Find Out How Much Land You REALLY Need to Grow Your Own Produce! 

Came for the farming, staying for the T-shirt.

Just in case you haven't been told enough today Curtis Stone, thankyou for all you do and share, it's greatly appreciated and you have my utmost respect.

The ramble you appologise for Curtis is straight honesty,in how you think and what you do.Its a breath of fresh air.

I have my escape plan out of suburbia. While that plan completes, I have raised beds that offset the grocery bill. Radishes, turnips, cabbage, lettuce, spinach, and onion sets thus far.

We will not be doing Klaus Schwab's Reset. There are lots of better options.

I learn so much watching and taking notes from you guys. #Thankyou

Curtis this is exactly what we are doing! 2 acres in a small town, 5000sqft for market, the rest for a food forest! Zone 4 even... 😳

The suburban quarter acre block might be sufficient for 2 ppl to live off, coupled with a semi-austere diet, but in reality - and from experience - a family of 4 -6 needs ideally a 3/4 acre, half of which would be the garden and the rest houses, sheds and free area for cars/machinery and animals (chickens geese ducks turkey etc) to roam plus a leisure area. Thats roughly how villages were traditionally set up. At least in central/greater Europe. Awesome content Curtis! Love you man.

As soon as I can get land around here, my brother and wife and buddy are starting a farmstead. In the meantime we're just practicing growing things to get good at it first.

I absolutely love hearing your perspective on things from intense garden/farming to political views. Thank you! This was really good food for thought on how much we can do to feed a family on little space.

I'm here to take notes! I am here for it all.

This is good information. One thing we have started to do is freeze dry our produce so that we can store it better. I would love to see what you do with one.

I had to chuckle at the comment about no fresh produce in the trolley at supermarket checkout. Same here.

Saw you on Corbett Report. Even more respect for you now man. Love what you do. Speak the truth! Legend

Another no nonsense and informative video. Always trying to send me down a rabbit hole, but that just adds to the content. Loving your work 👍👍

Enjoying the Gravy here Curtis, Muchas gracias for helping us to follow your example and sustainable lifestyle! 👍👍and greetings👋from central Mexico!

Started with a market garden and now I’m all about diversity. Chickens (layers and meat), pigs, goats and turkeys. Many market streams. Breeding.

Thanks for the video and update Curtis.

Ron Paul had a bumper sticker on his desk that said what your tee shirt says. Love it! Thanks, as usual!

Thank you Curtis from a long time subscriber in South Africa. Much love and respect for all you do 👍

Unless we grow high sugar, high starch foods in our gardens, we are preparing to diet. A green food garden is mostly a zero net caloric endeavor, especially when we factor the effort to plant, cultivate and harvest those plants. If they need cooked, we're looking at a neg net. We cant just say that we need a certain number of acres of garden, everything depends on the caloric net. My grandparents spent their childhoods as neighbors in southern Ohio during the depression. Aside from a bit of wheat and sugar, both families lived entirely from their gardens and animals that they fed out from those gardens. Before they died I picked their brains. They both said that they had better than eight acres in garden per household yearly. Both families had seven members. I told them what preppers on you tube thought was the necessary size garden to feed their families. They both giggled. While a portion of those gardens were dedicated to animal food as well, more than an acre per individual was used to grow people food. This is largely because they used only composted material for fertilizer. Commercial fertilizers are all that make huge modern yields possible. This largely depends on how many animals are being fed to supply those fertilizers and the possibility of collecting their feces. We wont get everything back that we put into them. To put this in better perspective, consider the number of canning jars they had, which is just as important as the crop chosen or animal being fed. Each of them inherited about four thousand jars. Who knows how many were discarded before they passed to me. A quart jar filled with garden food contains on average 450 calories. To sustain an adult diet youd need better than five jars per day. To supply an adult with food from harvest to harvest requires somewhere between 1000 to 1200 jars. Folks that is a bunch of garden food. It represents a bunch of calories burned in production. Collecting firewood to pressure can those foods requires much more caloric burn. Post SHTF gardening is nothing to be taken lightly. Prepare accordingly y'all, because gardening isn't gonna be like it is now, after SHTF.

💗💗💗Love that SHIRT better truth never spoken!

You're a wealth of knowledge Curtis! Thank You! Just bought your book BTW

Your yard is looking slick !

Thanks for the update.

Love your channel. Cheers from Ottawa.

Thanks for the updates enjoyed the vid

Great video, I feel that the beast is at the door but most of us are far behind :) currently have 15 x 30" 100ft market garden rows set up. Looking to expand asap. Potatoes for calories! :)

I began gardening 4 yrs ago. I would give all those considering starting, you need to find some faith in a higher being. Weather has much to do with how productive your going to be in any one yr. I grew up knowing lots of farmers. Every one of them had bad yrs, & you have to be willing to accept the bad times, & have hope next yr's gonna be wonderful. (God forbid 2 bad yrs in a row) Learning to live frugally (if that's all you're going to exist on) & putting back whatever you can will help you get thru the hard times. If you've never gardened before, don't "expect" anything that first yr...it's going to be a learning yr mostly. That way, you won't be so disappointed & throw in the towel if you don't get much...& you'll be in heaven when you do get something...& you WILL get something! (If you have experienced help, you'll have a better time & yield)

OMG CURTIS THAT IS SOO AWSOME!!! I NEED YOU TO HELP ME START MY GARDEN. LAST YEAR WE HAVE BEEN TRYNG TO TILL IN A LOT OF DUCKWEED FROM OUR POND THAT CONNECTS TO THE STREET WATER RUN OFF

Thank you Curtis.

Great Post Curtis!

Thank You!

In the suburbs of Montreal, I grow a years supply of potatoes for 1 person on 150 square feet. I mix in black bush beans with them too.

Hey Chris, it’s been a pleasure watching your videos for the past 2 years. My name is Phillip and I would love to schedule a date for your workshop… I would love to bring my management team, we will be operating a community farm

In the US people look at you oddly when you have a cart full of produce and meat.

Awesome video, I'm in England, I've been looking to buy land for a long time, it's so expensive now for anything decent and so rare.

Thank you, Curtis! So would you you agree that if you add the fruit trees growing on the 1/4 acres home plot would be about 1/8 or half of that plot which is 5,445 sq. ft. Add that to the 1/2 acre vegetable garden (2,1780 sq. ft.) totaling 27,225 sq.ft. to feed a family of 4 ?

Great information!! Thanks so much for your insight keep it up!!👍👍

Thank you

Very interesting and thought provoking. Thanks.

I'm vegan so I eat lots of veggies! You are inspiring and I like your shirt!

Got my plot of land, nothing like fresh. more people need to plan and experiment and grow their own. From amazon car hop trays.

Fantastic video and content! ✌️

This is my first season. Starting with eighty nine 50’ beds.

Thanks.

Fantastic stuff!!!

You mentioned that the amount of food you need to grow depends on your diet a plant food consumption. Do you see or know if generally if when people start growing their own food they naturally or subconsciously start to eat more veggie as part of their daily diet???

Good job we are going to move onto 50 acres 👍

So good.

I remember talking to somebody, many decades ago. He tried to get a "Home stead"; like, 180 acres, for free.... But ran into red tape, and considerable beureaucratic friction...he didn't get the land.... It seems that, 30 odd years ago, it was there!!! some people get a mining claim, then build on the claim??? Quite common to chase people off a claim..."It's none of your business what I'm mining here"!! Dangerous!

Awesome stuff

you need to get yourself a kubota bx24... you can get one used for under 20k youd save hundreds of hours a year...

I really appreciate you

Great video

Very curious on the upcoming vote in Ottawa about the UNDRIP land rights. Vote goes on April 22nd. Laura Lynn Tyler did a piece with Ron Valiant here on YT you can find the video on both of their YTs

love it man!

Right on

We have an acre and a third with a LOT of threes. Not a lot of sun. I love the trees, but. I want to add fruit trees and be able to grow the majority of our fruit and vegetables. We will also have chickens for eggs and will buy whatever meat and dairy we need. I just have no idea if we can actually do it. Kind of freaks me out thinking about it.

love it!

I have enough land but setting up a drip irrigation from the main water meter is giving me a headache. What do I need? Any suggestions will appreciated from anyone here.

There should probably be a easy rule of thumb related to degree day*acre to get how much land you need at different latitudes

You are living the life I want

Any recommendations for greenhouses?

have you considered red wheat or barley as a productivity plant you can make flower and beer, or dent corn is good too

Always the best shirts 👍

Anyone loathe the idea of a cooperative? I want to coop with my neighbors like this: I own this, you own that and we'll exchange or trade what we will, that to me is "cooperating". Possibly also a farmers guild to represent everyone, train young people, etc. Otherwise it's just sharecropping which is perhaps not a good thing due to it's sordid history.

I live in Orange County outside of Los Angeles. Houses cost 1/2 Million, for a tiny patio, no yard. How do we garden with that. I’m in an apartment & have found container gardening doesn’t work. In college I had a giant organic garden, and did great with my growing. Here, forget it!

Love the Shirt

LOOKING AMAZING 🤜💯🤛🌜💨

I find early new potatoes can be quite a profitable crop, especially if you are the first one to market with them. Winter storage potatoes, not so much.

i need enough room for sweet potatoes, cabbage, tomatoes. its about all we really eat, very easy to can.

what is the avg cost to profit ratio on every qtr acre of greenhouses?

We just moved onto our land. I have compost and cardboard and chips. The soil is clay so we were planning on tilling the soil and grass, laying the cardboard, and then compost and chips on top. Would you suggest doing rows or a big solid area?

You need 2500 sqm to grow on. How much land is needed to produce the compost? Growland+ compostland= total area needed

I have only heard it being referred to as a planned by one other person that's pretty interesting

Your shirt is great

I would be interested to know how hydroponics would impact the amount of space required to grow the produce a family would need since the density can be far greater

Thanks for all the info, been following along on and off over the years. Recently moved from Kelowna to Mexico and looking to get some land here to grow on. Do you know of anyone that provides info like yours for that type of climate? I would imagine it would be important to get more climate relevant info, I won't have to deal with cold weather but will likely have other things to consider that I am just not even aware of at the moment. Any recommendations would be great

The T-👕 says it all 💯

Love the shirt

no wonder I have to drop off at the soup kitchen twice a week. My 4 gardens are almost an acre then 3/4 acre orchard without the grapes strawberries and raspberries I grow way to much for 3 people

A question about horse manure, I just got some horse manure it is odourless and the pile was smoking, I sprinkled some over my garden beds (I will amend them with some soil in a couple of weeks when I plant tomatoes in them) and some over my potatoes, some have told me it is a bad idea, what do you think?

this was interesting we only grow what we like as the grocery store is so cheap but it is fun to grow stuff.

Lov the shirt!

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I feel like a slouch! I've been dealing with my own personal ish that I been missing the #Liveshows I catchem on the playback but its NOT tbe same. I have bought 1 of Joe Salatin books and The Urban Farmer book and I am currently reading the Farmer's Almanac then going down the line of reading. Hopefully, Arizona will thaw out by May/June so we can get started. Where do I write to get advice on how to start on undeveloped land after building homestead and income houses?

Nice shirt!

You need a reality show starting and improving farms....like the gordan Ramsey of farms and visit the farms and critique and improve and make over

Is there a farmer commune or something where i can live and work and survive?

Thank You Curtis 😊 I would like you to consider putting From The Field on DVD, for sale. I am concerned about having access to your work as a Reference when the internet goes down or is censored. I will buy it 😊

If all your lettuce heads come up at the same time, how would you stock unused lettuce or other types of veggies, so they dont go bad? Thanks

Have you done any videos about how many plants you need to have in a garden to sustain a farmers market business? I'm considering becoming involved in a farmers market next year and am curious about how many of each plant I need to have in my garden. I live in Phoenix, so we have at least two seasons for most veggies....if you have done a video about this, maybe someone can point it out for me? Mom of 6, so searching through videos is not my strong suit :)

QUESTION: Do you have a video on your opinion of your new female Canada1st party of Canada, Romana Didulo?

We buy green's 💚 and things like this. While wearing sunglasses 😎. Catch my drift?

So Curtis, even living in the middle of nowhere you will drive to Kelowna to your SHTF farm?

how much is half acre in EU measurements?

Link to intro song pls!

How much more land do you think it would take to grow all your own grains like oats, wheat, rice, quinoa, sorghum, amaranth, etc. for your family for a year?

I have around 2.5 acres.. i would hope it can sustain my family part of the year in a cold country like this.. if not with grand solar minimum we will become refugees somewhere