Produce all the food you need on just a quarter acre.

One quarter of an acre is a spot 100 ft. by 108.9 ft.

Should be able to farm that field without much in the way of power equipment. Look at the savings on fuel and machinery.

yep, right. I got a 90sq thereabouts garden, and I KNOW I never could farm it to garden without tractors, plow, disc, harrow, and then/now, Cub, with cultivator, a tiller, and a couple walking garden tractor. Im 64 now, butr when I came here I was around 31. It was true then. Its much truer now.

Perhaps you could build some raised beds. Then you could plow with an old kitchen knife, and harvest with a pair of snips.

I had 900 sqf that I used only a shovel and potato fork in for over 10 years. Unfortunately 2 fallen trees and a broken foot have temporarily rendered that garden unusable. It is slated for reconstruction this summer/fall, once I get the black raspberries out of it. Might have to use power equipment to get it up and going again because I will be making permanent beds in the paths and the paths will be converted to beds. (when we had ducks we couldn't grow anything on or near the fence, now we have no ducks so the fenceline will be usable)

There is a great video of a family in California growing most of their food on 1/10th of an acre. Look for "Homegrown Revolution". You can find it on KarmaTube. It is really impressive.

Oh my! I posted this question 3 years ago and to this date I can't even raise a thing around here. Since posting that, the weather cycle has changed. We're getting our 100 degree days a good month earlier and staying a month longer. We're so dry around here and the garden pest have increased a hundred fold.(seems like) Grasshoppers are so out of control around here it doesn't do any good to spray poison. I'd have to spray up to a quarter mile away in all directions in order to control them. Which I'm not gonna do. They're eating everything, including all the leaves off my fruit trees, flowers, and bushes. Nothing at all left of my veg. garden.

One good thing about the grasshoppers is they make good fish bait. I caught a nice catfish with one last night. Some nice hand size sunfish a couple of evening ago. If I could get myself to get up early and go fishing in the morning I probably could catch a basket full of sunfish while using grasshoppers. But I've turned into a night owl here lately due to staying up late and bank fishing.

Well I have a feeling that we might be in for another dirty thirty's for the next few years. History says we're overdue for a major drought, so it might be time now. So it might be few years before I ever try to grow everything I need on a 1/4 acre. But I purty much think it's possible to grow quit a bit if you really work at it. My grandparents did it in the early 1900's. Back then they had to or starve. Good luck to any of you out there that wants to try to grow all you need on 1/4 or up to 10 acres plus.

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