eugyppius

but in terms of the total annual caloric needs of a person, it‘s a vanishingly small part of the diet, right? having been the child of avid gardeners, i agree potatoes are probably best option calorically, but even then it supplements some meals for some months of the year.

that‘s the plight of being out of power in an industrialised society, unfortunately.

the limiting factor wasn‘t land, but the amount of work my father was willing to invest. some of our neighbours were professional farmers with large tracts of land under cultivation, but their personal garden plots were the same size as ours.

corn was generally a disaster, devoured by insects before we could harvest it. potatoes and carrots were the most successful. tomatoes too, in fact if I never see another tomato again I will die happy. ditto squash, which I will forever hate.