Growing your own food?

 I did this between 1990 and 1992 because I was renting an acre of land with a house on it with my family in Mt. Shasta. I still have friends in the area that choose to organically grow their own food on their land to this day by the way. Water if you have your own well isn't any more expensive than it costs to pump it after that well is drilled by the way.

But, because I was renting at that time water was 10 dollars a month unlimited. So, water likely would be your biggest concern along with the quality of the land you want to grow food on and what the rain events and sun events are on this land. However, in the Mt. Shasta are you can grow food usually from about April or May to October and earlier and later if you have a green house that is there or that you have built or assembled. So, I would say the biggest determiners if this is practical would be Water and Sun and Soil.

On the land we grew our own food on organically we grew corn and carrots and lettuce and tomatoes and many other things. We used our own compost mostly to enrich the soil and to dig it in regularly also. The water wasn't a problem because we paid a flat fee so we only had to buy hoses and rainbirds to water our food as it grew between spring summer until harvest in the fall or summer depending upon what it was.

Also, on this land we had old Black Cherry trees growing at that time and black walnut trees. These trees were very old then but still putting out amazing amounts of fruit and nuts. Also, we had apple and pear trees a lot and blackberries grew wild near the back fence where the trains went by about an acre away from us. We ate what we could and canned the rest including canned corn canned carrots canned blackberries and blueberries and black cherries and apples and pears. So, we had canned food in our larder to last us through the winter too. Though it is work to do this if you have time and water and soil and the capacity to do this it could save you a bundle on food these years too while the prices on everything are so high at the stores.

I still have friends who grow 70% of the food they eat there in Mt. Shasta on their acreage of land. For two people you need a minimum of around an acre of land to grow food for yourselves year around or more depending upon the climate and water and soil and your physical and mental capabilities in having a green thumb growing things. Also, you have to protect your food growing from insects, rabbits, mice rats, birds, raccoons and deer and bears too depending upon how remote you are away from cities. IF you don't they will eat all your food before you can.

One way to protect from deer that tend to eat the most is to enclose your gardens in either chicken wire or other types of fencing they cannot get through. However, just remember a deer can jump around 7 feet high over a fence if they really want to so you might have to erect an 8 to 9 foot fence to keep them out.

I watched one buck deer that my dogs accidentally cornered near where I now live jump 7 feet right over my head and my dogs one night so I know what they are capable of, jumping wise.

Good luck!