (time and not a spice), you can achieve your goal of being able to feed your family through the efforts you make in the family garden. I will be upfront and admit that gardening is not an easy thing to do, and anyone who thinks that they can achieve great results by reading an article and buying the right products is doomed to not just failure, but that type of failure that becomes legend in the family lore.
Having said that, is growing a garden one of those impossible tasks that takes that special type of person to do it right? No, people have been gardening for thousands of years, but it can be hard and if you aren’t willing to put for the effort that it requires, you may want to think about down sizing your plans. In fact, starting off small is a great way to achieve some success and give yourself that boost we all need when starting something new. It has been said that the average person who grows all of the fruits and vegetables that they need will use 4000 square feet of land. A family of four will require 16,000 square feet or about 4/10 of an acre of land dedicated to just fruits and vegetables. If you plan on meat and dairy products, then you can boost that to at least 5 acres and probably nearly 10 if you have poor land. That is just what you need to survive, if you plan on getting everything from your land such as hay, pasture, and energy you will need much more, probably 40 acres overall....(click here to read more...).....
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