Many people would say 5 acres is good if you know what you are doing. One of my ponds is over 5 acres. Here is a video to help out
5 acres isn’t easy to come by anymore
https://www.landsearch.com/properties/kansas/search/5-acres
It’s an old dream. Authors have done this for a long time
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As I said above more land is better to live more like a hunter gatherer. Intense agriculture is hard on you and the land.
Aren’t they only palatable in spring, when still mild and tender? Asparagus and Russian kale seem more practical… a tree takes a lot of space. In spite of a low of -9F the kale growing near my house started providing edible leaves about 2 weeks ago. In my climate it is self perpetuating. A large bed of asparagus can provide two pretty lengthy harvests if you allow half to mature without harvest through spring and then cut down in early summer and harvesting the new shoots that come up.
Last year, I the following were grown in a 35x40’ garden
16 5 gallon buckets of potatoes
10 fresh quarts, 37 frozen quart bags of broccoli
60 pounds of cabbage
65 quarts of canned stringed beans
Collards
28 pints of carrots
35 frozen quarts of sweet corn
35 egg plant fruit
massive amounts of cucumbers and squash.
Peppers and tomatoes are not mentioned due to fusarium issues.
Along the flower beds, 7 gallons of blueberries were picked, several gallons of red raspberries.
I have no idea how many blackberries and black raspberries were picked.
Along the fence, quite a mess of asparagus was harvested and more strawberries than we needed.
Many bags of peaches were frozen
When the apples aren’t stolen by squirrels, I’ve harvested several bushels which is more than needed.
Beehives are on my side porch.
This all takes place on about .2 of an acre. I believe I could make due with a half acre if push came to shove.
Actually, cleaning the seed of sorghum is one of the easier ones! I put mine in a pillowcase and go to town whacking it on the ground or a chair. Since the sorghum is a good size you can get away with putting it through a proper sized colander to shake out the chaff…
