How Much Land is Necessary to Be Self Reliant

[livinoutdoors]

Its more about skill set than land size.

 

[atlashunter]

barter with pork... you'll come out to the better, several acres set aside for just a milk cow is waste of space.



In the situation he's referring to of the "stuff hitting the fan", after 3 months there won't be a wild animal bigger than a coon left in this state. You'll be up day and night trying to keep people from killing you to get to what livestock and garden you have.



You don't have to plow.

water or milk either one will keep you alive.

burn what you can for heat, it doesn't have to be big split wood, 1-2" saplings provide lots of firewood.

Chickens aren't needed.

There seems to be some confusion about how things would work after something like that or how they worked a couple hundred years ago... you don't get what you want, you get what you need to survive... your amazing meal days are over, you may be living 6 months or more on beans, peas, turnips or sauerkraut and chewing on jerky and salt pork as a delicacy in between.

It's not fun, it's miserable but it'll keep you alive.

This sounds about right. Reminds me of a documentary about Cuba where three very aged brothers on a farm had all of their livestock killed or stolen when times got really bad. It was five years of work before they got the money up to buy another cow. It’s good to try to be prepared but I think we tend to take a lot for granted.

 

[Mark R]

Sounds like too many prepper shows to me