[geeks] Greenery and brambles...

[David Cantrell]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 10:04:40AM -0500, Chris Hedemark wrote:
> On Monday, October 28, 2002, at 05:18 AM, David Cantrell wrote:
> >                          But to grow on any meaningful scale -
> > like enough to feed myself - I'd need more land than I can 
> > realistically afford.  Land in the fertile areas of England is
> > far too damned expensive.
> Ah yes in England, perhaps, but there is a great book called "five 
> acres and independence".  It's an older book but I think in the 
> southeast united states the number of acres needed can be smaller than 
> 5 for total food independence.

For UKP45,000 you can get a cottage with four acres, but that's out in
the western isles of Scotland - so all you can grow would be mud and yeti.
UKP235,000 gets a house in two acres in Cambridgeshire, most of which is
good land for crops.  So look at half a million for five acres.

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