If you have an acre or more of tillable land you could feasibly grow about 50% or 70% of everything you eat. I have 2 friends who live on 2 1/2 acres in the Mt. Shasta area that do grow about 70% of everything they eat already. If you have a well to get water so you are only pumping water and not paying for it to a city or county through pipes this is better too.
So, basically do you have the time to spend growing 50% to 70% of your food?
This is the only question if you have an acre or more of land and a well with an electric pump or windmill bringing up water for you.
Even when I lived on an acre of land in the City of Mt. Shasta we were renting then we had Cherry and Apple trees there and Black Walnut trees and wild Blackberries also. Then we grew corn and carrots and anything else that we could around 1990 and this grouping of foods made up about 50% of the food we ate then around 1990 then. So, the 4 of us then (because 2 of us were grownups then and off on their own by then) the 4 of us grew about 50% of our food and we canned corn and berries and apples and even blackberries which we used in pies and all sorts of other ways through the winter and the snows then.
So, it's possible to grow about 50% to 70% of the food you eat if you have at least an acre of land to start with.
At that time water was unlimited in the city of Mt. Shasta with a 10 dollar unlimited water cost per month.
So, this worked fine for us then.
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