[Community_garden] How much of a person's food from one garden plot?

[daniel bowers]

hi,
im a permaculturalist in nevada city california (tucked into the
foothills of the sierras). well, we love native plants, heirloom
varieties, and edible weeds (lambs quarters, purslane, miners lettuce,
plantain, to name a few for additional nutrient and healing value).
our growing season is from about march to october. we grow on a plot
of 30x20 and companion plant.

an idea for an experimental bed would be to incorporate sacred
geometry, such as a first nations medicine wheel or the fibonacci
spiral.



On 8/20/07, Sharon Gordon <gordonse at one.net> wrote:
> There are discussions underway on several different gardening, self
> sufficiency, and economic localization lists to figure out the amount of
> land needed to grow all of your own food.  So I thought I'd check in and see
> what people in different gardening areas are figuring out.  How long the
> growing season is and what the gardener likes to eat will have an impact on
> the amount of land needed.
>
> Anyone have some estimates or some ideas from some experimental beds?
>
> (We've got the estimates from the Duhon PNW-oriented plans in the book One
> Circle, the Mexican and Kenyan plans from the Bountiful Garden booklets, and
> the summary from Albie Miles experiment.)
>
> Does anyone have ideas about providing all of one person's food on a
> standard size UK allotment plot?  This would be a 30 foot by 91 foot plot.
>
> In the US or Canada or European areas with smaller plots, how much of one
> person's food could you grow on a 20 by 25 foot (~6x8 meter) community
> garden plot?
>
> Sharon
> gordonse at one.net
>
>
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